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These police officers aimed to raise the magic figure £999. The police team included Keith Manders, Kevin Mosley, Dave Allen, Mick Kenyon, Tracey Beech and Karen Sykes. The firefighters included Steve Seaber, Brian Evans, Alan Jordan, Tony Stansfield, Les Miller and Keith Garner. Kirklees Mayor Clr Mary Walsh started the event in Ramsden Street outside the Examiner office
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Rawthorpe High School won the Kirklees Schools Under 16 Girls Badminton League Championship for the first time. Donna Pogson and Irene Dayes were unbeaten throughout the season. The team pictufred with their trophy and teacher Ann Henderson (second left) are (from left) Donna Pogson, sisters Sarah and Susan Farrell, Irene Dayes and Sonia Johnson. the winners Rawthorpe High School won the Kirklees Schools Under 16 Girls Badminton League Championship for the first time. Donna Pogson and Irene Dayes were unbeaten throughout the season. The team pictufred with their trophy and teacher Ann Henderson (second left) are (from left) Donna Pogson, sisters Sarah and Susan Farrell, Irene Dayes and Sonia Johnson.
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These Newsome High School pupils came up with a fashionable way to make money for the Examiner's Bodyscanner appeal. Eleven pupils took part and showing off the clothes are Luana Nobilio and Leanne Hughes (right) with fellow models at the event which raised £100
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Jonathan Sims (left) and Brian Winterbottom are seen with Felicity Storer in Honley Gilbert and Sullivan Society's latest production Yeomen of the Guard at Honley's Southgate Theatre
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Pupils at Royds Hall High School were helping the NSPCC ... with a little help from their cuddly friends. The pupils donated these toys for a raffle and also collected £70 for the charity. Pictured with the cheque are (from left) Christine Duffy, Joanne Hackett, Suzanne Carson, Ulanda Taylor, Tracy Illingworth and Rochelle Cooper
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Colne Valley High School pupils were rewarded for their work with the school's Community Action Group. Mr Gil Wade from the National Westminster Bank and Helen Stuffins (both pictured left) presented awards to the youngsters. The Community Action Group had worked with the Colne Valley Tree Society to plamt 9,670 trees. Plaque winners were Andrew Beaumont, Sean Cardy, Gary Denning, Carl Dyson, Faye Edwards, Jason Ford, Paul Heap, Mark Howarth, Stephen Howarth, Jason Middleton, Carol Scott, Paul Sykes, Richard Willis and Chris Jaine
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Inventor Wilf Lunn tried out his new diving helmet on a youngster at the opening of an art exhibition at Kirkheaton Community Centre
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Examiner reporter Gina Sykes receives a £130 cheque for the Examiner's Bodyscanner Appeal from five-year-old Joe Kendal, a pupil at St Aidan's C of E First School in Skelmanthorpe. With him are nine-year-old Andrew Ogden and 10-year-old Damian Ives (right).
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Dalton Junior School pupils held various events to raise more than £200 for the bodyscanner appeal. Lee Whitehead (left) raised £47 with a sponsored run and Sarah Ford (right) brought in £42 from a sponsored obstacle course - with their cash still in bottles
IT was an appeal that captured the town’s imagination.
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary needed a magnetic resonance image (MRI) bodyscanner and thousands of Examiner readers rallied to the cause with hundreds of fundraising events quickly up and running.
The scanner and the work needed to set it up in the hospital would cost £500,000. The Examiner launched the appeal and the entire sum was raised by August 1987 – months ahead of schedule. The scanner was installed early in 1988.
This front page picture captures the mood of the town at the time with police swapping their uniforms for fancy dress to take part in a charity challenge against firefighters. They cycled seven miles around Huddersfield town centre, jogged through the streets and then finished off with a swim at Huddersfield Sports Centre. They aimed to raise the magic figure of £999 for the Examiner’s Bodyscanner Appeal. Other police and firefighters, many in fancy dress, collected in the streets. The police team included Keith Manders, Kevin Mosley, Dave Allen, Mick Kenyon, Tracey Beech and Karen Sykes. The firefighters included Steve Seaber, Brian Evans, Alan Jordan, Tony Stansfield, Les Miller and Keith Garner. Kirklees Mayor Clr Mary Walsh started the event in Ramsden Street outside the Examiner office.
