Live: Huddersfield breaking news, M62 and travel

There’s heavy traffic and one lane blocked due to a broken down vehicle on M62 Eastbound between J26 M606 / A58 Whitehall Road / A638 Bradford Road (Chain Bar) and J27 M621 / A650 / A62 (Gildersome).
Lane one (of three) is blocked.

Traffic is slow on the A58 Halifax Road at Hipperholme due to an overturned vehicle. It is slow in both directions around the A644 Brighouse Road, near the Co-Op supermarket.

Muddy boots - but at least the road is now clear!

Police have announced they will be teaming up with all local authority safeguarding boards as of next week in order to increase protection for vulnerable people.

WYP and Police & Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson are joining boards that protect people with mental health issues, domestic abuse victims and crime victims, and will be raising awareness of these issues through a series of live broadcasts on Facebook.

Kirklees are starting the week with an event on Young Persons Suicide Prevention and Awareness.

Sheila Lock, Independent Chair, of Kirklees Safeguarding Children Board, said: “I think it is really important that we raise the profile of what we are trying to do and get across that sense that Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Safeguarding Week with all the districts in West Yorkshire is the perfect platform to do so.”

Here’s what people have been reading the most on our website so far today...

• Tottenham Hotspur and England striker Harry Kane says Huddersfield Town have made a brilliant start to the season, and expects them to keep up the pressure in the bid for survival. See more on what the striker of the season had to say here.
• A driving instructor has caught the moment a police car cut him up while he was having a driving lesson. See the full dash cam footage here.
• Spurs fans’ chants of ‘One Season Wonder’ have finally been explained. And they weren’t what some Town fans may think. See more here.

Problems on the trains if you’re heading across the Pennines this afternoon.

Here’s a round up of the main headlines this lunchtime...

MONARCH AIRLINES COLLAPSE SPARKS UK’S BIGGEST PEACETIME REPATRIATION EFFORT
The UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation operation is under way to return 110,000 Monarch Airlines customers after the airline collapsed into administration. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it had been asked by the Government to charter more than 30 aircraft to bring the passengers back to the UK after the airline’s board called in administrators KPMG in the early hours of Monday morning. The collapse - the largest to hit a UK airline - has left some 300,000 future bookings cancelled and customers have been told to keep away from airports as there will be no more flights.

BORIS JOHNSON ‘HAS TO GO’ IF HE CANNOT KEEP QUIET ON BREXIT - NICKY MORGAN

Prominent Tories have told Boris Johnson to keep “schtum” on Brexit as the Foreign Secretary insisted he did not understand why his outspoken remarks had caused such a “fuss”. Former education secretary Nicky Morgan said Mr Johnson “had to go” unless he could show his loyalty to the Government within days. But the Foreign Secretary expressed surprise that his red line demands over how a post-EU withdrawal transitional phase should operate dominated the opening of the Tory conference and overshadowed Prime Minister Theresa May’s pitch to younger voters.

AT LEAST 50 KILLED IN LAS VEGAS IN WORST EVER US MASS SHOOTING

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 others were injured after a gunman opened fire on an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in the worst mass shooting in modern US history. The gunman, perched on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Strip, opened fire on concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival during a set by country music star Jason Aldean, sparking panic among thousands of people who screamed and ran for their lives. Swat teams quickly descended on the concert and the casino, and officers used explosives to get into the hotel room and confront the suspect. The gunman, who died at the scene, was identified as Las Vegas resident Stephen Paddock. A motive is not immediately clear.

High speed winds mean there is currently a speed limit of 50mph up on the tops.

This is for both carriages between junctions 24 and 21.

Local MPs have been giving their horrified reactions to the news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

Local police are now saying at least 50 people have been killed, while 200 are injured, after a gunman opened fire at a music festival. The gunman has been named as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock.

Brendan Cox, widower of late Batley & Spen MP Jo Cox has also wrote of his disgust at the news of innocent lives lost in Las Vegas.

Yes, your taxes and local police force’s time is being spent clearing up after this idiot.

Have you seen Sadia Ahmed?

The 15-year-old is missing from her home in Bolton, but West Yorkshire Polcie say she was last seen in Batley a week ago on Monday.

She is described as Asian, approximately 5ft 3in tall and of average build with long dark brown hair, which may possibly be tied up. It’s believed Sadia is still wearing a khaki green thigh-length quilted coat with fur lined along the hood and a grey hooded top underneath. She also had dark bottoms and black wedge heeled boots on and was carrying a black handbag with shoulder strap.

She is believed to have links to Manchester, Leeds, Bradford and Dewsbury.

Anyone who has seen her or knows of her whereabouts should contact police via 101.

Here’s our front page for today - leading on the ongoing story of two teenagers in custody over the attack outside McDonalds over the weekend.

Here is some video from the scene near Thurstonland this morning.

The fire was at a large barn at the back of a farm and housing plot on a field behind Storthes Hall woods, between Green Side Road and Wood Lane.

Kirklees have confirmed they are in attendance dealing with this.

The spokesperson did fail to confirm though whether it did in fact make a sound.

Quite a windy day ahead of us today in Huddersfield so wrap up warm!

Gales of up to 42mph later, with temperatures of up to 14 degrees and a small chance of showers later in the mid afternoon.

Vandals through this rock at a police vehicle in Calderdale yesterday.

The rock smashed the windscreen of the unmarked vehicle, leaving it out of action. Officers were attending Rye Lane in Halifax to seize a nuisance bike at the time. The stupidity of this is unbelievable considering this could have seriously injured or even killed somebody.

More information on the fire at the farm in Thurstonland this morning.

The fire service say a barn was 100% involved in fire. The 50m by 20m building which had tractors and hay inside was fully ablaze, but luckily there were no livestock in there.

Fire engines attended from Holmfirth and Meltham also attended the site.

A programme has been launched to bring home thousands of passengers left stranded abroad after Monarch airlines went bust.

The airline announced last night they were ceasing business with immediate effect, cancelling all future flights with no chance of rescheduling. All outbound flights are cancelled with passengers advised not to turn up at airports, while work gets underway to bring home customers already abroad.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) say there are currently an estimated 110,000 customers overseas, while there are in the region of 300,000 bookings cancelled. The Government have chartered 30 planes to bring home stranded customers.

Everything seems to be running as normal on the roads this morning - no incidents on the M62 to let you know of.

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