The most read stories from June 17.
1) Residents shocked at bid to buy their homes amid plans for retail development in Oakes
A DEVELOPER has told residents in a Huddersfield street: “We want to buy your homes”.
The residents, many of them elderly, on a quiet Oakes cul de sac got the shock of their lives after receiving letters out of the blue from a Sheffield company wanting to buy their bungalows.
2) Real Ale Trail revellers greeted by mounted police in Marsden
DRINKERS on the Real Ale Trail got a shock when they turned up in Marsden on Saturday lunchtime hoping for a quiet pint.
Greeting them off the trains were a posse of mounted police accompanied by police officers on the ground dotted around the village.
A single train stop can see more than 50 young men being disgorged on to the platform before they set off snaking through the village in search of a good time.
3) Another shock Ofsted report - this time Almondbury Juniors
ANOTHER Huddersfield primary school has been plunged into special measures – despite expecting to achieve its best-ever results.
Government inspectors have given a vote of no-confidence to leaders and staff at Almondbury Junior School, by grading the school as inadequate and putting it into special measures.
4) Beauty and the beasts! Huddersfield Giants Eorl Crabtree and Brett Ferres bump into megastar Rihanna in Manchester lift
HUDDERSFIELD Giants rugby league star Brett Ferres has revealed how he was inspired on his England debut – by receiving a personal good luck message from Rihanna!
But clubmate Eorl Crabtree has admitted his chance meeting with the world’s most famous pop princess left him underwhelmed.
5) Kirklees Council workers to vote on strike action
THOUSANDS of Kirklees Council workers are to be balloted on strike action.
More than 6,500 people working for the council are to be asked by their union, Unison, to consider industrial action.
It is in protest over compulsory redundancies.
