200 bed jobs will go in Batley...03/02/2012

A BED factory in Batley will be shut by the end of April, with the loss 200 jobs, it has been confirmed.
Staff at Soothill-based Rest Assured ...

£5,000 legal bill for fake whiplash cabbie...03/02/2012

A DEWSBURY taxi driver who faked a whiplash injury was caught when the person he ‘crashed’ into turned out to be an insurance investiga...

£500,000 car scam - five held in raid on garages...03/02/2012

A GARAGE in Dewsbury was raided by police and trading standards officials on Tuesday over an alleged insurance fraud.
They are believed to hav...

'Falling demand' forces bank closure...03/02/2012

BATLEY’S NatWest bank branch will close in March, due to what its parent company claims is falling demand.
Owners the Royal Bank of Scot...

'I'll kill you' ex-soldier told his wife...03/02/2012

A FORMER soldier from Liversedge has been jailed for 18 months after beating his wife and threatening to kill her at knifepoint.
Andrew Fleetw...

Boss Julie quits health role...03/02/2012

BOSS Julia Squire has quit the troubled health body which runs Dewsbury District Hospital as the debate over its future intensifies.
Ms Squire...

Campaign to save Gomersal's Red House Museum...03/02/2012

CAMPAIGNERS demanded councillors save a Gomersal museum from closure at a meeting on Tuesday.
Bronte Society members were among those at Kirkl...

Do you have room at home for Rex...03/02/2012

DO YOU have the time, space and love needed to give this little fella a new home?
Rex is a very loving and loyal two-year-old border collie wh...

He'll be out before his prison bed gets warm, fumes Tory...03/02/2012

A COUNCILLOR slammed the jail term handed to Nathan Hallsworth as new sentencing guidelines for metal thefts come into force.
Mirfield Tory Co...

Hospital trust - now the chairman steps down...03/02/2012

THE TROUBLED Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has replaced its chairman - just days after the chief executive also quit.
It was revealed last...

Lights out! ... and dog crackdown approved...03/02/2012

COUNCILLORS have approved the switching off of 2,000 street lights – and new rules for dog owners.
Kirklees Council’s ruling Labou...

Liversedge assault trial is stopped...03/02/2012

A TRIAL was sensationally stopped when witnesses to a brutal attack in Liversedge changed their evidence.
Victim Byron Schofield, now 20, was ...

Midnight crane to Georgia......03/02/2012

Stolen plant machinery was recovered in a joint operation by Kirklees Police and the Southampton Port Authority last Thursday. 
A Bobcat...

Plaques-theft 'dupe' jailed for six months...03/02/2012

A MAN involved in the notorious theft of memorial plaques from a Mirfield church was jailed for only six months on Monday.
Recorder of Leeds R...

Simon Reevell's Notes From Westminster...03/02/2012

Next week I will be opening the extended O2 mobile phone shop in Dewsbury. It will be double the size of the current premises and brings the possib...

Skunk farm find...03/02/2012

A man was arrested after a ‘skunk’  cannabis farm was found by police who raided an Earlsheaton home last week.
The suspect, ...

Soccer boost for brave Bailey...03/02/2012

A FOOTBALL match next month will be devoted to raising funds for a Mirfield youngster who has a rare brain tumour.
Officials at Huddersfield T...

Sunday road race disruption to traffic...03/02/2012

AN ANNUAL road race from Dewsbury to Birstall on Sunday is set to cause traffic disruption.
Motorists will be affected by several road closure...

They're only here for the beer......03/02/2012

CHEERS! Regulars – and real ale-lovers from far and wide – made the Navigation Tavern’s latest beer festival a resounding success...

Work begins on RL clubhouse project...03/02/2012

WORK has begun on the first phase of an amateur rugby league club’s ambitious plans in Crow Nest Park.
The preparatory stages of Dewsbur...