Kirklees news

• Booking a Jet2 flight? If you like a drink on board, you better read this!

  05-08-2016 21:00
  
  The airline is clamping down on "Wild West" behaviour
  
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• Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival: The vegetarian and vegan guide

  05-08-2016 20:30
  
  There's plenty on offer, even if you don't eat meat!
  
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• Pensioner's 21 year sentence for horrific rape and sexual abuse of children

  05-08-2016 20:20
  
  Kenneth Brook's offences were decades apart
  
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• Police have powers to move travellers but are reluctant to use them, says Kirklees councillor

  05-08-2016 19:00
  
  Councillor Martyn Bolt urges police to use full weight of the law
  
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• Ukraine children still paying price of nuclear disaster visit Huddersfield

  05-08-2016 18:30
  
  Six children from an area of the Ukraine still recovering from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 paid a visit to Huddersfield.\n
  
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• Men arrested after car crash in Market Street, Milnsbridge

  05-08-2016 18:25
  
  Two men aged 27 were arrested after the crash
  
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• Man stole a key from Mytholmroyd flooding victim and burgled his house

  05-08-2016 18:03
  
  Jack Leach offered to help when victim Andrew Kershaw was flooded out of his home
  
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• Wanted: Huddersfield Police release mugshots of three men on warrant for arrest

  05-08-2016 17:16
  
  The offenders are wanted for separate crimes around Huddersfield
  
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• Emley Show 2016: Everything you need to know

  05-08-2016 17:00
  
  How to get there, what's on in the main ring and which animals are on show
  
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• Fraudster who pretended to be a Pc to steal £20,000 deserved his "stiff" sentence says appeal judge

  05-08-2016 16:25
  
  Zain Jamal Khan tricked 11 people into handing over bank cards
  
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• Greenhead College is creating business stars of the future!

  05-08-2016 16:00
  
  A team from Greenhead College won the Umph! business competition staged by Grant Thornton and held at Kirklees College
  
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• Hundreds turn out for funeral of well loved barman Steve Johnson

  05-08-2016 15:00
  
  He was well-known as a barman and real ale enthusiast
  
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• Do you know a massive snack fan? Seabrooks are looking for a professional crisps tester!

  05-08-2016 14:40
  
  The West Yorkshire snack company are taking on one professional crispaholic to try new flavours
  
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• UKIP member to stand as independent in Batley and Spen by-election

  05-08-2016 14:00
  
  Waqas Ali Khan
  
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• Widow told to move from her council house four months after husband's death

  05-08-2016 13:00
  
  Christine Bancroft's husband died in March but she says they were never told she would have to move
  
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• Planned Contracts lands LABC award

  05-08-2016 13:00
  
  Birstall-based Planned Contracts is among the winners in the Yorkshire LABC Building Excellence Awards for its Moor Mews scheme
  
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• Food and Drink Festival, Emley Show and a taste of Bavaria: Things to do in Huddersfield this weekend

  05-08-2016 12:30
  
  Foodie delights, Emley Show, outdoor theatre and more
  
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• Spotted this car parked up in the middle of Huddersfield Food Festival?

  05-08-2016 12:22
  
  Has a councillor left his or her car in pay and display outside Huddersfield Railway Station?
  
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• Trading Standards reveals its 10 top tips to avoid being scammed

  05-08-2016 12:00
  
  People in the UK are being tricked out of £10bn a year
  
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• Drunk driver Matthew Kenny led police on 100mph chase before crashing into hedge

  05-08-2016 11:30
  
  Driver jailed for three years
  
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• Former Colne Valley student Lisa Webley is named Law Teacher of the Year

  05-08-2016 11:29
  
  Lisa beat off stiff competition for top award
  
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• Huddersfield Town fan's "rude" first novel is published

  05-08-2016 11:19
  
  Carl Mason - a pen name - was inspired by his work as a criminal lawyer
  
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• Meet the campaigners standing outside HRI for 24 HOURS to fight closure plans

  05-08-2016 11:00
  
  Hands Off HRI campaigners are staging a 24 hour vigil to highlight 'potential loss of lives' caused by hospital shake-up plan
  
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• Troubled Scissett school has highest teacher sickness absences in Kirklees - Huddersfield Examiner

  05-08-2016 10:50 via examiner.co.uk
  
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  Troubled Scissett school has highest teacher sickness absences in Kirklees
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  A troubled Scissett school has one of the highest rates of teacher sickness absences in West Yorkshire, it has been revealed. Last year the Examiner reported how Nortonthorpe Hall School in Scissett was subject to an unplanned inspection over concerns ...
  
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• Troubled Scissett school has highest teacher sickness absences in Kirklees

  05-08-2016 10:45
  
  Nortonthorpe Hall School has fourth highest absences in West Yorkshire
  
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• Inside story on when new England manager Sam Allardyce went berserk in Huddersfield

  05-08-2016 10:26
  
  Dale Tempest reveals the story behind the story
  
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• Damian Jeffrey hanged himself after struggle with drugs and depression

  05-08-2016 10:00
  
  Damian, 23, had refused to seek help despite his family's wishes
  
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• ResDev boss gets to work in the garden

  05-08-2016 08:00
  
  A home office in the garden - built using aviation technology - is the ideal bolt hole for ResDev boss Nick Wright
  
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• Banned driver led police on terrifying chase through Honley

  05-08-2016 08:00
  
  Craig Wallace had been banned from driving just 10 weeks earlier
  
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• Weather: Will it be sunglasses or rain hats for Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival?

  05-08-2016 07:01
  
  Examiner weatherman Paul Stevens gives his forecast
  
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• Former soldier James Luck admits attacking a man and woman at a Scapegoat Hill pub

  05-08-2016 06:30
  
  He was heavily in drunk during the post closing time fight at the Scape House Inn
  
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