Kirklees news

• 'Vital' Huddersfield café forced to move and now 'footfall is increasing'

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  New venue for Huddersfield cafe popular with former service personnel
  
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• United States to 'livestream' mass shooter's firing squad execution

  09-10-2026 09:27 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The Pentagon has confirmed that Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution will be livestreamed to the public on December 3, with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth stating it will be "public"
  
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• DWP state pensioners issued 'most important' yet update under Andy Burnham

  09-10-2026 09:25 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions has issued its 'most important' announcement on the state pension yet
  
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• Everyone urged to get jab after 28 UK deaths as American Covid cases surge

  09-10-2026 09:10 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Cases of Covid have increased 34.6per cent week on week, with thousands hospitalised by the virus
  
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• Community 'shocked and deeply saddened' after teenage jockey dies days after turning 16

  09-10-2026 09:09 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Lily Slattery, who previously qualified for the Dublin Horse Show, has been praised as a promising young talent in the sport
  
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• David Barraclough LIVE as man who bludgeoned wife and hid body in freezer sentenced

  09-10-2026 09:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The public will now find out the grisly details of his murder
  
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• M62 shut at Huddersfield as 9 injured in crash wreckage - fire crews statement

  09-10-2026 08:28 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  M62 crash shuts road at Huddersfield on Friday morning
  
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• Crash shuts M62 near Huddersfield LIVE with car overturned and nine injured

  09-10-2026 07:44 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Motorway shut with long delays
  
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• Major report says ADHD and autism overdiagnosed as normal anxiety 'medicalised'

  09-10-2026 07:37 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The 607-page study says there is a discrepancy between the true number of people with the conditions and the numbers seeking help
  
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• Pride and Black History Month flags axed from Bradford city centre flagpoles

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  One Reform councillor claiming it will "promote patriotism" across the District.
  
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• Neighbour’s shout sends masked men running from hospice grounds in broad daylight

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The intrusion is the second at the site in a week
  
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• Murdered toddler's mum Frankie Smith 'confused' after being freed from prison

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Mum of murdered toddler Star Hobson said to be 'fairly happy' as she starts 'new chapter'
  
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• Man hiding rusty revolver in his bedroom dobbed in by his own mum

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Tyler Camfield was hoarding a rusty revolver
  
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• Kirklees Council tax rise could be smaller, but £24m black hole looms

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The matter was discussed at Cabinet this week
  
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• Kirklees council leader faces no-confidence bid over 'third-world animals' row

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Independent councillor, Ammar Anwar, has voiced his intention
  
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• ‘It changed my life’: Huddersfield drill artists who teamed up with an orchestra

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Huddersfield artists, JHS Driss and KelzGoneWest, are hoping to change perceptions of drill music
  
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• 'I feel like the party has left me' - Green councillor who ran for mayor quits

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Cllr Kevin Foster, who represents Hipswell and Colburn, has announced he will now sit as an independent councillor
  
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• Huddersfield man went to the bar after throwing wife across the floor in domestic abuse campaign

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Paul Dickinson has been jailed
  
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• Batley teenager in 'wrong crowd' hauled to court over 'immature and dangerous' behaviour

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The 19-year-old ran from police
  
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• 23 named in court fight over traveller site 'where work carried on despite ban'

  09-10-2026 05:00 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  These individuals have been named over an unauthorised traveller site near Hillam, west of Selby
  
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• Yorkshire Vet star steps in as Channel 5 favourite opens up on painful injury

  08-10-2026 22:05 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Yorkshire Vet star Shona Searson gave a health update during the latest episode on Thursday
  
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• Ex-police officer jailed after victim secretly recorded prolonged hotel attack

  08-10-2026 21:56 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Ryan Theaker was a serving Matrix officer at the time he attacked his victim
  
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• Police release e-fit after man's 'lewd act' on Sowerby Bridge street

  08-10-2026 21:25 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Police were called to Tuel Lane
  
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• Samuel West shares 'very difficult' part of honouring late mum Prunella Scales

  08-10-2026 21:15 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  All Creatures star Samuel West opened up about the death of his mother and his fears about honouring her life at her memorial service.
  
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• Plane hit by lightning during storm before landing safely in India

  08-10-2026 20:49 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  An IndiGo passenger jet carrying 110 people suffered nose damage after a suspected lightning strike during a hailstorm at 17,000ft over northern India, with all passengers and crew landing safely in Lucknow
  
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• Missing Manchester man believed dead after body found in Colombia

  08-10-2026 20:03 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Anton Green was reported missing in August this year
  
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• Dental nurse suffered bruises and gash before drowning, inquest hears

  08-10-2026 19:36 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  The body of Laura Marshall, 31, was found in a flat in Victoria Street, Lurgan, Co Armagh, in April 2016
  
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• Air ambulance live updates as crews seen at Yorkshire playing fields

  08-10-2026 19:27 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  We are bringing you all the latest on the breaking incident
  
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• Health fears at Huddersfield court as defendant 'with contagious disease' turns up

  08-10-2026 19:25 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Paramedics attended the court
  
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• PIP fraudster living it up on cruise ship in sparkly jacket said he couldn’t walk - now he is in jail

  08-10-2026 18:43 via examinerlive.co.uk
  
  Nathan Wood has appeared in court
  
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