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Friday September 4, 2015

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MP claims maternity change is a real threat to mums and babies

A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH

By David Miller News Reporter davidmiller@thepressnews.co.uk

LIVES could be put at risk when hospital maternity services are reduced to midwife led, an MP has claimed.

Jo Cox (Lab, Batley and Spen – pictured) spoke out after it was announced by the Mid Yorks-hire NHS Trust that

the change will be made by May. A new birthing unit is due to open that month in changes which see obstetric doctors moved to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

It means women who suffer unexpected complications at Dewsbury District Hospital will need to be transferred.

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She said: “If expectant mothers face complications in birth, which is not uncommon, or if their new-born babies need access to neo-natal services, they would need to be transferred to Pinderfields.

“You do not need to be a health expert to know that transporting women in labour or premature babies over to Wakefield in an ambulance

puts them at risk.”

Midwife-led birthing centres are recommended for most women who have had straightforward pregnancies.

But in North Kirklees a higher than average num-

ber of women smoke during pregnancy.

There are also issues affecting Asian women and which have historically left North Kirklees with among the worst rates of infant mortality and neo-natal

health problems in the country.

Kirklees councillors including Baroness Kath Pinnock (Lib Dem, Cleckheaton) argue higher

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Friday September 4, 2015 On 14 August, aged 84. Wife of Liam. Requiem Mass at St Paulinus RC Church, Thursday 10 September at 10am, followed by committal at Dewsbury Cemetery.

HUNTINGTON Fred Brook Haigh

Deaths ANDERSON (nee North) Margery On 29 August, formerly of Batley, aged 88. Wife of the

late James (Jimmy). Service will be at Dewsbury Crematorium, Thursday 10 September at 10.30am.

AVEYARD (nee Gowan) Dorothy Tamar

On 25 August, of Mirfield, aged 87. Wife of the late Desmond.

Service at Longcauseway URC, Dewsbury, Monday 14 September at 2pm, followed by committal at Dewsbury Crematorium.

BEDFORD (nee Mann) June On 28 August, aged 85, of Heckmondwike. Wife of the late Jim. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Thursday 10 September at 3.15pm.

COLLERAN Tim On 30 August, of Birstall, aged 51. Partner of Francesca.

Requiem Mass at St Patrick’s RC Church, Birstall, Friday, 11 September at 9.15am.

COOPER Donald On 29 August, aged 75, of Gomersal. Husband of Joan and the late Jean. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday, 8 September at 10am.

FIRTH (nee Sharpe) Dorothy

KITCHEN Albert Terence

-- • -1st SEPTEMBER 1939 Today is your birthday Tears in our eyes we cannot wipe away But the ache in our hearts will always stay Love and miss you from wife Ann, sons Chris, Brent and Dean, and daughter Chantelle On 30 August, of Dewsbury, aged 97. Wife of the late George. Funeral at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday 8 September at 3.15pm.

Nursing Home, aged 77.

Husband of the late Dorothy.

Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Monday 9 September at 10.30am.

FURNESS David On 21 August, aged 68, of Cleckheaton. Service at Liversedge Parish Church, Wednesday 9 September at 12 noon, followed by interment at Liversedge Cemetery at 1pm.

HAINSWORTH (nee Pettinger) Jean On 27 August, at Hopton Care Cottages, Mirfield, aged 80.

Wife of Jim. Service at St Mary’s Parish Church, Mirfield on Monday 7 Sept at 1pm.

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On 27 August, of Mirfield, aged 81. Husband of Sally. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Wednesday 9 September at 11.15am.

MALLINSON Maureen On 25 August, aged 83, of Mirfield. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Monday 7 September at 2pm.

MORRIS Elaine On 26 August at Dewsbury Hospital, aged 79, of Mirfield.

Partner of Charles. Service at St Andrew’s Methodist Church, Mirfield, Monday 14 Sept at 12.15pm, followed by committal at Dewsbury Crematorium at 1.15pm.

NAYLOR Brian On 31 August, aged 76, of Dewsbury. Husband of the late Doris. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Friday 11 September at 11.15am.

NEWSOME (Nee Brooke) Jean On 29 August, aged 79, of Birstall. Wife of the late Peter.

Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday 8 September at 2pm.

PALFRAMAN Joyce On 27 August, aged 86, of Dewsbury Moor. Wife of the late Harry. Service at St John’s Church, Dewsbury Moor, Friday 11 September at 12.15pm, followed by cremation at Dewsbury Crematorium at 1.15pm.

PICKERING Vincent On 28 August, aged 66.

Partner of Margaret. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Wednesday 9 September at 2pm.

Lives at risk – MP From p1 infant mortality rates overall mean consultants should stay.

However the change was backed by health secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Mrs Cox added: “This change is being made while the Government is simultaneously imposing a 10 per cent cut in the ambulance fleet and a five per cent cut in ambulance staff by 2018.

“I am not against reform of the NHS. The NHS needs continual reform so it can cope with an ageing population and changing public health priorities.

“In many cases it makes sense to centralise some, more specialist, services. But removing a service which all the evidence shows is very much in demand is not reform – it’s a cut.”

Gill Pownall, head of midwifery at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “There will be a new standalone Midwife Led Unit (MLU) at Dewsbury Hospital opening in May 2016. The aim of the MLU is to improve the options available to women and improve their childbirth expeSMITH rience.

Building Roy Gilbert works will begin on On 17 August, aged 79, of Cleckheaton. Service at the new midwife led Dewsbury Crematorium, unit at Dewsbury in Monday 7 September at October this year.

12.30pm.

“The MLU in Dewsbury hospital SMITH has been designed to Vera accommodate all low On 30 August, aged 89. Wife of risk deliveries...in the late Arthur. Service at North Kirklees.

Dewsbury Crematorium, “However, based Tuesday 8 September at on national experi2.45pm. ence we estimate that initially 500 low SPEDDING risk deliveries will Nee Inness be undertaken at Nellie Dewsbury as women On 28 August, formerly of will have a choice of Thornhill, aged 96. Wife of Joe. Service at Church of The a home birth, MLU Nazarene, Wednesday 9 delivery or delivery September at 2.15 pm, folin the obstetric unit lowed by committal at based in Pinderfields Dewsbury Crematorium at hospital.

3.15pm.

“Women considered high risk and STEAD requiring consultantKENNETH led care (ante-natal, On 28 August, of Upper intrapartum and Hopton, Mirfield, aged 78.

Husband of Jean. Funeral at post-natal) will be Dewsbury Crematorium, cared for at Thursday 10 September.

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Charities will benefit from dance event in memory of Bradley A ZUMBATHON is to be held in Heckmondwike in memory of a teenager who died from cancer.

It is at the Timestep School of Dance at the Ponderosa Business Park on Sunday, October 18 at 1pm.

The event will raise funds for children’s cancer charity Candlelighters and the Forget Me Not hospice.

Former Mirfield Free Grammer pupil Bradley MacDonald lost his fight against cancer recently aged 16.

Melanie Kelley, best friend of Bradley’s mum Carly Tordoff, organised the Zumbathon after hearing of the help both charities had given the

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family. She said: “I felt we had to support the charities which have given a great deal of support to Bradley’s family.

“Bradley was such an inspiring young man who throughout everything was always smiling and never complained.”

The event is open to children and adults, even if they have never tried Zumba before. Entry is £5 per person.

Refreshments, including cupcakes by Kirsty Musson, will also be sold.

LIVERSEDGE: An appeal over plans for a balcony extension at a home was thrown out by planning inspectors.

The scheme at 217, Huddersfield Road, a detached property, was rejected by Kirklees Council in May. An appeal was launched but planning inspector Gary Deane ruled the balcony would “result in an unacceptable loss of privacy within neighbouring gardens”.

Cadets get a boost

Bradley with his mum and twin sisters

Bolt calls for police to move gypsies on

By David Miller POLICE should use their powers to move gypsies from parks to save time and money, a councillor said.

Coun Martyn Bolt spoke out after Knowl Park in Mirfield and playing fields in Shaw Cross were targeted by travellers recently.

Another group of travellers arrived at Field Lane in Ravensthorpe last Friday and the council is in the process of evicting them.

Coun Bolt claimed Kirklees Council told him there had been at least 143 illegal encampments in the district over the last three years. The authority spent £143,000. at an average cost of £1,000 per trespass, he said.

He added that it typically takes 10 days to get an eviction notice through the courts. But he said police have the power to move gypsies from public land much quicker and cheaper under Section 61 of the Police and Crime Act. This can be done within 24 hours and is for when the actions of travellers prevent

others from using public parks. At Shaw Cross, the local rugby club had its preparations for a series of finals disrupted and both there and at Knowl Park, human excrement was among the problems the travellers left behind.

Piles of rubbish and abandoned gas bottles were also left in grassed areas and bushes at Knowl Park.

Coun Bolt said: “The police using their powers would be much quicker than the council going through the courts.

“And if you could remove illegal encampments within 24 hours instead of the 10 days it gets done in now, the clean-up costs would be much smaller. The reasons as to why the police won’t use their powers are worthy of investigation.”

He added that permission to perform such removals under the Act came from the last government.

Coun Bolt understands council costs come out of general funds. He said: “The cost of eviction and clean-up falls on the public purse or private landowners. And at Kirklees an extra £50,000 a

Bin collection changes start BIN collection days and times change on Monday in a bid to save taxpayers £500,000 a year. Rubbish will only be collected four days a week from Monday to Thursday – with crews working longer shifts from 7am.

A review led to the loss of five refuse vehicles and 10 jobs in a move to a 38-hour week.

Until now bins were also collected on Fridays, now reserved for maintenance.

It means every household in the district faces a change in the day or time of bin collection. Residents should have had a letter telling them what these arrangements are.

In addition, calendars of collection dates until the end of 2016, including the festive collection schedule, have been sent out.

If the grey bin lid does not fully close, or is deemed “excessively” heavy, it will not be moved. In order to stop some households going weeks without a collection, excess waste will be taken only if it is bagged up properly.

For more details see the council web page on www.kirklees.gov.uk/bins.

MIRFIELD: A fundraiser for cadets is to be held at the Old Colonial pub in Mirfield.

There will be an auction featuring items such as rugs from Mirfield Mill Carpets, plus a raffle and live music from band Mid-Life Crisis. It starts at 8pm on Saturday, September 12. Cash raised is for the Mirfield 868 Squadron air cadets.

The event also marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

A sale of badges and collection for the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Appeal will be held.

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A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Our policy is that each unauthorised encampment will be individually assessed to establish the most appropriate course of action.

This can include the owner of the land, whether private or council, having to seek an eviction order through the courts.

Where appropriate the police will support them on the service of this notice to prevent a breach of the peace.

“Forceful direct action by the police is not a solution in the first instance and is only appropriate under existing protocols after alternative approaches have been exhausted.”

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News In Brief Bar used in attack CHICKENLEY: A man suffered a minor leg injury when he was hit with a metal bar by a youth.

The suspect, aged 17 to 18, was part of a group of youths on bikes on Princess Road who fled the area after the incident.

He is between 5ft 9in and 5ft 11in tall, slim to medium build, black hair and was wearing a black hoodie.

The victim, 40, was approached by the group from 10.50pm and 11.20pm on August 5. Anyone with information can call PC Gaby Szkiler at the Dewsbury and Mirfield NPT on 101.

Defeated Labour man: ‘Cost isn’t a problem’

By David Miller DEFEATED Michael Hutchinson has gone on the attack over the cost of Mirfield’s controversial by-election.

The poll last Thursday called after Labour veteran Mr Hutchinson (pictured right) failed to take his Battyeford seat in May could have cost more than £10,000.

He lost to Mirfield businessman and Conservative Party candidate Martin Ibberson.

Councillors including Kath Taylor (Con, Northorpe) believe the cash would have been better spent on projects around Mirfield.

And there is a belief Mr Hutchinson could have been coopted onto the council instead.

Mr Hutchinson said the cost was “regrettable” but claimed it should not cause problems for the council.

He said: “The Conservatives have run the town council and, unless they were incompetent, they

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should’ve built up a by-election fund.

“If they didn’t earmark money for this eventuality,

the by-election can be paid for out of reserves.”

Mr Hutchinson claimed this can be done because the town council, unlike Kirklees, “isn’t financially restricted by central government”.

He added: “There’s no good reason why the cost of the by-election should have any impact on the town council’s spending plans for the current year.”

Coun Martyn Bolt (Con, Battyeford) said the by-election was a waste of money given co-option as a possibility for a solution.

He said: “I know Michael said he didn’t trust the Tories to co-opt him onto the council.

“But if he’d come to a meeting to outline his circumstances and apologise any reasonable person would’ve had to consider cooption.

“In calling the by-election you have to wonder if he really wanted to be a town councillor at all.”

Mr Hutchinson denied calling the poll and said: “The by-election was requested by a number of Battyeford electors.

“That was their right and their only opportunity to correct the injustice the Conservatives caused in May. “I respect the electors’ decision, but had hoped for a higher turnout – under 21 per cent says more about the electorate’s view of Mirfield Town Council than anything else.”

...but victor puts hand in pocket to light up the future THE NEW councillor in Mirfield took on responsibility for the town’s Christmas lights within minutes of being sworn in.

Martin Ibberson (Con, Battyeford) triumphed in last week’s controversial by-election.

He beat Labour’s Michael Hutchinson by 562 to 507 votes and was sworn in at a Mirfield Town Council meeting on Tuesday.

Coun Ibberson volunteered to lead the Christmas lights project and offered £50 from his own pocket towards the £350 cost of new bunting.

The bunting is to help town centre traders in their bid to win a Great British High Street award.

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lor Martyn Bolt hopes the swift action will move the town council on from the byelection row.

He said: “It’s vindication for everyone who voted for him in that within a few hours of being elected he’s jumped in at the deep end and got involved.”

With just 1,069 ballots cast across the ward, the turnout was only 20.88 per cent. Some 5,189 people were eligible to vote.

The by-election may have cost more than £10,000 – which would equate to £10 per vote – though an exact figure is not yet known and estimates have been as high as £15,000 to the taxpayer.

Mr Hutchinson, twice Mayor of Mirfield, failed to

take the seat he won in May. He went to Canada to visit a sick relative and did not attend a meeting to confirm his place on the council.

As a result he was officially in forfeit of the seat. With no agreement between the parties the by-election was called.

Mayor of Mirfield Coun Vivien Lees Hamilton (Con, Hopton) said: “I wasn’t surprised by the low turnout.

“Maybe people got fed up with all the publicity surrounding the by-election and the fact that it came so soon after the last election.

“Now that it’s done I for one am relieved and hope we can draw a line under the whole affair. It’s been a trying time.”

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In recent years the trustees have invested heavily in upgrading the facilities. However it was being undermined by damp patches and damage to interior walls resulting from roof slates slipping. The refurbished roof will now be watertight and will help preserve the centre into the foreseeable future for the many groups that use it .

Pre-school manager and centre user Liz Bolt said: “The ageing roof has been a problem for some time now so we were delighted to hear that the most recent grant application to refurbish the roof has been successful. This will help to preserve the hard work already done and ensure the future of the building for many years ahead.”

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Yob tells judge: ‘I’ll punch your lights out’ A YOB who threatened to shoot a ticket officer in a racially aggravated incident at Dewsbury railway station, also brought a courtroom to a standstill when he threatened the judge.

Serial offender Joshua Allsop, 24, was jailed for 36 weeks after his latest brush with the law.

He approached the worker at Dewsbury station at around 8am on August 18 and said: “You P**i, I’ll f*****g shoot you”. Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard that Allsop, of no fixed address, made signals of a hand-gun being fired.

Allsop had been at the station

Court outburst follows jailing for race threats at rail station since about 2.30am and had tried to sleep on a bench there. He called a black man using the station a “monkey” and threatened to karate-chop a police officer in the throat.

Allsop admitted racially-aggravated threatening behaviour and the theft of goods worth £44 from Tesco in Huddersfield on August

19. He also breached an Asbo by going to Tesco Express on Smithies Lane, Birstall, an area from which he is banned.

Ben Tighe, mitigating, said his client was coming down from amphetamines at the railway station. He added that Allsop, who has 120 previous convictions, has mental health problems and is in

dire need of help.

As district judge Michael Fanning jailed him for 36 weeks, Allsop shouted: “When I see you next I’m going to punch your f*****g lights out...”

It led to a panic alarm being sounded as the judge temporarily left the room.

Allsop also scuffled with security officers as they tried to handcuff him but he was eventually led away.

He was found in contempt but Judge Fanning did not want to put the safety of staff at risk by bringing him back into court.

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News in Brief

Assault on cabbie MIRFIELD: A woman assaulted a taxi driver and threw some of his takings at him over an unpaid fare.

Shabana Ellis, 35, of Water Royd Lane, and her partner requested a taxi from Dewsbury to her home on July 23. Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard the couple failed to pay driver Shahzad Afzal when they arrived. He knocked at the door of their home and Ellis came out and slapped him on the face. Mr Afzal darted back to his taxi followed by Ellis, who grabbed a money bag and threw coins at him.

Ellis admitted the assault and was remamded in custody for sentencing at Leeds Crown Court on Saturday, September 19.

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Strongest Man contest lifts off TITAN’S Gym in Dewsbury staged a successful ‘Strongest Man’ contest at the home of Thornhill Trojans amateur rugby league club last Sunday.

And the competitors and more than 100 spectators had such a good time that owner Chris Gibbs is looking at holding the event on an annual basis.

There were two categories, for first timers and novices, with a range of challenges familiar to fans of TV’s World’s Strongest Man, like a axle deadlift, pulling event and dead-lifting an Atlas stone.

Scott Rawson won the first timers category, ahead of John Fish and Ryan Manninfield, while Kevin Morris topped the novices, ahead of Tamas Racz and Josh Pinder.

Titan’s is based in the Bretton Street Enterprise Centre, and Chris Gibb said: “The event went really well and we’ve had some great feedback, so I’d like to thank everyone at the Thornhill Trojans for their facilities and support.”

Hospital strike called off A HOSPITAL strike set for last Friday was suspended at the eleventh hour for more talks.

Biomedical scientists voted in favour of industrial action over claims that new shift patterns would lead to unsafe staffing levels.

A one-day stoppage by Unite and Unison at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust was put on hold last Thursday.

The row concerns shifts which the scientists claims cannot be done safely without

more staff. The Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust disagrees and said the changes would provide 24hour cover at each of their three main hospitals.

Last Tuesday Unison revealed they would ballot medical laboratory assistants over the same issue.

A strike could have led to procedures being cancelled at Dewsbury District Hospital.

Based in pathology labs, biomedical scientists carry out vital tests such as analysing blood for operations and samples sent from GP sur-

geries. Jim Bell, of Unison, said of further talks: “If that fails the Trust has agreed to accept independent adjudication on the needed staffing levels.”

Kevin Oxley, the Trust’s director of operations, said services operated as normal last Friday.

He added: “After successful talks last Thursday the planned 24-hour stoppage was averted.

“Further discussions are continuing with the unions to reach a final agreement.”

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Friday September 4, 2015

Communications at Trust on life support system SEVERELY doubt that Mid Yorks NHS Trust boss Stephen Eames ever has need of the hospital services he laughingly ‘manages’.

Pound to a penny he has private health care as part of his exorbitant remuneration package.

Mind you, he’d need to. I don’t think the NHS has many L-shaped beds, and certainly not on Dewsbury Hospital’s run-down wards.

Why L-shaped? Because I doubt that man could lie straight in bed. Talk about speaking with forked tongue.

The history of the decimation of Dewsbury’s hospital services to fund the vanity project that is Pinderfields, is one of a litany of glib lies and smooth deceptions.

The farcical recent deceits over the surreptitious closure of the cardiac unit is simply the latest. We’re not even surprised at these people’s lies any longer.

I don’t pretend to know what the long-term answer for the NHS is, far less Dewsbury’s Hospital, but incompetents like Eames are

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Stephen Eames – pays consultants a fortune to tell him how to do his job not it. The fool has to throw millions at management consultants Ernst & Young just to tell him how he should be doing his job.

Says it all. No doubt if he ever gets his overdue comeuppance, a non-exec job with E&Y awaits.

We occasionally get letters from readers singing the praises of hospital staff.

In terms of front-line care, that’s usually merited and, I expect, appreciated from

We may keep you in. Or send you home. I’ll shake bones, see what they say... nurses working under great pressure.

Indeed, when we lost my mum recently, I expressed the same sentiments. At that time I held back on some of the scathing observations I could have made, because it was all too raw.

But I’ll say this: If you’re in a bad way on a Saturday or Sunday, the last place you want to be is hospital – and certainly Dewsbury Hospital.

There’s no easy way to lose

K I TC H E N S - B E D R O O M S - B AT H R O O M S

E HAD a radiologist we’d never met just call us into a room at Pinderfields to show mum a tumour on her brain, then send us off to admissions, where three 20-stone porkers had less idea of what was happening than we did.

(Mind you, it was a Sunday I suppose, so what do you expect...?)

My subsequent altercation with a grossly obese doctor, who had a patronising manner to match his lardy-arse and lousy command of English, nearly ended in a visit to A&E for one of us.

He was clueless and insulting and we were clearly just inconvenient.

Later in Dewsbury someone came and told mum she was leaving because they had a bed ready for her at Kirkwood Hospice.

Mum thought she was well enough to go home, so that was a tonic to her spirits.

Not. (The nurse hadn’t read the notes right it seemed...)

And literally while all this was happening, a doctor across the room was shouting at a quite deaf old lady, asking if she wanted resuscitating if she had a bad turn.

As if those flimsy curtains they pull round the bed were soundproof.

“Edith ... Edith, you don’t want us banging on your chest if you are really poorly,

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do you? I mean, it’s your chest that’s your problem and we don’t want to make things worse and hurt you, do we...?”

Make things worse than death? How does that work (and I kid you not, by the way). The lady always had plenty of visitors, so why weren’t they involved in that conversation? As for having the entire ward listening...

And then there’s basic communication. In English.

We eventually had to get stroppy to insist mum was seen by the excellent Dr Jay Naik, because she was shipped from joker to comic in the early days, all of whom made less sense than Harpo Marx. English language?

Maybe, just about. If you’re being generous.

But to a woman with a death sentence, being kept hanging around at a routine appointment for hours until everyone else, patients, nurses and admin staff have gone home, just so that a Hungarian locum could do a bit of patient-history research (which it was)?

Again, I kid you not.

Privatising the NHS to make staff and managers accountable might not be the way, but I promise you that it wouldn’t cost any more – and that people like Stephen Eames would be found out and shown the door soon enough.

wishes and finding a way to a T’S AN expensive thing, consensus outcome that bendemocracy. It is in Mirfield, efits Mirfield – and democracy where Kirklees Council could – was the absolute way to go. just have bought everyone aged over 18 a pint and given them a rare feelgood factor, I KNOW people say that time with the money they wasted seems to fly faster, the older on last week’s by-election. you get. They’re not wrong. It That, or hire a team of merfeels like my last day off was in February. It wasn’t, but it cenaries to give the plague of gypsies infesting the place a feels like it. That was certainbit of their own ‘hospitality’. ly the last time I had more Either of those options than a day off. And now it’s September. Kids back to would have garnered many school. That tan on my bald more votes than the 1,000 or noggin? It’s rust. It feels like so that Martin Ibberson and Spring has just met Autumn Michael Hutchinson scraped in the middle this year. Still, and scratched together in the Martyn Bolt – not good enough never mind, it will soon be unnecessary re-run of the Christmas. And at least this year I won’t have Battyeford poll, and which cost an estimated to pack my ‘summer’ gear up ... I’ve never £15,000. got out of last year’s winter stuff.

Maybe if the Government gave everyone £15 to bother voting then we might get decent I HAVEN’T heard of any ministerial resignaturnouts for elections that actually matter. tions yet over news that nett migration to the There’s a thought.

UK was over 300,000 last year. What hapThe whingeing of Labour man Hutchinson is pened to the “tens of thousands” Dave? I just about understandable, even if he put himself in a position to get a kicking from the local won’t hold my breath.

I am all for humanitarian aid, but we can’t Tories. The great disappointment to me is that squeeze the entire planet’s population onto they chose to. Come on Bolty, get a grip! this tiny island. In fact there’s an idea. The Sure, Michael Hutchinson was being sniffy planet has lots of uninhabited islands. Let’s about the situation and I ‘get’ the Tories’ rulesis-rules posturing. But come on, let’s be grown club together, buy a few, and send the flood of refugees escaping north Africa and the middle up about this, sit down and find a solution. east there, with money and means to build The Tories could have gained the moral high homes, start new communities, etc. ground by declining to stand someone against It wouldn’t work of course. Know why? him, negating the need for the poll.

Because they’d all kill each other. Far better If times are tough, if we are all in it together, we let them all in here to kill us... then respecting the electorate’s clear original

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a loved one, but there are a lot of bad ways. We were generally lucky with mum because the end came quite swiftly, but there was a period during her final night when she was in some distress and needed help.

Whatever the isolated ward nurse did – and I can’t be sure because his English was very rudimentary – for a while it made things far worse, not better. I demanded she be seen by a doctor.

I did fathom that that wasn’t going to happen because if I understood him right, there was only one junior doctor covering the entire place.

And that, to my mind, is criminal.

If basically sedating seriously ill patients from 8pm Friday to 8am Monday and kinda/sorta hoping they make it through is what the NHS has come to, then it is not fit for purpose.

And that brief encounter with that unfairly exposed nurse was typical of the main problem we had through 15 months of mum’s illness – lousy communication.

Poor systems were the norm – and that is down to you and your numerous and highly paid management team Mr Eames. Your befuddled organisation leaves vulnerable patients confused and bewildered.

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‘Cowardly’ jailed thug loses appeal A THUG who attacked a disabled teenager in Thornhill Lees has had an appeal against his prison sentence rejected.

Lawyers for Simon Brooke, 46, argued that his jail term of five years and three months was too harsh.

They claimed his victim Fenton Shaw did not suffer serious injury and no weapon was used.

But in dismissing the appeal, Lord Justice Beaton said Mr Shaw suffered psychological harm from a planned and targeted attack.

Cerebral palsy sufferer Mr Shaw, 19 at the time, was mugged on his way home

from college in February.

He got on a bus at Dewsbury and Brooke, of Flash Lane, Mirfield, struck up a conversation.

Alcoholic Brooke then got off at the same stop as Mr Shaw in Thornhill Lees and hid behind a car, watching as his victim walked along Victoria Drive.

He then pounced and grabbed at a rucksack on Mr Shaw’s shoulder with such force that his wheelchair tipped over.

Mr Shaw’s father and brother, who saw the attack, rushed out and restrained Brooke until police arrived.

Since the incident, Mr

Shaw, who suffered minor injuries when trapped under his wheelchair, has had flashbacks and feels vulnerable.

He has had seven operations for his disability and it took years for him to gain the confidence to go out alone.

Father-of-one Brooke, drunk at the time, had previous convictions for benefit fraud, theft and handling stolen goods.

He admitted attempted robbery but was not given full judicial credit for his guilty plea at Leeds Crown Court.

Having been caught in the act his attack was branded “cowardly” in sentencing on March 4.

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Dear Sir, I was thoroughly disgusted to read the front page story about the gypsies camped out on Shaw Cross playing fields, and at the same time glad to see this story have front page status.

In the past gypsies have entered/trespassed upon Dewsbury Rams land, Bywell school fields, Earlsheaton park, Sands Lane cricket and football pitches, Birkdale school fields and Shaw Cross, on more than one

Labour don’t get our anger From: Colin Auty, by email Dear Sir, On Tuesday I sat in wonder watching Yvette Cooper talking about immigration, and I struggled to understand what goes on in people’s heads that defies any common sense or logic.

The lady stated that we as a nation can and should accommodate some 10,000 so-called

Gypsies at Shaw Cross

Letter of the Week: C. Riggs via email occasion. So they enter these areas, that have already had obstacles or locked barriers put in place, and upon leaving leave their waste. But the thought of human waste also...

If you have a dog, and it squats down in the street to do its business, almost immediately someone will come flying out of their house, remonstrating with you for your

refugees, this statement coming when immigration is the biggest topic that’s turning voters in droves to seek solice with Ukip and causing all manner of election woes for Labour as the general election recently proved.

How many times after this election did I hear Labour folk on TV state that Labour was not listening to the public (honest of them, that)?

So you would think that Ms Cooper would have more sense than blabbering away, beating the immigration drum.

dog’s bowels. So you clean it up anyway, however you can be fined for that – so what’s different for these people? Maybe a dog is an animal, singular – these others are animals, plural, so the law doesn’t apply to them. Or for illegal entry and trespass too.

You will get chewed out for a dog poo, but if someone fronted these people and tried to be rea-

Talk about self destruction, this lady is oblivious to this country’s number one public worry and frustration.

They see it most days on news recently, and they worry!

Not to mention the farce called Calais, immigration concerns are many, housing being a priority, but add the security of this nation to the pot – who the hell will screen these immigrants Miss Cooper?

Can you be sure they are ALL refugees?

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sonable and polite, I would expect they would see where you live and you would end up with their waste in your garden.

Whether the law can do anything, whether the police have any power or can’t be bothered (Undercover Copper, Panorama is an example of police showing little interest) I don’t know.

On a last note, Southern Ireland,

has expectations (and may do) of leading my Britain to be “Great” again.

Thanks to Rev Partington From: Bill Robinson, frequent Dewsbury Minster visitor Dear Sir, I thought it would be very appropriate to write a letter of thanks on the imminent retirement of the Rev Kevin Partington and his dear wife, who have worked tirelessly within the team parish of Dewsbury over the last 13 years.

They have given all their energy to the work of spreading the faith of God in most areas of our town. They have helped to build up a very active congregation both at the Minster and churches within the local area forming the team parish.

Rev Partington has orchestrated many changes that have helped with the comfort of worshippers and also the introduction of a new organ system which has enhanced worship very favourably within the Minster.

The refectory has also been of considerable assistance and well used by local residents and also visitors to our town.

One of the very important ministries close to Kevin’s heart has been for the homeless and those struggling to cope in today’s society, offering them food and sustenance when it was most required.

Under their leadership, annual civic services have BDP Ltd, Belfast Yard, 19 Gelderd Road, Birstall, Outline application for 14 dwellings.

A Dyson, 102 Drub Lane, Drub, Cleckheaton, Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of twostorey garage.

Manjit Bhar, 6 Croft Street, Dewsbury, two storey retail unit (within a Conservation Area).

Mr A Patel, 1A Hill Crest Road, Savile Town, Dewsbury, discharge of condition 8 (bat activity surveys) on previous permission 2014/92274 for erection of extensions.

J Maltas, 50 Shirley Parade, Gomersal, two storey side extension.

Mr L Rashid, 191 High Street, Hanging Heaton, extensions.

Tam Le Minh, 18 Tolson Street, Ossett, single-storey side, singlestorey rear and two-storey rear extensions.

last time I watched Father Ted, it looked like a pleasant place, peaceful and lots of space. No low flying rugby balls either, but maybe these people prefer to be somewhere they can wind the locals up.

been fully accommodated within the church. They have also worked tirelessly with other faith leaders around the district to foster cooperation and working together for the good of the community.

I am sure this is but a mere snippet of the work they have accomplished but I invite you to join with me in wishing them a long and happy retirement together and give thanks for all that they have accomplished during their ministry in our town.

It wasn’t even a storm in a teacup, not even a thimble full of fury. Two vanity projects from equally opposed sides wasting our money yet again in the name of questionable democracy rather than common sense.

The money they wasted would have been better spent on measures to stop random gangs of travellers camping on our doorstep.

Obviously the Conservatives still can’t forgive Labour for making them do a u-turn over Castle Hall School. We are the victims of their vanity.

A waste of our Hospital being hard-earned From: Mr A Wilson, Mirfield decimated

Dear Sir, What a massive waste of our cash. Yes that’s right, OUR cash, yours and mine, hard earned cash, being frittered away on the Battyeford re-run by-election.

Michael Hutchinson who forgot to follow due process by registering his claim after winning the election is to blame and so are the Conservatives in Mirfield for not allowing him a bit of leeway.

How many co-opted councillors has Mirfield had in the past? Dozens, absolutely dozens of co-options onto the council, but on this occasion the Piltdown politicians decided NO. The questions we have to ask is, could two Labour councillors have made any difference to the major day to day decisions the mighty Town Council has to make. The answer is a big resounding NO.

From: Wendy Senior, Dewsbury Dear Sir, Attending Dewsbury Hospital for an appointment, I thought I would settle the argument: is or isn’t the coronary care unit closed? The ward is closed.

I asked a doctor near the coronary care unit, who told me “yes, the ward was closed, but there were a few cardiac patients dotted around the wards”.

I also noticed walking through the Boothroyd Centre, the Cavell Ward where patients with cancer receive their chemotherapy treatment, had been moved.

I asked at reception where the ward was, I was told it had gone upstairs to ward 9.

Whoever made this decision should think how it affects can-

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Mr M S Khan, 6 Kingfisher Crescent, Ravensthorpe, erection of outbuilding.

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Mrs N Akhtar, 57, Hill Top Estate, Heckmondwike, two storey side extension and first floor rear extension.

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then ask people to fill in forms to say how good their services are: I put mine in the bin!

Some good news, Paula Sherriff, Dewsbury MP and Jo Cox Batley MP, want to see reorganisation stopped while a consultation takes place to assess the changes; which sounds better than Simon Reevell’s “leave it to the clinicians” stance on the downgrading of our hospital, which is now being decimated.

I asked staff if they agreed with my assessment, and they did.

A friend told me recently about their relative having an accident at home.

He went to Dewsbury Hospital, where he was left 50 minutes without pain relief, when they said he would be seen to in five minutes.

They also forgot to give him a tetanus injection.

On being transferred to Pinderfields for plastic surgery, the ambulance man, who had come from Skipton, told him Dewsbury Hospital was now a walk-in centre, not a hospital.

This is what David Kelly and Stephen Eames have achieved with all their lies to our group.

Keep hospital services public!

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News in Brief DEWSBURY: A convicted thief failed on four occasions to let security staff fit curfew monitoring equipment. Simon Chambers, 29, was given the eight-week curfew by magistrates for an offence of theft.

But when officials arrived at his flat at St Matthew’s Church Chambers did not make himself available.

On one occasion Chambers claimed he had been sleeping for two days while on another he was seen drinking in Dewsbury town centre.

Magistrates reimposed the curfew and changed the hours to operate from 12midnight to 12noon. He must also pay a £100 fine.

Continued from page 8 cer patients walking further for treatment. It was easily accessible in the Boothroyd Centre.

I had a look round ward 9.

There were people sat in chairs having chemotherapy treatment, but only one small room with one bed!

What would happen if more than one person felt ill during treatment?

Back to the coronary care unit. I attended most of the CCG and Trust meetings and I cannot remember this ward being moved to Pinderfields mentioned. I have all the agendas for the meetings and it’s not in there.

David Kelly, chair of the Clinical Commissioning Group, and Stephen Eames, chief executive of the Mid Yorkshire Trust, make their own rules. David Kelly keeps telling us services are moving back to Dewsbury Hospital.

I am not aware of any clinic being brought back to Dewsbury Hospital.

We need our coronary care unit, children’s ward and maternity unit brought back and A&E, high dependency and intensive care leaving as they are.

The money wasted by David Kelly and Stephen Eames on advice from Ernst & Young would pay for this to happen.

People I speak to are fed up of waiting times, appointments at the wrong hospital, parking charges etc. The Trust

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Dewsbury duo steam ahead on rail training TWO Dewsbury-based employees at Inter-city rail operator First TransPennine Express have been awarded a level 3 diploma in customer service.

Nicola Pritchard and Ilyas Hans, supervisors at Dewsbury station, are part of a group of 23 staff who were recently presented with the award. The level 3 diploma in customer service is a job-based qualification that takes people through several units and assessments.

Nicola and Ilyas are based at Dewsbury station. Both were awarded seven separate internationally recognised certificates on completion of the diploma, having sat through three exams and a host of presentations, short assessments and essays.

Ilyas Hans commented: “The course was difficult to begin with as neither of us had studied for many years, but once we got back into the classroom mode we really enjoyed it.”

Kathryn O’Brien, customer service director at First TransPennine Express, commented: “We want to be known for delivering a world-class service to our customers. That’s why we’re making huge investments in training and developing our staff in vital customer service skills, which will ultimately benefit all users of our services.”

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A ROW has broken out over whether a new ‘path’ in Gomersal is permanent... or a waste of money.

Paving was put through a vegetable patch behind council bungalows on Roberson Terrace so that communal gardens could be mowed.

Just a week after the path was used for the first time, a gate at the front was replaced to allow access.

Tenant Mike Popplewell wondered if this was a mistake but was told the path was ‘temporary’.

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He said: “Why would they put a foundation layer, concrete and paving stones down if it was temporary?

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If it was temporary they could have put planks of wood down and not disturbed the vegetable garden.

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Man harrassed ex-girlfriend A MAN harrassed his pregnant former girlfriend when their relationship broke up.

Dannesh Akram, 21, of Sunnyside, Heckmondwike, admitted making 99 phone calls and sending 129 texts, many of them abusive, from September 29 to October 10 last year.

Mark Brookes, prosecuting at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court, said Akram and Katie Sewell split up in August last year after a ninemonth relationship during which she became pregnant.

Zahid Majeed, mitigating, said Miss Sewell decided she

wanted nothing further to do with his client.

He said of Akram’s later actions: “Phone calls and text messages were made and he accepts that some of the things said were uncomfortable and ultimately led to harassment.”

Magistrates gave Akram a community order including 100 hours of unpaid work and 30 days of activities.

He was given a three-year restraining order banning him from contacting Miss Sewell. He must also pay £340 court costs and a £60 victim surcharge.

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60 jobs at ‘new breed of care home’ MORE than 60 jobs will be created at Dewsbury’s newest privately-owned luxury care home when it opens next spring.

The £4m Oak Park care home is being built on the site of a former care home and council offices at the junction of Ossett Lane and Walnut Lane in Chickenley.

It will offer 66 places to people needing residential, nursing or specialist dementia care.

It is the third in a series of Yorkshire care homes built by Eric Dixon of Darrington Healthcare, which also owns homes in Pontefract and Doncaster. Facilities will include a beauty salon, cinema, cafe, bar, multiactivity room and landscaped gardens.

Said Eric Dixon: “The real emphasis will be on quality of care. Oak Park will be a new breed of care home, offering five-star facilities in a homely, affordable environment, giving older people the privacy and comfort they are entitled to.”

Pub accolade

News in Brief

THE Rising Sun in Norristhorpe has been named Pub of the Season by the Heavy Woollen branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. The pub had been in the doldrums for some years, with a succession of tenants finding it difficult to make the business work under the ownership of one of the large pub companies.

When Punch Taverns put the pub on the market, Rob and Claire Toulson invested a small fortune on buying and then completely refurbishing it.

The couple had previously managed the Black Bull in Liversedge, which was earlier owned by Rob's father, Arthur.

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A PAEDOPHILE and former town councillor from Mirfield, banned six years ago from contact with children, has died in Thailand – where he was teaching in a school.

Stephen David Grant collapsed on August 25 and died in hospital in Bangkok.

He was jailed in 2009 after conning teenage boys into sending him explicit pictures of themselves.

By pretending to be a girl, he induced two of his six victims, all aged 14 to 16, to per-

Stephen Grant form sex acts over a webcam.

The former RE teacher was teaching English at the private Assumption Thonburi

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HECKMONDWIKE: The town has a two-time world champion – in the wacky sport of bog snorkelling.

Haydn Pitchforth beat 129 others to land the title at Waen Rhydd Bog near Llanwrtyd Wells on Bank Holiday Monday.

He had previously triumphed in 2006.

Competitors have to swim two lengths of a 180ft bog and must keep their faces in the water, relying on a snorkle to breathe.

College at the time of his death. Under the name of David Grant, he had also taught in Pattaya, where he was sacked for inappropriate behaviour with students.

Before that, he worked at another school in Bangkok.

Details of his secret life were revealed when a former colleague in Thailand, Ken Glickman, spoke with Grant’s mother, who is arranging for her son’s body to be repatriated.

Mr Glickman said: “I had never doubted

what he said and saw what an excellent teacher he was. But now I know he tricked his way into the school.

It was only after he died and I had spoken to his family that I realised something wasn’t right.”

Six years ago, Leeds Crown Court was told that Grant admitted his crimes at a Catholic confession and was urged by a priest to give himself up.

He admitted eight charges of inciting children to sexual activity while in a position of

trust from December.

2007, to July, 2008.

Described by his own solicitor as an “inadequate” man who had made himself a “social leper”, Grant was jailed for 18 months.

He was also given a 10-year sexual offences prevention order banning him from working with children and was put on the sex offenders’ register.

Mr Glickman said he never knew the background and added: “I am appalled to think he was allowed to work in these schools.”

CLECKHEATON: A farmers’ market featuring local produce will be held on the St John’s car park next to the Town Hall tomorrow (Saturday, 9am-1pm).

Pub re-opens CLECKHEATON: The 17th century Rose and Crown on Westgate will re-open later this month after refurbishment.

Former builder Andy Gascoigne has spent 18 months renovating the premises and has added a microbrewery at the rear.

The pub will offer real ales and home-cooked food.

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Ramblers’ corner • FORTHCOMING walks with the North Kirklees Group of the Ramblers – non-members are always welcome. Please call the walk leader for more details.

Put pooch on show DOG lovers will be descending on Oakwell Hall on Sunday (Sept 6) for the Yorkshire Rose Dog Rescue’s seventh annual dog show.

This ‘local’ version of Crufts will cost just £1 per class to enter.

Entries will be taken from 11am on the day and judging will start at 12noon.

Poetry in the park THE Friends of Crow Nest Park will be staging their final 'Poetry in the Park' session of the year next Saturday, September 12th.

It will start at 1.30pm and will be held in the museum, as opposed to the Park Life Lodge.

There is access to the room by lift for those requiring it. All are welcome!

Carlinghow fired up for Annie and crew THE locally-renowned Carlinghow Theatre Company are back in action at Batley Town Hall soon with a great new production of the Irving Berlin classic Annie Get Your Gun. Director Nigel Dixon, choreographer Amanda Eyre and musical director Ian Abbott have been busy with rehearsals over the summer at Redbrick Mill with their talented troupe of actors, including two teams of children, who all come from the local area.

With lavish costumes and a 10-piece orchestra it promises to be a knockout performance.

This exciting Broadway revival tells the tale of the tempestuous love affair between sharp-shooting rivals Annie Oakley and

Frank Butler, as presented

by Colonel Buffalo Bill Cody and his famous Wild West Show.

With timeless music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a witty book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields, as revised

by Peter Stone, it clearly shows that ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business!’ and if you are ‘Doin What Comes Natur’lly’ then ‘Falling In Love Is Wonderful’ and maybe ‘You Can Get A Man With A Gun’!

The show toured the UK professionally last year with Jason Donovan as Frank Butler.

The original 1946 Broadway production was a big hit for Ethel Merman and a film version with Betty Hutton and Howard Keel followed in 1950.

Over the years the show has endured as a classic, with an eclectic array of leading ladies from Mary Martin, Dolores Gray and Debbie Reynolds to Suzi Quatro.

Carlinghow Theatre Company has become one of the best theatre groups

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in the area, staging two productions each year at Batley Town Hall, a family pantomime in January and a musical each September.

For tickets ring 01924 324501, 07774 128533 or visit www.kirklees.gov.uk /townhalls.

Wartime spirit prevails at The Mill on damp Bank Holiday THE MILL, Batley, defied the wet Bank Holiday weather with a special family event.

As part of a wartime-themed day to mark 70 years since the end of World War Two, customers had the chance to drive a real mini tank – as young Arthur, pictured right showed – and try a spot of dancing if that took their fancy.

There was a living history feature and vintage vehicles on display, and the ‘rations’ in the Naafi (pictured above) were a tad richer than our real wartime families might have been able to expect!

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REVIEW by Adele Latham EAST IS EAST Alhambra Theatre, Bradford Tel box office 01274 432000 Ends Saturday 5 September Set in Salford in 1971, this gritty, down-toearth story hilariously portrays the trials and tribulations of George Khan (proud Pakistani and chip shop owner), his loyal, if not downtrodden wife (No.2) Ella (superbly played by ‘Mrs Doyle’ of Father Ted fame), and their seven children, six boys and one girl.

George (Ghengis to his kids), rules his family with a rod of iron, desperately trying to instill his strict Pakistani and Muslim beliefs.

However, his children have been born and brought up in Salford, and strongly resent his dictatorial attitude – particularly when he decides it’s time for two of his elder sons to be introduced to their respective arranged brides’ family, with hilarious consequences.

The show is extremely funny, tinged with some serious thought-provoking scenes, and is certainly worth going to see.

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IF YOU love theatre, comedians and masses of historical history, then do pay a visit to the heritage centre in Morecambe – it’s a brand new exhibition curated and created by my good friend Ken Bowe, who has put his heart and soul into the project. If you want to know more check out this link www.thevisitor.co.uk/news for times and details, but it’s really well worth a visit….

a sell-out tour of The Producers. He tells me, “I think we all think we can do it, but I enjoy the musicals so much and to be honest it’s far easier than comedy in some ways. I may have a go at it later in the year.”

JASON MANFORD has revealed that he would like to write a musical in the future.

The comedian has swapped stand-up for musicals this year, starring as Leo Bloom in

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again someday. “I think they will miss me to be honest ... I have the most experience, and am a good judge, but I wish them all well. It was a great ride over ten years on the show, so not too bad.”

IF YOU have caught the weekend chat show by Aled Jones who was ‘let go’ from Daybreak due to ratings, then you won’t be surprised to hear that it’s made by Jonathan Ross’s brother and sister, who also own a production company. While the show is made for a very low budget, it appears that ITV like it simply because it fills a gap.

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HELEN Shapiro, whose singles ‘Don’t Treat Me Like a Child’, ‘You Don’t Know’, ‘Walking Back to Happiness’ and ‘Tell Me What He Said’ sent her soaring to international stardom at the tender age of 14, has been going strong ever since 1961! I was lucky enough to meet and interview this legend in London, who tells me she has sadly retired now, and while still busy, has no plans to return to the spotlight, Anything we can do to change your mind Helen?

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EASTENDERS welcomed its newest villain Paul Nicholas who made his first appearance as Gavin Sullivan. The current partner of Kathy Beale, Paul tells me, “I have to say the script is good and Gillian is such a wonderful actress. We hit it off straight away, but as ever Gavin is a bad one so stay tuned to see how that pans out.”

LOUIS WALSH may have been dropped as a judge on this year’s X Factor, but he has not ruled himself out returning

FORMER Brookside and Waterloo Road actress Nicola Stephenson is re-joining the soap world with a new role on Emmerdale. The actress is being introduced to the ITV soap as a new character called Tess, a teaching assistant, who will cross paths with Paddy Kirk. She told me, “I was thrilled when I landed the role, as the show is so iconic now, but to land a great part too, simply wonderful really.”

BBC2 has gained “unprecedented access” to British Vogue for a new documentary series. The two-part series will take a look at the world famous magazine, as it prepares to celebrate its centenary. Insiders tell me to expect on camera scenes from Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss and even Adele, who all pop in for a chat at the famous mag.

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one more year before seeing Craig Charles return to I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

The Coronation Street actor appeared in last year’s series but left early “I would go back, but at the moment I am busy with Red Dwarf, and so many other things. I did enjoy it though it was great fun, and you know not as tough as you may think – but don’t tell them I said that...”

PETER ANDRE is the latest celebrity to be named for Strictly Come Dancing. But Peter has a plan in mind for doing the show. “I get asked all the time about it, but now I have a new record deal and I think that this show, along with the exposure will also help restart my singing career as that is what I miss so much.

But do vote for me when I get going – I will need help” he laughed.

TERRY ALDERTON has revealed that he was totally against starring in EastEnders at first, but was quickly won over by the soap. The standup comic initially appeared as taxi driver Terry Spraggan in 2013. “I would have stayed in the show, but then my co-star decided to leave which left the writers no option but to axe me too. .. I was not happy at first, but then it was a great experience, so leave it at that.”

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CAROL KIRKWOOD is the star name to join Strictly Come Dancing. Breakfast weather girl Carol told me that she was persuaded by Bill Turnbull, who appeared on the show a few years ago. “He said, look it’s a once in a life time opportunity, and I think if you don’t do it you will regret it, so it’s on his advice that I am here.”

DOES KRISTINA Rihanoff really want to leave Strictly Come Dancing? Not according to the blonde bombshell of the dance floor. She told me, “I do find the negative press a bit much at times, but the show has given me everything, and I won’t be quitting no matter how hard they try to make my life,” she laughed.

IF YOU’RE a fan of great singing and loved the songs of the wonderful Matt Monro then go see Matt Monro Jr, at King’s Hall Ilkley on October 20th. He will be celebrating the life and music of his legendary father, on the 30th Anniversary Tour.

SHAYNE WARD tells me how he’s “beyond excited” to be playing Aidan, Coronation Street’s latest member of the Connor clan…

“I never thought I would land the role at all, because the acting and also the auditioning was immense, but I did and landed it. I still pinch myself going around the set – I just hope people take to him.”

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Heart unit closure ‘is in line with reorganisation’ HEALTH bosses insist closure of Dewsbury District Hospital’s heart unit is in line with reorganisation.

Coun Betty Rhodes, chairman of a council scrunity committee, said closure was ‘not specifically” in a public consultation and MPs Paula Sheriff and Jo Cox are to raise the matter with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

But managers at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust said the fate of the heart unit had in fact been discussed from the beginning.

Caroline Griffiths, director of planning and partnerships, said: “From our first consultation event in Dewsbury in March 2013 we have been clear that patients with the most serious conditions will be taken to Pinderfields.

“We discussed the pathways for people suffering chest pain as this was an area of concern at the public meetings. We also described the current and future service in many of the sessions held across Mid Yorkshire, including North Kirklees meetings.

“Our final meeting in Dewsbury in May 2013 confirmed that people who are very sick and need specialist inpatient treatment would be admitted to Pinderfields.

“Both the consultation documents and the events we ran discussed in great detail the Trust’s plans to make Pinderfields the major site for life-threatening emergencies and specialist inpatient care.

“At the consultation events it was made clear this included those patients with the

most serious heart conditions.”

Medical director Karen Stone added: “The changes we proposed in 2013 and which we have now implemented mean we will achieve the British Cardiovascular Society recommendations that patients presenting with acute cardiac conditions should be managed by a specialist, multi-disciplinary cardiac team and have access to key cardiac investigations and interventions at all times.

“These standards focus on the importance of having a consultant-delivered service in order to improve outcomes and the patient experience.”

Consultant cardiologist Paul Brooksby said: “Already these changes have shown we are doing the right thing.

Worker’s death: Firm fined £80,000 A RECYCLYING firm has been fined £80,000 after a worker from Dewsbury died in an industrial accident.

Simon Brook, 50, of Well Lane, tried to fix a blockage in a baling machine while it was still running at Batley-based Gwyn Davies McTiffen Ltd. Bradford Crown Court heard Mr Brook became trapped on August 17, 2012, and had his legs amputated at the scene.

Father of six Simon, described by widow Diane as a happy, friendly family man, died two days later at Leeds General Infirmary.

The company admitted a charge of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act in June this year.

Ben Mill, prosecuting for the Health and Safety Executive, said the incident happened at the Bradford Road premises despite advice

in 2002 and 2011. The court heard that improvements had been made at the firm’s Uttoxeter site in 2011.

But the method used at Batley was “inherently unsafe” and the accident was “entirely avoidable” if measures like those at Uttoxeter had been in place.

The company, which must also pay £40,000 costs, was given five years to pay the total sum.

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BRADFORD CRICKET LEAGUE

Cleck face uphill task for title Cleckheaton face the impossible in final league game against leaders Pudsey

By Mike Popplewell Cricket Correspondent sport@thepressnews.co.uk

CLECKHEATON go into their final game of the season, against league leaders Pudsey St Lawrence, with little or no chance of a third successive title win.

Going into August there was hope that Moorend could stage a title decider on the final day but with an 18-point gap between the two sides, but that doesn’t seem likely.

John Wood’s men would have to bat first, score at least 225, losing less than four wickets in the process, and then bowl out the visitors for under 125 runs.

In the last round of fixtures things did not go Cleckheaton’s way at Saltaire. The home side were bowled out for just 151 - to give Wood’s men five bowling points but leaving only two batting points available.

Spinner Tanzeel Altaf (4-61) and Andrew Deegan (3-26) did the damage with the ball and leading run maker Tim Jackson hit a top scoring 38 not out. But with St Lawrence taking all 20 points at home to struggling Undercliffe, the gap between Cleck and the leaders widened further.

Bowler Curtis Free will have to produce something special against Pudsey Second-placed Woodlands stumbled to a one-wicket defeat at home to Pudsey Congs, despite a superb 6-47 return from Chris Brice.

That has left them needing to overturn a 14point deficit going into their final game at Lightcliffe.

With only seven points needed at Cleckheaton, the title now looks like being St Lawrence’s to lose.

In Division Two, there are two weeks to go but leaders Morley need only two points from two games to take the title after taking 20 from their 149-run win over Spen Victoria.

Scholes duly collected the points they needed at home to Bankfoot when they had taken their visitors’ first eight wickets and then went on to finish with 17.

Having played a game more than Morley,

CENTRAL YORKSHIRE LEAGUE

they keep their chances of the title alive, at least until their last game tomorrow at Brighouse - but mathematically it seems an uphill task.

Both sides will be promoted and they leave behind a whole new format for the Second Division sides next season. Last week’s vote for a merger with the Central Yorkshire League was passed with what was described as ‘an overwhelming majority’.

Next season will see a 12 team Premier Division and two 10 team regional divisions in a newly constituted ‘Championship’.

Exactly how that Championship is comprised has not yet been determined as the five Central Yorkshire League sides to be added to Birstall and Methley - the two already accepted - have yet to be invited.

The decisions will be made based on a variety of criteria - such as league placement, pitch grading and club facilities, playing strength, organisational expertise and junior development programmes.

If Liversedge win promotion from the CYL championship they might possibly come into consideration, clubs like Townville, Wrenthorpe, and Ossett would probably be in the frame, so it is going to be a case of ‘watch this space’ over the next few weeks.

FOOTBALL

Blessing for Birstall Liversedge on top form

CENTRAL YORKSHIRE LEAGUE clubs are facing a whole new cricketing world from next season with the CYL merger with the Bradfrord League but it looks like being a particularly ignominious exit for Birstall.

Another defeat on Bank Holiday weekend, this time by 68 runs at home to Hunslet Nelson, was skipper Craig Wood’s eighth consecutive winless game.

Although Wood took the first four wickets, after opening the bowling with his spin, he then came in for some heavy punishment.

Alex Mitchell, 64, and Hunslet junior Saif Tahir, 125 not out, quickly took the game away from Birstall as they struggled to keep the visitors scoring at under six an over.

The Hunslet innings eventually closed on 263-8 and in reply Birstall never looked in contention as they slumped to 67-5.

Nick Kaye made 34 at the top of the innings, and it was only

some late hitting from Wood, 40 off 27 balls, and 39 not out in 30 from Alexander Drake, that got them to 195 all out.

That result left Birstall just one place above the relegation places, but with their Bradford League membership already accepted for next season they will not have to go through any close season vetting process to join one of the regional Championships next season.

This week they have a chance to climb at least one place when they take on Carlton, the team two points above them, in their last home game of the season.

At the other end of the table Buttershaw St Paul’s are virtually certain of taking the wooden spoon. A place in the Conference section of the league next season. They sit bottom of the pile 12 points adrift of Altofts with only two games left.

Despite that the Bradford team still have a chance of affecting this season’s title race when they

NORTHERN COUNTRIES EAST FOOTBALL LEAGUE

LIVERSEDGE FC PARKGATE Birstall now sit just one place above the relegation zone

welcome third placed Townville to St Paul’s Road tomorrow - but it looks a very slim chance.

In their last game the veteran Matthew Barnes was promoted to open the batting for Buttershaw and made 21 out of 30 for the first wicket. But the next six wickets fell for the addition of just six runs and the game was over.

Skipper Ian Carradice hit 33 late on to help edge the total to 102 but while Altofts eased home by nine wickets they still look like finishing in second bottom spot.

Alex Wolfenden lifts League Merit Trophy BOWLS OVERTHORPE’S Alex Wolfenden has won the Ossett and Horbury League’s Individual Merit Trophy at Horbury WMC. The 27-year-old produced an outstanding display defeating Andy Webb 21-7 in the quarterfinals and Jeff Normanton 21-19 in the semis.

Wolfenden eventually saw off Dave Cowsill, who was looking for his third straight merit trophy, in the final with the score finish-

ing 21-18.

• The annual bowler/non bowler competition was held at Overthorpe last weekend with Chris Rose and Lewis Ward picking up the coverted Gary Wraith and Pat Sykes trophy.

They defeated the pair of Tony Harris and Darren Ripley in the final 21-12.

Winners Rose and Ward were presented with the silverware by Pat’s husband Alan Sykes.

Alex Wolfenden with his trophy

Bradford League bound Methley still lead Wakefield Thornes by three points at the top with Townville a further three behind going into the weekend.

In the Championship Hopton Mills and Liversedge are well placed for promotion but still battling it out for the title with only one point between them.

After a free week for this division, the teams return to action tomorrow with Liversedge at Northowram Fields and Hopton Mills at Oulton.

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at Quaker Lane

ANDY WOOD scored two goals as Liversedge thumped Parkgate 4-0 at Quaker Lane.

LIVERSEDGE continued their impressive start ot the season with a 2-1 victory over second in the table Albion Sports.

Parkgate came into the game on the back of three straight victories but got off to a slow start and Sedge capitalised through Tom Jackson (inset).

Liversedge then stretched the Parkgate defence again soon had their second.

Brandon Kane hit the crossbar after a wonderful effort from a freekick, but Woods was there to follow up and head the ball into the net for a 2-0 lead at half time.

The visitors came out for the second half and went on a number of attacks but couldn’t find a way through the Liversedge defence and young keeper Liam Bell - who only made one save all game.

Despite conceding a penalty, the Parkgate keeper pulled off a wonderful save but Joe Walton put the hosts out of reach when he headed in a Brandon Kane corner for the third.

With just five minutes left on the clock another free-kick from Kane saw him whip a fantastic ball into the box and Wood knocked it into the corner of the goal to seal a fine performance.

Andy Wood got his third goal in two games with the opener two minutes before half-time to give Sedge the advantage at the break.

The second half was similar to the first, in that all the action came at the end. Albion drew level on the 84th minute through M a r c u s Edwards.

At this point it looked like Liversedge would have to settle for just a point. However, the scores weren’t level for long thanks to some magic from Sedge.

Archie Watson’s screamer of a shot just a minute later deserved to win any game and that’s exactly what it did as Sedge held on for their third victory of the season.

The latest win sees Sedge propel up the Premier Division table into fifth on 11 points, just one behind Albion Sports.

Liversedge are also just four points behind league leaders Tadcaster Albion, who they host on next on Saturday September 12.

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SUPER 8s: CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD

Error by Ainscough hands Fev the points SUPER 8s - CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD

Sam Day Luke Cooper Jack Coventry Bradley Knowles-Tagg

at the BigFellas Stadium

BATLEY BULLDOGS

BATLEY BULLDOGS let a 26-6 lead slip as they went down to Shield leaders Featherstone Rovers at the BigFellas Stadium.

James Craven Wayne Reittie Shaun Squires Elliot Cosgrove Shaun Ainscough Cain Southernwood Scott Leatherbarrow Keegan Hirst Luke Blake Sean Hesketh Sam Scott Brad Day James Brown

SUBS Anthony Nicholson Alex Rowe Tom Lillycrop Alex Brown Shaun Ainscough’s two tries proved to be in vain till just over the half-hour mark until Featherstone got the first try of the afternoon through Andy Ellis.

Forward Steve Snitch was tackled just short of the line which put Ellis in a good position to dive over from close range. Sykes added the extras to make it 6-0.

But minutes later Batley were level through Ainscough. The Dogs’ winger teamed up with centre Elliot

Cosgrove to go over and make it 6-6 at the half-time interval.

John Kear’s side came out for the second-half the stronger of the two outfits.

Replacement hooker Anthony Nicholson got Batley’s second before forward Sam Scott muscled his way over. Scott Leatherbarrow duly added the conversions for a 18-6 lead.

Leatherbarrow added a penalty in 55th minute to extend Batley’s hold on the

game, as his side looked set for their second-straight win when the Batley scrum-half sent Ainscough over for his second try 13 minutes from the end.

However, Featherstone began their fightback and hooker Sam Day forced his way over to push his team to within 14 points of the Bulldogs.

Winger Kyran Johnson then was on the end of a Paul

Cooke kick and Sykes made the score 26-22 when Ian Hardman knocked the ball forward for his centre to score.

But with Batley in possession and with two points seemingly in the bag, Ainscough’s error after the final hooter was heartbreak for Kear and his team, as Sharp and Sykes got the Rovers’ final points, to more or less cement top spot heading into the play-offs.

Trojans make it third time lucky to lift Jim Brown Cup JIM BROWN HEAVY WOOLLEN CUP

DEWSBURY MOOR THORNHILL TROJANS

FEATHERSTONE ROVERS Ian Hardman Kyran Johnson Paul Sykes Alex Foster Will Sharp Paul Cooke Will Milner Jordan Baldwinson Andy Ellis Jack Bussey Tim Spears Steve Snitch Jack Ormondroyd

SUBS

FEATHERSTONE RVRS 28 BATLEY BULLDOGS 26

The Bulldogs looked liked they’d sealed a shock victory but after conceding 22 points in the final six minutes, they lost the game and their relegation fears worsened.

The defeat was made even more painful after Shaun Ainscough, who had scored two tries already in the game, made an horrendous blunder after the final hooter to hand the home side the two points.

The former Wigan and Bradford winger was in possession and instead of running the ball out of play, he chose to kick and his attempt fell short of the touchline and into the path of Featherstone winger Will Sharp who went over in the corner.

It was left to Paul Sykes to kick a touchline conversion to leave Ainscough and his teammates on their knees wondering what had happened.

The game was a stalemate

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at the Tetley’s Stadium

THORNHILL TROJANS made it third time lucky as they finally got their hands on the Jim Brown Heavy Woollen Cup with a 52-12 victory over Dewsbury Moor.

The Trojans, who had lost in the final on their two previous occasions in the same competition, proved too strong for their Division Three rivals.

With a pack led by the likes of Ben Kendall, Jake Wilson and Anthony Broadhead, the Trojans’ forwards laid the foundations for man of the match Liam Morley and hat-trick man Joel Gibson to run riot.

Thornhill opened the scoring after just six minutes when Luke Haigh broke the line to combine with Wilson.

The ball was sent to Mindaugas Bendikas who had too much pace and planted the ball down for a try. Joel Gibson converted.

Dewsbury got into the game shortly after but they had a try ruled out for offside.

Thornhill made an abundance of errors and this allowed Dewsbury Moor to draw level. Jacob Flathers intercepting a stray pass to race away and score.

Flather also converted to make it 6-6.

Both sides struggled to mount any serious attacks, with both Moor and Thornhill making handling errors.

However, in the run up to half-time, Thornhill regained their hold on the game. A kick forward into the in-goal area bounced perfectly for Mason Bailey to gather and score.

At this point Moor were still in the game, but the highlight of the first-half came from Trojans’ full-back Gibson.

On the stroke of half time he chipped the ball forward and over the Moor defence, regathered, and finished a wonderful solo effort. Gibson converted his own score to see the Trojans lead 186 at the interval.

Thornhill started the second half purposefully. Stand-off Liam Morley taking play forward on a determined run.

With no Dewsbury Moor players able to halt the half-back, he went over for Thornhill’s fourth of the night.

Gibson added the extras just before Dewsbury Moor’s second and last score.

The ball was worked out to the wing and good handling saw the ball end with George Croisdale who sprinted clear to score, Flathers getting his second conversion.

But after, it was all Thornhilll. Liam Morley broke clear to put Danny Ratcliffe over for an unconverted try and Ratcliffe then turned creator when he gained possession of the ball and put Bailey over for his second try of the game.

FEATHERSTONE ROVERS Tries: Ellis (34), Day (74), Johnson (76), Sykes (79), Sharp (80).

Goals: Sykes 4/5

BATLEY BULDOGS Tries: Ainscough (39, 70), Nicholson (45), Scott (48).

Goals: Leatherbarrow 5/5.

Referee: Gareth Hewer / Half time: 6-6 / Sin bin: None / Sent off: None / Attendance: 1,506 / Man of the match: Scott Leatherbarrow

This weekend’s RL fixtures Super 8s BATLEY vs Whitehaven Sunday 6 Fox’s Biscuit Stadium 3pm Featherstone vs DEWSBURY Sunday 6 BigFellas Stadium 3pm National Conference League Division One SHAW CROSS vs Saddleworth Saturday 5 Leeds Road 2.30pm

Haigh once again opened up the Dewsbury Moor defence with a fine run and Wilson and Gibson then combined to put winger Adam Johnson away down the wing. Johnson brought the ball nearer the posts to allow Gibson an easier conversion.

Prop-forward Wilson created the next Thornhill score when he broke clear to put his full-back over for his second,

which he also converted.

In the final minute of the game the Trojans topped the half century mark when Gibson produced an almost carbon copy of his first-half try, as he gathered his own high kick after a Dewsbury Moor defender had failed to clear the ball. The last score of the night gave Gibson his hat-trick, as the Trojans were crowned champions.

Division Two Dudley Hill vs DEWSBURY CELTIC Friday 4 Lower Lane 7.30pm Division Three THORNHILL vs DEWSBURY MOOR Friday 4 Overthorpe Park 7.30pm

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SUPER 8s: CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD

PLAYER RATINGS DEWSBURY RAMS

ON THE RAMPAGE SUPER 8s - CHAMPIONSHIP SHIELD

DEWSBURY RAMS LONDON BRONCOS

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Joe James at the Tetley’s Stadium

DEWSBURY RAMS made it four wins from four against London Broncos and cemented their place in the top two in the Championship Shield table.

The victory means Glenn Morrison’s side have landed a home tie in the Super 8s playoffs with three games to spare, thanks to tries from Nathan Conroy, Dale Morton, Etu Uaisele and Aaron Brown.

The Rams had beaten Andrew Henderson’s side in pre-season 34-6 as well doing the double in the league, with a 24-12 victory at the Tetley’s Stadium and a 20-16 win in the capital and Dewsbury got off to a flying start thanks a try from Conroy.

The Bradford loanee, who will join the Rams for 2016, darted over from dummy-half to give the home side a 6-0, with Shane Grady converting.

A London knock on handed Dewsbury the ball again and they attempted to break the Broncos’ defence but had to settle for a drop out after some work by winger Dalton Grant and Matty Wildie.

The spell of pressure continued, and the Rams moved the ball from left-to-right and Ryan Fieldhouse’s pass found its way to Dale Morton. The former Wakefield Wildcat coasted in at the corner.

It was then London’s turn to go on the attack but second-

Forward Joel Farrell made a rare start in the win against London rower Matt Garside couldn’t get close and was dumped into touch.

The Broncos regained possession when scrum-half William Barthau intercepted a pass.

But his opposite number Anthony Thackeray tracked the France international down and the visitors then spilled the ball.

Dewsbury made them pay for their errors. Again the ball was exchanged between several pairs of hands and another Bradford loanee, Etu Uaisele, barged his way over the whitewash for a try on his home debut.

Grady, taking over from Morton with the kicking duties, landed the conversion from the touchline to make it 16-0.

The home side mounted another attack, with them looking the most likely to get another try before the break.

Half-back Wildie landed a great kick in the in-goal area but any attempts for a fourth try were quashed.

With the a handful of minutes remaining London forced a drop out for the Broncos first real chance of making a breakthrough.

That breakthrough came when Rhys Williams grabbed

Moor on the map DEWSBURY MOOR rugby club has been chosen as one of just 15 clubs as part of Google’s #HomeTownHeroes campaign.

With the England 2015 Rugby World Cup kicking off on September 18, Google UK is launching #HomeTownHeroes, a social media campaign to celebrate the local clubs and communities that made today’s international rugby stars what they are today - including Dewsbury’s Sam Burgess.

Former league star Burgess was a surprise inclusion in Stuart Lancaster’s 31-man-squad last week.

On Wednesday (Sept 2) Google brought one of its Street View camera crews to Dewsbury to capture images of the players, ground

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the ball out the air after a kick from Barthau and the former Super League winger got his sides first points of the day.

Barthau was unable to add the extras and Dewsbury went into half time with a healthy 16-4 lead.

London started the second half brightly. Player-coach Andrew Henderson must have had a stern word in his player’s ears, as they landed a superb 40-20 to put them deep in Rams’ territory.

However, Henderson couldn’t keep hold of the ball after a heavy tackle and the hooker knocked on after some good

work in defence by man of the match Rob Spicer and co.

London were finding it difficult to get out their own half and good work from Thackeray put the Rams in the driving seat.

First the Rams’ number seven forced a drop out, before he chased down London’s Joe Keyes and he, like his boss, lost the ball in the tackle.

This gave Dewsbury the possession and they didn’t waste it. Substitute Aaron Brown went over after backing up Fieldhouse after the full-back broke the line and went on the run.

Grady made it 22-4 with the conversion with more than 25 minutes left to go.

The full-time outfit showed the game wasn’t over as they asked a number of questions from the Dewsbury defence.

London half-back Keyes’ day went from bad to worse as he was forced to leave the field after a hit from Karl Pryce. With his absence, London got their second score through John Wallace and Barthau added the two to close Dewsbury’s lead to 12 points.

Former Rams player Ben Hellewell then got London’s third with a converted score outwide, with the home players appealing for a forward pass but referee Jamie Bloem waved their appeals away.

With just six points seperating the sides, Dewsbury began to look nervous, but when Thackeray landed a drop-goal with five minutes to spare, them nerves were set-

Ryan Fieldhouse Dale Morton Karl Pryce Etu Uaisele Dalton Grant Matty Wildie Anthony Thackeray Makali Aizue Nathan Conroy Ryan Hepworth Rob Spicer Shane Grady Joel Farrell

8 7 7 8 7 8 7 8 7 7 9 9 7

SUBS Stephen Nash Paul Jackson James Glover Aaron Brown

6 7 7 7

LONDON BRONCOS Sean Morris Rhys Williams Ben Hellewell Elliot Kear Iliess Macani William Barthau Joe Keyes Erjon Dollapi James Cunningham Ben Gray Matt Garside Joel Wicks Matt Davis

7 7 6 6 6 8 6 7 6 7 8 6 6

SUBS Andrew Henderson John Wallace Jonny Walker Sadiq Adebiyi

5 6 6 6

DEWSBURY RAMS Tries: Conroy (6), Morton (13), Uaisele (30), Brown (52).

Goals: Grady 4/5 Drop goals: Thackeray 1/1

LONDON BRONCOS Tries: Williams (37), Wallace (60), Hellewell (68).

Goals: Barthau 2/3 Referee: Jamie Bloem / Halftime:14-6 / Sin Bin: None / Sent Off: None / Attendance: 805 / Man of the match: Rob Spicer

tled. Any fear of a comeback was put to bed when former London centre Grady knocked over a penalty goal for Morrison’s side to hand the Rams the win.

Whittaker kicks Shaw Cross to Cup glory

Ryan James Conway

JOHN KANE CUP

BATLEY BOYS SHAW CROSS SHAKRS A

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ALEX WHITTAKER registered a a record 32 points as Shaw Cross Sharks A thrashed Batley Boys 80-6 to lift the John Kane cup.

Sam Burgess (centre) pictured alongside his brothers Tom and George and supporters of Dewsbury Moor.

They hope the local community also get involved in the celebration of their local star and club, encouraging players, former players, families, locals and friends to upload their own pictures, videos and social posts with the #HomeTownHeroes hashtag.

The project is a world-first and Google UK’s head of social media Stephen Rosenthal said it was great

local communities could celebrate Burgess’ achievements.

“Our amateur rugby teams really are at the centre of our communities,” he said.

“Dewsbury Moor ARLFC and Dewsbury are rightly proud of Sam Burgess, and we’re excited to see how they celebrate his achievements, and the club that made them possible, in their own unique way.”

Prop-forward Casey Johnson gave Shaw Cross an early lead as he barged his way through the Batley line after just five minutes.

Whittaker converted and was soon on the scoresheet himself as he got on the end of high kick and touched down in the corner, converting his own try from the touchline for a 12-0 lead.

Half-back Aiden Kaye jinked his way through after just 15 minutes of play, and Batley’s heads were going down early.

Man of the match Ben Spaven and Johnson were a constant threat to the opposition’s defence, as they broke the line. The partnership then helped lively full-back Tom Stuckey over the line soon followed

by Johnson for his second.

Whittaker’s trusty boot made it 30-0 after the opening quarter and the lead was extended with further tries from Greg Wilby (two) and centre Tom Rogers. That pushed Shaw Cross to an unassailable 48-0 lead at the half-time break.

Sharks A become the first Shaw Cross team to win back-to-back John Kane cups Batley’s defence was tighter in the second period as Dan Winner got their first and last score of the game, with Mick Dyson converting from close range.

Sharks’ Declan Ellis made a sudden impact when he came off the bench, and finished off another attacking spell under the posts for a try.

The Shaw Cross’ tries weren’t as fequent as the first half, with Batley soaking in the pressure from Joe Bowness and Aiden Chandler.

Centre Stephen Morton then used his pace and power to weave his way to the line to make it 58-6.

However Whittaker couldn’t convert with his only miss of the game.

Greg Wilby got back amongst the action to complete his hat-trick

with 13 minutes on the clock remaining.

As the game closed out Johnson also got his third of the night, followed by Wilby’s fourth, both converted by Whittaker to take his conversion tally to 12 from 13.

Whittaker then got the ball himself outwide, 15 metres from the line, and bulldozed his way over his opposite number to get his second.

As the hooter went he passed kicing responsabilities to a teammate, who was wide of the mark as the game finished 80-6.

It meant back-to-back wins for the Sharks A in the John Kane cup and also meant they won double, having won the Yorkshire Men’s League Division Two title last weekend.

DOGS FACE THE DROP

Batley boss Kear blasts his side after letting lead slip and ‘that incident’

By Joe James Sports Reporter joejames@thepressnews.co.uk

THE LAST three games in Batley’s season could be some of the biggest in their history.

A strange end to last Sunday’s game saw Shaun Ainscough collect the ball after the final hooter had blown and kick it towards the other touchline, only for it to not go the distance and fall to Featherstone winger Will Sharp to score in the corner.

It was Paul Sykes’ conversion that handed the Rovers all two points but the Bulldogs wounds and Ainscough’s coach John Kear said he couldn’t believe what he saw.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” he said. “I must have watched tens of thousands of rugby league games and it’s the most surreal incident I’ve ever seen.

“After the game the bus was like a morgue, but it happened and we have to deal with the fact it happened.

“For 70 minutes it was a good game of rugby league from a Batley’s perspective,” Kear added.

“The first half was tough, the surface was wet and greasy but when the weather faired up, we were the better side for 30 minutes.

“In the last 10 we conceded four tries, we put our cue on the rack.

“We lost it rather than Fev won it. We gift-wrapped it and put it on a silver platter.”

Aaron Brown came off the bench against London to score in the win

The defeat will have hurt Kear even more after Hunslet pulled off another shock victory away at Whitehaven. That left the Hawks just two points behind Batley but Kear says his players shouldn’t read too much into Whitehaven’s defeat.

“I think the Hunslet result last week doesn’t show them (Whitehaven) in a true light,” he said.

“They had five players out, some had booked holidays, one had a wedding, so it’s wasn’t a true reflection of them and it’ll be a much stronger side this weekend.”

Batley will now turn their attention to Whitehaven at the Fox’s Biscuit Stadium on Sunday (3pm).

The ‘Dogs may go into the game without James Craven and Wayne Reittie.

Full-back Craven came off early against Featherstone with an elbow injury and will be assessed tomorrow (Sat) as will Reittie who is suffering with a hamstring strain - an injury he has been carrying for around month said Kear.

Batley’s opponents on Sunday have beaten them twice already this season, with the most recent a 24-12 loss at the Recreation Ground.

Last weekend’s defeat may have been a case of deja vu for Batley supporters after watching their side let a healthy slip in their home game against the Cumbrian side back in May, after the Dogs concededed a converted try in the final minute.

That was just one of 12 games Batley have lost this season by 12 or

fewer points, including defeats to Sheffield, Bradford and Widnes Vikings in the cup.

The Bulldogs will be desperate for a win on Sunday, as Hunslet have the much easier task of facing bottom club Doncaster.

A win for Barry Eaton’s team and a loss for Kear’s means both teams would have 16 points heading into the final two games Batley host Hunslet on the last game of the Super 8s at the Mount, in a match that could decide who drops into the third tier.

After Sunday’s fixtures, both sides have tricky games with Hunslet hosting Featherstone and Batley travelling to the capital to play London.

Meanwhile, players are being continously linked with a move to the Bulldogs, and speculation this week grew after Sheffield announced that they would release 10 players after the current campaign.

Former Dewsbury trio Pat Walker, Dominic Brambani and Scott Turner will leave the Eagles who will go full-time for 2016 - and it is Walker and Brambani that have been rumoured to be on their way to the Fox’s Biscuit Stadium.

Batley’s injury-plagued season hit the halves the hardest, with Kear only having one of Scott Leatherbarrow or Cain Southernwood at his disposal for a large part of the regular season and the acquisitions would certainly bolster the squad in that department.

John Kear said his side must play in a ruthless manor in their final three games

RAMS READY FOR ROVERS RUMBLE DEWSBURY RAMS can mount a serious late charge for top spot in the Championship Shield if they can overcome Featherstone Rovers this weekend.

The Rams overcame London for the third time competitively this season with a 25-16 on Bank Holiday Monday.

Coach Glenn Morrison said it is nearly a case of ‘mission complete’, with the Rams’ boss stating securing a home tie in the Super 8s play-offs was always the team’s ambition.

Their latest win puts them five points ahead of the Broncos, meaning London would have to win all their remaining games and Dewsbury lose all theirs for the team from the capital to steal second place.

If the table remains as it stands, as expected, the Rams will play London

once again in the semi-finals, while Featherstone look set to face Workington Town in the other clash.

The play-offs will be played on the weekend of September 26/27.

First Dewsbury prepare for a topof-the-table encounter with the Rovers, who they narrowly beat 3230 almost two months ago.

That victory was revenge for the Rovers’ 38-28 win at the Tetley’s Stadium back in March but Morrison’s side will go into this weekend’s game at the BigFellas Stadium full of confidence, after Fev needed luck to narrowly beat Dewsbury’s rivals Batley on Monday.

Since Rovers sacked Andy Hay and appointed Jon Sharp as their new head coach, the team have gone on to win every game in the Super 8s.

Despite some teething problems at the start of Sharp’s reign, the former Huddersfield and Hull boss has made some bold moves, by promoting a large number of youngsters into his starting 17.

While first-team players such as Jy Hitchcox, Ben Blackmore and Gareth Moore have been demoted to the Rovers’ reserve side.

In recent weeks Featherstone have been linked with a move for Dewsbury star Anthony Thackeray, with a rumoured £50,000 offered for the former Halifax, Castleford and Widnes playmaker.

Thackeray has been the Rams’ stand-out player since his arrival to Tetley’s Stadium and is the team’s joint second top-try scorer this season with ten, having topped the charts last season.