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Friday February 8, 2019

No. 880

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FIVE HURT IN FLATS BLAST Witness ‘saw people covered in blood’ after town centre explosion rocked flats in old bank building FIVE people were injured after an explosion rocked flats in the heart of Batley.

The blast is believed to have occurred in a building on Hick Lane, just to the rear of the twostorey former HSBC premises housing a small number of flats.

Residents heard an enormous explosion just after 6.45pm on Wednesday evening.

Ten fire engines were initially called to the scene and dozens of

emergency crews stayed overnight with concerns over the structural stability of the old bank building, which was also in use as a nightclub for several years.

Five men aged between 35 and 39 suffered burn injuries and remain in Pinderfields Hospital.

The incident is not believed to be terror-related. Officials initially said that it was a suspected gas explosion but they are now treating it as ‘unexplained’.

Crime scene investigators were

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seen bringing out bags of evidence yesterday (Thurs).

The Royal Logistic Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal team – the ‘bomb squad’ – was called in as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of the property and the houses in the surrounding area.

Top, emergency vehicles at the former bank building on Hick Lane.

Left, firefighters deploy an aerial ladder above the scene of the blast.

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One witness said he saw people covered in blood fleeing from the building, while some nearby residents were evacuated from their homes.

Smoke was seen billowing across Batley but the fire was extinguished later in the evening.

Bradford Road – the main route into Batley town centre – at its junction with Hick Lane was closed throughout the night and most of yesterday.

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Deaths BROOKE RUTH On January 23, at home in Liversedge, aged 75, wife of David. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Tuesday February 26 at 11.30am.

BURNETT BRIAN On January 19, in hospital, of Mirfield, formerly of Birstall, aged 86, husband of Beryl. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Friday March 1 at 12.30pm.

DAVIES (FORMERLY CONWAY) EILEEN On February 2, at Priestley Care Home, Birstall, aged 87, much-loved mum, cherished grandma, greatgrandma and loyal friend.

Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Friday March 8 at 11.30am.

DENTON ERNEST On January 27, in hospital, of Earlsheaton, aged 88, son of the late George and Edith.

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Funeral service will take place at St Paul’s Parish Church, Hanging Heaton, on Monday February 18 at 2.30pm.

Haydn John

DENVILLE FRANCES

In hospital on the 2nd February 2019 aged 74 years. Haydn of Batley, owner and founder of H. Mitchell Car Sales.

The beloved husband of the late Jean.

A dearly loved dad of Karl and Richard, dear father-in-law and a much loved grandad of Daniel, Natalie and Henry.

The funeral service will take place at Batley Cemetery Chapel on Thursday 14th February at 2.45pm and will be followed by interment in Batley Cemetery. Would friends please accept this intimation. Family flowers only please, should anyone wish to make a donation, please make it to a charity of your choice. Any enquiries to David Butterfield Funeral Directors, Cleckheaton. Tel. 01274 852885.

On January 28, peacefully in hospital after a short illness, of Birstall, aged 84, wife of the late Peter.

Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St Patrick’s RC Church, Birstall, on Monday February 11 at 9.30am.

FENTON MARK On January 15, peacefully at Ings House Nursing Home, Liversedge, after a long illness bravely born, aged 52, much-loved husband, dad, son-in-law, father-in-law, uncle and great uncle. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Monday February 25 at 10.30am.

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NEWSOME MALCOLM HATFIELD On January 24, peacefully in hospital, of Cleckheaton aged 74, dad of Michelle, Andrea, Robert, Esther and Rachel. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Tuesday February 26 at 10.30am.

On January 31, at her home in Batley with her family by her side, aged 80, wife of Denis. Funeral service will take place at Batley Parish Church on

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O’CONNOR JOAN On January 17, peacefully at York House Care Home, Dewsbury, aged 87, mum of Paul and Kate. Requiem Mass will be celebrated at the Holy Spirit RC Church, Heckmondwike, on Tuesday February 19 at 10.30am.

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PATCHETT (FORMERLY BARRACLOUGH) JUNE On January 26, peacefully at Pinderfields Hospital, of Cleckheaton, aged 79, wife of Phil. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Tuesday February 19 at 9.30am.

RICHARDSON ALLEN On January 27, in hospital, of Batley, aged 61, husband of Shaz. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Friday December 22 at 9.30am.

SECKER (NEE GRANHALGH) MARJORIE On January 26, whilst in the safe care of Kirkwood Hospice, aged 94, wife of the late Ronnie. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Thursday February 28 at 12.30pm.

SHARP COLIN On January 25, peacefully at Kirkwood Hospice, of Batley, aged 84, husband of the late Theresa.

Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Monday February 18 at 9.30am.

On January 29, suddenly at his home in Chickenley, aged 82, much-loved dad of Louise and Lee. Funeral service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Wednesday February 13 at 10am.

WATSON Margaret (nee Cox)

On 30th January 2019, of Upper Batley, aged 81 years, Margaret passed away peacefully at Eden Court Nursing Home with her dear family at her side. Much-loved wife of David, mum of Caroline and Grandma to George David. A very dear sister, sister in law, niece, aunt, great aunt and great great aunt. Margaret will be sadly missed by family and friends.

Funeral service will be held St Paulinus Church, Dewsbury on Thursday 28th February 2019 at 2pm. Followed by burial at Dewsbury Cemetery.

Family flowers only donations to Dementia UK and Priestley Care Home may be placed in the collection box provided by George Brooke Ltd, after the service.

RIP WHARTON MARIE On January 15, peacefully surrounded by her family in Pinderfields Hospital, of Gawthorpe, aged 91, wife of the late Geoff. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Tuesday February 19 at 10.30am.

WILBY BRIAN On January 29, whilst in the safe care of Kirkwood Hospice, with his family at his side, aged 80, husband of Daphne. Funeral service will take place at Cottingley Hall Crematorium, Leeds, on Thursday February 14 at 11am.

WILKINSON DAVID LESLIE On January 22, at his home in Dewsbury, aged 64, husband of Shirley.

Funeral service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Thursday February 14 at 2.20pm.

WILSON (NEE ELLIS) VIVIEN On January 18, peacefully after a short illness at Pinderfields Hospital, aged 76, wife of the late Ken. Funeral service will take place at Dewsbury Moor Crematorium on Wednesday February 13 at 11.30am.

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Haydn got so many of us motoring THE MAN who put more local motorists behind the wheel of a new car than anyone in the district, has passed away at the age of 74.

Haydn Mitchell’s car sales company, at the top of Halifax Road in Staincliffe, has been a local landmark for more than 40 years.

Although the business has been increasingly run by his sons Richard and Karl in recent years, Haydn was still a daily part of the fixtures and fittings, available for a chat with any of his returning customers – and they were many.

“Dad was proud of giving people good advice and good service,” said Richard, 46, who came into the business straight from school. Brother Karl, 49, did similar – after doing a university degree in Latin.

Haydn was Birstall born and bred, and went to the local Brownhill school. He was a talented junior rugby player who signed for Featherstone Rovers for the then-princely sum of £1,000 as a teenager.

When he struggled to become a first team regular, his dad had to pay £500 to buy his contract out. Haydn went to play for Dewsbury, without ever settling and making a career of it.

“His own dad always wanted him to have a ‘proper’ job, so he worked in a bank while studying accounting,” Richard explained.

The ‘career’ lasted until young Haydn gave a colleague a whack for making him late for rugby.

A natural salesman who knew his cars, Haydn found his way into the motor trade and in 1977 took on the company’s current site in Staincliffe.

He retained his life-long interest in rugby league and the company was frequent sponsors of amateur clubs, particularly Dewsbury Celtic.

The family home was first Gomersal and since 1979 Roberttown.

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Haydn was admitted to hospital with chest problems but after being discharged was quickly taken back in. He passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 2.

Besides his sons, he leaves three grandchildren, Daniel, Natalie and Henry.

His funeral is next Thursday (February 14) in the Batley cemetery chapel at 2.45pm.

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Police appeal after Greenway attack on man, 74 POLICE are appealing for information following a shocking assault on an elderly man on the Spen Valley Greenway in Liversedge.

The attack, in which the 74-year-old sustained broken ribs, happened on Thursday, January 31 between 4.45pm and 5pm near to Wormald Street and Melbourne Street.

The victim was walking his dog when two males on bikes approached and a verbal altercation took place.

According to the man’s wife, who did not want to be named, the dog had walked towards the two suspects and started sniffing at their bikes.

She said the pair started swearing at her husband

and when he walked away he was hit from behind.

They pushed him to the floor and repeatedly kicked him before fleeing.

The victim went to Dewsbury District hospital but is recovering at home.

Inspector Dorian James, of Batley and Spen NPT, said: “This was an incredibly distressing incident for the gentleman involved.

“Officers have conducted house-to-house enquiries as well as examining CCTV in the area. My colleagues from CID are investigating.

“I would like to encourage members of the public who were in that area on the day of the incident to come forward with any information.

“I know there will be someone in the local com-

munity who has key information.”

The suspects are described as Asian, wearing dark clothing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the police via 101, quoting crime reference number 13190056987, or information can be passed to Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

A DEWSBURY man has admitted driving into a serving soldier outside a Batley nightclub on New Year’s Day. Hamza Ali Hussain mowed down Joshua AdamsMitchell following an altercation outside the TBC club on Bradford Road.

Father-to-be Mr AdamsMitchell, 21, was hospitalised with severe injuries.

He could lose the sight in one of his eyes and may have to cut short his career in the Army.

Hussain was arrested after the incident and appeared in Leeds Crown Court via a video link from HMP Leeds

on Wednesday.

Hussain, 23, of Middle Road, Dewsbury, spoke only to confirm his name, age and nationality and to enter his guilty plea.

He will be sentenced for grievous bodily harm with intent at the same court on March 11.

By then the court will have been given CCTV footage of the incident.

Judge Guy Kearl QC said: “You have pleaded guilty to this matter, which is a serious matter and it will inevitably lead to a significant prison sentence.”

An argument is alleged to

BIRSTALL: Five men were arrested when armed police found a machete, knives and drugs in their car. Officers stopped the silver BMW on the A62 in Birstall – near the Showcase Cinema – just before 5.20pm on Monday.

The men, aged between 17 and 23, were arrested on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon and were released under investigation.

MIRFIELD: Christmas lights maestro Derek Highe has raised a huge £4,888.25 with this year’s display. Derek turns his Robin Royd Avenue home into a festive wonderland each year to raise money for Kirkwood Hospice.

And he was able to present them with a cheque last week – which took the grand total over the past 16 years to £52,963.87.

He also got donations from the Capri restaurant at Horbury and Barclays bank.

Posting on Facebook group Mirfield Matters, Derek said he was "forever grateful to the people who help me to put on the display each year”.

have started inside the venue and then spilled out onto the street before Hussain drove a blue Mercedes into Mr AdamsMitchell as he was in the road. Hussain fled the scene but was arrested shortly after.

Police have ruled out any racial or terror-related motive but say it was a deliberate attack.

The full circumstances leading up to the incident have not been disclosed.

‘Unhelpful’ comment POLITICS: Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff has called comments from EU official Donald Tusk this week “unhelpful”.

On Wednesday Mr Tusk, president of the European Council spoke of a “special place in hell” for “those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan of how to carry it out safely”. Many pro-Leave MPs reacted with anger, accusing Mr Tusk of “arrogance”.

Miss Sherriff (Lab, Dewsbury and Mirfield), said: “During difficult and ongoing negotiations Mr Tusk’s comments are not helpful, but should not be allowed to detract from the issues at hand. My focus will continue to be fighting for the best outcome for local people.”

Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin (Lab) did not want to comment.

Josh Adams-Mitchell could lose his sight in one eye and may have to curtail his Army career

Junction changes set for approval HIGHWAYS officers look set to press ahead with changes to a major road junction on the Roberttown-Mirfield border, despite opposition from councillors and locals.

Nearly 50 people, along with councillors, have voiced concerns about potential new traffic regulations surrounding the development known locally as Mirfield 25.

Seven business units and 166 homes are set to be built on land at Mirfield Moor. As part of the application for the commercial development, a traffic regulation order to adjust the nearby Huddersfield Road and Child Lane junction has been submitted.

The changes – which include banning drivers from making a right turn from Huddersfield Road into Child Lane – are intended to “mitigate against the additional traffic generated by the development site”.

Objectors say the moderations will make the junction worse.

But the traffic regulation order is set for approval without change at a meeting on Monday (February 11).

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Five hurt in flats blast Continued from Page 1 A witness, who did not want to be named, described the blast as “like a war scene”.

He said: “I’ve never heard anything like it. I came rushing out to find glass everywhere, some even blew 300 yards.”

Chief Inspector Wayne Horner said: “I understand this will have caused concern amongst the community; residents can be reassured that police, along with our partners from the other emergency services, are dealing with the incident.”

Watch commander at Dewsbury Fire Station, Mark Hemingway, confirmed fire crews were back on the scene at 8am yesterday morning to relieve the crews that stayed overnight.

He said: “When we initially arrived, we couldn’t get into the back of the building due to the structural damage, so the USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) were called in and they have been building support to ensure the building remains safe for now.”

The road closures meant that the nearby Mill Outlet had to close for the first time in over 20

years. Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin tweeted her thanks to the emergency services for their efforts.

She said: “Thank you so much for all you do. When others run from harm, you run to protect and rescue others. Thank you from #batleyandspen”.

Police used a drone yesterday to survey the building. Detective Superintendent Pat Twiggs, said: “Police and partner agencies have worked throughout the night to ensure the scene is safe and there is no safety risk to members of the public.

“All injured parties are still in hospital receiving treatment for their injuries.

“We will be continuing with our enquiries throughout today and would like to thank the local residents and public for their patience whilst we establish the full circumstances of the incident. At this stage, we are not treating it as a terrorist incident.”

Anyone with any information is asked to call the police via 101 quoting log number 1589 of February 6.

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News In Brief Thugs flee after break-in attempt DEWSBURY: A gang of thugs tried to break into a family home last Wednesday evening.

It is thought they were wearing masks and had knives while they were banging on the door and windows of the house on Mallinson Street, Westborough at around 8pm. They were disturbed and fled empty-handed.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Police were called to Mallinson Street at 8.10pm on Tuesday 29 to reports of an ongoing attempted burglary.

“It is believed a number of males were attempting to enter the property but were disturbed and then made off. They did not enter the house.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101, quoting log 1592 of January 29.

Carjacking ordeal DEWSBURY: A man was carjacked by a group of masked thugs as he sat in his vehicle.

Three suspects approached the passenger side of the man’s car on Birkdale Road on Friday evening at around 8pm.

They tried the door handles, causing the driver to get out of the car in fear.

The men drove off in the car, which was later found in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield, police confirmed.

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 with crime reference number 13190059008.

Waxing for charity BIRSTALL: Batley Bulldogs head coach Matt Diskin will be taking part in a charity waxing night in aid of a Birstall youngster who has cancer.

Eleven-year-old Taegan Pickles, who was diagnosed with ovarian germ cell cancer last year, is now on round three of a pioneering chemotherapy treatment at Leeds General Infirmary.

Matt and some of his players will be getting their body hair waxed at Priestley’s Bar today (Friday) from 7pm.

All money will go to oncology wards 31 and 33 at LGI and the children’s charity Candlelighters.

For a small donation, you can whip a strip of wax from the participant of your choice.

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Youngsters show off art skills for homeless A MIRFIELD charity which provides support for homeless people and their pets celebrated its first birthday in January.

To mark the occasion, founder Sarah Watkinson ran an art competition for youngsters in Mirfield to get their design on the charity’s new banner.

Stanley’s Companions was formed as a sister charity to Winter Warmers, which was set up almost two years ago to help provide homeless people with warm clothes through the winter.

Four-year-old Leo

Watson came first with his puppy drawing and the runners-up were eight-year-old Maisy Watson and four-year-old Josie Firth.

All the finalists received a certificate from Dewsbury and Mirfield MP Paula Sherriff during a presentation morning at the Mardy Crumb cafe on Saturday, as well as a jar of sweets and a framed print of their artwork.

Winner Leo also bagged a House of Commons teddy bear, courtesy of Miss Sherriff.

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Helping homeless people ... art competition winner Leo Watson, centre, with runners-up Maisy Watson, left, and Josie Firth

‘Commutes to chaos’: bus changes under fire CUTS to bus services in North Kirklees could ‘throw commutes into chaos’, according to an MP. Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin met with Arriva bosses on Friday to urge the bus company to rethink its plans, in which some buses will be cut from the local network.

Protestors and residents, including groups from Mirfield and Roberttown, also attended a transport committee meeting on Wednesday night to voice their concerns.

Arriva, which runs the majority of buses in the area, plans to re-route some of its services while also introducing new routes and removing others.

Bosses have described the changes as a “significant improvement” – but many commuters aren’t happy.

Ms Brabin said in Parliament last week: “Batley and Spen is a community made up of small

towns and villages, and buses are a valued and essential service.

“So I’m sure the Prime Minister will sympathise with my constituents’ anger at the recent cuts to services by Arriva announced this week.

“So much so that commutes are thrown into chaos, people can’t get to the shops and one headteacher told me they were concerned at how their pupils would actually get to school.

“Doesn’t the Prime Minister agree with me that people are more important than profit, and isn’t it time to invest in bus services after years of cuts and bring them under public control?”

One of the main changes is to the 221 and 223 services, which will be renumbered 201 and 201A and will only operate between Leeds and Heckmondwike. A new 228 service will run between Cleckheaton and

Huddersfield.

There will be major changes to the 229 LeedsHuddersfield route which, ‘following several requests for a more direct service’, will not now serve Bradford Road, Batley or Healey.

Dewsbury and Mirfield MP Paula Sherriff has raised issue with the fact that the current 221 and 253 services between H e c k m o n d w i k e , Norristhorpe and Mirfield will be replaced by a single 261 service.

She wrote in a letter to Dwayne Wells, head of commercial at Arriva Yorkshire, that this change would directly affect students at Mirfield Free Grammar School, with the first 261 bus of the day only arriving at the Kitson Hill Road stop outside the school at 8.47am – seven minutes after the school day starts.

She said: “Several local people have contacted me

to raise their concerns and have said they feel that the route decisions have been made without public input.”

Miss Sherriff has asked to meet with Mr Wells to discuss the service changes.

Mr Wells said: “We are investing heavily in our network across the Dewsbury, Batley and Spen area, with changes being made following extensive consultation with bus users. Highlights include quicker journeys, new links and we’ve even doubled the frequency in places.

“We’re also introducing new Sunday links following requests and a new latenight departure on a Friday and Saturday night from Leeds to Cleckheaton.

“We’re confident these changes will increase bus usage in the area, and we’d urge our customers to visit our website for information on what is changing.”

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Each year it attracts over 12,000 visitors who enjoy the various stalls, activities and agricultural and animal-based attractions.

The show is organised by a team of dedicated volunteers from Mirfield and surrounding areas.

Chairman Jonathan Evans said: “We are a friendly committee with a family ethos. We welcome all age groups and backgrounds and it is with that, that new and exciting ideas are always forefront in our planning of the show.

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31,000-HOME PLAN AGREED Local Democracy Reporter Tony Earnshaw on the Kirklees Local Plan latest KIRKLEES Council’s massive planning blueprint has been approved by a government planning inspector.

But as it signs off on tens of thousands of new homes across the borough it also puts up obstacles for fracking companies wishing to drill for hydrocarbons such as shale gas.

And Green campaigners say it could have national implications.

The authority’s ambitious Local Plan will now go to debate at a special meeting of Kirklees Council on February 27.

It is likely to be adopted and signed into law.

An order from the government, the Local Plan includes 31,000 homes, many of which will have to be built within the green belt as there is insufficient nongreen belt land in the borough.

Among the huge schemes are developments at Dewsbury Riverside between Mirfield and Ravensthorpe (4,000 homes), and at Bradley, building on the 18-hole golf course (1,500 homes).

Reacting to the report by Katie Child of the Planning Inspectorate, Council Leader Shabir Pandor said it was “fantastic news” for Kirklees.

Also cheering was Green Group leader Coun Andrew Cooper, who said the inclusion of an amendment to a policy relating to hydrocarbon extraction proposals could have a crucial impact on fracking across the country.

The amendment, adopted by the council in 2016, says proposals for production of hydrocarbons should demonstrate “net zero impact on climate change.”

In short if the effects of fracking cannot be mitigated no approval will be given.

Said Coun Cooper: “We cannot rule out fracking because that would go against national policy.

“But we have put a condition on that to make it more difficult for fracking applications to be accepted without getting over this reasonable hurdle.”

He added: “It’s the first time such a policy has been accepted in the UK and accepted by the government’s Planning Inspector.

“That policy could be applied in other authorities as they would be able to use Kirklees as an example.

“That makes it quite difficult for fracking companies to do it in other parts of the UK. “The government could overrule a local authority but it would be hard to justify it because we have gone through a process that the government itself has approved through the Planning Inspectorate.

“They would be arguing against themselves.”

Ms Child said the vision, strategic objectives and spatial development strategy in the plan “provide a positive and soundly based framework for the delivery of sustainable development in

Kirklees.”

Coun Pandor added: “The inspector believed we have been ambitious yet realistic in our economic aspirations for the district.”

His colleague Coun Peter McBride, who heads up the council’s regeneration projects, said: “The important thing now is that we deliver, because that is the way we can protect the green belt and our important urban green spaces against unwelcome development whilst delivering new homes that meet local needs.

“We will also have planned growth alongside infrastructure improvements.”

The debate on whether to adopt the Local Plan will be held at a speciallyarranged full council meeting on Wednesday February 27 from 5.30pm.

The inspector’s feedback can be found at www.kirklees.gov.uk/ localplan.

Copies are also available at the Dewsbury and Huddersfield Customer Service Centres.

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THERE have been mixed reactions to news that Kirklees Council’s Local Plan, which will see tens of thousands of new homes built in the borough, has been approved by a government planning inspector.

Council leader Shabir Pandor described the sign-off as “fantastic news”.

But Liberal Democrat Group leader Coun John Lawson (Cleckheaton) said there was frustration about the amount of green belt land allocated for housing.

“While we appreciate the importance of having a Local Development Plan to bring to an end the planning uncertainties of the last few years we fundamentally disagree with the imposition, by government, of the numbers that became the beall and end-all of the plan,” he said.

“We have encouraged the public to participate from the start of the process but are disappointed that there are several examples of their concerns not being acknowledged

in a meaningful way, most significantly where former green belt has been allocated for housing.

“We are very concerned that there are areas where this plan deliberately intensifies housing density in areas of known traffic congestion and poor air quality, storing up problems for future generations.”

Coun John Taylor, deputy leader of the Conservative Group, criticised the Labourrun authority for failing to promote balanced growth and to create a distinct identity and future for the borough.

He called it “a one-eyed plan” that missed the opportunity of taking advantage of Kirklees’ position at the heart of the “northern powerhouse”.

He said: “Their lack of ambition and vision sees northern Kirklees treated as little more than a dormitory for Leeds with the increased pressure on already congested roads and inadequate infrastructure and a huge concentration of developments in the top right-hand quarter of the borough.

“Huddersfield, especially the southern part and the valleys, is completely neglected, starved of investment and no proposals to provide significant employment growth here merely adding yet more commutes and more congestion on a failing road infrastructure.”

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It feels like we’re losing the plot HEN The Sunday Times of all newspapers succumbs to the hyperbolic – or hyperboll*cks – Brexit madness, you know the nation truly is losing the plot.

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‘Brexit plan to evacuate the Queen’ ran last Sunday’s hysterical front page headline.

Really?

In the event of ‘no deal’ and street riots in the nation’s capital, frit police officers and ministers want to smuggle our 92-year-old monarch and her 97-year-old husband away ‘to safety’.

What’s the betting ‘safety’ would be a high castle in the Bavarian Alps?

Well, that was before the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, imagined “a special place in hell,” for 17.4 million satanic Britons who backed Brexit (and I expect that number is much larger as a result of

him letting the EU mask slip).

No, Tusk didn’t actually specify all 17.4 million of us, but you know he meant it.

The UK is a valuable if awkward cash cow, to be milked excessively, then locked away on our island enclosure and roundly ridiculed by Brussels – until another cheque needs writing.

Or until they need an army, navy and air force to save their sorry backsides. Again.

Back to the overwrought, wimpy Sunday Times and the Whitehall fear-mongers. Who do they imagine might be rioting in the event of the ‘no deal’ they so desperately fear?

Given that Her Majesty is probably an ardent patriot and Leaver, if Parliament’s rump of Remain MPs manage to sabotage Brexit, she and Phil could well be leading the riots – marching from

Martin Selmayr – EU’s unaccountable, unelected chief, with a score to settle Buckingham Palace on the greasy little traitors in Westminster.

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directly or indirectly from the Brussels gravy train, and the generally mild-mannered Remain voters who actually mean well, but in my experience are rather naive.

I am not being insulting for once, honestly.

But such as I try to understand the Remain logic, they: a) have gullibly swallowed Project Fear hook, line and sinker, and: b) belonging to a big European family soothes their harmonious, one-world dreams, bless.

Yes, business recalibrations will almost certainly bring short-term discomfort, but nothing compared to the European financial bubble bursting, which is a real and imminent danger.

As for the tired argument “because of the EU we haven’t had a war in Europe for 60 years”?

Did I imagine war in the Balkans, Ukraine, or the Islamic terror campaign still plaguing Europe’s capitals?

Weren’t those Dutch soldiers who stood by and watched as 8,000 men and boys were slaughtered at Srebrenica in 1995?

Mrs L gets frustrated with me – with this subject – when like a lot of confused citizens she seeks hard answers.

That was the problem in 2016 and still is. No-one can predict with any certainty the definitive nuts and bolts of March 30 onwards.

It is a leap of faith.

What we do have evidence of, is that the pre-vote horror stories from David Cameron, George Osborne and the might of the pro-EU establishment, were exposed as damnable, bullying lies. The world did not end.

And today, despite 30-plus months of non-functioning government and all the

uncertainty, our economy is out-performing ailing Europe.

The misguided ‘£350m a week for the NHS’ is repeatedly paraded as evidence of Leave lies.

It was a stupid mistake – it’s closer to £200m. Such a silly, damaging exaggeration, unlike the fact that over 10,000 Brussels bureaucrats earn more than our Prime Minister, quite before their obscenely lavish perks.

For what? You tell me.

And yet the only change in the Project Fear campaign is that the hysteria has reached new levels – just ask Her Majesty.

The real power behind the EU throne, Martin Selmayr, insists they will take our £39 billion even with no deal.

But then his two grandfathers were similarly inclined – a general and a colonel in the Wehrmacht in WWII. I sniff unfinished family business from the man even his staff call ‘the Monster’.

But if you get into detail and ask Remainers about the looming Lisbon Treaty diktats, their eyes glaze over.

You ask if they realise it will make the unelected EU Commission supreme in basically all aspects of governance – we would have no veto – and they look pitifully at you, then go watch a David Attenborough documentary on saving the planet.

Informed debate is difficult because Brexit comes down as much now as it did on June 23 2016, to an emotional choice – and so we’re reduced to idiotic hysterics that a mob will lynch the Queen.

I agree that we could see a London mob – but descending on Whitehall and Westminster, not a harmless couple of OAPs.

As the clock ticks towards March 29, even now British politicians continue bickering like children, arguing about what ‘deal’ they can agree on.

And at the risk of boring you to death, I repeat again – there is no ‘deal’ acceptable to the EU that doesn’t lock in the UK as de facto slaves.

Don’t take my word for it, take Donald Tusk’s!

Theresa May’s Withdrawal Bill did just that, with the fictional ‘temporary’ Irish backstop being the Colditz razor wire that Brussels would imprison us with, ad infinitum.

Why can’t our MPs be honest with themselves at least?

Why would the EU negotiate a future trade deal when we’ve already surrendered, which May’s deal is? Either there’s something in it for our MPs, or they’re stupid. I lean towards stupid.

On Wednesday, Donald Tusk spoke for the EU establishment – not our European cousins, ordinary people – in showing how much contempt they hold us in.

So, Remain voters, if you are still desperate to be ruled by these unelected federal dictators please, seriously, explain to me why.

If it’s because British politicians are complete numpties, I’m with you, but we can change them.

No-one elects the powermad EU Commission which we can plainly see hates Britain’s guts.

Are you truthfully happy with them setting every law, having power over every budget, and eventually overseeing our military?

Because me and Jeremy Corbyn aren’t.

Great job ‘deterring’ throngs of law-abiding Chinese tourists OPPERS, especially onduty coppers, are not noted for their sense of humour. One I conversed with on Saturday tried, bless him.

There were seven officers at the public entrances to the grounds of York Minster.

“What’s occurring officer?” I inquired.

“Project Servator, sir” (phew, my photo mustn’t be on their Most Wanted board).

“We are providing hi-impact visual reassurance to the public, to deter everything from street crime to terrorist incidents.”

He’d learned his script well.

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“Someone’s planning to nick the Minster?” I asked, straightfaced.

“Ha ha, sir, very good,” (personally I think he was trying too hard).

“It is a counter-crime strategy, we may turn out with dogs, with armed officers…”

I looked around. Lots of Chinese (and other) tourists taking photos of one of the grandest buildings in Europe.

No vans hurtling menacingly across Dean’s Park, not even a busker in sight. Nary a scrap of litter to be seen.

“Hmm, I said. “Crime prevention.”

“Yes sir, crime prevention.

The team will be re-locating throughout the day.”

Well, you wouldn’t want some chancer digging up the cobbles in The Shambles, would you?

Sorry, what a waste of public money and a lousy excuse for policing.

And in other news, the failed chief constable who apologised for letting 373 children be used as sex slaves, has been appointed Theresa May’s independent anti-slavery commissioner.

I think that’s called adding insult to injury.

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Two killed in Halifax Road horror crash

By Staff Reporters TWO PENSIONERS who died in a car crash in Cleckheaton on Monday afternoon have been named locally.

Eric Walsh, 93, and his 90-yearold wife Marion were driving in a silver Skoda Octavia which crashed with a Kia hatchback on Halifax Road at its junction with Scholes Lane, Scholes, at around 12.30pm.

The couple, from nearby Bailiff

Bridge in Calderdale, died at the scene. They have been described by neighbours as “a very friendly and kind-hearted couple who got along with everyone.”

The driver of the Kia is thought to have suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.

Police have appealed for dashcam footage of the accident or of the moments leading up to the crash, and for anyone who may have seen the incident to come forward.

A MEMBER of the Mirfield Air Cadets said goodbye to the squadron last week as he embarks on a career in the Royal Air Force.

Cadet Warrant Officer Miles Gilroy joined the Mirfield squadron in 2012 and quickly rose to the highest cadet rank.

In that time, he also achieved a gold Duke of Edinburgh Award, completed his air cadet pilot scholarship, first aid at work course, air cadet leadership course and represented the South and West Yorkshire Wing and North Region Air Cadets at swimming and football.

Miles will go on to be an aerospace systems operator in the RAF. Speaking of his time with Mirfield Air Cadets, he said: “It was the best thing I could ever do, I loved every moment and would recommend it to anyone.

“My favourite experiences were doing the air cadet pilot scheme with Tayside Aviation at Dundee Airport, and captaining the South and West Yorkshire Wing team to victory in football.”

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in Cleckheaton on February 4.

“The collision happened on Halifax Road at around 12.33pm and involved a Skoda and a Kia. “The male driver of the Skoda and a female passenger died at the scene.

“The driver of the Kia suffered injuries described as serious but not thought to be life threatening.

“Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the collision or anyone who saw either vehicles driving in the area to contact police.

“Officers in the major collision enquiry team would also like to hear from anyone who has dashcam footage of the incidents or of the moments prior to the collision.

“Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting log number 717 of February 4.”

Burglary charges OSSETT: Detectives have charged a man in connection with a number of burglaries in Ossett this week.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed there had been three burglaries in the Ossett area since the weekend – on Clifton Terrace, Lady Close and Ingfield Avenue. Daniel Kaye, 35, of Crigglestone, has been charged with all three offences and appeared at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday morning.

Officers at Wakefield District CID are investigating further burglaries in the area and are appealing for information. Anyone with information or witnessed anything suspicious in the area is asked to contact Wakefield CID on 101 quoting crime reference 131900636061.

Minibus stolen MIRFIELD: Investigations are ongoing after a minibus was stolen from a pre-school and then torched in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Staff at the Pied Piper Childcare Centre now face a struggle in picking children up for their out-of-school club as they are down to just two buses.

West Yorkshire Police confirmed that the minibus was found burnt out in Sowerby Bridge a few hours after they had been called to the centre at around 1.40am.

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Derelict building is a total disgrace Letter of the Week: Douglas Parker, Thornhill On behalf of many people from Thornhill, what is happening to the derelict building just before you pass Rawson’s family farm?

This building is now a complete disgrace. It has been torched many times gutted from the inside and

All’s well that ends well?!

From: John Dewhirst, Gomersal Please find a photo of what must be the most expensive parking spot in Kirklees.

I was parked as in the picture for only seven minutes and have recently paid the reduced fine of £35.

now a dumping ground.

This property has been sold with planning permission for houses. Kirklees erected a sign saying the building was proposed to be knocked down.

In fact the word ‘propose’ means nothing.

Kirklees should enforce This equates to a fee of £5 per minute, or a day’s parking for £7,200.

This brings a whole new meaning to the Kirklees motto ‘Together We Serve’ (parking fines).

The parking fine was related to the parking bay outside Cleckheaton Town Hall.

My reason for parking there was to take into the reception an item related to the course I was tutoring at the town hall.

Cleckheaton U3A have run courses there for a consider-

that these owners take up the task and make this site safe for all.

The people of Thornhill need action to be taken.

Dewsbury South councillors, get your fingers out and take action.

This has been ongoing for years, not months. able number of years and at the moment there are in excess of 30 courses covering sessions from Monday to Friday.

My appeal was turned down on the following grounds: “The permit area is situated outside the town hall to allow visitors visiting the town hall on business to have close by parking.

“By your own admission you were dropping off an item so would not have been given a permit to remain parked there by the town hall.”

I pointed out to the Kirklees parking department that I had been issued with the permit on several times previously and on every occasion, including the day in question, had promptly vacated the space once my business was concluded.

I also explained I had serious mobility issues, possessed a blue badge and drove a specially-adapted car.

Whilst feeling quite aggrieved that Kirklees has chosen to reject my appeal, I decided to pay the reduced fine.

LATEST PLANNING APPLICATIONS R Holbrook, detached dwelling, 147 Ravensthorpe Road, Thornhill Lees.

M Hawkins, two-storey side and single-storey rear extensions, 6 Rosedale Avenue, Hartshead.

Mr & Mrs Wing, single-storey side, rear and rear dormer extensions, 34 Tetley Drive, Birkenshaw.

S Chaus, first floor extension, 29 Longlands Road, Dewsbury.

T Goodhind, extensions and alterations, 9 Leefield Road, White Lee, Batley.

Ward Hadaway, compliance of conditions on previous permission 2002/90247 for erection of 24 dwellings and garages, Plots 1-24, Between 578 & 604, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw.

West Yorkshire Fire And Rescue Service, certificate of lawfulness for proposed erection of training rig, Oakroyd Hall, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw.

S Marshall, single-storey extension to side and front, replacement of all windows and doors, erection of detached garage and demolition of existing garage, 9 Hepworth Close, Mirfield.

Jaw Engineering Limited, extension and alterations to second floor and raising of roof, 12 Clarence Terrace, Savile Town.

Old Mill Brewery, single-storey side extension, smoking shelter

and new entrance extension, Marsh Hotel, 28 Bradford Road, Marsh, Cleckheaton.

R Miles, work to TPO tree Sp2/70, 6 Dunstan Grove, Cleckheaton.

M Hussain, single and twostorey extensions and alterations and demolition of attached garage (within a Conservation Area), 37 Birkdale Road, Dewsbury.

G Balmforth, notification for prior approval for change of use from shops (A1/A2) to restaurant/cafe (A3), 734 Bradford Road, Birkenshaw.

R Senior, two-storey side extension, 17 Eskdale Close, Dewsbury.

D Mitchell, work to tree(s) within a conservation area, 3 College Street, Birstall.

J Robinson, certificate of lawfulness for proposed single-storey rear extension, 5 Bronte Way, Mirfield.

Mr & Mrs Bunting, single-storey rear extension and alterations to convert part of garage to living accommodation, 3 Brow Wood Road, Birstall.

Neil Bowen Architects Ltd, advertisement consent for erection of illuminated signs, The Thirsty Man, 79 Old Bank Road, Mirfield.

Mr & Mrs Knibbs, demolition of

existing garage and erection of detached dwelling with integral garage and associated site works, adjacent to 93 Stocks Bank Road, Mirfield.

M Qasim, single-storey front extension, 17 Camroyd Street, Dewsbury.

J Jit, first floor and two-storey rear extensions, 145 Dale Lane, Heckmondwike.

N Mulla, rear extensions, 21 Lower North Street, Batley.

S Dhad, the proposal is for erection of single-storey rear extension. The extension projects 4m beyond the rear wall of the original dwellinghouse. The maximum height of the extension is 3.8m, the height of the eaves of the extension is 2.8m, 4 Fir Parade, Ravensthorpe.

I Mayat, the proposal is for erection of single-storey rear extension. The extension projects 6m beyond the rear wall of the original dwellinghouse. The maximum height of the extension is 4m, the height of the eaves of the extension is 3m, 10 Purlwell Avenue, Batley.

S Ali, the proposal is for erection of single-storey rear extension.

The extension projects 5m beyond the rear wall of the original dwellinghouse. The maximum height of the extension is 4m, the height of the eaves of the exten-

sion is 3m, 183 Soothill Lane, Soothill.

M Pandor, erection of boundary wall and fence, and formation of children’s play area, Park Hotel, 125 High Street, Westtown.

I Armitage, single-storey rear and side extension, 9 Doctor Lane, Mirfield.

M F Ejaz, front and rear dormers, 124 North Road, Ravensthorpe.

S Trevett, two-storey side extension and porch extension to front, 1 John Nelson Close, Birstall.

M E Khan, front and rear dormers, 122 North Road, Ravensthorpe.

Mr & Mrs Spikings, singlestorey rear extension, 5 Greenside Estate, Mirfield.

DRA Conveyancing Ltd, confirmation of compliance of conditions on previous permission 2011/91930 for erection of 31 apartments and 45 dwellings with associated infrastructure (Modified Proposal), Southbrook Mills, Back Station Road, Mirfield.

A Bennett, non-material amendment to previous permission 2018/92393 for demolition of existing shop and ancillary buildings and erection of shop, ancillary storage, staff room, toilet facilities, ice cream parlour and cafe extension, and formation of additional parking spaces, Croft Farm, Clough Lane, Hightown.

The derelict former Combs Hostel in Thornhill I did this because if I had chosen to take the matter further and wait for a “Notice to Owner” to be served the fine would automatically go up to £70 and the appeal would be to officers nominated by Kirklees.

This procedure would have to be completed prior to the case being heard in court.

Trying to take some positives out of the situation is difficult, but I am now in possession of a series of photographs of my car should I decide to sell it at some point in the future.

If my £35 fine is used by Kirklees to repair an ever-deepening pothole on West Lane, Gomersal, which I have been avoiding for several months then all’s well that ends well!

If you say it loud enough From: ‘Heckmondwike Hector’ It had to happen! It was only a matter of time; Mary Poppins is accused of being a racist.

Who says so? Professor Pollack in an article in the New York Times.

Under the headline ‘Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface,’ Prof Pollack puts forward the greatest absurdity yet and one which, on this side of the Atlantic, will no doubt appeal to the likes of the British PC movement.

His article relates to the rooftop scene in which ‘Bert’ (Dick Van Dyke) and his fellow chimney sweeps perform the song and dance routine, Step in Time.

The troupe are joined by Poppins (Dame Julie Andrews) who comes up the chimney with her charges, Michael and Jane Banks.

Says Prof Pollack: “Instead of wiping the soot off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks and gets even blacker.”

‘Proof’ once again of the subliminal and intrinsic nature of white people.

Perhaps you could make all this up? ‘Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious’...

We dismiss the crazed notions of Prof Pollack at our peril; it comes at a time when freedom of expression in all forms has become an

ebbing tide.

No doubt the stage performance of Mary Poppins will go down the same route as the Black and White Minstrel Show and comedy sketches such as ‘It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.’ Yet another ‘Spoonful of sugar’ for the victim culture.

You can bet your bottom dollar that the chimney sweep scene in future West End performances will be re-jigged just to appease the ‘Super-fragileistic.’

Our taxes are destroying us From: John S Wilkinson, via email This week has seen a significant amount of press speculation concerning the impact of jobs once we leave the EU. My own experience in engineering is worth considering.

In the area of Batley, Gildersome, Leeds and Bradford I estimate some 1,000 jobs have been lost in recent years due to EU initiatives.

This takes the form of assisting former Eastern Bloc countries to build up their own manufacturing base.

These countries have a much lower cost-base than our own and is a significant pull factor for multi-national companies to relocate further east.

UK taxes part-fund the EU, which in turn distribute our wealth accordingly and thus indirectly encourages multinational companies in taking full advantage of the grants / inducements available at a local level.

The natural effect of this ensures that new high-tech companies emerge and ensures our own established companies cannot compete.

In other words, our taxes are destroying our own jobs.

Do we want to be members?

From: Pauline Fenton, via email Can anyone answer this question please?

If we were to remain in the

EU, would our £350 million a week contribution increase?

I would think that would almost certainly be the case as Italy’s economy has dipped into recession and Germany’s economic growth is at its lowest for five years.

Another thing wrong with the EU is the fact that, once a month for four days, the European parliament moves city.

All 751 MEPs and everyone else who works at the European Parliament move offices from Brussels to Strasbourg.

At a cost of £150 million a year, the staff arrive in Strasbourg by train, plane and car. Their paperwork crated and driven in fleets of lorries from Brussels then put on a specially-chartered train to Strasbourg, then buses to the parliament building!

This madness can only be scrapped if France agrees, as it is bound by an EU treaty! Do we really want to be a member of this club or is it time to say enough is enough?

Time to focus on crime From: Arthur Roberts, Dewsbury Now that Brexit Parliamentary time could be reduced hopefully top priority should be the urgent reduction of crime.

Some of the taxpayers’ money that went to the European Union should be redirected to the police.

They massaged crime figures to make it look as if crime had fallen, so the government thought: “Excellent, we can reduce the funds they get now!”

Liberal attitudes and ‘slap on the wrist’ punishments have contributed to the dreadful crime figures.

Shortage of prison places?

Answer: Marquees on remote Scottish islands. Our soldiers often have to live in worse conditions.

We have a short period of time allowed to question suspects. Other contries can take as long as they wish to get all the evidence.

Officers are being mocked

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From page 8 and time is lost by stubborn suspects saying ‘no comment’ when being questioned. Lie detectors are used in the USA etc to save weeks of time.

Serial sex criminals – surely there are suitable modest and harmless medical methods of stopping the craving?

Law-abiding citizens have been short-changed for year after year on crime reduction, with culprits often treated better than victims.

This must not be allowed to go on any longer.

cabinet to review this policy.

The answer has to be no.”

He had no choice but to say this, you cannot enter a verbal war without any ammunition and he has none.

You cannot defend the indefensible.

Just cutting animals’ throats is painful, causes suffering, stress and is unneccessary.

He should go. If they could cut out the above cruelties fine, then more column inches could be used for less one-sided arguments … like how do we stop ‘Locky’ from beating up us poor defenceless lefties and women just to keep himself fit?

I can’t believe Stick to your I agree again studies, kids...

From: Keith Ward, Huddersfield

From: Jack Cosgrove, Norristhorpe

I am not part of a mob, and couldn’t switch on a keyboard, let alone use one (Ed Lines, January 25) but am definitely left-wing.

If I was a billionaire I’d still say I was a leftie just to annoy ‘Locky’, but for the third time, and this is causing me real problems with my guilty complex, I couldn’t agree more with Mr Lockwood on his arguments and wording on the nonstunned halal meet issue.

Councillor Pandor said: “I cannot commit myself or my

Young ones are wanting the vote at 16 years old.

Besides the fact that voting doesn’t change anything and our wishes are cast to the wind (‘democracy ends the minute your vote is cast’), at 16 I may have been able to reel off all the rivers in Africa, but knew nothing about life skills, politics or economics.

None of them are armed with the knowledge of what has gone before.

How many of our aspirational young ones, full of hon-

est endeavour, know: • Edward Heath tricked us into Europe; • Gordon Brown (Labour) sold nearly all our gold at rockbottom prices, telling the world beforehand of his intentions; • Tony Blair (Labour) assisted by his notorious side-kick Alastair Campbell took our country to war based on a lie; • Tony Blair (again!) and his cronies quietly, without telling us voters, got three million immigrants into the country, hoping they’d all vote Labour and they’d be in power forever.

Our valiant youth are ripped off on every aspect of their lives. Most have no chance of buying a house until their mid30s, being taken for a ride with high rents.

We went to the iconic Isle of Wight Festival in 1969 – for free! Now it would be about £220 for the three days.

Many fall for all the latest ‘cons’ thought up by clever mobile phone and computer sellers, as explained by people such as Martin Lewis on TV. The modern, complicated ways of buying a car appeal to the young, but they are thought up to put more money into the pockets of the operators, not the buyers!

The list goes on!

Stick to your productive studies, young people. Don’t waste your lives being disappointed and frustrated by the broken promises of egotistical politicians.

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News In Brief School’s good health award DEWSBURY: Westmoor Primary School has been rewarded for its mental health support for children.

The Church Lane school was given the Wellbeing Award For Schools because it “ensures effective practice and provision is in place that promotes the emotional well-being and mental health of both staff and pupils”.

Walking rugby BATLEY: Older people are invited to try a walking rugby session at Batley Older People’s Centre.

It is part of the First Time For Everything programme, which gives elderly people a chance to try something new and keep active .

The class takes place at 1.30pm until 3.30pm on Tuesday, February 26.

A light lunch will be served.

Places can be booked on 01924 446100 or just turn up.

Hymn insight CLECKHEATON: John Lyte will give a talk on the hymn Abide With Me, by Henry Francis Lyte, at Spen Valley Historical Society on Wednesday February 13 (7.15pm) at the Catholic Church Parish Hall on Dewsbury Road, Cleckheaton.

The cost is £2 per meeting for members, £4 for guests and membership is £10 per year.

Portaloo is the only remnant of homes fight

By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter CAMPAIGNERS in Mirfield who fought to stop pastureland being turned into a housing estate say the land has been reinstated.

Topsoil has been spread on Balderstone Hall Fields, storage bunds removed and the ground levelled, with metal security fencing taken down.

All that now remains on the site is a portable toilet, the only reminder of development work ordered by Newcastle-based builder Bellway Homes.

It is three months since locals spoke out at Huddersfield Town Hall, when Kirklees Council planners refused Bellway’s scheme for 60 homes on the site near Grade IIlisted Balderstone Hall.

But whilst they are happy to see the land return to its natural state, they say the council has dragged its heels over liaising with Bellway.

Cheryl Tyler, of campaign group Save Mirfield, said: “The only thing left is a portaloo. The hardware has been taken away. It’s all flat now.

“The next step will be to have it seeded in the spring.

“We’re all very pleased. We would like to see it back to grazing land.

“It has taken a bit of pushing to get the council’s enforcement team to get Bellway to do it.

“It seems they wanted to try and persuade Bellway to do it rather than force them to do it.

“We’ve been sending emails from our lawyer asking enforcement to get them to reinstate it.”

Bellway workers were active on the land, off Woodward Court, throughout last summer.

Topsoil was stripped away to enable an archaeological survey to take place in order to map historic coal mine workings.

Telecommunications cabling was laid in the run-up to the application being heard on October 25 by Kirklees Council.

But in a move that surprised everyone, the council’s strategic planning committee went against officers’ recommendations and turned down the plan.

It led to jubilant scenes in Huddersfield Town Hall as shellshocked campaigners, some in tears, celebrated an unlikely victory.

Fellow campaigner Steve Benson, a Mirfield town councillor and chairman of Project Mirfield, said there is interest in the town for buying the 11-acre parcel of land.

He said: “Mirfield Town Council has contacted Bellway Homes to put in a bid to buy the fields at agricultural prices – £13,000 per acre.

“A handful of people have also contacted Bellway with a view to buying or leasing the land.”

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M62 coach bomb victims remembered A SERVICE was held at Hartshead Moor motorway service station to remember the victims of the IRA bombing on the M62 45 years ago.

Twelve people were killed on February 4, 1974, when a coach carrying off-duty soldiers and their families was blown up on the motorway between Birstall and Birkenshaw. Thirtyeight others were injured.

The Mayor of Kirklees, Gwen Lowe, was joined for Sunday’s ceremony by the Deputy Mayor of Calderdale, Chris Pillai, alongside hundreds of survivors, relatives and guests.

Mirfield councillor Martyn Bolt attended with representatives from the town’s branch of the Royal British Legion.

A WIDOWER whose wife died of asbestos-related cancer is calling on her former colleagues to help win justice for her.

Gordon Newsome, of Dewsbury, has enlisted an asbestos claims solicitor to investigate what happened to his wife Kathleen, who was born in 1927 and after serving in the Air Force, worked at Jas Smith dry cleaners in Ravensthorpe from 1953 to 1960.

In the seven years she was there, Kathleen used the Hoffman steam presses, which it is believed contained asbestos.

Her family believes her exposure to asbestos caused her to develop mesothelioma.

Kathleen succumbed to the illness in 2015 and died a year later at the age of 89.

Gordon, with the help of Corries Solicitors, is appealing for anyone who worked for the company during the same period to come forward.

Solicitor Howard Bonnett said: “An increasing number of asbestos mesothelioma victims are female. Sadly, many like Kathleen worked with asbestos and they were not aware of the dangers. They could not take action to avoid breathing it in.

“I know that Smiths were a large firm with hundreds of employees in the town. I am appealing for anyone who worked on those presses over the years or could talk about asbestos to come forward.” Anyone with information is asked to email howard.bonnett @corries.co.uk.

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News In Brief Firefighters tackle blaze at old hospital BATLEY: Firefighters spent two hours tackling a blaze at the site of the former Batley Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Crews from Morley, Cleckheaton and Hunslet fought the fire in a derelict building, using four large jets to bring it under control.

There were no injuries reported.

The Victorian hospital building, which closed in 1988, has been targeted by arsonists several times in recent years.

Opened in 1878, the former hospital became a care home in the 1990s and was due to be used as the new home of the Zakaria Muslim Girls High School, but the plan never came to fruition.

Grieving relatives kick up a stink over dirty dog owners

Appeal for relatives DEWSBURY: Coroner’s officers are appealing for information to help trace the relatives of Malcolm King.

Mr King, aged 76, from the Dewsbury area, died on February 1 from natural causes.

Anyone who has information on the relatives of Mr King can contact coroner’s support officer Victoria Normington on 01274 373721.

Man obstructed PC NORTH KIRKLEES: A man who got into a row with police because they tried to seize his cousin’s car has been fined.

The incident happened outside a garage on Amber Street in Batley on November 24 last year when Kassar Ali tried to stop an officer taking the VW Golf. It is believed the car was uninsured.

The constable had to use pepper spray as Ali “called her names” and was “physically resistant”.

The 24-year-old, of Camroyd Street, Dewsbury, pleaded guilty to wilfully obstructing a constable in the execution of her duty.

He was fined £250 and ordered to pay £85 in court costs and a victim surcharge of £30.

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Birstall St Peter’s Church graveyard ... visitors have to step around dog mess, despite the signs, below

By Zoe Shackleton GRIEVING relatives visiting the graves of loved ones at a Birstall church say they are tired of regularly having to step around dog mess.

One man said he sometimes wished his son had never been laid to rest there because of the stress and anger that comes with visiting his grave.

He said: “I can’t take much more. I just want to come and visit my son in peace.”

He and another couple got in touch with The Press because they felt more needed to be done to keep dogs under control at the St Peter’s Church graveyard on Kirkgate.

They visit the graveyard every day and are met with piles of dog muck left behind by owners – sometimes even on the graves.

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They say the animals are often let off their lead by owners who don’t stop them disrupting adornments and memorials.

The couple say signs requesting owners to control their dogs and clean up after them are being ignored – and they have even been verbally abused by owners when challenging them for letting their dogs loose.

One graveyard visitor asked for clearer notices telling owners to keep their dogs on leads at all times.

Another commented: “It’s just disrespectful. It’s upsetting us. We’ll never stop it all but we could try and reduce it. I get tears in my eyes because of it.”

The graveyard is managed by the church, not Kirklees Council – which means dog owners are not fined if their animal fouls in the grounds.

Vicar Paul Knight said: “I am concerned and fully agree with those who have raised the issue, that the behaviour of some dog owners is unacceptable and especially within the graveyard, where unseemly dog behaviour and fouling is both disgraceful and

disrespectful. I am a dog owner and know that the irresponsible behaviour of some owners reflects unjustly on all. The matter was put before the Parochial Church Council at a meeting on January 14 when the council took note of all concerns, whilst recognising that they were not in a position to ‘police’ the graveyard.

“They did agree, however, that notices requesting dog owners to control their dogs and to clear up after their pets, should be placed in the graveyard.

“This was done shortly afterwards and was in addition to those previously displayed.”

Another meeting between relatives, Rev Knight, Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin and Kirklees Council has been organised for Friday, February 15, at the graveyard, from 10am.

Ms Brabin said: “This is, of course, a deeply upsetting issue for those who are visiting loved ones in the churchyard.

“As a dog owner, I understand the responsibility that comes with that wonderful relationship – we must ensure we control and clean up after our pets in public places.

“I have been in regular contact with St Peter’s Church and Kirklees Council since the issue was brought to my attention.

Both are very keen to work towards a solution.”

Some council-run cemeteries hand out on-the-spot fines to owners who don’t pick up their dog’s litter, which could be a potential solution to stop this from happening at St Peter’s.

Families with loved ones buried at the graveyard are urged to attend next Friday’s meeting.

Batley jeweller’s delight as RL star-actor Keith drops in RUGBY league star turned actor Keith Mason surprised the owner of a luxury jewellery company in Batley when he dropped in for a visit.

The Dewsbury-born former Super League and NRL player was given a guided tour of the Pugata boutique and showroom by owner Zak Patel and viewed a collection of diamonds.

After retiring from the game, Keith, 37, has appeared in the film Skin Traffik, alongside Mickey Rourke and Daryl Hannah, TV hit Peaky Blinders and the

Guy Ritchie movie Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur.

Pugata is based at Batley Business & Technology Centre and said Zak: “Keith was very talkative, a nice guy, really genuine, just like an everyday person.

“He was very impressed with our collection of jewellery – and the diamonds in particular.

“He said he will be letting his A-list friends know all about Pugata and our collection. Who knows, Batley may well be the place Hollywood royalty visit for their jewellery!”

Diamond geezer... Keith Mason views the gems on display

A chance to learn about apprenticeships AN apprenticeship awareness event will be attended by employers, college representatives and training providers in Batley.

The evening at Batley Town Hall on Tuesday (February 12, 5.30-8pm) will give young people and their parents and carers a chance to talk about apprenticeship opportunities.

Apprenticeships combine study with real work experience – and the types and levels available are growing.

Apprentices have the opportunity to work along-

side experienced staff, gain real world experience, earn a wage and study a course related to their role.

Last year, over 1,000 young people started an apprenticeship in Kirklees.

John Andrews, employer engagement manager at C&K Careers, said: “Apprentices do real jobs for real employers, gaining the qualifications that industries want and that can provide opportunities for progression.

“Apprentices benefit from higher rates of employment

and higher levels of job satisfaction than young people in jobs offering no training.

“Increasingly popular with employers, apprenticeships contribute to improved labour supply, staff retention, increased productivity and a workforce with the ‘right’ skills and commitment to the business.”

Visitors will be able to talk to exhibitors and current apprentices, find out about vacancies, attend information sessions and obtain advice and guidance.

Event sponsors Kirklees College, Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing and Mark Betts Hairdressing will be exhibiting alongside Kirklees Council, the armed forces, Plexus Law, Yorkshire Water, Syngenta, Superdrug, Buy It Direct, Nufarm, Nestle and White Rose Beauty Colleges.

To find out more, contact C&K Careers on 01484 225500 and ask for Recruitline, email events@ckcareers.org. uk or visit ckcareersonline. org.uk.

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BANNER COUNCILLORS HIT BACK AT CRITICS

By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter LABOUR councillors in Dewsbury have been accused of spending money that could have gone to community projects on unjustified “self-promotional” banners.

It has led to a war of words between Labour and Kirklees Conservatives.

The banners, which feature portraits of Masood Ahmed, Gulfam Asif and Nosheen Dad as well as their mobile phone numbers, were bought from the £10,000 budget allocated to the ward, which councillors are free to use to publicise their names and contact details.

Using ward-based budgets in this way does not break Kirklees Council rules.

Coun Ahmed argued that the banners were a highly visible method of highlighting ward members’ actions, with the reverse containing messages aimed at the public, for example, around fly-tipping and litter.

He added that their use was in line with the Kirklees Democracy Commission Report that highlighted a lack of visibility and accountability of local politicians, and the fact that people want more contact with local decision-makers.

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“There is a public information issue here.

“The public need to know this is how their councillors are spending money allocated to their ward and whether that is appropriate or not.

“It would be interesting to hear what the people of Dewsbury think about it.”

Coun Asif called Coun Taylor’s comments “divisive”.

Responding to Coun Taylor’s concerns, Kirklees Council’s chief executive, Jacqui Gedman, said the Labour trio had done nothing wrong.

She wrote: “The funding for this has come from the 10k ward budget for Dewsbury South.

“It has always been very clear that councillors are free to use this money as they see fit, so long as it doesn’t conflict with council policy and is permissible in terms of use of council resources.

“It is legitimate to use council funding to publicise information in terms of names and contact details for councillors as long as this doesn’t promote a political party or contain information of a political nature. On this basis the decision taken to use money was allowable.”

Commenting on behalf of himself and ward colleagues Coun Ahmed said: “Coun Taylor knows full well that these information banners are part of the

tions that he had said no council money was used to pay for the banners.

Coun John Taylor, deputy leader of Kirklees’ Conservative Group, says his Labour colleagues are guilty of poor judgement.

Coun Taylor (Kirkburton) said: “In my ward we don’t buy banners. We knock on doors, produce leaflets or use social media.

“We use our ward money to support community groups that are wanting to fund a particular type of activity.

“I cannot believe that there are no similar priorities within the Dewsbury South area.”

He said the banners would have been better placed in parts of Dewsbury that are considered hard to reach, such as Thornhill, the Mountain estate or Overthorpe.

“There is a very strong community network throughout the mosques and other community groups where those councillors are well known,” Coun Taylor continued.

“They don’t need to self-promote themselves in that way.

“I am not saying that they have mis-used funds. What I am saying is that it’s not the best use of them.

“I have a duty and responsibility to the whole of Kirklees. We all do.

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ward allocation to be used by all ward councillors, and as the chief executive pointed out, they do not contravene council policy.

“What the banners are designed to do is to make residents aware of who their local ward councillors are, and how they can be easily contacted.

“The information banners are placed across the Dewsbury South Ward in areas like Thornhill, Thornhill Lees as well as Savile Town contrary to comments made by Coun Taylor.

“This is in line with the Kirklees Democracy Commission Report that highlighted a lack of visibility and accountability of local politicians, and the fact that people want more contact with local decision makers.

“We would suggest Coun Taylor re-reads the commission’s recommendations.”

Coun Asif added: “The tone used by John Taylor was divisive.

“This is someone I had great respect for. He was part of crossparty democracy commission work which highlighted that councillors need to be visible.

“We get calls from residents directed through Kirklees’ switchboard.

“This process can take up to five minutes.

“Not everyone is comfortable in using emails.”

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Check what cops will now accept WEST Yorkshire Police have brought in changes to what lost property items they will accept from the public.

Police will now only accept mobile telephones; high-value jewellery and possessions; MP3 players; cash and computers.

Police will also accept bank cards; identity cards; personal documentation; birth, marriage and death certificates; British passports; foreign passports; driving licences and other identity documents.

But they do ask that people go to the relevant agency first, for example a bank, the DVLA or passport office.

Officers won’t accept bicycles; empty handbags, bags, wallets and purses; cases; clothing; perishable goods; animals; rubbish or waste; umbrellas; keys; spectacles; watches and jewellery.

Firearms or shotguns, ammunition, explosives, chemicals, toxins, drugs or poisons, or anything dangerous must be reported to a member of staff immediately.

West Yorkshire Police helpdesk manager David Peach said: “From not accepting lowvalue property such as handbags, wallets, clothing and perishable goods it will save police officers and staff hours of time – experience shows that these type of items are rarely repatriated with the owner.”

Visit www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ advice/lost-and-found.

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Throughout 2019 local historian Mike Popplewell will be searching through his newspaper collection from the 1920s and 30s for some of the biggest headlines from home and abroad – while also taking a look at stories making the news in our own district. Readers are welcome to provide feedback if any of these features are remembered personally, or you can recall being told them by an earlier generation.

Losing and finding faith for centuries N 1991 Michael Stipe sang ‘That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion’ – but people were already losing their religion 70 years earlier in England, following the Great War.

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Dewsbury and District has a great tradition in religious observance, from contemporary Islam to long established Christianity, particularly in non-conformist circles, as Frank Peel’s book ‘Non Conformity in The Spen Valley’ fully illustrates.

The Independents were also known as Congregationalists and were especially strongly represented in Heckmondwike and Cleckheaton.

There were few more imposing church buildings than the Upper Independent Chapel in Heckmondwike, who owed much to my ancestors, the Popplewells and the Firths, for establishing the church community and even financing the construction of the buildings themselves.

In 2008 John Mackerness, writing in his history of The United Reformed Church at Heckmondwike, formerly known as the Upper Independent Chapel, suggested: “With the ending of the war hopes were high that the country and this church were entering a golden age when everything would be possible.

“But, it was soon apparent that this was not to be. As the 1920s progressed unemployment was appallingly high and this is evident from the fact that the church received 340 applications for the post of caretaker in 1922.”

He went on to quote the words in an early post-war church report, stating: “A moral slack-

Upper Independent Chapel in Heckmondwike ness has seized the whole world.

“This is seen in the wave of crime everywhere, in the loss of many ideals, in the rush for money and pleasure, and, even on the part of many who profess to be Christians, a terrible indifference to Christian worship and duty.”

Methodism was the prime nonconformist group in Batley and Dewsbury, with men like Yorkshire cricketer Louis Hall acting as a lay preacher at the Zion Methodist Church in Batley and anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Jeffery being part of the Batley circuit serving Batley, Gomersal and Birstall in the 1870s.

In 1792, a year after Wesley’s death, there was a spiritual revival in Batley as Methodism, though splitting into various forms of religious expression, flourished in the district.

old tin chapel at the back of Wellington Street behind where the current church stands.

Wigglesworth, in fact, was to play a huge part in the life of the Heckmondwike hangman James Berry.

Berry had left Heckmondwike and was living in Bradford when, after his years of working in his role as executioner, he turned to drink and became morose to the point of contemplating suicide.

He was on the platform at Bradford station – preparing to throw himself under a train – when a young man approached him.

The young man, a new convert himself, said he had been praying at home when he felt God tell him he had to go to the station because there was someone he needed to talk to.

So, he set off, not knowing However, by the inter-war what to expect but when he saw years religious fervour was on Berry he approached him and the wane right across the UK. began to talk.

I have seen estimates of a two Berry declared that his life was per cent increase in church attenof no use and he had done things dance between 1914-1918, but that could never be forgiven. after that attendance at the tradiWell, he was told to go to see tional churches p a s t o r began to fall signifWigglesworth at icantly. the Bowland The fiery Street Mission Methodism of the and was promptly Wesley years was led by but a dying ember, Wigglesworth to and it was much experiencing a the same with the Christian converCongregationalists. sion.

A decision to try Berry immediand revive the ately stopped Congregational drinking, pouring Churches spiritualaway a full barrel ly was accepted by Heckmondwike hangman of beer in fact, and the Upper Chapel, James Berry in no time he was but it proved shorttravelling the lived as it opted country as an evangelist himself. out of Congregation Church He died a year before the outplans. break of war but the story of his But, there was ‘a new kid on conversion was repeatedly used the block’ in the form of the as an example by evangelists for Pentecostal Movement, and this many years to come. charismatic form of religion It was this sort of spectacular began to grow across the world. change in peoples lives that It began in the USA in the enthused ordinary people and early 20th century and there persuaded them to move away were revivals in Sunderland, from the established, more forSouth Wales and even Yorkshire. mal, churches at a time when the Dewsbury Elim Church did not population were looking somecome into being until the 1950s thing extraordinary to give them but Bradford had a strong hope and lift them out of the Pentecostal representation with oppressive austerity in which the Apostolic Church and the they were engulfed.

Elim Church from around the While, like Michael Stipe, peotime of the First World War. ple were losing their religion at And Bradford had a man by this time there were many who the name of Smith Wigglesworth were actually finding a new, who was an evangelist and healvibrant, religion that was very er who preached all over the different from what they had world. ever seen before and was bringHe was connected with some- ing fresh hope to many who were one at the Assemblies of God rapidly losing it during those church that was established in an inter-war years.

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1,700 line up in 10k road race FORMER junior international Chris Parr raced to the Dewsbury 10k title on Sunday.

The Jarrow and Hebburn athlete pulled clear from the group early in the race and was then unchallenged.

His time of 31 minutes, 22 seconds was an eight-second improvement on his 2015 performance, when he finished second.

Just behind Parr was Spenborough’s Joe Sagar, with a time of 31 minutes, 37 seconds and Scott Hinchcliffe, of Penistone Footpath Runners, was third in 31 minutes, 43 seconds.

Previous winner Julie Briscoe (Wakefield) regained the women’s title in 35 minutes, five seconds, followed by Rachel Friend (Leeds City)

Spen runner Joe pipped to men’s title by 16 seconds with 35 minutes, 39 seconds and Amy Young of Hyde Park Harriers in 37 minutes, 37 seconds.

Charnwood’s Mark Couldwell retained the male veterans’ title in 32 minutes, 28 seconds, while the female veteran prize went to Johanna Sutcliffe (Halifax) with a time of 37 minutes, 47 seconds.

The men’s team prize was won by Leeds City and the women’s by York Knavesmire Harriers.

A record field of over 1,700 runners competed in the race,

which is organised by Dewsbury Road Runners.

Race director Heather Ellis said: “I would like to thank 12th Dewsbury Guides, the Disco Shop, 1st Heckmondwike Scouts, Dewsbury Sports Centre, West Yorkshire Police and Kirklees Highways.

“My thanks also go to Dewsbury Rock Choir, My Handyman Ltd, Renew Sports Therapy, Spuddy Licious, TK Creative and Raynet radio network, without whose contributions the race simply would not happen.”

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Ben and partner Myinzu Theint, only opened their Cafe Mandalay Burmese restaurant in Huddersfield last year, one of only two of its kind in the country. They won the ‘Street Eats’ and ‘People’s Choice’ categories.

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Show them that you really OMANTICS will have February 14 already circled in their diaries, but for those of us who sometimes need a nudge in the right direction Valentine’s Day is less than a week away.

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For most people, this may seem like more than enough time to put some thought into how to best to show that special someone how much they care, be it with flowers, chocolates, a cosy meal or whatever takes their fancy.

Perhaps you’ve got it all figured out already. Maybe you’ve planned a wonderful evening where your partner will be wined and dined and at the end of the evening...well that’s up to you!

But to help the more forgetful among us avoid the cold shoulder from our loved ones, here at The Press we are trying to inspire our readers (and ourselves!) with ideas to make the day extra special.

As already mentioned, wining and dining is one of the best, and more popular, ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day together, as a candle-lit dinner at either a restaurant or at home goes a long way

to showing how much you care.

An intimate meal at home tends to work even more, if you’re willing to pull out all the stops by cooking their favourite dish and setting a candlelit table with soft lights and music.

However, if your Casanova culinary skills are more of a turn-off than an aphrodisiac, your best bet may be to take them to a restaurant.

There are plenty of restaurants across North Kirklees which cater for all tastes, so you’re bound to find the perfect place.

Even so, restaurants will be at their busiest for the night in question so you are urged to book early, unless fish and chips are more your thing.

Perhaps you want to give your partner a more lasting token of your love, in which case jewellery may be the answer.

A bracelet, necklace or earrings will provoke thoughts and feelings about you every time they are worn by a loved one.

A ring would also make a great symbol of your affection, but for those of us in the early stages of a relationship these might best be avoided to prevent a

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Flowers and chocolates are always the quick-fix answer but are never unappreciated. This doesn’t mean thought shouldn’t go into it – a bag of jelly babies and a bunch of daffodils doesn’t usually do the trick.

Perhaps your chosen one has a favourite sweet or favourite flowers?

Ten minutes hunting in the High Street could make all the difference.

For that special touch you may want the flowers delivered so they will need to be ordered early.

And for those of you who really want to splash out perhaps spending a weekend together at a hotel or a health spa could help you to relax together and grow to appreciate each other more.

All of these gestures are sure to be appreciated and make your loved one feel exactly that.

But don’t forget the simple things. A card telling them just how much you love them can work as many wonders as a meal, flowers or chocolates.

Have fun on February 14, and remember: Love is not meant to be given and received on just Valentine’s Day. You should practice it every single day of the year!

MOST of us would agree with George Eliot’s words, “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”

Valentine’s Day is the occasion when you can experience both, so here are some creative ways to tell your partner “I love you”...

• On small pieces of paper, write down every kind of kiss that you can think of (examples: passionate, on the cheek, etc.).

Then fill an inexpensive red felt bag with your “kisses” and give it to your other half. Ask them to pull several pieces of paper from the felt bag, and then give your sweetheart whatever kind of kiss is described.

• Take your beloved on a scavenger hunt. Ask him/her to answer riddles to find the clues to items that you placed somewhere around town. The last item should give instructions that lead to your Valentine’s Day activities.

• Give your missus a dozen roses. On each stem attach a note

for a future date – to do something that she would enjoy (example: Go to the cinema).

• If possible, go on a date with your partner to a restaurant that you enjoyed when you first met.

After you order your meal, take some time to write down favourite memories from the past year, then share your lists.

• If you are separated across the miles, send a care package filled with things that are red.

• Make a meal with symbols of love. Examples: Write I love you with string beans, make a sweet dessert in the shape of a heart...

• Write a poem for your partner and frame it.

• On individual note cards, write why you love them and insert the cards in a small photo album.

• Make a special “14 Reasons I Love You” Valentine’s Day breakfast for your sweetheart. On his/her plate, leave a letter or card listing 14 reasons that you love your partner.

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Will you be popping the question?

VALENTINE’S DAY is one of the most common dates in the calendar for marriage proposals, but according to statistics, Christmas Eve is the most common day to get down on one knee.

Some 24 per cent of proposals take place on December 24, followed by New Year’s Eve.

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Engagement – 33 per cent of engagements last for two years. Only six per cent of couples give themselves six months to plan the day.

Date – There isn’t much variation in the popularity of wedding dates.

Unsurprisingly, 54 per cent of weddings happen on a Saturday, and 20 per cent occur on a Friday.

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monies, the church is still the favourite location. 15 per cent opt for a hotel, 13 per cent in the registry office and 12 per cent marry in a marquee.

Budgets – 30 per cent of the budget will be on the reception. The couple usually spends £4,000 on the venue, catering, décor etc.

The honeymoon fund occupies 25 per cent of the budget, followed by outfits, generally costing £1,400 in total for the groom’s suit hire and the bride’s dress.

Total cost – In total, the average spend is £35,000 on a wedding in the UK. The wedding industry is worth over £10bn as a result!

Average age – Quite surprisingly, the average age for a person to get married is 37 for the groom and 35for the bride.

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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.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13 BRIESTFIELD AND WHITLEY Meet at 11am at The Black Horse Inn, Thornhill 4.5 miles – moderate Contact: Jim 01924 469700 janderegan@hotmail.co.uk

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16 WILL WE GO Meet at 10.30am at Oakwell Hall bottom car park (BD19 4LL, SE211267) 8 miles – moderate Contact: Eddie and Andrea 01924 470091

A slice of home-made heaven Advertising Feature A NEW COFFEE SHOP is giving diners a taste of something a little different in Batley.

Mi Nonna’s, on Branch Road, officially opened last Monday and has already received top reviews online.

Launched by chef Emanuel Farrugia, Mi Nonna’s – which means ‘my grandma’s’ in Italian – is offering homecooked food, freshly prepared and featuring local produce.

Maltese-born Emanuel, known as ‘Manny’ to his friends and customers, has Italian heritage and said: “Everyone gets spoiled by their grandma. When I was young I remember going to

her house after church for pies and sweet treats, and we’re trying to create that home-cooked feeling here.”

Manny has been a chef at restaurants and hotels across the UK, including stints in Edinburgh, the Dales and in Halifax before deciding to launch his own venture.

He also went travelling across Europe and Asia in order to find new tastes to add to his menu.

Open daily for breakfast, there are daily lunch specials, perfectly-prepared coffees and plenty of home-made cakes, muffins and other desserts.

There’s also a takeaway menu offering sandwiches,

soups and potato skins for those on the go.

On Sundays from 12.30pm until 3pm Mi Nonna’s is offering a full roast dinner, featuring slow roast beef or roast pork shoulder, sage and onion stuffing, garlic and thyme roast potatoes, homemade Yorkshire pudding, vegetables and dripping gravy for just £5.99.

Mi Nonna’s is also taking bookings for children’s parties, with a dedicated safe space available for children to enjoy whilst the grown-ups have a coffee and a chat close by.

For more information search for Mi Nonna’s on Facebook or call 01924 440629.

Les leading the way at Oakwell ENJOY writing? Enjoy the great outdoors? Then the perfect place to be is Oakwell Hall Country Park on Sunday March 17.

Les Hughes, a former journalist and lecturer at Leeds University, is running a creative writing session that will use the country park and its gardens as inspiration to put pen to paper.

“I’ll try to get folks to find ideas, moods and keywords sparked by being outside in the wonderful setting of Oakwell Hall Park and gardens and weave them into prose or poetry.

“Whether we work as a group or individuals will depend on levels of skill, confidence and experience,” explained Les. The creative writing will be in a relaxed setting around a campfire. Participants are asked to bring a notepad and pen to write down their thoughts. The session will be from 2pm to 4pm and costs £5 per person.

Then, the following week, Les Hughes is also offering an oppor-

tunity to find out more about the popular activity of tai chi with an introduction session at Oakwell on Sunday March 24.

Tai chi was originally developed as a martial art in 13th century China but is now practised around the world as a health-promoting exercise suitable for all ages.

Oakwell’s two-hour session is being run by tai chi practitioner Les Hughes who will introduce participants to the philosophy of tai chi, some basic exercises and meditation before moving onto the 24-movement Yang style of tai chi.

The session will be from 10am to 12noon on the rear lawn of Oakwell Hall. The cost is £5 per person.

Places must be booked in advance at the Visitor Centre shop or by calling 01924 324761.

The Visitor Centre shop is open Wednesdays to Sundays 10am4pm and Tuesdays during school holidays.

Jump into Bluehills Advertising Feature NEED somewhere to take the kids that will keep them occupied for hours on end? Then look no further than Bluehills Farm Shop and Play Barn.

Situated off Whitehall Road West in Birkenshaw, Bluehills is easy to get to and has something for the whole family.

Whether you’ve got babies or toddlers to look after, there’s age-appropriate play areas for every child.

And there’s a brand new sensory play area for under-threes to enjoy – so they can have fun while learning and keeping active.

Filled with bright colours, paintings, soft toys and a ball pool the youngsters will love what the new sensory area at Bluehills has to offer.

For the under-fives there’s a special soft climbing frame that children can explore and find their way around.

And it’s just as fun for the adults too, who can join the older children in their adventure area – where they can have a try on the gokarts, play a football game or make their way down the slides and across the climbing ropes.

It’s the biggest and best play barn in the district, and even caters for children’s parties as it’s open seven days a week.

There’s a special Friday night social at 4pm and you can get your kids moving at Groovy Movies every Wednesday and Friday from 10.30am.

Open early every day, climb to the top of the farm shop and jump into the wonderful world of play areas whenever you like!

Owner Emanuel Farrugia outside Mi Nonna’s in Batley

Taboo subject STUDENTS at Heckmondwike Grammar School are breaking down the prejudice and stigma surrounding mental health issues in young people through the medium of drama.

Nameless Theatre – Heckmondwike Grammar School’s own theatre company consisting of students in Year 10-12 – recently performed a preview of ‘Taboo’, an original play written and devised by drama teacher Stacey Barton in collaboration with the students.

Stacey, the founder and director of Nameless Theatre said: “Mental health is such an impor-

tant topic, particularly for young people.

“As someone passionate about young people’s mental wellbeing and theatre, I saw an opportunity to raise awareness through creativity and writing a play on the subject.”

The company are hoping to tour their production to local community venues and secondary schools and are currently looking for sponsors to enable them to achieve this.

Anyone interested in being a sponsor or hosting the production at their venue can email adminoffice@heckgrammar.co.uk for the attention of Stacey Barton.

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VACANCIES AVAILABLE Garlands is a lovely place With lovely gardens and lots of space It used to be a vicarage To the church across the way You must look inside to see the change All white and cream and gold Those living there are very old From 70 to 100 I have been told The carer always wear a smile They never wear a frown Always there to help you up And make sure you don't fall down For breakfast we have cereals And marmalade and toast For dinner we have Yorkshire pud Chicken turkey and a tasty roast For tea we have sandwiches and sweet The tables are so clean and neat With a flower in the centre And a roomy comfy seat We have a lovely spacious lounge With pictures on the wall And high backed chairs so comfy And a wrist band when you call

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TAKE NOTICE that we, ZUCCHINI LTD, have applied to Kirklees Council under Licensing Act 2003, for the grant of a premises licence in respect of premises known as ZUCCHINI LTD, 260 BRADFORD ROAD, BATLEY, WF17 6JD For PREMISES LICENSE FOR THE SALE OF ALCOHOL AND LIVE MUSIC Interested parties and responsible authorities may make representations regarding the application where they believe that the proposed activities would undermine any of the four licensing objectives.

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FOOTBALL

Stunning second half sees United into final West Riding County Cup

OSSETT UNITED FC HALIFAX TOWN

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Stephen Ibbetson at Ingfield Stadium OSSETT UNITED sealed a place in the West Riding County Cup final with a superb victory over National League side FC Halifax Town.

The game was fairly even in a goalless first half with United getting some good chances, but they came out a more dangerous force at the start of the second.

Tom Greaves netted twice in the space of three minutes, before Adam Priestley and Tom Corner added brilliant goals to seal a 4-1 win in front of more than 600 fans at Ingfield.

Ossett, unbeaten since the turn of the year, made just one change to their starting line-up from the 5-0 win at Gresley 10 days earlier, with James Burke returning to take the place of Myles Foley in the back three.

Meanwhile, Halifax fielded a young side with a completely changed 11 from the one that drew with Salford City in their previous game, although a handful of first team players were involved.

The first chance of the game presented itself to Aidan Chippendale in the fourth minute, but the United

‘We want to fill trophy cabinet’ Continued from back page dropping a few players in certain areas that meant we could create overloads.

“The lads took that on board themselves and they’re a great group, especially for myself and Quinny (assistant manager Paul Quinn).

“You do get to a stage of the season where there’s only so much you can say as

winger’s half-volley was hit into the ground and easily saved by Town stopper Shaun Rowley.

Halifax were finding space out wide early on, and they were through on goal when Gary Da Costa played through Josh Taylor.

Brett Souter stood firm in the Ossett goal though, saving his low shot.

Greaves was getting plenty of service up front, failing to make contact with a deflected corner at the back post before heading Chris Chantler’s delivery over the crossbar.

There were worrying moments at the back as well though. Da Costa’s cross required Souter’s intervention to tip over the bar, and a nice move on the edge of the box then saw Taylor flick the ball in behind, but the United goalkeeper rushed out to take the ball at the feet of Ousman Cham.

A moment of carelessness could have cost Halifax as they were robbed in possession inside their own penalty area, but Priestley’s firm strike was denied by Rowley.

Taylor then saw another great opportunity come his way at the other end, with Da Costa again the provider down the right. He lofted a perfect ball to the striker, unmarked in the centre of the box, but he scuffed his volley and Souter was able to gather the ball.

a management team, and they’re starting to police themselves.”

Welsh was particularly pleased to see striker Greaves score a brace, as well as the impact made by the players on the bench.

“I said to Greaves that he’ll come up trumps at some point in the season, and I think he’s paid us back in abundance tonight,” said the manager.

“He’s scored, Adam’s scored, and Tom Corner has come on and affected it.

Shiraz Khan and Marko Basic coming on as well,

United finished the half with a sustained push on the Halifax goal.

Priestley headed over the top from Andy Monkhouse’s cross, and then a series of corners saw James Knowles flick the ball over before Chippendale’s delivery went right across goal with no attacker able to get a crucial touch on the ball.

They continued with that endeavour straight from the restart, with Chippendale firing over from a wide angle in the opening minute as a demonstration of the intensity that was about to come Halifax’s way.

The first goal finally came on 52 minutes when Chantler crossed from the left wing and Greaves managed to beat Jay Benn to the ball at the near post and prod in.

United then had a strong penalty shout when Chippendale ran in on goal and appeared to be nudged off the ball by Josh Staunton, but referee Sam Barrott showed no interest.

That didn’t matter a couple of minutes later though, as the hosts made it 2-0. Halifax failed to clear the ball from a corner, and it fell perfectly for Greaves to smash into the net.

The barrage continued from there, with Rowley diving low to his left to push Monkhouse’s effort round the post for a corner, and from the resulting set piece Greaves’s header flew just wide of

both affected the game.

“If you’re a substitute, you’re not just sat there picking your nose, you’ve got to come on and affect the game. I think all three did that tonight, and they put themselves in a great position going into the next game.”

And with the County Cup now in touching distance, Welsh laid down their ambition.

“It’s our first season and at the minute as Ossett United we’ve got an empty trophy cabinet and we want to fill it.”

Savile Town secure O2 sponsorship

‘FANTASIC’: Savile Town have secured sponsorship SAVILE TOWN FC has secured sponsorship from O2 Dewsbury for the next two seasons.

The phone store will support the club as their teams battle it out in the Huddersfield Junior Football League.

Savile Town FC run an academy for children aged 4-8 and have junior football teams from Under 8s through to Under 15s. The teams have won their respective leagues and a variety of cup competitions in previous seasons.

Zakir Patel, managing director of O2 Dewsbury, said: “We wanted to contribute in some way towards help-

ing grassroots football.

“There is so much money in football these days but not enough of it finds its way down to grassroot level.

“I played for Savile Town seniors many years ago and now my children play for Savile Town FC, so I know first-hand the benefits of them being involved with a friendly and supportive club.

“I was more than happy to offer my support by sponsoring the next generation of Savile Town Football Club players.”

“Junior football teams enable children to hone their skills and keep fit. It

teaches them life skills, such as being part of a team and helps develop good communication skills. It also enables them to learn about winning and losing”.

Imtiaz Ameen, Savile Town FC’s chairman, added: “It’s fantastic that a local business wants to support junior football.

“Without the support of people like Zakir, we wouldn’t be able to give so many children living locally the opportunity to play football.

“We are extremely grateful to Zakir for his contribution to ensure future success of the club.”

TOP FORM: Adam Priestley (left) and Tom Corner both scored the post.

Moments later it was three for United, with Priestley providing the finest goal of the lot. Chippendale made a great burst forward, before checking back and lofting the ball across the box to the unmarked Gibraltar international. There was still plenty to do, but he chested down and struck the sweetest shot past Rowley to effectively seal the win.

The chances kept on coming, with Chippendale smashing wide from a tight angle after Priestley’s cross, while Greaves again came agonisingly close to his hat-trick but was an inch away from making contact with Shiraz Khan’s delivery.

Chippendale’s free-kick needed clearing off the line by Benn and

Before then, focus turns back to their Evo-Stik League campaign, with United currently enjoying an unbeaten 2019.

That run has taken them up to sixth in the table, and Welsh says that much of the turnaround can be put down to a more clinical edge.

“One of the things we said early on in the season is that we missed too many chances,” he explained.

“Anyone who came to the games, you’re talking about 15 shots on target, probably 10 off target, keepers having worldies, hitting crossbars,

PHOTO: John Hirst

Khan then struck wide when the ball came back in, but the next goal came against the run of play moments later as Josh Vietch netted a consolation with three minutes to go.

That didn’t end Ossett’s desire for more goals though, with Staunton twice blocking efforts from Corner and Monkhouse somehow failing to make any contact with the ball as it came across the six-yard box with the goal gaping.

As the game went into added time, they found the final flourish to round off the night. Marko Basic showed great skill to beat his man on the left, and put the ball in for fellow substitute Corner to brilliantly finish into the bottom corner.

hitting posts.

“We want to be in [the promotion race] when it matters, and it’s better to come into form now than be there at the start.”

Having seen their fixture against AFC Mansfield postponed last weekend, United are back in action tomorrow (Saturday, kick-off 3pm) when they host Gresley at Ingfield.

They defeated the Derbyshire side 5-0 just two weeks previously, despite captain Alex McQuade being sent off for Ossett in the first half, but Welsh warns

against complacency.

“The first thing that the players know is that they can’t take their foot off the gas,” he said.

“Whether it’s Gresley or whoever, in our league anyone can pose a threat at any point in the season, so it’s really important that we focus now, we get our recovery right and we’re ready for the weekend.”

McQuade will serve the first game of his threematch ban against Gresley, meaning that new signing Tyrone Gay could make his United debut.

DIVING More gold for Lois LOIS TOULSON added more gold to her collection last week at the National Diving Championships.

The 19-year-old Cleckheaton diver won the women’s synchronised 10m platform event alongside partner Eden Chang.

Toulson also bagged a medal individually, claiming silver in the women’s 10m platform.

It adds to a very successful last 12 months, claiming a bronze at the Commonwealth Games and then four medals at the European Championships last summer, including gold in the synchronised 10m event with Chang.

Their victory in the British event in Plymouth wasn’t a big surprise, but Toulson was pleased with how they performed.

“This competition was more about getting back in the swing of things, like our routine and the competition, and blowing the cobwebs off, and I feel like we’ve done that so I’m happy,” she said.

“We’ve got a busy year coming up, so it’s nice to get back into things. It’s definitely a starting point and there’s room for improvement but the basics were definitely there, so we’ll have a good year hopefully.”

GOLDEN GIRLS: Lois Toulson (right) and Eden Chang

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RUGBY LEAGUE

Cup challenge for Moor and Trojans UP FOR THE CUP: Thornhill Trojans’ James Ratcliffe (left) and Dewsbury Moor’s Danny Maun

DEWSBURY MOOR and Thornhill Trojans return to action tomorrow (Saturday) in the second round of the Coral Challenge Cup. Moor defeated Skirlaugh in the first round a fortnight ago and now become the second Heavy Woollen side to travel to East Leeds, after Batley Boys were beaten there a fortnight ago.

Meanwhile, Thornhill conquered Hunslet Club Parkside in the last round and have been rewarded with a home tie against another NCL Premier Division side in Rochdale Mayfield.

Both matches kick off at 2pm, with places in the third round of the competition up for grabs.

Moor head coach Danny Maun was delighted to see his side triumph over fellow Division One side Skirlaugh on home turf last time

out, coming back from 10-6 down at half-time to win 24-10.

“The first game is always nerveracking but the lads deserved the win,” he said.

“We started off really well but then we started making a few mistakes and started doing things we shouldn’t have been doing and they got a foothold back in the door.

“In the second half we got a bit of momentum, playing a bit quicker and our fitness told, and we were quite comfortable in the end.

“It’s just building every week now, and there’s another tough challenge against East Leeds this week.

That Skirlaugh game will stand us in good stead this weekend.

“There’s no reason why we can’t go there this weekend and get another result against East Leeds.

They’ve got some ex-League One

players like Jamie Duckworth, so we’ll have to be really good to get a result this week.”

Victory this weekend gives amateur sides the chance to be drawn against a semi-professional League One club in the third round, and Maun says that that should be motivation enough for his team this weekend.

“I said to the players at training that it’s up to you now,” he added.

“You can possibly get a Championship One side down at our home ground, so I won’t have to say too much to them this week.

“We’ll be ready, and if we play to our capabilities then we’ll get a win I think.”

Thornhill pulled off arguably the shock result of the first round when they knocked out last season’s unbeaten Premier Division champi-

RACING PREVIEW WITH MIKE SMITH

ons, winning 30-16 thanks to three late tries.

Coach James Ratcliffe said: “It was fantastic.

“It was something that we’d set our sights on from the draw, everyone played their part on the day and we got the result that we wanted.

“We went 10-0 up and then just had a couple of lapses, didn’t control the ball and we went in (at halftime) at 12-10.

“But we had downhill to come, and we knew we had as much firepower as they had, which is something we’ve always struggled with.

“We’ve never had a big enough bench, but we’ve added a bit of size throughout so the replacements were as good as the guys who were on the field, so that in turn just kept it going for the full 80.”

While defeating the champions was a significant scalp as they prepare for their return to the top flight this season, Ratcliffe says that needs to be backed up to succeed over the course of a season in the way that Hunslet did.

“By their coach’s own admission, that was last season,” he said.

“They’ve done an absolutely fantastic job but on the flipside of that, it gives us some confidence to know that we’re not too far off when we’ve beaten a side unbeaten in the last 15 months against another amateur side.

“So we know what we’re capable of, and it’s just a matter of doing it week in and week out and that’s the difference, we need to do that backto-back.”

They are looking to do just that in the Challenge Cup tomorrow, as they prepare for a stern test from Rochdale Mayfield.

Ratcliffe warned: “They’re a wellrenowned Premier Division side, they’ve been up there for a long time and we don’t expect anything less than a really tough game.

“I’m hoping we can give a good account of ourselves as we did in the last round, and if we do what we do alright then we’ll give it a good go, especially with home advantage.”

The draw for the third round of the competition will take place on Monday (February 11) at 6pm, and can be watched live on the BBC Sport website.

RUGBY UNION

Equine flu threatens races Cleckheaton back in action E

UROPE’S richest handicap hurdle has been thrown into doubt following the decision to cancel all racing in Britain yesterday (Thursday) following an outbreak of equine flu.

If the Betfair Hurdle does get the go ahead at Newbury tomorrow (Saturday) it is likely to once again be dominated by youngsters, with novices taking five of the last six encounters.

Paul Nicholls finished second with Movewiththetimes to BALLYANDY two years ago and has a similar type in Grade 1 runner up GETAWAY TRUMP. Nicholls has had this race on his mind for the six-year-old for some time, and he has solid form since chasing home Champ in the Challow Novices’ Hurdle over a longer trip on this course.

He is off a good handicap mark and reportedly worked very well with Politologue recently, prompting Nicholls to say: “He does stay, but he is quite versatile and will be a nice chaser next season. He likes soft ground – he won on heavy at Exeter and it was soft at Newbury the last day.

“I always had in my mind that if he ran well in the Challow then it was a good race to go for.

Experienced novices have good chances in these races. He is tough so he will handle it.”

Nigel Twiston Davies has taken the prize twice in the last five years and has another obvious contender in AL DANCER, the market leader with Carrigill’s at 3/1. Three from three this season and put away for this after thumping his rivals at Cheltenham in December, he’s clearly

a threat to all but is 12 pounds higher in a better race here and the price has gone.

Better value may be garnered from the unexposed mare COUNTISTER for JP McManus and Nicky Henderson. A dual Grade Two winner in her native France, she won at Doncaster and Sandown last term and signed off with a fifth-place finish behind Laurina at Cheltenham.

Any rain will help and at 10/1 she’s a fascinating contender for top team and worth an each-way punt.

Richard Johnson feels the Betfair Denman Chase on the same card at 2.25 will suit NATIVE RIVER better than his two previous runs this season.

Colin Tizzard’s nine-year-old signed off last season by winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but he has not got his head in front in the current

campaign so far.

He finished second to Bristol De Mai at Haydock and third in the King George behind CLAN DES OBEAUX, two tracks which are tight in their nature.

“He’s very straightforward and out of all his races this year, the track at Newbury will be better for him than Haydock or Kempton. Obviously Cheltenham is the main goal, but we’re hoping he runs a big race on Saturday,” Johnson told Racing TV. Tizzard could win the second big chase of the day with FOX NORTON. The Game Spirit (3.00) has attracted a high class field including UN DE SCEAUX, who will be the main threat. FOX NORTON was one of the best two milers around in 2017 and despite being off the track for more than a year, showed enough in last month’s Clarence House to suggest he can come on significantly from that race.

Over at Warwick it could be a big day for handler Amy Murphy who has a live chance of a high-profile double with KALASHNIKOV (2.05) and MERCIAN PRINCE (3.15) who has gone up 10lb following a bold jumping display at Kempton last time out.

Nicky Richards’ chaser LOOKING WELL can make amends after throwing away a chance to win the 2018 Edinburgh National when Musselburgh restage the meeting on Sunday.

CARRIGILL’S NAP: (money back as a free bet if finishes outside top 4): AL DANCER, Saturday, Newbury, 3.35.

AUGUR’S BEST BET: COUNTISTER (e/w), Saturday, Newbury, 3.35.

CLECKHEATON will look to end a run of four consecutive defeats when they travel to West Leeds tomorrow (Saturday, kick-off 2.15pm).

After winning all three matches in December, Cleck have found things more difficult in 2019.

They have been defeated by the current top three in the North One East division, Scarborough, Huddersfield YMCA and Morpeth, along with a home defeat to struggling Bridlington.

The poor run has left them in 11th in the table, although 11 points still separate them from their second-bottom opponents.

Cleck lost 34-31 when East Leeds came to Moorend back in October.

TOUGH TIMES: Joey Carley scored against Bridlington (left), but Cleck are yet to win in 2019

COAL CARRYING CHAMPIONSHIPS

DEWSBURY CELTIC coach Danny Thomas is leading Coal Race training sessions every Sunday at 10.30am in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury. All are welcome to come and take part. Search DansT3 Training on Facebook for more details. The 56th Gawthorpe World Coal Carrying Championships will take place on April 22.

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RUGBY LEAGUE

Early slip for poor Bulldogs Betfred Championship

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Stephen Ibbetson at Fox’s Biscuits Stadium BATLEY BULLDOGS got their season off to a disappointing start with a narrow home defeat at the hands of Barrow Raiders They had the best of the first half but only went into the break with a fourpoint lead, as a number of potential attacking opportunities were wasted and Barrow took advantage of mistakes to match their three tries.

The Raiders were then the dominant force in the second 40 as they kept the home side scoreless, and Lewis Charnock scored what turned out to be the crucial try in the 53rd minute.

Both teams showed off a host of new signings, with Barrow fielding eight off-season additions and five new players were chosen in the 17 for Batley.

The hosts played down the slope in the first half and dominated the opening minutes. After Barrow gave away back-to-back penalties on their line in a desperate attempt to quell the pressure, Huddersfield loanee Sam Wood spun round his man to touch down, with Dave Scott adding the extras.

Batley were in control and the Raiders’ response came from nowhere.

Louis Jouffret’s pass was intercepted by one of Barrow’s debutants, Jake Spedding, and the centre sprinted 90 metres to score. Jamie Dallimore converted to level the scores.

Dallimore didn’t help his side’s cause though when he was sent to the sin bin for the use of knees in the tackle. The Bulldogs took advantage right at the

end of those 10 minutes, with hooker Alistair Leak scooting over from two yards.

However, Batley knocked on from the kick-off to give Barrow their best field position of the game and Jono Smith charged over for an immediate response, although Dallimore couldn’t find the target with a tough conversion and the hosts remained narrowly ahead at 12-10.

The tries kept on coming as Batley scored again three minutes later, with scrum-half Dom Brambani dancing around a disjointed defence to touch down and Scott maintaining his record from the tee.

Batley were unable to see the half out without further damage though, as misfortune struck Wayne Reittie.

Dallimore’s kick looked to be causing no problems for the winger until a slip at the crucial moment allowed former St Helens man Spedding to score his second of the game. The conversion from Dallimore was wide of the mark again, keeping the Raiders four points behind at the break.

Barrow had struggled for a foothold in the first half but came out with renewed vigour after the interval, as PNG new boys Wartovo Puara and Willie Minoga showed their muscle in the middle of the pitch.

Such was the pressure that Batley were placed on a team warning at one stage, and the visitors took the lead for the first time with the opening try of the second half. Smith excellently won the ball back, and Charnock finished off the attack as the half-back escaped the clutches of some poor tackles to sneak through.

Dallimore converted to put them in front, and he extended that advantage

Rams prepare for opening York test

to four points just past the hour mark when the Raiders chose to kick a penalty from 25m out following a high tackle.

They were dominating the contest up front and Dallimore’s kicking game frustrated the Bulldogs further. When the home side did finally earn an

opportunity to attack following back-toback penalties, Jouffret was hauled into touch by the fully committed Raiders defence.

Batley did apply pressure in the closing minutes, but could find no way through as the Cumbrian side ground out the win.

Wood enjoying game again in Batley spell SAM WOOD says that he is “enjoying his rugby again” on loan at Batley Bulldogs.

The 21-year-old centre joined the club on a season-long deal from Super League outfit Huddersfield Giants, where he fell out of favour last season with new head coach Simon Woolford.

He finished 2018 with short spells at both Workington Town and Halifax, but is hoping to get more regular action in Matt Diskin’s side this season.

The Dewsbury-born player said that his aim was to get “consistent game time (and) make sure that I’m knocking on the door for Huddersfield.”

Having made his debut in early 2016, he has made 17 Super League appearances in total and signed a deal last year to keep him at the Giants until the end of the 2021 season.

However, he hasn’t made a single appearance since Woolford arrived to take charge, and Wood knows that he needs to prove he is topflight material.

“I wouldn’t still be playing if I didn’t think that (I could be a Super League player),” he said.

“I need to be competitive, I need some game

time and Simon said that to me.

“He said he needs to see me play because I haven’t had the best last two years for game time, so I need to get playing, start showing them what I can do, and hopefully push for those spots in Super League.”

Wood is still training with Huddersfield, but it is at the Bulldogs that he is enjoying the sport again.

“I’ve had a good two or three months training in pre-season with Batley now and they’re a really good set of lads, and I feel comfortable here,” he said.

“I’m enjoying training and enjoying playing again to be honest. I had four good pre-season games and then (last week’s game), and I feel comfortable and I’m enjoying my rugby again.”

However, he admitted after last Sunday’s defeat at Barrow that it wasn’t the start of the season that they were hoping for.

“We want to win all of our home games and we want to be competitive, but Barrow turned up and have done a number on us,” said Wood.

“We’ve been stupid with our skill and didn’t keep hold of the ball well enough, and if you gift any team that much possession then they’re going to punish you.”

MATCH STATS BATLEY BULLDOGS: Dave Scott 6 Wayne Reittie 6 Sam Wood 7 Lewis Galbraith 5 Johnny Campbell 5 Louis Jouffret 5 Dom Brambani 6 Adam Gledhill 6 Alistair Leak 6 Toby Everett 6 Dane Manning 6 Jack Downs 5 Tyler Dickinson 7 Subs: James Brown 7 Joe Taira 6 Michael Ward 6 Keenen Tomlinson 6 Tries: Wood (6), Leak (27), Brambani (33).

Goals: Scott 3/3.

BARROW RAIDERS: Tee Ritson 6 Stargroth Amean 6 Deon Cross 7 Jake Spedding 8 Tom Loxam 7 Jamie Dallimore 8 Lewis Charnock 6 Tom Walker 6 Wartovo Puara 7 Josh Johnson 7 Jono Smith 8 Jordan Walne 6 Martin Aspinwall 6 Subs: Ryan Johnston 6 Jarrad Stack 7 Willie Minoga 8 Ryan Duffy 6 Tries: Spedding (12, 36), Smith (30), Charnock (53).

Goals: Dallimore 3/5.

Referee: M Mannifield Half-time: 18-14 Penalties: 11-7 Sin Bin: Dallimore (17, dangerous tackle) Man of the match: Jono Smith (Barrow) Attendance: 755.

Heavy Woollen U23s face pre-tour friendly

Continued from back page lot closer. Obviously we’re at home and it’s our first game of the season now because of last week, so we’re wanting to put a bit of a show on and just show teams that it will be a difficult place to come again. That’s what we’re hoping for on Sunday.”

The coach strengthened his squad last week with the addition of former Leeds academy hooker Harvey Whiteley, and he is happy to give the 20-year-old a chance to impress.

“We’ve signed a lot of those kind of guys to be honest. Lads who are in that 19-22 bracket, who for whatever reason haven’t cut it at the level above or are getting the opportunity to step up to this level.

“So I’m trying to a) work out which guys might have the potential once they get into it, and b) actually allow them to come through.

“It was never going to be the case that they were all ready straight away, but over the course of the season I’m sure we’ll see plenty of these guys getting a chance.”

Rams fans will have to wait a little longer to see Whiteley in action though, with the exRhino on the mend following a shoulder operation back in October.

Greenwood said: “He’s just been recovering from that. He’s doing almost everything in training, barring contact, so once that full contact comes then it’s on him to fight his way into the team and we’ll take it from there.

“His attitude has been spot on and he’s been good in training so far.”

Dewsbury are without their first-choice hooker for the Knights clash, with Robbie Ward set to serve the final part of a twomatch suspension after last week’s postponement.

Following York’s promotion out of League One last season, it is the first time that the two sides have met in a league game since 2013, with the most recent competitive meeting coming when the Rams claimed a 30-16 triumph in the fifth round of the Challenge Cup in 2016.

THE HEAVY Woollen Under 23s team will take part in a pre-tour friendly this Sunday (February 10) to help raise awareness of the Moonlight Trust.

The team will compete against BARA (British Asian Rugby League), with the teams competing for the Moonlight Trophy. The match will take place at Dewsbury Moor with a 12noon kick-off.

Later in the afternoon, there is a casino night fundraiser for the team’s Athens tour at Dewsbury Moor Club, starting at 4.30pm.

Tickets are available from any of the squad or at the club.

There is also a race night fundraiser at the Crown Hotel, Leeds Road on February 16, starting at 7pm.

The U23 squad are heading to Greece next month, where they will play an Athens Select team on March 15.

The Heavy Woollen ARL would like to thank tour sponsors Clarke Rothwell at CR Central Heating & Gas services, Priestley’s Sports Bar in Birstall, and AVC Digital LTD.

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Thornhill Trojans claimed both of the open age trophies last season, with Dewsbury Moor the runners-up in both finals.

The Trojans first team will begin in the preliminary round of the Jim Brown Cup, hosting Shaw Cross Sharks.

The winners of that tie will face

Dewsbury Moor in the semi-finals, with Batley Boys and Dewsbury Celtic meeting in the other last-four match.

Thornhill’s ‘A’ team will start their defence in the preliminary round as well, travelling to Birstall Victoria while Ossett Trinity welcome Dewsbury Moor ‘A’.

Dewsbury Celtic ‘A’ and Batley Boys have both been handed byes to the semifinals.

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Greenwood confident of finding winning side

By Stephen Ibbetson Sports Reporter

DECISIONS: Lee Greenwood is looking for the winning formula

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DEWSBURY RAMS head coach Lee Greenwood is confident he can put a winning side together as they prepare for their first game of the season.

Last weekend’s opening clash away at Rochdale Hornets was postponed due to a frozen pitch, meaning that their first Championship game comes on Sunday (kick-off 3pm) when they host York City Knights.

The coach admitted some frustration after last week’s false start.

“It’s a bit annoying,” he said.

“Every other team has played so it would have been nice to start as planned.

“There’s nothing we can do now though, so we’ll just crack on.”

Greenwood has admitted in recent weeks that some of his new recruits are not ready for regular Championship action yet, but he insists that he has confidence in the squad available to him.

“We’ve got plenty of numbers knocking around; it’s just getting the right combinations,” he said.

“I don’t think anyone would look out of place if we put them

in, but for where I want the team to be there’s maybe a couple who aren’t quite ready for it.

“Obviously we want to go and win as well. We don’t just want to go in there and look okay, it’s not what we’re about.

“We want to put a team out that can actually win, not just compete. I’m sure whichever 17 we go with on Sunday will be able to do that job.”

Dewsbury faced York in their

final pre-season fixture three weeks ago, with the Knights comfortably winning 34-0 against an experimental line-up.

“It was more to see where some of our lads were at to be honest, and what was shown was that that group of players together obviously wasn’t Championship standard,” said Greenwood.

“If they’re put in one at a time then those guys will be fine, but it’s something we’ve looked at

and we’ll look at again for Sunday.”

Greenwood expects better things this time around, particularly playing in front of a home crowd at the Tetley’s Stadium.

He said: “I hope there’s a different result! If we get beat 34-0 again then it will be pretty doom and gloom, won’t it?

“So we’re hoping that will be a

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Diskin prepared to make changes BATLEY BULLDOGS coach Matt Diskin says that he is prepared to make changes to his team after a disappointing start to the season.

Barrow Raiders defeated the Bulldogs 22-18 at the Fox’s Biscuits Stadium last weekend, and the coach was less than impressed with how his side performed.

They now travel to Featherstone Rovers on Sunday (kick-off 3pm), who were narrowly defeated at Bradford Bulls in the opening round, looking to pick up their first win of the campaign.

“We’ve got a competitive squad so we’ll look at it and review it, and the players that don’t deserve to be there won’t be there; somebody will take their place,” Diskin insisted.

“I genuinely believe that this group can achieve something special this year.

We were always going to experience

adversity during the year and we’ve got it in round one, which I didn’t anticipate.

“As long as we can learn the lessons from that, as long as we learn from lessons in how to deal with your own individual preparation and make sure you’re turning up for the game in the right frame of mind, we’ll learn from that and we’ll be okay going forward.”

Diskin admitted that his side got their “just desserts” for a poor performance in week one.

“The errors we’ve made and the lack of respect we’ve shown for the ball and the competition didn’t allow us to deserve anything out of that game. We gifted that game to Barrow.

“We had really good field position (in the first half).

“There were a couple of tries from them in the break of play, but we should

have been better with the ball. We had four or five clear cut opportunities to put points on the board, and some poor decision-making restricted those opportunities.

“I thought with the ball in hand all day we were pretty terrible, too many errors, not controlling, not building pressure, not being patient with the ball.

“And secondly, (with) our lines of runs and running people out, it was just a terrible performance with the ball in hand.”

Batley lost all three of their Championship meetings with Featherstone last season and haven’t won at the LD Nutrition Stadium since a golden point play-off success in 2013.

However, Rovers come into 2019 with a new coach in Ryan Carr and no fewer than 15 new players, including former Bulldogs Brad Day and James Harrison.

Welsh delight as United reach final OSSETT UNITED manager Andy Welsh was delighted after seeing his side defeat FC Halifax Town to reach the West Riding County Cup final.

Two goals from Tom Greaves, along with strikes from Adam Priestley and Tom Corner, saw them to a 4-1 victory over a young Halifax side to reach the final in the club’s first season.

The win continues a fantastic run of form in 2019, with 13 points from a possible 15 in the league since the turn of the year and now a cup final to look forward to.

They will find out their opponents when Guiseley meet Barnoldswick Town in the other semi-final on February 19.

Although National League side Halifax fielded a largely inexperienced team, Welsh was impressed to see his charges dominate the game as they did in Tuesday night’s downpour.

“I think you saw the first thing we had to do tonight was deal with the elements, and that was something that we certainly did,” said Welsh.

“We knew that they were going to pose certain threats in certain areas because of the way they play in the first team, and I think in the end we bossed the game.

“In the second half it could have been five, six or seven. Their goalkeeper’s made some good saves and we’ve missed quite a few chances, but I’m delighted that the strikers have all got on the scoresheet, and overall it was a good performance.”

Although United had the better of the first half it was still goalless at the break, and some advice from the boss helped to inspire their stunning second-half display.

“I just said be braver on the ball. I thought we could have passed the ball a lot better in the first half,” said Welsh.

“We were going back to front too quickly, and I thought that played into their hands a little bit.

“Once the second half kicked off you could tell from the first whistle that we were a lot tighter to them, not giving them as much space.

“Then when we did win the ball back, we had players in certain areas who could affect the game, dropping a few players in certain

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