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Families’ anger as graveyard memorials are pulled down in the name of health and safety KIRKLEES Council staff have been accused of desecrating graves in local authority-run cemeteries.

A team of Kirklees personnel is reported to be patrolling the graveyards “pressure-testing” headstones and memorials – some as small as 14 inches high – to see if they can withstand 150kg of force.

If they can’t, the memorials are pulled down and left laying over the grave – all in the name of health and safety rules.

But a former health and safety consultant who went to visit his father’s grave at Liversedge cemetery says the situation is “totally ridiculous”.

David Griffiths, of Cleckheaton, had been walking his dogs and went to visit his father’s grave in the Clough Lane cemetery. He said: “I noticed that some of the gravestones were laid flat and some of them severely damaged.

“The grave next to my father’s was an ornate one but that was laid down and destroyed.”

Mr Griffiths rang a helpline number on the gate of the cemetery to find out what was going on.

“They (the helpline) said to me it was because of health and safety; if

Memorials in Clough Lane cemetery, Liversedge, have been laid flat by Kirklees Council workmen the gravestones are wobbly, then they needed to be laid flat. I think the risk assessment is flawed,” he said.

“It seems as though they are

doing an open risk assessment for the entire area rather than per cemetery.

“Yes, some of them (the gravestones) are quite old but it still isn’t

a reason to lay them down. The logic is a bit crazy – why not just re-fit them?

Mr Griffiths added: “I was told they were going to be doing it all

through Kirklees, and it is happening elsewhere, but they need to let people know before doing it.”

When The Press visited the cemetery on Tuesday, one woman visiting her mother’s grave said she thought it had been vandalised.

“Mum’s grave isn’t that old and it’s only a small, standard-sized stone, not even waist high,” she said. “It looks like the grave’s been desecrated.

“It’s just laid down haphazardly on her plot – and it’s not a health and safety threat to anyone, unless they’re trying to damage or steal it.

“This is a beautiful cemetery, but just look at this mess. It looks like a row of fallen soldiers.”

Dozens of quite modern headstones have been pulled down by council workers with warning signs on others that they are about to be dismantled.

Funeral director and stonemason Neil Brooke, of Dewsbury family funeral directors George Brooke Ltd, said there’s a complete lack of common sense.

“They’ve gone over the top with it,” said Mr Brooke. “It seems they don’t care about the upset they are causing to people and families.

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“We’ve seen a van going round with several men in it and apparently they are pressure-testing memorials. If they can’t withstand 150kg of pressure – about the body weight of two fully grown men – they have to come down.”

Mr Brooke said their firm hadn’t heard from any families who had been informed by Kirklees that their loved ones graves were dangerous and about to be taken down.

“Some of of the big, old memorials can be unsafe,” he said. “But this is absolutely ridiculous, taking down row after row of small headstones. They might bruise your foot if you were stupid enough to be messing with them, but that’s about all. What they are doing is completely out of proportion.”

A Kirklees Council spokesperson said: “The Council monitors the safety of memorials in council cemeteries. This involves testing and making safe of memorials and headstones where required.

“In some instances this may include the laying down of previously upright headstones, if they are identified as a potential risk.”

Toys wanted for A&E kids THE children’s A&E department at Dewsbury Hospital is appealing for donations of toys.

Along with the department at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, more than 100 children a day are able to watch a film, play on an iPad or do ‘colouring in’ whilst waiting for an appointment or treatment. It can make a big difference to how well they do in hospital.

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“Unfortunately, we can’t accept soft fabric toys or wooden toys.”

If anyone has any toys to donate they can be left at the Children’s A&E reception at Pinderfields or Dewsbury Hospitals.

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Care home death: ‘It won’t happen again’ THE owners of the Dewsbury care home found negligent in the death of a resident have distanced themselves from the people running it at the time.

Silverline Care took over Manorcroft care home in Old Bank Road in October 2013, some months after the death of Mrs Alma Davey, who died after being wrongly prescribed a course of antibiotics.

A GP and staff failed to act

on warnings on her medical records that she was allergic to penicillin-baseddrugs.

The chief operator of Silverline Care, Colin Inglis, said: “At the time of Alma Davey’s death in 2013, Manorcroft care home was managed by Orchard Care Homes. We took over the ownership in October 2013 and it continued to be managed by Orchard Care Homes until Silverline Care took over the management in

January 2015. Since we took over the management of the home, we have implemented our own policies and made a number of changes to ensure a tragic incident such as this will not happen again at Manorcroft.

“We take the safety of our residents very seriously and focus on providing consistent, high quality care to our residents and peace of mind to their families.

“The manager of

Manorcroft Care Home, Neil Booth, gave evidence at Mrs Davey’s inquest and outlined the steps taken and the changes which have been implemented at the home.

“Mrs Davey’s daughter was present at the inquest and was reassured by the changes we have made in terms of the storage of medication and communication about prescribed medication and allergies.”

Mrs Davey’s son, Eddie

Bolderson, of Batley, said the family have instructed solicitors to pursue a civil case, although The Press understands this is in relation to the GP, Dr Philip Turner, and not Manorcroft.

Mr Inglis added: “We have had no communication from Mr Bolderson since this case started but we will be happy to discuss the matter with him. Our thoughts are with Mrs Davey’s family at this time.”

Mosque and school plan to transform residential streetscape

The frontage of the proposed mosque will be on West Park Street (top); the mosque and school will be built on land adjacent to Nowell Street and behind the main Oxford Road property of the Talha Trust (bottom).

PLANS have been submitted for a three-storey mosque and similarsized Islamic school in the middle of a residential area of Dewsbury.

If approved, the development will transform the streetscape of West Park Street, Westborough, with the new mosque fronting onto the road which runs up from Halifax Road to its junction with North Park Street.

It is on land to the rear of the address from which the application has been submitted – 10 Oxford Road, adjacent to Nowell Street.

The site currently has a building on it immediately behind the main house, which is designated for religious use. The plans call for the rear building to be demolished.

As well as the school – with eight classrooms and an assembly hall – plus the mosque, which will have a conference room and prayer hall, plus mezzanine library, the site has provision for 29 car parking spaces.

The site is owned and run by the Masjid Talha Trust, which says in the planning application: “The Trust has received overwhelming support in its public consultation.

“Over 500 residents have signed a petition in support of the development.

“A large proportion of residents within the immediate areas of Oxford Road, West Park Street and Infirmary Road identify as Muslim, and as such, require facilities for congregation and education, an

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aspiration supported by local and national planning policy.” A spokesman for the Talha Trust said: “Our proposals are to bring together much needed investment in the area. We are developing a redundant fly-tipping site in Dewsbury into a community facility and place of worship.

“We are replacing an existing makeshift facility which has served our local community over the last five years.

“The capacity will support up to 100 worshippers but the actual average numbers over the weekday are likely to be closer to half of this total.

“We are proud of our charity work over the years, such as our campaign for victims of natural disasters, where we raised over £20,000 for the drought in Africa last year.”

A public consulation on the plans, which can be found on the Kirklees Council website, runs until April 29.

News In Brief

Customers fume over bank closures HECKMONDWIKE: Residents who bank with the Halifax branch on Westgate have complained over its planned closure.

Pensioner John Thompson said he was told in a letter from the bank that accounts would be transferred to Dewsbury.

He said: “They are stabbing old people in the back. They think everyone is computerised. It is a long way to Dewsbury.”

Meanwhile, Lloyds Bank has closed its Albion Street branch in Cleckheaton.

Customers have been advised to use branches at Brighouse, Batley or Dewsbury, or carry out day-to-day banking at Cleckheaton post office.

Further bank closures are expected, with Barclays announcing plans to close its Batley branch.

Sign of the chimes DEWSBURY: The traditional Easter Sunday ringing of The Easter Bell at the Minster has been silenced. The 150-year old bell, carrying the inscription “Ring, ring ye bells and sweetly tell that Christ hath conquered death and hell”, has cracks in it and needs £5,000 repairs.

A Dewsbury Easter Bell restoration fund will be launched on Easter Sunday at The Minster.

Brewery expansion OSSETT: Ossett Brewery has been given the go-ahead to expand to meet the high demand for its beers.

Work has already started on the Kings Yard site on Low Mill Road and the new 12,000 sq ft warehouse is scheduled to open by the end of the year. The expansion programme will create up to 40 jobs.

Ossett beers are sold across the breweries estate of 24 public houses, including The Shepherd's Boy on Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury, and the Black Bull in Liversedge.

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A DEWSBURY town centre shopper has vowed to defy a car parking firm which hit him with a £60 fine.

Jason Clark, from Heckmondwike, says he had parked “dozens of times” in the car park behind shops opposite Dewsbury bus station, along with many other visitors who had no permits on display.

Mr Clark, who used to be in the police force, said there is no private car park sign at the entrance to the land off Southgate – which runs from the top of Daisy Hill down to South Street.

Although ad hoc notices are pinned up on walls in the area, Mr Clark said the one where he parks is about four metres high – too far away to be read in detail. After one recent visit however, he received a £60 fine in the post, issued by a Pudsey firm called JD Parking.

He claims shopkeepers in the vicinity told him the car park is “a money pit”.

Said Mr Clark: “One nearby

Jason Clark... “nothing about this situation seems right to me...” trader said they leave people to park for a while then every now and again a man comes and does a sweep of the place and hits everyone with a fine.”

When he returned on Monday, only about a third of the vehicles in the car park displayed a JD Parking permit. “No-one seems to know who owns the land and I’ve contacted this JD Parking company to request details of how I appeal, but no-one gets

back to you,” he said. “I don’t mind paying to park but there’s nothing about this situation which seems right to me.”

He added: “I’m waiting for them to take me to court – I don’t mind fighting for the hundreds of people from Dewsbury who are getting stung.”

JD Parking had not responded to our enquiries before going to press.

81-year-old robbed Pioneer work starts AN 81-YEAR-OLD woman was robbed as she walked to church. The robber – a thin white man with short hair – snatched her handbag as she walked along a ginnel between Park Square and Fairfield Mount in Ossett on Sunday, April 2.

Anyone with information can contact police via 101, quoting 13170148895. Information can also be passed to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

WORK has started on the multi-million-pound makeover of Dewsbury town centre, beginning with Pioneer House. £11.1.m of investment has been allocated by the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership Growth Fund to restore the building as a new Kirklees College campus.

A total of £18.5m is being invested in improving Dewsbury town centre.

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CEMETERY GARDEN GETS A MAKEOVER

THE Garden of Contemplation in Batley Cemetery has been given a spring makeover.

Natural Kirklees brought together volunteers from Batley Cemetery Support Group and members of Transformers North to help with the project.

Shrubs have been pruned and tangled areas cleared of undergrowth and litter, making the gar-

den an open and attractive place to sit.

The gardeners’ efforts were fuelled by hot cross buns delivered by Batley Tesco’s community and charity team, led by Simone Rosly.

BCSG and Transformers North are now planning more projects together, including bench refurbishment, bulb planting and flower bed redesign.

Pest control Crackdown on littering, dog fouling and anti-social behaviour KIRKLEES Council has entered into a new enforcement partnership with private company Kingdom to crack down on littering and dog control.

The partnership was agreed in February and is being trialled for 12 months in the hope that it will lead to more culprits being caught and fined.

Kingdom is one of the UK’s largest privately-owned companies for security, cleaning and environmental protection, wih many of its staff having a police or military background.

The Council’s Cabinet member for housing and enforcement management, Coun Naheed Mather, said: “We have really considered the risks and benefits of involving a private company but feel the time is now right to take this trial step.

“We do not have the numbers of staff to cover the dis-

trict ourselves but the company will choose when and where to go and they will issue the notices.”

In the majority of cases, anyone caught breaking one of the public space protection orders will be issued with a £75 fixed penalty notice.

The officer will issue the notice and take the person’s name and address so it can be logged and monitored.

Dog walkers must be in possession of a bag or other means to dispose of dog fouling and there’s a £75 fine if people don’t pick up dog foul, have a dog in an exclusion zone, don’t have it on a lead, or if they don’t put the dog on a lead when requested.

People aged 18 or over who are caught littering (including dropping cigarette ends and chewing gum) will also be fined the same amount.

Meanwhile, anyone caught

selling multiple vehicles on the highway will receive a warning letter for their first offence but subsequent offences will result in a £75 fine.

The same applies to anyone who repairs a motor vehicle on the highway for financial gain.

Anti-social behaviour is also being targeted, with fines for drinking alcohol in public in town centre exclusion zones.

Officers will be able to ask people to stop drinking and can confiscate alcohol.

The same fine applies to anyone caught urinating or defecating in public.

People caught leaving large accumulations of flyers on the street will receive a fine of £75 and putting up posters or banners on street furniture will incur a £100 fine for the first offence, with subsequent £75 fines for every other offence.

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Store’s Easter treat for hospital children MEMBERS of staff from Asda donated Easter eggs to children at Dewsbury District Hospital.

They visited the children’s assessment unit for the 15th year in a row and gave them the chocolate goodies to hand out over the Easter weekend.

Asda community champion, Sharon Kingswood, said: “Every year we look forward to visiting the hospital with the eggs as we know how much it means to the children.

“Hopefully, if a child is sick and has to come into hospital over Easter they can leave with a little Easter cheer from the Easter Bunny.”

‘Trim up for the Tour’ call to residents LOCAL organisations, businesses and individuals in the Spen Valley are looking to showcase the area as the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race passes through the district on Sunday, April 30.

Throughout the day, a caravan of promotional vehicles and celebrities will precede the race, which is set to attract a lot of media attention.

Cleckheaton Rotary Club, Spenborough Chamber of Trade and Spen Valley Civic Society are just a few of the organisations which have

been working together to raise awareness of the event and to encourage homes and businesses to decorate their premises for the race.

Joanne Catlow of the Rotary Club said: “This is an exciting opportunity to showcase the area to a wide audience and we hope that local people will be inspired to celebrate the fact that the Spen Valley is on the Tour de Yorkshire route.

“We are especially encouraging people whose properties are on the route to decorate their homes, gardens and

streets with yellow and blue bunting, painted bikes or cycle-related art.

“The best two adorned premises will each be awarded £50 in local shopping vouchers.”

There are various events to look forward to, with a big community ride for all ages and abilities at Princess Mary running track on Friday, April 29 and an event at Cleckheaton Memorial Park on April 30 with a video wall, interactive sculptures and fairground rides.

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You can bet your bottom dollar on my buddy Arthur ’M NOT much of a gambler. I work too hard to throw my brass away.

Indeed I gave up on the National Lottery when they doubled the price to £2 a ticket, about the same time Batley woman and Camelot boss Dianne Thompson got a peerage for making herself a millionaire on the back of making poor people even poorer.

I’m sure her Damehood was more about the good causes the Big Lottery Fund helps ... like all of those fake Savile Town community groups they funded, then conveniently covered up.

I have no intention of returning to the lottery, especially since they increased the odds of winning the jackpot from 14 million to one, to 45 million to one – as if it wasn’t hard enough already.

No, if I want to throw money away on a daft gamble, I’d rather do it via something like backing a horse in the Grand National with ‘Arthur’ in its name – as in Arthur the labrador, my best friend and only confidante.

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One for Arthur – and jockey readers took note of our top tipster Mike Smith’s comments about One for Arthur, backed up by our ‘nap’ from Carrigill’s Bookmakers.

That’s my Arthur’s dog biscuits paid for for the next couple of years! We even went for a ride round the garden in celebration (see picture) although he did struggle a bit getting over the wife’s magnolias.

Anyway, I digress. Forget the lottery, forget the ponies – if you want a surefire bet, get over to the USA and find an

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Apparently they’ll throw cash and tickets at you like confetti – up to $1300 a pop.

And that was before this week’s disgraceful scenes where they dragged a man kicking and screaming off the plane.

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It couldn’t have happened to a better airline. I do hope the victim Mr Dao makes them pay through the nose.

Lions led by lambs pt2 F YOU do this job long enough it will make a fool of you, and last Friday it certainly did. In my tribute to VC hero Pte Horace Waller I invited readers to contemplate the last paragraph of his story on page 12.

I can’t remember when this ever happened before (it must have) but sure enough, in a perfect storm of sub-editing and proof-reading cock-ups, the last few lines had been omitted.

No, it wasn’t a poor and overdue April Fool; not in the least cryptic. In reference to how we now mourn, wail, breast-beat and publicly prostrate ourselves over an occasional lost life, it told how in the month of April 1917, Pte Horace Waller VC was just one of 46 Dewsbury men who gave their life for their country. Not Batley, not Mirfield or Spen, just one town and 46 lost lives, in a single month out of years of brutal war.

And for what? So the youth of today could urinate on War Memorials and blame ‘old farts’ for “ruining our future” by voting last June 23rd to try claw back just a vestige of what our appeasers seem happy to give France, Germany and Brussels.

With respect, it is not their gift to give.

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DON’T mind the UK having one of the world’s most generous overseas aid budgets. We are still, relatively, one of the planet’s most wealthy and civilised nations (I obviously exempt Nicola Krankie from the ‘civilised’ bit).

Starvation, famine, natural or humanitarian disasters – we should be at the forefront of any and all efforts to aid the needy. Every time.

But paying out hundreds of millions of pounds in cash ‘aid’ to third world dictators, gangsters and, at very best, plain fraudsters? Millions a year to silver line the pockets of an entire Westminster department of untouchable, nepotistic public school appointees?

The Department for International Development as much as admits its job is to bribe poor countries into being our ‘friends’.

Wow, that’s worked well over the years, hasn’t it?

No. Enough’s enough.

Our own letters page today outlines very humbly, honestly and yes, angrily, how we are punishing the twilight years of the very people whose sacrifices made this nation so wealthy that today we can indulge overseas crime, bribery and money laundering under the guise of international aid.

It is disgraceful. We need a Silver Surfers political party.

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ONE of my closest American friends, an intelligent, well-read man who happened to be a Donald Trump voter, poured scorn on my fears when we met up just before the US elections.

He emailed me this week, in the wake of the frightening spectacle of Trump letting loose bombs, threatening North Korea and Russia and sending a full-on fleet of warships to go park on their doorsteps.

If that wasn’t scary enough, it was accompanied by the most childish, nonsensical ranti-

ng, as cringingly unPresidential as you can imagine (let’s not even get into his pre-pubescent press secretary Sean Spicer, who somehow ‘forgot’ Hitler gassed millions).

Is there really no one dare tell President Trump he looks and sounds like an OAP transvestite doing an impression of Shirley Temple throwing a hissy fit?

My friend’s communication was a rather brief email, in light of Trump’s turbulent first few months in office: “Oh s**t. Sorry, world.” Too late now, pal.

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Bikers lose their way through the woods

By Zoe Shackleton KIRKLEES Council has upset mountain bikers after removing a woodland track in Lady Wood, Mirfield.

They want to know why the jumps and ramps in the wood – in place for decades – were destroyed.

But the council is the landowner and can do what it wants, according to Mirfield Coun Martyn Bolt. He said: “The council should have spoken to people before acting.

“They said it was a safety issue but you would expect them to come forward with facts and figures, which they haven’t.

“It would be interesting to see how many people have complained because I’ve never

had a report of a problem.

“People have been biking there for a considerable length of time. There should have been better communication and consultation before action.”

The council held a meeting in Lady Wood this week to discuss how the wood can be used by the community in the future. But Coun Bolt was concerned that, as the meeting was scheduled during the day, some people would be unable to attend.

He added: “It seems to be high-handed to remove the facility and then talk about a consultation.”

A Kirklees spokeswoman said the meeting provided “an opportunity to discuss different users’ wishes and possibil-

ities for accommodating them.

“The wood has been used by a variety of different groups over the years without any real issues, but the latest changes to a makeshift mountain bike track have led to complaints by local residents and other users of the woods.”

Coun Musarrat Khan added: “This part of Lady Wood is owned by the council and at no point has anyone requested any permission to develop a mountain bike track.

“As we had no information on who was responsible for the changes to the track and due to concerns over its impact on the natural environment, the decision was made to remove the ramps and jumps and try to return the wood to its natural state.”

Church hits lottery jackpot for roof repairs HECKMONDWIKE Parish Church has been awarded £176,500 of lottery cash for roof repairs.

The grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund will help to pay for the estimated £217,976 restoration project to secure the future of the 200-year-old building.

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“Our church has provided a place for worship, live entertainment and large group activities for almost two centuries, and it’s great to know that we are a step closer to preserving it for a further 200 years.”

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I was born in 1931 and throughout the 30s dad could only get work ‘half

Yes, lefties are real fascists From: Greg Sheen (exWheelwright Boys Grammar School Latin scholar) Dear Sir, I was standing in the fish shop queue reading ‘Ed Lines’ last week (how working class is that?) and the item about fascism really resonated with me, as I had recently been reading an online piece about the same subject and felt compelled to copy and paste a comment by a reader which may be of interest: ‘Are fascists as irritating in Dutch as they are in English? Is Clegg the most Rachel Hurley, work to TPO(s), 73 Clumber Drive, Gomersal.

time’ or not at all. He applied to the National Assistance Board for help and was given tokens to get foodstuffs.

At the outbreak of war our whole school was evacuated but as the ‘phoney war’ went on dad brought the family back home to Bradford, after which the bombing commenced.

I left elementary school punchable politician after Corbyn? Do the offspring of fascists grow up to be fascists or can they become raving socialists? If a tree fell on a fascist in a wood with no other people around would the sound of the fascist being crushed make a sound? Do fascists like lamp posts? Does fascism give you cancer?’

Obviously heavy on the sarcasm and irony but, nonetheless, an insight, albeit obtuse, into the exact meaning of fascism (I loved the Latin reference in the piece, by the way!)

As Mr Lockwood suggests, it would appear the liberal left, especially the extremists, would never accept being put in the same bracket as the ‘Nazi’ right when that is exactly what they

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by its promotion of multiculturalism, diversity, feminism, egalitarianism, homosexuality and transgenderism.

The traditional white working class cannot relate to those values and consider them alien, irrespective of any perceived merits in them.

Labour’s traditional core base consider that the party had abandoned them by repudiating traditional class politics in favour of what is often referred as the progressive agenda.

Consequently many former Labour voters have chosen either to abstain or vote for UKIP and related parties.

Furthermore, Brexit and the election of Mr Trump in the USA suggest that the values of the liberal-left are

Left is fuelling populism From: Alec Suchi, Bradford Dear Sir, Further to Mr Lockwood’s article, ‘The Far Left are today’s fascists’, it is clear that the liberal-left are not the legitimate successors of the traditional left who had campaigned for a more equitable distribution of wealth and a fairer society based on class politics.

In marked contrast the liberal-left have abandoned attempts to transform the economic system but instead advocate identity or special interest politics, as evidenced

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When I married we went to a building society for a mortgage but the manager told us he couldn’t help so we had to live in rented accommodation until we raised enough for a deposit.

We struggled to make ends meet for many years being rejected as people adopt populist causes.

In the Netherlands, Mr Wilders’ party enjoyed increased support and the presidential elections in France may give further impetus to the populist cause.

The lesson?

Do not save From: Mr D Hirst, Dewsbury Dear Sir, The tv programme ‘Don’t Pay Or They Will Take It Away’ varies slightly to my circumstances, ‘Save And They Will Take It Away.’

The following may sound like a fairy tale but the facts are true.

I started work at 14 years and I finally retired at 69 years.

I never had any unemployment benefits and for 40 years paid superannuation towards my pensions. I saved hard to ensure we could enjoy an independent retirement.

At the age of 90 years I still pay income tax and my savings are a bar to any benefits.

Because of my age and disability, my wife having dementia, I have two daily visits from carers which I pay for.

My savings can now be compared to carrion and the vultures are gathered.

Kirklees want £350 annually (an admin fee) plus an increase of £1.80 per hour for the carers.

This will bring the carers expenditure to £271.50 per 28 days. My (pension) increase will be £13.80 weekly so bang goes the state pension rise.

So don’t save it, spend it, then you will qualify for the welfare hand-outs enjoyed by the ones who did not save.

Banks are failing us From: Ben Marshall, Liversedge.

Dear Sir, I’m sure other readers/customers will have noticed the

with our first holiday abroad being our Silver Wedding anniversary.

We now have a comfortable retirement thanks to our diligent scrimping and saving but fear that if we need care, our hard earned money will disappear rapidly because the country we have worked for is prepared to penalise us for our diligence in saving. not-so-slow rush to shut down our local banks.

I’m an HSBC and Halifax customer in Heckmondwike and very soon wont have a bank to go to.

I could do internet banking, but I’d rather not. This situation is a disgrace for people who want human contact, especially the elderly.

With Lloyds in Cleckheaton going, Yorkshire Bank in Heckmondwike and Batley plus the HSBC and now Halifax I feel bank bosses want to eventually shut the lot – how long before Natwest and Santander go in Hecky?

Voting results don’t add up From: Garry Kitchin, Batley Dear Sir, The current state of the political parties in the United Kingdom is very depressing for anyone interested in democratic choice.

In 2015 the Conservatives won barely a third of the popular vote, yet took over half the seats. That equates to 34,243 votes per seat.

Labour’s 232 seats cost an average of 40,290 votes per MP. However, the Green Party won only 1 seat, despite polling 1,157,613 votes and UKIP received 1 solitary seat for 3,881,099 votes.

Our First Past the Post system (FPTP) delivered reasonably proportionate results in the early post-war elections.

It wasn’t until the February 1974 GE that Labour and the Conservatives polled under 80% of the combined vote share. In the 2015 GE, they polled a combined vote share of just over 67%.

Locally we have wards like Mirfield and Batley East, that only deliver councillors from one party, and misrepresents the actual choice people

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Tracy Brabin, Labour MP for Batley & Spen

From page 8 make. Each ward deserves a councillor from another party to be representative of the votes cast.

Society is more varied in the 21st century, and we do not fit neatly into a binary choice of blue or red anymore.

Our society and politics are multi--faceted, yet we are stuck with an electoral system that does not reflect this, and subsequently disenfranchises millions of voters.

I believe we need to form a campaign group in Kirklees to fight for a fair voting system – Proportional Represen-tation (PR) – that works to ensure the votes of the electorate are properly reflected in the MPs and Councillors we elect.

This campaign needs to be cross party, and also for people of no party.

It needs to lobby our political representatives about the need for change, inform the electorate about the benefit in a PR system and lobby political parties to adopt PR as a policy offer to the public.

Our electoral system is broken and we the people need to

demand the change to give us a system fit for the 21st century.

Mirfield’s dog owners a mess From: Name & address withheld Dear Sir, I recently walked down the public footpath from St Mary’s Avenue to Dunbottle Lane in Mirfield, which passes between St Mary’s Parish Church graveyard and Dunbottle Way. I was disgusted to find at least a hundred discarded black plastic bags of dog poo scattered along both sides of the path, hung from bushes and thrown under shrubs adjoining Dunbottle Way, which form part of residents’ gardens.

This is totally unacceptable!

Please take your dog poo bags home with you and put them in your dustbin.

Discarding plastic bags full of dog poo is worse than not clearing up the dog poo at all as it does not rot down.

Please have more consideration for other footpath users.

Giving back is good for us all T HERE are all kinds of days as an MP, rewarding days like when I see the rehearsals for the upcoming Les Miserables shows coming together, frustrating days after long debates in the House of Commons only for the result to go against us, difficult days when my surgeries are full of people with complicated problems, joyful days when visiting thriving local businesses and yes, frightening days like the recent terror attack at Westminster.

However last week I experienced a harrowing day. Alongside 200 teenagers, including some from Batley Girls and Heckmondwike Grammar, I visited the site of Nazi concentration camp AuschwitzBirkenau (pictured right).

It’s hard to put into words what it is like to visit a place that has left such a scar on the history of the world.

Much of the camp remain well preserved and from the moment you walk through the infamous ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (work sets you free) gates there’s an eerie silence, despite being surrounded by people.

The atmosphere is understandable as the atrocities that happened there, decades ago – within living memory of many Brits – are unfathomable.

Millions were killed at the hands of the Nazis including six million Jews

whose ‘crime’ was their religion. All of that evil enacted, all of that potential destroyed and all of those family trees ended so suddenly.

The history we witnessed that day will stay with me for a long time and I know it had a profound impact on the school pupils too.

In the evening at the airport on our way home one young lady told me that she’s going to get to know and understand the other religions and communities that surround her because of what she’d learned at Auschwitz.

I’m glad that’s her resolution because the truth is that as some see diversity as a cause for celebration, in other cases there’s suspicion or worse, division.

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Nearly every week I seem to meet another group or individual who’s dedicated to giving something back to our community and I’m heartened, like at Batley Poets last week where participants as young as seven came to share their creativity.

And others like Friends of Batley Station who’ve done an admirable job improving our train station, making it a much nicer place for commuters and visitors alike, or Downs and Special Friends, a group of parents and carers who go the extra mile to arrange activities and meetups for our youngsters with Downs Syndrome and other life limiting disabilities.

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“If the centre closes, it will mean a commute to Dewsbury, which the unemployed might not be able to afford.

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Roads shut for Tour de Yorkshire cycle race ROAD closures and parking restrictions during the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race have been announced.

Riders arrive in Cleckheaton at around 3.15pm on Sunday, April 30, before travelling via Birstall (3.20) and Cooper Bridge (3.35).

Police motorcycles will escort the riders.

Many of the roads in Birstall will be shut from as early as 10am, with Cleckheaton roads closing from noon.

All will be reopened by 5.0pm.

Full details of the race route, parking restrictions and rolling road closures are available at www.kirklees.gov.uk /tourdeyorkshire

Malcolm’s book boost for children’s hospice

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DEWSBURY artist Malcolm East has donated £2,000 from the proceeds of his book to Yorkshire’s Martin House children’s hospice.

Mr East, 76, has sold 600 copies of “When I was a Lad and a Working Man”, which was published in October.

The sales have enabled him to repay his sponsors, Beerhouses, their full backing of £4,500.

Malcolm, of Willans Road, Dewsbury, praised the work of Martin House: “They allow the children to have a life and let their families live there with them until the end.

“I would just like to say a big thank you to those who have bought my book.”

The book covers Malcolm’s working life as a miner and rail worker and showcases his own paintings.

He has 300 books left for sale at £10 each, available from: The Hive (Kingsway Arcade, Dewsbury), Dawson’s Books (Dewsbury Market) and Eastfield Publishing (31 Wellington Road, Dewsbury).

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Parking changes ‘an escape from road rage’ “SO FAR, so good”... that’s the verdict of Mirfield councillor Vivien Lees-Hamilton on road changes outside the town’s railway station.

New double yellow lines were in operation for the first time on Monday in an attempt to stop drivers double-parking.

Train passengers have double-parked down the length of Hopton New Road, causing incidents of road rage.

Said Coun Hamilton: “We can’t prevent parking altogether because that will just move the problem to another neighbourhood. What we’ve done is create passing places

or an escape route.

“People have gone head to head but now if somebody makes a mistake or someone is having a bad day, or is being bloody-minded, there is at least an escape route for some poor innocent soul.

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spaces but that’s because it’s the start of the Easter holidays.”

Yellow lines have been painted around the entrance to Lowfields Mills and Back Station Road.

Talks are under way to find extra land to build a new car park for the railway station.

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By Mike Popplewell PRIMROSE LANE, running down the hill from Halifax Road, Hightown, is little more than a dirt track at the Bradford Road end where it borders the Princess Mary Stadium.

It looks like an inviting walk into the tranquility of the undisturbed countryside, away from the surrounding industrial development, but 205 years ago this lane was the scene of, arguably, the most unimagined mayhem and violence in the history of the Spen Valley.

Disruptions caused by today’s rail strikes are merely minor inconveniences compared to the industrial and economic unrest that prevailed throughout the country during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century.

And so it was, in the early hours of April 12, in 1812, things came to a head for the workers, both current and recently unemployed, from William Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds.

Sounds of footsteps on the dusty road disturbed the silence that night but there was no question of these sounds damaging the element of surprise.

The introduction of machinery to do the ‘cropping’ work previously performed by hand, by skilled men, had already cost jobs and threatened more to follow, right across the north.

Gangs of workers, banding together under the banner of an imaginary ‘General Ned Ludd’, were causing damage to machines in countless localities.

This illustration of Cartwright’s Mill, with Primrose Lane in the foreground, appeared in the ‘Shirley’ volume of the 1911 ‘Thornton Edition of The Novels of the Sisters Bronte’.

Cartwright was ready for them but, whilst the guards outside the mill were aware of gunshots in the distance, signalling an attack, before, as the Leeds Mercury reported, “...in a few minutes a number of armed men surprised the two sentinels without the mill and having secured both their arms and their persons, made a violent attack on the mill, broke in the window frames, and discharged a volley into the premises at the same instant. Roused by this assault, the guard within the mill flew to arms and discharged a heavy fire of musketry upon the assailants; this fire was returned and repeated without intermission during the conflict.”

The ‘Luddites’, as they were known, were repeatedly repelled, with the flashes from their firearms in the darkness only helping those men coming to Cartwright’s assistance to have a clearer target to aim at.

After an hour or so of conflict, the Luddites began to

withdraw, leaving some of their wounded behind – men like Samuel Hartley (24) and John Booth (19). Both men were taken to The Star Inn, Roberttown, after first stopping at what is now Headlands Hall for treatment, but both died as a result of their wounds.

CANAL FUN SHEPLEY Bridge Marina at Mirfield will host another year of fun days in partnership with The Safe Anchor Trust.

There will be 50-minute boat trips on the Calder and Hebble Navigation to Mirfield town centre and back, with refreshments in the fully accessible cafe. Children (and mums and dads) can also enjoy the model garden railway featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. The fun starts this Easter weekend, with trips starting tomorrow (Saturday April 15) from 10am.

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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 Sat 15 April: 10:30 - 7 miles moderate. MINING MUSEUM CIRCULAR Meet National Coal Mining Museum New Road Overton Wakefield (park on left side of main entrance) (WF4 4RH) Rural with good views. Contact: Annelis, 01924 460597, a.griffin4@ntl.com

Thriller moonwalks into town in fantastic fashion THRILLER – LIVE Leeds Grand Theatre Review by Janet Black MOONWALKING direct from the West End – where it is now in its recordbreaking 8th year – THRILLER LIVE, the spectacular concert that celebrates the career of the great Michael Jackson, arrived at the Leeds Grand Theatre in Leeds this week and boy oh boy does it give you the biggest thrill ever – what a show!

Created to celebrate the career of possibly the world’s greatest entertainer, Thriller Live has been seen by over four million people in over 30 countries taking audiences on a visual, audio and electrifying journey through the magic of Michael’s 45 year musi-

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Batley G&S produce a top class ‘Gondoliers’ THE GONDOLIERS – Batley Town Hall.

Review by MALCOLM HAIGH THIS is the eighth time in 65 years that the Batley Gilbert and Sullivan society or its predecessor, the Batley Congregational Operatic Society, has chosen to stage The Gondoliers .

No matter how good each production has been, few could have measured up to the standards of this month’s.

Writing as someone who appeared in that first production and who has probably witnessed each subsequent show, I can only say that I was bowled over with the exceptional talent and expertise exhibited here.

From curtain up to final applause it exuded talent and imagination. The diction was amazingly clear and helped audiences learn the background to the plots in ways often overlooked.

The cast brought the lyrics to life while their acting was first class.

Prominent members Paul Richmond and David Parker, who virtually spell out the plot, set the standards by exhibiting tremen-

dous vocal abilities and were backed up magnificently by Malcolm Parkinson as the Duke of Plaza Toro, Robert Thorman as the Grand Inquisitor and Leon Waksberg as the show’s surprise package Luiz.

It was a standard well maintained by fellow actors David Hall, Steve Row and Brook Carbutt as fellow gondoliers.

Stephanie Roe, Anna Trent, Carol Parkinson and Liz Blount masterfully handled the romantic switches aided by Tanya Parsons, Tracey Hook and especially Marilyn Cooper who, as Inez the king’s foster mother, holds the secret to legendary love affairs.

The show, featuring a great chorus, bursts with enthusiasm and empathy, channelled with great professionalism by producer Helen Fox, musical director Nicholas Whitaker and the talented members of the orchestra.

Members of the chorus were: Bex Barker, Ali Burton, Helen Carbutt, Marilyn Cooper, Jennifer Day, AJ Jno-Baptiste, Rita JnoBaptiste, Tony Johnson, Debbie Moores, Eoin O’Shea, Deirdre O’Shea, Catherine Roberts, Kath Thurman and Leon Waksberg.

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BULGARIAN actor Julian Kostov, currently starring as Bill, in the new Bill Kenwright movie Another Mother’s Son tells me that he could have easily also been in the BBC hit show Poldark.

“I had so many offers in the last few years, and yes that was also discussed, but for me right now movies are my ideal place, and so I agreed to star in this brilliant World War 2 epic, and yes a very true story.”

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SIMON Gregon who plays Steve in Coronation Street lets slip this secret which may surprise many.

“My favorite place in Britain is Wales. We’ve got a caravan on the coast. I’ve got a couple of boats, and the kids spend all their summer holiday there.

“I think there is nothing better really, and who needs fancy holidays and trips all over the place anyway?”

SEAN Wilson joined Coronation Street at the age of 19 in 1985, playing nurse Martin Platt for 20 years before leaving in 2005, but he told me that he would now love to return as the Platt family have expanded.

“I think it would work well now, given that Bethany and Sarah are both back, and I am the only husband Gail did not manage to kill off, so that is something.”

EASTENDERS actress Ann Mitchell, who plays Cora Cross, has returned on the famous set it emerged recently.

The actress told me, “I got the call to return, and I loved the storyline that they have come up with so, I figured why not, plus viewers love Cora as she is not one of life’s nice people is she really?

BRENDAN O’Carroll turned down a megabucks deal to make US version of Mrs Brown’s Boys.

“I got offered a lot, but for me I have never seen a successful transfer of this type of show, and again people may say “take the money” but for me, you break something that you have waited years to create, and I know if it’s a failure it would be all down to me, so I said no thanks.”

SHERRIE Hewson tells me Dame Judi Dench would do Benidorm if she was asked!

“I know she loves the show, and has told me that she can’t believe what we get away with, but that is the secret of its success really “I think people who go there know what goes on.

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STRICTLY Come Dancing fans may be shocked to learn what happens to the famous trophy once you have won it.

Strictly winner Ore Oduba told me, “I only saw that trophy for about 30 seconds.

They don’t let people touch it. They keep it. I was going to put it in my bathroom! You get a tiny replica, which is nice, but it’s not like the main one,” he laughed.

MARY Berry may be the exGreat British Bake Off judge, but has also published dozens of best-selling cookery books, and raised eyebrows with some unusual recipes on her latest cookery show.

Now the 82-year-old is releasing an illustrated book on home maintenance, an area pioneered by the likes of Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management in Victorian Britain. It will be out just in time for Christmas.

FORMER MP and budding TV star Michael Portillo, has signed up to C5 rather than the BBC to present a show on old relic buildings that need doing up, or have been left abandoned.

Michael claims, “There is a vast interest in this, and I often have seen so many while loitering around railway stations, on my previous shows, and they also thought that and we created a new show.”

FORMER Bake Off co-host Sue Perkins has landed the plum role of host of the Bafta TV Awards in May. There is a reason for that though – ratings have plummeted in years, even with the talented Graham Norton at the helm, and above all else the BBC now left without Bake Off must find something for her to host. And

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FORMER Emmerdale actress Roxanne Pallett tells me all about a return to Emmerdale, and whether she would say yes.

“Absolutely.

I love Emmerdale, and I always will. I have so much to thank the show for.

“I was gutted that I couldn’t go back, when I was asked a few years ago, because I’d just started work on a film.

I’m so grateful that Jo wasn’t killed off, although initially I had wanted her to leave the show in an explosive storyline that would have finished her off!”

WHATEVER happened to Kat and Alfie’s Eastenders spin-off series set in Ireland?

Don’t worry, the popular characters will be back on our screens very soon! Fans will find out if a family reunion is on the cards for Kat and Alfie, when their long-awaited spin-off series Redwater starts on BBC 1 in May. The six-part drama will see the pair, far from Walford, as when they arrive in the fictional Irish village of Redwater, and realize the residents are hiding a dark secret.

The Night Manager star Hugh Laurie is sure the second series will just be as good as the first. “There is always the danger, but that is the challenge – to make something even better second time round.”

ONLY Fools and Horses star Patrick Murray has ‘launched a career as a DJ’, using his television character Mickey Pearce as an alias. He played the role for more than 20 years and told me “I got asked to do it, and I thought why not, then it really took off and it’s become a new career.”

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(2134) BEDROOM FURNITURE Single foldaway guest bed and mattress, £15. Tel 01274 862769 or 07519 288925. (2108) Double bed mattress, very good condition, £25; buyer to collect. Tel 01924 485972. (2102) Double wardrobe, two bedside cabinets, set of drawers, all in teak basket weave. Good condition £60. Tel 01274 959373.

(2094) Sofa bed, Clive Metel futon. Black/ red mattress £100, closed 183 cm (W) x 98cm (D) x 85cm (H), extended 183cm (W) x 135cm (D) x 30cm (H).

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(2095) CHILDREN’S GOODS/ TOYS Baby crib in white with unused new mattress, includes bedding £25. Tel 01924 430088. (2119) Child’s high chair, solid wood c/w wipe-clean cushion and safety straps £20. Tel 01924 478476.

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(2108) Brother fax/ phone/copier and answer machine, complete with owners manual; cost £85, accept £20. Tel 01274 862769 or 07519 288925. (2108) Huawei Ascend Y550 Android phone, EE networked, 4.5” screen, 2GB, 5meg camera, includes charger and phone case, genuine reason for sale, £40ono. Tel 07952 526527. (2103) New microwave, never used, bought for use in caravan, £25. Oval, bevelled, glass top coffee table with gold-coloured legs and frame £20. Tel 01924 359621. (2100) Indesit front loader washing machine. Good working order £50 ono. Tel 01924 407943. (Buyer collect) (2093) FASHION Gents navy blue blazer and gents grey jacket, both Brook Taverners, 38/40”. Excellent condition, £12.50 each. Tel 01924 518904. (2111) FURNITURE Two bright-coloured, striped, upholstered chairs, as new, £110 each.

Also matching buffet, as new, £25. Tel 01924 470866. (2123) Cane corner unit, £15. Tel 01924 470866. (2123) Two-seater sofa, 1 chair + footstool, all in tan leather.

Like new, £200 ono. Tel 07944 703146. (2106) Solid, medium oak dining room table, 6 high-back chairs + 2 carver chairs.

Excellent condition, £150.

Tel 07929 257475. (2107) As-new brown leather, reclining, swivel chair, with unused footstool.

Cost £260, would like £100 ono. Tel 724680/ 07743 586001. (2104) Sherbourne two-seater sofa in oatmeal fabric.

Pristine condition, never been sat on, bargain £485, Sherbourne chair in oatmeal fabric, in pristine condition, never been sat

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Up to £7: £8 - £25: £26 - £50 £51- £100 £101-£200 £201-£500 £501-£1450 £1,451 plus on, bargain £380. Tel 07961 842563. (2098) Hand-crafted designer chaise longue (unused), cream faux leather seat and arm, back and seat trim in Stewart tartan fabric, chrome legs. Also includes lumber and loose cushion in same fabric, £350. Tel 07961 842563.

(2098) Black leather settee with light brown ribbed cushions, 146” x 36”, adapts to corner settee 96” x 72”.

Includes separate footrest 36” x 24” and scatter cushions. Excellent condition, first to see will buy £300 ono. Tel 01924 407943. (Buyer collects) (2093) Three-piece suite in light green fabric, 3 seater/2 seater/ plus recliner chair.

Reversible cushions plain/ pattern. Excellent condition, first to see will buy £300 ono. Tel 01924 407943. (Buyer collects) (2093) GOLF Callaway X2Hot driver, 10.5 degrees medium shaft, £50. X2Hot hybrid, £40. With head covers.

Pair for £80. Ping Rapture driver, 10.5 degrees medium shaft, with cover, £50.

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Genuine private sale but please contact supplier for removal and installation. Tel 0800 073 9793, quote Ref: 199025. (2097) HOUSEHOLD Table, kitchen style, 3ft X 2ft, formica top, detachable legs with 2 matching wheel back chairs. Light coloured wood, all excellent condition £20 ono. Tel 01924 462494. (2129)

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Tel 01274 855661. (2120) Roof rack for P100 van, cost £115 brand new, hardly used, will accept £65. Tel 01924 430088.

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(2114) 6ft x 4ft trailer, with tail lights £150 ono. Tel 07961 564984. (2112) All saddlery, best offers.

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By Mike Popplewell SPEN Victoria are preparing for their 86th season of Bradford League cricket, now the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League, but never before have those preparations preceded their participation in a third tier of the competition.

Failure to make the top half of Championship B last season, along with Hartshead Moor and Hopton Mills, sees the historic club join Liversedge, who finished in the bottom half of Championship A, in the newly established Championship 2 for this season.

Spen stalwart Malcolm Hirst, who is 85 years old and a long time official of the club, says he has mixed feeling at the loss of status.

“I was disappointed at the beginning but after thinking about it I am sure we will be better off in the long run.

“I am actually looking forward to the new season,” said Hirst.

“There are a lot of clubs around us who are having financial difficulties but there is no money being spent this year at Spen and no overseas players.

“I think we have an all English side and I think that might give us more of a local feel to the club that our supporters can identify with.

“I don’t think we are going to be good enough to win the division but I think results will be a lot more encouraging.”

Across the valley at Roberttown Lane, Liversedge are looking forward to the derby games with Spen Vic and Hartshead Moor this season, and the Hopton Mills fixtures will revive memories of their promotion rivalry in the last Central Yorkshire League season.

But, with no Cricket Chairman and the Bradford League reporting communication problems with the club, in respect of a proposed overseas signing and the new Player Registration system, time is short if they are to get things up and running for the start of the new campaign on April 22nd.

Last season was demoralising at times for Hartshead Moor but a huge close season recruitment drive must make them potential promotion candidates from this division.

Much travelled keeper Matt Garside joins from relegated Premier side Scholes, free scoring Ahsan Butt has moved from Bowling Old Lane, Mohammed Zaman from Cleckheaton, Rueben Suttleworth from Crossbank Methodists, Nat Skirrow from New Farnley, Paul Qayyam from Todmorden and, finally, a return to the club of Scotland international Iain Wardlaw from Hoylandswaine.

Having begun his Bradford League career with Hartshead Moor, Wardlaw, now 31, moved to Cleckheaton initially but then on to spells with Yorkshire and Scotland before joining Hoylandswaine in the Drakes Huddersfield League.

Wardlaw, Dewsbury born but with Scottish ancestry, is from a cricketing family with his elder sister Helen having played for the Yorkshire and England women’s teams.

DEWSBURY BRIDGE CLUB Results Tuesday April 4th 2017 1. M Loveridge and G Bloom 2. A Cooper and J Lodge 3. G Bragg and J Bragg

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Cleckheaton 31, Wirral 52 DESPITE defeat against Wirral on Saturday, Cleckheaton did pick up a losing bonus point which could prove vital in their fight to avoid relegation.

The table currently makes painful reading for Cleck, with just three home wins all season – their joint worst home record since 2000.

Cleckheaton’s survival is in their own hands as they travel to Lymm next weekend for their final game of the season, where a win or two losing bonus points will be enough to keep them up.

The Moorenders welcomed

Ross Hayden, Lee Queeley and Tom Austin back into the squad but it wasn’t enough as they were unable to secure the much needed points.

Wirral capitalised on some early mistakes from Cleckheaton to go over the line twice, the first coming from captain Craig Harvey who danced his way over the line after Cleck failed to find touch from within their own 22.

The home side then lost the ball in centre field which allowed Wirral to make headway down the pitch with Matt Loon crossing for the visitor’s second.

Jack Seddon made an excellent

break to get himself within yards of the whitewash, a high tackle from the Wirral defender meant that Cleckheaton were awarded a penalty try, Wirral then added their third try of the game through Ali Baker.

Wirral extended their half time lead when Paul Lewis crossed the whitewash but Cleckheaton hit back with a well worked move that saw Ronan Evans and Matt Piper combine to put Ross Hayden through a gap.

The visitors then scored three unanswered tries through Craig Harvey, Ali Baker and Mark Williams, with James Annetts

converting all three to effectively take the game from Cleckheaton’s reach.

With the losing bonus point still up for grabs Cleckheaton continued to push towards the Wirral line, Andy Piper barged his way over the line from close range to score the Moorenders third, Wirral responded by scoring their final points of the game with a try from Loon.

The hosts battled for the vital bonus point score for the remaining ten minutes and got their reward as Richard Piper crossed for the try before Hayden dived over for Cleck’s fifth score.

Ossett 2nds’ Champions Overthorpe defeat local rivals Rowntrees win is a sweet reward Ossett 2nds 23 Nestle Rowntrees 15 OSSETT RUFC 2nd’s made it to the final of the Central/North Merit League final after a 23-15 victory over Nestle Rowntrees on Saturday.

Ossett lost both games to Nestle in the regular season but were able to put those demons behind them with Saturday’s win.

Ossett were first over the line as Adam Race grabbed the first try of the game.

Rowntress replied before the break with the visiting hooker scoring. An Andy Bell penalty then gave Ossett a slender three point lead.

Ossett furthered their advantage as Sam Armstrong forced his way over in the corner, before Bell kicked a drop goal to give Ossett some breathing space.

Tom Sprott scored Ossett’s last try of the game as he broke the line before going around the full-back to score underneath the posts. Nestle scored with the final play of the game with a try in the corner.

The location and opposition for the play-off final is yet to be decided but the game is arranged for April 22nd.

Stanley Rodillians 1st XV 19 Ossett 1st XV 19 POINTS were shared in Ossett’s penultimate game of the season as local rivals Stanley Rodillians levelled the scores with the last kick of the game.

In one of the hottest days of the year Ossett started the brightest when winger Edgington made the break and put Drury under the posts. Rodillians responded with a well worked try of their own and converted to level the scores.

Ossett then applied a period of pressure on the Stanley line which resulted in Learie crossing, the conversion was missed. The hosts reduced the difference to two points with a penalty to make it 12-10 to Ossett at half time.

Stanley took the lead after the break, converting a penalty before a well worked try saw Webber race over.

The hosts then added another penalty to cut the gap to three points. Ossett then missed a penalty of their own. The Rodillians were then awarded a penalty which they converted to snatch the draw.

Ossett 2nd XV suffered a heavy defeat in the Merit Cup to West Leeds 2nd’s as they finished the game on the wrong end of a 41-3 scoreline, with Ossett’s only points coming from a penalty.

OVERTHORPE Sports Club under 13s side became Huddersfield Junior Football League Division 5 Champions on Sunday morning after a thrilling finish to the season saw them defeat local rivals Dewsbury Rangers 4-2.

Overthorpe needed a victory to secure top spot but were pushed all the way by a very good Rangers side with the teams going in level at half-time.

Nerves got the better of the Overthorpe strikers who squandered several chances to take

the lead. Everything changed after the break with goals from Felix Ellis, Luke Chapman, James Blakeway and Harvey Wilson. Although Rangers managed two goals of their own, Overthorpe hung on to secure their 17th win of the season.

RACING WITH TOP TIPSTER MIKE SMITH

Winterlude has a spring in step HE Easter weekend serves up a competitive few days of racing on the flat and over the jumps, with today’s (Good Friday) All Weather Finals Day at Lingfield backed up by top racing from Haydock and Musselburgh tomorrow, and the Irish Grand National on Monday.

WINTERLUDE was last of five behind First Mohican at Lingfield last month, but can prove that run all wrong in the Marathon Championship over course and distance at 2.10, and KIMBERELLA can take the Sprint today (Good Friday) 3.10 which is one of 9 races on ITV4.

Haydock’s fare is a long way from what was dished up at Aintree last week but the Challenger Series has been a good innovation and there are six cutthroat £50,000 races tomorrow (Saturday).

BALLYBOLLEY comes into his own in the spring and he could follow up last year’s win in the Middle Distance Chase final carrying just 4lb more than he did 12 months ago. In the Staying Final, the in-form Jonjo O’Neill can strike with MOONBEG GOLD, and COOKING FAT may be too hot for the rest in the 4.20.

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I have highlighted Middleham trainer Jason Ward before as a handler with a small string who has a great record of placing his horses well and picking up prize money along the way, and he sends out ROLL ON RORY at Musselburgh tomorrow (Saturday) in the 4.05.

Graham Lee is a significant jockey booking for the course and distance winner and at anything better than 4-1 is an each way bet on a horse that lives in a stable once occupied by former Derby winner Dante.

At the Fairyhouse Festival, Jonjo may have another Irish National star in ANOTHER

HERO having landed this prize twice since 2007, and the Ryanair Gold Cup looks at the mercy of YORKHILL who secured his second Cheltenham Festival win in the JLT last time out.

BRIAN THE SNAIL may be the most incongruously named flat horse in training but was an impressive winner of the six furlong sprint at Pontefract on Tuesday. Bought by Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation last year, and like his sire Zebedee, named after a character from the TV show ‘The Magic Roundabout’, he is being lined up for the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot via the Pavilion Stakes at the same track. He’s one to follow.

CARRIGILL’S NAP (stake returned in a free bet if finishes outside top 4): Saigon City Musselburgh Saturday 3.35 AUGUR’S BEST BET: Yorkhill Fairyhouse Sunday 4.35 AUGUR’S ONE TO WATCH: Popsicle. Unraced 2yo of Richard Hannon’s and reportedly a real speedster at home.

Already entered for the Weatherby’s Super Sprint Stakes at Newbury in July.

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Five star Town stay in play-off running with classy win Ramsbottom United 0 Ossett Town 5 OSSETT Town kept their play-off hopes very much alive after a convincing 5-0 win away to Ramsbottom United.

It sees Ossett stay in fifth, however they are now level on points with fourth placed Trafford and sixth placed Glossop North End, with Town having played a game less than Trafford.

Town took the lead against Ramsbottom inside eight minutes as Dean Stott headed the ball into his own net. Danny Frost doubled the lead midway through the first half, nodding home from close range after the ball was flashed across the face of the goal.

Two goals in three minutes at the start of the second half put Ossett out of sight, Andy Hawksworth controlled on the edge of the area and guided the ball into the bottom corner.

Nathan Curtis scored after a superb solo run saw him get past two defenders before poking the ball into the far corner. Jason Yates sealed a brilliant afternoon for Ossett as he scored with a glancing header in the last minute of the game.

Town will be hoping for another important three points as they host Prescot Cables tomorrow afternoon (3pm).

Ossett Albion 0 Droylsden 4 OSSETT Albion suffered their fifth defeat in six games after they shipped four goals at home to Droylsden. Two goals inside the first ten minutes put Droylsden in control of the game with Albion failing to create many chances.

Jack Rudge’s effort from outside the area found the bottom corner after four minutes, Ciaran Kilheeney then doubled the lead six minutes later as he bundled the ball home after it rattled off the crossbar.

Adam Farrell put the game completely out of Albion’s reach as he headed the ball into the top corner on 57 minutes.

The visitors made it four with five minutes to play as William Hasler-Cregg was fed the ball from out wide and he controlled the ball before slotting it into the roof of the net.

Albion face a difficult task tomorrow (Saturday) aas they travel to ninth placed Clitheroe (3pm).

Pickering Town 3 Liversedge 1 LIVERSEDGE’S winless run stretched to ten games as they surrendered a 1-0 half time lead away to Pickering Town.

Alfie Raw put Sedge ahead with 25 minutes played but after two goals in ten minutes for the visitors things started to fall apart for Liversedge.

Nicholas Thompson equalised for the hosts ten minutes into the second half before Samuel Denton put Pickering ahead on 65 minutes.

George Bissett scored Pickering’s third of the game 15 minutes later and condemned Sedge to their seventh defeat in ten games.

Liversedge only have two games left to try and notch a win before the season finishes, with the first game coming against Bottesford Town at Clayborn tomorrow afternoon (3pm).

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DEWSBURY’S misery deepened as Halifax inflicted another defeat on the Rams who remain without a win in the league.

The hosts were less than fluent in the first half but clicked in to gear after the break, running in 28 unanswered points.

Dewsbury, under the stewardship of caretaker coaches Karl Pryce and Jonathan Schofield in what was their final game in charge, got their one and only score courtesy of Dominic Speakman on six minutes.

After Brandon Douglas’s hard run up the middle, Speakman dabbed through on the last tackle and outmuscled full back Will Sharp to ground before Paul Sykes improved the score.

Despite their lowly league standing, Dewsbury were undeterred by an in-form Halifax side and could count themselves a little unlucky not to extend their lead.

Alex Brown thought he was over, however the pass his way was correctly called forward.

Speakman’s boot was then instrumental in creating various half chances for the visitors when within striking range of the host’s try line.

His crossfield kick almost put the Rams in double figures as winger Brown leapt high above a hesitant Rob Worrincy, only to fumble upon landing in goal.

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OSSETT Albion are left playing the waiting game after a depleted side went down 3-2 at Sheffield based Courts City in their final North East Regional League, Southern Division game.

There was a determined display from Albion but they were pipped at the post despite goals from Jo Atkinson and Chloe Denton and, with only 15 points from their season, two of the three teams below them can still overtake them.

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their territorial advantage and, though there was a distinct lack of penetration from Richard Marshall’s men, they drew level.

On the half-time whistle, Halifax were back on terms when James Saltonstall acrobatically flung himself in at the corner post.

A nicely weighted ball from Scott Murrell to the right edge saw the winger take flight and successfully touch down at the behest of the nearby touch judge.

Steve Tyrer, whose afternoon was about to improve along with that of his teammates, duly drilled through the uprights to restore parity that Halifax barely deserved.

Within three minutes of the restart, Fax were ahead after a barnstorming run from second row forward Simon Grix.

He escaped the clutches of one tackler, fended off another and went

over close to the corner flag but Tyrer couldn’t convert.

The watershed moment came shortly after when Worrincy picked a hole in the Dewsbury defence on the half way line and romped home under the sticks.

The powerful winger skipped comfortably past hooker Robbie Ward, who’d bolted out of the line, and Worrincy hot-footed it home for Tyrer to add the extras.

That pivotal score then allowed Tyrer, one of the top points scorers in the division, to leave a lasting impression on the game.

Just prior to the hour mark, a well worked attacking move allowed Ben Johnston to kick in behind the Rams line and Tyrer was the quickest to react.

His kick duly opened up a 16-point margin.

Tyrer, who now has 100 points for the season, scored another in a similar position to his previous effort and, having brushed aside Sykes, he smartly converted.

Adam Tangata got in on the act late on when he crossed after supporting a break down the right flank that exposed a sorry back line, which meant Dewsbury’s players were gathered behind their posts for the sixth and final time.

Halifax did have one final shot at goal as the full-time hooter sounded.

Worrincy was inexplicably obstructed after kicking through and when the referee awarded a staggering 25th penalty of the piece, Tyrer lined up a long-range attempt.

After his second-half showing, he was forgiven for being wayward with his effort – just like his peers.

MATCH STATS: HALIFAX 2. Will Sharp 5. James Saltonstall 3. Steve Tyrer 4. Ben Heaton 23. Rob Worrincy 6. Scott Murrell 1. Ben Johnston 10. Adam Tangata 9. Ben Kaye 8. Mitch Cahalane 11. Shane Grady 12. Simon Grix 13. Jacob Fairbank Subs: 29. Ryan Lannon 20. Elliott Morris 17. Brandon Moore 14. Ryan Boyle Tries: Saltonstall (40), Grix (43), Worrincy (55), Tyrer (59; 67), Tangata (71) Goals: Tyrer (5/7) DEWSBURY RAMS 1. Josh Guzdek 31. Alex Brown 6. Paul Sykes 25. Ashley Gibson 2. Dale Morton 13. Aaron Brown 17. Dominic Speakman 26. Anthony Walker 15. Robbie Ward 28. Brandon Douglas 4. Lucas Walshaw 11. Robert Spicer 27. Chris Annakin Subs: 9. Thomas Hemingway 20. Aaron Ollett 29. James Batchelor 10. Tony Tonks Tries: Speakman (6) Goals: Sykes (1/1)

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Ref : S. Mikalauskas 30/100 Half-time: 6-6 Penalties: 14-11 Sin Bin: None Sent Off: None MOTM: Steve Tyrer (Halifax) Attendance: 1,218 Match Rating: 3/5

Ossett Albion under 19s (pictured) are Northern Alliance League Champions for the second successive season.

Top goalscorer for the season was Alfie West with 13, with captain Greg Hunter second top scorer with nine. The league season has yet to finish but with Albion ten points clear at the top it is impossible for them to be caught.

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at the MBi Shay Stadium

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

By Mike Popplewell

Rams’ best – Brandon Douglas

total if they win their games in hand.

The Premier Division's bottom club Battyeford SC had a rare glimmer of light in a pretty dismal season when they beat Second Division promotion hopefuls Dewsbury Rangers 5-0 in the Women's West Riding League Supplementary Cup, with two goals apiece from Katie Clarkson and Bethany Winsor and one from Sarah Kennerdale.

Rangers' focus is clearly on a return to League action against bottom club Amaranth knowing victory would put them just one win away from the runners up spot. But, four days before that they have a Cup game against Hepworth to contend with.

There are no womens fixtures affecting the district's clubs over Easter.

HEAVY WOOLLEN SUNDAY FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Fisher seven points clear at top ST JOHN Fisher maintained their seven point gap at the top of the Heavy Woollen Sunday League Premier Division after both Rob Bordman and Matthew Bugg hit doubles in a 5-1 win over Mount Pleasant.

Dominic Riordan hit the other goal for Fisher who have got three games still remaining.

Abdullah Mayet netted for Mount, who stay second bottom.

Woodkirk Valley look set to finish second after they won 5-1 at Mirfield Town who had Gibril Bojang on target.

Bottom side Heckmondwike Sports Club enjoyed only their second league win of the

season, thrashing AFC Chickenley 7-2.

Kieran Senior led the way with a hat-trick, Craig Bentley bagged a brace with Jack Hinchliffe and James Yazarlou completing the tally.

In Division One, Saville Arms clinched second place behind winners Roberttown Rovers after winning 5-0 at bottom side St Ignatius.

Saul Lee hit a brace for Saville, who also had Danny Damen, Adam Nicholls and James Damen on target.

Scholes Athletic finish third after they could only draw 3-3 at Clifton Rangers Reserves.

In the only game in

Division Two, Wire Works cemented third place with a 4-1 win at Clifton Rangers A. Liam McManus hit a brace, with Nolan St Hillaire and Dan Waddington completing the scoring.

Roberttown Rovers meet Scholes Athletic in the Heavy Woollen Challenge Trophy Final on 19th April.

The game takes place at Ossett Albion and kicks off at 7.30pm.

SPEN VALLEY LEAGUE THERE was only one fixture that took place in the Spen Valley Premier League last weekend as Athletico won 4-2 away to Girlington.

A brace for Shamraz Hussain as well as goals from Mahine Malik and Brandon Dexter cancelled out Adil Tanvir’s two goals as Athletico earned all three points.

In the 1st Division Howden Clough cruised to a comfortable 4-1 win over Marsh with Shan Thornton and Corey Starkey both scoring twice, Andrew Milner scored the only goal for Marsh.

Saville Town drew 2-2 with Dewsbury West Side Reserves, Sajeel Qadir netted twice for Saville but goals from Haseeb Shahid and Zaaid Sajawal for Dewsbury saw the spoils shared.

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Batley leave it late to beat Rochdale Kingstone Press Championship

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ROCHDALE HORNETS 36 at the Fox’s Biscuits Stadium BATLEY scored three tries in four dramatic minutes to snatch the points from Rochdale in the dying moments of the game.

The visitors deservedly led 36-22 with just six minutes to go, and even with a man in the sin-bin looked a safe bet for the points.

But Batley responded with two tries from Shaun Ainscough and a last gasp Tom Lillycrop try to steal the glory in emphatic fashion.

Robert Massam touched down the opening score in the corner for the Hornets before Harvey Livett collected Gavin Bennion’s offload for their second just four minutes later.

Two became three almost instantly as Jake Eccleston broke down the right wing before passing inside for Benjamin Jullien to place down.

A series of penalties allowed Batley to get themselves back into the game as Macauley Hallett dived over, however

Lewis Galbraith edged Rochdale further in front moments later.

Rochdale’s ill-discipline began to prove costly as Sam Smeaton worked his way over from close range.

Jonathan Smith was then yellow-carded for a high tackle before Hallett’s second try reduced the deficit to 10 points.

Smeaton made a magnificent break as the Bulldogs nearly added their fourth try but he was tackled before a loose pass fell into touch at the half time hooter.

With Batley playing down the infamous slope in the second half, many would have thought that they would begin the second half as they ended the first.

But Matthew Hadden touched down Rochdale’s fifth try next to the posts as the Bulldogs’ defence continued to let them down.

James Brown was then sin binned for a high tackle and Livett rubbed salt in the wounds with a penalty goal.

A brilliant individual effort from Jack Johnson saw Rochdale’s tally reach 36 and there was few that would have bet against them adding to it.

Smeaton finished well for his second try of the game three

minutes later, however Will Maher worked his way over shortly after.

With six minutes to go, Rochdale looked set for the points with a comfortable looking 14-point advantage – how wrong they were.

With Hadden yellow-carded, Ainscough dived over for two tries in three minutes as the visitors rapidly tired, However, the deficit was still four points.

But three minutes from the hooter, Brambani, who had been a peripheral figure for large periods, broke and offloaded to Lillycrop before the former notched the match-winning conversion.

Batley boss Matt Diskin was under no illusions post-match however, after seeing his side get out of jail.

He said: “The boys showed some real character to get anything out of that.

“If I’m totally honest I don’t think we deserved anything.

“Of the 34 players on the field today I wouldn’t have swapped any of their players for ours.

“It’s just one of them days where we had real lack of respect for the opposition and each other and we nearly got burnt.”

Normanton too strong

MATCH STATS: BATLEY BULLDOGS 25. Mike Hayward 2. Wayne Reittie 3. Sam Smeaton 4. Macauley Hallett 5. Shaun Ainscough 28. Tom Holmes 7. Dom Brambani 10. Alex Rowe 9. Alistair Leak 27. Will Maher 11. Brad Day 18. James Harrison 17. Joe Chandler Subs: 14. James Davey 16. Tom Lillycrop 21. James Brown 23. Brad Hill Tries: Hallett (23, 34), Smeaton (30, 59), Maher (62), Ainscough (74, 76), Lillycrop (77).

Goals: Brambani 3/8.

ROCHDALE HORNETS 1. Jack Johnson 3. Jake Eccleston 21. Benjamin Jullien 4. Lewis Galbraith 5. Robert Massam 22. Harvey Livett 7. Daniel Yates 15. Jovilisi Taira 14. Ryan Maneely 10. Gavin Bennion 11. Jonathan Smith 27. Andre Savelio 13. Gary Middlehurst Subs: 9. Ben Moores 8. Samir Tahraoui 16. Mathew Hadden 19. Jordan Case Tries: Massam (9), Livett (13), Jullien (17), Galbraith (26), Hadden (44), Johnson (55) Goals: Livett 6/7.

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Ref rating: C. Straw 35/100 Half-time: 12-22 Penalties: 19-7 Sin Bin: Smith (33, high tackle), Brown (52, high tackle), Hadden (72, holding down) Sent Off: None Weather: Sunny Man of the Match: Harvey Livett (Rochdale) Attendance: 718 Match Rating: 5/5

Birstall record impressive win Thornhill Trojans A 54 Hunslet Warriors A 8 THORNHILL Trojans ‘A’ responded to their opening day defeat with a convincing win over Hunslet Warriors ‘A’ in the Yorkshire Men’s Alliance Division 1.

The Trojans welcomed Scott Craven back to the club as he scored on his return, with winger Adam Johnson notching a hat-trick of tries.

Hunslet were very much in the game despite the score-line suggesting otherwise. Trojans other tries were scored by Shane Johnson, Chris Mitchell, Josh Clough, Liam Green and Vinnie Johnson with Mark Hodgson kicking nine goals.

Birstall Victoria u15s 58 Hunslet Parkside u15s 0 BIRSTALL Victoria under 15s are through to the next round of the Yorkshire Junior League Continuation Cup after a convincing win over Hunslet Parkside on Sunday.

Birstall’s first score of the game came through Reece Ripley followed by two tries from Robson Stevens and one from Oliver Parry, all successfully converted by Harry Copley.

The hosts continued to dominate as

the second half got underway with another six unanswered tries courtesy of Kian Richardson, Leon Grayshon, Oliver Parry and another for Robson Stevens who completed his hat-trick.

Josh Beevers scored twice going the full length of the field for his second.

Garforth Tigers u14s 28 Dewsbury Celtic u14s 4

SHAW CROSS SHARKS NORMANTON KNIGHTS

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SHAW Cross Sharks came out second best in a close fought contest with Normanton Knights on Saturday afternoon.

Head coach Brett Turner was pleased with his side after the game but felt a slow start cost them victory.

“It is disappointing to lose.

It would’ve been a very close game if we played in the first ten minutes the way we did the rest of the game,” said Turner.

“We have a habit of losing close games and we need to get out of that.”

The Sharks got off to a nightmare start, conceding two tries in the opening five minutes. The first came from an interception by Connor Taylor before a break on the left wing allowed James Sinkew to go over.

Shaw Cross kicked into life after going behind and almost levelled the scores with two tries and one conversion, Casey Johnson made a darting run towards the line before producing an

offload to Andrew Tillotson who barged over the line.

Another superb pass from Johnson found Brandan French who went over for the hosts’ second try.

Shaw Cross were made to pay for a knock on from the restart as Normanton scored following the scrum and then added to their lead soon after.

The Sharks scored their third try of the game just before the break as Paul March scored under the posts, but Normanton responded to extend their lead.

The Sharks then replied through Joe Halloran, yet Normanton went on and powered over the line from close range.

Spaven and Halloran combined for a second time as the hosts went over for the latter’s second try.

Taylor crossed for his brace with five minutes to play and sealed the victory for Normanton.

Nathan Wright added a consolation for Shaw Cross with the last play of the game, a beautifully weighted cross-field kick from Johnson found Wright who gathered the ball to score.

Celtic only one win in six NCL Division Three

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STANLEY Rangers inflicted more early season misery on Dewsbury Celtic, who had Pat Foulstone sent off for dissent and Danny Lee sinbinned for a punch.

Celtic trailed 28-12 at the break and were unable to reduce the deficit any further. Tries from Martyn Holland and Liam Grimmett, both goaled by Danny Duce gave the home side a 12-0

lead before Celtic hit back through George Senior and Danny Thomas.

Two Foulstone goals levelled Three tries in the final 13 minutes of the first half from Jack Ledger, and two from Liam Crawley plus two Duce goals made it 28-12 at the break. The second half then saw Crawley drop a goal with further tries from Lee Anderson and Ledger, and another two Duce conversions. It means Celtic are left with only one win from their opening six games as they sit in 12th position in Division 3 of the National Conference.

Moor back on track

DEWSBURY Celtic under 14s lost away to Garforth Tigers U-14s on Sunday. Celtic had held Garforth to a 4-4 scoreline at the break with James Oldroyd scoring the try for Celtic.

The heat of the afternoon took its toll on the players as Garforth scored four tries in the last ten minutes.

24 hours previous to the game the Celtic U-14s walked one of the Yorkshire peaks, Pen-y-Ghent, in order to raise funds for training kits.

THE NEWLY formed Dewsbury Moor under 9s made their debut last weekend with games against Whinmoor and Stanley Rangers. The team are on the lookout for more players to join the side and anyone interested can contact Michael King on 07591795094.

NCL Division One

NCL Division Three

DEWSBURY MOOR WOOLSTON ROVERS

Leon Grayshon storms through for Birstall VIc u15s

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DEWSBURY Moor kept up with the pace at the top of Division 3 with a comfortable win over Woolston Rovers.

George Croisdale opened the scoring as he powered over for an early try.

Aiden Ineson added another try with 10 minutes played and Moor continued to dominate proceedings, adding two further tries before half

time. Croisdale went over for his second and Luke Adamson notched a score.

Woolston scored their only try of the game with the last play of the first half, and the Maroons were forced to defend for the opening stages of the second but after a try from Jordan Foster the pressure was eased.

Max Vernon then scored the final try of the game after a neat James Delaney chip.

Moor face Hunslet Club Parkside in the BARLA National Cup quarter final tomorrow afternoon at Maroon Park (2pm).

Back to back sin bins for Wilson prove costly in Trojans’ away defeat NCL Division Two

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THORNHILL Trojans surrendered a 22-6 lead as they were on the wrong end of a spirited comeback in first versus second in the National Conference Division 2.

Thornhill’s collapse was coupled with two successive spells in the sin-bin for Jake

Wilson as Crosfields turned the game on its head.

The Trojans started the game on the back foot but after an early scare they began to control the game, a penalty close to the line saw Anthony Harris put Thornhill ahead.

Crosfields then looked to have scored their first try of the game but play was called back for a forward pass, Wayne Wilson then ploughed through the Crosfields

defence as the visitors went 12 points ahead.

Thornhill added a third as they flung the ball across the attacking line on the last tackle to George Woodcock who gratefully accepted to score.

Crosfields made their mark on the scoreboard just before half time as Billy Sheen was first to a chip over the top and he went over unopposed for the try.

Thornhill restored their 16

point lead soon after the restart as Will Poching and Jake Wilson combined to send Liam Morley racing over the whitewash.

Crosfields responded almost immediately as Tom Millington pounced on a grubber kick to score, moments later Jake Wilson was sin-binned for dissent.

The home side reduced the deficit soon after as Chris Burgess scored Crosfields’ third try of the game.

With four points the difference, Dave Boden forced his way over the line and a conversion from Jack Reid meant Thornhill trailed for the first time.

Wilson returned to the field for Thornhill but was sent straight back off it as he was shown another yellow card, this time for ripping the ball in the tackle.

Tries from Nathan Taylor and Kieran Thomas put Crosfields well in control as

Thornhill were heading towards their second defeat of the season.

Tempers flared between the sides and a penalty enabled Woodcock to squeeze over for an unconverted try.

Thornhill will look to get back to winning ways in the NCL as they host East Leeds in two weeks time but first come up against Upton as they continue their defence of the BARLA National Cup tomorrow afternoon (2pm).

Dewsbury and Batley ready for Heavy Woollen clash

Diskin has an eye on top four places as busy Easter awaits

Kelly rides back to Rams’ rescue LOCAL HERO: Rams fans will give a warm welcome home to old favourite Neil Kelly

By Ben McKenna DEWSBURY Rams have appointed former coach Neil Kelly as their new head coach on an 18 month contract – effective immediately, meaning he will take charge for this afternoon’s clash with Batley Bulldogs.

Kelly was head coach at the club for a six year spell between 1995 and 2001, where Dewsbury won the Northern Ford Premiership, which at the time was the competition for the second tier of rugby league in Britain. Kelly also had two spells as a player for Dewsbury between 1984-86 and from 1989-91.

Kelly left Dewsbury in 2000 as he went to pursue the role of head coach for Widnes Vikings, three years later he moved to Northern Ireland as he was appointed defensive coach of Ulster Rugby Union. He made the switch back to rugby league in 2008 when he was appointed head coach of Leigh Centurions.

Kelly says that his one goal as head coach is to make sure that Dewsbury maintain their status as a Championship club after the Rams were defeated for the eighth time in eight games against Halifax on Sunday.

“I’ve followed the fortunes of Dewsbury ever since I left. The club are not in a great situation now but it is not terminal, it is going to take a lot of hard work to rectify the situation we are in but we have the right people at the club to get us out of it,” said Kelly.

“My career has taken me in a different direction over the past ten years but I felt a real desire to coach Dewsbury again and that the situation was right for me to come back.

“It would mean an awful lot to be able to be able to get the season back on track but we are only focusing on our next two games at the moment.”

“I will give Dewsbury 100% effort to get them out of the situation that they are in, we have still got the chance to climb out of the position we are in and create a situation where we can look forward to another season in the Championship.”

Kelly feels that Dewsbury have every chance of securing a win over the busy Easter period, and believes home advantage could play a key role in this afternoon’s game against Batley.

He said: “It is a home game, and every coach in the league would say that you should be favourites to win at home, I am not saying we are favourites to win the game but we certainly have more than an even chance of winning this afternoon.

“We need to do the things right in the game, if we can detach ourselves from the situation surrounding the club and then do the right things on the pitch there is no reason we can’t win the game.

“It would be the first win of the sea-

BATLEY Bulldogs’ boss Matt Diskin is targeting two wins from two over the Easter period as he sets his sights on the top four of the Kingstone Press Championship.

Batley’s first game comes this afternoon with a Heavy Woollen derby against Dewsbury Rams at the Tetley’s Stadium (1pm), followed by the visit of London Broncos to Mount Pleasant on Monday (3pm).

Batley currently occupy sixth place in the Championship but are level on points with Halifax and London who occupy fourth and fifth respectively.

The Bulldogs have won their last four meetings against Dewsbury, winning all three competitive games in 2016, with Diskin’s first win as Batley head coach coming in the Boxing Day friendly.

Despite Dewsbury losing all of their games in the Championship this season, Diskin feels the appointment of a new head coach and the intensity of the derby will make it difficult for his side to secure the two points.

“The new coach will rejuvenate their squad, all the players will want to impress with it being their first game under Neil, form can be thrown out the window, we know it is going to be a tough derby game but we are looking forward to it,” said Diskin.

“When it comes to derbies and the Easter period in particular you can forget about form, it is a testing time for the squad and we need to stand up on all fronts this week.

“Dewsbury have their backs against the wall and when you have somebody backed into a corner they are going to come out fighting and we are expecting that this afternoon.”

Batley produced a miraculous comeback on Sunday as they overturned a 24 point deficit to beat Rochdale Hornets 38-36, with Tom Lillycrop scoring in the last minute to secure the win for Batley, with three Batley tries coming in the last eight minutes of the game. The win was a significant one as a Rochdale win would’ve moved them ahead of Batley in the league table and put

son so it would mean a lot to everyone at the club but we need to concentrate on ourselves, we have done a lot of things in games to hurt ourselves and that is something we need to cut out.”

Dewsbury’s last competitive win over Batley came in August 2015 but despite the Bulldog’s recent dominance, Kelly says a win is possible and he has been encouraged by the Rams’ performances in the past two weeks.

“The last two games against Featherstone and Halifax there has been signs that the side can do well,” added Kelly.

“Looking at the Easter period in its entirety we have a great chance to get our first win, because we are at home in our first game and with it being a local rival we would like to think we can give them a good game.”

Dewsbury face Sheffield Eagles on Monday evening, a side who have enjoyed mixed fortunes so far this year with shock wins over London and Toulouse while suffering heavy defeats to Batley and Halifax.

Kelly feels that Monday’s game is another winnable one and that a win

for Dewsbury will go a long way to boosting the confidence of the team.

He said: “The Sheffield game comes around very quickly but we would like to think we can make the short trip to Wakefield to play them and get the all important victory.

“I am sure that once we get the first win it will be closely followed by the second win, but we are in the situation where we need to take it one game at a time.”

The Rams may be without some key players as they suffered more injury setbacks in Sunday’s defeat to Halifax with Aaron Ollett and Rob Spicer forced off during the game. Kelly is unsure as to whether or not the players will be back in time to play over Easter.

Dewsbury will also be without Paul Sykes who has been banned for two games for disputing the decision of the referee in the defeat to Featherstone, as well as Gareth Hull Kingston Rovers Potts who has Toulouse Olympique been banned for one game after he Featherstone Rovers was found guilty Halifax of a shoulder London Broncos charge against Batley Bulldogs Featherstone.

KINGSTONE PRESS CHAMPIONSHIP

The Rams are now only two points ahead of Bradford in the Championship table

Rochdale Hornets Sheffield Eagles Oldham Swinton Lions Dewsbury Rams Bradford Bulls

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A 128 165 141 158 184 250 215 325 242 273 306 250

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Pts 18 14 14 10 10 10 7 6 5 2 0 -2

Winner – Tom Lillycrop a severe dent in Diskin’s hopes of a top four finish.

“It was a fantastic finish to the game, the players showed some real character to get a result from the position we were in,” added Diskin. “However I thought for 70 minutes of the game we were atrocious, we didn’t defend well, we made some poor decisions and missed some one on one tackles and we got exposed for it.

“We gave 20 sets away and you can’t afford to do that against any side, we will ride the euphoria of the comeback and hopefully that will build some momentum but we are not putting a band aid over the game and we know we have got some issues to fix.”

With London Broncos considered by many as top four contenders at the beginning of the season, Diskin believes that a win on Monday afternoon will send a message out to the rest of the division that his side are serious contenders to qualify for the middle 8’s.

He said: “We are in the mix for the top four which is where we wanted to be at the start of the season, the league is very open this year and many teams are there or thereabouts.

“We have got to start being more disciplined with performances as we go into the midway point of the season, we always go out believing we can win and that will be the case this week, next week and every week.

“London play some fantastic rugby. They are a full-time side, they don’t fatigue as quickly and they have some real quality players that score points for fun.

“We need to make sure that we keep concentrated throughout the game and make sure that we are making the right decisions in order to get the win.”

Two wins for Batley could put them into the top four with London facing Toulouse on Friday and Halifax travelling to Bradford before hosting Oldham on Monday.