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By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter KIRKLEES COUNCIL has dramatically reined back on confiscating green bins from residents.

The policy, which has been widely criticised, was introduced in April.

By mid-May the authority had seized more than 1,300 bins in the south of the district as part of a crackdown on recycling contamination.

But when the roll-out continued in North Kirklees the hardline policy had been relaxed.

Only a further 300 bins have been impounded, taking the total to 1,650.

Now the council has admitted its practice was flawed and that it will make changes after the public backlash.

Coun Rob Walker (Lab), the council’s Cabinet Member for Culture and Environment, said: “We need to be honest about this: we didn’t get this entirely right but we’re going to learn from it.

“We have listened to our residents and we’re going to make changes as a result.”

The authority launched its scheme on April 1 and has been

using 12 advisers at a cost of £80,000 to check the content of bins to see if residents were putting non-recyclable items out for collection.

Anyone throwing away the wrong items receives a yellow warning sticker. If residents continue to break the rules their bin can be confiscated.

When bins are seized they are held for six months before they are returned – and residents have to apply to get them back.

It is understood the responsibility will now pass to binmen employed by the council as the advisors’ temporary contract ends this month.

The council began its crackdown in an attempt to tackle the number of green bins contaminated with non-recyclable waste such as food and nappies and to drive up recycling rates.

It led to a sharp reduction in the amount of green waste being rejected: down from 33 per cent to six per cent.

Coun Walker thanked those residents who had backed the scheme. “People have had their green bins taken away in recent months,” he said.

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Deaths CLARKE TONY On July 14, in hospital, of Earlsheaton, formerly of Thornhill, aged 77, husband of Edith. Funeral

service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Monday July 29 at 2.20pm.

illness at Longroyds Care Home, Skelmanthorpe, aged 91, wife of the late Harold. Funeral service will take place at St John’s Church, Upper Hopton, on Friday August 2 at 11am.

DRANSFIELD IRIS MARION On July 20, after a short

ELLIS MALCOLM On July 19, peacefully at home with family, of Dewsbury, husband of the late Valerie. Funeral service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Thursday August 8 at 1pm.

HALL (NEE TIMMS) IVY On July 19, peacefully in hospital, of Gawthorpe, aged 92, wife of the late Stanley. Funeral service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Monday August 5 at 11.40am.

JAGGER COLIN On July 13, in hospital, of Heckmondwike, aged 82, husband of the late Julie.

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MOWVLEY ELLEN CLAIRE On July 15, suddenly at Pinderfields Hospital, aged 73, wife of the late Roy. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Tuesday August 6 at 11.15am.

OLDROYD ALAN On July 15, in hospital, of Dewsbury, aged 82, husband of 57 years to Sandra. Funeral service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Thursday August 1 at 1pm.

PARSONS ALAN CHARLES On July 19, peacefully at Pinderfields Hospital, of Gomersal and Anglesey, aged 69, dearly loved and sadly missed by his family and friends.

Funeral service will take place at Bangor Crematorium on Friday August 2 at 3pm.

PICKLES (NEE HARLAND) SANDRA ELIZABETH On July 3, in hospital, of Birstall, aged 65, wife of David. Funeral service will take place at Cottingley Hall Crematorium, Leeds, on Thursday August 1 at 11am.

PRENDERGAST BERNARD On July 18, after a short illness surrounded by his family in hospital, of Hanging Heaton, formerly of Batley Carr, aged 90, husband of Irene.

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TINKER (NEE SAXTON) BRENDA On July 19, suddenly in hospital, of Thornhill, aged 79, wife of Barrie.

Funeral service will take place at St Michael and All Angels Parish Church, Thornhill, on Friday August 2 at 10am.

WALKER (NEE SMITH) BRENDA On July 11, peacefully at Robin Hood House, Hertfordshire, of Mirfield, formerly of Heckmondwike, aged 78, mum of Sally and Robert.

Funeral service will take place at Tring Parish Church, Herts, on Wednesday August 7 at 1pm.

WALKER JAMES ROBERT ‘JIMMY’ On July 18, peacefully at home after an illness bravely borne, aged 65, husband of Elaine.

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“Some of those people showed absolutely no desire to recycle at all. Our staff have collected green bins, which are supposed to be used for recycling, that are filled to the top with food waste, nappies, even concrete in some cases.

“However, some people who had their bins removed simply got it wrong and do genuinely want to recycle.”

He said in future the authority would talk to residents who use their green bins incorrectly and advise them on how to recycle appropriately.

And he revealed that green bins would only be taken away “as a last resort”.

“The only people who lose them moving forward will be those who make no attempt to use them to recycle,” he added.

In June Liberal Democrats in Kirklees called for a “bin amnesty”, which the council chose not to address.

Group leader Coun John Lawson (Cleckheaton) said the move towards relaxing the seizure of green bins seemed to signify a shift in council policy that should be welcomed.

But he cautioned against having new rules that did not address residents previously penalised by having bins seized.

And he reiterated his group’s call for a bin amnesty. He said: “It makes the case for an amnesty all the stronger.

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Raja’s Pizza Bar, on Huddersfield Road, was shut down after a routine inspection on April 25 last year showed signs of a rat infestation.

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“I have deep concerns about the way that decisions are being made by cabinet and the consequences of those decisions on residents, which are not being fully considered.

“They are responsible for them and for putting right what has been done. Let’s be frank: the green bin confiscations have not been done with people, the council have done it to them.

“Cabinet bears the responsibility for that.”

The Conservatives’ Coun Lisa Holmes (Liversedge and Gomersal) urged the council to act quickly to hand back the bins it had seized.

“I wouldn’t have a problem with the policy if Kirklees had a decent recycling offer and if it informed residents what that was.

“But they have massively messed it up.

“You cannot possibly have two different approaches. They have punished people in South Kirklees but when they moved to North Kirklees they realised they’d got it wrong.

“It’s got to be fair. At least now they’re not going to carry on with a stupid policy and have made a U-turn. They’ve held their hands up and they’re trying to put it right.

“I’m all for that. Maybe next time they should listen first.”

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ered faeces in the food storage and preparation areas and issued a hygiene emergency prohibition notice.

The owners of the food outlet, Soha Enterprise Ltd, were summonsed to Kirklees Magistrates Court because they’d committed serious food hygiene offences – but they failed to attend three times.

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went ahead with the case in their absence earlier this month and found the company guilty of seven offences.

They were fined £7,000, plus £754.91 for investigation costs, £400 for legal costs and a £100 surcharge.

The company was also found guilty of failing to notify the council of who the food business operator was.

Coun Rob Walker, cabinet member for culture and environment, said: "The fact that this company sent no representatives to attend court showed a blatant disregard for the law.

"They failed to keep the premises clean and maintained in a good repair and condition and failed to ensure that adequate procedures were in place to control pests, putting public health at risk.

"This behaviour is unacceptable and we will not tolerate this."

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Friday July 26, 2019

Sacked Brian gets his job back in Asda u-turn

News In Brief Shamed Karen: I want to see my kids DEWSBURY: Shamed mum Karen Matthews, who helped stage the kidnapping of daughter Shannon in 2008, says she wants to rekindle her relationship with her seven children.

The 44-year-old was jailed for eight years for plotting to profit from the abduction. She now lives under a new name in the South of England and works as a volunteer in a Christian charity shop.

A source in Dewsbury told a national newspaper this week: “She just wishes she could turn back the clock and be home in Dewsbury with her kids. She has missed so much of their lives through her foolishness and greed that she’ll do anything to be able to see them again. She wants to write to them all.”

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By Staff Reporters A MAN who was sacked by Asda for sharing a Billy Connolly video on Facebook has been reinstated by the supermarket chain.

Brian Leach hit national headlines last month when he was dismissed from Asda’s Dewsbury store for breaching social media policies after complaints from colleagues that the comedy routine was offensive.

But the 54-year-old, who worked as a ‘meeter and greeter’ at the Mill Street West store for nearly five years, will return to his role next week after the National Secular Society stepped in to help with his case.

Mr Leach, who is disabled after suffering a brain injury in a car accident when he was three, removed the post straight away and apologised for any upset caused.

He said at the time of his sacking that he was upset and “didn’t mean to offend anybody”.

In the sketch, the Glaswegian comedian rails against followers of both Christianity and Islam.

It includes the lines: “Religion is over lads, it’s f***ing over. Take your reformation, your Vatican, your f***ing Mecca, and f*** off.

“Suicide f***ing bombing, now there’s a bright idea. Every time there’s a bang the world is a w***er short.

F***ing idiots.” Mr Leach claimed he was unfairly treated and that another member of staff had re-shared the post on Instagram branding him racist.

Bosses at Asda reduced his punishment to a final written warning following an appeal hearing but still insisted his post amounted to gross misconduct. This week Mr Leach’s friends confirmed he had been reinstated. He declined to comment.

Stephen Evans, chief executive of the National Secular Society, said: “We welcome Asda’s decision to reinstate Brian Leach, although the case raises broader concerns about the extent to which employers can legitimately restrict their employees’ freedom of expression on social media.”

RAVENSTHORPE: Firefighters and workers at the Biffa waste depot off Low Mills Lane helped extinguish a blaze inside the warehouse last Thursday evening.

Six fire crews arrived at around 7pm and put out the flames by 11.15pm.

Firefighter Matthew Herring, of Dewsbury Fire Station, said: “We managed to stop the fire spreading further inside the building... four or five workers got called in to help.”

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Preparing to brave the shave, from left, care worker Tina Dibb with Ashworth Grange lifestyle manager Colette Senior and fellow care worker Mo Colbeck at Ashworth Grange care home in Dewsbury

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TWO daring local care workers are set to brave the shave next month to raise money for charity.

Tina Dibb and Mo Colbeck, who work at Ashworth Grange care home in Dewsbury, will have their locks chopped at the home’s annual summer fair on Saturday, August 10.

The plucky pair will be raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support and Dewsbury mental health charity Take Ten. Tina, 49, from Batley, said: “I had been thinking about doing some fundraising for Macmillan for a while and then a close friend was diagnosed with cancer.

“She wrote a very moving and heartfelt post on social media which made me realise I had to get on and do something quickly.

“Mo and I decided that the best way to raise the most money would be to do something a little crazy and so our head-shaving idea was born.”

Mo, 48, added: “My family and friends think I must be mad to shave all my hair off but I want to do whatever I can to raise funds for Take Ten. “Looking after our minds, as well as our bodies, has never been more important and organisations like this are doing amazing work in our region but they need every penny they can get.”

The summer fair starts at 2pm at the home on Ashworth Green and there’ll be food and drink stalls, a tombola, prosecco bar and bouncy castle. Tina and Mo are due to have their heads shaved at around 4pm.

Three arrests after ‘Sedge burglary POLICE have made three arrests and are appealing for witnesses following a distraction burglary in Liversedge.

The incident happened at around 10.30am on Wednesday at a house on Halifax Road.

The male victim, aged 16, was coming down the stairs and saw a man inside the house. The suspect fled the property and the occupant then noticed a woman in the garden. The pair got into a blue car and drove away.

Two women aged 43 and a male, aged 47, were stopped in

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a blue Renault Megane nearby the scene by local officers and arrested.

All three remain in custody and enquiries are ongoing.

Detective Inspector Andrew Lockwood, of Kirklees CID, said: “I am appealing for witnesses of any information from members of the public about this burglary. If anyone in the area has witnessed anything similar or suspicious, please contact the police.

“In particular if anyone has seen a blue Renault Megane in the area, please let us know.

“I would remind residents to ensure your home is secure, especially during the hot weather we are currently enjoying.

“Burglaries often increase during the sunny weather, when burglars take advantage of doors and windows left open.”

Witnesses or anyone with any information are asked to contact Kirklees CID online via www.westyorkshire. police.uk/contact-us quoting crime reference number 13190764486, or call 101.

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News In Brief Getting hitched? Win a £2,000 wedding KIRKLEES: One lucky couple could win a wedding worth £2,000 – thanks to Kirklees Council.

The victorious pair will celebrate their special day with a ceremony and reception, including a gourmet meal for up to 60 guests, at either Dewsbury or Huddersfield Town Hall.

All couples have to do is take part in The Big Wedding Treasure Hunt, which involves participants walking round some of the district’s beautiful venues in search of hidden letters to spell out a special word.

People have until Friday August 23 to take part. For more information visit www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk.

Police target pests BATLEY: Police in Batley & Spen are holding a street meeting next week in a bid to tackle nuisance biking in the area.

On Monday (July 29, 7pm) neighbourhood officers will be joined by Batley West ward councillors and other partners from Kirklees Council at Carrington Green, off Carlinghow Lane in Batley. Everyone is welcome to attend the discussion.

Falconry display MIRFIELD: Upper Hopton Fete at Croft House Community Centre tomorrow (Saturday, July 27, 10.30am-4.30pm) will feature a York Bird of Prey falconry display and performances from Clifton and Lightcliffe Band, a steel band, the U3A guitar group and Katie Philpott School of Dance. Entry is £3 (free for under-16s).

Nursery beach party RAVENSTHORPE: The Hollytree nursery is celebrating its 30th birthday with a beachthemed party on George Street next Friday (August 2, 10am-2pm).

Friday July 26, 2019

Dentist ‘spent thousands’ to keep doomed surgery afloat

By Steve Martyn A DENTIST has revealed he was using thousands of pounds of his own cash to fund his practice in Ravensthorpe.

Dr Khurrum Hamid has spoken out after he was forced to shut the doors of his surgery at Ravensthorpe Health Centre last week.

He criticised the lack of help he received leading to the closure of the only dental practice in the village, despite MP Paula Sherriff highlighting the issue in Parliament.

Dr Hamid claimed he had to put a six-figure sum of his own money into the surgery to be able to treat NHS patients.

In a statement sent to The Press, Dr Hamid said: “It is with deep regret and sadness that I have had to close the dental practice at Ravensthorpe. After today (last Friday) there will be no dental services in Ravensthorpe.

“I have worked under unfavourable conditions for five years, having to partially fund the practice from my own personal finances and unfortunately now, due to circumstances beyond my control, I am unable to continue.

“Behind the scenes, I have been

extremely active in trying to procure appropriate resources for Ravensthorpe. I have lobbied numerous ‘elected public servants’, none of whom have done anything to retain dental services in Ravensthorpe.

“I am unable to comment about the role of NHS England in this matter at this time.

“In 2014, I identified a great need for dentistry in Ravensthorpe and observed a crisis in child dentistry – hence I employed a ubiquitous opendoor policy for all children.

“I wish all my 2,666 patients all the best in securing NHS dentistry for the future.”

Since the closure of Dr Hamid’s practice, Miss Sherriff has moved to secure the future of dental services in the area and has been assured by local commissioners that a practice will be retained.

Responding to Dr Hamid’s statement she said: “Having met with Dr Hamid, I contacted NHS England but was advised that, due to government policy, they were unable to change the contract.

“I am concerned that Dr Hamid appears to be pointing the finger at local politicians when the decisions affecting his surgery lie firmly at the door of this Tory government, which has little regard for the dental health of residents living in the Dewsbury constituency.

“After a successful campaign by local ward councillors and I, instead of the contract being split between existing dentists in neighbouring communities, a new service will be commissioned in Ravensthorpe.”

The Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Ed Anderson, presents Toby Mathews with his ‘best cadet’ trophy

Awards celebration for high-flying air cadets MIRFIELD Air Cadets celebrated a successful first half of the year with a presentation day in the town.

Mayor of Mirfield Coun Martyn Bolt was joined by the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Ed Anderson, to inspect the cadets on parade and present awards.

Trophies were awarded to Emilia Drake (best recruit), Toby Mathews (best cadet), Rebecca Jagger (best non-commissioned officer) and Aiden Booth

(esprits de corps).

Cain Farrar, Heaton Marsland, Toby Mathews, Cora Smith and Jacob Stockwell were appointed as corporals, while a certificate of good service was presented to cadet warrant officer Kiara Baillie.

Flight Lieutenant Peter Doubell, said: “The first half of this year has continued to be a tremendously busy time for the squadron. I am immensely proud of everyone’s effort and their outstanding results.”

Patient’s nine-hour wait in A&E ‘unacceptable’

By David Spereall Local Democracy Reporter CLAIMS have emerged that a hospital patient had to wait nine hours in Dewsbury Hospital’s A&E department before being seen.

Kirklees councillor Yusra Hussain said she had been approached about the incident and raised the issue at a health scrutiny meeting.

Local NHS bosses described the delay as “unacceptable” and “unusual”.

A&E departments are supposed to treat at least 95 per cent of patients within four hours of them arriving, but under-resourced hospitals across the UK have had issues hitting that target this year.

Speaking during a discussion about the state of local hospital care, Coun Hussain, who represents Batley West, said: “I’ve been contacted by one patient who said they were waiting in A&E for nine hours at Dewbury Hospital.

“I’m certainly concerned by the level of access.

“I had another lady who came to me with her husband and told me that her husband had slipped a disc and there were only two consultants working in A&E at that time.

“They were waiting so long to be seen but in the end they had to leave because they were so badly treated.

“I don’t blame the staff because I know they will be under so much pressure and I’m aware that patients can discharge themselves but I think the fact there were only two consultants working is quite dire really.”

In response, the local NHS said Dewsbury Hospital had a strong track record in treating patients quickly.

Dr David Kelly, chairman of the North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “The performance at Dewsbury Hospital is really good, in terms of the amount of time people have to wait to be seen in A&E.

“Clearly, if someone has to wait nine hours that is unacceptable, but it’s difficult to comment on individual cases.”

The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said it was happy to look into the incident if more details were provided.

Speaking after the meeting, chief executive Martin Barkley, said: “The four-hour A&E waiting time target set by NHS Constitutional Standards last year was 95 per cent.

“Our A&E department at Dewsbury and District Hospital last year achieved 93.5 per cent of patients being seen within four hours. This is an excellent level of performance.

“If the councillor is able to provide further information about her constituent’s experience, we will gladly investigate why on this occasion they experienced such a delay, which is extremely unusual and outside of usual performance at Dewsbury Hospital.”

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Friday July 26, 2019

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News In Brief Green Flag awards for district parks NORTH KIRKLEES: Three of the district’s parks have been awarded Green Flags.

Dewsbury’s Crow Nest Park, Wilton Park in Batley and Oakwell Hall Country Park have all retained their status.

Coun Rob Walker, Kirklees Council cabinet member for culture and environment, said: “This is a fantastic win for the council and recognises all the hard work we have put in, as well as the work from the local communities. It is an excellent attraction for tourism in the area.”

KIM LEADBEATER admitted she’s “still very emotional” about her sister’s death as she prepared to embark on the fourth annual Jo Cox Way bike ride.

Talking ahead of the big sendoff at Princess Mary Athletics Stadium on Wednesday, Kim said she was humbled by the support she and her family receive.

She’s among dozens of cyclists pedalling from Liversedge to London in a five-day, 258-mile trek to raise money for the Jo Cox Foundation.

The group will arrive at the Houses of Parliament on Sunday, though Kim is only riding part of the way after completing the whole route in 2018.

Said Kim, pictured (centre) with Mirfield Tour de France veteran Brian Robinson: “Everything is still emotional for me; the fact we’re doing all this because Jo was killed never goes away.

“But what I’m inspired by is the people who have organised the event, Sarfraz (Mian) who organised it in the first year when

I didn’t know much, and all the amazing people who are coming together and showcasing the stuff that goes on in communities up and down the country.

“It’s brilliant; we’re so well-supported three years down the line from Jo being killed and it’s humbling that people do these wonderful things.”

Bar boss guilty of sex assault

By Staff Reporters THE boss of a wine bar in Mirfield, who “took advantage” of a former employee when she was drunk, has been found guilty of sexual assault.

Sundeep Passi, who owns The Office on Huddersfield Road, grabbed the victim by the back of her head and kissed her whilst they were both at the Wilsons Arms pub, also in Mirfield, in the early hours of June 9.

The 51-year-old, appearing at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court, was cleared of a second count of sexual

assault and attempted sexual assault relating to another female.

Prosecutor Samuel Poniah said: “Mr Passi entered the pub and gave (the victim) £20, telling her to buy Jagerbombs.

“He went to whisper something in her ear and kissed her lips, putting his tongue in her mouth.

“She tried to pull away and he put his hand around the back of her head, preventing her from doing so.”

His victim, who gave evidence in court via a live TV link, said she’d arrived at the pub at around 1am after she’d been out with

friends in the town. She said she’d had around 10 gin and tonics and was an ‘eight out of 10’ on a drunk scale.

“He got us all some Jagerbombs, he supplied us with more alcohol,” she told magistrates.

“I remember him whispering something in my ear. He pulled my face towards him and kissed me.

“He put his hand on the back of my head and moved my head to face him. When he put his hand on the back of my head he put his tongue into the back of my mouth.

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trying to back off but because his hand was on my head there wasn’t much I could do.”

The victim started crying as she told the court: “I was unresponsive, walking around not really knowing where I was. He took advantage of me being drunk. It didn’t occur to me until after the incident the severity of the situation.”

Passi, of The Waste in Lower Hopton, told police he couldn’t remember if he’d kissed her or not.

Magistrates ordered a full report before his sentencing on August 15.

Rams camps for kids DEWSBURY: Dewsbury Rams are holding three summer camps at the Tetley’s Stadium next month. The Rampage camps, for six- to12-year-olds, will take place on Wednesday August 7, Thursday August 8 and Friday August 9 (10am-3pm). It’s £10 for one day or £25 for all three, and pre-booking is essential.

Rams players Kyle Trout and Martyn Reilly will run the sessions and activities will include multi-skilled games as well as football and rugby. Children must take their own packed lunches and plenty of water.

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I’m not sure Brexit was the cause, but it’s certainly become the totem for a divided nation that I doubt has been so riven since the English Civil War. Neither am I sure it’s too much of an exaggeration to posit that the possibility of mass civil strife looms ever larger and more likely with each passing political lurch of the establishment. And these eruptions are every few weeks right now.

If you were going to develop the metaphor of the overthrowing of the monarchy and the rise of Parliamentary democracy, I suppose the Brexiteers would be the modern Cavaliers of Charles I’s days, with the Remainers

shearing their locks and posing as Cromwell’s Roundheads. The great irony is that the roles have been absolutely reversed.

I’m sure the neo-liberal, tree-hugging, EU-loving brotherhood of mankind brigade that characterises the Remain lobby see themselves as the progressives in all of this.

They have a vision of open

borders and everyone (except themselves, it always transpires) adopting a middle eastern immigrant (and why are they mostly 20-something single men?)

They smile and shrug off the explosion in sex assaults that happens when third world Islamism (and it usually is) meets emancipated first world female flesh, as is happening right now across

every European nation that embraced the migrant tide.

In the liberals’ rose-tinted worldview, those poor souls just don’t know any better.

It’s ‘we’ who need to try harder, to embrace more closely, to throw more money at helping these poor people; it’s never they who need to adjust to life in a civilised Christian democracy.

Ah – that word, that tricky, route-of-today’s-evil word.

And no, not Christian.

Democracy, actually. That’s the rub.

Did you see former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MP on the Daily Politics show this week? If not, look it up on YouTube.

In one shocking, revelatory sentence, Lucas summed up the unassailable problem British society is struggling with right now.

I doubt that history’s verdict will alight on the head of someone as hare-brained and insignificant as the frankly rabbit-mad Caroline Lucas, but what she said hits the nail right on the head.

She was arguing for this so-called People’s Vote or second referendum, when host Jo Coburn posed the

unthinkable question – but what if the people spoke even louder this time in favour of reclaiming our sovereignty from Brussels? What if even more people voted Leave?

Wouldn’t Lucas then have to abide by the outcome in the Houses of Parliament, to act on the people’s will?

You have to admire Caroline Lucas’s zeal, if not her fascist tendencies: No she said, she still wouldn’t. Our voice is pointless, redundant.

If we disagree with these people, we’re simply wrong.

Shouldn’t be trusted with the vote.

And there you have it, neatly wrapped up and tied – democracy, dead.

And it’s this elitist liberal class who perceive themselves as the righteous owners of all wisdom, knowledge and the arbiters of all that could or should be.

They are the vote-resistant enemies of democracy, and anyone who dissents – people like most of you reading this column, because I doubt the Snowflakes can bring themselves to – is dismissed as thick, bigoted, racist, xenophobic. Patriotic? That’s a dirty word these days.

Except that what today’s Roundheads reveal themselves as being, in their EUloving hearts, are the actual racists and bigots in the 2019 social and political divide.

I think the hate being spewed at Boris Johnson, the ridiculous regurgitating of his every self-mocking photo opportunity, is good for true Brits.

Thicken your skins, folks and just ignore the insults.

Sticks and stones and all that. We have to stop caring about the thumb-sucking sulks of the so-called liberals.

Leave them to their footstomping tantrums and just get on with enacting the people’s will and passing laws that reinforce all that’s good about this country – what made Britain great.

The only people who can do that are the people who actually believe that, so I don’t care how many notches Boris has on his bedpost – just get on and get the job done, sunshine.

And take no notice of the pointless and pathetic whingers. Because let’s face it – it isn’t as if any of them would be much good in a fight, if it ever came to that.

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ARL BEECH is a nasty, loathesome paedophile who deserves to rot away his remaining days and years in a British prison, always looking over his shoulder.

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As perverts go, it’s unusual that the people who suffered at Beech’s hands – or rather his warped imagination – were elderly men, as opposed to the children whose images he fantasised over on his computers.

Beech is the man that senior police officers and one shameful politician believed hook, line and sinker, when he painted a sick picture of orgies, rapes and murders by some of the most respected men in the British establishment.

No matter that there wasn’t a shred of evidence to support Beech’s wild assertions of a Westminster VIP paedophile ring.

No matter that a cursory delve into his background should have set alarm bells ringing. But once Wiltshire Police dismissed Beech’s fairytales and he went to the Metropolitan Police, good men were in deep trouble.

You see the Met wanted, passionately, pervertedly, to believe his sick fantasies. That’s how bad British law enforcement has become.

Like many forces these days but particularly the Met, they are led by officers driven not by upholding law and order, but enforcing Politically Correct dogma.

They are every bit as warped as Beech in their fantasies of ‘sexy’ crimes – of elevating a social media insult into a race-hate violation, or a celebrity slap and tickle in 1976 into a 2019 witchhunt.

Burglaries, stabbings, drug dealers? Too much like hard work. Or too boring, maybe.

In the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, every Carl Beech was automatically believed instead of being rigorously tested.

Instead of inquiry and judgement, the Met Police – and others – have become liberal vigilantes, aided by morons like Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, who jumped on the back of Beech’s fantasies and wilfully, publicly, destroyed men’s reputations and lives, with absolutely zero legal process.

It was typified when South Yorkshire police (using Met ‘intelligence’) excitedly alerted the BBC of their impending swoop on Cliff Richard.

Freddie Starr was arrested and questioned four times and bailed nine times before being told he faced no charges.

For every Stuart Hall or Rolf Harris brought to justice, there were men like Cliff whose names and reputations were blighted – William Roache and Michael le Vell from Coronation Street, DJ Paul Gambaccini, Jim Davidson, MP Nigel Evans – whose lives were made a public hell for months and years, all over imagined incidents sometimes decades old.

Yes, those allegations have to be investigated, although the glee with which police forces react when it involves a famous name gives pause for thought. If only today’s crimes with obvious victims got them so aroused.

Carl Beech spun his ever-wilder lies hidden by the pseudonym ‘Nick’ while the identities of the men he slandered, Lord Greville Janner, Sir Harvey Proctor, the late Prime Minister Edward Heath, chief of the defence staff Lord Bramall, and ex-MI5 chief Sir Michael Hanley, were shouted by police and politicians from the rooftops with the specific intent of encouraging other fantasists to join the sick circus.

A law that protects the identities of all people involved in such cases cannot be passed quickly enough. Even if – especially if – it spoils the fun of unfit-for-purpose police officers.

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Harry and dad take on epic charity runs

By Zoe Shackleton A FATHER and son are donning their running shoes to raise funds for a nursery in Birstall.

Antony Jones has taken on the mammoth task of racing 180 miles over the course of the year – and he’ll be joined in some of his efforts by three-year-old son Harry.

The 39-year-old, who lives in Birstall, is a keen runner and has challenged himself with similar tasks over the past two years to raise cash for breast cancer and children’s cancer charities.

This year all the money donated will go to Birstall Pre-School, which Harry has attended for the past two years.

Antony has been joined by little Harry on a few of the shorter races, including the Jo Cox Fun Run at Oakwell Hall and the Ali Brownlee Riverside 2k Fun Run in Middlesbrough. Harry will have raced just over 4.5 miles by the end of the year.

Antony said: “Harry turns four at the end of next month and he’s always wanted to come running with me.

“I found some kids’ events that start after some of my runs. After so long he gets a little bit tired so I have to carry

Tots celebrate ‘graduation’ TOTS at a local nursery enjoyed a special graduation ceremony as they prepare for life in primary school.

The youngsters at Dewsbury’s St John’s Under 5s Pre-School celebrated the end of the school year with a ceremony at St John’s Church before going on a trip to

Lotherton Hall in Leeds and then a party back at the nursery. Thirty-five children will be leaving the pre-school this year, and manager Lorraine Pearson said: “We are very proud of our children and all they have achieved whilst in our care and wish them happiness in their new schools.”

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“It’s certainly taken its toll on me at times, but I do enjoy it. At the race the atmosphere with the crowds makes you feel like an Olympian. And the fact that I’m getting something from it at the end of it, there’s a purpose behind it.”

Antony trains once a week with the South Leeds Lakers running club and is a postman by trade, which he says keeps him fit. His first race was on New Year’s Day and he can sometimes run up to three races in a month.

He said: “I’m pretty lazy when it comes to pushing myself so I joined the South Leeds Lakers and that’s helped build my fitness up and got me quicker, otherwise I would’ve probably struggled.”

Birstall Pre-School is a non-profit nursery and relies on donations from parents to help support children in their development.

Manager Sue Brooke said: “It’s amazing for Antony and Harry to take their time in their personal lives to support us in the way that they’re doing. We’re totally in awe of what they’ve done for us.”

So far Antony has raised over £300 and you can donate by visiting www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/antony-jones-2.

News In Brief History buffs identify 18 WW1 ‘missing’ BATLEY: Volunteers from the town’s history group have been helping local historian Martin James identify the men and women who have been omitted from the area’s war memorials.

So far they have found 18 names from World War One and hope to add them to Batley War Memorial in the Market Place on Remembrance Sunday this year.

Those identified are: Pvt John Richard Baker, Pvt Charles Christopher Bray, Pvt Ernest Burnley, Pvt Harry Burnley, Sapper John Thomas Connelly, Cpl Ernest Day, Sgt Louis Joseph Fox, Pvt James Goldthorpe, Pvt Edward Holmes, Pvt Herbert Holmes, Ann Leonard, Pvt Arthur Redgwick, Pvt Lewis Llewellyn Sheppard, Lance Cpl Joseph Smith, Pvt William Thachrah, Pvt Percy Thewlis, Pvt Gordon Stanley Whittaker and Gunner Harold Wyles.

Batley History Group wants to trace any relatives of those identified and they can be contacted at bhgcommittee01@hotmail.com

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Cream tea anyone?

MIRFIELD: St Andrew’s Methodist Church on Old Bank Road is holding a cream tea event tomorrow (Saturday, 1.30-3.30pm).

Cream teas will be £3 and there will also be a tombola and raffle.

All proceeds go to the Happy Memories Dementia Support Group.

Luke’s Lads - Tuesday CORRECTION: In last week’s Press we published the incorrect day for sessions with mental health charity Luke's Lads.

It should have read: Members meet at Timestep Community Dance studios in Ponderosa Business Park every Tuesday at 7.30pm for a 45-minute circuit training session and a 30-minute group chat.

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I hope I have made a difference It is with deep regret and extreme sadness that I have had to close the dental practice at Ravensthorpe.

I have worked under unfavourable conditions for five years having to partially fund the practice from my own personal finances and unfortunately now, due to circumstances beyond my control I am unable to continue.

Behind the scenes, I have been extremely active in trying to procure appropriate resources for Ravensthorpe. I have lobbied numerous elected public servants, none of whom have done anything to retain dental services for Ravensthorpe.

I am unable to comment about the role of NHS England in this matter at this time.

There is no Planet B From: Caz Goodwill, Cleckheaton Our children are right – we must halt the destruction of our planet urgently.

Start with the Kirklees Local Plan – more and more housing built, particularly in the Cleckheaton area. Yes we need housing, but we are human beings, not battery hens.

The density of housing has been increased – this means more houses in the same small space – even the minimum size of rooms has been reduced, so more and more humans are crushed into a reduced area.

Yet here, next to the second busiest motorway in the country (M62), next to the busiest junction (J26, Chain Bar), 298 houses are planned on Merchant Fields.

What about pollution, you may ask? Three people die every day due to asthma-related illness in the UK – let it not be our children or grandchildren!

Kirklees experts tell us the pollution ‘dissipates’ – does it really?

So why seven miles down the M62, at Ainley Top do we have an area of ‘Air Quality Concern’ and yet not at Chain Bar or Hartshead Moor – just

Letter of the Week: Dr K S Hamid, Ravensthorpe In 2014, I identified a great need for dentistry in Ravensthorpe and observed a crisis in child dentistry, hence I employed a ubiquitous opendoor policy for all children.

I wish all of my 2,666 patients all the best in securing NHS dentistry for the future.

Please remember to: • Avoid giving your children sweet juices. This is the single most important contributing factor to child den-

more and more houses to be built?

In the US, artificial trees have been invented to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Why not have real trees – particularly round all the new housing developments? This would protect the people living there and reduce the carbon footprint in the area. Kirklees planners and planning committees please note!

Section 106 money is another important matter for planners and planning committees. This is money paid by the developers to fund additional education places, recreation spaces and highways alterations required due to the influx of additional people in the new housing.

What a good idea!

Apparently a development near Birkenshaw has agreed to pay a considerable sum to the local secondary school – and rightly so. This must be extended to all housing developments.

The new Whitcliffe Mount secondary school, only two years old, is already apparently too small. What will happen when all the planned new houses are built in the area?

Section 106 money is vital to provide education, recreation and highway facilities for the sake of the long-term health, sustainability and social cohesion of our town.

Section 106 money is not a luxury – it is a necessity and must be agreed with the devel-

tal care in Ravensthorpe.

• Keep flossing and ensure you have regular check-ups and gum treatment. The damage from gum disease never gets better.

On a personal note, I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to serve the community, many families I have got to know on a personal level.

I hope I have made a difference; not only through providing dental

oper at the point of the planning agreement.

What can YOU do? Email your local councillors, many of whom are on planning committees, and insist on S106 money for the area.

Contact Kirklees’ head of planning and your local MP, also contact the ‘Climate Emergency Working Party’ at Kirklees Council due to report back in September.

We can save our town but we must act now.

Cut success From: Judith Greenwood, vice chairperson, Batley Cemetery Support Group Further to the discussion about the state of Batley Cemetery, visitors will have noticed that the grass has been cut in all areas.

This was done on Wednesday July 17. On Friday July 19, the council’s gardening the team continued the work, cutting and strimming the grass and applying weedkiller in various areas.

I was advised by the team that it will take at least two cuts to restore order, as some of the hay in the trialled areas is now 3’-4’ high.

The work will continue, to make sure the cemetery is maintained as a traditional burial site.

The council responded to the

services, but also by having trained five young ladies from the community to become GDC-registered dental nurses. I wish them all the best in their careers.

I am as always available to the community in assisting to try and secure appropriate dental services for Ravensthorpe.

• Read MP Paul Sherriff’s response to Dr Hamid’s letter on page 4

dismay and anger which many people have expressed on seeing the state of the cemetery.

In fairness to the various departments involved, it is important to remember that this period of letting the grass grow was always going to be a trial: it was never a council policy. If there is one thing which a community needs to be agreed upon, it is the way in which we respect and remember our forebears.

Your say on bus services From: Sandra Pickles, Mirfield I write following the letter from Barbara Schiff (The Press, July 19) about the ‘secret’ bus.

I understand WYCA (Metro) is responsible for bus timetables. In mid-May changes were made to the times of the 261, as well as changes to the route.

Unfortunately many of the timetables in Mirfield, including the main stop at Ings Grove, weren’t changed.

The once-an-hour 261 left nine minutes earlier than previously, so people who didn’t know of the changes were missing the bus.

I notified various people at Metro several times, throughout late May, June and early July, that this needed rectify-

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A Ali, the proposal is for erection of single-storey rear extension. The extension projects 6m beyond the rear wall of the original dwellinghouse. The maximum height of the extension is 3.8m, the height of the eaves of the extension is 2.5m, 81 Ravenshouse Road, Scout Hill, Dewsbury.

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material amendment to previous permission 2016/93968 for erection of five flats, adjacent to 151 Halifax Road, Hightown.

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ing. It was eventually changed on July 15, two months later.

Another ‘secret’ bus seems to be the 263. When the 253 was withdrawn, much to the disappointment of many people, Metro funded the 263 service to run once a day on the route served by the missing 253.

It only runs in school term time, but is still a useful service for people who miss the old 253. I often catch it out of Dewsbury.

Why then is there no mention of the 263 bus on the timetables along the route?

Another of Metro’s errors.

So many buses have been withdrawn from Mirfield in recent years, we don’t want to lose any more.

More people would use it if they knew about it. Come on Metro, get your timetables sorted!

Metro now wants to cut out paper timetables and ‘consultations’ are taking place throughout July and August. Again, not very well publicised, but if you look hard enough, you might see a poster in Dewsbury Bus Station.

There is a drop-in session in Dewsbury Bus Station on August 14 between 10am and 2pm if you want to have your say. This is your chance.

What price democracy?

From: John Sheen, Dewsbury After recently returning from holiday, I immediately headed for my favourite missed copies of The Press.

Danny’s Ed Lines are always a pleasure, along with the excellent letters from other readers. However, I’d only got to page 3 of the July 12 edition to be, yet again, extremely annoyed at the unbelievable actions of our elected members of Parliament, Paula Sherriff and Tracy Brabin.

What price democracy when the regions represented by these puppets of the undemocratic Labour Party, which voted, overwhelmingly, in the largest turnout in our political history, to leave the European

Union see our MPs, unilaterally, deciding to support their southern colleagues in a campaign to remain?

Tracy Brabin actually said: “The Brexit process is in a mess and responsibility for that lies with the Conservative government”.

Yes, I put much of the blame on the Conservative government that betrayed not only the electorate but Brexit negotiators David Davies and Dominic Raab.

Ollie Robbins and his Whitehall mandarins were undermining their efforts by working on the highly unpopular ‘Chequers Plan’. Both committed Brexiteers resigned as the plan was Brexit in name only.

However, Ms Brabin, the total blame rests with an undemocratic parliament that just don’t want to carry out the will of the people who put them there.

Apparently 148 of Labour constituencies voted to leave, against 84 remain. Some 247 Conservative constituencies voted to leave, against 80 remain. Yet, amongst our elected representatives, 248 support leaving the EU against 400 who wish to remain.

Clearly, MPs are the problem and Labour must share much of the responsibility. Keir Starmer in particular has wanted not only another referendum but ‘remain’ on the ballot paper from day one. MPs from all parties have frustrated the wishes of 17.4 million people who just want you to do the job we pay you for.

Paula Sherriff says she was elected on a pledge not to see a ‘no deal’ exit that would damage the country.

No, you were elected to support the will of the majority of your constituents to leave the EU, not to campaign for another referendum, or indeed, the opportunity to remain.

I sincerely hope the good people of Dewsbury, Batley and everywhere else in between remember your betrayal and that of a Labour Party that was built on democratic values but has now polarised beyond all recognition.

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‘Politically speaking’

by Paula Sherriff, MP for Dewsbury and Mirfield From page 8

Merry melody of England From: Heckmondwike Hector England swings like a pendulum do Bobbies on bicycles, two by two Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben The rosy-red cheeks of the little children.

These were the lyrics of a nostalgic novelty song sung by Roger Miller in the mid-1960s.

The merry melody that went with it sprang to mind instantly when I saw two uniformed bobbies cycling through the rush hour traffic in Heckmondwike.

Their presence was a reassurance that anyone up to mischief was likely to be met with the words “ello ello ello, what’s all this then?” And in all probability the unfortunate culprit would end up having their collar felt.

As the bobbies cycled by, a cheery voice called out “good morning Hector.”

“Good morning Constables,” was my elated reply. Then off they went whistling merrily as they circled round the clock tower.

If you would like the full account of this story along with numerous other fairytales, then don’t forget to pick up a copy of this year’s ‘Hector’s Bumper Book of Fun’.

Where was I? oh yes ‘Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben.’ Great attractions both of them, but mind as you go. Some wailing wannabe might be lurking in the shadows waiting to press a button and disappear in a cloud of smoke.

These nefarious nutcases fantasise about collecting their heavenly pension early and meeting up with the next influx of burka-free beach beauties in so-called paradise. You have to strain the imagination to fathom such absurdities.

Finally in the song, ‘The rosy red cheeks of the little children.’ I won’t even go there.

When I reminisce about England, and the land that was, it is sometimes suggested that I view the past with rose-tinted spectacles.

Now that makes me curious.

Are they similar to the ones worn by Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman when he views the present? The answer could be yes when we listen to the views of journalist Mobeen Azhar, who presented the BBC six-part documentary ‘Hometown.’

In talking to a newspaper Mr Azhar relates how he had “been perplexed by the response to Hometown from Barry Sheerman MP.” The journalist further stated that: “The priority for Barry Sheerman MP and some vocal sections of the Pakistani community has been on ‘reputational damage control’.”

I would like remind Mr Sheerman that you can put

icing on a cowpat, but it is still a cowpat. To the Pakistani community, spoken of by Mobeen Azhar, I would like to stress that a community’s reputation is fashioned by its behaviour; not how fast it can wiggle its way out of awkward truths.

Perhaps we should send Mr Sheerman the front page of The Press, (Friday, July 19) with the headline ‘Under Siege’ with the accompanying report about the destruction of Chickenley.

For good measure, we could remind Mr Sheerman in the words of Danny Lockwood, (Ed Lines) of how this behaviour is “echoed across towns and cities the length and breadth of the land”.

So where are the police in all this? Many it seems are busy attending ‘equality and diversity’ lectures.

Today, the perceived ‘enemies of the state’ are those who are deemed to be in need of ‘political correction,’ those who are considered to be speaking out of turn.

The objective is to suppress everyone who dissents from the political orthodoxy. Like it or not the Orwellian rattlesnake is slithering its way towards the door.

I was hoping to finish this article in the same humorous way that I began, but I have to scarper very quickly, folks. I have just caught sight of those two bobbies cycling furiously in my direction.

• Editor’s note: Several letters have been held over until next week due to lack of space.

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Holding our leaders to account F OR two weeks in a row, I have been delighted to have the chance to challenge the Prime Minister directly in Prime Minister’s Questions over issues that matter to local people.

In the week that the only NHS dental practice in Ravensthorpe closed its doors, I asked the Prime Minister to take responsibility for the dire state of access to dentists in the constituency.

I highlighted the need for many with toothache to use the mobile dental services offered through visits to the area by Dentaid.

While I am very grateful for the services they provide, local patients should not have to rely on a charity set up to provide dental services in the world’s most deprived countries.

In the following days I met with the local commissioners at NHS England and I’m proud to confirm that, after a successful campaign by local ward councillors and I, we have secured the future of dental services in Ravensthorpe for the local community.

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I’ll keep working with NHS England and pressing for this to be in place as soon as possible.

I welcome the decision to retain an NHS dental practice in this area of need, though there remains a shortage of NHS dentistry here and across the Dewsbury constituency.

This can only really be addressed through government action to fix the failed NHS dental contract.

Last week I took the Prime Minister to task over the desperate state of our train services, inviting her to justify the increasingly lavish pay packets that reward the utter failure of the Northern Rail

franchise.

It is wrong that local people are made to endure chaos on our railways; unreliable, overcrowded services and rip-off fares.

Whilst no one is surprised to learn that another promise – to remove the rickety Northern line pacer trains – has been broken, I urged the Prime Minister to address this entirely absurd situation by committing to Labour’s plans for the renationalisation of our railways.

Local people should not have to put up with shoddy service while paying through the nose for the privilege.

It’s time to bring the railways under public control – and get on with delivering a modern, accountable, public transport system that is fit for purpose.

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News In Brief Sharks put on fun weekend DEWSBURY: There’s a bumper weekend of fun for rugby fans and all the family with the ‘Shark Festival’ at Shaw Cross Sharks’ Leeds Road playing fields.

Starting at 6pm this evening (Friday) there’s all the fun of the fair, with all rides just £1 until the 9pm close, with the purchase of a £1 wristband.

On Saturday the fair continues from noon during a Gala Day. Juniors, from under sevens through to under 11s, plus girls’ under 12s and under 14s, staging a seven-aside rugby league tournament.

The main event will be the Sharks’ home game against East Leeds.

It’s the musicians’ turn on Sunday from 1pm to 7pm, with 10 bands booked to provide entertainment, while the fun fair continues.

Hospital AGM NORTH KIRKLEES: The trust which runs Dewsbury Hospital is holding its annual general meeting on Tuesday (July 30).

Members of the public will get the chance to speak with Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust staff before officials give presentations on achievements and challenges, and the annual report and accounts from the past year.

A question-and-answer session will follow.

The meeting opens at 5.30pm at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, with the formal meeting starting at 6pm.

Any questions for the trust’s board members should be emailed to communications@ midyorks.nhs.uk.

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YOUNGSTERS at a pre-school in Mirfield enjoyed a double celebration to mark the end of their nursery years.

Children at Stepping Stones who will be moving into primary school in September attended a graduation ceremony at Dewsbury District Golf Club to receive certificates acknowledging their achievements.

Then they were treated to a trip to Tropical World, where they explored the various animal enclosures and flower gardens.

Deputy manager Leanne Khan said: “We wish all our children leaving good luck for their next adventure. We will miss each and every single one.”

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Patient transfers during the night ‘are unjustifiable’

By David Spereall Local Democracy Reporter CLAIMS that patients have been transferred between two hospitals in the middle of the night to prevent bed blocking are being investigated.

The chief of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust said it was unjustifiable for people to be moved from Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield to its sister site in Dewsbury in the early hours of the morning.

It followed testimony from Wakefield councillor Betty Rhodes that the practice was taking place.

Coun Rhodes, chairwoman of the

local health scrutiny committee, told a meeting last Friday that she was concerned about the welfare of patients, one of whom she said had been moved at 12.45am.

Others, she said, were being discharged from hospital too early and without measures being put in place to help them at home.

Under-pressure NHS organisations have identified bed-blocking, where patients stay in hospital longer than necessary, as one of the biggest issues facing its day-to-day service as it tries to keep up with demand.

But speaking about late-night transfers and discharges, Coun Rhodes said: “It’s not acceptable and it’s happening. It’s not just a

... but services ‘much improved’ in last eight years case of getting people out of hospital. It’s making sure that they’re ready to be discharged and that they’ve got facilities at home to cope and making sure that they don’t have to be readmitted again.”

The trust’s chief executive, Martin Barkley, said some patients may go from Dewsbury to Pinderfields in the early hours if they urgently need more specialist care. But he added that people should not be making the reverse journey in the small hours.

He told the committee: “It is completely unacceptable to be transferring patients at 1.30am.

“I have asked Yorkshire Ambulance Service for details of how many transfers there have been from Pinderfields to Dewsbury in the early hours of the morning.

“I can’t envisage any circumstances where it’s justified to transfer someone from Pinderfields to Dewsbury at that time.

“I can justify it the other way round, because if someone’s condition deteriorates and they need specialist care, going to Pinderfields might be the best option for them. I am investigating that.”

PATIENT services at Dewsbury, Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals are much improved from eight years ago, NHS bosses have said.

It follows the implementation of changes to frontline care in a bid to save cash and keep up with increasing patient demand since 2011.

The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, has focused more specialist treatment at Pinderfields, meaning longer journeys for some patients from North Kirklees.

But at a health scrutiny meeting last Friday, health bosses said the upshot has been a rise in standards.

While the trust still has a deficit of around £18m, this is lower than it was at the time of the changes.

Simultaneously, other NHS trusts elsewhere in the country have lost money.

Jo Webster, chief operating officer at Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “Overall, hospital services in Wakefield and across our footprint are better than they were eight years ago. I can say that confidently and we have evidence of that.

“I don’t sit here and say they’re the best in the world and I’m not saying everyone who comes through the hospital gets a great experience and a great outcome.

“But if you think about where we were eight years ago compared to now, some of the outcomes have improved and we have actually delivered more in some areas than we anticipated.”

The trust’s chief executive Martin Barkley, said: “What’s been achieved has made services much more sustainable. There’s real evidence of improvement, quality of outcomes and reduced mortality rates.

“The Care Quality Commission said Dewsbury Hospital was unrecognisable from beforehand – in a good way I hasten to add. It’s been terrific.”

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Did council cock up crucial traffic order?

By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter A MIRFIELD councillor believes a “controversial” traffic order imposed on a busy road as part of a major new development could be rendered invalid by a legal error.

Coun Martyn Bolt (Conservative) suspects an order made to ease the creation of the Mirfield 25 development by banning drivers turning left out of Roberttown onto the A62, and conversely turning back into the village, may be flawed.

He says it prevents residents from easy access to their main road, homes and local shops.

The text of the order, made by Kirklees Council, refers to ‘Huddersfield Road, Mirfield’, which, says Coun Bolt, is actually the A644 from the Miller & Carter steakhouse (formerly the Three Nuns) through the shopping centre of Mirfield to Fir Cottage in Ravensthorpe.

Coun Bolt, who has raised the issue with the council, is concerned that the authority may have “slipped up” on its legal

Coun Bolt spotted this sign at the end of Child Lane process, thus invalidating the traffic order.

He said: “The road Kirklees intends to stop people using is Huddersfield Road, Liversedge.

“I believe this error invalidates the order as it stands as residents may have seen the Mirfield location and not paid attention as the

other is two miles away.”

He has contacted Kirklees Council for clarification.

He has also queried with officials why a sign at the junction tells drivers they cannot turn left out of Child Lane from July 29, when the legal order does not come into force until October. He

has not yet received a response.

Work began in April on the Mirfield 25 housing and warehouse scheme, which has been planned for more than 20 years.

The site runs alongside Leeds Road with the commercial and housing elements separated by Taylor Hall Lane – with the housing to the east and the commercial development to the west.

Caddick Developments will lead the development of the commercial site – to include constructing seven commercial units – with sister company Caddick Civil Engineering carrying out the infrastructure works.

Taylor Wimpey will build 160plus homes ranging from two-bed to five-bed properties. They will include detached, semi-detached and terraced houses with a single vehicle access from Leeds Road.

As part of the development traffic flow has been reduced to 20mph. The speed reduction order, which began on May 25, will run for 31 weeks.

The speed limit, introduced by Kirklees Council, is to enable £3m of infrastructure work to get underway as the 15.4-acre site is prepared.

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Special needs cash shared by 3 schools THREE specialist schools in Kirklees are to share in more than £1.5m of funding to support youngsters with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The money will go towards flexible accommodation at Ravenshall School in Dewsbury, Newsome High School in Huddersfield and at Honley High School.

Ravenshall, which caters for pupils with complex needs, will receive around £525,000 for new classrooms and breakout space.

The rest will be split between the two Huddersfield schools to improve specialist provision.

The spending by Kirklees Council comes seven months after the authority decommissioned autism places at Headlands C of E Junior, Infant & Nursery School in Liversedge.

Secondary provision is still offered at Thornhill Community Academy Trust in Dewsbury and Honley High School.

In announcing the funding Coun Carole Pattison, the council’s cabinet member for learning, aspiration and communities, said positive educational experiences and support led to better outcomes, which was vital in helping youngsters to fulfil their potential.

She added: “The council, along with the Kirklees family of schools, does a huge amount of great work in supporting children with SEND, and their families.

“The aim of this major investment is to ensure that a vulnerable group of people can attend local settings, which provide excellent standards of care and facilities.”

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POLICE are appealing for information after a large amount of sentimental jewellery and cash was stolen from a house in Birkenshaw.

The incident happened on Tuesday July 16 between 12.15pm and 7.15pm at a property on Swincliffe Crescent.

Suspects attempted to break in

through the back door but then forced entry through the conservatory door and searched the house.

They stole a number of pieces of sentimental jewellery – including a silver bracelet engraved with the words ‘dance, dance dance, like no one is watching you’; a gold necklace, earrings and bracelet set with

rubies; a gold ring with a red ruby stone in the centre; a gold necklace with a butterfly pendant with two diamonds; and a gold link chain.

Information should be passed to Kirklees CID via 101 quoting crime reference 13190362060, or by visiting www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ contact-us.

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

Forget Me Not Trust fundraiser Louise Addison with the festival’s musical co-ordinator (and Kirkwood Hospice shop assistant) Tony Jackson

Festival raises 6k for charity TWO charities were presented with cheques following the recent success of a music festival in Mirfield.

The Navigation Tavern in Mirfield held its own mini music festival earlier in the month to raise money for Kirkwood Hospice and the Forget Me Not Trust.

Both charities this year benefited from £3,000 each and the cash was handed over by pub landlord Kevin O’Donnell at Kirkwood Hospice’s shop in Batley on Wednesday.

NaviFest is held every year at the pub on Station Road, welcoming hundreds of people from around the district to watch different bands and drink a wide variety of ales.

Mr O’Donnell paid tribute to those who helped him put on the show as it continues to grow in size and popularity.

Mr O’Donnell thanked those who helped him put on the show, including musical organiser Tony Jackson, Heineken, Batley Grammar School, Theakston’s, N&L Commercial Vehicles and the staff and volunteers for all their hard work.

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Special guests for girls’ opening day Ten days, one summer – part three DAY THREE of our 10-day snapshot in time sees the ‘Yorkshire Observer’ newspaper featuring a very special day in the history of education in our district.

While the headlines carried news of a devastating fire at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it also reported on the opening of Wheelwright Girls’ Grammar School on Halifax Road, Dewsbury, in the presence of mayoress Mrs Emma Shaw, and carried pictures of the occasion.

Mrs Shaw, wife of mayor Herbert Farrar Shaw, was actually the grandmother of former Press editor Martin Shaw and led quite a prominent public life during this particular period in the history of the district.

Among the other dignitaries present at the opening was Alderman William Henry Shaw who, though no relation to Herbert Farrar or his brother Henry (who had preceded Herbert in the position of lord mayor), did actually serve as mayor of Dewsbury himself at one point.

William Henry Shaw was an award-winning chartered accountant in Dewsbury and lived at The Elms, near St John’s Church, before moving to ‘Thorncliffe’ on Thorncliffe Road, at Staincliffe.

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This Shaw family were to feature prominently in the affairs of the district throughout the remainder of the century, right up to last year when Lord Shaw of Northstead sold and vacated the family home at Duxbury Hall, Roberttown Lane, and retired from public life, having served the country in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Lord Michael Shaw was in fact the grandson of William Henry Shaw.

As for the grammar school itself, along with the former boys’ school, it is interesting to see the site up for sale and this month poised to take on a new lease of life as residential accommodation.

Having said that, the Wheelwright Old Boys Association, having recently accepted former female students into its fold, will surely keep alive, for some years to come, its past reputation for academic excellence.

At the time of the girls’ grammar school opening Eileen Fenton was just starting school, but she was destined to progress to the grammar school and, as the first woman home in the 1950 cross-channel swimming race, and a subsequent lifetime of voluntary support and coaching for long distance swim-

ming, she was appointed as an MBE at the start of this year.

As such she is arguably the school’s most famous ex-pupil.

But, getting back to Wednesday July 18, 1934, there were reports of people fainting in the streets of Manchester due to the heat, it was the occasion of the King and Queen’s visit, and Headingley was preparing for the visit of the Australian cricket team for the fourth Test Match against England.

Yorkshire were playing the Australians at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, and though Gomersal-raised Wilf Barber had started to raise hopes of a Test call at this stage of his career, he did little to enhance his prospects in this match.

After a solid 37 in the first innings he was dismissed without scoring in the second as Yorkshire had to battle hard to avoid defeat.

If your idea of leisure activity was a trip to the cinema, there was never a shortage of choice with nearly 30 in the district.

If you lived in Birstall you had the Low Lane cinema or The Princess to choose from, with Otto Kruger and Madge Evans starring in ‘Beauty’ at the Princess.

Could Mirfield host new HQ?

By Steve Martyn A MIRFIELD councillor has suggested using the town as a home for the district’s new police headquarters.

West Yorkshire Police are looking for a suitable site to build their new HQ, which could replace both Dewsbury and Huddersfield police stations.

And Coun Bolt reckons Mirfield would be the perfect spot – especially now the Mirfield 25 development isunderway.

He said there would be less criticism if it was built in Mirfield as opposed to Dewsbury or Huddersfield, and said the town is a “strategic and central location”.

Coun Bolt (Con, Mirfield) has already contacted the force’s new chief constable John Robins about the possible move.

Residents have also been keen to back Coun Bolt after he posted his suggestion on Facebook community group Mirfield Matters.

He said: “I have quickly reacted to contact chief constable John Robins, in his first week in post, to ask about the process and of course invited him to Mirfield.

“Mirfield 25 is an LEP Enterprise Zone and as such benefits from a rate-free period for the occupants, which I hope the police will take into account in their decisions.

“The initial response covers more police in the area, as there clearly would be, job creation and knock-on spend on the local shops.

“It may employ in the HQ more staff than a warehouse, and following the loss of courts in Dewsbury perhaps they may also relo-

cate, leaving prime real estate in Huddersfield for Kirklees to benefit from.”

The force hasn’t commented publicly about its preferred site for the new divisional HQ, but officials are believed to be interested in Dewsbury and Huddersfield.

Assistant chief constable Angela Williams said: “We have not yet secured a suitable site for the new Kirklees District HQ. “We have not discounted an out-of-Huddersfield town site or one in other parts of the district; our search has also included Dewsbury.

“We are currently working alongside Kirklees Council to try and secure a suitable site.”

It is not yet known if there will be a knock-on effect on the operational stations in Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Huddersfield and Holmfirth.

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And, for nearly 40 years, the integrity of the big and beautiful county of Yorkshire has been celebrated annually, without fail, on August 1.

This day of pride, festivity, food, drink, revelry, friendship and historic commemoration is known as Yorkshire Day. So why August 1? And why a Yorkshire Day? Most other counties don’t have special days.

In fact, the date was already a celebrated one, marked by the Light Infantry as ‘Minden Day’ to commemorate the Battle of Minden in 1759.

As it now exists, Yorkshire Day was initially celebrated in 1975, intended as a protest against the Local Government reorganisation of 1974.

It took the date of August 1 in a nod to the Battle of Minden, in which Yorkshire troops played a key role, and has remained on that date ever since.

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The Yorkshire TONY’S Declaration... DALE LANE E FISHERIES THE YORKSHIRE flag is blue with a white double heraldic rose, with green sepals and a gold centre.

In the past this has been a dark blue background but more recently a light blue background has become fairly common.

Which way up does the Yorkshire Rose go?

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Many celebrations of Yorkshire Day now take place all over the county, and indeed, around the world.

Yorkshire Day celebrations range from gatherings of family and friends to civic ceremonies, or can be as simple as reminding each other what’s great about Yorkshire.

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Celebrations all round N YORKSHIRE Day, special celebrations take place in the county’s major cities, including Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield and Hull.

Each year all of the lord mayors, mayors and other civic heads from across the county gather in one Yorkshire town or city to hold a gathering and parade.

Yorkshire Day 2019 is being hosted by Whitby.

Whitby has been chosen this year as it coincides with Captain Cook, one of the county’s most famous sons, first arriving in New Zealand 250 years ago.

August 1 is also the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire

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BIRSTALL: An open-air performance of Wuthering Heights will take place at Oakwell Hall on Wednesday July 31.

The Chapterhouse Theatre Company will tell the tale of Emily Bronte's classic novel in the gardens from 7.30pm.

Doors open at 6.30pm and people are encouraged to bring their own rugs or camping chairs and picnics.

Tickets priced at £15 (adults), £12 (seniors), and £10 (child/student) can be bought at Oakwell Hall's visitor centre.

in 1834, for which a Yorkshire MP, William Wilberforce, campaigned.

Castle Hill tower open for summer THE HISTORIC Victoria Tower on Castle Hill is open every day in the summer holidays, from 12noon to 4pm until September 1.

The site continues to welcome visitors from all over the world thanks to its stunning views across Huddersfield, and walks for all the family. It has already attracted over 4,000 visitors since Easter.

Coun Rob Walker, Cabinet Member for Parks and Grounds, said: “We are looking forward to Victoria Tower opening again this summer so visitors have the opportunity to enjoy this special place.

“It’s important we do what we can to protect the wildlife and do our best to keep visitors safe.

“I’d like to remind people that lighting barbeques or fireworks and releasing sky lanterns is prohibited and can be extremely dangerous. Anyone found to be participating in such action will face a fine.”

Admission charges to Victoria Tower are £2 for adults, 60p for children and £4 for families (two adults and two children).

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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.

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Strong, energetic and inspiring Les Miserables Alhambra Theatre, Bradford until August 10 Box office: 01274 432000 bradford-theatres.co.uk Review by Janet Black SINCE Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production of Les Miserables back in 2009 to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary, it has taken the world by storm and has been hailed a huge success by audiences and critics alike.

This UK and Ireland tour, embraced by modern audiences across the globe as a Les Mis for the 21st century, has been a sell-out in many places before it opened.

The production inspired the hugely-successful movie version starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Eddie Redmayne and the brilliant new staging has scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.

Boublil and Schönberg’s magnificent score includes the songs I Dreamed A Dream, Bring Him Home, On My Own, Do You Hear The People Sing and many more.

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ROLL UP, roll up! The Greatest Showman sing-a-long cinema experience is coming to Mirfield Community Centre on Saturday August 3.

Viewers can watch the film on a giant screen at the Water Royd Lane venue, sing along to all the modern classic songs, tuck into hotdogs, popcorn and nachos; sample the gin, prosecco and real ale bar then dance at an aftershow disco.

Guests can choose from the family showing between 3pm and 6pm (£5 for children and £8 for adults) or the adult showing between 7pm and 11pm (£10 per ticket) and each ticket includes a hot dog.

The event has been organised

by Mirfield postie Kelly Williams and ‘Friendlees’, a group set up for adults in Kirklees to make new friends, try new things and go to fun events where, even if you are on your own, you will be made to feel welcome.

The group kicked off this summer with a programme of events, walks, dance nights, afternoon teas and days out. They are also

organising coffee meet-ups across Kirklees for people wanting to make new friends and just get out more.

Over the last two years publicspirited Kelly Williams has personally raised thousands of pounds for good causes and organised a number of fundraising community events.

Everyone is welcome at

Mirfield Community Centre on Saturday August 3 and tickets are available online (see the Friendlees Kirklees Facebook page for details), from the Babyccinnos and Millie & Berties businesses in Mirfield town centre, or by calling 07456 315688.

Greatest Showman fancy dress is optional but is very much encouraged.

Sarah’s set to share her slimming secrets that got her into her dream wedding dress Advertising Feature SLIMMER who transformed her life by losing almost two stone is using her success to shape a new career helping other people change their lives and achieve their weight loss dreams.

Members at the Slimming World group in Thornhill are getting ready to welcome Sarah Morris as their new consultant when she takes over the group on July 31.

The latest government figures reveal that around one in four adults are obese, and it is estimated that, by 2034, this will increase to one in three.

Over 60 per cent of the Kirklees population is now overweight or obese, and Sarah says her new role has never been more important.

She said: “Obesity is becoming such a huge issue across the UK. “When I first joined Slimming World as a member, I never dreamed that I would end up helping other people to lose weight but now I just can’t wait to get started.

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Sarah’s Slimming World group will be held at Thornhill Social Club every Wednesday at 5.30pm and 7.30pm from July 31.

For more information, or to join Sarah’s group, either pop along on Wednesday or call her on 07539 452622.

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Tenth Bash is best yet!

HE EVER-POPULAR Bobtown Beer Bash is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Tomorrow (Sat, 12noon) the event will return to Roberttown Community Centre – and organisers are promising it will be bigger and better than ever to mark its milestone year.

Over the years the bash has grown into one of the village’s most significant events which promotes real ale, local bands and brings the community together to give money back to good causes.

Retiring chairman of the beer bash, Malcolm Firth, has been able to lay the foundations for the festival for the years to come – and wanted to thank the organising committee and volunteers who help make his dreams a reality.

He said: “The 60 or so volunteer staff are needed to be recruited and planned into the days working rota, those wonderful ales need to be sourced and prepared for the day, the bars and stage need to be built, the glass and t-shirts to design and purchase!

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Hundreds of people are expected to enjoy the day – and to keep the drinkers well fed at this year’s festival, local firms B u c k l e s Butchers and Pure & N a t u r a l Cuisine will again be providing a variety of good-quality fresh food to cater for all needs.

There’ll be live entertainment with a number of bands earmarked to perform on the outside stage.

The entry fee of £2.50 provides a free commemorative glass and the main bar will again use tokens and be situated inside the community centre.

The large outside cider bar including wine and prosecco will also use pre-paid tokens.

Cleckheaton’s Mill Valley Brewery Tap joins Utopia Financial Planners as the main sponsors on the day along with many individual barrel sponsors.

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FOOTBALL

Sedge beaten in pre-season test NCEL Premier Division

RUNCORN TOWN LIVERSEDGE FC

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LIVERSEDGE let an early lead slip as they went down to defeat in their second preseason friendly at Runcorn Town.

Against a team at the same level of the English football pyramid, Joe Walton had given Sedge an early lead but Runcorn replied with two first-half goals which proved enough for victory.

Striker Walton had got Liversedge off to a great start as he finished to give his side a 13th-minute lead.

However it lasted only three minutes as Marcus James volleyed in Aidan Roxburgh’s corner to level.

Runcorn moved into the lead in the 34th minute, with Kevin Excell finishing into the bottom corner after a great run.

While the home side had most of the possession in the first half, both sides had further chances, but it remained 2-1 at the break.

Liversedge had the best of the second-half chances, and came closest to equalising with five minutes left when a free-kick was headed narrowly wide.

Runcorn goalkeeper Adam Reid made a great save in the closing stages as well to help his side hold on for the win.

On Tuesday night, Liversedge picked up their first win of pre-season at the third time of asking as they won 4-1 at North Gawber Colliery.

The sides went into the break level at 1-1, but the Clayborners showed their quality after the break to seal the victory over the Sheffield and Hallamshire County League side.

Oliver Fearon scored a brace while Jake Thompson and Shane Hamilton also hit the back of the net.

Liversedge play their final two pre-season fixtures this week, with both on home turf.

Stockton Town are the visitors tomorrow (Saturday, kick-off 3pm) before they welcome Steeton on Tuesday

(July 30, kick-off 7.45pm), with their NCEL Premier Division campaign beginning on August 3 at Maltby Main.

Stockport too strong for Ossett OSSETT UNITED LADIES put in a strong performance in a 21 defeat to Stockport County in their first game at Ingfield.

The women’s side have moved to the town’s bigger ground from Dimple Wells and faced a tough pre-season test against a side in the fourth tier, a league above where Ossett will compete this season.

A Stockport trialist scored both of their goals, curling in a Masa Butler cross for the first.

United responded when Jenna Wraith was fouled in the box early in the second half, allowing Danielle Sidebottom to level from the penalty spot.

County were back in front just six minutes later though, as the trialist scored again from a rebound.

Chloe Mapp also hit the crossbar for the visitors.

RACING PREVIEW WITH MIKE SMITH

Handicap will Enable Dettori’s favourite to cruise to Ascot win HERE can’t be many other sports that would hand a competitive advantage to the best player but that’s exactly what will happen when ENABLE lines up in the King George &Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

The high-class filly will start a hot favourite but carry 3lb less than most of the colts in Saturday’s (tomorrow) race at Ascot.

For the majority of the time, the mares’ allowance works perfectly well, encouraging some females to compete against males for quality prizes and helping to create interesting, competitive races.

But in the very best races it becomes a problem and many will find it farcical that the winner of the last two Arcs is getting weight from a horse like HUNTING HORN, a serial pacemaker whose best win was in the Hampton Court Stakes.

Dubbed the ‘Queen of Racing’ by her jockey Frankie Dettori, she will be aiming for her 11th successive win as she edges closer to the legendary Frankel’s unbeaten record of 14 victories.

The five-year-old is currently the 4/6 favourite with Carrigill’s following on from her impressive win in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown at the beginning of the month.

Trainer John Gosden has drawn comparisons between her and other great athletes.

“She’s like the great heavyweight boxers training in the gym in the lead up to a Championship fight, just quietly goes through the motions, she knows what she wants and what she needs to do.

"When she had a difficult year (last year), coming back from injury, surgery and sick-

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ness, she still managed to do the job. I admired that a lot, like any great athlete, it’s not easy to get yourself back to the top again. That’s a big ask for any athlete. It’s pretty extraordinary what she’s done.”

On Timeform ratings, her main threat CRYSTAL OCEAN heads here only one pound inferior to the market leader on Saturday’s terms, and that can easily be gained around Swinley Bottom in a King George. Carrigill’s make him their nap at 11/4 to nab another King George for trainer Sir Michael Stoute.

And his run in this race last year offers hope to those who feel he can be the first horse since Shutter Speed in the spring of 2017 to beat the wonder filly. He arrives this year arguably a stronger animal, at the peak of his powers, and unarguably the best horse ENABLE has ever met.

If there is to be a surprise it

could come from WALDGEIST. On his best form he is still around 7lb short of ENABLE and CRYSTAL OCEAN, but he’s never had the fast ground and small field conditions he will get at the weekend and French trainer Andre Fabre has always aimed him at this race.

Talking of France, Karl Burke’s LAURENS runs on Sunday at Deauville, where she has course form as a twoyear-old. She had to miss the Falmouth Stakes because of a sprain on a hind leg but runs against her own sex for the first time since winning the Sun Chariot last autumn and has every chance in the Prix Rothschild.

York’s music weekend gets underway tonight (Friday) where QUEEN POWER drops into Listed class at 7.30pm.

The Shamardal filly has won twice from four starts should also appreciate the drop in trip and has plenty in her favour.

Saturday at York could be a big day for handler Kevin Ryan. His TOMMY TAYLOR looks unlikely to get into Ascot’s big 7f handicap and if he turns up for the race at York over the same distance (2.05) he can break a losing sequence of 16 defeats.

In the Dash at 2.40, SAVALAS is now 6lb lower than when fourth in a big field over course and distance in May and, if the draw is kind to him, has every chance.

CARRIGILL’S NAP: (money back as a free bet if finishes outside top 4): CRYSTAL OCEAN, Saturday, Ascot, 3.40.

AUGUR’S BEST BET: SAVALAS, Saturday, York, 2.40.

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CRICKET

Batley climb to the summit Birstall through to Jack

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

BATLEY’S climbed to the top of the Bradford League Championship One with a 59-run win over Hartshead Moor last weekend.

Their hopes of making a return to Premier Division cricket remain high after establishing a sevenpoint advantage over previous leaders Bankfoot.

Tariq Hussain took 5-28 to bowl out Moor for 117, but there were some key contributions elsewhere as dogged batting displays from Mohammed Bhoola (37 not out) and Sufyan Patel (42) helped post a defendable 176 for nine in their 46 overs.

Although it was Hussain who took the bulk of the plaudits, Bhoola’s contribution should not be overlooked as he was instrumental in effecting two of the three runouts in the Hartshead Moor innings.

Having hit the top for the first time this season, they are now looking to hold on to their advantage when bottom club Scholes visit Mount Pleasant tomorrow (Saturday).

With only one win all season Scholes look unlikely to get the better of things in this clash but, with a 50-point gap between them and the safety of third-bottom spot, something has to change quickly if they are to avoid a second successive relegation.

Although Scholes were beaten by 106 runs in their last game, against

Baildon, there were crucial wins for Gomersal, over Keighley, and Ossett, against East Bierley, as the battle to avoid that second bottom spot hots up.

Gomersal owed much to Jon Boynton for their win, with 58 crucial runs and a wicket, but it was Chris Greenwood (4-34) and Chris Rhodes (4-21) who completed the job.

Skipper Richard Wear will surely be looking for more of the same when second bottom Wakefield St Michaels visit Oxford Road tomorrow.

St Michaels are only 15 points behind Wear’s men so he will not want to see his side slip up now.

Both St Michaels and Ossett, who play at Bankfoot, will leapfrog Gomersal should they win.

Two losses continue Hanging Heaton slide HANGING HEATON’S downward spiral in the Premier League shows no sign of ending.

After successive defeats against leaders Woodlands and title-hopefuls Bradford and Bingley last weekend, they now face the prospect of not even being the leading team in the district.

Having played a game more than all but Bradford and Bingley, they go into tomorrow’s (Saturday’s) game against bottom club Methley in fourth place.

However, they are a massive 61 points adrift of Woodlands and only three ahead of fifth-placed Cleckheaton.

Methley have only one previous win and, although they have put in some good performances and should not be taken lightly, this is one game that Hanging Heaton really should win.

Cleckheaton moved into fifth with a hard-earned win at Lightcliffe last weekend.

The relegation-battlers recorded a respectable 213-9 despite the best attempts of Andrew Deegan (4-44) and Nick Walker (3-34), but Cleck were able to reach that score with four overs to spare.

Skipper Mally Nicholson led the way with 41 in the run chase, and his side now take on Pudsey St Lawrence in tomorrow’s Premier Division fixtures.

Cleckheaton have not had a good track record against St Lawrence in recent years and with the third-placed Pudsey outfit already 22 points better off, this is a game they must win if they are to get amongst the leading clubs.

At the top of the table, Woodlands can further press their title challenge when they entertain Townville at Albert Terrace.

HANGING HEATON start the defence of their Vitality ECB Club Twenty20 Cup title on Sunday in the regional final at Billingham Synthonia.

They have been drawn against the North East Premier League’s T20 champions Burnmoor while Harrogate, from Yorkshire Premier League North, face the host club in the other semi-final.

The winners of the two matches will meet in the final to decide who goes forward to the area final on August 18.

FOOTBALL Ossett find their stride to beat young Terriers

Hampshire final in style BIRSTALL will take on Bradford League Championship Two promotion rivals Yeadon in the final of the Jack Hampshire Cup. They recorded a 96-run win over Hunslet Nelson in last weekend’s semi-finals to continue their great form in both league and cup.

It was their batsmen that really did the damage as they put the result beyond the opposition with a first-innings run spree that saw captain Nick Kaye hammer 115 and Matt Dyson hit 110 not out in a tootle of 293 for two in 40 overs.

The Hunslet Nelson reply was spirited but a final total of 197 was nowhere near enough to match.

Things were much tighter for Yeadon, who reached their target with only eight balls to spare against Buttershaw St Pauls to set up the meeting with Birstall at Liversedge on August 18.

Birstall were also dominant in their Championship Two fixture last weekend, securing a 241-run win over Spen Victoria.

There were fine knocks from Josh Haynes (88), Rishy Limbechayer (71 not out) and Kaye (52) to set an uncatchable total of 291 for four.

In the event, the entire Spen card failed to match even Kaye’s individual total as James Russell’s 5-20 helped shoot them out for just 51.

A similar result at home to leaders Carlton tomorrow (Saturday) will certainly narrow the current 21-point gap between the two sides, but it is sure to be a very different encounter and the perfect indica-

BIG SCORE: Birstall captain Nick Kaye tion of Birstall’s capacity to make a genuine title challenge.

Although enjoying a muchimproved season, Spen Victoria are also facing a daunting task as they entertain third-placed Yeadon.

Meanwhile Liversedge, boosted by their win over Yeadon in their last league outing, will be hoping to improve their chance of avoiding relegation when they face Northowram Fields at Roberttown Lane.

Fourth-bottom Hopton Mills are at home to an Altofts side just five points behind them in another key relegation battle tomorrow.

RUGBY LEAGUE

The Stags are back!

Friendly

OSSETT UNITED HUDDERSFIELD TOWN

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OSSETT UNITED produced one of their best pre-season performances so far to defeat Huddersfield Town’s Under-19 side.

In front of 471 fans on a sunny Tuesday evening at Ingfield, Elliott Harrison’s header and Nick Guest’s powerful finish sent Ossett on their way to a deserved victory.

They started strongly, forcing a save from goalkeeper Jacob Chapman in the third minute with a great half-volley from a trialist before Harrison headed wide from the resulting corner.

Their youthful opponents had a threat as well though, with Dom Tear striking just over the bar from the edge of the area after a neat passing move before his cross was headed over by Olly Dyson.

United striker Tom Greaves was handed a good opportunity after taking a long ball and switching onto his right foot, but the onrushing Chapman did well to spread himself and save with his legs.

Tear put over a great chance for Huddersfield while Jordan Coduri came agonisingly close from distance.

In the final minute before the break, Tear played Dyson in on goal but he elected to pass to Oliver Shackleton, whose low shot was aimed straight at Brett Souter.

Ossett looked bright at the start of the second half, with Luke Porritt sending a cross into the box that Greaves couldn’t quite steer goalward, while Damian Reeves did well to chase a long ball but

PHOTO: John Hirst

THREAT: New signing Nick Guest scored off the bench to help Ossett beat Huddersfield couldn’t beat the keeper.

United remained on top and didn’t have to wait much longer for the first goal. Corey Gregory swung in a corner and Harrison met it with a firm header to hit the back of the net.

There were a host of changes by both sides on the hour mark and one of those had a quick impact.

Guest saw his first effort off the bench saved by the legs of Chapman but he wasn’t to be denied a couple of minutes later as he collected a ball over the top and thumped it in to make it 2-0.

Reeves and Guest were both denied further goals by Chapman before Huddersfield got back into the game through Nassim Kherbouche’s header from a Tear corner.

They pushed for a leveller with Will McCamley and Darnell Mintus missing the target before Guest had another strike blocked by the keeper in the final minute.

Ossett weren’t able to get the win

last Saturday though, as they were defeated 3-1 at home by FA Trophy holders AFC Fylde.

Fylde got off to the perfect start with an expertly-placed finish from the edge of the box by Ryan Croasdale after just two minutes.

Their second required some luck as Nick Haughton’s ball across goal took a deflection off defender Myles Foley to go in.

Ossett looked more confident in the second half and Guest went close before a free-kick came to Greaves at the back post and he controlled the ball before finishing.

Fylde wrapped up the win late on as Souter’s spill allowed Kurt Willoughby to tap in.

United’s next planned friendly against Farsley Celtic has been called off, so they return to action on Tuesday when they host Selby Town (kick-off 7.45pm).

They have also announced another pre-season fixture to their schedule, with FC United of Manchester coming to Ossett on August 6.

BACK IN TOWN: Richard Silverwood returns to the re-launched Stags as head coach MIRFIELD STAGS are making their return to the amateur rugby league scene after two years away.

The club has been re-launched following the closure of the previous set-up and will enter the Pennine League structure this winter.

Former international referee Richard Silverwood has been appointed head coach following a successful spell in charge of the previous club, while Kryss Tominay and Lance Hamilton will serve as assistant coaches.

Current and former Super League stars Shaun Lunt and Chev Walker will provide support at selected training sessions, while a healthy contingent of local players signed for the club at a launch evening held this week.

The Stags will once again play on the field behind Mirfield Free Grammar on Slipper Lane, which

features perimeter fencing and recently-erected posts.

The ground will be known as Hillrich Park for the 2019-20 season following the agreement of a sponsorship deal with Hillrich Care.

The club will be based at the nearby Shoulder of Mutton pub, who will also serve as a sponsor, and use changing facilities at Mirfield Free Grammar Sports Centre.

The YGH Group (Yorkshire Grab Hire) will back the club as principal sponsor, alongside a host of other local companies who have pledged their support.

The team will hold its first training session on Wednesday (July 31) on the 4G pitches opposite Mirfield Free Grammar.

Interested players and sponsors should contact mirfieldstags.rs@gmail.com or visit mirfieldstagsrl.com.

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AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE

loss for Maroons Boys slay the Dragons Costly against relegation rivals NCL Division Three

BATLEY BOYS EASTMOOR DRAGONS

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BATLEY BOYS are showing no letup in their chase for an automatic promotion spot.

Defeat over struggling Eastmoor secured a sixth consecutive win last weekend, even if they had to do it the hard way.

They only led by two points heading into the closing stages of a match which kept swinging one way and then the other, but late tries from Gavin Davis and Josh Whitehead ensured they could breathe a sigh of relief on the final whistle.

Despite winning their last six and 14 of their last 17 - the remarkably competitive nature of the top of the table means that they still haven’t broken into the top two.

Just points difference separates them from second-placed Hunslet Warriors now though, after they were beaten by new leaders Woolston Rovers, one point ahead of the pair.

No side in any other NCL division has lost fewer games than the four that Batley have been defeated in this season, and yet the NCL newcomers still trail both Woolston and Hunslet who have tripped up only three times each.

Against Eastmoor at Staincliffe, the Boys got off to the better start and Charlie Sandell went over for the first try of the game, and his first of the season, converted by Adam Bingham.

However the visitors, who only lost out 12-10 in the reverse fixture earlier in the season, proved themselves tough opposition again and levelled the scores as Jamie Field touched down and Ady Mulcahy

added the extras.

Josh Whitehead got the first of his double on the half-hour mark to regain the lead for the home side, with Bingham’s kick putting them 12-6 in front going into half-time.

Whitehead was sent to the sin bin for alleged abuse of the referee early in the second half though, and the Dragons took advantage of the extra man to level things up again as Dalton Mitchell went in and Mulcahy goaled.

Restored to a full complement, Batley got themselves back in front through Damien Fletcher’s try, with Bingham adding the conversion and then a penalty to put his side 20-12 in front.

Their position looked to have been strengthened when Eastmoor’s

Jamie Field was shown the yellow card for alleged use of the head in a tackle in the 64th minute.

Instead, they pulled themselves back to within a point of their opponents just a minute later. Mulcahy got the try and converted himself to set up a nail-biting finish.

The Boys still had the extra player though, and were back in the lead before Field returned to the pitch as Davis went over the whitewash for the 13th time this season and Bingham once again added the conversion.

The points were sealed with the final try four minutes from time, when Whitehead raced in for his second and Luke Sheridan took over kicking duties to wrap things up.

Late flash earns point at Storm NCL Division Three

GATESHEAD STORM DEWSBURY CELTIC

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DEWSBURY CELTIC scored two late tries to rescue a point against lowly Gateshead.

The North East club went into the game on a four-match losing run, but came close to upsetting promotionhopefuls Celtic.

They led 24-14 with just three minutes left on the clock, but scores from Thomas Dunford and Leon Heeley ensured that the Green and Whites didn’t leave Gateshead empty-handed.

Jermaine Akaidere gave Celtic the lead with an early try but Gateshead, who had lost the reverse fixture 46-4 in Dewsbury, replied impressively.

Zach Clark got their first points with a try and conversion before Jack Rendles edged them further in front four minutes later.

Billy Yarrow responded for Celtic with a try, which took him into double figures for the season, and Charlie Heaton added the conversion to level up the scores.

They couldn’t hold on until halftime though as James Pocklington touched down to make it 14-10 to the home side at half-time.

Both sides had a man sent to the sin bin early in the second half, with the referee brandishing yellow cards to both Storm’s Luke Banham, for a late challenge, and Celtic’s Dom Senior, for a professional foul.

Akaidere scored his second try of the game but Rendles and Clark then did likewise as the pendulum swung once again.

They still had that 10-point lead heading into the final minutes and looked to have secured an upset, but Dunford’s effort gave them hope.

Heeley then got the final try to rescue a draw, even if George Senior could only add one of the two conversions.

Trojans left to rue disallowed tries NCL Premier Division

THORNHILL TROJANS 0 HUNSLET CLUB PARKSIDE 8 THORNHILL TROJANS were left to rue what could have been after a tight defeat at the hands of reigning Premier Division champions Hunslet Club Parkside.

The Trojans were marked as one of the favourites for the division after a shock win at Parkside in the first round of the Challenge Cup back in January.

Things may not have gone to pal since then, with Thornhill languishing in the relegation zone, but they belied their league position to produce a gallant effort when they met Hunslet once again last weekend.

Two first-half tries from Connor Squires settled it, but the home side twice had tries chalked off themselves which could have made a big difference to the match and to their season.

Thornhill had several regulars missing for this fixture and Luke Carter was given a rare start in the second row, while there was a debut for former Shaw Cross player Joe Buggle and George Woodcock returned from a three-match ban.

The first try of the match was scored by Squires in the corner of the field after 16 minutes, as an offload allowed Hunslet to create an overlap.

Trojans looked to quickly recover quickly and there was a fantastic break by winger Ross Roebuck which also went through the hands

NCL Division One

DEWSBURY MOOR OULTON RAIDERS

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DEWSBURY MOOR’S survival hopes were dealt a major blow as Oulton secured a decisive win in a crucial fixture at the bottom of the table.

The Raiders were in the final safe spot heading into the weekend, and a win would have lifted the Maroons off the bottom of the table and given themselves a real chance of staying in the league.

However, defeat leaves them with a seven-point gap to make up with just six fixtures remaining.

They do have a game in hand on some of the sides above them, which they will play tomorrow (Saturday) against second-bottom Saddleworth Rangers.

Oulton may have been deserved winners but it was a still a harsh final score on Moor, who only

trailed 20-8 close to the hour mark.

Will Milner scored a hat-trick for the visitors, and got them up and running with just two minutes on the clock with a try converted by Josh Murray.

Moor replied with a Max Vernon effort, but Oulton went into the break 14-4 up thanks to another Milner try and a Murray conversion and penalty.

Hal Day got the first try of the second half to extend that advantage further, but the hosts kept themselves in the game through Goerge Hirst’s score.

Oulton pulled away in the closing stages though, with Murray starting the late surge with a six-pointer.

Adrian Holdsworth went over next, before three more tries in the final 10 minutes compounded the Maroons’ misery.

Liam Wiggins touched down, Day scored his second of the game and Milner then completed his hat-trick, with Murray and Kieran Holdsworth adding goals.

‘Must-win’ games for Sharks NCL Division Two

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SHAW CROSS SHARKS face two crucial fixtures in their Division Two campaign over the next two weeks after suffering a resounding defeat at the hands of Hull Dockers.

The Sharks beat bottom side Askam two weeks ago and now need to pick up more points against the other team sharing the relegation zone, East Leeds.

They face them at home tomorrow (Saturday) in a rearranged game before the return fixture the following week, with the opportunity to make up the three-point gap between themselves and fourth-bottom Clock Face Miners.

“Two weeks ago we set a goal of needing three wins in the next four fixtures,” said head coach Mark Barlow. “We’ve got one out of two, so we need to win the two against East Leeds.

“They’re in a similar position to us so both games are a must-win, and I’m sure East Leeds are thinking exactly the same as us.

The Sharks travelled to Hull with three under-16s in their line-up, with Oliver Grayson, Wesley Bruines and Paul Chitakunye all making their first-team debuts.

They began the game strongly but the extra size and experience in the Dockers team eventually told, although the scoreline was still a harsh one for the visitors.

Shaw Cross began the game with

real desire and were rewarded with a try inside the opening five minutes as Brad Baines did brilliantly to claim a kick to the corner and touch down.

Dockers responded in the 16th minute when Josh Farr took an offload to sprint over before Dan Suddaby added the first of eight conversions to put them in front.

They kept up the pressure and George Russell went through a gap to score after they had forced a repeat set.

Darren Bunby scored a third before a long kick downfield settled perfectly in the in-goal for Dylan Rawlings to stretch the score to 22-4 on the verge of half-time.

They scored again in first minute from the restart, with Peter Holmes collecting a pass and running through to score.

Shaw Cross responded well to that blow and Dec Naughton charged over for a try, with Baines adding the extras to make it 28-10.

However, Hull put the game out of reach when Russell sold a dummy before passing to Suddaby to score.

That began a spell of three tries in six minutes with Craig Pickering grabbing the following two, both after cut-out passes from Suddaby.

Jon Eccles went over for the next score before Holmes finished off a smart move, with Harrison Sutcliffe sent to the sin bin for kicking the ball away after the latter try.

Dockers reached 60 points with the last action of the game as Rawlings won possession and ran in for his second and the Hull side’s 11th of the game.

Tigers move level with leaders POINTLESS: Zack Johnson and the rest of the Thornhill team couldn’t break down last PHOTO: Dave Jewitt season’s unbeaten Premier Division champions of Liam Morley and Danny Ratcliffe before the ball went to ground.

The second Hunslet try was almost a replica of their first.

Hunslet attacked the same corner of the field, the ball was again slipped out of the tackle and Squires took the pass to nip over for an unconverted try.

Little did anyone suspect at the time that this would prove to be the final score of the game.

Thornhill did severely test the Hunslet defence in the run up to half-time and frustratingly had two tries disallowed by the officials.

The first try appeared to have

been scored by Jamie Searby, but this was disallowed as the final pass from Scott Green was judged to have been forward.

Green then pounced on a kick from Casey Johnson to touch down, but the back-rower was ruled to have been offside.

The Trojans were left to reflect on what might have been as those disallowed tries prevented them from getting a foothold in the game.

The Hunslet team lead 8-0 at the interval and the scored remained the same at full-time as neither team could open up the defences in an error-strewn second half.

OSSETT TRINITY moved level on points with Yorkshire Men’s League Division Two leaders Wyke with a 22-14 win at Goole Vikings.

Brandon Bates skipped through tackles to score their first try of the game before Jordy Ward went over from dummy-half and Mitch Firth powered over for a 16-0 half-time lead.

The Vikings came into it in the second half and pulled the game back to 16-10 before Dave Berry’s solo effort pushed Ossett back in front, with Elliot Schofield adding his third conversion.

Goole got the final try but the Tigers held on for the win.

Elsewhere, Dewsbury Moor ‘A’ moved into second place in the NCL

Alliance division with a 58-0 home thumping of Myton Warriors.

Jacob Beety led the way with a hat-trick and five goals while Bradley Samme recorded a brace of tries. Joe Haywood, Josh Beverley, Lewis Harvey, Thomas Berry, Finley Bruce and Ashley Slater also went over in the win.

Dewsbury Celtic ‘A’ were also victorious for only the second time this season, defeating league leaders Normanton Knights 34-18 on home turf.

Two local sides are in action tonight (Friday) with Bristall Victoria travelling to Kirkburton Cougars in Division Three and Batley Boys DMR hosting Crofton Sports in Division Four.

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Worrincy rescues vital point Betfred Championship

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at Tetley’s Stadium DEWSBURY RAMS came from 12 points down in the final five minutes to snatch a dramatic point at home to Halifax.

Former ‘Fax winger Rob Worrincy crossed for a brace of tries in the dying minutes to secure a share of the spoils after Jacob Fairbank’s try on 70 minutes appeared to have been enough to seal victory for the visitors.

The Rams made an early statement with an attempted short kick-off, but the referee ruled a knock-on from the hosts.

At the other end, Chester Butler’s pass went behind James Saltonstall and into touch as Halifax mounted their first attack.

Dewsbury pressed during the opening exchanges and a second knock-on ruling denied Daniel Igbinedion a try after he latched on to Paul Sykes’s grubber. The end-to-end nature of the game continued throughout the first 20 minutes of the encounter.

Igbinedion was placed on report in the 14th minute for an awkward challenge on Butler, as was Sam Day shortly after following a collision with Scott Murrell which resulted in the ‘Fax halfback leaving the field with a neck injury.

Interchange Tom Garratt was held up over the line on 24 minutes before Igbinedion powered over, but play was brought back for an obstruction.

But Halifax took the lead against the run of play when Worrincy failed to deal with Ben Johnston’s cross-field

MATCH STATS LEIGH CENTURIONS: Gregg McNally 8 Adam Higson 7 Iain Thornley 8 Junior Sa’u 7 Stefan Marsh 7 Ryan Brierley 8 Josh Woods 7 Luke Douglas 9 Micky Higham 8 Luke Adamson 8 Toby Adamson 7 Cory Paterson 7 Joe Cator 8 Subs: Jordan Thompson 7 Liam Hood 7 Jake Emmitt 7 Mitch Clark 6 Tries: Brierley (1, 80), Cator (9), Douglas (15), Thornley (18, 61), Woods (38), Higham (65), Marsh (78).

Goals: Brierley 6/9.

BATLEY BULLDOGS: Dave Scott 6 Wayne Reittie 6 Sam Smeaton 6 Jack Broadbent 6 Keenen Tomlinson 6 Louis Jouffret 7 Danny Yates 7 Adam Gledhill 6 Alistair Leak 6 Tyler Dickinson 6 Sam Walters 6 Sam Wood 6 Lewis Bienek 6 Subs: Reiss Butterworth 6 Toby Everett 6 Tom Lillycrop 6 Michael Ward 6 Tries: Walters (25), Jouffret (31).

Goals: Jouffret 2/2.

Referee: B. Pearson Half-time: 30-12 Penalties: 9-6 Man of the match: Luke Douglas (Leigh) Attendance: 3,125

DESPERATE DEFENCE: Owen Trout and Adam Ryder try to stop Halifax’s Kevin Larroyer from going over kick and James Saltonstall pounced.

Worrincy made partial amends when his break in broken play laid the platform for a Rams attack, and back-toback penalties put ‘Fax under further pressure.

And the Rams were level when Day danced his way over from dummy half.

Sykes added a simple conversion.

But the visitors were back in front within two minutes, when Quentin Laulu-Togaga’e stepped inside and rounded two defenders.

Tyrer’s goal made it 6-12 with five minutes of the first half remaining, but the visitors conceded a penalty for offside as the half-time hooter sounded, allowing Sykes to add a penalty and reduce the arrears to four.

Both teams threatened further points after the restart and Elliot Morris saw a try ruled out for a double movement.

But Halifax remained on the front

foot and QLT breezed threw a gap in the 48th minute to extend the visitors’ advantage.

Tyrer’s goal made it 8-18, but the Rams were back in contention when Sykes’s pass to ground was eagerly gathered by Adam Ryder, who had enough pace to dot down in the corner.

Sykes was wide with his conversion but the hosts were back within a converted try.

But a mistake in their kick-off return set handed ‘Fax a chance to reaffirm their advantage.

Play was swept right allowing Kevin Larroyer to cut over, and Tyer’s goal put the visitors 10 clear with just over 20 minutes remaining.

Halifax went close to adding a fifth score before Dewsbury again closed the gap through Andy Gabriel on the overlap.

Sykes was again unable to convert,

Struggling Batley put to the sword by strong Centurions Betfred Championship

LEIGH CENTURIONS 48 BATLEY BULLDOGS 12 at Leigh Sports Village BATLEY’S winless run in the Championship was extended to seven games as they were put to the sword at Leigh.

The play-off chasers produced an impressive nine-try performance which included a 20-point haul for Ryan Brierley – his first try bringing up 1,000 career points – via a brace of tries and six goals from nine attempts.

The home side’s tries came in the first quarter, on halftime and final quarter, with the Bulldogs’ scores in the second, while the third quarter was complete dross and a hard watch.

The Centurions’ St Helens loanee prop Luke Douglas was outstanding during both his spells onfield with a series of drives, tackles and a try.

For the Bulldogs, Louis Jouffret was the go-to man in a beaten side scoring a try and kicking two goals, always looking dangerous with half-back partner Danny Yates, who went off late with a head cut.

The Centurions got off to a sensational start on their first set as Brierley supported a superb break down the right from full-back Gregg McNally

to score by the posts, bringing up his landmark total and then adding the extras on 45 seconds.

On their next set, Douglas was a millimetre from touching down off Josh Woods’s lasttackle angled grubber. After a hold-up for an injury to Joe Cator, the home side continued to press and, following a penalty, Cator took Micky Higham’s play-the-ball on the line to barge over.

The Bulldogs were feeding on scraps and on a rare salvo lost the ball on their opening tackle following a monster Luke Adamson hit on Sam Walters. Four tackles later Douglas strolled in from close range on 15 minutes.

From the Centurions’ next set, Toby Adamson and Brierley combined to put Iain Thornley over in the corner, and the extras made it 24-0 after 18 minutes.

The Bulldogs then came more into play and they scored their opening try on 25 minutes with their first serious attack of the game, when Walters beat several players in a 35-metre run for a six-pointer.

Six minutes later, Bulldogs’ pressing saw McNally lose the ball and Jouffret scooped it up to sprint away and go under the posts.

Just as it looked like that was it for the half, Stefan Marsh was held over the line

before Brierley and Jake Emmitt combined for Woods to score a converted try.

The third quarter was awful by both sides as they lost the ball early in tackle counts, gave cheap penalties away and there were numerous stoppages for head injuries.

The only highlight came when the Centurions’ Liam Hood was held up and Clark knocked-on following a Bulldogs drop-out on 58 minutes.

That saw the Centurions wake up from their slumber as they then registered two tries in four minutes.

Wayne Reittie took a huge hit from Thornley who stopped momentarily, but the referee waved play on and the centre went 65m to score in the corner.

Higham then scored a typical try after Leigh had forced the visitors to drop out and then conceded a penalty to make it 40-12.

The Bulldogs huffed and puffed for the rest of the game hoping that would be it, but the Centurions kept going, finishing it with a brace in the last two minutes.

On 78 minutes, great handling down the left-hand side saw winger Marsh go in at the corner. As the hooter sounded the Bulldogs dropped the ball, and Brierley picked it up to coast 60m to the corner.

PHOTO: Simon Hall

meaning the Rams still required two scores as the contest approached the final 10 minutes.

And Halifax went closer to securing the points shortly after when Igbinedion spilled possession into the path of Jacob Fairbank. The ‘Fax prop showed a mean turn of pace to race 70 metres and crash over.

Tyrer missed his first conversion of the afternoon but the away side were 12 points clear with less than 10 minutes on the clock.

But the Rams staged a dramatic late fightback to deny Halifax the win.

First, Worrincy intercepted and raced 90m to score under the posts, before he gathered Sykes’s cross-field kick, following Ryder’s break, to dot down out wide.

And Sykes nervelessly converted both tries to earn his side a valuable point.

MATCH STATS DEWSBURY RAMS: Joe Martin 7 Rob Worrincy 8 Lucas Walshaw 7 Adam Ryder 8 Andy Gabriel 7 Paul Sykes 7 Liam Finn 7 Martyn Reilly 7 Sam Day 7 Frazer Morris 7 Dan Igbinedion 7 Michael Knowles 7 Kyle Trout 7 Subs: Dan Waite-Pullan 7 Owen Trout 7 Jode Sheriffe 7 Tom Garratt 8 Tries: Day (31), Ryder (53), Gabriel (65), Worrincy (76, 78).

Goals: Sykes 4/6.

YORK CITY KNIGHTS: Quentin Laulu-Togaga’e James Saltonstall Steve Tyrer James Woodburn-Hall Shaun Robinson Scott Murrell Ben Johnston Elliott Morris Ben Kaye Dan Fleming Ed Barber Chester Butler Adam Tangata Subs: Jacob Fairbank Kevin Larroyer Ben Kavanagh Brandon Moore Tries: Saltonstall (26), Laulu-Togaga’e (33, 49), Larroyer (56), Fairbank (70).

Goals: Tyrer 4/5.

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Referee: M. Rossleigh Half-time: 8-12 Penalties: 10-5 Man of the match: Quentin Laulu-Togaga’e (Halifax) Attendance: 1,136

Walters joins ‘Dogs from Leeds FORWARD Sam Walters has joined Batley Bulldogs on a month’s loan deal from Leeds Rhinos.

The teenager made his debut last weekend, appearing in the Bulldogs’ injury-hit back-row and scoring a try in their Championship defeat at Leigh.

A 6ft 5in former England Academy international, Walters joined the Rhinos earlier this year from Widnes, and is the second Leeds player to link up with Batley alongside centre Jack Broadbent.

Bulldogs head coach Matt

Diskin believes the youngster has a lot of potential and was impressed with his debut performance after a nervy start.

“He’s come through a good Widnes system, enjoyed the quality of the Leeds system, and he’s a good player who is probably too good for academy (level),” he said.

“He’s tall, rangy, carries the ball well and he’s got plenty of potential.

“I thought he was nervous in those first 20 minutes but once he settled in he tackled well and carried the ball really well.”

Beevers and Roche go head-to-head in cup final

UP FOR THE CUP: Beevers (left) won the trophy with Leeds last season TWO of the district’s biggest rugby league stars will go headto-head this weekend in the Women’s Challenge Cup final.

Leeds Rhinos’ Caitlin Beevers and Castleford Tigers’ Georgia Roche will face off in the cup final for the second year running tomorrow (Saturday) in Bolton.

Both scored tries in the 2018 final in Warrington, but Dewsbury-based Beevers came out on top as Leeds won 20-14.

Birstall’s Roche did, however, win the first-ever Woman of Steel award at the end of last season, while both made try-scoring debuts for England last October.

Bulldogs aim for Wembley history

By Stephen Ibbetson Sports Reporter sport@thepressnews.co.uk

BATLEY BULLDOGS are one win away from heading to Wembley for the first time – and coach Matt Diskin has promised that his players will “leave everything out there” in their pursuit of history.

They will go into Sunday’s 1895 Cup semi-final at the Olympic Legacy Park (kick-off 2pm) as underdogs against a Sheffield side that have not only won twice as many Championship games this season, but have handed the Bulldogs two beatings already in 2019.

Batley are winless in their last seven league games, but have found salvation in this cup run.

They beat Rochdale in the second round before Louis Jouffret’s drop goal in golden-point extratime sealed a dramatic win at York in the quarter-finals last month.

Meanwhile, Sheffield have defeated Halifax and Doncaster on their way to the last four of the competition, which was introduced this year to give lowerleague clubs an opportunity to play at the national stadium alongside the Challenge Cup final.

Diskin has made no secret of the club’s desire to take the 1895 Cup seriously this season, and he declared once again: “Batley have never appeared at Wembley, and we want to be the first ones to do it.”

The two occasions on which the Bulldogs and the Eagles have clashed this season have not been pretty for the Mount Pleasant men. On their previous visit to Sheffield in March they were beaten 44-16, and things were no better in last month’s return fixture as they suffered a 54-24 thrashing in their own home.

The signs all appear to point towards a Sheffield success – but Diskin is a firm believer in a well-travelled adage.

THE PRIZE: Batley are one win away from reaching the Wembley final of the first 1895 Cup tournament “It’s an old cliché, but you can throw form out of the window,” he said. “It’s an 80-minute performance for one of the teams to go to Wembley, and we want to be that team.

‘UNDERDOGS’: Matt Diskin

“It’s going to be tough but I know that, emotionally and physically, my team are going to leave everything out there on that park.

“Sheffield have embarrassed us on a couple of occasions this year and we want to put that right and set that record straight first and foremost. The prize at the end of it this week is a lot more than it is most weeks.

“They’ve been our two worst performances of the year. When we’ve come up against Sheffield we’ve allowed them to play on their own terms and although they are a very good side, we’ve made them look even better than they are.

“We need to make sure that we make as few errors as possible, because that seems to be at the forefront of our play at the moment: errors and discipline. If we can control those two areas then we know we’ll be in with a chance.

“We’re under no illusions: we’re the underdogs. Nobody will expect us to win, and we’re playing away from home, but as a group we’ve got some real quality and we know that if we can deliver on the day, if we keep hold of the ball and control our discipline, then we’ll be in with a shout.”

Injuries have not been Batley’s friend of late with Diskin finding himself down to his last 17 players in last week’s trip to Leigh, even with the inclusion of Leeds loanee Sam Walters for his debut in the back row.

Dane Manning returns from suspension but there is little sign of a let-up on the injury front, with Diskin having his “fingers crossed” that one or two players may be ready in time for Sunday.

Former London Broncos and Dewsbury prop Toby Everett will make his 100th career appearance if he plays for the Bulldogs in South Yorkshire.

‘Must-win’ tie awaits Rams at bottom side DEWSBURY boss Lee Greenwood is very clear – this weekend’s game against Rochdale is an “absolute must-win” for the Rams.

In a match rearranged from the first weekend of the season, when a frozen Crown Oil Arena pitch saw the tie postponed, Dewsbury take on a side who have won only one of their 21 matches this season and will have their relegation confirmed if they lose once again.

The Rams are three points ahead of the drop zone and, as the only side in action, can extend that gap and go ahead of both Widnes Vikings and local rivals Batley Bulldogs – if they claim the two points on Sunday (kick-off 3pm).

Having beaten Rochdale 66-10 on home turf at the beginning of June, Dewsbury will head into the match as strong favourites – something Greenwood says his side will need to deal with.

“This is a different challenge for us now, because we have been underdogs in a lot of games this year,” he said.

“We need to make sure we turn up with the right attitude as we have done for the last four games and in a lot of other games this year where we’re ready to work hard from the first whistle.

“It’s an absolute must-win. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that if we win, we’re definitely playing in the Championship next year, but it would be a big step.

“We jump above Widnes and Batley if we win on Sunday which puts them under pressure, and we can then look forward with confidence to the rest of the season.”

Greenwood says his team’s task on Sunday won’t be as simple as it appears though, as he believes Rochdale’s situation could make them more dangerous.

“They know they’re going to go down, so there’s no pressure on them whatsoever,” said the coach.

“What he (coach Matt Calland) has done is give them free range to throw the ball around with no pressure on them to get results. That can cause other teams issues, and it did cause Featherstone some problems (last week). We’ve got to be ready for that.”

The Rams will look to build on another positive result last weekend, when two late Rob Worrincy tries saw them take a draw against Halifax which Greenwood says they were “good value” for.

“We’ve been on the other end of it where we’ve let leads slip,” he said. “It’s the law of averages, if we keep turning up with the right attitude and get stuck in then we’ll get enough points to be where we need to be at the end of the season.”

The result did come at a cost, with centre or second-rower Lucas Walshaw picking up a groin injury and on-loan Leeds forward Dan Waite-Pullan also now doubtful for this weekend.

Hooker Robbie Ward is not expected to recover from his ankle problem in time for the Rochdale clash, but Dom Speakman should be back.

Veteran half-back and former England and Great Britain international Paul Sykes will make his 100th appearance for the club if he features.

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