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UNDER SIEGE Cars and homes attacked and gunshots fired as turf war rages despite multiple armed police raids By Staff Reporters PEOPLE in parts of Chickenley have been under siege for almost a week after a violent turf war broke out between alleged drug-dealers, with gunshots fired and cars and homes attacked. It has resulted in multiple aroundthe-clock raids by police, involving armed units. No-one has been reported seriously injured but The Press understands one family was moved by police for their own safety, after brewing tensions and minor attacks through last Friday night and Saturday escalated into all-out mayhem on Sunday evening. There was still a visible police presence in the area yesterday (Thursday) but one worried mum contacted The Press to warn of further trouble. “There is a gang of very, very angry people waiting for the police to leave the area. They are dangerous and not going to stop,” she said. On Sunday evening, Cedar Drive in Chickenley was strewn with debris after a car was driven deliberately at a man in his 40s, before colliding with a lamppost and another vehicle. Another car was overturned. It is believed a caravan/mobile home in nearby Earlsheaton was deliberately set on fire as part of the escalating tit-for-tat attacks.
One resident told The Press it took police 40 minutes to respond in force, complete with riot vans, from the alarm first being raised on Sunday – but by then the warring factions had dispersed. Residents reported seeing young men wielding baseball bats looking for rivals in Chickenley and Earlsheaton. On Monday night there was a gun fired at a property in Princess Crescent and a car damaged, with police sealing off the road on Tuesday while forensic teams scoured the street. A related shooting incident took place at a house in Bentley Road, in the Lupset area of Wakefield. Later on Tuesday night, armed police raided other properties with a force helicopter hovering overhead. At dawn on Wednesday, around 4am, residents in the neighbourhood of Chickenley Lane were woken by armed officers raiding a flat. On videos circulating on social media, one officer is heard repeatedly shouting at the occupant to “come to the door now!”. Local sources identified the tenant and said he had a violent reputation. It is not known if he was one of just two men arrested by police. In the hours after Wednesday’s dawn raid, there were reports of vehicles driving at high speed through the village. One woman who opened
An overturned car on Cedar Drive, Chickenley, scene of numerous violent incidents
her door to see what the commotion was, told friends that a young man bolted inside her property and hid. She said she was too terrified to raise the alarm. Another resident, afraid to be named, said: “These lads all know one another and local people know what they’re up to with their drug dealing. But it sounds like there’s been a massive fall-out. “The worst thing is that they’re not necessarily attacking one another – they’re going at the homes and the families of the young men involved, targeting innocent people. We’ve never seen anything like this before round Chickenley.” The mum who contacted The Press on Thursday added: “It’s a serious situation that is growing. Police are present at the moment but it is angering people that they have not made more arrests. People are very angry and frightened.” Dewsbury East councillor Aleks Lukic said: “There is a great deal of community concern about this disorder. “The police have been in regular contact with councillors and I would encourage anyone with information to pass on what they know by ringing 101. “I hope there will be no further Continued on Page 2 Ed Lines on Page 6
A police search on Princess Crescent, Chickenley, where a gunshot was heard
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Deaths BERNAD (NEE SHEPHERD) DOREEN On July 14, peacefully at Fieldhead Court Nursing Home, of Thornhill Lees, formerly of Batley, aged
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CONNOR GORDON On July 13, at his home in Birkenshaw, aged 81, husband of Margaret. Funeral service will take place at Park Wood Crematorium, Elland, on Friday August 2 at 9.45am.
EXLEY ARTHUR On July 4, in hospital, of Dewsbury, aged 96, husband of the late Irmgard Olga Maria. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Wednesday July 31 at 2pm.
FENSOM JENNY On July 10, peacefully at home, aged 91, wife of the late George. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Thursday July 25 at 1.15pm.
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MCCAFFERTY LINDA On July 11, peacefully after a short illness, aged 70, a loving wife, mum, nana and friend. Funeral service will take place at Cottingley Hall Crematorium, Leeds, on Tuesday July 23 at 11am.
PURDY DAVID NORFOLK On July 12, in hospital, of Mirfield, aged 70, husband of the late Veronica. Funeral service will take place at The Minster Church of All Saints, Dewsbury, on Tuesday July 30 at 11am.
RADLEY EMINDA On July 7, peacefully at Priestley Care Home, Batley, aged 95, mother to the late Derek. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Thursday July 25 at 10.30am.
SCALLEY (NEE CASTLEHOUSE) JEAN On July 8, suddenly but peacefully at her home in Batley, aged 85, wife of the late Joseph. Funeral service will take place at Staincliffe Parish Church on Monday July 29 at 11am.
SCOTT PATRICIA ANN On July 9, peacefully at Fieldhead Park Nursing
Home, formerly of Birstall, aged 77, sister of Maureen and Marie. Requiem Mass will be held at St Patricks RC Church, Birstall, on Monday July 22 at 11am.
SHELTON MARJORIE On July 8, peacefully after a short illness at Linson Court Nursing Home, Batley, of Carlinghow, aged 90, wife of the late Frank. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Tuesday July 30 at 12.30pm.
WEDDERBURN (NEE HARWOOD) MARGARET On July 4, peacefully at home in Heckmondwike, aged 89, wife of the late Jack. Funeral service will take place at Christ Church, Liversedge, on Thursday July 25 at 11am.
WOODWARD MARTIN PAUL On July 8, suddenly at his home, aged 58, husband of Janet. Funeral service will take place at Park Wood Crematorium, Elland, on Wednesday July 24 at 11.15am.
WRIGHTSON JOAN On July 9, peacefully in her sleep at home in Cleckheaton, aged 89, wife of the late Roland. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Tuesday July 30 at 2.45pm.
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incidents going into the school days, with children and young people spending more time outdoors.” A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Two men have been arrested as enquiries continue into linked incidents in Chickenley and Wakefield. “A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of affray in connection with an incident on Cedar Drive, Chickenley, on July 14. He has been released on bail. “A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence in relation to incidents on Princess
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Crescent, Chickenley, and Bentley Road, Wakefield, on July 15. He is currently in custody.” Det Supt Pat Twiggs said: “I understand that these incidents and the resulting increased police activity in the area will cause some concern in our communities. “I would stress that we are treating these as targeted attacks involving parties known to each other. “We will not tolerate people taking the law into their own hands and clearly any use of a firearm is something we take extremely seriously. “There are extensive enquiries ongoing and I would ask for the public to work with us as our investigation continues.”
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in a bid to help those less fortunate. Class teacher Kirsty Hemingway said: “The children have been fascinated to learn about other parts of the world and they were keen to help people who are less fortunate than themselves. “We are hugely proud of the children’s efforts, which reflect the caring ethos of our school and would like to thank all the families and friends across the school community who helped us to raise so much money.”
YOUNGSTERS in North Kirklees are set to receive more support from speciallytrained mental health teams in schools and colleges as part of a The Press abides by the principles of the Independent Press Standards Organisation and at all times attempts to report fairly and accurately and correct mistakes or errors as soon as possible. In the first instance, contact the editor, otherwise we will be happy to give details of the Independent Press Standards Organisation. If you notice a factual inaccuracy, please email news@thepressnews.co.uk. You can also write to The Press, 31 Branch Road, Batley, WF17 5SB We adhere to the Editors’ Code of Practice as enforced by IPSO, who are contactable for advice at: IPSO, Gate House, 1 Farringdon Street, London, EC4M 7LG Website: www.ipso.co.uk Email: advice@ipso.co.uk Telephone: 0300 123 2220
national campaign. The district is one of 48 new ‘Trailblazer’ areas identified by the NHS, with support being given to young people with mild to moderate mental health needs through a total of six mental health support teams. The national mental health programme aims to bridge the gap between schools and colleges and NHS services. Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) will be introduced across the ‘Trailblazer’ sites over the next few months. Each will support several schools and colleges, covering a population of around 8,000 children and young people. Health practitioners will work with education settings to provide early interventions on mild to moderate mental health issues and provide help to staff in schools and colleges.
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Coming soon? Free parking in Dewsbury town centre...* By Margaret Watson FREE car parking for Dewsbury town centre after 3pm every day of the week could soon be on the way. Members of campaign group Dewsbury Forward have put a proposal to Kirklees officials and are confident it will be approved. Group chairman and former councillor Eric Firth said three hours’ free parking would stimulate the town centre’s tea-time economy. It would also boost the nighttime economy and attract investors interested in opening restaurants and cafes. “Mothers could come shopping after school and anyone shopping in the town wouldn’t feel the need to leave early,” he said. “Shops and businesses are crying out for help and the council
*... after 3pm that is ... but it’ll boost tea-time economy say campaigners has to listen to them. They have to offer them something. “Three hours’ free parking would be a start. It would be one way of encouraging people to stay in the town longer. “It’s no good the council talking about regenerating the town centre unless they are prepared to lose some car parking revenue. “I said all this when I was on the council before I lost my seat, and I will continue saying it until something radical is done. “We urgently need to stimulate our town centre economy, and I know this will help. We have to make it happen.”
Dewsbury Forward was set up three years ago by a group of local business people to help promote the town and improve its image. They work in partnership with Dewsbury Chamber of Trade and Kirklees Council on regeneration plans for Dewsbury town centre. “We know we may never get allday free parking but we believe the council should at least meet us halfway,” said Mr Firth. “Kirklees officers are currently carrying out a review of car parking in the town centre and are looking at our proposal favourably. “Shops are closing in town centres all over the country and coun-
cils are having to look at radical ways of dealing with it. “The footfall in Huddersfield has also dropped dramatically. The only towns which have not been as hard hit as us are those which have free car parking. “Dewsbury town centre is dead after 3pm, so the council are already losing revenue. Some shops have even started closing earlier. We need to encourage people coming into the town to stay longer instead of rushing off to escape parking fines.” Kirklees starts consultations on car parking with the public in August, and Dewsbury Forward and the Chamber of Trade will be feeding into this. Mr Firth said other groups will be asked for their views and he felt confident local businesses would back the initiative.
Cash flows in for Luke’s Lads charity THOUSANDS of pounds was raised for a mental health support charity in memory of Norristhorpe man Luke Naylor, who took his own life last year at the age of 25. Luke’s Lads was set up by Luke’s family to tackle the stigma surrounding men’s mental health, and a fundraising event last week at the Rising Sun in Norristhorpe raised £5,000. Members meet at Timestep Community Dance studios in Ponderosa Business Park every Wednesday for a 45-minute circuit training session and a 30-minute group chat.
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Man arrested in Major roadworks crossbow swoop to last six weeks ARMED police arrested a man in Mirfield after a crossbow was found at a property. Officers swooped on The Knowl on Sunday afternoon following reports of a domestic incident. Footage from a video posted on social media showed police negotiating with the suspect off-camera while pointing their guns over the bonnet of a black van. The armed officers can also be heard ges-
turing to members of the public to leave the area. West Yorkshire Police confirmed: “We responded to a domestic incident where a man was believed to be with a crossbow. “Officers did locate a crossbow in the address. He was arrested for assault. “Armed officers did attend the incident. He was arrested and the incident was concluded. There were no injuries.”
A MAJOR route into Dewsbury will be disrupted for the next six weeks for gas works to be carried out. Northern Gas Networks will start work today (Friday) on replacing gas mains on Wakefield Road, near the junction with Bywell Road and Syke Lane. The works, which are due to finish on September 2, will start at Heath Cottage Hotel and carry on in the direction of Dewsbury.
Syke Lane and Bywell Road will be closed at their junctions with Wakefield Road. Yorkshire Water will also be working on Syke Lane, to avoid the need for four-way temporary traffic signals. There’ll be diversion routes in place, while bus routes will also be affected. Residents can keep up to date with the scheme via Twitter (@NGNgas) or on Facebook.
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Armed raid arrests MIRFIELD: A man and woman were arrested in an armed raid in Mirfield yesterday morning (Thursday). Three marked BMW X5 vehicles and a police dog unit parked outside a block of flats on Old Bank Road shortly before 5am. The road was closed during the raid for just over an hour. A police spokesman said: “A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm and a 30-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.”
Petanque in the park HECKMONDWIKE: Hundreds of players and supporters from across the country gathered at Firth Park last weekend for a prestige petanque competition. Teams competed for a total prize fund of over £3,000 at the Tog 24 La British Open. Petanque – a version of the French game of boules – has been played in Heckmondwike for the last six years. The town’s club has more than 80 members.
Man ‘rammed police’ BATLEY: A man who allegedly rammed his van into a police car whilst over the alcohol limit has appeared in court. Kirklees magistrates heard that police noticed Craig Lister, of Victoria Court, Birstall, driving at excessive speed on Cross Bank Road, Batley on the evening of June 23. Prosecutor Alex Bosman said officers followed Lister as he turned onto Ealand Road, but instead of slowing down he sped up to 50mph in a 30mph zone and failed to stop. The 36-year-old then allegedly went through two red lights and tried to reverse into the police car. He did not enter pleas to charges of dangerous driving, criminal damage and driving while over the prescribed limit and will appear next at Leeds Crown on August 9.
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News In Brief Tempting fete... MIRFIELD: The ever-popular Upper Hopton Fete is being held next weekend (Saturday July 27, 10.30am-4.30pm). There’ll be a flying display from the York Bird of Prey falconry team and performances from the Clifton and Lightcliffe Band, a steel band, the U3A guitar group and Katie Philpott School of Dance, plus stalls and children’s games at Croft House Community Centre. Entry is £3 and free for under-16s.
YOUNGSTERS from a Dewsbury school have created a stunning mural to brighten up the town’s railway station. The artwork has been painted and designed by children at Carlton Junior and Infant School, with help from artist Candida Wood. A special unveiling ceremony of the ‘Horizons’ piece was attended last week by the district’s two MPs, Paula Sherriff and Tracy Brabin, Mayor of Kirklees Mumtaz Hussain and his consort Noreen, plus Dewsbury South councillors Gulfam Asif and Masood Ahmed. Rizwana Mahmood, headteacher at Carlton, said: “Through this project the children have gained a deeper understanding of life, travel and aspirations, moving from one place to another for betterment and the role of rail transport in enabling this.”
Support group talk DEWSBURY: Professor Philip Quirke, from the University of Leeds School of Medicine, will give a presentation on bowel cancer and colorectal surgery at the Dewsbury and District Stoma Support Group meeting next Thursday (July 25, 7pm). The group supports people and their partners or carers who have had or are about to have colorectal surgery. Meetings are in the Oak Room at Dewsbury Hospital’s Oakwell Centre. For more information ring 07884 003945 or email dews.ssg@gmx.com.
Wrestling show BATLEY: A charity wrestling show is being held tomorrow (Saturday) to raise money for the Batley-based Yorkshire Down Syndrome Group. The family fun event is being held at the UK Wrestling Training Centre, on Branch Road (5.30pm), with a £3 donation recommended.
Try walking football NORTH KIRKLEES: Older people are invited to try walking football in a free session at the Kick Off sports complex on Mill Street East, Dewsbury, on Monday (July 22, 1.30-3.30pm). The session is part of the First Time For Everything programme, which aims to give elderly people a chance to try something new for free. Call 01924 446100 or just turn up.
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THE owner of a Ravensthorpe takeaway has been banned from managing any sort of food business after inspectors discovered live cockroaches throughout his premises. Farhan Ul-Haque, who owns the Hot Grill fast food restaurant on Huddersfield Road, pleaded guilty to five food hygiene offences when he appeared at Huddersfield Magistrates’ Court. He was also fined over £2,200. In May last year food safety inspectors on a routine visit discovered an active cockroach infestation. The pests were found on monitor traps in the counter area and also in the cellar, as well as in an insulated food bag. Officers also found egg cases and cockroach body parts. The shop was served with a hygiene emergency prohibition notice and was shut down immediately.
DEWSBURY MP Paula Sherriff has secured the future of dental services in Ravensthorpe. After challenging the government to take responsibility for the lack of access to dentists in her constituency, Miss Sherriff has been assured by local commissioners that a practice will be retained in Ravensthorpe. The move comes as the area’s only remaining NHS dental practice at the health centre closed last week due to a lack of funding. NHS England has confirmed that the new dental practice will operate at the same premises at
Ravensthorpe Health Centre but it’s yet to be confirmed when this will happen. Following a meeting with NHS England, Miss Sherriff said: “I’m proud that the local commissioning lead has confirmed that the future of dental services in Ravensthorpe for the local community have been secured. “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. “I welcome the decision to retain an NHS dental practice in this area of need, though there remains a shortage
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Sports gala pulls crowds THOUSANDS of people flocked to Dewsbury for Kumon Y’all’s annual sports gala. The Dewsburybased youth charity welcomed nearly 5,000 people to the Let’s Unite event at Savile Town playing fields on Saturday. Around 50 teams competed in the flagship football tournament, while there was also an archery kombat
competition, bouncy castle, arts and crafts and a barbecue. Project manager at Kumon Y’all, Farook Yunus, said: “The event has been running for seven years and it’s been growing
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I owe couple my life after fall, says pensioner Terry
A MAN was knocked unconscious and stripped of his clothes during an assault in Dewsbury. The 39-year-old was walking to a friend’s house in the early hours of Sunday morning when he was attacked by a group of males on Hartley Street, near to Kirklees College’s Halifax Road campus. According to his brother, the victim suffered eight broken ribs, a spine fracture, a broken finger, broken nose and was left concussed. His brother, who didn’t want to be named, said “his body is a mass of bruising” and that he was taken to St James’s Hospital in Leeds. A police spokesman said officers found the man partially clothed with serious injuries. The suspects were described as Asian. Police initially said there were two suspects, but later said “multiple assailants” were reported. Anyone with information can contact police on 101, quoting crime reference 13190356426.
By Zoe Shackleton A PENSIONER says he owes his life to a couple who helped him when he collapsed and hit his head. Liversedge couple Holly Heaton and Dean HayesWard, who were complete strangers to 85-year-old Terry Hopkins, admitted they were glad they were there to help him after waiting an hour for an ambulance to arrive. Terry said he had started to feel unwell whilst walking to a bus stop in Littletown last Monday morning after he’d attended an appointment at the doctor’s surgery. Almost immediately after he sat down on a bench inside the bus shelter, he fainted and fell head-first onto the floor. Holly, a 24-year-old mumof-four, was the only other person waiting for the same bus into Dewsbury and
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jumped to his aid. Terry, who lives in Dewsbury Moor and is The Press’ longest-serving paper deliverer, suffered extensive cuts to his forehead and beneath his eye socket. Holly said: “I put him in a comfortable position with a bag under his head and called an ambulance. I tried to talk to him and reassure him. “The ambulance service
said there wasn’t one in the area so I phoned my partner, who is first aid-trained.” When Dean turned up around 15 minutes later, the ambulance still hadn’t arrived so he started first aid. The 32-year-old said: “It was the first time I’d had to do it. “I kept him comfortable and talked to him about general day-to-day stuff.
Stadium on Wednesday (July 24). They’ll complete the fiveday, 258-mile ride when they arrive in Bankside, Southwark, on Sunday, July 28. There’ll be overnight stops in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire and Middlesex. All money raised will go to The Jo Cox Foundation and more information can be found at www.letsride.co.uk.
“We rang 999 again but they were telling me to do what I was already doing. He was slowly getting worse.” After waiting nearly an hour for an ambulance whilst Terry was still lying on the floor, one drove past the scene and its crew turned around and took him to Dewsbury Hospital. The paramedics informed Holly and Dean that they hadn’t received a call-out for Terry’s incident. Dean said: “I’m annoyed because he’s an old man and he desperately needed help.” Terry said: “The doctor told me I might not have been here had Dean and Holly not helped, so I owe them for the rest of my life. I want to take them out for a meal!” Dean added: “A lot of people walked past and didn’t see if we needed help. If we hadn’t been there, he might not have been here.”
News In Brief Open-air Bronte BIRSTALL: The Chapterhouse Theatre Company will present an open-air performance of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights at Oakwell Hall on Wednesday, July 31 (7.30pm). Doors open at 6.30pm and people are encouraged to take rugs, camping chairs and picnics. Tickets (£15 adults, £12 seniors, £10 children/students) can be bought at Oakwell’s visitor centre. BATLEY: A chilling production of The Haunting of Blaine Manor will be performed at Batley Town Hall tomorrow (Saturday, 7.30pm). Set in 1953, the play pays homage to the black and white ghost stories of the 50s and 60s. Tickets (£15) are available from www.tickets.kirklees.gov.uk.
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Modern-day midsummer madness ACK in the ‘good old days’ when young people made their own fun – which was the only real option when you had nowt – the young scalliwags of one Dewsbury neighbourhood had a nickname: the ‘Chick Mafia’.
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Oh, there weren’t any bodies thrown in the Calder wearing cement boots, nothing like that. No drug cartel, no moneylaundering operation; no ‘buying’ local politicians like Councillor Jack Hird. Just the local lads, who were the swaggering cocks of that particular roost. If young fellers from Thornhill, the Moor, Ravy and suchlike went ‘courting’ a lass up Chick, they’d be well advised to wear their best running shoes, or risk having to discover how handy they were with their fists. It was peacock-like ter-
Police conducted a search on Princess Crescent in ‘Chick’ ritorial pride, in the manner of ages past. I doubt that the baseball bat-wielding, car ramming, gun shooting low-lives who have been terrorising Chickenley over the past week would last two minutes with the men who made Chick the neighbourhood and community it once was –
weapons or not. Aiming a car at a bloke walking home or going ganghanded and tooled up into a pub doesn’t make these little scrotes any kind of Kray gang apprentices. Firing a gun at a door or window in the dead of night and high-tailing it into the dark isn’t quite on the Al
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Capone scale of things. One of the worst aspects of this past week’s tit-for-tat attacks is that some of them appear to have been targeted at the parents and families of the young men involved, with children present in some. That tells you most of what you need to know about the moral fibre and backbone of these complete wastes of oxygen. Chickenley residents who have witnessed the midsummer madness of the past week may have been temporarily reassured by the sight (and sound) of police riot vans, patrol cars and the force helicopter hovering overhead – although the person who said it took the law 40 minutes to respond to a 999 call on Sunday evening wasn’t overly impressed. Kirklees police know the names of these turf-war terrorists, because their activi-
ties have been common knowledge, locally, for a long time. Their identities were being openly discussed by onlookers when I attended the scene of one police operation on Tuesday. And if I can find out which Dewsbury and Batley ‘adult’ dealers they work for, you’d think even the hapless Kirklees Keystones could discover which house to raid next. That’s presuming they want to of course – and I’m sure some do. I’m also certain some don’t. I don’t want to get all misty-eyed Dixon of Dock Green over how we’ve descended into this state of social madness, because it’s not just here – it’s a fall that’s echoed across towns and cities the length and breadth of the land. It’s tempting to go mistyeyed about having dedicated
police officers responsible for walking those neighbourhoods; that boots on the streets might have averted this mayhem. And in turn Labour politicians would wail about austerity and Tory cuts and nothing would change. The fact is that this social chaos is not just about police resources, it’s about the disintegration of community spirit, respect and particularly responsible parenting. In the modern age of youths being out of sight and out of mind, I fear (usually single) parents don’t care what they’re up to, so long as it doesn’t bring trouble – or the law – to the doorstep. As such, what the streets of Chickenley are experiencing now is what some of their ‘law-abiding’ citizens have created. And it really has come home to roost on their own doorsteps.
Unelected and unsupported OW would you like it if, in the event of Labour winning the next general election, they decided to nominate a halfwit like Eddie Izzard as Prime Minister? I know they can’t for the simple reason that he’s not an elected MP, but it seems our Remain-supporting brethren are happy with the concept at least. One of Izzard’s cherry-red stiletto shoes probably has a higher IQ than Jeremy Corbyn, but at least Corbyn is an MP. He was elected by someone. Mostly British someones in fact. Meanwhile in Brussels, Juncker-theDrunkard’s replacement as all-powerful chief of the EU Commission is Ursula von der Leyen, who not only was not elected to the EU, but hasn’t even got the support of most Germans who were. It is a convention, a rare nod to democracy within the EU Commission, that its leader has to represent the majority group in the European Parliament. Rather inconveniently, with the rise of The Brexit Party and similarly Eurosceptic or overtly EU-hostile parties across Europe, von der Leyen shouldn’t have had a prayer of getting the job. Except Brussels is run not by the democratically-elected members of the European Parliament, but by the unelected elite intent
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on creating a superstate with powers over not just our borders, taxes and judiciary – all governance ultimately – but a unitary EU army too. No matter that as German defence minister, von der Leyen sent their soldiers on a NATO exercise with broom handles instead of guns; when Brexit is finally sabotaged (as she/they still hope) the UK will bear the brunt of that cost, even if we have little say – and no veto – as to how an EU military is deployed. That said, the way the EU is going it would probably be unleashed on its own citizens first – probably ours, which would be the irony of all ironies. ‘But’, I hear you say, ‘we can’t fund their army because we’re leaving by October 31st aren’t we? Boris promised!’ Boris might have, but Ursula von der Leyen this week favoured pushing back the October 31st deadline which some might construe as the EU showing signs of weakness. Oh grow up, folks, this is them playing games, encouraging our Parliamentary traitors and the second referendum lobby to keep fighting. Forget all the rhetoric, because keeping us in the EU by any means possible remains their only game in town.
A legend of the ‘social’ side NOTHER old Rugby League warrior has headed for extra time in the heavens, this time in the shape of Dewsbury Celtic legend Mick Doyle. Mick was Westtown’s equivalent of George Best – without the money, flash cars or women. He had dashing good looks until he got his teeth kicked out, which he never did get properly sorted. Where Mick (he hated
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‘Doyley’) compared to Best, was in how skilful and absolutely effortless everything on a field was for him; but also, like Georgie, he never achieved the absolute heights (relatively) because of a fondness for, shall we say, the ‘social’ side of things. Mick was 70 which isn’t old these days – but boy did he cram a lot in, one way or another. His funeral is at noon, a
fortnight today (Friday August 2) at St Paulinus. I’ll see a good few of you there. And on the subject of local sporting heroes, my old soccer and rugby pal Gary Birkenshaw left us very prematurely nearly 20 years ago. Crikey, where does it go? The 19th staging of the Gary Birkenshaw Memorial Trophy is at Hanging Heaton GC next Friday, with proceeds to Friends In Need.
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Traffic Bloom town hopes delays for another success will last a month A MAJOR route in Liversedge will be disrupted for almost a month due to work to replace gas mains. Four-way traffic lights will be in place from Monday (July 22) at the junction of Halifax Road with Leeds Road in Millbridge. There will be no access to Halifax Road from the A62 and traffic will only be able to exit from Halifax Road onto Leeds Road. The £50,000 project by Northern Gas Networks to replace old mains with more durable plastic pipes, is expected to be complete by August 16. Chris Nevison, business operations lead for NGN, said: “Minimising the impact of roadworks on our customers is our top priority and we have worked closely with Kirklees Council to plan this project. “We would like to thank our customers for their patience whilst we carry out these essential works.”
MIRFIELD will be hoping for more success in this year’s Yorkshire in Bloom competition after judges came to see its spectacular flower displays. It took two days for the judges to view the town’s efforts, which included over 7,000 plants and flowers throughout the town. Pupils, pictured, from Crossley Fields, Crowlees, Old Bank, Battyeford and Hopton primary schools helped with the year-long project. Mirfield in Bloom secretary Christine Sykes said: “Whole streets got together to make communal displays and Kirklees
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Council came up trumps by sweeping the streets at the 11th hour. This hasn’t just meant flowers. It meant clearing up litter, weeding public spaces and getting the community onside to encourage
them to ‘love where they live’.” Volunteers will be hoping to emulate last year’s gold award success when the judges’ verdicts are released in September.
It’s official: Work to start on £14m sports complex By Steve Martyn AMBITIOUS plans to build a new multi-million pound sports complex in Spen Valley have been formally approved by councillors. At their committee meeting last Thursday, Kirklees Cabinet approved plans to build the £14m leisure centre – but it means Spen will be without a public swimming pool for two years. Proposals to construct the new complex on the site of Spenborough Pool in Liversedge were put forward in January. It will feature an eight-lane 25-metre pool with seating gallery, a five-lane 20metre training pool with moveable floor, a fitness suite, two exercise studios, a spin studio, changing facilities and facilities for people with disabilities and/or complex needs. The council (£13.25m), along with
Kirklees Active Leisure (£750,000) is footing the cost of replacing the ageing existing facilities and those lost when Whitcliffe Mount Sports Centre was knocked down in 2016. The new centre is part of Kirklees’ commitment to regeneration and financial investment in North Kirklees, which includes the rejuvenation of Pioneer House in Dewsbury and the Moor Park development in Mirfield. Council leader Shabir Pandor said: “The new leisure complex is a fantastic and much anticipated development. “We are delighted that planning permission has been granted for a project which will completely transform Spen Valley’s leisure provision. “This is a sign of our ambition and a significant investment in high-quality sport and leisure facilities for people of all ages. The new centre will be central to our priority of promoting the health
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and well-being of residents.” The skate park at the rear of the pool will not be replaced but there are plans to relocate it to nearby Royds Park. Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin tweeted: “Very excited about this regeneration of our sports centre and pool but don’t forget the skateboarders, whose park disappears with this plan. Let’s move it across the road to Royds Park and support our teens.” The existing pool will close on August 31 prior to demolition in September. Construction of the new facilities is expected to take around two years from early 2020. The existing fitness suite, studio and athletics track will remain open during the build. For more information and to follow the progress of the project, follow the council’s blog at www.spenvalleyleisurecentre.co.uk.
KIRKLEES: The council’s programme to replace street lights in the borough has made a significant impact on the authority’s carbon footprint. Over the last year, Kirklees has continued with its LED conversion programme, which has resulted in 60 per cent of the lighting network now converted to make it more environmentally friendly – reducing the carbon footprint by 1,600 tonnes of CO2. There has already been a reduction in electricity of 3,025,378kwh – the equivalent of running 18,116 televisions for four hours every day for a year – and an overall reduction of 32 per cent of carbon generated. The council has now started a £12.5m fouryear LED conversion programme for the remaining 31,000 lights in the district.
Summer camps DEWSBURY: Dewsbury Rams are holding three summer camps at the Tetley’s Stadium next month. The Rampage camps, for six- to 12-yearolds, 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. To book a place, ring 01924 465489 or email dewsburyramsmedia@gmail.com.
The real Marigold PROBUS: Maggie Poppa will give a talk called ‘Staying at the real exotic Marigold Hotel’ at Batley and Dewsbury Probus Club on Tuesday (July 23, 10am) at Batley Community Centre. For more details ring 01924 471337.
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Help us remember them Letter of the Week: Fr Nicholas Hird, Cleckheaton In the late summer a group of pilgrims from the area will be travelling to the Normandy area; a place much in the news lately in regard to the 75th anniversary commemorations of the events of D-Day. This group will be visiting the last resting places of a number of local men, including Pte Frank Riley (Earlsheaton), Pte
Carnival queen Eileen Morris presenting the ‘Ossett Venus’ prize to Nellie Marshall
Stunned to see photo From: Michael Stott, Ossett While digesting Mike Popplewell’s column last week in The Press, imagine my reaction upon being confronted by a faded photograph of my late mother included in his nostalgic look back at 1934. Eileen Morris was indeed carnival queen when she was 13, and the most heart-warming aspect of it is to realise she was chosen by all the pupils themselves following a ballot at St Ignatius School in Ossett. I have researched that period in her life, resulting in locating two press photographs of the occasion, however I’d never seen the one reproduced in your column until last week. She was never too enamoured with the occasion herself, looking upon it as something else to be done along with lessons while at school. However I’d like to think she’d be as tickled as me at it surfacing all these years later! She passed away in 1994, so my eternal gratitude to your chronicler.
My fab NHS experience From: Chris Jenkinson, Dewsbury Recently I was booked into Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield to have a small lump removed from one of my toes. It was all going to be done
Lewis Williamson (Healey), Pte Harold Watkins (Dewsbury Moor), Pte Jack Hutchinson (Dewsbury), Pte Nelson Sykes (Thornhill) and Trooper Wilfred Barstow (Liversedge), who were all killed in 1944. In view of this planned visit I would like to let the families of these men know that a token of remembrance will be laid upon under local anaesthetic, but nevertheless I was extremely nervous as I hate operations of any type. Getting there was totally trouble-free as there was very little traffic ... so far so good. I arrived at Ward 40 on time and from the minute I arrived I was treated like a king. The staff were extremely helpful and were total experts at putting me at ease. After I had been checked and prepped I was directed to a waiting area with a TV to sit with two other people. At one point I decided to go for a drink and the receptionist made one for me. I thought this was great as I knew the lady was going above and beyond the call of duty. When I went in for the op I was made to feel relaxed and all my questions were answered immediately. Considering the situation it was turned into an almost pleasurable experience ... I was beginning to feel good Afterwards I was bandaged and taken to a waiting area where I was handed some painkillers and again, above and beyond the call of duty, I was offered some lunch. The icing on the cake appeared when a member of staff took me outside in a wheelchair and helped me on a hospital shuttle bus which took me, free of charge, from Wakefield to Dewsbury Hospital. This was getting better by the minute. At Dewsbury I was picked up by a friend and driven the last 3/4 mile home. I had saved £12.50 on the return journey. I found this whole experience so good and satisfying that I felt compelled to write in the knowledge that I have had a wonderful and reassuring experience with the NHS hospitals in my area. The excellent staff were more than prepared to go the extra mile for their patients. Thank you to the NHS for a job well done and another satisfied customer.
‘Secret’ bus From: Barbara Schiff, Mirfield No doubt in response to the dis-
their graves. If any family member of any of these men were able to offer me some biographical detail of their relative, I would be most grateful. This would most certainly add a further poignancy to our visit. Email: nicholas.hird@ dioceseofleeds.org.uk.
tress caused by the withdrawal of the 253 bus and the meeting held about this, Arriva has extended the route of the 261 bus on some journeys so that some buses travel between Mirfield and Cleckheaton. This is a very limited service running only mornings during the week, until mid-afternoon on a Saturday and not at all on a Sunday. However even this very limited service is kept a closelyguarded secret as the sign at the bus stop in Mirfield still reads to Heckmondwike – likewise the times of the bus have not been updated. No doubt the service will soon be withdrawn, with the reason given that it is not wellused. This is hardly surprising since most people will not know it exists.
First-class performances From: Geoff Camponi, Heckmondwike Many thanks to the organisers for the memorial concert held at Dewsbury Town Hall on Saaturday July 13, in memory of the Thornhill Combs Colliery disaster in 1893, when 139 men and boys were killed. The youngest boy was only 12 years of age. The entertainment from the world-famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Skelmanthorpe Male Voice Choir and compere Peter McVeigh was first-class. The standing ovation that the band and choir received at the end of the concert was a fitting end to a wonderful night. The invitation by the organisers to all ex-miners to be their guests at the concert was much appreciated.
A wonderful experience From: Barbara Lumb, Liversedge On Saturday, we had the great privilege of attending a memorial concert in Dewsbury Town Hall. This was held in memory of the Thornhill Mining Disaster,
one of the worst tragedies in mining history when, on July 4 1893, an explosion at Combs Pit in Thornhill killed 139 men and boys. Only seven survived out of the whole shift and most families in Thornhill lost a loved one. This was of special significance to me because my great grandfather, Richard Halstead, as one of the pit deputies was in the first party of rescuers who went down the pit that dreadful day. This was not just a memorial service, however, it was a memorable one for the packed audience in the town hall. The truly talented Grimethorpe Colliery Band and the Skelmanthorpe Male Voice Choir, together with their charismatic conductors, produced an evening of total pleasure. The standing ovation and rapturous applause said it all. Thank you so much to all who organised such a wonderful musical experience.
A special end to their year From: David A Wood, via email Today (Wednesday), along with family members we had the pleasure of attending the celebration day for the nursery children at Batley Parish JI&N CofE School. Here the past 12 months of their young lives were celebrated and a certificate was given to each child. A lovely memento of early school lives was topped off with a wonderful presentation by the bairns in song and dance. One of the songs was very poignant as each girl and boy looked at the child next to them and sang ‘you are a friend’ followed by ‘and you’ ‘and you’ ‘and you’ as they turned to one another with the words echoing throughout the nursery. What a beautiful way to close the first year of school and what a powerful message! If only we grown-ups could have those words in our hearts our world would be such a better place. Perhaps this morning our little ones have given us a lesson – will we learn from it?
Thank you Batley Parish for such a special end to our children’s year with you.
Complain now or lose it From: Christine Hyde, Dewsbury GP services in Kirklees and England are going through the biggest shake-up in at least 29 years, according to the GP boss who ‘buys in’ GP services for local people. Government policy has made the GP role unattractive so there are 100 vacant GP training places in Kirklees practices, according to Dr Ollerton. The shake-up means patients will not in some cases see a GP. The receptionist, now rebranded a ‘trained care navigator’, asks what’s wrong then decides, probably by checking a tick sheet online, where to send you – either to a pharmacist, physiotherapist, nurse, or new for 2019, physician associate or social prescriber. This is an utter erosion of the NHS but conveniently fits in with the new government and NHS England agenda of removing the ‘dependency culture.’ The shake-up hides the developing ‘hostile environment’ for poorly and disabled people. Seventeen procedures and some medicines have been cut or made ‘hard to get’ locally, and in some areas it is 100 procedures. We need to watch our CCGs for more cuts. The whole of West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership was told to cut £22m between 2016 and next year. The smaller you cut the NHS-provided pieces the easier to remove them later, one at a time. This new US-style system involving Kirklees Council is inefficient. In some areas it’s already been trialled. A friend’s brother was sent to a physiotherapist for pain in his back. After he’d spent a year going through excercises but getting worse, he was eventually found to have bowel cancer which was inoperable. Dr Ollerton said this was a rare case, but the former MP Andrew Lansley
had similar backache and by the time he was diagnosed, it was stage 3 bowel cancer. He, fortunately for him, was not sent to a physiotherapist. We are witnessing the Incredible Shrinking NHS. Complain to your MP and councillors. We need to complain loudly, or lose high-quality healthcare for those who cannot pay.
Found guilty by diktat From: Alec Suchi, Bradford Danny Lockwood provides an informative account of how the 1981 Contempt of Court Act had been interpreted in its most narrow sense to find Tommy Robinson in breach of it, in order to justify his incarceration (Ed Lines, July 12). In the above case, the two judges at the Old Bailey decided Mr Robinson’s guilt without the presence of a jury, a situation analogous to the diplock courts in Northern Ireland. It is clear their decision was politically motivated, acting on behalf of the state and in furtherance of its agenda. In contrast, a jury may have found Mr Robinson not guilty. Trial by jury is guaranteed under the Magna Carta (1215) and is the foundation and definition of democracy whereby those prosecuted are judged by their peers, and who may find the defendants not guilty, even if the decision is contrary to the expectations of the state. Today trial by jury has been undermined whereby judges direct the jury to consider all allegations within the existing legislation, but not to examine whether the legislation itself is just and fair. In marked contrast, a genuine trial by jury, as permitted in Common Law and stipulated in Magna Carta allows the jury to question particular laws if considered unjust and to find the defendant not guilty as a result. This would render legislation perceived as unjust unenforceable and thus annulled. In this way the supreme sovereignty will reside with the people in trial by jury and not
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2019 Brochure now available From page 8 through the “will” of parliament as is widely believed. The former Prime Minister, John Major, had threatened to take action in court should the future Prime Minister attempt to pursue a no-deal Brexit by proroguing parliament. During the ensuing deliberations, the sovereignty of parliament and the constitutional position of the Queen were discussed. However in Common Law, which has existed for millennia and had been partially codified by Alfred the Great and further codified in Magna Carta, the people are sovereign through trial by jury and not parliament. Neither is the Queen above the law but is subject to it. Today Common Law has been unconstitutionally subverted, and this was clearly seen in the Tommy Robinson case as he was found guilty by judges acting according to particular diktats, and not by his peers.
The real threat of no Brexit From: Colin Walshaw, Scholes So, after all the obfuscation we now have the truth, Labour is the party of Remain. No longer the party of the people and the democratic vote
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or being capable of abiding by election promises and manifestos. They have now joined the band of deniers who branded Leavers as ignorant of the facts surrounding the EU. On the contrary, it is Remainers who are ignorant of the facts on the EU. It is not the lovely cushy and soft protector of all things nice. The facts are it’s a totally undemocratic bureaucracy, which ignores the will of the people. Most people do not realise the useless and ineffectual EU parliament for what it is, and the overwhelming power of the President of the Commission and the commission itself, all unelected! Profligacy, corruption and waste abound. The cry of the remainers is what about our trade, workers rights and EU immigrants resident here? Business will sort out trade, not governments, Britain is and always has been a leader in workers’ rights legislation and we have already promised EU residents rights. The real problem with the EU is being hidden from us, it is the Euro. The longer we stay wedded to the EU the greater the danger economically. Target two is an automated backdoor bailout mechanism for southern Europe, the means by which money is transferred around the Eurozone to keep the currency in balance, mainly transferring funds from the richer northern countries,
(German Bundesbank, Banque de France and Banca d’Italia) to the impoverished southern states such as Greece, Spain and Portugal. It is automatic and unstoppable. The critical nature of Italy’s banks are a linchpin in this system and failure would be catastrophic. A number of scenarios could cause a failure at anytime and the European Central Bank does not have the reserves to save the default of any country, let alone Italy. But we are not in the Euro, the remainers cry. However we are amongst the largest investors in the Euro, with an exposure to Italy alone of over 200 billion Euros, and a large proportion of trade with Europe being done in Euros. When the Euro inevitably collapses it will make 2008 look like November the 5th, bonfire night. The near-nuclear explosion will vaporise anyone near the epicenter, those on the outside near the perimeter will be irradiated, but not fatally. If we have managed to increase our worldwide trade outside the EU we will to some extent be less vulnerable to the ensuing crash of world stock markets. Businesses largely reliant on EU business will be decimated, due to the inability of customers to pay outstanding debt. So you remain-supporting Labour acolytes get some backbone, like Sarah Champion (Labour MP), who cannot support a remain party when it goes against democracy.
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News In Brief MP’s tribute to ‘best’ Asian cricket club BATLEY: Mount Cricket Club was crowned ‘best club’ at the Asian Cricket Awards. Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin joined the club’s development officer Abdul Ravat at the awards ceremony at the Houses of Parliament last week. She said: “It really is so well-deserved for a club that does so much good in our community for the old, young, girls, women and the disadvantaged.”
By Steve Martyn A FORMER vicar who was raped by a priest says his claims were ignored by Church of England clerics. Matthew Ineson, who lives in Heckmondwike, has waived his right to anonymity in a bid to expose the abuse he suffered as a 16-year-old at the hands of Bradford priest Trevor Devamanikkam. Speaking at an inquiry into child sex abuse, Mr Ineson said that he was raped by Mr Devamanikkam in 1984 and when he tried to report the crime almost 30 years later he was ignored and no further action was taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Mr Devamanikkam took his own life on the day he was due to appear in court accused of the sexual offences. Mr Ineson, who is no longer part of the Church of England, said to the inquiry: “I cannot see the face of Jesus in the Archbishops of Canterbury or
Host of activities NORTH KIRKLEES: The Royal Voluntary Service has a host of activities planned in Batley and Birstall next week. On Monday (July 22) there’s the weekly movement and games group at Batley Community Centre (10.30am-noon), with the sociables session at Bleak House on Ealand Road running at the same time. Then on Tuesday there is a pilates class at the community centre (1.30pm-2.30pm), with the weekly lunch club at the same venue from 11.30am until 1pm. Pre-booking is required. The week finishes with another movement and games group at Birstall Community Centre from 10.30am-noon.
York. The Archbishop of Canterbury consistently takes no further action and, to me, therefore condones all these actions. I don’t think those people are fit for office.” Mr Ineson accused the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, of being “arrogant, rude and a bully” at a meeting for survivors of clerical abuse. He asked the archbishop for an apology for failing to do anything about his complaints, and Dr Sentamu said: “Apologies mean different things to different people.” Mr Ineson was ordained in 2000 and practised as a vicar in Rotherham for more than 10 years and said he first disclosed information about the sexual assault between 2012 and 2013. But nothing came of his reports to the Bishop of Doncaster, Peter Burrows, the then bishop of Sheffield, Steven Croft, and the then archdeacon of Rotherham, Martyn Snow. He did get a reply from Dr Sentamu, who wrote: “Please be assured of my prayers and
best wishes at this difficult time.” Speaking at the inquiry last Wednesday, Dr Sentamu said that he had received a copy of the cleric’s letter about Mr Ineson’s case but thought it was the Bishop of Sheffield’s responsibility. He also admitted that the treatment of Mr Ineson by the church had been “shabby and shambolic”. Dr Sentamu has since thrown his support behind the introduction of mandatory reporting of sexual abuse, as has Mr Welby. Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin, who has been supporting Mr Ineson for the past two years, is calling on the government to bring forward legislation to make the reporting of sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults mandatory across all institutions. She said: “Matthew and many other survivors have shown incredible bravery in coming forward and reliving their ordeals and we must do all we can to ensure others are heard and action A COMMUNITY hub in Dewsbury will is taken. benefit from a £250 cash boost. “The Archbishop of Staff at the One Stop warehouse in Canterbury’s support Wakefield presented volunteers at for a change in regulaSchool Street-based Howlands with tion represents a siga cheque last week. The money will nificant step forward and one which could go towards providing care and supprevent further sufferport to adults living with physical ing. There is signifiand mental disabilities. Pictured, cant evidence to show from left, Howlands’ Tom Ellis and that mandatory Dawn Field, Holly Sheen (Sports reporting can double World), John Jackson (member), the number of at-risk children placed into One Stop shift manager John safety. A change in the Williams, Kevin Walton (member) law can’t come soon and Coun Aleks Lukic. enough.”
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News In Brief History talk and AGM BATLEY: David Scrimgeour will give a talk on ‘Early Asylum Life’ at the Batley History Group meeting on Monday (July 22, 7pm) at Batley Town Hall. The group’s annual general meeting will follow.
Charity shop appeal DEWSBURY: The British Heart Foundation shop in Dewsbury is appealing for donations of bric-a-brac, summer accessories, shoes, handbags, jewellery, CDs and DVDs, and unwanted toys. Customers can drop off before 10am and after 4pm at the store on Foundry Street, or there’s a collection service Monday to Friday (call 01924 485882). The store is also seeking more volunteers – ring the same number for information.
Church cream teas MIRFIELD: St Andrew’s Church is holding a cream tea event on Saturday, July 27, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm. Teas will be £3 at the Methodist church on Old Bank Road and there will also be a tombola and raffle. All proceeds go to the Happy Memories Dementia Support Group.
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Homes will help residents to live independently By Zoe Shackleton WORK has started on a new specialist supported living scheme in Batley for people with learning disabilities and autism. The development is on the site of the former Woodwell House care home on Mayman Lane and will be managed by Choice Support, a national charity supporting people with autism, learning disabilities and mental health needs. The previous building, now flattened, was also home to the Milen Day Centre, which cared for elderly Asian residents for several years. Planning permission was granted for the development last December. It will include six single-storey self-contained homes, staff accommodation and training facilities, as well as individual bespoke living and outdoor space and parking. The scheme aims to
provide housing designed to enable individuals to live as independently as possible within the community. Kirklees Council has worked in partnership with Choice Support and National Health Service England (NHSE) to deliver the scheme as part of their Housing Strategy for 2018-23, which focuses on supporting the health and wellbeing of residents. Coun Shabir Pandor, leader of the council, second right, inset, said: “This is a fantastic development and I’m delighted to confirm that work is now under way. “The priority of this scheme is to deliver specialist and supported housing which meets the needs of vulnerable groups of people in Kirklees, including those with learning disabilities. There’s a proven need to develop some very specialist and bespoke individual accommodation for people with complex needs and behaviours and it’s something we’re committed to doing. “In providing housing for some of those vulnerable people in the district, the scheme enables people to live independently and could help to reduce admissions to hospital and ease pressure on emergency services.”
Radio show lets folk have their say MEMBERS of the public have the chance to talk about Dewsbury on a local radio station every Wednesday. Martin Cooper at Branch FM ventures into the town centre each week to chat to shoppers about their likes and dislikes in the area for his Market Talk show (noon-2pm).
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Health service newcomers HEALTH service groups have appointed two lay members to their governing bodies in a shared role. Beth Hewitt and Hilary Thompson are now working with both Greater Huddersfield and North Kirklees CCGs in a move aimed at supporting increased closer working of the two organisations. Clinical commissioning groups are led by local doctors and health professionals who design, plan and buy health services. NHS North Kirklees CCG is made up of 27 GP practices and
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Your chance to visit Serenity’s new home Advertising Feature N INDEPENDENT family funeral directors is hosting an open event at its new premises in Gomersal. Serenity Funeral Directors, which has converted the former Shoulder of Mutton pub on Oxford Road, is encouraging members of the local community to visit on Sunday July 21, from 2pm to 4pm. The 350-year-old building has been sympathically refurbished since it was purchased in 2016 to create a welcoming space for families, complete with its own chapel where private ceremonies can be held. Run by fully-qualified husband-and-wife team Jayne and Paul Lewandowski, Serenity have recruited a dedicated local team to help them deliver bespoke funeral services that really reflect the person you’re saying goodbye to. Serenity has been providing funeral care since 2016 but its new base in the heart of Gomersal only opened earlier this month. Jayne, who worked in healthcare for most of her career and is still a registered nurse, said: “We want to integrate into the community and we’ve had a lot of interest from locals who remember it as a traditional pub. People have been amazed by the transformation and the open day is the perfect time to join us for refreshments, to ask any questions and have a look around.” Serenity offers a 24-hour service and professional fees start from just £450 (plus thirdparty disbursements). Jayne said: “We want to be different, we want to make our pricing different and our service as personal as possible. “You only get one chance to say goodbye to someone and all our employees share the same ethos. We will do whatever the family wants to create a funeral that will best repre-
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A fond farewell! By David Bentley A MUCH-LOVED headteacher retires today (Fri) after 32 years of dedicated service at the same school. Linda Whittaker is leaving Diamond Wood Community Academy for the final time after arriving as a class teacher in September 1987, when it was known as Ravensthorpe Infant & Nursery School. Mrs Whittaker became head in 2004 after progressing over the years from group leader to deputy head, then acting headteacher. The mother-of-one, who lives in Hanging Heaton, had an extra special retirement event at Diamond Wood on Wednesday which was attended by key members of staff who she’d worked with over the last three decades.
Other than six months on a short-term placement at Eastborough beforehand, the 60-year-old has spent her whole teaching career at the school. “As the school changed and developed it never felt the right time to move on,” she said. “There was always something more to do!” Now Mrs Whittaker plans to spend more time with her infant grandson and the rest of her family, as well as relaxing on the East Coast – but she says she’ll always stay in contact with the school and its staff. “The thing I’ll miss the most is the fun and laughter – not a day goes by without it,” she said. “It doesn’t detract from the learning because of the staff’s passion and dedication to their roles and their desire to
instil a love of learning in the children.” The school caters for almost 400 pupils aged between three and seven and in April received a ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted – an achievement from which Mrs Whittaker takes a huge amount of pride. Diamond Wood became an academy in February 2014 and is part of the nine-school Enhance Academy Trust. Current deputy Sally Titherington will become head of school, with an executive head teacher from the Trust mentoring her in the role. Mrs Whitaker said: “I know I’m leaving the school in good hands and it will continue to build and grow – I have every confidence that the school will continue on its amazing upward journey.”
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Why not Bob in for a pint? HE EVER-POPULAR Bobtown Beer Bash is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Next Saturday (July 27, 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! “These are just a few of the many tasks needed to put on the best real ale festival
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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.
Thanks to most ... but not to freeloaders FESTIVAL-GOERS who brought their own booze to a charity music event – and left their empties for others to clear up – have been criticised by its organiser. Each year the Navigation Tavern in Mirfield holds a music festival to raise money for Kirkwood Hospice and the Forget Me Not Trust. On Saturday the pub on Station Road attracted hundreds of people to the ‘NaviFest’ event to watch six different bands on a stage set up outside. Entry is free and money is raised through donations and food and drink sales, but this year a number of attendees brought their own drinks onto site, depriving the two charities of much-needed cash. To make matters worse, bottles were left strewn across the site for volunteers to clear away the next morning. This year ‘NaviFest’ raised around £6,000 split between the two charities, but pub landlord Kevin O’Donnell said: “A ‘special thanks’ goes to all those who chose to help raise funds for Kirkwood Hospice and the Forget Me Not Trust by bringing in their own drinks and leaving their rubbish for others to clean up. “We had maybe 800 people there on Saturday and it was a great event, but some people brought dozens of bottles of prosecco in and just left the empties on the ground. “Some people came to the bar asking for empty glasses with ice in them, and we gave them out, but it felt a bit wrong. We used to tell people not to bring large bags and had a couple of lads on the gate checking, but this year was the worst yet and we might have to bring that back in.” 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.
He set off across the world ... but did Donald make it? WO weeks ago this column announced the news that Donald Hardwick, of Tolson Street, Dewsbury was about to embark on a cycle trip to Peking (now Beijing) in China – and on Day Two of this ‘10 Days One Summer’ series, set in July 1934, we find the news that Donald had in fact set off.
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His departure went ahead as planned on Monday, July 16, and was duly reported in Tuesday morning’s Yorkshire Observer. Donald, an ex-Wheelwright Grammar School boy and Manchester University graduate, set off from his home on Tolson Street and intended to set sail from Goole to Amsterdam on the Wednesday, from there to Berlin, and, if refused permission to cross the Soviet border, said he would travel via India. He was said to be used to a vagabond lifestyle, having travelled all across Europe with his bicycle, but having only 20 pounds, a sleeping bag, spare shorts and shirt, a map, and a compass, this project really did look as if he was biting off more than he could chew. He had no idea how long he
would be away, and his passing comment to his relatives on his departure was “expect me when you see me”! It will be interesting to see what further news will be forthcoming in the following days, but if it appeared in the YO we will be duly sharing it with you. Donald, born in Dewsbury in 1913 was the eldest son of Joseph Hardwick and Mary Turnbull, who married when she was already pregnant with Donald, and they subsequently had two more sons in Jack, born 1916, and Fred, born 1918, but there is not
much more known about the family. The front page news was the discovery of the body of dancer Violette Kaye in a trunk in Brighton and the instigation of a search by Scotland Yard with a view to interviewing Cecil England, alias Tony England, Antoni Pirillie, Antoni Luiggi Mancini, and Jack Noytre, a waiter. Clearly a man not in a hurry to be found! International news featured a story of a strike of 60,000 men in the port of San Francisco where, it was said, the city of 634,000 inhabitants was under the ‘dictatorship’ of 25 labour leaders commanding the strikers. The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike was to last for 83 days from May 9, and the unrest was also evident in Minneapolis with the Teamsters strike that same year. Closer to home, we had news of a drunk-driving charge at Dewsbury Magistrates Court
when Wilford Heap, a blacksmith of Cambridge Street, Heckmondwike, was fined three pounds, with three pounds eight shillings costs for driving a car under the influence of drink and 10/- or seven days for driving dangerously. On a lighter note, there was a report of the wedding of Mr Harry Clark (born Henry), of Ravenshouse Road, and Miss Doris Peace, of Longcauseway, at St Saviours Church, Ravensthorpe. Harry, the son of Dewsbury butcher Tom Clark, had his brother Ernest acting as best man. In the 1911 Census Doris was living at The Ravensthorpe Hotel where her widowed grandmother, Ann Tattersfield, was the publican, while Heckmondwike-born Ann, and late husband Tom, previously ran the West Town Inn, on Huddersfield Road. On the sporting front the upcoming England v Australia Test match understandably earned some press attention, especially since the Aussies’ last game before the Test was against Yorkshire at Bramall Lane, and Don Bradman featured prominently.
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AWARD-WINNING Batley singer/songwriter Jade Helliwell releases her energetic new single ‘Put It On You’ today (Fri). So far 2019 has been a big year for Jade, beginning with a threeweek tour of Australia preceding two performances at the Country 2 Country music festival in London. Her last single, Stormchaser, has racked up nearly 200,000 Spotify plays since its release in March, with Jade now pulling in almost 13,000 monthly listeners on the music streaming platform. After years of gigging in pubs, clubs and at public events across the district, Jade really burst on to the scene in 2017, when she joined busker Dawid Osial for an impromptu rendition of Hallelujah in Leeds city centre, and a video of their on-street duet went viral. After 30 million views, global media coverage and an army of new fans on board Jade quit her job as a teaching assistant at Ravensthorpe Junior School to focus on her music career full-time. She has since performed at highprofile festivals including Nashville Meets London, Country On The Clyde and Buckle and Boots, as well as release her EP Infatuation, and further stand-alone single Drive, which not only saw her receive critical acclaim but also
Review by Mike Popplewell THE Spenborough Amateur Youth Society provided some marvellous entertainment last weekend with their production of Legally Blonde – The Musical at Cleckheaton Town Hall. Full marks to the director, James Greegan, and a fine cast, of whom several displayed musical theatre talents that belied their teenage years and, with study for drama degrees beckoning for some, there are definitely names to look out for. Star of the show for me was undoubtedy 18-year-old Emily Barker, playing female lead Elle Woods, who has her heart set on a career in the arts. On this showing she clearly has a chance of fulfilling her dream. Also look out for Kate Parker, who lit up the stage with her vibrancy, Naomi Ashworth, arguably the best singer in the production, and Adam Megson’s comedic talents should serve him well should he decide to pursue a life in theatre. All in all it was a big well done to the entire cast and production team and I will definitely be keeping an eye out for future productions from this hard-working and dedicated company.
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nominated for several awards. At the end of 2018 she was approached by Firestone to be an ambassador for their ‘Road To The Main Stage’ campaign alongside the BBC’s Abby McCarthy. The high profile event saw Jade encourage other aspiring musicians to follow their dreams, as part of a UK-wide talent competition in partnership with the giant tyre brand. For her latest release Jade has collaborated with country-writer and artist Jess Thristan. The result is a feisty, defiant ‘girl power’ number that will quickly have you singing along. Jade said: “Put It On You is a really fun song that I wrote with Jess about turning the tables when it comes to making the first move in a relationship. “A lot of my songs are about waiting for the guy to make a move and show they’re interested … but with this one, I’m taking the reins! It’s really playful with a production I love, influenced by my favourites (at the moment) Danielle Bradbury and Cassadee Pope. I can’t wait for everybody to hear it!” It is officially released on iTunes, Spotify and other digital outlets today. For more information visit www.jadehelliwell.com. “the illegitimate child of Monty Python, Morecambe and Wise and the rudest seaside postcard you’ve seen in your life”. Three of of its members, Simon Beaumont, Chris Fletcher and Mark Ashwell, also perform with Dewsbury Arts Group. There’ll be sketches, snippets of old films and items Dyliss like to refer to as dance numbers, but which actually resemble the tumbling of household waste from a tipper truck. For tickets and more details visit www.dewsburyarts group.info or call 01924 505861 for late availability.
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School’s out! ... so what next for families? Special Feature
TRUGGLING to find things to do with the kids during the summer break? Well fear not, there’s all sorts to do in North Kirklees and beyond that won’t break the bank. Having the kids running round the house for six
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Incidents of arson across Kirklees on the increase By Chris Young Local Democracy Reporter CONCERNS have been raised about a rise in arson incidents in Kirklees over the past year. New figures show that between April 2018 and March 2019 there were 1,199 arson incidents in Kirklees – up from 982 the previous year. Fire bosses have told councillors they are meeting with local police and Kirklees Council to try to halt the worrying increase. The issue was discussed by members of West Yorkshire Fire Authority’s Community Safety Committee at a meeting on Friday. A report detailing the performance of the fire service over the past year included a breakdown by incidents and by districts. It showed that across West Yorkshire the number of arson incidents rose from 6,714 to 7,753. It meant the service missed its ‘targets’ for arson by 21.7 per cent. And Kirklees saw the most dramatic rise – with the annual target being missed by 34 percent. A report to the committee said many of the arson incidents were ‘secondary arson’ – open grassland or litter being set on fire. It adds: “The rise in this area also incorporated fires outdoors that could be attributed to fly-tipping or inappropriately discarded waste which is recognised as a rising issue within Kirklees.” Kirklees District Commander Toby May said: “(Arson) can be linked to a rise in antisocial behaviour and fly-tipping. Arson isn’t just someone setting fire to someone else’s property. “There are societal issues and links with crime and anti-social behaviour. There is an awful lot of work we are doing and we’re meeting with the council and this is one of the main things on our agenda.” He said they had also recently met with the chief superintendent of the local policing team about working closer together.
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Historic church set to close in Thornhill Lees By Margaret Watson ANOTHER church in Dewsbury – Holy Innocents in Thornhill Lees – is due to close because there are too few members to keep it going. The last service – one of thanksgiving for what has gone before – will be held there on Sunday September 15 at 4pm, conducted by Bishop Tony Robinson. An open day will be held the day before from 12noon to 4pm, when the church records and memorabilia will be on view, and car parking will be provided at Headfield School nearby. The church building is to be sold and will be boarded up to protect it, and it is understood the building cannot be bought and used as a place of worship ever again. The joint parish of Thornhill Lees with Savile Town will be dissolved, as will Ravensthorpe,
and a new and larger parish created known as the Parish of Ravensthorpe with Thornhill Lees and Savile Town. The churchyard cannot be closed because it is not yet filled, and so will remain open for burials, but when it is filled and closed, the new parish will be responsible for its upkeep. The closure of this once-thriving church will leave two neighbouring villages – Savile Town and Thornhill Lees – with no physical Christian presence at all. So many of these hallowed places have now closed, some without even a mention, like St Peter’s in Earlsheaton a few months ago, and Thornhill Wesleyan Chapel, shortly before. It is many years since the
vibrant church in Savile Town, St Mary’s, with its own vicar, vicarage and church school, closed. The Savile Town Methodist Church with its resident minister and its huge manse on Orchard Street, closed more or less at the same time. St Matthew’s in Westtown closed many years ago but is now being used for a good purpose, and its beautiful grounds are kept in impeccable order. Holy Innocents in Thornhill Lees was built in 1858 and when it celebrated its centenary, the vicar, Fr Philip Slater, wrote the following message in the church magazine for June 1958: “Our great forefathers over the past hundred years have enriched our church, built it up stone by stone and cared for its
fabric. “They loved every stone, they loved to see it forming shape, and they did it all for the glory of God and for the welfare of the souls in this place. “When they passed on to more glorious courts, they handed on this treasure to us, this blessed spot, this House of God. “The generation that follows us will look back to this year of 1958, and when they read of our joyous celebrations, they will see we kept alight the torch our forefathers handed down to us. I wonder what Fr Slater would think today when there is no-one now able to pick up that torch and carry it forward. The present small band of worshippers who have struggled to hold it aloft for too many years can no longer carry it. The final chapter in Holy Innocents’ history has been written, and I am sad that it has fallen to me to write it.
Live, loud, and lots of fun! Review by Zoe Shackleton BIRSTALL’S newest music festival – Livefields – certainly lived up to the hype. The sun shone over Oakwell Hall on Saturday, and despite a small shower of rain the crowd of nearly 3,000 enjoyed dancing and singing along to the well-known songs played by the tribute bands on stage. The festival was organised by the owners of Cleckheaton’s live music venue Live Room, Dave Scriven and Mick Appleyard. It was a huge success. To say the organisers have never put on anything of this magnitude before, the whole day ran incredibly smoothly. It was a festival of tributes, my personal favourite being Definitely Mightbe – an ode to Oasis which closed the day perfectly. Acoustic Skadom got the crowd
going with covers of various Madness songs, and sandwiched in between were the Antarctic Monkeys, True Order and the Clone Roses. Everything from the bar and food stalls to the clean toilets seemed to be a slick operation – one which kept people there until the very end. Dave said he was overwhelmed
once the music had died down and the field was empty, but he’s already getting ready to make next year’s event bigger and better. Watch this space for Livefields 2020 tickets! You definitely won’t want to miss out on that one. PHOTOS: @159photography
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LIVERSEDGE began their pre-season campaign with a draw at Pontefract Collieries. Pontefract, who play in the division above their opponents, led 1-0 at half-time through a dinked finish from Joe Lumsden. Sedge turned things around in the second half, with two of their new additions getting on the scoresheet. Alex Lill got the first to level before Oliver Fearon finished off a quick counterattack. However, they couldn’t hold on for the win as Vaughan Redford converted a controversially-awarded penalty late on. The Clayborners have two more away friendlies in the next week, as they head to Runcorn Town tomorrow (Saturday, kick-off 3pm) before a match at North Gawber Colliery three days later (Tuesday, kick-off 7.45pm).
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PONTEFRACT COLLS 2 LIVERSEDGE FC 2
LIVERSEDGE have announced the signing of four new players. Nathan Hunt has joined from Yorkshire Amatuer, where he was the young player of the year last season, while Tom Marsden has also signed. Sedge have also snapped up two Emley AFC midfielders, with Michael Bottomley and Shane Hamilton both moving to Clayborn. Four further players have re-signed for the club, with Jayden Armstrong, Max Fenton, Alfie Raw and Emile Sinclair committing to anoth-
er season. Liversedge begin their NCEL Premier Division campaign on August 3 at Maltby Main.
FA Cup draw THE DRAWS have been made for the first two rounds of the Emirates FA Cup. Liversedge enter in the extra preliminary round and will welcome Abbey Hey to Clayborn on August 10. Ossett United will start in the following round, travelling to Billingham Town or Yorkshire Amateur on August 24.
Senior puts boots back on OSSETT UNITED LADIES’ Emily Senior will be back out on the pitch this season in a player-manager role. Senior and Daniel Jarvis are continuing as joint-managers after a highly successful first season, in which the team won the league title. But 25-year-old Senior, who has previously played in the Women’s National League, will have her playing boots on again as well. “Coaching is my entire life, it’s my career, but I’ve had to
take a step back so that I can play,” she said. “I’m trying to juggle getting my tactical input in there but being on the pitch myself and leaving Dan pulling the strings a lot. “I trialled like everyone else and we decided this would be the best thing for the team.” The Ladies are playing at Ingfield like the men this season, and they have their first friendly at the ground on Sunday against Stockport County Ladies.
RACING PREVIEW WITH MIKE SMITH
Lots to see in Go Racing festival HE Go Racing in Yorkshire Summer Festival gets under way this weekend followed by a full week of racing, with meetings at eight out of the nine courses in the Broad Acres. Starting tomorrow (Saturday) at Ripon and finishing the following Sunday (July 28) at our local track Pontefract, the Festival also includes an open afternoon at Jack Berry House in Malton next Tuesday, where racing fans can see what it takes to get a jockey back to fitness after injury. Another Super Saturday also sees the big Super Sprint at Newbury and the Irish Oaks, so there’s plenty to catch the eye. Malton handler Richard Fahey looks to have a very strong chance of winning the Super Sprint with well-backed favourite VENTURA REBEL in the juvenile contest. Odds of 6/4 look very skinny in a race that is usually ultra-competitive, but he deserves his position at the head of the market. He put down a big reputation when beating Wes Ward’s Lady Pauline on Royal Ascot trials day and ran a cracker into second place in the Norfolk Stakes at the Royal meeting, which looked one of the strongest juvenile races of the week. This strong-finishing two-year-old will be well suited by the fast gallop generated by the big field. The Jamie Osborne-trained filly EMTEN made an impressive debut when winning at Windsor and the bookies will also be looking to keep her onside. She is a lovely individual with size and scope and ran a stormer to finish fifth in
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the Norfolk Stakes last time out, and is easy to back eachway at 7/1. Powerful owner and highprofile punter Tony Bloom has two good chances in the £100,000 handicap at 2.25, including last year’s winner STRATUM. The Roger Charlton-trained WITHOLD is a smart second-string for the Brighton chairman but CARWENNAN can’t be ruled out of the equation. He has got better with each start and improved again with an easy win in the Northumberland Vase last time out, and looks like developing into a classy stayer. The 7lb rise is perfectly fair and may not be the limit of his ability. The Group 3 Hackwood Stakes over 6f has produced plenty of Group 1 winners and former winner THE TIN MAN looks well above this grade. While he has yet to match his Group 1 winning form this
year, this looks like a good opportunity for a confidence boosting success before he goes in search of bigger prizes. Mick Channon’s BARBILL has an each-way shout after producing a career best run in a competitive handicap at Newmarket last week. Joseph O’Brien trains the ante-post favourite for the Irish Oaks and has a very strong chance of winning the classic with IRIDESSA. She comes here having beaten the older fillies in the Pretty Polly over a mile and a quarter (fellow three-year-old Pink Dogwood came third) and it didn’t look like she would have any problems with the extra couple of furlongs at the Curragh. Ribblesdale winner STAR CATCHER is improving all the time as she matures and also has tons of stamina. John Gosden was patient with the filly and didn’t go to Epsom for the Oaks, and that approach is paying off with Frankie Dettori booked to take the ride. The Tote Scurry Handicap would normally be all about English sprinters but one to watch down the bottom of weights is ICE COLD IN ALEX, trained by Ken Condon. He gets in off 8-5 and with a kind draw should go really well having won over 7f here last year. CARRIGILL’S NAP: (money back as a free bet if finishes outside top 4): VENTURA REBEL, Saturday, Newbury, 3.40. AUGUR’S BEST BET: ICE COLD IN ALEX, Saturday, The Curragh, 2.50.
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Cleckheaton trip up In-form Batley chasing leaders at lowly Wrenthorpe By Mike Popplewell Cricket correspondent sport@thepressnews.co.uk
INCONSISTENT Cleckheaton slipped back into the bottom half of the Bradford League Premier Division table with a surprise defeat at the hands of second-bottom Wrenthorpe. They will make the short trip up the A58 to Lightcliffe tomorrow (Saturday) hoping to avoid a repeat against the side who currently sit third-bottom. Lightcliffe are 23 points adrift of Cleckheaton but another defeat for Mally Nicholson’s men would see them being dragged back into a potential relegation battle. With so many games still to play, the current 23-point cushion between Cleckheaton and the bottom two can quickly evaporate in the face of a poor run and, with Lightcliffe one of those clubs below them, they cannot afford another slip. Against Wrenthorpe, only opener Toby Thorpe (37) and skipper Nicholson (51) showed any resilience while Jonathan Whiteoak (3-42) was the only one to make an impression with the ball. If they are to keep clear of danger there needs to be a more solid look about their batting in the next few games. Hanging Heaton’s hopes of making a serious title challenge are fading fast but any lingering hopes surely rest on tomorrow’s game at home to leaders Woodlands. A heavy defeat at the hands of the Oakenshaw side in last week’s Priestley Cup semi-final, following on from a DLS-adjudged defeat by New Farnley the previous day, was
NO SILVERWARE: Gary Fellows’s Hanging Heaton side look increasingly unlikely to pick up a trophy this season a blow to their silverware ambitions. At least they have an immediate opportunity for revenge and, at the same time, a chance to reduce the massive 53-point gap that exists between the two sides despite them still sitting in fourth. Callum Geldart (42), Aqsad Ali (40) and Ishy Dawood (39) helped them to four batting points, but a faster scoring rate in a rain-interrupted contest saw New Farnley clinch victory. In the other key games this weekend, second-placed Bradford and Bingley and third-placed Pudsey St Lawrence face relegation-threatened Methley and Undercliffe respectively.
WITH three of the district’s teams in the top four and three in the bottom four, hardly a week goes by with a fixture that doesn’t impact on the promotion or relegation issues in Championship One. At present, in-form Batley, having risen to second, look a good bet to land a top-two place while Hartshead Moor, doubtless boosted by the recent appearances of former Yorkshire and England all-rounder Tim Bresnan, have risen to fourth – albeit 29 points adrift of Batley. East Bierley, on the Kirklees fringes, currently lie fifth but tomorrow’s (Saturday) games look set to shake things up further as Batley go to Hartshead Moor. In their last game, Batley secured a six-wicket win over Ossett, as Tariq Hussain’s 4-15 helped dismiss Ossett for 122 before Roheil Hussain hit 53 in reply to seal the win. Meanwhile, Hartshead Moor saw off Baildon courtesy of an unbroken 113-run stand for the fourth wicket between Ali Shan (73) and Mohammed Khan (53) after a score of 51 from opener Chris Wynd. That win left Batley six points behind leaders Bankfoot, while Moor go into this crucial Kirklees derby 29 points adrift of the second promotion spot. East Bierley, three points behind Moor, are next up to visit an Ossett side now in second-bottom spot but only four points behind Gomersal and Wakefield St Michaels. Gomersal, having been narrowly beaten by leaders Bankfoot last week, now face early-season front-
runners Keighley tomorrow while Scholes, who are still anchored to the foot of the table, entertain Baildon under the threat of a second successive relegation. Carlton and Yeadon still dominate the Championship Two title race but Birstall, involved in a derby game at Spen Victoria tomorrow, are creeping up on the rails and are now only eight points behind second-placed Yeadon after a massive 196-run win over bottom club Liversedge. Key men for Birstall in that game were Rishy Limbechaya (75), Nick Kaye (61) and left-arm paceman James Russell (7-30) as the Leeds Road men earned a vital
confidence boost. It comes ahead of a tough weekend that sees them face neighbours Spen in the league before entertaining Hunslet Nelson in the semi-final of the Jack Hampshire Cup on Sunday. Hopton Mills go to Jer Lane tomorrow with both sides on 111 points while Liversedge, already 18 points adrift of third-bottom safety, can expect little respite when they go to title-chasing Yeadon. In the Conference, second-bottom Crossbank Methodists are at home to second-top Great Preston while bottom club Heckmondwike and Carlinghow are without a game this weekend.
HH out with whimper OAKENSHAW-BASED club Woodlands, current leaders of the Bradford League Premier Division, will face New Farnley in the final of the Priestley Cup at Undercliffe CC on August 11 with a 12noon start. Hanging Heaton were standing in the way of Woodlands in last weekend’s semi-final tie but they proved to be a far from difficult obstacle. After winning the toss and electing to bat, they lost their last four wickets with their score on just 86 to leave skipper
FINAL GAME: Woodlands and New Farnley will play for the Priestley Cup
Gary Fellows and keeper Ishy Dawood as top scorers with just 22 runs apiece. Kez Ahmed (4-14) and Mohammed Bilal (3-28) did the damage with the ball for Woodlands and, though David Stiff picked up a couple of wickets for Hanging Heaton, they eased past their total with six wickets in hand. Premier Division side New Farnley also secured their passage with little fuss, defeating Championship One’s Baildon by 10 wickets after bowling out their opponents for 96 on a semi-final day which yielded only 368 runs in the four innings played.
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RUGBY LEAGUE
Blades have cutting edge in Ossett
Caitlin waves international flag
Friendly
OSSETT UNITED SHEFFIELD UNITED
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SHEFFIELD UNITED made a second-half comeback to defeat Ossett United in last weekend’s pre-season friendly. After defeating Campion and Silsden on the road in their opening two friendlies, Ossett led at halftime through Stuart Mott’s strike before the Premier League club’s young line-up turned the game around in the second half. It was a quiet opening 20 minutes before the first chance came the way of the hosts, with Alex O’Keefe shooting over the bar after Tom Greaves had robbed a defender of possession in the area. The opening goal came after George Broadbent had brought down Nick Guest. Jack Vann’s freekick struck the crossbar, with Mott seeing his first attempt from the rebound blocked before thumping the ball in at the second time of asking. Only in the final moments of the half did the visitors have their best opportunity, but Ossett’s defence proved resolute as both Chris Chantler and Andy Monkhouse blocked strikes. Sheffield proved more threatening after the break, equalising five minutes into the second half. Stephen Mallon’s effort from distance was scuffed but Reece York kept it alive, sending a shot back across goal that was blocked by goalkeeper Brett Souter but fell
ON THE CHASE: Tom Greaves runs onto the ball against Sheffield United kindly for Jake Young to tap in. On the hour mark, the South Yorkshire side took the lead as an unfortunate slip allowed a trialist to run through on goal and finish into the bottom corner. Zac Brunt placed his shot from 20 yards just over the bar and Kyron Gordon put a header wide as the Blades continued to threaten, while Elliot Harrison nodded a header narrowly wide at the other end. Nick Guest fired a strike into the side netting as Ossett searched for a leveller, but Vann headed off target with the final chance of the game as the Blades held on for the win. Ossett were defeated again on Tuesday night as Hemsworth Miners Welfare won 1-0 at Ingfield to claim the Steve Kelly Memorial Trophy. The only goal came in just the second minute of the game, as Nash Connolly tapped in Adam Knight’s cross from the left.
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The visitors were on top for much of the first half, with Connolly missing two other good chances and Jason Yates also twice off target. Yates clipped the woodwork early in the second half before a host of Ossett changes saw them improve in the final half-hour. Marko Basic miscued his effort after a slick move, while Luke Porritt headed off target from Chantler’s free-kick. The biggest chance came with seven minutes to go but Monkhouse’s header was saved by goalkeeper Jordan Greaves, with O’Keefe twice denied from the rebound. Ossett have two big home games in the next week, with FA Trophy holders AFC Fylde coming to Ingfield for their next pre-season test on Saturday (kick-off 3pm) before Huddersfield Town visit three days later (Tuesday, kick-off 7.45pm).
DEWSBURY’S Caitlin Beevers officiated her first representative game on Wednesday night as a touch judge in an England Youth match. The 17-year-old took the flag for the international match against France at the KCOM Stadium in Hull. Beevers became the first female referee to officiate a rugby league game at Wembley last year when she took charge of the Year 7 National Schools final, and has also been touch judge in League One this season. She has been in the limelight on the field as well though, as one of the stars of the Women’s Super League this season with Leeds Rhinos. Beevers scored a try in last year’s Challenge Cup final and is preparing for a second after her spectacular length-of-the-field score in the semi-final helped set up a rematch with Castleford. However, she says that her ambi-
IN CHARGE: Caitlin Beevers tion is to become a full-time referee. “I would love one day to referee a Super League game and become a full-time referee. I know I can’t play forever but I couldn’t imagine not being involved,” she said. “Officiating is a great way to stay involved in the sport and I would be over the moon to get that chance.”
Tigers keep pace with league leaders OSSETT TRINITY TIGERS continued their pursuit of Yorkshire Men’s League Division Two leaders Wyke with a 4012 win away at Skirlaugh Bulls. Adam Newby scored a hat-trick and opposite centre Ash Berry grabbed a brace, while Arron Williams and Dave Diskin got their other tries and Elliot Schofield added six conversions. Elsewhere, Thornhill Trojans ‘A’ remain in fourth place in the NCL Alliance Division after a 26-10 loss at home to Heworth. Liam Ward and Josh Gearey scored
tries for the Trojans with Mark Hodgson adding a conversion, but their opponents proved just too strong. The Tigers and the Trojans will meet in the John Kane Heavy Woollen Cup final on August 22, after Thornhill’s second team beat Batley Boys DMR in the semi-final. Johnny Mack, Zak Harrod and Declan Tomlinson all scored doubles while Declan Kaye, Jonathan Hellings and Liam Ward touched down for further tries in the rout.
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Sharks keep hopes alive with sensational victory NCL Division Two
SHAW CROSS SHARKS 52 ASKAM 8 Stephen Ibbetson at Leeds Road WHAT a difference a week can make – just seven days after a 62-0 defeat to West Bowling, Shaw Cross produced a similar trouncing over Askam to breathe life into their survival hopes. That loss had sent them to the bottom of the table but, against their fellow strugglers, a scintillating second-half display saw them leap straight back off the foot of the table. They are now only three points from safety and travel to Hull Dockers tomorrow (Saturday) before taking on the other side in the bottom three, East Leeds, two weekends in a row. It was still all to play after a late first-half try saw them lead by two points at the break, but the Sharks stepped it up in the second 40 minutes to complete a resounding win. “We seem to be getting there slowly but surely, and today’s win is part of that recovery to trying to become a better team,” said a delighted head coach Mark Barlow after the game. “We haven’t had the best season, and for every point we’ve earned we’ve had to really dig deep and scrape a win or a draw, but today we’ve managed to score 52 points, and to score 52 points against any team at any level is an achievement. “We came for the win, we got the win, and I just want the lads to enjoy it because it’s been a long time coming.” Shaw Cross got off to a fantastic start with a try inside two minutes. Two of their senior crew linked up to provide it, with Greg Wilby making a break down the right and
AT THE DOUBLE: Sharks youngster Brad Baines scored twice in the win over Askam offloading to Michael Wainwright to run in. They came under some pressure following that opening score though, and eventually it told as Zak Steel went over from dummyhalf after Ben Lewney had been stopped close to the line. Askam continued to attack and took the lead when Grady Slater took Todd Steel’s pass to score. Ryan Ospital was sent to the sin bin for conceding a penalty after the Sharks had been placed on a team warning, but they managed to survive the following 10 minutes without any further damage. That allowed them to take the lead a minute before the break. Luke Hudson did well to force a knock-on from Askam close to their line, and a quick move to the left saw Brad Baines score. Sebastian Boudie added a brilliant kick from the touchline – and would go on to convert all seven of their tries in a second-half rout. Like in the first half, they made a quick start following the kick-off,
with Boudie finding Baines for his second on the end of another slick right-to-left move. Harrison Sutcliffe came close to another score before Shaw Cross were in again when, on the first play from a penalty, Dec Brereton attracted defenders and offloaded to Wainwright to complete his own brace. They had to work hard in defence to repel pressure from Askam, before cutting loose with five tries in the final 17 minutes. Steve Talbot touched down for his first try of the season to stretch out the lead before a brilliant individual try from Callum Barker with a feint which fooled the defender. Elliott Richardson then charged over for the next try and Brereton added his name to the scoresheet after Wainwright had been denied his hat-trick. The Sharks were determined to make it to 50 points and they hit the half-century mark with two minutes to spare as Andrew Tillotson darted over for the final try.
Third defeat for troubled Trojans NCL Premier Division
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THORNHILL remain deep in relegation trouble after suffering a third consecutive defeat at home to Egremont Rangers. Against a side involved in the title race, the Trojans took the lead when Jack Gledhill went over for his seventh try of the season in the 12th minute. However, man of the match John Paul Brocklebank scored a try on the verge of half-time for Egremont before adding the conversion himself – the first of his five successful kicks out of five – to hand them a narrow lead at the break. The visitors put themselves in a strong position with two tries in the space of three minutes early in the second half, with Matt Hutchins and Michael Ellwood both touching down to make it 16-4. However, the Trojans managed the same feat with back-to-back tries of their own to bring the scores level at the hour mark. Will Gledhill crossed for the first before Casey Johnson scored three minutes later, with Johnson adding both of the goals. They would not be level for long though – just a minute later, Brocklebank landed a major blow
Moor back to the bottom ahead of crucial clash NCL Division One
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DEWSBURY MOOR returned to the bottom of the table after a heavy defeat at Wigan St Patricks. A run of three wins in four matches had given the Maroons real hope of battling to avoid relegation, but they suffered a setback last weekend. Although they returned to the foot of the ladder as Saddleworth Rangers won last weekend, the team they beat is the side in the final safe spot, Oulton Raiders. That means Moor are still six points from safety with seven matches remaining – and they take on none other than Oulton, on home turf, tomorrow (Saturday) in a crucial fixture. Last week, they started slowly to allow play-off contenders Wigan St Pats to race into an 8-0 lead. Jonny Brown and Craig Thomas both touched down before Moor registered their first points when Connor Gavaghan went over for his first try of the season and Bradley Foster added the conversion.
That didn’t act as a catalyst though, and instead they went into the break 22-6 down as Will Boardman, man of the match Danny Ryding and Matthew Velvin scored tries, with Dan McGoldrick tagging on one of the goals. Ryding crossed for his second try six minutes into the second half, before Jermaine Davies pulled one back for the Maroons. It was still only 28-10 heading into the final 10 minutes of the game, but the visitors fell away in the closing period to make the scoreline look considerably worse. Boardman got his second of the game, Andy Cunningham added another and then Brown completed his own brace to round things off. DEWSBURY MOOR have received help funding an Under-15s tour to Australia from an unexpected source – Hollywood actor Russell Crowe. The Gladiator star is the owner of NRL side South Sydney Rabbitohs, where Moor products Sam, Tom and George Burgess all play. Crowe and each of the brothers have all donated £500 to the club’s GoFundMe page, which is nearly halfway towards its £5,000 goal.
Norris is the hero at the last NCL Division Three
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TOM NORRIS scored the winning try as Dewsbury Celtic secured a lastgasp victory at Oldham St Annes. Having lost the reverse fixture 34-6, Celtic looked set for another slip-up against one of the division’s struggling sides when they trailed 26-16 in the closing stages. However, Danny Thomas got them back in the game before Norris chose the perfect time to score his first try of the season with two minutes left on the clock. Oldham’s Kiel Lancashire claimed the man of the match award, and he got his side up and running with the opening try of the game. Celtic responded when Tom Bottomley went over before Thomas scored his first of the game, with Charlie Heaton converting both tries. However, Oldham reduced the
arrears to just two points at half-time as a Joe Hartley try and Matt Whitehead goal made it 12-10. Saints continued their momentum into the second half as Hartley added his second and Callum Cashin scored a double to put them in control. The turning point came when the hosts had Simon Topping shown red for a swinging arm on 55 minutes, leaving them a man down for the rest of the game. Thomas was binned for retaliation for Celtic but within moments of returning to the field, the Jamaica international scored his second try of the game and 11th of the year to bring them back into contention. Time was running down but the Green and Whites kept pushing and finally broke through for the winning try in the final seconds as Norris proved the hero. Three points off the automatic promotion places, Celtic go to Gateshead Storm, who they defeated 46-4 on home soil earlier in the year, tomorrow (Saturday).
Boys still in promotion hunt NCL Division Three
HENSINGHAM BATLEY BOYS
NOT ENOUGH: Casey Johnson scored a try and two goals for the Trojans by scoring his second of the match to regain the initiative for Rangers. Thornhill’s cause was not helped by having two players sent to the sin bin, with Johnson penalised for a spear tackle and Lewis Farren shown the yellow card for kicking. Marcus O’Brien scored the final try of the game with nine minutes to spare, securing his side the win
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and leaving Thornhill in a sticky spot. Leigh Miners Rangers won elsewhere last weekend to leave Thornhill three points from safety, with seven games remaining. They are back at Overthorpe Park again tomorrow (Saturday), where the visitors are last season’s undefeated champions Hunslet Club Parkside.
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BATLEY BOYS kept up the pressure on the top two by coming from behind to defeat Hensingham for a fifth consecutive win. They won 46-10 when the two sides recently met in Batley but the Boys had to earn this win the hard way, displaying more accuracy from the kicking tee after the sides scored five tries each. The Boys took the lead early on when top try-scorer Matthew Sheridan scored his 13th of the season and Adam Bingham added the conversion. Hensingham turned it around to lead 12-6 at half-time though, with efforts from Dan McGarry, Callum Tunstall and Craig McAvoy putting them in a good position. Batley drew level just minutes into the second half, with Gavin Davis getting over the line for the 12th time this year and Bingham
again adding the two points. The Cumbrian side returned with interest as Jack Kellett and Jay Rossi scored tries, but the inability to land a conversion would come back to haunt them. Aaron James scored twice in the closing stages as Batley hit the front, with Josh Scruton getting the other try to seal the win as Bingham landed two further goals and Luke Sheridan added a twopointer as well. Even more impressively, they did so a man down in the final seven minutes after Charlie Sandell had been sent to the sin bin. With all of the top five winning, the picture remains unchanged at the top of the division with eight rounds of fixtures remaining. Batley are in third place, two points behind the leaders Hunslet Warriors and one behind Woolston Rovers. With the top two going head-to-head this weekend, the Boys have the chance to make up ground if they can defeat second-bottom Eastmoor Dragons at home tomorrow (Saturday).
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Bulldogs pick up vital point Betfred Championship
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Stephen Ibbetson at the Fox’s Biscuits Stadium BATLEY and York couldn’t be separated in 80 minutes of rugby for the second time in less than a month as the points were shared in an entertaining clash. The Bulldogs’ golden-point 1895 Cup success in North Yorkshire was the exception in both sides’ recent records, with York coming into the game on a four-match winning run in the league and Batley on a five-game losing streak. Form seems to go out of the window when these two meet though, and both of those runs came to an end in another high-quality affair. For York, the result is a hit to their play-off ambitions, but coach James Ford insisted “it’s an important point for both sides”. He added: “At times it wasn’t the most expansive game but there’s that much on the line that sometimes it’s about building pressure and being patient.” The point eases Batley’s relegation concerns although their boss Matt Diskin believes they should have held on for the win. “I thought it was a really good game of rugby,” he said. “Both sides worked exceptionally hard to try and get a result out of the game. If we were a little bit smarter with our game management we could have seen the game out at the end.” Both sides completed all of their sets in the first 15 minutes, before the reakthrough came with the first-half’s one moment of quality. Leeds loanee Jack
MATCH STATS SHEFFIELD EAGLES: Josh Guzdek Ryan Millar Menzie Yere Jacob Ogden Ben Blackmore Pat Walker Anthony Thackeray Shaun Pick James Davey Brad Knowles Joel Farrell Oliver Davies Aaron Brown Subs: Corey Makelim Paddy Burns Sonny Esslemont Blake Broadbent Tries: Blackmore (5, 37), Ogden (13), Farrell (61), Esslemont (67). Goals: Walker 4/5. DEWSBURY RAMS: Joe Martin Rob Worrincy Owen Trout Adam Ryder Conor McGrath Paul Sykes Liam Finn Jode Sheriffe Dom Speakman Dan Igbinedion Dan Waite-Pullan Michael Knowles Kyle Trout Subs: Sam Day Lucas Walshaw Chris Annakin Tom Garratt Tries: Speakman (24), K Trout (29), Knowles (49), Worrincy (70). Goals: Sykes 3/4. Referee: G. Hewer Half-time: 16-10 Penalties: 4-4 Man of the match: Josh Guzdek (Sheffield) Attendance: 691
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Broadbent burst through the defence on halfway and sped around two for his first try for the club, with Louis Jouffret adding the conversion. Johnny Campbell misjudged the restart but Batley withstood the five minutes of pressure that followed, with the help of a fantastic tackle by Sam Wood to deny Josh Jordan-Roberts. Connor Robinson came close to creating a try for York after his great run, but his offload close to the line didn’t find its target. He did narrow the scores just before the break though, knocking over a simple penalty to make it 6-2 at half-time. Robinson and Batley’s Danny Yates were sent to the sin bin early in the second half after a bout of handbags between the two scrum-halves.
Wood, moved to the wing after an injury to Lewis Galbraith, went over soon after for the Bulldogs but the try was ruled out for a forward pass. Instead it was York who got the next score. They were awarded a penalty and, with both sides back to a full complement, Robinson and Matty Marsh combined to find Cameron Scott who, despite the attention of a pack of defenders, was judged to have got the ball down. However, parity lasted for only four minutes. James Brown’s offload allowed Broadbent to hit the turbos for the second time in the match, this time passing back inside for Jouffret to regain the lead. The Frenchman added the conversion, and then struck a brilliant penal-
ty goal from more than 40 metres out moments later to hand his side a twoscore lead at 14-6. York were far from done though, and took advantage of good position following a penalty as Robinson found Jordan-Roberts to squeeze his way between defenders and reduce the arrears. Robinson added the kick and, when his side were awarded a penalty 10 metres from the Batley line, added another two points from the tee to level again with eight minutes to go. When the Knights were awarded a penalty on the hooter 65 metres out he fancied his chances to win it as well, but not even the Mount Pleasant slope could help him kick that distance and both sides had to settle for the draw.
Ward raises over £4000 after braving the shave BATLEY Bulldogs prop Michael Ward has raised over £4,000 for charity after braving the shave last weekend. After the passing of Beverley Nicholas, wife of Batley chairman Kevin, the popular forward decided to have his locks removed to raise money for breast cancer charities as part of Beverley’s Pink Weekend fundraiser. The shave took place after last Sunday’s match with York, with supporters from both clubs helping to raise almost £1,200 on the day as Ward auctioned off chances to help cut his hair. That is added to the donations made via his JustGiving page which, including gift aid, now stand at over £3,000. Ward’s hair will be donated to The Little Princess Trust, an organisation that aims to provide real hair wigs to children and young people who lost theirs due to cancer treatments and other conditions.
HAIR-RAISING: Michael Ward had all his locks cut off for breast cancer charities after last weekend’s game against York
MATCH STATS BATLEY BULLDOGS: Dave Scott Lewis Galbraith Sam Smeaton Jack Broadbent Johnny Campbell Louis Jouffret Danny Yates Adam Gledhill Alistair Leak Tyler Dickinson Sam Wood Dane Manning James Brown Subs: Lewis Bienek Toby Everett Reiss Butterworth Michael Ward Tries: Broadbent (15), Jouffret (59). Goals: Jouffret 3/3. YORK CITY KNIGHTS: Matty Marsh Jason Bass Brad Hey Cameron Scott Perry Whiteley Liam Harris Connor Robinson Ronan Dixon Will Jubb Jack Teanby Josh Jordan-Roberts Liam Salter Marcus Stock Subs: Kriss Brining Graeme Horne Jack Blagborough Jordan Baldwinson Tries: Scott (54), JordanRoberts (67). Goals: Robinson 3/5.
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Referee: S. Mikalauskas Half-time: 6-2 Penalties: 3-6 Sin Bin: Robinson (43, punching), Yates (43, punching) Man of the match: Dane Manning (Batley) Attendance: 1,009
Missed opportunity for the Rams Betfred Championship
SHEFFIELD EAGLES
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Stephen Ibbetson at Olympic Legacy Park DEWSBURY boss Lee Greenwood said a win was “there for the taking” after his side missed the chance to climb further away from the relegation zone in a narrow defeat at Sheffield. The play-off chasing Eagles never trailed and although the Rams made them work hard for the win, the defeated coach admitted the result was fair. “The best team won I think,” said Greenwood. “We battled hard but Sheffield had a little bit more quality at the vital times. “That was there for the taking tonight but we weren’t quite good enough to do it, which is probably the story of our season.” Sheffield gave them the opportunity to challenge with a below-par performance which disappointed coach Mark Aston. “It’s a win, and that’s about it,” he said. “We started off with intent and purpose, we’re 12-0 up, and then the cue has gone on the rack. “We were disrespectful, they all become ball players instead of doing their roles, so I was quite agitated at half-time with them, and it didn’t get a lot better in the second half.” Sloppy starts are nothing new for the Rams this season and they had another one in South Yorkshire, with the Eagles racing into that 12-point lead. Menzie Yere’s break got the home side on the front foot before play was switched and Anthony Thackeray sent
Ben Blackmore into the corner to score the first try after five minutes. Joe Martin had an effort ruled out for obstruction before Sheffield doubled their advantage. Thackeray won a penalty following a break and he then assisted once again, this time slipping Jack Ogden through a gap to finish. Pat Walker converted both tries. The Eagles have racked up some big scores this season and the Rams defence was looking vulnerable, but they were pushing too many passes and coming up with too many errors to earn further points. That allowed Dewsbury to fight their way back into the match, and they pulled themselves to within two points of their opponents with a couple of
GUTTED: Rams prop Tom Garratt
scores in the space of five minutes. Dom Speakman got the first, darting over after Lucas Walshaw had been held up, before Kyle Trout drove over and planted the ball down under the posts for a try converted by Paul Sykes. On the brink of half-time, a poor Sykes pass was taken by Ryan Millar and the winger sped away, with Conor McGrath doing well to recover and bring him down. However, after Oliver Davies was held up, Josh Guzdek found Blackmore to score his second. Sheffield made the stronger start to the second half and Yere had a try ruled out in the corner after his foot strayed into touch. That allowed the Rams to level the scores with a converted try, when Sam
Day found Michael Knowles to plant the ball down against his former side. Dewsbury looked well and truly in the contest at that point, but it was the hosts who made the next breakthrough thanks to Walker’s run at the line and pass to Farrell to cross. Six minutes later it looked to be game over. On the back of a penalty, Sonny Esslemont broke through on the right after a good move to go over and make it 28-16. The relegation-threatened Rams ensured a nervy final 10 minutes when Worrincy took a pass from Sykes and shifted inside the opposite winger to cross, with Sykes adding the conversion to make it a one-score game, but the Eagles held on for victory.
‘We can all put our hands up’ DEWSBURY forward Tom Garratt says that every player can take a share of the blame after last week’s frustrating defeat. The Rams were narrowly beaten by Sheffield, and Garratt says that those close results are the hardest to take. “Those games that you could have won, especially against a team that high in the table, away, are always tough,” admitted the prop. “It was definitely winnable so it’s gutting. When you lose these games that are so close it’s worse than a 50-0. “At crucial times we don’t complete sets or we give away penalties, myself included, and I think we can all holds our hands up at some point in the game. “How many close games have we lost like that? If you count the games that were close and we could have won, we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in.” Dewsbury return to action on Sunday against Halifax, who have comfortably defeated them in both the Championship and the Challenge Cup already this season, but Garratt hopes it will be a different story this time. “They’re in a similar place to Sheffield and in the last couple of games they’ve pumped us so it would be good to have a real dig at them,” he said.
INJURY WOES MOUNT By Stephen Ibbetson Sports Reporter sport@thepressnews.co.uk
BATLEY BULLDOGS have a mounting injury list to deal with ahead of this weekend’s trip to Leigh Centurions. Matt Diskin’s squad is down to the bare bones after a number of blows in recent weeks, with Lewis Galbraith the latest to be ruled out. The centre or winger picked up a knee injury in last weekend’s 14-14 draw against York which could see him miss the remainder of the season. Prop forward Joe Taira’s campaign has already come to an end with the knee injury that he suffered the previous week at Swinton. Winger Niall Walker and second-row Paul Brearley also picked up hamstring knocks in that game and remain out of action. That leaves them lacking in both of those positions, with flyer Wayne Reittie not yet ready to return and Alex Bretherton described by Diskin as “touch and go”. Their problems in the back-row will be further exacerbated by the absence of Dane Manning for the trip to Leigh, after he was handed a one-match ban for a dangerous throw in their Swinton loss. The Bulldogs are also without the services of experienced scrum-half Dom Brambani, who remains a couple of weeks away from a return. “We’re doing it tough at the moment, particularly when the injuries we’re getting are in positions where we don’t have a lot of depth,” admitted Diskin. “We’re a little bit threadbare with the squad at the moment but I’ve got confidence in the people that come in.” Next weekend’s 1895 Cup semifinal clash at Sheffield Eagles is on the horizon but the focus for now is on the trip to Leigh Sports Village on Sunday (kick-off 3pm). Batley will be looking to overturn a Centurions side who sit in fourth place in the Championship table and have won five of their last six league matches. “It’s going to be a tough task, they’re flying at the moment,” said the Bulldogs boss. “They’re bringing players in left, right and centre for fun so they’ve got a very different
THIN ON OPTIONS: Batley are without the injured Paul Brearley (left) and Alex Bretherton (right) in the back row, along with PHOTOS: Simon Hall Dane Manning (top) who sits out the trip to Leigh through suspension budget to what we’ve got. But we’ll go there and look for a really solid performance heading into that semi-final the week after.” In contrast to Leigh’s form, Batley are winless in their last six, but they picked up an important point last time out against York. On the back of a five-match losing streak, Diskin was pleased with some of the improvements made to take a share of the spoils against the division’s secondplaced side. “We worked really hard and York struggled to break us down,” he said. “As regards to effort and attitude, it was a massive improvement. We showed some glimpses
of where we can be if we concentrate. However, he added: “It’s a point lost from our point of view. We were in some good positions to see the game out. “We went to the posts for the one-pointer and we had someone run into touch, we kicked out on the full a few times, and I think the referee gifted them eight points from that game. “Our kicks weren’t great, the end of sets weren’t great, and that needs to be better because you can’t give teams seven-tackle sets. We made some positive steps today but our problem is backing that up week-to-week, so let’s see how we respond next week.” Nothing could separate the
Bulldogs and the Knights on the field but there are 16 points between them in the league table, and Diskin acknowledged that the gap should not be that big. “With the quality of people we’ve got on board, they know that we should be sitting higher than we are,” he said. “We deserve to be where we are. If you make as many errors as we do, you deserve to be where you are in the table. “When we’re in good position we’ve got to throw the ball about, we want to test teams out, and we’re okay with errors there. “But coming out of your own end, you can’t accept some of the basic errors and we’ll be having a frank conversation about that.”
Rams hope ‘Fax focused on cup clash LEE GREENWOOD hopes that Halifax have both eyes on their Challenge Cup semi-final rather than their clash with his Dewsbury side this weekend. The Rams are just two points clear of the relegation zone heading into the West Yorkshire derby at the Tetley’s Stadium on Sunday (kickoff 3pm). Halifax are out of contention for a Championship play-off spot and have a huge Challenge Cup last-four tie to look forward to against Super League leaders St Helens the following week. Despite their poor league form – last week’s defeat of Widnes was a first win in seven – they have racked up two comfortable victories over Dewsbury already this season. The Rams failed to score a point in March’s reverse fixture, losing 26-0 at The Shay, while Halifax came out on top 34-6 in May on their cup run. Greenwood admits that it will a tough task to take the two league points if their opponents, who have won on their last five visits to Dewsbury in total, can match those performances. “Halifax have been right at it when they’ve played us, both times this season,” he said. “They haven’t had a good season at all but the two times they’ve played us they’ve turned it on. “When they beat us at their place it was their best performance of the season, and when they came to ours in the Challenge Cup they got right on it and beat us very comfortably. “If they turn up anything like that we’re going to struggle. I’m hoping that they’ve got not one eye but both eyes on the Saints game the week after.” He added that his own side must improve to have any chance of victory after their 28-22 defeat at Sheffield last week. “That wasn’t good enough so we need to be better than that,” he admitted. “That was good enough to just stick in there, lose a close one and look like you’ve given it a really good go. “There were bits of it that I’m not happy with. The try line defence was hideous if I’m being honest. “If we hadn’t been so dominant with field position early on in the second half, Sheffield would have scored every time they got down there. It was that bad.” The Rams will remain without Robbie Ward for the Halifax clash as the hooker continues to nurse an ankle injury. On-loan winger Conor McGrath is unable to play against his parent club, leaving Andy Gabriel in line for a recall to make his 100th career appearance.
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