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IDIOTS ‘Rock-throwing yobs could have killed someone’ says charity hero after two attacks By Zoë Shackleton News Reporter zoe@thepressnews.co.uk
A MAN has warned fellow motorists to be vigilant after twice being the victim of a gang of youths who threw rocks at his car while he was driving. Ron Dakin’s car was attacked twice in the space of two days in Batley as he was on his way to deliver food to the homeless for the charity he runs. The 42-year-old, who founded homeless charity On The Streets two years ago, was driving down Healey Lane with his wife and two young children on Friday afternoon when he noticed the group of kids “messing about” at the side of the road. A stone then smashed through one of the back passenger windows where his wife was sat and shattered glass over her – but the gang fled before Ron had a chance to get a proper look at them.
Then the next day Ron was hit again further down Healey on Mayman Lane – that time his window was down and a rock hit him in the face, busting his nose. While he doesn’t believe he was targeted and it was a random attack, Ron said he was lucky it didn’t cause a more serious accident. He said: “If they’d have thrown a brick or something bigger I’d
Wife and young children were in car when rock shattered rear window have had to swerve and could have caused a major accident. “I had my two kids in the car with the first incident, a threemonth-old and a five-year-old. “My wife was very lucky because the glass shattered all over her.” In recent months police and councillors said they have been cracking down on anti-social
behaviour from a gang of around 20 youths in the town. Local residents say the group, aged between 12 and 16, have smashed windows in houses, damaged multiple cars, been verbally abusive and intimidating, and habitually ride motorbikes up and down main roads, among other anti-social behaviour. Ron couldn’t say whether whether it was the same group that targeted him on both occasions but he informed police of the two incidents. He set up the On The Streets charity in December 2017 to help feed the homeless and needy, and along with other volunteers delivers food to people in Dewsbury, Wakefield and Bradford every night. He was on his way to pick up a delivery of food from Greggs when he was struck in the face, but he said: “I was still able to go out, I put a plastic sheet over the window until it was fixed. I quickly sorted my nose and set off again.”
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On May 14, suddenly in hospital, of Hanging Heaton, aged 55, wife of Jonathan, mum of Heather and the late Anthony. Funeral service will take place at Cottingley Hall Crematorium, Leeds, on Wednesday June 5 at 10.20am.
EVERETT GORDON On May 21, in hospital, of Mirfield, aged 82, husband of the late Norma, dad of Julie and Anthony. Funeral service will take place at Wakefield Crematorium on Thursday June 6 at 1.40pm.
HALMSHAW JOHN WILLIAM On May 22, peacefully at home surrounded by his family, aged 89, husband of Jean, dad of Sally, Simon and Jackie. Funeral service will take place at Butterfield House Private Chapel of Rest, Cleckheaton, on Wednesday June 12 at 1.30pm.
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On May 20th peacefully after a long illness aged 89yrs. A dearly loved husband, father, father-in-law, grandad and brother-in-law. Funeral service at Huddersfield Crematorium on Saturday June 1st at 11:15am. Family flowers only please, donations for Yorkshire Cancer Research can be made after the service. at The Salvation Army, Batley, on Monday June 17 at 11.30am.
HELLIWELL NELL On Friday May 17, peacefully at home with her husband of 60 years John, aged 82, mother to Tracy and the late Darren. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Thursday June 13 at 10.30am.
NORTH STEWART On May 19, peacefully at Pinderfields Hospital, of Batley, aged 73. Funeral service will take place at Cottingley Hall Crematorium,
Leeds, on Wednesday June 12 at 10.20am.
O’DONNELL DAWN On May 15, peacefully with her family by her side, of Batley, aged 71, wife of the late Peter, mum of Tania and Peter. Funeral service will take place at St Mary’s RC Church on Friday June 7 at 10am.
SMITH JOYCE On May 9, suddenly at Pinderfields Hospital, aged 79, wife of the late Clifford, mum of Beverley and Martyn. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Tuesday June 4 at 1.15pm.
HAWKSWORTH GERALD On May 16, suddenly at home, aged 86, husband of the late Margaret. Funeral service will take place at Huddersfield Crematorium on Monday June 17 at 11.15am.
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Kirklees District Police, said: “We are at the early stages of our investigation into this incident, but we are treating this as a potential firearms discharge. “This incident will undoubtedly cause concern to our local communities and I would like to thank them for their understanding, support and patience throughout our ongoing investigation. We apologise for any inconvenience caused due to the extensive police cordon in the area.” Anyone with information is asked to contact police via 101 quoting crime reference number 13190273265, or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Kind food donation BATLEY’S struggling Food Bank has received a generous donation from an online retailer. Approved Food donated three pallets of food, drink and baby products to the food bank. Based on Brunswick Street, the bank is run by a team of volunteers and currently feeds around 40 adults and children every day. They are always looking for more donations, which can be dropped off at the premises during opening times: Monday and Tuesday (1pm-3pm), Wednesday (12-2pm), Thursday (6pm-7.30pm) and Friday (1pm-3pm).
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Dangerous building closes town centre road OATES Street, just off Daisy Hill in Dewsbury town centre, has been closed to traffic and pedestrians owing to the dangerous condition of the derelict former Textile WMC. Kirklees Coun Naheed Mather said: “The building was reported to the council as dangerous on 17 May. Our officers inspected the outside of the building immediately and found that it had deteriorated. “A follow up inspection of the inside of the building on 20 May showed that a roof truss was broken, leading to the external wall being pushed out. A surveyor found the building to be dangerous and fenced the building off. We then had no choice but to close the road for the safety of the public. We’re working closely with the owner of the building to ensure he completes the repairs as soon as possible so we can reopen the road. He is aware of the urgency of this and will continue to monitor the situation over the next few weeks.”
News In Brief Food bank appeal DEWSBURY: A food bank is appealing for residents to provide more fresh food and vegetables, because of the demand on its services. “We can’t just keep giving out tinned food,” said Ridhwan Nadat, who is based at the Fusion Housing building in Union Street. The food bank is open from 12-4pm, Monday to Friday, at the Empire House building opposite Dewsbury town hall.
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Westborough mosque plan back on cards By Zoe Shackleton DEVELOPERS have re-submitted details of their plans to build a new mosque in Dewsbury. Kirklees Council originally refused the application back in 2017 on land to the rear of 10 Oxford Road, in Westborough, facing onto the corner of West Park Street and Nowell Street. Residents at the time complained that the design of the building was incompatible with the surrounding Victorian properties. They also argued that the extra cars would cause traffic and parking problems on surrounding roads. However the group behind
the scheme managed to get that decision overturned on appeal. They are now pressing ahead with the scheme which will include building a school as well as a three-storey mosque and 22 car parking spaces. A travel plan accompanying the application states that “the use of the site shall be limited to 100 worshippers on the site at any one time”. It also says: “The proposed development is proposed to serve worshippers who live in the vicinity of the site. “It is therefore expected that a large majority of them will walk to the mosque. “The development has been located on this site to
Crash driver was three times over A WOMAN who crashed her car into a road sign in Birstall while three-and-a-half times over the legal alcohol limit has escaped jail. Kirklees magistrates heard that Claire Fletcher had been drinking from a box of wine the previous night and she had gone to work on May 2 not knowing how much she had consumed, but aware she was over the limit. The 40-year-old had been sent home from work when she crashed on Smithies Lane just before 12.30pm. She also failed to stop and was arrested when police were called. Breath tests showed that she had 127 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood, when the legal limit is 35mcg. Andy Day, mitigating, said: “My client is enormously sorry for what’s happened.” Fletcher, of Norristhorpe Lane in Liversedge, was sentenced to a 12-month community order, including 20 rehabilitation activity days and six months of alcohol treatment. She was also banned from driving for three years, and must pay a £300 fine, £85 in costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
maximise accessibility on foot to the site and the site layout provides good access for pedestrians.” On winning the appeal a number of new conditions were made which the mosque management have now submitted to the council. It can be viewed on the planning portal at the Council’s website, www.kirklees.gov.uk One resident who objected to the original plan, said: “There’s nothing really new about this – it still means a massive traffic headache in an already crowded area. “Kirklees did the right thing by local people in turning it down and it’s shocking that it’s going ahead.”
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News In Brief Good stuff, Thornhill THORNHILL: Junior and Infant School has been judged ‘good’ in every single category of its latest Ofsted report. It’s the Edge Lane school’s first inspection since it joined the Focus Trust academy group, which also includes Birstall and Fieldhead primaries in north Kirklees. The inspection praised the leadership of headteacher Michael Rowland and the trustees led by chairman Paul Spencer. Areas in which the school was making progress included reducing absences and improving outcomes for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. One area for improvement towards achieving an ‘outstanding’ rating involved challenging the more capable youngsters sufficiently.
New formats for GPs Four ‘primary care networks’ created for North Kirklees By Staff Reporters HEALTH bosses have approved the registration of four primary care networks in North Kirklees. It’s part of a long-term vision for health and social care in the district set out in the Kirklees Health and Wellbeing Plan and the NHS Long-term Plan. The primary care networks – approved by the North Kirklees and Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) last week – will be made up of GP practices, community services, social care and other resources. Each network has a designated Clinical Director to coordinate better provision of health services within their area. The four in North Kirklees are: Spen (director Dr Imad Riaz) consisting of Cleckheaton Group Practice, Cook Lane, Liversedge
Batley and Birstall (Dr C Ratcliffe): Cherry Tree, Kirkgate, Broughton House, Batley Health Centre, Grove House, Wellington House, Blackburn Road and Mount Pleasant. Three Centres (Dr M Hussain): Dr Mahmood & Partners, Calder View, Eightlands, North Road, Mirfield Health Centre. Dewsbury and Thornhill (Dr Indira Kasibhatia): Savile Town Medical Centre, Thornhill Lees, The Paddock, Albion Mount, New Brewery Lane, Windsor, Healds Road Surgery. Five primary care networks will be introduced in Huddersfield. Catherine Wormstone, head of primary care for the CCGs, said: “The establishment of primary care networks marks one of the most significant changes in GP services over the past decade.
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Officer of Baywater Healthcare, added: “Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we will work with local GP practices and the Clinical Commissioning Groups to deliver quality health services. “Our core purpose is ‘Enhancing Lives’ and we believe the way we deliver this service will do just that for the patients of Greater Huddersfield and North Kirklees.”
“The networks, along with the increased financial investment being made available, will be essential to the delivery of strong, sustainable primary care in Kirklees and the achievement of the ambitions set out in the NHS Long-term Plan. “In approving the registration of the networks, we acknowledge the efforts made by staff in our GP practices and CCG practice support team who have helped us to get to this important point in the process.” Following their registration, primary care networks will be expected to set out their plans to support the implementation of the five-year framework for GP contract reform, starting with changes in a number of key areas from this July. For more information visit www.northkirkleesccg.nhs.uk.
Open house CLECKHEATON’S new retirement living development is opening its doors next month. Guests are invited to the official opening of Brooke Dene Court, on Serpentine Road, on Thursday June 27 (1pm-4pm). Members of the public can take a tour of the new complex – which boasts one and two-bedroom apartments, garden areas, a lounge and guest suite. Antiques expert David Harper will cut the ribbon and make a presentation about his TV career. Everyone is welcome.
Vet Claire still aims for Olympic glory By Zoe Shackleton NOT satisfied with being a highly-skilled veterinary surgeon, a Dewsbury woman has turned her focus from the operating table to the sporting arena to judge Olympiclevel gymnastics all over the world. Claire McAneny was formerly a gymnast, competing for Scotland at international level, until injuries and the demands of veterinary training resulted in her retiring at 18. Despite this, Claire, who works for Calder Vets on Savile Road, had such a passion for gymnastics she decided she still wanted to be involved in the sport, and began judging competitions and is now one of only 10 women in the world to hold the international Brevet qualification for men’s artistic gymnastics. Having judged at the Delhi 2010 and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and numerous international events for both Team GB and
Scotland, last year she was selected to judge at her third Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast. Then in October 2018 she was selected by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique as one of the top 18 judges aged under 35 worldwide to judge at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. Claire, who has worked as a veterinary surgeon at Calder Vets for just over a year, says her ultimate ambition is to be a judge at the Olympic Games. The 35 year-old, originally from Glasgow, said: “It is a thrilling thing to be involved in but, much like being a vet, it can be extremely stressful. You have to make judgements about the gymnasts which can make the world of difference to their careers. “At the Olympic qualifiers, we are making the decision as to who gets the most amazing opportunity they will ever experience as an athlete. Judging takes up a lot of
your time, especially with the travelling involved, and I use up a lot of annual leave, but Calder Vets have been wonderful to me. Everyone is 100 per cent supportive of what I do. “I love judging but that certainly doesn’t stop me from wishing I was still out there competing myself. I don’t think that will ever change.” Every Olympic cycle the governing body revises the code used by judges to mark competitors. Every four years Claire has to take an exam to renew her qualifications, which she said is “more nerve-wracking” than the multitude of vet examinations she has had to take. She said the pinnacle would be selection for the Olympics, but added: “Only two judges from each country are selected each time and they tend to be older and have a few more years’ experience. The 2020 games are not a realistic prospect for me but who knows, 2024 could be my year.”
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They were presented with their certificates by Princess Eugenie and rubbed shoulders with celebrity guests including swimmer Rebecca Adlington and actor Andy Serkis. Miles, who is now a member of the Royal Air Force, said: “It was a truly spectacular experience to be able to walk around the gardens of Buckingham
Palace with my fellow gold award compatriots. It was something special to be able to see and speak to Princess Eugenie, an amazing reward for a worthwhile scheme!” Pictured (from left) in the palace grounds are Abbey Jacobsen-Jones, Tom Jagger, Miles Gilroy, Matthew Smith and Lauren Cargill
Up for the task Newly elected councillors relish challenge – although some were too shy to respond By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter KIRKLEES Council’s new councillors have spoken of their pride at being elected – and their excitement at the prospect of serving their communities. The council will welcome 10 first-timers after the May local elections, including four in North Kirklees. Perhaps the figure most likely to shake up the council chamber at Huddersfield Town Hall is Aleks Lukic, who has locked horns with council leader Shabir Pandor over the authority’s policy of serving non-stunned halal meat in its schools. Formerly chairman of the Dewsbury, Batley and Spen branch of UKIP Coun Lukic, 29, a cyber security advisor, quit the party in 2017. He won his seat under the banner of Dewsbury Borough Independents. He said he was “delighted” to be elected as a councillor. He added: “This result couldn’t have happened without each and every one of my supporters, and I am determined to repay their trust with four years of hard work and perseverance.
‘DETERMINED’: Aleks Lukic “Residents want me to fulfil the pledges I made to them and so I will be fighting for a fair share of investment in Dewsbury, free short-stay parking, fully-equipped playgrounds, better police engagement and for all meat in school meals to be sourced from humane methods of slaughter. “I expect to be spending a lot of time on planning matters, with Dewsbury town centre regeneration and the large housing allocation at Chidswell, which are both within my ward.” Charlotte Goodwin held the Birstall and Birkenshaw
ward for the Conservatives after former group leader (and Council leader) Robert Light stepped down last year. The mother-of-two, who is a local business owner and an army reservist, described the run-up to the local elections as “a bit of a rollercoaster” but aims to use her new role to “influence positive change” both in her ward and across the borough. Coun Goodwin said: “I have a background in construction and infrastructure planning and am keen to help improve the local built environment and that new development is delivered sustainably in a way that enhances the local environment for all. “I studied earth and environmental sciences at university and have also previously worked in the waste industry. I plan to use this knowledge and experience to help reduce the carbon footprint in Kirklees and to help improve waste services, recycling and reduce fly-tipping.” The two other new councillors in North Kirklees, Yusra Hussain (Lab, Batley West) and Aafaq Butt (Lab, Heckmondwike), have not responded to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Local man’s hotel plan for Huddersfield A DEWSBURY businessman hopes to create more than 20 jobs if his plans to transform a listed building into a 23-bedroom hotel are approved – in Huddersfield. Yunus Patel, of Manor Close, Savile Town, has bought the former Crown Court building in Huddersfield town centre from a businessman who acquired it at auction from owners Kirklees Council last year and planned
to turn it into flats. Mr Patel owns an investment company HIMS Investments and property business Nelson Management, and is a director of a petrol station business Mitha (Trafalgar) Ltd, plus a tobacco firm, Smoknic Ltd. He has applied to Kirklees Council to change the permission to change what was a base for Kirklees councillors from 13 flats and retail space,
into a 23-room hotel. His architect Andy Brook of Code L6 Architecture Ltd, Brighouse, said: “The proposed use is wholly appropriate within this part of Huddersfield, being compatible with surrounding land uses.” He added: “The proposal will create up to 20 new full and part time jobs and will provide quality accommodation in Huddersfield town centre.”
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LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE Danny Lockwood
A job title doesn’t make you honest POPPED into Batley Carr’s magnificent hostelry the Woodman Inn on Wednesday teatime, my ‘lunch’ break as I was pulling a through-shift to Thursday, (flaming staff, wanting holidays and suchlike – a cheek if you ask me – wait until Jeremy Corbyn offers to double all their wages and impose a four-day week because then half the country will know what a long holiday feels like. Most will spend it queuing at the local food bank.) Anyway, having ridden the regulars’ ribbing over whether I’d been hiding away with Lord Lucan and Shergar – it’s been a while – we got round to the serious stuff, politics and crime. You get more sense talked in an hour at The Wood ‘oil than a month’s worth of Prime Minister’s Questions. The politics was swiftly put to bed: no one in Westminster is listening to us, no one represents us, they’re
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‘What? Locky’s in the pub? We’re on our way....!’ only in it for themselves. In short, off with all their heads. So, on to crime... Now, you’d think that owning the local paper, my finger might be in some proximity at least to the pulse of the criminal landscape. Well, you certainly read as much in these pages as we come across, and I can confirm that Batley is literally owned by rampaging
gangs of teenage yobs who consider the law an absolute joke, and they’re not wrong. But I might as well write on The Sun – as in that occasionally glimpsed orb, 93 million miles distant, not the celebstalking tabloid daily – for all I really know. There were only five of us in the discussion. One businessman had been broken into twice in recent weeks, and he recounted half a dozen burglaries at similar establishments – all within a mile or so, mind you, in the same time-scale, no arrests but importantly, no alerts to the public or media from the law. I was clueless. Another man’s wife had been confronted in her home by three balaclava-clad robbers at 5pm, who terrified her before escaping with their plunder. He (cynically) laughed as he recounted how the police had politely inquired if they required ‘sup-
port’ … oh and almost as an after-thought, if he actually needed a crime number for an insurance claim. I’ll bet my bottom dollar that incident wasn’t recorded by Kirklees Police, because as I’ve written many times their priority is masking the level of criminality and their ineptitude (they go hand in hand); of pretending they’re still in charge, when the truth is that our streets are increasingly lawless. The Woodman conversation was brief, because I can imagine the eyes of a Kirklees Keystone lighting up at the prospect of nabbing Lockwood for drink driving. Our general conclusion was that there wasn’t a cigarette paper thickness between our mutual loathing for politicians, police and lawyers – everyone threw lawyers in for good measure. I added journalists because I’ve little time for many that I’ve encountered, but that wasn’t a field the Woodman sages felt able to pronounce on.
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S I meandered back to Batley, I pondered on something: why do we harbour a presumption of trust in people by virtue of their profession? I’ve always wondered how criminal lawyers who represent stonecold villains, the nastiest of the nasty, sleep at night – because the old “everyone deserves a defence” only holds so true. It must just be a game, a theatrical piece, a legal chess game to them. But what makes a copper a good man or woman, any less likely to be a bad ‘un than a journalist who phone hacked, or an MP who robs us via their expenses, or – pertinently – climbs the greasy pole of careerism despite privately despising a Marxist fanatic like Jeremy Corbyn, or a certifiable egomaniac like Theresa May? Because as we see all too often, and never more than today, they all do it. Going in the police is a job choice, not a burning ambi-
Lunatics, asylum, etc... ON’T ask me what on earth is happening in the Westminster goldfish bowl, where it seems someone has dumped mindaltering drugs into the water along with the last handful of fishy flakes. Why on earth would anyone want to climb on the back of a bucking bronco (the Conservative leadership race) when you’re surrounded by wild-eyed knackers yard owners, all toting shotguns? I’d like to know where all of these wannabe Winston Churchills have been during the last twoplus years while lunatic May has been writhing British society apart and grinding the last semblances of political trust into the dust with her leopard-print kitten heels. It’s all a game to them, isn’t it? And suddenly they all have the answer … all 11 (at last count) possessors of a Brexit wisdom they’ve apparently been keeping to themselves since 2016. What happens next? I don’t know, I haven’t got a copy of Nostradamus’s quatraines to hand. Where’s
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tion to be the next Wyatt Earp or Eliot Ness. It’s a career rocket ride if you’re female, coloured or gay, with a fabulous departing choice between a cushty early retirement at 55 or maybe a badback pay-off if you get caught being a bit naughty. And there are lots of opportunities for exactly that. I’m absolutely stone-cold certain there are vastly more good, honest, diligent police officers than corrupt ones, or Politically Correct, agendadriven career officers (yes, you Chief Supt Julie Sykes) who wouldn’t know Bonnie and Clyde from Clint Eastwood and his ape pal,
EDNESDAY’S cynical Remain stunt to drag Boris Johnson before the courts for his ‘£350 million a week to Europe’ Leave campaign statement drags our judicial system down into the gutter with every other discredited British institution. I cannot believe senior judges are taking such expensive theatrical pantomimes seriously – which says all you need to know about our judges’ loyalties: Brussels. Whichever side you were or are on, the 2016 EU referendum was a hysterical catalogue of lies and exaggerations. If anything George Osborne and David Cameron were the guiltier parties, because we all saw on the morning of June 24th that planes still flew and bubonic plague did not ravage the land. Heck, the economy picked up instead of imploding. I will be amazed if this expensive legal device
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Mystic Meg when you need her? But with that poison dwarf John Bercow proving himself as ‘big’ (bit of a contradiction in terms) a liar and hypocrite as anyone else in that rotten House, Brussels sitting on its hands and wetting itself in sadistic mirth at us, and Labour wanting nothing but a general election, don’t go wasting any money at the bookies on a solution by October 31st. I gave up on Coronation Street when Jack Duckworth departed and Liz McDonald left Jim to have her bust and lips pneumatically inflated. This horror show could run longer than Corrie – with far fewer laughs and a lot more huge t**s. Clyde. Bent coppers exist on a wide spectrum, from being explicitly bought and paid-for, to being naively manipulated by people of power, influence or a social/ethnic (occasionally malign) in-crowd. Sure, they still lock up villains, solve crimes and win plaudits – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t tainted by their prejudices and associations. More than ever, these days, in my view. I e-mailed Chief Supt Sykes recently, inquiring just how far up the chain of command the Dewsbury and Batley mafia held sway in her department. I’m not expecting a response any time soon.
to further blacken Johnson’s character (if indeed that’s possible) and derail Brexit gets anywhere, because the bottom line is this – he (and Michael Gove and many others not hauled before the courts) spoke truthfully. The biggest clanger the Leave campaign dropped, and the reason this claim is at all possible, is that they did not subtract what we get back from the EU. They played politics, in short. We did give the EU £350m a week – but got a big chunk back, albeit in means dictated by Brussels, not us. But ignore those funding choices and yes, theoretically that money was there to be used as the UK government desired. This case is a dirty, underhand, characterisation of what David Cameron and Theresa May specifically have done to the nation. It’s a Great Britain we can all be thoroughly ashamed of.
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Wat-er carry on for Gomersal residents By Mike Popplewell RESIDENTS of Roberson Terrace in Gomersal, were treated to a spectacular water fountain last week that looked more like the famed ‘Old Faithful’ geyser of Yellowstone Park fame. The US version bursts out of the ground every few hours, but this one just sprayed and sprayed for hours, creating a fast flowing stream, before emptying into the nearest drain. Over the next three days groups of residents would be left without water as a farcical pantomime played out. It began around 3pm on Wednesday when workmen investigating a possible leak were alarmed by a sudden jet of water, reaching higher
than the adjacent telegraph pole, burst from a broken valve in the water mains. Unable to deal with the situation themselves a message was sent requesting the appropriate team. At 4.45pm there was reassurance given that the team in question were in Todmorden and 45 minutes away and the hole, and the fountain were left. At 10pm a representative from Yorkshire Water called to assess the situation, having not been informed of the issue until 8pm, and at midnight a team turned up to work through the night pumping the water out of the hole, plugging the leak and then filling the hole. The next day there were visits from Yorkshire Water Customer Services to make
sure everything was in order – only to be followed by another team late in the evening who dug it all up again. There was another late night finish but the faulty part, that had caused the burst in the first place, was finally replaced and the hole filled again. The following morning everyone who had been without water on a rota, finally had their water back on ‘tap’ – literally! A spokesman for Yorkshire Water explained that the incident had actually coincided with an IT problem that had prevented messages getting out to their teams. Residents had all been offered several litres of bottled water for emergencies.
Batley shopping centre ‘delayed to November’ DEVELOPERS say they are postponing the opening of a new shopping precinct in Batley. The old Batley Shopping Centre on Alfreds’ Way has been closed to the public since 2016, but development firm Z&F Properties Ltd recently bought the unoccupied site in a bid to boost the town’s regeneration efforts. Headed by businessman Zahid Iqbal the company had hoped to
re-open the centre as ‘Batley Plaza’ in different stages following a complete redesign of the 40year-old site, with ‘phase one’ opening as soon as July. But Mr Iqbal says they have now made the decision to “open the whole scheme in one go” in November. He said: “We’ve had such a fantastic response that we’ve now decided that we’re going to open the whole scheme in one go.
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News In Brief Sammy’s back to Penny Arcade NORTH KIRKLEES: Batley-born musician Sammy King is celebrating 50 years since rock and roll legend Roy Orbison recorded a smash hit written by him. Sammy, who now lives in Heckmondwike, is teaming up with Ossett’s Local Vocals choir to release a special version of the song Penny Arcade. Sammy met Mr Orbison at the Batley Variety Club in May 1969 and showed him some of the songs he’d written. By November, Penny Arcade was a top 30 hit in the UK and no.1 in Australia. The new version will support the Ossett community choir to give them more opportunities to perform at different events and will be released in the next few weeks. BATLEY: Batley Library is going back in time. Next Sunday (June 9, 12noon-4pm) the Friends of Batley Library group are hosting an Edwardian-themed event. Youngsters will learn about how the library used to be set out, and they’ll get the chance to dress up in Edwardian attire – complete with top hats and canes. Admission is free.
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The show must go on FIRSTLY, many thanks for advertising St Mary’s 29th annual May show ‘Let us Entertain You’ over three weeks in The Press. It was a great night and more people than we expected came and supported us. We miss Steve, my late husband, naturally, but he would have wanted the ‘show to go on’. You will remember his enthusiastic character, his bad jokes and his respect for your paper. May I also congratulate
Letter of the Week: Mrs Janet Walker Danny Lockwood on his Ed Lines response to Tracy Brabin’s rant on page 4 about poverty in this area. As usual his opinions are down-to-earth, forthright and in the main, correct. I am in total agreement with what
Batley, you did the town proud From: Wendy Storey, Mirield. I would like to say a huge thank you to Andrew and Janet Marsden and everyone else who helped to organise the most brilliant Batley Vintage Day. It was the best ever. The sun shone, the atmosphere was electric and every single part of the day was superb, it was indeed Batley at its very best. There was so much brightness and fun and everyone was happy and smiling and chatting to each other. So many activities for young and old all around the beautiful square and the War Memorial and library and
Danny says. Compared to our parents’ experiences in the late 40’s/early 50’s nobody is ‘poor’ today. There were no benefits, no NHS, food was still rationed, families were trying to move on after the war without hus-
non stop entertainment and it reminded this ‘vintage aged’ lass so much of the Batley I remember as a child growing up in the 50s. The icing on the cake was the fly past by a Dakota from Bomber Command Memorial flight, the sound of the engines alone brought a tear to many an eye. Again, thank you all involved it was in fact a Grand Day out and Batley excelled!
Thank yous all around From: Andrew Marsden, Chairman Batley Business Association On Saturday it was our pleas-
bands/fathers, those left were working long hard hours in the mills or down the pit (does anyone under 40 have any idea what a mill or a pit is?) to make ends meet. My husband’s mother lost her own mother through childbirth, leaving a two day old baby and five other young children. Her older sister, who was 12 at the time, had to leave school to look after the other kids whilst father went out to work.
ure to once again roll back the decades and bring Batley Vintage Day back to town. Yes, after many months of planning today was the day. And as I stood in Memorial Gardens outside the NAAFI tent I couldn’t help but think back on all the happy memories of previous years ... but those road closure signs don’t put themselves in place, so on with the day! And what a day it was. There are lots of thank yous to be made, but I am not going to recite a lot of names here. To everyone who helped thank you, thank you, thank you. You know who you are. But the biggest thank you as always goes to everyone who came along to enjoy the day. Yet again you did us proud,
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C Watkins, change of use of waste land to drive/garden and erection of fence, 12 Valley Road, Cleckheaton.
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He had to because there were no benefits. No child-minders except ‘available others’ in the family or neighbours who all lived close by. That sister died with diabetes when she was only 19, no National Health, father had to pay for her expensive daily insulin. That’s being poor. They have no idea today and obviously neither has Tracy Brabin. Kind regards and thank you again.
as thousands of people both local and from a lot further afield came together to have fun in the centre of our town. The sun shone, the music played, there was dancing in the Market Place and Memorial Gardens. There was crafting in the library, lots of lovely vintage vehicles, and of course a cuppa and cake in the NAAFI tent. And everywhere you looked there were lots of smiling faces. So thank you Batley and beyond. I had a great time, and I hope you did too.
Happy return From: Stephen Boden, Birstall Just a little word to say what a fantastic comeback the Batley Vintage Day was. There were people from all over, even Wigan! The weather was good too. The only fault was not enough vintage vehicles and no (public) toilets. Anyway, let’s hope it’s back again next year.
Locky deluded on bloc vote From: Name and Address Supplied I regularly enjoy Danny Lockwood’s power trips and look forward to reading his weekly ramblings; they never cease to amuse me. I would firstly like to question why his Dewsbury office is now based in Batley ... is this because he has been inadvertently run out of Dewsbury? I’ve been led to believe so but please feel free to flannel around this topic at your leisure. I draw your attention to his recent ‘Ed Lines’ article of the 10th May, which refers to the loss of Paul Halloran in the local elections, this being due to the ‘Muslim bloc’ vote. Based upon his own observation, what on earth draws
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him to the conclusion that the Muslim bloc vote won’t rule out his newly found allegiance to the Brexit party, thus leaving Dewsbury to the forlorn work undertaken by Paula Sherriff? Unfortunately Danny, not wishing to pour water on your dragon’s tongue, you are somewhat deluded if you think Dewsbury Muslims are going to vote for you and a party allied closely with nationalism, but I do admire your ‘huevos’. Keep up the good work El Gringo!
Changing days indeed From: Ms A Rawat, Batley How did we all vote? For the EU (elections) I voted Green, even though I would now like us to leave the EU or if we have to stay in then I would like some changes such as not have open borders and no entitlement to DSS benefits to EU migrants. There has to be restrictions and controls. So why did I vote for the Green Party? Because I always do when I am stuck for who to vote for. They have cleaner hands. In the local election I voted for the first time for a Conservative candidate. To reference a pop song, “look what you made me do” local Labour people. I am so disgusted by you lot, I voted for a Conservative. I listened to Paul Young on a mosque radio programme and I heard him say two things which impressed me: 1. He told us about his educational qualifications which sounded very impressive and 2. He said he was a grafter. Brilliant I thought, he has intellectual capabilities and he will be willing to work hard. I phoned in and I told him that I will be voting for him but I also told him that unfortunately he won’t get in as Asians go out to vote in their thousands and they generally vote for Labour no matter who is standing for them. But we need people like Paul Young, we need
brains, we need maturity and experience and we need hard workers. It is diabolical that only a third of the people went out to vote. How do we know what people actually want when so few people opt to take part? In recent times, I met Tracy Brabin and Paula Sherriff, both for the first time. I was not left impressed by either. As for the councillors, well, they just hang around don’t they, doing very little of any significance. Gwen Lowe hung around long enough putting her hand up and putting it down when told to, and has got to wear a big civic necklace and some nice frocks. I already know who will do the same in an attempt to be the first Asian female mayor of Kirklees. It really is pathetic!
What was vote all about? From: Derek Cartwright, Batley One might ask why we voted the other Thursday. Simple – David Cameron did not think through his referendum. He believed the vote would be to remain. The problem is that the majority who voted were for out, yet the MPs are for remain. Thus when it comes to a vote, there are insufficient in Parliament to win a vote on either side. Having a new Prime Minister should not make any difference, if Europe sticks to its guns. A new Conservative PM might get Europe to offer more favourable terms, but that seems unlikely and a general election is hardly likely to get more MPs who are in favour. So, we have an impasse – and the solution is a new referendum. Remoaners are badly named, they should be called Continued across the page
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From page 8 fencers, as they are on the fence. Brixiters should be called finishers. The current position is that we are neither in nor out, we have not joined the Euro so are not at the table when decisions are made. Thus, we should have a vote on joining (the Euro). If a second referendum opts for no deal we leave in October and arrange a trade deal with the EU. If however we accept Europe’s terms and pay to remain, we will have to accept that we will have limited influence on European development. And if the joiners win then we decide to fully join Europe. I hope that makes things clear.
Votes must be meaningful From: Daniel Goodwin, by email After watching the mental gymnastics during Sunday night’s coverage of the EU elections we wondered if Rumpelstiltskin himself had taken over the BBC! Who else could spin the result in favour of remain? Well if he has, then he must be using Diane Abbott’s calculator! Here’s one for you Danny, if you add up all the people who voted in Thursday’s EU elections and all the people who voted in the 2016 Referendum, whether they be Leave or Remain, then you get 100% of voters who agree
by the act of voting to accept the democratic outcome – or what is the point of voting at all? The mask has slipped, this is the face of the European Union, firmly embedded in British politics and its influence felt throughout the mainstream media. Well it’s about time the government got their fingers out of each other’s noses, before we vote the whole sorry lot of them out on their a****s.
Where next for contenders? From: Mr G Dennis, Birstall The soap opera is now complete. The Conservative and Labour votes are due to be trashed at the European elections as a true reflection of the Brexit debacle. Theresa May has been totally humiliated, not helped by her Chancellor and misguided advisors, hence the resultant acrimonious Tory leadership contest. Two of the main contenders Boris Johnson and rival Michael Gove will eventually knock each other out. The current Labour (or Marxist) party who are trying to generate a new General Election will fail. Vince Cable and the Lib Dem party also remain in total denial as do the fringe parties who mistakenly left mainstream government.
A further referendum remains a non-option and only Andrea Leadsom and Dominic Raab, who currently appear to be the only credible and honourable contenders in my opinion, will either gain a better exit deal or ‘No Deal’ as often repeated.
Whose side are cops on? From ‘Deputy Dave’ We keep hearing assurances from a variety of police officers that they are dealing with the rampant anti-social behaviour that is plaguing every town in the Spen Valley and Heavy Woollen district. Yet the moment anyone suggests that concerned citizens could band together to go ‘sort’ the problem out we are equally assured that we would be dealt with via the full force of the law. You can smash windows, sell drugs and rob people, no problem, but mention the word ‘vigilante’ and suddenly there are officers for man and dog. I am sure the police and courts would throw the book at honest, upstanding ctizens just trying to solve a problem that they have miserably failed with. It’s about time they admitted their failure and actually asked for the help of concerned citizens.
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Bin done for recycling woe? At least it’s free By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter WITH checks on residents’ recycling bins starting this week in North Kirklees, the council has at least assured people that if confiscated, they won’t have to pay to get them back. Last week The Press reported how 1,300 bins had been confiscated in the Huddersfield district after council inspectors began ‘snooping’ round residents’ recycling bins, looking for the wrong discarded items that were contaminating entire loads. The Council described the removal of green bins as “a last resort” but said the scheme has had “a tremendous amount of success” leading to the recycling of 45-85 additional tonnes of green waste every week in Huddersfield – up to 17 full bin lorries. Residents who have con-
taminated their green waste with non-recyclable rubbish receive a yellow warning sticker on their bin and if they repreat the infraction their bin is seized and taken to a town centre waste depot. They can apply to have it returned after six months. Twelve advisors have been hired on temporary contracts until July at a cost of £80,000. Coun Naheed Mather
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KIRKLEES Council has insisted it is not checking grey bins in the borough following criticism of its policy of using advisors to check new green recycling bins. The council responded after several residents in Littletown complained that red warning stickers had been placed on their grey waste bins during collections in May. The stickers advised that bins had not been emptied because they contained garden waste and that they would only be emptied on the next collection if the garden waste was removed. The stickers also advised residents to contact the council for a free garden waste collection – however Kirklees Council does not offer a free garden waste collection service. Instead it is currently encouraging residents across the borough to sign up to its paid-for garden waste collec-
tion by paying for a brown bin costing £37.50 per year. A council spokesman said: “This is an old sticker, which has not been used in years. We’re not checking grey bins and garden waste is not a free collection.”
Coun Lisa Holmes (Con, Liversedge and Gomersal) raised the issue with the council following residents’ complaints. She was told: “Staff were not instructed by management to use these stickers. Stickers were being used by staff with good intention, but using the wrong process. “Staff have been informed of the correct process to advise residents of any collection issues.” Coun Holmes criticised the council’s approach to the overall waste collection service. She said: “They are pushing it onto residents. They have invited councillors to go out [with advisors], but what are they going to do? Stand there and watch them go through the bins? “I wouldn’t blame the binmen for being unhappy about this. They get enough abuse as it is. How it’s been done is just dreadful.”
Homes plan attracts 100+ complaints A HOUSING development which could see the demolition of an existing dwelling has received over 100 objections from residents. The controversial plans to build 92 homes on land off Cliffe Lane in Gomersal were submitted earlier this year and include knocking down a house to make way for an entrance to the site. The 8.9-acre site was classed as greenbelt but has been allocated for
housing in Kirklees’ planning blueprint the Local Plan. But residents have cited traffic problems and the effect on infrastructure in their objections to the council. One said: “The character and green field amenity aspect of this part of Gomersal will be irreparably damaged if housing on this scale is allowed. “There are numerous brown field sites within two miles of this site. “The surrounding roads are already
very busy, with pressure points outside the local schools, which many times feel like inner city traffic and accidents waiting to happen.” Another said: “There is already a lack of suitable infrastructure in this area which will not sustain a development of this size. Education/GP’s? Both of these areas within the community are already full to capacity.” Council planners are set to make a decision on the application next month.
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X-Ray room’s a vision!
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YOUNGSTERS needing an x-ray at Dewsbury Hospital will have a better experience now one of the rooms has been given a makeover. The children’s x-ray room has been transformed into an underthe-sea experience thanks to donations from the MY Hospitals Charity. It features an underwater tropical fish theme with lightup wall tiles and matching vinyl wall murals, which will help to distract and relax young patients during their x-ray examination. The new room also has new state-of-the-art digital x-ray equipment to replace an old computerised radiography machine. Lucy Beeley, radiology group manager at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Thanks to our hard-working staff and MY Hospitals Charity, we now have two new and improved x-ray rooms. “Their generous support has made visits to the x-ray departments slightly less daunting for young children and patients with dementia or memory problems.”
LIVERSEDGE: A road in Liversedge will be closed for roadworks from midnight tonight (Friday). Bennett Street is only shutting for 24 hours, and there’ll be pedestrian access until it reopens just before midnight tomorrow.
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Council’s ‘jobs for the boys’ By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter COUNCILLORS are to get new roles under a ‘flagship’ project to oversee diverse community-level matters across the district. Kirklees Council is to select seven lead councillors to head up the authorit’s approach to what it is describing as ‘place based working’. It has been described by one councillor as “an attempt to take on issues that affect everyone and to see that in the context of different communities”. The initiative, a flagship strategic project for the council, is being driven by council leader Shabir Pandor and is expected to be rolled out imminently. But it has come under fire from a senior Tory who questioned how the council could justify spending
extra money on elected members when it was still making cuts to libraries across the borough. The Conservatives’ deputy leader, Coun John Taylor, said there was “no detail” in an officers’ report and asked: “Where is the money coming from?” He added: “I feel very uncomfortable that at a time that we are cutting frontline staff we are talking about creating paid positions for our councillors. That is not right. “It seems like this is the will of the Labour administration and we have to work with it.” Under the new plan, which was formally unveiled at the annual
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meeting of Kirklees Council this week, the borough will be divided into seven ‘places’ with ‘Place Leads’ divided up amongst four political parties. They are: Batley, Birstall and Birkenshaw (Labour); Spen Valley (Lib Dems); Dewsbury (Labour); Huddersfield North (Labour); Huddersfield Central (Greens); Huddersfield Rural (Conservatives); Colne Valley (Labour). A council source told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the annual allowance for the role could be as high as £5,000 per councillor. Discussing the proposal at a meeting of the Corporate Governance
and Audit Committee in Huddersfield Town Hall councillors backed the idea in principle. But there was confusion over the focus of the roles and how information had been relayed by council staff. Councillors warned that the report outlining the project was jargon-heavy and that it lacked both clarity and detail. “The report is written in ‘officer speak’,” said Coun Kath Pinnock (Lib Dem, Cleckheaton – pictured). “It’s not clear to me what a placebased councillor will do.” She sounded a note of caution over whether elected members possessed specialist knowledge in areas such as mental health saying most had “a very low base of understanding” adding, “It’s an officer role”. And as work had already commenced on rolling out the scheme she felt that it was “a done deal”.
RAMBLERS: Dewsbury and District Ramblers have two walks planned this week. On Wednesday (June 5) there’s a walk in Judy Woods, meet Brian Doyle at Station Road, Wyke, at 10.30am. Then on Sunday (June 9) meet at the Wellington Road car park at 9am for a walk in Birkenshaw.
Cricket charity HECKMONDWIKE: A university student from Heckmondwike is taking part in a two-week volunteering project in Rwanda with a cricket charity. Twenty-year-old Henrik Bader is part of a group of seven students from Leeds Trinity University who travelled to Africa on May 15 with the charity Cricket Without Boundaries. They will be giving cricket coaching sessions in schools and the community. Henrik, a PE and sports coaching student, said before the trip: “What I’m looking forward to most is working with the children and putting a smile on their face, while having a positive impact on them and spreading positive messages to them.”
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A roarrring success
News In Brief Ofsted thumbs up for Upper Batley
CLECKHEATON’S dinosaur day was a roaring success – and helped raised over £2,000 in the process. The animatronic and interactive Dinosaur Invasion last weekend saw lifesize models of the creatures walking around the town centre as part of the event organised by Spenborough Chamber of Trade. The chamber’s treasurer and organiser of the event, Nichola Garland, said: “It was an amazing day and the response from the community was astronomical.
BATLEY: A high school in Batley has been rated ‘good’ by education chiefs. Ofsted said that Upper Batley High School was ‘good’ in all areas after officials carried out a routine inspection earlier this year. A report published this week said: “The headteacher has worked tirelessly to build the leadership capacity in the school so that all pupils are given a high quality of education,” while “current pupils are now making good progress.”
Older yoga session KIRKLEES: Older people in the district are invited to try Yin Yoga at a free class next week. Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of modern yoga and elderly people can give it a go at Batley Community Centre on Monday (June 3, 1.30pm-3.30pm). There’ll also be a light lunch after the class and everyone is welcome. For more information ring 01924 446100.
Summer fair date NORTH KIRKLEES: The North Kirklees Elderly and Disabled Social Club is hosting a Summer Fair next Saturday (June 8, 9am12noon). It’s £1 entry at the Central Methodist Church in Cleckheaton, and that includes refreshments. There’ll be book, cake and bric-a-brac stalls as well as a tombola and everyone is welcome.
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“I hadn’t realised dinosaurs were so popular.” She said she had “never seen so many people there” as visitors enjoyed an interactive show, plus crafts and storytelling in Savoy Square. Donations on the day totalled £2,275.28 which will go towards the Cleckheaton Christmas Lights extravaganza and other chamber initiatives. Pictured: Spenborough Chamber of Trade treasurer Nichola Garland, Dr Stone of Dinosaur Invasion, and Melanie Cropper of Tesco Cleckheaton
£1.4m for mental health help By Tony Earnshaw Local Democracy Reporter MENTAL health support in Kirklees is to benefit from a £1m injection of cash as Kirklees Council pledges to improve residents’ mental health. The authority is championing place-based partnerships as a way of overseeing communitybased matters across the borough. And the key theme for 2019/20 will be ‘improving mental health outcomes for local people’. The council is allocating £1.4m to the project, with £1m directed towards mental health and the remaining £400,000 going towards tackling domestic abuse. There was passionate support for the project from Labour’s Coun Paul Kane (Dewsbury East), who said the issue of mental health had been brought up at a scrutiny panel as an area of
concern. He wholeheartedly backed the place partnerships initiative and encouraged his fellow councillors to follow suit. Coun Kane (pictured) said: “The recommendations that we made on the scrutiny panel have come to fruition and that shows to people that scrutiny does work. “When we looked at mental health as an issue in Kirklees there was some extremely poor delivery of services and some extremely sad stories that we looked at. “This is about well-being of people, well-being of people’s lives, loneliness and isolation. If we can do anything with this money that’s going into our areas, which is attached to men-
tal health and that is actually remedying some of these issues, then it’s the best thing that we’ve done for a long time on this council.” He added: “I think people really do underestimate the effect of mental health in our communities. When you go out there and you’re knocking on people’s doors you’re probably the only person that they’ve seen in a long time. It’s our commitment. “It should be out there. We should be looking after these people. That’s what we’re here for. “I have to say this is a fantastic report and it should be wellreceived by every member of this council. We were committed to deliver something as a scrutiny panel and we delivered it.”
There was applause from the chamber as Coun Kane resumed his seat. Named councillors will head up seven areas – Batley, Birstall and Birkenshaw, Spen Valley, Dewsbury, Huddersfield North, Huddersfield Central, Huddersfield Rural and Colne Valley, which will be divided up amongst Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. Both Tories and Lib Dems welcomed the proposals. Conservative group leader Coun David Hall (Liversedge and Gomersal) said he supported the establishment of ward partnerships even though the proposals were “crude”, but that Tories would help shape them. Lib Dem group leader Coun John Lawson (Cleckheaton) said his party was also willing to take part and to see the project succeed.
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Vintage Batley at The Satin Dollz wowed the crowds with their wartime swing, there was a flypast from a Dakota from the RAF Memorial Flight, and it seems even the Yanks turned up!
PHOTOGRAPHS: Mike Clark and Mark Gledhill
THE decades were rolled back once again on Saturday, as the Batley Business Association brought Vintage Day to town. This was the fifth time the event has taken place, and it again attracted thousands of visitors both local and from all over the country coming together for a day of fun and nostalgia. And there was plenty for visitors to see and do. Under the colourful bunting strung over the marketplace were stalls selling all manner of vintage and retro treats, plus the main entertainment stage featuring a day-long line-up of song, dance and comedy. Returning to compere the day as only he can was Mr Paul Harper with his unique brand of comedy, banter and song. Also returning, but this year with her 60s set was Batley and Vintage Day favourite Miss Natasha Harper. And this year the event welcomed two
acts making their Vintage Day debuts. Providing some high tempo, foot tapping 50s style rock and roll was Razor Holler, together with the close harmonies and 40s glamour of the Satin Dollz. There was plenty of dancing along on the cobbles. In the library visitors were able to try their hand at learning a new old craft in the free workshops, together with a vintage lego workshop. Lining the area in front of the library and the police station were all manner of vintage vehicles, from motorcycles to delivery wagons, and everything in between including a vintage fire tender. Up in the Memorial Gardens was the legendary Vintage Day NAAFI tent – the place to be and to be seen. The refreshments were kept flowing by Mrs M and her NAAFI team, with plenty of cuppas and lots of lovely cake. And the dancing continued at the 40s dance area also to be found in the NAAFI tent.
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its best The dance floor was kept full by specialist DJs the Andersons and also Major Swing and Kitty. Outside in Memorial Gardens visitors could make a donation to the Batley food bank, the nominated charity again this year, have a go at some vintage outdoor games, grab a bite to eat, an ice cream or even a cheeky gin. “It was a lovely day,” said Andrew Marsden, Chairman of the Batley Business Association. “Everywhere you looked there were happy smiling people, just having a fun day out in Batley. And how can that ever be wrong? The town had a smile on its face!” This was the last year of organising the day for Andrew who has been the event manager for Vintage Day since its inception. He said: “I have had a fantastic time putting on Vintage Day. It has been a pleasure and privilege to be able to do so, but it is time for new adventures. “There are lots of other ideas and things that I would like to do, and Vintage Day needs and deserves a lot of time to be spent on it throughout the year. I have no doubt that the event will continue to go from strength to strength. “There are a lot of people I have to thank for their support, advice and help over the years. Batley is fortunate to have such a strong group of unsung heros and volunteers who always turn up, pitch in and get the job done. “But the biggest thank you as always goes to the thousands and thousands of visitors who have come along over the years to make Vintage Day the success it is. “After all without them, the day would be nothing.”
At top, Vintage Day compere Paul Harper entertains on the main stage, complete with George Formby-like banjo; Centre, a fabulously restored wagon with proud owners; And left, ladies in their Sunday best take the weight off their feet
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Ramblers’ corner FORTHCOMING walks with the North Kirklees Group of the Ramblers – non-members are always welcome. Please call the walk leader for more details.
MONDAY JUNE 3 UNCIVIL WAR Starts at 1pm at Oakwell Hall top car park WF17 9LG (SE217271) No dogs please. Contact: Kathleen 01924 471473 kathleenoshea5@aol.com
All aboard... MIRFIELD’S award-winning Safe Anchor Trust charity held its latest open weekend over the May Bank Holiday, introducing locals to the wonders of England’s waterways. Trips from the Shepley Bridge Marina transported visitors along the Calder & Hebble Navigation and onto the River Calder itself from 10am to 4pm throughout the weekend. Pictured below is one of the Trust’s five boats, the Lady Rhodes. PHOTO: MIKE CLARK
YMCA ladies talk SPEN VALLEY Historical Society’s next meeting is on Wednesday June 12 when Sue McGeever will give a talk titled ‘Hats and Huts – ladies of the YMCA’. Meetings are held in the Catholic Church Parish Hall on Dewsbury Road, Cleckheaton, starting at 7.30pm, with refreshments served from 7.15pm. The cost is £2 per meeting for members, £4 for guests and membership is £10 per year. For more information email scooper@ thecoopersonline.org.uk
Arts & craft fair THE Yorkshire Art and Crafts Fair is coming to Cleckheaton Town Hall next week. There will be a collection of original paintings on sale as well as photographs, toys, jewellery and much more. Award-winning photographer Graham Binns is also hosting a free presentation on the day, Saturday June 8, at 1pm. There will be a tombola and raffle with all proceeds going to Marie Curie cancer care. Refreshments will be served at the cafe. Entry is free, but you can give a £1 charitable donation on the door. For more info call 07946 548046 or email info@yorkshireartfair.com.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 5 UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES Starts at 7pm at War Memorial Gardens, Bailiff Bridge HD6 4DX ( SE147253) 4 miles – moderate Contact: Norma 01274 685343 or 07951 413012 nleppingwell@outlook.com
‘Beatles’ hit Cleck ... and for more grisly ‘fun’ meet the serial killer expert!
BEATLE-MANIA comes to Cleckheaton Town Hall, with renowned tribute band ‘Beatles For Sale’ performing all the hits from the touring years of the greatest band in history. The group are performing two weeks tonight (Friday, June 14) and songs featuring include She Loves You, Nowhere Man, Can’t Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Help!, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Please Please Me, Eight Days a Week and many more! Tickets are £16 plus booking fee and can be found on the Kirklees Council website, www.kirklees.gov.uk Also featuring at Cleckheaton Town Hall will be a fascinating
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evening with Paul Harrison titled Interviews with Serial Killer.
Paul Harrison was one of the first British policemen to work closely with
the FBI Behavioural Science Unit and has interviewed over 70 of the
world’s worst serial killers and mass murderers to gain insight into their psyche. This is a truly eye-opening and entertaining talk that covers 12 stories and interviews. Sad, frightening and at times, funny, hear about how serial killers perceive themselves, their victims, and their actions. Delve deep into the dark reality of the mind of a serial killer. Tickets are £20 for the event on Wednesday June 26 (7.30pm) with a VIP option at £40 to include tickets and book, also on the Kirklees website.
Textile heritage celebrated on screen THE Creative Scene group will be staging a series of free pop-up short film screenings as part of the ‘Woven’ festival, a tribute to the area’s textile heritage. Creative Scene will host Ripping Yarns and Kirklees Through Textiles at Brigantia in Dewsbury and Holme Bank Mills in Mirfield on two Saturdays in June. Ripping Yarns is a series of short tales from the Kirklees textile trade by Alistair Macdonald which explore the innovative businesses in Kirklees who are pioneering practices such as recycling unwanted clothes in order to generate electricity, using digital technology to push the boundaries of textile design and recycling denim to soundproof cars. In Dewsbury and Mirfield, Kirklees
RAGS TO RICHES: Our district’s textile heritage, on screen Through Textiles, a cornucopia of local historic films curated by Chris Squire, will follow Ripping Yarns. The 12 short films from the 1900s
Lydgate daredevils raise £1,300 for Alzheimer’s TWO daring workers at a Batley care home took to the skies to raise funds for charity. Deputy manager of Lydgate Lodge, Sharon Hudson, and operational trainer Caroline Williams jumped from a plane flying at 10,000-feet on Saturday at Bridlington-based Skydive GB. The fearless duo raised £1,300 for the Alzheimer’s Society. Sharon, who has worked at the home for three years, said: “The Alzheimer’s Society is a cause very close to all our hearts. “We knew that in order to raise a significant amount of money we’d have to do something big and so the idea of a sky dive was born.
“It’s been a life-changing experience and I’m still high on adrenaline three days later. We are so appreciative of the support given by our wonderful colleagues, residents and their families.” Caroline added: “I must admit to a few second thoughts as we were going up in the plane, but once we jumped the feelings of exhilaration just kicked in and I cheered and screamed all the way down. “What an utterly incredible experience it has been for both of us. I feel very fortunate to have jumped over such a stunning location and to do this whilst raising money for such an incredibly worth charity.”
to present day, include rare footage of workers leaving a Dewsbury mill at the beginning of the 20th century, a vivid portrait of post-war family life
and the forgotten story of Schofield and Smith’s mill in Slaithwaite (and the artist who salvaged material from it after it burned down). The first show is on Saturday 8th June at 12 noon at the Brigantia creative space, which is on the 5th Floor of Empire House, opposite Dewsbury town hall. You will need to be a member of Brigantia but it costs just £3 annually, which you can pay on the day, and this also entitles you to come along to other free events and activities. Find out more by visiting www.creativescene.org.uk. Then on Saturday 15th June at 3pm, there will be screenings at Area Rugs & Carpets, 49b Station Road, Mirfield.
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Local historian Mike Popplewell is scouring 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
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Anyone for into cash tennis, 1934? T’S PERHAPS difficult to make a case for our valleys to really have been centres of tennis excellence, notwithstanding the oftstated link to former England no.1 Greg Rusedski. It is more than 20 years since Dewsbury could lay claim to that connection, albeit tenuous, with the activities at The All England Club of Greg Rusedki competing at Wimbledon. Rusedski was actually born in Montreal, Canada, but his mother Helen Sokoyro was of mixed Eastern European heritage and born in Dewsbury. Looking back at the Yorkshire Observer’s coverage of the sport of tennis however on Thursday, 10th May, 1934, there were plenty of local racket references, if not entirely local to us. Although the main theme of the picture page – the last page of the paper – was the Harrogate Tennis Festival, the front page carried a short story on the retirement of the legendary American star Helen Wills Moody. The sports pages meanwhile announced the appearance of British legend Fred Perry at Harrogate and, in addition, the picture page also captured a group of tennis racket wielding French schoolgirls who had just arrived at Heckmondwike Grammar School for a three week stay. “Tres bien”, as the infamous Del Boy Trotter probably wouldn’t say! Also prominent on the sporting front was the news of the forthcoming Ashes series with memories of the ‘Bodyline’ scandal in Australia just 18 months earlier still fresh in everyone’s minds. In fact, selections prompted accusations that the English team smacked of political interference. A notable absentee was Harold Larwood, the fast bowler who had inflicted such chaos on the Australian side in 1932/33. The fact that the whole ‘leg theory’ controversy had resulted from the decisions of England captain Douglas Jardine made the failure of the selectors to play their fastest and most accurate bowler all the more incredulous. But, Larwood was never to play for England again.
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HE prominence of sporting news was perhaps a reflection of a slowly improving economic situation in the country in the spring of 1934. Sir John Simon was the Spen Valley MP at the time and he had offered to give up his seat to Ramsey MacDonald if the Premier had lost his own seat at Seaham. Sir John had a history of notable failures in the field of foreign politics, not least a failure
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Sir John Simon, Spen Valley MP to see the dangers resulting from Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, but he is only one of three men to have held the Government posts of Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being James Callaghan and Rab Butler. Sir John was also Lord Chancellor at one time, the most senior legal office in the nation. In a letter to the Spen Valley Young Liberals Association in May 1934, Sir John thanked the Association for their work during the past year. He went on to say: “We are now witnessing a welcome change for the better in the condition of our country. “Compared with what is was two and a half years ago the improvement is most striking.” In conclusion, he remarked: “If the British people remain united, if we continue to cooperate as we have done since 1931, we can look forward confidently to better times for all.” Just over five years later we were at war and the nation was at its greatest peril. Comments were passed at this time, regarding Sir John Simon’s tenure as Home Secretary, that suggested he was in fact “the worst we have had since Ethelred the Unready” – but, let’s face it, few politicians retire amid glowing tributes do they?
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Purge’s Zain claims national schoolboy title PURGE BOXING Academy are celebrating huge success after Zain Hanif was triumphant in the England Boxing National Schools’ Championships. The 13-year-old beat the previous national champion on a split decision to claim the Under-35.5kg title at the K2 Centre in Crawley. Zain is now ranked number one in his weight division in the county, and has earned a place on the England Talent Programme. “Zain Hanif has always been a very hard-working, punctual and special boxer,” said coach Mohammed Amin Patel, who travelled to the finals along with fellow coach Bilal Dhadiwala and father Imran Hanif. “He came to me as a 10-year-old. When I started working with him I saw something which not a lot of kids have and that is natural talent. “His ability to adapt to different styles, his movement, his mindset and work ethic was unreal at such a young age. “I think he is the first ever England schoolboy champion to come out of Dewsbury and Batley which is a massive achievement.” Zain entered the minor championships at the event last year with only two bouts under his belt, and was defeated in the semi-finals by Corey Spencer from PTSOB. After winning the Yorkshire title his attention returned to national success, and he came up against Corey again in the quarter-finals, winning via a unanimous decision to go into the finals. In the semi-final in Crawley, Zain came up against Calum Naylor from
ACHIEVEMENT: Zain with coaches Bilal Dhadiwala (left) and Mohammed Amin Patel the renowned West Ham club, and a smart performance earned him the win on a split decision. Left standing in his way was the previous champion, Shane Price, who went into the fight with a perfect record of 19-0, but he was far from daunted. Amin said: “Zain started the round brightly, picking his opponent with some slick counter punching. His opponent was struggling to find his range due to Zain’s excellent footwork, hitting angles and pivots. He comfortably won the first round. “(In the) second round, Shane Price came out looking to bully Zain and not give his distance. Zain met him toe-to-toe with good work but Shane applied pressure and got the better of exchanges.
“In the final round Shane came out like a train. Zain started picking him off with amazing counters, shooting a lethal backhand, stepping off and check hooking, catching his opponent time after time. Zain had his best round yet and showed his class and intelligence.” That final round was enough for him claim the title on a split decision. “I have seen him progress over the years and I’m happy to say his hard work truly paid off,” said coach Bilal. “I’ve seen the sacrifices he’s had to make and know now that it was all worth it. To watch his journey to become National Champion was just amazing. “It makes me feel so proud to be a part of it and to know that he will
Third pro win for O’Regan CORY O’REGAN picked up the third win of his professional career as he defeated journeyman Fonz Alexander last weekend. Against an opponent who had only been stopped four times in 100 pro bouts, O’Regan did enough to take each of the four rounds for a unanimous points win at the Elland Road Banqueting Suite. “I started strongly, caught him with some clean shots from the off,” said the Heckmondwike boxer. “I kept it at my pace and range, so for me it was good to control it and I was picking my shots. “The second was similar with me controlling it, I stuck to my boxing and kept him away. In the third he tried changing his game a bit, coming forward, which was in my favour, because it allowed me to move around and keep picking him off. “We knew he would do the same in the fourth and he left himself open, in terms of
the shots, so I kept catching him clean and stuck to what I was doing from the off to the last bell.” His pro record now stands at 3-0 after previous wins over Adam Bannister last December and Naheem Chaudhry in March, and O’Regan feels he is becoming more comfortable with each fight. “That was my third fight and in each one I’ve looked better and got more comfortable,” he said. “I’m starting to adjust to it better each time.” O’Regan now has a longer break before he is back in the ring for his fourth bout in September. “There’s a little bit of a break now, whereas the last two fights have been quite close together in March and then May,” he said. “For now it's just getting back in the gym and learning and developing there, getting ready for September.”
FOOTBALL Ossett thrash Liversedge in U23 final OSSETT UNITED Under-23s finished the season with a comfortable 4-1 win over Liversedge in the West Riding Under-23 Development League Cup final. A dominant first half put them 3-0 up at the break at the West Riding FA’s headquarters at Fleet Lane. Myles Foley was unmarked to head in the first from a corner, before a brilliant run and finish from the edge of the box by Eddie Church for the second. Jack Alton made it three by heading home a free-kick and he had another goal ruled out for offside before half-time. Liversedge were brighter at
CHAMPIONS: Ossett United Under-23s celebrate with the trophy the start of the second half, with both Ben Harley and Red Bates going close before a Bates cross found Kieran Suddards to slot in.
Any hope of a comeback didn’t last long, as a brilliant ball from Alton found Mo Sadiq to score, with Sadiq also hitting the post late on.
DELIGHT: Zain reacts after the decision is announced in the final be representing England in the near future.” Zain’s father Imran added: “I am very proud of my son. I have seen the hard work and effort his coach Mo Amin has put in him to take him and get him to the level that he is. “As a coach he keeps himself very low key and doesn’t get the praise he deserves, for me he is one of the youngest and most talented coaches in the country.” Amin praised all of the coaches at Purge – Bilal, Haroon Arif, Umar
Arif, Mohammed Elahi and Mo Aslam – for their work, with the gym winning five national titles, 11 Yorkshire titles, an English belt and Yorkshire belt in two-and-a-half years since opening. Purge is also now a pro gym with a renowned coach in Julian McGowan, who guided Gary Sykes to a British title. Amin also thanked his sponsors, Healthopeadic Zero Gravity, Clifton Packaging, Komfiline and Spen Motors, for their backing of the gym.
RACING PREVIEW WITH MIKE SMITH
Broome can sweep up in the Derby WO HORSES supplemented at a cost of £85,000 apiece have grabbed the headlines around this weekend’s Derby at Epsom, which throws down a unique challenge to any middle distance thoroughbred. The steep early climb of six furlongs, followed by the tumble down to Tattenham Corner and the difficult camber in the home straight makes this a test of balance, versatility and stamina like no other. TELECASTER and SIR DRAGONET had not been heard of just two months ago, but they have been added to the field for tomorrow’s Classic after impressive recent wins at York and Chester. Hughie Morrison’s TELECASTER lowered Too Darn Hot’s colours in the Dante Stakes, while the Aidan O’Brien-trained SIR DRAGONET was a spectacular winner of the Chester Vase. East Ilsley-based Morrison said that ultimately it was an easy decision to add the New Approach colt to the field, at a cost of £85,000 - but that the anxious part now begins. Morrison said: “Based on the fact we’ve had no issues and he’s been in good form since the Dante, it was a relatively easy decision. But I will be very nervous until we get there.” O’Brien has a formidable party of eight, also being able to call on ANTHONY VAN DYKE, BROOME, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, CIRCUS MAXIMUS, JAPAN, NORWAY and SOVEREIGN among the 15 that remain in the mile-and-a-half showpiece. SIR DRAGONET’S eight-length demolition of NORWAY in the Chester Vase two week after winning a Tipperary maiden priced 14/1 was
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like going from 24 handicap to scratch in the same space of time, but he’s light on experience. For me BROOME bristles with potential and has been backed down to 9/2 from an early ante-post price of 25’s, and I’m told he has long been ‘the Derby horse’ within the walls of Ballydoyle. Touched off by Royal Marine in Group One Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp at two, he impressed with victories in the Ballysax and Derrinstown Stud trials this spring. He already holds very strong form claims but there’s more to come going up to a mile-and-a-half here. If he can hold his position through the first mile, he looks the one to beat. Kevin Prendergast’s MADHMOON, fourth in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, is the other Irish-trained possible. On pedigree he is a doubtful stayer as he has much more speed in
his bloodline than many of his rivals, but his run at Newmarket where he finished fast from the centre-field group was eye-catching and he looks good each way value at 12/1 with Carrigill’s. The ‘Dash’ is another conundrum with 20 sprinters ready to take on the flying five at Epsom. HATHIQ is the 9/2 ante-post favourite for Irish trainer Denis Hogan and, having won a couple of competitive sprints in Ireland in comfortable fashion this season, he’s also lightly raced and is improving. EEH BAH GUM improved leaps and bounds for Tim Easterby last summer and has been in pretty good form so far this season. He had no luck at York last time out and was staying on too late after being hampered. He never got a mention in commentary and everywhere he went the door closed, yet he clocked nearly a second faster than the winner of the Listed race over the same trip on the same day. But they may both have to get the better of DUKE OF FIRENZE, my nap last week who obliged at York on Saturday. The first three from that race are all in the field but David Griffiths’ ten-year-old loves Epsom having won this way back in 2013 and finishing third in 2016 and 2017. His penalty from York makes him 1lb out of the handicap but he can’t be ruled out.
CARRIGILL’S NAP (money back as a free bet if finishes outside top 4): EEH BAH GUM, Saturday, Epsom, 3.45. AUGUR’S BEST BET: VERACIOUS, Saturday, Epsom, 2.35.
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By Mike Popplewell Cricket correspondent sport@thepressnews.co.uk
HANGING HEATON take on Lightcliffe at Bennett Lane tomorrow knowing that a victory will increase the pressure on the top two in the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League Premier Division. An emphatic 172-run win over Townville, followed by an equally impressive sevenwicket win over Wrenthorpe, provided a very happy Bank Holiday weekend for skipper Gary Fellows, despite his own lack of form, with Ben Kohler-Cadmore (106 not out and 41 not out) and Tom Chippendale (4-36 and 4-51) leading the way. With Josh Holling (5-44), David Stiff (68), Callum Geldhart (60 not out) and Joe Fraser (52) also making telling contributions over the two days, Fellows' side have moved level on points with second-placed Pudsey St Lawrence but 21 points adrift of leaders Woodlands. Tim Jackson’s Woodlands side are looking formidable at the moment with five wins from their five completed games, with a highest bonus point tally of 48, and the visit of St Lawrence to Albert Terrace tomorrow gives the Oakenshaw club a chance to extend their lead further. Having beaten Wrenthorpe by 70 runs, it was Lightcliffe next under the Woodlands hammer as Kez Ahmed (6-34) and Chris Brice (3-23) spun out Lightcliffe for just 60 on the way to a seven-wicket win. Woodlands do look favourites to get the better of the reigning champions but, although Pudsey St Lawrence should never be underes-
BIG CONTRIBUTION: Ben Kohler-Cadmore scored a century in Hanging Heaton’s defeat of Wrenthorpe timated, maximum points for Hanging Heaton would certainly set the scene for a probable three-horse race for the title. In contrast to the consistency shown by Woodlands, the fortunes of Cleckheaton have been a little more erratic with the last weekend producing a fine win over Bradford and Bingley and then a fine mess on Monday, when the loss of the last four wickets for 11 runs saw them go down by 37 runs at Undercliffe. Wicketkeeper and captain Mally Nicholson suffered the ignominy of being stumped by opposite number Luke Heineman in Monday's run chase, in which only four batsmen made double figures, so he will doubtless be looking for an uplift at home to Methley tomorrow.
Record score while Liversedge shock leaders IT IS now almost 40 years since Hanging Heaton batsman Ronnie Hudson became the first Bradford League man to break the 200 barrier, with a score of 201 against Keighley in the summer of 1980. Hartshead Moor's Azam Khan was the next to pass that milestone with 214 not out against Ben Rhydding in 1998, and then Gomersal's Richard Gould raised the bar with 218 against Great Horton before seeing Lightcliffe batsman Alex Lees, then with Yorkshire, hit 227 not out against Bradford and Bingley two seasons ago. Paul Sauer made 204 in last season’s highest individual score of the season but last week Carlton’s 21year-old Dominican, Kershaski John Lewis, pushed that high-scoring record past Lees’ effort with 237 not out in a Championship Two win at Jer Lane that included 25 fours and an incredible 17 sixes. That win lifted Carlton into second place, just six points behind leaders Yeadon with a game in hand, while the leaders’ bowling attack suffered a shock thrashing at the hands of a Liversedge side who have struggled to make any sort of impact in the division this season.
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Veteran opener Mark Hydes hit a top-scoring 75 in the Roberttown Lane men's total of 276 for seven but the home side were denied an outright win when Yeadon were left on 127 for nine when their rain-affected innings closed. Spen Victoria, Hopton Mills and Birstall are amongst five clubs in midtable separated by just seven points but Spen, in fourth place on 73 points, are already 25 adrift of that second promotion place. They are going to need a dramatic improvement on their 14-run defeat at Hunslet Nelson in their last game when they take on East Ardsley at Spen Lane tomorrow (Saturday). Birstall could improve on their current position when they go to bottom club Adwalton, and Hopton Mills’ game at Buttershaw St Paul’s could go either way, but our district’s clubs are in dire need of some consistency if they are to make any impact on this season's promotion race. If Liversedge, in second-bottom spot, are going to climb the table and avoid a relegation fight they need more of the spirit shown against Yeadon when Bowling Old Lane visit Roberttown Lane tomorrow. Batley have managed to lift them-
selves into third place in Championship One but they missed a glorious chance to close the gap on Baildon and Keighley when they were bowled out for just 114 when chasing 238 against Pudsey Congs, and they won't want more of the same at home to lowly Wakefield St Michaels tomorrow. It’s going from bad to worse for bottom club Scholes, who lost by seven wickets at East Bierley, and the thought of a trip to second-placed Keighley tomorrow is unlikely to do much for morale. Gomersal face Hartshead Moor in a Spen Valley derby game at Oxford Road, and they will doubtless be in good heart following a resounding eight-wicket win over their old Central Yorkshire League enemy Morley. Captain Richard Wear was the undoubted architect of that Gomersal victory with a 5-20 return that helped bowl out Morley for 245, and the three-hour unbeaten 98 that followed, in his side's match winning 248 for two. Ossett go to Morley next, and they will be desperately hoping to build on the surprise 91-run win over previously unbeaten Keighley in their last outing.
FOOTBALL United snap up Coduri
SIGNING: Coduri (left) with assistant boss Paul Quinn
OSSETT UNITED have continued to build for the new season with the signing of Jordan Coduri from Penistone Church. The prolific attacking midfielder made the news last year when he scored Yorkshire's first-ever international goal. He has now signed for Ossett for the 2019-20 season, while goalkeeper Brett Souter and defender James Burke have both renewed their contracts for another year.
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THORNHILL TROJANS were heavily defeated at Wath Brow Hornets in the absence of the majority of their first-team squad. The fixture should have originally taken place in March, but was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. It was rearranged by the NCL to one of the blank weekends in the fixture programme, last week's Bank Holiday, but most of the Trojans’ first team had already booked to be away over the weekend. Thornhill attempted to have the match rearranged again but couldn’t agree with Wath Brow, and as a result they headed to Cumbria with only four established first-team players. Instead the squad was made up largely of ‘A’ team players, eight of which were doubling up having played the previous night in the John Kane Heavy Woollen Cup, including five debutants in Liam Harley, Lewis Farren, Liam Morley, Liam Ward and 16-year-old Kurt Hodgson. In the circumstances, the final result came as little surprise as the Hornets racked up a big score to go top of the division and relegate Thornhill to the bottom on points difference in the process. The nearest the Trojan s came to scoring points was when Luke Haigh tried to dummy his way over the line from close range but had the ball ripped out. The experienced half-back pair of Danny Ratcliffe and Casey Johnson tried all the tricks in the book to stem the tide of tries, including short kick-offs, while Morley took their official man of the match award. Wath Brow set the tone of game by scoring an early try when Jake Pearce took advan-
SHORT: Danny Ratcliffe was one of only four regular first-team players who made the trip to Wath Brow tage of two missed tackles to score, and from the restart Curtis Teare collected the ball on the full and raced nearly the full length of the field for another try. A long pass out to the wing then picked out Joe Power and he nipped over for a try in the corner, before Fran King ran following a drop out. Another long-range try was scored when Teare broke from his own half and scampered away, and in the run up to half-time King and Sam Curwin scored further tries. With a half-time score of 38-0, it really was a case of damage limitation for the Trojans in the second half. Wath Brow scored seven further tries after the break, with Curwin collecting three to complete a four-try haul. Fran King scored another try to register a hat-trick to go along side his eight conversions. There was also a try from Karl Dixon and two late scores from Teare to bring his tally to four. With players back available again, they will look to halt a seven-match losing run when host Leigh Miners Rangers tomorrow (kickoff 2.30pm).
Hard yards paying off for Celtic DEWSBURY CELTIC coach Brendan Sheridan says that the hard yards in pre-season are beginning to pay off as they continue their promotion push. The Green and Whites sit in second place in the NCL Division Three table, with nine wins from their opening 12 matches. “Our pre-season is starting to show now with our fitness,” said Sheridan. “We worked hard on it in the offseason, started them really early and it’s starting to come to fruition now with the structures that are in place where players can be pulled out, dropped or injured and we’ve got players that slot straight into positions, and play at a level which is consistent. “You need a good squad and with coaching the (under-) 18s, the second team and the first team all together, we’re starting to see the benefits of that now. Celtic have the best defensive record in the league, and that is the aspect of their season so far which has most pleased Sheridan. “Our combinations are working pretty well, but what I’m most impressed with is our attitude to defend our line, which is second to none,” he said. “The guys really dig deep for each other, and regardless of what you do on the training field there’s thing you can’t coach, and that’s the desire and drive to work hard for each other.” Things are tight at the top with just five points separating the top six. Celtic are a point behind Hunslet Warriors at the top after they won their game in hand while Woolston Rovers and Batley Boys closely trail them – and Celtic have beaten all three of those sides
PREPARATION: Celtic in pre-season action against Shaw Cross Sharks already this season. “It’s pretty tight up there; Woolston are going to be in and around there, Hunslet, Leigh East, and Batley Boys are doing well considering it’s their first season,” said Sheridan. “The only thing we can do is go week-to-week, focus on ourselves, and what happens at the end of the season happens.” It may be a cliché to say that anyone can beat anyone but Celtic know this perhaps better than any other side in the division. They lost to the side who now occupy the foot of the table, Salford City Roosters, on the opening day of the season, and were also defeated by third-from-bottom Oldham St Annes last month. The other side currently in the bottom three is Hensingham, and Celtic travel to the Cumbrian outfit tomorrow (Saturday, kick-off 2.30pm).
“If you turn up anywhere, no matter what sport you’re in, with the attitude that you can just go about your business and it’ll be easy, then you’re going to get stung,” said Sheridan. “I’ll make sure at this week’s training that the heads are right so I know that we’re prepared. “It’s how hard we want the game to be, if we want to make it easy and work a lot harder than the other team, because if we don’t then we’ll be in a bit of a dogfight with teams. It’s entirely up to the attitude of the guys when they turn up.” Elsewhere tomorrow (Saturday), Batley Boys are also on the road as they travel to Gateshead Storm. Dewsbury Moor and Shaw Cross resume relegation battles in their respective leagues, with the Maroons hosting Milford in Division One and the Sharks welcoming Barrow Island in Division Two.
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Stephen Ibbetson at Fox’s Biscuits Stadium BATLEY produced one of their best performances of the season to pull off a shock win over Halifax. It was a fitting display following the news of the passing of Beverley Nicholas, wife of chairman Kevin Nicholas and a beloved figure at the club, on the morning of the game after a long illness. Tributes were made after the match and the players did the family proud on the pitch with a determined effort to pick up the win. Coach Matt Diskin was delighted with his side’s performance: “I thought it was a really dominant performance from us, I don’t think the scoreline reflected how dominant it was. “Defensively we were very good all the way throughout the game. We controlled field position really well and defensively we kept to our structure.” Batley took the lead in the ninth minute when Louis Jouffret kicked to the corner and Keenen Tomlinson plucked the ball out of the air and grounded, with Jouffret adding the extras. The Bulldogs kept on the front foot following the try but they couldn’t further punish an error-ridden Halifax side, with Alistair Leak coming closest as the hooker was held up. Scott Murrell kicked a fantastic 40/20 that relieved all the pressure on Fax and put them on the attack. Moments
MATCH STATS SWINTON LIONS: Matty Ashton 7 Mike Butt 7 Rhodri Lloyd 6 Liam Paisley 7 Liam Forsyth 6 Jack Hansen 7 Rob Fairclough 6 Gavin Bennion 8 Luke Waterworth 8 Lewis Hatton 7 Frankie Halton 7 Jack Wells 7 Liam Byrne 7 Subs: Billy Brickhill 6 Adam Jones 6 Paddy Jones 6 Adam Lawton 7 Tries: Ashton (29), Paisley (62), Bennion (74, 79). Goals: Fairclough 3/4. DEWSBURY RAMS: Dale Morton 7 Rob Worrincy 8 Daniel Igbinedion 8 Adam Ryder 6 Andy Gabriel 7 Simon Brown 6 Liam Finn 8 Tom Garratt 6 Robbier Ward 7 Chris Annakin 6 Lucas Walshaw 6 Michael Knowles 8 Kyle Trout 7 Subs: Sam Day 6 Jordan Andrade 6 Samy Kibula 6 Ben Kilner 7 Tries: Gabriel (17), Morton (21), Worrincy (54). Goals: Finn 2/3. Drop Goals: Knowles (77) Referee: M Mannifield Half-time: 4-10 Penalties: 13-10 Sin Bin: Hatton (16, fighting), Knowles (59, fighting) Sent Off: Kibula (79, fighting) Man of the match: Liam Finn (Dewsbury) Attendance: 795
DEFENSIVE RESOLVE: Batley’s Reiss Butterworth and Adam Gledhill combine to bring down Halifax’s Adam Tangata PHOTO: Simon Hall later, Scott Grix sent a long pass over to Will Sharp in space in the corner to finish, and Steve Tyrer levelled with the touchline conversion. Jouffret missed what should have been a simple penalty kick to regain the lead as the wind sent his effort wide, while Johnny Campbell thought he was in for a try only to see his good finish in the corner ruled out for a forward pass in the build-up as the sides
finished the half level. Batley made the stronger start to the second half and regained the lead on the back of a penalty as Reiss Butterworth, Dane Manning and Dom Brambani combined to send Galbraith through a gap on the right. Errors continued to be Halifax’s undoing when Grix’s pass couldn’t be gathered by Shaun Robinson, allowing Butterworth to kick forward for
Tomlinson in acres of space to score his second. The momentum could have swung when Sam Wood knocked-on from the restart but a superb defensive set, including a try-saving challenge from Lewis Bienek on Curtis Davies, kept Fax at bay. Another knock-on then invited them back onto their line though, and Grix went over on the right to narrow the scores. That didn’t prove a turning point though, and the Bulldogs got the next try as Adam Gledhill crashed through under the posts for his first try of the campaign after James Brown and Butterworth had been denied. Jouffret converted to make it a tenpoint lead, and his rapid effort to get back and deny Will Sharp on the break after he intercepted a Scott pass was as crucial as any try. The Frenchman then knocked a penalty between the posts with five minutes to go after Wood was the victim of a tip tackle, although Halifax responded instantly with a second Sharp try of the match from Grix’s pass. However, they needed the conversion to keep alive any realistic hopes of a comeback, and Tyrer couldn’t find the target from the touchline. For Halifax coach Simon Grix it was a defeat days after taking on the job permanently, and he admitted: “We’re still quite a way off where we need to be, and Batley were brilliant. “You get what you deserve more often than not. Batley got what they deserved, and so did we.”
MATCH STATS BATLEY BULLDOGS: Dave Scott Keenen Tomlinson Lewis Galbraith Sam Wood Johnny Campbell Louis Jouffret Dom Brambani Adam Gledhill Alistair Leak Toby Everett Dane Manning Alex Bretherton James Brown Subs: Michael Ward Joe Taira Reiss Butterworth Lewis Bienek Tries: Tomlinson (9, 55), Galbraith (46), Gledhill (64). Goals: Jouffret 4/6. HALIFAX: Scott Grix Will Sharp Steve Tyrer Chester Butler Shaun Robinson Scott Murrell Ben White Dan Fleming Brandon Moore Adam Tangata Kevin Larroyer Liam Cooper Connor Davies Subs: Curtis Davies Jacob Fairbank Jon Luke Kirby Elliot Morris Tries: Sharp (24, 77), Grix (60). Goals: Tyrer 2/3.
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Referee: N Bennett Half-time: 6-6 Penalties: 6-6 Man of the match: Dane Manning (Batley) Attendance: 1,368
Dewsbury troubles deepen Manning happy to Betfred Championship
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at Heywood Road DEWSBURY’S survival hopes were dealt a blow as they twice let a lead slip in the final minutes to be beaten by fellow strugglers Swinton. It was a remarkable comeback by Swinton, who trailed Dewsbury by 12 points before scoring 18 of the final 19 points of the match. A Michael Knowles field goal with three minutes to go looked to have spared the Rams’ blushes after losing a 16-4 lead, but Gavin Bennion scored the decisive try to send a crucial two Championship points the way of the Lions. When the first 10 minutes features punches being thrown it usually is a pattern for the rest of the match, and this was no exception as blows were exchanged after Bennion was overturned heading for a score. Penalties were frittered away cheaply on both sides. The Lions were penalised for both interference and dissent in the aftermath and only a brilliant interception by Jack Wells prevented a walk in for the lurking Michael Knowles. Swinton captain Rhodri Lloyd suffered an injury in the tackle and referee Michael Mannifield put the incident on report. Moments later, it came to a head with Rob Worrincy and Lewis Hatton trading
punches and the referee opting to send the latter Swinton man to the sin bin. It was when the home side were down to 12 that the Rams amassed the points, Knowles wisely spreading it wide for Dale Morton to join the line and unleash Andy Gabriel, who stepped out of Matty Ashton’s tackle and had the pace to see off Liam Paisley. Liam Finn’s first conversion kick was a rare miss but he made no mistake the next time as, after Swinton were offside at a scrum, Morton scythed his way through the Swinton cover from close range. As the Lions returned to their full complement, the game swung again with Liam Forsyth being forced out at the corner before, in a huge overlap, Waterworth and Fairclough found Ashton who dummied his way over. Knowles was denied once again for the Rams, as he found himself on the end of a forward pass by Adam Ryder after Finn was held on his back over the Swinton line. The second half saw the visitors’ continued resurgence. Replacement Kibula was another held on his back before a Swinton defender raced out of their line to confront Morton and the full-back coolly slipped the ball to Worrincy, who batted off defenders to touch down and narrow the angle for Finn. Another brawl and another card soon followed, as this time Knowles handed Swinton the launchpad, further assisted when the Rams were penalised
under their own sticks, and Paisley stepped over from close range with Rob Fairclough converting. The ref then notified Dewsbury and skipper Finn that they were on a team warning for persistent infringements, as tempers once again raised up. Mike Butt looked set for the line having cut inside wonderfully but the Rams defence managed to stop him. A quick play-the-ball to Waterworth then sent Bennion charging over for a converted score that set up a mouth-watering last five minutes. All eyes were on Dewsbury’s drop goal specialist Finn in those dying minutes. But Waterworth wonderfully harried Finn on the last tackle 40 yards out but he had the calmness of head to find Knowles, who booted Dewsbury into the most slender of leads. With three minutes remaining, the Lions were left with time to have at least one more set to gain more points but went for the short kick-off, which caused havoc. Frankie Halton and Worrincy jumped for it, and the ball went backwards deeper into Dewsbury territory where Liam Byrne crashed on it. The Lions kept their heads as well as the ball, with Bennion striding through the Dewsbury cover once more to claim the win, prompting wild celebrations, further altercations and Kibula’s red card for the Rams for accidentally striking a ballboy in the melee.
remain a Bulldog DANE MANNING is happy to be staying with Batley for another season after signing his new one-year deal last week. The 30-year-old second-rower became one of the first players to be handed a new contract with the Bulldogs to remain for the 2020 season. He began his career with Leeds before a move to Featherstone, after which he enjoyed one season with Batley in his first spell at the club in 2011. Manning returned to the Fox’s Biscuits Stadium for the 2017 season after five years at Halifax, and has now signed on for another campaign with the Championship side. “I’m happy here, my family love it
and it’s on the doorstep as I only live five minutes from here,” said the Hanging Heaton resident. Manning got one over on his old team when Batley defeated Halifax last weekend, and he hopes that they can pick up a few more scalps after beating a top-eight side for the first time this year. “We need to do a lot better than we have done,” he said. “We need to keep beating the teams we should be beating and beat some of the big teams as well. “We did well against Dewsbury and we needed to take that into Halifax and beat someone who is up there. “We’ve beaten the average teams but not beaten any of the bigger teams, and today we did it.”
Trojans power into semis A DECLAN TOMLINSON hattrick led Thornhill Trojans ‘A’ to a 30-18 win at Birstall Victoria in the preliminary round of the John Kane Heavy Woollen Cup. Will Poching scored the first try of the game for the Trojans when he scooted over from the acting-half position, before hooker Den Speight twisted over from short range to level. In the run up to half-time Thornhill appeared to be pulling clear, with Tomlinson's pass sending Johnny Mack away on a great run to go over before the half-back scored twice himself to make to 24-6.
However, Birstall scored either side of half-time to keep the tie alive. Brendan Fearn scored a try to the sides of posts before Matty Williamson beat three defenders to cross shortly after the break. That made it a one-score game again, and it took a powerful run from Tomlinson to complete his treble and secure Thornhill’s place in the next round. The Trojans now visit Batley Boys DMR in the semi-finals while Ossett Trinity Tigers - who defeated Dewsbury Moor 'A' 34-0 in their first-round tie - go to Dewsbury Celtic.
Batley aim for Wembley as sides enter 1895 Cup By Stephen Ibbetson Sports Reporter sport@thepressnews.co.uk
BATLEY BULLDOGS are looking ahead to the race for Wembley as they prepare to make their bow in the 1895 Cup this weekend. The new knockout competition has been launched this season to give clubs outside of Super League a more realistic chance of silverware, and sides in the second round are already just three wins away from the final at the national stadium. Batley begin their challenge with a tie against Rochdale, the bottom side in the Championship table, at the Fox’s Biscuits Stadium on Sunday (kick-off 3pm). Following last weekend’s win over Halifax, the Bulldogs are six points off the play-off places and eight clear of relegation. Coach Matt Diskin doesn’t believe that their position, outside of a relegation battle or serious play-off push, puts them in a better place to mount a cup challenge, but says his side will take the competition “very seriously”. He said: “We’ve got an opportunity to get to Wembley and that’s how we’re seeing it so for us it’s very important. “We’ve got Rochdale and I know they had a big loss (last week at Barrow) but they’ll come up and fancy themselves, and the cup competition throws form out of the window. “We’ve got three games for a chance at Wembley, so it’s Rochdale this week and then with the luck of the draw, you never know.” Batley have been doing it tough on the injury front in recent weeks but Diskin hopes to have several players back in action soon, with winger Wayne Reittie (groin) and props Tom Lillycrop (calf) and Tyler Dickinson (thumb) nearing returns.
NEW TROPHY: Batley and Dewsbury begin their quest for the 1895 Cup “Tyler Dickinson should be joining full training this week so he’ll be available in a couple of
weeks’ time,” said the Bulldogs boss. “Wayne Reittie’s a couple of
weeks off, Tom Lillycrop’s not far off, so we are getting numbers back.” There was also bout of illness in the Batley camp ahead of the Halifax clash, which affected a number of players and resulted in the absences of Sam Smeaton and Paul Brearley. “A few players probably shouldn’t have played today as well, which makes the win even more impressive,” added Diskin. After a second consecutive victory, following on from the derby win over Dewsbury at the Summer Bash, the coach wants to see his side hit the heights on a more regular basis. “We’ve got a very good team here and we’ve just not hit the form that need to with a level of inconsistency,” he said. “You look at two or three results where we could have picked up points, and we’re sat in a different position. We’re not far off, we just lack consistency and concentration.”
ON A ROLL: Batley made it back-to-back Championship victories with a win over Halifax last weekend
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Plenty of interest in Priestley Cup By Mike Popplewell Cricket correspondent sport@thepressnews.co.uk
THE BRADFORD League's historic Cup competition, the 115-year-old Priestley Cup, stages its secondround games on Sunday and there is no shortage of Dewsbury and District interest – but that interest could be short-lived! Batley go to Championship One title hopefuls Baildon while Scholes, anchored to the foot of
EYE ON THE PRIZE: The second round of the Priestley Cup takes place this weekend
Championship One, go to reigning Premier Division champions Pudsey St Lawrence. Relegated East Bierley go to an improving Pudsey Congs for an allChampionship One clash and Ossett are flying the flag for the second-tier at home to Premier Division side Methley. Our district’s sides certainly carry the look of underdogs, almost across the board, not least Championship One side Gomersal in their game against unbeaten Premier Division leaders Woodlands at Oxford Road. Gomersal skipper Richard Wear was in fine form in his last game, against Morley, but he will need all that and a bit more against a
Woodlands side who are definitely looking the team to beat in both League and Cup competitions this season. The one side who do look capable of making progress with limited effort are Premier Division titlechasers Hanging Heaton, who go to Championship One promotion hopefuls Keighley. After winning seven trophies in all last season, Hanging Heaton's exit, as holders, from the Heavy Woollen Cup was a huge blow and the Bennett Lane men will be hoping to make up for that with success this season in the Bradford League's domestic cup competition. All games have a 1pm start.
Cup a distraction as Rams face relegation threat DEWSBURY boss Lee Greenwood has admitted that the 1895 Cup comes as more of a distraction as his side faces the prospect of a relegation battle. Last Sunday’s dramatic 22-17 defeat at Swinton Lions, one of their fellow strugglers, leaves them only three points above the drop zone with just three wins this season. Greenwood says there is “no hiding away” from the fact that relegation is a real possibility, and as a consequence the Rams’ entry into the new knockout competition for lower-league clubs – with a shot at a Wembley final – comes at an inconvenient time. Ahead of Sunday’s reunion with Swinton at the Tetley’s Stadium (kick-off 3pm), the Dewsbury boss said: “At the start of the season I was looking forward to it. I thought it was a good chance to play at Wembley, which not many of our players will ever have the opportunity to do,” he said. “But for where we’re at in the league table it probably is a distraction. Now we’re here, we’re short on wins and confidence. “I think even if it was just a friendly or a game of touch and pass in a car park, we need to win for confidence. So that’s what we’re aiming to do this Sunday. “If I was to win one of (the Swinton games) it would be Sunday just gone for the league points,” he admitted. “But we’re playing them this week and it’s a good chance to put Sunday’s result right by getting a win. We want to do that in front of our home fans.” Despite coming away from Swinton with nothing last weekend, Greenwood believes that the Rams were the better side over the course of the match. “I thought we were, just with a 12-point advantage with 20 minutes to go we have to close the game out and play smarter than what we did,” he said. “Take nothing away from Swinton, they’ve got a never-say-die attitude, they look like they’ve got a good group who work hard for each other and that brought them home in the end.” Of the winning try after Michael Knowles had scored a field goal to edge them back in front foot, he said: “We just needed to either get the ball back off the kick-off or defend the next set, but we didn’t. “We didn’t get the ball from the kick-off and they crashed over. It’s disappointing; I thought we were the better team overall but we didn’t get the points. “There have been three or four games like that over the course of the season. It would make everything feel different to us if we’d picked up more points, but now we are where we are, under pressure. We need to pick up points quickly.” Greenwood has declared that changes will be made to the team after that showing, with prop Martyn Reilly now available for selection for the first time this season having made two appearances for Wakefield Trinity’s reserves team . Cam Leeming has also been given the allclear to resume full-contact training following his facial injuries, while Paul Sykes remains a couple of weeks away from a return. However, the loss of Callum Field has been followed by a blow for another Wigan loanee, with Ben Kilner sustaining an ankle injury in last weekend’s defeat.
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