Festival 2014 closes, as a new play opens
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival closed in style with a massive French themed Le Grand d’Party street event.Some of Europe’s top street performers entertained big crowds of locals and Le Tour fans who had...
View ArticleCalderdale crime fighting duo taking the battle back to criminals
A dynamic crime fighting duo are taking the battle back to the criminals of Calderdale.Crime Prevention Officers Tracy Pritchard and Stephen Holderness are based at Halifax Police Station on Richmond...
View ArticleCharity warns prisons are at breaking point
The number of prison officers in the Yorkshire and the Humber region has been cut by 28 per cent in three years, figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveal.Research published by the...
View ArticleBurberry shareholders revolt over pay
Shareholders in Burberry have rejected the pay package of the company’s Halifax-born boss, after staging one of the biggest investor rebellions of recent years.Results of voting at the group’s annual...
View ArticleSmoke alarm warning after Chinese takeaway fire
Firefighters were called to a fire at a takeaway shop in Queensbury today (Sunday).Crews from Illingworth and Odsal were called to the Chinese takeaway at 2.30pm on Sand Beds, close to the Black Dyke...
View ArticleNew campaign launched to tackle illegal tobacco
A new campaign is launching across West Yorkshire and York (14 July) to tackle the trade in illegal tobacco and stop dealers who sell to children.The trade in cheap, illegal tobacco might seem like a...
View Article‘Emily’ star at next concert
The series of informal Antony and Friends chamber music concerts resume at Central Methodist Church, Todmorden at 7.30 pm on Saturday, July 19. Antony Brannick, who hosts and performs at the concerts...
View ArticleHow racing is coping with the summer logjam of sporting congestion
Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted that this is my first column since Royal Ascot. Doe-eyed readers (of which there are probably fewer than the number of world-class footballers with a UK passport)...
View ArticleHypnotist’s assistant from Illingworth denies sexually assaulting audience...
A hypnotist’s assistant has denied sexually assaulting an audience member as he tried to put her into a trance following a show at a Calderdale pub last summer.The woman, who cannot be identified for...
View ArticleCopley’s good run continues
The line-up for the Foster’s Halifax League’s Twenty/20 finals day at SBCI on Sunday, July 27 was completed last night.Copley followed up Sunday’s Parish Cup semi-final success at Warley by beating...
View ArticleJSA claimant figure for Calderdale falls again
The total number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance in Calderdale has fallen again to 4,276.This is a 0.2 per cent drop from last month’s figure of 4,613, with 3.3 per cent of the borough’s...
View ArticlePolice car knocks gunman off BMX bike in Sheffield street
A cyclist riding around a residential street in Sheffield while waving a gun was arrested after officers chased him in a car and knocked him off his bike.It is understood a police BMW knocked the...
View ArticleLeeds man denies attempting to murder police officer with shotgun
A police officer was shot with a sawn-off shotgun by a man who cycled off shouting “do you want some more you pussies?”, a jury has been told.Leeds Crown Court heard they were investigating a minor...
View ArticleDyer fears for future unless recruits found
Successful Hebden Royd United Ladies FC have issued an SOS for new players.United finished runners up in Division Two of the West Riding County Women’s Football League last season and have been...
View Articlemidgley’s unlucky breaks
Midgley United have suffered a double blow in their quest to regain the Haslem Sheppard Halifax AFL crown.Manager Craig Gee expects to be without star striker Tom Booth and useful midfielder Jamie...
View ArticleMet office issues warning for rain
The yellow “be aware” warning for Yorkshire and the Humber is valid until 23.55pm this evening (Sunday).A Met Office spokeperson, said: “Further heavy, thundery showers are likely to develop in some...
View ArticleInter-league games called off
The Foster’s Halifax League select side’s trip to play the York Senior League yesterday was aborted late in the morning.Halifax had been due to play two Twenty/20 games to decide who should progress to...
View Article£1.5m cost of shoplifting in Calderdale
Shoplifting in Calderdale is estimated to be costing retailers a staggering £1.5m every year.Calderdale retailers have been struck by shoplifters 760 times since 2012, according to figures from West...
View ArticleYorkshire player’s bowling action ‘illegal’
Yorkshire’s overseas player Kane Williamson has been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect.Williamson, who helped the white rose county go top of the county championship...
View ArticleRising star Pearson brings his songs
Yorkshire singer-songwriter Daniel Pearson is the latest coup for the Trades Club, Holme Street, Hebden Bridge.Pearson plays the venue on July 30, at a time when he is building on his reputation as one...
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