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IN COLD BLOOD MP JO COX SHOT AND STABBED TO DEATH ON BIRSTALL STREET – WHOLE NATION IN SHOCK BATLEY and Spen Labour MP Jo Cox was killed in a brutal daylight attack in Birstall that has shocked the nation.

West Yorkshire Police acting chief constable Dee Collins said Mrs Cox, 41 was pronounced dead at 1.48pm yesterday (Thurs).

She added a 77-year-old man also suffered non-life threatening injuries in the attack.

It followed a shooting and stabbing incident on Market Street, outside Birstall Library, just before 1pm.

A suspect was arrested and weapons seized, with a full police investigation is under way.

“Clearly this enquiry is at an early stage,” she said. “So we can make no further comment as to the motive.”

But she said the police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

Witnesses saw a man struggling with Mrs Cox before shooting her several times, including kneeling over her and shooting her in the face or head.

He also used what was described as a hunting knife to stab Mrs Cox repeatedly and kick her while she was prostrate on the ground.

As stunned members of the public went to intervene, the man waved the knife at them and stabbed one in the stomach, before fleeing the scene.

Clarke Rothwell, who owns

the nearby Priestley’s Café Bar, was standing across the road outside the Sandwich & Co shop, and pursued the suspect in his van after the incident.

Mr Rothwell described hearing a sound first that he said was “more like a popping noise, more like a balloon bursting than a gunshot”.

According to some witnesses Mrs Cox may have intervened in an argument between two men before the gun was pulled out and the first shot was fired.

Mr Rothwell told The Press: “There was an older man wearing a white baseball cap and a grey bomber jacket and when we looked across he was wrestling with a young woman.

“As we approached we could see that he had what looked more like a sawn-off old musket than a normal shotgun or gun.

“The end of it was about four inches wide.

“I saw him shoot her three

times. The third time he knelt over her and shot her in the head or face.

“He also had a knife, it was about a foot long and looked like a hunting knife.

“He was stabbing her all over, it must have been about six times. I don’t know how anyone could survive an attack like that.

“People were in shock, screaming, but we went towards him and he was swinging the knife around. One guy went for him and the man stabbed him in the stomach.

“We were trying to get hold of him, but then he just took off down Market Street, turned left across the Tesco Express and then down Union Street.

“I ran and got my van and set off trying to find him. He ditched his cap and his jacket and seemed to be heading over in the direction of Brownhill Road.

“I drove around and around looking for him but I couldn’t

find him.”

Police later arrested a man on a residential street in Birstall.

He was named locally as Tommy Mair, of Lowood Lane, and was described as “a loner”.

Mr Rothwell said the man was shouting something barely coherent about “Up Britain, or Britain something” during the frenzied attack. “I have to say that the man didn’t look like he was all there,” he added.

Anne Thompson, chairman of the Birstall Chamber of Trade, said: “It’s just dreadful. There are no words.”

Fighting back tears near the police cordon on Market Place yesterday (Thurs) she added: “All I can say is she was trying so hard as our MP.” A witness, who did not want to be named, said the gun he saw appeared to be unusual.

He said of the suspect: “He

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A CARE home in Birstall has been fined £190,000 for the death of a disabled resident.

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Charity boss Derek Bray said: “We have been deeply saddened by the events leading to this prosecution.

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COUNTRY IN SHOCK AFTER JO’S DEATH Emergency care teams ‘saving The ambulatory emergency care team at Dewsbury hospital, from left, Dr Emily Holdsworth, Tende Msimanga (consultant), Sarah Warner (trainee advanced nurse practitioner), Liam Noble (ANP), Victoria Green (advanced health care assistant), Iain Chase (trainee ANP), Sarah Bragan (ward clerk), Carmen Garofoiu (trainee ANP), Emma Binns-Hall (trainee ANP) and Xowi Mwimbi (consultant).

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Continued from page one pulled out what I thought was a gun, but it was like no gun I’ve ever seen before.”

He added the suspect appeared to be aged about 60 and was carrying a holdall with brown handles and a carrier bag.

The man was seen loitering on Market Place before the incident and even bought an ice cream.

He then put it in a bin and was seen waiting around outside the library by the cafe next door, the witness said.

Jo Cox worked for Oxfam before entering parliament as MP for Batley and Spen at the general election in May 2015.

She attended Heckmondwike Grammar School from 1985 to 1992 followed by Cambridge University.

Mrs Cox graduated with a degree in social and political studies in 1995 and then worked as an advisor to Labour MP Joan Walley to December 1997.

After then she work for Britain In Europe before becoming an advisor to MEP Glenys Kinnock in January 2000.

From June 2002 to May 2009 Mrs Cox held various roles at Oxfam, from head of the Brussels office to head of humanitaring campaigning.

Mrs Cox, a mother of two young children, was married to Brendan, a former adviser to Gordon Brown who was chief executive of Save the Children.

After leaving Oxfam she was director of the Maternal Mortality Campaign, a global charity founded by the then Prime Minister’s wife Sarah Brown.

Further roles followed with Save the Children, the NSPCC and the White Rippon Alliance for Safe Motherhood.

From September 2010 to September 2014 Mrs Cox was chairman of the Labour Women’s Network.

Around that time she was announced as Labour’s candidate to replace long-serving Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood.

She succeeded him with a majority of 6,057 over second-placed Tory Imtiaz Ameen.

In between Mrs Cox worked as an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and anti-slavery charity the Freedom Fund.

Since entering parliament she made a name for herself campaigning on Syria issues.

By David Miller MP PAULA SHERRIFF hopes continued scrutiny will see hospital bosses deal with a bed crisis – as they insist they are getting to grips with it.

A recent patient survey showed concern about the wait for beds and staffing levels at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Miss Sherriff (Lab, Dewsbury and Mirfield) thinks the Care Quality Commission (CQC) study will focus minds on fixing the issues.

She said: “Patient safety is paramount and I hope scrutiny by the regulator will help the Trust make the essential changes needed.”

A member of the Health Select Committee, Ms Sherriff

She was also vocal in voicing concerns about changes at Dewsbury District Hospital, particularly the maternity unit.

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AN e-fit of a smartlydressed burglar who struck in the Dewsbury Moor area has been released.

The man, wearing a jacket and tie, went to the home of an elderly woman between 10am and noon on May 2. In details which were only released this week, he offered to buy gold jewellery from her.

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said staff and patients had told her of similar experiences.

“It’s no surprise the patient satisfaction report confirmed people’s experiences are of long waits and shortages of nursing staff,” she added.

Mid Yorkshire has an Urgent Care Improvement Plan in place to address bed and staffing problems.

The Trust also claims its ambulatory emergency care service at Dewsbury District and Pinderfields hospitals saves 4,000 bed days a year.

This is a type of triage where patients normally admitted for procedures to be done later are seen on the same day.

It is led by a consultant and has two advanced nurses and 11 trainee advanced nurses and four advanced health care assistants.

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The Pinderfields unit is set to expand in a move to a different part of the hospital, which should increase the bed days saved to 6,000 a year. Lead advanced nurse Pamela Tolley said the service currently sees about 35 patients a day.

Though this is less than one per cent of the total admitted to a ward, it adds to the availability of beds for the most seriously ill. “Anyone would admit that being able to avoid a stay in hospital if you don’t need it is a good thing,” she said.

“We can send patients for xrays or CT scans and get the results back the same day.

“We also work closely with the medical infusions unit, so patients who may need a blood transfusion can do so without having to be admitted.”

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Friday June 17, 2016

Tributes to victims of the Somme

BATLEY: A motorist had a lucky escape when her car was wrecked in a head-on smash last Sunday.

The front of her blue Ford Focus was mangled in the crash at around 10.40pm at the junction of Carlinghow Lane and Ealand Road.

She was unhurt other than minor bruising to her face and arm when the airbag activated.

Police said the driver of the other vehicle, a Vauxhall Corsa, was also not badly hurt but left the scene.

Pharmacist on CCG NORTH KIRKLEES: A pharmacist has been made a non-executive director of the body which commissions primary healthcare.

Fatima Khan-Shah, who trades in Bradford, has joined the North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

She is a former patient representative at the Greater Huddersfield CCG and was a past chairman of campaign group Healthwatch Kirklees.

She takes over for a three-year term from Kiran Bali, whose spell in office recently came to an end.

CCG chairman Dr David Kelly said: “She has specific expertise and experience around patient and public engagement. She also has sound knowledge of our local community and the vital role of carers.”

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By David Miller A SPECIAL tribute is to be paid in Cleckheaton to those who fought in the the bloodiest battle of the First World War. In a gesture symbolising the moment when troops went over the top on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, members of the Spenborough branch of the Royal British Legion will mount the war memorial steps at 7.30am on Friday, July 1, to mark the exact moment in 1916 when the battle began.

On that first day, 22 men from the

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Spen Valley area died, including officers Charles Hyde and Sidney Newlands. They led troops over the top at the Serre battlefield but were instantly killed by machine gun fire.

If that seems like the moving final scene from Blackadder Goes Forth, Legion member Derrick Yates believes there could be truth to that.

He said of the war: “I can’t remember who it was, but somebody coined the phrase ‘lions led by donkeys’.

“War was becoming mechanised but the generals fought it like it was a cavalry war.”

He added of the Somme: “Thousands of lives were lost to gain five yards. It went on for months and was a tragic

waste of life.”

Wreaths for the 22 men from Spen Valley who died on that first day are to be laid at the event.

It will be the culmination of two weeks of commemorations in Cleckheaton to mark the Somme anniversary.

A flag-raising ceremony takes place at 11am on Monday, June 20, in Memorial Park, followed by an Armed Forces Day event at 11am on Saturday, June 25.

On Thursday, June 30, at 8pm, there is a service at Whitechapel Church featuring the sights and sounds of the trenches.

Rev Brunel James said: “Anyone with a family association with the battle or an interest in it will be most welcome.”

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Researchers aiming to lives of all the 1,053 namedon Dewsbury’s

By David Miller WORK charting the lives of Dewsbury’s First World War dead is to go on public display for the first time.

Details will be revealed at a Battle of the Somme commemoration event at Dewsbury Minster on Saturday, July 2, at 11am.

On show will be information gathered about some 400 people listed on the war memorial at

Crow Nest Park.

Researchers from the Dewsbury Sacrifice group hope to document the lives of all 1,053 servicemen named on the memorial.

Volunteer genealogist Alan Kaye said: “The town had a population of about 50,000 at the time.

“That included women and children, and so for 1,053 servicemen to give their lives was a huge sacrifice.”

Members began nearly two years ago

with Edgar Armitage, the first soldier to die in the war in 1914, and are proceeding chronologically.

Work covers the social impact, such as crime, tribunals against unwilling conscripts and the role of women, such as the founding of the Wrens.

They are now up to August, 1916, and the lives of those who died at the Battle of the Somme.

Alan’s grandfather, George Kaye, then 19

Edgar the first to die - of TB THE first serviceman from Dewsbury to die in the First World War did not even make the front line.

Army veteran Edgar Armitage, 38, contracted tuberculosis while on a training exercise near Doncaster in August, 1914. Researchers from Dewsbury Sacrifice have documented his life for their upcoming exhibition.

The former coal miner joined the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry aged 16 in 1893 and served in the East Indies and

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DIY SOS team moves in after blaze wrecks Michael’s home VOLUNTEERS are restoring a man’s house in Mirfield after it was damaged by fire, so it can be sold as planned.

Michael Langstreth, 60, was weeks away from downsizing when his home on Wellhouse Close went up in flames due to a faulty tumble drier.

The widowed stroke survivor was struggling with the upkeep and forgot to renew his home insurance.

He had just agreed a sale and was planning to move to a smaller flat when the fire gutted his kitchen and caused smoke damage elsewhere.

In addition, Michael’s beloved cat Meg, who bolted upstairs, died as a result of smoke inhalation.

Last Saturday residents, an electrican, plumber, gas engineer, fire fighters and Mayor of Mirfield

document the servicemen war memorial and of Belvedere Road, Batley, was a Somme survivor.

He was later wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele and Alan said: “He didn’t know anything about it and woke up in hospital in Lincolnshire. We were very lucky as a family. Seven relatives of mine served in the First World War and they all came back alive.”

Forty-one men from Dewsbury died on the first day of Africa. After his 12year commission ended, Edgar was a lance corporal in the army reserves until 1909.

Edgar, a father of two who grew up on Leeds Road, was a tram driver at the time the First World War broke out.

He volunteered as a private and was sent to a boarding house near Doncaster for training.

After a march on August 11, 1914, Edgar became ill and died, with the cause listed as phthisis pulmonalis (tuberculosis).

Researcher Alan Kaye said: “Unfortunately it was quite common in those days and tuberculosis was a real killer.”

the Somme, July 1, including 19-yearolds Norman Cleveland and Albert Gibbs. Their names are inscribed on the Thiepval Memorial in France, along with 27 of the other 39 first-day victims.

Thiepval records the names of more than 72,000 British and Commonwealth

soldiers who died at the Somme and have no known grave.

Pupils from Headfield Junior School have made wooden crosses with poppies for each of the 41.

These will be planted at the Minster grounds after a service led by Rev Kathy Robertson.

Footage from the era found in the Yorkshire Film Archive will be screened and there is to be a display of work by Batley School of Art students.

Dignitaries due to attend include Mayor of Kirklees Coun Jim Dodds and MP Paula Sherriff.

Coun Sean Guy lent a hand.

It is hoped that repairs, funded by an appeal which has raised £1,500, can be finished in three weeks.

The work will hopefully give retired Michael the chance to sell the property for close to the original valuation.

Michael was struggling to pay the bills after his wife, chiropodist Gillian Wood, died last November.

Campaign organiser Sarah Woods said: “Michael was happy to let the house go for a very reduced price after the fire damage – but we weren’t having it.”

Michael praised his neighbours and said: “They’re fantastic. I wish I didn’t have to move but I do.

“It’s been a hard seven months since my wife died. I was only three to four weeks from moving.”

News in Brief Mayor’s campaign makes flying start DEWSBURY: The charity campaign of new Kirklees Mayor Coun Jim Dodds is off to a flying start.

Fellow Tory Coun Martyn Bolt joins staff from the town’s Sainsbury’s branch for a bike ride of more than 200 miles later this month. They will cycle from Dorset to Dewsbury in just two days in aid of the Royal British Legion.

The ride will be from the School of Signals in the town of Blandford Forum, near Poole, over Thursday and Friday, June 23 and 24.

Coun Dodds, who used to work in the office of former MP Simon Reevell, is a former army major.

Already £295 has been raised.

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Plans to demolish hotel put on hold CLECKHEATON: Plans to demolish the Whitcliffe Hotel to make way for 15 homes are on hold.

Kirklees Council's Heavy Woollen Planning Sub-Committee deferred a decision on the project at a meeting on Tuesday.

The scheme for the Prospect Road site had been listed for approval by officials.

Coun John Lawson (Lib Dem, Cleckheaton) said: “The feeling in the room was that there was no disagreement that the site shouldn’t be developed.”

He added that access and pedestrian safety were concerns which councillors wanted to look at further.

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One week to save not just our nation but Europe too ERE we go folks, it’s make your mind up time. As 80s rockers The Clash famously sang, ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?’ It’s a big call, no doubt.

The past couple of months have been intellectually disappointing, if madly entertaining at times.

Cameron, Osborne and the Remainers got hooked on Project Fear, resorting to increasingly frantic threats, bullying and blackmail.

If they lose they will have only themselves to blame – they never even tried to paint a picture of a bright EU future (although there may be good reason for that).

But similarly the Leavers tied themselves in knots with their ‘Save £350 million’ a week claim when it isn’t really. Why not settle for the net £200 million it actually costs?

It’s big enough to wow me.

The immigration argument is what it is, but I worry less about ‘how many’ as ‘who’. If we can’t turn the tap on and off, then it’s not our house any longer. And we can’t.

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DID you see Bob Geldof abusing British fishermen on the Thames, with his hoorayHenry ‘Remain’ friends? Hey, you thick Irish shit (I can say that – I’ve plenty of Irish blood) I thought your gig was Africa. You know, Live Aid? Poor African farmers can’t trade with us because of protectionist EU tariffs that pamper the French. The EU are starving your poster babies, you moron!

The brightest minds of the past century – and hypocrite Bob sure isn’t one of those – would never sit down and create what this EU monster has morphed into, but this is no project or product of brilliant minds.

It’s a construct of self-entitled schemers like ‘socialist’ Lords Kinnock, Mandelson and their bedfellows, creating an autocratic bulkhead stripped away, you have a simple choice to make: to revert to a sovereign, selfgoverning nation, admittedly with possible short-term costs attached, or to sign up to a Federal States of Europe.

As Yorkshire is to Great Britain, so GB will inexorably be to Brussels, Paris and Frankfurt – a province.

between their corrupt regime and the people.

“It is the most bureaucratic, terrifying system in the world,” said a certain independent thinker and true socialist, the late Tony Benn.

The secretive EU powermongers have been described as the most unaccountable and dangerous room full of men seen outside of the Kremlin.

“I think this system will lead to the break-up of the European Union, like Yugoslavia,” Benn added.

Hear, hear. And we all saw the body count in Srebrenica, ironically as Dutch ‘peacekeepers’ watched on and did nothing.

So much for the EU as the military power it would become and which would have the British armed forces subservient to it.

Does that get your vote? No? Well it’s in the plan, I can promise you that.

That’s the unashamed vision of Jean Claude Juncker and his all-powerful EU Commission. There is no plan B, just increasingly total state subservience to their unelected ruling class.

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save the crumbling Eurozone until the awkward squad across the Channel settle their argument. They don’t for a minute think we’ll go.

So, to my mind it boils down to this: Seven days to save our sovereignty – and quite possibly Europe too.

Save Europe? By leaving?

Yes actually. Across the continent more and more frustrated Germans, French, Dutch Danish and Swedish citizens

are as infuriated as most of us about a tyrannical federal project that’s as doomed as Hitler’s reich or Napoleon’s empire.

No guns and cannon this time. Instead of rousing rhetoric, we’re blinded by broadsides of legislation and bound by minefields of red tape.

So – I’m voting Leave to save Europe? Don’t talk soft.

I want my country back first and foremost. But it is a fatally flawed project, absolutely, and it will end in certain tears and possible bloodshed.

It will fall apart. This is our chance not to be mired in that costly disintegration.

And if the unruly UK plebs stir the continental masses next week? Good grief, we could see the guillotine back on the Place de la Concorde! I wish. Knock up a spare for the Grand Place in Brussels.

T’S ironic that the Remainers have placed all their eggs in the economic basket, with their predictions of financial doom and gloom.

(And as an aside you know what George Osborne is doing, don’t you? He has already lost control of the nation’s finances. Our national debt is a wildfire. Guess

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what he’ll blame it on if he loses both his face and his job next week…)

But the eurozone is an economic basket case and not even the EU bothers contesting that any longer. The EU been the most stagnant trading bloc on the planet for years. Funny how the IMF, ECB, BoE, IoFS, UK Treasury etc etc, never mention that.

But of course all of those FTSE 100 companies urging their employees to vote remain, like the big financial institutions, are merrily milking the status quo. It is pure and simple self-interest.

Outside the EU, global economies are growing rapidly – yet we must pay billions in membership fees to belong to a club that resents everything except our chequebook and prevents us from trading with them.

Do you remember that £1.7 billion bill the EU hit us with, because our economy was doing so much better?

The one that David Cameron swore never to pay (before last year’s election)? He paid of course. It was a lie. He has no say in it. We have no say.

The Eurocrats must laugh themselves to sleep at us every night.

Leave’s best helpers were Cameron, Brown and Co WHICH way will the nation decide? The signs are much better for Leave than they were, yet the bookies still have Remain odds-on to win.

Most people I speak to seem committed Leavers – even friends who own property in France and Spain.

Like me, they sense that very little will change.

Germany still wants to sell us cars, the French wine, and Spain actually needs our young drunks staggering up and down the promenades of Benidorm and Magaluf.

I suspect, perhaps unfairly, that many Remain voters are a touch embarrassed because they’ve bought into the scare stories about economic meltdown – or simple self-interest in the case of people like my good friend Nick, whose company trades far more across Europe than here. I understand his motive. People will do what’s right for them.

But I will say this. If it is ‘Leave’ then the campaign owes a huge debt of gratitude to the soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister David Cameron. His hysterical Project Fear has been one of the Leavers’ greatest gifts.

Brits don’t like being bullied at the best of times, and coming from a spoiled and snotty toff like Cameron and his stooge Osborne adds insult to injury.

Having delivered the referendum, and come back with whatever concessions he could from Brussels, Cameron should then have stood above the fray in a far more presidential fashion, leaving it to his Remain and Leave ministers to debate.

In choosing to lead from the front he came over not as the heroic Henry V figure at Agincourt that I fancy he imagined, but as a desperate 2008 recession-style banker.

Cameron is neither the statesman he believes, nor the PM the country deserves.

He has lied, betrayed and acted out of disgraceful selfinterest and it is by his lead that the democratic process has been sullied. Win or lose,

he is a busted flush.

So from all the Leavers Dave, thanks for the help!

And it’s entirely fitting that he share a platform with war criminal Blair, economic vandal Brown, halfwit Miliband and old greyface himself, John Major.

It’s actually funny. Blair jumped before he could be pushed, but the nation roundly rejected all the others.

Brown, who sold our gold reserves for peanuts, decimated our pensions and infested our schools and hospitals with the fiscal nightmares of PFI, giving us economic advice? Good grief.

With friends like that little lot, the Remain camp doesn’t need enemies.

SO YES, I’m a definite ‘Leave’, not surprisingly. If it costs a few quid in the short term I’m comfy with that. People have paid the price of democracy with their lives, so what’s a few bob if it means securing our nationhood for future generations?

We’re not quite having to stand at the mast beside Nelson, or go over the top at the Somme, are we? This is a European war that can be won with a simple X in a box. Let the kids decide in 20 years’ time if they want to rejoin whatever the EU is then (not that I think there will be one).

Will there be a stock market wobble? Possibly. That’s what traders and speculators do – cash in on change and uncertainty. Then cash in again when balance returns. Plus ça change!

But the ability to put a brake on uncontrolled migration, to bring stability to our under-pressure health and education services – I’m happy to pay extra taxes if it delivers what we need.

And ultimately the UK will thrive, I have no doubt at all.

I’m voting for Hope, not Fear. And I think that in years to come, the country will thank us for it – and quite possibly the people of Europe too.

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‘Chemicals risk’ on site for new homes

By David Miller A HOUSING scheme in Mirfield should only go ahead if the site is safe from chemical contamination.

That is the view of Coun Martyn Bolt, who warned that putting 63 homes on land used as a dumping ground for industrial waste could be risky.

Yorkshire Property Estates wants to build properties off Old Bank Road near the Thirsty Man pub.

Until 1978 the site was used to dispose of chemical waste from the Mirvale Chemical Works, now Dr Reddy’s on Steanard Lane.

Experts believe by-products from creosote and agri-

cultural goods should be buried deep enough not to pose a risk.

Coun Bolt wants the authorities to make sure and said: “We need to be asking questions.

“We don’t want contaminants going up into people’s homes or leeching into the food chain.

“As with all contaminated sites, we need to make sure the Environment Agency and others are on top of any contaminant risk.

“Normally we would favour the use of brownfield sites, but here we need to be very careful.”

In the plans, which are for 34 three-bed houses and 29 four-bed homes, a system of trenches to allow gases to

escape is recommended.

Two terraced homes fronting onto Old Bank Road would be demolished to make way for an access road.

Plans, which are for consultation until Saturday, June 25, show the existing access road would be taken over by gardens of some of the new properties.

Other issues include traffic and the proximity of the homes to neighbouring dwellings.

Coun Bolt added: “This development is by one of Mirfield’s most congested roads.

“There can be a queue a mile long at peak periods, which makes getting in and out of Mirfield quite difficult as it is.”

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Others include a visit from the Littletown Junior, Infant and Nursery choir on June 28 and Eric Scaife's Tyke Talk Yorkshire humour on July 12.

The club takes a break in August but is back on September 6 for Alison Craven’s talk called ‘A skip through our woolly heritage’.

CLECKHEATON: A summer fair which raises cash for elderly and disabled people takes place at the Central Methodist Church Community Centre from 9am to noon on Saturday, June 25.

The North Kirklees Disabled and Elderly Social Club meets at the church on Thursdays and cash raised pays for trips out, such as a visit to Scarborough and Thorntonle-Dale on Wednesday.

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Lifelong Labour man, but PM has it right Dear Sir, In just over a week’s time we will have voted in the EU referendum.

I have found the arguments and assertions made by both sides somewhat disappointing and at times quite distasteful, with politicians being knowingly misleading, untruthful and pandering to the prejudices of our population.

This is not the way to provide people with a basis for decision-making, but it arises from the lack of hard facts so that any headline is used to try and influence people’s opinion even if there is no real basis for its content.

What a state of affairs with which to decide how to vote on an issue that will determine the future of a country!

There are two issues that appear to form the nucleus of what is likely to influence the outcome, namely the economy and immigration.

On the economy we do have facts such as follows: the service industry (banking, insurance, accountancy etc) provides us with 80 per cent of our GDP; 45 per cent of our exports are with EU countries and despite us currently having a trading deficit, it is the service industries, not our manufacturing industries that are providing us with growth

UK will suffer From: Ednan Hussain, Dewsbury Liberal Democrats Parliamentary Spokesperson Dear Sir, It has been argued by many Brexit supporters that the UK did fine before the EU because we are the fifth largest econo-

Letter of the Week: Malcolm Byard, Mirfield in our economy.

In 2014 our manufacturing industries ran a deficit of over £120 billion.

If we leave the EU then it is very likely that our service industries will suffer significantly as the international banks move their centres from London to Frankfurt and Paris.

Our fragile economy will undoubtedly be damaged and as the effects of Brexit bite we will all feel the results as our country tries to develop an alternative economy and avoid a recession.

It is no wonder that such bodies as the IMF, OECD, IFS and the Governor of the Bank of England support our remaining in the EU. It is a crass remark for Boris Johnson to imply that because the economists have got it wrong before, they will get it wrong again.

If we do have a recession then we will all

my in the world.

However, what they don’t mention is that evidence since 1986 shows that it’s due to the UK’s membership of the EU that we are such a large economy and that our wages are as high as they are now.

Research (from London First and Frontier Economics) also points to a strong relationship between trade openness and

labour productivity.

Consequently, the trade creating effects of EU membership alone likely accounted for around 23 per cent to 31 per cent of growth in labour productivity.

Given the close relationship between labour productivity growth and real wage growth, the estimated impact on real wages in the UK thanks to our

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suffer a drop in our standard of living; a selfinflicted outcome that no-one would want.

Immigration to this country comes from both EU and non-EU countries, with non-EU immigration the larger of the two.

Any EU national is free to work in any other EU country and this is part of being in the EU. If, as a non-EU country we wish to trade with the EU, then, following the models used

by Norway and Switzerland (both non-EU countries) we have to both pay for the privilege of belonging as well as agreeing to the freedom of movement of EU nationals.

It is unlikely that any trade agreement with the EU that is agreed after a vote to leave the EU will come without any strings attached.

It is a complete fantasy for anyone in the Brexit camp to say otherwise or to imply that immigration will be significantly affected by EU membership has been to increase annual average wages by around £1,800.

I’ll say that again: Yet another respected economics and financial group have calculated that local residents are better off in the EU. Not by a few pence, not by a few pounds, but by an average of £150 a month.

Nigel Farage now concedes that our GDP could be much lower than it currently is, and has accepted that our exporters may have to pay duty on exports.

Michael Gove, one of the cheerleaders of the Vote Leave campaign, says he wants to see Britain out of the Single Market.

Think what you will about our relationship with the EU, but to want to leave the Single Market would be economic suicide and the only people who would suffer are the British public.

I’m voting with my heart From: R Spreadbury, Liversedge Dear Sir, I, no doubt like many of your readers, wanted to approach this debate rationally armed with facts from both sides.

Now I am not sure this was a good idea.

Having listened to the increasingly desperate and misleading utterances from both sides during the past weeks, as far as I can make out these are the ‘facts’: We give a load of money to the EU. We get back half of it but are told what to spend it on.

We get back some sort of variable rebate dependant on some economic statistics.

We are one voice in 27.

We now get over 300,000 migrants/immigrants per year.

Half of these are from the EU. Of late, the EU half are mainly

leaving the EU if we still trade with them.

It is also complete nonsense to believe that we can simply switch trading with the EU to other countries.

Whilst we don’t sign our own trade deals we currently have preferential treatment for trading with a host of countries that have been negotiated by the EU. The Brexit camp have been quite silent on how they will solve the immigration problem and furthermore have no clear or coherent vision of what will happen to our country outside the EU. It is well to remember that migrants from Europe are on average, younger, more likely to be in work and less likely to claim benefits than the native-born population.

They come to this country to work, they spend their money, they buy goods and they pay their taxes.

I find the rhetoric and antics of the motley group led by Johnson, Gove and Farage particularly misleading and at times untruthful as they try to sway voters to their cause.

I have been a Labour supporter for most of my life and it irks me somewhat to have to agree with our current Tory Prime Minister, but on this issue he has got it right.

low-skilled workers (with families?) from Eastern Europe.

Issued National Insurance numbers do not tally with these immigration figures.

We have not had a war with Germany for 70 years.

The future is unpredictable, and every economic forecast turns out to be wrong.

Collective decision-making involving a group of people of different cultures holding widely differing aspirations and self interests, involves compromise, coercion, threats and favouritism which leads to the temptation for corruption.

Money talks. Big money talks the loudest.

With this in mind I have decided to vote with my heart.

Smoke and mirrors woe From Steve Oliver, Heckmondwike Dear Sir, As the EU referendum draws closer, there is the endless litany of adverse, discouraging consequences (if the vote goes to a ‘Leave’ majority) from David Cameron and his cohorts in the Remain group.

As a marketing and sales person, now retired, I have always known that the people who mostly manipulate, juggle and recycle statistics, percentages and figures are politicians, lawyers and salesmen (and any combination of all three).

I wonder how many of us saw through Cameron’s statement about the Australian points-system on immigration – he said that: “Australia has twice as many immigrants, per capita, as the UK”.

Sounds clever but considering that Australia is 31 times bigger than the UK and has a population that is just 30 per cent of the UK’s, Cameron is using smoke and mirrors by using per capita (per head of population).

The Leave campaign could easily respond to this by saying the UK has hundreds of times more immigrants per square mile than Australia!

The newest menace is that both the state pension and the free TV licence for the over-75s will also be under threat, which seems to be an attack on the group that will be very likely voting Leave, namely the over-60s.

Four months ago Cameron was stating that if he didn’t get enough agreements / concessions from his tour of Europe, he would consider backing a Leave campaign.

He certainly kept quiet about all these dreadful consequences that he now trumpets.

In my personal ‘Dragons Den’, Cameron’s smoke and mirrors device is too costly, it doesn’t work and is not worth investing in ... so I’m OUT!

Soldiers died for a free UK From: Name and address supplied Dear Sir, In the past 100 years Britain has been involved in two major conflicts in Europe, resulting in many hundreds of thousands of people of all colours and creeds from all parts of the Commonwealth and beyond losing their lives.

Grandfathers, fathers, sons, brothers and sisters, children as young as 16.

None of them gave their lives for a united Europe. They gave their lives for a free, independent, democratic, sovereign Britain.

I urge you all, when you put your cross on the ballot paper on June 23 to remember all those crosses on foreign fields and their sacrifice and vote for them as well as ourselves and our future. Vote to leave the EU.

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Beware of the experts From: Donald Slater, via email Dear Sir, When people resort to character assassination, they have lost the argument.

The ITV debates were a travesty of civilised debate and a very sad snapshot of the impartiality of the news media in this country, ITV should hang its head in shame.

I like the latest from Cameron (the very near future ex-prime minister) that pensioners will probably lose their free bus pass when we come out.

Wow what a sign of desperation, what next? The bogie man will come to visit you?

It is a well-known fact that Europe, especially Germany, sells more to us than we sell them, so the EU will lose four million-plus jobs when we stop imports from them, something called tit for tat.

A trade embargo against the UK. Very unlikely I would think, where will Germany sell all its Mercedes, BMWs etc?

And of course it has other problems – a million plus refugees at the moment and more on the way.

Regarding the grotesque sum of money we give the EU every week. I for one would prefer to have 100 pence to spend as I wish than the 20 or so pence we receive grudgingly back from the unelected Brussels politicians.

As for all the doom and gloom from the learned monetary societies, I can remember very few instances when they have been correct over the

years, especially the 2008 recession.

It was staring one in the face, the ones in the know got out as usual, while we the proletariat (still) pay the piper.

Do you remember Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer proclaiming the end of boom and bust, all from his tame experts? Very soon under Brown we had 2008.

Have you noticed how the rhetoric has been very subtly changed over the last few weeks? For instance, the IMF started out saying “the world economy would suffer when we exit”. The next statement some days later said “the UK economy would suffer when we leave”.

It’s the usual thing, beware of the experts and those bearing false gifts, it’s usually better to listen to someone speaking good old plain common sense. I could go on, but I’m sure Press readers have already sorted things out things for themselves.

little or no say.

The future of our country is already being written if we do not put a stop to uncontrolled immigration.

Can somebody in the Remain party please explain to me how a reported non English-speaking Romanian man convicted of murder in his own country plus his wife and five children living on more benefits than he would earn in wages at home, brings any kind of value to my country?

There is already a shortage of school places, doctor’s surgeries are over-run, we have an already over-stretched NHS, low-paid jobs and no housing.

Do you think that by allowing 300,000 extra people a year to come here without checks is going to make things better for our children and grandchildren?

Things may be tough for a while if we vote Leave, but so they were in 1939-45.

We stood alone then, we will again!

It may be tough NHS concerns but worth it From: Name and address From: Andy Howard, via email Dear Sir, Next Thursday I will be voting to leave the EU to protect the future of my children and grandchildren.

The EU is heading more and more towards a super dictatorship of which Britain will have

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News In Brief KIRKLEES COUNCIL CRISIS Accused of bus sex act THORNHILL: A man is accused of committing a sex act while staring at a woman on a bus.

Mohammed Ozair, 30, of Providence Court, is charged with causing a public nuisance on November 23 last year.

Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard the offence allegedly took place at Moor Bottom in Cleckheaton.

Ozair is currently sectioned under the Mental Health Act at Fieldhead Hospital in Wakefield.

He was helped into court by hospital support workers.

Magistrates granted the defendant unconditional bail until a hearing on Friday, July 22.

Man denies harassment BATLEY: A man denied racially or religiously-aggravated harassing two people near where he lives.

Liam Muir, of Burnsall Road, is also accused of using threatening and abusive words to Zubda Begum and Dakhtiyr Ali in April.

Kirklees Magistrates’ Court heard the alleged offences occured at an address on Burnsall Road.

Muir, 25, pleaded not guilty and is due to face trial at the Huddersfield court on Friday, August 19.

He was given unconditional bail until then.

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By David Miller KIRKLEES Council has no functioning cabinet as the leadership crisis rumbles on, it has been revealed.

Coun Steve Hall (Lab, Heckmondwike) said he no longer has the planning and highways brief since the controversy erupted.

He added none of the other senior councillors are in post and branded it a “complete mess”.

Former council leader Coun David Sheard was ousted in an alleged party coup last month.

New Labour group chief Coun Shabir Pandor (Lab, Batley West) was blocked by other parties from taking over as council leader.

Unelected chief executive Adrian Lythgo is in interim charge until a deal can be brokered.

Coun Hall said: “There is no cabinet – presumably Adrian is running things past the party leaders.”

He worries that having passed a budget in February, work implementing that is at risk.

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Coun Hall visited his former office but there was nobody there and added: “As a cabinet we had a lot of tough decisions to make.

“They weren’t popular but we had to do it and I think the public saw we were trying to make the best of a bad job.”

He said of council limbo: “We can’t afford for this to carry on because it’s a complete mess.”

Labour councillors discussed the matters on Monday, ahead of another council leadership vote due on Wednesday, June 29.

Paul Ellis, chairman of the Dewsbury West Labour branch, believes all parties need to get a grip.

He said: “If I was the chief executive, I’d bring the leaders of the three main parities in and tell them they must sort this out.

“It’s unhealthy for the chief executive to be running the council – and officers have their own jobs to do.”

promotion of maternity vouchers has certainly ruffled feathers.

Jeremy Hunt’s recognition that private providers ‘do not like that level of scrutiny’ has been taken on board by the CCG governing body so they will stop publishing certain things.

The GP Forward View, published five weeks ago, is hiding from GPs the inevitable consequence of federating, ie that they will be employed on temporary five-year contracts which studies show provide poorer patient experience than the traditional contracts.

Already, in Brighton, GP referrals for diagnostic tests have to go through the United Health UK subsidiary Optum.

North Kirklees CCG monitors referrals from GPs for tests. Do they outsource this function? Does Greater Huddersfield CCG outsource this function?

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TOTS at a Dewsbury nursery got to squirt water from hoses on a visit to the town’s fire station.

Said Amy Jasiewicz, manager of Child’s Play nursery on Thornhill Road: “The firefighters made us feel very welcome. The children enjoyed

exploring the fire station and looking at all the equipment.” Child’s Play celebrates 15 years in business with an open weekend and birthday party on Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24 (11am-3pm both days).

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From: Name and address supplied Dear Sir, I write as a World War II Merchant Navy veteran who is puzzled as to why, last year, it was announced that the reason why we had not been involved in a war for over 70 years, seemingly referring to a possible WW III, was because we were within the EU. Yet, with all the hype expressed by the ‘Brexit’ parties to support the forthcoming EU referendum,

there has been no mention whatsoever that by leaving the EU, the UK would be in the same position as in 1939, when war was declared against Germany.

An enemy error ensured that we won that war. We are still the UK. There is no doubt that WWII was won because of our own efforts and the assistance given by the Commonwealth, United States of America, Russia and other countries and those of their populations able to assist.

In fact, had the UK been invaded by the enemy rather than its invasion of Russia and subsequent disaster, there was a genuine possibility that the UK would have been overrun and would now no longer exist.

That same possibility would return if ‘Brexit’ won, which is likely because of the referendum being intended to be decided by the public, whose intense dislike of the attitude of Brussels is high, along with the migration situation and many other things.

I became a teenager prior to war being declared in 1939 and experienced the heavy bombing of Hull.

Before going to school each morning I would tour the streets on my cycle, looking for and finding shrapnel left by the previous night’s air raid.

A school friend of mine was killed when an aerial mine fell on his home. My mother had a mirac-

ulous escape when one fell in the allotments opposite our home, and a large solid piece of earth fell through the roof and onto her bed, where she would have been had she not gone next door to see how the occupants were managing in the air raid.

War is a terrible experience, and the main things keeping us going were the speeches the following morning by Winston Churchill after each air raid, and the concern shown by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, by touring many bombed areas.

On leaving school, I worked for a grain merchant taken over by the Ministry of Food, and my work involved dealing with all the vessels bringing grain into Hull. For the remaining two and a half years, I served in the Merchant Navy.

Ready to Leave From: Ms A Rawat, Batley Dear Sir, I think I am at the stage of deciding to vote Leave.

There is a lot of unhappiness amongst the white community at the level of uncontrolled immigration that there is, and will continue to be if we stay in.

Also benefit payments, housing, schooling and health welfare entitlements – I can’t believe child benefit payments are being made for

children not even over here.

I didn’t even know that all this entitlement was going on. The level of unhappiness regarding all this is not healthy for anyone.

I am sorry for the Europeans who have come here to work, pay their taxes and contribute well to the economy; apparently we do need these predominantly young workers. The jobs are there and they are being done by them either because the British don’t want to do them, or there are not enough of them to do them.

I understand that there are only 2.5 per cent of Europeans who claim benefits but, whatever, British people are unhappy with the situation and it needs to be dealt with.

For me, the best scenario would be that we leave our membership as it is but then negotiate a partnership whereby we can still have good trade deals and also migration but for work purposes and tourism only.

None of the white people that I have spoken to want to stay in.

However, it is my experience that people will grumble but will not take part in the voting process.

In the 1975 referendum, 67.2 per cent voted to stay in. My hunch is that it will be less this time, but Remain will still be higher and will win.

So, if you want to leave, or at least only be a member of a reformed European economic community, you need to get out and vote. Only by putting your foot down will politicians listen.

I don’t like standing with the type of ‘Leave’ politicians that we have, but I am hoping that in the circumstance of a Leave vote winning, we will have more trustworthy and able people taking us forward into the new-look future.

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Garage owner facing jail for ‘hijacking’ of police contracts

By Staff Reporters A GARAGE owner from Ossett faces jail for subverting West Yorkshire Police’s tendering process.

Michael Blamire, 49, of Wakefield Road, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud by abuse of position.

Co-accused Samantha Cooper was convicted of the same charge at a Leeds Crown Court trial.

Cooper, 48, of Wakefield, was the manager of the police’s vehicle recovery unit in 2011 and filled in tendering documents for Blamire.

She also supplied information that helped his business gain unfair advantage in the bid process.

Mark Monaghan, prosecuting, said the recovery of seized vehicles or those that have crashed, broken down or been abandoned was put out to tender.

The force area was split into 10 zones and garage owners were asked to bid for those contracts.

Cooper abused her position by helping her friend Blamire and his late father, Mick Blamire.

Mr Monaghan said that as a result, their Bridge Garage on Bradford Road in Ossett won three contracts.

Turnover and profits rose substan-

tially from the “hijacking” of what was supposed to be a fair and transparent process.

The jury was told Bridge Garage scored 87 per cent in analysis of their bid – the next best was 64 per cent.

Mr Monaghan said: “It was as if she had set an exam and gave her friends the answers...

“So when they took the exam they appeared to be the cleverest boy in the class by a long way.

“When Samantha Cooper and Michael Blamire did that, that was an abuse of Samantha Cooper’s position as the manager of the department.”

The court heard Cooper’s laptop computer was seized when the bid procedures fell under suspicion.

It was found she sent sections of the tendering documents from her work email to her own private e-mail and then forwarded them to Blamire.

Mr Monaghan said: “She was hijacking what was supposed to be a fair, transparent process.

“Instead of that they were ensuring that Bridge Garage got the best markets and won contracts worth a lot of money.”

The case was adjourned for reports.

Judge Christopher Batty warned Blamire and Cooper that they face custodial sentences.

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News in Brief Take the test, ladies KIRKLEES: Health chiefs are encouraging women to have smear tests after figures showed that nearly a quarter miss out.

Some 23 per cent of women in the district are not booking for a vital cancer check-up, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The data also found women aged 50 to 64 are less likely to attend a booked appointment.

Dr David Kelly, chairman of NHS North Kirklees Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “Women have no need to be embarrassed.

A simple smear test enables women to receive treatment before it is too late, preventing unnecessary deaths.”

For more information, see www.nhs.uk/ Conditions/Cervical-screening-test.

Summer supper Madison with Rotary Club youth service chairman Patricia Taylor

Madison’s buzzing after young writer accolade A YOUNGSTER from Batley won a writing competition for a tale about Toy Story cartoon character Buzz Lightyear.

St Mary’s RC Primary school pupil Madison Brown won a Rotary Club RotaKids regional young writer contest and also reached the national final.

Her prize was a framed certificate and a £20 book voucher and her story was read out in school.

Entrants were asked to write a story with the theme of ‘my world is beautiful’.

Rotary Club of Batley

youth service chairman Patricia Taylor said: “Madison was very shocked and told me she didn’t think she would win.

“And when the story was read out to the other children they were very impressed!”

Meanwhile, Mrs Taylor will become the club’s new president at a meeting at Gomersal Park Hotel on Wednesday, July 6 (12.15pm).

Her charities for the year will be Dewsbury disabled charity Howlands, Support Dogs and the safe drinking water project, LifeStraws.

LIVERSEDGE: A summer supper at St Andrew's Methodist Church on Monday, June 27 (7pm) is part of the church’s fortnightly Monday club season. Entry is £3 and includes sandwiches and cake.

On Monday, July 11 (7.30pm), Pauline Neale gives a talk explaining the effect of climate change and the programme resumes on Monday, September 5, when James Craig gives a talk about leprosy missions.

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OR MORE than 30 years Horbury Show has been a major event in the district’s calendar. Always held on the last Sunday in June, this year’s huge family event takes place next Sunday (June 26) from 11am to 4.30pm.

It will be the 20th year in which the Rotary Club of Horbury and Ossett Phoenix have organised the show, at Carr Lodge Park in the centre of Horbury.

The attractions have been finalised and the skies will be busy as SMJ Falconry will have both static and flying displays of birds of prey, and a Spitfire aircraft from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will, weather permitting, be making a flypast.

Westgate Cheerleaders and the Horbury Pink Ladies will be performing, and a giant walk-in labyrinth of colour and light that last descended on the event in 2012 is back. Colourscape is presenting ‘Symphony of Senses’ in Horbury as part of its Arts Council-funded tour.

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Elsewhere, you can take in the British Army display and paintball range by the Rifles Regiment then have a gentle stroll around the 70 fairground attractions, activities, donkeys and stalls.

You can also admire the collection of classic cars, appreciate the skills of dry stone wall building and wood turning and be entertained by Horbury Victoria Brass Band.

Professor Robanti will once again be keeping the kids enthralled with his traditional Punch and Judy show and the adults will doubtless be popping into the nearby real ale bar marquee, run by Boons of Horbury, who will have at least seven different beers and ciders available.

The food court is back again this year, and ice cream vans will be at strategic points within the park to ensure that everyone, young and old, is well catered for.

The static display of classic cars and motorbikes has become a popular feature, and exhibitors from the Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car Club will be attending, as well as lorries and other exceptional vehicles from local collectors.

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House-builders ‘exploiting council’s lack of strategy’

By David Miller

Coun Steve Hall: ‘Developers are doing what they want’

DEVELOPERS are exploiting Kirklees Council’s lack of an up-to-date planning strategy.

That is the view of Coun Steve Hall, who hit out this week at proposals for 66 new houses in Heckmondwike.

Jones Homes want to build on land off White Lee Road near the border with Batley.

It was recommended by officers for refusal at a planning meeting in Huddersfield yesterday (Thursday) as the land is designated urban green space in the council’s Unitary Development Plan (UDP).

But this is considered out-ofdate and the lack of a successor masterplan means the authority cannot show a five-year supply of plots for housing.

Coun Hall said: “Because we don’t have a Local Plan, developers are using that as carte blanche to do what they want.”

He added the land retains its ranking as urban green space in a draft version of the Local Plan.

This is one step down from green belt and affords some

protection against development.

Coun Hall said: “I see it as a vital piece of land in that we have separate settlements, like Heckmondwike and Batley.

“If we were to lose such land we’d also lose that definition – everything would be urban sprawl.”

Consultation on the Local Plan ended in February and it could finally be in place by next year.

Coun Hall (Lab, Heckmondwike) hopes the council’s leadership crisis does not see the draft policy re-opened.

It is claimed that proposals in the Local Plan to build on a Huddersfield golf course were a factor in the ousting of Coun David Sheard as council leader.

Coun Hall said: “The worrying thing is if the Local Plan is tinkered with it would have to go back out to consultation.

“If that were to happen, we could run out of time and the Government would impose one.

“That could leave us mortified as there could be things in it we don’t want but can’t do anything about.”

Pupils look beyond the headlines to learn more about the Middle East PUPILS at a Batley school learned about conflict in the Middle East as part of a guest lecture series.

Dr Afshin Shahi, right, a lecturer in Middle East politics at the University of Bradford, visited Batley Girls’ High School on Windmill Lane.

He is also director of the university’s Centre for the Study of Political Islam and a media commentator.

Dr Shahi is a contributor to the Washington Post and National Public Radio in the USA and has appeared on the BBC. His talk to more than 200 children and staff was called The Middle East – Beyond the Headlines.

It covered the region’s history and politics with a focus on the environmental impact of current conflicts.

Sixth former Aabidah Patel said: “This was such a fantastic opportunity and Dr Shahi proved to be an excellent speaker.”

She is co-head girl and found the talk pushed her study of ALevel Geography forward.

Aabidah added: “The talk really helped to enhance my appreci-

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Deputy headteacher David Cooper said: “Afshin is a fantastic academic role model for our young people.

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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 SATURDAY JUNE 18 SATURDAY JUNE 25 HOWDEN CLOUGH AND BACK CLECKHECKMONDSEDGE Starts at 10.30am at Gawthorpe Starts at 10.45am at rear of maypole (WF5 9RL, SE273221) Cleckheaton Town Hall (BD19 8.5 miles/13.7 km - moderate 3RH, SE191254) 6.5 miles – modFinishes at 3.15pm approx erate. Finishes 2.15pm approx Contact: David Parkinson Contact: Geoff Tel: 01274 879794 Tel: 01422 379921

Academy hosts brass concert THORNHILL Community Academy are opening their doors for an evening of entertainment with a brass band concert on Wednesday June 29 at 7.30pm.

The Altofts and Normanton Brass Band will be headlining the evening, with the academy’s choir taking lead vocals.

Audiences will enjoy an array of songs and brilliantly arranged pieces of music, old and current.

Tickets are £4 adults, £2 concessions available to purchase at the Academy.

The concert is being held as part of a programme of community events run by the academy, giving the audience an opportunity to enjoy a breadth of musical talent and a fun evening for all.

Finding the next David Bailey A NEW series of Oakwell Hall Country Park’s popular one-day photography courses begins soon.

There are three dates, each aimed at a different level of experience. All are being run by Patrick Crowley, a professionally trained photographer and Oakwell Hall Country Park Ranger.

On Saturday June 25 there is a course for complete beginners which will give an introduction to digital photography.

The course on Saturday July 9 is aimed at beginners with SLR cameras and will help them learn more about how to make use of the different settings on their cameras.

The third course, on Saturday July 23, is advanced SLR photography and will show participants different techniques and effects to get the best pictures.

All the courses run from 9.45am to 4.30pm and cost £20 per person per course.

Places must be reserved in advance and early booking is advised.

For details call 01924 324761.

Gypsy treat for arts group finale DEWSBURY Arts Group’s final production in their season of plays takes place next week with ‘Gypsy’ – considered by many to be one of the the greatest American musicals.

“The show is loosely based on the 1957 memoir of the famous Gypsy Rose Lee and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with the ultimate showbusiness mother.

Gypsy features songs that have become standards in musical theatre, including ‘Let Me Entertain You’ and ‘Coming Up Roses’.

It has been revived over and over again in Broadway and the West End, most recently in the West End starring Imelda Staunton.

The arts group will be performing Gypsy at Dewsbury Artspace from Thursday June 23 until Saturday July 2 (except Sunday June 26), on Lower Peel Street, at 7.30pm each night.

Tickets can be reserved by calling 01924 465647.

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A DANCE school in Mirfield is marking its 15th anniversary with a special celebration show involving hundreds of local families.

Back in the year 2000 a few Mirfield mums asked their friend and former dancer Katie Philpott to teach their toddlers a few dance steps.

Many of those children are now young adults embarking on their own journeys in the world of professional dance – and the Katie Philpott School of Dance is a flourishing academy.

In July the school is celebrating its anniversary with a dance extravaganza at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield called 'KPSD – A Celebration!'

SPEN VALLEY Historical Society’s next meeting will be on Wednesday July 3, titled ‘Dawson City – the building of the Walshaw Dean Reservoirs’ by Ann Kilbey.

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The cost is £2 per meeting for members, £4 for guests and membership is £10 per year.

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Rumble in jumble

A LAST NIGHT of the Proms concert featuring the delights of theatre and film musicals is to be staged in Batley Town Hall tomorrow (Sat).

It’s being provided by musicians from Hammonds Saltaire Brass Band, who have proved so popular they are making their ninth annual appearance in the town.

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With pieces from Another Opening, Another Show, Mack and Mabel, Phantom of the Opera and Anything Goes the evening seems set to get off to an uproarious start.

Either side of the interval the band strikes chords with Over the Rainbow, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Barnum and South Pacific.

And as it builds up to the climax the programme extends to Mary

A cast of more than 300 students, aged from three to 53, will showcase a wide range of dance genres including ballet, tap, jazz,

Poppins, a Fantasia of British Sea Songs and – what else – Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March as a finale.

Tickets which are priced at £12 (concessions £10 and under-16s £5) can be obtained by calling Ted Griffiths on 01924 478933, Kirklees Box Office on 01924 324501 or online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk.

Or you can risk getting a seat by just turning up in time for the 7.15pm start.

modern theatre, street dance, musical theatre, freestyle, contemporary, cheerleading and Disco Duck for pre-schoolers.

Based at the Wellhouse Moravian Church and Zion Baptist Church, Katie said: “I was so proud of how far the school has come since 2000 and our growth and success is purely down to all the hard work put in by my staff and students who are the heart and soul of KPSD.” The show is a look-back over 15 years of KPSD shows, revitalising popular classics and spicing things up with some new pieces and will feature favourites from Sister Act, Oliver, Bugsy Malone, Oklahoma and The King and I. The celebration takes place on Saturday and Sunday July 9-10 at 2.30pm and 7pm on each day, and tickets are now on sale.

A JUMBLE sale is being held at Mirfield’s Trinity Methodist Church community rooms tonight (Fri 6pm).

Admission to the sale, on Trinity Street, is 20p.

Find your own tree GENEALOGY classes are being held at Batley Library on the first Thursday of each month, between 10am and 12pm.

The classes have been arranged by the Friends of Batley Library group, in co-operation with researchers from Bleak House.

They are an ideal opportunity for members of the local community to come along and start to begin building their own family tree.

All are welcome to attend.

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From Brookside to London’s West End, soap star Claire Sweeney steals the show

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HE IS best known for her role in the Channel 4 soap Brookside, but the ever-versatile Claire Sweeney wowed audiences at the London Hippodrome last week with her own show, showing off her singing, comic and acting skills.

She told me: “I still like to act and my dream role would be a Coronation Street part.

It’s the best, and they don’t have a scouse girl in there do they, so I would be perfect.” Claire, who has appeared in various musicals like Guys and Dolls and Hairspray, also tells me: “I love to sing, it’s what I started with on the cruise ships, so to combine the both would be wonderful.”

tells me: “I love some of them, but you don’t get a career appearing in those do you. I want to act and try new adventures, hence the reason I am leaving the Street, but who knows in the future?”

DETECTIVE drama Endeavour, the prequel to Inspector Morse, is set for a fourth series and it will pay homage to Morse’s 30th anniversary. Insiders on the show tell me they are overwhelmed by the success of the show, and think it’s right to make such a celebration in view of the length of time.

FOLLOWING Emmerdale’s success at the British Soap Awards, I think Christopher Chittell (Eric Pollard) is definitely worthy of a lifetime achievement award. On September 30 2016, Chris will have played Eric Pollard for 30 years! Insiders on the show are already pushing for a celebration, but this would be the icing on the cake.

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BRADLEY WALSH has landed himself a new ITV game show following the success of The Chase. ‘Cash Trapped’ is based on one of Bradley’s original ideas and has a genuinely unique twist – nobody leaves until somebody wins. ITV has commissioned 10 60-minute episodes of which will air on the channel later this year.

CORONATION STREET actor Ryan Thomas has dismissed rumours that he is to take part in ITV’s I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here. He

FORMER boyband member Duncan James believes Hollyoaks has saved his life – because he’s now getting a regular pay cheque. “It’s tough when you have been in a successful band and then it stops,” he said. “It’s really a case of what to do next, and what is out there, so for me this role is security, plus a chance to show I can really act, and not just be Duncan from Blue.”

IT RAN for eight series and almost 13 years, but Foyle’s War finally bowed out on ITV last year. The creator of the show, Anthony Horowitz, has told me that he’s happy to have wrapped up the 40s-set drama. “I’ve written 26 twohour films for that show,” he said. “Seventeen years of my life have been devoted to Foyle’s War. I do miss them from time to time, you know.”

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EASTENDERS Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) tells me he could be tempted back again to the show, as: “I have really enjoyed acting again, I did miss it and you do wonder if you can still create Grant. Yes, I would have a re-think if I am asked.”

DID YOU know that although the show is all things UK, Coronation Street airs in 40 different countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Morocco, Taiwan, South Africa, Estonia, and Poland? There are legions of Corrie fans the world over, and bosses also make special promo films of the show’s favourite characters to help sell it to other countries.

PETER ANDRE tells me he’s dropped the ballroom after Strictly Come Dancing, because: “It’s tougher than you think, and I would say while the show is great fun, it’s harder than you realise.

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If we can’t control who enters the United Kingdom, and we can’t deport violent criminals either, then the country really isn’t ours at all Leaving the EU will mean control over immigration, greater security and the right to govern ourselves. With the vote next week, we ask Jonathan Scott, Campaign Co-ordinator for Vote Leave in Dewsbury and Batley how on issues of sovereignty, immigration and security the UK would be better off voting to leave the European Union on the 23rd of June.

Q: Will a vote to leave We cannot stop the EU make any differcriminals entering ence to our security?

A: As we have sadly Britain from Europe seen in France and Belgium, being a member while job creators of the EU does not guar- from non-European antee our security from countries are blocked terrorism.

The EU has no security The British peoor military framework, this is done by individual countries ple should be able to talking to each other. European elect and remove individuals security is provided and has those always been provided by NATO who take decisions that affect our lives. not the EU. Being a member of the EU Our security is best protected

by UK intelligence services and means that more and more of our law enforcement agencies work- laws are made by unelected, people in ing in co-operation with our unaccountable armed forces and our NATO Brussels.

We cannot remove them if we allies and friends around Europe don’t like the laws they impose and the world.

This co-operation is not on us and we lose control of the dependent on our political mem- £350 million that we give the EU bership of the club that is the EU. every week that could be spent Also, if we gain control over on our priorities. our borders, and pull out of the free movement of EU citizens, we Q: Don’t we benefit from can offer greater scrutiny of peobeing able to go to the ple coming into our country and be free to deport foreign crimi- European Courts? nals without restrictions being A: Part of the UK being indeimposed on us. pendent is that British judges decide British justice.

Q: Why does the Leave The power of European Courts campaign talk so much about has led to far too much interference and overrulparliamentary ing of our own The former head of courts’ decisions. sovereignty?

It is just wrong A: For me, the Interpol says the EU that the European key issue at the Court of Justice heart of this refer- system is ‘like can dictate and endum is regain- hanging a sign overrule a deciing the right to sion made in the govern ourselves welcoming terrorists UK to remove foras a free, independeign terrorists or to Europe’ ent country. criminals.

Albania, Serbia and Turkey in the future.

Q: But surely immigration is a positive thing for our country?

A: The Leave campaign have never said that there should be no immigration at all.

This happens too often and is unacceptable.

Q: What about immigration – can we really control it if we vote to leave?

A: Right now, the EU determines who can enter our country under its free movement of people directive. If we vote to leave, we will be taking this control and power back.

The number of EU migrants coming to live and work in our country each year is the equivalent size of a city as large as Newcastle.

Migration Watch, the independent immigration think tank, have predicted that seven million more EU migrants will come to Britain in the next 20 years.

I urge people to look ahead and think what unlimited, unrestricted and uncontrolled immigration will mean not just now but in the decades to come.

Although no-one has a crystal ball there is every indication that the EU is determined to extend membership, and free movement, to countries such as

As it has been in the past, managed immigration is indeed positive and good for our country. But that is not what we have.

Uncontrolled immigration drives down wages and puts enormous pressure on our schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, housing and jobs.

Every country outside the

EU looks at their needs and skills gaps when making decisions about immigration. They also look at their own workforce and unemployed first.

We should be doing this as a sensible immigration system for the UK, controlling and deciding who enters our country to work and on what terms.

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Proud of my - and being a Aleks Lukic describes why he will be voting to leave the EU on Thursday, June 23rd. Aleks is a third generation British Serb and is equally proud of his ancestry and being a Yorkshireman, an Englishman and a Brit. Aleks is a teacher in Kirklees and part of the Vote Leave team in Dewsbury, Mirfield, Batley and Spen.

S A boy I was taught the historic Serbian motto: Samo sloga Srbina spasava – Only Unity Saves the Serbs.

It has stood with me as a teaching against foreign rule, that people should take pride in their country and look after each other. No doubt an influence in why I became a trade unionist upon entering the teaching profession.

But it has also been a factor in my views on the EU, because the fundamental question we are being asked is about who should be in charge of our country. The meaning of democracy is that the people should be in charge; that we elect and remove representatives who are supposed to serve our interests.

When you look at the amount of control that has been given up to the EU, it becomes clear that ‘the people’ are no longer in charge in several key areas.

In an attempt to justify this, we are told that the EU is all about pro-

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moting jobs and trade.

Let’s assume for a moment that it is. As Labour Leave’s Brendan Chilton asks, why then does the EU need an anthem?

Why does it need a president? (Or seven presidents!)

Why does it need a flag?

Why does it need a parliament?

Why does it need a currency?

Why does it have ambassadors and embassies?

Why does it want an armed force?

Trade relationships need none of these things! That’s before you get on to the countless jobs moved out of Britain with the help of EU money.

The billions of pounds we hand over to Brussels every year, never to be seen again. And of course, the

added pressure on services and housing from unlimited ‘freedom of movement’.

So we have to come back to this point – who is in charge of all this?

Do we, the people, even know?

Can you name any of the 28 EU Commissioners who propose new laws? We certainly can’t vote them out of power. These people have often been rejected by the voters in their own countries!

I was born only a couple of years before the Maastricht Treaty was approved, so I have no personal experience of life before the EU. I sometimes look at photos of our local towns and industry from decades gone by, and I feel like I missed our area’s heyday. I enjoy hearing from people who know what it used to be like.

But still, when you grow up around here you can’t help but develop a deep appreciation for our area and its traditions.

I know what it’s like to play in a brass band at a celebration of the Queen’s 90th birthday. I know what it’s like to have a mortgage on a little terraced house with a view

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roots Brit! across our tremendous rolling hills.

And I know what it’s like to enjoy a local real ale after a lengthy walk across those hills, up and down and up again.

Naturally, it really gets at me when politicians suggest we must stay in the EU because we might not be capable of running a successful, independent, outward-looking Britain.

How out of touch they are, and how little confidence they must have in themselves.

Have they asked the Greeks how well the EU has worked for them? Have they asked the 45% of under 25s in Spain who are unemployed, or the 39% in Italy?

Have they asked African nations?

Germany earns more money from coffee than the whole African continent, thanks to the punishing effect of EU tariffs.

It is not so hard to imagine how we can stand on our own two feet, take charge of our country and do a much better job for Britain and the wider world.

VOTE to leave the EU is a vote for taking back control of immigration with a fair Australian-style points system, so what matters are the skills you can offer, not where you come from.

A vote to leave the EU is a vote for taking back control of trade. We will negotiate access to the single market so that the 6% of British businesses who export to EU countries can continue to do so.

And when we leave, we can take back our seat at the World Trade Organisation and expand our Commonwealth and other global trade. Our non-EU exports already outweigh our EU exports, and they are growing twice as quickly.

A vote to leave the EU is a vote for taking back control of our money. We can maintain all ‘EU-funded’ projects in Britain and have money left over to put into helping the NHS and driving down household energy bills.

A vote to leave the EU is a vote for taking back control of our democracy, with people you know and who represent every local area in Britain having the final say.

That’s the future I believe in as a proud Brit.

David Cameron would not have called this referendum if he’d known what the polls would be saying a week before the 23rd of June. Things were clearly never meant to turn out this way.

Mr Cameron knew that he could count on the Labour Party, the SNP, foreign leaders and a multitude of self-important establishment figures for support. We would do as we were told and he would be home and dry.

We have seen the increasingly desperate tactics from his Government, culminating in this week’s cynical ‘Brexit budget’ which was shot down by his own MPs only an hour after it was announced.

He didn’t consider that the people of Britain would prefer to base their decision on what they have seen for themselves, what they have seen happening to their own prospects and their own communities.

For an increasing majority, the hope of leaving the EU and taking back control of our country is now very real.

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FIVE THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE VOTE TO REMAIN:

FIVE THINGS THAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE VOTE TO LEAVE:

The EU is expanding – Turkey is one of five countries currently negotiating their membership of the EU. That is an additional 90 million people that will have the entitlement to come to our country on top of the 500 million who have entitlement to come to our country now, and who are putting pressure on our NHS, school places, housing, GP surgeries, jobs and wages.

We will be able to save £350 million a week in membership fees. We can spend that money on our priorities like the NHS, schools, housing and our armed forces. We will save billions of pounds by not having to implement EU regulations and directives and by taking the pressure off our public services that uncontrolled, unlimited immigration brings. This will bring huge savings.

The EU will cost us more and more. The EU already costs us £350 million a week in membership fees. It we vote to remain our rebate will be under threat and our membership fees are set to rise by 30%. We could spend that money here at home on our own priorities such as the NHS, schools and our armed forces.

Uncontrolled, unlimited, unrestricted immigration will continue. Migration Watch, the independent think tank predicts that seven million more EU migrants will come to live in our country over the next 20 years from the poorer countries of the EU. What will our country look like in 10 years from now?

The European Court of Justice will still be in charge of our laws. It already overrules us enough, on everything from how much tax we pay, to who we can let in and out of our country and on what terms.

Foreign criminals and terrorists can use the European Court of Justice to fight deportation and extradition – at the British taxpayers’ expense.

The EU want to abolish the British armed forces and create a European army, navy and air force. The EU has plans to add to their President, Foreign Minister, their flag, anthem and currency. They want to propose an EU army and then a fully fledged EU armed forces to support their EU superstate.

Our armed forces will be merged with other EU states and come under the command of EU generals.

We will be in charge of our own borders. In a world with so many new threats, it is safer for us to control our borders and decide for ourselves who can come into our country and not be overruled by EU judges. We can decide to deport foreign criminals and terrorists if our own courts rule that way – we will not be subjected to EU rulings.

We can control immigration and have a fairer system, a system that works in the British people’s interest and not someone else’s. We can introduce a new points-based immigration system that will mean immigrants to our country will need to be able to speak English, prove they have a job offer, a valid health insurance certificate and the skills that our economy needs.

We will be free to trade with the whole world. The EU stops us from signing our own free trade deals with other countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India, China and the United States.

We will be free to seize new opportunities to trade in old established and new emerging markets with a truly global outlook which will bring new jobs, investment and growth.

We can make our own laws.

Our Parliament will be once again the final decisionmaking body in our country.

Elected by us, accountable to us and us alone. Our laws should be made by the people we elect and who we can remove, and not by appointed, unelected, unaccountable EU commissioners.

This is the democratic, patriotic choice.

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Showing support for the Armed Forces provides a much valued morale boost for the troops and their families.

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DEWSBURY’S Crow Nest Park will stage a music festival celebrating Armed Forces Day on Saturday, June 25.

The national event provides a morale boost for veterans, troops and their families and for reservists and cadet forces.

The festival will raise cash for the Royal British Legion, which is the chosen charity for the Mayor of Kirklees, Coun Jim Dodds.

The Legion provides lifelong support for the Armed Forces community – serving men and women, veterans, and their families.

It helps those with lifechanging injuries and trauma to battle back to a full life, supports sick and disabled veterans and cares for bereaved families and children.

The Friends of Crow Nest Park have organised the festival as a free event, which will be launched by the Deputy Mayor, Coun Christine Iredale at 11am.

The aim is to provide a fun day, offering a blend of musical styles and performances that will hopefully appeal to all audience members, within the relaxed park setting.

Visitors are invited to take along picnics and seating facilities (no barbecues).

The Friends group says: “In staging this event, we wish to reinvigorate and revive Crow Nest Park’s association with musical performances – a rich tradition which has included Friday night dances, weekend band performances and major pop concerts organised by Kirklees Council.”

Performers are expected to include: ■ Gawthorpe Youth Brass Band, an experienced band which took the Joseph Priestley Trophy in the Open section of the 2015 Rothwell music festival and gained a

NEW BADGES commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme are now available in Mirfield.

The Royal British Legion fundraising pins can be obtained for a suggested donation of £3 from Poppy Appeal officer Tim Wood, landlord at the Old Colonial pub on Dunbottle Lane.

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“There wasn't a street in the West Riding that wasn't affected by the Battle of the Somme, with tens of thousands of casualties from homes across the region,” said Tim. Anyone interested in the badges can contact him on 01924 496920.

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Creating lasting community links Advertising Feature RESIDENTS and staff in care homes around the country are getting ready to open their doors to the public today (Fri) for this year’s National Care Home Open Day. The day is a UK-wide initiative to help create lasting links between care home residents and their local communities by inviting people in to see what life in a care home is really like.

Far from the pre-conceived ideas of care settings in years gone by, visitors will find residents leading an active lifestyle, making new friends and even taking up additional hobbies.

This year’s theme for Care Home Open Day is ‘Celebration’ and Ashworth Grange in Dewsbury will be getting involved by using the day to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday.

Many of the residents at

Ashworth Grange, and other care homes, will be 90 or over themselves, and fondly remember the days when children played on the streets and locking your front door was optional.

The local community was a cornerstone to all walks of life and celebrations of the Queen’s achievements were something shared in village halls and streets across the country.

Amanda Richardson is the regional director for Ideal Carehomes, which operates Ashworth Grange.

She explained why it is so important for care homes to get involved in national days such as Care Home Open Day, and also to be an integral part of the community: “Events such as Care Home Open Day are all about breaking down the barriers between care homes and the local community and connecting people.

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relationships across the generations – our residents have so much to share, we could all learn a thing or two from them.

“Plus we love a celebration and whenever we get the chance for a party, we make the most of it!”

There is always something going on at Ashworth Grange.

After Care Home Open Day, the home has many events planned for the next few months including an Olympic Games party and a summer fair.

Residents love to meet new people and welcome the community into their beautiful home, and if you would like to know about upcoming events, email customer.services@ idealcarehomes.co.uk and ask to go on Ashworth Grange’s mailing list.

Or if you are passing, why not just pop in for a cuppa and see what residential care is really like – you never know, you might be surprised!

Luxury care home opened EMMERDALE actress Charlie Hardwick and the Mayor and Mayoress of Kirklees were guests of honour at the recent launch of Dewsbury’s newest luxury care home, Oak Park in Chickenley.

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by Darrington Healthcare, and follows the success of the company’s other care homes in Pontefract and Doncaster.

All its homes offer five-star care, and include larger than average en-suite rooms, cafes, a hair and beauty salon, a bar, and cinema and activity rooms.

Oak Park is set over three floors, and offers residential and specialist dementia care.

Darrington’s managing director Eric Dixon said: “Charlie was absolutely lovely, and a real hit with everyone who attended the launch.

“She was very impressed with the home’s facilities, saying how important it was that as a society we care for our older generation and provide the high-quality care that helps them to live with dignity and independence.

“Charlie has promised to come back later this year and we are looking forward to welcoming her through the doors again.

“The outgoing Mayor of Kirklees, Coun Paul Kane, has personally been very supportive throughout the whole process of building Oak Park, which represents a £4m investment into the area.

“We were delighted that he could attend the opening, along with many of the people involved in the construction, plus some of the nearby residents who have become friends as well as

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“We are very proud to say that this is our third care home in Yorkshire, and it will create 75 full and part time jobs for local people.

“Like our other homes, we aim to make it a real part of the community, where families and friends drop in for tea in our café, get involved in activities and have some input into the care plans we create for their loved ones.”

Oak Park’s open weekend in May drew scores of local people in, keen to take a look at the accommodation and find out more about the care on offer.

Designed by specialist architects Alston Murphy, Oak Park was built by Walter Thompson (Contractors) Ltd and supported by a development package from Yorkshire Bank.

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Oak Park care Home in Chickenley officially opened its doors last month, offering affordable, high quality care to the older generation of Dewsbury.

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CRICKET

NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL

Quarter-finals await for Hanging Heaton

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

HANGING HEATON will visit holders Bradford and Bingley in the quarter-final of the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League’s Priestley Cup on June 26, after a victory over Championship B leaders Townville in a rain-affected secondround game.

Bingley progressed comfortably, beating Methley by 88 runs, but it was a different story at Bennett Lane where run rate determined the outcome after rain prevented completion of the match.

The calculations proved a triumph for

Hanging Heaton skipper Gary Fellows, who scarcely deserved to be on the losing side after an outstanding display of batting had seen him run up a score of 170, hitting four sixes and 22 fours, in helping his side to 3105 in their 50 overs.

It looked a foregone conclusion as Townville slumped to 89-5 in reply, but a superb response from Connor Harvey, 87 not out off 47 balls, and skipper Nick Bresnan (52), took them to 232-6 with 12.1 overs remaining before heavy rain halted proceedings.

The scoring rate was calculated on the basis of completed overs and Hanging Heaton’s 6.2 just pipped Townville’s 5.89 but, had the last over been completed – and the visitors hit a four off that final ball, the game would have gone to Townville by .0105 of a run.

In the other games played Baildon went through against Carlton on a faster scoring rate, but the remaining five ties were disrupted by the weather, with no result possible, and will therefore be replayed this Sunday.

Gomersal are at Undercliffe, playing for the right to entertain Pudsey St Lawrence or Wrenthorpe in the last eight, Cleckheaton go to Woodlands hoping to secure a home tie with Baildon and Batley are at Lightcliffe with a tie at Yeadon or Scholes awaiting the winners.

In the Priestley Shield Hanging Heaton won at Batley, Cleckheaton beat Spen Victoria at Moorend and Idle won at Gomersal, but Bowling Old Lane v Birstall, Wakefield St Michaels v Ossett, Morley v East Bierley, Azaad v Woodlands, and Farsley v Lightcliffe will try again this Sunday.

Cleckheaton look for quick response against Congs DESPITE THE rain disrupted programme last week the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League produced a surprising number of completed games - though some clubs must have been left wishing for more rain after disappointing defeats.

Cleckheaton go into tomorrow’s game at Pudsey Congs desperate to put their defeat at home to leaders Pudsey St Lawrence behind them.

St Lawrence hit 283-4 in their 50 overs and Cleckheaton were never in the hunt as Richie Lamb took 5-31 in 13 overs to bowl out Cleck for just 124 in reply.

There was better luck for

Hanging Heaton as they took just 26 overs to clean up Morley for 51 after making 159-9 in their 50 overs.

Muhammed Rameez took 6-9 off seven overs in the Morley reply and that win keeps Hanging Heaton second in the table ahead of their Priestley Cup rehearsal at Bingley tomorrow.

Scholes were beaten by four wickets at Bingley in their last game, after making just 106, and they will need to do better at New Farnley tomorrow if they are pull away from the foot of the Premier Division table.

It is beginning to look like a one horse race in Championship B as Townville extended their lead over Wrenthorpe to 33

points with their 82 run win over Hopton Mills and third placed Gomersal are a further 20 points behind after a surprise derby defeat at the hands of Spen Victoria at Oxford Road.

Townville are looking to widen that gap further when they take on Wrenthorpe tomorrow and Gomersal are looking to stay in the race at Bowling Old Lane.

But at the other end of the table Hopton Mills, hovering dangerously close to the relegation zone, now go to Altofts while bottom club Hartshead Moor are in a relegation scrap at Brighouse.

In Championship A Batley, the surprise early season package, came down to earth with a

bump after being surprised themselves by a nine run defeat at home to Hunslet Nelson in a decidedly low scoring encounter.

Batley looked in control when they shot out Hunslet Nelson for only 72, Muhammed Shahnawaz taking 5-22, but Will Stiff then turned it around for the visitors when he also took 5-22 to leave Batley all out for 63. Despite their defeat Batley remain in top spot but will have a game in hand after tomorrow as they have a free week.

Liversedge, who were free last week, return to action at home to second-placed Undercliffe while Ossett are at home to bottom club Idle and Birstall are at Saltaire.

JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE

Moor Under-14s beat Sharks to climb Division One table DEWSBURY MOOR UNDER-14S impressed against local rivals Shaw Cross Sharks, coming away with a solid 2810 win in Yorkshire Junior’s League Division One. Man of the match and opposition player of the match Taylor Franklin was influential setting up several tries and defending strongly to keep Shaw Cross at arms’ length throughout the game.

Coaches’ man of the Berry also had a solid game alongside teammates, captain Charlesworth and O’Neil.

Charlesworth bagged himself three tries in the game with other touchdowns coming from Jay HaywoodScriven and Hirst.

Conversions were added by Charlesworth, Brad Llewelyn and Frost to round off the win which takes Moor up to fourth in the table.

The defeat leaves Shaw Cross languishing in seventh.

BIRSTALL VICTORIA UNDER-14S overcame Castleford Panthers 40-10 in their Yorkshire Juniors League Division Three clash.

There were impressive performances from Parry, Stevens and Ripley in the contest. It was Stevens who opened the scoring for Birstall, showing his strength as he shrugged off five defenders to touch down.

Naylor soon added to the hosts’ lead with a try of his own before Steven doubled his tally for the game shortly before half-time. But Ellis was the last man to grab a try before the change of ends, giving Vic a 20-point lead.

Early in the second half Birstall sealed the win with a try from Crawshaw but the Panthers refused to give in and salvaged some pride with a try under the sticks.

Ellis extended Birstall’s lead when he dribbled the ball over the line before Stevens completed his hat-trick late on to round off a comfortable win which takes them up to third in the table.

BIRSTALL VICTORIA’S UNDER-11S played out an entertaining game against Farnley.

The side’s shared 15 tries with Birstall’s Harry Avis bagging three of them along with Jack Mysak (two), Thomas Harrison (two), Verne Capstick, Cameron Stevens and Joe Hargreaves. Harrison added six goals to take his points tally to 20 for the game.

Mysak collected the man of steel, best trainer and supporters’ star awards for his efforts. Cohan Burnham bagged the attacking contribution accolade with Harry Townend leaving with the defensive prize. Stevens received the magic moment honours and also picked up the best opponent award.

DEWSBURY MOOR UNDER-10S played out an even fixture with Stanley Rangers.

Coaches’ man of the match Zain Ajmal got Moor’s first try, which he converted before opposition man of the match Joe Maloney added to Moor’s lead with a try.

Magic moment winner Harley Sykes went over for the Maroons’ third before Ajmal crossed for his second touchdown just before half-time.

Shortly after the restart Ajmal completed his hat-trick and parents’ player winner Callum Billing went over for a try converted by George Coward.

Stanley hit back with a converted try of their own but Maloney doubled his tally for Moor before Sykes went over for his second try, converted by Billing to round off the game’s scoring. Lucas Sheard bagged the top tackler honours.

In a hard fought game THORNHILL TROJANS UNDER-10S WARRIORS went toe-to-toe with Swillington. Man of the match and opposition man of the match Zak Haigh stood out scoring a hat-trick of tries and putting in a strong defensive display.

The Warriors took control in the second half of the game, with further tries from Jack Chamberlain who won the parents’ player award.

Bailey Hargreaves collected the 100 per cent effort

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Thomas Harrison touched down for Birstall Victoria Under-11s

honours, Charlie Blacka was named top tackler, with the magic moment prize going to Charlie Harrison.

Max Grinhaff starred in BIRSTALL VICTORIA UNDER8S’ games with Hunslet Club Parkside and Hunslet Warriors, scoring six tries.

Jack Kirkaldy also notched up four tries as well as setting up his teammates in an accomplished performance.

There was also notable defensive work from Harley Aston and Alfie Davison, who both scored hat-tricks.

Charlie Orr was the player who collected the 100 per cent effort honours, Josh Grogan and Jack Pickles received the man of the match awards.

Pickles was also rewarded for his five-try-haul from the two games. Other try scorers included Harrison Stevens (five), Archie Walker (two) and Alfie Watson.

Holt ready for second stint at Tracey’s Albion OSSETT ALBION have signed former captain Stef Holt who arrives back at Dimple Wells having spent two years at Northern Counties East League Premier Division side Shaw Lane Aquaforce.

Holt (pictured above) won the league title with Lane as well as being an instrumental figure in their FA Vase run which saw them reach the last eight in the 2014/15 season.

Injury hampered Holt’s 2015/16 campaign but he hopes to rediscover his old form under the guidance of Albion boss Richard Tracey.

Also signing for Albion are goalkeeper Jordan Bradshaw and Talent Ndlovu.

Bradshaw joins the Golds with bags of experience having played for Sheffield United and Doncaster at youth level, before going onto to play for Frickley and Winterton. Ndlovu arrives from Guiseley.

Tracey was also boosted by the news that captain Danny South and prolific goal scorer Rob Bordman have committed their futures to the club.

Albion’s pre-season gets underway in less than a month with squad matches against Pontefract A (July 9) before games with Hemsworth Miners Welfare A (July 14), Sheffield A (July 15) and Parkgate A (July 19).

First team warm-up matches start with three home fixtures against Shaw Lane (August 4), Stocksbridge Park Steels (August 6) and Sheffield United Under-21s (August 10).

Hopton Mills look to make amends SUNDAY sees the quarter-final of the Jack Hampshire Trophy, with Ossett and Hopton Mills among the Championship clubs who joined the Conference teams after suffering preliminary round elimination in the Priestley Cup. In these last eight ties mid-table Ossett, at home to Gildersome, are favourites to progress and Hopton Mills should prove too strong for their Conference opponents at Adwalton, but none of these clubs are in convincing form in their respective leagues.

Buttershaw St Paul’s have looked nailedon to win promotion to the Championship from the Conference, and are the club who have looked most likely to achieve some cup success, but they go into their last eight encounter at Azaad on the back of their first league defeat at home to Heckmondwike.

On the face of it, with Buttershaw having played in the CYL Premier last season and Heckmondwike having planned to join the Second Division of the CYL before the merger, this was a game Buttershaw were expected to win.

A ninth victory on the trot and a warm-up for this weekend’s cup game looked on the cards, but newcomers Heckmondwike had other ideas.

Former Gomersal duo Tosh Baker, 4-74, and Ben Platt, 3-47, again performed well with the ball for Buttershaw as Usman Qureshi 46, Paul Cooper 39, and Matty Crowther 33, helped Heckmondwike to 190.

However, Baker then hit a top-scoring 56 not out but ran out of partners as Jonny Elstub 5-52, and Paul Cooper 4-88, bowled their side to a 17-run win.

In the other Jack Hampshire game on Sunday East Ardsley are at home to Keighley, while the big Conference game in the district this week is tomorrow’s derby clash with Crossbank Methodists entertaining Heckmondwike and Carlinghow.

DEWSBURY BRIDGE CLUB RESULTS: TUESDAY JUNE 7: 1 A Cooper and J

Bragg; 2 W and J Davies; 3 M Loveridge and G Bloom.

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YOUTH RUGBY LEAGUE

Celtic to play Oulton in final of Youth Cup YJL Challenge Cup

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DEWSBURY CELTIC U17 26 at Marfleet Lane DEWSBURY CELTIC Under17s booked their place in the final of the Yorkshire Juniors Challenge Cup thanks to a dominant 26-12 win over East Hull.

Celtic never trailed once against their strong opponents and went ahead through Billy Yarrow, Owen Smith converted.

But Hull hit back soon after with a converted try of their own to level the scores.

Celtic were struggling to hold on to possession due to a high penalty count, but their defence held firm.

And when Celtic had the ball they certainly made the most of it. Lewis Martin went over for a try following a high kick from Dominic Senior which was fumbled by the East Hull defence.

George Senior also bagged himself a try racing 20 metres to touch down after Hull dropped the ball during an attack, Smith converted to give the green and whites a commanding 18-6 advantage at the change of ends.

In the second period Hull’s big forwards put Celtic under pressure but they failed to capitalise on their superiority.

But Hull were first to score in the second period with a try to narrow the scores to six points.

The game was tight for the large part but in the final 10 minutes Yarrow dummied his way through the Hull defence before setting up Smith to touch down. Smith then stepped up to convert his effort.

At 24-12 and with just minutes left on the clock Celtic were in control and sealed the win with a Smith penalty.

The young Celtic side now look forward to the final against Oulton Raiders which will be held at Featherstone’s Big Fellas Stadium (July 2).

AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE

Silverwood’s Stags lack confidence in Premier Division YML Premier Division

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at Prospect Road A SPIRITED second-half fightback wasn’t enough as Mirfield Stags slipped to a 4626 defeat at the hands of Doncaster Toll Bar in the Yorkshire Men’s League Premier Division.

The Stags started strong, drawing first blood, but it wasn’t long before Toll Bar returned with a try of their own to level up the scores.

Doncaster then took advantage of a stint of territory to lead at the break.

The hosts built on their first-half advantage to take a strong lead into the final quarter.

But Mirfield battled back and scored three unanswered tries to gain some consolation.

Leon James broke the deadlock, earning Mirfield’s and the game’s first points.

But despite calls for what looked a blatant forward pass, Tom Ross levelled it up for Toll Bar just three minutes later.

The Stags regained the lead not long

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after, though, with Scott Bradley smashing his way through the Doncaster defence to touch down. Graham Charlesworth’s successful conversion made it 10-4.

From the restart, though, disaster struck for Mirfield.

A fortunate bounce from kick-off allowed Jono Burns to level matters once more, prior to ex-pro Peter Green giving the home side an interval advantage.

Burns scored his second to put the South Yorkshire outfit in the driving seat prior to the hour mark before Shaun Carey added his name to the scoresheet to make it 28-10.

A quick-fire Shaun Roberts double ended Mirfield’s hopes of success, prior to the game being sealed for Doncaster via a late Carey try.

The visitors battled back with a trio of scores, courtesy of Liam Walsh, Tom Coates and skipper Wayne Jowett, setting up a tense climax.

But a last-ditch Carey try added icing to the Toll Bar cake, Roberts converting for the seventh time that afternoon.

The Stags, who are currently ninth in the table, travel to York Acorn A tomorrow (Sat, 2.30pm).

KINGSTONE PRESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Torrential rain doesn’t dampen Bulldogs’ parade Kingstone Press Championship

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at Sheffield Hallam Sports Park BATLEY earned their fifth straight win in the Championship as they edged a tight contest with struggling Sheffield 2410 at a rain-drenched Sheffield Hallam University Sports Park last Friday night.

John Kear came back to haunt his former club as his side made the short hop back to West Yorkshire with maximum points as Mark Aston’s men slipped to their fifth consecutive defeat.

The Eagles had the first sight of the line when Keal Carlile’s fizzed offload, just yards out, looked to have presented Michael Knowles with the chance to go over but Dave Scott’s timely tackle kept the home side at bay.

At the other end, Cain Southerwood’s grubber kick on the last was superbly diffused by Quentin Laulu Togagae on his own line before the PNG star showed his worth in attack when Carlile injected pace into a home move and with Cory Aston being the dummy runner, the Eagles fullback had the space to force his way over from point-blank range.

But the Bulldogs responded positively to the setback and after being held up initially for a few sets, Keegan Hirst led from the front as he powered his way to the whitewash and against all the odds, he managed to ground the ball over the line despite the attentions of a number of home defenders.

In the next phase of play, Menzie Yere put his body on the line to prevent Pat Walker from going over from close range before Rob Worrincy agonisingly failed to gather Ben Blackmore’s pass despite having the line at his mercy.

The visitors grabbed the lead for the first time just shy of the interval when Aston was penalised for not being square at the tackle and Walker made him pay when he arrowed the resultant penalty between the sticks.

The Eagles suffered a blow in the dying seconds of the first stanza when Laulu Togagae made a hash of Walker’s bomb and Greg Minikin was on hand to pounce on the loose ball as Batley opened up an eightpoint advantage at the break.

Sheffield got themselves back within striking distance early in the second half when superb hands along the line saw the Bulldogs short of defensive cover and George Tyson broke the defensive line and despite the last-ditch attentions of Scott, he delivered the knockout blow to reduce the deficit to four.

However, Batley reasserted their grip on the game just minutes later when the Bulldogs ran the ball on the last and with Dominic Brambani pulling the strings, the ex-Eagle paved the way for Minikin to release Wayne Reittie, who went over in the corner.

There was a crucial moment, just entering the final quarter, when Aston’s pass saw Laulu Togagae show his jinking feet to make something out of nothing but as he agonisingly reached for the line, the ball squired out of his grasp, to release the pressure on the visitors.

The away side were coughing up the ball on a regular basis but the home side failed to make it count as Steve Thorpe was unable to gather Aston’s pass despite being just yards out.

However, Batley finally put the game to bed when Joe Chandler made something out of nothing to bulldoze his way to the line before showing good awareness to ground the ball whilst being encircled by Eagles defenders.

MATCH STATS: SHEFFIELD EAGLES 1. Quentin Laulu Togagae 2. Rob Worrincy 3. Menzie Yere 5. Ben Blackmore 22. Ryan Millar 6. Cory Aston 24. Rhys Jacks 8. Steve Thorpe 9. Keal Carlile 16. Adam Neal 13. Matt James 12. Duane Straugheir 11. Michael Knowles SUBS: 14. Matty Fozard 15. Scott Wheeldon 4. George Tyson 17. Mark Mexico

7 6 6 5 6 5 6 7 6 6 7 7 6 6 6 7 7

BATLEY BULLDOGS 22. David Scott 2. Wayne Reittie 30. Greg Minikin 3. Chris Ulugia 26. Alex Brown 6. Cain Southerwood 7. Dominic Brambani 8. Keegan Hirst 14. James Davey 15. Adam Gledhill 17. Joe Chandler 19. Alex Bretherton 9. Luke Blake SUBS: 11. Brad Day 13. Pat Walker 18. Tom Lillycrop 21. James Brown

7 6 7 7 6 7 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 6 7 7 7

SHEFFIELD EAGLES Tries: Laulu Togagae (11), Tyson (47). Goals: Aston 1/2.

BATLEY BULLDOGS Tries: Hirst (23), Minikin (40), Reittie (53), Chandler (73). Goals: Walker 3/4. Penalty Goal: Walker 1/1.

Referee: C Straw / HT: 6-14 / Pens: 11-10 / Sin Bin: None / Sent Off: None / Weather: Light rain / MOTM: Keegan Hirst / Attendance: 550 / Match rating: 3/5

Price steals limelight Vic dominant in derby YML Division One

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at Elmpark Way BATLEY BOYS are top of Yorkshire Men’s League Division One following a convincing 62-10 win away at strugglers Heworth.

But it was the hosts who took the lead, before the Boys found their rhythm midway through the first half.

Aaron James was the man who scored the away side’s opening try before hooker Ryan Crossley put Batley in front with a touchdown of his own.

Robbie Bingham then added a third try for Batley in the corner.

Heworth hadn’t given up hope of finding a way back into the contest, narrowing their deficit with a second try.

But, the impressive Jay-Jay Price soon put further daylight between the two sides crossing

the whitewash to give Batley a 22-10 lead at the interval.

In the second period Batley played with much more intensity as they looked to add to their lead.

The Boys scored four tries in the first 20 minutes of the second half with James getting his second before man of the match Price went over twice more to complete his hat-trick.

Josh Whitehead was also a try scorer early in the second period.

As well as playing attractive attacking rugby Batley also defended strongly in the second 40 as they put in an accomplished performance worthy of a team at the top of their division.

Adam Bingham went over late on to take his points tally for the game to 22 having also kicked nine goals before Dec Casey and Joe O’Hanlon rounded off the game’s try-scoring.

Batley travel to meet Skirlaugh Bulls A in their next league outing (Saturday June 25, 2.30pm).

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at Overthorpe Park BIRSTALL Victoria dominated the local derby, overcoming Thornhill Trojans A 44-10 at Overthorpe Park in the Yorkshire Men’s League Division Four.

Victoria’s debutant centre and man of the match Will Brooke who went close after 13 minutes was followed by full-back Mick Dyson who thought he had scored a try, only to be held up over the line.

But on 18 minutes Thornhill’s defence finally caved in and Birstall took the lead through a Brenden Sheridan try.

The away side were on the front foot again shortly afterwards when prop Matthew Ginnelly set up Dean Carr who went over in the corner.

Three further first-half tries fol-

lowed, the first of which was scored by Dyson, but Thornhill responded to narrow their deficit through Vinny Johnson who barged his way over.

Birstall had the final say of the half, however, Will Brooke the man touching down for the visitors to give his side a comfortable 22-4 lead.

Nothing much changed after half-time, Birstall scoring a try through substitute Tony Aubrey.

This was followed by a Matthew Smith try on 70 minutes. But Richard Llewelyn salvaged some pride for the hosts to reduce the scores to 32-10.

In an eventful final few minutes Brooke went over twice to complete an unlikely hat-trick with Dyson converting to make it six from eight on the day, rounding off the scoring at 44-10.

Birstall Victoria’s next game is at home to table-toppers Sheffield Hillsborough Hawks (Saturday June 18, 2.30pm).

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Back-to-back victories for Morrison’s improving Rams Kingstone Press Championship

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at the Tetley’s Stadium DEWSBURY RAMS produced a professional performance to emerge 46-10 winners over an indisciplined and injury-stricken Oldham outfit at the Tetley’s Stadium.

Rams second-rower Scott Hale made his 100th appearance for the club and played a key role as his side won the battle in the middle of the park.

The hosts enjoyed a completion rate well over 80 per cent throughout the game and had established a healthy 22-0 lead by the interval.

Last week’s match-winner Paul Sykes kicked nine from nine to maintain a perfect record now stretching back 160 minutes.

Rams head coach Glenn Morrison said: “We completed our sets at a high percentage again today, and when we do that we’re a match for anybody in this competition.

“We have a tough game against Halifax coming up, and they have big ambitions in this competition, but we’re focusing on finishing the regular season in a positive manner and heading into the Super 8s with momentum behind us.”

The hosts hit the front in the seventh minute when Dalton Grant snapped up centre partner Jason Crookes’ pass to slide over.

Sykes added an excellent touchline conversion.

The two teams traded chances in the minutes that followed but it was the Rams who capitalised on Darnell McIntosh’s error from a grubber kick in the 17th minute, when Matt Groat provided the foil for Dom Speakman to dummy his way over.

Sykes converted and he was on target less than 10 minutes later when the hosts opted for a penalty after the Rams were held down following Dale Morton’s interception.

The penalty made it 14-0 and things got worse for Oldham seven minutes before half-time when Crookes dummied and shot through a gap before sliding for a try which Sykes converted to make it 20-0.

And the former Bradford Bulls player’s second penalty of the afternoon, following three consecutive indiscretions from the visitors, on the stroke of half-time made it 22-0, it left the away side with a mountain to climb in the second period.

Oldham started the second half with more energy, and they chanced their arm, but early opportunities to get on the scoresheet were wasted.

Rams substitute Etu Uaisele capitalised on weak Oldham defending in the 43rd minute to slide over and arguably put the result beyond doubt, Sykes converting, before Oldham finally found a response through Joe Burke, who twisted over the try line to ground the ball.

Roper added the extras, but the Rams quickly went back on the attack, and Rob Spicer was perfectly positioned to snap up Andy Kain’s chip and stroll over under the posts for Sykes to add his seventh goal of the afternoon.

Three successive penalties resulted in referee Joe Cobb placing Oldham on a team warning, and when Gareth Owen was penalised for a high tackle the yellow card was produced.

Kain made the most of the hosts’ numerical advantage by dummying through a gap in the Roughyeds defence and a chip from the base of the scrum, snapped up by Dalton Grant, laid the platform for Dale Morton to scoot over.

MATCH STATS: DEWSBURY RAMS 1. Josh Guzdek 2. Dale Morton 15. Jason Crookes 4. Shane Grady 5. Dalton Grant 6. Paul Sykes 22. Andy Kain 8. Matt Groat 17. Dom Speakman 32. Kyle Trout 12. Scott Hale 11. Rob Spicer 14. Luke Adamson SUBS: 19. Nathan Conroy 13. Aaron Brown 10. Ryan Hepworth 38. Etu Uaisele

8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7

OLDHAM 1. Darnell McIntosh 2. Adam Clay 18. Liam Johnson 4. Sam Wood 5. Jamal Chisholm 7. Steven Roper 20. Gareth Owen 8. Phil Joy 23. Lewis Foster 17. Tom Spencer 16. Gary Middlehurst 12. Danny Langtree 13. Liam Thompson SUBS: 14. Joe Burke 21. Kenny Hughes 26. Michael Ward 22. Danny Grimshaw

7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 7 7

DEWSBURY RAMS Tries: Grant (7), Speakman (17), Crookes (31), Uaisele (43), Spicer (52), Kain (66), Morton (70).

Goals: Sykes 9/9.

Aaron Brown and Nathan Conroy put in a good defensive performance for Dewsbury Steve Horsfall Sykes converted both tries to make it 46-6 but there was time for Oldham to add a second consolation score.

Danny Langtree’s quick thinking and grubber kick produced a try for Jamal Chisholm, which put the visitors in double figures, but it provided scant consolation for Scott Naylor’s side, who had been comfortable win-

ners over the Rams when the two sides met at Bower Fold earlier in the season.

The defeat means Oldham remain in a relegation dogfight, while the Rams’ second win in as many weeks means they can afford to look up the table following fleeting relegation worries during the past month.

OLDHAM Tries: Burke (46), Chisholm (70).

Goals: Roper 1/1, Hughes 0/1.

Referee: Joe Cobb / HT: 22-0 / Pens: 14-8 / Sin Bin: Gareth Owen (61, high tackle, team warning) / Sent Off: None / Weather: Light rain / MOTM: Paul Sykes / Attendance: 742 / Match rating: 2/5.

AMATEUR RUGBY LEAGUE

Shaw Cross struggles Celtic squander early advantage mount up in National Conference League NCL Division Two DEWSBURY CELTIC

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at Leeds Road SHAW CROSS Sharks lost 50-28 in National Conference League Division One in a feisty encounter against Skirlaugh.

Two players from each side were sin-binned for fighting on 15 minutes.

Skirlaugh took a 10-6 lead with tries from Ash Leaming and Mike Johnson plus a Carl Puckering conversion. The Sharks replied with a Danny Stanley try and Will Gledhill goal.

But by the hour mark Skirlaugh were 44-6 up.

Johnson completed his hat-

trick with two for Marvin Lee and one each for Connor Myers and Tom Saltmer. Puckering landed five more goals.

Joe Buggle hit back with a try for the Sharks before he was sent off for swearing.

Lee completed his hat-trick for Skirlaugh before the home side hit a purple patch with Declan Breteton, Joe Halloran and Thomas Ripley all scoring late Sharks tries with Gledhill adding three conversions.

It was too little too late to prevent the Leeds road side falling to their eighth loss of the campaign however.

They look to distance themselves from the drop with a win away at fellow strugglers Millom tomorrow (Saturday June 25, 2.30pm).

DEWSBURY CELTIC remain rooted in the bottom three of the National Conference League Division Two following an 18-10 defeat at home to high-flyers

As a result of their win Dudley Hill moved up to third in the table while Celtic fell to their eighth defeat of the campaign so far.

The Celtic cause wasn’t helped by Liam Riley’s sin-binning and their tendency of giving away kickable penalties.

Richard Tillotson got Celtic off to a great start with a 10th-minute try but they were pegged back and trailed 104 at the break.

Martin Southwell crossed for a try

five minutes later and on the half hour mark Ben Sheridan went in as Elliott Cousins added one conversion.

Cousins landed a penalty seven minutes into the second half before an Andrew Walker try made it 16-4 in the visitors’ favour.

A Dougie Foster try and Matty Sheridan goal gave Celtic hope before Cousins added another penalty to complete the win for Bradford.

Next up for Celtic is an away trip to face Saddleworth Rangers tomorrow (Saturday June 25, 2.30pm).

Emphatic win leapfrogs Moor up the table NCL Division Three DEWSBURY MOOR MAROONS 58 CASTLEFORD PANTHERS

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at Carr Lane DEWSBURY MOOR bounced back from a tough couple of weeks to run out easy 58-12 winners over Castleford Panthers in National Conference League Division Three.

The Maroons were led by George

Croisdale, who bagged himself four tries in a man-of-the-match performance.

It wasn’t as easy as the final score suggests, however, as Moor only led 18-12 at the break with the Panthers points coming from tries by John Brummitt and Carl Burke plus two Ben Brailsford conversions.

Bartley O’Brien, later sin-binned as were Brummitt and Burke, crossed for Moor in the first half as did Ashley Boddy, Croisdale and Jordan Foster with one James

Eatherley goal.

But then it was one-way traffic in the second period as Croisdale completed his quartet and Eatherley landed a hat-trick.

Bobby Canavan added the other Moor try as Ady Moore landed four goals.

The win leapfrogs Moor up to fourth in Division Three and the Carr Lane outfit look to build on this win when they face Gateshead Storm next (Saturday June 25, 2.30pm).

Resurgent Rams back on track

By Joe Link Sports Reporter joe@thepressnews.co.uk

GLENN MORRISON has warned his Dewsbury Rams side not to get complacent following their back-to-back wins over Bradford and Oldham.

The Rams were looking over their shoulders as they slipped perilously close to the Championship’s bottom two, but since getting bodies back on the field the tide appears to have turned at the Tetley’s Stadium.

“The Bradford win was excellent for us, it gave us a real confidence boost and it was vital that the players backed that up against Oldham and I couldn’t fault them,” said Morrison.

“It was a really good clinical performance and we got through our sets at over 80 per cent, which was an area we’ve been working hard to improve.

“We always knew we could perform but we missed out in a few games that we should have won because of individual errors, but against Oldham there was none of that.

“I’m really impressed with the half-backs as well, they’re gelling now and really showing their true potential.

“But we must keep it up to avoid getting sucked it a relegation scrap.”

Dewsbury could also have a big say on the race for the top four places in the coming

weeks as they play Halifax this weekend before a trip to Mount Peasant for the third Heavy Woollen derby of the season.

“I know when we beat Bradford I received a few comments off Batley fans thanking me but my focus is purely on our own performance and getting Dewsbury as high up the table as possible,” added the Aussie coach.

“We’ve got some tough games coming up but if we get a result against Halifax this weekend we can really start to focus on getting back in the top six, which was our main aim at the start of the season.”

Despite Dewsbury’s injury list getting shorter Morrison will be without Ryan Hepworth and Aaron Brown, who are both struggling with knee problems.

Kyle Trout is also unlikely to feature, having suffered concussion against Oldham.

Elsewhere, the Rams have agreed a dual registration deal with League One side Hemel Stags.

Morrison got in touch with Stags coach and friend Troy Perkins about the possibility of loaning his side players from Dewsbury’s illfated Reserves side.

Meanwhile former Dewsbury Rams coach Andy Kelly has been named caretaker coach of Super League side Huddersfield Giants following the sacking of Paul Anderson The 55-year-old was the Giants’ head of youth before being called upon to oversee first team matters while the Giants board look for a permanent replacement to

Rams boss Glenn Morrison was all smiles following his side’s back-to-back wins over Bradford and Oldham, but Aaron Brown (below) is struggling with a knee injury Steve Horsfall

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Anderson. Dewsbury-based Kelly spent two successful years in charge of the Rams between 2006 and 2008 earning them promotion back to National League One in 2007 winning 19 of their 22 matches along the way.

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Batley ready for Bulls challenge BATLEY COACH John Kear insists ‘the job is not done yet’ as he prepares his Bulldogs side for a potentially pivotal game in the outcome of the 2016 Championship season against Bradford Bulls.

Batley’s push for a place in the top four is heating up, having gained momentum thanks to five straight league wins which has seen them climb to third in the table, but despite his side’s top form Kear insists he hasn’t looked at the standings.

Bradford, on the other hand, slipped as low as sixth after their recent defeat to Dewsbury but are currently just one point behind Batley ahead of the showdown at Odsal on Sunday thanks to a comfortable win over strugglers Oldham on Wednesday night.

“We’re confident that no matter who we play we can win,” said Kear.

“It doesn’t matter that it’s Bradford, we just want to prepare the best we can and focus on our strengths rather than any of Bradford’s possible frailties because we know if we play to our full potential we’ll get a win.”

Batley are in a confident mood going into one of the most difficult games on the fixture list, following on from a comfortable win in wet conditions over Sheffield last Friday. The early scheduling allowed

Kear two extra days to prepare and condition his players for the trip to Bradford.

“I suppose we are high on confidence but at the same time the players are still grounded,” added Kear.

“The players haven’t got carried away once this season because they know that we have a lot of work to do and there’s still plenty of time for teams to fall away, including ourselves.

“I’ve got a very strong resilient group of players that adapt well to any situation, they have already proven they are capable of good things, but the job is not done yet.”

Kear is confident his squad has what it takes to defy the odds and maintain their spot in the top four – and they were given a boost this week with the news that Alex Rowe will be able to complete the season before requiring surgery on his knee.

And other than long-term injuries to Danny Cowling and Sean Hesketh, Kear has almost a full squad to choose from ahead of their clash with Bradford.

Shaun Ainscough also requires a scan on an ankle injury he picked up against Dewsbury at the Summer Bash and will miss the Bradford game.

Batley’s powerful forward Alex Rowe

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