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Some of the damage caused at Cafe Etienne in Dewsbury town centre

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A CAFE owner says he’d struggle to keep his business afloat if he’s hit again following a spate of break-ins in Dewsbury town centre.

Burglars have caused around £800 in damage to Cafe Etienne, which has been raided twice in six weeks, taking two charity boxes and a small amount of money from the till on both occasions.

In the latest incident police say that five people broke in.

Boss Steve Seller says after having to twice pay to install secure bars and new windows, if it happened again he would have to consider his options.

The 55-year-old said: “I’m tied into a lease so it’s very difficult, I can’t just leave.

“But if it were to happen again to any of the big windows, I think it would put me out of business.

“I’ve had to now put almost £1,000 of my own savings into the business account which I’m not going to get back because it was dam-

age, you can’t recover things like that. But how much do you throw into things?

“Unless the landlords helped me financially, I’d be struggling to stay there.”

Mr Seller, who has had the cafe on Wakefield Old Road for almost two years, says there has been a rise in the number of break-ins recently.

Last night (Thurs) MP Paula Sherriff hosted a public meeting to address crime issues at

the Longcauseway Church in Dewsbury town centre.

Dewsbury and Mirfield Inspector Chris Hughes was due to speak and answer questions at the event.

“Nearly everybody I know who’s got a shop in town has been broken into,” said Mr Seller.

“Michelle, who comes for a coffee from Bling Bling Boutique (hairdressers), she’s got done three times. It’s not what they steal it’s

the damage that they cause.

“I don’t think it matters having CCTV, because most of them will come with hoods and put their heads down.

“And when they do get caught, what do they get these days? There’s no real deterrent for them. I don’t know what the answer is.

“I’ve been in Dewsbury for seven years, I’ve had no real problem, people are great, I love the town, but it does leave a nasty taste.

“You can’t just keep doing it, it’s a business at the end of the day. If I lived there I’d move, it’s slightly different but you wouldn’t stay in a place that constantly got burgled.”

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “Police are investigating a burglary at a town centre cafe on Wakefield Old Road in Dewsbury.

“The incident occurred between 4.30pm on March 7 and 7.10am on March 8.

“It is believed five unknown people broke into the premises and stole a charity box and an amount of money from a till before making away. CCTV enquiries are being conducted in the area.

“Any witnesses or anyone with information about those responsible is asked to contact the non-emergency number 101.”

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New faces added to Women’s Day event Deaths

GLOVER JANET ‘SISTER GLOVER’

BARSTOW BRIAN On 1 March, aged 84, of Batley. Husband of Anona.

Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday 20 March at 1.15pm.

COYNE PATRICK On 9 March, aged 83, of Hanover Court. Relatives please contact Julie Ward, Bereavement Manager, Dewsbury & District Hospital. Tel 01924 816096.

DYRLAGA JOZEF ‘JOE’ On 10 March, formerly of Earlsheaton, aged 94.

Husband of the late Elsie.

Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday 27 March at 11.15am.

FIRTH NEE SYKES DOREEN

HOLMES NEE COLDWELL CYNTHIA MARGARET On 6 March, aged 70, of Thornhill. Wife of Leslie.

Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Monday 26 March at 12.30pm.

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MIDGLEY JOAN On 2 March, aged 76, of Birstall. Wife of George.

Service at St Mary’s Church, Gomersal on Wednesday 21 March at 11am.

NAYLOR DAVID EDWARD (Major, Coldstream Guards) Formerly of Liversedge.

Husband of Maria. Funeral has taken place in Market Harborough.

OLDROYD HAROLD

On 4 March, aged 72. Wife of Malcolm. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium on Tuesday 20th March at 2pm.

LENTON ANTHONY RAMSAY

On 9 March, at Holme House Nursing Home, Gomersal, aged 91. Wife of the late Harry. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium on Wednesday 28 March at 10.30am.

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On 28 February, aged 80.

Service at St Paul's Church, Hanging Heaton on Thursday 22 March at 10.45am, followed by committal at Dewsbury Crematorium.

late Renee. Service at Huddersfield Crematorium, Thursday 29 March at 2pm.

On 1 March, aged 75.

Husband of Maureen.

Service at Batley Cemetery Chapel, Friday 23 March at 1pm, followed by interment.

On 7 March, aged 92.

Husband of the late Jean.

Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday 20 March at 11.15am.

PYCOCK (NEE JOHNSON) THELMA On 9 March, aged 88, of Mirfield. Wife of the late George. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Tuesday 27 March at 2pm.

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MATTHEWS GEORGE On 26 February, aged 96, of Mirfield. Husband of the

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Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Wednesday 21 March at 12.30pm.

SYKES (NEE DONEGAN) MARY On 6 March, aged 90, of Batley. Wife of the late Harry. Service at Dewsbury

Crematorium, Friday 23 March at 2.45pm.

TAYLOR JEFFREY On 12 March, aged 64, formerly of Liversedge.

Husband of Jean. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Thursday 22 March at 10.30am.

TOZER RAY On 8 March, aged 78, of Heckmondwike. Husband of Pat. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Thursday 29 March at 1.15pm.

WILCOCK BERNADETTE AGNES LAVELLE On 9 March, aged 75, of

Mirfield. Wife of the late David. Requiem Mass at St Paulinus RC Church, Dewsbury, Friday 23 March at 10am, followed by interment at Dewsbury Cemetery.

WOOD COLIN On 3 March, aged 92, of Heckmondwike. Husband of the late Joan. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Wednesday 21 March at 1.15pm.

WRIGHT NEE HUBBARD BRENDA On 6 March, of Dewsbury, aged 92. Wife of the late Ronnie. Service at Dewsbury Crematorium, Wednesday 28 March at 11.15am.

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NEW faces have been added to the line-up for MP Tracy Brabin’s International Women’s Day celebrations.

The March 24 event, which will also mark 100 years since a law was passed that allowed the first women to vote, had to be postponed because of the snowy weather at the beginning of the month.

Originally billed for March 3, the festival has also had to change some of its guest speakers, with actor and writer Sue Vincent and author Helen Smith unable to make the rescheduled event.

Now joining the event will be actor and campaigner Michelle Collins (Coronation Street, Eastenders) and award-winning author Frances Brody (the Kate

Shackleton mysteries).

Ms Brabin said: “We are absolutely thrilled that Michelle and Frances are now joining us to share their expertise on what promises to be a fascinating, fun and inspiring day.

“The Beast from the East may have forced us to reschedule, but it certainly won’t stop us doing what we set out to do – celebrating inspirational women.”

The day will see workshops, performances, historical displays, talks on a range of subjects and will culminate with a screening of the award-winning film Suffragette.

The event is being held at Batley Older People’s Centre on Saturday March 24 between 10am and 7pm, with food and drink provided.

Tennis courts to Superstore’s close for revamp sport challenge BATLEY: All four indoor tennis courts at Batley Sports and Tennis Centre are set to be closed for a month as renovations get underway.

The sports centre on Windmill Lane is being revamped to include a soft play area and TAG Active interactive obstacle course, after plans submitted by Kirklees Active Leisure (KAL) were given the green light last year.

The renovation work will run from Monday March 26 until Monday April 23, after which just two of the indoor courts will reopen.

The outdoor courts are also due to be resurfaced.

KAL say the work will be completed and the new facility will open in August.

More information can be found at www.kal.org.uk.

DEWSBURY: Staff and customers at Sainsbury’s are getting active to raise money for one of the store's main charities – Sport Relief.

The Railway Street store will be holding fundraising activities such as an 11-a-side football match against a rival branch, a pool tournament and a sponsored bike ride.

All challenges are helping towards Sport Relief's one billion steps-a-day test, which urges people across the country to come together and walk one billion steps to raise vital funds for the charity.

Customers can also win prizes if they buy a £1 scratch card in store, with all proceeds going to Sport Relief.

All the activities are happening March 17-23.

Ripper magistrates’ bench – clarification CORRECTION: In our March 2 edition The Press printed an obituary of Gladys Kell, a local magistrate who passed away aged 92. In the article we incorrectly stated that Mrs Kell was chair of the bench when Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe first appeared before magistrates in Dewsbury in 1981.

In fact the chairman of the bench that day was John Walker JP, alongside fellow magistrates Alan Allsopp and Fred Knox.

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News In Brief Charity zumba day at dance school HECKMONDWIKE: A dance school is hosting a charity zumba day to raise money.

Members of Timestep Community Dance, at the Ponderosa Business Park, have organised the fun-filled fitness session at the dance studio this Sunday (March 18) from 10am.

It’s £5 a ticket and there will be raffle prizes to win, with all proceeds going to the dance school – which aims to give subsidised or free sessions to children and adults with disabilities. To book a ticket, text 07767 273211.

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CHALLENGE: Paul Hudson, Amy Garcia and Harry Gration at the Fox’s Biscuits factory in Batley

ALL IN A GOOD CAUSE: Look North weatherman Owain Wyn Evans and, right, Paul and Harry brave the driving rain in Birstall.

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Look North (Kirklees) TV news stars given warm, if damp, reception during Sport Relief challenge

By Zoe Shackleton THREE presenters from BBC’s Look North programme pushed and pulled their famous red sofa across North Kirklees to raise money for Sport Relief.

Harry Gration, Amy Garcia and Paul Hudson were cheered on from Oakwell Hall yesterday morning, as they began their adapted sofa-on-wheels tour via Birstall, Heckmondwike,

Batley, Dewsbury and then on to Ossett.

The trio stopped off at the Fox’s Biscuits factory in Batley at around 1.30pm on Thursday, and despite the minor setback of a broken wheel, which was fixed in the firm’s reception area, they set off towards the Marketplace and carried on to Dewsbury.

They are aiming to cover 100 miles and visit 50 destinations across Yorkshire in eight days to raise cash for good causes, as well as cele-

brating the news show’s 50th anniversary.

BBC Look North was first broadcast on March 25, 1968.

Veteran presenter Harry said: “It’s something different but the sofa is synonymous with Look North.

“Pulling the sofa isn’t going to be easy but I’m looking forward to exploring the region.

“And I always enjoy getting out and about to meet our viewers, that’s what it’s all about.”

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Woman critical after road crash A WOMAN is in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a car in Birstall.

The 56-year-old suffered injuries to her ankle and head when a red Skoda Fabia careered into her before crashing through a fence and into a garden on Lea View, at its junction with Brookroyd Lane.

The incident happened at around 12.45pm on Tuesday afternoon when police were called to scene, with sur-

rounding roads cordoned off.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the woman was taken to Leeds General Infirmary.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “Police were called at 12.43pm this afternoon (13/03) to reports of a serious road traffic collision on Lea View at its junction with Brookroyd Lane in Batley.

“A red Skoda Fabia vehicle was in collision with a 56-year-old woman

who suffered injuries to her ankle and head. The road was later closed for a time from Bradford Road to the junction with Intake Lane. The woman was transported to Leeds General Infirmary for treatment and remains in a critical condition.

“Officers are investigating the full circumstances leading to the incident and anyone with information should contact the non-emergency number 101.”

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Paul added: “I think this one is going to be really really tough. I’m sure Harry will be laid down on the sofa while Amy and I do all the hard work!”

The Look North team has taken part in a range of Sport Relief challenges over the years. In 2016, Harry and Paul walked threelegged for 129 miles, raising over £300,000.

NORTH KIRKLEES: Train operator Grand Central has started discussions with other train companies and Network Rail to increase the number of return services on its West Yorkshire route to and from London.

The route connects London King’s Cross and Bradford, and stops off in Mirfield.

If the plans go ahead, six trains a day would go to London with five returning – providing an extra 1,600 seats a day to and from the capital.

Pub history plan BATLEY: Batley & Birstall Civic Society have been granted £8,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to look into the history of pubs in the area.

They will be carrying out research and recording their findings on past and present public houses. Anyone with any information on the topic can get in touch with Anne Dickinson on 01924 472250.

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YOUR TOWN YOUR VOICE

By Richard Hartley, supporter of local businesses, organisations and events am not going to lie, Mirfield has had its ups and downs over the years – and many still remember nostalgically the ‘good old days’ – often with a slight rose tint.

But I do honestly believe that Mirfield today is a place to be proud of, with more voluntary organisations than anywhere else I know, and a high street with more independent traders than in a long time.

Take a look at some of the new businesses around Mirfield over the last year or so: the Artisan Bar; the Office Bar, Rhubarb & Ginger home and wedding store, The Shoebox shoe shop, Mardy Crumb coffee lounge, Forget-Me-Not vintage charity shop, amongst many others – with more opening shortly.

These compliment the range of exist businesses that have been the backbone of the town for many years – and together make Mirfield a place where there is a lot more to find than ever before.

A new monthly local networking group for Mirfield businesses called Mirfield Meet Up has also recently been set up by Thornhill Insurance, supported by MyMirfield.

It meets on the second Thursday of each month at the Artisan Bar between 12.30 and 2pm – in a very relaxed, friendly atmosphere, with the aim of getting more local businesses talking and working with each other.

This has become more apparent as the nominations and votes came in for this year’s MyMirfield Community & Business Awards.

Throughout January, over a thousand public nominations were made, praising over a hundred different businesses, retailers, events and organisations with many heartwarming stories.

Almost 20,000 votes have been cast so far and the amount of support highlights many of the things we in Mirfield should be so proud of.

The winners will be announced on Saturday March 24 at the dinner and awards fundraiser.

This year we are raising funds to help the town’s newest initiative – ‘Mirfield in Bloom’.

It is more than just flowers, it wants to see the entire town continue to bloom as well as bringing together the local community, encouraging civic pride and helping boost the local economy.

The aim in the first year is to improve the look of the station, canal and bridges, decorate the high street and to encourage other initiatives across the town.

So whether you are outside of Mirfield, or a local resident that hasn’t visited the local businesses recently, I urge you take a second look at a town that has a lot to offer, and we have a lot to lose if we don’t.

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Friday March 16, 2018

‘Kidnapping’ duo in court

By Staff Reporters A STAINCLIFFE man is accused of kidnapping and pouring boiling water over another man in a drugs dispute.

Sakhawat Hussain, of Hawthorn Avenue, and his alleged accomplice Andre Clarke appeared at Kirklees Magistrates’ Court charged with section 18 wounding, kidnapping, false imprisonment and being concerned in the supply of class A drugs heroin and cocaine.

Clarke, of Newsome, Huddersfield, faces an additional assault charge. The offences allegedly took place between January 23 and 26.

Magistrates heard how the duo’s alleged victim had been tied up at his Batley home and beaten, as well as having boiling water

poured over him in an argument over the drugs which were thought to be worth £50,000.

Hussain, 35, and Clarke, 29, had hidden some drugs at an address on West Park Terrace in Batley, the court heard.

The victim, another man and a pregnant woman were at the house where the pair are accused of turning up in search of the drugs.

When they couldn’t find anything they allegedly made threats towards the woman and her unborn child.

Both defendants are accused of tying one of the men up and beating him, before taking him to another place in Batley Carr and forcing him to strip to pour boiling water over his scrotum.

The pair were remanded into custody until a trial at Leeds Crown Court on April 9.

Students in e-sports triumph STUDENTS from St John Fisher were crowned regional champions at an e-sports tournament.

Team Veracity outplayed four other groups from schools across the UK in the online game Overwatch to qualify for the national finals.

And they could bring the trophy back to the Dewsbury school for a second year running after winning the tournament in 2017.

Bailey Barber-Scargill, Harrison Barber-Scargill and Josh Love, three of the victorious year 12 students, said: “We think today went really well and you can tell the team have been playing a lot and practicing.

“E-sports isn’t just a lot of fun to be involved with, it’s also taught us a lot about strategising and building our skills.

“It was a close score, which has shown us that being prepared isn’t always enough and you have to evolve and go above and beyond to succeed.

“If this is just the regional qualifiers, the final is going to be awesome!”

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WINNERS: Bailey and Harrison Barber-Scargill with Josh Love stiff competition from Liverpool Studio School, while year 8 student Kris Vilcinksas commentated live – known as ‘shoutcasting’ – on the gaming event through live streaming video platform Twitch.

Kris said: “I’ve been commentating on today’s regional qualifiers event by shoutcasting on Twitch.

“It’s been really fun and the platform has lots of people talking about how the game is going and how the

teams have been playing. I’m really excited to be shoutcasting at the grand final too!”

The final is taking place on April 11 – during the London Games Festival – and the event will also give the pupils a chance to meet professionals within the gaming industry, who will be showcasing careers available in gaming.

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FUNDRAISERS: MP Paula Sherriff joined Huddersfield Town chairman Dean Hoyle and fans Nu Joshin and Bini Joshi Barr at the Big Sleep Out

MP joins charity Big Sleep Out DEWSBURY MP Paula Sherriff joined over 100 people who slept overnight at a football stadium to raise money and awareness for the homeless.

Around 170 people joined the Big Sleep Out on Friday night, organised by the Huddersfield Town Foundation.

More than £30,000 was raised to give to homeless charities and organisations throughout Kirklees.

Fundraisers - including Huddersfield Town chairman Dean Hoyle - bedded down in the Kilner Bank stand at the John Smith’s Stadium between 9pm and 6am. Most slept between the seating covered in cardboard, with others camping out in the stand concourse.

There were messages of support played on the big screen from club captain Tommy Smith and Tom Ince.

Town’s commercial manager Sean Jarvis said the Big Sleep Out could have raised up to £32,000 and described the event as “historic”.

Ms Sherriff said: “I survived one cold, wet night, then went home to the simple warmth and security that is denied to too many people sleeping rough on our streets.

“To our national shame, the number of those sleeping rough has doubled since 2010.

“The Big Sleep Out raised both awareness and valuable funds for homeless charities in our area.

“A big thank you to all who were involved in organising this event and to everyone who sponsored me and others who took part.”

Brabin slams ‘callous’ free meals plan BATLEY & Spen MP Tracy Brabin has blasted the government’s latest plans which could see over 6,000 children in Kirklees go without a free school meal.

Changes to the Universal Credit system agreed in parliament this week mean an income threshold could now be imposed on families for children to receive a free school meal.

Under current legislation, all children in families who receive Universal Credit are eligible for free school meals.

The new system could mean that 6,400 children in Kirklees would go hungry, according to estimates by the Children’s Society.

Ms Brabin said: “This callous and cruel move by the government could be the difference between a hot meal and going hungry for children across Batley & Spen and beyond.

“There are an astonishing 13,900 children living in poverty in Kirklees and now almost half of them are set to miss out on a free school meal.

“Along with my Labour colleagues, I voted against this move and urged Conservative MPs to listen to their consciences and do the same.

“But sadly they did not heed our repeated warnings which are backed up by figures from one of the leading children’s charities in the country.”

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Developers slammed

By Zoe Shackleton THE OWNER of a haulage company has hit out at developers planning to build on industrial land where his business is based.

Mick Gallagher, of MG Traction on Gelderd Road in Birstall, is concerned at plans put forward by Sir Robert Ogden Estate Ltd which labelled his company “low-grade”.

He also claimed that he and other firms based there had not been told about the planning application – only finding out when The Press revealed the news in last week’s edition.

Part of the statement in the developer’s application said: “The 3.2-hectare-application site is located at the junction of Gelderd Road and Bankwood Way. It slopes gradually downwards from north to south/east. The site is currently under-utilised with some low-grade industrial uses present, including storage, a pallet business and car wash/garage.”

Mr Gallagher said: “Ogden’s

have been trying to buy the premises for a number of years so that’s been no shock.

“It’s just that nobody has said to us this is what is going to happen, you’ve got to find somewhere else.

“What I have a problem with is being called a low-grade business.

“Everything has got to be

Driver badly injured A 24-YEAR-OLD from Liversedge has been left with serious injuries after crashing into a motorway sign.

The man was driving a black Renault Megane Coupe on the M621 towards Leeds city centre at 3.40am on Monday morning when it careered off the carriageway and overturned.

The car smashed into a large motorway sign which caused serious damage to the vehicle.

The driver is being treated at Leeds General Infirmary. His passenger was also taken to hospital but his injuries were less serious. The incident led to severe delays on the motorway, with that section of the M621 being closed off from 4am until 11am while police worked at the scene.

West Yorkshire Police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident or who may have seen the vehicle in the area at the time to contact PC 571 Richard Whiteley of Safer Roads and Neighbourhood Support East via 101 – quoting log number 145 of March 12.

moved by truck, it’s a vital part of infrastructure, how can it be low-grade?”

Developers want to build eight large retail units close to the current Junction 27 retail park in a planned £40million development.

They have also estimated an extra 300 jobs would be created, while Kirklees Council’s business rates income would rise by £1m if

plans were given the green light.

While Mr Gallagher – who has been based at the site since 2006 – has found new premises to move into on Grange Road in Batley, he is worried that others face losing their jobs.

He said: “I can only speak for myself, I’m lucky I’ve found somewhere I can squeeze into.

“But these other medium-sized businesses, they’ve got to find somewhere else and they’ll be paying a premium.”

Mr Gallagher added: “A friend of mine actually rang me up and said ‘when are you moving out?’

I said ‘moving out of where?’ and he said, it’s in the paper that planning permission has been put in.’”

Plans still have to be approved

by Kirklees Council, but Mr Gallagher believes they will go ahead – which is why he will be able to move into his new premises and start operating there within two weeks.

The new retail park would be named Centre 27 Retail Park and built over three levels with parking. Robert Ogden Estate Ltd declined to comment.

Councillors given pay rise KIRKLEES councillors will receive an extra £400 per year after voting to increase their allowance.

It is the first time in seven years that councillors have had their pay increased, with each member getting a 3.2 per cent rise.

A councillor’s basic allowance will now be up to £12,970 per year, with the increase costing the taxpayer in the region of £29,000.

At a meeting last Wednesday, 59 out of 60 councillors agreed to an independent

review’s recommendations – with Newsome Green Party member Coun Karen Alison the only member to object.

The review also said there would be minor changes to other payments councillors receive for extra responsibilities, but no changes would be made to expenses rules.

Councillors cannot claim expenses for travel or subsistence within Kirklees.

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Bernadett Berki

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Girls from Staincliffe missing since March 6 POLICE are appealing for information to trace two missing children who live in Staincliffe.

Officers and staff have been conducting extensive enquiries to locate Bernadett Berki, 12, and Szimonetta Berki, 11, who were reported missing on Tuesday March 6.

The children live in the Chapel Fold area of Staincliffe but have extensive links and extended family across Huddersfield.

It is thought they are with three relatives – two women and a man.

Detective Inspector Lee Donnelly, of Kirklees CID, said: “We are concerned for Bernadett and Szimonetta’s welfare and want to reassure them, or anyone who knows where they are, that they are not in trouble.

Our priority is making sure that they are all OK. “I would appeal to anyone who has seen them, or who knows where they are now to get in contact with us.”

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the police via 101 quoting log number 1107 of March 6.

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Showtime for dancing queens HUNDREDS of Mirfield dancers are gearing up for a weekend of shows at the end of the month.

Over 300 youngsters from Mirfieldbased Katie Philpott School of Dance (KPSD) will take part in the inaugural Century show, which takes the audience on a journey of music and dance through the 20th century.

With students aged from three upwards, Century will showcase the range of classes that the dance school teaches – from ballet, tap and jazz, to modern theatre, street dance and freestyle.

There will be four shows over the weekend of Saturday March 24 and

Sunday March 25 at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield.

Founder Katie Philpott said: “The show rewinds the clock to the midnight hour on December 31, 1899. We open with Clair de Lune then pick up the pace with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang before time travelling through 20th century ballet classics such as Coppelia, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty.”

The show also packs in Elvis, Tina Turner, Abba and Wham, rounding off in style with Prince before the clock strikes midnight and the curtain falls on the 20th century.

Based at the Wellhouse Moravian

and Zion Baptist churches, the KPSD was established in 2000 and boasts a 100 per cent success rate in the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing examinations.

Katie added: “Playing a pivotal role in our local community is paramount.

All our students are part of the KPSD family and our school is as much about fitness and friendship as it is about excellence in dance.”

The shows will be at 2pm and 6.30pm, and you can buy tickets – priced at £14 and £12 – by visiting www.thelbt.org/century.

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LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE Danny Lockwood

Not just Russia silences free speech OU won’t have seen this story on the BBC, and you’ll probably only be aware of it on Sunday afternoon if Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park turns into a battleground about 3pm.

If any place in England still symbolises free speech, it is that rather nondescript area at the north-east of the capital’s magnificent park.

There, at any time of day or night, the wild, the weird and the wonderful are free to stand atop a buffet, an old crate, or simply on their own two feet, and voice their wrath. They can recite Shakespeare, they can howl at the moon; they can invite you to come to Jesus, go to Allah, or get on the next spaceship leaving Marble Arch to disappear up Uranus.

In a country where free speech is increasingly silenced by the British state – not quite as violently, but just as determinedly as in Russia

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Don’t be fooled – Brittany Pettibone is a threat to UK national security or China, which bears its own sweet irony this week of all weeks – Speaker’s Corner remains a symbolic redoubt.

This week Canadian and American media commentators Lauren Southern and Brittany Pettibone, plus her Austrian activist boyfriend

Martin Sellner, were banned from entering the UK. They call themselves politically ‘conservative’ but as is the way with anyone brave enough to step outside the fascist liberalism that is enslaving British society today, they are insidiously termed ‘far right’. Just package them up with Hitler and Goebbels while you’re at it.

Their real sin?

They speak out against radical Islam. They see it as a threat to a western democracy that in Britain at least, was still this week trying to pretend that Muslim men grooming, raping and even murdering innocent white schoolchildren, is nothing more than an inconvenient coincidence of ethnicity or religion.

Down in Telford, as in Rotherham and Rochdale, we are again invited to assume that the general attitude of police and social workers

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Where will this depraved sexual abuse of our daughters end? Judging by our allpervading credo of institutionalised cowardice and cultural appeasement, it simply won’t. The only real question is ‘where next?’

HE two banned women wanted to meet their British equivalent, the ubiquitous walking punch bag widely known as Tommy Robinson.

Robinson reported last week from Italy in the very spot where a female journalist was battered, live on TV, by a violent migrant gang.

As he tried to film, one of the gang threatened to kill him and wreck his car. After several warnings to desist, Robinson – all 5ft 6ins of him – decked the much bigger bloke who was coming at him. The admirably sensible Italian police sent him safely on his way with a thumbs up.

You wouldn’t have seen that on the BBC either.

In England, the police would have locked Robinson up as they have done dozens of times – with or quite often without reason.

At the weekend, back on home turf, Robinson and his female camera operator were attacked outside a McDonalds by half a dozen masked white far-left activists. She was knocked about, he was beaten and kicked – but got up and fought back until the cowards ran away. The police refused to get involved.

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SPEAKING of police states, and I’m not sure what more Theresa May could have done to follow through on her ‘demand for answers’ from Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Salisbury poisonings.

I’ll be that had him quaking in his boots – not. Still, TM the PM had to grow a pair this time around. It’s not quite Winstonian “we shall fight them on the beaches” stuff, but expelling Russian diplomats (‘spies’ for short) and making life as difficult as possible for this rogue state, was the least she could do.

Putin has been making a mockery of the world for years. You’d like to think other

world leaders will line up behind Mrs May – and that it won’t take as long as it did in 1939.

As for Comrade Corbyn’s nightmare attempt to turn a national emergency into an attack on the Tories for accepting donations from London-based Russian oligarchs (many of whom are probably hoping to ‘buy’ friends and protection from Putin’s poisoners)?

Corbyn couldn’t even bring himself to criticise a state that he’d rather be a vassal of, than Brussels. Whatever you think of the new Marxist Labour party and its ‘plan’ for Britain, that man hasn’t a patriotic bone in his body.

Explain that to me please?

Meanwhile, the overseas visitors were locked up, their presence determined to be “not conducive to the public good” – and deported to Vienna.

Now, I could halfway understand this if it wasn’t that some of the UK’s mosques have been a regular breeding ground of, and host to, some of the world’s worst hate-mongering extremists for decades.

It took years to shut Abu Hamza and Anjem Choudary up. Two years ago Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri went on a speaking tour of British mosques – and he was so extreme, he was even banned in Pakistan!

The British state has been trying to silence Robinson through everything from illegal imprisonment to intimidation of his wife and chil-

dren, for years. When he accepted an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union they contrived to recall him to prison because he replied to a tweet from someone threatening to rape his mum.

He was thrown in a high security prison on an open wing full of Muslim extremists. The would-be rapist?

The fact that no action was taken suggests it was probably a spoof – and Spook – account being used to provoke the necessary reaction from the volatile Robinson.

Our noble government has managed to prevent Martin Sellner from attending Speaker’s Corner on Sunday at 3pm. Robinson has promised to deliver his speech.

It will be interesting to see how the police stop him exercising his right as a free Englishman. But I don’t doubt that they’ll try.

When service is hardly Ideal S YOUR old boiler making some funny noises, gurgling, maybe leaking all over the house? Well, let’s not talk about the missus right now, but get right down to the nitty gritty – the old boiler that actually warms your cockles through the cold winter months. The boiler on the wall with lots of pipes running in and out of it.

Things go wrong in life, I know that. Stuff doesn’t work, gets a mind of its own – and come to think of it, yes, a lot like the missus – but that’s what warranties are for. Insurance.

A word to the wise. Lots of you will have Ideal-manufactured boilers in your houses; you’ve probably not had a minute’s trouble. Or if you have, maybe Ideal lived up to its promise to solve your problem within hours.

Well, my far-from Ideal boiler is little more than two

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years old and we haven’t had heating or hot water for six days. I can smell my son before I’ve got out of the car.

Her ladyship promptly decanted to London.

Six days – that tells me Ideal have an awful lot of faulty boilers to fix, because this wasn’t during the ‘Beast from the East’ freeze.

It was four days before an engineer turned up in his flash Audi – call me Sherlock, but I guessed he wasn’t tooled up with parts and replacements. He took a look, left and back came Ideal to demand I put “a platform” in place. And if it wasn’t up to health and safety standards, their man would walk away.

“A platform?” I said. “Do you mean a footstool? The boiler is on a wall. I can reach right over it.”

“A platform,” uttered the Ideal Idiot. “A platform. A platform…” (You get the

scene. Not a free thinker, that lad).

So I actually built a sturdy, 20-inch timber platform, because as much as I can stand in the kitchen sink and boil a kettle to get washed with, since my dear mum went there’s a distinct shortage of volunteers to give me a good lathering. We needed the boiler back in service.

Apparently, the bone-idle engineer reported that it was a three-hour, two-man job – with a platform of course.

Luckily Ideal use sub-contractors. He’s here now, as I type. On his own. Reckons it might take an hour. He asked if could he put my natty platform outside because it was getting in his way.

Ideal? You make your own choices obviously, but I’d steer well clear.

And on the up side at least I have a new ‘platform-like’ bench for the garden.

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Care warning Cleckheaton home deemed inadequate by inspectors

By Staff Reporters A CLECKHEATON care home has been placed in special measures by health watchdogs who rated it “inadequate” after a recent inspection.

Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited Kenmore, a care home looking after people with physical disabilities on Whitcliffe Road, at the beginning of the year.

Health bosses were concerned after their previous visit in October 2016, where it was rated inadequate in all areas.

And this time round, they saw little improvement.

It was rated as “requires improvement” for being effective, caring and responsive, but was “inadequate” for safety and being well-led.

The CQC found that the home, which can accommodate up to 26 people,

breached regulations relating to safe care and treatment, good governance, staffing, the employment of fit and proper people, and consent.

They said that the service, run by the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, will be inspected again within six months – and if not enough improvement is made by then, it will be at risk of closure.

The CQC report said: “We found some issues with medicines management identified at the last inspection had not been addressed.

“The application of people’s topical creams were not always recorded.

Records could not evidence how medicines errors at the home had been learned from to prevent them happening again in the future.

“Risk assessments were not always updated regularly,” while “the quality of people’s moving and handling care plans varied.”

It also said that not enough staff were on hand to meet people’s needs.

A spokesman for Leonard Cheshire said: “The safety and well-being of the people who use our services is our absolute priority and we’ve taken immediate action to address the concerns raised in this report.

“This includes a complete review of management at Kenmore and the way it is run. We assure residents and their relatives that all the issues highlighted by the CQC will be fully addressed.

“Efforts are being made to support all staff in meeting the high standards we expect and bring about the necessary improvements.

“This will include intensive monitoring to ensure all our measures are effective.

“We will continue to work closely with the CQC to ensure we give the best possible care and support to the people living at Kenmore.”

Drink driver banned after medicine dash A DRINK-DRIVER has been banned for more than a year after crashing into a car while over the limit.

Mohammed-Aamir Suleman told Kirklees magistrates he had driven to the supermarket because he needed some medicine, despite having drunk three pints and some gin.

The 24-year-old crashed shortly before arriving at Asda in Dewsbury on February 17, just after midnight.

Police could smell alcohol on his breath when they arrived at the scene, and a breath

test showed that he had 61 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg.

Suleman, of Halifax Road, Dewsbury, said: “It was a misjudgement on my part which resulted in the biggest mistake of my life.

“It was totally out of character and not something I would usually do.”

He was banned from the roads for 18 months.

Suleman must also pay a £345 fine, as well as £85 in costs and a £34 victim surcharge.

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People of Heckmondwike need to show support I welcome readers’ letters and comments in The Press, particularly the latest ones in support of our local libraries.

I’m concerned about Heckmondwike Library which seems to be receiving very little attention and yet through its staff and volunteers provides an excellent service.

Local children use the library to do their homework, the unemployed use the job club, these are just two of the many services provided by this excellent library and the people of Heckmondwike need to show their support.

It’s hard to believe but there is

Not many places to turn From: John Sheen, Dewsbury For the first time in many years I’m totally disillusioned with British politics, as I’m sure many people are.

From my early years, following my family’s tradition as a Labour supporter, and having seen social reform on a massive scale as well as appreciating achievements like the NHS, it was the right choice.

Then, I saw appalling civil unrest with national strikes and three-day weeks, which almost brought this great nation to a standstill.

The Labour government had let the people down. Latterly we saw Tony Blair engage us in the Iraq war, resulting in appalling loss of life and unprecedented unrest in the Middle East.

Even today, after more than 40 years in the European Union, the deprivation in the Midlands and North of England saw traditional Labour voters supporting withdrawal from the EU. Unfortunately, the will of 17.4 million people, nationally, has been totally frustrated.

Even our Labour MPs in

Letter of the Week: John Appleyard, Liversedge actually a government minister for libraries called Michael Ellis MP. What on earth he does is anyone’s guess because he hasn’t prevented library closures and cuts to services, but we should all write to him at the House of Commons expressing our concern about the future of local

Batley and Dewsbury followed their party line and voted against Brexit.

I’ve lost patience with the Liberal Democrats. Their persistence for another referendum and loyalty to the EU, against the people’s opposition, shows contempt for the very word democracy.

As for the Conservatives, nine years of austerity, yet during those nine years we’ve seen no less than £108 billion sent abroad in foreign aid, much of it to corrupt regimes, including weapons to our enemies, according to a BBC Panorama programme. £180 billion to the European Union, another corrupt regime who hasn’t had its accounts audited for more than 20 years.

The government even found £1 billion to give to the DUP for their political support.

All this while presiding over massive cuts to every sector of social need within the United Kingdom.

Closer to home, we’ve just received the 2018/19 council tax bill.

My £1,692, which has increased by more than 15 per cent in just four years, includes eight per cent over that time for social care.

Looking after the vulnerable in society was part of government’s responsibility through the local government funding

libraries.

One library that won’t be shut is the House of Commons Library that is used by MPs and their researchers.

If the library service is good enough for them, then it’s good enough for us.

programme.

However, it’s estimated that the funding for Kirklees by 2020 will have been cut by an unbelievable 80 per cent.

I didn’t vote for this appalling government attack on community services at the expense of ‘foreign’ powers.

I’m now drifting into a political wilderness. However, I see a shining light at the end of the tunnel in a future independent local candidate – Aleks Lukic.

He’s a young voice with a passion for Dewsbury and its citizens.

He’s no affiliation to the Westminster elite and he may be just what the town needs.

Let us get on with the job From: Harry Teale, Mirfield If we apply Shaun Gardner’s perverse view of democracy to the 1975 referendum, Britain would have left the EEC/Single Market.

The MPs and Kirklees councillors would be in position by false pretences.

If the 16.1 million europhiles cannot accept British democracy, they are quite welcome to migrate to their beloved EU whilst there is still some space left.

LATEST PLANNING APPLICATIONS Mr & Mrs Bentley, detached dwelling, rear of 810 Halifax Road, Hightown.

C Nicol, c/o Agent, discharge conditions 3-8 and 14 on previous permission 2015/90805 for demolition of existing buildings and erection of three dwellings including garages, parking and amenity areas, Primrose Hill Farm, Primrose Lane, Hightown.

Laura Siepker, certificate of lawfulness for conversion of garage to living accommodation, 42 Spring Place Court, Mirfield.

Martech UK Ltd, discharge condition 13 (landscaping) on previous permission 2015/92252 for erection of two storey offices, production facility and warehouse, former Calder Works, Thornhill Road, Dewsbury.

M Payne, first floor rear extensions to existing dwellings and alterations to form new dwelling with associated parking, 47 Lee Green, Mirfield.

M Payne, first floor rear extension, 49 Lee Green, Mirfield.

Anne Cooper, works to TPO 20/17, 46 Crowlees Road, Mirfield.

N Gill, discharge of condition 7 (collection of wastes), 8 (boundary treatment), 10 (site investigations), 11 (report), 12 (remediation strategy), 13(remediation) and 15 (Ecological Design Strategy) on previous permission 2017/90427 for outline application for erection of detached dwelling and detached store, 4 Chapel Hill, Upper Hopton.

Dr Reddys Laboratories EU Limited, discharge condition 8 (remediation strategy) on previous permission 2016/94177 for erection of single-storey storage building, Steanard Lane, Mirfield.

Caddick Developments Ltd, C/O Agent, discharge condition 3 (materials) on previous permission for outline application for erection of commercial floorspace (B1c, B2, B8) including details of engineering operations to form serviced employment plots and full application for the erection of 166 dwellings, land at Slipper Lane, Mirfield.

M Nabsarka, single-storey extension, 87 Lees Holm, Thornhill Lees.

A Gardiner, two-storey side extension, 1 Kirk Close, Chickenley.

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Mark Andrews, certificate of lawfulness for proposed erection of extension and storage tanks, Thomas Chadwick And Sons Eastfield Mills, Goods Lane, Dewsbury.

M Donohoe, single and two-storey side extension, demolition of detached garage and formation of widened vehicular access, 1021 Leeds Road, Woodkirk, Dewsbury.

Y Lambat, two-storey side and single-storey front extension and single-storey rear extension with juliet balcony, 21 Woodhall Drive, Healey.

A Thewlis, single-storey side extension, 1 Grove Farm, Kirkgate, Hanging Heaton.

Mr & Miss Pember & Nelson, non-material amendment to previous permission 2017/91186 for erection of extensions and replacement of flat roof with pitched, 9 Westfield Court, Mirfield.

V Bhatt, certificate of lawfulness for proposed alterations to convert integral garage to extended living accommodation, 25 Ennerdale Avenue, Dewsbury.

M Patel, single storey front, side and rear extensions, 15 Henley Avenue, Thornhill.

Mr O’Keeffe, erection of one illuminated sign (within a Conservation Area), Unit 32 Princess of Wales Shopping Centre, Dewsbury.

S Newton, discharge conditions 14, 15, 16 and 17 on previous permission 2016/92041 for demolition of existing buildings and erection of 3 dwellings, Poplar Farm, Briestfield Road, Dewsbury.

M Malik, the proposal is for erection of single-storey rear extension.

The extension projects 6m beyond the rear wall of the original dwellinghouse. The maximum height of the extension is 4m, the height of the eaves of the extension is 2.9m, 58 Woodsome Estate, Staincliffe.

Strategic Team Group, discharge condition 8 (materials) on previous permission 2014/93236 for reserved matters application for erection of 21 dwellings pursuant to outline permission 2012/92614, Batley Mortar Site, Smithies Moor Lane/Bridge Street/Mill Street, Birstall.

This will then allow the 17.4 million true Brits to get on with returning Britain to the independent and sovereign entity desired by true Brits!

No point in using system From: Chris Thorne, Dewsbury Firstly I would like to thank Paula Sherriff for her time regarding Kirklees planning policies.

It appears that no matter what level you go to including the ombudsman then you are powerless to obtain any positive result.

It is said that Kirklees have no money to pursue rogue building projects.

I disagree, if they enforced the rules and penalised then more income would be generated in penalties and fees.

As it stands I certainly wouldn’t bother with all the expense of seeking planning permission and building control.

It is patently obvious from my bitter experiences it is not a one-off situation, I for one would be interested in any other bad decisions fostered upon other Press readers by the so-called planning enforcement officers.

Painkillers will kill sport From: David Honeybell, Heckmondwike I agree with Danny regarding Sir Bradley Wiggins. He needs his medication to live a normal life.

He’s not on steroids or any performance-enhancing drugs, so I don’t see a problem.

What I have never understood is why sports men/ women are allowed to have pain-killing injections before competing in their particular sport.

Surely, painkillers are the ultimate performance-enhancing drugs, because without them there wouldn’t be a performance at all.

Plus not feeling any pain, any injury could be made much worse.

I must take issue with him

regarding people who suffer mental illness or are bad with their nerves.

The last thing they need is someone giving them a slap and telling them to snap out of it. If only it was so easy. I have seen mental illness close up, and it can be devastating not only for the person concerned, but for the whole family.

I appreciate Danny on occasions writes tongue in cheek, but it’s only people who have experienced mental health issues who can fully understand what it is really like.

Saucy seaside story...

From: ER Cawthorne, Cleckheaton The town of Bridlington has been in the news lately, with all the lobsters and crabs washed up in the recent gales.

It reminded me of when I worked in the council offices there.

A guest house landlady wrote complaining that her holidaymakers were embarrassed by what they could see from a top floor window which overlooked a nudist beach, which has since closed.

Being the youngest in the office, I was sent to investigate: I followed the lady upstairs, and she pointed to the window in question.

I peered out but told her I couldn’t see anything untoward.

“You can if you stand on a chair,” she shouted!

Special night of fundraising From: Tim Wood, Old Colonial, Mirfield Saturday March 17 is famous for many things, in particular the patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick, and the massive celebrations world wide for the Scottish-born man who went to the Emerald Isle to rid it of snakes (serpents), which were servants of the devil himself.

Fancy a St Patrick’s night with a massive difference?

Well, look no further.

As a charitable, fun fundraising event, Mirfield Rifle Volunteers are hosting a

general knowledge quiz and Irish-style banquet with a few quirky twists.

There may be the odd one or two questions on Ireland, such as where would you go to ‘kiss the Blarney stone?’, or what was Ireland’s currency before the Euro?, and so forth.

The quiz starts at about 8.308.45pm, give or take the odd swift pint!

The price is £6.50 per head at the bar of the Old Colonial in Mirfield, which includes entry into the quiz and as much as you can eat from our Irishthemed banquet with a culinary twist, Irish sausage & bacon casserole, or even Dublin Bay prawn biryani, and Irish stew done with Polish potatoes.

Yes, a friend and customer of ours has a house on the West coast of Ireland and the ground is quite scrubby and peaty, the only thing he could grow other than thistles was a blightresistant variety of spud developed in Poland, he gave us a sackful and they are superb.

More about the Polish spuds in our specialist quiz round of ‘Would I lie to you’.

All monies raised are going to help worthy good causes around the district, and to raise a smile for the Emerald Isle we have lots of hand-pulled stout to lubricate the occasion.

Everyone is welcome, however we don’t allow mobile phones to be used during the quiz, we try to avoid the Google gremlins of doom.

“Please arrive early to avoid being late, for sure!”

No credibility from Cable From: Mr G Dennis, Birstall Yet another deluded politician speaks about Brexit this week.

This time it is Vince Cable with his outrageous and insulting comments aimed at the older voters within the UK. He is another ex-Labour Party member who couldn’t cut the mustard within the party and defected to the Liberal Democrats, where he was instrumental in forming the disastrous coalition with the Tory Party, their only chance of getting in to power.

Just look at the state of his party now as they have no credible influence whatsoever within UK politics.

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News In Brief Butterfly re-launch BATLEY: Wilton Park’s butterfly house is reopening at the end of the month.

The attraction was closed down a few years ago, but thanks to the council, local businesses and the Friends of Wilton Park group the building is being revamped and insects are being re-introduced.

Batley & Spen MP Tracy Brabin will be cutting the ribbon at the butterfly house, situated at the top of Wilton Park between Bagshaw Museum and the observatory, on Good Friday, March 30, at 10am as part of a four-day opening festival.

Visitors can enjoy tea among the butterflies while children can listen to Ms Brabin read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other stories.

Watch AGM NORTH KIRKLEES: The Neighbourhood Watch Association for North Kirklees is holding its AGM on Wednesday March 28.

The meeting will be a chance to see what the group does and to highlight any concerns or issues from across the district.

Everyone is welcome at Dewsbury Police Station, meeting at the help desk for a 7pm start.

Charity car wash CLECKHEATON: Crews from Cleckheaton Fire Station are hosting another charity car wash next weekend to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

The next session will be on Saturday March 24, from 10am to 4pm at the Hightown Road site, with all proceeds going to the two charities.

Friday March 16, 2018

End of an era Demolition starts on school foundation building

By Zoe Shackleton DEMOLITION has started on a school building dating back more than 100 years.

Parts of the Whitcliffe Mount Foundation Building roof have been taken down, with the whole structure set to be pulled apart by the end of April.

Despite members of Spen Valley Civic Society and Whitcliffe Petitioning Group trying to save the 1910 building, Kirklees Council last year handed it over to developers Laing O’Rourke who are rebuilding Whitcliffe Mount School.

Campaigners said while the demolition of the newer 1960s school buildings was needed, the foundation building should have been saved – labelling its destruction as “entirely unnecessary”.

Erica Amende, secretary of the civic society, said: “This destruction is a disgrace and entirely unnecessary.

“We have already lost our sports centre, our Red House Museum and now the foundation building, which morally belongs to the people of Cleckheaton who paid for it.

“It could have been redeveloped. The profit from its sale could have been reinvested in educational facilities at the

school, or used to boost the council’s ailing finances.

“Instead, the contractors are profiting from the value of its materials and we’ll end up with a grass verge.”

The civic society said they had interested contractors who were willing to pay for the building and site in a bid to save it, but work still went ahead.

The first stage was completed in September with the building of a new teaching block and sports hall on the site of the adjacent Whitcliffe Mount Sports Centre.

Phase two involved tearing down the old school buildings to create a new car park, while the final stage will result in a multi-use games area.

Max Rathmell, the civic society’s chairman, added: “It’s over four years since we started trying to save the foundation building.

“None of the authorities were willing to reconsider their plans. They all insisted that the foundation building was a liability when they could have treated it as a valuable financial and heritage asset.”

Cabinet member Coun Graham Turner recently said that the council had “no involvement in the demolition contract.”

Esther McVey at the Dewsbury Conservative dinner

Tory dinner date MORE than a hundred people attended Dewsbury Conservative Association’s annual dinner at the Tetley’s Stadium.

Last Saturday’s dinner was held at the stadium on Owl Lane after controversy surrounded the Tories’ original booking at the National Coal Mining Museum in nearby Overton.

In December the booking was cancelled by the museum event company due to threats of violence towards their staff.

Critics labelled the choice of venue as politically insensitive, and following online threats police were needed to guard the museum overnight.

Dewsbury County Conservative Association chairman Mark Eastwood said: “I would like to thank the owners of the Rams for bravely stepping in and offering us an alternative venue, particularly after the disgraceful circumstances which led to the previous booking at the mining museum being forced into cancellation by left-wing activists.”

The event, with guest speaker Esther McVey MP, Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, was attended by guests from across the region.

The dinner raised thousands of pounds for local Conservative election campaign coffers.

Mr Eastwood said: “It’s quite ironic that if we had been allowed to hold the event at the National Coal Mining Museum, we probably wouldn’t have raised nearly as much money, or had so many people come along.

“But thanks to the mass hysteria and publicity generated by left-wing elements, we raised more money than any previous event hosted by us.”

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News In Brief Macmillan offer free cancer advice

‘Big Build’ in spotlight

NORTH KIRKLEES: Macmillan Cancer Support’s mobile information and support service will be in the area to give free advice about cancer.

In conjunction with Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, the pop-up bus will be in Dewsbury Marketplace next Wednesday (March 21) and Batley Marketplace on Thursday (March 22).

Cancer information specialists will be on hand to answer any questions from 9am to 4pm, and are encouraging anyone with worries relating to cancer to stop by.

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Volunteers sought to spruce up park MIRFIELD: A community project to help improve the play area at Mirfield Memorial Recreational Ground is looking for volunteers to get green-fingered this weekend.

The Mirfield Playground Project will be planting trees at the park off Huddersfield Road on Sunday from 10am.

Anyone is welcome on the day. Contact mirfieldplaygroundproject@gmail.com.

No show ends with arrest warrant HECKMONDWIKE: Kirklees magistrates have issued an arrest warrant for a man who didn’t show up for court.

Ian Cummings was due at the Huddersfield court last Thursday accused of stealing more than £1,000 worth of alcohol and clothes from Morrisons on Union Street on January 23.

The 56-year-old, of no fixed abode, allegedly stole items costing £1,097 and was supposed to answer the charge in court.

Magistrates issued a warrant not backed by bail when he failed to appear.

LABOUR’S deputy leader took to the world stage to launch Kirklees Council’s plan to deliver 10,000 new homes in Kirklees by 2023.

Coun Shabir Pandor (Lab, Batley West) was at an international property and investment event MIPIM in Cannes, France, this week to introduce the council’s ambitious Big Build project – which aims to significantly boost the number of new homes in the district over the next five years.

He joined representatives from Leeds City Region to highlight projects and investment opportunities that are available across the region.

Leaders from Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield councils also linked up with Leeds City Region delegates to try and secure private investment.

Coun Pandor confirmed that

Coun Shabir Pandor Kirklees will build 1,000 of the planned homes on council-owned sites with the help of a newly-created housing development com-

Jack leads fights for library A SCHOOLBOY from Birstall spoke at a meeting held by the Friends of Birstall Library group to try and prevent the closure of the building.

Birstall Library is one of six libraries in North Kirklees which faces being shut down amid cuts to the Kirklees Council budget.

Seven-year-old Jack Watson, pictured, a pupil at Birstall Primary Academy, read out a message highlighting what the closure would mean to him and his fellow pupils – that it would rip out the heart of the community, while visitor numbers would fall and local trade would suffer.

The Friends’ group has launched a petition, which is available to sign in the library and in shops across Birstall.

A council consultation is also online for people to have their say on library services at www.kirklees.gov.uk/li braryconsultation.

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He told MIPIM delegates and investors: “We’re proud to have been invited to take part in Leeds City Region’s delegation at MIPIM this year, which has given us the opportunity to put Kirklees in the spotlight, and launch the Big Build in the best way possible to so many influential, international developers and investors.

“The Big Build is a major opportunity for us to accelerate the rate of housing delivery across Kirklees.

“This not only provides the homes our residents need, but looking outwardly helps us as a region to attract and retain the talent which businesses across the Leeds City Region need to fuel growth and underpin our regional economy as a whole.

“We know that we have a great deal to offer people in terms of lifestyle here in Kirklees.

“Our great strength is our location at the centre of the northern powerhouse.

“Around 70 per cent of our district is rural, yet neighbouring cities are commutable within 40 minutes.

“Huddersfield has been recognised previously as a town offering the best and most affordable quality of living, and house price growth reported by the Halifax Bank over the last 12 months puts Huddersfield in the top 10 of towns in the UK. “This is certainly a great place to live.”

Further details of the Big Build will be revealed by the council in the next few weeks, with a seminar planned for summer, where landowners, investors, developers and contractors can talk to officials about getting involved.

Those interested can pre-register at www.kirklees.gov.uk/bigbuild.

Care home’s signs of improvement A CARE home in Gomersal has been taken out of special measures by health bosses, but still requires improvement.

Holme House was rated “inadequate” and put in special measures after a previous inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February 2017, and owners were asked to significantly improve the service.

Inspectors then revisited the home, which provides care for up to 68 elderly people, at the end of last year to see what progress had been made.

While the service still requires improvement in all areas, the CQC found that Holme House had taken steps in the right direction.

A report published last month said: “Staff had received training in safeguarding people from the risk of harm or abuse and understood their responsibilities in reporting any concerns to a senior member of staff,” and that “staff were recruited safely and we saw people’s needs were met

in a timely matter.”

It highlighted issues with care plans, which were detailed and person-centred but care staff did not have access to them, while records regarding fire safety lacked detail and the management of topical creams needed to be improved.

The report said that while improvements had been made since the last inspection, there was still a number of areas to be worked on.

James Creegan, director of care for Croft Care Group, said: “There is never any excuse for poor care.

“It is pleasing to note that improvement has been made under the new management – we hope this improvement continues so the next inspection will result in the home receiving a ‘good’ classification.

“We have been working in partnership with the CQC and Kirklees Council to bring the care standards back up to the level and quality we all expect.”

Fundraising night to battle housing plan

THE CHIDSWELL Action Group are hosting their rescheduled fundraising quiz and annual general meeting (AGM) on the same night next week.

Snowy weather conditions caused group chairman Mark Eastwood to postpone the quiz at the end of last month.

It will now start at 8pm next Wednesday March 21 at the Huntsman Inn, Chidswell Lane, Dewsbury, with the AGM taking place just before at 7.15pm.

Over the last two years, the group

has hosted various fundraising events to be able to appoint lawyer Charlotte McKay of IOP Consulting in Batley, who has attended Local Plan hearings at Batley Town Hall and Huddersfield to fight against houses being built on green fields at Chidswell.

Over the next few weeks, independent planning inspector Katie Child will reveal her findings and make a decision on Kirklees Council’s Local Plan.

Mr Eastwood said: “We were bitterly disappointed when we had to can-

cel the quiz in February due to blizzards and heavy snow, but it’s just one of those things and I’d like to thank the Huntsman Inn for allowing us to reschedule to another evening when hopefully we won’t be experiencing the same severe weather conditions.

“We decided to combine both the quiz and AGM on the same night, as it will give us a chance to quickly update residents on our plight, as well as having a bit of fun for a good cause a bit later on.”

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News In Brief Free bird boxes to benefit everyone BATLEY: Batley & Birstall Civic Society is offering free bird boxes to people in the district.

Members of the society say they want to ease social isolation among older and disabled people, and believe the bird boxes will add interest to people’s daily lives.

They also want to provide a safe haven for local bird life to hatch their young.

Anyone interested in getting a free bird box should contact Anne Dickinson on 01924 472250 or Megan James on 07899 953620.

Spring fair on at Ebenezer church HANGING HEATON: Ebenezer Methodist Church is hosting a spring fair next weekend.

There will be various stalls, including plants and jewellery, and lunches served at the High Street church on Saturday March 24 from 10am to 3pm.

All funds raised will go towards the repair of a collapsed wall at the back of the church.

Bracelet found BIRSTALL: A Pandora bracelet was found at the Black Bull pub in Birstall on Saturday, March 3. If you think you may have lost it, contact a member of staff on 01274 913203.

Reporting talk PROBUS: The Batley and Dewsbury Probus Club will next meet this Tuesday, March 20.

Graham Read is giving an illustrated talk called ‘Let’s Go Reporting’ at the Batley Older People's Centre at 10am for a 10.30am start.

Visitors and potential members are all welcome. For further details, phone 01924 471337.

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Local historian Mike Popplewell looks at the people and places that have shaped the history of the district...

The troubled teen who was up to no good...

IGH on a hill above Mirfield, waiting for a buyer, lies the former Woodlands Nursing Home; desolate, abandoned and eerily silent.

The closure of the home, following poor Care Quality Commission inspections, cast a shadow over care provision on this site, but a look back into its history has revealed a far more dramatic event.

In 1853 a proposal was made to open a reformatory in Mirfield and it was a Mr Wheatley-Balme, of Cotewall, on Sands Lane, that solved the problem of a suitable site for the establishment when he offered to rent out the farmhouse he owned, at the top of Sands Lane.

It was duly adapted and opened in 1855 as the Calder Farm Reformatory.

James Johnson, the son of an Armley Prison officer, was appointed as assistant schoolmaster in 1860 – an appointment that almost ended in tragedy for his family as just four years later Mr Johnson’s wife Elizabeth and 22-year-old sister Louise were to survive an attempt on their lives by one of the inmates.

Joseph Broadhead, a 17-year-old Barnsley boy, was an inmate of the reformatory at that time.

Although no information about his parentage has been unearthed, a report in the Barnsley Chronicle from August 11 1960 paints a picture of a very troubled boy who was already an inveterate thief by the time he was 14 years old.

The report explained that Joseph was in court charged with stealing £10 from his

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uncle James (Hepworth) who had married his father’s sister Mary Broadhead.

Joseph had twice previously been in custody for stealing and after the second offence he was placed in the custody of his uncle James, an agricultural labourer, who had given him a job.

Then, in July he took that money and disappeared to London.

His full history is not known but what is certain is that he was placed in the Calder Farm Reformatory on a detention order and on that Saturday night in April, 1864 he was up to no good.

He had been working in the reformatory kitchen that day but for four days he had been obsessed with the thought of attacking Mrs Johnson, stealing money and running away. After locking the bread away he took a carving knife and, despite it having

The former reformatory site became a care home, which now lies empty

A 1905 map of the site, at the top of Sands Lane in Mirfield

been sharpened the previous day, sharpened it again.

Mrs Elizabeth Johnson and her sister in law Louisa Johnson were in the adjoining room.

Joseph burst in and immediately began attacking Elizabeth. Her clothes were shredded by the knife as she frantically tried to escape but she suffered no physical injury before getting away and running up stairs – where she promptly collapsed in a faint.

Louisa was not so lucky.

She sustained a three-inch stab wound to her side and another, seven inches deep, in her back between her shoulder blades.

Miraculously, whilst she suffered extensive bleeding, there were no injuries to her internal organs.

An alarm was immediately raised and with Louisa lying in a pool of blood the governor, Mr Hepple, tackled Broadhead as he tried to escape.

The assailant initially made up some story about being attacked by intruders, tearing his clothes to appear a victim, but he later admitted full responsibility.

He said he been planning this since Wednesday but didn’t know why. He said he actually liked the staff and thought he had been well cared for.

Broadhead was taken to the Dewsbury lock-

up to await trial, and with Louisa unable to be moved an inquest into the events of that night took place at Calder Farm two days later.

Although there were initial fears for her life Louisa Johnson did make a full recovery and in 1867 she married Brian Clarkson in her home town of Leeds.

As for Joseph Broadhead, he received a sentence of ‘seven years Penal Servitude’ for his crime – and thereafter nothing is known of him for certain.

But, interestingly a Joseph Broadhead, of around the same age, did have several admissions to the South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum (Middlewood Hospital) in Sheffield – dying there in 1900.

Could this have been the disturbed young man who wreaked such havoc in Mirfield 36 years earlier?

And what of Calder Farm?

Mr John Hepple, the governor appointed in 1860, stayed on until his death at the age of 77 and his son, also John, took his place.

A new wing was added in 1908 but the reformatory closed in July 1915 as the numbers of inmates dwindled.

There is nothing left of the original buildings, only the 1908 wing remains.

And what happens to that is still to be determined!

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Despite the snow flurries forecast this weekend, spring is just about here and you can finally get on with those improvements you’ve been putting off all winter – but where to start?

Check your roofing and guttering Winter may have taken its toll on your roof, causing holes, leaks or broken tiles. The best thing to do is regularly check your roof, look at the tiling, cement work, verges and chimney.

Your guttering is just as important and can easily be effected by ice, snow and excess water, so check you have no blockages or leaks. If water in your gutter isn’t running freely it can overflow and cause serious damp problems.

Sort out your boiler and insulation Spring is the perfect time to make your home more energy efficient; this will also help you save money on fuel bills. The Energy Saving Trust (EST) recommends giving your windows a good clean to help heat and light your home naturally, as well as using energy-saving light bulbs.

Cut down your heating bills by switching your boiler to ‘summer

mode’ and installing proper heating controls.

Loft insulation will keep your home cool in summer as well as warm in winter. In fact, the EST says that you could save as much as £150 a year in fuel bills by adding insulation.

Check your plumbing Over winter your pipes and plumbing may have suffered frost damage, particularly if they haven’t been lagged.

Other common plumbing problems such as blocked pipes, leaks or dripping taps may not seem immediately pressing, but it’s best to get them repaired as soon as possible to avoid further damage. Hire a qualified plumber to deal with all your plumbing problems.

Extend or convert your property If your home is starting to feel cramped or you’re looking for a change without having to move, consider a home extension or conversion.

Take advantage of neglected areas of your house and convert your garage, loft or basement into usable space.

A new one or two-storey extension will also provide with that vital extra room and inject new life into your property.

Get your garden in good shape Check that your fencing, shed or greenhouse hasn’t been damaged during the winter and clear the garden of debris.

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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 MARCH 24 UP THE JUNCTION 26 Starts at 10.30am at the rear of Cleckheaton Town Hall (BD19 3RH, SE191254) 8.5 miles – moderate Contact: David Parkinson 01274 879794 david.parky@tiscali.co.uk

Arts Group certainly rise to the challenge

Lonely thriller HANGING HEATON’S Ebenezer Methodist Drama Group are currently rehearsing their next production.

Trap For A Lonely Man, a thriller by Robert Thomas, will be performed in the school room from April 26 to April 28 at 7.15pm each night. Admission, including refreshments, is £6.50 for adults and £4.50 for children.

All My Sons by Arthur Miller Dewsbury Arts Group Review by Margaret Biglands

Fashion show MILLBRIDGE WMC is hosting a charity fashion show on Friday March 23. The show, which starts at 7pm at the club on Bennett Street, Liversedge, is being organised by Dawn Jowett.

She is raising money for Kirkwood Hospice in memory of her late step-father Mike Swinton.

Entry is £5 and the night will include a raffle and refreshments, plus the clothes will be on sale after the fashion show at bargain prices.

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ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller was first performed in 1947 but its dramatic intensity and themes of trust, loyalty, betrayal and love still resonate today.

The play opens with a thunderstorm cleverly presaging the storms to come, but at first we are in the yard of a middle class family, the Kellers, in the outskirts of an American town.

They are each dealing with the death of their son and brother in different ways, but despite this they appear to be a loving and happy family, respected by their neighbours.

But tensions are bubbling beneath the surface and the arrival of the dead son’s fiancee, Annie, played with sensitivity and warmth by Rachel Wood, acts as a catalyst and she inadvertently shatters the peace.

This polished production by Susan Saville cleverly takes us through the emotional unravelling of the characters to a poignant and emotional finale.

Maria Bailey, as Kate Keller, gives

a wonderful performance of emotional depth and warmth whilst showing us her hidden turmoil.

As Joe, her husband, Richard Brook gives a strong performance which builds from an apparently avuncular and likeable character to one who gradually reveals a different personality.

Iain Winstanley’s performance as Chris their son is excellent, and he captures a wide range of emotions as his dreams and illusions become shattered until he is left ultimately in despair.

There is excellent ensemble acting from Matthew Bailey, as George, Annie’s brother, and Mark Bailey, Lisa Dickinson, Tony Fox, Madhia Ansari-Khan and Leon Smithson as the Kellers’ neighbours who all have their problems and each bring out the nuances of their characters.

This is a powerful and emotional play and Dewsbury Arts Group certainly succeeded in grasping and rising to the challenge.

Performances continue at the Artspace, Lower Peel Street, Dewsbury until this Saturday, for bookings go to www.dewsbury artsgroup.info.

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Society’s concert MIRFIELD Choral Society’s spring concert will be held on Saturday April 14 at Trinity Methodist Church on Huddersfield Road (7.15pm).

The concert features Fauré’s ‘Requiem’, Mendelssohn’s ‘Non Nobis Domine’ and other anthems.

Tickets priced £10 (U18s and students £5) are available from choir members, by emailing mirfieldchoral@gmail.com or on the door on the night.

Boot sale THE COMMUNITY of the Resurrection is hosting a car boot sale on Sunday April 8.

The site, on Stocks Bank Road, will be open from 9am. There will be a £10 charge per car for sellers, and refreshments will be available.

For details call Leanne O’Sullivan on 01924 483302 or email losullivan @mirfield.org.uk.

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Move over This Morning, there’s a new girl on the chat show block ... meet Indiraa AILING from Bombay, singer and actress Indiraa is launching her own UK chat show later this month.

A winner of British Indian Award for Entertainment from the Queen no less, she told me about the star lineup. Indiraa said: “Ann, we have everything from Eammon Holmes to going behind the scenes of the hit musical Thriller and Pop Idol winner Will Young.” Indiraa has also starred in a movie with EastEnders actor Danny Dyer, but admits: “The chat show right now is my priority.” Is there anything this talented lady can’t do?

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STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Anton du Beke still has no idea if he will be back for the new series later this year.

The professional dancer tells me that he’s “hopeful”.

Anton added: “I have not heard yet but again we don’t normally know until later in the year, but I would miss the show so much if I did not return.”

BRENDAN COLE has revealed his hopes of joining I’m A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here later this year.

Since the announcement of his shock exit from Strictly Come Dancing, the professional dancer confessed that a lot of doors have now opened up for him, Brendan told me: “I would never say never to anything – except Big Brother. Doors come along and you open them, and you choose to walk a different path. I have not had from July until Christmas off for years.”

HUGH BONNEVILLE is to lend his voice to one of two new UK-based wildlife series announced by Channel 5. It appears the former Downton Abbey actor hopes to become the next Sir David Attenborough as he narrates the new eight-part series Wild Britain. “It’s a passion of mine and I was delighted when they asked me, but I am nowhere near the great Sir David,” he said.

CORONATION STREET actor and singer Shayne Ward has decided to remove tattoos to land a period drama role after getting the axe from the soap. He reveals: “I think they were a mistake and yes I regret it, but now as an actor you have to be a blank canvas and that is now what I am aiming for.”

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Ann with Indiraa loved sitcom Benidorm only began two weeks ago, but claims that it has been axed have put a dampener on fans’ excitement. It’s now been reported that the current series will be the last, amid falling ratings, but ITV bosses may look at a one-off movie option.

ACTORS from ITV soap Coronation Street are said to have snubbed offers to join Dancing On Ice next year, which has not pleased the new boss of ITV. Many are worried about the chance of injury, with one confiding: “I love the show, but how dangerous is it, and really we can’t have all that time off work, can we?”

NO WORD yet on the BBC’s singing format All Together Now, hosted by Rob Beckett and Geri Halliwell. It recently posted its worst ratings to date at the end of the series, and bosses are “looking at new options”.

GREEN-FINGERED presenter Alan Titchmarsh still bemoans the loss of his daily chat show which was axed a few years back. Alan laments: “I get asked about it all the time, as I think people miss it, and it was company for a lot of people, so who knows one day it may even come back.”

JASON DONOVAN may be on tour across the UK right now with his one man show, but he admits that he would love to get back on TV in an acting role. He said: “I do wonder if casting directors see me, or remember me as a pop heartthrob, but we all get a little older and need

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LAURENCE FOX is to play Viscount Palmerston in the ITV series Victoria. The Lewis actor, and the Prime Minister he portrays are both old Harrovians. Laurence, though, will have to have make-up on to cover up the rather obvious tattoos he currently sports, but admits: “I do love historical roles, and this is one great one.”

AFTER the huge flop of The Nightly show, ITV is currently working on developing new comedy entertainment formats, including It’s Alive, hosted by Lenny Henry, and impressions-based show The Imitation Game. ITV hope that “we can find a late-night show that will keep our viewers with us and stay with us till the end.”

SINGER and actress Jane McDonald is back with her own music show called ‘Jane & Friends’ on Five. She admitted that she hopes to emulate the success of shows by entertainers like Cilla and Lulu in the 70s and added: “I adored them, and they were such feel-good shows, which is what we all need right now. A good cheering up.”

GOOD MORNING Britain continues to fail with viewers, despite what the presenters may claim. The BBC breakfast show has double the number of viewers, hosted by Dan Walker, and of course sticks to news, rather than personality of the hosts.

A friend on the show tells me: “We have tried many things, but viewers simply prefer the BBC.”

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RUGBY UNION

Cleck see off rivals in style RFU North East One HUDDERSFIELD YMCA CLECKHEATON RUFC

CLEAN BREAK: Jack Bickerdike slides over the whitewash during Cleck’s convincing win over rivals Huddersfield YMCA

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CLECKHEATON produced a blistering finish to outclass rivals Huddersfield YMCA and claim the John Bower Trophy on Saturday afternoon.

The cup is traditionally contested between the two clubs in memory of John Bower, who represented both Cleck and YMCA. The Moorenders started the quickest and within two minutes took the lead.

After a controlled spell of possession close to the line Ben Thrower forced his way over for the opening try.

Following the score, the hosts enjoyed a lengthy period of pressure in Cleck’s 22 but could not breakdown the visitors’ stubborn defence.

Skipper Matt Piper helped to move the Spen Valley men back up the field before being awarded a scrum just inside Huddersfield’s 22.

Jack Bickerdike plucked the ball from the scrum and dummied a pass to Ronan Evans before scooting through a gap and sprinting to the line.

The hosts reduced the deficit as they opted to kick two penalty goals.

The sides went in at the break with Cleck leading 12-6.

PHOTO: Gerald Christian Mike Swetman added a penalty goal to re-extend Cleckheaton’s lead eight minutes into the second half.

Jack Seddon put the Moorenders further in front as he managed to stay on his feet in the tackle and burrow his way over the whitewash.

Cleck had the upper hand but gave YMCA some hope with the sin-

binning of Paul Turner.

The hosts made the most of their numerical advantage as they crossed for their only try of the day through full-back Fletcher.

Huddersfield continued to spread the ball wide, to make use of their extra man, but could not penetrate the Cleckheaton defence.

Winger Grant Fitzsimmons

bundling his man into touch and nearly into next week was a standout moment.

Fitzsimmons then scored the visitor’s bonus-point try as he dotted down after an unstoppable run.

James Wilson added another as he went in underneath the sticks following a perfectly-executed training ground move.

Lee Queeley rounded off the scoring as he broke clear of the chasing home defence to score Cleck’s sixth of the afternoon.

Tomorrow afternoon Cleckheaton host West Hartlepool at Moorend, when the Spen Valley men will have the chance to wear their speciallycommissioned pink strip, in support of breast cancer research.

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Victory for five-star Sedge

Conditions point to Native River

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OLIVER DYSON scored four goals to help Liversedge on their way to a comfortable victory over Athersley Recreation.

The hosts took the lead on 10 minutes through Kai Hancock before Dyson replied

for Sedge on 17 minutes.

The sides matched each other until the 70minute mark, when two goals in two minutes from Dyson put Liversedge in the clear.

The Sedge forward added his and Sedge’s fourth on 83 minutes with Rhys Davies adding a fifth five minutes later.

James Eyles added a consolation for Athersley on 90 minutes but it was Liversedge who ended the game with all three points.

Unicorns topple league leaders Evo-Stik North OSSETT ALBION HYDE UNITED

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OSSETT ALBION produced a huge shock as they won 2-0 at home to league-leaders Hyde United.

The result moves Albion three points closer to safety, however they do have four games in hand over the teams that sit directly above them in the table.

The Unicorns sit second bottom on 25 points while Brighouse Town and Skelmersdale United both have amassed 28 points, and are placed third and fourth bottom respectively.

Gibraltar international Adam Priestley put Albion ahead on 16 minutes with a free-kick from the edge of the penalty area.

With 12 minutes to go Hyde were reduced to 12 men as Ross Daly was shown a second yellow. Minutes later Priestley got in behind the United defence to score Albion’s second and seal a precious victory.

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Albion kill Altofts promotion push OSSETT ALBION turned the form book on its head with a resounding 5-0 win over Altofts in the North East Regional League Southern Division.

Second-placed Altofts have worked hard to make a promotion challenge this season but unpredictable Albion ensured those efforts came to nothing.

Albion have no league game this week but play their final game under their current banner next week before preparing for next season as part of the newly-formed Ossett United

Football Club.

In the Women’s West Riding County League unbeaten First Division leaders Ossett Town hope to go out in style as an independent club when, with three games to go, they continue their quest for the title with a game at home to third-placed Leeds City.

Town are currently five points clear of the Farsley Celtic Development side but have played a game more.

At the other end of the table, the League’s decision to place Dewsbury

Rangers in this division has proved unfair on a side who were clearly unprepared for the step up.

Rangers go to third-bottom Republica Internationale on Sunday anchored to the foot of the table with only one win from eight games.

In Division Two leaders Lower Hopton find themselves under threat with Middleton Athletic level on points and having played one game less.

Hopton are at bottom-club Hebden Royd this week.

HE last day of the Cheltenham Festival looks set to be an absolute cracker, with the Gold Cup taking centre stage today (Friday).

Nicky Henderson has the chance to become the first trainer to win the three major races at the Festival having already picked up the Champion Hurdle and the Queen Mother, and the precocious MITE BITE carries his chances of a unique treble.

But the party pooper could be NATIVE RIVER who finished third last year.

He has been plotted a lighter route back, seen just once this season when winning the Denman Chase, which was only the 19th start of his career.

Carrigill’s go 4/1 about Colin Tizzard’s eight-year-old who looks to have everything, including the ground, in his favour.

The opening encounter is the JCB Triumph Hurdle, a brutal test of juvenile hurdlers.

Henderson has won this race more than any other trainer with six wins.

He has both APPLE’S SHAKIRA and WE HAVE A DREAM at the head of the betting here, and there’s every chance then that he can extend his own excellent record.

Connections of CHRIS’S DREAM will be rubbing their hands together at the thought of more rain for the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle, as his career best last time came on the deepest ground he has

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encountered.

It isn’t often that a Graded contest is ripped apart by 64 lengths, but that was exactly what he did on debut for Henry De Bromhead, and he’s a great each way punt at 12/1.

The last amateur riders race of the Festival, the Foxhunters has always been a mix of the young and old.

It has been won by a horse in double digits the last three renewals with Paul Nicholls, Jonjo O’Neill and Nigel Twiston-Davies all getting in on the act training winners in recent times.

Nicholls has teed up WONDERFUL CHARM for this race, and the 10-year-old who was rated 159 at his peak, warmed up with an easy success at Musselburgh last month.

Conditional jockeys get the chance to have their moment in the limelight in the Martin Pipe Hurdle and punters down their luck so far this week can get out of jail today with FLAWLESS ESCAPE. Trainer Gordon Elliott won the race last year with the unexposed Champagne Classic and he also has a similar type with SIRE DU BERLAIS, but the talk at the track on Tuesday was that Elliott was desperate for his five-year-old to get into the race, and bookies have reacted by making him the jolly at 8’s.

The curtain comes down on another Festival with the always competitive Johnny Henderson Grand Annual.

Owner JP McManus clearly enjoys having a tilt at this race and his DON’T TOUCH IT heads the market, but I fancy Nicky Henderson to keep it in the family with THEINVAL who is well treated and can improve on last year’s third place.

In tomorrow’s (Saturday) Midlands National at Uttoxeter, GET ON THE YAGER has got better with practice over fences and promises to enjoy this unique test.

• CARRIGILL’S NAP (Stake returned as a free bet if selection does not finish in the top 4): NATIVE RIVER, Cheltenham Gold Cup, Friday, 3.30.

• AUGUR’S BEST BET: FLAWLESS ESCAPE, Friday, Cheltenham, 4.50.

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Friday March 16, 2018

RUGBY LEAGUE

Rare opening-day win for Sharks NCL Division One INCE ROSE BRIDGE SHAW CROSS SHARKS

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S H AW C R O S S S H A R K S made a winning start to the NCL Division One season with an 18-12 victory at Ince Rose Bridge.

The Sharks were trailing at half-time, but two quickfire tries in the second half were enough to secure an impressive win.

Head coach Zach Johnson felt the team weren’t at their best but was delighted with the victory.

“I think it’s been five years since we won an opening day fixture and it’s a long time since we won one in Division One, so in terms of getting a result, I’m really happy with it,” said Johnson.

“I think the skill and execution was a little off, there were too many errors and too

many penalties given away, so I think the execution needs to tighten up if we’re to compete.

“But in terms of heart, desire and fight, I couldn’t compliment the lads enough.

We defended our line for long periods and the defence was good.”

The Sharks started the game well and got the first try inside 10 minutes, as Ross Roebuck shimmied and sped past the defender.

The conversion from Shaun Squires put Shaw Cross 6-0 up.

However, Ince grew into the game and were level after Matthew Meadon managed to find a gap in the defence, with Brad Smith adding the extras.

Smith then found the posts with a penalty shortly before half-time, giving the home side a two-point lead going into the break.

The second half started

slowly but the match turned 10 minutes in when Squires intercepted a pass and ran the length of the field to score.

A couple of minutes later the Sharks had another try to celebrate, as Roebuck smartly found a gap and grounded for his second.

A third successful kick from Squires put the visitors 10 points ahead as they looked to take control.

Ince Rose’s Johnny Brown and Sharks’ Paul March were both shown yellow cards after clashes.

With both sides down to 12 the hosts got a try back.

Oliver Murray crossed to bring the gap down to six points.

The hosts threw everything at the visitors in search of another try but the Sharks’ defence remained resolute and they managed to see out the final 15 minutes to secure victory.

DOUBLE ACT: Ross Roebuck (left) and Shaun Squires (right) both scored as Shaw Cross beat Ince Rose

Celtic nil Roosters Late drop goal seals Trojans’ fate NCL Division Three

SALFORD CITY ROOSTERS 0 DEWSBURY CELTIC 34 DEWSBURY CELTIC secured their first win of the campaign with a brilliant performance away at Salford City Roosters on Saturday afternoon.

Celtic ran in 34 unanswered points in what proved a comfortable victory against a tame Roosters side.

Celtic’s Billy Yarrow was chief tormentor as he scored two tries late on.

A Paul Foulstone try gave Dewsbury an 11th-minute lead before Anthony Dunford added

another on 22 minutes.

Pat Foulstone then added another try to see the visitors in front 120 at half-time with Salford not having many chances.

Three tries in eight minutes from Pat Foulstone, Liam Walmsley and Yarrow plus two Paul Foulstone goals made it 28-0.

Yarrow added his second, which Foulstone goaled just after the hour to ensure an easy win for the Green and Whites.

Celtic are on the road tomorrow as they travel to take on St Helensbased side Clock Face Miners (2.30pm).

Clock Face have only had one outing this season – a 38-8 win over last year’s strugglers Stanley Rangers.

NCL Division One

OULTON RAIDERS

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THORNHILL TROJANS

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THORNHILL started their league campaign with a narrow loss at Oulton Raiders in quagmire conditions.

The Trojans struggled to make an impression on the game as they gave away numerous penalties in key positions.

Thornhill looked to have opened the scoring early on but George Woodcock’s try was disallowed for a forward pass.

Play was momentarily stopped as Anthony Harris was knocked to the

floor, he was forced to leave the field to be patched up for a head wound.

Woodcock then put the visitors ahead as he kicked a penalty goal to open the scoring.

Oulton claimed the first try of the afternoon as Chris Hope shook off the tackler and dived over in the corner.

The Raiders increased their lead in the run up to half time with a try from Adrian Holdsworth.

Oulton kicked the ball along the ground and Holdsworth gave chase and pounced on the ball for the try.

Tempers flared as James Craven was sin-binned for dropping with his knees in the tackle.

Play resumed but both sets of players clashed again which eventually led to Oulton being awarded the penalty.

Early in the second half Danny Ratcliffe should have reduced the deficit but he couldn’t keep hold of the ball with the line at his mercy.

Soon after Will Gledhill made a dash for the line and showed great determination to hold off several tacklers and plant the ball down.

Josh Clough took Thornhill upfield with a surging run.

The ball was then worked wide to Craven who raced over for an unconverted try.

With the scores tied Jordan Gale won the game for Oulton as he slotted over a late drop goal to snatch the two points.

Thornhill Trojans are at Overthorpe Park tomorrow afternoon as they welcome Milford Marlins (2.30pm).

Moor battle back to make it 16 in a row Hanging Heaton into semi NCL Division Two

STANNINGLEY DEWSBURY MOOR

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DEWSBURY MOOR produced a superb second-half display as they overturned a 22-10 deficit to stretch their winning run to 16 games.

Stanningley enjoyed the early pressure but couldn’t get through the Moor defence in back-to-back sets.

The Maroons got the first try as they spread it wide to Jacob Flathers who raced down the touchline before feeding it back inside to Anthony Boardman who dotted down.

Josh Turner hit back for the hosts as he supported a break through the middle.

The home side punished Moor’s ill discipline as they were marched up the field by several penalties.

This allowed Adam Benn to crash over and put Stanningley ahead.

Liam Copland put the hosts further in front as he intercepted the ball close to his own line and ran 90 metres to extend the lead.

The Maroons started to work their way back into the game with strong work from the forward pack.

However, it was Stanningley who got the next score as they broke clear allowing Ben Selby to cross for the host’s fourth.

Moor restored some hope on the

ON A ROLL: Action from Moor’s NCL Division Two win over Stanningley stroke of half time as Aiden Ineson’s neat kick over the top saw Sam Thornton out strip the defence to col-

lect and score out wide.

Ineson missed the conversion attempt, leaving a 12-point deficit at the interval.

Within five minutes of the restart the Maroons had halved the deficit as Flathers intercepted the ball and ran 80 metres to score.

On the hour mark the visitors cut the gap to two points with a try from Luke Adamson.

The ball was slipped to Ineson who found his centre Adamson and he evaded the defenders to score in the corner.

Moor levelled proceedings as Ineson added a penalty after Stanningley were penalised at the play the ball.

Flathers then put Moor back in front as he spotted a gap and showed great strength to force his way over the line with 10 minutes to go.

A tense ending ensued but Moor’s renewed enthusiasm saw them hold on to claim the two points.

Head coach James Delaney was impressed by the character shown by his side.

He said: “We showed great character and courage against a top side, two years ago we’d have crumbled, but the boys are fitter, more experienced as a group and the spirit is fantastic, I couldn’t be more pleased.”

Moor are back in action tomorrow afternoon as they host Drighlington at Heckmondwike Road (2.30pm).

Pennine League Cup

HANGING HEATON MOLDGREEN

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HANGING HEATON were forced to come from behind as they made it through to the semi-final of the Pennine League Cup. The hosts have had two previous meetings with Moldgreen this season, only conceding six points across two games.

However, the visitors turned up looking like a different side and went 8-0 ahead early in the contest with a converted try and a penalty goal.

Hanging Heaton struggled to get into the Moldgreen half for the majority of the first 40 minutes.

However, in a rare attack for the home side Aaron James forced his way over to reduce the deficit.

Before the interval Moldgreen increased their lead with a second converted try that saw them take a 14-4 advantage.

Hanging Heaton began to find some rhythm in the second half and got their reward as William Brooke gathered a cutout pass and scored in the corner.

Ryan Hardwick drew the home side level as he supported a break and dotted down between the posts.

With 10 minutes remaining Declan Tomlinson put Hanging Heaton ahead for the first time in the game.

The ball was worked to the left towards Tomlinson and he dived over in the corner for what proved to be the winning try.

Shaw Cross receive plaque in memory of key exchange man A MEMORIAL plaque for a French Rugby League official has been presented to the Shaw Cross Sharks.

A delegation from France arrived at the club on Sunday with the plaque to honour Damian Tejero, who was involved for many years with the Shaw Cross/Villeneuve French Youth Exchange.

Monsieur Tejero was the

founder of the Pujols RL Club near Villeneuve and the plaque was received by Douglas Hird who was cofounder of the Exchange in 1970 – which still runs to this day, running for almost 50 years.

Now 1,860 youth players from the two countries have taken part in this historic exchange.

Mr Hird said Damian had

been very much involved with the running of the exchange in France and the plaque would be given a place of honour in the club.

Shaw Cross chairman, Brett Turner presented Shaw Cross 70th anniversary ties to members of the delegation which included French international Olivier Elima, who is the son-inlaw of Damian Tejero.

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BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP

Rams rue missed chances Betfred Championship

DEWSBURY RAMS TOULOUSE OLYMPIQUE

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at The Tetley’s Stadium DEWSBURY RAMS lost just their second home game of the campaign after a pivotal brace from Toulouse’s Tyla Hepi just shy of half-time.

Hepi’s double gave the visitors a decisive advantage that the hosts were unable to claw back, despite an energetic spell at the start of the second half.

The Rams wasted a good opportunity in the third minute, when prop Jack Teanby fumbled the ball close to the Toulouse try line.

Brutal defence from the Rams kept Toulouse pegged back, and the hosts forced an early drop out to maintain pressure.

The visitors attacked quickly and made easy yards from a quick tap 20, but the Rams stood firm during the opening exchanges.

Dewsbury took the lead in the 15th minute after Constantine Mika was sent to the sin-bin for a dangerous tackle on Jared Simpson.

Robbie Ward produced a simple show and go and muscled his way over from short range and Paul Sykes added a simple conversion.

But Toulouse responded almost immediately, forcing a knock on from the Rams on their kick-off return set then finding a short ball to send Rhys Curran charging over.

Mark Kheirallah added the goal to level things up, and it got even better for the visitors.

Kick pressure from Ward forced Jonathon Ford to boot his kick on the

MATCH STATS LONDON: Alex Walker 8 Kieran Dixon 9 Ben Hellewell 8 Matty Fleming 7 Rhys Williams 8 Api Pewhairangi 7 Jarrod Sammut 7 Tom Spencer 7 James Cunningham 8 Mark Ioane 7 Jay Pitts 7 Will Lovell 8 Matt Davis 8 Subs: Matt Gee 7, Sadiq Adebiyi 7, Rob Butler 7, Sam Davis 8.

Tries: Dixon (6, 13, 33, 44), Lovell (19), Cunningham (26), Pewhairangi (40, 77), Williams (62, 70), S. Davis (75), Gee (80). Goals: Sammut 6/7, Dixon 4/5.

BATLEY: Dave Scott 6 Wayne Reittie 6 Jason Crookes 6 Lewis Galbraith 6 Shaun Ainscough 7 Tom Hemingway 6 Dominic Brambani 5 Brad Day 7 Alex Rowe 6 James Davey 6 James Harrison 6 Joel Farrell 7 Pat Walker 6 Subs: Joe Chandler 6, James Brown 8, Tommy Holland 6, Izaac Farrell 7.

Tries: Davies (36, 57).

Goals: Walker 2/2.

Referee: J. McMullen Half-time: 36-6 Penalties: 9-7 Sin Bin: None Sent Off: Brambani (69 – dissent) Weather: Mild Man of the Match: Kieran Dixon (London) Attendance: 526 Match Rating: 2/5

last out on the full, but Stan Robin snapped up Michael Knowles’ ambitious pass to race 90 metres and score.

The Rams went close to their second try when Josh Guzdek burst through a gap on to a short Sykes ball, but a Toulouse hand deflected the pass into touch.

In the following set, Toby Everett was unable to gather Dom Speakman’s ricocheted grubber kick.

Toulouse survived the pressure and extended their lead just before halftime, when Hepi showed great strength to shrug off three defenders before reaching out to plant the ball over the line.

Kheirallah’s goal gave Toulouse a 10point advantage and Hepi struck again on the stroke of half-time to complete a quickfire brace and leave the hosts with a significant deficit to claw back.

The Rams did put themselves back in the contest when Guzdek produced a neat offload to send Dale Morton over out on the left on 45 minutes. Sykes was unable to add the extras.

And the hosts punished further indiscipline to add a third try when Rob Spicer burst on to Sykes’ short pass for his second score in as many appearances.

Toulouse kept the hosts at arms length with a penalty goal shortly after, and Tony Maurel coasted over in the left corner to put 12 points between the sides.

But again the Rams hit back, this time through Knowles.

However, Curran’s second try moments later put paid to Dewsbury’s hopes of a comeback.

And they added the finishing touch in the final moments when Kheirallah finished off a flowing move down the left wing, and converted from in front of the posts.

MATCH STATS DEWSBURY: Josh Guzdek Jared Simpson James Glover Macauley Hallett Dale Morton Paul Sykes Michael Knowles Jode Sheriffe Robbie Ward Jack Teanby Jordan Crowther Rob Spicer Aaron Brown Subs: Dom Speakman 7, Lucas Walshaw 7, Matty English 7, Toby Everett 7.

Tries: Ward (15), Morton (45), Spicer (48), Knowles (65).

Goals: Sykes 2/4.

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TOULOUSE: Mark Kheirallah 8 Paul Marcon 7 Sebastien Planas 7 Bastien Ader 7 Tony Maurel 7 Jonathon Ford 8 Stan Robin 8 Sam Rapira 7 Anthony Marion 8 Bastien Canet 8 Constantine Mika 8 Rhys Curran 9 Andrew Bentley 8 Subs: William Barthau 8, Clement Boyer 8, Tyla Hepi 8, Justin Sangare 8.

Tries: Curran (18, 67), Robin (21), Hepi (37, 40), Maurel (57), Kheirallah (79).

Goals: Kheirallah 6/8.

SOLID EFFORT: Michael Knowles scored Dewsbury’s final try as they lost to Toulouse

Referee: J Smith Half-time: 6-22 Penalties: 10-9 Sin Bin: Mika (14 – dangerous tackle), Speakman (78 – fighting) Sent Off: None Weather: Cloudy Man of the match: Tyla Hepi (Toulouse) Attendance: 720 Match Rating: 4/5

Bulldogs battered by Broncos Betfred Championship

LONDON BRONCOS 68 BATLEY BULLDOGS 12 at Trailfinders Sports Club BATLEY’S two-game winning run was brought to an end as they were outplayed by London Broncos.

Keiran Dixon led the way for the hosts, scoring four tries and kicking four goals. Dixon opened the scoring after six minutes in the right corner as London had a third straight set of tackles.

Four minutes later, he caught a deep kick and set off for the other end, leaving four Batley players as spectators.

Shaun Ainscough, however, gave chase and tackled Dixon on halfway, but suffered a game-ending ankle injury in his brave effort.

This meant a reshuffle for the Bulldogs with Izaac Farrell going into full-back and Dave Scott moving to the wing.

Within a minute, Izaac Farrell was left with the hopeless task of trying stop Dixon after a Jarrod Sammut grubber bounced to him off a Batley defender.

Just before the quarter mark, Will Lovell showed a glimpse of his strength and power as he dragged a number of tacklers over the line on a last-tackle running play.

The Bulldogs had their first

CONSOLATION: James Brown scored twice as Batley were hammered by London on Sunday afternoon spell of concerted pressure around the 25-minute mark with three-straight sets inside London territory, but nothing came of it.

And their tendency to switch off was evident again as James Cunningham crossed from

dummy half, again on the last tackle, this time after Sammut had kicked a 40–20 to give London good field position.

Seven minutes from half time Dixon completed his hattrick, scoring in the right corner after the ball was passed

out from a scrum.

Batley finally got on the scoreboard after 36 minutes when James Brown crashed over from close range and Pat Walker added the extras.

Then, moments after the hooter sounded, Sammut grub-

bered forward, regathered and sent Api Pewhairangi between the posts. Sammut converted his sixth – and easiest – kick of the half.

London switched off at the start of the second period, despite Dixon completing his four-timer four minutes in.

Sam Davies, Pewhairangi and Ben Hellewell combined for the score.

Brown again reduced the arrears on 57 minutes, running an excellent angle to score between the uprights.

London responded quickly with a try for Rhys Williams on his 100th consecutive Broncos appearance.

In the 69th minute, Wayne Reittie was adjudged to have knocked-on as he tried to score a try and Dominic Brambani was red-carded for dissent.

London capitalised almost immediately as Williams jinked through half a dozen would-be tacklers, who barely got a hand on him. Dixon added the conversion.

It was the start of a run of four tries in the last 10 minutes. Sam Davis scored his first try for the first team with a darting run from dummy half.

Pewhairangi completed his double, appearing at Lovell’s shoulder after the secondrower had blasted 40 metres downfield. And the last action of the game saw Matt Gee go over at the end of a flowing passing move.

Rams agree deal for Ansell

By Ben McKenna DEWSBURY RAMS have agreed a deal to bring Danny Ansell to the Tetley’s Stadium until the end of the season.

Head coach Neil Kelly exclusively told The Press that the club wrapped up a deal for the stand-off on Wednesday evening.

It is understood that Ansell was released by Swinton Lions, which allowed him to begin discussions with Dewsbury.

The 26-year-old spent six seasons with Hunslet from 2012-2017, scoring 15 tries in 83 appearances.

He signed for Swinton after being selected in the Wales squad for the World Cup but travel commitments proved difficult during his short stay at the Lions.

The Rams have also signed England academy star Lewis Heckford on a one-month loan from Wigan Warriors.

“Half-back is one of those areas where we definitely need to add more depth and that has been brought home to us by Gareth Moore’s injury,” said Kelly.

“Paul Sykes is also bound to take a few knocks, which is expected when you consider how long he has played the game.

“In many ways we always knew that half-back would be a big recruitment area for us.

“Lewis Heckford has come in on loan for a month to help us out and maybe longer.

“We have also signed Danny Ansell who has been released by Swinton.

“I think the travelling got on top of him so we have been able to sign him on to bring in numbers in that position.”

Dewsbury travel to Cumbria this weekend to take on League 1 Whitehaven in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup. Despite the gap between the two teams in league position, Kelly insists he is not taking the contest lightly.

However, the Rams boss admits he will use the game as an opportunity to give some of the squad’s fringe players a run-out.

He said: “You don’t go to Whitehaven and come back with a

INTERNATIONAL PEDIGREE: Rams new signing, Danny Ansell, in action for Wales win without having worked hard.

“If you look down and see that they are in League 1 or look at their result last week, it can fool you into thinking it is going to be easier than it is.

“I am expecting a tough game, where we need to be on our mettle to get the result.

“I will take the opportunity to play a few players who have been kicking their heels waiting to

get a game.

“They have been very professional during training so I will let them play and stake a claim to be playing at Leigh next week.

“We have got depth in some areas and not enough depth in other areas, but the players that have not featured so far have been superb in all the training sessions.”

Kelly admits he was disappointed with last week’s 40-20 loss at home to Toulouse.

And he believes that if the club is to progress, they need to start winning against the stronger sides in the division.

He added: “If we want to be a mediocre side then I would have to say I was quite happy with the performance.

“But the players don’t want to be a mediocre side, I don’t want us to be mediocre – we all want to improve.

“And there were some things in the Toulouse game that we could do better and that we want to do better.

“We need to be more clinical in attack and we were a bit silly with some errors.”

Diskin: Form out of the window Simon strikes gold when Leigh come for Cup clash BATLEY boss Matt Diskin believes that current form will have no bearing on their Challenge Cup tie with Leigh this weekend.

The Centurions are below Batley in the Championship table despite the Bulldogs having played two games less.

However, Diskin insists the differing fortunes of the two teams will prove irrelevant at Mount Pleasant on Sunday afternoon.

“I think the Challenge Cup is a unique competition and you can throw form out of the window,” said Diskin.

“Leigh will be under pressure to deliver a performance and they will prove very dangerous opposition for us.

“We are going into this game as underdogs but the Challenge Cup is all about the underdog doing well and we will certainly be looking to do that this week.

“We are looking for a good performance after our showing at the weekend, we were embarrassed – and rightly so – by London.

“We are keen to get back and deliver some good, solid performances.

“Earlier in the season against

STAYING PUT: Full-back Dave Scott has agreed a new deal with Batley which runs until the end of the 2019 season

GOLDEN: Simon (second right) stands with his gold medal in Liverpool

Leigh the result didn’t reflect the performance and we have taken enough out of that to be confident going into this week’s game.”

Elsewhere, full-back Dave Scott has extended his deal with Batley and will remain at Mount Pleasant until the end of 2019.

Scott has been one of Batley’s best performers according to Diskin and the Bulldogs head coach says it is important the Bulldogs keep hold of their key players.

He added: “We are gradually looking through the players we are look-

ing to retain and players need to earn that right to have their contract renewed.

“Dave has been the most consistent performer since I have been at the club and he throughly deserved to have his contract renewed.”

Diskin has also revealed that Adam Gledhill’s knee injury is not as serious as first feared.

The Bulldogs were expecting the prop to out for up to six months but after a meeting with a specialist the club have confirmed he will only be missing for a maximum of 12 weeks.

GOMERSAL gymnast Simon Toussaint enjoyed a hugely successful weekend at the British Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool.

The event took place at the Liverpool Echo Arena on Albert Dock, where Simon retained his title as Under-14 British Rings champion, taking home a gold medal.

The Great Britain athlete also competed in the all-round Men’s Artistic Under-14s competition, which involves competing on six pieces of apparatus.

And after his performances on the floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar he finished third overall, claiming a

bronze medal.

In the five apparatus finals the young gymnast earned a silver medal for his performance on the pommel horse to go with his gold for his efforts on the rings.

Simon is part of the GB Elite performance squad and currently trains six days a week at Leeds Gymnastics Club.

The BBG Academy student has also clocked up nearly five million views on YouTube in a video with Team GB gymnast Nile Wilson.

Simon goes head to head against Leeds-born Wilson in a number of strength and gymnastics challenges, and the video is available to view on Nile Wilson’s YouTube channel.