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Yorkshire Ambulance staff set to strike
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Shane Meadows’s Stones Roses film to get Showcase Ci...
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Slideshow: Stars come out for Dewsbury RLFC champion...
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Woolwich soldier murder must not lead army to retrea...
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Mid Yorkshire Hospitals new deadline to become Found...
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Slideshow: Record weekend for Dewsbury Beer Festival
News
Time to Talk about the future of your council
Your local council is under huge financial pressure. Budgets have been slashed, services are under strain and things are not going to get any easier.
Yorkshire Ambulance staff set to strike
Yorkshire Ambulance Service is set to be hit by more disruption after a union announced its members would walk out on strike next month.
MP calls for halt to ‘delusional’ shake-up at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust
An MP has asked for “dangerous” plans do downgrade and centralise parts of the district’s hospital services to be referred to the secretary of state.
1 commentMurdered Woolwich soldier was married to West Yorkshire girl
A soldier brutally cut down by Islamic militants has been named as Lee Rigby who married Southowram girl Rebecca Metcalfe.
Slideshow: Stars come out for Dewsbury RLFC championship anniversary dinner video
Fans and players from Dewsbury’s greatest hour turned up in force on Friday for a dinner celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the 1973 league championship win.
On stage proposal a real show stopper
Love was in the air both on and off-stage on Saturday as a musical ended with a real-life marriage proposal.
Sport
Supporters group are on their way to Wembley
The Batley Independent Supporters Squadbuilder Association (BISSA) are organising a trip to Wembley for the Rugby League World Cup semi-final double header on November 23.
Bulldogs duo suspended for televised Hunslet trip
Batley Bulldogs hooker George Flanagan and loose forward Ash Lindsay will miss tonight’s televised Kingstone Press Championship clash at Hunslet Hawks (7.30pm).
Test match ticket competition winners
Winners of the Test Match Tickets Competition we ran across the Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group are:
Leeds United season ticket holders offered discounts to Hawks v Bulldogs clash
Hunslet Hawks are pulling out all the stops to ensure a big crowd is in attendance for tomorrow night’s televised Kingstone Press Championship derby against Batley Bulldogs.
Victory sees Batley into quarter-final
Batley Bulldogs secured a place in tonight’s quarter-final draw of the Northern Rail Cup following a 38-18 victory away to Keighley Cougars last Sunday.
McCormack ‘gutted’ at Scotland omission
Leeds United striker Ross McCormack is “gutted” at missing out on Scotland selection in Gordon Strachan’s latest squad.
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Slideshow: Stars come out for Dewsbury RLFC championship anniversary dinner video
Fans and players from Dewsbury’s greatest hour turned up in force on Friday for a dinner celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the 1973 league championship win.
Lifestyle
Shane Meadows’s Stones Roses film to get Showcase Cinema screening
Shane Meadows’s highly anticipated documentary The Stone Roses: Made of Stone will be shown at the Showcase Cinema in Birstall next week.
Gut-wrenching role steals the show
Maureen Nolan could not seem to bring herself to smile during her stranding ovation at the opening night of Blood Brothers at Leeds Grand on Monday.
The weird, wonderful web
Each week we bring you some weird and wonderful stories from our websites to put a smile on your face at the start of the weekend. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did!
Boogie down for charity
Chart hits of the 1970s and 1980s are set to fill the dancefloor at a charity event.
Kate Wobschall has her socks well and truly knocked off at the Radisson Blu in the Light, Leeds
This weekend has been mostly spent telling anyone who will listen about my amazing discovery.
Community
Help needed in tracking benefactor
I am trying to find out about Pat Meehan who was a very generous benefactor of the Holy Spirit Church in Heckmondwike.
Hypocrisy of health and safety reforms
Issues of health and safety should not be trivialised so I’m pleased that Sarah Hall who made criticism of the compensation culture in her recent column made clear her support of the importance of health and safety in the workplace.
Energy prices: Do your own research!
Like many of your readers, I registered with Community Energy Direct so that I could take advantage of their offer to use “the power of thousands of consumers ... to source better energy deals”. I provided them with my annual energy usage figures and awaited their response.
Sort out Pinderfields before you downgrade Dewsbury A&E
I read with interest Dr Matt Shepherd’s reply to Dr Thimmegowda’s letter highlighting the Nicholls report which condemns the closure of local hospitals and/or their services which then necessitates extra transport times to larger regional centres.
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Weather for Batley
Friday 24 May 2013
Today
Light showers
Temperature: 4 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 28 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 6 C to 16 C
Wind Speed: 9 mph
Wind direction: North
