Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson Shop owners and traders in Huddersfield town centre have been invited to sign up to a £1.2 million transformation scheme to improve the look of the... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Oliver Thompson Kingsgate’s new cinema and food court has overcome its first step and has gained approval by the Kirklees Council Planning Committee. On... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Oliver Thompson ‘Read’ in Holmfirth are one of 12 independent bookshops to have recently received a HarperCollins Literacy Grant. The grants were l... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Oliver Thompson Over 75s in the United Kingdom are going to have to start paying for their TV licence again.   The annual charge – now set at £154.5... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes By Greg Dawson In the first episode of the new BBC Documentary ‘Hometown: a Killing’ Journalist Mobeen Azhar returns to his home town of Huddersfield to r... Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Oliver Thompson According to new research, humans could eat and breathe up to 52,000 microplastics every year.  Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments that... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson Kirklees Council is appealing against a judicial review which is currently preventing them from taking over Cemetery Road allotments in Birkby. A g... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson A vacant shop space in the Huddersfield Lion Arcade is hosting art events and exhibitions over the next few weeks. Yan Tan Tether features a number... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes By Greg Dawson A review from the Leeds Safeguarding Children Partnership (LSCP) has found opportunities to expose a grooming gang which raped and abused girls as youn... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Greg Dawson NHS bosses are turning to online parenting forums as a way to entice nurses who have left their jobs to rejoin again. This has been released in par... Read more