Reading Time: 2 minutes Emmerdale star Michael Parr – who plays bad boy Ross Barton – will switch on Huddersfield’s Christmas lights this year. Revellers can see the soap baddie at the Piazza in Huddersfield town centre to officially... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Emmerdale star Michael Parr – who plays bad boy Ross Barton – will switch on Huddersfield’s Christmas lights this year. Revellers can see the soap baddie at the Piazza in Huddersfield town centre to officially... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Lamplighter Festival is a magical winter night-time event in Todmorden, featuring a parade of community-made lanterns that culminates in a performance in Todmorden town centre where our mythical ‘Lamplighter’ puppet l... Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes West Yorkshire Combined Authority and its partners have picked up a National Transport Award for the Travel2Train programme.  Travel2Train has enabled over 800 young people in West Yorkshire to take up apprenticeship trai... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute SLOWLY but surely the landscape of Barnsley town centre is changing.  Shoppers have already got used to the disappearance of the old central offices and the new May Day Green market. Last week work started demolishing... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes A LITTLE boy was deprived of saying goodbye to his friends and his mother was left without childcare when nursery staff terminated his contract after taking umbrage at her feedback. Little Harry Waite, two, had been a pup... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute THE furious mother of a boy who was ambushed by a ‘clown with a knife’ has said the craze needs to be taken extremely seriously. Police confirmed there had been ten reported incidents involving people dressed as clown... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute FURIOUS campaigners gathered in Barnsley to send a message to the government that ‘the gloves are off’ in their fight for truth and justice over the Battle of Orgreave. Home Secretary Amber Rudd told MPs on Monday tha... Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Kirklees Council is reminding people that using fireworks and Chinese lanterns on council land is against the law, this includes Huddersfield’s iconic landmark Castle Hill. It is already illegal to set off fireworks o... Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Locke Park.  Saturday 5 November – Barnsley Round Table’s Charity Bonfire and Fireworks: 6 to 9pm. Plus Roger Tuby’s funfair. Wentworth Castle Gardens Date: Saturday 5th November Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm We will be h... Read more