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VIDEO: Heated public meeting held over Morley LDF plans

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:37:44 GMT

Almost 200 people packed into Morley Town Hall to hear about controversial plans to build thousands of new homes across the Greater Morley area on Tuesday night.

Heated public meeting held over Morley LDF plans

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:26:40 GMT

Almost 200 people packed into Morley Town Hall to hear about controversial plans to build thousands of new homes across the Greater Morley area last night.

Share your longest day with us!

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:04:45 GMT

Friday is the longest day of the year.

New signs for M62

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:32:49 GMT

Motorists using the M62 are warned that there will be a 50mph speed limit between J26 (Chain Bar) and J27 (Gildersome) of the M62 for the remainder of the works during the summer.

Film shows final days of Motor Neurone Disease sufferer

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:56:48 GMT

The story of a Morley man’s brave battle with a disease that not only took his life but that of his grandfather and father before him will be shown in a film this Friday.

£2.9m clean-up plan for Cottingley Crematorium

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:49:42 GMT

Cremators at Cottingley Crematorium will have to be replaced or shut down if the city is to meet tough mercury emissions targets.

BREAKING: Kirklees Council’s LDF recommended for withdrawal

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:42:38 GMT

Council officers have recommended Kirklees’s future blueprint for homes and business development should be dropped.

People urged to attend Morley development meeting

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:09:17 GMT

Campaigners are calling for as many people as possible to attend a public meeting over Leeds City Council’s plans to build over 8,000 houses in the greater Morley area.

Fire in abandoned Soothill building

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:06:04 GMT

Firefighters from four stations battled a blaze in an abandoned building in the early hours of this morning.

Fresh appeal for rape witness

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:31:02 GMT

A man who may have witnessed the rape of an 18-year-old woman is still being sought by police.

BREAKING NEWS Man died from a suspected gunshot wound in Tingley Village Hotel car park

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:57:20 GMT

A man died of a suspected gunshot wound in a hotel car park last night (Friday).

Bradford man arrested over hen party M62 smash

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:18:36 GMT

A Bradford man has been arrested in connection with a crash on the M62 which killed a teenage girl.

Could Emma be Britain’s Next Top Model?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:47:58 GMT

A high flying career in fashion beckons for a Morley call centre worker who is to appear on Britain and Ireland’s Next Top Model.

New judges join panel for Morley Business Awards

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:01:38 GMT

Two new judges are joining Mark Goldstone on the judging panel for the Morley Business Awards 2013.

Malcolm Haigh awarded British Empire Medal

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:50:03 GMT

Historian and former Batley News journalist Malcolm Haigh has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Free community cycling day in Tingley

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:45:47 GMT

A free event aimed at encouraging people to get out of their cars and on their bikes is being held in Tingley next week.

Morley’s Apprentice candidate Francesca Macduff-Varley in ‘landslide victory’

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:03:07 GMT

This week’s Apprentice saw Morley businesswoman Francesca MacDuff-Varley and her fellow candidates battle it out to sell gadgets and campervans in a bid to make it through to round eight of the popular BBC One show.

RBS chief Stephen Hester to speak at Wakefield meeting with Ed Balls

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:58:18 GMT

The man set to leave as boss of Royal Bank of Scotland with at least a £1.6m payoff will speak at a business meeting in Wakefield next month.

Funds needed to help with ‘radical’ Woodkirk church plans

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:54:19 GMT

Extra efforts are being made to raise substantial funds for Woodkirk St Mary’s Church this year to help pay for radical alterations to the church layout and pressing repairs to its massive east window.

Churfest ready to rock again

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:15:02 GMT

Churfest – Churwell’s annual festival of fun, sun and rock and roll – is taking place again this July.