Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England) back issues from October 2008:
TYPICAL; Thumbs up and smirk as gang that brought terror to an estate get Asbos.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BARRY GIBSON News Reporter THIS is the smirking, taunting face of a yob. Daniel Stephenson, 20, of Lowerhouses, and four teenage mates have terrorised residents on a Huddersfield estate. One of the victims was a pregnant woman - who allegedly ...
CURBS SLAPPED ON YOUNG THUGS; Yobs can't be named.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By BARRY GIBSON News Reporter A MAN of 20 and four youths have been slapped with Asbos after bringing terror to a Huddersfield estate. Daniel Stephenson and the four teenagers were said to have caused mayhem in Lowerhouses. One of their victims was ...
Youth on Asbo after sword incident.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A TEENAGER accused of threatening a man with a Samurai sword has been hit with an Asbo. The Berry Brow youth is alleged to have been involved in 21 incidents of anti-social behaviour in the last six months. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was ...
Our Juby's the Pride of Britain; Top award for child rescuer.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW HIRST Deputy News Editor HE was the toast of Huddersfield and now he's the Pride of Britain. Heroic Juby Mathew rescued a four-year-old boy from a vicious dog and was badly injured saving the youngster's life. Juby, of Lockwood, won the ...
Honours for the heroes.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... FORMER Manchester United goalkeeper Harry Gregg, 76, who pulled passengers from a burning plane during the Munich air crash received a special honour - the first time his efforts had been recognised. Gregg (right) helped to save a pregnant woman and her daughter along with ...
Local briefs: Radio slot for Slaithwaite Phil.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A LOCAL orchestra will be heard by a national audience tonight. Slaithwaite Philharmonic will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Performance On 3 which features amateur orchestras. A part of Slaithwaite Philharmonic's ...
Local briefs: New health base.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A SERVICE offering sexual health information and advice has moved. Kirklees Contraception and Sexual Health (Cash) is now at Dewsbury Health Centre. The service, which used to be at Batley Health Centre, offers ...
Local briefs: Search starts.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE search is on for the UK's top of the lollipops and schools in Huddersfield are being invited to nominate their crossing patrollers. Kwik Fit Insurance has launched the Lollipop Person of the ...
Local briefs: Annual aquafit.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE annual charity aquafit event at Scissett Baths, Health and Fitness Centre will take place again on Sunday, October 5, between 1.30 and 2.30pm. Last year the same event attracted more than 30 participants, and the hard work and fundraising ...
Local briefs: Healthy walking.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... SIXTEEN members of Huddersfield Healthy Life Ramblers' Club enjoyed a seven-mile walk from Greenfield railway station. ...
Local briefs: Fire wrecks car.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ARSONISTS are to blame for a blaze which wrecked a car in Berry Brow. The ...
GIVING SCHOOLS THE MESSAGE; SUDDERS' DONOR CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FROM THE TOP.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... TO: Headteachers of secondary schools in England EDUCATION ABOUT BLOOD, BONE MARROW, TISSUE AND ORGAN DONATION IN SCHOOLS We are writing to highlight the importance of teaching young people about the donation of blood, bone marrow, tissue, and organs. We need to encourage more ...
GIVING SCHOOLS THE MESSAGE; SUDDERS' DONOR CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FROM THE TOP.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By KATIE CAMPLING News Reporter SCHOOLS and colleges all over England should receive education packs about bone marrow donation today - thanks to campaigning journalist Adrian Sudbury. Examiner reporter Adrian, 27, died of leukaemia on August 20. He had spent ...
PM's praise for Sudders; SUDDERS' DONOR CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED FROM THE TOP.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... AN official Downing Street response has gone out to the 11,000 people who signed Adrian's petition for better education about bone marrow donation. The Sign Up For Sudders campaign was lodged on the Downing Street website on May 23. The petition called for Gordon ...
Adrian's book a quick best-seller.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... IT'S proving to be a big hit! Baldy's Book, a collection of the blogs written by campaigning Examiner journalist Adrian Sudbury, is flying off the shelves. The book only went on sale on Monday, but many copies have already been snapped up, from the Examiner office, ...
Poisoning blow to hillside flock.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NEIL ATKINSON News Editor A HUDDERSFIELD area farmer has lost a third of his flock of sheep to copper poisoning. And inquiries revealed that the farmer, who has a small farm on the Pennine moors, had fed his sheep waste hops and grains from a brewery that ...
Bus driver cut free after crash.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A BUS driver had to be cut free after a crash with a lorry. And at about the same time workmen fractured a gas main just a few yards away on Huddersfield Road, Scout Hill, Dewsbury, totally snarling the road up. The single-decker bus collided with the back of the ...
Asbos just a start! The Huddersfield Daily Examiner COMMENT.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A COMMUNITY is rejoicing after five yobs were brought to book for a miserable series of offences. It is difficult to imagine the nightmarish existence of Lowerhouses people who endured racial and sexual offences and a string of nuisances. All right-thinking ...
MFI ultimatum; The Huddersfield Daily Examiner COMMENT.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... CHIEF executive Gary Flavell has gone straight into action after a management buy-out was agreed at furniture retail chain MFI. He's written to landlords asking for a rent-free period in the three months to Christmas. Nay, telling them. "Should you not sign this ...
She's an intrepid lady and a Dame; Foreign correspondent Ann Leslie looks back at her remarkable life and career covering wars and showbiz.(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW BALDWIN Feature Writer SHE has been shot at by Bosnian snipers, pursued by Robert Mugabe's notorious secret police, filed from the North Korean border, propositioned by both Salvador Dali and David Niven and been driven maniacally through London by Steve ...
James Mason asked me to marry him ...(Leaders)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ANN LESLIE met James Mason on a reporting assignment when he was filming in Germany. ONE of those who proposed marriage to me was the movie star James Mason. I'd fallen for him not just because he was highly intelligent, a Cambridge graduate with a passion for Shakespeare, but ...
Rise in lowest wages.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... ABOUT 89,000 workers in Yorkshire get a pay rise from today as an increase in the national minimum wage comes into effect. Figures from the TUC showed two-thirds of the workers to benefit are women - reinforcing the aim of the national minimum wage to narrow the gender pay gap. ...
Band's help for injured sportsman.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... LIVE music band Mouldy Joes will perform at a charity fundraiser on Saturday night. It is performing at an event at the St Patrick's Centre at New North Parade, Huddersfield, at 8pm to raise funds for Danny Scott. Rugby player Danny, 24, of Marsh, ...
FLOOD OF TRIBUTES TO VICTIM ANDREW; 'He was such an absolute gentleman'.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NEIL ATKINSON News Editor TRIBUTES have poured in for a young man killed in a car crash. Andrew Hirst, 33, was a popular bar manager at local pubs for many years and also a well-known soccer player with clubs in the Huddersfield area. He was ...
Fears of MFI store closures.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter AS many as 100 stores at furniture retail chain MFI could close, despite a management buy-out agreed at the weekend, it is claimed. Chief executive Gary Favell, who is leading the buy-out, is understood to have asked ...
National briefs: Shock pictures on cigarettes.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... GRAPHIC pictures of throat cancer and rotting teeth are to appear on cigarette packets from today to illustrate the health risks of smoking. Among the other images smokers will see are ...
National briefs: Rights concern.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... EUROPE'S human rights watchdog has expressed "considerable concern" about the prospect of terrorist suspects being held in UK police custody for up to 42 days ....
National briefs: Pensions relief.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE funding shortfalls faced by pension schemes narrowed last month despite steep stock market drops, figures showed today. The deficit faced by ...
National briefs: Natasha's boy.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NATASHA Kaplinsky shows off her latest news - the first picture of her baby boy. The newsreader's baby, who has not yet been named, was born at a London hospital on ...
National briefs: Snow above Mars.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... NASA'S Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first time. A laser detected snow falling from clouds ...
National briefs: Praise for caver.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... POLICE have praised a unnamed caver who raised the alarm when he realised a party of potholers was missing underground in ...
Concerns grow for Halifax deal; Brown confident despite market doubts.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By EXAMINER News Correspondent PRIME Minister Gordon Brown said he was confident that Lloyds TSB's planned takeover of struggling Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) would go ahead despite growing doubts in the market today. HBOS's shares fell 12% yesterday and ...
No guarantee over pounds 50,000.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... PRIME Minister Gordon Brown rejected calls to give savers with big deposits "a cast iron guarantee" that all their savings are safe. He again pledged to do "whatever is necessary" to get Britain through global financial turmoil after Chancellor Alistair Darling held talks with ...
Cameron says I'm the man to repair society.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... DAVID Cameron was set to use his keynote speech to the Tory conference today to rebut Labour's claim that his lack of experience makes him unfit to lead the country through a time of crisis. And he will portray Gordon Brown as an obstacle to the change which ...
New plan for US economy.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THE US Senate will vote tonight on a pounds 385bn rescue package for the nation's economy in a surprise bid to get the rejected plan passed. But the proposal that will go in front of the US upper house includes a tax-cut plan already rejected by the House of Representatives. ...
Trio in murder probe.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... THREE men are being questioned today in connection with the murder of a banker set upon after confronting a gang attacking a homeless man. Father-of-two Frank McGarahan, 45, of Much Hadham, Herts, died in hospital on Monday after being injured in central Norwich in the early ...
Consumer group's new Focus.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A NEW consumer watchdog group comes into force today, with the Government pledging it will help people get a better deal. Consumer Focus, formed through the merger of the National Consumer Council, energywatch and Postwatch, will have stronger powers, including the ability to ...
Armed raid at village pub.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A GANG of masked men have raided a landmark rural pub. The four balaclava-clad raiders entered The Huntsman at Greenfield Road - high on the moors above Holmfirth at about 4.10am today. They are believed to have been confronted by a couple at the pub after they got ...
Gas leak alert; Buildings cleared as main ruptures.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By ANDREW HIRST Deputy News Editor A GAS scare at one of Huddersfield's landmark buildings led to part of the town centre being sealed off. A gas main ruptured outside Oldgate House, headquarters for Kirklees education services, on Southgate, at 6.30pm ...
Two quizzed in body find.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... TWO people arrested after a man's body was found at a house in Batley are still being held by police. Detectives have confirmed that they were treating the 58-year-old's death as suspicious and a post-mortem examination was due to be held. ...
Pair killed in crash.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... TWO men were killed when a car hit a lamppost in Bradford early today. The accident at Hall Ings happened just before 3am today when a Nissan Primera left the road. ...
Escape from cooker fire.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A FAULTY cooker sparked a fire at a Bradley home. A family escaped unhurt from the semi-detached house at Bradley Road after a fire in the cooker spread to the kitchen floor at 8.30pm last night. Firefighters from Brighouse and Huddersfield ...
World briefs: Bomb rumour led to stampede.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... INDIA: A temple stampede which killed at least 168 people and injured 100 was caused by a false rumour of a bomb, it emerged. Yesterday's disaster took place just ...
World briefs: 'Power abuse'.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... USA: A judge will hear arguments on whether he should halt the Alaska abuse-of power probe of governor Sarah Palin (pictured), Republican ...
World briefs: Making reef.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... CAYMAN ISLANDS: A decommissioned US Navy ship will be scuttled to create an artificial reef in the British ...
Helping with a new life.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A NEW scheme will help successful asylum seekers adapt to British life. The Kirklees Council-run Refugee Integration and Employment Service will help people find a place to live, register with a GP and get into education or training. The council's Cabinet member for leisure ...
School's 1st lady looks forward to a new era; Brigid to lead opening of new sixth-form block.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HAZEL ETTIENNE News Reporter ONE of Yorkshire's oldest schools is beginning a new era, with the appointment of its first ever female head. And already Brigid Tullie is overseeing the introduction of a new assisted places scheme for sixth-formers. ...
Village pub helps school.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... CHILDREN with special needs will benefit from new play equipment thanks to a fundraisers' fun day. The Bridge Tavern in Holmbridge presented Lydgate Special Schoolwith a pounds 600 cheque. The New Mill school - which teaches 78 children aged five to 16 with complex ...
50 jobs axed at drier firm.(Business)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter A COMPANY making tumble driers has blamed soaring costs and the economic slump for a decision to axe 50 jobs. Crosslee, based at Hipperholme, has begun consultations with Government officials and trade union Unite over the ...
Paper talk; What's making the news in the nationals.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... DAILY Mirror Gordon Brown tried to calm jittery Britain yesterday as he pledged to guarantee up to pounds 50,000 in savers' accounts. THE Sun Gordon Brown tried to calm jittery Britain yesterday as he pledged to guarantee up to pounds 50,000 in savers' ...
Recognition for children's champion.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... CHILDREN'S champion Jill Hinchliffe has been given an award for her literacy work in school. The learning mentor and parent coordinator, at Birkby Infant and Nursery School in Huddersfield has been officially recognised as a Reading Champion by the National Literary Trust. ...
Vital Yorks talks on credit crisis.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By HENRYK ZIENTEK Business Reporter CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling met senior officials from development agency Yorkshire Forward today in a bid to bolster the region's vital financial services sector. The meeting, which also involved leading private sector ...
Gifts for children appeal.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... PEOPLE in Huddersfield are being urged to help put a smile on the faces of children living in poverty this Christmas. Operation Christmas Child has launched its shoebox appeal, which each year sees thousands of people across West Yorkshire collecting gifts to be sent for needy ...
GLOBAL OUTLOOK! Expert heads for Mexico.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By EMMA DAVISON News Reporter HUDDERSFIELD'S Queensgate Market is set to go global. And a Huddersfield man has landed a trip to talk about its unique architecture. In Acapulco! Chris Marsden will present a paper on the Grade II listed building at a ...
Service wins top award.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... KIRKLEES Council Adult Services Carephone Home Safety Service has achieved a top award for its high quality service. The service, which makes sure that thousands of people across the area can get help when they need it, has been officially accredited by the Telecare Services ...
Prices in free fall, so what do we do?(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Barry Gibson RIGHT, let's try a wee experiment. As I start to type this piece, the Dow Jones is down 529 points - that's a drop of 4.7% in less than a day. How much further will it have plummeted by the time I finish this? I've no idea to be ...
The players dogged by injury.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: Barry Gibson YOU have to feel for Liam Lawrence. The Stoke City winger may not play against Portsmouth this weekend - after tripping over his dog. The former Sunderland man has done his ankle in after taking evasive action to avoid his pet while ...
Teen Lance joins the 'family firm' Army recruit's dream has come true.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: By NEIL ATKINSON News Editor TEENAGER Lance McConnell's dream has now come true. The 17-year-old had always wanted to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather and uncle and he did just that as he enlisted in the Army in Huddersfield. Lance, ...
Good news for rail travellers.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... TRAIN passengers in Yorkshire could soon see an improvement in services. Network Rail has launched a plan that aims to boost services for rail users throughout the region. The scheme for Yorkshire and Humberside is being put forward for consultation. It ...
Fish ad has had its chips.(News)
Oct 01, 2008 ... A TELEVISION ad for fish and chips was misleading, says a watchdog. The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that it misrepresented how much saturated fat the fish contained. The advert showed a fork cutting into a battered fillet of fish, with the voiceover ...
On this day.(Features)
Oct 01, 2008 ... October 1, 1954 HUDDERSFIELD businessman Richard Hanak formed a new film company to make travelogues for the cinema. 1843 The News of the World was first published. 1880 The Edison Lamp Works began operations in New Jersey to manufacture the first electric ...
Letter: Mailbag - Barry's lost the plot; and just where does he shop by the way?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: JOHN PROCTER I HAVE wondered for a time how many of Barry Sheerman's constituents agreed with his sentiments over the Tesco plans ("Break up Tesco's danger monopoly" Examiner, September 29). As with most things in the political firmament I accept that ...
Letter: Mailbag - What about Sainsburys?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: DC I THINK our local MP would be better using his talents in trying to get our troops out of Iraq or getting our hospitals and schools the best deal possible instead of ranting on about Tesco. How ...
Letter: Mailbag - Ex-Tory blames Thatcher.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2008 ... UNTIL now I've been a loyal Conservative voter. But no longer, because I attribute our present financial woes directly to previous Tory governments. The demise of HBOS and the Bradford and Bingley was caused, we now realise, by the demutualisation of building ...
Letter: Mailbag - Promises down the pan!(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Byline: MIKE WARREN-MADDEN SO Ian Brooke thinks an alternative government for Joe Public is on its way (Letters, September 28). I think not Ian, because when councillors or MPs get elected all the promises ...