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CAMPAIGNERS have hailed a victory for people power after a second Dewsbury post office was saved from closure.
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Ravensthorpe pair plotted BNP murders
TWO Ravensthorpe teenagers downloaded a 3,000-page terror manual and plotted to blow up BNP members, a court heard.
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Ali was thrown out of Westborough for writing ‘Americans must die’
A TEENAGER accused of terror charges had been thrown out of school for scrawling: “Americans must die” on a classroom whiteboard.
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Save our school ­ Mirfield parents ramp up protests
HUNDREDS of parents and children joined a big protest to save a Mirfield school from closure.
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‘Economy’ forces Tory candidate to step down
SELF-made millionaire estate agent Kevin Hollinrake has stepped down as the Tories’ parliamentary candidate for Dewsbury and Mirfield.
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Sparkles row costs us £20k!
COUNCIL taxpayers have paid £20,000 to businessman Azam ‘Mr Sparkles’ Yaqoob over his controversial Mirfield mansion.
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They’re out for the count
It’s election time – again – next week in Dewsbury East after BNP councillor Colin Auty resigned. Here Danny Lockwood predicts a two-horse race. But then again a week is a long time in politics...
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MP moves to ‘justice’ job
DEWSBURY and Mirfield MP Shahid Malik has been moved to the Ministry of Justice.
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‘Indefinite’ jail for rapist with history of offences
A MAN from Batley has been jailed indefinitely for attacking and raping a young woman as she slept in bed.
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Derelict chapels find a Victorian champion
THE Victorian Society has joined a campaign to save two vandal-hit chapels at Dewsbury Cemetery.
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Thumbs up for park
PLANS for a derelict wasteland to be turned into a business park in Batley were yesterday (Thurs) approved by Kirklees councillors.
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Danny Lockwood manages to coerce a fly, on the wall of the Cabinet office, to report back on Gordon Brown’s musings ahead of his latest ministerial reshuffle. We join the ...
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