A thank you from Jane Dutton, church warden at St Michael’s and St Helen’s Church It’s been a busy 6 months! ‘Franco’s Friday’ began 12 months ago in the first full lockdown when Ben, of The Barn in Almondbury, started cooking meals for people in need. A year later, a staggering 2,682 meals were provided along with Ben’s mouthwatering puds,
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Kirklees has seen another small rise in the number of people testing positive for COVID-19 over the past seven days. While the borough now has the lowest infection rate in West Yorkshire, local public health officials are urging people to stay cautious over the Easter break. With 109 people per 100,000 in Kirklees testing positive for COVID-19 over the last
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Construction has begun the new extension of King James’s School, Almondbury. The £5.25 million build will see a new 10-classroom block on the St Helen’s Gate site providing extra capacity for the increased number of pupils at the school.
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We have appointed architects Bowman Riley to work on the George Hotel and Estates Building, two of the Huddersfield Blueprint’s most significant projects and part of the large investment in the town.
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In a further effort to support the local economic recovery, we will fund the Business Improvement District (BID) levy charge for some Huddersfield town centre businesses, for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years. BID levy payers from independent businesses in retail, hospitality, leisure, and accommodation, that have been required to close since last November as part of Covid-19 restrictions, are
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Staff, parents, and children at Linthwaite Ardron CE (VA) Junior and Infant School, Huddersfield have been presented with the Modeshift STARS Bronze standard for their commitment to sustainable travel after joining the scheme in September 2020.
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Today is the funeral of former Kirklees Mayor, Councillor David Wright who sadly passed away on 16 February.
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This weekend we will be lighting up our Town Halls across the borough in an act of solidarity with the global anti-racism movement.
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