Kirklees Council

Denise Jeffery said she planned to speak with Rachel Reeves about boosting local government finances if she becomes chancellor after the election on July 4.

Council leader to lobby new chancellor for more funding if Labour wins election

HMP New Hall, Wakefield

Ombudsman finds no concerns over woman's death after prison term

Castleford Civic Centre looks set to be sold off by Wakefield Council as it looks to make £35m of budget savings.

Castleford Civic Centre set to be sold off to plug £35m funding gap

Wakefield Council leader Denise Jeffery

‘Letter of reassurance’ issued to council staff over financial position

Wakefield Council leader Denise Jeffery

Council to review charge for all services in efforts to plug £35.6m budget gap

Wakefield Council leader Denise Jeffery gave assurances over the local authority's finances at a cabinet meeting held at Production Park on Tuesday, September 12.

‘We are not going bust’: Wakefield Council leader gives assurance over finances

Concerns include the potential impact on wildlife habitats in ancient woodland which covers part of the site.

Concerns for wildlife habitats and archaeological remains at solar farm site

Coun Cathy Scott, cabinet member for housing and democracy.

Kirklees Council tenants and leaseholders invited to have their say

Wakefield’s MP has met with objectors fighting an energy firm’s plans for a giant solar farm in open countryside.

MP visits objectors at site where energy firm plans to build giant solar farm

Mayor of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, has launched a service to boost productivity on the region’s businesses.

Wakefield and Kirklees firms to benefit from scheme to boost productivity

Residents are calling for urgent action to prevent a serious accident over claims a country lane has been turned into a ‘rat run’.

Residents call for urgent action over country lane ‘rat run’

The Save Sitlington residents' group has been set up to fight plans for a major solar farm across 360 acres of countryside straddling the border of Wakefield and Kirklees. Picture: Scott Merrylees

Protestors say giant solar farm would 'destroy the heart of the community'

National Highways will carry out the work on both carriageways between junctions 26 (Chain Bar) and 27 (Gildersome) from Monday, October 18 to Friday, November 5.

M62 closures in West Yorkshire while resurfacing takes place

Playing fields at Grange Moor with boulders that travellers attempted to remove to gain access to the site.

Residents use pick-up truck to block travellers moving on to playing fields

The George Hotel, Huddersfield (RFL)

Huddersfield's George Hotel announced as venue for National Rugby League Museum

Asda bought the plant in 2016 as part of a drive to simplify their supply chain

Kober coronavirus outbreak: Asda release statement on factory closure and staff ...

Asda have confirmed that they have closed a meat processing factory in Cleckheaton after a coronavirus outbreak was detected.

Grace Newton

Kingsmead in Ossett, where a new access road to the estate would have been built

£300,000 home saved from demolition after plans for Ossett-Dewsbury estate rejec...

Special Day: The councils Councils Town Halls and Registration Services has launched The Big Wedding Treasure Hunt.

Planning on getting married? Here’s how you could win a £2,000 wedding

Kingsmead in Ossett, close to where the new proposed estate could take place. Picture courtesy of Google Streetview

£300,000 home may be demolished to make way for 54 new houses across Ossett and ...

Malcolm Oates has criticised Wakefield Councils policy.

Pensioner’s disgust over policy of laying headstones flat

A 7.5 tonnes weight restriction to various roads in the Flockton, Emley and Middlestown area has been in place since 1971 to reduce the amount of heavy goods vehicles. Picture: JPIMedia

Here's why heavy good vehicles are banned for this Yorkshire village

A snake.

Dangerous wild animals are living at private addresses in Yorkshire

This is not a drill: gritters are on standby in Yorkshire right now

GRITTERS could be out in Yorkshire due to roads melting in the heatwave

Roadworks are planned

Road to shut for up to four weeks

Claremont House

Care home future in turmoil after sale collapse

Snow in West Yorkshire

VIDEO: 'Pretty but dangerous': Warning over huge snowdrifts stranding cars in We...

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Blaze at household waste site in Dewsbury

FIREFIGHTERS dealt with a blaze at a Kirklees Council's household waste site in Dewsbury today.

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Mistry off-licence (Google Maps)

Shop used as organised crime front has licence revoked

Dewsbury Town Hall.

Thousands of fines handed out since littering enforcement outsourced to private ...

New boss Merran McRae takes over at Wakefield Council

Wakefield Council takes Calderdale chief executive Merran McRae

Social workers take week-old baby over '˜dad's view on bottled milk'

Motorway link could be built in the next decade

Motorway link could be built in the next decade

Le Choix (Google Maps)

Man with conviction for violence blocked from running town bar

Kirklees Council's children services deemed '˜inadequate' by damning report

Dewsbury will be lit up for Christmas on Saturday, November 21.

Extra free parking for town centre Christmas shoppers

Deadly animals, including killer cobras, being kept on private land

It's Never OK - Domestic abuse campaign returns

Markazi Mosque

Up to 20,000 people travel to Dewsbury for funeral of influential figure

UPDATED: Villagers evacuated from more than 70 homes after gas main ruptures in ...

Wakefield Council’s health budget to be cut by more than £1.5m

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

Public health services could suffer after millions slashed from council budgets

Support pledged to campaign against child grooming

GOING UNDER The Great Pyndermonium gets to work on volunteers.

Football fans have real hoot

Councillor Steve Tulley from South Elmsall. Suspended from Labour party after taking a stand over the council tax support grant for town and parish councils. h320a410

South Elmsall councillor faces bullying accusations

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Update: Kirklees Council considering planning inspector’s LDF advice

WAITING GAME Kirklees Council is waiting for an inspector's views on whether its unpopular LDF plan must be withdrawn.

Kirklees Council awaits inspector response after LDF meeting

BREAKING NEWS Kirklees Council's LDF costs revealed.

Kirklees Council spent £590,000 on failed LDF plan

BREAKING NEWS Council boss to recommend LDF is withdrawn.

BREAKING: Kirklees Council’s LDF recommended for withdrawal

MINISTERIAL VISIT The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, meets campaigners in Dewsbury.

Update: Government minister Eric Pickles meets Dewsbury campaign groups

Bretton Hall

Mining scheme which threatened Wakefield’s new Bretton Hotel refused planning pe...

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