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Rail line improvement plan gets £1.5m boost

Kirklees Council is awarded the cash to develop plans to speed up travel on the Penistone Line.

Large numbers of bin bags piled up

Fly-tippers dump piles of rubbish at playground

Yew Hills Road play area in Huddersfield has been strewn with bin bags since March.

Two men with brown hair photographed against a green backdrop.

Man jailed for £40,000 theft from cash machines

Florin Ivascu, 40, worked alongside Andrei Matei, 35, to steal from ATMs across England.

Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim looks at the camera. He has curly black hair and is wearing a black hooded coat

Man denies murdering boy, 16, in fatal stabbing

Ahmad Mamdouh Al Ibrahim was stabbed in the neck during an attack in Huddersfield town centre.

An artist's impression of how a renovated George Hotel in Huddersfield would look.

Revised plans for Grade II* listed hotel submitted

The plans include increasing the number of rooms to help repay the council's £30m investment.

A two-storey Victorian Gothic crown court building with stone pillars, a crenelated roof and six towers with ivy growing up its walls.

Army cadet leader to be sentenced for raping girl

David Thorne claimed the victim was 17 years old but a judge in Lincoln dismissed his claims.

A black and white image with dozens of men and women laughing and smiling as they gather for a photo

VE Day 80th anniversary celebrations in West Yorkshire

Events will be taking place across the county to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

Joe McCafferty and his brother Nicky, pictured smiling in a slightly blurry photo.

Reward of £20,000 over boy killed in 1997 arson

Joe McCafferty, seven, died after his aunt's house in Huddersfield was set alight 28 years ago.

A row of cars parked at electric charging points. The nearest car is red.

Cash boost to install electric car charging points

More than 20 areas could see points installed from the summer under Kirklees Council plans.