The West Yorkshire Police commissioner was elected last November. In the election he was supported by less than 7% of voters. He gets paid more than £100,000 a year. Now, just 3 months later, he wants a Deputy. The Deputy will be paid £50,000 a year. This is an appallingly bad decision. First of all […]

      Labour-run Kirklees council has decided to switch off 82 street lights in Cleckheaton ward from 12 midnight to 5am.      Labour Cabinet members made the decision on which of your lights to switch off.       Labour also decided not to consult residents on their plan. We think consulting residents is very important so we […]

West Yorkshire Police have announced that the phone number for contacting the police for non-emergencies is changing from November 17th This is the information that the Police have provided to Kirklees councillors: 101 is the new number to contact the Police when it’s not an emergency.  101 will replace 08456 06 06 06 in West Yorkshire […]

West Yorkshire Police have decided to move out of the old premises in York Place, Cleckheaton to the Police Station building in Heckmondwike. The move will be made in early September. The decision has been made because York Place is now too small for the extra police staff who will be joining the Spen Valley Police […]

I have had a meeting with the local Police and CE Electric, the company responsible for the sub-stations, about the theft of copper cable which is cutting the power to hundreds of households and businesses each time. CE Electric’s advice is: report any incident immediately to the police and to their 24 hour emergency line […]

Travellers broke into the Council owned grassed area off Hightown Road on Friday. They have refused all requests to leave.  So the Council has to get court order to get the travellers from the site which they are using illegally. The Council submitted an application to a judge at Dewsbury County Court yesterday afternoon.  The court procedures dictate that a […]

Thieves have been stealing copper cable from electricity sub-stations in the Cleckheaton area in the last few weeks. The consequences are that houses and businesses supplied by the sub-station have no power for some hours. Electrical equipment can also be seriously damaged by a power surge when the cables are cut. Several households have had […]

On Friday afternoon, a group of travellers broke the padlock and chain of the gate at the entrance to council land off Hightown Road. The area of grassed land is a well used amenity for local people. There appear to be well over 20 caravans on the site. Unfortunately, the site is now strewn with […]

Callous thieves broke into an electricity sub-station in the early hours of Sunday morning and stole many metres of copper cable. The consequences: around 300 homes, including Syke Fold Grange, were without electricity for about 12 hours and several families report having TVs and cookers wrecked by a power surge. Power was restored by Sunday […]

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