Kirklees Liberal Democrats are walking the 72 miles of the Kirklees Way this weekend in support of the Mayor’s Charity: the Forget Me Not Trust for children with life-limiting illnesses. The Mayor gave us a send off from Hanging Heaton this morning. I have a feeling there will not be quite so many cheery smiles […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hundreds of people in Cleckheaton have signed our petition in support of the new specialist cancer treatment unit at Dewsbury Hospital. The petition is also circulating in Dewsbury where hundreds more have added their support. This specialist cancer treatment unit was promised to Dewsbury Hospital as part of a re-organisation of specialist services in the […]

Lib Dem councillors got full Council backing for their motion debated at the last council meeting. The Council agreed with the Lib Dems to the following: This Council is angered and dismayed at the decision not to fulfil the pledge to invest in a new world class cancer treatment service at Dewsbury Hospital. The pledge was made […]

I am dismayed that the pledge of a new world class treatment unit for cancers at Dewsbury Hospital has been broken by the Government. Now is the time to put pressure on all political parties in the coming elections – local Council elections and the General Election. There is a simple survey on the left […]

Last summer the NHS asked local people to support a plan that concentrated some specialist services at either Wakefield or Dewsbury hospitals. Under the plan all specialist children’s services are at Wakefield and, in return, Dewsbury would get a new world class cancer unit.Local people agreed to the plan. But now the Labour Government has […]

Cleckheaton Farmers’ Market is held on the first Saturday of every month. It is a growing success! Even more so this Spring as the Council are having a stall to hand out free seeds, which have been previously ordered, to encourage more of us to grow our own. There is also expert advice on hand […]

The Mid Yorkshire hospital trust covers three hospitals – Wakefield (Pinderfields), Pontefract, and Dewsbury District. Last year the Hospital Trust consulted on a proposal to provide specialist care for very premature and very sick babies, and children’s in-patient surgery only at Wakefield. For Dewsbury hospital, the proposal was for a new specialist centre for bowel cancers which […]