PLAIN clothes police have begun to covertly patrol shops in a bid to thwart thieves. The Batley and Spen Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) has said more work is planned after conducting undercover ...

Police have confirmed operations will be taking place in communities including Heckmondwike, Birstall and Liversedge ...

West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (WYFRS) was called to a blaze at a flat in Rose Bank Street, Carlinghow, Batley at 8.55pm last night. A kitchen in a second-floor flat of a th ...

Exclusive: The Independent has seen a list of 142 MPs who voted in favour of assisted dying at second reading who could now ...

Kim Leadbeater, the sister of murdered MP Jo Cox, has said MPs now face more severe abuse than when her sister was killed. Cox was murdered in her constituency of Batley and Spen by a terrorist in the ...

These brilliant photos were taken between 1970 and 1974, and show what life was like over 50 years ago in North Kirklees - from inside the famous Fox’s Biscuits factory to the town centres of ...

TRACY BRABIN has won the Batley & Spen by-election to replace her murdered friend Jo Cox, but bereaved husband Brendan Cox’s victory tweet encapsulated what was at stake in the contest. “Great to see ...

Cox was murdered in her constituency of Batley and Spen by a terrorist in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum. Despite calls for change following the murder, Leadbeater said there had been an ...

LABOUR won a landslide victory in the by-election in the Batley and Spen constituency of the late Jo Cox yesterday while the far-right parties lost their deposits. Nine other candidates, including the ...

We’ve taken a look back through the archive to show just 22 of North Kirklees’ old favourites which have sadly been shut for good - with some more recent than others. So take a walk down ...