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Roll Over And Over

It turned out that Mr B’s luck wasn’t in after all when a friend offered him a lift home, saving him the walk. Unfortunately for Mr B it turned out that his friend liked to drive rather too fast, and even more unfortunately without the skill to do so. Things came to a head when […]

Brighouse Festival

Nine fun filled days begin in Brighouse on 22 October as the Brighouse Festival returns to town. This year sees a much expanded program of arts and entertainment with over 50 events taking place over the course of the Festival. With music, performance, art activities, spray painting, omedy and more, there will be plenty to see […]

Cobbled Together

Mr K was working on a redevelopment project. He needed to carry out some work in the boiler room that was below ground. The existing steps had been taken out and replaced with some temporary steps that looked as if they had been made out of some old bits of wood, found around the site. […]

Batley Community Alliance Gardening Project

On Wednesday 12 October and on Friday 14 October Batley Community Alliance are going to be doing some gardening in the town centre. And if you have some time to spare they would be very pleased to have you along, The planned works are the clearing and digging of borders ready for composting, trimming of […]

Ice!!!

Mrs Q went into town to do a bit of shopping. As she was walking through the pedestrian arcade area she slipped and fell on ice on the ground. The weather at the time was very cold and it had been icy for a few days. We put her claim to the council on the […]

Door Strip Trip

The company Mrs E works for rent office space in a building. To get to her room Mrs E travels up in the lift and walks along a corridor. There is a set of doors on the corridor with a rubber strip at the bottom of them that they close to. The strip had come loose […]

Knit And Natter

Bring along your knitting, crocheting, embroidery, etc to the new More In Common Batley Knit and Natter, which began on 05 October. Taking place every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month between 1:00 and 3:00 at Massarella’s Restaurant on the 3rd floor at the Mill Outlet, Bradford Road, Batley, this is an excellent way […]

And They Are Under Starters Orders

Come and join in the fun and help raise money for a good local cause at the St Mary’s Family Fun and Race Night at the Irish Nash in Batley on 30th September. Tickets £2.50 – Children FREE. This includes a pie and peas supper or hot dogs and pasties. Great prizes to be won. 1st pize […]

Vote For Friends Of Batley Station

Local volunteer group the Friends of Batley Station or FOBS have been successfully chosen as one of three local good causes guaranteed to receiving funding through the Tesco bags of choice community funding scheme. These three projects will now compete for the public vote in store to see who comes first £12,000.00 of funding, second £10,000.00 […]

A Trip Down The Lane

When Mr T set out for a walk  close to where he lives he didn’t intend his final destination to be his local accident and emergency department, but having taken the wrong type of trip down the lane, that is exactly where he did end up. We took up a claim for Mr T and […]