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New train timetables

New train timetables came into effect on Sunday (May 18).

While there was little chenge to the base timetables for services in the Huddersfield area, there will be some significant changes seen in temporary timetables during various phases of work on the Trans-Pennine line upgrade, including closure of Huddersfield station through September.

Before then there is Monday to Friday work affecting services between Ravensthorpe and Leeds from May 26 to 30 followed by the weekend of May 31 and June 1 when there are no direct trains between Huddersfield and Leeds.

More detail on the tinetable changes on the interactive rail map at Yorkshire.guide.

More about work on this line at the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.

Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.

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Holme Valley loses services in bus timetable changes

First Bus links between Huddersfield and Holmfirth are reducedSome major changes to bus timetables took place in Huddersfield and across West Yorkshire from Sunday (May 18) including cuts to services in some areas.

The changes in the Huddersfield area are to First Bus routes with bus services between Huddersfield and the Holme Valley facing further cuts.

The 307 service which links Huddersfield to Honley via Newsome is withdrawn on Saturdays and some of the 308 services operating via Primrose Hill, Newsome, Honley and Netherthong to Holmfirth are curtailed at Honley on weekdays. The 310 service providing the fastest link from Huddersfield via Lockwood to Holmfirth before continuing to Scholes, Jackson Bridge and Hepworth is reduced from a half-hourly frequency to an hourly frequency on weekdays and Saturdays. Both the 310 and the 314 service which runs via Brockholes and New Mill to Holmfirth before continuing to Holmbridge and Holme will see withdrawals of early morning and late evening services.

Other services with retimings are 363 and X63 Huddersfield - Bradford services and 501 and X1 First Huddersfield - Halifax services.

Further details of affected services can be found at this Metro - Service changes webpage.

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Opportunities to climb Castle Hill's Victoria Tower

Victoria Tower, Castle HillThe Victoria Tower at Castle Hill opens for visitors to climb its steps for a small fee on various dates, providing the chance to look inside the tower and see the view from the top.

The tower is opening each day from Tuesday May 27 to Friday May 30.

The landmark stone tower of Castle Hill is little more than 120 years old, but the hilltop is possibly the most ancient fortified site of Yorkshire. The hilltop, with its earthwork ramparts, is a scheduled ancient monument with evidence of human habitation dating back more than 4,000 years to the Bronze Age, around the end of the period when stone circles were arranged at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

The tower was completed in 1899 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee two years earlier.

Find out more at 'Victoria Tower' at the Kirklees Community Directory .

New leisure venue opens at Kingsgate

The King Street entrance of the new leisure venue this Friday morningHuddersfield's newest leisure venue has been opened at the Kingsgate Centre in Huddersfield.

The Light was able to welcome its first visitors through the doors inside the Kingsgate shopping centre on Friday April 11.

Much construction work has taken place to create the £250m cinema and leisure complex, including raising the height of the building in the area previously occupied by the House of Fraser department store.

The Light offers a multi-screen cinema, bowling, laser games, mini golf, climbing centre, street curling, axe throwing, shooting, interactive darts, karaoke, arcade games among its activities together with food and drink.

Walls come down but unique roof stands at former market

The listed roof structure of the former market is exposedDemolition continues at the former Queensgate Market and Piazza site in Huddersfield town centre.

Kirklees Council plans to redevelop the area around the Market Hall. The plans include demolition of part of the Market building to form a new public square in front of the library and beside the Town Hall.

End of an era - part of the market building is demolishedA model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansThe listed part of the Market building with its unique airy roof design and sculptured panels will be retained as a Food Hall, social dining area and part of a new library which will extend from it.

A town park will stretch from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street. The old library building is due to be retained as a museum.

The work means that bus stops in Peel Street have been taken out of use with the bus station now the only stop for the routes which used them.

Second building taking shape at new health campus

The new building in Leeds Road is taking shape next to the recently completed Daphne Steele building Work continues on the new building next to Leeds Road The second building of the University of Huddersfield's new National Health Innovation Campus at the ring road junction of Southgate and Leeds Road is now well under way.

The first construction on the site was completed earlier this year and has been named the Daphne Steele Building. Daphne Steele was a nurse who came to the UK in 1951 from what was then British Guiana, now Guyana, to work in the recently-formed NHS. She became a matron at St Winifred's Hospital, Ilkley in 1964.

The new campus aims to lead healthcare innovation across the North of England and will feature a health and wellbeing academy, research and specialist clinical teaching facilities and public-facing features including a podiatry clinic, sports and physiotherapy clinic and health coaching by video link.

The site had been vacant since the demolition of Ibbotson and Lonsbrough Flats and the former Huddersfield Sports Centre while an earlier plan for a new Tesco store on the site was abandoned.