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Major wildfire spreads at alarming speed from Marsden moorland
Firefighters were alerted to a fire on Close Moss, part of the National Trust Marsden Moor estate, early on Friday afternoon (March 21).
The blaze was fanned up the moor by strong winds to reach a front several miles long. The fire quickly spread across the Pennine Way long distance trail and down the other side of the moor into the Saddleworth area of Greater Manchester where it also crossed the Pennine Bridleway and reached the A640 road at Dowry Castle Hill, near Denshaw. The road was closed at that point by Greater Manchester emergency services and later access was stopped from West Yorkshire.
Firefighters used beaters and blowers as they attempted to tackle parts of the blaze as it rapidly moved across the moorland, burning many square miles, initially in areas remote from the nearest roads.
West Yorkshire fire crews from Meltham, Slaithwaite, Holmfirth, Skelmanthorpe, Todmorden and Halifax were called to the fire together with firefighters from stations in Greater Manchester.
In recent years there have been several blazes around this time of year which have destroyed many square miles of ground vegetation and wildlife across part of the National Trust Marsden Moor Estate at the edge of the
Next big game a week away as Town aim to bounce back
Next match League One
Charlton Athletic v Huddersfield Town
Saturday March 29, 12.30pm — The Valley, Charlton
Charlton Athletic, in fourth place in League One, have not lost a match recently, so if Huddersfield Town can pull off a victory in their away game there a week on Saturday (March 29) it will bring a major boost in reviving the Terrier's promotion hopes. The game, which has an early kick-off, won't provide an instant remedy for Town's sixth place but could prove a vital contribution to the end-of-season effort the team now need — and may need even more after other matches this coming Saturday. Saturday's result League One
Huddersfield Town 5 - Crawley Town 1
Saturday March 15, 3.00pm — John Smith's Stadium, Huddersfield
A 5-1 home victory against 22nd-place Crawley Town rekindles promotion hopes with Academy Manager Jon Worthington at the helm for the rest of the season.It follows the sacking of head coach Michael Duff after the previous Saturday's lost match at Bristol City.
Town dropped to seventh after that match but are back up to sixth from this Saturday’s result helped also by Bolton Wanderers losing their home game against Stockport. Town are now four points below fifth-place Stockport, but are currently 10 points below the second automatic promotion place with nine matches still to play.
Town’s goals on Saturday came from Joe Taylor after three minutes, a Crawley own goal five minutes later, Callum Marshall after 16 minutes and Matty Pearson 29 minutes into the game. In the second-half Ruben Roosken scored in the 76th minute and it was not until six minutes into added time that Crawley achieved their consolation goal.
Previous Saturday's result League One
Bristol Rovers 1 - Huddersfield Town 0
Saturday March 8, 3.00pm — Memorial Stadium, Bristol
Town suffered a further defeat away at Bristol Rovers on Saturday resulting in a drop to seventh place in League One, outside the promotion play-off places. Find out more at the 
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Weekday work complete for now but train disruption continues this weekend beyond Leeds and Wakefield
The current phase of work which has been disrupting Huddersfield-Leeds train services through Dewsbury and Batley on weekdays is now complete but there will be bus replacement of services from Huddersfield beyond Leeds and Wakefield this weekend.The weekend work will mean replacement buses for all services normally operating between Leeds and York via Garforth. There will not be the diverting TransPennine Express trains between Leeds and York that have operated over the past few weekends. The much longer Northern train service between Leeds and York via Harrogate will operate, but journeys take longer than the hour taken by the replacement bus service. TransPennine Express Liverpool - Hull services will use a diversion route between Leeds and Selby.
Also this weekend there will be buses replacing sections of journeys on the East Coast Main Line between Doncaster and York with some services cancelled. This also affects the TransPennine Express Manchester to York via Huddersfield and Wakefield Kirkgate service which will have bus replacement of the section of the journey between Wakefield and York.
With buses rather than diverting trains operating between York and Leeds, TransPennine Express should be operating trains from Huddersfield all the way to Manchester Airport this weekend.
TransPennine Express and Northern services resume their normal routes through Dewsbury this weekend, including weekday services from Monday. This comes after three weeks of weekday work on the line between Leeds and Ravensthorpe including upgrading track at Batley and preparations for electrification of the line.
More about work on this line at the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
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Walls come down but unique roof stands at former market
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.
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 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.
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