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Weekend rail line closure at Mirfield
No-change train journeys across the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds will still be available on Northern services running on the longer route via the Calder Valley, Halifax and Bradford, but not via Brighouse, Mirfield and Dewsbury.
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Queensgate Square and new library opening soon
September 21 has been announced as the date of the new library opening. The temporary sites which have operated for the last few years will close at the end of August.
However, the adjacent new food hall in the town's former market is now set to be delayed in its opening until the Spring of next year after the additional Kirklees Council expense of fitting it out.
Queensgate Square has been chosen as the name for the square, which represents an extension of the previous Princess Alexandra Walk which the Huddersfield population almost always referred to as The Piazza.
As delays to the food hall project were announced in March, senior council officers asked for an extra £3m to be taken from later phases of the regeneration scheme "to assist with ongoing commercial negotiations" on top of £1m already approved. The council is looking to lease the food hall to an operator, but fit-out costs are now set to be a council expense.
There are plans to demolish further buildings around The Shambles and to eventually create a new Town Park, stretching from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street. An area has now been cordoned off around the former Boots store at King Street, Victoria Lane and The Shambles prior to demolition.
Market moves into temporary building
Situated between the present building and Tesco it provides space for 36 indoor stalls. There will also normally be around 30 stalls outdoors and a further 28 stalls in Byram Street on larger market days.
General markets will be held in the temporary building on Mondays and Thursdays from 9am to 4pm and second-hand markets on Tuesdays from 9am to 3.30pm and on Saturdays from 9am to 4pm.
Changes as £28m bus station scheme continues
While the bus station will remain open while the changes take place, there are now many stand changes as the drop-off stands of the bus station currently out of action and this means buses weaving forward and backwards from four stands inside the station allocated for drop-offs and sometimes altered stands where they will pick-up.
As well as refurbishment, features of the upgraded bus station will include a front canopy with solar panels, cycle parking, accessible toilets, new shop fronts, new information screens and improved public spaces. Red is to be replaced with green in the colour scheme as Metro is rebranded the Weaver Network.
Tour de France Women come to Huddersfield in 2027
The prestigious event boosted a massive interest in cycling in Yorkshire when the men's race Grand Départ was held in Yorkshire in 2014.
The Tour returns with the first two days of the women's race partly in Yorkshire next year while the men's Scotland to Wales Grand Départ also reaches into historic Yorkshire.
The first day for the Tour de France Femmes will start in Leeds on Friday July 30, 2027, to head over the Pennines to Manchester.
The following day the race will head back along a winding and hilly route through the Derbyshire part of the Peak District from Manchester to end in Sheffield.
The third day of the women's race will be in London before the cyclists head off to France.
Before the women's races, the men's Grand Départ will also have been held be in Britain, briefly dipping into historic Yorkshire as it heads through the Trough of Bowland on its second day on Saturday July 3. Day 1 of the men's race heads from Scotland to England with a stage from Edinburgh to Carlisle. The short stretch of historic Yorkshire is on the Keswick to Liverpool stage on Day 2. The third day is in Wales with a stage from Welshpool to Cardiff.
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