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St Patrick's Day celebration
The celebration takes place at the Huddersfield Open Market in Brook Street where there is traditional Irish music and dancing. A short parade takes place from the market at 1pm along Byram Street, Brook Street and Lord Street. The entertainment continues into the evening at the Irish Centre in Fitzwilliam Street.
St Patrick's Day is a public holiday in Ireland and Northern Ireland, commemorating a date attributed to the death of the 5th Century Christian missionary from Roman Britain who converted Ireland to Christianity and became a patron saint of Ireland.
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Huddersfield St Patrick's Day Parade Celebration
Rail upgrade consultation for Colne Valley
The proposals would fill a gap in the multi-billion pound programme to improve the railway over 70 miles between York and Manchester through Huddersfield, providing station improvements at Slaithwaite and Marsden. The scheme also includes new track, signalling and drainage and rebuilding a number of road bridges to allow clearance for overhead wires for electric trains. The plans also cover the siting of temporary works compounds while the scheme progresses.
Track improvements will include increasing the number of tracks from two to three between Marsden and Huddersfield.
Marsden and Slaithwaite stations would both have access to three longer platforms with a footbridge including lifts.
The consultation continues up to Friday March 27. The Network Rail website features an online consultation room. In-person events have already been held at Slaithwaite Community Centre and at Marsden Mechanics.
Further details at this Network Rail webpage.
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Huddersfield Town away at Port Vale on Saturday
Town are away at bottom-of-table Port Vale on Saturday (March 14, 3pm) after what can only be seen as a lucky week for the Terriers as they hang on to a position in the League One promotion play-off zone.Only a Rotherham own-goal kept alive Huddersfield Town's hope of a return to the play-off places in their early kick-off game at the Accu Stadium last Saturday. One in the net for Town during an attempted Rotherham clearance in the 76th minute saw the Terriers with a lacklustre win over the South Yorkshire team trying to escape the relegation zone.
But it was Wycombe losing their later game at Bolton that made sure the Terriers were back at sixth in the table.
Town might have very easily slipped again during the week with no Tuesday or Wednesday night match to play when most other League One clubs were playing. Again results among the clubs in easy reach of sixth place worked in Town's favour.
Town now have only 10 games to play and are among a group of teams within reach of that last play-off place which would earn a one-in-four chance of promotion. The Terriers may have already as good as said goodbye to automatic promotion. Cardiff and Lincoln at the top played each other last Saturday with Lincoln picking up the points and after Tuesday night games they are now 22 and 18 points clear of Town.
Find out more at the Huddersfield Town official website.
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Food hall set to open this summer beneath former market's unique roof
Kirklees Council has planned the redevelopment of the area around the former Market Hall. It has seen the demolition of part of the Market building to allow a new public square to be created in front of the old library building and beside the Town Hall.
The listed part of the Market building with its unique airy roof design and sculptured panels along Queensgate are being retained as part of a new food hall, social dining area and part of a new library. Work inside the conversion of the old Market Hall was revealed at an Heritage Open Day last September.
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