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Month-long Woven festival celebrates textile innovation

'Yarn bombs' in many areas will be a feature of the Woven FestivalWoven, a biennial festival first launched in 2019 to celebrate the Kirklees area's rich textile heritage is back with a huge range of activities throughout June 2025.

They include many textile theme activities, including 'yarn bombing' and colour garden areas in towns and villages all across the Kirklees metropolitan district including Moldgreen, Meltham, Outlane, Sheepridge and Huddersfield town centre Piazza. Meanwhile Kirkburton Library has Knitted Knovels featuring creatively-crafted book covers from its local Knit and Natter group.

A community quilt produced across the Denby Dale Parish Council area is unveiled at the council offices at Skelmanthorpe and an exhibition of textile artworks from the Holme Valley takes place at the Somerton Art Space, which showcases contemporary and abstract art at a home address in Liphill Bank Road, Holmfirth. Meanwhile World Stitch Day is celebrated on June 1 at Oakwell Hall in Birstall with live showcases, interactive stalls and storytelling in stitch.

The event also includes tours of a Huddersfield textile mill, textile and craft workshops and exhibitions, including a Shoddy Exhibition in Dewsbury showing the importance of textile upcycling in the town back in the mid-ninteenth century. More than 150 events are planned during the festival.

Full details of events can be found at the

Woven in Kirklees website.

Town have new manager for 2025-26 season

John Smith's Stadium, HuddersfieldHuddersfield Town have a new manager for their next season in League One.

Lee Grant, a former goalkeeper most recently assistant coach at Ipswich Town, joins Huddersfield Town on a three-year contract in his first role as manager.

At Ipswich he saw consecutive promotions from League One to the Championship then Premier League, although the club fall back into the Championship next season.

Lee Grant ended his playing days in 2022 after a 22-year career as goalkeeper which saw his first match appearances at Derby County and also included periods at Burnley, Oldham Athletic, Sheffield Wednesday and Stoke City before ending his days in the squad at Manchester United. He also has England Under-21 team caps.

Find out more at the Huddersfield Town official website.

Weekday rail route upgrade continues at Dewsbury

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Significant train timetable changes continue from Monday to Friday this week (June 2-6) as trains are diverted for another week of work between Ravensthorpe and Leeds on the Trans-Pennine line upgrade with no trains operating via Dewsbury. There will also be similar closures on weekdays each weekday until Friday June 20.

A reduced service of express trains between Huddersfield and Leeds are diverted on a longer route non-stop via Wakefield instead of via Dewsbury. The longer route also means that in the opposite direction services do not operate directly to and from Manchester Airport, terminating instead at Manchester Victoria. Reaching the airport means a change of train in Manchester or using a bus replacement service from Huddersfield.

Dewsbury will be without a train service on weekdaysTransPennine Express services between Manchester Piccadilly and York normally operating via Huddersfield, Deighton, Mirfield, and Wakefield Kirkgate should be operating as normal as should Northern services between Bradford, Halifax, Brighouse and Huddersfield and also Grand Central services from Bradford Interchange to London via Halifax, Brighouse, Mirfield and Wakefield Kirkgate. Bus replacement services serve stops between Huddersfield and Leeds.

The altered weekday service is followed by different alterations over the following weekend (June 7-8) and for another weekend after that when a different section of the line between Huddersfield and Leeds is closed, allowing no trains through Mirfield but with trains between Dewsbury and Leeds. There will also be train diversions between Leeds and York and between Leeds and Selby over the weekend.

More detail 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.

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 then in June on Sunday June 1 and on Saturdays June 14, 21 and 28.

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 .

Second building taking shape at new health campus

The new building in Leeds Road is taking shape next to the recently completed Daphne Steele buildingThe 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 officially opened last November 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.

Work continues on new supermarket

A new Lidl store is being built at the corner of Castlegate and Trinity StreetAreas around Huddersfield town centre may seem like a succession of building sites at the moment, but another development now well under way is a new Lidl store at the corner of the Castlegate ring road and Trinity Street.

Steelwork is now in place there for a new large Lidl supermarket next to the remaining former Kirklees College building, which was previously the Huddersfield Technical College and originally the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

Food hall being created beneath former market's unique roof

The listed roof structure of the former market is exposedWork continues at the former Queensgate Market and Piazza site in Huddersfield town centre with plans to create a social dining area, new public square and library.

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.

A model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansEventually 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.

Buses have been diverted from bus stops in Peel Street while demolition work continued.

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.