World Book Night

World book night   Customers at Batley Baths and Recreation Centre got a bit more than their regular swim or exercise session recently, a book. Members of Batley Business Association once more took part in World Book Night, a national event which celebrates reading and books, and which tries to encourage people to pick up […]

Rawdon Beer And Music Festival

Back once again at the Rawdon Cricket Club ground, this year’s festival promises to be bigger and better than before. The fun begins at 1:00 p.m on 29 May and goes through until 10:30 p.m. There are plenty of treats in store, with a large range of real ales from around Yorkshire to sample, plus […]

Councils Negligent Repair

Master B was a young child playing in his garden. His parents rented the house from the local council and the council had previous attempted to remove some post from the garden but had left stubs sticking up from the ground and as Master B was playing he tripped over one of these stubs injuring […]

Mind The Doors

Miss C found her normal bus home from work to be unusually busy. This meant not just standing room only, but that the bus was full front to back. This meant that Miss C was stood very close to the doors of the bus for the journey. So close in fact that when the driver pulled […]

Allo Allo

This smash hit television program is coming to the stage as part of the Brighouse 1940s weekend, bringing all the characters and comedy that fans of the show will fondly remember. The show is brought to you by the Foot of the Barrel Company with a cast of local performers, including Andrew Marsden of our […]

Local Council Elections

Andrew Marsden of our Batley Office and Chairman of the Batley Business Association takes a look at the upcoming local council elections. On 05 May it is the local Council elections, and do you know what? You need to vote in them. They are – and contrary to what I have already heard people saying […]

Batley Bulldogs Networking Meeting

The snow (in April!!) didn’t put off the delegates from enjoying the monthly Bulldogs networking meeting this morning at the club’s Mount Pleasant ground, for another fun get together. This regular meeting is more relaxed than more traditional networking events and brings together people from business, community and sport, to share ideas and initiatives, and […]

Collapse of Walkway at Summer Fair

Mrs W was visiting the local summer fair in her village and as she stood on the stand by the side of the dodgem cars whilst watching her son the stand gave way and Mrs W fell over as it collapsed. Liability for the accident has now been admitted by owners of the Dodgem Cars. […]

CCTV Helps Trace a Hit & Run Driver

Miss F was a passenger on a bus when another vehicle tried to overtake the bus and drove into and then fled the scene. This bus company had CCTV footage of the incident and from this we were able to track down the driver of the other vehicle responsible and submit a claim to his […]

Road Traffic Accident? Choose Brearleys

Mr P saw that the car in front of him had missed its turning and the driver in front started to reverse. Mr P braked and was stationary whilst the car in front carried on reversing and as the car in front completed his manouvre he unfortunately drove into Mr P’s car. Liability has been […]