Batley Library News Today

Appeal follows emptying of shelves in apparent misunderstanding at ‘fill a bag with books for £1’ event

Batley Library, in Batley, West Yorkshire, had customers rush through their doors for their £1 book sale on Friday and Saturday. But the event was sabotaged, a volunteer has said.

Volunteer says some people decided ‘all stock was available to take’ despite his protestations at West Yorkshire event

A library’s shelves were “decimated” in a jumble sale gone wrong, after its entire collection was mistaken for saleable titles.

A library in West Yorkshire has had its book collection “decimated” after a fundraising jumble sale was “sabotaged” by fake news spread on social media

"Misinformed" customers walked off with many titles from Batley Library's stock, a volunteer says.

Tomorrow (Thursday, June 16) marks six years since Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox MP was murdered in her constituency during the deeply divisive Brexit referendum campaign.

The Batley Poets have held their first in-person poetry session in two years to mark Inter Faith Week.

Four sites were opened in Dewsbury, Ravensthorpe, Batley and Huddersfield at noon on Friday. John Hodgson, 63, had waited for over an hour to make sure he was first in line at The Walsh Building, next to Dewsbury Town Hall. He was quickly followed by a steady stream of individuals and couples all ready to do their bit to help stem the rise of infections. About 40 people in the queue for the opening of the rapid covid testing centre John, of Dewsbury, said: “I live by myself and I want this fo...

A MAJOR programme of COVID-19 community testing will begin this week in Kirklees. From Friday, rapid tests for the virus will be available for anyone who does not have coronavirus symptoms. The programme will give everyone, aged 11 and over, who lives or works in Kirklees the chance to play their part in keeping their community safe. Four walk-in testing centres will open as part of the council’s latest bid to reduce rates of infection. Using Lateral Flow Testing technology, the ra...