Veronica Maher News Today

RICHARD ‘Dixie’ Doyle of 8 Pollerton Road, Carlow passed away after a short illness in St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny on Sunday 11 December. Dixie was well known…

A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build houses on a watermeadow that floods in heavy rain has been thrown out. Campaigners have fought a long battle to stop a 67-home estate going up at Granny Lane in Mirfield. The proposals by Wakefield-based Miller Homes have pinballed back and forth between various committees at Kirklees Council. Now they have been refused. It was a tight victory for locals opposed to the plan, with the seven-member Strategic Planning Committee voting 4-3. Planning officer...