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Fr George presenting the funds raised to Andrew Hardill, Director of Operations at SKT

Ravensthorpe church raises over £400 for orphanage

Neve Carnes, volunteer recruitment coordinator at Batley Oxfam, in the online warehouse.

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Fatima Fakech outside Advanced Care Pharmacy, which is based at Cleckheaton Bus Station on Dewsbury Road.

Pharmacy 'breathes life' back into Cleckheaton Bus Station

Members of the Rotary Club of Birstall Luddites collecting on Saturday (March 4).

Rotary Club raises over £600 towards the Turkey-Syria earthquake appeal

The Mayor of Kirklees, Councillor Masood Ahmed, collecting the cheque.

Dewsbury school raises £900 for two ‘crucial’ causes

Warrior Breed Boxing and Fitness, owned by Zahir Akbar (fourth from left), hosted a 12-hour non-stop event last month - which included junior classes, exercises and competitions, as well as boxers Khalid Ayub, from Halifax, Jimmy First from Brighouse, and Dewsbury’s Amaar Akbar taking part in some exhibition training - to raise funds towards the emergency earthquake appeal in Turkey and Syria.

Boxers help raise over £6,000 at Dewsbury gym for earthquake disaster victims

Shamima Begum. (Photo by Laura Lean - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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Men walk down a street amid rubble from destroyed buildings on February 20, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

Two new earthquakes hit Turkey killing three people and injuring 200

Volunteers at Dewsbury based charity World Care Foundation

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Dewsbury charity thanks ‘brilliant’ community support

An aerial view of work machines and diggers at the site of collapsed buildings on February 16, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

Capital FM: Ofcom complaints over Turkey-Syria earthquake ‘joke’

Spain, France and Turkey travel  update by Foreign Office

Coronavirus advice has changed for holidaymakers in Spain and France, and Turkey have updated their natural disasters advice

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Ridvan Turhan, owner of Town Cafe Turkish Bistro, Dewsbury, with some of the donations he has received from the community for the response for aid for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Dewsbury cafe owner thanks community for donations

View from Hebden Bridge. Photo: AdobeStock

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A man walks past the rubbles of destroyed building following two massive back-to-back earthquakes that affected both Turkey and Syria earlier in the week, in Antakiya, Hatay province, southern Turkey on February 10, 2023, with one million people estimated to be in urgent need of food. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

MP ‘proud’ of local aid support to Turkey-Syria earthquake victims

Owner of Town Cafe, Ridvan Turhan organised a donation drive for the victims of the Turkey and Syria earthquake with the help of estate agents, Hunters, next door to his business.

Dewsbury businesses 'overwhelmed' with support for Turkey earthquake victims

Azerbaijanis collect humanitarian aid to help those affected by Monday's massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria

Turkey Syria earthquake: death toll passes 15,000

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Love Island winner Ekin-Su wants to help in Turkey relief effor

The earthquake has killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty)

Turkey-Syria earthquake: death-toll said to be at least 8,700

A man walks past a collapsed building in the town of Jbaleh in Syria's northwestern province of Latakia following the earthquake.

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Three Brits confirmed missing after Turkey and Syria earthquake

Earthquake survivors sit around a fire in Iskenderun Turkey

WHO say Turkey and Syria earthquake deaths could be 20,000

More than 1,200 people have been killed as an earthquake hit Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty Images)

Turkey and Syria earthquake kills more than 1200 and injures over 3000

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Shamima Begum has spoken in an interview with Good Morning Britain, saying she would ‘rather die than go back to IS’ (Photo: ITV)

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Ghulam Hussain, of Track Road, Batley, has been sentenced to six years for terrorism offences

Aspiring IS soldier told cop about his plan

Cleckheaton Methodist Church.

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Man charged with terror offences following West Yorkshire arrest

Plea for Kirklees folk to aid Red Cross fund

Dewsbury teenager Talha Ismal, 17, became the youngest known suicide bomber.

VIDEO: Counter-terrorism film highlights impact on families

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Airstrikes begin as Yorkshire MPs back Syria bombing

RAF war planes are gearing up to launch air strikes against the militants in their heartland

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Batley is urged to “pull together” after arrests

A property in Heeley Green, Sheffield, where police have arrested a male under the Terrorism Act. Picture: Ross Parry Agency

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Kirklees a ‘safe haven’ for refugees fleeing war

Kirklees College Dewsbury

College chief slams PM for ‘painful’ cuts

Farook Yunus, former headteacher of Zakiraya Madrasah school in Savile Town.

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Mirfield Free Grammar, where Talha Asmal was a member of the sixth form.

Mirfield school in shock at student’s Syria trip

A Mirfield Free Grammar student is believed to have crossed the border from Turkey into war-torn Syria.

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Hassan Munshi, left, and Talha Asmal who are believed to have travelled to Syria.

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