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John, right, and Irene Murgatroyd cut the cake at their 60th wedding anniversary celebration.

Volunteers at Mirfield retirement flats celebrate 60th wedding anniversary

Guide Dogs is urgently appealing for volunteers in Mirfield to help guide people with sight loss.

Guide Dogs issues appeal for My Sighted Guide volunteers in Mirfield

Kirklees Council is looking for volunteers to get involved in its snow wardens scheme and help the district get through the winter.

Kirklees Council seeking volunteers to get involved in its snow wardens scheme

Volunteers redecorated six classrooms and playground areas at St Patrick's Primary Academy in Birstall

Paint firm volunteers give Birstall school a makeover ahead of start of new term

Loch Ness Monster 2023: Volunteers wanted for biggest ‘monster hunt’ in 50 years - how to apply

Volunteers wanted for biggest Loch Ness Monster hunt in 50 years

Louis the Jack Russell with his owner after being rescued

Dog rescued after falling down one of UK’s biggest waterfalls

Batley and Spen MP Kim Leadbeater.

Kim Leadbeater thanks Batley and Spen charity volunteers

Volunteers needed for ‘exciting’ new clothes swap.

Organisers prepare to launch ‘exciting’ new clothing exchange in Kirklees

Tour de Roberttown 2023 participants and ride leaders gather at Commonside at the start of Sunday's ride.

MP joins “cycling superstars" for Tour de Roberttown

PD Arnie has graduated as a police dog despite harsh conditions in his early life

Puppy graduates as police dog after being found during raid

Metropolitan Police officers march along The Mall in London as they head to their positions for of the coronation processions of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

Coronation: Street safety volunteers arrested over rape alarm concerns

Three Westminster City Council street safety volunteers were reportedly arrested by police in the early hours of Saturday morning ahead of yesterday’s coronation ceremony

Some of the UK's best-known charities are joining forces to be part of The Big Help Out, a voluntary initiative to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty The King. Age UK in Cleckheaton is joining the celebrations and asking the public to sign up. Pictured are volunteer Owen Pearson and manager Sandra Davis.

Cleckheaton’s Age UK opening its doors for volunteering taster sessions

Sally Field pictured with the late Paul O’Grady

Britain's oldest dog walker crowned coronation champion by RSPCA

The cast for the highly anticipated Hunger Games prequel film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been revealed. (Credit: Getty Images)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - full cast

Kumon Y’all organised the litter picking event, in which young volunteers helped to clean up some areas of Dewsbury during the Easter holidays, along with UK Greetings Ltd, based on Mill Street East.

Dewsbury charity teams up with local cards business to keep town tidy

The Reduce Period Poverty Project will take place throughout April.

Sewing group appeal for help to make reusable menstrual pads

Thousands of volunteers are needed to offer their helping hands over the course of King Charles III’s coronation celebrations - Credit: Getty Images

King Charles III coronation looking for thousands of volunteers

The NHS has re-launched its Check in and Chat service for isolated patients

NHS re-launches volunteer service for lonely and isolated patients

Volunteers from Kumon Y’all visited residents of Charles Jones Court to provide food and friendly smiles

Dewsbury-based charity visits elderly Batley residents

Hospital Radio Award winner Vicky Pinder in the studio at Dewsbury and District Hospital on Halifax Road.

Charity radio station urgently appeals for technical help

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

British National dies in Ukraine, Foreign Office confirms

Just Stop Oil protesters guilty of conspiring to cause public nuisance at Silverstone British GP

Just Stop Oil guilty over British GP track invasion - watch protest

Volunteers from the Blackburn UK Trust handed over the 75 packs to staff at Pinderfields Hospital on Monday, January 23.

Blackburn charity donates ‘baby loss packs’ for bereaved parents

A dead 12ft whale was washed up on the banks of a British river last week.

Huge dead whale found washed up British river bank

Andrew Bagshaw, 48, and Christopher Parry, 28, have gone missing in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Two British men who volunteered in Ukraine go missing

Dewsbury and District Hospital's Emergency Department on Halifax Road.

‘Selfless’ volunteers return to Dewsbury Hospital to help with demand

A walrus called Thor was spotted having a rest at Scarborough Harbour ahead of the New Year

Walrus pays a visit to Scarborough harbour en route to the Arctic

Meet some of the volunteers at Trussell Trust food banks in the UK

Shining a light on Trussell Trust’s Food Bank Friends as a part of National World’s partnership with the charity.

April Jones went missing in October 2012 - her body was never found.

Mystery of April Jones as Channel 4 documentary revisits murder

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

Trussell Trust foodbanks need people to donate these items

Flossie, pictured here with new owner Vicki, has been named the world’s oldest cat by the Guiness Book of World Records.

UK cat Flossie officially named world’s oldest moggie

Lindsey Stockton (far right, holding framed document) with food bank colleagues

National World campaign: A day in the life of a Trussell Trust worker

Crates of food at a Trussell Trust food bank (Photo: Trussell Trust)

National World launch Trussell Trust winter fundraiser

EasyJet is bringing its Fearless Flyer course back to Gatwick Airport on Sunday, November 27, to help nervous flyers take control and overcome their fears. Picture by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images

Passenger dies during flight between Cyprus and London

Dolphins spotted in UK waters as pod swim happily alongside RNLI boat - watch video taken of sighting

Dolphins spotted swimming alongside RNLI rescue boat

The Institute of Islamic Education in Savile Town, Dewsbury, has been graded as 'inadeqaute' in its latest Ofsted report.

Ofsted report raises safeguarding issues at faith school

Volunteer Andy, who won Volunteer of the Year at the recent St Anne’s Proud Awards.

Kirklees Befriending service: Can you make someone’s day brighter?

NHS CRISIS: Waiting times have lengthened (Getty Images)

Kim Leadbeater MP: Waiting times for ambulances not acceptable

Patrick Crowley at Oakwell Hall

Volunteers at a Dewsbury nature reserve pay tribute to former park ranger

Lead Volunteer, Carly Lyons cutting the chocolate cake she baked especially for Kim Leadbeater's visit.

Batley and Spen MP shows support for Scope charity shop open day

Ms Leadbeater will be supporting the charity shop's open day on June 10.

Batley and Spen MP set to support Scope charity shop open day

FLASHBACK: Fire at the Marks and Spencer store on Northgate, Dewsbury in 1953 (Photo kindly supplied by Stuart Hartley)

Nostalgia with Margaret Watson: Dewsbury's beloved Marks and Spencer on fire in ...

James Haigh from Yorkshire Housing with Dewsbury Moor residents’ board member Tanisha Bramwell outside the Community House where the Big Local project is based

Volunteers needed to decide how to spend £300,000 in Dewsbury Moor

Volunteers from PPG in Birstall helped to revitalise some of the facilities at the Forget Me Not Hospice

Volunteers from PPG in Birstall help revitalise facilities at children's hospice

Guests at the official launch of Hope Cafe in Ravenshorpe on March 10

Hope Cafe opens in Ravensthorpe to offer bereavement and Covid support
A bereavement and Covid-support cafe has been official launched in Ravensthorpe.

YCC is seeking volunteers across all generations to help combat loneliness and isolation.

Volunteers needed to help combat loneliness in Batley and Spen

Lateral Flow Kits are vital to minimise the spread of COVID-19.

Volunteers urgently needed to distribute lateral flow test kits in Kirklees

The UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, is looking for volunteers across Yorkshire

RSPB appeals for local volunteers in Yorkshire to help with their vital pin badg...

The UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, is looking for volunteers across Yorkshire

RSPB appeals for local volunteers in Yorkshire to help with their vital pin badg...

Pictured from the left at Forget Me Not Children's Hospice are Melanie Moore (volunteer), Luen Thompson (CEO) and Barbara Green (volunteer)

Every children's hospice volunteer will have a tree planted in their name

Organiser Michele Hainsworth, second from left, with fellow volunteers at the Dewsbury Community Cares Group

Volunteers to host free Christmas Day lunch in Dewsbury town centre

Transformers North pictured holding 10 years’ worth of Green Flags in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury

Volunteers' delight as 10th Green Flag is raised in Crow Nest Park

The Cleckheaton in Bloom team pictured with their handiwork in the Precinct

Blooming great idea to brighten up Cleckheaton town centre

Volunteers planting at the Jo Cox Community Wood

Volunteers create new picnic area at the Jo Cox Community Wood

Lord Lieutenant Ed Anderson and Dewsbury MP Mark Eastwood, with Shaffia Khatun of SKY Positive Minds, cut a celebratory cake at a ceremony to receive the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. Photo by SKI Photography

Dewsbury charity wins Queen's Award for helping vulnerable women and children