Retail giant Amazon has been urged to drop its controversial plan to build a huge fulfilment centre close to the M62 in Scholes near Cleckheaton and clear the way for “a more suitable” scheme.
Nigel and Judith Patrick, who will be the Mayor and Mayoress of Kirklees in 2021-22
He succeeds Coun Mumtaz Hussain who, due to no change-over because of the Covid-19 pandemic, has completed a historic two-year term of office alongside the Mayoress, his wife Noreen.
He is the first Mayor to serve two terms since Kirklees Council was formed in the local government reorganisation of 1974.
The Deputy Mayor for 2021-22 will be Coun Mahmood Akhtar, who represents Batley East for Labour.
New Mayor of Kirklees Coun Nigel Patrick is given the chain of office
The civic ceremony in the concert hall of Huddersfield Town Hall was limited in terms of attendance, but the panoply of tradition was nonetheless evident.