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broke out in the early hours.

The mill’s windows blew out, the floors collapsed and the roof was wrecked, leaving the building a skeleton of unstable walls.

AN estate agent was taken to court for withholding cash – and he’s still not paid up.

Gallery@HD1’s Dennis Goodridge is now being investigated for trying to “circumvent” the legal requirement of registering with an industry body.

The Examiner was inundated with complaints about the John William Street agency after we revealed Goodridge had been expelled by The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for withholding money owed to landlords.

THE Labour leader of Kirklees Council called for a public debate over the future of a piece of art that could be worth up to £60m.

Clr David Sheard said it was time to consider selling a 1940s painting by Francis Bacon, owned by the council, because it was too valuable to be exhibited locally and spent the majority of its life in storage.

He was speaking after art experts said current auction prices mean the painting, Figure Study II, could be worth up to three times its estimated value of £19.5 million.

A FATHER who disappeared from his Huddersfield home more than five years ago may have been murdered.

Police launched a fresh appeal for information and revealed that missing man, Dariusz Michalowski, may have been killed, although a body has never been found.

Detectives revealed that in May 2015 officers arrested three men on suspicion of murdering Polish man Dariusz, who was 44 when he disappeared. All were later released.

KIRKLEES Council revealed that it reaped about £442,000 in penalties from the controversial bus gates in Huddersfield town centre since the fines began in March.

This meant about 15,000 motorists had been snared by the cameras.

Meanwhile, the number of pedestrians walking around parts of the town centre had plummeted dramatically.

Council figures showed a 26% drop in Saturday shoppers since 2013.