Assaulted – for complaining about husband’s affair

name plaques from Meltham, tokens from a Linthwaite grocer’s shop and a milk bottle from a dairy in the Colne Valley.

The platform 1 waiting room also has objects relating to the textile industry from a spindle to a lamp used by weavers in the mills.

There are also Neolithic arrow heads, showing evidence of the earliest settlers to the area around Marsden and Meltham.

The platform 6 display features objects from the Leeds line, including items from Dewsbury and Batley. It includes a piece of the staircase from Blake Hall in Mirfield where Anne Bronte was a governess and used her experiences there in her novel Agnes Grey.

All the displays – which will be on show at the station for the next six months – are behind the ticket barriers, so you will need a valid travel ticket to see them.

She explained that during a row the 45-year-old punched his wife of 10 years in the chest more than once.

Then as she went to put her shoes on to walk away he knocked them from her hand, Mrs Seddon said.

The victim said in an impact statement that she felt scared of her husband.

She said: “He’s much taller than me and when he loses his temper he tries to dominate me. I feel frightened and intimidated by him.”

Mr Whiteley said that his client’s affair had caused problems between them.

He told the court: “His wife is constantly having a go at him about the affair, it’s daily and had built up. On this occasion he snapped – he usually walks away but he didn’t this time.”

Despite their issues Mr Whiteley said that the couple plan to reconcile once the criminal proceedings were over.

District Judge Michael Fanning fined Laqua £200 and ordered him to pay £85 court costs plus £30 victim surcharge.

He told him: “I can see you’re a large man, powerful, and in temper you may be a frightening person to be in company with.

“You need to control your temper. You accept you had an affair, it’s you that did wrong in the first place and you need to build the bridges.”