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Kirklees Tories handed Reform power. They’re already regretting it

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By Mia Jankowicz Verified
| The Exchange (Mill Media) Verified
Hello readers — Last week, a drawn-out drama resolved itself in Huddersfield, finally giving Kirklees Council a leader. Things had been looking perilous; after two months of stalemate between the Reform and Green candidates, there had been talk of resorting to bringing in an unelected government commissioner to take over. But, after a dramatic change in stance from the Tories, Reform’s leader Sarah Wood (she of the “we don’t understand the constitution” viral fame) is now at the helm.
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‘I’ve been perplexed by Samuel Smith’s for the best part of 20 years’

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By Mia Jankowicz Verified
| The Exchange (Mill Media) Verified
If you peer past the grime on the windows of the Old Red Lion in Leeds' Meadow Lane, you’ll experience what the Germans call unheimlich. This eerie sense of the uncanny is not exactly about the decor — you can find the fusty Axminster-style carpet and mustard-yellow chimneybreast in pretty much any old man’s boozer. It’s the dust, the stillness, and the suspicion that, while the rest of the world moves along, nothing will ever happen in here again. The view through the window of the Old Red Lion.
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The Keeper of the Dark Arches

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By Mia Jankowicz Verified
| The Exchange (Mill Media) Verified
Running through the vaulted brickwork of the Dark Arches is a large, jagged crack. Perhaps four metres long and an inch or so wide in places, it has disaster-movie credentials, with mortar slapped roughly into the gaps. I’m craning my neck at it, underneath Platform 15 or thereabouts, imagining what it would be like if the crack inched a little wider — and then some more. For a moment, the tunnels crumble and the full weight of Leeds City Station stubs me out.
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