Tickets must be bought in advance and cost just £10 including food and casino games.

The event is open to anyone aged 12 and over and whilst there is no dress code – tuxedos and Halloween costumes would be very welcome! The Casino Night will be held at the Marsh Liberal Club.

To reserve your place on what is set to be a very popular event drop us an e-mail at info@thejosephsalmontrust.org.uk or contact us on 01484 506249. Alternatively if you are on Facebook, you can click here.

GENEROUS strangers have come to the aid of a Huddersfield charity that was hit by thieves.

As reported on Wednesday, Alan and Lorraine Salmon’s Edgerton home was burgled overnight on Monday.

One of the items snatched was a laptop holding the accounts of Marsh charity The Joseph Salmon Trust. Mr Salmon is a treasurer for the charity.

The trust was started in 2008 by his son and daughter-in-law, Neil and Rachael Salmon, whose three-year-old son, Joseph, died as a result of pneumonia in 2005.

It helps other families in Huddersfield and Mirfield who have lost children pay for funeral and related costs.

Neil Salmon pleaded for the ASUS Netbook computer to be returned.

But now a couple from Marsden have offered to pay for the charity to get a replacement laptop.

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BURGLARS stole vital information belonging to a Huddersfield charity when they raided an Edgerton house.

Thieves broke into the home of Alan and Lorraine Salmon overnight on Monday while they were away on holiday in Wales.

They took two flat screen televisions and jewellery during the raid, which was discovered when their son, Mark, went to check on the house on Wednesday.

A laptop computer containing the accounts for Marsh-based charity The Joseph Salmon Trust was also stolen in the incident.

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A COSMOPOLITAN collection of trekkers has raised a year’s worth of funding for a Huddersfield charity.

Fifty-five hikers and bikers, including people from the United States, Holland, Ireland, Scotland and England, tackled the 84-mile Hadrian’s Wall route for Marsh-based The Joseph Salmon Trust.

They raised a whopping £26,000 for the cause, which provides financial support to parents in Huddersfield and Mirfield who have lost children.

The trust was started in 2008 by Rachael and Neil Salmon, whose three-year-old son died as a result of pneumonia in 2005.

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Her friends, Alice Enderby, Erika Leadbetter, Shoni Gale and Jessica Bilinski, all 17 and pupils at Rastrick high School, have organised a charity ball on August 6 at the Holiday Inn, Brighouse.

They hope the Sex and the City-themed night will raise £5,000 in their friend’s memory.

Alice said: “The ball will follow a Sex and the City theme as Shannen liked watching it and it’s a very girlie theme.”

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1st  : 1115

2nd : 1722

3rd : 1414

4th : 1404

5th : 1320

6th : 2109

7th : 1705

8th : 2030

9th : 0466

10th : 1962

Wrong.

“It nearly killed me, because I was sleep deprived, jet lag. I thought, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’” he said.

Plenty. Good and bad.

What the 45-year-old Coeur d’Alene man had gotten into was a 84-mile walk along the famous Hadrian’s Wall that runs the entire width of Northern England.

In July, he joined a group of 35 walkers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland and the United States as they made their way from east to west.

They followed the remains of the wall and small lookouts built by the Romans in 122 AD to keep the Scottish out of England.

Corless paid a price.

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A GROUP of girls were left devastated when their best friend died in a car crash.

Shannen Harker was just 15 when she tragically died in Brighouse in 2008 along with her dad Stephen Rushworth.

Her friends Alice Enderby, Jessica Bilinski, Erika Leadbeater and Shoni Gale were determined to do something to keep her memory alive.

So they’ve formed the Charity Angels in a bid to raise money for worthy causes.

The Angels were friends with Shannen (pictured) when they were all pupils at Rastrick High School.

And now they’re hosting a Summer Ball in aid of the Joseph Salmon Trust and the West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust.

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Some of the walkers – Photo by Oli Walker

I’m tired. The muscles around the back of my neck ache and my calves are twanging like overwound guitar strings. We’re staying in a hostel owned by the local landlord who prices little extras like breakfast and tea the way you’d expect dry-land piranhas to if they owned pubs. This is comparative to other bunk barns and hostels, of course. It feels a bit like Yojimbo (or A Fistful Of Dollars) except there isn’t another Big Family at the other end of the village. There isn’t even another end.

Meanwhile, Phill is wandering around the hostel in bare feet looking very spaced out and I’ve resorted to mint tea with nettles (you’d think I’d have seen enough nettles by now). Keith and Clare are looking for Ibuprofen. I refer them to Ed. Ed is the Man, the Supplier, the possessor of the right stuff. He has a 500 pill carton of CostCo ibuprofen. Like so much of the world, many of us are grateful for American Drugs.
Meanwhile, I’ve progressed from “too shy to talk to Jo Beaufois” to “wearing an item of her clothing next to my skin”. Oh alright. She’s lent me a knee bandage.

Last night I sat up and played Chase The Ace, drank mead and got rather tipsy with a crowd of people – Ian, Oli, Jo, Ellie, the Other Ian and more. Some of you have impressively inventive foul mouths, people. With all this and the tent business, all I need to is start smoking again and I’d be back in scouts.

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