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Participants and spectators had to endure monsoon conditions at this year’s Cragg Challenge.

A stretch of towpath along the Rochdale Canal at Hebden Bridge was officially re-opened on Saturday, following improvement works as part of a £2.9m package to boost cycling and walking access on four West Yorkshire canals.

BRIGHOUSE SNOWBOARDER Katie Ormerod marked her first World Cup appearance in nearly two years with silver in the big air event in New Zealand.

THREE HALIFAX players could hit career milestones when they travel to Swinton Lions this weekend.

HALIFAX BOSS Simon Grix admits his struggling side are low on confidence and Swinton Lions will strive to capitalise on that this Sunday.

Halifax RLFC limply fell to their ninth defeat in their last 11 matches after losing a poor contest 20-18 to Sheffield Eagles at the Shay.

SUPER League chief executive Robert Elstone has welcomed the return of a relaunched Reserve Grade competition in 2020 saying it will be “critical to the future success of the game.”

There was drama in the first staging of Halifax Harriers’ Ogden Midsummer Madness race when the first two runners home were found to have run a shortened route.

Booth’s Broad Fold Park ground is set to host another big Parish Cup game next month.

Second-rower Zeb Taia is set to miss St Helens' Challenge Cup semi-final against Halifax on July 27.

The Halifax and District team made it two wins out of two in Division Two of the Federation’s National League with a 23-9 success over Bury and District on Sunday.

Ian Watson has been named as one of Wayne Bennett's assistant coaches ahead of the return of the Great Britain Lions this autumn.

Dylan Shaw Radford and Louie Walsh put their knowledge of Crow Nest Park to good use in Sunday’s Halifax-Huddersfield Union Junior Team Championship.

THE Halifax-Huddersfield Union side’s eight-match winning streak was ended by Leeds on Sunday in a performance team boss Frank Greaves described as “a howler at Howley Hall.”