Betty Newell
Betty Newell is your community correspondent for Crossflatts. She can be contacted on 01274 563324

Crossflatts office expansion ‘may not be needed’

8:40am Saturday 3rd March 2012

A planned extension at the Crossflatts base of UK Asset Resolution to house staff moving from the North East may not be necessary, according to the firm’s boss.

Bingley campaign group nears £60,000 appeal target

Members of Greenhill Action Group

11:00am Wednesday 1st February 2012

Campaigners against a housing development on green fields near Bingley have almost raised the £60,000 needed to fight a planning appeal next month.

Visitors take a close look at Five Rise Locks in Bingley

10:10am Monday 30th January 2012

Thousands of visitors flocked to the famous Five Rise Locks over the weekend to catch a rare glimpse of the 18th century structure.

Lock gate project swings into action

HIGHLIGHT: Above, new lock gates being lowered into position at Five Rise Locks, Bingley

8:00am Wednesday 25th January 2012

Spectators gathered to watch a huge crane remove two sets of lock gates from the world-famous Bingley Five Rise Locks during an ongoing maintenance project yesterday.

Plan to demolish Bingley swing bridge rejected

Latest plans to replace the swing bridge across the canal have been rejected

8:00am Thursday 19th January 2012

Developers were handed another blow yesterday in their bid to steal a march in one of Bradford’s longest- running planning sagas.

"Hundreds of new jobs heading for Crossflatts"

2:40am Wednesday 18th January 2012

Hundreds of jobs could move into the Aire Valley after nationalised lender Bradford & Bingley submitted plans for major expansion at its Crossflatts headquarters.

Five Rise Locks wonders revealed in renovations

Engineers survey the drained locks at Five Rise Locks in Bingley

8:50am Tuesday 10th January 2012

Visitors to Bingley’s world-famous Five Rise Locks will this month get a rare glimpse of parts of the engineering masterpiece normally hidden underwater.

‘84-year-old Crossflatts man took his own life’

7:30am Saturday 7th January 2012

An 84-year-old man found dead at his home in Bingley took his own life, a coroner has ruled.

‘Bingley schools bursting at seams already’

Beckfoot School at Bingley

9:20am Thursday 4th August 2011

Community leaders have warned that schools in the Aire Valley are already “bursting at the seams” and could not cope with more children if a proposed 400-home development is approved.

Crossflatts bowlers’ fears for car parking

Some of the members of Slenningford Bowling Club in Crossflatts angry at housing plans

9:30am Thursday 21st July 2011

Members of a 110-year-old bowling club fear for its future if planning permission is granted today to build new homes opposite their bowling green.

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