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  • PCSO recovers cross-border stolen vehicle

    A POLICE Community Support Officer (PCSO) recovered a cross-border stolen vehicle this morning. PCSO Hayley Harrison found the car in the Thornbury area of Bradford. Checks showed it had been stolen from South Yorkshire overnight. The vehicle

  • Motorway crash leaves one person needing to be rescued

    ONE person had to be rescued from a car this morning after a major motorway crash. The collision happened at around 7:36am on the northbound carriageway of the M1, between the exit and entry slip road of junction 47 (Garforth). Two cars were

  • Bradford Evening League want new clubs

    BRADFORD & DISTRICT EVENING CRICKET LEAGUE INVITE APPLICATIONS FROM NEW CLUBS AHEAD OF AGM THE Bradford & District Evening Cricket League are inviting applications from new clubs ahead of their annual meeting next month. The league, who were

  • CAR REVIEW: Suzuki S-Cross

    The Suzuki S-Cross offers excellent practicality, decent levels of standard equipment and trustworthy handling. In many ways, the S-Cross can be viewed as an unassuming small SUV – but it matches its pricier rivals in several key areas. It’

  • Car wash plan for mill site is refused

    A HERITAGE officer has called for the “comprehensive” regeneration of a Bradford mill site - warning that “piecemeal” developments might harm its future. This week Bradford Council refused planning permission for a car wash on an area of land within

  • Farewell to much-loved landlord

    Pub regulars at The Acorn in Eldwick are bidding a fond farewell to their larger than life landlord after a whirlwind role. Adam Reay, who is leaving for personal reasons, took over the pub this Summer with dreams of turning it into a community

  • Civic honour for Bradford-born film producer

    FILM producer Steve Abbott has been honoured at a civic reception paying tribute to his career and his role in making Bradford the world’s first City of Film. Mr Abbott, who grew up in Barkerend and went to Bradford Grammar School, produced

  • Man fined after truck was used to dump waste on street

    A MAN has been fined over £850 after a trio of fly tippers were captured on CCTV using a tipper truck to dump garden waste on a street. Three men were seen using the Ford Transit Tipper to fly-tip the waste on Norbury Road, Ravenscliffe, on October

  • Call for volunteers to help judge school appeals

    VOLUNTEERS are being sought to join Bradford Council's Independent School Admissions Appeals Panel. Each year a number of pupils are unsuccessful in securing a place at a school of their preference. When that happens, parents have the right to appeal

  • Holiday let plans for popular beauty spot approved

    A TEAROOM in a tourist hot spot can be expanded to create new holiday-let space. The Glen Tearooms is next to the Old Glen House pub, at Shipley Glen in Baildon, and a plan to build a second floor to the popular cafe was recently submitted to Bradford

  • Praise for 'beautiful' new hospital plans

    BEAUTIFUL, transformational and phenomenal – just some of the words used by planning chiefs to describe blueprints for a brand new £450m hospital complex in Leeds city centre Leeds City councillors approved in principle early plans for a radical

  • City avoid 'chaotic' run to Christmas

    CITY have solved their “chaos theory” as Gary Bowyer can plan a more orderly way ahead. With the rearranged visit to Macclesfield switched again to next Saturday, the Bantams suddenly find themselves with more time on their hands than expected.

  • Kear: Bulls can surprise big boys in tough start

    JOHN Kear reckons the Bulls can use the element of surprise to upset the odds in a tough opening month in the Championship. Relegated London head for temporary home Dewsbury to kick off a testing start to the 2020 campaign which also sees the Bulls

  • 100mph chase driver is jailed

    A DANGER driver has been jailed for leading police on a 100mph pursuit up Leeds Road in a drugs pool car after having taken cannabis and cocaine. A judge said Akeel Khan had put lives at risk as he went at speed through red lights, drove on the