AS we welcome in the New Year, here some well-known figures in Bradford share their resolutions and hopes for 2015.

"Being Lord Mayor, people are terribly kind and very eager to feed you when you're undertaking your Civic duties so my New Year's Resolution is to embark on a successful diet to help improve my overall health and fitness."

The Lord Mayor of Bradford Councillor Mike Gibbons

"I wish all Bradford Bulls supporters, and even those who are not supporters but T&A readers, the healthiest of New Years.

“I hope we can have a year truly blessed with peace for everybody and that regardless of race, religion, creed or colour, we are not affected by tragedies such as what has happened in schools in Pakistan and America. That’s my wish for 2015."

Bradford Bulls chairman Marc Green

"The last year has been a good one for me and I’m hoping for more of the same in 2015.

"We’ve had our first season in League One and to finish mid-table was a good progression. Hopefully between now and the end of this season we can keep going the right way.

"It was a massive honour and privilege to be named captain in 2014 and something I’m really proud of. But it’s not just about me, we’ve got a dressing room full of players who muck in for each other to hopefully give our fans something to cheer next year."

Stephen Darby, Bradford City captain

"My resolution for 2015 is to keep all the good things going at Bradford City.

"Next summer I’m getting married to my fiancée Elizabeth so I’m obviously looking forward to that and so are the family.

"I would love to go into the wedding on the back of a good season. Fingers crossed, it would be brilliant to get married as a promoted player! That would be a dream."

Rory McArdle, Bradford City defender

"I made a New Year’s resolution last year to lose a stone in weight and failed miserably, and so I guess I had better make the same one again this year and also resolve to do better!

"Obviously my main resolution for 2015 is to try to get re-elected but that is in the hands of the people of the Shipley constituency rather than mine – so I am hoping that is the main resolution of my constituents for 2015."

Shipley Conservative MP Philip Davies

"I only make resolutions I'm likely to keep. There's no point in wishing for the impossible. So although I do have a picture of me in a Celtic shirt - and a memory of scoring a cracking goal for a House of Commons team at Old Trafford, courtesy of a sublime pass from a suede-shoed Paddy Crerand - I'm not going to be going to the gym and doing keepie-uppy in the park. I'll simply try to get more exercise and eat more wisely.

"This year, 2014, was hectic and next year will be more so, with the election looming. I played a part in keeping the union together although David Cameron may well have plucked defeat from the jaws of victory with his demonic, post-referendum, 7am speech. So my main resolution, as it was last year, is to do all I can to keep this loathsome coalition government from returning and visiting more destruction on working people."

Bradford Respect West MP George Galloway

"I am really looking forward to running Keighley BigK 10K run in March in support of Manorlands Hospice. Around £60,000 was raised from this year’s event. It’s a great day, for a wonderful cause and it will be great to take part once again, particularly after our recent success in persuading the Government to allow hospices to claw back VAT, bringing it into line with the NHS.

"After the election in May, I also want to achieve an ambition of completing the Bradford Millennium Way, a 45-mile walk which takes in many of the most beautiful sights in our district.

"And in the autumn, I intend to go shopping at the new £260 million Westfield shopping centre in Bradford. During my time as Council leader, many people said it would never be built, but construction is going well and I am thrilled for everyone who has worked so hard to deliver it."

Keighley Conservative MP Kris Hopkins

"In a General Election year it is impossible to think of anything I would like to achieve that is not work or politics focused or indeed to think of anything after May 7.

"My first resolution is to somehow, someway - in what is likely to be an all-consuming election campaign – make sure I squeeze out of each week time to spend with my family and in particular my granddaughters.

"My second resolution is to constantly say thank you to what I know will be a large group of people who will put their lives on hold for the first four months of next year to work for my re-election.

"My final resolution relates to my mother who no longer knows who I am. My resolution is to give more support to my two sisters who disproportionately carry more of the burden of care for my mother."

Bradford East Liberal Democrat MP David Ward

"Putting victims and witnesses at the heart of everything we do, ever more integrated partnership working, increased engagement, highlighting road safety issues and leading the way on tackling human trafficking are just some of the areas I will be focusing on in 2015.

"This coming year again sees huge challenges for our West Yorkshire police service and across our vital public services with government cuts to the police budget that have already resulted in £162 million of savings needed by 2016/17."

West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson

"I don't do New Year resolutions. I suppose if I did have a resolution for next year it would be to continue to work to improve the economy and environment for the district for the benefit of the people that live here."

Bradford Council Leader David Green

"Rather than making resolutions, I like to follow the practice of Methodist friends and colleagues who, early in January, use John Wesley’s beautiful ‘Covenant Prayer’ to commit the New Year to God. We don't know what the next months will bring to us as individuals, families or even as a city and region. But we can entrust ourselves and one another, as Wesley did, into the hands of the God who loves us."

The Bishop of Bradford, the Right Reverend Toby Howarth