VEHICLES were seized and tickets issues to drivers during a police and council blitz in the Bingley area this week.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police joined forces with Bradford Council's Hackney Carriage and Private Hire enforcement team and the vehicle standards agency for the operation on Monday.

It followed a number of issues raised by locals in relation to speeding and anti-social driving.

Ove the day police issued 23 tickets, four for MOT offences, one for a child not wearing a seat belt, two for tyre defects, 12 for adults not wearing seat belts and four to motorists with "non-conforming" registration plates. One vehicle was seized for no Insurance and another for no tax.

Forty motorists were warned for speeding and the taxi enforcement team suspended two of the eight vehicles they checked for faulty tyres and no insurance, and gave three advice on the cleanliness of their vehicles.

A police spokesman said: "Traffic enforcement days are being conducted all over the Bradford district and we hope to be able to arranged another again soon for the Shipley ward."