A MAJOR motorway has been closed this morning due to a police incident.

A NEW BBC series will follow the work of Bradford midwives and the stories of expectant mums, dads and families as they go through a life-changing experience.

COUNCILLORS have hit out at off-road bike riders after a concerned local resident reported an open grassed area at Bowling Park in Bradford was churned up by the vehicles last Friday.

COUNCILLORS have voted to refuse plans that would allow a city centre cafe blighted by crime to keep its security shutters after hearing the work want against numerous Council policies.

THE manager of a Bradford taxi firm has spoken out after a brick was hurled at a vehicle in a late-night attack. 

FIRE crews were called to a famous castle where the caretaker's equipment was "maliciously ignited".

ALL sorts of events and activities are taking place this Bank Holiday weekend in the Bradford district, as the summer draws to a close.

BRADFORD Council has rejected a prior approval application for a large unit with a rich history to be turned into a function suite.

TODAY is National Dog Day, celebrating pet dogs, rescue dogs, working dogs and all the dogs that love, protect and guide us humans.

Leeds City Council has hit back at accusations it does not effectively plan for roadworks, claiming that many of its maintenance projects took place during less busy times of year.

BRADFORD Bulls scraped past bottom placed Swinton Lions in a 30-26 victory on Sunday but their performance wasn't all that pleasing on the eye.

PICTURE yourself in a convertible sports car, winding along a road fringed on one side with craggy hillsides and luxurious villas, and on the other with a sparkling azure ocean.

THREE vehicle fires across Keighley overnight are being treated as arson.

WORK has started on a major new £15 million scheme which will transform critical care facilities and provide extra ward space at Airedale Hospital.

A BRADFORD charity held an online event to commemorate the anniversary of the Rohingya genocide yesterday, joined by the Lord Mayor of Bradford and the leader of Bradford Council.

BARRATT Developments Yorkshire West has donated £1,000 to Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank as part of The Barratt Foundation’s Community Fund.

Plans to build houses on land previously used to grow flowers as part of a defunct nursery business in East Bierley will go before councillors again next week.

MAYOR of West Yorkshire, Tracy Brabin, has launched an online film as part of a campaign to stop the privatisation of Channel 4.

WORK is finally underway on a new £1.75m state of the art equestrian centre for Craven College, Skipton.

An 83-year-old rally driver is looking forward to returning to the starting line this weekend after spending a period on the sidelines due to the pandemic.

The need to find out more about the care provision available in your area is of vital importance.

HEARTBREAKING questions surrounding the death of a baby girl discovered at a Bradford recycling centre remain unanswered, an inquest heard today.

A man has been jailed for two years for a spree of dangerous driving in stolen vehicles that left a trail of damage across Bradford and included the deliberate ramming of two police vehicles on a supermarket car park.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man in his 40s was seriously injured after being attacked by a gang of men earlier this week.

Greggs and Costa are the latest chains to warn they are fast running out of popular lines due to a crippling shortfall in HGV drivers.

A LARGE police presence converged on a road in the Barkerend area of Bradford in the early hours of this morning.

Sex Offender Jailed In Latest Conviction in Long Running Huddersfield Operation

This week's MP's column comes from Robbie Moore, Conservative MP for Keighley and Ilkley​

A man caught with a commercial-scale cannabis farm capable of producing more than 12 kilos of the drug will be sentenced at Bradford Crown Court next month.

HERE is Wednesday's latest breakdown, area-by-area, of confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Bradford.

POLICE have released CCTV images of suspects in a terrifying armed robbery where a shop worker attacked with a machete in Leeds on Monday.

A West Yorkshire hospital has been criticised over the death of an elderly patient who died after falling from her bed - but was only noticed when someone passed her room.

THREE people - two of them children - have been killed in a crash between a motorhome and a lorry on the A64 last night.

Salmonella infection usually causes diarrhoea, fever and stomach cramps.

CAMPAIGNERS and cross-party MPs are calling for the Government to scrap an 'antiquated' law that a minister said should be abolished.

A DISQUALIFIED driver's car was seized when they went to pick up a takeaway in the Scholes area of Bradford.

A 'OUT of place' trailer found in Birstall was discovered by police to be stolen from Northampshire, a county in the East Midlands.

POLICE arrested a person for drug driving after stopping a car in the Buttershaw area of Bradford yesterday.

A LOCAL pub is on the hunt for the UK’s biggest pub fan to reward them for their service with £1,000-worth of food and drink to enjoy with loved ones in their local this summer.

FIREFIGHTERS extinguished a garden fire that spread to a house in Bradford in the early hours of this morning

AN exhibition by Aire Valley Arts will run from Wednesday, September 1, to Thursday, October 28, at Bradford Cathedral and Kala Sangam Arts Centre.

A SENIOR politician in Leeds has slammed the planning of road improvement schemes around the city, claiming he has “lost confidence in the council’s ability to coordinate”.

A HUGE office complex in Crossflatts could soon be converted into almost 140 flats.

IT seems even the other Rolling Stones didn't know about Charlie Watts' 'secret wedding' at Bradford Register Office in 1964.

A COUNCIL has applied for a nightclub’s premises licence to be reviewed, arguing it caused an outbreak of the more transmissible Delta variant Coronavirus cases in the town in the spring.

AN opticians in Morley will be closed for some after a fire significantly damaged the premises.

A PLEA for people to send cards to a Bradford woman to mark her 106th birthday has been launched.

BUSINESS minister Lord Grimstone has said UK firms perform better under foreign ownership and insisted there is nothing to fear from the spate of overseas bids for the likes of supermarket chain Morrisons.

A MAN charged with revenge porn offences has been caught after four months on the run in Bradford today and is to appear in court.

A DRIVER who borrowed a car was reported for multiple offences after being stopped speeding in Bradford.