A WIBSEY man is hoping to ‘live the dream’ and follow in his father’s footsteps by racing a stock car at Odsal Stadium in Bradford.

MORE than a third of 25 to 29 year olds in Bradford got their first Covid-19 vaccine in the first five days they were eligible for the jab.

ALL adults in England can now book their Covid-19 vaccines, after booking opened up to 18 to 22 year olds this morning.

DURING Diabetes Week, which runs until Sunday, the University of Bradford is raising awareness of the disorder and it's pioneering work into the disorder

STARTRAX Stockcar Racing has postponed this Saturday’s race at Odsal Stadium due to Covid restrictions.

COUNCILLORS will decide whether to implement a 20mph zone, including new traffic calming measures, on one of Bradford’s busiest roads.

 

DETECTIVES are appealing for information to trace a man who is wanted in connection with a stabbing in Leeds.

BRADFORD Pride Day will make its return to the city on Saturday with a special hybrid event available both online and in-person.

SAIRA Ali, Team Leader in Bradford Council’s Landscape, Design and Conservation Team, has been shortlisted for a national award in recognition of her work to prevent flooding in urban areas.

MAYOR of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin has given 12 months formal notice to cease the role that West Yorkshire plays as the lead local policing body for the National Police Air Service.

A SITE for a new secondary school in Brighouse, which would be needed if thousands of new homes were to be built if Calderdale’s Local Plan is approved, is still to be chosen.

BRADFORD Libraries will be going live with a new upgraded Library Management System, Symphony, next Thursday.

CASTLE Hall Academy in Mirfield says it will cut pupil numbers by almost a third – from 900 to 650 – due to “ongoing surplus provision” in Kirklees.

A CAR skidded out of control and smashed through a barber shop window in a crash at Pudsey that occurred in the early hours of this morning.

LOCAL residents and business owners have reacted with shock after a car travelling at speed ploughed into a barber shop in Pudsey in the early hours of this morning.

A POLICE scene is in place after a man's body was found in the water this morning.

THE number of hospital patients in Bradford who have tested positive for Covid-19 has risen on last week, figures show.

A FORMER Leeds United player has been convicted for his role in a guns and drug conspiracy after being caught in a National Crime Agency sting.

A MAN has been arrested in connection to the horror smash this morning in Pudsey which has left a barber shop front destroyed.

SHOCKING footage has emerged of the horror crash which occurred in Pudsey last night a car careered into a barber shop at high speed.

POLICE in Shipley have dealt with two drugs-related incidents in the last couple of days.

A COUNCILLOR has warned that "even strong swimmers can be overcome" after another tragic death in a water body.

A report examining security at Manchester Arena where 22 people were murdered and hundreds were injured in a suicide bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017 is set to be published.

A street drug dealer ordered by his bosses to “hurry up” with his deliveries was clearly not a kingpin in the supply chain, his lawyer told Bradford Crown Court.

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

SHOCKED police officers who had stopped a car that was making a 'strange noise' found there were not only eight passengers in the vehicle, but it had no rear tyre.

VISITING restrictions at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, brought in as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, have been eased.

WEST Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin has set out her intention to bring local bus services into public control.

A MAN was injured and two were arrested for affray following an incident involving a knife on a bus in Mirfield.

AN INSPIRATIONAL awards scheme celebrating the achievements of young Asians in Yorkshire launches for its second year today after a hugely successful first event.

YEADON-based airline Jet2 has welcomed news that holidaymakers may be able to avoid quarantine after returning from amber list countries - if they have been fully vaccinated.

HERE is every Bradford pub which is screening England's matches at Euro 2020 this summer.

EASYJET has announced it will be running flights from Leeds Bradford Airport to Belfast International Airport this summer, starting in July.

I HAVE only ever been to one football match.

BRITISH Airways has taken over the popular route between Leeds Bradford Airport and Belfast City Airport following the collapse of Stobart Air.

HOLIDAYMAKERS may be able to avoid having to quarantine after returning from their trip to an amber list country - if they are fully vaccinated.

PLANS for a housing development on the site of recently demolished high rise flats have been approved by Bradford Council.

WEST Yorkshire Police has said it enforces Stalking Prevention Orders “where appropriate” after it was revealed only three have been granted despite thousands of reported incidents.

HUGELY controversial plans to build almost 150 homes in South Bradford will once again go before a planning committee next week.

ALMOST half of the biggest blazes West Yorkshire Fire Service dealt with in a 12 month period took place in the Bradford District.

SIR - The delayed Euro 2020 tournament resembles a victim of the Wraith in Stargate Atlantis. It's had the life sucked out of it by pandemic and politics.

BRADFORD author Derek AJ Lister is trying to contact the families of two friends for a book he's working on.

SIR - As the UK's only feline road traffic accident group, we wanted to raise awareness of pregnant or nursing cats that have been hit by cars during this current kitten season.

SIR - In an interview with a journalist, Shamima Begum has begged to be allowed back in the UK using the word "pretty please". This is after she joined ISIS in Syria aged 15 in 2015.

ONE further Covid-19-related hospital death has been reported in Bradford today.

A KEIGHLEY man has been jailed for getting behind the wheel of a vehicle despite being banned from driving.

A GOVERNMENT minister has praised a Yorkshire company for its training opportunities after visiting one of its Bradford sites.

BRADFORD based Morrisons is to go on trial next month over failing to identify the driver of its supermarket vans to the police on two separate occasions.

EIGHT groups are receiving a share of £16,500 thanks to the latest round of Better Start Bradford’s Parents in the Lead Activities Fund, bringing the overall total to £121,418 since the fund began in April 2017.