A ROAD has been closed and "armed police" have evacuated a building in a reported ongoing "standoff".

ST JOSEPH'S Catholic Primary Academy nursery, off Queen's Road in Keighley, has been forced to close due to staff shortages from Covid-19 and illness.

MJ Autos garage in Bradford city centre, off Bedford Street in the Broomfields area, has been gutted by a fierce fire that raged on for hours last night.

A LARGE-SCALE vaccination centre in Bradford has marked a year of providing life-saving Covid-19 jabs to people across the district

This week's MP's column comes from Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West​

A NEW entrepreneurship programme has been launched to help new arrivals into the UK set up their own businesses with the chance to gain £60,000 of seed funding.

A NEW fleet of zero emission buses could be rolled out in Bradford if a £23 million bid to Government is approved.

BRADFORD has submitted a formal bid to be crowned the next UK City of Culture.

SOME of the country's most popular football TV pundits will be bringing their banter to Bradford for a live show.

A TEN year plan to boost Bradford’s museums service has been approved by Council bosses.

A DOG was found dead after being hit with several blows to the head in West Yorkshire.

ANOTHER game, another home draw for Bradford City.

A MULTI million pound scheme to upgrade the District's street lights will not include new lighting for play areas and skate parks.

CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore's daughter has said she can still "see and feel" her father "in everything" a year after his death.

SIR Titus Salt was a highly successful Victorian manufacturer who helped to make Bradford ‘worstedopolis’, the textile capital of the world. But what was the secret of his success?

Pictured above, January 1975, is one of Bradford's leading lingerie shops, Claydens.

MULTI-million pound works to double the size of Leeds City Square and close the area to traffic could be finished as early as December, a report by civil servants has stated.

The forthcoming sixth and final series of Peaky Blinders is reportedly set to be released this month.

The favourite fragrances of Kate Middleton, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and the Queen have been revealed, here's how you can smell like a Royal.

The chair of the council of the British Medical Association has said the NHS is “riddled with racism”

It comes after TV star Davina McCall raised awareness of HRT treatments as part of the Channel 4 documentary, Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and The Menopause.

“Students should have opportunities to demonstrate achievements when ready”, throughout their schooling from age 14 to 19, the review adds.

Hotels were rated on a number of categories, including cleanliness, bathrooms and value for money.

Those who are partial to a plate of peri-peri flavours are being warned over price hikes on the menu.

CARR ROAD, in the Greengates area, has been closed and "armed police" have evacuated a building in a reported ongoing "standoff".

THE value of business networking can’t be over-emphasised, as members of the Yorkshire Asian Business Association (YABA) are discovering.

Simon Cowell was reportedly rushed to hospital after his second e-bike accident in months left him injured.

Salmonella infection usually causes diarrhoea, fever and stomach cramps.

School leaders will be asking for a pay rise in line with the latest rise in inflation.

Supermarkets have revealed their Valentine's Day meal deal offers for 2022 with prices starting at £15.

BRADFORD-born Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood has been further arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and threats to kill and detectives have been given more time to question him.

A MAN has been banned from a number of shops in the district after being slapped with a Criminal Behaviour Order.

A CHILD was taken to hospital after being hit by a vehicle in Bradford.

A KEY Bradford road has been closed this afternoon.

Seven teenagers aged between 16 and 19 years old have been arrested after reports of disorder in Keighley.

A WEST Yorkshire man has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of imprisoning and seriously assaulting a female victim.

BRADFORD South MP Judith Cummins has described Boris Johnson as a "lame duck Prime Minister" and criticised the drinking culture in 10 Downing Street.

POLICE have issued an image of a man they would like to identify.

SUE Gray’s “update” on her investigation into alleged gatherings on Government premises during Covid restrictions has revealed 12 key dates.

SERVICES running from Bradford Interchange to Leeds were affected this afternoon after a fallen tree forced a line to close.

RESIDENTS were in shock after heavy winds from Storm Malik blew a roof that was under construction on to the top of another Bradford home.

LOCALS have reacted in shock after a “group of youths armed with a crossbow” raided a convenience store in a Bradford village.

A JUDGE today urged an Albanian man arrested at a large Bradford cannabis farm to spread the word in his homeland that illegal immigrants would run up huge debts to get here and end up in prison.

ONE of Britain's biggest supermarket chains has announced changes to overnight roles at a number of supermarkets and petrol station stores which will put more than 1,400 workers at risk of redundancy.

The agency has moved to update motorists amid delays following a high volume of enquiries since the Covid pandemic.

The British Gas Energy Trust runs two separate funds aimed to help people pay off their energy bills.

The Thackley site for Beechcliffe Special School & Ash Valley College will be closed today.

Two cars have been seized by West Yorkshire Policing Teams in Keighley last night.

RAPE, sexual assault, voyeurism are among the horrendous sexual offences which residents of care establishments have fallen victim to.

HERE is today's latest breakdown, area-by-area, of positive cases of Covid-19 in Bradford.