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Open letter from Councillor Imran Khan to all the staff who work in schools in the Bradford District

Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Police are engaging with businesses to help ensure that they have the necessary COVID safety measures in place, ahead of more rigorous checks and enforcement.

Police in Bradford investigating a series of what are believed to be linked incidents in the Toller and Heaton areas have arrested five people and increased proactive patrols.

Premises and venues across England like pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas must have a system in place by law to record contact details of their customers, visitors and staff in the latest move to break the chains of transmission of coronavirus.

Wakefield Council is investing in four local groups to celebrate and share the heritage of the district's places and people as part of the national Heritage Open Days programme

Mancunians are once again being asked to do the right thing as efforts continue to bring the number of Covid-19 cases in the city down.

Detectives are currently investigating reports of a shooting incident, which occurred just after 1pm this afternoon (13/09) on Charlton Road in Leeds.

A project at the university of Leeds aiming to improve the investigation and management of patients with suspected angina has received a grant of almost £150,000 from national charity Heart Research UK.

The organisers of Leeds’s German Christmas market on Millennium Square have confirmed that the event will not take place this year due to ongoing uncertainty around COVID-19.

Police are appealing for witnesses following a phone mast been set on fire in Bradford.

A man has been jailed for three years after he admitted manslaughter.

Commuters in Leeds can now borrow an electric bike free of charge for up to two weeks as part of a new council initiative to promote sustainable travel.

At around 6.10pm on Tuesday 1 September 2020, police were called to reports of a stabbing at a superstore on Stockport Road in Levenshulme.

Starting today (Monday 7 September), eight new School Streets pilots begin at primary schools across Leeds.

A new system of broadcasting is due to descend on Leeds, City-wide digital radio. OFCOM has announced the advertisement of Round One (25 areas) due to be awarded a Small-Scale Digital Radio (SSDAB) Multiplex.

Visitors to pubs, bars, restaurants and social gatherings in Leeds are being urged to do their bit to keep the city safe following a rise in cases of COVID-19.

A Manchester nightspot that flouted Covid-19 guidelines by operating as a nightclub has been stripped of its licence.

Walk-in mobile testing units are in operation across the Bradford District to make it easier for local people who think they might be infected with COVID-19.

Normal charges for all Leeds City Council car parks and on street parking will resume from Tuesday 1st September, including on evenings and weekends.

Police have this afternoon seized what is believed to be around £20,000 of music equipment from an address in the Chapeltown area of Leeds.

Police attended reports of a street party on Wepener Mount, Harehills earlier today (29/08).

The Dutch-owned Fugro Equator is the last remaining ship still looking for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

Isaac Blamires of Parrot Street, Tong, Bradford has been sentenced to 22 months after crashing a stolen car into metal railings during a police chase across central Bradford.

Shortly after 8.20pm on Sunday 27 November 2016 three men, one armed with a knife and one with a crowbar, entered the One Stop Shop on Lostock Road in Davyhulme.

Britain is facing Christmas strike chaos after unions have announced walk-outs at UK’s 300 largest Post Offices - which handle 20 per cent of all post.

POLICE are currently investigating 249 crimes across the Bradford districts that have links to child sexual exploitation.