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Five people involved in a violent robbery at a Leeds garage in which parts for a rare Porsche sports car were stolen have been jailed for a total of 55 years.

Two men in their sixties have been found dead on a boat mired in York.

Police have now charged now charged suspects and are continuing to appeal for information regarding a robbery at a store on the Birstall Retail Park.

Police seized nine vehicles and arrested a man for drug driving as part of a pre-Christmas road safety blitz in Batley.

A man who set up a Bradford charity for children with cancer is on trial accused of fraud.

A man is currently in custody over an arson attack which left a couple trapped inside their flat.

Throughout December, West Yorkshire Police will be carrying out increased enforcement activity on the road

Ofcom has issued a draft notice to suspend the broadcasting licence of Club TV Limited, after its channel Peace TV Urdu repeatedly rebroadcast material they had previously found incited murder.

Fire crews have tackled a major blaze in Bradford City Centre which hit a multi-storey building in the Bridge Street/Sunbridge Road area overnight.

A Keighley man has been jailed for six years and nine months for a violent knifepoint robbery in the town centre.

Police are appealing for information to trace a convicted burglar who absconded from prison and is believed to be in Leeds.

A Bradford bank employee has been jailed for 14 months for a £17,783 scam to fraudulently order computer parts and sell them on the internet.

A former Huddersfield man has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexual offences against children in Kirklees.

Bradford-based supermarket chain Morrisons has partnered with food waste app Too Good To Go in order to offer discounted food boxes that would otherwise go to waste.

A Bradford school has been forced to close its doors as they carry out a deep clean following an outbreak of norovirus.

Staff from Santander’s Head Office in Bradford gave up their time to paint the walls in the counselling room and main office at the Childline base on Albion Street in Leeds.

Sunrise Radio’s chief executive Ms Usha Parmar is being awarded an honorary fellowship today from Bradford College thanks to her contributions and service to the community on a local, regional and national level.

A former drug addict who was caught with a stash of heroin and crack cocaine worth over £5,000 has been jailed for 28 months.

A primary school has been forced to close after a flu-like virus has spread amongst pupils and staff.

Two teenagers have been jailed after car-jacking an estate agent’s Audi in Bradford and bragging about it on social media.

A woman is due to appear in court after assaulting a police officer

Police are urgently appealing for the public's help in tracing a missing man from Dewsbury.

New research has revealed that one in six adults in Bradford are going without dental care, making the district’s ratio of people missing out on dental care one of the highest in the country.

Police have confirmed the victim of the fatal Wakefield Road collision last Thursday evening was June Martin.

Bin workers in Kirklees have voted to go on strike after six were suspended.

A gang of five men from the Stockport and Manchester areas have been jailed for a combined total of 45 years after committing a series of cash machine robberies.

Police have seized around 250,000 fake cigarettes as part of an anti-counterfeit operation.

Greater Manchester police are appealing for information following the sexual assault of a young girl in Radcliffe.

A former West Yorkshire Police employee has been charged in connection with the theft of money from a police property store in Kirklees.

Police are appealing for information following an attempted robbery on a mother with her baby in Leeds.

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.