Bradford, England News

NatWest staff in its Bradford branches will be going yellow on Friday, March 2, to support the Marie Curie Hospice in the city.

Bradford retailers' leader Val Summerscales has fired a blast at councillors, planners and developer Westfield for making parts of Bradford city centre a retail desert after learning that two more prominent shops are to close.

A wanted drug dealer who rammed two police cars in a desperate bid to evade capture has been jailed for four and a half years.

A man accused of two murders made a "significant" change to his story after he was arrested, a jury was told yesterday.

Police have seized 11 cars and made two arrests as part of an operation targeting illegal road users in Bradford.

The accident on Godley Lane at 5.30am today shut the road until nearly 10am and caused delays of up to two hours for morning commuters.

Homeowners in Leeds and London are the most likely to claim on their home insurance policies as a result of theft or burglary, according to new research from MoneySupermarket.

Search warrants were executed at garages in Haycliffe Lane and Grosvenor Road, Bradford; Bradford Street, Keighley ; and Dewsbury, and four cars were seized, including a Porsche and two Audis.

The accident happened at the traffic lights junction of Hamm Strasse and Valley Road, near the Forster Square retail park, just before 9.30am today.

A double murder suspect left the country the same day the bodies of his two alleged victims were found dumped by the roadside, a jury heard.

An investigation is under way after a pensioner was left in agony in hospital for seven days and then discharged when staff failed to diagnose a broken arm.

Derelict properties across the Bradford district, judged to be most at risk from fires started by rough sleepers or metal thieves, are being fortified in an action plan led by West Yorkshire Fire Service.

A Bradford food manufacturing group has pledged to create 500 jobs within three years in the city as part of multi-million pound plans to build a food factory.

The challenge is on for employers across the Bradford district to create 100 apprenticeships for local workers - in just 100 days.

Bradford postcodes make up three of the top 20 hotspots in the country for claims on household insurance following burglaries and thefts, a survey showed today.

A Bradford minicab driver murdered his wife's lover and the man's friend after discovering his wife was having an affair, a jury has heard.

Motorists in Bradford who already face some of the worst rush-hour traffic in the UK could be facing "complete gridlock" if tens of thousands of homes are built in the district.

A total of 23 members of staff and one resident could be moved for the second time in a year as three more ageing Bradford Council-run care homes are under threat of closure.

A previously jailed dangerous driver has pleaded guilty to killing a father-of-two while speeding in a high-powered car in Bradford.

Five arrested in A 500,000 car fraud probe in Manningham, Little Horton, Keighley and Dewsbury Police arrested five men and seized four high-value cars in a swoop on garages to combat a suspected A 500,000 vehicle fraud.