If you’re walking your dog or taking a stroll alongside one of Leeds’ waterways this summer, you’re advised to be careful. Giant hogweed has been… Read More »Toxic plant warning as giant hogweed spotted in Leeds
A Leeds Trinity Student is walking 500 miles from Edinburgh to Winchester in order to remember his great grandma who died last year. Dorothy Lewis was 86 when… Read More »Leeds Trinity Student will walk 500 miles in memory of his great grandma
by Emma Kirwan and Caroline Grandjean
A Hunslet charity will celebrate the 150th anniversary of a legendary Leeds locomotive company this weekend.Read More »VIDEO UPDATE: Hunslet does the Locomotion
By Mike Berriman
The public will no longer be able to leave memorial tributes at beauty spots run by Bradford Council.
Further memorial benches will no longer be allowed at Bingley South bog, Ilkley’s Cow and Calf rocks, Baildon Moor and parts of Penistone Hill.
Read More »VIDEO UPDATE: Controversial plans to limit memorial tributes in Bradford approved
The fire took place on Mafeking Grove, Cross Flatts by Elizabeth Archer A little girl was rushed to hospital with burns to her legs after… Read More »Young girl hospitalised after Cross Flatts fire
The site of the suspected explosion [above]
by Elizabeth Archer
An explosion forced residents to evacuate and roads to close in the End Park area of Leeds around 7pm tonight [Tuesday].
Police rushed to the scene after a blast was reported on Clark Mount, near Richmond Hill Primary School.Read More »BREAKING: Bomb scare forces End Park evacuation
By Caroline Granjean A former West Yorkshire detective has backed Stephen Hawking’s £100m project to prove we are not alone. Breakthrough Listen, funded by tycoon… Read More »Ex West Yorkshire cop backs Stephen Hawking’s £100m alien bid
An Audi has been abandoned after colliding with a wall in Rooley Avenue. Police are appealing for information after the crash happened at about 5pm… Read More »Wrecked car abandoned after colliding with wall: Bradford
A family, including an 11 month old baby, escaped a house blaze yesterday after a chip pan caught fire while they slept.
Dad David Parker, 56, was knocked out by the smoke as he dozed in the living room after cooking fish and chips in the kitchen at around 1am.
Daughter Emma Parker, 18, was upstairs asleep when she woke to crackling and smashing sounds downstairs, and saw smoke rising into her room. Read More »UPDATED VIDEO :Baby girl and puppy rescued from Gipton house blaze
by Mike Berrimen
A pensioner is seriously ill in hospital after being trapped between two parked cars on Friday.
John Watts, 68, was walking behind his car, which rolled back and trapped him between that and another unoccupied car.Read More »Ilkley pensioner seriously injured after being trapped between two cars