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West Yorkshire in the News

• 28 Jan 2012
  Voters in the dark over big change to policing
  If West Yorkshire is to become a key battleground at the November elections, candidates will need to pay attention to views of voters in wards like Roundhay in Leeds.
• 28 Jan 2012
  May blocks bid to hire new chief ahead of election
  North Yorkshire’s next permanent Chief Constable will be picked by an elected commissioner after Home Secretary Theresa May blocked a bid by the county’s police authority to hire a replacement for outgoing officer Grahame Maxwell.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Police hunt 'Scottish' gunman who helped prisoner to escape
  Detectives have released an e-fit likeness of the man who helped a prisoner escape while being transported to hospital.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Small turnout 'threatens to undermine confidence'
  One of Britain’s most senior police officers has raised doubts that commissioners will improve public confidence in the service as a political analyst warned turnout in Yorkshire elections could fall below 25 per cent.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Police zero tolerance warning for drink gang
  Police have pledged a zero tolerance approach after winning a legal bid to tackle alcoholics, street drinkers and drug addicts who are terrorising shop keepers and tourists in the centre of Scarborough.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Tax-charges Redknapp 'told police of millions he lost in property venture'
  Harry Redknapp told police his home was at risk after he lost millions of pounds in disastrous investments, a court heard yesterday.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Wakefield city leader in health trust row
  Wakefield Council leader Peter Box says the outgoing chief executive of a troubled hospital trust has been made a “scapegoat”.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Are we there yet? Leeds team travels the world in black cab for charity
  Three friends are hoping to smash four Guinness World Records during the longest taxi ride of their lives.
• 28 Jan 2012
  Leeds nostalgia: The way we worked
  This week Times Past takes a look at the ordinary men and women of Yorkshire and their jobs - the pictures, all culled from the Yorkshire Evening Post archives, form part of a new book called Yorkshire People At Work, written by Peter Tuffrey.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Customs raid made on canal boat
  Customs officers investigating an alleged £1m VAT fraud raid a canal boat in the centre of Leeds.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Parker targets games at Carlisle
  Leeds United defender Ben Parker says his loan move to Carlisle United was influenced by a need to play first-team football.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Julia Squire - Wakefield Council leader's "scapegoat" claim
  THE former boss of Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust was “made a scapegoat” for failings at the cash-strapped organisation she left last night, council leader Peter Box has claimed.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Thousands watch England rugby union team in Leeds
  THOUSANDS of rugby club members and school children flocked to see the England rugby union team train in Leeds.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Anti-Semitism probe as Scarborough Belsen statue is attacked on Holocaust Day
  POLICE are not ruling out the possibility that the statue of a miner and former soldier which was covered in yellow paint by vandals in Scarborough was targeted in an anti-Semitic attack to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Stolen slide found
  YOUNGSTERS in Knottingley are “delighted” after a slide stolen from a community playground was found by police.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Man had half a million indecent images of children - Batley
  A MAN is behind bars after police found he had nearly half a million indecent images of children – some just babies – on his computer.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Tranmere v Huddersfield
  Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Tranmere and Huddersfield in the League One.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Tadcaster crash passenger airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary
  A 50-year-old woman was taken to Leeds General Infirmary by air ambulance after a crash outside Tadcaster.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Bristol Rovers v Bradford
  Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Bristol Rovers and Bradford in League Two.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Fuel poverty protesters take to Leeds streets
  PROTESTORS warmed up with a march in Leeds to raise awareness of fuel poverty.
• 27 Jan 2012
  M1 southbound now open again at junction 42 after police incident
  THE M1 is now open again at junction 42.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Bradford pupils pose as diplomats for debating contest
  More than 100 pupils from nine Yorkshire schools became diplomats for the day, debating how best to eliminate discrimination against women at a model United Nations.
• 27 Jan 2012
  View plea on 'worst station' plan
  People's views are wanted on how Wakefield Kirkgate station, once named "one of the worst in Britain," could be improved.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Fire at mill in Sowerby Bridge
  Firefighters in Halifax were called out to a mill fire in Sowerby Bridge.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Doctor hands out cannabis spray
  A DOCTORS’ surgery in Calderdale has flouted rules by prescribing a cannabis-based drug designed to help multiple sclerosis sufferers, the Courier has learned.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Teenager robbed in Little Horton
  A teenager was forced to the ground, kicked and robbed by four men as he walked home in Little Horton, Bradford.
• 27 Jan 2012
  First you wake up, then you do the shake up
  Children at Salterhebble School, Halifax, were given a breakfast treat as part of a national food campaign.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Security guard stole from Bradford flats he was protecting
  A night-time security guard was caught on camera using his master key to steal more than £5,000 from the rooms of students he was paid to protect, a Court heard.
• 27 Jan 2012
  Leeds Carnegie sign Tongan Aulika
  Leeds Carnegie sign Tongan international prop Halani Aulika until the end of the season.