Life In Yorkshire

A FINANCIAL blueprint is being drawn up to ensure a £70m scheme to counter the drinking culture blighting a Yorkshire city and preserve architectural gems becomes a reality.

COUNCIL tax payers in the East Riding face a year of above-inflation increases.

A SUCCESSFUL village show has been cancelled this year –due to a fall in the number of people prepared to run it.

THE fastest eroding stretch of the East Coast could be protected by submerged reefs of tyres, according to a helicopter pilot who often flies over its collapsing cliffline.

POLICE in Bradford are re-appealing for information on Sajid Saddique who went missing from his home address in the Allerton area on Valentines Day two years ago.

GOLLIWOGS are still popular in Wakefield – despite their offensive connotations.

GOLLIWOGS are still popular in Wakefield – despite their offensive connotations.

A wooden pole carrying an 11,000 volt cable is hacked down by would-be thieves trying to steal the copper.

AN ENGINEER has been jailed for six months for intimidation after making a threatening phone call to the home of a witness in a case against him.

AN independent inquiry into how Calderdale Council awarded a waste management contract is being called for.

A ROBBER who drove the getaway car after an armed raid outside a post office has been jailed for 10 years.

Yorkshire’s first community-funded hydro-electric generating plant should be working by September after securing approval from Craven District Council.

A RUGBY player who arrived in this country from South Africa less than two months ago has died suddenly aged 19.

A NEW £32.5m road has opened, providing a new gateway into Leeds direct from the M1, which it is hoped will encourage businesses to move to the Aire Valley.

A LEEDS city centre nightclub which has had problems with drugs and sex assaults in the toilets has had its license suspended for two months.