A campaign to fight fly-tipping campaign in Keighley Central Ward is gaining support.
Residents have been provided with information on how to tackle and report fly-tipping, both through enforcement and community action and the scheme has the full support of ward councillors.

A prolific burglar with a record for targeting pubs has been jailed again after a brave landlord chased him out of his Denholme premises.
Publican Sean Garvey was woken in the early hours of February 23 when repeat offender Antony Cameron forced his way into the New Inn after using a screwdriver to prise open a window.

A trainee accountant who bit a police officer twice on the arm has been fined.
Gabriella di Cristafaro, 24, sank her teeth into the PC when he attempted to quell a row she was having with her father in the street, Bradford Magistrates’ Court heard.

A Keighley gardener will be a VIP guest at a special lunch to mark 25 years of the Bradford District Credit Union.
Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun Zafar Ali, will commemorate Bradford District Credit Union’s silver anniversary with a special lunch at Bradford’s City Hall on Wednesday, 8 August.

The family of a father shot dead and dumped on moorland has praised him as a ‘wonderful dad, brother and son’ as his killer was jailed for 31 years.
Callous James Sutcliffe, 29, gunned down Tyron Charles before driving his body to a remote spot on Oxenhope Moor.

A persistent beggar has been handed a five year criminal behaviour order.
Dean Begley, 32, a regularly face around Keighley, has been banned from asking for money, booze and cigarettes until 22 July 2023.

A flasher who exposed himself to another train passenger is being sought by British Transport Police.
The suspect got on the Leeds to Skipton train at Steeton and Silsden.

The widow of a joiner who died of asbestos-related cancer at the end of last year has joined with legal experts to appeal to his former workmates from three employers in the 1960s and 1970s to come forward and help her gain justice regarding his death.

 
Father-of-one John Bryden, who lived in Keighley, died aged 73 in November, last year, of mesothelioma – the cancer of the lining of the lung commonly associated with exposure to asbestos materials – just over a year after he first developed symptoms including chest pains and breathlessness.

Children in Keighley will be safer this summer thanks to the work of Year 4 pupils at Merlin Top Academy.

As part of the work being carried out during the Children’s Year of Safety, staff from Merlin Top approached local artist Sian Hodson to work creatively with children to come up with some ideas on how to get safety messages across to their peers.

A motorist who crashed an ambulance into Kildwick Level Crossing has been charged with dangerous driving.
The 41-year-old, from Halifax, is also charged with driving whilst disqualified, failing to stop for police, failing to provide a specimen for analysis, obstructing a railway and having no insurance.

A canine exhibit from Cliffe Castle has made it onto ‘A History of the North in 100 Objects’ project.

The ‘A History of the North in 100 Objects’ project, which is part of the Great Exhibition of the North, aims to showcase the pioneering spirit and impact of the North of England’s inventors, artists, scientists and designers.



A Harden lad has learned his periodic table by cheerleading.
Louis Bottomley, eleven, was struggling to remember the chemical elements.

Police are investigating a possible attempted abduction of a 12 year old boy in Crosshills.
Shortly after 4pm yesterday, 22 May 2018, a van pulled up alongside the schoolboy, who was walking alone on Keighley Road in Crosshills.