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Councillor Mike Ellis, retaining his Council seat at the 2014 election Tributes have been paid to a “widely known and well liked” Bradford Councillor who died this morning. Conservative Councillor Mike Ellis, who represented the Bingley Rural ward had been fighting cancer. As well as being active in his ward, Cllr Ellis also sat on planning panels, scrutiny committees, and as a council representative on outside bodies looking at key issues such as transport and flooding. He was also t...

A COUNCIL leader has come under fire after issuing a stay local warning to constituents, while on holiday thousands of miles away in the…

Angela Rayner calls for Welsh Tory MS to be suspended over US riots tweet By PA News  |  Contribute to support quality local journalism Andrew RT Davies compared protesters at the US Capitol to those who supported a second referendum on Brexit (Joe Giddens/PA) Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has demanded the Conservative Party takes action against a Welsh Senedd member who compared protesters at the US Capitol to those who supported a second referendum on Brexit. Andrew RT Davies, the W...

She said: "He was a lovely guy, he was a joy. "I put him forward as Lord Mayor and was so happy to serve as his deputy. "He was so lovely, he has a lovely wife and a lovely family and he was a really good friend to me. "I always felt like part of his family, he always made you feel welcome and Im really upset by this, its so shocking I still cant believe its true. "I thought he was starting to get better; its a shock. "He will be truly missed, I went to Pakistan with him last year a...

The council and emergency services have discussed the LTNs (Photo: Atish Anand/Pexels/Newsquest) The leader of Harrow Conservatives has called for low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in the borough to be removed “as a matter of urgency” after seeing a letter from the London Ambulance Service (LAS). Cllr Paul Osborn wrote to Harrow Council’s chief executive, Sean Harriss, asking him to “rectify the defects” in the LTN programme, which was implemented as part of plans to promote activ...

Emergency services made it clear that any road changes should not affect their response times (Photo: Pixabay/Atish Anand) Changes have been made to some of the contentious ‘Streetspace’ schemes in Harrow following concerns raised around access for emergency services. Harrow Council confirmed some roadblocks, which form part of low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) measures in Headstone South and Vaughan Road, would be altered to allow emergency vehicles to pass. It is also removing part of...

TRIBUTES have flooded in following the death from Covid-19 of Keighley councillor and former Lord Mayor of Bradford, Abid Hussain. He became a Labour councillor for Keighley Central in 2010 and had served on a number of council committees during the past decade. He was the current deputy chairman of Keighley and Shipley Area Planning Panel and Keighley Area Committee and a reserve member of the District Planning Panel. Cllr Hussain served as Lord Mayor of Bradford in 2017-18, during whi...

Weighing Approaches to Reduce Land-Use Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increase Carbon Storage in Ecosystems Weighing Approaches to Reduce Land-Use Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increase Carbon Storage in Ecosystems Prioritizing options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land use based on ProLand’s insights from local experts and lessons learned Published 12-23-20 This post was originally published on ClimateLinks. Planners at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and in ...

TIER 3 Philip Davies is not happy with the Government decision to keep Bradford in Tier 3, to put it mildly SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies has reacted with fury over the Governments decision not to move Bradford from Tier 3 restriction to Tier 2. The backbench Conservative MP called the Government "blinkered" in its tactics to tackle Covid-19 and accused them of "constantly changing the goalposts" to keep certain areas under the tightest controls. He said he hopes Health Secretary Matt Hancock ...

THE decision to keep the Bradford district in Tier 3 has been branded "disappointing" by Bradford Councils Conservative Group,  Today it was announced the district, and the rest of West Yorkshire, would remain under the very high alert level.  Councillor Rebecca Poulsen, Leader of the Conservative Group said, “It is disappointing that Bradford District residents will spend Christmas and New Year under Tier 3 restrictions. "It has been a long hard year for most people and it would ha...