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CASH is being made available to help bus companies upgrade vehicles that currently fail to meet clean air standards. Grants of up to £16,000 are on offer to operators that provide services in the Bradford district. Bradford Council has launched the £1.6 million Clean Air Bus Fund to help companies replace buses, or refit them with pollution-cutting equipment. The aim is to support businesses ahead of the introduction of a clean air zone in the district next January. There are thought to be around 100 buses which currently fail to comply with the required standards, meaning they emit higher levels of nitrogen than those with a Euro 6 diesel engine or ones that run on alternative fuels.
A DEBATE which has continued to rear its head over the years has once again been rekindled. The question of whether Keighley – and neighbouring Shipley – should ‘break away’ from the control of Bradford Council began decades ago. In more recent years, former Keighley Conservative MP Kris Hopkins was an advocate of the move. But his Labour successor, John Grogan, was against – claiming it would create extra bureaucracy and could lead to “worse outcomes” for the people of the constituencies. Now current Conservative MP Robbie Moore and Shipley’s fellow Tory Philip Davies are stepping-up their campaign for a split and have secured a meeting with a Government minister to discuss the issue.