Keighley bus station WEST Yorkshire is likely to make a bid for the Government to help fund a zero carbon bus fleet for the region. The Government has committed to funding a number of Zero Emission Bus Regional Area s across the country as part of its carbon reduction policy. The strategy would commit to funding 4,000 zero emissions buses nationally and ending the sale of diesel buses in these areas. Four areas of the country are likely to be allocated as ZEBRAs, and the bus fleets in these areas would be shifted to either electric or hydrogen fuel powered. At a meeting of West Yorkshire Combined Authority s Transport Committee on Friday, members will be asked to endorse participation in the scheme - which would require match funding and a commitment from local bus operators.
And this fault will lead to some services in West Yorkshire later this month being disrupted. 24 trains from Northern Rail s new electric (Class 331) and diesel (Class 195) fleets were recently withdrawn after being found to have a problem with a shock absorber designed to prevent swaying in the carriages. And on Friday a meeting of West Yorkshire Combined Authority s Transport Committee will hear that modifications required to deal with the fault are likely to take several months. This will lead to disruptions when the new timetable in introduced next week. In 2019 Northern Rail announced a £500 million investment in new trains, which the company said would mark a step-change for rail travel in the north of England.
LABOUR S Tracy Brabin was announced as West Yorkshire’s first ever metro mayor on Sunday, calling it “an honour I can’t put into words”. It follows weeks of campaigning for the mayorality, which saw her go neck-and-neck with Conservative candidate Matthew Robinson, winning on second-preference votes. Ms Brabin, who is currently MP for Batley and Spen, said work would “start tomorrow”, before reiterating her manifesto pledges for extra police officers and jobs for young people. The Labour candidate took 261,170 of first preference votes out of 617,782 ballot papers in total. Her closest challenger, Conservative candidate Matt Robinson took 176,167 votes, while the Yorkshire Party’s Bob Buxton came a surprise third place with 58,851.
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Almost two in five eligible staff in Bradford were still on furlough at the end of March, the latest figures show AS of April, almost two in five eligible adults in the Bradford district were still on furlough across the Bradford district, as 11.5 million were using the scheme across the UK. The latest figures on claims to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) showed 79,700 people were still using the system, 38.9 per cent of all employees eligible for furlough in the district. The numbers, which date up until the end of March, were collated before the mid-April easing of Covid lockdown rules, when hundreds of businesses across the district such as pubs, restaurants, cafes and shops could reopen for the first time since early January.
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Sunday, 9th May 2021, 8:20 pm
Batley and Spen MP Tracy Brabin has been voted in as the new West Yorkshire metro mayor
It follows weeks of campaigning for the mayorality, which saw her go neck-and-neck with Conservative candidate Matthew Robinson, winning on second-preference votes.
Ms Brabin, who is currently MP for Batley and Spen, said work would “start tomorrow”, before reiterating her manifesto pledges for extra police officers and jobs for young people.
The Labour candidate took 261,170 of first preference votes out of 617,782 ballot papers in total. Her closest challenger, Conservative candidate Matt Robinson took 176,167 votes, while the Yorkshire Party’s Bob Buxton came a surprise third place with 58,851.