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PRIVATE hire drivers held a "slow drive" protest in front of Bradford City Hall yesterday over plans to introduce a Clean Air Zone in the city next year. Bradford Council's Clean Air Zone was proposed after the authority was ordered by Government to reduce the illegally high levels of air pollution in the city. Although private cars would not be effected, some of the most polluting commercial vehicles would be charged to enter the zone, which would make up most of the city centre and the Shipley to Bradford corridor. These include HGVs and vans that do not meet certain emission standa...

Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Stoke-on-Trent's taxi drivers are being urged to get twice-weekly rapid coronavirus tests. Eight private hire firms have already backed Stoke-on-Trent City Council's plea for drivers to have two lateral flow tests each week. The tests can give a positive or negative reading in around 30 minutes. Now the city council is turning its attention to the H...

A vehicle exhaust. BRADFORD'S Clean Air Zone will be introduced in January after the Council's Executive voted to approve the huge scheme to tackle the District's illegal pollution levels. It will mean that from next year the most polluting HGVs, buses, vans and taxis will be charge up to £50 to enter the zone - which takes in much of the area within the city's inner ring road and the Shipley/Bradford corridor. A fund of over £30 million will be set up to provide grants for the owners of such vehicles to either convert to electric or switch to less polluting engines.

A NEW Clean Air Zone could be fully implemented in Bradford by January. Next Tuesday Bradford Council's Executive will vote whether to move ahead with the plan - which will see the most polluting commercial vehicles charged up to £50 a day to enter an area that takes in much of the city centre and Bradford to Shipley corridor. And a report to the executive reveals that Bradford has been awarded a grant of tens of millions of pounds to help vehicle owners switch to greener technology. In 2018 the Government issued a ministerial direction to Bradford Council to come up with a plan to r...

Police complaint POLICE have investigated claims after a customer accused a taxi driver of making sexually motivated comments. The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, claims the taxi driver had asked her when she 'last had sex' and 'if she would have sex with him'. She also claimed he shouted at her to 'get in the f****** car' but the woman said she refused and carried on walking. She said: "It was a few trips we had with him but the one time where he shouted at me to get in the car was one morning. He was asking me when I last had sex. It happened near Great Holland shops."