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AROUND 400 people are expected to turn up for a village Christmas lights switch on this weekend.

A HORROR film festival which aims to celebrate the 'crack of bone and spill of blood' is coming to Bradford next week.

A DEFIBRILLATOR has been installed in Bradford in memory of former Eccleshill cricketer Stephen Benn, who died aged 43 from heart complications in…

Haunted House FearFest showcases grassroots independent horror films, and organisers are seeking up-and-coming film-makers to take part. The event - which founder Anthony Kelly says "celebrates the crack of bone and spill of blood" - is due to take place at the Idle Draper in March 2022. Anthony is hopeful that a scaled-down version of the 2021 festival can also be held there this summer, depending on safety regulations. Haunted House FearFest was launched in Morecambe in 2019 and Anthony went on to run a monthly horror event in Berlin, where he is based. He said: "As we know, the ultim...

AT WORK, DI Brian Peters is a senior member of the CID team. Experienced, popular and respected, in private he is a heavy-drinking depressive. Having led investigations into previous high profile cases in his home city of Bradford, including an international drug smuggling ring, he is now called upon to tackle the rise of the so-called ‘zombie’ drug Spice, in tandem with a series of murders. His journey into the dangerous, uncharted waters of the drug, which can cause organ failure, seizures, paranoia and a host of other conditions, forms the basis of a new book by author Ian McKnig...