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The site of the planned homes BRADFORD Council has been urged to block any plans for homes in an area of Keighley until traffic issues at a notorious bridge are resolved. At a recent meeting of the Council's Regulatory and Appeals Committee members were discussing plans to build 41 new homes in the Long Lee area. Among the concerns raised by objectors and local Councillors were traffic congestion at the Coney Lane bridge, the main route between Long Lee and Keighley town centre. They argued that numerous new developments in Long Lee would add more traffic to this route, which is alrea...

PUPILS at Long Lee Primary School have shone again in an online maths competition. Youngsters who took part in the contest, through maths platform Sumdog, each had to answer questions during the course of a week – and accumulated points. Over 300 children from schools across the Bradford district competed. Long Lee pupil Tanisha Shafeeq – from class 6 Hazel – achieved the highest individual score for the second time running in the contest. Six other Long Lee pupils also made it onto the top-ten leaderboard – Lucas Heenan, of 3 Yew; Gideon Chertes, of 6 Oak; Jemimah Safdar, o...

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Dr Brendan Kennedy and bus driver Nick Coleman celebrate The Keighley Bus Company doubling the service on its Keighley Jets AS the pace of Covid-19 jabs continues to rise, bus operator The Keighley Bus Company has doubled the frequency of a popular route to make travel safe and simple for those heading for a town vaccination centre. Long Lee Surgery in Keighley was among the first in Bradford District to begin administering Covid-19 jabs on December 15 last year, and the pace of the campaign is now increasing as more groups of people become eligible for vaccinations. With the expected r...

Eight so-called ward development grants have been agreed by the town council’s finance and audit committee. The grants will enable councillors in Woodhouse & Hainworth, Riddlesden & Stockbridge, Oakworth, Morton & Sandbeds, Spring Gardens & Utley and Long Lee & Parkwood to support projects within their wards. Cllr Mick Dowse is backing the Healthy Growth Initiative, which is providing food parcels for people hard hit by the pandemic. At Riddlesden, Cllr Andrea Walker is supporting the provision of a bench in Casey’s Corner – a garden at the primary school in memory of Casey Maso...