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A POLICE inspector has told Councillors that more work will be done in the South of Bradford to try and identify people who make neighbours’ lives a misery with anti social quad bike use. Inspector Andy Thornton was speaking to members of Bradford Council’s Bradford South Area Committee about the issue of anti social quad and motorcycle use at a meeting on Thursday evening. He told Councillors that two wards in the Constituency, Royds and Tong, had some of the highest numbers of anti social riding reports in West Yorkshire. And members heard that police would soon reach out to communities more in an attempt to identify the offenders, and where they are keeping their vehicles. ....
IT is hoped that a new public space protection order could prevent the chaotic scenes seen at Ilkley s riverside area in recent summers from happening again this year. Councillors today voted to move ahead with a six week consultation that would eventually lead to a new order that would give more powers to wardens and police to disperse crowds gathering at the beauty spot - including powers to issue fines for tombstoning, drinking and lighting fires. In recent years warm weather has brought huge crowds to the area, often from far outside the Bradford District - an issue police say is increasingly stretching their forces. ....