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Planning application to keep food kiosk ‘submitted to Bradford Council’

A Retrospective planning application to keep a food kiosk that was installed at a busy Bradford venue over 18 months ago has been submitted...

Kirklees off-licence under licence review after links to “serious organised criminality”

A Kirklees off-licence selling cigarettes that have links to “serious organised criminality” is to have its licence reviewed next week. Sitting at 618 Huddersfield Road...

Bradford housing proposal is “simply not an acceptable standard of living for anyone”

A planning inspector has said proposals for a nine bed HMO in a listed Bradford building were “simply not an acceptable standard of living...

Government confirmed Middlesbrough Council will continue to operate by ‘elected mayor’

Middlesbrough Council will continue operating with a directly elected mayor going forward, the Government has confirmed. In a written ministerial statement, released on Tuesday 24...

New ‘chief executive’ of TVCA confirmed

Tom Bryant has been formally confirmed as the new chief executive of Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA). TVCA Cabinet approved the recommendation to appoint Mr...

A ‘multi-million pound’ project approved by Sunderland City Council leaders

City leaders on Wearside have agreed a multi-million pound programme of “essential repairs and maintenance works” to council-owned industrial units. Sunderland City Council’s cabinet of...

Former village hall awaits ‘council approval’ to be ‘transformed’ into Mosque

A former Huddersfield village hall could soon be transformed into a mosque as plans await council approval. Vacant since 2017, the former Fartown Village Hall,...

Just ‘shy of £1m’ as Kirklees Council auction off assets

Kirklees Council has raked in just shy of £1m as four assets were sold off in May and June. As the council was gripped by...

A “much-needed” Newcastle school is still lacking ‘the money to build’

Council bosses in Newcastle still do not have the money to build a “much-needed” school for children with autism. Plans were unveiled in February 2024...

“Seven days a week, till one in the morning, that’s how we built this.”- Mohammad Saraj

In the heart of BD3, where shops have come and gone, one family-run business has stood its ground, not with loud banners or fancy...

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