TWO people were cut free from their cars after a collision in Leeds. The crash happened outside the Tommy Wass pub in Dewsbury Road in south Leeds at 8.23 on Monday (January 9). A Honda Accord and a Volkswagen Passat were involved. Firefighters from Hunslet and Morley were called out. They cut the roofs from both cars releasing a male driver from the Honda and a female driver from the Volkswagen. Both [...]

THE European desire to put social engineering over insurance underwriting is particularly absurd. The market tells us women live longer than men and generally have safer driving records. No amount of politicians agonising over the situation will change that. We will all end up paying higher premiums. But, with VAT on them, perhaps that is what they want. Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North [...]

PRESSURE on the Government to help motorists and businesses is growing after new figures revealed the extent to which British drivers are penalised at the pumps to fill the Treasury coffers. Motorists pay more for diesel here than in any other European Union country – even though diesel prices in the UK before tax is applied are the third cheapest. A staggering 61 per cent of pump diesel prices [...]

A METEOR strike has been blamed for reports of a plane crash in North Yorkshire which turned out to be a false alarm. Six fire appliances went to the reported crash scene just after 12.15am yesterday at Whitley, near the M62 and close to border with West Yorkshire. Despite checks with airports as far afield as Liverpool and Doncaster, however, as well as an airborne search using the West Yorkshire [...]

A week on from the disappearance of Leeds teenager Ben Manning, police returned to the location of his last sighting. Officers gathered near the JCT 600 garage and roundabout on Denby Dale Road, Wakefield, shortly before 1.30am today to speak to pedestrians and drivers who may have seen Ben in the early hours of last Saturday. Police fear for the welfare of the 17-year-old from Swillington, inset, [...]