Fears are mounting that children could drown in a ‘crater’ left by a developer. Residents of The Pastures estate, in East Ardsley, were shocked to find two steep-sided dry detention beds had been dug from a meadow on the development last year. Bloor Homes, who are responsible for the landscaping, responded to complaints of rubble and fly tipping on the field last year by digging the drainage beds [...]

Ralph Green.Published on Tue Mar 29 08:40:17 BST 2011 POLICE in Leeds are appealing for information about a 62-year-old man missing from home for more than two weeks.Ralph Green, of Gelderd Road, Leeds, has not been seen since Thursday, March 10.A police spokesman said: “We are increasingly concerned for his welfare because he is known to sleep rough in Leeds city centre and also suffers from ill [...]

JAPANESE staff at a Leeds-based global translation firm have been desperately trying to find out the fate of loved ones caught up in the country’s earthquake and tsunami mayhem. The 16 employees at translation and interpreting firm thebigword, based in Lower Wortley, have been given a special room in which they can try to make contact by telephone, email or Skype. Thankfully, all have found that [...]

HE’S currently got his hands full preparing for his daughter’s wedding to Prince William. But it would be no surprise if Kate Middleton’s dad Michael also found time to keep an eye on a planning inquiry taking place in Leeds this week. The inquiry will consider a bid to build around 70 homes on land near Adel Parish Church, where Mr Middleton’s parents married in 1946. Housing developer David [...]

FEARS are growing over the future of Harrogate’s National Police Training College, a major employer in the town which works with more than 1,200 officers every year, ahead of an announcement expected later this month. The centre, one of just a handful in the country, has been based in the spa town since the 1950s. It is run by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), one of around 180 quangos [...]