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A carpet of white flowers on the ground in a wood

Eight new nature reserves designated in district

The beauty spots help boost biodiversity across Bradford, according to Natural England.

A steam train crossing a viaduct in the North York Moors.

Steam train visits Bradford for City of Culture

Service has been chartered for anniversary of the Settle to Carlisle line as well as Bradford 2025.

A composite of three images: a giant red inflatable ball being pushed through a park gate, a woman wearing a black T shirt smiling and the camera and a woman crouching on the ground in a garden

Yorkshire news quiz of the week

Take a quiz to see how much news from Yorkshire you can remember from the past seven days.

A black and white picture of a woman dressed in the traditional suffragette outfit with a hat, sash and rosette. She points her umbrella in defiant pose.

Town's role in votes for women fight highlighted

About 100,000 people attended a rally at Shipley Glen in 1908 in support of votes for women.

A sandstone Georgian hospital building with a bay window to the left of a bright blue front door. The pitched roof has been stripped of tiles and and there is scaffolding around the building, with a green skip at the front and a pile of discarded wood beside it. There is a old sign that says Shipley Hospital.

Former hospital could reopen as day nursery

Shipley Hospital was closed to patients in January and has since been put up for sale by the NHS.

Two men riding recumbent bikes, wearing cycle helmets and laughing to each other

£50k funding offered to encourage 'active travel'

West Yorkshire Combined Authority says it wants to encourage more people to walk, wheel or cycle.

Matthew Harrison's police custody image. He is a white man with a brown, greying beard. He has short dark hair.

Hero-turned-villain jailed for pub punch attack

Mark Harrison was commended for talking suicidal man down from height a year before pub attack.

A crowd of men and women in uniforms and civilian dress looking towards the stone Bradford War Memorial.

VE Day 80th anniversary services held in Bradford

People across the district are due to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day over the next few days.

Streetview image of the entrance to Rampton Hospital, showing a large blue NHS sign, then a long road lined with widely sited residential houses.

Hospital order for woman who killed husband

Susan Poole is found to have killed David Hart, 92, in the garden of their home in Shipley.