New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to 11 of Kirklees’s establishments, the Food Standards Agency’s website shows.

West Yorkshire Police are asking for the public’s help in tracing these people caught on camera in Dewsbury, Batley and Spen.

The overturning of Hamit Coskun’s conviction for burning a Quran during a protest shows Britain still doesn’t have blasphemy laws. But in truth a fear of violent reprisals from extreme Muslims has ...

YOUTHS who throw stones from a bridge on to passing cars could end up killing someone, police have warned. Officers were ...

There are some cabinet ministers whose rise the Westminster circus sees coming a mile off. Shabana Mahmood’s ascent to home secretary has been a quiet one, unaccompanied by commentator fanfare.

Baroness Michelle Mone has accused the chancellor of using "dangerous and inflammatory" language after a firm linked to her ...

Passengers are being warned to check for railway station closures and service changes including Leeds, Dewsbury and Huddersfield as part of the multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade (scroll ...

West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin has used her speech to the Labour Party Conference to announce her intention to run for a third term in 2028. Brabin, who was previously the Labour MP for Batley and ...

That being the Batley and Spen by-election of 2016 which was brought about by the appalling murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox. Given our increasingly polarised politics it’s worth reminding ourselves of ...

By-election counts are the FA Cup ties of British politics. Some go true to form, but many are tense, nail-biting, go deep into extra time and provide upsets and shocks by political giant killers.

A serial rapist and paedophile who ran a warped sex cult in a close-knit Welsh community will not be transferred to an open prison after the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) defied a recommendation from the ...