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 ...

This culture of fear has been decades in the making. In 1989, a chill wind blew across Britain when Ayatollah Khomeini ...

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 ...

A sex-cult leader who brainwashed and abused children will not be transferred to an open prison despite a parole board's recommendation. Colin Batley was jailed in 2011 after being found guilty of 35 ...