Chancellor announces one-off top up grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses worth up to £9,000 per property to help businesses through to the Spring£594 million discretionary fund also made available to support other impacted businessesComes in addition to £1.1 billion further discretionary grant funding for Local Authorities, Local Restriction Support Grants worth up to £3,000 a...
During a parliamentary session, the Dutch government has clarified that it is legal for driving instructors to offer lessons in return for sex, as long as the students are over the age of 18.
However, it is illegal to offer sex in return for lessons.
Transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen...
The Covid-19 crisis has turned many lives upside down for many including for students at the University of Bradford. Students are increasingly unable to cover the costs of basic living needs such as rent, food, and heating for their homes.
In a response to deal with these crises, The University of Bradford has launched...
The Prime Minister announced a third national lockdown for England amid spiralling Covid-19 infections, once again telling the nation to stay at home.
Boris Johnson said the new measures have been introduced in a bid to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed, and that the number of Covid patients in hospitals is 40% higher than...
Scotland went into full lockdown as of Tuesday 5th January, as has England.
The first minister told Scottish Parliament there will be a legal requirement for people to stay at home for the rest of January, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until the start of February at the earliest.
Lewis Hamilton, Humza Arshad, Craig David, Nina Wadia and Apache Indian among 1,239 people recognised for exceptional and outstanding service to the UK as part of the most diverse New Years Honours List 2021.
The New Year Honours List 2021, demonstrates the incredible efforts of hundreds of public sector and community workers throughout 2020...
Tributes continue to pour in over the death of Bradford’s former Lord Mayor, councillor Abid Hussain, who died after contracting the coronavirus.
Councillor Hussain, who represented the Keighley Central ward for many years, was seriously ill for a number of weeks with Covid-19. Sadly, he succumbed to the virus and passed away on 24th...
MPs have overwhelmingly approved the Brexit trade deal to pave the way for the UK-EU agreement.
The House of Commons backed the agreement, struck between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the EU, by 521 votes to 73.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the deal, which stretches to 1,246 pages and...
Byline: Nazim Ali
“It’s a great honour and I’m profoundly humbled to have arranged the eighth 'Creating Smiles’ gifts initiative to celebrate the life of Prophet Isa (Jesus) - may Allah be pleased with him.
We are living in unprecedented times with Covid-19, and I was determined to carry this...
Anas El-Rafai, 15, and brother Jamal, 13, were swimming with friends at a beauty spot on the River Tees when Jamal hit trouble
A drowned teenager ‘died a hero’ after rescuing his brother from a river, an inquest has heard.
“Selfless" teenager Anas El-Rafai, 15, died trying to help...
A study of 1,000 adults with a physical disability or a mental health condition found 45 per cent have felt lonely while 50 per cent have felt depressed because of the Coronavirus.
But 67 per cent went as far as to say they felt people with a disability had been forgotten about during the...
“Trip to Tanzania was privilege", says Bradford midwifery graduate Aneeqa Hussain about her work placement in Africa
Aneeqa Hussain has worked hard to get where she is today, at one point going back to college for a year to secure the grades she needed in order to continue her university studies.
NHS England's chief executive Sir Simon Stevens issues warning as hospital admissions top first peak
Sir Simon Stevens says NHS staff "back in the eye of the storm", and are are anxious, frustrated and tired as the service comes under extreme pressure.
According to the head of the NHS, the...
UK Military personnel will provide planning and training support to secondary schools and colleges with testing at the start of the spring term, it has been announced today.
The personnel are on standby to support secondary schools and colleges across England to roll out COVID-19 testing to students and staff as the new term...
With the new strain of coronavirus rapidly spreading across the UK, a third full national lockdown hasn’t yet been ruled out
Announcing further areas in England to enter Tier 4 from 26th December, Health Secretary Matt Hancock today expressed mounting concerns about the surging ‘mutant’ strain of Covid-19, more contagious than the original...
Rotary’s Global Polio Eradication initiative has vaccinated more than 2.5 billion children over 35 years
Dr Manoj Joshi DL, a retired pharmacist from Bradford and former district governor of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire for Rotary International, decided he wanted to do something about the lack of awareness about Rotary's humanitarian work locally and...
The new strain of coronavirus discovered in the UK, is thought to be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than the original virus and has led to numerous countries temporarily banning arrivals from the UK.
The Netherlands was the first country to issue restrictions, followed swiftly by a number of other European nations....
£2.2 billion increase in core funding confirmed for schools next yearFunding allocations provide more money for every child in every classroom across the countrySecond year of three-year £14 billion total funding boost
In another step towards delivering on the government’s pledge to invest a total of £14 billion over three years, the Department for...
Yorkshire County Cricket Club's former under-15 and under-19 England cricket captain, Azeem Rafiq, says at a point he had even contemplated suicide due to depression
Former under-15 and under-19 England cricket captain, Azeem Rafiq, is claiming direct discrimination and harassment on the grounds of race, as well as victimisation and detriment as a...
Almost every area that has been in Tier 3 restrictions, will remain under the tightest restrictions over Christmas so for at least another two weeks, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
Following the drop in infections, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester had rallied hard in the hope that restrictions would ease, allowing the hardest...
