Posts by yorkshire reporter

Business Against Crime in Leeds (BACIL) has been working with city-centre businesses for the last eleven years, including retailers, bars and nightclubs, to make Leeds a safer place for people to work, shop and enjoy.  Recently the award winning crime prevention partnership has expanded its remit to cover not only…

West Yorkshire Combined Authority is working with BT to upgrade CCTV coverage at more than 25 of its West Yorkshire bus stations – and install public Wi-Fi at eight of them. Around 260 new Bosch HD cameras connected to a high-speed CCTV fibre network will replace the current analogue cameras…

Leeds has been named the UK’s top performer in a recent report highlighting the country’s most improved places to live and work. PwC’s recently-released annual Good Growth for Cities report saw Leeds come joint number one thanks to an unprecedented surge in the local tech sector and saw the city…

Highways England’s team of 1,300 specially trained gritter drivers based across the country are geared up for winter – and are urging drivers to do the same. The company responsible for the country’s motorways and main A roads has more than 280,000 tonnes of salt, over 500 salt spreading vehicles…