Crime

A convicted Halifax criminal has been ordered to pay close to £76,000 of his ill-gotten gains, marking the end of a major money laundering investigation.

Police have issued a warning about a telephone scam which has been used to target hundreds of people across the country.

Two youths who were seen as part of group on social media causing anti-social behaviour in the Piece Hall will appear in court

A DNA tagging spray is being used by a new police team in Kirklees to identify off-road bikers for prosecution.

Detectives have released CCTV of a man who they want to trace after a 60-year-old woman had her handbag robbed in Huddersfield.

A drunk driver reached 100mph on a snow-covered M62 motorway during a police chase after downing a bottle of Champagne.

A teenager from Todmorden has appeared in court after three women were injured when hit by a car in Blackpool on Saturday night.

A young woman had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her 18-month-old son.

POLICE have charged a West Yorkshire teenager after three women were injured when a Skoda estate car was driven towards pedestrians in Blackpool on Saturday night.

The owners of a new restaurant in Shelf say they fear vandals will target their business again after two attacks in their first two months.

The following Calderdale cases were heard at Bradford Magistrates Court.

A court has heard how a Brighouse father and son chased after two would-be burglars after they were seen acting suspiciously outside a large detached home.

THE GOVERNMENT has been urged to ensure harsher punishments for the “staggering” number of attacks on emergency service workers are enshrined in law as new figures show there have been more than 6,000 assaults on police officers, firefighters and front-line NHS staff in the region in just two years