Nine of the 20 biggest emergency responses to fires in West Yorkshire took place in Bradford thetelegraphandargus.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetelegraphandargus.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FIREFIGHTERS from across Bradford were still at the scene this morning of a massive fire at the Oxford Bingo & Social Club in Undercliffe. Appliances from Bradford, Shipley, Fairweather Green, Stanningley and Odsal fire stations and an aerial from Leeds Fire Station, along with other support crews, were called to the fire at the building on Dudley Hill Road at 12.21am. A spokesperson from the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: It is a single-storey building 50 metres by 15 metres and was 100 per cent involved in fire. Crews were using six jets and one aerial. There were no reports of any persons involved.
A DRUG dealer caught with drugs stashed between his buttocks has been jailed along with another man. Mikaeel Sher, 23, and Colin Ver, 22, were first spotted by police officers in a Volkswagen Golf in Manningham – Sher was driving and Ver was the passenger in the car. A drug deal involving the pair was later seen taking place via the passenger window of the car. They were later stopped by police in North Avenue, Bradford, and both men and their car were searched. Officers found an iPhone and £340 cash on Ver and drugs which he hid between his buttocks. A total of 50 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin were found, alongside £101 of loose coins in the car. Sher had £53 in cash on him.