Zahir Ghafoor with his award A HERO cabbie has been handed a community champion award for his efforts earlier this month in thwarting the theft of a Keighley bus by two teenagers. Zahir Ghafoor, the boss of Speed-line Taxis, in Keighley, said he was delighted to have been handed the award by Keighley Conservative councillor Mohammed Nazam in the presence of Keighley police inspector Khalid Khan and community liaison officer Shabir Khan. Cllr Nazam said he had been so impressed with the quick-thinking cabbie that he wanted to put his name forward for a Keighley community award later this year, but in the meantime presented one from himself personally as ward councillor.
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A DEBATE which has continued to rear its head over the years has once again been rekindled. The question of whether Keighley – and neighbouring Shipley – should ‘break away’ from the control of Bradford Council began decades ago. In more recent years, former Keighley Conservative MP Kris Hopkins was an advocate of the move. But his Labour successor, John Grogan, was against – claiming it would create extra bureaucracy and could lead to “worse outcomes” for the people of the constituencies. Now current Conservative MP Robbie Moore and Shipley’s fellow Tory Philip Davies are stepping-up their campaign for a split and have secured a meeting with a Government minister to discuss the issue.