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Burglars could be in hot water after bizarre crime at Bradford house Police are investigating a bizarre crime at a house on the outskirts of Bradford city centre. The intruder or intruders forced the lock on the door to get into a property on Merton Fold, off Spring Mill Street, before removing..... the boiler! Police have issued an appeal over the curious incident, which happened on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. In an update issued through the West Yorkshire Community Alert system, officers gave a brief update on what is being classed as a domestic burglary.
A BRADFORD MP and councillor have hit out at the lack of action and ongoing danger to residents after the site of major tyre fire in November has yet to be cleared. Both Bradford East MP Imran Hussain and Cllr Talat Sajawal (Ind, Little Horton) have expressed concerns that the operator of the Spring Mill Street site had failed to comply with an Environment Agency enforcement notice to clear the area. At the height of the blaze, approximately 100 firefighters tackled the fire at the site which held about 600,000 tyres. Mr Hussian said: “I am extremely concerned that almost three months on from this major fire at Spring Mill Street, the site has yet to be fully cleared, despite the warnings, orders and enforcement notices in place.
THE operator of the Bradford site where a major fire broke out in November involving thousands of tyres has failed to comply with an enforcement notice to clear the area. At the height of the blaze, approximately 100 firefighters tackled the fire at the site which held about 600,000 tyres. The Environment Agency had served a clearance notice on operators of the Spring Mill Street site before the fire had broken out. A spokesperson for the Environment Agency said: “The operator has failed to comply with the legal requirements of an enforcement notice, compelling it to remove tyres from its illegal waste site on Spring Mill Street.