By Reader letter
Reader letter
130 houses are proposed on Green Belt off Wheatley Grove in Ben Rhydding in Bradford Council s Local Plan From Colin Burn, Ben Rhydding ONE of the disturbing aspects of the proposals to build up to 130 houses on the Wheatley Grove greenbelt location is that such development is quite likely to obliterate a rare remaining open field stretch of one of Ilkley’s antiquities. Of the many strollers and weekend walkers making their way up Ben Rhydding Drive in order to enjoy the moor, I suspect only a few will be aware that they are travelling on a converging path with, and then crossing, the course of a significant Roman road. Classified by the Roman Roads Research Association as RR72b, the road linked the fort, crossroads and settlement at Ilkley (called either Verbeia, Olicana or maybe both) with Tadcaster and York, or Eboracum. As the most direct route from relatively important West coast
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The current Covid map for Bradford; darker colours denote higher infection rates and show the scale of the problem Bradford has to overcome THESE are the areas of the Bradford district with the best and worst Covid-19 infection rates in the latest figures. The infection rate reflects how many people in an area are currently infected with the virus, and is a signifier of how much it is spreading locally. Some areas of Bradford are doing a great job of controlling infection to rid themselves of Covid-19, while others are still struggling to bring infections down despite being in lockdown for more than two months.
It is 12 months to the day since the first case of Covid-19 was found in the Bradford district TODAY marks one year since the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the Bradford district. On March 1, 2020, a woman in her 50s from the Ilkley area became the first known case of Coronavirus in the district. The woman developed symptoms of the virus after returning home from a family holiday in Italy, and drove herself to hospital to be tested before self-isolating at home with her family. At this time, there had been just a handful of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK, and signalled the arrival of the deadly virus in Bradford.
England’s Professor Chris Whitty, Northern Ireland’s Dr Michael McBride, Scotland’s Dr Gregor Smith, Wales’s Dr Frank Atherton and NHS England’s Professor Stephen Powis announced the decision on Thursday following advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre. They said health services across the four nations “remain under significant pressure with a high number of patients in hospital”, but thanks to the efforts of the public numbers are now “consistently declining, and the threat of the NHS and other health services being overwhelmed within 21 days has receded”. They added: “We should be under no illusions – transmission rates, hospital pressures and deaths are still very high.