TRACY Brabin, the new Metro Mayor of West Yorkshire, will be attending the first meeting of Bradford Council’s Executive since last month’s election on Tuesday. The meeting will establish how the Executive and the new Metro Mayor can work together to drive economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic across the district and the region. Bradford Council will be the first local authority the new Metro Mayor has visited since the election. Susan Hinchcliffe, Leader of Bradford Council, said: “I want to welcome Mayor Brabin to Bradford and extend my congratulations to her on her election as the first Metro Mayor of West Yorkshire and the first female Metro Mayor in the country. The new role will bring a focus to our region as we work together to hold the government to account on its promise of levelling up.
A LANDMARK moment has been reached locally in the fight against coronavirus as the vaccination programme in Bradford district and Craven delivered its 500,000th dose of the vaccine. The milestone came as it was announced that more than half of all adults in the UK have received a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and three quarters of UK adults have had a first jab. Mary Dodgson, 62, from Woodside, was one of the people who helped reach the half a million dose milestone by getting her first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine at The Ridge Medical Centre in Great Horton, Bradford.