Politics

As the region’s population ages, analysts predict its cities will increasingly draw in the younger generations. Claire Wilde reports from Bradford, which has the highest proportion of children of any UK city.

WHEN the world works together, we can achieve extraordinary things. This is most pertinent in medical advancement and healthcare. Take polio for example. Cases have decreased by more than 99 per cent since 1988, from over 350,000 cases to just 22 in 2017. Now we must do the same for malaria.

THE URGENT need to reform the railways will become even more overwhelming today when it is confirmed that fares will rise by approximately 3.5 per cent in the New Year. A price hike which directly correlates with the higher rate of inflation, it will – inevitably – be yet another insult for all those rail users who continue to endure unprecedented delays and disruption across the North.

Work to resurrect a part-finished tower in Leeds City Centre could start as early as next month.

Leeds is building more homes than almost anywhere in the country - but messy planning laws and a “fetishisation” of the green belt are hampering efforts to create enough new housing to help the city reach its economic powerhouse potential, it is claimed.

The Government should abolish stamp duty for pensioners moving house in a move that would free up much-needed family homes for younger buyers, according to Yorkshire peer Lord Best.

IT COULD be re-thinking the length of time it takes for an older person to cross a road, or specifically designing public spaces to that people have more opportunities to simply bump into each other.

The Government was today facing calls for rail fares to be frozen for northern passengers after a summer of disruption and delays across the region’s network.

Leeds MPs have called on policy-makers to address the underlying issues which have led to a “shameful” rise in demand for food banks in the city.

Yorkshire faces a demographic time bomb, it is feared, as its towns and villages age much more rapidly than its big cities. Laura Drysdale went to speak to locals in the Yorkshire communities where younger residents are gradually disappearing.

IT is difficult to know what was more insulting – train operator Northern cancelling dozens of services for the third successive Sunday or the glibness of the company’s blasé statement putting the onus on travellers to “plan their journey carefully”.

NOW the rail industry has been ordered to cut out the jargon, here’s some plain-speaking from The Yorkshire Post. When can long-suffering passengers expect their trains to run on time?

THE managing director of troubled train operator TransPennine Express, Leo Goodwin, has now broken his silence on the region’s rail scandal, after some prompting, in last week’s column.

Time is running out for residents to have their say on Leeds City Council plans to reduce air pollution.

AT least the Chuckle Brothers provided some humour when this Yorkshire double act performed their ‘To me, to you!’ comedy routine. It’s no laughing matter, however, when rail chiefs try it. In fact, it is insulting.