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From Keighley News, 14th November, 2017
Written by Alistair Shand

DISTRICT MPs are backing calls for more Government funding to be pumped into policing West Yorkshire. It follows warnings from Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Mark Burns-Williamson that without additional investment, the force's cash reserves will have dried up in five years. He has invited West Yorkshire's MPs to a Westminster meeting this afternoon to discuss the situation ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Budget next week.

From The Observer, 12th November, 2017
Written by Frances Perraudin

When Londoner Stewart Arnold first moved to Yorkshire in 1992 to lecture in business studies at Hull University, he was immediately enthralled by life in the place some natives like to call “God’s own county”. “It sometimes takes an outsider to realise what Yorkshire has, and it was very early on that I noticed it had a very special, separate sense of identity and community,” he says. 

From Keighley News, 12th November, 2017
Written by Alistair Shand 

KEIGHLEY-district joined the nation in remembrance today. Young and old stood shoulder-to-shoulder in tribute to those who gave their lives in both world wars and other conflicts. Services and ceremonies were held in Keighley and at other towns and villages across the area. A parade, headed by City of York Pipe Band, made its way to Keighley Shared Church.

From Craven Herald & Pioneer, 9th November 2017
Written by Clive White

CAMPAIGNERS battling to reinstate a rail link between Skipton and Colne believe the £100m scheme is a step nearer reality after a key meeting at Westminster. And the region's MPs believe that the re-established railway between Skipton and Colne, which would cost around £100m and consist of 11.5 miles of new track, now has strong support and is closer than it has ever been.