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BBC News
4 days ago
- General
- BBC News
West Yorkshire Police cadets reunite 50 years after passing out
A group of more than 60 former police cadets have reunited after 50 years, with some travelling from the US and Australia to meet up with were teenagers when they joined West Yorkshire Police in 1975, and trained and volunteered with the force before a passing out parade in the famously hot summer of of them went on to become police officers, including organiser Rob Winslade, 65, who retired 14 years ago and now runs a family dog walking business in said there had been four reunions, including 1985, 1995 and 2005, but 2025's had been the best-attended. "Some people have not seen each other since the passing out parade, so there was plenty of catching up to do," he said."It went absolutely fantastic. As one of the lads described it at the end, it was an epic event. It was really special."The group met at Wakefield Sports Club, over the road from the now-closed Bishopgarth House police training centre where they originally Winslade – who had a 30-year career in the force after his stint in the cadets – said it was "genuinely lovely" to reminisce with old friends."It was lovely to see so many people after 50 years, including two of our old sergeants who were the bane of our lives when we were 16."One of our sergeants, Bronwyn, it was the first time in 27 years of retirement that she had been to any police reunion. So we were quite touched that she was there."He said the force had changed completely in the last 50 years."It had to move with the times," he said. "But I don't bemoan it, whatever is happening now is relevant to now and what I did was relevant to then."His most memorable experience as an officer was when he volunteered for duty at Princess Diana's funeral in September 1997, he said."Myself and about 15 police motorcyclists volunteered. We rode down to London and were looking after the motorway junctions."That was possibly the standout point of my career."We got to the motorway bridge at Junction 14/15 at Northampton early, just as the funeral cortege set off."When it left London people started to come out to the motorway and when the cortege went past the motorway was absolutely full of people, with just enough room for the cortege to get through. I was very emotional." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Three arrests after cyclist, 16, seriously injured
Three people have been arrested after a teenage cyclist was seriously injured in a road traffic collision. The 16-year-old boy suffered potentially life-changing injuries in the incident, which happened on Peep Green Road in Liversedge at around 21:10 BST on Friday, 2 May. West Yorkshire Police said it had arrested three men, all of them aged 30, on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Officers said they were still investigating the incident and wanted to hear from anyone who saw a white Volkswagen Touareg with a black sunroof and tinted windows at the rear around the time of the collision. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North. West Yorkshire Police
BBC News
24-05-2025
- BBC News
Three arrests after cyclist, 16, seriously injured in Liversedge
Three people have been arrested after a teenage cyclist was seriously injured in a road traffic 16-year-old boy suffered potentially life-changing injuries in the incident, which happened on Peep Green Road in Liversedge at around 21:10 BST on Friday, 2 Yorkshire Police said it had arrested three men, all of them aged 30, on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous said they were still investigating the incident and wanted to hear from anyone who saw a white Volkswagen Touareg with a black sunroof and tinted windows at the rear around the time of the collision. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
18-02-2025
- BBC News
New image of unidentified woman killed on the A 50 years ago
New images have been released of an unidentified woman who was killed when she was struck by a car 50 years ago as she was walking along a main International, a charity which investigates cold cases of missing and unidentified people, said the woman was struck by one or more vehicles on the A1 near Baldock, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 18 February numerous appeals her identity has still not been confirmed, but in 2010 police discovered she may have been French and had lived in Police said: "We never completely close unsolved murder or unexplained death cases and any information we receive will be treated with the upmost importance by the Cold Case team." When the woman was found on the southbound carriageway of the A1 near the A507 slipway she was not wearing shoes and her feet were not an appeal in June 2010, which contained a facial reconstruction of the woman, a couple came forward to say they recognised her as a young French woman who had stayed with them in the early Liversedge had met her in 1972 when she was hitch-hiking on London's North Circular road during a thunderstorm. She then went on to stay with David and his wife, Barbara, at their home near Baldock and gave her name as worked making souvenirs at Plug International on an industrial estate in Henlow, Bedfordshire, and would regularly visit Stotfold Social Club. She also had friends in Newquay, then went to Cambridge to study at a language International said it had uncovered an article from the Cambridge Evening News on 25 November 1972 which mentions an Odile Ledoux, a 20-year-old French woman studying English in Cambridge, who was not injured in a house fire."Since this latest breakthrough we are now actively investigating the name Odile Ledoux in the UK and in France," a spokesman for Locate International said. Locate International said a statement from a milkman who had picked up her up shortly before her death said she had appeared scared or charity said it also believed she may have come into physical harm at some point in the months building up to her statements also suggest she may have used the name Anne, Anna, or a variation thereof, as well as Greenhalgh, Locate International's CEO, said: " If she was alive today, she would be in her late 60s to mid-70s, so we are eager for people to come forward before it is too late." Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
