Bradford Detectives have been operating in Bradford and Yorkshire and Humberside for almost 20 years.
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Bradford has faced similar challenges to the rest of the post-industrial area of Northern England, including deindustrialisation, housing problems, social unrest and serious economic deprivation.
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The City of Bradford is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England.
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Bradford is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, 8.6 miles (13.8 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (25.7 km) northwest of Wakefield.
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Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897.
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Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough.
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Bradford has a population of 293,717,making it the thirteenth-most populous city in the UK.
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Bradford forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2001 had a population of 1.5 million.
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Bradford is part of the Leeds-Bradford Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), the third largest in the UK after London and Manchester.
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Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool.
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Bradford was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the 'wool capital of the world'.
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Bradford has fine Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.
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Bradford has emerged as a tourist destination with attractions such as the National Media Museum and Cartwright Hall.
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Since the 1950s Bradford has experienced significant levels of immigration, particularly from Kashmir.
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Bradford has the second highest proportion of Muslims in England and Wales outside London.
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