PAUL PARKER lets his hair down with his children deep in the forests of Cumbria Almost as soon as we arrived, the girls spotted a hare. "Look, Dad, there's a rabbit!" the seven-year-old shouted. "It's a hare," I replied. "It's bigger than a rabbit and
When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 1999, parties throughout the land will be in full swing. But few, if any, will have been as long in the planning as John Metcalfe's. The far-sighted Baildon pensioner first asked if he could book the village's
A couple feared drowned in the River Wharfe have been described as "blissfully happy" when they arrived at their hideaway honeymoon cottage. Owner Eileen Baron, who greeted Lynn and Barry Collett, said they were laughing and joking together when their
A "wonderful" man who spent four years as a prisoner of war jumped to his death at a beauty spot, an inquest heard. Brian Newsome Booth was shot down over Europe during the Second World War while serving with the RAF. In recent years he suffered from
A 48-year-old man whose home acted as a drugs shop for up to 100 heroin users a day was jailed for four years. Police kept Lawrence Hargreaves' house in Vickerman Street, Halifax, under surveillance between February and April last year and saw many known
Disappointed villagers today vowed to continue their bid to get Saltaire put on the same cultural footing as the Pyramids, despite being left off a Government list of proposed "wonders of the world". Culture Secretary Chris Smith ended ten weeks of consultation
John McGinlay is bitterly disappointed that injury has scuppered his hopes of facing former club Bolton Wanderers tomorrow. The 34-year-old joined Bradford City in a then club record £625,000 deal last November with manager Chris Kamara hoping he would
Yorkshire captain David Byas has declared his delight at the news that Australian batsman Greg Blewett has been signed for the county next season. And he revealed that the Australian would open the batting with Michael Vaughan, allowing Byas to drop back
Rob Steiner looks set to leave Bradford City in a switch back to his native Scandinavia. The Swede is today in Norway discussing personal terms with First Division club Stabaek after the clubs agreed a £200,000 fee. Steiner appears to be surplus to requirements
Frazer Hines stood with one foot in the parish of Giggleswick and one foot in Settle. The well-remembered star of Emmerdale was half way across the bridge which spans the Ribble in several graceful arches. Filmsters were "shooting" a series of Dales walks
I've passed The Flappit pub countless times flitting between home and the Haworth area, quite often on the way to eat out somewhere else, but only recently noticed that they also served pub food. So on one of the few bright sunny days of this summer,
What a sad, sad week it has been. All those poor people killed or maimed by the monsters of Omagh. All those funerals. All those moving words of grief spoken by ordinary souls. All those hypocritical mouthings by politicians whose belief that they had
It's something we all take for granted but how many of us know what it's really like to be a binman. Reporter Charles Heslett joined a crew to experience a day-in-the-life of a refuse collector. After one day as a binman I got back to the Bradford Council's
Bradford is facing a cat crisis as hundreds of the animals are being abandoned by their owners. Staff at rescue places throughout the city say they just do not have the room to take in any more cats. And they are desperately searching for people to give
A publican warned yesterday that the city centre was at saturation point as Whitbread announced it was bringing a new £500,000 pub to the city. The brewery will open a second Hogshead outlet by transforming the former Cavernes Discotheque, in Great Horton
The shell-shocked family of a heart bypass patient are demanding a new inquiry into her death, claiming that vital new evidence failed to come to light during an inquest. Janet Thornton's family yesterday criticised West Yorkshire police for failing to
Workers in Bradford are worse paid and have a lower rate of car ownership than other parts of the country. But according to a new survey houses are cheaper in Bradford and the district is one of a handful of urban areas with a growing population. The
A councillor has launched a bid to blitz a rash of posters which have sprung up in the Shipley and Bingley areas. The posters - appealing to people desperate to earn more cash - have been attached to lamp posts, traffic lights and even trees. And Councillor
Elderly people are being targeted by a company to sign up for thousands of pounds of repairs to their homes, it was claimed today. Angry relatives have criticised Midland Coatings Co Ltd. for persuading the elderly people living alone to sign contracts
Bulls hooker James Lowes has a double mission at the Shay tomorrow - two league points and the better of his tussle with Great Britain rival Paul Rowley. Victory over third-placed Halifax Blue Sox would give the champions top five hopes a major shot in
Simon Ashberry previews a fund-raising event with a difference. Cafe bosses hope to serve up an extra dimension to Bradford's music scene by launching a new venture. They are running a new venue at Caf Kino - kicking off with a charity event called Orient
Actress Heather Peace hopes to ignite her career after landing a major role on the hit TV series London's Burning. She will star as one of three new characters in the new series of the smash show due to begin next month. Bradford girl Heather, 23, was
Locating long lost corpses may sound macabre, but Dr Robert Pastor knows that his work is genuinely about reuniting families with their loved ones. The 48-year-old anthropologist has joined Bradford University as a lecturer direct from a three-year stint
