An Otley project designed to help parents cope with their children has been so successful it may be extended. KidsCope was first piloted last year for under-eights but can now offer advice and support on anything from babies who won't stop crying to teenagers
Parents are learning about everything from heroin to solvents in a bid to stop drug abuse on a housing estate. A series of five free workshops has just been launched to raise the awareness of parents on the Windy Bank Estate at Hightown, near Liversedge
Bradford firm Pace Micro Technology has devised a box which could revolutionise how people watch televison. The set-top box, being shown off at the IBC 1999 media event in Amsterdam, can record live television on a hard disk without needing a video recorder
Angling: Team Fishomania used their local knowledge to good effect, gaining promotion via second place in the Division Four National on the Rochdale Canal. Wheatsheaf - another York-shire side - took third, while Chris Hargreaves (Otley MG) completed
Bulls fans are snapping up tickets for the Grand Final in big numbers even before their side have qualified for the Old Trafford climax. Supporters are making sure of their seats with demand said to be high at both Odsal and Super League headquarters
Tommy Burns' excursion into English club management has not been a success. The former Scottish international and Celtic manager moved south in the spring of 1998 to take over at Reading. Despite spending more than £3 million on new players in his 18
Defender John Dreyer, is back in the City squad after recovering from a chest infection and he warns that tonight's Worthington Cup match against Reading could be a 'banana skin.' As a Premiership club playing a team that is next to the bottom of the
Even in this liberal age the question that divides the sexes is "why are men so afraid of commitment and why are women not?" In 1997 there were 271,000 marriages, 3% less than in 1996 and 23% less than in 1981. And despite newspaper headlines saying the
Five years ago Anita Goinar, a mature student from Germany, began writing to Bradfordian Peter Nieschmidt to improve her English. The pen-pals struck up a friendship by mail, then Anita came to visit...and romance blossomed. WHEN THE idea of having a
There are few among us who have not thought about changing their lives, be it by changing career, or moving to another part of the world. But most of us only get as far as thinking about it. Helen Mead spoke to three women who took the plunge - and haven't
Smokers on low incomes in Bradford could be offered a week's free supply of treatment to help them kick the habit. It could include a week's supply of nicotine replacement therapy such as patches, chewing gum and inhalators. The Bradford district is one
A bitter fight for funding has been launched by 18 voluntary groups appealing against a decision which could put their services to thousands of people in jeopardy. An overhaul of Bradford Council's controversial system for awarding funding has come under
Toller Lane police chiefs today promised to step up police presence in the Lumb Lane area of Manningham after five days of clashes between rival gangs. Meanwhile £9.7 million is being spent on improving jobs and training opportunities for local young
Wanted: One English teacher and family home for Premiership football's latest foreign superstar. Bradford City put out the unusual public appeal after securing the services of striker Bruno Rodriguez from French giants Paris St Germain - and are confident
Two businessmen staged a blockade at a major Bradford company, turning away lorries in a dispute over a £4,000 unpaid bill. But as David McCrudden and his partner Mark Jagger held their protest at Woolcombers Processors in Thornton Road, bosses at the
Two Bradford soldiers have been sent to an Army detention centre for stealing fuel from their base. Ralph Barber, 21, and John Burdett, 23, are both troopers with the Royal Dragoon Guards stationed at Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth, Salisbury. At a court martial
"This competition's going to change the face of this town," bellowed grumpy-faced Warren Clarke as he stormed through the doors of City Hall, Bradford. TV star Clarke is playing the fictitious Lord Mayor of Keighley in a new £4million film comedy, Never
A former nurse at Menston's High Royds Hospital has spoken of his ordeal after being cleared of rape and indecent assault charges involving three psychiatric patients. Helen Brittain bowed her head and cried with relief as the Leeds Crown Court jury foreman
A widow who won a 14-year fight against Leeds-Bradford Airport has not received a penny in compensation - more than a year after her victory. Marie Whitehead successfully claimed that the value of her bungalow had slumped after a runway extension was
A unique relationship linking medical doctors and alternative therapists has been formed at the new Grassington medical centre. Therapists from Craven Clinic, Skipton, have been asked to provide a range of treatments. Dr Andrew Jackson, a partner at the
Home owners fear spring water could gush onto their land if Bradford planners give the go-ahead for 71 new houses off Wheathead Lane in Keighley. They also warn the resulting increase in traffic would make the junction of Wheathead Lane and Oakworth Road
People are being given the chance to make a permanent mark on history in Ilkley's Millennium garden. Dr Peter Harnett, of The Darwin Gardens Trust, said everyone concerned with the project, which will transform West View Park, was excited by the prospect
Controversial plans by former top showjumper Harvey Smith to dump 20,000 cubic metres of rubble on a meadow next to Bingley South Bog have been approved. But there was anger over the way the application had been handled, in particular the refusal by Mr
Council tax payers in Bradford may face a bill of up to £1million for their councillors - twice as much as the current cost. It has been revealed that under the new-look Council, council leader Ian Greenwood is expected to get an annual "salary" of £25,000
Sunday Alliance: First Division Queens Athletic, with Ian Flannigan orchestrating his troops, looked like causing one of the day's Senior Cup shocks at Premier Division Victoria Rangers. Leading 2-1 at the interval, Queens ran out of second half steam
Yorkshire are in danger of ending the season without any of their batsmen completing 1,000 first-class runs for the first time this century. The last time no-one reached four figures was in 1893, and skipper David Byas and Michael Vaughan will be trying
New signing Bruno Rodriguez is set to make his full debut when Bradford City take on Reading in tonight's Worthing-ton Cup match at the Bradford & Bingley Stadium. The 26-year-old French B international striker played for the last 12 minutes of Sunday's
The suggestion that Bradford smokers on low incomes could be offered free supplies of nicotine patches or chewing gum to help them to kick their habit might raise a few eyebrows. After all, if people can afford cigarettes surely they should also be able
There were tears, there was screaming, there were slaps. No, I'm not talking about another day looking after Toddler, but the pulsating events in Albert Square that kept us on the edge of our seats. Bianca has gone and a nation breathes easy. Or does
The opening of Pennington's Variety Club in the former Locarno premises on Manningham Lane is excellent news for those who John Pennington describes as being "mid-to-older to more elderly people". That's us, I suppose - though it goes without saying that
Householders were today warned to be on guard against mystery callers asking for credit card details. The advice comes after a man with an American accent phoned the home of Pudsey man Clive Parker, telling his wife she had won a holiday in Orlando, Florida
A one-legged war veteran has been left stranded after his electric invalid scooter was stolen. Allan Ackroyd is desperate to get it back because it is the only way he can get around. The 78-year-old, who lives with his wife Betty at Carr Bottom Fold,
The producer of a damning television documentary featuring Bradford's Delph Hill estate is returning to face the response of local residents. Community leaders are to meet the maker of Eyes of a Child - a harrowing programme which showed life from the
