Comedian Ernie Wise has suffered from heart disease for several years. Now as he recovers in a Florida hospital after triple by-pass surgery, Mike Waites highlights the district's biggest killer and gives advice to those who care for heart attack victims
Council officers are finalising their bid for more than a million pounds from the sports lottery to turn Aireville Park, Skipton, into a major tourist attraction. At the heart of the project is the demolition of the 35-year-old Aireville swimming baths
Fugitive Kerry Page could be a free woman if the Kenyan authorities fail to meet a deadline for telling the Home Office whether or not they want to prosecute her. The Home Office says the Kenyans have until early March to make a decision under the terms
T&A readers have won new plaudits for their amazing efforts raising a fantastic £1million in just 18 months to bring state-of-the-art MRI technology to Bradford. Work is now well under way at Bradford Royal Infirmary to build a suite for the MRI machine
Athletics: Bradford Airedale's Richard Findlow won the North of England Cross County Championships at Sheffield on Saturday. Throughout the 12km race in muddy Graves Park, Findlow was involved in an epic battle for the lead with Morpeth's Terry Hall.
Bradford City are putting up their admission prices for the first time in five years, the club announced today. The average increase in the main Sunwin stand and the Ciba stand on Midland Road is about 20 per cent. Supporters who currently stand on the
It will be a terrible irony if a major redevelopment intended to breathe new life into Bingley town centre instead weakens it by leaving it without a supermarket. Yet that is the fear as a decision draws near on the £11 million refurbishment of Myrtle
Telephonist Dawn Wild, 37, of Pudsey, was devastated after being told she was too overweight to conceive. Her marriage broke up under the strain, yet she battled on and conceived through Artificial Insemination by Donor. Her beautiful, lively daughter
The winter season is supposed to be the time when we feel the aches and pains in our joints more and we start to get arthritis. That's probably not strictly true. In fact, doctors see roughly similar numbers of people with both main types of arthritis
Tomorrow's a day when many people in their 50s and early 60s will be finding time for a spot of quiet reflection. It's 40 years since Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens died in a plane crash and a generation of teenagers was plunged into mourning
A Bradford mother has said she can finally lay her daughter to rest after her killer was sent down for life for the murder of another Bradford prostitute. Margaret Midgley's 22-year-old daughter Deborah Kershaw died at the hands of George Naylor who was
Detectives hunting the Flat Cap Robber - who is believed to have held up building societies in Keighley and Skipton - have arrested a man, it was revealed today. Staffordshire police said the 53-year-old was detained at an address in the Midlands. A spokesman
Pauline Ellis is fed up with Bradford Council after being plagued with smelly drains for almost a decade. Over the last nine years, Council workmen have made numerous searches for the source of the problem near her home in Romsey Gardens, Holme Wood.
All Jean Parr ever wanted was to walk her children to school, while her friend Elaine Clegg would love to arrange a day out without worrying whether she will be up to it. The friends have one overwhelming thing in common - they are in constant pain, suffering
People and businesses in Otley are being urged to pull out all the stops to boost its entry in this year's Britain in Bloom competition after a disappointing result in 1998. Organisers say community spirit is the key to success in the competition and
A councillor is calling for a feasibility study into the possibility of a heritage railway running a commuter service - turning the clock back more then 30 years. Oxenhope Parish Councillor Mike Ellis is planning to meet officers from Bradford Council
A distraught mother spoke today of her fears that her missing son is dead. After two days of police searches, concern is mounting for the safety of Jonathan Danskin who ran into the River Wharfe after the car he was travelling in was stopped by police
A pay strike by meat inspectors has won backing from an Ilkley abattoir. The strike is likely to cause widespread disruption today as Britain's biggest union Unison warned that plans were being drawn up to escalate the action. It erupted in protest at
Fears are mounting that Bingley could be left without a supermarket while a multi-million pound shopping precinct is built. A decision on whether to allow the £11m refurbishment of Myrtle Walk shopping precinct is expected to be made by Bradford councillors
Pupils wept today for a schoolboy killed when his bike collided with a bus. Michael Bucktrout, 11, was cycling with a friend when the accident with the single-decker happened in Towngate, Wyke, last night. Many pupils were in tears when the news was broken
A growing West Yorkshire firm is aiming to expand even further with new deals it aims to pick up at a major textile exhibition in Paris. James Holdsworth, which makes equipment used for wool combing called card clothing, is pulling out the stops for the
Non-League Soccer: Bradford Park Avenue will parade two new signings for their trip to Droylsden for a Unifilla Division One Cup quarter-final tonight. Avenue will have keeper Richard Atkinson and Jonathon Jones, both recent captures from Glasshoughton
"That will do nicely" was the overwhelming feeling at Odsal today as the Bulls landed their first home Challenge Cup tie for three years. First Division Workington Town should provide them with a safe passage through to the last 16 and it was enough to
Bradford City believe in catching their supporters young. For the first time they are offering season tickets to under-6s as chairman Geoffrey Richmond adds a new dimension to his 'children friendly' policy. One of the first decisions Richmond made when
The idea of one litter before she was spayed was Tammy the Jack Russell terrier's downfall. Her owner did not really want puppies, he just believed the person who said it would be best for Tammy. At just over a year old, her owner felt she was young and
In a world of innate stupidity, blunder and mind-numbing madness, I was pleased to see one piece of hope last week embedded in all the news of doom and gloom. What was that, you may ask? An end to famine? An end to violence and war? An end to Noel's House
Angry nurses have invited Health Secretary Frank Dobson to spend a day with them in Bradford in the wake of pay rises they have branded divisive. Trainee nurses were yesterday awarded increases of 12 per cent, staff nurses 8.2 per cent and other grades
An anti-crime team is being formed in Bradford to try to keep young people on the right side of the law. The multi-agency Youth Offending Team is one of the first in the country and is a direct response to the Government's new Crime and Disorder Act.
Bradford father-of-two Anthony Forrest spoke of killing himself when he was sent to Armley prison, an inquest jury heard today. Less than three weeks later, the unemployed tyre fitter was found hanging in his communal cell. Mr Forrest, 31, formerly of
A church in Birstall with a tiny congregation is to launch a £100,000 appeal to create a community centre fit for the Millennium. Pastor Bill Miller, who runs the Birstall Community Church in Smithies Lane, which has just 33 worshippers, admits it is
Raiders armed with machine guns fled empty-handed after two bungled robbery attempts yesterday. Three men, one armed with a gun and the others with steel bars, burst into the Abbey National in Duckworth Lane, Bradford, and demanded cash. Terrified customers
A 90-year-old cyclist, killed after his bike was involved in a collision with a white Fiat Punto car near the entrance to Cleckheaton's bus station, has been named by police as Handel Oates, of Pyenot Avenue, Cleckheaton. Police are appealing for witnesses
Work has nearly been completed on a complex of houses in Ilkley which have generated "exceptional" interest. All but one of the nine plots at Annandale Court, at the site of the former Wells Club and Royal British Legion Club off Wells Road, has already
