CHILDREN'S safety is of paramount importance at all times - but even more so on park play equipment where accidents do occasionally happen. Ian Burks' campaign to highlight the lack of soft surfacing under play equipment brought him to Otley and the popular
Bradford businessman Kevin Metcalfe is the proud owner of seven Rolls-Royces. The revelation comes a week after a survey showed that the Bradford district boasts more Rolls-Royces and Bentleys per head of population than almost everywhere else in the
People visiting a hospital or clinic are generally there because either they are sick or someone close to them is. It is consequently quite likely that they will be anxious. They will be seeking reassurance. The last thing they need is to come up against
Staff at railway operator EWS are speaking face-to-face to colleagues across the other side of the world thanks to a Batley communications firm. Direct Visual has put EWS in the picture after forming a partnership to supply all its video conferencing
SIR, - Over the past few weeks articles and correspondence in the local press have covered some aspects of the Outpatients Clinic at Airedale General Hospital and the treatment of cancer patients. However, there are clearly some misconceptions about the
A CARELINE centre refused to call an ambulance for an elderly women although she lay in agony after a bad fall, her son has claimed. Brian Boyes says his 72-year-old mother, Grace, has been badly let down by an emergency help-line service, which is supposed
Long-haul passengers who decide to enjoy an in-flight movie can also indulge in lip-smacking ice cream made in Yorkshire. As they settle into their luxurious seats, the Virgin Atlantic cabin crew offer them a juicy ice-lolly -- all the way from Cononley
Play scheme bosses have warned of a summer spree of vandalism after a cash shortfall cut the number of days they will run. Bradford Council cash for the estimated 115 schemes across the city remained the same as last year at about £70,000, despite an
SIR, - As a governor of two Leeds primary schools I am deeply saddened to think that the Leeds council taxpayers will have to find £600,000 a year to employ a private company to run our local education authority. This money could have been far better
Fellandale Sports Day races AT the first Horsforth Sports Day the junior cross-country was organised by Horsforth Harriers, it attracted a field of 24 U-10 runners. The one mile course was held entirely in the park and included a fair amount of hill.
Decision that only causes racism SIR - It was with some disbelief that I read the front page of the T&A of June 15 with regard to the requirement to resign of PC Rick Pentith on the grounds of his racism for using the word "Wog". I would say at this
Bradford City chairman Geoffrey Richmond today said Paul Jewell's successor will come from within the club. Skipper Stuart McCall and caretaker boss Chris Hutchings are the men in the frame. The Bantams have been linked with a host of names since Jewell's
Lee Shepherd completed a good weekend by winning the Bradford boys championship on his own Cleckheaton course. Two days earlier he had helped his team move out of the bottom two relegation slots in Division Two of the Scratch League by beating Shipley's
THE official opening of a refurbished cottage providing self-catering accommodation for people with disabilities and their companions forms the latest development at the Beamsley Project charity. The project finished its first phase of work on converting
A retired teacher who walked ten miles in aid of a hospital which helped save the life of her grand-daughter, has raised the equivalent of more than £1,000 a mile. Barbara Slater of Threshfield, near Skipton, and her five friends -- sisters Betty Whitaker
SIR, - Over the past few weeks articles and correspondence in the local press have covered some aspects of the Outpatients Clinic at Airedale General Hospital and the treatment of cancer patients. However, there are clearly some misconceptions about the
JUST six weeks after Yarnbury RUFC's most successful season ever in terms of their league position the club's senior players are back in training as they prepare for the forthcoming season in the restructured Yorkshire Division One. They are under the
So much for England's brave new world. Their performance throughout at Edgbaston was even more disappointing than it had been on those last two days against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge. I know they had the worst of the conditions and it was a bad pitch for
WOMEN peace protesters were arrested by military police after breaking into Menwith Hill US base in North Yorkshire. Otley women Anne Lee and Helen John were among three protesters arrested on Monday after breaking into the base, near Harrogate, to highlight
A FATHER whose son died after falling off a swing onto a concrete floor has condemned a popular Wharfedale park as a potential death trap. Ian Burks, who eight years ago launched the national Keep Our Children Safe campaign aimed at pressuring councils
Paul Jewell, the man who took Bradford City to the top flight of English football for the first time in 77 years, has quit. Just a month after winning a desperate relegation battle to keep the club in the Premier League, Mr Jewell said: "I feel I have
Sneaky Edward Hanson raided his grandad's £500 savings and blew the whole lot on Pokemon cards in just one day. The seven-year-old, of Birkenshaw, was so obsessed with the cartoon craze, he pinched the cash from a bedroom, spent the whole day buying up
Conservative Leader William Hague flew into Bradford today and attacked the Government for failing to tackle the "scourge" of football violence that had disgraced Britain. Speaking to an audience of editors and senior executives at the Newsquest Editorial
A garden centre is about to rise from the ashes thanks to a £4 million re-build which will make it one of the biggest in the country - and create an extra 50 jobs. Construction work is already underway on the new gardening 'village' at Tong Garden Centre
THERE are people who think that we Beggarsdale folk, tucked away in the folds of our whaleback fells, surrounded only be sheep and ramblers, are pretty much immune from the pressures of the outside world. We would like to think so too. But in fact we
A teenager survived a high speed car smash which killed two men although she was not wearing a seat belt, an inquest heard. Gemma Roadment was a back seat passenger in a Honda Civic being driven towards Bradford last November when the car spun out-of-control
From weaving to welding - its all in a day's work for a group of Shipley employees. For when the workers were made redundant from their jobs at Shipley textile firm Jerome - their cause was taken up by a neighbouring company that needed welders. And from
A German girl has booked her place at the top of the class by beating Bradford students at their own language. Seventeen-year-old exchange student Anyka Oelsner has taught her classmates a lesson by becoming the only person in her Salts Grammar School
A smiling Amy Grimshaw entered the room at Eccleshill police station yesterday to face the press for what she hoped would be the last time. More than six months after her desperate appeal in front of the cameras for the return of her one-year-old son
Young people are being given the chance to make a documentary about life in their village thanks to Government support. The Government-funded Community Development Foundation (CDF) has agreed to back the three-year project in Wilsden to the tune of nearly
