Pudsey Congs breathed new life into their bid for a first Division One title as they took maximum points from their two weekend games. Victories over Yeadon by six wickets and Windhill by three wickets yesterday took them to within one point of leaders
Bradford City travel to Russia tomorrow for Wednesday's Intertoto Cup semi-final against St Petersburg side FC Zenit knowing their European exploits have already exempted them until the third round of the Worthington Cup. And delighted chairman Geoffrey
USING cash to attract more cash was the principle used by West Craven councillors who set their spending programme for the coming year. Pendle Council's West Craven committee had £38,800 to invest in the area over the next 12 months. But in many cases
Escapologist Nick Janson went down a bomb at the millennium Ingleton Gala. Billed as Britain's most handcuffed man he was the star attraction at the event. Handcuffed by the local constabulary, he was locked into a large bomb and lifted into the air under
MALCOLM Barrett feels at home with a paint brush in his hand. But he will have to get used to being without one now he has retired after nearly 50 years in the family firm. Malcolm, of Silsden, was just 15 years old when he started work for his father
SPEED limits could be slashed in parts of South Craven to make the roads safer for children. Twenty miles per hour speed limits can now be introduced in areas where children could be at risk from traffic. North Yorkshire County Council has £38,000 to
NOVEL: The Mirage I was delighted to review Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' latest novel, the 22nd of the series The Morland Dynasty. The series aims to follow through history the lives of successive generations of Morland Place in Yorkshire since its founding
CRIME NOVEL: A Wicked Deed This £5.99 Warner paperback is the the fifth chronical of medieval detective Mathew Bartholomew. Gregory, a former Yorkshire police officer turned researcher, takes us back to the 14th century in a historical tale of murder
ALBUM: Dirty Beatniks Since the incredible international success of Fatboy Slim, Skint Records found themselves in a financial position to sign many more hopefuls. Unfortunately the consistency of creativity isn't always there, and although Dirty Beatniks
A clutch of rock tribute bands and one blast form the past play Bradford Rio this summer. Coming up: AB/CD, August 5; Gunz 'n' Rozes, 12; the real Eddie and the Hotrods, 26; Suss Pistols, September 1; YYZ (Rush tribute), 2; Dressed to Kill (Kiss), 30.
Adultery is in store for real-life sweethearts Julie Broadbent and Philip Smith in their latest acting roles. The Cross Hills couple are reunited on stage in Skipton Little Theatre's production of an Alan Ayckbourn comedy. Time and Time Again sees both
Home-grown fresh fruit and vegetables, cheese, honey and bread were just a small selection of organic produce available at Heckmondwike's first farmers' market. The monthly event, which runs alongside an already successful farmers' market in Holmfirth
The latest round in a battle to turn a village quarry into a landfill has gone the way of the developers with council officers advising planners to give the scheme the go ahead. But the vote of support for Wastewise waste management services has failed
A campaign to recruit more sheep shearers after a shortfall has paid off for a Bradford wool organisation. The British Wool Marketing Board spotted a shortage of sheep shearers three years ago and vowed to do all it could to bring more people into the
A Bradford firm says it is the first in the world to offer 80 channels of mood music around the UK. Blucat, based in Thornton, provides the wide range of music using the Astra space satellite which also enables BSkyB to run its satellite television service
DEGREES at the double are being celebrated by a Barnoldswick family, as mother and son both graduate with honours. Lots of young people have spent the past couple of months worrying about the results of their university finals and whether they'd get the
AMBITIOUS plans to upgrade and improve a museum in Earby's most historic building have suffered a major setback. The Museum of Yorkshire Dales Lead Mining, housed in the Old Grammar School on School Lane, is run by a small but dedicated team of volunteers
BENTHAM'S long awaited and very much debated millennium project at the School Hill amenity area was officially opened on Friday and, as befitted the scheme, it was done in style. Tom Guy, local barber, wit and poet to name but a few of his attributes,
CALLS have been made to ban drinking in Silsden's memorial gardens after a spate of vandalism. The town's environmental group has spent many months refurbishing the gardens, which house Silsden's memorial to its war dead. But the group has been shocked
LONG awaited improvements to some of Skipton's poorly equipped playgrounds should be seen before the end of the year. Following an inspection of all 10 grounds, Skipton town councillors have decided to prioritise half of them and make major changes as
PLANS for the new St Stephen's School, Skipton, have raised protests from residents who claim their gardens would be over shadowed by the concrete buildings. A group from St Stephen's Close has said it objects to the building of the seven classrooms on
A NEW maypole has been erected on Kilnsey Village Green with the help of local residents. Past photographs show that there have been at least two maypoles over the years, with the last one being taken down in the mid-1960s for safety reasons. Villagers
NOVEL: Billy Straight An young boy living rough witnesses the brutal murder of a beautiful celebrity who had recently divorced her husband. The investigating cops tread warily in the light of recent high-profile cases such as OJ Simpson as they examine
Skipton band Elixir teams up with melodic rock band Logain, which consists of past and present Ilkley Grammar School students, to play in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Phone 01943 862330 for £2 tickets for the August 11 gig at Burley-in-Wharfedale Cricket
Animals are stripped to the bone by artist Tilly Downs in the latest exhibition at Cliffe Castle. The Keighley museum hosts the display of skeletons and skeleton drawings until September 1. Bradford-born Tilly, 24, graduated from Edinburgh College of
A new website has been launched for people involved in amateur theatre either as participants or in the audience. The free "one-stop" site has already attracted 800 of the UK's 20,000 amateur societies and others can send their details. The site will
A leading Bingley hotelier today hit out at town centre bosses who snubbed his offer of help. William Oxley, proprietor of Five Rise Locks Hotel, claims the Better Bingley Campaign (BBC) and the Bingley Town Centre Partnership (TCP) did not respond to
They came from as far away as America, New Zealand and South Africa. And for some it was the first time they had met. The huge get-together of nearly 60 descendants saw four generations of the Llewellyn family re-visiting Saltaire, their spiritual home
A takeaway and restaurant was showered with bullets during a drive-by shooting today - the third gun attack in Bradford in ten days. Shocked customers dived for cover as a car crawled up outside the Shimla Kebab House and blasted two bullet holes through
