Bradford Park Avenue had a much more comfortable victory in last night's friendly at Brodsworth MW than the 1-0 scoreline suggests. Despite being without Chris Dolby, Jason Maxwell and Paul Marquis the visitors controlled the game and should have scored
Castleford are on course to defy the pundits who said they would struggle to make the play-offs this season. Despite some slips including what coach Stuart Raper described as "probably the poorest since I took charge" against Warrington recently they
Michael Withers' last two tries were the most memorable of his career as he helped sink the old enemy Leeds in the Challenge Cup final at Murrayfield. But while they will stay with him forever the talented Aussie reckons it's time to get that scoring
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott insists hard work is the only recipe to get back on track after a string of low key performances have dented their bid to finish top of Super League for the third time in four years. Two defeats and a draw in their
The anxious weeks of waiting are over -- the £850 which has accumulated since the Keighley News Loyalty Card was launched has finally been won. The winner, mother of three Elaine Richardson, of North Dean Road, Keighley, came to our North Street offices
The anxious weeks of waiting are over -- the £850 which has accumulated since the Keighley News Loyalty Card was launched has finally been won. The winner, mother of three Elaine Richardson, of North Dean Road, Keighley, came to our North Street offices
Youngsters in Denholme have been mucking in to tidy up a neglected corner of the village. A team of five friends has been clearing a graveyard on the corner of Foster Park Road which had become overgrown and litter-strewn after years of being left unattended
Railtrack, coupled with its major contractor Jarvis and the West Yorkshire Police, are taking to the skies in the battle against railway crime. The "eye in the sky" helicopter will target known trespass and vandalism black-spots during the summer holidays
Pensioners in Keighley are appealing to the Queen to support their call for a higher state pension. Keighley and District Pensioners Action Group is collecting names for a national petition urging the queen to ask her ministers to restore the link between
A keen sportsman who loved soccer and walking the fells has lost his battle against cancer. James Fisher, 25, of Denholme, who thought he had beaten the disease, has died only a month after climbing the Three Peaks. A first team member of Oxenhope Football
Visitors to historic East Riddlesden Hall are being led back in time by characters who would have lived at the house in the 17th century. A merchant and a maid servant are telling visitors how strangers often slept in the same bed, and of the lotions
Sutton villagers are fighting plans to erect a mobile phone mast in a nearby field. BT Cellnet want to install the mast in Thompson's Yard, a field off Holme Lane. But local residents fear radiation waves could damage their health. Rita Newiss, of Holme
The anxious weeks of waiting are over -- the £850 which has accumulated since the Keighley News Loyalty Card was launched has finally been won. The winner, mother of three Elaine Richardson, of North Dean Road, Keighley, came to our North Street offices
A CONSUMMATE joker with a wicked sense of humour and a perennial mischievous glint in his eye, former Craven Herald editor Jack Heald is seldom given to bouts of full-blown earnestness. Nevertheless, there was a rare and brief moment this week when he
WELL away from Walford, Eastender Dot Cotton found a warm welcome waiting in West Craven. Sunshine and smiles greeted the soap star - alias actress June Brown - when she appeared as celebrity guest at Barnoldswick's Millennium Gala, organised by the local
SILSDEN, Steeton and Eastburn residents are to come together to press for a footbridge to be built over the busy Aire Valley Trunk Road. Thousands of pounds has been spent by the Highways Agency installing safety measures on the A629 at the Silsden roundabout
A GLOOMY picture has been painted of the future of upland hill farming, with a Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority report stating up to 30 per cent of farms could disappear by the end of the decade. The report considers the prospects for upland farming
A CONTEMPORAY bar, which is expected to change nights out in Skipton forever, was opened at the weekend. Y on Cavendish Street served its first pints to a select group of guests on Friday and opened its doors to its waiting public on Saturday. The bar
HELLIFIELD vicar Canon Graham Walker was rushed to Airedale Hospital this week after an allergic reaction to a wasp sting caused him to lose consciousness at the wheel of his car. To the horror of onlookers, the 65-year-old vicar, who was in the car with
NO action is likely to be taken against Skipton's mayor Richard Colley after a complaint that he voted for a £10,000 grant to be awarded to a company which employed his wife. Fellow Skipton town councillor Paul Whitaker called for an investigation into
A ROBBER who travelled around the country targeting building societies in market towns, including Skipton, has been jailed for life at Cardiff Crown Court. William Ford, 50, held up Skipton's Bradford and Bingley Building Society office on April 28, with
IN the unlikely event of your wanting someone to build you a Welsh fishing coracle, please don't ring David Aynesworth. He could do the job, no problem. Trouble is, he's too busy right now. He might be working on his vintage Bentley or building a working
Thousands of revellers will have a double cause for celebration when they attend Bradford's second-biggest Mela this weekend. They will be marking the Millennium as well as Pakistan Independence Day at the two-day extravaganza being staged at Bradford
A councillor has threatened to scupper plans to hold a public meeting into the future of the Bingley Town Centre Partnership. At the June meeting of the BTCP, its chairman, Shipley Labour MP Chris Leslie, called for a special neighbourhood forum to be
About a thousand motorcycle enthusiasts are expected to converge on a moorland pub in an event organised by a re-formed club. The bikers, from throughout Yorkshire, will be attending Denholme and District Motorcycle Club's first Bike Bash on the weekend
An Albanian man who has made Bradford his home was prevented from paying his last respects to his father because of red tape. Arben Cicollari's father, Zini, died on Monday in Saranda, an Albanian coastal village only a short ferry ride from the Greek
Police are hunting a man who broke free from the grasp of two undercover officers during a sting operation into alleged pornographic video deception offences. The police operation was started after the Telegraph & Argus advertising staff tipped off
"I went into hospital expecting a triple heart bypass, but woke up after the operation to find that things had been so bad they had performed a quadruple bypass operation," he said. From his hospital bed it was time to think of a new start. After leaving
GUY SAXTON'S six wicket haul was not enough to secure victory for Steeton as they chase their second league championship. Knaresborough struggled to 128 as Saxton did the damage, his six victims coming at a cost of just 18 runs. But the Summerhill side
Thornton are riding high at the top of the table with a five point advantage over second placed Clayton and nine points ahead of Harden. Martin Beattie bowled nine consecutive maiden overs, in his first nine overs as the Haworth Road batsmen struggled
Long Lee Juniors under 14s team maintained their superb record in the Yorkshire Cup last week despite narrowly missing out on a place in the final. The team, made up entirely of local Keighley lads, took part in the Yorkshire Cup in Huddersfield for the
Teenage golfer Lindy Jowitt has qualified for the grand final of the 2000 Golf Foundation Weetabix age group championships, to be held at Patshull Park in Shropshire later this month. Fifteen-year-old Lindy, (right) who plays off 13 handicap, shot a gross
THE Keighley Cup 2000 reaches the semi-final stage this weekend. Almost every club int he Keighley district entered the competition, which is being supported by the Keighley News and four teams battle it out on Sunday for a place in the final at Keighley
ARTHUR BEATTIE, a driving force behind amateur rugby league in Keighley died this week. Mr Beattie was one of the figureheads behind keighley Albion when the club was formed and was club secretary for many years. His influence on the game also extended
FORMER rugby league player Simon Atkin is to captain Keighley's rugby union team in the coming season. Simon, who is a police sergeant based in Keighley, began playing rugby with local amateur team Keighley Albion as a teenager and played the Union code
Dougie Lampkin swept to his sixth British Championship title with a stunning performance on home ground last weekend. Lampkin has the motorcycle world at his feet after dominating the World Championship earlier in the year. He clinched the British title
SIR - I was more than a little interested to read in the T&A that security staff on match days at Odsal are paid for by the Council, or to be 100 per cent accurate by those of us who pay Council Tax. What is the true cost of professional rugby at
I SENT the Government a cheque the other day, like millions more of us self-employed. Not a big cheque, of course - times is hard in Beggarsdale these days - but honestly earned with the sweat of my brow. But I have three worries here. Worry No 1 is that
Bradford City fans' love affair with Benito Carbone deepened last night when their new hero played his first match for the Bantams. City supporters cheered the 28-year-old Italian striker's every move as he displayed some of his wide-ranging skills against
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott insists hard work is the only recipe to get back on track in their bid to finish top of Super League for the third time in four years. Two defeats and a draw in their last six games have left the Bulls trailing St
It is a great shame that political differences seem to be getting in the way of the very important job of planning Bingley's future. The row between Shipley Labour MP Chris Leslie, chairman of the Bingley Town Centre Partnership, and Councillor David
Tribute has been paid to one of Keighley's best-known figures - John Stanley Bell - who died on Saturday while walking in his beloved Yorkshire Dales. Mr Bell, 74, had just set off walking from Dent with around a dozen fellow members of the Yorkshire
VILLAGERS are preparing for a fight with housing developers. Householders at Moorlands Avenue, Bogthorn, Oakworth, are objecting to plans by Wakefield-based property company Alfred McAlpine over plans for a 138-home development on neighbouring farmland
A newly-released survey from the CBI paints another gloomy picture for the manufacturing industry in Yorkshire. The study of regional trends, by the CBI and Business Strategies Ltd, showed business confidence to be falling or stagnant throughout most
A Bingley-based Internet service is helping to change the face of shopping by moving people from the high street to the world wide web. Homeshopping.co.uk says some web-based shopping companies are purely portals directing customers to shopping sites.
A Haworth man who hated woodwork at school is now building a reputation as one of the finest young furniture craftsmen in the country. Christian Holmes -- known as the Lizard Man of Haworth because all his pieces feature a hand-carved lizard -- began
actress Jenny Agutter, best known for her performance in the great British classic film The Railway Children, is to renew her links with the movie and raise cash for charity at the same time. Jenny, who spent weeks in the Worth valley 30 years ago shooting
Fifteen cyclists, led by Oakworth medical student Roland Partridge, have completed the first circuit of the Baltic sea -- and raised £5,000 for charity. Starting and finishing in Hamburg, the students, most of them medics, finished the 3,200 mile haul
A sports hall with spectators' gallery, moveable theatre and medical suite could all come to Cowling in the shape of a state-of-the-art community centre. The Royds Mill building, off Keighley Road, will be demolished and replaced by a two-storey building
Cross Hills traders say roadworks to fix a Transco blunder are helping to kill business. Traffic through Main Street has ground to a halt over the last fortnight because of temporary traffic lights serving work by Transco and Norweb Telecom. Norweb is
Keighley-born salvage expert Graham Jessop, pictured, has been to the bottom of the ocean to view the world's most famous shipwreck. The son of the famous Keighley-born diver Keith Jessop described the thrill of seeing parts of the Titanic unseen by human
The managing director of a successful Keighley firm is hitting back at vandals who have been targeting his factory for the last 12 months. Graham Penny, MD of Teconnex, based in Chesham Street, says he has spent thousands of pounds over the last year
A sex fiend walked away laughing after attacking a woman from behind, it has been revealed. The indecent assault took place at around midnight on Sunday, July 23, in an alleyway near Hillcrest Avenue, Silsden. Keighley police inspector Paul Spencer describes
PLANNERS have approved a controversial application to convert the former Dalesman publishing buildings in Clapham into houses. The move was opposed by local residents and the parish council. But members of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority's
HELLIFIELD enjoyed a three-day millennium celebration over its year 2000 gala weekend. The fun started on Friday night when residents gathered for the millennium photograph taken by Brian Hugill. After some shuffling, everyone smiled, said "cheese" and
COUNCIL tax payers in Silsden could hold the answer to saving the town's threatened swimming pool. Silsden Parish Council is looking into the possibility of collecting cash directly from villagers for the first time in its 26-year history. The council
A SCHEME to rid South Craven of its flooding problem is failing to attract funding three years after a solution was discovered. The project has been on the waiting list for a cash handout from the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) since
DEDICATED volunteer workers finally saw all their hard work pay off when a new charity minibus took to the road this week. Workers at the SCAD (Skipton and Craven Action for Disability) store on Newmarket Street, Skipton, have been collecting for more
A FAMILY from Thirsk was the lucky winner of a house, given away by Craven radio station Fresh AM at the weekend. Darren Coupland, his daughter, Louise and his mother Audrey were all finalists but it was Mr Coupland who drew the correct key to the house
SIR - After reading the recent front page article in the Keighley News (August 4) with regard to the Education Maintenance Allowance, I felt that I must put pen to paper. I cannot imagine how anyone can produce a system for encouraging students to take
SIR - Last week you headlined a letter from a P Stock of Wilmslow, Cheshire, with the banner "Skipton will miss out all because of 15 minutes". Miss out? I think not, Mr Editor! I expect I am not alone among your readers in confessing that I don't want
A partially-deaf woman has received a £6,700 grant to research human rights for people with disabilities in South Africa. Naomi Hartley, 21, of Clumber Drive, Gomersal, who was born with the condition, will fly to Johannesburg in September before travelling
Cottingley Town Hall, where the girls behind the fairies legend went to school, is to undergo a major facelift after landing a National Lottery grant of £152,500. The news has delighted its supporters who have spent years fighting to secure its future
Replacement signs explaining the history and sights of Saltaire have been unveiled - more than a year after the originals were taken down because of embarrassing errors. Five information plaques have been designed to help tourists learn more about the
Only the best will be good enough when it comes to finding a private company to run education in Bradford, a leading councillor has pledged. Liberal Democrat leader Councillor Jeanette Sunderland fears that not all the companies on the Government's small
A Keighley firm is being forced to fork out for security cameras in a bid to beat vandals who have been targeting it for 12 months. Graham Penny, managing director of Teconnex, Chesham Street, said he had spent thousands of pounds over the last year on
Cutting heart disease through improving housing in inner-city Bradford will be the aim of an innovative health programme. The £200,000 scheme will target homes where cold and damp conditions are making people's heart health worse. The Housing for Healthier
Campaigners from Bradford are to march on the Archbishop of Westminster's residence in protest at the Roman Catholic church's handling of abuse victims. Saltaire writer Susan Ni Rahilly is urging others to join her in the walk to Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor's
Claims passengers were left sat on a bus without a driver for almost an hour have sparked an investigation. Bus company First Bradford has started an internal inquiry after the driver of the 617 Bradford to Holme Wood bus pulled up, turned off the engine
A Bradford firm has been fined £21,000 after a teenage worker lost a finger in an accident with a machine. Sixteen-year-old Robert Field was trying to clean the food wrapping machine using a wire brush, when it suddenly began moving and trapped his fingers
Council boffins are considering developing pigeon "cafes" to lure birds away from city and town centres across the district. The latest scheme is being considered as pigeon populations soar around the country and follows years of trying other radical
OAKWORTH'S march to a League and Cup double continued when they saw off Pendle Forest at the weekend. The Fence side found runs hard to come by and only a swashbuckling 35 by Phil Swarbrick got them to 142. Grahan Rankin bowled a tight line to finish
AUSSIE Justin Ferguson got Keighley off to a superb start in their 145-run victory over Esholt. He scored an impressive 65 and together with Steve Reape was the mainstay of the innings. The opening partnership put on 91 runs with Andy Broadley scoring
TREVOR HARGREAVES won the Devon Classic after surviving a strong comeback from Frank Lord of Haslingden. The Keighley Bowling Club member secured a 21-17 victory, but early in the game held a 9-0 lead. He also narrowly beat Hedley Kettlewell in the quarter-final
Riddlesden defied the odds to win the Bradford Scratch League's fourth division championship with a storming 8-0 win over close rivals Hollins Hall on Friday. The team of Michael Scarborough, Tony Heap, Andrew Barraclough and Brian Dean went out knowing
THE new soccer season kicks off next week - with the West Riding amateur League getting the season under way. Champions Phoenix will be flying the flag for their home town after changing the club's name to Keighley Phoenix and they kick off their campaign
GEMMA REED almost swept the board at Silsden Riding Club's annual trophy show last weekend. Despite winning numerous awards and rosettes over the years eighteen-year-old Gemma, from Sutton, has been waiting for years to win her first sash,awarded to champions
PROFESSIONAL football hasn't much more to offer Skipton lad Craig Mawson. There's the small matter of a first-team debut at Turf Moor. And a regular first-team place with Burnley. And a decent living out of a game and an environment he obviously loves
WHARFEDALE launch themselves into match action at Ovenden Park next Thursday night (7.30) when they tackle progressive Halifax in a pre-season pipe-opener to obtain some crucial match practice. They follow up with a more testing engagement against Otley
SKIPTON are looking to avenge their home Waddilove Cup semi-final defeat at the hands of Burley on Saturday to give their chances of survival in Division A of the Airedale & Wharfedale League a major boost. They started a crucial spell of matches
100 years ago Proposals to build a slaughter house in Skipton came before the Local Government Board this week in 1900. A barn on Newmarket Street was proposed as a suitable site. Doctors were puzzling on how to relieve a six-year-old boy of a toy whistle
ARTHUR BEATTIE, a driving force behind amateur rugby league in Keighley died this week. Mr Beattie was one of the figureheads behind keighley Albion when the club was formed and was club secretary for many years. His influence on the game also extended
