Bradford Park Avenue 1 Ashton United 3 Manager Trevor Storton believes Bradford Park Avenue are better equipped for promotion this season than they were 12 months ago, despite being beaten by one of their main UniBond Division One promotion rivals. It
Bradford's Junior Witter remains on course for a crack at British light-welterweight champion Ricky Hatton after a third-round knockout of Chris Henry. Witter seized his opportunity to lay out his title credentials in front of the champion with an emphatic
Australia 40 New Zealand 12 Can anyone remember when the Aussies weren't the dominant force in World rugby league. Twenty-five years is the answer and there was little sign of that sequence coming to an end in the foreseeable future at Old Trafford on
Bradford Bulls are set for a rousing opening to their Valley Parade Super League adventure against reigning champions St Helens. The televised showdown on Friday, March 2 will kick off the race for Grand Final glory in a repeat of last season's opener
Jim Jefferies has put a commanding centre-half at the top of his Bradford City shopping list. The City boss wants to bring in a big central defender in time to play in Saturday's next episode of the Premiership survival saga when Coventry City come to
Many congratulations to the young people of Bradford whose achievements have earned them recognition in an awards event organised by the Council's Youth Service. The fact that so many of them - 150 - were at the ceremony at Valley Parade is an encouraging
In 1701, Anders Celsius, inventor of the temperature scale, was born. In 1911, Sam Shaftoe, Britain's first 'working man' magistrate, died. In 1914, the first policewomen in Britain walked the beat in Grantham, Lincs. From the Telegraph & Argus of
Bradford & Bingley members have been advised to hand themselves a Christmas bonus by selling their windfall share packages. Those receiving the 250-share pay-outs, which are thought to be worth between £647 and £814, had until Friday to decide what
CRAVEN'S crime figures saw a slight increase in the first seven months of the year. From April 1 to October 30, 1,576 incidents were reported, compared to a 1,548 over the same period last year. "It is not good news, but we have got to remember we are
Staff at Airedale Hospital have been warned about a serious rise in thefts from cars only a week after they were told improvements were being made to security arrangements. A memo from has been circulated to staff informing them of three thefts from cars
Developers have gone back to the drawing board after being refused planning permission for a controversial leisure scheme on the site of Provincial House. St James Securities is pinning its hopes on an amended application due to go before a planning committee
A young deaf woman from Bradford is to travel to Bangalore in India to work with deaf children from another culture. Bhavana Mistry has been granted more than £4,000 from the national Jack Ashley Millennium Award scheme, which is run by the National Deaf
Grinning like Cheshire cats, Peter and Paul Wallis are sitting proud knowing they have something almost every other family in the land wants - a Sony Playstation 2. The Idle father and son spare a thought for all the other games fans pawing at shop windows
Bradford is soon to have a chance to change Bill Bryson's mind about the city he once wrote off as being "palpably forlorn". The American writer who blasted Bradford in his 1995 book Notes From a Small Island is coming back to take another look at the
George Russell was just 18 when he saw a photographic exhibition in Bradford of the atrocities committed by the Japanese on allied prisoners of war. It was a frightening experience but, despite the images of emaciated young men behind barbed wire and
SIR - For two days I attempted to travel home on the 615 bus to Cottingley from Bradford Interchange. On Monday, November 6, I waited in vain for the 5.15pm which failed to materialise. The next day I attempted to catch the 4.15pm bus which, although
Keighley 8 North Ribblesdale 20 The bald statistics of Keighley's Yorkshire Division One season don't make for happy reading. They have won just one of their ten games and have scored only 123 points with 280 against. Not surprisingly with statistics
Middlesbrough 2 Bradford City 2 He can't tackle, doesn't hurry back and likes to steer well clear when the going gets mucky. It's hardly the sort of job description that would have Jim Jefferies clamouring. The tough Scotsman's football beliefs are built
A Skipton and Settle butcher has won the prestigious accolade of serving up Yorkshire's very best black puddings. Drake & Macefield - with outlets in in Otley Street, Skipton, and Market Square, Settle - added the title to its growing list of industry
Bradford-based home shopping firm Redcats UK has looked across the Atlantic for its latest appointment. American Marsha Greene-Jones has moved from the Boston division of sister company the Brylane Organisation to become Redcats' new Director of Human
Cleckheaton man Darrall Vernon is caught in a tug-of-love between his wife and a life-sized model of cyber-babe Lara Croft. The computer nut of Wellands Lane, Moor Bottom, caused friction by arriving home one night with the mannequin - much to the dismay
A desperate family are refusing to move out of their rotting home for vital work fearing they will have to spend months in an even worse hostel. And the Smiths are furious because, they claim, council workers are dithering over the repairs while their
A teenage mum was today mourning the brother she loved so much she named her Christmas Day baby after him. Adele Foster is "devastated" by the death of brother Darren, who died in his mother's arms aged just 18. Darren, who suffered from muscular dystrophy
A car crash in Manningham claimed the lives of two Bradford men last night. The incident happened shortly after 11.15pm on Queens Road, between the traffic lights and the junction with Valley Road. Police say the Ford Orion, travelling along Queens Road
Burglars who broke into the garage of a house in Bradford were stopped in their tracks - by a baby monitor. The intruders were rooting through the premises in the Bolton area of the city - unaware their whispers were being transmitted back to the owners
A young man and woman were today undergoing surgery for shotgun wounds after being peppered with pellets in an attack at a Bradford nightclub. Police were called to the club in the early hours after nearby residents heard the shots being fired. It is
