Underdogs Cleckheaton have received a twin boost ahead of their Intermediate Cup semi-final against Old Patesians at Chelten-ham tomorrow. Phil Veivers is at fly half to replace the unavailable Graham Steadman, and experienced prop Sam Coy has recovered
Brian McDermott admits he is benefiting from the arrival of Kiwi powerhouse Joe Vagana as much as anyone. The longest-serving member of the Bulls squad has developed a unique reputation among props in the modern game by regularly lasting the 80 minutes
Bradford Park Avenue must shrug off a double disappointment as they face closest rivals Farsley Celtic at Horsfall stadium tomorrow in the big UniBond Division One derby. Avenue lost the leadership to Ashton United on goal difference on Tuesday and the
The Keighley News has scaled new heights thanks to a group of cool young skiers from Greenhead High School. When they took to the slopes for an Alpine adventure the Keighley News came along for the ride. A party of 46 students and members of staff from
The years fell away last weekend as septuagenarians relived their schooldays in Haworth. At least 100 former pupils of Haworth School talked over old times during a reunion at the village's Royal British Legion club. Many of the pensioners were seeing
Lining up in Silsden Methodists' panto are, from left, Rachel Wallbank, Jenny Pickering and Sarah Wallbank. JACK of Silsden is in a real pickle. He desperately wants to marry the daughter of the town's king, but he's deemed 'imperfect.' For some reason
Bradford business leaders came together this week to find out how their companies can do more for local communities. Senior managers from around 20 of the district's firms attended a Bradford Cares breakfast meeting at the Yorkshire Building Society's
It's time to ring the changes if you want to hammer out a new hobby. The bellringers of Haworth are inviting people to join them each Monday at the parish church. They are holding an open night next week in a bid to attract new members in search of a
A new business aims to take full advantage of the boom in interest in liquid petroleum gas as a cheaper alternative to petrol power in cars. Autogas Alternative has been started up by Oxenhope man Jeff Wilkinson with his son Craig and friend Tony Dixon
Stanbury's Lord of the Manor has embarked on a project which will combine the bygone secrets of the village with modern technology. American sapphire miner Tom Lee is setting up a web site about the history of the Manor of Stanbury. He has been conducting
A farmer who was arrested after Bingley Road, Cullingworth, was blockaded with bales of hay and a tractor on Friday morning has appeared in court. Motorists had to be diverted for more than two hours. It is believed the protest was the latest in a long-running
An elderly Utley couple are frustrated by persistent problems with a boiler at their council accommodation. Hornby, known as Bob, and Shirley Howarth have been having problems with the boiler since they moved to the flat at St John's Court three years
A group of Keighley men are taking on the Hollywood big boys by making a movie in the town. The four friends will make full-length romantic comedy Three Blind Dates at locations in Keighley and across Bradford district. They aim to prove that a movie
Keighley and Craven CAMRA - the campaign for real ale - now has a website. It contains information on a variety of Keighley and Craven beer-related items. This includes information on the Beer Festival, the area's breweries, local pub news, an up-to-date
A Cross Hills man who was devastated by the death of pop singer Kirsty MacColl has published a book as a lasting tribute to her. Graham Scaife edited the singer-songwriter's fanzine, and the book he has published contains all seven of the A5 magazines
The cause of this month's Bridgehouse Mill fire in Haworth is still unknown. Fire officers cannot carry out an in-depth investigation due to the dangerous state of the four-storey building. They have gathered statements from witnesses and firefighters
A Stockbridge family is calling on the Environment Agency to replace trees on a river bank which was stripped bare following last autumn's floods. Anne Manning, 36, from Florist Street, says the removal of trees from the bank of the River Aire, by Aireworth
Foot and mouth disease has hampered police officers in their search for a man who has gone missing after living for months in a tent. Search and rescue teams have had to visit farms and cross farmland at Stanbury in their hunt for 38-year-old Andrew Paul
A farming family from Oxenhope says a minority of people are still flouting the Government's foot-and-mouth guidelines by walking on their land Elizabeth and Richard Ibbotson from Stairsbottom Farm say that while the vast majority of people have been
A family-run business which sells green top milk is the latest to be hit by the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Knowle Top Farm, in Sutton, has a herd of 50 Fresian cows and supplies unpasteurised milk to homes across the district. But it has halted deliveries
The Ministry of Agriculture has declared Keighley and the rest of the Bradford district an infected area following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth. The ministry's decision means farm animals can no longer be moved within or out of the area. Slurry spreading
Sally Wilson, from Silsden, takes her first step on the road to success when she performs on national television. Sally, 17, will appear today on the BBC 1 children's talent show Steps II The Stars, at 4.35pm. She will sing the classic song from The Wizard
A disabled Sutton man is flying high after winning a Keighley News competition. Graham Shaw won a flight in a helicopter after being nominated as his sister's Valentine. Graham has been in a wheelchair since being involved in a fatal crash at Hawkcliffe
A campaign group's dream to get a town council for Keighley has taken a major step towards becoming a reality. It was confirmed yesterday that the group Keighley Voice has collected more than 4,500 signatures on a petition -- more than enough to move
A Braithwaite mother who cares for two disabled foster daughters is calling for action against yobs who have made them prisoners in their own home. Pam Sutton and her two adult children, Jilly and Jane, both 42, who suffer from epilepsy and cerebral palsy
AN angry angler is protesting about liquids spilling out of a former tip and polluting the River Aire near Carleton. Martin James, a broadcaster on the environment, natural history and fishing for the BBC, noticed the substance which he describes as "
SAFETY work at Barnoldswick's Ghyll Cemetery has left some people shocked, distressed and angry to find their loved ones' gravestones have been taken down. One of the headstones commemorates Earby hero Paul Goodall, tragically shot dead in Bosnia in 1994
SIR - I was delighted to read about the proposed household recycling scheme in Silsden and would certainly urge local residents to give it a try. Recycling isn't onerous and really only involves a change of habits - throwing things into the collection
Hundreds of sheep across the Bradford district could be next in line for the cull after the Government announced fresh plans to curb foot and mouth. Agriculture minister Nick Brown told the House of Commons yesterday of a "safety first" policy of slaughtering
A pensioner who was born in historic Saltaire has hit out at plans to reinstate original Victorian stone setts in the heart of the village. A short section of Victoria Road near Salts Mill was returned to its original state several years ago. The Telegraph
TWO Men with a motor bike and sidecar, plus a dog, a Christmas tree and a lot of holly, pose in Keighley Market in the 1920s, probably next to the wholesale and retail fruiterers' stall of Harry and Albert Hoyle. On the motor bike sits George A Shore,
Patients recovering in a Bradford hospital are to be treated to brighter 24-hour entertainment, thanks to the re-launch of its radio station. And DJs have teamed up with the Telegraph & Argus to give people at St Luke's Hospital the latest news on
Jolly jokers took over Bradford today to raise a chuckle and some cash for Comic Relief. From a full martial arts display in the centre of Shipley to a sponsored ball juggle by young football players in Tong, the district was buzzing with activity for
A jilted boyfriend has successfully appealed against a harassment conviction on the grounds that a series of letters he sent to his former girlfriend may have been attempts to win her back. Brian Hughes, 42, was found guilty by Bradford magistrates, but
A worker at a Bradford supermarket who was sacked after setting up a website criticising the company has lost his claim for unfair dismissal. Christopher Brown, 21, took Farmers Boy - a subsidiary of Morrisons - to an employment tribunal yesterday but
A pub landlord had asked advice from West Yorkshire Fire Service before staging a bonfire and firework display in which two people were injured, a court heard. Bingley Magistrates were told Anthony Lumb, who then ran the Salthorn pub in Oakenshaw, Bradford
Twenty out of twenty this week has given Embassy 'A' a perfect vision of the Championship trophy in the Keighley & District Table Tennis League. After they whitewashed both Lothersdale 'B' and Nemesis. Only Lothersdale 'A' can pip the leaders, but
Albion Cats 28 Barrow Keighley Albion Cats reached the semi finals of the National Challenge Cup for the very first time last Sunday with a scintillating victory over a strong Barrow side. Not only was this Keighley's finest performance of the season
Keighley Town 20 St Josephs 6 Keighley Town returned to Pennine League Action against Huddersfield side St Josephs and turned in another promising performance to beat the Huddersfield side by 20 points to 6. Town opened the scoring when St Josephs were
Crusaders' problems began before the kick off when work commitments and injury robbed them of skipper Simon Atkin and front row forwards John Duffy, Rob Riley and Paul Sinfield. The ever willing 2nd row Peter Southgate was press ganged into the prop position
The league's stop-start season got back on track with five games going ahead on Sunday. Keighley Victoria played host to St Annes Celtic who pulled off the shock of the day with a 5-1 victory. Score were level at 1-1 after an evenly balanced first half
Silsden's domination of Division One continued with a convincing 4-0 victory at Ardsley Celtic. Because of the 'Foot-and-Mouth' disease Silsden were forced to play in Ardsley for the second time this season, but this didn't trouble a confident Silsden
BRITISH WATERWAYS has lifted Foot & Mouth restrictions on some sections of the Leeds and Liverpool canal, allowing people to walk on the towpath and anglers will also be able to take up their sport again. Following negotiations with MAFF, the Ministry
YOUNG cricketers haver a chance to take the first step on the ladder to county honours when trials are held for the Bradford Schools Under-11's team later this month. The indoor trials are to be held on March 28 at Nab Wood Sports Centre from 3,45 to
THREE pupils from Oakbank Sports College have joined the growing number of students to gain representative honours. Golfer Alistair Houldsworth has been selected to play for the county at Golf following a string of good performances. He took up the game
OVER 10,000 free tickets have been presented to school children as Cougars prepare for a bumper Children's Day on Sunday. Schoolchildren throughout the district have been invited to the game with Barrow Border Raiders. There will be a poster competition
THE trip to Workington gave us an opportunity to get back on track after our disappointing result against Rochdale. Coming so soon after that defeat, it also helped us to quickly restore morale. I also thought that it was our most intelligent performance
DOUBLE tragedy has struck the cycling scene with the deaths of two super-fit riders with days of each other. Steve Peterson died late last week after suffering a brain haemorrhage and this week Lee Kellett was found dead on a country road in Wales, it
Yarnbury 9 North Ribblesdale 14 A HARD-earned victory underlined the progress that Ribb have made this season as they made it nine wins of their last 11 league games writes Trevor Graveson. It confirmed as well that they have an ability to adopt different
Skipton 27 Old Otliensians 8 With the visitors deservedly holding an 8-5 lead at half time, many in the large crowd wondered if Skipton would be able to raise their game sufficiently to maintain their promotion credentials writes Chris Windle. At the
RIBB have a point to prove in their clash this weekend when Hull visit Grove Park. It was just a single point that separated the two sides when they met at Haworth Court on the opening day of the season, with Hull edging a 22-21 result. The East Yorkshire
WHARFEDALE return to rugby action for the first time in three weeks when they travel to whipping boys West Hartlepool on Saturday. Their opponents have fallen spectacularly. Two years ago they were in the Premiership competing alongside the likes of Leicester
Credit card and cheque fraud is costing this country millions of pounds each year. It is an 'industry' which has led to equal amounts of money being spent on efforts to make credit cards and cheques more safe. Just before Christmas a pioneering scheme
Eoin Jess could be making his Bradford City swan-song tomorrow. The Scottish international plays the final game of his three-month loan spell from Aberdeen. And, although he will sit down with boss Jim Jefferies on Monday, Jess is playing a poker hand
Bradford City cannot stop top-flight clubs from talking to Andy O'Brien. The highly-rated centre half is said to be top of Bobby Robson's shopping list at Newcastle. And the Bantams are powerless to prevent rivals from approaching the 21-year-old. As
Stuart McCall will keep his options open about next season until he sees the new contract offer to stay at Bradford City. Manager Jim Jefferies wants to keep the City skipper but has shelved talks over a one-year deal until the end of the current campaign
Bulls skipper Robbie Paul resumes at scrum half at Salford but there's no place for fellow crowd-pleaser Leon Pryce despite a devastating comeback from injury. Paul will line-up alongside brother Henry at The Willows with Paul Deacon reverting to the
The people of Saltaire are divided into two main camps. There are the older residents who were living in their homes in that neat network of streets when the place was still very much a working-class mill village. And then there are the relative newcomers
A leading light in Keighley's theatre has died. Doreen Mary Hillary - known as Mary - died two weeks ago aged 86. In her early teens Mary, who lived at Cross Roads, joined the Lees Methodist drama society. She went on to help form Keighley Little Theatre
Two talented youngsters from Denholme are to make sweet music in the home of opera thanks to a travel scholarship. Lucy Spafford and Thomas Astell-Burt, who attend Bingley GS, are travelling to Venice, Verona and Lake Garda with the school band to perform
For a Keighley businessman who always prided himself on keeping in shape, the idea that he might be suffering from a serious disease was too far fetched to contemplate. He was putting in the hours at work without too much trouble and still managing to
The Lord Mayor of Bradford used his ceremonial finger to help a firm hit a major landmark in paint tray production. Councillor Stanley King was on hand to push the button which produced plastics manufacturer Barplas's 250,000th tray. Made of scrap plastic
The sound of the Bronts will herald the restoration of a historic organ in a Haworth church. A £25,000 project to refurbish the pipe organ at West Lane Baptist Church is due to begin next month. A concert to mark the beginning of the work will feature
Italian elders united the generations at the weekend as they brought a taste of their homeland to Keighley. Even the guest of honour at the town's first Carnevale took along youngsters to join in the fun. The chancellor from the Italian consulate in Manchester
In 1918, Bradford Tramways staff went on strike. The city went four days without a tram service. In 1926, American physicist Robert Goddard successfully launched a liquid propelled rocket. In 1971, the Campaign for Real Ale - CAMRA- was formed. From the
Peace campaigning grandmother, Sylvia Boyes was among seven women arrested after they boarded a French frigate near the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland. Mrs Boyes, 57, of Keighley, was photographed climbing the radar rigging by fellow campaigner
Keighley police have been given the thumbs up from the rest of the country for stamping out shop fraud. Since the trail-blazing 'thumbs up' kit was distributed to 146 local shops, pubs and petrol stations just before Christmas, no fraud has been reported
The fire-gutted post boxes at the post office in Keighley bus station will not be replaced for several months. The Post Office will not repair the boxes - destroyed in an arson attack before Christmas - because they fear a second fire could spread to
A Bradford based catering company is leading the field when it comes to revolutionising hospital meals. Medina Foods, a provider of Halal cuisine, has been working with Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke's Hospital and North Manchester General to provide
A master baker who has run the Oakworth Bakery for 20 years is shutting up shop following the announcement of a new government tax. Norman and Barbara Blissitt, from Clayton, bought the shop on Lidget, in Oakworth, in 1981, revamped the building and built
The foot and mouth crisis is taking its toll on people in South Craven people. The area is uninfected by the virus but precautionary measures have left their mark. Footpath closures in farming villages have forced people to curb their walking and re-route
The tourism industry in the Keighley area is bracing itself for any knock-on effects from the foot-and-mouth outbreak. With the closure of moorland and footpaths at Top Withens, Penistone Hill and Bront Waterfalls, traders in Haworth fear a downturn in
A crumbling culvert at Silsden poses a similar threat to life as did a bridge which collapsed in Portugal killing more than 60 people, it has been claimed. It comes from Silsden parish councillors who say there are "parallels" between the two issues.
BENTHAM Horticultural Society has been put in abeyance for 12 months - in the hope that new members will come forward and save it from folding. Only seven people attended the annual general meeting despite letters being sent to all members and exhibitors
A PAST president of Barnoldswick's Ghyll Golf Club is seething after trees he donated to the club over 20 years ago were cut to a third of their size. Eric Hepworth, of Salterforth, joined the club in 1963 and has served as president, captain and chairman
International trucker Martin Boddy believes he is Britain's only heavy goods vehicle driver who is paralysed from the waist down. The self-employed driver, pictured, was determined the injuries he suffered when his lorry overturned in Holland five years
The closure of a butcher's shop in Idle means the end of an era lasting 125 years. The Keighley Bros business was first established as a private limited company in 1875 and customers - who Tom Keighley prefers to regard as friends - will lament the shop's
Bradford has been chosen to help schools across the country improve security by taking part in a Government video. Filming has already taken place at several schools in the area featuring staff, pupils, and school governors. And the video features an
Bradford's park rangers have helped to net 70 youngsters in their first operation to cut truancy in the district's schools. Another blitz is planned over the next few weeks, using the rangers as the "eyes and ears" of the areas they cover. The rangers
A surgeon is taking Bradford health bosses to an employment tribunal to fight his dismissal for allegedly misrepresenting his qualifications. Robert Phipps, of Baildon, was employed as a breast surgeon for the Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust until his sacking
World-famous fish and chip restaurant Harry Ramsden's had a special reopening yesterday after a massive month-long refurbishment. Footballing legend Jack Charlton presented lifelong Harry Ramsden fan Ken Allen, from Essex, with a commemorative plaque
Boys from Parkside School team up with Matt Foster and Jason Ramshaw of Keighley Cougars to help launch the club's community partnership with Harrison and Clough. The Keighley company has announced it is to continue its support of the club's Community
A Bradford magistrate told today how she believed her husband had died in the Selby rail disaster. Speaking today for the first time since the tragedy a fortnight ago in which ten people were killed, Maria Bahrami described how she watched news reports
Keighley proved it was a cut above when it hosted the European premiere of the British comedy film, Blow Dry. Residents ditched their winter woollies and dressed up with all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood for the film, which could do for Keighley
Oakworth Under-8s A played some excellent football to beat Long Lee 5-0. Goals came from George Turner, Tom Hudson, Matthew Moore and Jake Fishwick (2). Joseph Alvey and Luke Chapman also went close as they hit the woodwork three times. The Long Lee keeper
A schoolgirl badly injured in a road accident is being sued by a former policewoman who claims the crash ruined her career. Former West Yorkshire officer Leona Mudd claims she suffered post traumatic stress disorder after the accident involving Hayley
All games in the Wharfedale Sunday Association Football League programme were played this week and basement side Malt Shovel of the First Division were at home to Division leaders Bay Horse in the first leg of the New Bridge Sunday Cup. They showed a
CUP competitions may still not be completed despite a number of games being played last weekend. "Whether they will be completed remains in the lap of the gods after the terrible weather, and other disasters, which have threatened local football throughout
Working ton 4, Cougars 32 - MARTIN WOOD returned to form and his team mates bounced back alongside him as they shook off last week's shock defeat by Rochdale. Torrential rain and thick mud at Derwent Park did little to dampen the Cougar spirit as hundreds
THE FELLSMAN HIKE which was due to take place on May 12 and 13 has been cancelled becasue fo the Foot & Mounth outbreak. The gruelling 61-mile high-level walk was due to celbrate its 40th anniversary this year with hundreds of walkers and runners
MEMORIES came flooding back after last week's KN Sport feature on former Silsden footballer Maurice Tillotson, who is now national coach of the Cook Islands. Maurice himself contacted us by email from the islands, which bask in round-the-year sunshine
INROADS were made into the Craven Football League's cup competitions at the weekend. Cross Hills, Grindleton and Clitheroe reached the semi-finals of the Premier League Cup. Clitheroe came from behind in a thrilling match against Skipton LMS which was
SKipton face another big game when they go head to head with promotion rivals York Railway Institute. Their opponents suffered a shock reversal last time out and RI will be wondering just how they will perform on the rebound. "If they lose, then promotion
SIR - I was absolutely delighted to read in your March 12 issue that Allan Ham is keen to revive the Bradford Dukes speedway team, possibly having racing back at Odsal next year. Then I realised that we didn't have a team, with world champion Mark Loram
