THERE seems to be no end in sight to the foot and mouth outbreak. Opinions are polarised. One area of consensus - except in Downing Street - has been the calls to scrap plans for elections in May. Of course, elections have been held in national emergencies
Wayne Cooper, beaten 4-2 by his doubles partner Kevin Firth in last season's Yorkshire Championships, has had his revenge. The Bradford duo met in the Yorkshire Area qualifying round for the English Championships at the Manhattan Club and Snooker Centre
Chairman Chris Caisley has strongly defended the Bulls' decision to quit Odsal several months before the bulldozers move in to start work on the proposed £60m redevelopment. Caisley, who insists that the scheme remains on course despite scepticism in
PARENTS and residents are being urged to speak up about plans to close primary schools in Otley. Leeds City Council has announced a £750,000 reorganisation of primary school provision in the town by replacing three infant schools, one junior and one primary
A CAMPAIGN has been launched to rid Otley of heavy lorries. Steve Tolley, of Billams Hill, wants to see heavy gravel lorries banned from coming through the town. He claims the relentless traffic of 44 ton trucks down Newall Carr Road and through the centre
COUNCILLORS are calling for clarification on the possible use of Menwith Hill listening base as part of the United States national missile defence system. Leeds City Council has raised concerns about the use of both Menwith Hill and Fylingdales as part
POOR relations with the police, traffic problems and a lack of facilities for young people are the most pressing issues in Otley and Wharfedale. Of the 25 per cent of people who responded to a survey carried out by the area's community involvement team
The new Unitary Development Plan for Bradford is a radical step in the right direction. For years the T&A has been calling for "brownfield" sites and areas of derelict or seriously run-down housing to be cleared to make way for new homes and small
Abbey National is offering 80 computers to community groups in Bradford after carrying out a major upgrade of its equipment. All of the PCs have been refurbished and will be delivered to charities or voluntary organisations free of charge. They do not
Website designing twins Darren and Stuart Jones have started an online quest to see if they are unique in the UK. The 30-year-olds, who run In-phi.net Creations in Bradford, believe they are the only twins in the country to have set up an e-commerce company
The number of failing businesses in Yorkshire dropped to its lowest for seven years in February. A total of 18 firms went into receivership and administration appointments in the region last month, the same as for January, according to new figures by
Regal Golf Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of golf equipment in Europe, has changed hands. Oxygen Investments and Management Ltd has sold its interest in the firm to Regal's managing director Trevor Walker along with Ron
GRAVESTONES taken down as part of a purge on cemetery safety will be repaired and reinstated after Pendle Council admitted it got it wrong. Services manager with responsibility for cemeteries Colin Patten, said there were sound reasons for the well publicised
A HOUSE building ban has been slapped on green fields in Eastburn until 2015. And homes will no longer be built on an historic patch of land in Addingham. The two villages came out clear winners when Bradford Council's new planning blueprint was unveiled
DOORMAN Les Steadman defies the norm as he maintains law and order in pubs and clubs at the age of 58. He is certainly not the stereo-typical doorman. This small, 13-and-a-half-stone, grandfather is respected by drinkers and landlords alike for the quiet
UPPER Wharfedale Swimming Club is still in desperate need of new recruits to keep it afloat. Twelve months ago the Herald ran a story revealing how the Threshfield-based club was just managing to keep its head above water in order to pay its increasing
BRICKLAYER Tom Hirst has cemented his place in the country's top 20. Tom, 18, has been building a reputation as a brilliant brickie and is now in the top three in Yorkshire. He gained the third place in a contest to find Yorkshire's best apprentices -
CRAVEN man Sam Avons is set to go down in history for the second time next month. Mr Avons was a crew member of the world's first working submarine and is now the first person from the district to feature on a postage stamp. And he is set to be seen on
AN Ilkley soldier is enjoying a much-deserved break after spending six months on a vital safety mission in Bosnia. Staff Sergeant Tim Kirby (pictured left), a former Ilkley Grammar School pupil, was serving as part of the British contribution to the NATO-led
A GROUP of kind-hearted Ilkley people have thrown open the doors of their homes - and their cars - to help make Sundays a less lonely time for the elderly. Rachel West, Claire Ohle, and married couple Mary and Michael Brassington are all volunteers for
PARISH councillors in Ilkley have given the green light to a bid to renovate the interior of one of Ilkley's most famous buildings - Myddelton Lodge. The redevelopment would include converting the lodge - a Grade I listed building and formerly a religious
PENSIONERS worst fears have been confirmed as a much-needed sub-post office is set to close its doors. Now elderly residents say they will face a gruelling trek to pay a bill or cash their pension. The axe has been hanging over the sub-post office in
An Ilkey businessman has endured an unnerving week with people telling his colleagues that they were sorry to hear he had died. Paul Anning the owner of Anning's photography shop on Cunliffe Road, Ilkley, said: "I'm not dead, but around five people have
AN abattoir in Ilkley has been given the all-clear after a suspected outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Government inspectors sealed off the Rowland Agar Abattoir in Little Lane on March 14 after suspicious markings were spotted on several pigs. After
TRAFFIC consultants want the people of Ilkley to tell them how to spend £300,000 in the next two years. After securing Government grants for town centre improvements in Ilkley, highway bosses have engaged consultants Oscar Faber to carry out an in-depth
SIR, I write in response to the letter 'School Worry' of Thursday, March 15. Westgate School was originally built as a primary school and remained so until reorganisation in the early 1970s --the infant department being situated in what is now the nursery
SIR - From time to time Craven District Council comes up with another hair-brained scheme to waste tax payers' money and they have done it again with their wheeled bins. Who wants them? Who needs them? They are too big, too ugly, difficult to move about
SIR, I would like to thank Mike Braithwaite and the others of the five who wrote letters of objection to coach parking in Middleton Avenue, they took action when others of us failed to do so. I was in fact unaware that it was back on the drawing board
JOE Sayers is becoming something of a globetrotter as his cricketing talents take him from one end of the world to the other. Having just returned from a tour to South Africa with Yorkshire Schools Under-17s Joe is now set for a trip to Australia with
BAILDON TRINITY.......3 SALT OB......................2 (after extra time) This Wharfedale FA Airedale International Challenge Cup semi-final proved to be a real nailbiter with the result going right to the wire. It was never a great game, with the players
Park Amateurs........38 Guiseley Rangers......22 GUISELEY Rangers may be down but are definitely not out after a gritty and spirited performance last Saturday at Park Amateurs. Rangers led up to five minutes from the break, Stuart Patchett having opened
Pontefract.......33 Yarnbury...........22 YARNBURY suffered a 33-22 reversal at Pontefract on Saturday when they scored three but conceded five tries in a tough, physical contest. Giving the opposition an eight-point lead in the opening five minutes was
OTLIENSIANS.........28 HULLENSIANS......13 WITH Dawson injured against Skipton, David Smith resumed the full-back berth for Otliensians and Peter Gillson came in at stand-off. Chris Bawden returned at centre and Adrian Fawell moved to left wing. Tony
THE final round of the Yorkshire Youth Under-14 Girls' Hockey League saw Ben Rhydding four points clear at the top of the league but needing to secure at least two wins to make sure they finished the season at the top. They were due to face three tough
Sheffield...........3 Ben Rhydding...2 The quest for an unprecedented place in the final of the Hockey Association Trophy ended in disappointment for Ben Rhydding Ladies on Saturday. The old enemy Sheffield snatched victory after a keenly fought, close
Pool.......................2 Town Res..............2 POOL played host to local rivals Town for this, their second derby game in two weeks. Pool were hoping to complete a double over their opponents, having beaten them three week's previously. Town Reserves
SNOW brought an end to any hopes Otley had of cementing their National One place with a win at Moseley. Saturday's crucial clash with the Midlands side was called off leaving Otley on 39 points from 21 games and Moseley on 37 from 20 games. The Otley
Supermarket boss Sir Ken Morrison (above) today handed a £200,000 boost to farmers hit by the foot and mouth crisis. He also pledged the Bradford-based company will pay its meat suppliers within 48 hours to further help struggling livestock farmers. Sir
A Bradford pensioner had to be rushed to hospital after a huge section of cliff smashed into a hotel leaving him trapped under a table. Philip Nelson had to remove his artificial leg to free himself from the rubble which plunged down a cliff-side and
Plans to privatise the running of cash-strapped St George's Hall will be discussed at a meeting to decide the future of the venue. The successful Alhambra Theatre will also be subject to debate at a meeting of Bradford Council's environment scrutiny committee
Nurses in Bradford suffer bullying and harassment and are being driven out of the health service, according to a new survey. And staff from the ethnic minorities are particularly suffering, with 29 per cent nationally reporting incidents of abuse. The
Twenty one people appeared before Bradford magistrates yesterday following Bradford City's Premiership match against Manchester City at Valley Parade last Saturday. Public order charges against the following were withdrawn after they agreed to be bound
A knifeman who was arrested at his own wedding is today beginning an eight-year prison sentence. Simon Noble had been on the run for almost 15 months when officers finally caught up with him on the steps of Blackpool Register Office - ironically a former
Murder detectives arrived in Bradford today in a bid to solve the brutal killing of a London businessman two years ago. Officers from the capital's Serious Crime Group are investigating Tahir Butt's links to Bradford businessmen, saying they could well
A Bradford man complained twice about being bullied only days before he was found hanging in his cell in Armley Jail, an inquest was told. Neil Andrew Leyland told two different prison officers how one inmate was spreading rumours about him, calling him
Developers will be forced out of the district's green fields and into urban areas under Bradford Council's new blueprint for the district unveiled today. The new draft Unitary Development Plan outlines proposals for the development of the district over
West Hartlepool 18 Wharfedale 44 IN a an eminently forgettable encounter on a raw-boned North Easterly afternoon, Wharfedale duly dispatched their relegation-haunted hosts by a flattering enough seven tries to two margin to retain sixth spot in the table
CRAVEN League clubs have decided to battle on and try to resolve the key promotion and relegation issues by playing matches and collecting points rather than resorting to any contrived methods of beating the weather and the foot and mouth outbreak. That
BRADLEY RES...1 ILKLEY YOUTH 2 For the first time in their short history the Guyson sponsored Ilkley Youth defeated Bradley Reserves away from home at the fourth attempt. Traditionally this had proved a difficult encounter for the Youth team players who
Bradford Salem...12 Ilkley......................19 HERE we go again! Another bottom of the league clash featuring two old adversaries who are leaving it late to salvage their season in Yorkshire Two. For the first time in months the players had a dry
Addingham Res.......5 Kilbride.....................3 Addingham Reserves took on Kilbride at home in the latest round of the Cup. Indeed, Addingham were out for revenge having been beaten 6-1 away by Kilbride only two weeks before in the league. As the
Ilkley AFC...........0 Beckwithshaw...0 ILKLEY AFC notched their fourth successive draw when they met a determined Beckwithshaw side which weathered an early barrage from the home team. Welcoming back Bellwood, Cummings and Stockdale, Ilkley started very
100 years ago A DEPUTATION from Thornton-in-Craven Parish Council met members of the rural district council to complain that their communications and requests were not receiving enough attention. What transpired at the meeting appeared to be unknown to
LET us hope that this time Bradford Council's vision of the future for Wharfedale accords with the people who live in the area. When the last Unitary Development Plan (UDP) was produced, howls of protest and despair greeted its publication. This time
Super League chairman Chris Caisley has hit out at clubs pushing policies aimed at trying to level out playing standards. The Bulls boss is angered at talk of a further reduction in the salary cap and has warned clubs to ditch a proposal to reduce the
Ramgarhia 2, Bradford 2 - Bradford turned in a poor performance in the top-of-the-table clash with second- placed Ramgarhia at South Leeds Stadium that ended their hopes of promotion from Yorkshire Division One. Although Bradford started confidently,
Benito Carbone agreed personal terms with Middlesbrough early today and was set to link up again with Dean Windass. The Italian and his agent Giovanni Branchini struggled through the snow to reach the north-east for talks with Boro chairman Steve Gibson
HARD hats are not the normal attire for Aireborough councillors Mike and Moira Dunn - but they were happy to wear them earlier this week to start work on £250,000 worth of improvements at Aireborough Leisure Centre. The improvements at the centre, based
FOOT and mouth restrictions have forced a re-think of the Otley Walking Festival - originally planned to bring hundreds of walkers into Wharfedale this summer. Otley Town Partnership held the event for the first time last year, and hoped to establish
FARMERS are being urged to remain vigilant and not be tempted to relax precautions as the foot and mouth crisis deepens. And the government has been criticised for not taking tougher action quickly enough. Although Menston, Hawksworth, Burley-in-Wharfedale
YOUNGSTERS at two Guiseley schools are still playing Russian roulette with their lives when they try to cross a busy road to get to school, a motorist claimed this week. Motorist Benjamin Carter drives along Bradford Road to get to work in Yeadon every
A YOUNGSTER with learning disabilities has beaten all the odds to be nominated for a top sporting honour. Brave Graham Dunham, aged 17, from Guiseley, has been nominated for the Young Boy Achiever Award after a string of athletic achievements during the
SHOCKED staff and governors have spoken of their disbelief after fire tore through six classrooms at Horsforth School during the early hours of Sunday morning. Four portable classrooms on the Lee Lane East site were completely destroyed and two others
ROAD works in Rawdon have been put on ice because of the foot and mouth crisis. Workmen repairing a section of wall along Layton Road needed to get into fields next to the road - but have been banned because of fears of spreading the virus. Now the work
A GOVERNMENT minister has promised the people of Otley that their long wait for a new hospital is over and that work will start next year. During a visit to Wharfedale Hospital yesterday, Health Secretary Alan Milburn MP told health officials, nurses
In 1860, the Bradford Provident Industrial Society was formed. In 1912, coal retailed in Bradford at 2s. 6d. per cwt. In 1924, New church was opened at Frizinghall. From the Telegraph & Argus of March 22nd, 1976... How would you like it if four years
A new group was launched today designed to encourage a culture of youth enterprise in the region. Three high flying entrepreneurial role models, including the 15-year-old managing director of an online magazine, shared their experiences with the audience
A VILLAGE junior football club is among the first in the country to receive a prestigious new award from the Football Association. Salterforth Junior Football Club is one of just six clubs in the North West and only 40 nationwide to receive the Standard
A GIGGLESWICK resident staged a one-man protest against works at Penny Bridge last Friday - by simply sitting on his own wall. Andrew Watson, who lives at Sandholme Drive, told the Herald that work had commenced on the bridge, which included alterations
CRAVEN District Council appears to be backtracking on its plans to kill pigeons in Skipton. Speaking at a recent meeting, Coun Ken Hart attacked the Herald claiming that its January 26 article about the council's plans to poison pigeons to reduce their
FOOTPATHS and towpaths could be re-opened in a bid to alleviate the hardship of farming and tourist industries from the foot and mouth outbreak. British Waterways and the Yorkshire Dales National Park will be carrying out risk assessments to see which
PUPILS at an Ilkley school will no longer be saved by the bell - after beleaguered residents claimed the sound of their siren took them back to the blitz. Staff at Ilkley Grammar Lower School are now being forced to 'teach by the clock' after the wires
HIGHWAY bosses fear that objectors to a coach parking plan could become victims of an Ilkley Parish Council 'witch hunt', according to a letter to the parish clerk. But members of the parish council still want to know the names of the objectors to discover
DEVELOPERS have been accused of riding roughshod over history in the name of profit by residents trying to block a planning appeal, at a public inquiry. Colin Lancaster, of Gilstead Way, said a bid to build an apartment block in a neighbouring garden
VICTOR Volvo-Estate, one of the weekend cottagers, turned up a few days ago with two of his children but sans wife, which in itself was the subject of some speculation. But, even more unusually, he actually began to show some interest in village life.
A pensioner could have starved himself in retaliation to his brother's bullying, a psychiatrist told an inquest. Gerald Atkinson, 68, died in Dewsbury District Hospital just over a year ago. He had been admitted to the Priestley Unit for Mental Health
A Bingley company set up by a former number one pop star has gone out of business. Jackson Consultancy Group on Park Road, which offered specialist training and marketing advice to the motor industry, has stopped trading and a liquidation meeting is to
The final cross-country meeting of the season was held at Barton-on-Humber and several Skyrac athletes made the trip across the Humber Bridge to the Baysgarth Park course. The outstanding result of the day for the Guiseley club came from Jonathan Keith
Otley Town.......0 Marsden............0 Otley Town welcomed this season's County Cup semi-finalists to the Old Showfield on Saturday, but the game ended a dour 0-0 draw. Once again Otley started the game brightly, moving the ball around well and pulling
BEDALE TOWN..........0 BURLEY TROJANS....3 After a shaky start Trojans ran out comfortable winners to complete an impressive league double over mid-table Bedale. The result lifts Trojans into second place and, with Kirkby Malzeard crashing to a shock
GUISELEY manager Neil Parsley has been under fire from some sections of the supporters for not giving the club's talented reserve and youth team players a go. As he prepares to bring in even more experienced players Parsley explained his reasons why.
A busy market may not be the most romantic setting in which to propose to your loved one. But for Darren Challoner the Kirkgate Market in Bradford was perfect place to pop the question to his sweetheart Gemma Sedgely. Darren, 24, of Shipley, who works
Schools are being turned away from Hindu temples in a row over a vacancy at Bradford Interfaith Education Centre. And members of religious groups in the city are concerned that the situation could be detrimental to race relations. The row escalated after
Nursery pupils had to be sent home from school after vandals smashed all the windows in their classroom. The incident at St Oswald's CE Primary School is the latest in a series of stone attacks in which windows and doors have been broken. And the vandals
Joan O'Hara stood in the lounge of her semi-detached house in Stockbridge, Keighley and said: "This is my palace. It's beautiful - I'm moved to tears." Mrs O'Hara, 61, was back home after almost five months living in a hotel in Crossflatts. She and her
York RI 27 Skipton 12 THERE are times when you know it's just not going to be your day. That was the case when Skipton visited New Lane in a vital Yorkshire Division Three clash, which the home team had to win to preserve their promotion hopes. York RI
NORTH Ribblesdale RU club, who felt badly let down last week when Hull decided not to fulfil their Yorkshire One league game at Grove Park, citing the foot and mouth crisis as the reason for their non-appearance, have received some backing from senior
WHARFEDALE are going ahead with their key National Division Two game against Rosslyn Park at The Avenue on Saturday. A mid-week committee meeting approved the decision, which will still be dependent on no adverse developments on the foot and mouth front
SKIPTON received a welcome boost in the build-up to Saturday's Yorkshire Shield semi-final against Scarborough at Sandylands with the news that key man George Smithson is fit and takes his place at full-back. That seemed less than likely last week when
SIR - With regard to A Clarke's letter (March 13) claiming our EU membership betrays those who died in the war, it is worth remembering that the EU was set up precisely to ensure that such wars never happen again. Almost every generation from the fall
A FOURTEEN-year-old soprano from Menston is stepping into the shoes of a top singer to sing alongside her brother in the Messiah. Bradford Grammar School pupil and up-and-coming tenor Daniel Wellings, 16, was to star alongside an Opera North soprano singing
