Dermot McGrath, the man who has led East Bierley to a unique three-successive Sovereign Healthcare Priestley Cup triumphs, will be a notable absentee for the start of their defence of the trophy. McGrath is working and misses the first round encounter
Bulls winger Tevita Vaikona hardly got a pass at Twickenham but it was a case of normal service resumed as the side moved back to the top of Super League in midweek. The Tongan ace had made a great start to the campaign before damaging an ankle in the
Bobby 'The Viper' Vanzie plans to be at his most venemous when he tackles the tree surgeon tonight. Vanzie will be spitting with anger after hearing his unbeaten challenger Steve Murray talk about felling him like the trees he used to chop down for a
The popular Spen Valley Greenway was visited by its first official guest yesterday. Sir John Harman, chairman of the Environment Agency, walked part of the route with Kirklees Mayor, Councillor Ann Denham, Spen Valley MP Mike Wood, local councillors,
A Bingley businesswoman has shut up shop before work on the new relief road starts. Pauline Harrison, pictured left, who ran Clandestine on Main Street until yesterday, decided to close after four years before any disruption from the new project could
More footpaths closed following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease have been reopened in time for Monday's Bank Holiday. Bradford Council has opened up Silsden footpath, which runs from Keelham Lane in Utley across Keighley Golf Course to Elam Wood
Residents say they have had their worst fears realised following the expansion of a nearby school. And one angry householder has refused to pay her council tax for the past year because of the "horrendous'' road chaos. Plans to extend Queensbury Upper
Four Asian female high-fliers from Bradford are on the shortlist for a national award. The district has more representatives among the nominees for the Asian Women of Achievement Awards than any other region apart from London. Cherie Booth QC, patron
Fundraisers at Marie Curie Cancer Care are celebrating after reaching a £5 million milestone in their Bradford hospice appeal. A £68,000 donation from Bradford-based health insurers Sovereign Health Care has left the charity needing only £200,000 before
Ambulance chiefs are investigating why it took a crew more than an hour to reach a woman badly injured in the Easter Sunday disturbances in Bradford. Julie Cook, 39, blundered accidentally into the middle of the trouble after leaving her sister's home
A rapid response team is being sent to Bradford to help hundreds of workers whose jobs are being shed by hi-tech electronic firm Pace Micro Technology. Trade and Industry minister Patricia Hewitt has told Shipley MP Chris Leslie that the Employment Agency
SIR - On March 8 I rang Bulk Refuse to request removal of an old fridge. On April 4 I rang again as it had not been collected. I was told there was a four-week delay on collections. On April 24 I rang again. I was told there could be a long wait for collection
City of Bradford swimmers struck gold at Open Meets at Sheffield and Harrogate. Sheffield's Ponds Forge played host to Rotherham's Silver Jubilee meet and provided Mark Gilhooly with City's only gold in the boys' 16 years 200m free with a best long course
Bradford City chairman Geoffrey Richmond has undergone surgery on a stomach complaint and will miss his side's final Premiership home game against Middlesbrough at Valley Parade today. Richmond was taken ill on the way to the FA Premier League meeting
Bradford City were nine minutes away from rounding off their home Premiership campaign with a victory before Christian Karembeu rescued a point for Boro. The Frenchman smashed a late equaliser to frustrate the Bantams who had led since the 38th minute
The internet is a useful and innovative way of providing children with education as well as entertainment. Sometimes they are more willing to absorb information from the screen, with mouse and keyboard under their control, than they are from their teachers
Marauding dogs are thought to have killed 17 lambs stranded on a farm by foot-and- mouth. The lambs' carcasses were found today by their owner William Bell at Scholebrook Farm, Tong. The animals should have been back at their original home in Colne, Lancashire
A pioneering drive to protect Bradford youngsters from the dark side of the internet has won Government praise. Under the new police scheme - the first of its kind in the country - all ten and 11-year-olds throughout the district will be handed a leaflet
A Bradford policeman has written to Prime Minister Tony Blair in a last ditch push to save his desperately sick daughter. Eight-year-old Alice Maddocks was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia last-year and her father Dean was told her only chance of
