Bradford's Simon Bedford came within days of quitting the sport in the summer - but now he's glad he didn't. The 25-year-old left-hander, relegated from the main tour last season, has made a good start in his bid to regain his berth among the elite. Fairweather
Bingley Harrier Steve Green will be hoping his recent performances have clinched a place in the North of England team for tomorrow's Bradford 10k road race from the Richard Dunn Sports Centre. The North of England team will start favourites for the inter-area
Mike Forshaw's decision to make his international comeback may have surprised some, but the Bradford Bulls player has had plenty of time to think about it. The 31-year-old loose forward admitted: "Brian Noble, who is also Great Britain's assistant coach
The extra £4 million of Government money announced to help rural Yorkshire businesses hit by the foot-and-mouth crisis to survive the winter will certainly ease the problem but is nowhere near enough to compensate for the losses suffered during this last
Doomed textile mill W&J Whitehead will close its doors for good next week. After the collapse of a proposed buy-out, the company is set to close on Friday. Many of the remaining 260 workers were laid off yesterday, but the last few workers will finish
A wooden seat dedicated to the memory of a teacher who was killed by a drink-driver has been unveiled at a Heckmondwike school. Angela Ovington was just 28 when she and two friends, Victoria Fisher and Susan Briggs, were mown down by a drunk kerb-crawler
The Bingley-based manufacturers of Damart underwear have teamed up with Super League champions Bradford Bulls to create a trendy new 'base layer' for the players. Designers are working on a training kit for the squad which will retain heat and prevent
An anthrax scare which led to six people having to undergo decontamination treatment was sparked by crushed Loveheart sweets. Police today confirmed that a suspicious powder found in the mail at Shipley Sorting Office on Wednesday which sparked a massive
A pedestrian railway crossing near where two women were killed is not considered by rail bosses to be a danger to walkers if used properly. Susan Steinker, 44, of Church Close, Oakworth, who was in a wheelchair, and a 62-year-old woman from Keighley died
Actor George Layton today pledged to help save the Priestley Centre - and offered to stage a one-man show to raise funds for the theatre. Bradford-born George said: "Out of all the projects I've been asked to support, this is the one I'm saying yes to
A Kashmiri religious leader has condemned the atrocities in America and backed the war on terrorism in a speech to hundreds of Muslims in Bradford. Peer Mohammed Attiq-ul-Rehman Faizpuri was elected to the Kashmir assembly in July and came back to his
A family who won a High Court battle for a grant to convert their home for their wheelchair-bound son have now been forced to take court action against the builder. Lawrence and Julie Pickering, whose son Ryan, 11, has spina bifida, were awarded more
Seth Johnson has swapped the "comfort zone" at Derby for the "comedy zone" at a Leeds side which is fast developing into David O'Leary's mini-England. Leeds' latest £9million recruit fits perfectly into the O'Leary transfer mould as described by chairman
Thackley's Academy players are preparing for the biggest test of their careers when they take on Port Vale in the FA Youth Cup at Ainsbury Avenue on Wednesday. To reach the first round proper is a great achievement for the Thackley youngsters, who entered
Birmingham 4 Bradford City 0 Bradford City's black October continued with a 4-0 thrashing at St Andrew's this afternoon. The Bantams crashed to their sixth defeat in the last seven games - and fourth in 11 days - as Marcelo claimed a hat-trick for managerless
In 1775, massive floods swept through Bradford. In 1913, the litho printers went on strike at Bradford Technical College. In 1926, the "All Blacks" beat Bradford Northern at Birch Lane, Bradford. From the Telegraph & Argus of October 20th, 1976...
Councillors today pledged to help Bradford's award-winning Soup Run which faces the loss of its "home" when a supermarket is built on the land. The charity, which helps thousands of homeless people, may have to give up the Council-owned site in Nelson
Police are today hunting three masked robbers who staged an armed attack in a Bradford street. A 41-year-old man, who witnesses said was carrying a large bag of cash, was attacked with a crowbar and sprayed with an unknown substance during the attack
Two gunmen were today beginning jail sentences totalling 21 years with a warning that violent thugs would not be allowed to live in their 'fanciful world'. Gunman Khawar Butt received 12 years for shooting 17-year-old Gemma Tuohey, pictured, and her then
SIR - Ayub Khan (Letters, October 15) fails to disclose that when a nun covers herself for God, it is usually through her own personal choice - unlike that of Muslim women living under Islamic fundamentalists like the Taliban, Osama bin Laden and the
