West Bowling's Lee Hutchinson has put club before glory. The imposing prop forward turned down the chance to train with the Yorkshire squad to play for the National Conference Division One club he has been with since he was eight. But West Bowling will
Bradford Bulls coach Brian Noble has praised the character of his side after they went to the top of the Tetley's Super League last night. Again they recovered from a two-try deficit - as they had last Sunday at Widnes - to defeat Hull 32-18 at Valley
Mob violence is a terrifying experience, one the people of East Bowling are counting the cost of after a gang of 40 youths went on the rampage in the community. Shops were damaged, residents were terrorised and property was attacked as the youths ripped
A Liversedge school has received a £4,000 award to be shared between staff who helped raise its standards. In Autumn, the governors of High Bank First School and Early Years Unit praised headteacher Michelle Lee and her staff for taking the school from
A revamped country park in Bradford is set to be the icing on the cake for the city's Capital of Culture bid. The 100-acre St Ives park in Harden, near Bingley, is being developed to boost visitor numbers. The improvements, which will be done by the Council's
Otley's new deputy bellman "Bomber" Wilson has made his debut appearance. He has been appointed by the town council which spent months searching for an assistant to town crier Paddy Steval. Mr Wilson, a driver, is town crier for Weeton, where he lives
A man who acted as a drug runner for a heroin dealer has been jailed for two years. Mohammed Faisal's barrister told a judge at Bradford Crown Court that his client had stepped into the shoes of previous runners who had been arrested in undercover police
A car salesman who struggled to come to terms with the death of his baby boy inhaled fatal fumes from a car exhaust, an inquest was told. Carl Swales, 27, was found dead with a picture of five-month-old Ashley on his lap in a BMW car parked inside a garage
Residents in Queensbury have won their battle to stop a controversial housing development which would have cut into the village cemetery. The row began in January 2001 when plans for the new development at Broomfield, near Black Dyke Mills, were submitted
A giant model replica of historic Listers Mill is to be restored to its former glory after it re-surfaced following years in storage. The balsa wood recreation of the now derelict mill complex was hand-built by Bradford model maker Ron Breadner. Mr Breadner
A year after the brutal murder of a teenage prostitute, a leading police officer made a heartfelt appeal for help in catching her killer. The last known sighting of Becky Hall was on Good Friday when she left her Bradford home, thought to be headed for
Youngsters will be able to perfect silky soccer skills when the first disabled football club in Bradford is started. Boys and girls who may have been hampered by physical, learning and sensory disabilities will be encouraged towards their sporting dreams
The Government has bailed out Yorkshire's fledgling air ambulance service in a bid to continue saving lives. Health minister Hazel Blears visited Leeds to announce a £2.2 million windfall for air ambulance charities as well as agreeing to fund their paramedics
Billy Liar - the classic film that put Bradford on the world movie map - is to be revived for another big screen outing. The rights to the 1963 film starring Tom Courtenay as Billy Fisher, an idle dreamer who lies his way through a mundane life, have
Bradford Bulls boss Chris Caisley today said he plans to take the world champions back to their Odsal home, pictured, next season. The club moved out to became the guests of Bradford City at Valley Parade last year to make way for contractors expected
Bees coach Matt Greenwood, pictured, hopes his side can build on last Saturday's outstanding result tomorrow. His relegation-threatened side, who are third from bottom in North Division One, beat fourth-placed Darlington 34-0. This weekend the Bees are
Bradford Park Avenue face a make or break week in the UniBond Premier with four tough games in eight days starting with tomorrow's visit to Merseyside to face Vauxhall Motors. Avenue have to recover from two recent shock defeats. The Ellesmere Port side
Resilience is one of the qualities that champions have to display, and Super League holders Bradford Bulls had to show it last night as they again recovered from a slow start. They trailed Widnes 12-0 after seven minutes at the Halton Stadium last Sunday
In 1871, Queen Victoria opened the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 1927, Sir Henry Seagrave broke the world land speed record at Daytona, USA. In 1973, US troops pulled out of South Vietnam. From the Telegraph & Argus of March 29th, 1977...Violent
Drivers using a residential street as a rat-run to skip traffic jams are putting children's lives at risk, it was claimed today. Residents of Owlet Road in Shipley are calling on Bradford Council to introduce traffic calming measures after a spate of
More than 200 people joined together for a multicultural event which raised cash for a Keighley pensioner who has amassed a £37,000 debt. The event was aimed at highlighting the diversity of cultures and communities in Keighley, and raising cash for Braithwaite
Essential carriageway resurfacing works are to be carried out in Shelf from Wednesday for about three weeks. Work will be on the A6036 Halifax Road/Wade House Road, between Stone Chair roundabout and Shelf Hall Lane. It will involve the removal of the
A family fears a stream which gushes from under their home could undermine the foundations of the building. The rear yard at Michelle and Andy Corcoran's home in Hali-fax Road, Keighley, has already subsided. Stones have come lose from a buttress supporting
Bradford Council has ordered a Keighley firm to clear up an unsightly dumping ground. Commercial vehicle manufacturer, TS Wilson, on Royd Way, has been leaving old trailers on unused Council land by the side of the A629, near the Hard Ings roundabout.
A wheelchair-bound former chauffeur for the Emir of Bahrain has been banned from the roads for three years after admitting drink driving. Stephen Tipling, 54, of Green Bank Court, Baildon, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Bingley magistrates. Graham
More than 1,000 enthusiasts turned up on the opening night of Bradford's newest bingo hall in the hope of winning a big cash prize. Almost every table was taken at Buckingham Bingo in Bradford's Interchange and as players raised their complimentary Union
A gunman blasted a shotgun through the front door of a house in the Leeds Road area of Bradford early today. The shotgun pellets were sprayed through the front door and became embedded in the wall of the back-to-back terrace house in Amberley Street at
Council managers and unions have reached a compromise in a dispute which blew up after workers claimed they were being spied on. A complaint was made to GMB shop stewards after opaque film was put on an office window allowing bosses to watch workers unobserved
A pigeon which had been nursed back to health by a Skipton bird lover was released back into the wild - only to fly straight home! Figo the homing pigeon was given away by pigeon expert Dino Reardon six years ago, but dropped out of the sky and was found
Companies across Bradford are being challenged to field a team to take part in a corporate bowling competition in aid of the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Can...Cancer Research appeal. Bradford Can... has joined forces with Hollywood Bowl at the new
The cupboards were almost bare, her purse was empty and Jade Quarrell had to provide her husband with a filling meal. So the 28-year-old solicitor, who has been living for six weeks on the minimum wage, rustled up a not-so-tasty pasta with peanut butter
A group today pledged to be the "eyes and ears" of historic Lister Park and preserve its new found glory. The Friends of Lister Park has officially launched the organisation as the finishing touches are put on the £4 million refurbishment. One of its
East Bowling is to get its own full-time beat bobby after a gang of around 40 youths went on the rampage. In a two-hour spate of disturbances the group ripped lamp-posts out of the ground and lay them across the road in front of oncoming traffic. One
Detectives hunting Bradford's "most wanted" rioter Mohammed Shakeel had a good response following an appeal in the Telegraph & Argus and on BBC's Crimewatch. Photographs of Shakeel and two other rioters - Zaheer Abbas Bashir and Mohammed Nadeal Abbas
SIR - To cut down crime, simply make sure that it doesn't pay! All crimes resulting in material gain should be immediately punishable by a fine sufficient to fully recompense both the victim and the community ie all police, court, insurance etc should
