Kiplings have put down a marker in their first game in the West Riding Sunday Cricket Council this season by giving Kashmir CC a drubbing. In at the fall of their second wicket, Mohammed Arif played the supporting role to Iqlaq Ahmed's superb 156 not
Embsay are still the top of the Craven and District League after registering a nervy two-wicket win over Long Lee at Shires Lane. Perhaps if the visitors had been able to field a full side they may just have pulled off the victory. Their ten men made
Baildon Seconds had no answer to the pace bowling of Gomersal's A Greenwood and were rattled out for 81 on their home ground in a Bradford League second team game. Gomersal batted first and reached 197 for five thanks to good batting from all the early
Baildon Meths continued their unbeaten start in the Dales Council with a winning draw at Adel thanks largely to a well-struck 79 from James Butterfield. He helped Meths to 188 for six with the hosts closing on 135 for eight in reply. Meanwood and New
Perhaps it's a claret and amber thing. Only two professional clubs in England and Scotland wear those striking colours - and both are in administration. And Bradford City's players, watching the axe dangling ominously over their heads, must look across
A Yeadon-based firm has won a contract with a south west England law firm. Linetime Ltd had an order placed from Clarke Willmott and Clarke for its specialist debt recovery system Debtime SQL. Jane Dunlop, head of the law firm's debt recovery department
A six-month public inquiry which could cost Bradford Council millions of pounds is expected to start in November. Thousands of objections to the Council's proposed Unitary Development Plan (UDP) will be heard by four inspectors at the inquiry in Victoria
A James Bond-style, self-driving car is being developed by experts at Bradford University. Dr John Baruch, head of Cybernetics, believes the vehicle which takes its owner for a ride is only five years away. Students in the department working on final
A Bradford father has launched an appeal against an order to demolish his son's playhouse. Steven Miller built the tree house, right, and shed for his eight-year-old son Conor to give him and his friends a safe place to play. Mr Miller said the buildings
Crime is on the increase in North Yorkshire, according to the latest figures. Recorded incidences have soared by 15 per cent in the past year, with more than 59,000 reports between April 2001 and March 2002 compared to 51,551 the previous year. Burglaries
A housing developer has won a three-year battle to build a controversial £3 million apartment block in Middleton. Ilkley firm Micklegate Special Projects Ltd is building a luxury, three-storey building at Willow Springs, in Gilstead Way, after successfully
Bradford's most historic cemetery has been desecrated by thieves. They stole flagstones from seven graves in Undercliffe Cemetery and also took bedding plants from another grave. The Victorian Grade II-listed cemetery, which ranks alongside Highgate Cemetery
A lorry driver who alerted authorities to thieves breaking in to a car has been urged to contact police. The man flagged down an officer in Wakefield Road, East Bowling, at 9.30am on May 10 after spotting two youths attacking a nearby vehicle. Police
Nearly 9,000 people owe fines totalling almost £3million to Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Courts. Now warrant officers at Bradford Magist-rates' Court are launching a 'name and shame' campaign, targeting the worst offenders. Fourteen people have
Book worms reached Fever Pitch as best-selling author Nick Hornby dropped into Bradford's Pictureville Cinema. The Arsenal fan visited the city last night as part of the fourth Bradford Book Festival to talk about his books and launch a new website called
More than 100 pupils were found out of classes during a police drive to target truants and persistent criminals. In one single sweep of the city centre, officers stopped 37 pupils - 25 of them with their parents. And during the week-long blitz in the
Buyers were today lining up to buy cash-strapped Bradford City - as a jobs cull began at the club. The administrators today revealed that seven new "serious inquiries" were received within hours of the 'for sale' notices officially going up at Valley
SIR - On Sunday night my husband and I went to the Showcase Cinema in Birstall, Leeds. I am disabled, having severe heart disease, and my husband has recently been diagnosed with angina. Having a disabled car sticker, we parked in the disabled spaces
Bolton Villas maintained their 100 per cent start to the season thanks to a sensational piece of bowling from Mark Hay. Hay took seven for 49 to ensure that the club continue to set the pace at the top of Division C of the Aire-Wharfe League. Pool Mills
Natalie Parsons will be grateful for the hundreds of hours she spent in the gymnasium when she takes her place in the Great Britain women's rugby league team this summer. The 17-year-old from Low Moor admits she was surprised to be chosen for the Ashes
Bradford Bulls have recalled Richard Moore from his loan spell with London broncos. The giant prop is needed as cover, with Paul Anderson out for at least a month with a broken left arm. Moore, who was also on loan to keighley Cougars earlier this season
Claus Jorgensen today revealed how the players had been kept in the dark about City's cash crisis. Speaking exclusively while on holiday in the Seychelles, Jorgensen said the club had not been in contact. And he only found out the extent of the trouble
I have discovered a new illness. Its name is Graduate Sour Grapes Syndrome and the symptoms are despairing eyes, a protruding lower lip and frequent tantrums. Sufferers usually have an academic background. They develop burgeoning brains, reams of knowledge
In 1813, composer Richard Wagner was born. In 1907, Sir Laurence Olivier was born. In 1972, Richard Nixon became the first American president to visit the USSR. From the Telegraph & Argus of May 22nd, 1977... About 30 vintage vehicles passed through
Bradford's businesses are to receive free advice on contaminated land issues. Bradford Business Environment Forum, the organisation which helps businesses with advice and information on environment-related issues, is holding a seminar tomorrow. The session
A managing director has come up with a guaranteed way to keep football fans happy this World Cup. Link Telecom, which has outlets in Bradford and Keighley, is selling a mobile phones package which look set to score with on-the-move World Cup fanatics
Wool textile workers are set to be balloted after a final pay offer of a 1.5 per cent pay rise was rejected. The pay offer from the Bradford-based Confederation of British Wool Textiles was rejected by Transport and General Workers Union as 'derisory'
Five firefighters will bare all to raise money for a youngster with leukaemia. All 250 tickets for the Full Monty event have already sold, so eager are people to see the Cleckheaton lifesavers strip off. Money raised by the event will go towards a fund
A selfless couple who gave up their home to help children in Kenya are appealing to Telegraph & Argus readers to help make a dream school a reality for the youngsters. Cynthia and John Price, of Bingley, were so moved by scenes of poverty while on
The newly inaugurated Lord Mayor of Bradford has watched his own grandson battle against leukaemia. And today he asked the people of Bradford to back his pledge to help others through the harrowing experience. Announcing Candlelighters as the beneficiary
'If a dog is snoring, don't kick it awake," a teaching union boss told its Easter conference. "I think it was very stupid of the Government to kick this dog awake." The sleeping dog is Faith Schools - flavour of the month according to Prime Minister Tony
For the unwitting victims of forced marriage, what begins as an innocent trip abroad can suddenly be transformed into a nightmare of imprisonment and abuse. Although the scenario is depressingly familiar, by the time the 'bride' becomes aware of the elaborate
Bradford MPs are backing a call for the Leeds Supertram scheme to be extended to the city in a bid to forge closer links between Leeds and Bradford. The campaign, led by Leeds West Labour MP John Battle, has the support of Bradford West Labour MP Marsha
Councillors are angry that Addingham toilets are scheduled for closure while plans are underway to create new ones in Ilkley. Loos at Sugar Hill in Addingham were included on a list of the district's toilets which face closure unless they are upgraded
Bradford City fan Lindsay Wilburn is hoping to dial her way to the World Cup. Lindsay, 35, is through to the last six of a TV competition to find England's most obsessed supporter, called Your World Cup Pitch. The cab driver has already fought her way
Little Robyn Brooks was today flying to America, where doctors will battle to save her life. The six-year-old cancer sufferer set off from Manchester Airport this morning ahead of a six-month-long trip partly funded by Bradford people. Robyn's family
Labour councillors are refusing to take key jobs on new-look Bradford Council for the third year running. And the Liberal Democrat group is also expected to refuse the education portfolio as the authority today begins a fresh Council year with new rifts
Pint-sized players trotted out to stage a mini-version of the World Cup Finals in Bradford. Footie fever has gripped the district's primary schools. Thirty two schools from the Bradford North area did battle for the world title at Thornton Grammar School
