If the manager feels I can go in and do a job tomorrow, then I am champing at the bit. We got beat 4-0 by Birmingham reserves last night but they had a very experienced side out and we had myself and Andy Myers and the rest of the team was young lads.
Nicky Law is well aware of the gulf between Bradford City and Coventry City as he makes last-minute preparations for the visit to Highfield Road tomorrow. City are ready to catapult youngsters like the fast-emerging Simon Francis and Danny Forrest into
Trevor Storton is in a race against time to get a defender in for the visit of Vauxhall Motors to Horsfall Stadium. Centre half James Stansfield twisted his ankle in last week's defeat at Marine and will miss out when the third-placed side come to Bradford
Darren Gough has taken some encouraging steps towards regaining full fitness by bowling in the Headingley nets this week off a six-yard run and he hopes to be able to work up to full pace by the middle of next month. But Gough admits that it could be
The Bulls head to Knowsley Road tonight for the start of Super League VIII without flying winger Tevita Vaikona. The Tongan try-scoring sensation had been rated 50/50 for the Grand Final rematch but just missed out because of his troublesome Achilles.
Few responsible people will argue with the call by Bradford Council's chief executive Ian Stewart for the district to be allowed to adopt a tough new scheme banning the throwing of fireworks in the street. The measure, under which over-18s can be fined
A DISABLED woman in Barnoldswick has a new found sense of freedom thanks to an invention first highlighted on the television programme Tomorrow's World. Forty-seven-year-old Jeannie Crangle, of Rainhall Crescent, is the first person in West Craven and
REPRESENTATIVES from Silsden manufacturing company Brett Harris Ltd were the guests of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on Monday night. Managing director Michael Dobson, export sales manager Darren Burrell and Peter Clarkson, designer and pattern
HORTON-in-Ribblesdale Parish Council has commended a local man for his community spirit after taking action to force the authorities to repair a muddy footpath. Jack Greenwood told members he had served a "Section 56" order on North Yorkshire county Council
NORTH Craven villages should be safer after Ingleton Police were presented with their own speed gun courtesy of local funding. North Yorkshire County Council's Craven area committee awarded a grant for the £4,500 radar gun at the request of Ingleton representative
DYNELEY House Surgery receptionist Christine Bullock celebrated 25 years in her post last week - but still could not claim to be the longest serving employee! It seems once people start working at Skipton's Newmarket Street Surgery they never want to
VISITORS may be relieved to see work beginning on Kettlewell's new toilets, but traders say the timing is anything but convenient. As builders moved in on Monday to begin 26 weeks of work on the scheme to include a community office, ranger's office, bus
CRAVEN'S top job lies vacant following the resignation of chief executive Rachel Mann. Miss Mann joined Craven District Council in 1998. She was appointed director of public services and led a review of the council's senior management. She was later appointed
CRAVEN residents could be guaranteed a parking space outside their own homes for around £15 a year. North Yorkshire County Council has drawn up plans to revise the current provision of residents' parking schemes across the county. The measures suggested
IF you think it's been a bit parky outside this week spare a thought for David Maxfield, for whom freezing point would be positively balmy. For Mr Maxfield is spending three months in Antarctica, during which time he has become probably the first Skiptonian
Prince Charles has sent a huge bouquet of flowers and a personal message expressing his 'support and deep sorrow' to a vicar after vandals desecrated a war memorial which the Prince had rededicated just months before. The figure of Jesus was ripped from
A community arts organisation is expanding its projects and staff, five years after being born. Artworks has moved from its base at the Thornbury Centre on Leeds Old Road in Bradford to a converted mill at Mercury Quays, Ashley Lane, Shipley. The organisation
The chief executive of Bradford Council is calling for an urgent change in the law to stop problems caused by fireworks. Ian Stewart has written to Home Secretary David Blunkett asking for the extension of a scheme where over 18s face fines of £40 for
Hands off our homes! That's the message from people in a Bradford street who are angry at proposals to demolish their houses. Proposals have been announ-ced to build 700 new homes on Ravenscliffe estate and to give the area a new name - Holywell Village
Bradford will receive an annual £17.1 million grant from the Government towards helping some of the district's most vulnerable people. It is one of 15 local authorities in Yorkshire and Humber which will share an estimated £133 million a year to deliver
A team of doctors, nurses and clerical staff have their sights set on the finishing post of a big charity race. The medics - some of whom have never run seriously before - are planning to take part in the 13-mile Great North Run in September. Ishtiyak
A Royal Marines commando has sent an SOS to his family from the Kuwaiti desert saying "Send us some food - we're desperate." And one MP is so "disturbed" that some of our troops might be short of basic supplies that she has promised to take up the issue
CRAVEN Area Committee has agreed to donate £10,000 towards the Coulthurst Craven Sports Centre development project. Phase 1 of an extension to the facilities is the provision of a full-size, floodlit, all-weather pitch at Sandylands, with changing rooms
EVEN during a comparatively mild winter, it seems that the Craven & District Football League schedule cannot survive intact, with mid-week cup ties now an essential tool of the fixture making system. The diversity in league matches played in some
THE draft proposals for residents only parking schemes appear to have some serious flaws - not least the insistence that such zones are more than 300 metres from a car park. Some of the worst areas, such as Primrose Hill and Regents in Skipton, seem perilously
City boss Nicky Law can't get that Brighton goal out of his system - and is now calling for technology to be introduced into football. "It was so disappointing to lose to such a controversial goal last Saturday," he said. The more I see it the worse it
In 1952, Identity Cards were abolished in Britain. In 1963, the new £5 note was issued in Britain. In 1972, American black activist Malcolm X was shot. From the Telegraph & Argus of February 21st, 1978... Councillors meeting at Bradford yesterday
A gang robbed a teenager at knifepoint this week as he walked down a secluded footpath with his girlfriend. The five-strong gang escaped with £70 after ambushing the couple in Postman's Walk, which runs alongside Keighley Sorting Office, off Oakworth
HOPES to include an historical area of Barnoldswick on a heritage trail are being dashed due to some residents not taking a pride in where they live, according to one town councillor. Coun Marlene Hill-Crane, of Wellhouse Street, told the Herald she hoped
MOVING from a glamorous photographic studio in central London to the hills of Lothersdale might not be everybody's idea of a good career move, but to Mark Ingram it's working out just fine. His work has already been used to market some of the country's
A CROSS Hills school boy has won a place with the National Youth Boys Choir this summer. Thirteen-year-old Jeff Green was picked for the choir, which feeds into the National Youth Choir, after attending an audition in Wigan and will start training and
A REMOTE house which burned down in 1996 claiming the life of one of its occupants could soon be restored. At the time of the tragedy, Bookilber Laithe Barn, off Langber Lane, two miles north of Long Preston, was owned by the Bradford Gurdjieff Society
SKIPTON Girls' High School has changed its bid for specialist language status and now hopes to become one of the first all girls schools in the country to win engineering status. Headteacher Janet Renou said that the school's bid for specialist language
AFTER being sacked from the job he loved, a popular Craven postie is back on his patch with a pronounced spring in his step. In November last year Bob Dewhirst, 58, a familiar face around Gargrave for the past four years, lost his job for failing to deliver
NEWSAGENTS in Craven claim they are being driven out of business by excessive delivery charges. Petitions are being drawn up in protest at the rise in the charges demanded by wholesalers who deliver national newspapers and magazines to each outlet. Mike
ONE of Skipton's long-serving corner shops could be lost to the community if plans go ahead to turn it into a house. Devonshire Stores was built as a shop on the corner of Devonshire Street and Brougham Street in the early 1900s, but is no longer economically
THE average Craven home owner will be paying more than £1,000 for council services from April. North Yorkshire agreed a council tax rise of 11.5 per cent to ensure no cuts in services during the next financial year at its meeting this week. There are
HIGH wage earners from "Metroland" are buying up Craven's properties and forcing the district's youngsters away from home. Young people born and brought up in the area are unable to afford properties when they are ready to flee the nest and are having
IT's a dirty job, but someone's had to do it and until now, that's been Barden's Geoff Neale. Geoff, 50, has swept the soot from thousands of Dales chimneys in the 14 years he's been in the area, taking plenty of the black stuff home for his wife to cope
NOW here's a turn up for the book. Beggarsdale has hit the glossies, which has set the village abuzz. Sadly, our great rivals Crookedale are in there too, which has taken the edge off things for some. Cousin Kate the postmistress got wind that something
SIR - I read from the Craven Herald that large council tax rises are on their way. Now that's a surprise, isn't it! Craven District Council are voting on a possible seven per cent rise, or over twice inflation, North Yorkshire County Council seeks 11.5
Prostate cancer patients in Bradford will be guided through their treatment thanks to a national charity which has provided funding for a new nurse. Zoe Scaife, 28, of Shipley, is now one of only three nurses in the country - the only one outside London
Operatunity is knocking louder still for a former Bulgarian pop singer who is well on her way to becoming a classical diva. Elena Markova-Smith will be the star of the show at Cart-wright Hall, Bradford, in spring - for the first time in her blossoming
Sick children at Airedale Hospital are being given a new treatment to help them get better - laughter. The Steeton hospital has drafted in clowns to cheer up the young patients on the children's ward many of whom have faced major operations. The clowns
A flagship regeneration centre which was praised by the Duke of York has been left in the dark, smashed and vandalised. Just over a year ago Prince Andrew visited Woolston House business and art centre in Tetley Street, Bradford, which was seen as a model
WHARFEDALE go into tomorrow's National Division Two match at Bracknell knowing that their future at this level could depend on their ability to keep their lips buttoned and their self-discipline sharply focussed, (writes Tony Simpson). Victory at the
SIR - I write in response to the many letters regarding the Baumann Lyons designs for City Hall, the winning entry in a competition sponsored by the Institute of Public Policy Research, the Design Council and the Government. The designs contain exciting
100 years ago A NOVEL entertainment made its way to Skipton in the form of Carl Mysto, who claimed to be the world's greatest Handcuff King. Mysto challenged the town's locksmith Mr TH Lee, who fastened him with old fashioned manacles. The crowd then
