Bradford and Bingley are on for a cup double in the SDS Bradford League's centenary season. Their first team will face Woodlands in the Priestley Cup final at Wagon Lane on Sunday, August 24. And their second team, despite being third-from-bottom, will
Park Avenue 0, Hull City 2: Park Avenue lost their opening pre-season friendly to Hull City after two spectacular first-half strikes and a late brace from the Nationwide Division Three outfit. Under the watchful eye of their boss, former England caretaker
Bradford Bulls coach Brian Noble is hoping that Widnes don't provide another Odsal banana skin next Sunday. The Challenge Cup winners have already lost home matches this season to London, Wigan and St Helens. But Noble isn't shocked by results that have
The claim by a leading member of the Asian community in Keighley that young teenagers are being recruited by gangs to work as drugs couriers on their pedal bikes reinforces the need for all parents to become involved in efforts to counter youth crime.
When electrician Balbir Panesar set up his own firm back in 1977, he had fairly modest ambitions. He certainly never dreamed he would end up in control of one of the fastest growing businesses in Bradford and boasting a client base of top national retailers
The history of Bradford's once thriving textile industry is to be brought alive in a new exhibition. Visitors to the Industrial Museum in Moorside Road, Eccleshill, will have the chance to witness the people and businesses on which the city's wealth was
It's getting bigger, and Bradford businesses should get a slice of it or miss out on potential business. Ten new countries are set to join the European Union next year, providing a potential 100 million new customers for Bradford companies to pitch their
A Keighley lift business is on the up after revealing today that it is to break the £8 million turnover barrier for the first time in its history. Ace Elevators, based in South Street, has been growing year-on-year since it was established in 1977 and
A family-run window company was celebrating today after becoming one of the first in the region to scoop a new Government quality mark designed to stamp out cowboy firms. Regency Windows, based in Usher Street, Bradford, has been awarded the coveted Quality
Gareth Gates has admitted he did have a relationship with glamour model Jordan. The Bradford pop idol had previously denied a liaison with the topless model, despite her own confessions to tabloid newspapers. But in a magazine today, the 18-year-old from
A popular nursery on the Allerton estate is doubling in size after winning a major Government grant. The Child's Play centre next to Ley Top Primary School has been providing low-cost childcare to parents since 1997. Set up by local mums with the backing
Yorkshire-born Brian Blessed, the undertaker's assistant turned actor, is to receive an honorary doctorate from Bradford University on Friday. The big man who launched his career in Z Cars playing PC Fancy Smith in the 1960s will collect the award at
A spinster whose obsessive stalking of a Roman Catholic priest she was in love with led to her being jailed for two years has had her sentence appeal dismissed. Bernadette Quinn, whose mental illness makes her believe that men are in love with her, even
There has been a mixed reaction to a Home Office announcement concerning the archaic law which left West Yorkshire Police Authority footing the Bradford riots bill. The Home Office announced in Parliament yesterday that a consultation with stakeholders
The family of a Bradford mum who has died from leukaemia, diagnosed while she was eight months pregnant, today vowed to raise money in her memory. Debbie Ruding died at Bradford Royal Infirmary after catching pneumonia while being treated for the illness
Aidan Davison may turn his back on football and emigrate to America. The former City keeper, released in May, is chewing over several offers to stay in the game. Grimsby head the queue to re-sign the 35-year-old, who believes he can play for another couple
Tom Kearney came through his first game for 11 months and declared: I'm back in business. City's tigerish midfielder played half of yesterday's private friendly with Premiership Bolton. The Bantams were beaten 2-0 but it was a major milestone for Kearney
In 1789, citizens of Paris set up a "Commune" where they would live outside of the authority of the government. In 1965, the Mariner IV spacecraft sent back the first close-up pictures of Mars. In 1997, designer Gianni Versace was shot dead outside his
Draughtsman Trevor Hodgson went back to the drawing board for the final time when he spent his last day at work at Barratts Steel Buildings. Mr Hodgson, 63, has called it a day after 47 years of drawing up plans for buildings at the firm in Cutler Heights
Two Bradford law firms are joining forces with rivals from West and South Yorkshire to promote their personal injury and accident claims services under a new brand. Needhams and Sampson Horner have signed up to the new marketing initiative with 16 other
Keeping warm in the sub-zero temperatures of Siberia is a tough enough challenge for anyone. But imagine yourself in the bone-chilling environment without a good set of thermals and your teeth begin to chatter. This was the problem facing man-mountain
Less than two years ago, joiner Paul Shearman was running his business from the garage at the side of his house in Wyke. He had stumbled upon a niche market for timber folding, sliding doors when building himself a new conservatory. But never did he realise
The union helping speeding West Yorkshire ambulance driver Mike Ferguson said today it was disappointed it had been ignored by the Health Minister and Home Office. The GMB asked both for their help in the case of Mike Ferguson, of Birkenshaw, who is facing
A top police display dog was saved from choking to death by a quick-acting vet and a fast dash in a police car. Handler PC Peter Barker, from Bingley, was frantic when a rubber ball, which he had thrown to his dog Tyson just before a public display in
Actress Julie Fernandez from hit television show The Office presented a Baildon woman with a prize in a contest for disabled amateur photographers. Janet Cook, 53, won second prize in the Modern Life class of the Freedom in Focus competition, run by Disability
Self-confessed couch potato Steven Gledhill started off a new healthy lifestyle by tackling the Three Peaks for charity - and ended up as a rescue hero. The 42-year-old deskbound purchasing manager from Wyke was on his first serious walk, halfway through
Keighley fire crew has appointed Anna Millington as its first female firefighter. Anna, 29, pictured, was selected after a rigorous 13-week training course at West Yorkshire fire headquarters in Birkenshaw. The former leisure centre manager, who has a
Youths aged 13 and under are working as drug couriers on their pedal bikes in Keighley, a leading member of the town's Asian community has claimed. Khadim Hussain, of Keighley Sangat Centre, claims the youngsters are being recruited by drugs gangs still
A third MRI scanner is to be brought into Bradford at a new £5 million health centre being built in the city. It will be run by a private company and offer life-saving scans within two weeks and vital treatment a fortnight later to help slash waiting
SIR - I have just read Saturday's T&A and saw the sound and vision department of Christopher Pratt's has been driven out of its new Leeds store. Councillor Cooke says he is confident a suitable site could be found for Christopher Pratt's if they return
