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  • Letters to the Editor

    Church leaders launch attack on BNP SIR, - We write as leaders of the Churches of Aireborough to express our deep concern at the threat posed by the British National Party in forthcoming elections. Building on their recent gains of 17 council seats across

  • Theatre Reviews

    Djamileh/The Seven Deadly Sins -- Leeds Grand Resurrected from the forgotten ashes of opera history -- Djamileh and The Seven Deadly Sins assaulted, bullied and leapt upon the senses. The two productions -- the last to debut in Opera North's Eight Little

  • Waddilove Cup test for new skipper

    WADDILOVE Cup second round ties are set to be played on Sunday. The draw pits cup holders Guiseley against North Leeds at Nethermoor Park the day after the side's meet in the league at Roundhay. It will be a test for Guiseley's new skipper Ian Chaplin

  • Hockey girls step out to help Rob raise funds

    After a long, hard hockey season you might assume Ben Rhydding Hockey Club's players would now be enjoying a well earned break. Whilst there were no hockey sticks in sight the Ben Rhydding players worked tirelessly on Sunday running sections of the Leeds

  • Last chance to take a giant step for charity

    Twice as many people will take part in this year's Shipley Stride as last year. A total of 500 people have now registered for the sponsored walk, backed by the Telegraph & Argus, to raise valuable cash for Macmillan Cancer Relief. That's double last

  • Optimism reaches new high

    Business optimism in the Yorkshire region is rising faster than anywhere else in the UK and has reached a four-year high, a new survey claimed today. The latest CBI and Yorkshire Forward survey of economic trends has revealed that a balance of a third

  • Breaking down race barriers to the media

    An event about how to get a career in journalism is to be held in Bradford for people of ethnic minority backgrounds. Organised by Aspire, a national support network for ethnic minority journalists and backed by the Telegraph & Argus and the BBC,

  • Watch life on the edge with Matthew

    A Bradford teenager with 96 convictions is among the cases highlighted as part of a TV programme about Bradford social services tonight. The 17-year-old, called Matthew, is seen being released from a young-offender institution on to a three-months tracking

  • Pubs get stronger measures

    Pub and club managers in Bradford's busy West End could get photographs identifying people banned from licensed premises. They would not be put on show for the public but would help staff to make sure troublemakers banned from pubs could not get access

  • ChildLine needs YOU, says Esther

    ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen appealed to people across the Bradford district to give up some time to help desperate children when she joined the Countess of Wessex in West Yorkshire. The countess, who is is the official patron of the charity's 18th

  • Stars come out to save City

    Bradford City legend Stuart McCall is to lead a galaxy of former stars at a huge fund-raising football match for the Telegraph & Argus Save Our City Appeal. The former City captain - who led the Bantams into the Premiership in 1999 - will take to

  • Soccer: Tragedy stuns football world

    KEIGHLEY'S soccer world paid tribute to one of the local game's most colourful characters this week, following the death of Paul Storton. Paul, who died just two days before his 32nd birthday, played for the Keighley Shamrock's football team and was a

  • Cougars: Moorby keeps Leigh guessing

    COUGAR coach Gary Moorby is playing his cards close to his chest as he prepares for Sunday's trip to Leigh. The Lancashire club are hot favourites for promotion to Super League at the end of this campaign, and in public Moorby is playing down his side's

  • Ilkley AFC set to make a decision on league move

    Despite rumours to the contrary amongst Harrogate Senior League clubs, Ilkley AFC has yet to make a decision on the offer to join the West Yorkshire League for the 2004-5 football season. Discussions have taken place within the club and with senior players

  • Hockey girls step out to help Rob raise funds

    After a long, hard hockey season you might assume Ben Rhydding Hockey Club's players would now be enjoying a well earned break. Whilst there were no hockey sticks in sight the Ben Rhydding players worked tirelessly on Sunday running sections of the Leeds

  • Help cut this waste of time and money

    Missed appointments at one doctors' practice in Keighley are costing £60,000 a year in wasted time. Multiply that figure throughout the area and then nationally and the figure is astronomic. But unlike dentists, GPs do not charge for missed appointments

  • Creating an interest

    WHATEVER your opinion of art there can be no doubt that the British Society of Watercolour exhibitions in Ilkley have proved a major success over past quarter of a century. Residents and visitors get the ideal opportunity to discover the amazing amount

  • Girls making the most of cup glory

    Queensbury's Year Seven girls are certainly milking their success after becoming a Powergen Champion School. "They are walking around school in their rugby jackets, and the boys are quite jealous to be honest as they haven't even won the Yorkshire or

  • Yorkshire's attack torn to shreds by Pietersen

    Kevin Pietersen, one of the brightest young stars in county cricket, gave Yorkshire's second-string attack a pasting at Headingley yesterday when he totted up 167 out of a Nottinghamshire total of 393 on the first day of the Frizzell Championship match

  • Noble motivated by Saints success

    Watching red-hot St Helens lift the Powergen Challenge Cup has provided all the motivation the Bulls need, says coach Brian Noble. "It has motivated me. I hated going down to Cardiff and watching other people lift the cup," said Noble. "It was a reminder

  • Branch is Wright move for chester

    Chester City want to make Michael Branch the star name on their return to the Football League. Ambitious manager Mark Wright hopes to follow Doncaster's example by storming straight through the Third Division. Wright has been given the green light from

  • Council told to go 'beck' to the future

    A GUISELEY architect is demanding to know why no action has been taken to stop the illegal filling of Tran Mire Beck. Colin Lancaster, of Bradford Road, at Tranmere Park claims he has watched the watercourse be "systematically" filled in over the last

  • It's one big trip down memory lane for the class of 1948

    More than half a century ago they all enjoyed an idyllic village upbringing - and this week a group a former school-friends met up again in their first ever reunion. They might have needed name badges to recognise each other, but the memories soon came

  • Strike fears grow as Rawdon firefighters hold meeting

    FEARS are growing that industrial action by firefighters could once again hit Wharfedale and Aireborough. An increasingly bitter national dispute over delays to a pay settlement which was agreed last November began this week to spill out across the country

  • Television show bid may halt Civic axe

    CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Otley Civic Centre from being sold off are to approach a television restoration programme. They believe the popular BBC series presented by Griff Rhys Jones could be interested in taking on the Victorian building as a project

  • Dangerous postal vote experiment

    It remains to be seen whether the plan for random checks on postal votes in a bid to curb fraud in June's all-postal council elections will deter any would-be fraudsters. It appears to be a rather hit-and-miss scheme involving the signatures of an unspecified

  • Red mist descends over yellow lines

    Children's lives are being put at risk because Bradford Council has failed to repaint yellow zig-zag lines on a road outside a school. According to teachers at Our Lady of Victories Catholic School, since Guard House Road was resurfaced during the February

  • Railway Children Line under attack

    A world-famous steam railway has come under fire in a new book written by one of its own members. Martin Bairstow describes the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (K&WVR) as "one of life's disappointments". The chartered accountant, who joined the

  • Child 'safe haven' in memory of Casey

    A children's play area is to be created in memory of the nine-year-old girl killed in a road accident last month. Casey's Corner will be a tribute to Casey Mason, the little girl who died at the junction of Bradford Road and Cornwall Road, Stockbridge

  • Widow wins payout over hospital errors

    A widow has called for a surgeon to be sacked four years after her husband died in Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, following a routine operation. Susan Andrews' husband Michael, above, who ran Premier Arms firearms in Cowling, near Skipton, died aged

  • Nell Bank Centre lands a lottery grant of £225,000

    A POPULAR outdoor activities centre in Ilkley has gained almost quarter of a million pounds towards the ongoing creation of extensive facilities. The Nell Bank Centre, on Denton Road, this week discovered its bid for New Opportunities Fund cash had been

  • It's one big trip down memory lane for the class of 1948

    More than half a century ago they all enjoyed an idyllic village upbringing - and this week a group a former school-friends met up again in their first ever reunion. They might have needed name badges to recognise each other, but the memories soon came

  • Sponsors pull the plug on Ilkley art exhibitions

    THE popular art exhibitions at the King's Hall are in danger of folding after the main sponsor, The Mail on Sunday, decided to pull out. When the nine-year deal comes to an end in July, the future for local artists could be bleak, according to organiser

  • Middleton village plan is rejected

    ILKLEY campaigners are celebrating victory in their second major campaign to halt the creation of a new village at the former Middleton Hospital site. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, has backed an inspector's recommendation to

  • Final gig for soul trio

    Keighley's most popular soul band plays for the last time tomorrow with members Phil Swale, Gary Marshall and Tim Gilroy. However, soul fans should not fear -- the group already has future replacements. Soulfish's performance at the Snooty Fox, Oakworth

  • Rat pack gets under your skin

    A Summer Serenade brings Keighley Vocal Union to their home town along with Nelson Arion Male Voice Choir and professional soloists. Soprano Amanda Echalaz and baritone Neil Baker, both former Bingley Grammar School students, will perform during the June

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I was very interested to read your piece about Tom Moore in Friday's Keighley News. I am not a relative, nor do I know of any relatives, but I do remember Tom and I just want to respond, in however minor a way, to Mr Lindley's plea of "Is there

  • Letters to the editor

    Speed cameras have a safety part to play SIR:- Mr Jowett (in his letter 'Speed spin' of May 6) may be surprised to learn that I agree with much of what he says. I, too, would like to see more police patrols and to see reduced speed limits around schools

  • TV soap helper Paul gets theatre place

    Drama student Paul Szulc, a former behind-the-scenes helper on EastEnders, has won a place at a prestigious summer theatre school. There were more than 4,000 applicants for the 400 places at the National Youth Theatre which has Roger Moore and Orlando

  • Orienteers triumph in the Jack Bloor Fell Race on Ilkley Moor

    Local orienteers triumphed in the 19th running of the annual Jack Bloor Fell Races which were sponsored by The Complete Runner of Leeds road, Ilkley. On a cool evening ideal for running the senior race was won by junior international 21 year-old Matthew

  • Kirkstall are challenging Bilton after a rapid rise up the ranks

    KIRKSTALL Educational have made a rapid rise since joining the Airedale and Wharfedale League from the Leeds League in 2000. The Leeds club are continuing to impress in the top flight after lifting the Division C and Division B titles. They are fast applying

  • Skipper Harrison's six wickets lead Burley to top of the table

    BURLEY top Division B of the Airedale and Wharfedale League following their sparkling nine wickets win at Skipton on Saturday. Skipper Richard Harrison did the damage as Skipton were dismissed for 122. He took a superb 6-23 off 15 overs and was well supported

  • Clubs under threat from Harrogate League

    Despite rumours to the contrary amongst Harrogate Senior League clubs, Ilkley AFC has yet to make a decision on the offer to join the West Yorkshire League for the 2004-5 football season. Discussions have taken place within the club and with senior players

  • Youngsters set for their big day at FA Cup final

    IT will be a big day on Saturday for two young pupils from Guiseley School. Ball boy James Davey will be be stepping out with fellow pupil Catharine Millar on the turf at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium along with the stars of the competing clubs Manchester

  • 'We'll turn round failing school'

    The bosses of a failing school have spoken of their determination to turn round its fortunes and boost morale. Gill Burgess, acting head teacher at Windhill CE Primary School, Shipley, said she was committed to working with the school's governors to improve

  • Mum has nine days to raise £10,000

    A mother who is fighting to win back custody of her daughter from her American former husband has made a desperate appeal to the people of Bradford for help. Claire Thompson has only nine working days to raise the £10,000 needed to challenge a court decision

  • Council checks to beat votes fraud

    Random checks on postal votes are to be carried out by officials as they bid to cut out fraud in June's all-postal Bradford Council election. The controversial Government decision to introduce a pilot postal voting scheme against the wishes of many city

  • Students' shock as they witness assault

    Pupils and staff from a Bradford school have spoken of their fear after being caught up in the House of Commons powder bomb attack on the Prime Minister. Two teachers and two children were sitting in the public gallery just a few feet from the protester

  • Cycling: Majorca trophy haul

    HUSBAND and wife cyclists Doug and Liz Petty took major honours in the tough Tour of Majorca event recently. Doug, a former professional cyclist, had been on the Spanish island since January leading international training camps, and his was joined by

  • Orienteers triumph in the Jack Bloor Fell Race on Ilkley Moor

    Local orienteers triumphed in the 19th running of the annual Jack Bloor Fell Races which were sponsored by The Complete Runner of Leeds road, Ilkley. On a cool evening ideal for running the senior race was won by junior international 21 year-old Matthew

  • Kirkstall are challenging Bilton after a rapid rise up the ranks

    KIRKSTALL Educational have made a rapid rise since joining the Airedale and Wharfedale League from the Leeds League in 2000. The Leeds club are continuing to impress in the top flight after lifting the Division C and Division B titles. They are fast applying

  • Long's 125 in vain as Olicanians crash to big hitting Colton

    DESPITE a superb knock of 125 by former Yeadon wicketkeeper Alastair Long Olicanians ended up on the losing side against Colton. The Ilkley side totalled 266-7 with David Brook, their recruit from neighbours Burley, making 41 and C Taylor 32 to support

  • Skipper Harrison's six wickets lead Burley to top of the table

    BURLEY top Division B of the Airedale and Wharfedale League following their sparkling nine wickets win at Skipton on Saturday. Skipper Richard Harrison did the damage as Skipton were dismissed for 122. He took a superb 6-23 off 15 overs and was well supported

  • Letters to the Editor

    Bradford, capital of the Pennines Sir - I read with great interest the proposal to build high-rise apartments near historic Little Germany (T&A May 6). Although not against new development in general, I feel this would be another disaster for Bradford's

  • Spring boost

    WHAT a fantastic spring boost for the area to have no fewer than three winners in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom spring judging! In fact, make that 'four winners', if we count the associated Leeds Schools In Bloom competition, too, in which Guiseley Infants

  • Celtic players get fair share

    The accolades were spread out at Farsley Celtic's awards evening last Friday, with five players being rewarded for their commitment to the club. But boss Lee Sinnott was keen to praise his entire squad, who guided Farsley to promotion to the UniBond Premier

  • It's going to be bigger and better than ever!

    OTLEY SHOW is here - and it is officially bigger and better than ever. The culmination of a year's work from a dedicated team, has seen a long list of new attractions lined up for this Saturday's event to try and ensure the show makes a welcome return

  • Fresh evidence forces social club rethink

    NEW evidence from worried householders has forced planners to think again about a contentious building scheme for Horsforth Social Club. Leeds Plans Panel (West) agreed to delay making a decision on the proposal after hearing from two residents that figures

  • We're blooming marvellous say crowned floral kings

    THREE communities from Wharfedale and Aireborough have been crowned floral kings in the Spring Judging of Yorkshire in Bloom. Otley, which in previous years has come bottom in its section, was named best town by the judges, who singled out the improvements

  • Haworth - It just grows on you!

    Haworth's reputation in Yorkshire in Bloom has continued to grow. And following the official announcement of the spring judging results, the Bront village is in a position to rise even more places. The entry climbed from seventh to fifth place in the

  • Top marks for satisfaction at Airedale

    Patients at Airedale Hospital are the most satisfied in the country according to a national report. Airedale NHS Trust's top patient satisfaction record was recognised by the Dr Foster Good Hospitals Guide, which was published in the Sunday Times at the

  • Arise 'Sir' Ashley - bravest of all

    An eight-year-old boy is to be "knighted" for bravery by King Arthur at a special ceremony. Ashley Ingham, of Bracken Bank Grove, Keighley, is one of 31 children from all over the North West and Yorkshire regions to receive an honorary knighthood at Camelot

  • Diners evacuated as fire hits pub

    Diners were forced to abandon their meals when fire broke out in an Addingham pub last week. Customers were evacuated from The Fleece Inn on Main Street last Thursday evening as the tap room of the award winning pub and restaurant filled with smoke. Fire