Albion Sports, who made it to their third final last Thursday when they beat Victoria Rangers 3-0 in the Bradford & District Cup semi-final, need one win from their last three games to secure the Premier Division title. James Nestor, who hit all three
Wibsey took advantage of their Premier Division visitors Brighouse Town having to play for most of the game with ten players to win 2-0. John Perm was on target twice for the leaders after striker Andy Yates was dismissed for violent conduct. Wibsey's
A family is demanding more road-safety measures after a car smashed into their garden wall. Furious David Kaye said his "blood ran cold" when he realised his children could have been out in the garden as a car travelling down Keighley Road in Harden crashed
A Bradford man conspired to supply hard drugs for distribution on the streets of Britain, a court heard yesterday. Anwar Khan, 38, was the right-hand man of the person running the northern end of the conspiracy, Leeds Crown Court was told. Khan, of Sandford
The plight faced by more than 13,000 Bradford homeworkers is to be tackled as part of a national campaign. The 13,222 are among the 55,000 people who work from home across Yorkshire and now their rights are being defended by Yeadon solicitors Morrish
One of the country's leading figures in race relations, Lord Herman Ouseley, has become the first patron of Bradford the Musical. The former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality produced the Bradford Race Review in 2001, which recommended more
Screen star Jenny Agutter will next month celebrate the centenary of the publication of the book which helped catapult her to stardom. She will retrace the steps which she took 35 years ago in the making of the movie The Railway Children, in Haworth.
When Andrew Dickson proposed to write a Rough Guide to Shakespeare on a drunken night out with his colleagues, he never dreamt it would go on to occupy three years of his life. By the following morning, the 25-year-old former pupil at Ermysted's Grammar
The family of a Wyke teenager seriously injured in a car accident are maintaining their vigil by his bedside. Anthony Lily, 17, collided with a car as he crossed the road outside Oddfellows Hall pub, on Towngate, Wyke, on Saturday night. He was injured
Bradford Council has hit its recycling target for the year 2004/05 but looks set to miss this year's by more than 11,000 tonnes. The authority recycled between 17 and 18 per cent of the district's rubbish last year - around 36,000 tonnes. So expectations
A shelf-stacker took a woman captive and brutally raped her three times in a terrifying 90-minute ordeal as she walked home from a Christmas party. Angelo Bock, 23, an immigrant from Namibia, has been told he faces a "substantial" time in prison after
Superb treatment on the NHS SIR - I felt a need to write to express my sympathy with P E Bird of Nab Wood and would kindly suggest that they visit an optician as soon as possible. He made reference to the state of the NHS (T&A, April 5) so I would
Yorkshire's director of cricket David Byas has a job on his hands to restore the club to what they consider their rightful place. Last summer started well but performances soon dipped; injuries took their toll, and the club ended up third-from-bottom
Michael Vaughan and Matthew Hoggard are now back among their county colleagues at Headingley, both of them re-invigorated after their winter Test triumphs in South Africa and looking forward with optimism to the battles which lie ahead for Yorkshire and
Silsden need to get three points from their visit to New Mills tonight in North West Counties Division Two if they are to have any chance of getting their tilt for promotion back on track. It will be a tough ask after the Keighley outfit were beaten 4
Otley-born Joe Sayers has missed out on selection for Yorkshire's opening championship match against Essex at Chelmsford tomorrow, despite ending last season in a blaze of glory. Having graduated from Oxford University, the left-handed Sayers made his
The Bulls may have slumped to their fifth loss in nine Super League matches this season but there was an unmistakable silver lining to the clouds that hovered above the team at Warrington. The sight of Lesley Vainikolo collecting a Lee Briers kick close
Paul Henderson was expected to decide today if he will be sticking around at Valley Parade. City are pressing the Australian keeper for an answer after offering him a new three-year deal. The contract has been on the table since last week and Henderson
It is both gratifying and encouraging that Lord Herman Ouseley, former chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, has agreed to become the first patron of Bradford the Musical, which aims to bridge cultural barriers through a series of major musical
The parent company of a Bradford internet firm has teamed up with a Taiwanese firm to launch a gadget to help to cut the cost of telephone calls. And, after the announcement yesterday, Business Serve, which owns Bradford IT group Legend Internet, saw
Blind Asian children in Bradford are learning to read Arabic and Urdu Braille thanks to a blind teacher who travelled here from Pakistan. Tariq Awan was recruited from Mirpur by the VI (Visually Impaired) Sahara Group, based at Women's Zone in Hubert
Drinking pals more used to pub crawls than fun runs will be raising money for Cancer Research UK in this year's Race for Life. Mandy Hayward, whose teenage son Ricky has leukaemia, has persuaded seven of her friends and one of their daughters to take
