WE'VE been here before. The Yorkshire Bank (owned by an Australian group) has decided to shut its branch in Cross Hills. It is all in the name of the great god of massive profits. Perhaps we should be thankful that the Skipton branch has not closed with
It turned out to be a disastrous day both for Yorkshire and Michael Vaughan at Grace Road yesterday as Leicestershire dramatically turned the tables to put themselves firmly in charge of the Championship match. Play began with Yorkshire confidently expecting
Junior Witter will defend his European title within the next two months. Witter expects to face Ukrainian Andreas Kotelnik at the "end of June or beginning of July" - and admits he cannot wait to get stuck in. The Bradford light-welter has been given
Bradford has hosted a high-profile visit by members of a Government task force investigating the pay gap between men and women. Three members of the Women and Work Commission spent a day visiting the Asda supermarket in Rooley Lane. They also visited
Ghost-watchers can get a sneak preview of a spooky walk this weekend. An inaugural guided walk to look at Keighley's dark secrets will take place around the centre of the town on Sunday from 2pm. Malcolm Hanson, who runs guided tours around Skipton and
Haworth's famously cobbled Main Street could be closed off to traffic to boost trade in the tourist hotspot. The suggestion was just one of those made at a consultation meeting held last week to resolve traffic problems in the village. Independent traffic
Twins from from Parkside School, Cullingworth, will travel to Africa next week to help set up an orphanage with their mother. The girls, Gillian and Marion Matley, 14, of George Street, Denholme, are to spend three and a half weeks with mother June, in
A latest amateur theatre production has become a real family affair. Steering the Cullingworth Amateur Dramatic Society cast through its paces is director Abbe Robinson, a film-maker by profession. And under her tutelage are her father, John, 61, a retired
An appeal has gone out to Bronte Society members worldwide to help claw back a cash deficit. The Society, which runs the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, has dipped into its reserves to the tune of £23,177 because of investments and acquisitions. Total
A 12-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped kept the secret from her family for months. Eventually a relative suspected her condition and only then did the distraught schoolgirl tell about her ordeal. Police launched a delicate investigation
A LANGCLIFFE woman who was born and bred by the sea has joined the crew of a tall ship to raise funds for the Mission to Seafarers charity. Ann Harding of White Cottage, has signed up for the Mission's maritime museums voyage from Portsmouth to Bilbao
SEVEN new flats will be built in Grassington on a former garage site and three of the units will be sold to local people only. Planning approval was given by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority planning committee on Monday despite it resulting
SKIPTON'S third Race for Life has finally arrived. Places for the event, which will be held on Sunday, filled up around two weeks ago, meaning 3,000 women will be on the starting line. The five kilometre race, organised by Cancer Research UK, will take
CRIME in Craven has fallen over the past 12 months although statistics reveal violent offences are still on the increase. Between April 1 2004 and March 31 this year 3,374 crimes were reported - 155 less than the same period the year before. But 818 violent
AN Austwick councillor who in his youth secured a much coveted England rugby cap has just stepped down after serving 50 years as parish council chairman. Coun Bryan Braithwaite-Exley said he had thought of retiring from the post as each decade passed,
BURNSALL will celebrate its rich Viking past at a ceremony later this month. On Monday May 23, an event will be held to launch a book detailing Viking finds at St Wilfrid's Church and to celebrate the success of an exhibition which has been running there
CRAVEN'S schools have received more than £1 million to improve facilities. Temporary classrooms will be replaced, schools made more accessible for disabled pupils and outdated facilities in Victorian buildings will be brought into the 21st century in
Leslie Grantham, Gaby Roslin, Alexandra Bastedo and Susie "Chardonnay" Amy star in dramas at Bradford Alhambra. Roslin appears with Johnny Wrather in the stage adaptation of hit film When Harry Met Sally on May 24-28. The romantic comedy follows 12 years
THE date 05/05/05 will live in Beggarsdale history for many a long year. This, I should point out to the technologically challenged, is how computers registered last Thursday: the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth year. History will record it
SIR - Something quite special happened last week. I have now been retired for a number of years and have to admit that I seem to have slowly become a member of the 'Grumpy Old Men' brigade. Consequently, when the Highways Department decided to resurface
Fifty years ago, on Easter Monday, in April, 1955, this Keighley Central Youth Club 'A' team won the Keighley Youth Cup by defeating Eldwick and Gilstead by two goals to one at Strong Close Park, the Prince-Smith and Stells playing-fields. The photograph
Budding models are being invited to strut their stuff by entering this year's contest for young catwalk stars. Beauty kings and queens are being urged to sign up for the Telegraph & Argus Modelsearch 2005 before the final deadline on Sunday, May 15
Thousands of primary schoolchildren in the district will be given potentially lifesaving lessons on drug awareness and healthy lifestyles, thanks to a city company. Not-for-profit Sovereign Health Care has stepped in to buy a £70,000 mobile classroom
Bradford restaurants have lost the battle to be Curry Capital of the Year after a challenge from their own branches in Leeds. Judges of the event, sponsored by Kingfisher beer, said the fact that Leeds had entered for the first time - including branches
A three-year-old girl with a bobble in her hair is part of a gang which is burgling homes in the Aire Valley. Detectives in the Keighley police division - which also contains Shipley and Bingley - said a woman and two children are targeting vulnerable
Plans for a modern urban village in Baildon cleared the first hurdle yesterday. Members of Shipley Area Planning Committee voted to approve plans for the village despite objections from councillors and residents. The application is by hi-tech company
Eagle-eyed Telegraph & Argus reader Peter Webster was the first to respond to an appeal this week to help trace a rare lapel badge worn by some of Bradford's bravest soldiers. The retired mill worker, who lives in Undercliffe, rooted through a box
Cleansing workers were attending a meeting at Bradford's Harris Street depot today protesting about "aggressive management". Members of the GMB and Unison also want more protection from Bradford Council for binmen and street cleaners who are suffering
A Bradford councillor has been arrested and questioned in connection with a hit-and-run incident which killed a 20-year-old. Conservative Councillor Intkhab Alam, who represents Great Horton, was arrested by detectives at his home a day after the fatal
Having lost their first match of the Bradford Scratch League's new season 8-0 the previous week, Keighley had to sit out on Friday with no fixture. Northcliffe consolidated their table-topping position with a 4-4 result at neighbours Shipley. In Division
Keighley Cougars will break new ground this week when they host the Bradford School Football Cup Finals. The club offered to help out Bradford Schools when it was realised that Valley Parade was being re-seeded and would not be available to stage the
Cubs Under 16's 36 Ovenden 8 - This cup final was a cracking game in which the Cubs went behind to an early penalty for offside, but they came back well with a superb try from Mattew Wilson. Joe Kennedy playing out of position at prop forward powered
Keighley bowling stars Trevor Hargeaves and Colin Jeffrey belied their years to win the Skipton Spring Doubles at Whinfield. They pulled off an exciting 21-18 victory over holders, the in-form Graham Lummax and 'Smokin' Steve Pickles. There was some exciting
Keighley 10 Sheffield Tigers 26 - Keighley's season came to an end with their defeat in the semi final of the Yorkshire Shield. For 30 minutes they flattered to deceive, building up a fully deserved lead of 10 points with a display of aggressive and creative
Steeton 1st XI continued their good start to the season with a resounding victory over Menston. After the visitors had scored 54 the introduction of Neil Spragg turned the game. He had overseas player Hutton caught behind and ripped through the middle
ROSS TOWLER enjoyed a bumper weekend with the ball as Keighley picked up maximum points over the weekend. After fighting their way through the first round of the Priestley Cup with a 29-run victory over Yeadon, they continued their good form with league
SHAMROCKS Under-12s B produced their best performance of the season to win the President's Cup against a strong Idle Juniors. Played at Guiseley AFC it was Shamrocks who had the earlier chances with both Johnny Greenwood and Jack Bilney going close. Idle
Steeton reserves preserved their first division status with a vital win over relegation rivals Littletown. With regular keeper Kevin Knappy injured they were forced to put left back Paul Wood in goal. Wood's first touch was to pick the ball out of the
COUGARS are out to build on their runaway victory over Sheffield Eagles when they return to action on Sunday. After clocking up the 24-4 win at the Don Valley Stadium Gary Moorby's side has had to sit out two weekends, but they have been in intensive
Landmarks that should be saved SIR - It is with great sadness that in the near future Thornton residents will witness the demolition of one of its finest historical houses. Woodlands, on West Lane, formerly the house of Thornton Mill's owners and managers
100 Years Ago STRENUOUS and seemingly successful attempts have been made to reintroduce the otter to Wharfedale. Back in 1905 the Wharfedale Otter Hounds were doing their best to wipe the animal off the face of the earth. It had made 17 kills in 1904
Idle reckon they have discovered a diamond in their overseas signing Dinusha Fernando. The 25-year-old, who made two Test appearances for Sri Lanka against England in 2003, wrote himself into the Bradford League history books last Saturday by taking all
Colin Todd expects next season to be even tougher than this year's campaign. City will be tipped to mount a strong challenge in League One - and Todd stressed that point to the players before they left for their summer break. Todd said: "If we thought
Bulls chairman Chris Caisley has given Brian Noble his full backing, saying he "most certainly" expects the coach to be at the club next year and beyond. The knives have been out for Noble in some quarters following the Powergen Challenge Cup exit at
Science and technology are vital to us all. They play a key role in our day-to-day lives and in the global economy. They create wealth and jobs. They improve the quality of life and, indeed, help to save lives. Yet paradoxically it is becoming harder
Military police, evacuated children and Winston Churchill were among the thousands who flocked to Haworth on Saturday and Sunday for the village's 1940s weekend. The nostalgic event was particularly poignant this year as it coincided with the 60th anniversary
Celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh got his hands dirty on a visit to an award-winning school gardening club. Alan, star for six years of the BBC's Ground Force, helped to plant bulbs and vegetables, at Haworth Primary School gardening club, on Wednesday
Councillors have again criticised a million-pound leisure trail -- just days before its official opening. The first stage of the Great Northern Trail (GNT), between Cullingworth and Queensbury, opens on May 23, with a ceremony outside Cullingworth Primary
Railway heritage bosses expect to get more of a starring role in film and television, as the BBC increases its production output in the north. The BBC is planning to regionalise more of its work to make it less London-based. And Paul Holroyd of the Vintage
A retired vicar, who will be remembered for his humour, has died aged 66. Rev Norman Daniels, of Grafton Road, Keighley, died on Monday, just over a year after he retired as vicar of All Saints Church, at Highfield. He had been suffering from liver and
Councillors have condemned the planned closure of a bank on a "thriving" high street. The Yorkshire Bank, in Main Street, Cross Hills, is to be axed from Tuesday, September 6. It is one of 100 branches -- 40 in Yorkshire -- being closed nationwide by
Children may be banned from playing on a grassed open space outside their homes. It follows a dispute which developed late last year, when a housing trust received complaints about the children using the land. Now several families in Broomhill Grove,
COUNCILLORS have given the green light to transform Barnoldswick's redundant Rainhall Road School into a community hub for the whole of West Craven. Full planning permission was granted on Tuesday for the change of use of the school into a mixed development
AN appeal to convert a former ice cream factory in Cononley into 34 homes has divided the village. The appeal was held at Craven District Council's offices on Tuesday, chaired by chartered town planner David Cullingford. Attendees heard that the applicants
FARMERS in Malhamdale and the Austwick area are experiencing high livestock losses since the ban on hunting foxes came into force. Bill Cowperthwaite, who farms 800 acres of hillside at Tennant Gill Farm in Malham, lost half-a-dozen lambs before taking
Local: Bingley Arts Centre: Bingley Little Theatre in comedy thriller A Tomb With a View (Monday-Saturday). Phone 01274 432000. Arts Factory, Keighley College: Keighley Open art exhibition (until May 26). Phone 01535 618554. South Square Gallery, Thornton
GuideFest, Keighley's own outdoor rock festival, returns this summer with 18 bands from around West Yorkshire. Seven Keighley and Haworth bands will be joined on August 13/14 by groups from Bingley, Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford and Skipton. They will
SIR - While the media is busy reminding us about how we all felt in 1945, at the end of the war, I would like to thank the people of Keighley. In 1940, as a 12-year-old girl, I arrived one dark October evening with about 200 other girls, to be billeted
Lecturers at Bradford University want to get youngsters excited by science - by getting them to play on their mobile phones. The university wants to stop people being turned off subjects like science and technology by developing computer games to help
Cricket legend Imran Khan today told of his immense pride at being asked to be the new chancellor of Bradford University. The former hero all-rounder-turned-politician exclusively told the Telegraph & Argus: "It is a great honour to be asked to be
Alec Pue and Martin Falkingham built and impressive opening partnership for Long Lee Under-17s as they scored 105-2 against Denholme. The total was 24 too much for the 'Frogboilers' who reached 81-5 thanks largely to Richard Wear who scored 24. Oxenhope
JOINT leaders of the First Division, Bingley Congs and Barrowford, both won to keep their momentum going. Congs were at Cowling and knocked the home side over for 104 with Steve Richardson making 34 and skipper Martyn Dalby 32. Andy and Neil Copping both
Silsden Under-16s completed a fantastic treble with a 2-1 victory over Sandy Lane in the Craven Cup final. They were able t add the trophy to the West Riding Junior Cup and the Craven League Under-16s league title, giving them an unprecedented array of
TWO long-serving members of Cross Hills Football Club have been honoured for their dedication to grass-roots soccer. Alec Riddiough and Barry Pearce were presented with 50-year long service awards from the Football Association at a special ceremony on
COUGAR CUBS is celebrating gaining the Sport Engalnd's Clubmark award. The club is one of only 57 Rugby League clubs in the country to gain the honour which recognises the club is 'child friendly' with safety checks on all coaches who are also trained
A WILD Water Racing World Cup series event is being held on the River Washburn on May 17-18 which will attract 150 competitors from 25 different countries. The sport involves racing canoes and kayaks down rapid rivers and combines the speed of flat-water
EARBY'S season got the shot in the arm it needed with a fantastic win over Read in the first round of the Ramsbottom Cup on a day which saw all three Craven sides progress. Despite being bottom of the league and fielding a depleted side which was missing
GAVIN Hindle has added his name to the list of players hoping to take over the number two jersey at Wharfedale now John Lawn has retired. Although he made three appearances for Dale at the start of last season, Hindle has spent most of his time playing
PETER Marsden has become Craven's first ever president in the 109-year history of the West Riding County Football Association (writes Mike Crowther). The 69-year-old Skipton man was given the prestigious role at the association's annual general meeting
Just where are children supposed to play these days? That is an issue quite rightly being raised by families in all corners of the land. At the moment it is a burning question being asked by parents in Broomhill Grove, at Ingrow. There views are being
