With skipper Tom Rhodes not available, Bradford & Bingley were forced into a last-minute reshuffle in this battle of fifth versus fourth, Phil Greaves being drafted in to fill the No 10 shirt. Although the home side took an inordinately long time
Otley were in no mood to suffer defeat by Pertemps Bees in successive weeks and made sure they progressed past round six of the Powergen National Trophy. Although scoring four tries to one, the visitors made things difficult for themselves via a lack
A storming first-half display put the Celts in control of this FA Trophy third qualifying-round tie and ultimately booked them a place in today's draw for the first round proper. Nuneaton, third in the Conference North table, were made to look ordinary
Sutton's Ian Brown helped himself to a five-goal haul as the Nottingham outfit ripped through Eccleshill United and left them on the receiving end of a second successive heavy defeat. A postponement of their trip to Long Eaton United for a Northern Counties
Bottom-of-the-table Leek Town picked up a valuable point at Nethermoor in the UniBond Premier Division in a game of few chances as stuttering Guiseley failed to make the most of a visit from the basement club. "It is definitely two points dropped rather
Colin Todd fears City have hit a brick wall. The Bantams have fired blanks in four league games since Andy Cooke's late winner against Gillingham over a month ago. And Saturday's Valley Parade loss to Hartlepool dropped them into the bottom half of the
Morrisons has finally completed the conversion of the old Safeway stores into the new Morrisons format. Following the takeover in March 2004, Morrisons has converted more than 200 stores and sold nearly as many to rivals. Any remaining Safeway stores
Although more people are in jobs and skills are improving, Yorkshire is still failing to address some key issues, leaving the future of the region at a crossroads, according to a new survey. Reporting on progress, regional intelligence network Yorkshire
All first and middle schools in Spen are set to go in a shake-up to bring the area in to line with most other education authorities. Senior councillors have now agreed in principle to scrapping the three-tier system, and this could be as soon as 2010.
Eighty pregnant women in Bradford are being offered a repeat ultrasound scan after maternity bosses found paperwork relating to their first scans was not up to scratch. The mums-to-be all had their original scans to check for abnormalities in their babies
Council chiefs are to fight regional planners' forecast that an extra 30,000 homes will be needed in Bradford over the next two decades. The Yorkshire and Humber Assembly's study, called the regional spatial strategy, predicts that an extra 31,900 families
A hairdresser is pursuing a claim for unfair dismissal after she received a text from her boss saying she had been fired. Natasha Crompton, 18, was sacked from her job at Brambani Hairdressers in Halifax Road, Bradford, after taking what she said was
Detectives were today continuing to quiz a teenager in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky as two other prime suspects remained on the run. Yusuf Jama, 19, above, was arrested when police swooped at a house in inner city east Birmingham
SIR - Now the CRE leader Trevor Phillips has acknowledged the myths of multiculturalism in this country it is time for honest debate. I'm old enough to remember going to school with Polish, Ukrainian and Estonian children whose parents fled the German
Deservedly leading 18-8 at the interval, the Greens looked set to put a big dent in Waterloo's promotion aspirations. However, in the second half the Dalesmen could not reproduce the enterprise and inventiveness shown in abundance before the break. Prior
After the previous week's encouraging performance against Nuneaton, Cleckheaton looked to move up the National League Three North table against strugglers Hull Ionians. The hosts started well, a seventh-minute cross-kick by Chris Quinn just inside the
Bradford Salem may be the first side into the quarter-finals of this season's Yorks-hire Shield. But this was hardly the sort of performance that will have struck fear into the watching Kevin Plant, coach of Wheat-ley Hills, where Salem play on Saturday
A spectacular 80-metre interception try from BARLA Great Britain wingman Lee Innes ensured a West Bowling success against National Conference League Division One promotion rivals York Acorn at the Bankfoot Oval. Acorn started like a house on fire and
A solitary goal worthy of winning any game decided the outcome of the weekend's big Bradford derby - and it went in favour of mid-table Thackley rather than Northern Counties East Premier Division leaders Liversedge. The opposing managers have mutual
Silsden's resurgence is gathering pace after an excellent away win against one of their mid-table rivals in North West Counties Division One, despite conceding a goal directly from a corner. Silsden broke the resistance of the Manchester outfit midway
Bradford Park Avenue made a wasted trip across the Pennines on Saturday when the referee called off the game at Ashton United with less than an hour to go to kick-off. It was the second postponed UniBond League Premier Division match in a row for Avenue
Last week was one of the quickest in Joe Vagana's life. That's because at the end of it he had to report for pre-season training. "It just feels like the hours are going faster and faster," said the Bulls star on the eve of his return to work. "You'd
The drop in the number of Bradford young people classed as being "NEET" (not in employment, education or training) is encouraging. There were 2,425 16 to 19-year-olds in this category in September of last year. Now there are 1,800. It seems that the decrease
Two friends who set up a customer-focused business to sell computer equipment to business just two and a half years ago are on target for a £3 million turnover. Keith Petty and Phil Leeks met while working for another company selling IT hardware and decided
Work is about to begin on the repair of one of the most impressive features along the 127-mile long Leeds-Liverpool canal. Scaffolding is being put up on the 250-year-old Dowley Gap aqueduct at Bingley in preparation for the £600,000 project. The seven-arch
A Christian shop selling alcoholic communion wine has had its last orders. And Nick Johnson, manager of The SPCK shop in North Parade, Bradford, said the new licensing laws were to blame. Under the new regulations the shop would have to fill in a 16-page
Traffic police today called for an end to the mini-motorbike menace on Bradford's roads after a boy suffered horrendous injuries in a head-on smash. The 15-year-old rider was said to be lucky to be alive after the crash in which he shattered one of his
