Residents living in fear of night-time attacks on their homes and property have said they are "disgusted" the Council has failed to close the alleyway their problems stem from. At a meeting tonight, the Bradford North Area Committee said a more concerted
Twinkle-toed young villains are dancing their way to crime-free lives, thanks to an innovative criminal justice project in Bradford. Teenagers at risk of getting deeper into crime, or with problems at school, are being referred to the course in Little
A string of free-to-use cash machines will be installed across Bradford to help poorer communities escape rip-off charges. The Government has published a progress report on its push to place hundreds of free ATMs in poorer areas of the country. It acted
Bradford's social housing will be under scruitiny by experts from across the globe tomorrow. The chief executive of Bradford Community Housing Trust (BCHT), Geraldine Howley, will lead a one-day tour of the city, showing the sights and sounds to executives
Three men involved in the robbery of a pensioner who died after being punched once to the head in the attack at his flat had their "unduly lenient" sentences increased by a Court of Appeal. Paul Crummack, now 21, who threatened 67-year-old Melvin Baldwin
A Bradford University student accused of planning to join a terror training camp claimed he only wanted to help out as a doctor, a jury heard. Akbar Butt, 20, admitted getting angry while watching his "Muslim brothers and sisters" being oppressed in
New figures have shown emotional well-being is regarded as the single most important factor in positive child development in the UK. A report has also revealed British children are bottom of the European Union's well-being table. Moira Luccock, deputy
The campaign to bin disposable nappies got the dummies-up at a children's event. Bradford's Real Nappy Project held its teddy bears' picnic at Lister Park in Manningham, Bradford, yesterday. The event started with a real nappy parade, which showed off
Firefighters were called to a derelict mill in Hightown, Cleckheaton following reports of bales of wool being set alight. Crews from Cleckheaton and Brighouse were called to the first incident at 2.15pm. While they were dealing with the fire they discovered
Postal workers are to stage their first national strike for more than a decade in a bitter row over pay and conditions. Up to 130,000 members of the Communication Workers Union will walk out for 24 hours on Friday, June 29, crippling postal deliveries
Anxious residents say their community is living in fear of the antics of motorists on Prune Park Lane, Allerton. They have now started a petition to call for new safety measures on the 30mph Bradford road after a Peugeot 306 car hit a parked Volvo V70
Darren Gough returns from his short absence with a broken bone in his hand to lead Yorkshire Phoenix in their Twenty20 Cup curtain-raiser against title-holders Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road tomorrow evening (5.40). Last year Gough played a major
A second member of the Royal Family paid a visit to Bradford yesterday, hot on the heels of the Queen's trip to the city last month. The Countess of Wessex was the guest of honour at the official opening of a pioneering £2 million vocational skills centre
A pub in Drighlington is hosting a marathon music day to raise money for charity. The Black Bull Music Day will welcome eleven bands in eleven hours from noon on Saturday, June 30. And all the funds will go to Leeds General Infirmary Diabetes Trust.
Crime in West Yorkshire has fallen for the third year running. There were 9,212 fewer offences in 2006-7 - 3.6 per cent down on the previous year. Violent crime - including gun crime - and thefts of vehicles decreased, but robberies, house burglaries
Companies in Yorkshire and Humber are adopting an increasingly risky business strategy, according to new research revealed today - by not recognising the impact environmental behaviour could have on their competitive position. A survey conducted by sustainable
Adrenaline junkies from Bradford will be able to take a one-off opportunity to abseil from one of the county's highest buildings. Marie Curie Cancer Care is challenging supporters to scale 337 ft down Bridgewater Place in Leeds on Sunday, July 1. All
Decisions are due to be made tomorrow on three Bradford premises' licences. Bradford Licensing Panel is to hear details of an application to add an extra hour's drinking at the Ancient Forester in Wibsey, as well as allowing people to smoke outside later
Thousands of construction workers in Bradford are at risk from contracting fatal respiratory diseases through dust inhalation, according to research conducted for the launch of a new health and safety campaign. The results from a survey by Speedy Hire
Elvis was spotted alive and strutting his stuff in Bradford this week. Not just once, but 13 times as the city hosted auditions to find three lucky pelvis-thrusting lookalikes to star in a special tribute show to the King of rock at St George's last
A third of employees in Yorkshire believe that their employer needs to do more to improve the health and well-being of employees at work, it has been revealed. Research commissioned by Investors in People - the organisation that works with companies to
A police chief hunting a dangerous sex attacker who beat and left a woman for dead on Ilkley Moor a year ago today vowed to get his man. Detectives, who have already eliminated 2,500 potential suspects from the investigation, are stepping up their inquiries
Struggling camera chain Jessops has announced plans to close one of its Bradford stores as part of a package of 550 job losses and 81 store closures in a bid to revive its fortunes. Following the announcement of the closures a company spokesman confirmed
James McCallum proved a surprise winner of the men's elite race at Otley Cycling Club's National Criterium Championship on Wednesday night. The Plowman Craven Evans Cycles RT rider got to the head of an eight-man breakaway to triumph in 59min 47sec.
Andy Lynch is ready to make the most of his Great Britain chance after admitting: I wasn't even expecting a shot. The talented Bulls prop finally wins his first cap against France at Headingley Carnegie tomorrow night. It is a richly deserved reward
Mark Lawn wants to give the Bradford End back to City fans - but safety reasons may prevent him from doing it. The joint chairman admits he hates seeing away fans sat behind the goal in the TL Dallas Stand and has made initial inquiries with safety officials
Keighley takes the plunge this Sunday when Bradford Council brings its free Big Swim event to the town. The sport and leisure service has held Big Swim events at various pools across the district since March and these have proved a huge success with
A restaurant worker who assaulted his wife during a row has been warned to behave or face eight months in jail. Judge Roger Scott today made 25-year-old Abdur Rahim subject to an 18-month community sentence with a requirement that he is supervised by
Leeds are contemplating life in League One next season with two disciplinary clouds hanging over them. United are still waiting to hear if they will be charged by the Football Association after an Elland Road pitch invasion. Also, manager Dennis Wise
A teenager is in hospital with a fractured skull after a fight between two groups of youths at a skateboard park. The 16-year-old boy was hit over the head with a skateboard during the confrontation between up to 15 youngsters at the park behind Spenborough
AUGUST Sat 11 MACCLESFIELD D 1-1 Ndumbu-Nsungu Wed 15 Wolves (CC1) L 1-2 Nix Sat 18 Shrewsbury L 0-1 Sat 25 WREXHAM W 2-1 Johnson, Medley SEPTEMBER Sat 1 Barnet L 1-2 Johnson Tue 4 Doncaster (JPT1) L 1-5 Nix Fri 7 Lincoln W 2-1 Ndumbu-Nsungu
Resurgent Farsley will be without pace bowler Robert Thornton for the rest of the season. The 23-year-old has had an operation on a minor skull fracture after being injured fielding against Pudsey St Lawrence on Saturday, May 26. Thornton was postioned
No team have suffered more contrasting fortunes this season than Morley. They looked red-hot favourites to return to Division One at the first attempt after winning their first six games, only then to lose their next four. Their slide down the table
Lashings - the world's best cricket club - are back in West Yorkshire on Sunday. The Kent-based international team, who played at Idle in 2005 and 2006, face a D&R Sports XI at Elland in a 35 overs-a-side match (2.30). Lashings again will be captained
Jamie Langley Column It's a very exciting time knowing I'm going to be playing for my country tomorrow. It's what you dream of as a kid starting out in the game and I'm really looking forward now to actually pulling on a Great Britain jersey. I've
A 36-year-old man who made £50,000 by selling jewellery at inflated prices has had his sentencing hearing adjourned so that an up-to-date medical report can be obtained. Philip Waterhouse, of Addison Avenue, Bradford Moor, Bradford, has already pleaded
Attention turns to the Dales Council League's Pool Paper Mills Cup this Sunday, with holders Leeds Sikh entertaining a resurgent Shipley Providence. Rodley host Mount in the league on Saturday and in the cup on Sunday, while Pudsey Congs welcome B Division
Jer Lane's groundsmen Malcolm Nixon and Derek Wilson were the real heroes after their team defeated under-prepared Bridgeholme by nine wickets in the Terry Wynne Second Division of the Towergate Halifax League. The duo, helped by their newly-acquired
Mewies Solicitors Craven League champions Oakworth will be at home to Treeton (South Yorkshire League) in the second round of the Black Sheep Yorkshire Champions' Trophy on Sunday, July 1. Meanwhile, Pudsey Congs will face prospective Bradford League
A police officer accused of using excessive force during an arrest in December 2005 has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Lee Armstrong, 27, of Ilkley, who has been in the West Yorkshire Force for almost four years
Guiseley travel to Harden on Saturday in what is undoubtedly the match of the day. Dave Pennett's Division Two leaders are unbeaten in the league this season and face second-placed Harden, who have not lost since the opening day of the campaign. Guiseley's
A hearse drawn by two shire horses was used for the funeral today of a Bradford man who helped look after the animals at Bradford Industrial Museum. Dennis Turner, who died aged 71 on June 12, had a lifelong connection with horses. The cortege travelled
SIR - It is obscene that the Government is forking out £6,000 of tax payers money to provide a farewell party for Lord Levy, to mark his service as the Prime Minister's personal envoy in the Middle East (T&A, June 13). Especially when 5ft 5in diabetic
SIR - What idiot in council highways allows roads to be resurfaced by tar and gritting? We must be the only country in the world that does this. The outcome is a road that is just as bad, or worse, tar all over cars, stone-chipped paintwork and windscreens
SIR - I must praise the Thornton Antiquarian Group for the wonderful display of old Thornton they put on in Thornton Methodist Chapel on June 16. Lots of old school photos and family history, old implements, clothes, possers, washtubs and lots more
SIR - Some two years ago we had the wonderful news of the much-needed traffic calming and improvement measures for Towngate, Wyke, a 20mph speed limit (should be 15mph!). A mini-roundabout at Green Lane/Towngate junction, a mini-roundabout at Towngate
SIR - Bradford Council is to be commended for its initiatives on household recycling. Following the successful introduction of the green waste collection service, the latest to land on my doorstep is the recycling insert service for cans, bottles and
SIR - After reading Heather Pilkinton's letter (T&A, June 20), I must add my resounding agreement in praise of the service Dyson give. My Dyson cleaner is about six years old and I recently decided to have it serviced. The man who came to fix it does
SIR - The report about the response rate from MPs regarding e-mail enquiries (T&A, June 15) was rather illuminating. Keighley's Ann Cryer came out the worst of our local MPs. Naturally she rubbished the independent website that monitors such activity
SIR - What an inept thing for Blair to do before he leaves office, recommending Salman Rushdie, for an honour in the Queen's birthday honours list. It was bound to cause a furore and I do not understand why the honour was conferred. But this is no
SIR - Regarding your article about e-mail responses from Bradford MPs (T&A, June 15), the results do not surprise me. It has been my experience that Phil Davies MP fully justifies his high ranking on the survey. Whilst I have no particular political
SIR - Whoever the bright spark was who recommended Salman Rushdie for a knighthood and the idiot who thought it suitable should both be transported to Iran. We must have the most stupid honours system in the world if the powers-that-be could not foresee
SIR - So the Islamists are taking exception to something which we consider as normal in this country, the Knighthood of Salman Rushdie, stating that it is an insult to Islam. I have no objections to anyone stating an opinion on a subject, whether it
SIR - So, Salman Rushdie is knighted by Mr Blair and the Queen. The Foreign Office deems it richly deserved. Is it any wonder that Muslims in this country feel alienated and under threat? We are working our socks off to build community relations in
SIR - How dare the Pakistani Government have the audacity to tell us who we can or cannot honour? How dare they criticise our Government when a senior member of theirs openly encourages suicide bombers? How dare they say we have insulted them, when
Bradford Council is shedding jobs and struggling to maintain services. That is hardly surprising given that it is failing to collect a fair chunk of the council tax due to it. It is disheartening to learn that the authority recorded one of the lowest
We lived in one room on takeaways and grit for a year!" says Enid Good, who has lived in this pretty cottage in Gomersal with her husband, Robert, for the past eight years. "My conditions for moving into the cottage were that I got everything I wanted
The wife of a Bradford Council worker who died in a motorbike accident will take on 14-mile fundraising walk in his memory. Marjorie Sawley and friends and colleagues of her husband, Phil, who died in October 2005, will walk from Crossflatts to Skipton
Farsley Celtic have announced a third new signing, securing striker Tristram Whitman to follow the recruitment of former Leeds United youth Mark Jackson from Rochdale and Jimmy Kelly. The new arrival will further strengthen the squad after the club's
Bradford Park Avenue and Guiseley matches could be seen live in pubs and clubs throughout the area and on the internet in the forthcoming season following the UniBond League's ground-breaking tie-up. A statement issued by the league after their annual
The Healthcare Commission, the health watchdog for England, will meet in public in Bradford on Thursday, June 28. The Commission holds five meetings a year in public at different locations throughout England. This is the first time it has held a meeting
Green councillors are calling on Bradford Council to abandon plans for a £139m Saltaire bypass. They believe the proposals will have a massive impact on the Saltaire and Leeds-Liverpool Canal Conservation Areas and that it will leave the village with
A unique project to save energy, encourage recycling and reduce the amount of waste generated by a Bradford shopping centre has missed out on an award. Bradford Council has worked with the Kirkgate Centre to introduce new measures to manage its waste
Three people have been arrested following a series of drugs raids in a major police operation that has been six months in the planning. A 39-year-old man, another aged 43 and a 42-year-old woman were arrested after officers searched addresses in Dewsbury
A car ended up on its roof after hitting a stationary vehicle on Prune Park Lane, Allerton, Bradford. Police were called at 8.40pm yesterday to a blue Peugeot 306 after its collision with a green Volvo V70. One person was taken to hospital with minor
If Shakespeare was writing rock musicals he would probably have come up with Return to the Forbidden Planet. The Olivier Award-winning show blends The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet with a slice of a 1950s sci-fi B movie, resulting in a fast-paced rock
Adam Green says his mother would have been overjoyed if he was playing first class cricket for Yorkshire. Instead, early next month, the Harrogate-born baritone will be making his Opera North debut in one of the main roles in Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
On a spring morning in 2002 a shy-looking 17-year-old with spiky hair stood in Leicester Square facing a phalanx of photographers. Gareth Gates looked tanned and relaxed, posing for pictures in front of 5ft high letters spelling out Bradford.' The East
More than 80 years ago young Swiss confectioner Frederick Belmont opened the first Bettys Café Tea Rooms in Harrogate. Today Bettys remains a family business owned by Frederick's descendants, and the business stays true to his principle that everything
02 Wireless Festival Harewood House, Leeds As the O2 Wireless Festival opened on Friday, so did the heavens. The torrential downpour meant wellingtons and plastic waterproof ponchos were the order of the day as thousands of people descended upon
Tomorrow afternoon could be the most important theatrical occasion in Abi Uttley's young life. The 21-year-old graduate drama student from Wibsey will be on stage at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, taking part in an hour's workshop under the eyes
In 1948, the world's first stored programme computer was demonstrated at Manchester University. In 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be sentenced to death in Britain, after she killed her boyfriend. In 2000, Nasa scientists found water on the
The following planning applications have been lodged with Kirklees Council: Birkenshaw: demolition of two existing bungalows and erection of nine dwellings with garages, 544-546 Bradford Road. Birkenshaw: erection of detached bungalow with integral garage
A sick website pretending to be the work of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has sparked outrage and calls for it to be removed from the internet. The site has been set up on the hugely-popular US-based MySpace forum. It purports to be that of Peter
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Michael Peter Grove, aged 40, of Bankfield Walk, Keighley; attempted theft, two counts of theft, jailed for six months suspended sentence for 12 months. Francis Ssettaba, aged 37, of Portwood
Discover "the joy of bugs and creepy crawlies" at the Friends of Denso Marston Nature Reserve's woodland walk with the warden, Steve Warrillow, on Sunday. The walk starts at the gatehouse entrance of the Otley Road, Baildon, site at 1pm.
In 1948, the world's first stored programme computer was demonstrated at Manchester University. In 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be sentenced to death in Britain, after she killed her boyfriend. In 2000, Nasa scientists found water on the
