Bradford skater Harry Mattick is celebrating after securing a gold medal at the British Ice Figure Skating Championships. The 15-year-old took first place in the Junior Men’s category at this week’s prestigious event in Sheffield. iceSheffield
Cash prizes are up for grabs when Baildon hold their Christmas Open on Monday, December 28. The stableford event features teams of four and is open to men and women, with two players to count on par fours and fives and four to count on par threes. Cost
England under-18 fly half Joe Ford returns to National League One action in Wharfedale’s clash at home to Sedgley Park. The talented playmaker is back for the Greens after scoring 18 points on his debut for Premiership side Leeds Carnegie in their 28
Kris Whata could make his first appearance of the season as Bradford Salem take on Dinnington. The Kiwi returns for the Yorkshire Division One clash after recovering from a long-term wrist injury. Salem enjoyed a rest last weekend, given a bye for the
The number of first offender children and teenagers has halved in four years in the Bradford district. In total, 720 youngsters aged between ten and 17 received their first reprimand, warning or conviction in 2008/9, according to figures from the Department
A Bradford crisis scheme offering young runaways emergency care has been highlighted in a national report. The report written by The Children’s Society used Bradford Council-run Crisis Care scheme as an example of the kind of initiatives that should
Guiseley’s UniBond Premier League clash at King’s Lynn on Saturday is off because the Norfolk club were ceased from trading by the High Court after failing to pay an outstanding tax bill in the region of £65,000. A statement on the league website read
We might not have a game on Saturday but nobody will be putting their feet up. The gaffer and Jakes won’t let us enjoy the luxury of a weekend off so we’ll all be in for training Saturday morning. Jakes would be lost without doing a
Yorkshire’s Azeem Rafiq and Joe Root have been included in the England under-19 squad for the ICC World Cup in New Zealand between January 16-30. The bi-annual tournament involves 16 teams, with England facing Afghanistan, Hong Kong and India in the
Keighley’s Ian Houldsworth and Keith Knight won the latest Bradford Union Winter Alliance with 34 points over 15 holes at West Bradford. They won on a countback from host pair Tracy Dadd and Dale Brook, with third-placed Danny Littlewood and Phillip
Bradford is one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse cities and plays a crucial role in the integration of cultures. The Asian communities in Bradford make up the majority of the ethnic population but the one thing the city’s different cultures
Max Gradel, hero of Leeds United’s 1-0 win over Orient on Tuesday, is out of Sunday’s FA Cup second round tie at non-league Kettering Town. On-loan Gradel and striker Sam Vokes have been refused permission to play by their clubs Leicester City and Wolves
The Settle to Carlisle line has been named the second best train trip in the world by an American news network. Travelling the 73 miles of the line, through some of Yorkshire’s most spectacular countryside, is more thrilling than being a train passenger
This year has been one to remember for car companies, for all the wrong reasons. Car sales didn’t just fall, they crashed big-style off a cliff. From 2.4 million, they fell to 1.8 million. And even though the Government’s scrappage scheme has done fantastically
Built between 1740 and 1750, Wood Top Farm has a secret that would gladden the heart of many a lover of the grape and the grain. For hidden behind a door in the lounge is a secret bar with deep, rich, wood-panelled walls. Owner Michele Huddart says
A man and woman accused of neglect and fraud offences involving a pensioner in her 80s are to face trial next year. Mark Boyd Smith, 47, of Horton Park Avenue, Little Horton, Bradford, and Michelle Joanne Cooper, 28, of Thornton Road, Bradford, appeared
Some might say they’re barking mad – but don’t say that to the 30 Bradford people taking part in a world record breaking tree-planting attempt. They are rooting for the BBC’s Breathing Spaces national campaign in which about 200,000 people
Until bankers adopt a new ethical code and stop being greedy, Britain remains at risk of another financial meltdown, according to a leading Bradford business academic. Professor Roszaini Haniffa, an expert in corporate governance and banking, said proposals
A man who stabbed a noisy neighbour twice in the back was today told by a judge he was lucky not to have killed him. Oliver Kenny, 20 – who was himself stabbed as a teenager – was sentenced to three years in a young-offender institution after
Bradford business leaders are backing a Government call for firms to pay their bills promptly in order to help suppliers survive the recession. It follows a call from Yorkshire Minister Rosie Winterton and Yorkshire Forward head Terry Hodgkinson for
Budding entrepreneur Sam Boatwright won the top prize in a competition to find Airedale’s most promising business idea. He pitched his idea for a vending machine business, Viper Vending, to a panel of local business “dragons” – including Coun John Pennington
Match of the day in Pennine League Division One is the Birkenshaw v Clayton clash at East Bierley. Birky returned to winning ways at Wyke in the President’s Cup last week, with scrum half Andy Hirst in dazzling form, and they will also have coach and
Menston actor Sam Riley is following in the footsteps of screen legend Richard Attenborough in a remake of the British classic Brighton Rock. Sam, who shot to fame playing Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis in the film Control, has taken on the role of
Norman Clark, vice-president of the Bradford Amateur Rugby League, has been presented with a prestigious Torch Trophy Award. The Torch Trophy Trust awards are presented annually to nominations from sports governing bodies, including able-bodied and disabled
A Bradford Bulls star put staff at Damart’s Steeton warehouse through their paces to help the company achieve a bronze award in a healthy heart campaign. Player Jamie Langley and coach Stuart Barrow showed staff ten-minute exercises they could
Walking is the main reason people visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park, according to a survey. But the majority get there by car rather than public transport. The survey of 513 people, commissioned by the National Park, showed that the majority –
Community groups have worked together with help of the Kirkgate Studios in Shipley to promote unity and cohesion through art. Over the past six weeks, Kirkgate Studios held workshops titled ‘The Bradford Tea Party’ across the district, producing work
More than 1,000 shoppers visited a new Bradford budget store within an hour of its opening. Bargain hunters had queued from 6am to get their hands on opening-day offers of wide-screen TVs, camcorders, DVD players and half-price fruit and vegetables.
Bradford Park Avenue will not be too disturbed about a midweek UniBond League Cup exit as they turn their attention back to their first and foremost aim. The club have made no apologies about being totally focused on the Premier Division and turning
Five-year-old Sam Hall has joined Emmerdale’s famous Dingle family. Sam, of Eldwick, Bingley, has landed the role of Samson Dingle, the young son of Sam Dingle. The youngster, who goes to Eldwick Primary School, got the part after two auditions.
West Bowling’s BARLA Lions scrum half Steve Illingworth has recovered from a damaged knee and will lead the side as they attempt to end their two-match National Conference Division One losing streak at Milford Marlins on Saturday. Illingworth
The Cougars got back to the hard graft this week as Barry Eaton’s men returned for the start of pre-season training. The squad, bolstered by their five off-season recruits, were put through their paces by new strength and conditioning coach Paul Royston
SILSDEN will get an indication of just how much they have improved over the past month when Glossop North End visit Cougar Park in the Vodkat League Premier Division on Saturday. The Cobbydalers are above their visitors in the table, as sixth place host
Police are appealing for witnesses, after a passenger and rail conductor were threatened in Mirfield. Police said a woman, 17, had been threatened on the 15.31 train from Huddersfield on Tuesday. When a conductor intervened he was also abused.
Neil Parsley is urging locals from the Leeds-Bradford border to turn out and get behind the Farsley Celtic players as they seek to consolidate their lower mid-table Blue Square North placing at home to Telford United on Saturday. The Celts moved out
BRADFORD SEA AC: The trip to Liverpool Bay last Saturday was poor, with only small fish being caught. This was mainly due to too much fresh water coming into the estuary which pushed the fish out into the bay. The results were: 1 Ben Kitchingman
Keighley director of rugby Jeff Inman believes the form book will go out of the window in Saturday’s derby clash with Skipton. Despite winning five of their last seven league games, his side are taking nothing for granted as they welcome their rivals
Oral-health staff have been raising awareness of mouth cancer. Experts talked to shoppers at Morrisons in the Victoria Shopping Centre, Girlington, and Asda in Keighley informing people about the disease and how it can be prevented.
City's FA Youth Cup second-round clash with Crewe has been switched to the Alexandra Stadium on Saturday. The game should have been played at Valley Parade but has twice been postponed after pitch inspections. Kick-off is 1pm.
Places in this season’s West Riding County Amateur League divisional cup semi-finals are up for grabs on Saturday. In the Premier Division, Wibsey – who have never won the Premier Cup – entertain their local rivals Campion, who have won at Westwood
The third Northern Area Winter League 10K was held at York on Sunday. There was a strong field, with 20 competitors completing the course. Five clubs were represented at the event, organised by the Yorkshire Race Walking Club. Results: 1 P Evenett
Water bills in the Bradford district are to fall by about £4 a year for the next two years before rising by £1 to an average of £332 by 2015. Today's decision by the water industry watchdog Ofwat means Bradford-based utility company Yorkshire
People are today urged to pick up the phone and vote for a Bradford primary school to win thousands of pounds to create a community playground. Lister Primary School pupils will be appealing to viewers of the ITV regional news programme tonight in an
A husband has been questioned on suspicion of aiding and abetting the suicide of his 62-year-old wife at their home. The Bradford-born woman contemplated travelling to an assisted suicide centre in Switzerland before “gassing herself” to death in the
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (18, 108 mins) ** Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Regina Hall, Emerald-Angel Young, Brooke Mills, Ksenia Hulayev Justice is blind – and by the end of this gruesome thriller, it’s
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (15, 85 mins) **** Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs How do you turn 15,000 dollars into 100 million dollars? If you’re enterprising Israeli-born film-maker Oren Peli, you write and direct a low-budget
David Hockney’s mission to resurrect English landscape painting will continue when he returns from Los Angeles this month. He has been in the United States partly to supervise a big exhibition of his landscapes at two locations in New York, which runs
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (U, 105 mins **** Starring: Martin Freeman, Marc Wootton, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins, Pam Ferris, Alan Carr, Ricky Tomlinson Christmas comes early courtesy of British director Debbie Isitt (Nasty Neighbours, Confetti)
25 years ago: A Bradford director’s film, The Young Visiters, was given a prime time TV slot on Christmas Day after 15 years trying to get the idea accepted. 50 years ago: The newly-crowned Miss Undercliffe, hairdresser Celia Beevers, 19, began her year
It is disturbing to learn that five Bradford secondary schools could dramatically increase their capacity in the final stage of the Building Schools for the Future programme. Under the proposals going out to consultation, two of the schools – Thornton
SIR – So, there’s more consultancy fees to tell us what’s wrong with the views at St George’s Hall (T&A, November 20). Most of us already know: no slope on the floor of the main hall, so tough if someone large sits in front of you, balcony seating 90
SIR – Stuart Baker (T&A, November 12), revives the theories of Arthur Koestler, who, in The Thirteenth Tribe (1976), maintained that today’s Jews (or the Ashkenazi element) are descended from the Turkic Khazars, converts to Judaism. I find it strange
SIR – I have been meaning to put pen to paper for a while, and say it is time that Keith Thomson of Enviro Watch got back on the Council for the Greens – he would get things going. Max Hey, Fairway Grove, Wibsey, Bradford
SIR – A leaflet from Philip Davies MP called In Touch is currently being hand-delivered by voluntary workers around the town. A footnote relates to the Bingley Show where the MP had a stall; he asked visitors to take part in a survey on the proposed
SIR – While out shopping in Bradford city centre, and waiting for a bus on Sunbridge Road, I had the misfortune to drop a personal cheque on the floor, worth £82.05. Upon checking my mail a couple of days later, I was pleasantly surprised to find that
SIR – Regarding the Council needing to save £30 million-plus, don’t build the Park In The Heart, it is a stupid idea. It’s not needed and will cost far too much to maintain. Also, don’t lend public money to private companies, that’s the bank’s job. That
SIR – According to the Westfield website there are no plans to start work on any major developments until after June 2010. So it is likely that 2010 will pass by without a single brick being laid. As I walk around the city centre, I see more empty shops
SIR – While driving through rural areas of the United States I was always intrigued by the occasional bridge which was ‘Constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers’. These were not the light type of ‘Bailey’ bridge of wartime fame, but normal concrete
SIR – I see developers are again lodging planning permission with Bradford Council for housing on the greenfield land off Micklethwaite Lane for 400 homes. This is a diabolical imposition on the residents of Crossflatts and Micklethwaite.
Children and young people in care who have achieved against the odds in Bradford have been recognised for their hard work at a City Hall ceremony. The 13th annual Education Achievement Awards for Children in Care took place last night to celebrate
Zesh Rehman has called on City to be more picky with each other if they want to start cleaning up in League Two. Tuesday’s thumping 3-0 victory at Grimsby was only their second win in nine games and stopped a run of three straight draws.
Relocated from the Central Coast to West Yorkshire, an Australian duo are looking to bring some sunshine to Bradford. Matt Orford and Brett Kearney are hoping to light up Odsal after being given the chance to team up for the first time.
On the surface of it, the Challenge Cup Final’s removal from the list of sporting ‘crown jewels’ is a real slap in the face. The list of events reserved for free-to-air television reads like a catalogue of showpiece sporting events.
Thousands of commuters will face six months of diversions when Bingley’s Ireland Bridge closes for repairs, causing problems for businesses including a pub. Businesses and children travelling to school are set to suffer after Bradford Council announced
Bradford Park Avenue and Guiseley will not be joining neighbours FC Halifax Town in the next round of the UniBond League Cup after both Premier Division teams exited the competition tonight. GUISELEY came closest to joining the Shaymen as they lost their
