Planners have vowed to try to amend their proposals for controversial changes at the notoriously congested Saltaire roundabout. Plans revealed in March were for a £4.3 million scheme that would replace the roundabout with traffic lights. But senior
Leeds United have completed the signing of Derby County right back Paul Connolly on a three-year contract. Liverpool-born Connolly, 26, is Simon Grayson's third capture of the summer, following the arrival of goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel and striker
A teenage gang member who was carrying a metal bar when he was arrested for intimidating Asian pupils outside his former school has been banned from his own neighbourhood. The incident at Oakbank School, Keighley, earlier this year was one of 16 run-ins
A father-of-three accused of raping a student nurse more than 20 years ago today admitted being a promiscuous teenager but denied ever forcing a woman to have sex. Lee Martin, 40, who was 18 at the time of the alleged rape, told a jury at Leeds Crown
Undercliffe Outlaws will meet Windhill Warriors in next Thursday’s delayed final of the Carlsberg Twenty20 Competition at Undercliffe (6.30). Windhill Warriors defeated Jer Lane 3-2 in a bowl-out at the second semi-final but last night's final was washed
Yorkshire's bowlers tonight returned their best performance in the Friends Provident Twenty20 so far against Durham at Headingley, allowing Herschelle Gibbs and Andrew Gale to confirm their side's first North Division win at the third time of asking
Cleckheaton aren’t where they want to be in the JCT600 Bradford League First Division table at the moment. The Moorend side are eighth going into their derby at third-placed Woodlands pn Saturday, and Cleckheaton representative Bob Speight says: “Our
Sir Alex Ferguson believes Wayne Rooney has the personality to carry the weight of expectation as England's leading man in South Africa. The 24-year-old has been in fine form for Manchester United this season, scoring 35 goals for club and country
Harden and Olicanian both suffered a setback to their promotion hopes last week and will be eager to make amends when they face each other in the Division Two match of the day on Saturday in the Aire-Wharfe League. Harden’s 60-run defeat by Upper Wharfedale
More than 150 runners took part in Airienteers’ regional middle distance event at Bingley St Ives, which saw Irish international James Logue, representing the East Pennine OC, win the 5.5km black course in 47min 26sec. Paul Liepins was the first local
Bradford welterweight Danny Parkinson continued to build towards an International Masters title shot with a narrow points victory. Parkinson edged the decision 58-57 against Sheffield’s Jason Carr to improve his record to 14 wins and five defeats.
Bradford Moor’s JD Hussain (pictured) won best individual gross score in the Bradford Union Nine-Hole Championship at East Bierley with a 71. Ben Rhydding’s Adam Lockwood won the best nett prize with a 66 (gross 76).
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Arjen Robben is fit enough to play against Denmark in Holland's World Cup opener, according to the physiotherapist treating him. The Bayern Munich winger suffered a hamstring injury in a pre-tournament friendly and Holland coach Bert van Marwijk
Fabio Capello has settled on his first XI for England's World Cup opener with the United States on Saturday. The England boss confirmed he has chosen his starting goalkeeper, with much speculation over whether David James, Robert Green or Joe
Bingley’s junior tennis player George Hill impressed after reaching the Lawn Tennis Association’s (LTA) national Talent ID finals. The nine-year-old, who has recently been selected for the LTA’s AEGON Future Stars programme, was one of 62 youngsters
A 13-year-old boy was robbed of an MP3 player by two older boys as he walked home from school in Wibsey, Bradford. The boy was threatened by the pair who forcibly took the player from his pocket before running off. Minutes later one
BRADFORD & DISTRICT SEA AC: Could anglers who booked to go on the trip to Rhyl this Sunday please call Dave Taylor (07926-411103) on Saturday at 7.30pm for a weather report and travel arrangements. There are one or two places left on this trip.
England skipper Steven Gerrard has stressed the need to avoid swearing at referees during the World Cup to cut out the risk of picking up suspensions. Referees are reported to be under instructions from FIFA to clamp down on foul language during
New Park Avenue boss Simon Collins has snapped up three players after just over a week in the Horsfall hot seat. The former Huddersfield Town midfielder was named as John Deacey’s successor early last month but went on his family holiday soon after.
The Football Association have decided to take no action against Carlisle United after Leeds United claimed three of their players were attacked by spectators following the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Northern Area Final second leg at Brunton Park in February
The prospect of Farsley reforming after going out of business last season looks increasingly likely – but they will have to drop their Celtic tag. The Throstle Nest outfit were expelled from the Blue Square North in March after failing to agree a deal
Sue Brophy from Wibsey ended up winning a makeover on a recent shopping trip. Sue was selected from thousands of shoppers for beauty treatments by a team of stylists when she visited York. The event, organised by tourism organisation
Ilkley has won one of only five gold standard awards from Yorkshire in Bloom judges after the spring round of the prestigious competition. Ilkley and Driffield are ranked top of the Town category in Yorkshire. Addingham matched last year’s overall silver
A date stone for the Cullingworth vicarage will be laid tomorrow. The 10.30am ceremony will be performed by Malcolm Halliday, the recently-retired diocesan secretary. Mr Halliday lived in Cullingworth for many years as he was married to the former vicar
Dozens of families tucked into healthy picnic lunches in the grounds of Bowling Park Primary School in Bradford. The event was held at New Cross Street, West Bowling, as part of a series of events by the school to run during National Family Week. Kolof
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Garri Selby, aged 20, of Beverley Street, Tyersal; criminal damage, £300 fine, £100 costs. John Anthony Sheldon, aged 21, of Irwell Street, East Bowling; assault, community order made, £250
Former Bradford City winger Mark Ellis has revealed that his new role as director of football at Eccleshill United is only a small part of his new venture. Ellis is running a football development programme in Leeds for the London-based Richmond University
FIFA have denied reports that a list of English profanities has been distributed to World Cup referees in a bid to stamp out dissent. The Brazilian match officials who will take charge of England's World Cup opener against the United States
Cleckheaton teenager Nigel Colbeck showed Yorkshire captain Andy King his potential by winning his first major senior title at a rain-soaked Moortown. The 17-year-old won the Leeds Union Strokeplay Championship by one shot on two-over-par from Head-ingley
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Semisa Mbele, a black cleaner in the Johannesburg hotel in which I am currently based in South Africa, will not be attending any of the matches at the World Cup finals. In part, that is because she does not really like the sport.– “My sons love playing
Nick Scruton will be free to face Crusaders on Sunday after missing out on an England spot. The Bulls prop missed the cut when Steve McNamara named his match-day 17 for Saturday's Test against France earlier today. A member of the initial
Assistant coach Lee St Hilaire is confident the Bulls won’t miss a beat in Steve McNamara’s absence. England coaching duties mean Bradford’s boss has been forced to step back from day-to-day involvement at Odsal this week while preparing the national
Former Manchester United defender David May feels England's players should be looking to match Wayne Rooney's passion on the pitch if they are going to win the World Cup.
Joe Cole insists he can have a major impact for England in Saturday's Group C opener against the United States despite the uncertainty over his future. Cole ended a 20-month absence from the Three Lions in last month's friendly win over Japan
Joe Cole believes Fabio Capello has got it exactly right by leaving his England players in the dark about his World Cup team selection. Two days before the Three Lions open their Group C campaign against the United States in Rustenburg, Capello
Coach Bob Bradley insists the United States will not try to wind up Wayne Rooney during Saturday's World Cup opener with England. Bradley is a big fan of Rooney and the positive impact he has on the England side. The other side of his game
Hosts Undercliffe Outlaws will face Windhill Warriors in the final of their own Carlsberg Twenty20 competition. Windhill beat Jer Lane 3-2 in a bowl-out after their semi-final fell victim to the weather, Undercliffe having seen off Thackley Thundercats
Six years ago, when South Africa won the right to host the 2010 World Cup finals, Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg was transformed into a giant outdoor party arena. South Africans of every age, sex, race and colour wept openly as their
Bradford business icon Sir Ken Morrison will officially open the new £12m extension at Bradford University’s School of Management next month. The former boss of Morrisons will launch the School’s redevelopment, including the new Sir Titus Salt building
An eight-year-old boy has the opportunity to receive life-changing surgery in January – if his family can raise more than £40,000 to send him to the United States. Football-mad Ben Smithson, from Ilkley, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy aged two. But
May Henwood had just sat down to a church service with her family when, on September 3, 1939, a German torpedo struck the ocean liner that had been transporting them to a new life in America. They were thrown violently to the floor and later endured
SIR – With reference to Miss Diane Wood’s letter (T&A, June 5), seeing Bradford as beautiful is ludicrous. Halifax is a lovely town, Harrogate also, with every kind of shop and amenity available. Step back, take another look, Bradford is a dump – with
SIR – Your correspondent S Pickup could not be more wrong when he says that UKIP MEPs are irrelevant within the EU (Letters, May 26). We need to be in the European Parliament so that we have our research team who delve into the thousands of regulations
SIR – The situation of the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury after just 17 days in office shows to me and many others that the new Conservative/Lib Dem coalition is no better than ‘New’ Labour. For after all the revelations on expenses associated
SIR – What a great shame the BBC is axing Last Of The Summer Wine after almost 40 years. In my view it is a classic and a great British institution, putting Yorkshire on the map and giving Northern comedy a whole new meaning. Sunday evenings won’t be
SIR – Re your edition of June 3 and articles about the three girls that went missing, and how many times these girls are referred to as “vice girls”, as though that summed up just what they were. There is more to these victims and I consider your abuse
Police are investigating after an eight-year-old boy was stabbed in the leg outside a Bradford primary school, it has been revealed. The attack happened at Hill Top Primary School, Low Moor, shortly before the school day started and police
SIR – I notice lately how people are eager to show their allegiance to England by flying the Standard of St George. Why do they choose now to do so? Why have they not been proud to fly a flag in support of our troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan?
The sudden announcement of the closure of the Love Apple Cafe, after 13 years as a lively alternative cafe-bar venue, is yet another step in the decline of a once-promising area. The Java Cafe nearby, which offered a range of refreshments from
Chef Jamie Oliver made a first visit to his Ministry of Food centre in Bradford yesterday and declared the venture a roaring success. Mr Oliver is behind the Bradford Council-run project which opened its doors in January and has since taught
Two admirers of one of the most charismatic Christian preachers ever to emerge from Bradford are setting out to make sure that his world-wide fame is echoed in his home city. Smith Wigglesworth, born in Menston 151 years ago today, was a gruff
SIR – Your repeated use of the term ‘vice girls’ is outdated and demeaning. The three women concerned were in their 30s and 40s. They were not ‘girls’. As we’ve seen with other cases of serial killers, street sex workers make easy targets for murderous
25 years ago: Leaders of ethnic minorities in Bradford attacked a decision to close their supplementary school. 50 years ago: Bradford raised £16,726 for World Refugee Year, beating the £15,000 target set by the Bradford committee when it was formed
Hiding things we don’t like seems to be the new trend in Bradford. It began, of course, with the Broadway shopping scheme where developers Westfield, Bradford Council and regional development agency Yorkshire Forward are expected to stump up a third
When Beth Hirst left her job working for a stockbroker to have a baby, she ended up switching careers – and became a milliner. Now Beth, of Pudsey, is heading for the finishing post at Royal Ascot with one of her designs. The former
He might be a star on the football pitch but England international James Milner was also top of the class at school, according to his former teachers. The Aston Villa midfielder, who was a pupil at Horsforth School for five years, is in South
The new Bradford orchestral season focuses on the music of Austria and its capital city, Vienna. The programme includes the popular Halle New Year Viennese Concert, The Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg presenting three Viennese masterpieces, and a first-time
I have been looking at the computer screen trying to think of something to write about that doesn’t include South Africa or football. Well, I can’t! Mainly because, like a good number of other middle-aged men, I have become nine years old again. I have
LETTERS TO JULIET (PG, 105 mins)** Starring Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael Garcia Bernal But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the flickering of this winsome romantic comedy about one young woman
GREENBERG (15, 107 mins) ** Starring Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Chris Messina, Jennifer Jason Leigh Misery loves company – our company – in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s deeply depressing character study, based on a story conceived
BROOKLYN’S FINEST (18, 132 mins) *** Starring Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Lili Taylor, Wesley Snipes, Will Patton, Jesse Williams Nine years after he guided Denzel Washington to the Oscar for his riveting portrayal of a corrupt Los
The team behind Britain’s latest attempt to smash the world land speed record will be at the opening of Bradford College’s new automotive centre. A model of the Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) will be brought to the event by the project team
Bulls chairman Peter Hood remains confident a coaching appointment will be finalised by the end of the month. Interviews started last week as the club seek a successor to current boss Steve McNamara, who is on his way out of Odsal at the end
When racing pigeon Biggles got himself into a bit of a flap on the way home last month, he was forced to crash-land into an Ilkley garden. And little did the bird-brained flyer realise at the time, but his unexpected detour would lead to a
The man charged with the murders of three Bradford prostitutes has been treated by medics after reportedly trying to kill himself while on remand in a high-security prison. Self-styled "Crossbow Cannibal" Stephen Griffiths, 40, was taken to
One of the most well-known properties in Ilkley is up for sale with a price tag of almost £3 million. Heathcote, a Grade II listed mansion, in King’s Road, is a rare northern example of the work of renowned architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
City have protected the spine of their team by tying down two central characters. Midfield lynchpin Lee Bullock and centre half Steve Williams both agreed extended deals yesterday as Peter Taylor’s squad continues to take shape. Williams
A hospital being built in Pakistan with the help of nearly £82,000 raised by Telegraph & Argus readers is expected to be treating its first patients by the end of this year. The foundations of the hospital have been completed and pillars at
Bradford’s derelict former Odeon cinema could be covered in temporary cladding to prevent it being a blot on the landscape ahead of the opening of the £24.4 million City Park next year. Yorkshire Forward, which owns the former cinema, is considering
Two boys who went on a fire-raising rampage across a Bradford housing estate will be assessed by psychiatrists before they are sentenced. The 16-year-olds, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted a string of arson attacks when they
Yorkshire must not be the poor relation to Manchester over a new high-speed rail link between London and the North, a transport boss has urged. Metro chairman Councillor Ryk Downes said a Government announcement that no final route had been
Bradford MPs and ethnic minority communities have given a mixed reaction to plans to introduce English language tests for non-European immigrants before they are allowed into Britain to join their partners. The measure will apply to spouses
Police are hoping to recruit 200 new Special Constables by the end of the year as part of a new Volunteers Strategy. Officers in Bradford will be holding a recruitment drive over the next few months following the success of a similar scheme
An amateur rugby league player has been convicted of throwing a punch which broke an opposing player’s jaw when a mass brawl broke out during a match in Bradford. Steven Froggett, 29, was playing for Upton against Victoria Rangers at the Bradford
Police are hunting a vandal who calls himself Robin Hood after he claims he struck a second time at a notorious car park. Using boltcroppers he broke a heavy chain and squirted foam inside the ticket dispensing machine at Changegate car park
