Brighouse Town have another home friendly tomorrow night, the opponents this time being Rochdale Town, while Liversedge host Bay Athletic. Sedge were due to play the West Riding County Amateur outfit on Saturday but held it over after cramming in another
Bradford Park Avenue have some injury problems ahead of their pre-season derby clash with neighbours City at Valley Parade tomorrow night but manager Simon Collins is still buoyant. Former Huddersfield Town midfielder Collins has played at stadiums
Bradford Park Avenue Reserves had eight players making their debuts in a pre-season 2-1 defeat at Boroughbridge, who play in the West Yorkshire League Premier Division. Luke Caulfield was on target for Avenue and the boss Mick Couzens was very happy
Yorkshire County Cricket Club president Ray Illingworth has opened Bradford & Bingley's £160,000 outdoor nets. The facility has enabled the club to improve cricket playing and coaching facilities by taking much of the coaching off the playing area.
Pakistan coaches Waqar Younis, former Idle player Ijaz Ahmed and Aaqib Javed, as well as the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun Peter Hill, will be at Undercliffe Cricket Club tomorrow for a memorial Twenty20 match (2pm). The contest between a Pakistan International
Scott Neilson reckons the current City squad are a closer bunch than last year. The winger believes the recent week away in Essex has made the players a tight-knit group – and that has got to be good news for the season ahead. Neilson said: “Everyone
City have announced a new signing off the pitch for the coming season and it’s fair to say that he is a through-and-through Bantam – lock, stock and barrel. The latest addition is in the boardroom, where Graham Jones has joined the team of directors
This is my first column for Ex-Service Notes and I would first of all like to thank previous editor Bill Lee for all the work he has done for the Ex-Service community over the last 15 years and wish him all the very best for the future in his new home
Ajmal Shahzad insists he is back to full fitness after his recent hamstring and ankle problems. But the former Bradford League pace bowler believes the best way for him to prove it is by playing for Yorkshire against Nottinghamshire this week rather
Ilkley’s Kyle Brassington made his second successful return to his home town in three weeks on Saturday. Just 21 days after winning the club’s men’s singles closed title, the 23-year-old added the JM Glendinning Group Ilkley Open crown, which was part
Dougie Lampkin made a winning return to his extreme enduro motor cycling career as he took top honours in the second edition of the Dirt 3-2-1 event staged at the impressive FatCat Motoparc near Doncaster. After a hectic run of SPEA FIM World Trial Championship
West Yorkshire Police are raising awareness about domestic violence in same-sex relationships with a poster campaign. There have been 400 reported incidents of same- sex domestic violence in the region over the last year, however officers believe
Volunteers put in more than 6,000 days of work over the past year to keep the Yorkshire Dales National Park in tip-top condition. Rae Lonsdale, the authority’s volunteers co-ordinator, said: “The volunteers range from the authority’s own Dales Volunteers
A new programme to help the district’s sporting youngsters achieve excellence has been launched. The Sporting Excellence Programme is a partnership between Bradford Council and the charity SportsAid, which provides financial support for emerging talented
Jason Wright rounded off a fine weekend’s cricket with a man-of-the-match display as Burley lifted the Waddilove Cup for the seventh time in their history. Wright played a big part in Burley’s win over Kirkstall Educational in the Aire-Wharfe League
Bradford schoolchildren sent a message to the Prime Minister before they broke up for the summer holidays. Pupils in classes 3G and 4B at Crossley Hall Primary School, in Fairweather Green, made a huge football paper scarf during a World Cup Day that
Charities that make a lasting difference to communities are invited to apply for grants of up to £50,000 from the Gannett Foundation. Funds are awarded twice a year to registered charities from the foundation, the charitable arm of the company
Families can turn into nature detectives at weekly activity days at Keighley’s Cliffe Castle Museum. Visitors were invited into the museum to use its collections to inspire them to create minibeast mobiles and nature sketchbooks for their own drawings
Smokers across the district are being urged to quit their habit with help from the NHS during Ramadan. The local Stop Smoking service, part of Bradford and Airedale Community Health Services, is running special events at mosques throughout Ramadan.
A Wilsden church is taking the unique step of hosting a wedding fair. Usually couples have completed their wedding planning by the time they step into the church but the congregation at St Matthew’s in Main Street hit on the novel idea of holding a wedding
A bridge spanning the M62 will soon close for nearly a year. Work to replace Whitechapel Road bridge, which carries the B6120 over the M62 near Cleckheaton, is scheduled to begin on Monday, August 16. Investigations have shown it would
Three firearms were found by police at a Skipton house today after they received a report that a man was carrying a pistol-type weapon in a garden. Armed officers went to The Oval shortly after midnight following an anonymous 999 call made from a nearby
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Mark Ian Morris, aged 30, of Girlington Road, Girlington; driving without a licence, no separate penalty; driving without insurance, £525 fine, £100 costs, licence endorsed; driving without
Staff at a private nursery in Cottingley are celebrating a near-flawless inspection report. Kiddi-Creche Private Day Nursery, in Cottingley New Road, has been graded ‘outstanding’ in 16 of the 17 areas inspected by education watchdog Ofsted. The report
Some of Bradford’s most vulnerable girls have been bullied so badly they have been scared to go to school, according to new research released today. Bradford-based charity Rathbone found that, nationally, only 20 per cent of respondents to a survey were
Shipley-based electronics company Filtronic is looking to double its business in the market that provides signals for the mobile phone sector by buying back a company it once owned. The firm has agreed to pay £10.7 million in cash and shares
Nearly 1,000 staff at Bradford & Bingley’s Crossflatts office will remain in the Aire Valley once the nationalised mortgage business becomes part of a new operation with part of Northern Rock. Over the next 18 months B&B bosses will focus
Special devices to prevent drinks being spiked are being handed out in Bradford city centre as part of four weeks of action. Bradford Council, Street Angels and West Yorkshire Police are working together to raise awareness of drink spiking as part of
A frantic farce, a moving First World War drama, a murder mystery and an American theatre classic are all part of the new season unveiled by Bingley Little Theatre. The autumn season gets underway in September with a production of Philip King’s See How
There are few sights more breathtaking than a mature wisteria in full bloom in the summer, its gorgeous trails of flowers in shades of blue, mauve, pink or white, adorning house walls or cascading over pergolas. Yet so many gardeners struggle to get
Blackpool’s historic Pleasure Beach Arena is filled with the sound of crackling ice. Then a spotlight settles on a lone blade, spiralling across a patch of ice at breakneck speed. As the lights dazzle, there are flashes of steel around the rink, signalling
A production of Macbeth described as “part alternative rock band, part thespian, part performance art” is coming to East Riddlesden Hall. Members of The Pantaloons theatre company (pictured) are also holding a public workshop as part of their visit to
The Ugly Duckling folk tale was turned into a multi-award-winning musical with the unlikely title of Honk. In it, a duckling called Ugly, unable to quack, honks his way about the farmyard. Eventually, he undergoes a rites of passage journey in which
The Bingley Show has been drawing in the crowds for more than 140 years. This year’s event in Myrtle Park, Bingley, is on Sunday, August 8, and the organisers will no doubt produce another great day out for all the family. The animals, the crafts, the
Mrs Hibbert’s Pick-Me-Up by Joanna Moody The History Press, £7.99 To weather-worn Dalesfolk, grafting in the fields from dawn to dusk, food and drink followed the seasons as closely as did their farming work. Traditional favourites
If there are any family members or relatives of pilots who flew with the Polish 303 Squadron in the Battle of Britain still in Bradford, please get in touch with Jim Greenhalf at the T&A on (01274) 705201. Also, are there any former Salts
A huge thank you goes out today to the people of Bradford who contributed to the Beating Hearts in Bradford Appeal as we are delighted to announce the £105,000 target has been reached. It was just 14 months ago that the Telegraph & Argus teamed
The day after Su Pollard finishes rags-to-riches musical Annie in Bradford, she’ll be flying to Spain for her next role. Su is making a cameo appearance in the new series of award-winning ITV comedy Benidorm, set against around the ‘all-inclusive’ world
SIR – Re the article (T&A, July 27) supporting calls for a ban on the demonstration by the English Defence League in August. Are you saying that the marchers are likely to be violent and do criminal damage, or that other parties that disagree with their
SIR – I see the T&A’s Lucy Ray has produced another superb picture, this time of dancer David Michel, posing upside down with legs outstretched, in front of Cartwright Hall (T&A, July 23). Last year she gave us a similar picture of 14-yar-old Lauren
SIR – Consider the following scenario: a demonstrator walks up to a policeman and pushes him to the ground. The policeman seems to recover, but then collapses and dies. The whole thing is captured on CCTV and by mobile phone cameras held by witnesses
SIR – As a relative newcomer to Bingley (two-and-a-half years), I am writing in support of Sainsbury’s plans for the B&B site. Why do the people of this area not deserve to have a choice for their shopping? Plus I am sure any problems with traffic can
Whether it’s down to gardening programmes on TV, the need to keep fit and healthy or the recession – or a combination of all three – more and more people are growing their own food. Across the district, 1,273 people are on a waiting list for an allotment
A little over a year ago, we launched a campaign dear to the hearts of every person in Bradford. We learned that coronary heart disease claims the lives of more than 90,000 people in the UK each year, with around 30 per cent of all deaths in
Can you help reunite Tony Judd with his friend? Tony, from Downham Market, Norfolk, served with the Royal Air Force at RAF Wyton between 1951 and 1953 in Comm Flight with Ron Howell and Tom Gilby. “We were all best friends during our time there
Mary Lund from Thackley writes to us with her memories of a “peaceful oasis” in the Bradford sky, pictured above. She writes: “I worked for the firm of Life Assurance & Pensions on the fourth floor of Arndale House from 1987 to 1995, and I frequently
SIR – I see the eco-fascist jackboot of Greenpeace is on the march again. Their illegal activities closed ten petrol stations in London. Will no one clip the wings of these nasty bully boys? Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
SIR – In his rather confused response to my criticism of Nick Clegg’s proposals for voting reform, Councillor John Hall seems to be suggesting that the candidate gaining most votes should not necessarily be declared the winner. This is totally perverse
SIR – The decennial census of UK population is due next year in 2011, but today is it really needed? In 1801, when the census began, ‘national’ records of anything were few and far between, unlike today, when we are all under such intense surveillance
Does anyone recognise these members of Cleckheaton’s Whitechapel Church choir in this photograph taken 85 years ago? Ewart Rymer, 92, who joined the choir a year later in 1926 and sang a solo in the church on his 90th birthday, has named most
25 years ago: A Bradford police community forum was to press the Home Office for new laws to prevent youngsters becoming ‘gaming junkies’. 50 years ago: Four people were killed and 179 hurt on Bradford roads in July, a report by Bradford City Police
A new plan aimed at reducing the high number of babies dying in their first year in the Bradford district is a step forward. Addressing the fact that this area’s infant mortality rate is significantly greater than the national average should
SIR – The artist’s impression of the planned shops development behind Skipton Town Hall looks so pedestrian for a quality town such as Skipton. Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire
SIR – Now you cannot get rid of workers over 65. We are told whom to employ, how to employ, what leave to give them etc. All by politicians who have never done a real job in their lives. When will bureaucrats stop telling businessmen how to run their
SIR – My initial response to the English Defence League’s proposed march in Bradford was to treat it as publicity seeking that warranted no more public attention than a substantial police presence marching the motley crew off to an obscure corner
SIR – I am wondering why money has been wasted on a new crossing at the top of Prune Park Lane in Allerton, which will benefit so few people? I rang the Council and the spokesperson for the relevant department said they had been willing to put a much-needed
SIR – I whole heartedly concur with Mr Schofield’s comments re Councillor Rizwan Malik (Letters, July 22). This councillor was selected to represent Heaton by the Heaton ward Labour Party. It would be enlightening if they could explain why they thinks
Last week my daughters and their friends helped to break a world record at the National Media Museum. They were among more than 600 children and adults who played their Nintendo DS – a small, hand-held games console – at the same time. It was expertly
SIR – Many thanks for printing the photo of Miss Beatrice Mitchell (T&A, July 24) to mark her 104th birthday. It has not gone un-noticed, the larger photo was not to be missed. My family has had the T&A since the 1920s when the ‘paper man’ came round
Former Olympic Games champion Sally Gunnell has given children a running start into the world of athletics in Bradford city centre. The retired hurdles gold medalist, who straddled her way to victory in the 400m event in the 1992 Olympics in
SIR – I was recently in the Manningham area of Bradford and was appalled to see the horrible ‘pod’ superstructures on top of Lister’s Mill. I don’t know who is responsible for this violation but please ban him from any future work in our city. What
An Ilkley woman has vowed to fight a “David and Goliath” battle against Bradford Council after she was told to remove a shed from her front garden. Claire Mason, of Lister Street, and next door neighbours Mark and Fiona Bowness, have small
Rochdale 1, City 1 The picture is becoming ever clearer. With just a week remaining until the big kick-off, City shed the experimental look of early pre-season to provide a proper insight into how Peter Taylor’s side are shaping up. On paper, the visit
New PC Johnny Green is following the footsteps of a much-missed police friend by taking on her beat and badge number in her memory. PC Green, who has just joined Bingley Neighbourhood Policing Team, wears the 5184 collar number of PC Clare Lyness, who
Mick Potter’s Bulls squad has already started to take shape after the club today confirmed Chris Nero will leave at the end of the season. The Aussie centre is the first of the current crop to head for the Odsal exit since Potter’s appointment
Leeds United 3, Wolves 1 Max Gradel may yet pay a higher price for the rush of blood that saw him sent off in Leeds’ final match of last season. The winger’s initial refusal to leave the pitch against Bristol Rovers in May earned him a club fine and
Bulls 22, Catalans 24 Of all the defeats – and there have been plenty – this must rank as the most difficult to take. For much of the past three months, the wounded and underconfident Bulls have simply been outplayed, often beaten by the better team
