Eccleshill United’s Smith Butler Stadium is the venue for a game that will attract coaches from miles around tomorrow evening. A USA College side will be playing Manchester City Academy’s under-17 squad. The side from the USA, from the same age group
A total of between £20,000 and £25,000 was raised by a memorial charity cricket match at Undercliffe yesterday. The game was between a Pakistan All Star XI and an International All Star XI, and was played to celebrate the lives of Mohammed Hafiz, Yasir
Andrew Gale tonight described his most difficult day as Yorkshire’s captain as a brilliant David Hussey double ton put Nottinghamshire in charge of their LV= County Championship match at Headingley. The Australian hit an unbeaten 222 off 232 balls today
Yorkshire off-spinner Azeem Rafiq has been handed a month-long suspension by the ECB for his infamous Twitter rant at England Under-19s' boss John Abrahams. Rafiq was dropped from the second Test against Sri Lanka at Scarborough last week after breaking
The UK’s oldest ‘tweeter’, Ivy Bean, was laid to rest today. Family, friends and fellow tweeters gathered at Nab Wood cemetery to say their final farewells to Bradford’s own silver-surfing legend. The 104-year-old great-grandma, who
The funeral of one of the alleged victims of Bradford criminology student Stephen Griffiths was held yesterday. Family and friends gathered at St Francis RC Church, Norman Lane, Bradford, to say their final farewells to Shelley-Marie Armitage, 31, before
The Old Tannery was originally one building, became two dwellings and has now been returned to a single home. Built in 1812 on the site of, unsurprisingly, an old tannery, it was split into two houses in 1923. Gary and Jenny Thompson, who moved into
The transformation of Skoda in recent years is remarkable. From bad joke to sensible choice, the change was swift and certain. No-one mocks the Czech firm now. The best-selling models like Fabia and Octavia are neat and tidy cars which cost less than
Yorkshire were made to toil during the opening session of day two against Nottinghamshire at Headingley. Rain meant that no play was possible before lunch, with 21 overs being lopped off the day’s allocation of 96, but David Hussey and Samit Patel seemed
Being a supporter can be a frustrating experience. You can go to the matches, chant your heart out and buy the merchandise but in the end, there’s little you can do to influence your team’s success – or so most people think. After their side’s least
Helen Butterfield clinched her eighth Bradford Ladies Championship after a mammoth play-off victory in the final against Katie Barraclough. The Bingley St Ives member beat her East Bierley opponent at the sixth extra hole of a sudden-death play-off at
A Bradford charity says it needs £40,000 to pay its wages next year. The Joshua Project helps more than 200 young people aged nine to 18 every week in the city. Earlier this year, fundraising secured the final £57,820 needed to turn
Five City of Bradford youngsters are competing in this week’s British Gas ASA National Youth Championships at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. Sian Morgan, 16, qualified for all 14 events this year, while Luke Constantine, 18, and James Dawson, 15, gained two
Three birdies in the last five holes helped Oxenhope’s William Whiteoak clinch the Yorkshire Under-16 title and an impressive double. The Bingley St Ives member, who won the Bradford Junior Individual Championship at West Bradford in June, added to his
Sue Macinstosh warms her hands by the fire of one of the refurbished cottages at Bradford’s Industrial Museum. Sue is a member of The Friends of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums who are celebrating their 50th anniversary next month. The organisation
Birstall, surprisingly embroiled in a Central Yorkshire League relegation dog fight for the first half of the season, have suddenly sprung to life with three successive Premier Division victories. Against Northowram Fields, a side on the
The wartime memories of an Ilkley woman are forming a major part of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. Edith Kup was an intelligence officer with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Battle of Britain, plotting
More than 400 pictures will be on display at the Ilkley Art Show this year. The two-day event takes place at the King’s Hall next weekend, with artists from across the country showing their work. Exhibitors will include Jeremy Taylor from Baildon,
Curious visitors are in for a shocking time at Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley this summer. There are experiments with batteries and generators, magnets and plasma globes to try, and an ‘electric fence’ to touch. The Shocking Electricity Exhibition
World freestyle football champion, John Farnworth has given a ball control masterclass at a summer school. He was at Leeds Trinity University College, Horsforth, during a five-day training camp. He said: “My advice to anyone who wants to really shine
Former Windhill and Pudsey Congs batsman David Paynter was voted man of the match as Wrenthorpe won the Heavy Woollen Cup for a record-equalling fourth successive season by defeating Hanging Heaton by 199 runs at Bennett Lane. Paynter made 53 and took
A fancy-dress ‘Oscars’ event will be held in a bid to raise hundreds of pounds for charities. The Baildon Annual Charity Ball will be held at the Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Bingley, on Saturday, October 16. This year’s theme is A Night At The Oscars, and
A newly-qualified Royal Air Force officer is flying high after graduating from a prestigious military college. James Carlton, a former pupil at South Craven School, Crosshills, graduated as an acting pilot officer from an initial officer training course
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Paul Hood, aged 36, of Averingcliffe Road, Thorpe Edge; failure to comply with requirements of community order, order revoked and dealt with for the original offence; original offence of assault
Police are continuing to assess the possible risks of a proposed march by the English Defence League in Bradford amid calls for a ban. And they have moved to reassure the public that whatever eventually happens on the day they will be able to “manage
Visitors to Bradford’s Centenary Square will be “amazed” at what is in store for them as the week-long Garden Magic event opens on Saturday. A magical maze will transform the heart of the city as part of the annual event which runs until Saturday
England’s top female cricketers have been offering their tips to a host of youngsters. National vice-captain Jenny Gunn, Yorkshire pace bowler Katherine Brunt and off-spinner Danielle Hazell offered up some advice to girls from across the Wharfe
The mystery surrounding the appearance of wood sculptures and stone carvings in Otley Chevin has been solved. For months, the large pieces of art had been popping up all over the Chevin, leaving visitors confused. But all became clear as Leeds City
A play which depicts life on some of the Bradford district’s traditionally white estates is being performed this week. Estate Of Mind was inspired by research commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to look at issues and challenges faced by residents
A man was hit with a metal bar by a late-night house burglar fleeing the police, Bradford Crown Court heard. Graham Stubbs suffered painful bruising to his hand when he tried to detain the intruder in his back garden. Prolific house-breaker
A student bled slowly to death from multiple stab wounds and a slashed throat after he was attacked with a sharp knife, a murder trial jury heard. Talented sportsman Tony Ho, 19, would have survived up to 20 minutes after the injuries were
Recently the T&A reported plans for two new buildings in the city, and they couldn’t be more different. One is an insolent, intrusive development, an investment from outside the area, and the other, a sensible, sustainable and economic way forward, supported
People across the district will gather to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombings which destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On Monday, August 6, 1945, the bomb code-named Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima,
Retirement in his late 50s did not suit bike enthusiast and entrepreneur Eddy Wright, who has returned to the business world dealing in classic motorbikes. Eddy, with his wife Helen, recently launched Eddy’s Moto in Briggate, Shipley, which through word
Five new appointments have been made at award-winning Otley-based corporate communications agency Words & Pictures, taking the team to around 40. Gemma Casey, Lucy Bates and Chris Duffin have joined the company’s education division, with James O’Shaughnessy
25 years ago: Bradford Council was to lead the rest of the country in the education of children with special needs. A two-year project in transforming the education of about 17,000 children in Bradford schools with learning difficulties was due
The police are hunting a gang of street robbers whose use of violence against their victims is deeply disturbing. The thugs attacked a 31-year-old woman in Allerton, pushing her to the ground, hitting her, rummaging through her pockets and making off
Detectives are hunting a gang believed to be responsible for attacking and robbing a woman and a 16-year-old girl in separate incidents in Bradford. In the first robbery, the group – described by police as being Asian men in their late teens
A 26-year-old Keighley man has been rocketed into the glamorous world of modelling. Michael Etherington, of Fell Lane, is to be the new male face of the high street fashion store Next after winning the company’s Make Me The Next Model Too online
Bad feeling is still swirling around in Pakistan following David Cameron’s comments in India last week. Although it hasn’t aroused much comment in this country, in flood-hit Pakistan the Prime Minister’s remarks have been a burning issue –
SIR – I would point out to Councillor Jeanette Sunderland and Councillor Martin Love that everyone knows that Morrisons is yet another remarkable Bradford story. Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire
America’s Got Talent finalists the Texas Tenors are bringing their distinctive sound to Bradford. More than 100 million people tuned in to see the band reach the final of the top US TV show. Now they’re on their first UK tour. Friends since childhood
SIR – I totally agree with the people who say Heaton ward, or any other ward for that matter, deserve better politicians than people like Rizwan Malik to represent them. We need and want better people to represent the city so that we, the people and
SIR – Please may we, through your paper, say a big thank-you to the staff and customers at Morrisons supermarket at Mayo Avenue for allowing us to undertake a bag-pack on Saturday, July 31. We are raising funds to buy new kits and safety equipment for
SIR – There were eight of us old fogies in the front room chatting away, and when we were told about the new bus shelter in the centre of Bradford, we just burst out laughing. If you can’t take shelter from the wind and rain, then why call it a shelter
SIR – So yet another beautiful building in Bradford is wasting away “before our very eyes,” as Arthur Askey would say. The Conditioning House is going the same way as the Odeon building and becoming unusable through neglect. If something had been done
SIR – I am disgusted that Councillor Sunderland and the Liberal Democrats voted against Sir Ken Morrison becoming Freeman of the City, as well as the Green Party (T&A, July 19), when they voted for Brian Noble who already left the city and had to come
SIR – I don’t know why Bruce Barnes thinks “tired ideological battles are going to be fought out on our streets again” (Letters, July 31) when people gather to do banghra and Morris dancing, hear Islamic praise and church choral singing, declamations
SIR – I believe that the Government stance on compelling people to work past the age of 65 is ill-advised. It is a fact that many people aged 70 with sedentary jobs are as fit as fiddles, but someone with a lifetime of heavy engineering work may be
SIR – The following myths to justify the policy of the Government Coalition are repeated ad nauseam by Tory and Lib Dem MPs: * There is no alternative to address the budget deficit. A Labour Government would have had to carry out the same cuts
About four fifths of the Bradford district’s ten and 11-year-old pupils were forecast to achieve the expected standards in core classroom subjects, according to results released by the Government. The Department for Education yesterday published
A newly-married man who was looking forward to the birth of his son tragically died suddenly in the night from a heart condition he had known nothing about, an inquest heard. Richard Walker, 28, who had no previous medical problems, died from
The Bulls are not ready to give up on their season just yet. A run of 11 straight defeats has made play-off qualification virtually impossible but Wayne Godwin admits the chance to impress incoming coach Mick Potter should be incentive enough for a strong
A paedophile who filmed himself sexually assaulting young girls has been condemned as “depraved” by a judge who warned him he faced being locked up indefinitely. Aaron Sharp pleaded guilty to 17 offences involving child pornography and the
City boss Peter Taylor is glad it was not all smooth sailing for his side in their final challenge of pre-season. Despite winning their derby clash with Bradford Park Avenue 4-0, there were a few shaky moments along the way. Avenue twice
The City of Bradford Brass Band is going from strength to strength, and will be performing at the Bingley Show this weekend. The former Yorkshire Building Society Concert Band has more than doubled its membership under musical director Lee
The funeral of one of the alleged murder victims of self-proclaimed “Crossbow Cannibal” Stephen Griffiths was being held today. Family and friends of Shelley-Marie Armitage, 31, were holding a Requiem Mass at St Francis Catholic Church in Norman Lane
There was double good news for Leeds manager Simon Grayson as he made his eighth signing of the summer. Grayson has managed to bring England Under-19 forward Sanchez Watt back to the club from Arsenal on a season-long loan. But the United boss was equally
Bradford Council is looking to award five separate contracts for the next five years to deal with the district’s household waste mountain. The deals would run from October with the option to extend them up to 2017 if necessary and would deal
City 4, Bradford Park Avenue 0 City’s final friendly provided more questions than answers with the start of the season looming large on the horizon. But they are the kind of posers Peter Taylor will be only too happy to face, as he seeks the answers
Bus chiefs have apologised after a wheelchair-bound man was left stranded in Bradford after the bus he needed to catch was cancelled. Lee Pearson, of Crag Road, Shipley, had been visiting friends in Clayton, when he attempted to make the two
