Yorkshire will provide a team to play Bradford & Bingley at Wagon Lane next Thursday (August 12) as part of the club’s Bradford League centenary celebrations. The 40-over match will start at 5pm with the second half under floodlights. It will be
Centurion Jacques Rudolph flayed Nottinghamshire all around Headingley yesterday to give Yorkshire a fantastic chance of saving this LV= County Championship match against their title rivals. But then the South African flat-batted questions
Simon Ramsden is happy to become old before his time if it helps City mount a successful League Two promotion challenge. An influx of young talent into the first-team squad has left the 28-year-old defender feeling his age ahead of his first
Lee Bullock column: After five long, hard weeks the waiting’s over now. We’ve almost got a clear injury room after a few problems during pre-season so everybody is lively and ready to get going. The gaffer’s been working us hard but it’s all been
Woodlands skipper Pieter Swanepoel has come out in defence of his home pitch. Cleckheaton captain John Wood called the Albert Terrace wicket “disgraceful” and “very poor” during their JCT600 Bradford League Division One match there in June. The visitors
HEWENDEN AC The reservoir continues to fish well for bream and perch. Steve Webster caught 18 bream up to 2lb, plus some perch in a short three-hour evening session last week, and other members have reported 20lb catches. Please
Jacques Rudolph has scored a brilliant century to keep Yorkshire's hopes of saving their County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at Headingley firmly alive. The 29 year-old South African has notched his third century of the season, passing
Yorkshire have made a solid start to their second innings batting effort against Nottinghamshire at Headingley today in the LV= County Championship. Notts only declared their first innings on 545-7 after David Hussey had reached 251 not out
City can reward their long-suffering supporters by winning promotion to League One this season, according to former England striker Dion Dublin. Dublin, who made four appearances in a Three Lions shirt, believes it’s high time the Bantams rewarded the
Builders working on Bradford’s multi-million-pound City Park project have dug up more historical artefacts, giving them a glimpse into the city’s past. Metal rails from the city’s former tram system, which ran until 1950, were discovered alongside cobbled
Silsden and Calverley have six matches to save themselves from diving from Division One to Division Three in two seasons in the Aire-Wharfe League. Having propped up the top flight last season, both clubs were expected to be nearer the top than the bottom
Campion play their first pre-season friendly tomorrow night at home to Evo-Stik League club Wakefield (6.45). The Scotchman Road club should have been facing Bardsey but the West Yorkshire League side cannot raise a team.
GOALS Bradford host their annual Summer Cup on Sunday (6.30pm). With two prizes worth over £500 – a free season of league football or a free block booking – team availability is expected to be limited. Each team will receive a £10 GOALS voucher.
Bradford & Bingley’s director of coaching Nic Corrigan has set his stall out for the 2010-11 season. With 23 first-team players under contract and four more sorting out terms, only promotion back to National Two North will suffice. Corrigan said: “I
Silsden begin their Vodkat North West Counties League Premier Division campaign on the road on Saturday as they travel to Atherton LR but they will be at home, in the true sense of the word, a week on Saturday as they return to their Keighley Road base
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe has launched a bid to challenge a High Court judge’s order which says that he can never be released. Mr Justice Mitting announced his decision on July 16, ruling the serial killer must serve a “whole life” tariff. A
Eccleshill United, who have a new incumbent in the dug-out after former Bantams’ assistant manager Ian Banks took over in the close season, make the short trip to Pontefract Collieries on Saturday in the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League First
Liversedge are on a journey south in the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League on Saturday as they, with new management team of Stuart Waddington and Adam Hughes in charge of their first competitive game, head to Armthorpe Welfare.
History will be made on Saturday as Farsley AFC begin life after the Celts with a trip to Nottingham to face Arnold Town in the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division. Farsley Celtic were founder members of the NCEL back
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Sharaz Ali, aged 25, of Nearcliffe Road, Heaton; driving without insurance, £525 fine, £100 costs, licence endorsed; failure to produce insurance, no separate penalty. Darren John Bird, aged
The Kool Sport Northern Counties East League get the 2010-11 season underway on Saturday, and Thackley could boast an even tougher test than Brighouse Town (who are at home to Pickering Town) on the opening day as they host Bridlington Town. The pair
The Kool Sport Northern Counties East League get their 2010-11 season underway on Saturday, and newly-promoted Brighouse Town have fortunately been allotted a home game by the fixture computer. Town ended the last campaign as runners-up in Division
Guiseley face their final friendly, and also their only home warm-up game, on Saturday ahead of their first fixture in the Blue Square North a week on Saturday. The Lions purposely booked all of their other pre-season games away from Nethermoor because
Young disabled athletes broke off from a mini-Olympics competition at Titus Salt School in Baildon to accept a donation from the group that supports them. Bradford Disability Sports and Leisure, which supports disabled people through sport, received
Funds are desperately needed to get food parcels out to starving victims of the Pakistan floods. Bradford-based charity Basic Human Rights is pleading with people across the district to give £25 donations to help feed devastated families. A one-off
A Harley Davidson fanatic will marry his fiancee at the Baildon bikers’ rally his uncle started more than three decades ago. Pip Lawrence, who started the Shipley Harley Rally 31 years ago, will be best man for nephew Rik Lawrence when he marries Hazel
Heritage rail operator The Railway Touring Company has lined up an impressive cast of steam locomotives, including former LMS engine Leander to haul its train, The Waverley, with departures from Shipley and Keighley on Sundays until September 5. The
Work is underway to compile the first comprehensive record of ancient monuments on Ilkley Moor. Archaeologists have started a three-year project to photograph rock carvings across Rombalds Moor and will use state-of-the-art technology to produce
A man accused of throwing debris from a collapsed wall at another man in a feud between two families has denied being present during the attack. Bilaal Zeb, 25, told Bradford Crown Court yesterday that he believed Israr Zahir had torched his car on the
More than 40 children have been putting bat to ball to improve their cricket skills. The youngsters took part in the eighth annual coaching week, run by the Ben Rhydding Cricket Club, held in conjunction with the Ilkley Summer Festival.
Bradford Park Avenue have played all-comers in pre-season so far and, with a fortnight to go before their first league game, they are still packing friendly games in. On Saturday, they are at Harrogate Town, who almost joined them in the Evo-Stik Premier
Work is progressing on Bradford’s first Council housing scheme in 30 years. The scheme, to build 45 homes on Longfield Drive, West Bowling, will address housing needs and will be a boost for people looking for work. There will be a range of two, three
Sue Ryder Care, the charity which runs the Manorlands hospice at Oxenhope, near Keighley, is calling on people to join its running team. The charity is offering support to runners who take part on its behalf in the Great North Run on Sunday, September
People and events in Skipton and Carleton in the 18th and 19th centuries will be the focus of a ‘tea and history’ event at St Mary’s Church, Carleton. There will be two sessions – one on Sunday looking at the period between 1775 and 1835 and the second
Guided walks on the theme of periods of local history, and an insight into the work of two Ilkley artists, are among the free events running through the town’s festival month. Eight popular Ilkley Heritage Guided Walks will give people a closer look
Three hairdressers have conquered the Yorkshire Three Peaks, raising funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. Lyndsay Bishop, Stacey Mount and Hannah Campion were one of only two groups to finish, after organisers stopped the event due to bad weather. Lyndsay
A police officer from Bradford will face trial after denying charges of fraud and deception. Kashif Ahmed, 33, who is suspended from West Yorkshire Police pending the outcome of the case, pleaded not guilty to ten charges at Bradford Crown
Details of a mysterious orange object hovering in the night skies above Bradford can be found within the latest batch of UFO files released by The National Archives today. The dome-shaped UFO, reported by a number of people in the Woodside area, was
Jamie Langley has never been one to do things the easy way. A bustling, energetic presence on the pitch, it’s clear to even the most uneducated observer the Bulls back-rower is not one to shy away from the hard graft. And in this case
Campaigners against the proposed English Defence League march in Bradford have called for “pride and optimism” to triumph over “violence, racism and division”. Bradford youth worker and playwright Richard Dunbar and other members of the Hope
A man accused of murder has made a dramatic apology from the witness box. Reaben Kareem said from the witness box at Bradford Crown Court: “I want to say I am so sorry about what happened. I was out of my mind and I was not thinking straight
STEP UP 3D (12A, 107 mins) Two stars Starring Rick Malambri, Adam G Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Keith Stallworth, Joe Slaughter, Cheryl Alessio Anything StreetDance 3D can do, Step Up 3D can apparently do better. Director
A training body has expanded into the Far East to deliver on-site courses at a company in Hong Kong after training four of the firm’s key managers in Bradford earlier this year. The Bradford Training Association Ltd is running the courses for VL Automation
CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (U, 82 mins) Two stars Starring Chris O’Donnell and Jack McBrayer and featuring the voices of James Marsden, Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate, Bette Midler, Katt Williams, Sean Hayes, Neil Patrick Harris
A further £2.5m is to be invested in ensuring that the West Yorkshire-based machine tools producer the 600 Group is in shape to take full advantage of a predicted upturn in demand. The company, whose European hub is based at Heckmondwike, is looking
Artist Su Blackwell is preparing for a solo exhibition of her new work, Remnants, at the Bronte Parsonage Museum. Su has been commissioned to create a series of installations, inspired by the museum’s collections. Su creates book-cut sculptures; intricate
SIR – It’s all very well for Gerry Sutcliffe MP to criticise Bradford East’s new Lib-Dem MP David Ward over VAT, but which way did he vote when former Chancellor Alastair Darling increased fuel duty to negate the temporary VAT reduction last year? This
KNIGHT AND DAY (12A, 109 mins) Two stars Starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Molla, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz have starred in some of the most financially-successful and
SIR – With regard to the front page story “Heartfelt thanks! T&A readers do it again by raising £105,000 for new monitor” (T&A, August 2); when I started work at Robin Wools in 1978, I was told by an ex-soldier I was to work with that “if anything needs
SIR – David Herdson is spot-on when his recent letter (T&A, July 28) advocated that the EDL should be ignored and thereby humiliated. Well said, David. Freedom of expression is our most precious treasure. A ban of any description demeans the ultimate
25 years ago: Floods caused by torrential rain plunged West Yorkshire’s holiday traffic into chaos. The River Wharfe broke its banks at Ilkley and some roads in the county were left under several inches of water. 50 years ago: In an effort
Mrs M has been ill all week and this has meant that our social life has been put on hold. Not that we were actively engaged with West Yorkshire’s social calendar. It has meant, however, that our regular evening walks along the canal towpath have been
SIR – In reply to Miss Lynne Stokes (T&A, July 30), who asks the question: “Who does he think he is?” To answer this question, it is to believe, like I do, that everything is alive, from land, sea or air. Miss Stokes states how animals are reared to
SIR – Had Mrs Anne Broadley (Letters, August 2) been a Bingley resident prior to two-and-a-half years ago, she would maybe understand why most people are quite pleased with the new Five Rise centre. Before the refurbishment, it was a dirty rubbish-strewn
SIR – Surely it is no bad thing to be governed by people who’ve had the best education money can buy, whether Conservative, Lib-Dem or Labour? With the abolition of most grammar schools, so many in the Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet members ended up attending
SIR – I have yet to decide on whether I should sign the petition calling for a ban on the EDL rally in Bradford this month. It would certainly be the easiest thing to do. A band of odious outsiders want to come to Bradford with, I believe, the aim of
SIR – Instead of letting her mind go off at a tangent and describing Citygate a monstrosity (T&A, July 29), Mrs D Rhodes should take a look at an artists glossy impression of the structure or better still a scale model. It looks awesome, not awful.
Rising youth unemployment is forcing more young people to turn to voluntary work to boost their skills. Increased unemployment among the young is largely down to the recession, coupled with competition for university places, but young people
Rats pose a risk to public health because they can carry a variety of diseases dangerous to humans, while their presence is deeply distressing for residents. They also cause huge damage to buildings every year – gnawing through wood, pipes,
Shipley and Bingley have been named by pest controllers as rat infestation hotspots following an explosion of the vermin population across the Bradford district. The rodents are becoming bolder – going into people’s homes and running along
Jamie Langley has proved his loyalty to the Bulls after signing a new three-year deal to stay at Odsal. The highly-rated back-rower ignored interest from a host of Super League rivals to commit to the club until the end of 2013. Leeds
Police swooped on a suspected £500,000 cannabis factory during a dramatic dawn raid at a house in central Bradford. Officers were alerted to the Grove Terrace property, Great Horton, by the crew of the West Yorkshire Police helicopter, who
Louis Moult didn’t even need to think before saying ‘yes’ to City. The highly-rated young striker has switched Premiership for League Two after signing on a six-month loan from Stoke last week but insists the step down was never a concern. Offered the
The route for Bradford’s free mass-cycling event has been unveiled. Bradford has been chosen as the only city in Yorkshire to host a Sky Ride, an event which will take in the city’s landmarks along traffic-free streets. The event, on
