THACKLEY are out of the Kool Sport NCE League Cup following a 2-0 home defeat to Pickering Town in the second round. Wayne Brooksby and substitute Darren Clough were on target in the second half for Pickering. The derby tie between BRIGHOUSE TOWN and
Guiseley moved joint-top of the Blue Square Bet North table with a 2-1 home win over seventh-placed Droylsden at Nethermoor. The Lions knew they would take outright second place off Boston United with a win and have played the same number of games as
Eccleshill United 1, Bradford Park Avenue 3 Bradford Park Avenue secured home advantage in the second round of the West Riding County Cup as on-loan Bantams striker Chib Chilaka opened his goal account in a 3-1 win at Eccleshill United.
Jason Price notched his first City goal to rescue a point at chilly Valley Parade tonight. The on-loan Carlisle striker has just extended his stay until January 3 - and celebrated by finding the net in his eighth outing. Accrington,
Birkenshaw made Pennine League President’s Cup holders Sharlston Rovers fight tooth and nail for their 34-18 first-round success at East Bierley. Full back Richard Rhodes put them in front early doors and hooker Matt Honeysett added the extras
Bradford Dudley Hill turned their poor away record completely on its head with a sparkling 32-10 victory at Wigan St Judes in the National Conference Prem-ier Division on Saturday. Hill got off to a flier when stand-off Tony Williams shot over, quickly
A perfect autumn day with blue skies and sunshine greeted one of the biggest Leeds Abbey Dash fields for its 26th running. A total of 6,215 people crossed the finishing line in one of Britain’s leading 10k races, attracting a top-class field and times
Leeds are hoping to extend the loan spell of former City central defender Andy O’Brien, who is due to make the last appearance of his present deal at Reading on Saturday. And the Bolton defender appears keen to stay on, claiming he has been
Wharfedale & District FA Challenge Cup holders Otley Town were pushed to the limit in their quarter-final. They were at Baildon Trinity Athletic, who included former Otley players Dan Jowett and Oliver Spence. Both teams had their chances
Scott Waites has won a major title after a magnificent comeback. The Bradford ace was 8-0 down to James Wade in the final of the Daily Mirror Grand Slam of Darts at Wolverhampton Civic Hall but hit back to triumph 16-12. The joiner –
Three masked men tried to rob a Bingley supermarket in a daylight raid today. Police were called to Tesco Express in Morton Lane, Crossflatts, to reports that the three men, armed with metal bars, had followed a security guard into the shop at
A woman was today taken to hospital with a serious head injury after a two car crash near Denholme. Brighouse and Denholme Road was closed both ways at the junction with Thornton Road while emergency services investigated the accident, which happened
Bradford’s hospitals have one of the best survival rates for patients undergoing surgery for stomach and gullet cancer, a report shows. The third report of the National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit 2010, which also reports on survival rates
Thousands of pounds of Christmas lights adorning a Bradford house will be switched on this Saturday. Peter Downes, 42, of All Alone Road, Idle, has raised more than £4,000 over the last four years for Bradford’s Marie Curie Hospice, with lights
Police have been examining CCTV footage from a store where a female employee was injured during an armed robbery. Three masked men brandishing a knife and a crowbar entered the Co-op shop in Greenside Lane, Cullingworth (pictured), as it was closing
Bronte fans can tour the writers’ home by candlelight. The Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth has arranged the guided tours at 7pm on Tuesday, November 30, and Tuesday, December 7. The evenings will include mulled wine and other seasonal treats.
An insurance broker faced his fear of heights to raise thousands of pounds for charity on his 40th birthday. Colleagues presented Paul Glendinning with a birthday ‘gift’ of a parachute jump, knowing he has a fear of flying and of heights. But the
Bradford Council is taking action against a householder who has illegally parked a lorry trailer in his front garden. Dozens of residents have complained to councillors about the trailer in Leeds Road, Eccleshill, which they say is blighting their homes
Manorlands hospice in Oxenhope, near Keighley, is seeking someone to work with its fundraising team on a two-month placement. The person would be paid about £2,500 by Vodafone as part of its World of Difference programme. The recruit must be 18 or over
College bosses have acted after hundreds of exam papers were left in a recycling bin. The training papers, which include names and marks of the candidates at Craven College, were left unshredded in an open paper recycling bin in Coach Street car park
A commemoration service and rededication for the Association of Wrens was held in this, their 90th anniversary year, in London over the remembrance weekend. The service was attended by Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, patron of the Association
Plans are under way for next year’s Pudsey Carnival. More volunteers are needed to join the committee and help it go a head and be a success. The theme will be Best of British and the date is set for Saturday, May 21. Funds will be going to the Farnley
Three plaques which honour soldiers of the First World War have been relocated. The plaques, which contain the names of soldiers who served and died during the 1914-18 war, had been stored in the former Silsden Methodist Church building. But they have
More than 100 cars were stopped during a two-day blitz on suspected criminals using ill-gotten gains to fund a luxurious lifestyle. A Ferrari, a Bentley and a BMW were seized from Bradford’s streets during the operation involving West Yorkshire Police
If you were a regular at Rackhams cafe in Bradford during the mid-1980s, you may have come across a gaggle of St Joseph’s College girls sharing cups of frothy coffee and giggling at other people. If you were one of those people, I apologise. I spent
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Thomas Horace Scott, aged 18, of Halesworth Crescent, Holme Wood; theft, 12 months’ conditional discharge, £11.45 compensation, £85 costs. Ladislav Torac, aged 24, of Hemsley Street; driving
Dame Ellen MacArthur faced challenges when she famously sailed around the world – now she is confronting new ones, and they have nothing to do with boats. What they do have in common with her record-breaking solo circumnavigation is the planet itself
Legendary space-rockers Hawkwind are blowing into West Yorkshire next month at the start of a nationwide UK tour. They’ll be raising the roof of Holmfirth Picturedrome with tracks from their new album Blood Of The Earth, the band’s first studio album
Increased bank funding has set a long-established specialist furniture business on course for further growth. Two directors at Keighley-based British Thornton ESF Ltd have raised the cash to buy out their third partner who is retiring and
25 years ago: More than 100 Bradford schools failed a safety inspection by fire chiefs, it was learned. 50 years ago: A 14-year-old Bradford boy led his terrified mother to safety and an unknown man rescued the boy’s younger sister and brother when fire
A Bradford nursery and children’s centre has embarked on a week-long healthy teeth campaign after discovering one in four of its youngsters is not registered with a dentist. A questionnaire at St Edmund’s Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Washington
A millionaire businessman who tried to make Bradford an international hub for IT manufacture has died, aged 81. Malaga-born Dr Tony Martinez came to the UK in 1950 to study telecommunications engineering, eventually becoming a fellow of the Institution
It would have been obvious to anyone spotting the 55-year-old woman walking along a main road in just her nightclothes and slippers last June that she was vulnerable. Any normal person’s response to that situation would have been to help in
Budget airline Jet2.com is to create an extra 145 summer jobs at Leeds-Bradford International Airport next year as it expands its services from its main base. The airline will also increase seating capacity on its 11 LBIA-based aircraft to meet growing
SIR – I fully share the frustration of Saltaire traders with the ridiculous parking restrictions on Gordon Terrace (T&A, November 18). These draconian restrictions serve no purpose at all, yet are routinely enforced by the Council. The result is a loss
SIR – Senior Tory Lord Young thinks that alarm about the cuts is a fuss about nothing. While our millionaire Prime Minister has reluctantly dismissed this dinosaur, he has revealed a similar capacity for being out of touch by pretending that a public
City are banking on a blend of craft and commitment to end their current slump. Despite three defeats on the bounce, Peter Taylor has found little fault with his side’s recent efforts and reckons performances are creeping towards expected standards.
Since arriving in Perth, everything about the English cricket team has resonated calmness and self assurance. Everything about the Australians has given the impression of disarray, bordering on panic. From poor form from the incumbents and having
SIR – I had planned to go on a night out after a hard week’s work on Friday. I entered the Kirkgate shopping centre to buy some new clothes at 5.45pm, but was turned away at each shop with the answer we’re closing. Surely the people with
SIR – Re Kathie Griffith’s article (Tory chief urged to look at meals row, T&A, November 16), councillors receive a basic allowance of around £13,000 per annum. In addition, they receive a special responsibility allowance. The year ending March 31, we
SIR – In your story ‘Shock as runaway car is given ticket’ (T&A, November 16), the driver, Sarah Evans, had a futile argument with the person who had given her a ticket for her wrongly-parked car. I think she is lucky not to have faced a more severe
SIR – There seems a strange and worrying inconsistency in how our country’s alleged need for ‘austerity’ is affecting us, as opposed to the rest of the world. Cuts, cuts and more cuts apparently needed here to reduce the budget deficit, yet there seems
Bradford firefighters are urging drivers to slow down, belt up and switch off during Road Safety Week. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has joined with road safety charity Brake to help spread the safety message after a survey found 85
SIR – Is the B6144 from Hewenden to Harecroft the worst road in the Bradford district? For more than three years I have tried to get this road, which carries much traffic including HGVs and buses, improved. The road has a 1:7 gradient, is very narrow
The war of the words over the Ashes is already well underway, with the sledging not just confined to the field anymore. The verbal jousting has begun in earnest, like two heavyweights proclaiming their superiority before a big fight.
Bradford Council has sent letters to every employee warning them that their jobs are at risk of redundancy. The prospect of imminent job losses has become a real and scary possibility, said Unison’s branch secretary Linda Crowther. It
Objectors to a proposed 475-home development on green fields in Bingley are stepping up their campaign with a public meeting tonight. The forum has been organised by the Greenhill Action Group (Gag), which has campaigned for several years to
Loan star Richard Eckersley has called on City to repay boss Peter Taylor with victory against Accrington tonight. Since arriving on a six-week deal from Burnley, Eckersley has been bowled over by the set-up at Valley Parade – and particularly the
A man who stabbed to death his nine-year-old brother in a frenzied attack was probably suffering from a mental disorder at the time, a court heard today. Jack James Taylor died from multiple stab wounds, including one to the neck, during an
A pub licensee was murdered by his gay lover, who hours before had announced “Someone’s going to die tonight,” a jury heard. Callum Adams smothered Kevan Worrall to death upstairs at the Seven Stars in Greengates, Bradford, then fled to London
A former primary school teacher has paid tribute to her “inspirational” husband in this year’s Christmas Star Appeal. Denis Sharp, a retired catering manager, died suddenly in 2008 aged 85, four years after he and his wife Elizabeth were married
More than £108,000 has been spent by the National Media Museum and a national charity to obtain a photograph by 19th-century photographer Roger Fenton. The Art Fund contributed £49,000 to the museum’s fundraising target of £108,506 to prevent the 1858
Eccleshill United are hoping it will be third time lucky tonight as they look to host Bradford Park Avenue in the West Riding County Cup. The clash is one of just three first-round ties still to be decided after being postponed twice before – once
A vulnerable woman left in turmoil after the break-up of her marriage was sexually assaulted by a van driver who picked her up as she tried to get home from hospital. The distraught 55-year-old victim discharged herself and was walking on a
Residents and businesses are objecting to a scheme to impose parking restrictions in the streets surrounding Bradford Royal Infirmary. Bradford Council planners have devised a traffic regulation order to address parking issues in response to
Guiseley host Droylsden tonight knowing a win would take them up to second in the Blue Square Bet North. The Lions have a game in hand on Boston United, who are immediately above them in the table. Droylsden will be a tough nut to crack though as they
Brett Kearney reckons the new-look Bulls are already “miles in front” of last year’s side. Head coach Mick Potter arrived at Odsal this winter with ten new signings in tow, raising hopes of a transformation in fortunes on the pitch next season. An early
A Bradford teenager is the star of a British-made movie which is due to premiere at cinemas across the country in February. Thornton Grammar School sixth form pupil Aqib Khan had very little acting experience before auditioning for the lead
