Thackley 3, Arnold Town 1 Thackley enjoyed a superb home win tonight after as the Dennyboys netted a quick-fire double just before the half-hour. Mike Garrod and Matt Mathers were on target a minute apart. The visitors came back before the break,
Bradford & Bingley are not feeling the pressure as they face one of their most important matches of the season on Saturday. They go to National League Three North leaders Stockport hoping to hang on to their play-off position. Bees player-coach Stuart
Jamie Langley column It will be strange going to St Helens tomorrow night but not to Knowsley Road. They had been there for so long that you couldn’t picture them anywhere else, so it’ll be interesting playing them at Widnes instead.
West Bowling have another chance to move away from the Division Two re-election spots as they welcome Shaw Cross Sharks to the Bankfoot Oval in the National Conference League on Saturday. The Dewsbury outfit are themselves hovering just above
Lecturers across the Bradford district took to the picket line as part of a national strike in a row over changes to pensions and pay. Members of the University and College Union formed pickets outside Bradford College buildings, the University
Bradford leg-spinner Adil Rashid has been called into the England World Cup squad as a replacement for Michael Yardy. Yardy left the sub-continent today after admitting he was struggling to cope with depression. The selectors have wasted little time
Queensbury face a tough Pennine League trip to third-placed Hunslet Old Boys in the Premier Division on Saturday. A win for ’Bury would lift them out of the bottom two and ease any relegation fears, as well inject some much-needed confidence to their
Baildon still feel that Goole have the whip hand for the second promotion place from Yorkshire Division Three, despite the East Yorkshire side’s 25-23 defeat at Rotherham Phoenix. "That was unexpected,” confessed Baildon’s rugby chairman Andy Whitley
Keighley’s forwards coach Tim Brunskill says his team will have to up their aggression levels and intensity if they want to defeat North Ribblesdale on Saturday in Yorkshire Division One. On the back of their 14-8 defeat at home to Ilkley in another
There were no smiles from Wharfedale’s coaching staff after their 31-14 National League One derby defeat at Otley on Saturday. “The second half disappointed me most,” said the club’s chairman of rugby Michael Harrison. The Greens led 11-8 at the interval
Cleckheaton give young Matt Beasty a chance in the second row on Saturday at Pontefract in North One East, Ryan Piercy reverting to the back row. Safe from relegation but having lost their opportunity to gain promotion, the Moorend coaching staff now
A 65-year-old male pedestrian was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary after he was seriously injured in an accident with a black Vauxhall Astra car in Great Horton Road, Bradford, shortly after midday today. Police closed the road for more than two hours
Otley are expected to have second row Howard Parr back in their squad for another crucial National League One clash on Saturday. The Cross Green talisman watched last Saturday’s 31-14 victory over Wharfedale from the sidelines but his experience and
Lee Bullock column It was a pleasure to play alongside the young lads in the reserves the other night. Sometimes those games can be a bit of a chore for the older ones but the younger players all gave a great account of themselves and made it really
Bradford Park Avenue’s clash with Evo-Stik League Premier Division promotion play-off rivals Marine on Saturday will be overshadowed by the death of Trevor Storton. The former Horsfall manager was still assistant to Neil Aspin at table-topping FC Halifax
The Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division’s top two go head to head at Throstle Nest on Saturday as leaders Farsley AFC host Bridlington Town. Because of the international break, Farsley chairman John Palmer is offering
Guiseley face a test of their spirit and desire as well as ability when they head to Nuneaton Town for a tough Blue Square Bet North clash on Saturday. The Lions appeared to be heading for a place in the play-offs at the very least but their involvement
The Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division’s top two go head to head at Throstle Nest on Saturday as leaders Farsley AFC host Bridlington Town. Because of the international break, Farsley chairman John Palmer is offering season-ticket
BRADFORD & DISTRICT SEA AC: Our next trip is to Whitby on Sunday, April 24. This is an offshore trip aboard Richard Ward’s ‘Shy Torque 2000’. Anyone wishing to go should come to our meeting on Tuesday, April 19 at the New Inn, East Bierley, starting
Kevin Ellison faces up to three weeks out after straining a thigh in training this morning. The on-loan Rotherham winger has joined City's injury list but Peter Jackson has again ruled out a move to recall Omar Daley. Jackson said: "
Leeds have increased competition for midfield places by signing Jake Livermore on loan from Tottenham’s until May 31. Enfield-born Livermore, 21, came through the Spurs academy and has had loan spells at MK Dons, Crewe, Derby, Peterborough
Basement boys Bradford Salem, who aren’t using the ‘R’ word yet, are depleted at Bridlington on Saturday in Yorkshire Division One. The visitors are missing Richard Langhorn, Jonny Robinson, Craig Buxton, Jamie Booth and Amesh Ahir for the
Rookie striker Darren Stephenson will be on City's bench against Shrewsbury on Saturday. The 18-year-old has been given his chance by Peter Jackson after scoring in the last two reserve games. Jackson said: "He's a big, strong and physical
Lorries are being increasingly targeted by fuel thieves as the price of diesel remains at an all-time high – despite the slight duty reduction announced in yesterday’s Budget. Road hauliers across the Bradford district report being victims
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Allerton: one double-sided, double-legged, partially-illuminated, post-mounted sign, Yorkshire Co-operatives, 354 Allerton Road. Barkerend: detached valet bay, storage container
Patience has never been James Donaldson’s strong point. Not content to sit back and twiddle his thumbs, the Bulls back-rower is infected by a youthful enthusiasm that has fuelled his rise to Super League prominence. So when he was told
People living in Pudsey are to get first choice of homes in a new development in the town. Thanks to a Local Lettings Plan drawn up by Leeds City Council and agreed with landlord Leeds Federated Housing Association preference for the 20 new homes will
A man who died after he walked onto a dual carriageway and was struck by a lorry in Bingley has been named as 42-year-old John Edward Madden. Mr Madden, of Bailey Hills Road, Bingley, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on the Bingley bypass
Preparations are being made for the grand opening of a £140,000 play area. Volunteers of Cononley Playing Field Committee are planning an event to mark the opening. The park has been delivered with financial support from the Community Spaces programme
Patients in Bradford are benefiting from quicker diagnosis and treatments, thanks to an NHS walk-in x-ray clinic. Eccleshill NHS Treatment Centre, run by Care UK, has started a service which allows patients to receive an x-ray, without the need for a
A recital on Emily Bronte’s piano, a play about the Brontes written by Blake Morrison and a haunting sound installation re-creating the literary sisters’ letters are all part of a spring/summer contemporary arts programme at Haworth’s Bronte Parsonage
Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley should be a priority for funding, an MP has said. Leeds North West MP Greg Mulholland has called on the Government and Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to make money available for the school to carry out some
Five-year-old Ellie Rose Whitaker is this year’s Silsden Gala Queen. She was chosen in a contest at the Sunnybank Social Club. Rosebuds will be Bethan Jolene Ravenscroft, eight, Niamh Marie Fearnley, 11. Each girl received an Easter egg given by Silsden
Fleet management company Zenith Provecta, based in Calverley, has been tipped as a company to watch in a new business survey. The UK’s largest independent fleet management company has been named for the first time in the Best Companies to Work For survey
Promising engineers have had their achievements recognised by the family who put Bradford on the automotive map. Members of the famous Jowett family were at Bradford Industrial Museum to meet five of the Bradford University mechanical and automotive
Three community groups in Bradford have been awarded a share of more than £15m to help them survive cuts in public spending. Bradford Community Environment Project, Bradford Law Centre and the Women-Zone Community Centre are among 17 organisations in
Free parking is being introduced for three months at a city centre car park. The scheme will run at the Bradford Council-run Oastler Shopping Centre multi-storey car park in Westgate from Friday, April 1. It will offer a maximum of two hours
A scout hut destroyed by fire has been re-built – thanks to a £40,000 fundraising effort. Hundreds of young Scouts, Cubs and Beavers, as well as other community groups, were left without a base when the Bingley Scout hut burned down in March
A charity which helps young people leaving foster care in the Bradford district is in need of volunteers to provide temporary lodgings for them. Action for Children’s Stepping Stones project places 16 to 25-year-olds who have been in the care system
The mother of an Ilkley girl with an incurable heart defect wants more people to help fight against proposals to close the unit which saved her daughter’s life. Olivia Wilkinson underwent 18 hours of surgery at Leeds General Infirmary hours after she
Governors are considering converting Ilkley Grammar School into an academy in a bid to safeguard its future. After the scrapping by the Government of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme last year, the fate of the oversubscribed school
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Lee Conroy, aged 31, of Hawes Avenue, Little Horton; driving while using a hand-held mobile phone, £60 fine, £15 costs, licence endorsed. Ahmadi Ali, aged 33, of Salt Street, Girlington; driving
A Bradford MP has launched a search for an innovative local manufacturer to be featured in a 21st century version of the Great Exhibition of 1851. David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, is supporting a cross-party campaign to champion
Bigger losses at a West Yorkshire software systems company have not deterred bosses from looking forward to a better future. Cleckheaton-based Atlantic Global saw its 2010 performance dented by customers deferring orders for its integrated business and
SIR – The Government has “no clear plan” of action for tackling errors and fraud in the welfare system, MPs have warned. The Public Accounts Select Committee claimed officials had not got to grips with £1.3bn in under-payments, despite the hardship these
SIR – I am pleased that a path on Ilkley Moor will be made passable when waterlogged (T&A, 16 March). Some years ago, I wanted to show friends from overseas the Water Sinks area on top of Malham Cove – where the river disappears into the ground – but
SIR – It was nice to see the Telegraph & Argus get a mention in a very positive way on the BBC Breakfast programme on Wednesday, March 16. The item was about how people out of work could find jobs by reading the job adverts in the T&A. It said that some
A scheme to transform Keighley town centre has won £2 million of lottery funding. The Heritage Lottery Fund has agreed the cash to return historic buildings to their former glory. The Keighley Townscape Heritage Initiative will also receive £700,000
SIR – Day trips aren’t what they used to be! Recently I arranged to pick an elderly friend up from Bradford Interchange. I then drove to the T J Hughes shop, where I picked another friend up, as I was taking them both as a treat to Haworth. When I drove
SIR – In your editorial of 11 March, with reference to your front page story “That’s the way to do it” – about a plan to build 136 new homes on derelict land in Shipley – you have asked: “Why can’t they all do it?” Developers provide housing and create
SIR – Re the proposed Save our Children’s Heart Surgery in Leeds. Back in 1990/91 the Bradford Northern Supporters Club, as we were then known, took on our charity for the year as “Save Killingbeck Hospital Children’s Heart Surgery”, also in Leeds.
SIR – Further to your article on councillor Geoff Reid highlighting the problem of horse droppings in Fagley (T&A, March 16). When horses were a much more common sight in our streets – delivering coal, and sheep’s wool for industry and domestic
LIMITLESS (15, 104 mins) *** Starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Andrew Howard. Director: Neil Burger The drugs do work in this visually-arresting morality tale, set on the bustling streets of
A TURTLE’S TALE: SAMMY’S ADVENTURES (U, 85 mins) ** Featuring the voices of Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, John Hurt, Christine Bleakley, Robert Sheehan, Kayvan Novak. Director: Ben Stassen Drift through life without any real sense of purpose
FASTER (15, 98 mins) ** Starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Cohen-Jackson, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace, Tom Berenger. Director: George Tillman Jr When the going gets tough, the tough get into a modified 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle
THE EAGLE (12A, 114 mins) *** Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Tahar Rahim, Mark Strong, Denis O’Hare. Director: Kevin Macdonald A brave and noble son atones for the sins of his father in a blood-and-thunder swords-and-togas
Metal thieves have been condemned for stealing a “unique feature” of Saltaire’s World Heritage Site from under the noses of villagers. A total of 28 iron cellar grates, which date back to Victorian times, have been stolen in only three days
People are being urged to make use of Keighley’s new community centre following its £1.74 million rebuild. Central Hall will thrive only if everyone across the town takes it to their heart, says voluntary sector boss Isobel Scarborough.
Actor Timothy Spall and one of the young stars of TV comedy The Inbetweeners were in Bradford, talking to film fans about their new movie. Timothy Spall, who starred in films such as The King’s Speech, the Harry Potter series and Secrets and Lies, attended
25 years ago: Bradford Child Poverty Action claimed babies faced death because of government changes to the system of supplementary benefit payments. 50 years ago: Members of Bingley Urban Council's Finance and General Purposes Committee recommended
For now, the swish curved building remains a vision. It appears on an architect’s impression of the multi-million-pound Bradford People’s Centre which Bradford and District Senior Power wants to set up in the city centre. Chairman Jean
Having recently extolled the virtues of Bradford’s markets, including the Oastler Centre, we welcome news that a free parking scheme is to be operated at that centre’s car park. Bradford Council has decided to run the scheme, allowing shoppers
Campaigners fighting Council plans to build a £25 million business park in Baildon discussed their objections with residents at a public meeting last night. Baildon Residents Against Inappropriate Development (BRAID) has complained to the Council saying
A “five-strikes” burglar has been jailed for four and a half years, after he was tracked by DNA he left on the finger of a latex glove at the scene of the crime. Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday that Joseph Brockies stole property valued at £1,800
Detectives today released these CCTV images capturing the moments when two armed men, wearing Ronald Reagan masks, tried to rob a Bradford bank. The bizarrely-disguised raiders were caught on camera as they burst into the Yorkshire Bank in Queensbury
Bryn Hargreaves intends to make a few new enemies when he faces St Helens for the first time since a winter switch to Bradford. A popular figure during four years at Saints, Hargreaves heads back across the Pennines tomorrow as a cornerstone
A full planning application for a £5.5m railway station in Low Moor, Bradford, will be submitted within months. The scheme’s promoter, West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive Metro, is holding negotiations with landowners about acquiring
A man with a plan or one who gives with one hand but takes away with the other? Chancellor George Osborne’s second Budget last night drew divided opinion from the district’s MPs and political leaders. Mr Osborne offered a helping hand
City want their new manager nailed down before this season is over. The two club chairmen have drawn up a six-name short-list, which includes current interim boss Peter Jackson. And they hope to have a man in place in time to have his
Silsden stretched their winning run to three games last night with a narrow but important victory over high-flying Ramsbottom United in the Vodkat Premier Division. A powerful header by Shaun Airey after an Andy Lee corner was enough to hand Silsden
Ross McCormack has sent manager Simon Grayson a message – don’t worry about Billy Paynter’s suspension, I’m ready to go. Striker Paynter picked up a three-match ban after being sent off in Leeds’ 2-0 defeat by Sheffield United at the weekend
