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Silsden’s final home game of their Vodkat North West Counties League Premier Division campaign is tomorrow night, and they have reduced the gate price to £1 for their clash with Ashton Athletic.

Farsley AFC go in search of the second part of what could be a remarkable treble tomorrow night as they look to add the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League's President’s Cup to the Premier Division crown they picked up at the weekend after their

With a lightning-quick flick of the heel and a dramatic toss of the head, their lean brown limbs became entwined in the passionate embrace of the Argentine Tango tonight. As popular professionals on TV’s Strictly Come Dancing, Vincent Simone and Flavia

Wath Brow Hornets 40, Bradford Dudley Hill 10 Bradford Dudley Hill have been relegated from the National Conference League Premier Division following their energy-sapping defeat at Wath Brow Hornets tonight. The scheduled kick off was delayed due

Preparations are well advanced for Horsforth Harriers' popular summer race, the Apperley Bridge Canter (known colloquially as the ABC). It is almost but not quite, a 10K race and is largely off-road. The course gives runners an opportunity

The start-line for the traditional Easter Sunday Guiseley Gallop promised an intriguing contest between Shaun Dimelow (Barnsley Harriers), the in-form Tom Adams (Ilkley) and Tim Midgley (Bingley), who was a clear winner of the Baildon Boundary

Congratulations are in order to two exceptional players in the Mewies Solicitors Craven League. Bradley’s Neil Andrews stroked his way to 148 as his side made an impressive 267-4 at home to Cowling. This took his tally of league centuries to 23. Andrews

Clayton now need just one point from their last two Championship matches to gain promotion to the Pennine League top flight following their comprehensive 36-16 home win over fellow contenders Keighley Albion. The Villagers had to pull out

They’ve done it again! The big hitters of Kashmir accumulated 346 runs in the West Riding Sunday Council, Muhammed Zahid making 129 and Asif Ayub 118. Not to be outdone, Friends managed 225 against Usman Ali’s star bowling. He took 6-57. Away to

Andrew Gale has described the Easter weekend as his most difficult period as Yorkshire’s captain. But the 27-year-old left-handed batsman is still refusing to feel sorry for himself and his side as they prepare for next Wednesday’s return LV= County

The biggest thing that surprises me about the Honda Jazz is its size. To say it is Honda’s baby, it’s a fairly big baby. While Toyota, Nissan and co are rushing out smaller and smaller city cars, Honda is quite happy for the Jazz to remain its most compact

Not many homes have a store cupboard with a sign that says ‘only two children allowed in at one time’; but this former school in Saltaire does. For ten years, Sarah Nazran and her husband had strolled along Victoria Park while living in the village,

In Group C of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League, newcomers Allerton B visited Heathfield Grove, where they encountered last year’s GF Terry Bowling award winner Akhtar Mahmood in good form. His 6-14 was instrumental in dismissing

Pudsey became West Riding Cup champions for the second time in three years after beating Crossgates by 13 points in the final. Pudsey started the evening brightly with Tom Hanson playing to his usual high standard and winning to 14 against

The long-standing Bradford Evening League starts tomorrow night, with the success of the league emphasised by four clubs joining. This means the league has now expanded to 20 teams, with two divisions of ten. Halifax League side Queensbury start their

Bradford Saturday League Naylor – Crossgates (26), Brighouse Sports A (4); Clayton A 165 (11), Pudsey A 183 (19); Eccleshill A 178 (16), Pudsey Littlemoor A 177 (14); Shipley Club A 164 (9), Cross Roads 199 (21); Ladyhill A 177 (14), Hollies S & SC A

Football’s famous FA Cup returned to the city where it was conceived today – 100 years to the day since Bradford City became its first winners. Soccer fans young and old were at Bradford Industrial Museum in Eccleshill to get a glimpse of the trophy

Baildon Jitsu Club won the team shield at the Junior Jitsu Judo Nationals for the fifth straight year. The triumph at Walsall Judo Centre came from a team of 37, plus some young samurais aged four and five in the mini section. Baildon

Phil Leng continues to relish the early-season wickets in the Aire-Wharfe League, adding 5-14 to his opening-day 9-23 as Harden thrashed North Leeds by 147 runs, making them one of only three clubs in Division Two with a 100 per cent record after

A Bradford-based karate club are determined to fight on despite a chop in funding. Amjid Hussain, who helps to run the club at Springwood Primary School, admits it has not been easy. He said: “We’ve been going about 12 months and we’re having to run

Bradford Shotokan Karate Club member Leon Kowal continues to impress. In the England Karate Association Championships at Sheffield, eight-year-old Leon rose to the occasion by gaining a silver medal in kata and a silver medal in freestyle (fighting)

Bradford Park Avenue Juniors, based at Goals BD2, have had a succesful season, with four of their sides being crowned divisional champions. The under-nines team (Year Four in September) require new players for next season, while the under-tens are

Brighouse wheelchair racer Georgina Oliver has been fast-tracked as a future British Paralympian after being handpicked to join the Lloyds TSB Local Heroes initiative. The 18-year-old former Rastrick High School pupil will receive a cash injection of

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will visit Bradford next week to face an audience of T&A readers. In a town hall-style event to be hosted by the T&A, Mr Clegg has agreed to a question and answer session just days before the country goes to the polls

Wilsden Band is blowing its own trumpet to celebrate its 30th birthday. After three decades, the brass band is very much a family affair, with cornet-playing Haworth family Liz Davies and her children Bethan, 13, and James, 11, being the

Staff will celebrate a Bradford firm’s tenth anniversary by tackling a range of charity challenges. A weekend of abseiling, marathon runs, open-water swimming, long distance cycling and creating a cookery book will all be tackled by staff from award-winning

Doubts surround the future of Bingley’s town centre management after it emerged that no decision has been made on whether to replace the current manager who is about to retire. Town centre manager David Dinsey, 66, is due to end his 14-year role in

With just three days to go, excitement about the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is reaching fever pitch in some parts of the Bradford district. Street parties are taking place in Cullingworth, Baildon, Ilkley and Burley-in-Whafedale

Anyone who knows me will testify I’m very keen on food. For years I’ve been spoiled by a busy mum who is an excellent cook capable of rustling up anything at five minutes’ notice. However, during the past few years I’ve been as interested

Two dates in English footballing history denoting tragedy and triumph belong to the city of Bradford: May 11, 1985, and April 26, 1911. Both occasions gave the nation a legacy. As a result of the Bradford City Fire Disaster in 1985, in which 56 people

Like most 12-year-old boys, Harry Beck is into his Xbox and watching football. At school he enjoys PE and art, he loves table tennis and even likes double maths. Sitting with parents Gary and Jill in their pretty garden in Idle, where the family’s

Trying to get a tune out of the recorder or bashing away on a xylophone was as far it got when it came to playing a musical instrument at my primary school. At least that was vaguely ‘hands-on’. After primary school, music lessons became mind-numbingly

SIR – I am a volunteer radio presenter for Radio Royal for Bradford Royal Infirmary. I am researching the Beatles’ tour visits to Bradford on February 9, 1963, and October 9, 1964. If any of year readers have any memories of these shows, could they

Metal thefts across the Bradford district have reached “epidemic” proportions, it was claimed today. As the price of metal continues to rise sharply, thieves are ripping lead from church roofs, gully lids from roads, metal barriers from parks and even

SIR – As a former Yeadon shopkeeper for 20 years, I returned to see my old premises and was surprised to see the old post office had gone and in its place was an Asian restaurant called Silver Spoon. I was tempted inside, and have to say that it was

SIR – Now that the hospitals are to be run by general practitioners, whose expertise is in diagnosis and home treatment rather than surgery and aftercare, why not put the schools and the police service under the control of consortia of dinner ladies and

SIR – We are all subject to cutbacks by the Government, but has anyone thought of the savings that could be made if supermarkets were made to pull in their reins? Recently, there have been proposals to stop sell-by/use-by dates, and this is a good thing

SIR – I’m in favour of AV – anyone who can control the audio volume on my television gets my vote. Gary Lorriman, North Walk, Harden, Bingley

SIR – Many thanks to John Illingworth (Letters, March 31) for correcting my punctuation on a recent letter regarding defence cuts. Phew, it’s a good thing we’ve got people like Mr Illingworth around checking the T&A for grammatical errors – I mean it

SIR – In the early summer of 1923, the captain of Kent County Cricket Club, Lt Col Lionel Troughton, received an invitation from the North of Scotland Cricket League to bring his full county side and play three exhibition matches in mid-September. His

SIR – Bradford should be concerned that Leeds is forging ahead with a new shopping centre and further upgrading its retail offer. When you consider Bradford’s large population and catchment area, it is under served in the retail sector and desperately

SIR – I read the contribution from your talented feature writer Helen Mead (T&A, April 11) headlined Pampering My Beloved Gordon. I read selected passages from the article to my wife, including the one about him having dental treatment. Helen says she

When Kate Middleton walks down the aisle on Friday, I will not be taking note of what she is wearing, how she’s done her hair or how she’s made up her face. I will not be doing any of these things because I do not want to look like her. I repeat, I

SIR – David Summerfield in his letter, (April 6) supports Keith Thomson in stating that he is correct to assume that CO2 caused by human activities is causing global warming. Unfortunately this is not so. He and many others may be convinced, but being

It is a known fact – or at least it was when I was growing up – that if you don’t get new clothes for Easter the birds will poo on you. I am not quite sure where this piece of folklore dovetails into the story of Jesus rising from the dead, but it must

SIR – So now we know from Bryan Russell’s letter (T&A, April 7) that there are two Libyan republics, but he does not name the leader of the second independent one. For him to say the Coalition is not helping to protect anyone is preposterous. It would

SIR – I have to thank my husband Bob for the lovely surprise tickets to see the fantastic musical Jekyll & Hyde. It was one of the best I have ever seen, and Marti Pellow was sensational. What a wonderful theatre the Alhambra is. I have been to shows

SIR – Through April, several reports in the T&A inform us of cuts affecting organisations and ultimately people. Doubtless the massive national debt is playing a significant part, yet it could have been very different. Can you imagine what it would be

SIR – This year, 100,000 more people will develop dementia. As a patron for the Alzheimer’s Society since 2006, I have met many carers and people with dementia, and I know how devastating it can be for the person with the condition as well as their loved

SIR – I totally agree with Coun Vanda Greenwood’s letter, ‘Picking and Choosing’ (T&A April 19), on one point. She states Coun John Watmough can’t pick and choose which parts of the budget he wants, and agrees its Lib-Dems electioneering. I will disagree

SIR – Nick Clegg has got nothing out of being in the Coalition that David Cameron didn’t want to do anyway – apart from a referendum on the voting system I predict he is going to lose. Even if he won it, it would be a miserable, self-serving gain. All

SIR – Your article on pensioner poverty (T&A, April 15) rightly draws attention to the appalling scale of poverty among pensioners. Why should people who have worked hard all their lives be living in poverty, while others receive obscene levels of pay

SIR – Re Councillor Cole’s claims (Letters, March 30) that we, the UKIP are getting ahead of ourselves in prophesying that we will oust the Liberal Democrats as the UK’s third party. Should Coun Cole consult recent opinion polls on the electorate’s

SIR – Just what level of management allows a school-move plan to take place in mid-term and result in two weeks of lost service, as at Beckfoot, Bingley (T&A, April 18)? The fact that some earlier building problem occurred does not excuse this – there

SIR – David Somerville (Letters, April 6) states that the overwhelming majority of scientists who work in the field of climatology are convinced “that global warming is caused by CO2 and other greenhouse gases produced by human activities”. When I went

SIR – As most people who read my letters know, I am treasurer of the Bradford branch of Ukip, which favours the Alternate Vote, but this is one policy with which I disagree. With all the ill-feeling towards politics in general, a change from ‘first-past-the-post

SIR – For more than 100 years, there has been an anti-Tory majority in this country because it is split between Labour and the Liberals. The Conservatives regularly win more seats in Parliament than their vote justifies. Under First Past the Post, those

25 years ago: Bradford’s 23,000 upper schools were to be hit by strikes due to planned action by National Union of Teachers members in protest to the “victimisation” of Salt Grammar School teacher Cedric Burns. 50 years ago: The Grange Cinema in Great

Mick Potter insists the Bulls will face championship contenders Warrington with renewed belief after grinding out an 8-8 draw at Catalan Dragons. The stalemate maintained Bradford’s unbeaten Super League record in Perpignan and ended an unwanted run

SIR – Now Labour is on the campaign trail for the Council elections, maybe people ought to look at their past record rather than the Coalition. For example, who but Labour gave free university tuition and NHS prescriptions, etc, to Scotland and Wales

SIR – Re ‘Height of Hypocrisy’, (Letters, April 4). Your correspondent, Mr Bonallie, attended a meeting in Wrose when I pointed out Coun John Watmough was campaigning to save library facilities in Wrose (not the building). Not a Lib Dem supporter, he

SIR – I wonder if I am the only one to feel outraged by the greed of insurance companies in their attempts to take full advantage of the law which says that it is compulsory for one to be insured when one is in possession of a car. We are being led to

25 years ago: Council spies were to swoop on Bradford stores to see if they were breaking Sunday trading laws. Those operating illegally were to be threatened with court action. 50 years ago: Journalists from countries of the European Free Trade Association

25 years ago: Bradford University chiefs confirmed two students had been arrested and were being sent back to Libya. They were among 21 students to be deported to Tripoli. 50 years ago: A new bowling pavilion was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of

25 years ago: The news that the first Yorkshire Money Show was to be held in Bradford was welcomed by business leaders as a major boost for the city. 50 years ago: The Midgeham stone quarry on Harden Moor, founded in 1862, was to be closed. Much of Keighley

Bradford City 2 Aldershot 1 The find of City’s wretched season proved their saviour on an afternoon of gut-wrenching tension at Valley Parade. This campaign will ultimately be remembered for all the wrong reasons. But amid all the blame and recrimination

Across the UK there are more than 65,000 children in care. Yet across the country, attitudes towards certain sectors of the community are acting as a barrier to adoptions which could give a child a secure, happy home. Adding to concerns that race is

When Sue Scott started losing her sight, it felt like her world had collapsed. “I was devastated,” says Sue. “I had to leave work, I never drove a car again and I daren’t go out alone. I thought my useful life was over. “I’d always enjoyed going to

Next month, thousands of Bradford schoolchildren will be playing a range of musical instruments, from cello to trumpet, at a rousing stadium gig. For many of the youngsters, it will be the first time they have performed in public. Not only will they

The vital importance of special constables to the policing of our district is again laid out for all to see in a report in today’s T&A. In the Bradford South police division, the specials racked up 10,000 hours of service over the last year. As cuts

Readers of the T&A have a unique opportunity afforded to them in the run up to next Thursday’s local elections. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is coming to Bradford for a pre-election event. And he is asking our readers to join him at a Town

The £1.18m bill Bradford Council had to pay for getting rid of mice and rats is an astonishing figure. But rats are a menace that plague every city in the world to a greater or lesser degree. Any large centre of population will have some form of rat

If ever there was a scenario ripe for the involvement of David Cameron’s much-heralded Big Society idea, the proposed closure of Bradford’s Manningham Baths would appear to be it. Bradford Council plans to close the pool as part of its £30m cuts package

Catalan 8, Bulls 8 The Bulls simply do not lose in France. No matter what the circumstances, nor the adversity staring them in the face, Bradford seem to have a knack of picking up the result in Perpignan. Despite arriving at the Stade

City were subjected to their own video nasty and then took a giant step towards League Two safety. David Syers scrambled an 89th-minute winner against Aldershot to virtually guarantee survival this season. The tense 2-1 victory followed