Bradford Bulls youngsters Adam O’Brien and John Bateman have been named in the 21-man England Academy squad that will travel to France next month to take on the French Under-18 side on June 3. The squad features four players from Warrington, while Leeds
Ventus United Under-16s won the Resource Print Solutions of Bramley Wharfedale FA Junior Cup, defeating Burley Trojans Under-15s 3-2 in the final at Otley Town. United went 3-0 ahead in the first half through Jordan Walker and Simon Geldar (2) but Burley
The Bradford Walk, held every Whit Monday or Spring Bank Holiday Monday since 1903, has been postponed at the request of the 2012 London Olympics committee. There is a National 20-Kilometre Championship race in London on Spring Bank Holiday Monday which
Three fiercely-contested cricket competitions have been held this month for South Bradford’s under-nine and under-11 year olds. Organised by South Bradford School Sport Partnership, 290 youngsters from 14 primary schools attended the Year Four
Yorkshire’s opening batsman Adam Lyth has been urged to tighten up his game by captain Andrew Gale in a bid to replicate last season’s stunning form in the LV= County Championship. The 23-year-old left-hander has not scored a hundred in six four-day
Local community members will soon have increased opportunities to try out rowing as a sport after Bradford Amateur Rowing Club have received funding from Sport England and WREN (Waste Recycling Environmental Ltd) to enable them to expand their
PHILIP RHODES reviews the West Riding County Amateur League season After over 800 matches in all competitions, the 2010-11 West Riding County Amateur League campaign concluded with the same result as last season – Albion Sports being denied the
Clubs in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League have been torn off a strip over the standard of their scoresheets. The league’s fixture secretary Graham Langton issued his warning at their monthly meeting at Clayton Amateur Rugby League Club
After six dispiriting, straight defeats in the league, Rawdon finally clinched their first victory of the Aire-Wharfe League season, knocking top-of-the-table Thackley out of the Waddilove Cup yesterday. With top-scorers Joe Ollerenshaw and Nasser Jamal
Threre were some high-scoring matches in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League's Sir James Roberts Cup first round. West Bowling’s match against Heaton provided two century partnerships. Battng first, West Bowling made 205-9, Chris Carter
An internationally-renowned lute player has given a musical lesson to children. Pupils at Springwood Community Primary School in Manningham, Bradford, were entertained by Jacob Heringman, who was performing for children to tie in with their medieval
TREVOR ADAMS concludes his review of the Bradford Sunday Alliance League season with a look at the lower divisions: All-conquering Sandy Lane were never under any pressure as they secured the Division 1B championship with ease as part of
A Coronation Street actor will attend a fun day for a Keighley-based cancer support group. Shipley-based Steve Huison, who has filmed his final scenes as loveable rogue Eddie Windass in the TV soap, will be at the Flappit pub at Cullingworth on Saturday
A poster encouraging commuters to be eco-friendly designed by Bradford schoolgirl Georgia Beasley will be seen at railway stations across Yorkshire. The nine-year-old pupil, of Low Moor Primary School, won a competition by train operator Northern Rail
The dangers of lorries were demonstrated to youngsters at St Paul’s Primary School, Wibsey, Bradford, as part of a road safety scheme. Staff at logistics company DHL brought a 44-tonne truck to the school to teach pupils about what the driver can see
Free fun will celebrate this summer’s opening of Ilkley’s historic Lido on Saturday. To mark the occasion Bradford Council is waiving fees for attractions at the Denton Road site which includes its indoor pool, climbing wall, tennis courts and putting
A man suffered head injuries when he was attacked by two men in Leeds Road, Bradford, today. The 25-year-old victim was taken to hospital following the incident near Bradford fire station at about 7.45am. Detectives, who are hunting his assailants
Talat Mahmood scored twice as BD3 United beat Norfolk 6-2 in Division One of the Spen Valley League. It was only 1-1 at the interval but BD3 upped the pace in the second half, with Sherad Mahmood, Faisal Hussain, Amen Yassen and Kabir Hameed completing
Westwood Juniors Dolphins under-tens, who were Keybury League champions this season, are looking to recruit new players as they prepare to step up to 11-a-side football. They train at Stocks Lane, Clayton Heights, on Wednesdays (6-7pm) and Saturdays
The widow of a man who died after being exposed to asbestos at work is appealing for his former work colleagues at a Bradford textile mill to come forward. Kenneth Cooper, 62, was diagnosed with mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos in
Hospital staff in Bradford have been asked to consider opting for voluntary resignation in a bid to reduce costs. Bosses at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital, have started
A Yorkshire business leader has warned that the latest inflation figures could spark a rise in interest rates. Margaret Wood, chairman of the Institute of Directors in Yorkshire, cited speculators who were pushing up the price of commodities and creating
Flagging bookshop chain Waterstone’s. which includes a showcase branch in one of Bradford’s historic buildings, is set for a ‘dynamic’ future if a deal to sell it to a Russian billionaire goes ahead, according to its likely new boss. Current owner,
Foster children, their carers and birth children of foster parents played together in harmony at the weekend. But not all vulnerable older children enjoy activities like this Saturday morning club’s music group held in Shipley. Recently
Jane Steele (pictured), the writer-in-residence at Bradford Playhouse, will be reading from her work at an arts festival this summer. The writer, based at the historic Little Germany theatre, has written a book of poetry, called Natural Light, and is
The opening hours of the country’s first walk-in health centre are set to be cut because so many patients are abusing the system that costs have soared. The GP-led health centre – Hillside Bridge, in Butler Street, Barkerend, Bradford – was
A diving instructor has ambitious plans to get city slickers back to nature – by turning three Victorian reservoirs into an outdoor water centre. Garry Hudson has acquired the reservoirs, at a remote site on Baildon Moor, and hopes to encourage
Two of Bradford Council’s own workers are to appear in court charged with stripping metal drain grates from the streets to sell on as scrap. The authority was tipped off after the pair, aged 37 and 40, allegedly used a Council lorry to take the grates
There are times, when he’s sharing a stage with the likes of Hilda Ogden and Bet Lynch, that Roy Barraclough blinks back a tear or two. Roy spent more than a quarter of a century in Coronation Street, mainly playing Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy
A mischievous musical featuring ‘puppet sex’ and puppet nudity is coming to Bradford. Avenue Q, one of the biggest theatrical hits in the West End and Broadway in recent years, is a musical like no other, described as witty, rude, uproariously entertaining
Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers (Atlantic) * If there was one song that could sum up how horrendous and soul-destroying music (if I dare describe it as such) can possibly be, Black And Yellow can rightly claim the title. A tedious backing permeated
Poppadom Preach by Almas Khan, Simon & Schuster, £7.99 Judging by promotional blurb for Almas Khan’s book, it looked like another whimsical, comic account of growing up in a Muslim family in 1970s Bradford. “In the year Twix and Smash
Tangled (Cert PG, 96 mins, Disney DVD) Featuring the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, MC Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett **** Disney’s glorious animated reworking of the Rapunzel fairytale marries a hilarious
This column not only reflects the past, it brings people together through that mirror. The story of former Bradford pop band The Royalists is an example. It started out in Remember When? on March 19 as a story about a book by Rocky Mason and Frank McGroarty
My daughters were horrified this week to see a photograph of singer Katy Perry without make-up. They couldn’t believe how dramatically different she looked; how, as they commented, “plain and ordinary”. I explained, as I have done on many occasions
After weeks of frustration with my back and knee injury problems, I’m finally hoping to be back in the team for tomorrow’s match against Somerset. Having missed the last three Championship matches, it was great to get some cricket under my
SIR – Mrs E M Baxter says she frequently litter-picks where she lives and the only equipment she has is a pair of yellow plastic gloves (Letters, May 13). That paper bag she is so eager to pick up and place in a waste bin might be hiding a discarded
SIR – I am writing in response to Philip Bird’s letter (T&A, May 13), in which he accused me of sexism. It is a fact that the Coalition Government’s pension plans fail the test of fairness because they hit women harder than men and because they hit
SIR – Here’s a quick two-question quiz. Q1. Which is the largest city in the United Kingdom not to be visited by the Olympic Torch on its epic 8,000-mile relay across the land, where it will be seen by the inhabitants of cities, towns, villages, tiny
SIR – I feel R Halliday is way off the mark in his letter (T&A, May 14). I predict the Conservatives will have to accept full responsibility of the inept Lib Dems, who could well assure a return to full-blooded Socialiasm which,I suspect would suit him
SIR – I’ve just collected my copy of the T&A Yorkshire Landscapes book and found it superb. To see such fantastic photographs of all the places one has visited over the years in one volume, plus those on one’s doorstep, is a real treat and a credit to
A multi-million pound school re-building programme should finally be completed over the next two months. Grange Technology College and Hanson School, both in Bradford, Beckfoot School, Bingley, and University Academy Keighley, have been rebuilt
SIR – Re Geoffrey Smith’s letter in the T&A (May 14). My brother, John Bentley, and myself are left-handed. We’re the only two out of eight children. The only time that I remember being stopped chalking on the blackboard was by Mr Ravenscroft, the headmaster
SIR – Re your article ‘Protesters battle to save B&B site trees’ (T&A, May 18). These lovely trees are important, but Sainsbury’s plan is very wrong for Bingley in many other ways. It would just be a new eyesore, no better than the current building.
SIR – I have just had a tour of Bradford City Football Club and was very impressed with the staff. They could not have done more for our party, an over-55s club. What a great ground. You cannot move anywhere else. Stan Wood, Warwick Close, East Bowling
SIR – Re ‘Libraries aim to get more online’ (T&A, May 10). After relating how everyone can partake of free computer courses and classes on how to use a mouse and keyboard, we were told where to go for more information, gov.uk/libraries. This seems rather
SIR – Regarding the current rise in unemployment across Bradford. Westfield is the company that will create the most significant number of new jobs in the city. So until it pulls its finger out and gets cracking on Bradford’s long-awaited new shopping
SIR – I am a pupil at St Philip’s Primary School, and last year when I was in Year 5 I used to visit Manningham Pool, which is threatened with closure, with my classmates. However my sister, in Year 4, might not be able to start going when she is in
SIR – So Steve Wells (T&A, May 18) states that loss of trees near the former Bradford & Bingley HQ would ruin the character of Bingley and beauty will be destroyed. He should be thanking Sainsbury’s for removing the huge eyesore that destroyed the character
SIR – I had to chuckle at David Rhodes’s response to my letter regarding hikes in car insurance premiums (Letters, May 5) and his suggestion that I forget Shanks’s pony and shop around. Well, Mr Rhodes, I do most if not all my shopping on Shanks’s pony
The sun shone on thousands of people in the Bradford Urban Garden on Saturday as they enjoyed the fifth annual Bradford Pride event. Coronation Street star Anthony Cotton, who plays Sean Tully in the soap, compered the event which was held to
SIR – Unlike many events, Haworth’s 1940s event is run for commercial gain. There are no charitable intentions, its sole purpose is to attract as many people as possible and relieve them of their cash. All commercial ventures risk not covering costs
25 years ago: Education chiefs in Bradford were planning for a major drop in the number of upper school pupils. 50 years ago: A 17-year-old Bradford apprentice mechanic had a miraculous escape in a 100ft fall down Black Dyke Quarry, Thornton
Bradford Playhouse has had several reincarnations since it was established nearly a century ago, with JB Priestley at the helm. Over the past decade, the Little Germany theatre has battled financial struggles and faced closure. It went into
Bradford’s flagship walk-in health centre has sadly proved to be a failure in terms of improvements to the long-term health of the public. The Hillside Bridge centre in Barkerend was intended to give better access to healthcare for some of
Bradford Bulls 22 Wigan Warriors 26 Steve Ganson better not be planning to run for Mayor of Bradford any time soon. The referee has never been the most popular man in the city but his stock hit an all-time low following the Bulls’ Challenge
Two councillors will tomorrow become the district’s most high-profile citizens as the new Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford. And when Councillors Naveeda Ikram and Val Slater take up their posts it will be the first time since 1983
Two stars of the indie scene have been added to the bill of this year’s Bingley Music Live – the festival which is fast becoming a red-letter event for northern music fans. Jon Fratelli, who fronted Scottish rockers The Fratellis, and indie-popsters
From fly fishing to fighter planes, there was something for everyone at Saturday’s ever-popular Otley Show. An estimated 15,000 people attended the 202nd show, which is the oldest one-day agricultural event in the country. Popular attractions
Bulls boss Mick Potter will seek answers from the Rugby Football League after a controversial decision cost his side their place in the Challenge Cup. Forced to play almost an hour with 12 men after Gareth Raynor was sent off, Bradford still
City’s youngsters will get their best chance to break into the big time under Peter Jackson. Four trainees – Dominic Rowe, Darren Stephenson, Alex Flett and Adam Robinson – are building up to their first season in the pro ranks. And head of youth David
