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  • Keighley Cougars tame the Lions

    Swinton Lions 18, Keighley Cougars 20 Keighley kept the Championship One title race alive with a gritty win in front of the TV cameras at leaders Swinton tonight. The hosts had needed a win to clinch the crown but came up short against a physical and

  • Yorkshire skipper ponders Cork offer

    Andrew Gale has refused to rule out the possibility of attempting to set up a result during tomorrow’s final day against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. The Yorkshire captain was approached by opposite number Dominic Cork during today’s dull and

  • Leeds United fans have right to know owners, says MP

    Tory MP Damian Collins has rejected Leeds chairman Ken Bates’ claim that he has a vendetta against the club and insisted fans have the right to know ownership details. Bates launched a scathing attack on the Parliamentary culture, media and sport committee

  • Brown in frame for Leeds United debut

    New signing from Portsmouth Michael Brown is poised to make his league debut for Leeds United as they kick off their season at Championship newcomers Southampton on Saturday (5.20pm). Other than injured strike duo Luciano Becchio (hamstring) and Davide

  • Hampshire batsmen frustrate Yorkshire

    Yorkshire’s LV= County Championship match against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl is heading towards a draw. After rain delayed the start of play on day three until 3pm, Michael Carberry moved within eight of his hundred in a shortened afternoon session as

  • Albion Sports are ready for the challenge - Sandhu

    Five of the local clubs return to league action on Saturday and another faces their test on the semi-pro scene. The close season may have felt short for most managers and coaches but for Albion Sports’ boss Kulwinder Sandhu it flew by in a blur. He

  • Man, 22, shot in Bradford street

    A 22-year-old man was in hospital today after he was shot in a Bradford street. Police were called by hospital staff after he attended with gunshot wounds late last night. The shooting occurred in Wheater Road, Lidget Green, near the

  • Victory is a must for Ben Rhydding in top Aire-Wharfe clash

    There is no doubting Saturday's Aire-Wharfe League match of the day, with Division Two leaders Steeton putting their unbeaten record on the line against second-placed Ben Rhydding. Steeton have opened up an 11-point cushion in a three-horse promotion

  • Stunning Sajid puts Attock United on the rack

    An outstanding bowling spell contibuted to Attock United making their lowest score of the season in the West Riding Sunday Council, while Abaseen moved down a place. Batting first at Salem, AMCC made 201 but doubted that was enough given Abaseen’s record

  • No time for Buttershaw St Paul's to slip up

    James Crossland (167), Naveed Bhatti (70) and skipper Paul Carroll (66) helped Buttershaw St Paul’s post a massive 382-5 in the 255-run win at home to Ossett seconds but they remain eight points adrift of Solly Sports Central Yorkshire League Division

  • Semi-final shocks in Bradford Summer Cup

    Bradford Sunday Alliance League teams Lane Ends and White Eagles will meet in Sunday’s Bradford Summer Cup final at Eccleshill United FC (2.00). The semi-finals were played last weekend, with Group A winners Thackley Under-19s going out 3-2 to Group

  • Collectors queue to meet TV experts

    Hundreds of fans of TV show Flog It! queued in the rain at Victoria Hall, Saltaire, to have their antiques valued by well-known experts. The popular BBC show was filming episodes for its new series yesterday, with antiques experts estimating

  • New name on Shelley Carroll Trophy

    There is guaranteed to be a new name on the Shelley Carroll Trophy for the Newlands Invitation Village Cup this year. Holders Ventus were knocked out by workmanlike Peel Park, who went into a 2-0 lead halfway through the first half with a deflected

  • Avenue hoping to maintain impressive pre-season

    Bradford Park Avenue play their final pre-season friendly on Saturday as they make the long journey north to take on Bishop Auckland. It has been a good summer for Avenue, with manager John Deacey bringing a handful of new faces to the club

  • Will the Bees stumble against the Bumbles?

    The award-winning Bumble Bee Barbarians team are providing the first pre-season opposition for National League Three North Bradford & Bingley on Saturday (12.30pm). As the learning disability team, who have picked up two awards in the past year, have

  • Entries now open for third Bradford City Run

    Entry is now open for this year's Bradford City Run, which is expected to attract thousands of runners. Organisers hope the third annual city run, on Sunday, October 2, will be the biggest yet. The 13.2-mile route was set last year after the success

  • Bradford City Run will be a huge event

    Bradford people will be pounding the pavements to get fit and raise funds this October with the Bradford City Run. Organisers have announced the official charity for this year's event will be the Yorkshire-based Jane Tomlinson Appeal.

  • Bradford office block could be turned into flats

    One of Bradford’s most prominent commercial buildings is set to be given a new lease of life in a £7 million project to convert it from empty offices into accommodation for 200 students. FreshStart Living, a Salford-based property developer, has agreed

  • Bradford City insist costs survey is misleading

    City have hit back at a survey which shows them to be the most expensive club to watch in npower League Two. A pay-on-the-door match ticket costs £20 and, with the price of a programme (£3), pie (£2.90) and cup of tea (£1.90), an afternoon

  • ‘Bingley schools bursting at seams already’

    Community leaders have warned that schools in the Aire Valley are already “bursting at the seams” and could not cope with more children if a proposed 400-home development is approved. Governors at Bingley Grammar, Beckfoot Secondary and St

  • Skipton couple tell of horror Orlando boat crash

    A woman has spoken for the first time of her “near-death experience” when a ferry ploughed into a motorboat being driven by her husband. Joan Wormald, of Skipton, is suing Disney after she spent eight days in intensive care in hospital in Orlando, in

  • Thursday, August 4, 2011

    The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Calverley: single storey side extension, 16 Carr Wood Way. Calverley: conservation area application to demolish derelict building in woodland, Clara Drive. Farsley: dormers to

  • Bradford MPs to raise legal aids cuts concerns

    The concerns of campaigners who are fighting proposed cuts to legal aid spending will be raised in Parliament, Bradford MPs have pledged. David Ward, MP for Bradford East, and Gerry Sutcliffe, MP for Bradford South said they would question aspects of

  • Thursday, August 4, 2011

    The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Andrew Gregory, aged 36, of Buttershaw Drive, Buttershaw; driving without a licence, £115 fine, £100 costs, licence endorsed. Asif Ahmed Hussain, aged 24, of Alum Drive, Heaton; failure to stop

  • Vicious assault left man in coma

    An attack victim suffered injuries including fractures to the skull and face and punctured lungs, a court heard. Karl West also had severe lacerations to the back of the head, fractured ribs, bleeding to the lungs and brain and was in a coma in hospital

  • Bradford drug dealer jailed for attempted murder

    A drug dealing “bully” was jailed for 20 years after he tried to kill a man who wanted to stop working for him. Recorder of Bradford Judge James Stewart QC told Mohammed Hanees Shabir he had intended to murder Qaiser Rafique to instil terror in anyone

  • More jobs at Advanced Supply Chain with new China link

    More than 40 jobs are to be created over the next 12 months at a Bradford-based transport and distribution company which is opening up significant new links with China. Advanced Supply Chain, which employs around 400 staff in Bradford and Halifax, has

  • TRAILER: Carrey gets a severe case of frostbite

    MR POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG, 94 mins) ** Starring Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Ophelia Lovibond, Clark Gregg, David Krumholtz, Philip Baker Hall, Dominic Chianese, William C Mitchell. Director:

  • Man jailed for 'appalling' child neglect

    A two-year-old child was left unfed and with a soaking nappy after spending hours in the back of a car in cold, snowy weather, a Court heard. Bradford Crown Court was yesterday told how the trusted partner of the baby’s grandmother offered

  • TRAILER: Trip back in time is such super fun

    SUPER 8 (12A, 111 mins)**** Starring Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso, Zach Mills, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard. Director: JJ Abrams In the summer of 1982, an earthbound alien phoned home and audiences wept

  • Keith’s no ordinary Joe!

    It was written as a 15-minute ‘pop cantata’ for a London school, and now it’s one of the world’s best-loved musicals. Next month, family favourite Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat returns to Bradford (pictured), starring Keith Jack, runner-up

  • Cameras for estates

    Sir – I shoud imagine most road accidents are caused by drivers driving in excess of speed limits and relatively few by those who respect them. If this is so, what is the point of lowering them? The first lot will continue to ignore them and the second

  • Wibsey Market Tavern team gear up for charity ride

    A pub landlord and five of his regulars are getting on their bikes for two charities. Paul Kearns from the Market Tavern in Wibsey and his fellow cyclists are about to embark on what has been described as one of Britain’s toughest yet greatest adventures

  • Holding up the traffic

    SIR – What is it with cars that break down in Bradford, especially ahead of a line of traffic? Surely they cannot all have seized gearboxes preventing the vehicle being ‘pushed’ over to the side of the carriageway? They sit static, hazards flashing away

  • Better to be safe

    SIR – Paul Donnelly thinks that those calling for a law change to make the wearing of crash helmets compulsory for quad bikers are killjoys (Letters, July 28). Bradford-born Barbara Castle (pictured), controversial Minister for Transport in the Sixties

  • Osborne on the slide

    SIR – So Britain’s GDP growth is just 0.2 per cent and Chancellor George Gideon Osborne is once again blaming everyone else, so no shock there then. Mr Osborne is surely becoming a contender for the title of worst Chancellor ever. He has a great opportunity

  • August 4

    25 years ago: Six children per week were being treated for whooping cough in Bradford hospitals as an epidemic swept the country. 50 years ago: A number of Bingley Urban Council’s proposed schemes of development were likely to be affected by the Chancellor

  • So is it back to 65?

    SIR – Just as the default retiring age of 65 has been abolished here, will that position be changed due to yet another European Court ruling? Another EU country has successfully challenged this in a public sector job where retiring at 65 was always compulsory

  • Drink price puzzle

    SIR – Re the letter from Philip Marks (T&A, July 28), the practise of operating a two-tier pricing system when selling drinks has been taking place in many local golf clubs for a number of years. You pay £25/£30 for a round of golf, then they expect

  • Open your eyes!

    SIR – I knew all along that the City Park would not open on time. Council officials have blamed the winter weather and unforeseen events; what a joke.Progress has been so slow, you could see what was going to happen. The Council always does things

  • Give us all the facts

    SIR – Barra Mac Ruairi has finally conceded that, as he was told by observers two months ago, the City Park will not be open as scheduled this summer. Instead it will hopefully be partially opened in cold and dank November. More to the point, though

  • Amazed at delayed opening of park

    SIR – How many more times are Bradford Council going to amaze us with their incompetence? I refer to the delayed opening of our new rubbish dump, sorry the mirror pool/water feature. This now runs alongside the Westfield fiasco and the neglect of the

  • Pupils need support on languages

    Following on from the drop in the district’s Key Stage 2 results reported yesterday, new figures today showing the extent of the issue of pupils not speaking English as a first language at some of our schools are worrying. In three of the

  • 'Bradford's City Park will be worth the wait'

    Bradford’s flagship City Park development may not now be opening next month, as revealed in the T&A yesterday, but when it is finally unveiled the team behind it promises something spectacular. “People are going to be really surprised. It will be a real

  • Bradford Bulls boss Potter will not be rushed on hooker call

    Mick Potter will explore his options before attempting to solve the Bulls’ hooker conundrum. Both front-line rakes, Matt Diskin and Heath L’Estrange, are out for the remainder of the season, leaving resources seriously thin on the ground. Diskin will

  • Masked Otley hammer raiders grab jewellery

    Police have released this picture after burglars armed with hammers carried out a brazen attack on an Otley jewellers. Two masked men used the tools to smash the front window of S Manning Jewellers, in New Market, shortly after 11.30am on Tuesday. They

  • Bradford schools are facing English challenge

    Just one per cent of pupils at one inner city primary school in Bradford speak English as their first language, according to new data. The figures, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, also reveal that more than half of pupils do

  • Ramsden's Bradford City injury jinx strikes again

    Simon Ramsden looks set to miss City’s season opener. The experienced full back has recovered from the persistent hip and groin injuries that plagued him last season but is now battling a fresh calf strain. It kept him out of City’s

  • Cougars out to spoil Swinton's party

    Jason Demetriou insists his team are better when the pressure is on. Cougars head into tomorrow night's televised trip to Swinton knowing only a win will do. By picking up all three points, Keighley can keep their faint title hopes alive