Brighouse Town’s Baris Northern Counties East League Cup second-round tie at Pickering Town, scheduled for tomorrow night, has been shelved because Pickering have to replay their FA Cup first-qualifying round tie at Staveley MW. However, there is action
Nethermoor will be buzzing tomorrow night for the first derby between Guiseley and FC Halifax Town in the Blue Square Bet North Division. The Lions are flying high in third place, having won seven of their nine starts, and go into the game
Cuedos Rangers and Thornton United’s Bradford & District Senior Sunday Cup first-round tie came to life with just minutes remaining and turned into a thriller. Thornton took the lead through James Smith with a controversial penalty on 87 minutes.
npower Championship side Leeds United will be hoping to repeat their FA Cup exploits from two seasons ago when they take on Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester United at Elland Road in the Carling Cup third round tomorrow night. The then League
Campion’s occupancy at the top of the West Riding County Amateur League Premier Division lasted only a week as they were held to a 2-2 draw at home to Kirkburton. Their early rivals Ovenden West Riding moved a point clear at the top thanks to a 3-1
Both Westwood Park and Buttershaw White Star took advantage of Bradford Sunday Alliance League champions West Bowling’s inactivity to leapfrog them in the Premier Division table. Westwood hit six without reply against Ventus Sports while
City head of football development Archie Christie took a group of players to a Help for Heroes dinner at the Midland Hotel. Christie was joined by players Mark Stewart, Chris Mitchell and young development defender Andy Burns at the charity event. Christie
Yorkshire star Jonny Bairstow has been named as the Cricket Writer’s Club’s young player of the year. The Bradford-born wicketkeeper-batsman, 21, received nearly double the votes of runner-up Chris Woakes, picking up his award at today’s 65th
Field play a high-profile friendly against the Brian Deane International Academy on Wednesday. The Academy team is made up of young players recently released by professional clubs who are looking to get back into the pro game. They are run by former
Kickboxer Jaie Lyons hopes he has got the world at his feet – despite just missing out on the biggest prize in the sport. The Bradford youngster won a silver medal at the WKA World Championships in Germany after earning bronze back in 2009 in Spain.
Elite runner Chris Carver is to represent England at the Commonwealth 24-Hour Championships in Llandudno this week. The Friday and Saturday event will earn the Otley Athletic Club member his fourth international vest in two years. Carver first represented
Hospital staff were evacuated following two reported blasts at Bradford Royal Infirmary this morning. Up to 50 people working in the hospital’s maintenance department were told to leave the building and the area was sealed off by police following
Bradford Dragons overcame a slow start to beat Burnley College Blaze 78-57 in the EBL National Cup first round. The Dragons appeared sluggish in their opening game of the new season and slipped 13-8 behind midway through the first quarter. The youthful
Two members of Eccleshill Karate Club came agonisingly close to winning gold at the ITKA GB Northwest Championships. Courtney Rivers-Gallagher, 12, and Daniel Grimwood, 16, both finished 0.1 of a point away from first place in their opening individual
The use of ‘legal highs’ among young people in the Worth Valley area could reach “epidemic proportions”, according to a Bradford Council report. The hard-hitting document, which will be considered by Keighley Area Committee on Thursday, states that legal
Older People’s Week is set to be marked in Bradford with a packed programme of events organised by Bradford Council and its partners. The highlight of the week, which starts on Monday, September 26, will be a special talent contest, Op Idols
Research into long-term unemployment among young people in Bradford has found that some struggle to find work due to an inability to focus beyond their “hand to mouth existence” while others come from “extremely unsupportive” family backgrounds. A “nocturnal
SIR – I agree with your comment that the simple and direct answer to the consultation should be “No”. However, I do not agree with your reasons. In my opinion, there are too many politicians. The current proposals do not go far enough. Why we even
SIR – I am absolutely disgusted that Shipley should lose her MP. Philip Davies is a brilliant man for the job as I appreciate the speed with which he sorted out a problem I had. Shipley does not deserve to be chopped up into little pieces and spread
SIR – It is inevitable that, because of legislation, there will be changes to Bradford’s parliamentary constituency boundaries – but those changes must be logical and sensible. The proposals for Bradford are not. I’m not worried about constituency boundaries
SIR – The article in the T&A (September 13) about proposed changes to the parliamentary constituency boundaries made interesting reading. The current constituencies appear to virtually mirror the present Bradford area boundaries. Indeed, when one looks
SIR – The proposals by the Boundaries Commission to amend parliamentary constituencies are generating local controversy, particularly the eradication of the historic Shipley seat. Although the rights and wrongs of this plan will occupy much debate, some
SIR – For all those people in Baildon who said they would rather be part of Leeds than Bradford, all the direct bus and train services from Baildon run to Bradford, not Leeds, and you will always have a magnificent view of Lister’s Mill when descending
SIR – The proposed parliamentary constituency boundary changes (T&A, September 12), controversial as they may be, are overdue. A situation where seats bordering each other may have a difference in the number of registered voters by as much as one third
SIR – Before the Metropolitan Councils were formed in 1960, the councillors of the old Shipley, Baildon and Bingley and Urban District Councils were very local, and consequently got complaints solved promptly because it might be their nextdoor neighbour
SIR – At the moment, indirect taxes like VAT mean that the poorest people in our community pay a greater proportion of their income in tax than the wealthiest do. And yet the one per cent of the population who earn enough to pay the 50p tax rate are asking
SIR – To all the readers who thought Dick Turpin was alive and kicking in a carpark in Haworth – wrong. I normally park in John Street car park whenever I have to go into Bradford, at 60p an hour, but as I had to make a quick trip to Britannia House,
25 years ago: Thousands of Bradford pensioners were to get free home help. Councillors were expected to abolish the 90p weekly charge, was set to will cost the city about £388,000 a year. 50 years ago: Thousands of West Riding school children will have
SIR – You have written an editorial with which I can agree completely. Of course developers should be paying more – much more. But I cannot understand how some of these proposed developments pass planning authorities in the first place. Taking your
25 years ago: Neighbours Kathleen Green and Muriel Pashley were aiming to save a park from the Aire Valley Trunk Road – using a 19th century bye-law. 50 years ago: Five bus companies applied to revise fares to bring them into line with fare increases
As a nation, we generate a huge amount of household waste, and a large portion of this is food. Many of us think nothing of throwing away food just past its sell-by date, even though it is still fit for consumption. Now steps are being taken to combat
Bradford Council must make a stand and say no to the latest bid to open yet another bookies in the city centre. It is difficult to justify turning down any business that is prepared to take on one of the centre’s many vacant units, but in this case,
There is a very difficult balance to be struck between the need to increase our capacity to dispose of waste and the effect any waste management development will have on the surrounding environment. Bradford Council has now put forward nine sites which
Detectives are investigating an attempted robbery at a Bradford jewellery shop in which a pram containing a wooden bat and a hammer was uncovered. Two suspects wearing burkas, believed to be men, entered Sidra Jewellers, in Duckworth Lane, with the pram
City are facing the week from Hell after their capitulation at Crawley left Phil Parkinson fuming. The Bantams chief blasted his side for rolling over in the second half as Kyel Reid’s early opener was wiped out. Saturday’s 3-1 loss
The new Bradford edition of Monopoly will be officially launched next month and will include landmark locations such as Lister Park and the under-construction City Park, the Telegraph & Argus can reveal. People’s votes have helped to determine
Opposition is growing to a plan for another betting shop in Bradford, sparking fears the city centre is becoming over-run with gaming and gambling establishments. The protest follows a further application for a bookmakers, this time taking over the former
Craig Kopczak can’t wait to get the chance to become the first Bulls player to appear at the new Wembley Stadium. The Bulls prop, named supporters’ player of the year, has been included in the revised Wales 34-man train-on squad for the forthcoming Gillette
A group of students from Bradford College have spent their summer holiday making a full-length feature film. The young film-makers completed a five-week shoot with the Co-operative British Youth Film Academy, making a big-screen version of Shakespeare
Crawley 3, City 1 The kid gloves are off. City will now discover what Phil Parkinson is really about. The honeymoon period, if there is ever such a thing at Valley Parade, is over. With a face like thunder, Parkinson dissected Saturday’s second-half
