Dane Bairstow paid tribute to the late Karl Curran after being crowned the Bradford Union’s top golfer in 2011. Bairstow won the Karl Curran Golfer of the Year Trophy following a season in which he claimed the Bradford Amateur Strokeplay and
A tag rugby festival has been hailed a success after over 100 schoolchildren had a ball at the event last week. Bronte House School hosted the day, which was run by the Rugby Football Union’s regional coaching team, led by community rugby coach Dave
Skipper James Feather admitted he was in dreamland after helping the Cougars to promotion. Hundreds of Keighley fans turned out at the Halliwell Jones Stadium to see Jason Demetriou’s men clinch an immediate return to the Championship after
Leeds United’s Robert Snodgrass has been ruled out of the Scotland squad for the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Liechtenstein and Spain with an ankle injury, the Scottish Football Association have confirmed. Wigan midfielder James McArthur has been called
Three more City youngsters have gone out on loan. But they have blocked defender Andrew Burns from joining them. Dean Overson will spend the next month at Vauxhall Motors, Adam Robinson with Blyth Spartans and Darren Stephenson at Woodley
The Northern Winter League Race Walking season gets under way on Sunday with 10,000 metre and 5,000m events from Whitcliffe Mount Sports Centre, Cleckheaton. The races are suitable for newcomers to the sport and start at 11am. Entries are accepted
Bingley Bees gave an improved second-half performance in their 7-1 defeat at Kingston-Upon-Hull-2 in the Yorkshire Women’s Premier Division. The home side came out strongly, accurate passing at pace helping them into an early lead. A constructive
Demolition work has begun on the “landmark” Bradford mill hit by a devastating blaze on Tuesday night. Fire ripped through the five storeys of Thompson Mill in Tetley Street, off Thornton Road, leaving it so badly damaged its demolition was
Jimmy White, who won the inaugural Wyldecrest Park Homes World Seniors’ Championship in Bradford last November, is returning to the city later this month. ‘The Whirlwind’ is playing an exhibition, which includes a four-course meal for 30 people
A woman in her 40s is reported to have been injured in a three vehicle crash on the Bradford to Leeds ring road. Police were called to reports of a crash at the roundabout on the A6120 near Horsforth shorty after 4pm today. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman
The Yorkshire Inter-District League starts this weekend, and Division One defending champions Bradford No 1 open their campaign at home to Leeds on Sunday at Undercliffe Cricket Club (7.30pm). Bradford No 2 get their Division Two season underway
Police have re-opened a major Bradford road which remained closed for more than 16 hours after a fire wrecked a disused mill in the city centre. Officers re-opened Thornton Road at about 10.50am today [Wednesday], although cordons remain
Roads remained closed around a fire-ravaged mill today due to the building being potentially unsafe. Police have said initial indications suggest the blaze which wrecked the disused mill off Thornton Road, was “malicious”. Officers,
Budding movie-makers are celebrating after their work was chosen for screening at a Bradford festival for young film-makers which is one of the biggest in the country. And it was another success for media studies students at Ilkley Grammar
Next year’s London Olympic Games could not have fallen at a better time for Bradford. The landmark event kicks off as Bradford begins a new chapter in the future of sport across the district. Sunday’s Bradford City Run saw the launch of a district-wide
Calls to impose restrictions on new drivers in a bid to limit road accidents would be impossible to police, according to one parent whose child was killed by a teenage ‘joyrider’. Research by road safety charity Brake, released today, shows that 80 per
Firefighters rescued two women and a baby from a burning house in Bradford in the early hours of this morning. Two crews from Odsal and one from Bradford were called to the house, in Gracey Lane, Buttershaw, at 5.30am. The women, both
A relative of an alcoholic mum-of-three who died in police custody was told that she was “OK” – more than two hours after her death. Claire Batey, a niece of Sharon Batey, told the inquest into her death yesterday that she rang the custody suite at Trafalgar
The decision by the grieving family of teenager Siobhan Ullah to speak out after her death following an asthma attack is a brave and selfless one. They have been left in a state of shock after 18-year-old Siobhan was cruelly snatched away from them.
The grieving family of a talented Bradford teenager whose life was cut short by asthma today urged other sufferers to beware that the condition can be a killer. Performing arts student Siobhan Ullah died surrounded by her family, 24 hours after the
A former pool and snooker hall in Shipley which has become a derelict eyesore could be turned into a night-club under new plans. Developers have submitted a planning application to Bradford Council for a major refurbishment of the old trades hall in
Question marks have been raised over a nurse’s convictions of the murders of four elderly women, a BBC investigation has suggested. Staff Nurse Colin Norris was handed four life sentences in 2008 by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court for murdering Ethel
Tom Burgess has no immediate plans to follow his three brothers Down Under – he is more concerned with continuing his impressive rise to prominence in Super League. The rookie Bulls prop is the only remaining member of the Burgess clan still plying his
Phil Parkinson lauded City for going “above and beyond the call of duty” as they pulled off a derby upset in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. The Bantams came through their second straight penalty shoot-out in the competition to dump Huddersfield 4-3
Bradford Council has revealed it has made “changes” to its procedures in the wake of a planning “farce” surrounding applications for nearly 300 new homes. Barra Mac Ruairi, the Council’s strategic director for regeneration and culture, re-iterated an
Huddersfield Town 2 Bradford City 2 Bradford win 4-3 on penalties City’s first visit to the Galpharm for three years was sponsored by a private detective agency. But even Hercule Poirot would have struggled to deduce how last
A major investigation is underway into the cause of a huge blaze at a mill building which brought the city centre to a halt. Up to 80 firefighters tackled the fire off Thornton Road, near to its junction with Tetley Street, which broke out
