Guiseley manager Steve Kittrick has described Saturday’s FA Cup third-qualifying round tie at Northern League Ashington as a “banana skin”. The Lions, who reached the first-round proper last season, have become a big fish in recent seasons and Kittrick
Wibsey Warriors coach Rob Hustler knows his side have a big job on their hands against high-flying Drighling-ton in the third round of the Hamuel Reichenbacher Yorkshire County Cup on Saturday. Their visitors are leading the Pennine League Premier Division
Renowned coach Brian Wallwork took a pre-season coaching session for Otley Badminton Club at Prince Henry’s Grammar School. Wallwork was able to pass on his experience of winning European and world veterans titles, while his daughter Jenny is a professional
Defending Bradford League Division One champions Dewsbury Sedbergh have made a mixed start to the table tennis season but new signing Ian Denton from South Yorkshire has already made a good impression. Sedbergh lost their opening fixture against Highdale
Silsden are targeting their third away win on the bounce in the North West Counties League Premier Division when they visit Congleton Town on Saturday. The Cobbydalers enjoyed success at Stone Dominoes and Barnoldswick Town – which saw John Douglas
Most West Riding County Amateur League sides are involved in district FA cup competitions at the weekend, with the Bradford & District FA Saturday Senior Cup taking centre stage locally. West Yorkshire League side Fields FC, who lifted the cup last season
Business Secretary Vince Cable was urged not to overlook ‘low level’ manufacturing during a visit to Bradford. Meeting senior industrialists from Bradford East MP David Ward’s constituency, Mr Cable was warned not to concentrate Government
BRADFORD PALS AC Of the 17 anglers who fished Sunday’s match at Marshlands (Barton upon Humber), eight did not have a bite all day, so well done to those who managed to catch. Result: 1 Steven Vaughan 5lb 9oz, 2 Tony Webb 5lb, 3 Martin Sereika
Neil Parsley could be without six regulars for Saturday’s top-eight clash at AFC Fylde in Evo-Stik League Division One North. Keeper Tom Morgan is definitely out after confirmation he broke a shoulder in last Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at Curzon Ashton. Josh
Brighouse Town and Thackley both had to settle for home draws in the Baris Northern Counties East League Premier Division last weekend but they remain in contention to snatch the leadership on Saturday. Paul Quinn’s Town were top of the pile less than
Bradford Park Avenue manager John Deacey admitted he was as stunned as anyone by last Saturday’s heavy league defeat but insisted his squad were in good heart for the weekend’s difficult FA Cup tie at Hyde. Avenue were flying high in the
A key target for Keighley’s new head coach Dave Lister is to improve the club’s away form. The Utley outfit have won 18 of their last 19 SSE Yorkshire Division One matches at Rose Cottage. They won all 13 last season to go with the final two fixtures
Wibsey, who have no game on Saturday, are still buzzing after their first away win in three-and-a-half years last weekend. They beat Rossington Hornets 8-3 in SSE Yorkshire Division Five, full back Bryn Worsley getting the try and Ryan Isaac the penalty
Baildon are hoping to give a debut to winger Nathan King, who has signed from Littleborough, on Saturday in their home derby against Roundhegians in SSE Yorkshire Division Three. The Jenny Laners are also optimistic that props Martin Hemingway (honeymoon
Bradford Salem hope to include centre or wing Matt Steel on the bench for their SSE Yorkshire Division Two match at Selby on Saturday. It all depends on whether his registration comes through in time from Wharfedale. However, injury doubts to lock
Cleckheaton, who host Sheffield Tigers in a first-round Centurion Yorkshire Cup tie next Wednesday (7.00), have an unchanged starting 15 at home to Morpeth in SSE North One East on Saturday. However, back on the bench after being unavailable
Businesses are still counting the cost of the massive pipe burst that left many Bradford shops and offices under water, as pitures sent to the T&A show. And water chiefs have revealed it is likely to be early next week before White Abbey road
Wharfedale’s coach Tom McGee is at prop in their SSE National League One clash at home to Cinderford on Saturday. It is hoped that McGee, who played in the latter stages of last season, can add some direction on the field rather than from the touchline
Otley’s director of rugby Gary Walker is convinced his team will break their away-day hoodoo before the end of the season. Since beating whipping boys Manchester 93-3 in National League One on October 3, 2009, the Cross Greeners have only won one of
Props might not be thin in stature but they can be thin on the ground – but not at Bradford & Bingley. Their director of rugby Martin Whitcombe says: “We have five very good props so we can rotate them every week and give one a rest.”
Bulls players and staff are taking part in a charity sleepover at Odsal tomorrow night. Prop Bryan Hargreaves and wing Shaun Ainscough head a 22-strong team who will spend the night sleeping at the back of the Tetleys Stand to raise money for Action
The group which owns Bradford’s historic Midland Hotel has pledged to continue investing in upgrading the city centre venue. Peel Hotels boss Robert Peel said that, in spite of a fall in room occupancy the number of guests staying at the Midland had
Plans for a £30m retail development in the centre of Keighley will be revealed to the public tomorrow. Computer-generated images of the Worth Valley Shopping Centre will be displayed on Friday and Saturday. People will be able to give
Cougars duo Jamaine Wray and Jy-mel Coleman will make a trans-Atlantic trek to Philadelphia this weekend as they bid to steer Jamaica towards the 2013 Rugby League World Cup. The Keighley pair, key figures in the club’s promotion back to the
Business leaders have welcomed the findings of a new survey which shows that confidence among companies is holding up. Local firms are continuing to grow, although at a slower rate, in the face of tough economic conditions according to the latest Bradford
Campaigners against a proposed housing development on green fields near Bingley have made an urgent call for funds to help fight a planning appeal. Bradford councillors overwhelmingly rejected an application to build up to 440 homes at Sty Lane in Micklethwaite
Burglars who broke into a Bradford supermarket early today were given a shock after the store started filling with smoke. The burglars managed to escape from Asda in Canterbury Avenue after breaking in and triggering a so-called “smoke cloak
The Cougars are urging supporters to back them in huge numbers next season following the club’s promotion back to the Championship. Jason Demetriou enjoyed a highly impressive debut campaign as player-coach at Cougar Park, guiding his men to
An elderly woman was taken to hospital after being rescued by firefighters from an old people’s home in Keighley early today. Firefighters from Keighley and Haworth were called to a flat at Hillworth Lodge, a former Victorian workhouse in Oakworth
Land Rover have never been ones to rush things. They created the original model, now called the Defender, in the 1940s and then it took until 1970 for the Range Rover to appear. Goodness, it was worth waiting for. Then in the 1980s they quickened the
25 years ago: A war of words started over a move by Ilkley to quit Bradford and join North Yorkshire. 50 years ago: Two Bradford bookmakers objected to the intrusion of Leeds firms into the city before Bradford Betting Licensing Committee.
An historic theatre company faces becoming homeless after the building it has occupied since 1929 goes up for sale. A buyer is being sought for the freehold premises of Bradford Playhouse after the company which owned and ran the theatre went
A current Coronation Street storyline about the rape of a woman by her jilted fiance has promoted an 800 per cent increase in calls to Rape Crisis. The storyline, involving factory boss Carla Connor, is tackling an issue, which, for some women, is a
SIR – I am writing to ask your readers to join Anchor’s Grey Pride Campaign and sign our petition calling for a Minister for Older People to help end the prejudices faced by the elderly. We hope the Minister would be called upon when the Cabinet discusses
SIR – More than two centuries ago, the British public stood together to help end the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Despite this historic victory, slavery persisted and continues to ravage the lives of an estimated 12.3million people across the world,
SIR – Paying a visit to Salts Mill, I was watching a video in what was the Tops Warehouse, part of Illingworth and Morris, where I started work in 1974. I was quite disgusted by the rewriting of history when the presenter on the film of Jonathan Silver
SIR – I can assure bus service campaigner Ian Brewer that Metro is not, as he says, “putting profit before people” (T&A, October 8). We are a public body co-ordinating bus services; we make no money from them. We do, however, provide funding for many
SIR – There was an article in the T&A (October 10) headed “The area is bursting at the seams”, describing how certain parts of Bradford have people living in cramped conditions. There was mention of many terraced houses with an average of four children
Graffiti has lately become something of an art-form, with the prime example being Banksy, the mysterious artist whose work fetches eye-popping sums of money at auctions. But that isn’t to say that anyone who picks up a spray-paint can is capable of emulating
SIR – Don’t you think that removing a police officer’s permit to drive just because of bad parking is a bit over the top? After all, it was in a private car park. The only reason I can think of is, he had done this before, or it upset someone at City
Concerned residents have branded plans to build hundreds of homes on a greenfield site in Bradford as illogical. A protest group called Friends of Pitty Beck has been formed to oppose the planning application submitted by Hallam Land Management for 292
Bradford’s highways chiefs are confident they can keep traffic flowing this winter as they prepare for a dry run this weekend using the district’s fleet of 30 gritters. The annual exercise, scheduled for Saturday’s predicted mild and damp weather, will
REAL STEEL (12A, 126 mins)*** Starring Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis, Anthony Mackie, Karl Yune, Olga Fonda. Director: Shawn Levy. Rocky goes five rounds with Short Circuit in Real Steel, a futuristic crowd-pleasing
THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (12A, 110 mins) *** Starring Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Matthew Macfadyen, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Christoph Waltz, Mads Mikkelsen, Orlando Bloom, Freddie Fox, Juno Temple, James Corden, Dexter Fletcher. Director
FOOTLOOSE (12A, 113 mins) *** Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Miles Teller, Ziah Colon, Patrick John Flueger. Director: Craig Brewer. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s the mantra of director Craig
Children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson will be reading from her new book as part of an arts programme organised by the Bronte Parsonage Museum. The writer, who has penned more than 40 books loved by young readers around the world, will be talking about
DOLPHIN TALE 3D (U, 112 mins) *** Starring Nathan Gamble, Harry Connick Jr, Kris Kristofferson, Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman. Director: Charles Martin Smith. Based on a remarkable real story, Winter the dolphin has succeeded where many animals
Twin brothers, involved in drunken violence in Bradford city centre, have been given extended prison sentences totalling almost 20 years. The street attack, on innocent passers-by, was described by a judge yesterday as “vicious, feral and wicked.” Joseph
A football club is fighting to keep its ground after the company which owns the site announced it wants the site back. Field Sports and Social Club in Paradise Green was set up more than 30 years ago by the packaging firm of the same name for
A child rapist who moved in with an unsuspecting mother of five young children in “flagrant and deliberate” breach of court orders has been locked up for three years. Police caught Brian Peacock in bed with the woman and her six-year-old daughter, who
Bradford’s representative on a major regional health watchdog has declared there is an “overwhelming” case for saving a children’s heart surgery unit threatened with closure. And Councillor Mike Gibbons, a member of the Yorkshire and Humber Joint Health
Elliot Kear began this year running out in front of a few hundred spectators at Batley, Dewsbury and York. He could end it by lining up for Wales against New Zealand, Australia and England in the Four Nations, with a Wembley appearance thrown
Two members of a graffiti crew that caused almost £25,000 damage to trains and Northern Rail property have been warned to expect custodial sentences. Bradford teenager Paul Scott and David Broadbent, 20, were involved with a team that struck across the
City will look to drop prices again later in the season after 11,738 fans watched the win over Torquay. The club’s decision to slash admission fees to a fiver for home and away supporters last week attracted the biggest crowd of the campaign – up 1,500
by Jo Winrow City Hall Reporter The two companies in the running for a 25-year £400 million contract to deal with waste from Bradford and Calderdale are to be whittled down to one in December. Both authorities will need to select the preferred
Vinny Finigan is on the brink of signing a one-year deal at Sheffield Eagles following his departure from Bradford. The 22-year-old winger spent last season on loan at Sheffield after being frozen out by Bulls coach Mick Potter. He proved a major hit
