A new savings bond offering from Bradford-based Yorkshire Building Society offering a ‘best buy’ return is among a plethora of new year savings and mortgage deals announced by local financial institutions. The new YBS one-year fixed rate bond requires
Leeds have signed Danny Pugh from Stoke for an undisclosed fee. The 29-year-old has been on loan from the Potters this season, impressing enough to convince manager Simon Grayson to make the deal permanent. Pugh originally signed for Leeds in 2004 from
Geoff Dowling, 79-year-old president of the Bradford-based Yorkshire Race Walking Club, just held on to his top-ten position in the 2011 UK Masters Race Walking Ranking list. Dowling, competing in the over-75 category, finished in tenth position
Former Bulls wing Gareth Raynor has joined 2011 Co-operative Championship winners Featherstone Rovers. The 33-year-old, who also played for Leeds, Hull, Crusaders and Great Britain, was sacked by Bradford in September for a breach of club discipline.
High winds and heavy rain caused disruption when stormy weather battered the district as people returned to work for the first day after the New Year break. Flights were delayed at Leeds Bradford Airport due to the winds, which reached up to 80mph in
Hot favourites Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee took first and second places at the Auld Lang Syne Race from Penistone Hill, near Haworth on New Year’s Eve. The mud, river crossings and tough ascents ascents were a far cry from the Olympic
The funeral of a woman and her two sons, thought to have been murdered by her husband, the boys’ father, took place today. Music by Wham and Julio Iglesias featured in the service for Clair Smith, 36, and her sons, Ben, nine, and Aaron, one, who were
Places are still available on a teaching assistant course starting in the district on Monday. The free level 2 course is one of several New Year activities at the Kingfisher Community Centre in Braithwaite Avenue, Keighley. The course is funded by Craven
Young performers in Bradford are being urged to try out for auditions for the National Youth Theatre. The deadline for applications is on Saturday for 14 to 21-year-olds hoping to follow in the footsteps of an illustrious alumni that includes Daniel
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East Riddlesden Hall may have been closed since the end of October – but within its historic walls there’s been a buzz of activity. Every winter, the 17th century attraction gets a spring clean in readiness for a new influx of visitors in February.
A Keighley-born man has spoken of his pride after been named in the New Year’s Honours list for his services to football. Andy Williamson has been awarded an OBE after completing more than 40 years unbroken service with the Football League after joining
Keighley drug intervention worker David Wilson will swing into action this Saturday for a 12-hour tennis marathon. Mr Wilson, 48, who works for drugs and alcohol agency Project 6, plans to raise money for mental health charity Mind. Mr Wilson, from
Smokers who have made it their New Year’s resolution to stub out their habit in 2012 can log on to a live webchat with an NHS stop smoking advisor to get about tips about how to quit. Over the last few years the local stop smoking service has helped
Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been paid to Bradford services personnel as compensation for injuries or illnesses sustained on duty. The Ministry of Defence has awarded compensation to 15 soldiers with Bradford addresses since April,
Around 1,500 properties in Steeton are without gas after high winds damaged supply equipment. The roof was blown off a kiosk in Thornhill Road, Steeton, this morning and the device inside, known as a gas governor, damaged. The system
Rosemary Shrager’s Yorkshire Breakfasts (Great Northern Books, £16.99) They say we should ‘breakfast like a king’ – but would you start the day with pickled pears, dried figs or bubble and squeak? They might not sound like obvious choices
For an ice way to beat the winter blues, why not get your skates on and head out to one of the open air ice rinks that have cropped up in the region? If you’re skating in the open air, it’s advisable to wrap up warm, with plenty of layers and
If your borders lack colour, texture and depth, then it’s an ideal time to plan a new one to give you all-year-round colour, beautifully matched plants and a few surprises along the way. Don’t be afraid to copy other’s ideas. You may need to visit a
Omid Djalili is a rare comedian, capable of provoking huge laughter and profound thought at the same time. Yet he hasn’t toured for more than three years. But all that is about to change. Omid is hitting the road with a new show, Tour Of Duty, which
A hostel for the homeless in Bradford will close this year. Lawley House, the Salvation Army’s Lifehouse in Leeds Road, is being decommissioned in May. Bradford Council chiefs have decided not to renew a contract for the Salvation Army to provide its
The thought of a summer of sport with the London Olympics and the Euro 2012 football tournament is driving more people to book foreign holidays, according to research by airline and package holiday group Jet2.com. The Yeadon-based company expects to
Yorkshire Water is spending £420,000 over the next six months to help reduce the risk of sewage flooding homes in Micklethwaite, near Bingley. Work was scheduled to start today to install a large underground storage pipe capable of holding about 150,000
Business and financial adviser Grant Thornton ended 2011 on a high after celebrating one of its most successful months for winning new business. The firm’s local offices secured major contracts to provide audit and tax advice for four Yorkshire-based
Next is expected to reveal a resilient festive performance boosted by online sales when it becomes the first of the major retailers to shine a light on Christmas trade tomorrow. The group is forecast by analysts to have seen 4.1 per cent growth in revenues
An outdoor centre for children, which was the beneficiary of last year’s Lord Mayor’s Appeal, is calling for help to raise the final £10,000 needed for a new adventure playground. The Nell Bank centre in Ilkley received almost £75,000 towards the playground
Wheel clamping in a Haworth car park is driving tourists away, visitors to the village have warned. Robert and Heather Smith have vowed never to return to the Pennine village after they were forced to pay £90 to release their black Land Rover after it
An MP has demanded answers from the Government about efforts to tackle dangerous laser pen attacks at Leeds-Bradford Airport as figures reveal high numbers of incidents are continuing. In 2010, there were almost 100 incidents involving planes
Councillors are demanding answers from Bradford Council as to why the authority wants to sell land they believe was bought to improve a hazardous crossroads. Liberal Democrat councillors in Idle and Thackley ward say they have received letters from the
Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been paid to Bradford services personnel as compensation for injuries or illnesses sustained on duty. The Ministry of Defence has awarded compensation to 15 soldiers with Bradford addresses since April, 2005, for
Someone once sent me a Christmas card with a picture of some turkeys on the front. Inside it read, ‘Happy Christmas, from your biggest fans’. I haven’t eaten turkey for 25 years, since I gave up meat overnight. I’ve never missed it, although I still
Jim Greenhalf reviews a new book which chronicles the eventful history of Valley Parade, home to Bradford City for the past 125 years Before the afternoon of May 11, 1985, diehard Bradford City supporters on the open-air Spion Kop used to chant
‘A new year, a new you’ – I’m sick of seeing those words, repeated a billion times by every newspaper and magazine. And top of the ‘to do’ list in most of them is exercise. And it’s not just jogging around the block or cycling to the local shops. We
SIR – Can we please say a big thankyou to Sainsbury’s, in Keighley, and Tesco, on Canal Road, Bradford, for their support of our Christmas Day lunch for the elderly of Keighley? Up until December 20, we had only received two other donations, from Keighley
SIR – I’m astounded that Kevin Warnes of the Green Party (Letters, December 16) interpreted my earlier letter as expressing my disappointment that the Liberal Democrats had “sold out” to the Conservatives. I must have expressed myself badly. I had and
SIR – I was very interested to read of Bradford Council’s plans to introduce pay parking into Ilkley town centre.There are three points that ought to be considered before this plan is introduced. Firstly, Bradford announced its plan on the very same
SIR – I don’t know if anyone else has written this thought for the day, if not I’m putting this one forward? Be ready... John Bentley, Mayfield Terrace, Wyke
SIR – I am writing to ask as the City Park project approaches completion, can we have full details of the cost of the project? Many people have looked at what has been actually done for this money and are absolutely amazed. How could it take so long
SIR – Your correspondent Teri Kirk, of Anchor Housing (Letters, December 27) chides me for not understanding their aims. It appears, according to her, that if they could install a Minister for Older People, and a rare species of a ‘dedicated’ one at that
SIR – As soon as I see the word “consultation” I reach for my pen. Keighley’s business community is to be “consulted” about the introduction of on-street parking fees, a move which is expected to bring in a paltry profit of £150,000 per year, after initial
SIR – “If you want to know your enemy sing his song” is a famous old saying that many socialists will be familiar with. So I often look at the right-wing press finding its contents very revealing, for instance Iain Duncan Smith’s anger that jobless-related
SIR – As an 80-year-old man without a governmental minister to look out for my interests, I ask myself why is there one for women? It implies that all the others are for men, which is crazy. These words have been provoked by Teri Kirk’s letter (T&A,
SIR – It has been proposed by the Boundary Commission that the Bradford suburbs of Idle, Thackley and Eccleshill be represented by a Leeds MP and an MP from the Leeds Metropolitan District. How would people from areas of Leeds take to being represented
SIR – I hope those correspondents who have denigrated Bradford councillors in the past, saw the picture (T&A, December 27) of independent councillors, husband-and-wife team Paul and Lynda Cromie, presenting the grit bins and 60 bags of salt to the community
SIR – On the T&A Letters page (November 30) I said, regarding the Military Wives choir: “The series was very moving with laughter and tears so when it is repeated make sure you have a handkerchief”. Well, just recently, it was repeated and I should
SIR – Judge Jonathan Rose’s incomprehension at a sign announcing “slippery when wet” not yet being erected on the notorious A629 is beyond my own limited ability to comprehend. How an apparently intelligent man can actually believe that such a sign
SIR – We are not told what prompted Bruce Holmes of Keighley to pen his rather vitriolic missive (Letters, December 23) stating he was totally opposed to any kind of “subsidy” for the poorer residents of Bradford or why he has suffered enough from association
25 years ago: Pensioners in Bradford gave the thumbs-up to a national campaign showing there was life after work after charity Age Concern designated 1987 the year of Celebrating Age. 50 years ago: More than 500 grammar school students from across the
25 years ago: Leeds-Bradford Airport was branded the worst place to fly to and from in Britain in a survey run by Woman magazine. 50 years ago: Plans for a new £290,000 bus depot at Brownroyd for motor and trolleybuses were approved by the Transport
25 years ago: Rebel town councillors in Ilkley and Otley planning a breakaway from Bradford and Leeds got together for secret talks about setting up their own council. 50 years ago: An hour’s extension for New Year’s Eve was granted to 103 pubs and clubs
The Bradford-born composer Frederick Delius is to be honoured with his very own stamp in a new series commemorating British greats by the Post Office. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Delius’s birth, and while many of us might not be as familiar
Bradford goes into 2012 perhaps with more reason for optimism than 12 months ago. Morrisons is creating 7,000 new jobs at its supermarkets, some of them in the district. The £24 million City Park is at last on stream and will add what J B Priestley
Flood warnings are in place for parts of the Bradford district following heavy downpours early today. The Environment Agency has warned flooding is possible along parts of the River Aire between Gargrave and Stockbridge as water levels rise
There is increasing support for moves to introduce chess in schools – and in an age when children are growing up in a largely virtual world, it is being seen as a way of developing valuable social skills. Eldwick Primary School set up a lunchtime chess
People possessed of anything approaching a full set of faculties will be forced to wonder what kind of moron gets their kicks from shining high-powered laser pens at low-flying aircraft approaching and departing Leeds-Bradford Airport. This is the type
Free parking and transport for Bradford Council staff should be scrapped to save cash, the Conservative group has announced. It said its budget would include axing free staff parking and the free shuttle buses to take workers from car parks
Satellite navigation systems for our cars are one of the technological advances which many of us now take for granted and which do enhance our lives. However, over-reliance on technology can, at best, make us lazy and, at worst, end in tragedy. The
City's improved form over December has been recognised with two award nominations. Phil Parkinson is in the shortlist for League Two manager of the month after the Bantams picked up ten points from a possible 12. They also advanced to
The widespread use of cocaine in public toilets in Bradford city centre has been uncovered in an investigation by the Telegraph & Argus. Traces of the drug were found in the toilets at three popular pubs and bars – and even in the baby changing room
Rotherham 3 Bradford City 0 How fitting that Olympic year should kick off at an athletics stadium. But the only similarity with the Don Valley and London 2012 is the running track. With its 1970s East German clock looming over the vast swathe of
Campaigners hoping to save a Bradford day centre used by disabled people say there is still a lot more work to do in the New Year. More than 11,000 people signed a petition to keep Whetley Hill Resource Centre open and now council bosses are recommending
Brett Kearney says the improved climate has given the Bulls’ pre-season preparations a welcome shot in the arm as they gear up for the new campaign. Much of the country lay under a blanket of snow last winter but this year has been considerably milder
Frustrated Phil Parkinson took a swipe at the standard of League Two refereeing after City’s five-match unbeaten run was sunk by Rotherham. Parkinson was fuming over the “farcical” penalty which led to the home side’s second goal in their 3-0 win at
An outdoor centre for children, which was the beneficiary of last year’s Lord Mayor’s Appeal, is calling for help to raise the final £10,000 needed for a new adventure playground. The Nell Bank centre in Ilkley received almost £75,000 towards
Britain’s tallest man has taken a break from the Alhambra panto to help launch a new Mr Tall double-deck bus. Neil Fingleton, who stands more than 7ft 7ins tall and plays Little John in the panto, Robin Hood, joined co-stars Billy Pearce and Hilary O
