Rail commuters faced travel chaos after a tree fell on power lines near Menston tonight, causing services to be suspended. Bus transfers were provided for passengers travelling from Bradford Forster Square and Leeds to Ilkley after services
Care homes are urging people across the district who can spin a good yard to join in Bupa’s plans to mark National Storytelling Week. Bupa homes in Bradford, Shipley, Bingley, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale and Pudsey will be hosting storytelling events
Two cars were involved in a crash in Skipton Road, Keighley, close to the Cliffe Castle park gates, today. The accident, which happened shortly after 11am, involved a Volkswagen Bora and a Suzuki. Police, paramedics and two crews from
A rail company has apologised after cancelling a service this afternoon due to a train shortage. Grand Central, which introduced the ‘West Riding’ service between Bradford and London in May 2010, said yesterday’s problems were caused by “unit resource
Incoming first-team coach Jason Gillespie is happy to see a reduced 2012 domestic calendar for his first season in charge at Yorkshire. The Australian, hoping to arrive at Headingley at the end of this month if work permit regulations allow, will oversee
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
Running Log Talented teenager Annabel Mason maintained an impressive 100 per cent record with a new course best in the popular GIANT’S TOOTH race. The three-mile New Year’s Day event, set around the woodland of Ogden Water, attracts a broad spectrum
The Police team are maintaining their challenge for the Bradford League championship despite being without one of their best players. James Brown has missed the entire first half of the season through injury but John Chew and Tim Dyson have made light
Right on Cue Entry forms are now available for the YORKSHIRE SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIPS. They can be obtained from Richard Bakes (07940 651850) and the closing date is February 2 with an entry fee of £15. Players have an initial option
JCT600 Bradford League club Hanging Heaton have been handed a home draw in the first round of the Kingfisher Beer ECB National Knockout Cup for a third straight season. They have to play South Yorkshire League champions Elsecar at Bennett
The Dales Council League have only received four nominations from clubs to join their executive committee by their December 31 deadline. They are Bernard Greaves and Ashley Free (Baildon), Steve Bradbury (Rodley) and Neil Bonnington (Cookridge
Clubs in the Solly Sports Central Yorkshire League have voted to keep their structure the same for the 2013 season. However, it was a close run thing at the league’s annual meeting at Ossett Cricket Club as clubs pondered whether to change a system that
The Bradford Mutual Sunday School League Umpires’ Association are holding an extraordinary general meeting on Friday, January 13 at Wibsey Rugby Club (7.30). The catalyst for the EGM was the league’s annual meeting in November at which
Fred Mudd has become the latest in a long line of Bradford Mutual Sunday School League Umpires’ Association members to win the league’s coveted Leslie B Briggs Trophy for outstanding service to the league. Nominated by Bradford Indians,
A fire chief has urged people to alert the fire service of plans to burn rubbish in their gardens. Fairweather Green fire station Watch Commander John Musto issued the plea after a crew was called to a false alarm. A member of the public dialled 999
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
City this afternoon failed to get David Syers' red card overturned. An FA panel upheld referee Dean Mohareb's decision to send him off against Shrewsbury. The midfielder will now miss the next three games, starting with Saturday's FA Cup tie
A cafe is celebrating raising nearly £3,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Cock Pit Farm Tea Rooms, at Weston, near Otley, held all kinds of activities – including marrying two model sheep on the day of Kate Middleton and Prince William’s
A 24-year-old man has been jailed for 28 months for bagging up and selling cannabis from a Bradford city centre flat. Imran Khan, of Hartington Terrace, Lidget Green, Bradford, was caught in possession of £11,500 worth of cannabis on May 9 last year.
A judge has warned a 19-year-old he faces being locked up after he pleaded guilty to causing the death of a teenager by dangerous driving following a two-car smash in Bradford city centre more than 18 months ago. Shoheb Majid of Canterbury Avenue, Canterbury
John Harrington e-mails: I was born in Bradford but moved to Australia in the early 60s. I went to Princeville Secondary School and I am trying to find Alan Barker, who took up an apprenticeship at Central Garage in the city. Also Michael
Ian Marshman e-mails: Up until 1985 I lived and worked in Bradford. I have, to my regret lost contact with friends. I now live near windsor, and after 25 years in the antique trade, have moved here to be near my daughter and family.
Margaret Grainger e-mails: Could anyone help me with my family history? I am looking for relatives, or any information, of Fred Barker. Father's name Fred Barker. Mother's name, unknown. Fred Barker married Ada Margaret Powell in December
Emmerdale actor Matthew Wolfenden is skating into the New Year as a contestant on hit TV show Dancing on Ice. Matthew, 30, of Norwood Green, near Wyke, is one of 12 celebrities taking part in this year’s show, which starts this weekend. Other contestants
Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Bradford petrol station, in which a shot was fired. A masked man, armed with a shotgun, threatened a lone member of staff at the Shell garage in Haworth Road, Chellow Heights, at 4.40am today.
Around 1,600 properties in Steeton are still without gas today after high winds damaged supply equipment. The roof was blown off a kiosk in Thornhill Road yesterday morning and the device inside, known as a gas governor, damaged. The
Traders in the district are enjoying a boom in sales with footfall at shopping centres up substantially on last year. The week before Christmas saw more than 220,000 people visit the Airedale Shopping Centre in Keighley – a 19 per cent increase on last
A deaf sheepdog saved from death by a Bradford rescue centre has marked its first birthday. Digby – who spends his days at the centre with a blind dog, Taffy – came to Mainline Border Collie Centre in Bingley after owner Barbara Sykes was contacted by
A Yorkshire minstrel has penned a special song to mark the passing of one of the county’s best-loved landmarks. With Harry Ramsden’s restaurant in Guiseley up for sale after closing last month, folk singer Eddie Lawler has written a lament to the demise
Benefactors across the UK and in the US have pledged their support to Haworth Parish Church £1.25 million restoration appeal. Donations totalling almost £5,000 have flooded in from as far afield as London, Gloucester, Northern Ireland and the
A multi-million pound transformation of Bradford College has been given the go-ahead. The £50 million scheme will see the main Westbrook Building demolished and replaced by a new state-of-the-art facility built directly in front of it.
Military medics in Afghanistan have saved the legs of a badly-injured Birkenshaw soldier hurt in a bomb blast that claimed his friend’s life. Private Matthew Light, son of Kirklees Council Tory leader Councillor Robert Light, was leading a
Five playing fields in the district are set to be granted protected status under a project to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics. The Queen Elizabeth II Fields designation means they will be protected as a permanent legacy
Developers need to start building homes on brownfield sites in Shipley to meet a target of 2,000 new houses and kick-start the town’s regeneration over the next two decades, a councillor has argued. Many plans have been put forward – some
SIR – The Oastler Centre in Bradford is certainly not the thriving place that it used to be. What, then, are we to make of the rumours that Bradford Council is considering whether it should be sold to a local supermarket group? Perhaps our Council could
SIR – On behalf of Calder Valley Search and Rescue Team, I would like to thank the people of Keighley for their generosity in helping us raise more than £2,000 at our recent street collection. The team is manned totally by volunteers and provides help
Parts of Queensbury have long been battlegrounds between developers and campaigners, with planning applications for large-scale developments in the village hotly contested in recent years. Residents and community leaders claim Queensbury
SIR – The extended Christmas break says more about this country than we may realise. Logically, one would think that taking extended breaks from work at a time of financial crisis would be the worst thing to do – not in a monetarist economy it isn’t.
Campaigners have been urged not to become “battle weary” as they fight the latest plans to build more than 130 homes in their village. About 200 people turned up at a meeting in Menston last night to hear how developers Taylor Wimpey have resubmitted
Police have confirmed that a blaze at a Bradford curry house, which caused an estimated half a million pounds damage, was started deliberately. The fierce fire ripped through the ground and first floors of the Taza Grill, in Great Horton Road
Plans to extend Burley-in-Wharfedale Library to accommodate a Co-operative convenience store are due to go before a Bradford Council planning committee. The Council has confirmed the Burley Library planning application is expected to go before an “imminent
As I was born just around the corner from Kings Cross station, I have always supported Arsenal football club, and that means a less-than- sympathetic view of a successful team from Manchester. However, I have learned not to jump to conclusions and
SIR – So the city water park is near to completion, and the Council seems to think that this is all that is needed to attract visitors and the mass media to do their shopping in the city centre. The Westfield shopping centre with free parking for shoppers
SIR – The T&A (December 27) published a picture of flats under the heading New Homes Set To Replace ‘eyesore’. The picture showed what to my mind was a view of an utterly charming small block of flats each suitable for one or two people. Right in the
SIR – Some of your readers are economical in the choice of ‘facts’ to support the content of their letters. First, Christopher Hindle (T&A, December 24) in his bashing of his own country’s and America’s handling of the banks does not mention that this
SIR – Please allow me to share with you my recent positive experience that I had with the much-maligned Bradford Council. It relates to the collection of my paper recycling bin. I had initially arranged to have the collection made on a certain date but
DAVID BARNETT looks back at the area known since 1997 as Centenary Square, a place that has seen many changes in Bradford city centre Over Christmas, the public of Bradford were given a taste of the latest incarnation of Centenary Square as the
25 years ago: Education chiefs were taking stock of Bradford’s crumbling schools as they reopened after the two-week Christmas break. 50 years ago: West Riding local authorities and householders began counting the cost off the freeze-up as the thaw revealed
Fuel is one of the most talked-about issues of the day – the cost, the sources, and its environmental impact. An increasing number of people are living in ‘fuel poverty’, whereby more than ten per cent of their net income is spent on heating and hot
Two years ago, Bradford College’s plans for a huge redevelopment were brought to a crashing end when the Learning and Skills Council said they could not help finance the scheme due to an over-commitment on spending on similar projects across the country
A woman who now lives in Canada returned to the Bradford district for her wedding. Former Keighley woman, Kate Reeves, and Renata Nia Nia – of Wairoa, New Zealand – were married at St Anne’s Church, Keighley. The couple live in Squamish
A self-styled “preacher of the word of God” is on trial accused of a string of rapes, sexual abuse and beatings against five women and a man over three decades. Brian Jackson is said to have throttled a former girlfriend with a phone flex,
A total of 1,700 new homes will be needed in Silsden according to draft plans by Bradford Council as part of its Local Development Framework. The district-wide blueprint details a broad approach to where 45,500 homes could be built across the district
Bradford-based motor group JCT 600 has launched a drive across its network of 48 dealerships to cut its carbon footprint. The roll-out of the programme at its dealerships in Yorkshire, Humberside, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and the North East, follows
He has been a pig farmer, a racing driver, a haulier and run a mobile fish and chip van, but now Ken Walker can add writer to the list following the publication of his first book at 76. Mr Walker said he has had a “good response” after producing the
As new figures reveal that UK manufacturers suffered their worst quarter for nearly three years, the outlook for many Yorkshire firms looks “very difficult”, according to a leading business adviser. Accountants BDO say the proportion of employers looking
A judge has warned a 19-year-old he faces being locked up after he pleaded guilty to causing the death of a teenager by dangerous driving following a two-car smash in Bradford city centre more than 18 months ago. Shoheb Majid of Canterbury Avenue, Canterbury
A 24-year-old man has been jailed for 28 months for bagging up and selling cannabis from a Bradford city centre flat. Imran Khan, of Hartington Terrace, Lidget Green, Bradford, was caught in possession of £11,500 worth of cannabis on May 9 last year.
Charity bosses in Bradford say there is an urgent need for the Government and the Labour party to put aside political differences and sort out England’s failing social care system. Keith Nathan, chief executive of Bradford and District Age UK, welcomed
Recruitment entrepreneur Steve Street has taken on a new top job advising employers on a range of initiatives to help boost their business performance. Steve, who continues to lead Bradford-based Relay Recruitment which he co-founded in 1996, has been
A self-styled “preacher of the word of God” is on trial accused of a string of rapes, sexual abuse and beatings against five women and a man over three decades. Brian Jackson is said to have throttled a former girlfriend with a phone flex, struck her
Robbie Threlfall is confident that City’s new-year slip-up at Rotherham was only a blip. Monday’s loss at the Don Valley ended an unbeaten five-game run in the league which has lifted the Bantams up to 18th. The recent improvement has
Keith Lulia began life as a Bull yesterday after coming through a Bali earthquake to take up residence in Bradford. The imposing centre, 24, joined the rest of Mick Potter’s squad at Tong following his arrival from NRL outfit Newcastle Knights on a
Robbie Threlfall admitted it was an emotional day facing Rotherham following the sudden death of Gary Ablett only hours before. The former Liverpool and Everton defender, who lost his 16-month fight with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was Threlfall
