Albion Sports 3, Rossington Main 1 Albion Sports claimed second place outright in Baris Northern Counties East League Division One and closed the gap on leaders Handsworth to just three points with victory over Rossington Main. The first half was goalless
Bradford will become one the UK’s first ‘super-connected’ cities with internet broadband speeds set to become up to ten times faster thanks to £15 million of Government cash. Chancellor George Osborne announced in his Budget yesterday that
Public sector workers in Bradford face years of pay freezes under plans to set local rates. The district’s MPs were divided over a Budget that also brought news of funding for rail improvements in the region. But the Government faced criticism
The Government has stood accused of an “outrageous stealth tax” after it emerged that more than four million pensioners will be worse off following changes to simplify the tax system unveiled in the Budget. At present, people aged 65 or more are not
The Nathan Cubitt Trust will be boosted by about £3,400 thanks to a star-studded over-35s rugby union match. Veterans, including former Bradford Bulls ace Robbie Paul and dual-code international John Bentley, attracted some 600 fans to Bradford Salem
Leeds Grammar School will meet holders RGS High Wycombe in the final of the Daily Mail RBS Under-15 Cup at Twickenham on April 4 after the pair came through their semi-finals at Broadstreet RFC in Coventry. Leeds progressed to their first-ever national
It’s a sign of old age when policemen start looking a lot younger. And now it seems to be the case with football managers. Former City youngster Inderjeet Aujla has just been handed the reins at Belgian club RRC Montegnee – at the age of 24. Aujla,
Lancashire and arch-rivals Yorkshire will meet at Doncaster RFC on Sunday in the final of the North section of the National Under-20 Championship after the Roses rivals claimed emphatic victories in the semi-finals. Yorkshire, beaten by eventual winners
Ilkley are among 15 clubs to have won a 2012 Rugby Football Union President’s XV award. Thanks to their £1.8 million clubhouse, they have lifted the Better Facilities category and will receive £500. The citation reads: “Ilkley RUFC needed to replace
Cath Gallimore was twice named player of the match as Bingley Bees Seconds played two Yorkshire League games in as many days but was unable to inspire a victory in either. The Bees picked up a handy 1-1 draw at fellow mid-table Division Four side Doncaster
Police are studying CCTV footage in a bid to trace a suspect who robbed a man as he banked business takings. The 56-year-old victim was about to enter the HSBC in Manchester Road, Bradford, when the suspect demanded money. The robber
What a difference a year can make. This time 12 months ago, Iain Wardlaw was a print and design seller in the county. Now the 26-year-old paceman is trying to force his way into Yorkshire’s first team for the 2012 season by impressing on their pre-season
The two Embassy teams in Division One of the Bradford League are in a head-to-head battle to avoid relegation. Highdale C are already down but Embassy A are making a late charge to try and catch Embassy B. The A team did their cause no harm with a
When Jack Partington left the pitch injured, Nab Wood might have wondered where the goals would come from in their Craven, Aire & Wharfe Junior League under-15s clash at Thackley. However, makeshift striker Josh Hunter soon found the net to put Nab
Wyke Wanderers Junior Football Club have received a grant of £3,050 from Sport England to enable them to carry out after-school football coaching in local schools. Formed in 1969, Wyke Wanderers are a progressive club and they are aiming
Craven Aire & Wharfe League – U10A: Bradford Tigers 2, Weston Lane 3; Shipley Lions 4, Skipton LMS 2. U10B: Bingley Bocca 4, Shipley Panthers 7; Sutton Rogues 4, Sutton Rebels 1. U11B: Nab Wood 6, Menston 1; Skipton Town 4, Shipley Tigers 0.
Baildon, 25-8 winners last Saturday at home to Liverpudlians Mossley Hill, have been drawn at Midlands winners Old Wheatleyans, from Coventry, in the semi-finals of the RFU Junior Vase on Easter Saturday (April 7). Ilkley have been drawn
Wharfedale No 8 Rob Baldwin captained England Counties to a five-try 34-16 victory over the Ulster Bank International Team at Preston Grasshoppers. But he wasn’t the only Dalesmen to aid the cause as the nation’s top semi-professionals made
George Osborne promised a simpler tax system, far reaching reforms, a system where millions on low pay are lifted out of paying tax altogether. Among the major announcements was a new pensions system that will be easier to understand and a
He promised a simpler tax system, far reaching reforms, a system where millions on low pay are lifted out of paying tax altogether. He said: "We will earn our way in the world by providing new growth friendly planning rules." However, he warned
Waterloo Road actor Tom Milner joins a cast of 240 youngsters in a variety show this week. The show, by the Stardom School of Performing Arts in Shelf, is called Razzle Dazzle ’Em 2012 and features performers aged three to 18. “It features song, dance
Staff and pupils at a Bradford primary school are preparing for a major fundraising drive in aid of Cancer Research UK to honour the memory of their former head teacher who died of cancer. Stewart Duxbury lost his life last October aged 54,
A bus driver who was involved in a three-car crash which resulted in firefighters cutting one woman free from crushed wreckage has spoken of his shock at managing to walk away from his destroyed vehicle. Melvyn Wright, 61, of Wightman Street, Barkerend
Arts and culture lovers are going to be spoiled for choice with the official opening of Bradford City Park on Saturday – with work by street artist Banksy on show. Bradford Council is providing a huge array of family-friendly street theatre
A Lottery lifeline has been thrown to charities in the district struggling with the effects of public funding cuts and increased demand for their services. Nearly £150,000 has been awarded by the Big Lottery Fund to its grant-holders in Bradford to provide
The owner of a dirty Bradford take-away restaurant has been fined more than £2,000 in a prosecution brought by Bradford Council. Council officers visited Yazz’s Pizza Diner in Oak Lane, Manningham, last year and recorded a catalogue of food hygiene regulation
One of the district’s most famous eateries was hailed as “the number one restaurant in the north of England” as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White returned to the Michelin-starred Box Tree in Ilkley yesterday and was
Bradford pop-star Zayn Malik's band One Direction have made history as the first UK pop group to debut at number one on America's Billboard album chart. Up All Night has gone straight into the top spot on the 200-album chart, Billboard said
A 30-year-old man broke a woman’s ankle as he tried to rape her after luring her into a dark children’s play area, a jury heard. Graham Butterfield had downed 20 bottles of Carlsberg Export when he attacked the 34-year-old mother he had just met at a
Efforts to save a historic Bradford city centre pharmacy look like paying off, its owners are hoping. Pharmacists Sajid Hussain and Qaisar Sheikh, who bought the Rimmingtons shop in Bridge Street two years ago from national chain Lloyds, need to have
An Ilkley student has captained his team to success in the long-running University Challenge TV quiz. Tristan Burke, 22, led the University of Manchester team to a 180-135 win over Pembroke College, Cambridge, watched by three million viewers. And in
Councillors are expected to throw their weight behind a campaign against Royal Mail’s closure of three delivery offices in the district. Councillor Rizwan Malik (Lab, Heaton) is asking Bradford Council to back a call for the offices at Shipley
A man found dead down an embankment at the back of a bus stop after a night out had been drinking more heavily than usual after the sudden death of his son, an inquest heard. Ivor Spink, who was 79 and from West Terrace, Ilkley, had been drinking
A city centre bed retailer is celebrating 40 years of trading after helping generations of customers enjoy sweet dreams. Stuart Butterfield, manager of The Bed Shop in Sunbridge Road, believes providing personal service and reliable advice has enabled
Firefighters and paramedics rescued a man who slipped and fell into an empty private swimming pool. A fire crew from Keighley responded to the incident in Harewood Road, Keighley, at 2.30pm on Sunday. Watch commander Mark Whitaker said: “A man had
The people of Otley are being asked to lend their voices to a mass shout for £100,000 this weekend. The shout-out will take place at the Farmers Market at noon on Sunday and will be filmed by Otley Town Partnership. The group is putting together a
Dry weather has led to hosepipe bans being announced for South East England. And with warmer weather on the way at a time of year when rainfall is typically low, the question of standpipes is on everyone’s minds, but according to Yorkshire Water spokesman
25 years ago: Bradford University had gone with a begging bowl to its bankers for a £1 million loan to stave off a growing financial crisis 50 years ago: If the Ministry of Transport was to accept proposals to be submitted by the West Riding County Council
It is incredible that the catalogue of anti-social behaviour committed by a 15-year-old, which effectively amounted to an 18 month harassment campaign in his neighbourhood, has only just seen him been given an ASBO by the courts. Luke Mitchell’s actions
SIR – British, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Italian workers are seeing sustained attacks upon their pay and working conditions by right-wing Governments. Far too long union bosses have cosied up to the establishment instead of representing their members
SIR – I am not the only one who is losing confidence in Westfield’s ability to build Bradford’s long-awaited shopping centre. No word since November, and in the meantime we continue to watch our city centre decline like it has done rapidly over the past
SIR – I refer to the headline ‘A danger to the public’ (T&A, March 13) when a new expert survey shows the former Odeon building is now “structurally unsafe”, which follows close on an earlier revelation that there is a high risk of the asbestos in the
SIR – It would be hard to find a more tasteless “enticement” to the City Park opening day than that demonstrated by the water-squirting poseur (T&A, March 8). What on earth is the Council thinking of by spending goodness-knows-how-much more money, on
While most of us know that much of the extra carbon dioxide responsible for climate change comes from large cars, holiday flights, electrical goods on standby, lights left on, exotic foods and the thermostat set too high, it’s rather a surprise to find
SIR – Apropos of the letter from Keith Trobridge (T&A, March 16) re the Titanic, I raised this same query about the orders to the helmsman, after watching the film, and after reading an article in the London Evening Standard in 1998. The reply I received
SIR – It is all very well for the T&A Editorial (March 13) to call for the Odeon cinema building to be demolished. The editor has been calling for exactly that since day one. What is much more pertinent is that repairs and maintenance were not carried
SIR – I agree that fly-tipping is an inexcusable blight on the district. However, Bradford Council, because of their inflexible collection policy, must bear some responsibility for this. We wanted to dispose of a sofa recently. But the Council would
A teenager was hit in the eye before his wallet was stolen. Police are appealing for information about the incident in Mann Dam Park, off Brooke Street, Cleckheaton, between 4pm and 4.30pm on Thursday, March 8. The 19-year-old was approached by the
New dad Brett Kearney has been one of the Bulls’ best players this season but he insisted: “I can do even better.” The Australian full back has been a hugely influential presence in defence and attack and was outstanding during last weekend
Phil Parkinson cursed two “criminal” misses as City were left picking up the pieces from a third away loss in a week at Crewe. The 1-0 defeat at Gresty Road kept Parkinson’s troops still only four points off the League Two drop zone.
A campaigner on the Bradford West by-election trail died suddenly of a suspected heart attack in a restaurant car park yesterday. Abu-bakr Rauf, also known as Mohammad Abu-Bakr Rauf, had complained of feeling faint minutes before he collapsed
A man was robbed of thousands of pounds outside a bank as he went to cash business takings. The 56-year-old was threatened by a suspect as he was about to enter the HSBC bank, in Manchester Road, Bradford, with a bag of money. The suspect demanded the
Crewe 1 Bradford City 0 Steve Davis was as precise with his pre-match view on City as his namesake used to be with a long red. The Crewe boss looked at the players on the list and summised that the visitors had clearly under-achieved. Of course
A mass school building programme is needed to cope with Bradford’s shortage of primary places, Council chiefs have admitted. It came after the Labour Party called for 24 new primary schools in the district to ease the growing admissions crisis
The Bradford City museum, bantamspast, is to close at Valley Parade after City’s match against Swindon Town on May 5. Curator Dave Pendleton said it would make way for the new free school being developed by Wayne Jacobs’ charity One in a Million
A 15-year-old Bradford boy has been banned from his neighbourhood for two years after harrassing residents and driving one elderly man he racially abused out of his home. Luke Mitchell, of Marsland Place, Thornbury, is now only allowed to use the quickest
Firefighters were called out to deal with two unrelated suspected arson attacks in the space of a few hours. Crews from Fairweather Green and Bradford have been praised for preventing a fire in a lean-to shed filled with timber from spreading to an empty
Leeds United 3 Nottingham Forest 7 Garath McCleary scored four times as Nottingham Forest humiliated Leeds at Elland Road to leave the home side’s Championship promotion hopes in tatters. The Whites looked to be on course for their first
Guiseley 2 Harrogate Town 1 Jason Price opened his account for his new club last night as Guiseley came from a goal down to beat Blue Square Bet North rivals Harrogate Town. The former Bantam stabbed in the Lions’ equaliser soon after the
Silsden went down 3-0 at Ramsbottom United in the North West Counties Premier Division last night after a late double massaged the figures. The Cobbydalers were behind after Jon Robinson’s 25th-minute header but they did not concede again until Gary
Brighouse Town suffered a 2-0 defeat at Scarborough Athletic in the Baris Northern Counties East League Premier Division last night. Town hit the bar in the first minute but were soon under the cosh. The two goals for the home side were agonising, though
Sky Sports rugby league commentator Brian Carney visited Thornton Grammar School to pass on some reporting tips to pupils taking part in a programme aimed at improving their English skills. The year nine boys have been producing match reports after
