Victims of horrific dog attacks in Bradford have given a guarded welcome to a planned crackdown by the Government on dangerous animals but warned they “lack bite”. In an announcement to Parliament today, Environment Minister Jim Paice revealed
Athletes took part in one of the world’s biggest sports events today. Some 37,500 people ran in the London Marathon. Lindsey Saunders, of Undercliffe, completed the 26.2 miles in four hours and 58 minutes, while friends Jarrod and Amanda Stoney finished
An army of newcomers attended Bingley Harriers’ first outdoor training session of the season at Beckfoot School, which attracted almost 100 participants. England Athletics’ Try Athletics Day was held to mark 100 days to go to the 2012 London Olympics
Bradford amateur boxer and coach Saira Tabasum is in the running for honours at the Asian Women of Achievement awards. Saira Tabasum, 21, runs a girls-only non-contact boxing club at Springwood Community Primary School. The Bradford University student
West Park Leeds’ second team will meet holders Bramley Phoenix in the final of the Spray Plant (UK) Ltd Aire-Wharfe Cup on Wednesday night at The Sycamores (7.30). Bramley defeated Bradford & Bingley Seconds 25-12 in one semi-final, West Park Leeds
Salts missed a great chance to all-but seal runners-up spot in DIVISION ONE of the West Riding County Amateur League as they were held to a 2-2 home draw by Tingley Athletic. With main rivals Overthorpe SC’s game at Wakefield City being postponed due
Hannah Priestley, from Cullingworth, has successfully passed her 1st dan black belt in taekwondo aged just ten. The test was conducted by British Taekwondo, which is the national governing body for Olympic Taekwondo in Great Britain.
Bradford All Stars won an extraordinary Wilf Ward Memorial Trophy penalty shoot-out 9-8 as they knocked ALC out of the Spen Valley League competition. It was 2-2 after 90 minutes and 3-3 at the end of extra time, before All Stars finally made progress
An innocent family, including four children, were robbed and assaulted in their home in a terrifying case of mistaken identity. Eight members of a family were attacked after a gang of men burst into their home, looking for drugs. They
The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Naveeda Ikram, presented trophies and Dan grading honours for Bradford Shotokan Academy at Odsal’s Richard Dunn Sports Centre. Eight students achieved Dan grades ranging from first to third, and the Lord Mayor also
Police are investigating an armed robbery which took place in Main Street, Menston, today. Two complainants were heading to the post office to deposit money, shortly before 12.30pm, when they were approached by two suspects who had both concealed their
Otley badminton club are celebrating a successful season, with the first team having been promoted as Division Two champions of the Harrogate League. The Leeds Mixed side played in the final of the Fryer Hallam Trophy and finished runners-up, despite
Hospital chiefs in Bradford intend to take advantage of the Trust’s “strong” financial position to carry out a raft of improvements to patient care. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital
They might have teetotal roots, but members of a Bradford Methodist community plan to open a new headquarters in a disused pub. The Touchstone Methodist Centre, which has “outgrown” its home in Merton Road, has started a fundraising quest to convert
A petition started to save a care home at risk of closure is gathering pace, with 3,500 people urging Bradford Council not to shut its doors. Relatives of residents at Holme View, in Holme Wood, set up the Holme View Carers’ Action Group after learning
A mighty Bingley oak tree sent to York Minster as part of renovation work after its devastating fire has been replaced nearly three decades later. Custodians of the St Ives country park, in Harden Road, planted a sapling grown using seeds from the royal
Whenever I’m having a bad day I tend to trot out the mantra: “At least I’m not working at the coalface”. Mining is one of those gruelling, dangerous jobs that those of us sitting at desks in nice cosy offices couldn’t imagine doing. Yet 170 years ago
With preparations for the London 2012 Olympics reaching fever pitch, Ian McMillan is somewhat disgruntled that everyone seems to have forgotten that it all started right here in Yorkshire. Well, the modern Olympics did anyway. Or at least that’s the
We’ve had an e-mail from BARBARA WHITE, now of New Zealand, who writes: “I used to dance every week at the Gaumont picture theatre. They ran a weekly dance for young teens and it was terrific and very well supported. “The dance school I attended was
Former Bradfordian Vincent Finn, now living in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, saw recent T&A articles about the opening of the City Park, which prompted him to mail us facsimiles of three coloured postcards of Bradford as it used to be. The first one shows
Residents claim a new bus shelter installed on a quiet cul-de-sac poses a health and safety risk to children living nearby. Householders in Lime Tree Square, Shipley, are up in arms over West Yorkshire transport authority Metro’s decision to use the
A leading figure at Bradford University provides expert advice on elderly care for an undercover documentary on how one care home badly treated a resident which will be screened tonight for the BBC’s Panorama programme. Paul Edwards, head of training
An MP has welcomed moves to provide a collection point for mail deliveries in the Aire Valley following confirmation by Royal Mail that three of its delivery offices will be closed by February. The decision was made to close offices in Bingley
Electronic chart-toppers Nero are among five more acts announced for this year’s Bingley Music Live. The British dance duo will be joined by Kids In Glass Houses, Katzenjammer, Skinny Lister and King Charles at the three-day festival, which will be held
My eldest daughter is a thrill-seeker. On a visit to Flamingoland she couldn’t get enough of the most terrifying rides, confessing after she’d ridden each about three times that she wanted more. “I love it,” she said, “Can I go skydiving for my 16th birthday
25 years ago: More than 100 schools in the district were to share in Bradford Council’s £6 million boost to its repair budget. 50 years ago: Bingley was to apply to the Minister of Housing and Local Government for confirmation of smoke-control orders
25 years ago: Parents would be able to see their children’s secret school records from September, with Bradford education chiefs expected to give the go-ahead to the move. 50 years ago: Firms both nationally and locally were urged by the Mayor of Pudsey
People of different faiths in Bradford have been neighbours, colleagues and friends over many decades now. There are wonderful stories from the 1960s about hospitality shared between long-time residents and newly-arrived migrants; Christians offering
News that the long-awaited Sainsbury’s store planned for Bingley will not now get under way until at least next year has understandably been greeted with disappointment in the town. The development planned for the former Bradford and Bingley site was
Details of the sickening attack that destroyed the life of retired roofer Keith Alder make shocking and disturbing reading. This was a man who had raised a family, worked hard all his life, who suddenly saw it all end in a few brutal minutes with an
SIR – What does walking around Bradford tell us about the current political system whereby everything is controlled and run by the Council executive? Has this way of working served the city well? It seems to me that what we see around us answers that
SIR – Your correspondent bemoaning the break-up of the NHS being used in the local elections broadcast is wide of the mark. The public health function and the establishment of health and wellbeing boards as part of all Council structures clearly puts
For some children, a school dinner could be their main meal of the day. But under the Government’s planned welfare reforms, 350,000 children could lose their free school meals. Analysis by the Children’s Society found that more than 1.2 million youngsters
SIR – I heartily agree with Councillor Dale Smith’s views for rejecting the office of elected mayor in Bradford (Letters, April 13). Politics aside, can we, as funders of the punitive council tax, really afford to finance the office of a city mayor
SIR – Andrew Wilkinson says Labour haven’t got a clue and asks since when did local councillors have anything to do with the NHS budget? (‘Keep campaigns local’, Letters, April 16). Well, perhaps it is Mr Wilkinson who is out of touch. The new NHS and
SIR – With very few days to go before the local elections, it is no coincidence that the Green Party has suddenly chosen to defend its position on the development of green spaces across our district, on which it appears to have been silently complicit
SIR – I note in the Telegraph & Argus that George Galloway MP intends to ‘get’ Ian Greenwood at the Council elections in May. In the two years that Labour, under Ian Greenwood, has had the leadership of Bradford Council, they’ve overseen the delivery
SIR – One really does wonder at the humanity of some people when one reads letters such as that sent by your correspondent Keith Rayner (‘Manpower could be harnessed’, April 7). In his piece he effectively compares the unemployed with mice, hamsters
SIR – So our two local Tory MPs want to segregate off the more affluent areas of Ilkley, Keighley and Shipley? What can it all mean? Observant voters will not have failed to notice the raft of extreme right-wing ideology which the Tories (with the help
SIR – If I lived in the Baildon ward she is contesting for UKIP, I would love to ask Sonja McNally when her so-called Independence Party is going to call for independence from US rule over us. Because of Labour and Tory craven subjection of our legal
SIR – Unless this country finds another caveat or qualification method to select its top political leaders, then massive mistakes will continue to be made. Under the last Labour government, the best opening to get to the top appeared to be a degree in
SIR – We need an elected mayor like a hole in the head. We have elected councillors, who never consult us. We have elected MPs at £63,000 a year, who never consult us. We have ministers starting on £87,000 a year whose protocol allows them never
SIR – A popular theme at present appears to be criticism of political parties, and the need for a better way of running this country. 1) Most policies are short-term, designed to quell media criticism and appeal to gullible voters. 2) Usually, the political
Town leaders have reacted with dismay after supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has revealed that it is unlikely to start building its superstore in Bingley town centre for another 12 months. The company has blamed its “busy” development programme
When JK Rowling conjured up the tales of Harry Potter in her imagination, did she gaze into a crystal ball like Sybill Trelawney, Hogwarts’ eccentric professor of divination, and picture the adventure taking place just outside Watford? The Warner Bros
Heather Peace got her break playing TV action girls; fighting fires and leaping around disused buildings with the SAS. The Bradford actress is currently on our small screens playing no-nonsense English teacher Nicki Boston in BBC1 drama Waterloo Road
Creative children are brushing up on their art skills for the chance to win an iPad in the Telegraph & Argus Queen’s Diamond Jubilee drawing competition. Around 400 pupils at St John’s CE Primary School in Bierley are getting out their pencils, pens
Peter Hood could quit as Bulls chairman after admitting that his time in the Odsal hot-seat is effectively over. Hood, who last month launched the club’s desperate appeal for £1million to save them from bankruptcy, has been at the helm for six years
The mother of a seven-year-old girl is hoping she will finally be able to see her daughter smile again –- three years after she was horrifically injured in a dog attack. Demi Franklyn was left with damage to her facial muscles and nerves, leaving
Bradford Bulls 6 Huddersfield Giants 20 Mick Potter hit the nail on the head. “I think the scoreline was about right,” said the Bulls coach. “Huddersfield kicked the ball better than us, they kicked it at the right time and they boxed us in. “Nothing
Phil Parkinson wants City to get the knack of winning more scrappy games. Parkinson admitted Saturday’s victory over bottom club Macclesfield was no Valley Parade classic. But he would love to see more of the same if his side are to challenge next
Police in Bradford are carrying out further work to tackle vehicle registration plate thefts, which have been slashed by a third. Surgeries, allowing motorists to have anti-theft screws fitted for free to their registration plates, have been set up.
Bradford City 1 Macclesfield 0 It shows how low expectations have dipped when a win over the worst team in England will be seen as a surprise by some City fans. Macclesfield’s last win came so long ago that Spurs were still in the title race and Manchester
Keighley Cougars 23, Sheffield Eagles 16 Keighley Cougars overcame Sheffield Eagles at a soaking wet Cougar Park yesterday to climb up to third on the Co-operative Championship league ladder. Cougars’ player-coach Jason Demetriou still
Yorkshire’s bid to claim a first LV= County Championship win of the season against Essex was thwarted by rain at Headingley yesterday. After Thursday’s opening day was abandoned without a ball bowled, the majority of the contest’s final two
The Bradford & District Evening Cricket League matches due to take place on Wednesday have been postponed due to the adverse weather. These will now be played on Wednesday, August 1.
