City's final away game of the season ended like most of the others with another defeat. Cheltenham booked their place in the play-offs after coming from behind with three second-half goals. They finished on top - but the Bantams will
Warrington 32 Bulls 16 Joel Monaghan scored a hat-trick for much-fancied Warrington as the Bulls crashed out of the Carnegie Challenge Cup at the fifth-round stage this afternoon despite a brave performance. Bolstered by the inclusion
Flowers and wreaths were laid as part of a memorial day rally to remember people killed or injured at work. A minute’s silence was observed as Bradford’s City Hall clock struck noon today and trade unionists, families and friends paid their respects.
The real interest in the City side this afternoon were those players who had not travelled to Cheltenham. With no Michael Flynn or Craig Fagan in the reckoning any more, there was one change from the team that beat Macclesfield. Deane Smalley had done
Adrian Purtell gave the Bulls a major boost when he was passed fit for today's Carnegie Challenge Cup fifth-round tie at Warrington. The close-season from Penrith signing shrugged off a hamstring strain to line up on the right wing. Luke Gale started
Michael Flynn and Craig Fagan have played their last games for City. The club this afternoon announced that Flynn and Chris Mitchell have agreed to cancel their contracts and Fagan is in the process of doing so. Flynn, who joined in August 2009, played
Lord Mayor of Bradford Councillor Naveeda Ikram joined 60 fundraising thrill seekers as she abseiled down the Culture Fusion youth centre today to raise money for her charity appeal. Teams from Bradford sea cadets, the Bradford Cathedral
A seven-year-old boy who was confined to a wheelchair has challenged himself to walk to school next week after being inspired by a London 2012 project. Evan Whitton, who was born ten weeks prematurely and diagnosed with cerebral palsy, learned about
A planned replacement extension to a listed house in Duke Street, Settle, has been given the go-ahead by Craven District Council. The scheme for 37 Duke Street, not far from the centre of the town, includes the demolition of an existing single storey
Want to know what it’s like living with a superhero? Then Mark Pearson is your man. For the past 14 months the 45-year-old has been sharing his Tyersal home with Iron Man – or at least bits of him. What started out with a curious browse
A 46-year-old Bradford man who got a sexual thrill from recording girls with a spy pen camera has been warned by a judge to expect to go to jail. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, pleaded guilty to charges of voyeurism
Skipton MP Julian Smith has welcomed North Yorkshire County Council’s commitment to broadband access in libraries. The authority has announced it will pay the annual cost of connection to the internet, the library network and self-issue machines
An award-winning Telegraph & Argus newspaper boy has received a belated 16th birthday present of a PlayStation 3 to mark his amazing recovery from a potentially deadly brain infection. The gift was presented to the Telegraph & Argus’s direct
A vicar has joined the call for controversial proposals to close care homes to be put on hold following “widespread alarm” among carers that the move will create a shortage of places for people with dementia. The Rev Steve Davie, vicar of
The countdown is on to Cononley’s fourth scarecrow festival, which will take place over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. This year’s theme is “Scarecrows Go Olympic!” to tie in with the 2012 Games in London. And the creator of the best
The Last Post was sounded in a final farewell to the RAF’s oldest former officer. The tribute rang out at the funeral of Frank Bagshaw, who lived in Horsforth and died at the age of 105. Born just three years after the Wright brothers took their first
A Bradford woman will be keeping tight lipped about her fundraising efforts on Monday, as she takes on a sponsored silence in aid of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal. Fozia Shaheen, who is team leader for the learning disability project at the Khidmat Centre
A man found dead at home at the bottom of the stairs, died from heart disease an inquest has heard. Ian Ambler Cutter, 69, of Slaymaker Lane, Oakworth, who was known to be a heavy drinker and smoker, had been drinking the night before, according to his
Families across the Bradford district have been invited to sign up for a new course, run by the NHS obesity team, specifically developed for overweight children aged five to 13. The MEND programme – which stands for Mind, Exercise, Nutrition
Two women who became friends when they were diagnosed with breast cancer are using their experience to help others struggling against the illness. Adele Smithurst, 36, and Rachel Moorhouse, 42, have set up Keighley and Airedale Cancer Support to offer
A Bradford businessman has been jailed for 12 years after he was convicted of conspiracy to import heroin. The Serious Organised Crime Agency said yesterday Waheed Anwar Hussain, 29, a security company director, of Gladstone Street, Bradford Moor, Bradford
Police are guarding a house in Libby Street, off Carlisle Road, Manningham, today after a woman was left fighting for her life with serious head injuries. The 33-year-old was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary on Thursday and a 42-year-old man
Residents have spoke of their fears after a gang armed with hammers broke into a couple’s home and attacked them. A 34-year-old woman and her 45-year-old boyfriend remained in hospital last night after several men smashed their way into the terraced
A Bradford man, who was part of a gang that stole a £30,000 BMW after breaking into a house and swiping the keys has been jailed. Shahbaz Sabri, 28, was locked up for three years at Bradford Crown Court yesterday after he admitted carrying out a so-called
A one-month old baby died from a rare condition when his tiny body “ran out of fuel”, experts have told an inquest. Joseph McCausland was born a few weeks premature and spent a week in the special baby care unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary before going
Bradford firefighters believe a fire in the derelict Wapping Road First School was started deliberately. A crew was called to the school, in Wapping Road, Bradford, at about 9pm yesterday. A fire service spokesman said the fire was in the school grounds
The Met Office has issued a further weather warning for tomorrow, as winds could reach more than 50mph with the risk of falling trees. But despite the warning, which comes into force from midnight tonight for 24 hours, parts of Yorkshire are still in
Bryn Hargreaves has warned Warrington that Bradford are ready for war as they bid to reach the Carnegie Challenge Cup quarter-finals this afternoon. Mick Potter’s men are rated as underdogs going into the fifth-round tie but victories over
A teenage prankster had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a basketball hoop. The 14-year-old had climbed the hoop post at Bracken Bank Youth Club in Keighley at about 9pm yesterday when he slipped and got his bottom stuck in the hoop
City have firmed up their links with the American overseas soccer academy RIASA – and hope to reap the rewards for free. The club have close connections with the Leeds-based scheme through director of operations David Baldwin and former winger Mark
A 91-year-old woman died from head injuries after falling on stairs at her home, an inquest has heard. Jennie Feasby, of Laurel Grove, Silsden, was found by her son after worried neighbours contacted him after she did not answer the door, the Bradford
Two knife-wielding teenagers who terrorised a defenceless elderly couple in their Bradford home were told by a judge that their crime “beggared belief” as they were locked up for a total of nine and a half years. Jack McLoughlin, 18, punched 77-year-old
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls called for another tax on bankers’ bonuses to fund job schemes for young unemployed people when he visited a new project in Keighley. The former Minister said more needed to be done to tackle the soaring numbers of people joining
An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson following the fire that caused traffic chaos (pictured) in Bradford this week. Residents of Woodhall Terrace, Thornbury, and the surrounding area were evacuated for 24 hours and a 200-metre cordon
Four men have been remanded in custody for crown court trial after appearing on a drugs conspiracy charge. Mohammed Ilyas, 32, of Poplar Avenue, Great Horton, and Ansar Iqbal, 27, of Devonshire Street West, Keighley, appeared before Leeds Magistrates
A 28-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months for a “brutal and sickening attack” on his girlfriend. Emma Feather’s blonde hair turned red as she bled heavily from six cuts to her head during a drunken beating from Guy Metcalfe, Bradford Crown Court
