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  • Rain fails to put a damper on Queen's Diamond Jubilee joy

    Pouring rain and plummeting temperatures failed to dampen Diamond Jubilee fever across the Bradford district as hundreds of people turned out to celebrations held over the weekend. Visitors danced under their umbrellas to live music from

  • Bradford Scratch League golf results

    Latest results from the Bradford Union Scratch League. – Division One: Bingley St Ives 8, Skipton 0 (T Brushwood bt G Grant 3&1, M Evans bt M Ryder 5&4, R Hillas bt J Ellison by 2 holes, W Whiteoak bt C Payne 5&3), Cleckheaton 4, Shipley

  • Big-hitting Stiff puts Manningham Mills to sword

    David Stiff played a spectacular match-winning innings as Hanging Heaton inflicted a second successive defeat on Manningham Mills in JCT600 Bradford League Division One. The former Yorkshire, Kent and Somerset pace bowler struck eight sixes and 12 fours

  • Bowling well beaten by top Lads!

    Pritesh Lad hit a remarkable 180 out of 268-8 as his club Mandhata defeated West Bowling by 130 runs in Bradford Mutual Sunday School League Group C. Nitesh Lad then claimed 5-33 to help dismiss Bowling for 138, which enable Mandhata to reduce

  • Bradford & Bingley all-rounder wins Thompson family fortunes

    Chris Thompson earned the family bragging rights after Bradford & Bingley’s five-wicket win over Pudsey St Lawrence at Wagon Lane in JCT600 Bradford League Division One. The Bingley all-rounder has become used to facing his father, wicketkeeper

  • Liversedge management duo quit

    Liversedge are looking for a new management team after Billy Miller and assistant Lee Ashforth quit their roles to take charge at Harrogate Railway Athletic. Miller’s second spell at Clayborn came to an end after announcing he would be stepping down

  • Sunday Council weather beaten

    Heavy rain meant that the whole of today’s fixture programme in the West Riding Sunday Council League was washed out.

  • Leaders Apperley Bridge maintain momentum

    New Dales Council League Division A leaders Apperley Bridge extended their lead at the top to three points after gaining a comfortable 124-run win at Hawksworth. Having toppled previous pace-setters Rodley the week before, they carried on where

  • Colwyn Bay a key trip for Yorkshire before Twenty20s

    Anthony McGrath column This week we’re off to Colwyn Bay for our Championship game with Glamorgan. I’m really looking forward to it, to be honest, because I’ve not played there for a while and some of the lads haven’t visited the ground as we were last

  • Hutchinson frustrated by slow opening race

    Eight-time Isle of Man Tourist Trophy winner Ian Hutchinson admitted he was frustrated not be in contention during the opening race of 2012 but looked to the bigger picture as he works his way back from serious injury. The 32-year-old Bingley rider was

  • Yorkshire receive presidential approval from Boycott

    Yorkshire Scene Geoffrey Boycott has revealed his pleasure at Yorkshire’s encouraging start to their County Championship campaign. As we approach the mid-season break for Twenty20, which comes after this week’s trip to face Glamorgan at Colwyn Bay,

  • Close call for Yorkshire youngster Gibson

    Yorkshire Scene Rain is usually a cricketer’s number one enemy. But for Yorkshire youngster Barney Gibson, it enabled him to rub shoulders with a Headingley legend. Gibson, the 16-year-old Pudsey Congs wicketkeeper, was introduced to Brian Close as

  • Police governors to meet in Keighley

    The governors of West Yorkshire Police will give a presentation on criminal justice and public confidence in the police force when they visit Keighley this week. West Yorkshire Police Authority will hold the next meeting of its Local Policing Committee

  • Pupils to benefit from mobile garden

    A mobile garden will tour schools in the Bradford district to teach youngsters how to grow their own food. The trailer, which was paid for by a £300 grant from the Craven Trust, will be used to provide sessions on food, health and outdoor living to hundreds

  • Two women cautioned after suspected-brothel raids

    Two women arrested at a house during raids at suspected brothels in resdiential areas of Bradford have been released with adult cautions. Two men arrested at the same terraced house in Beckside Road also on suspicion of managing a brothel have been let

  • 'Cut your bills and use less energy' offer

    Bradford residents are being invited to take up an insulation scheme to reduce their energy bills in what could be the last chance to receive the work for free. Bradford Council is working with energy company npower to deliver the Community Warmth scheme