Bradford Park Avenue’s friendly with Leeds United appears to have fallen by the wayside following an alleged incident last time the clubs met in pre-season. The Elland Road outfit were due to visit on Wednesday August 8 – the day after Bradford
New Liversedge boss Eric Gilchrist has turned his back on the higher rungs of the non-league ladder to come back to Clayborn. More than a decade ago under Gilchrist, the Spen club prospered and were candidates for a move up to the UniBond League (now
There were certain words that were sure to raise Peter Taylor’s hackles. Drop the phrase “long ball” in a match report at your peril. Accuse City of playing a “direct” style and you could guarantee the mobile would soon be vibrating.
Two experienced pairs of newcomers took two of the top three places in the Heckmondwike Petanque Club's inaugural club pairs event at Firth Park. An incredibly close finish saw just two points separate the top three pairs, who won all four of their games
Bradford Bulls fans are being offered help by the supporters' group trying to rescue Portsmouth’s football club from financial ruin. They have contacted Supporters Direct, the national body set up to encourage more community ownership of professional
Brighouse Town boss Paul Quinn is looking forward to getting a pre-season under his belt almost a year after taking charge. The club began last term under Mick Couzens but he walked away from the job less than a month into the season.
Player-coach Jason Demetriou insists Cougars can take heart from their second-half performance against Batley ahead of this Sunday’s trip to Hunslet (3pm). Keighley slumped to a third successive home defeat last weekend after John Kear’s men claimed
Youngsters at Fearnville Primary School got into the Olympic spirit as they got the chance to see one of the official torches up close. Daniel Cassidy, a teacher at the Sticker Lane school, asked his friend Chris Ferry, who was a torchbearer during the
The burial of a baby girl whose remains were found a year ago at a waste management site in Bradford can now take place, after an inquest opened into her death today. Bradford coroner Peter Straker signed the papers that officially released
Children’s centres across Bradford and Airedale are supporting a campaign to encourage parents and carers to protect their children from the dangers of secondhand smoke. The NHS stop smoking team is working closely with children’s centres to raise awareness
Bradford Bulls remained in crisis tonight with the club administrator refusing to rule out redundancies in a bid to try to reduce the £260,000 wage bill. Brendan Guilfoyle, from the administration P&A Partnership, based in Leeds, said he would be “kicking
A drug user who struggled with an 81-year-old woman in her flat before stealing £70 from her handbag has been jailed for four and a half years. Dorothy Tennant fell to the ground in the hallway of her home while tussling with Rosalyn Edmonson
A woman jumped into the River Aire in the mistaken belief she was fleeing from police after burgling a florists – but the people she was so desperate to get away from were actually another group of burglars, an inquest heard. The body of
A £103,000 community centre aimed at reaching 4,000 disadvantaged youngsters in Bradford opens its doors next month. The Shape Centre could also create ten jobs if they get the go-ahead to double up as a Pupil Referral Unit by Bradford Council
Bus passengers in Bradford could be closer to using London-style Oyster cards after transport chiefs gave their backing for the only scheme outside the capital to bring services under public control. Metro, the West Yorkshire Integrated
First Mark Cavendish, now Bradley Wiggins. Imagine the French furore three weeks from now if not one but two Brits are on the Paris podium. Cavendish may struggle to keep the Tour de France green jersey this year with one eye – and a
Telegraph & Argus delivery agent Wendy Allison has come up with a novel way of re-cycling her unwanted plastic bags. The 47-year-old, who lives off Wakefield Road, Bradford, has spent the past four years on and off re-using the blue bags the
Bradford actor Andrew-Lee Potts is currently dominating our Saturday night TV screens in the latest series of hit creature-feature show Primeval... but the actor himself is half-way across the world filming a new spin-off. Wibsey-born Andrew
David Beckham’s absence from the Olympic football squad has got the Twitter luvvies in a right tizz. Such sporting luminaries as James Corden and Gordon Ramsey jumped straight on to voice their 140-character outrage. All his celebrity mates followed
A man who rebelled against his strict upbringing has been jailed for three- and-a-half years after admitting his role in a Bradford drugs factory and possessing ammunition without a certificate. Rehan Suleman, 27, went on the run after police raided
An inquest opened today into the death of a man who fell from a bridge over a busy Bradford road. Frederick Billingham, 59, of Sunny Bank Road, Odsal, was pronounced dead at the scene after plunging into the carriageway from the bridge over
The Co-operative Group has confirmed it is making “good progress” on the purchase of 632 branches from Lloyds Banking Group. The Co-op, headed by Bradford-born chief executive Peter Marks, said it now had exclusivity to continue the discussions and had
The man who raised the money for the controversial feature film The Killing of John Lennon is hoping to shoot his next movie in Bradford – his home town for 16 years. Producer Rakha Singh is looking for investors for his latest project, Soldier, Soldier
A Bradford councillor has called for action to be taken over a decaying and vandalised church after urban explorers exposed the shocking state of the 166-year-old building. Photographs seen by the Telegraph & Argus show smashed pews and cupboards, plaster
More than 200 schoolchildren from across Bradford took some Small Steps to Safety at a number of events at West Yorkshire Fire Service’s Safety Central. The year six youngsters from the Great Horton area of the city attended four events at the centre
A chapel to commemorate the deaths of nearly 3,000 people at a former psychiatric hospital will have an open day next month after the completion of refurbishment work. The Friends of High Royds Memorial Garden have been working on the interior
Otley’s secondary school is to receive a £1 million-plus revamp thanks to funding secured under its new status as an academy. Prince Henry’s Grammar School has been awarded just under £1 million from the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund to carry out
A variety of buskers will return to Bradford’s city centre streets this summer after the attraction proved a hit with visitors last year. Dozens of acts have been invited by Bradford Council to perform on Saturdays in New Market Place, Darley Street
Best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop will read from and discuss her work at West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth next Thursday. The 7.30pm event is part of the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme. Victoria’s first two novels, The Island
An appeal to restore the church where two of the famous Bronte sisters are buried has received a £20,000 boost. Grade II-listed Haworth Parish Church, which houses the graves of Emily and Charlotte Bronte, has secured the grant from the National Churches
Bradford Bulls fans have changed the venue for their crisis meeting on Monday. The 7pm meeting was due to take place at the Coral Stand at the Odsal Stadium, but it is now going to be at the Guide Post Hotel in Common Road, Low Moor. It is
SIR – Re the article ‘Library to close for £900,000 scheme’ (T&A, June 23). Bradford's Central Library to close? Will anyone really notice? To all intents and purposes, the library is already closed. The only section of the library that was of any
SIR – Contary to Karl Dallas’s wildly inacurate claims (Letters, June 22), Council Leader David Green has written twice to George Galloway inviting him to meet to discuss how they can work together in the interests of the district. Mr Galloway has not
SIR – In 1959, comedian Bob Hope said: “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” Some things never change. David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
SIR – For once, I find myself in complete agreement with Jack MacPherson (Letters, June 21). He is usually too optimistic about Bradford’s future for me. I was at the Scrutiny Commitee meeting where Langtree Artisan assured all present that they would
SIR – If we can put aside for a moment the emotional responses to the Bradford Bulls fire-storm, we may be able to see that it’s all just about an entertainment company which was spending more than it was earning. If the customers aren’t paying enough
Some children are naturally bright, while others take longer to learn, but getting there in the end is what counts. Having a level platform for all youngsters to achieve is seen as an ideal, as is creating an examination system where every child can
Veterans from all of the armed forces will be honoured in Bradford this weekend as part of Armed Forces Week. Local residents are invited to attend Jubilee Armed Forces Day in Centenary Square tomorrow. The event will start at 10.50am when the standards
A campaign to drive down the number of teenage pregnancies in Bradford has seen the rate drop below the English average for the first time. A push by agencies across the district has succeeded in achieving a reduction in teenage conceptions of 38 per
Organisers of Wrose Carnival anticipate next weekend’s event will be the biggest and best yet. The festival at Wrose Recreation Ground on July 7 and 8 – held across two days for the first time – will include music and dance performances, displays by
The start yesterday of demolition of the derelict eyesore which became known as Bradford’s Death Row is something that was long overdue. The dilapidated, boarded-up flats in the Goitside area have long been seen as a shameful monument to dereliction
Left back James Meredith has joined City after being won over by Phil Parkinson’s ambition. The 24-year-old Aussie played a big part in York’s promotion and FA Trophy-winning sides and made 131 appearances during three seasons with the Minstermen
A woman wept in court as she told a jury a pensioner she is accused of burgling tripped accidentally and fell over her doormat. Rosalyn Edmonson said she was shocked when 81-year-old Dorothy Tennant went to her knees while she was delivering a perfume
A waste processing company has admitted breaching out-of-hours restrictions for lorries entering and leaving its rendering plant near Bradford. Omega Proteins, based at Erlings Works, near Thornton, has agreed to pay Bradford Council £12,000 in costs
Paramedics had to take a man to hospital this morning after he suffered burns following a chip pan fire at a house. Firefighters gave the man first aid before he was taken to hospital at 5.40am. He had suffered two per cent burns to his left
Jarrod Sammut is refusing to believe that the Bulls will follow the fate of his previous club Crusaders by withdrawing from Super League in the wake of their slide into administration. Mick Potter’s men head to Wigan tonight fearing that it
Parking charges in Bradford city centre are among the cheapest in the country, it has been claimed. The claim was made during a debate over whether free parking periods should be offered to tempt shoppers into the city. Bradford Council
Earth has been piled at the ends of a piece of derelict land to stop reckless motorists shortcutting over it and putting lives at risk. Incommunities had workers on site yesterday blocking off land between Sandholme Drive and Greystone Crescent in Thorpe
Phil Parkinson has revealed how Gary Jones caught his eye by accident. The City boss is convinced that Jones will play a key role next season as one of the on-field “leaders” he is trying to bring to the club. But Parkinson admitted that his interest
Stricken Bradford Bulls fans have called a meeting in a last-ditch attempt to save the famous rugby league club as administrators revealed last night that no potential buyer has yet come forward. Up to 150 fans have already declared their support for
A takeaway worker accused of brutally murdering a pizza chef with a meat cleaver saw two men with blood on their hands leaving the dead man’s house after a scuffle, a jury heard. Mohammed Naeem says he was abducted, tortured and made to lure Amjad Hussain
Work to redevelop the Westfield shopping centre site and former Odeon is coming closer to fruition and will help drive the city centre forward, Bradford Council’s strategic director for regeneration and culture pledged yesterday. Speaking at Bradford
Demolition work to rip down an eyesore Bradford ghetto – dubbed death row – has begun. Work has started to regenerate part of the Goitside area of the city centre, with the demolition of a ‘U’ shaped block of flats bordered by Baptist Place
Thieves have stolen cast iron bollards at Bradford’s historic Undercliffe Cemetery, leaving the heritage site at risk of further damage. Quad bike riders have been seen tearing round the site adding to other problems which include groups of intimidating
Jamie Langley has been there, done it and got the medals to prove it. Few players in Super League have experienced the highs and lows that Langley has during a decade’s outstanding service at Odsal. A one-club man, Langley was a rookie pushing through
