European flavours took over Ilkley town centre with a continental street market drawing large crowds of people at the weekend. People were entertained on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with live folk, blues, jazz and rock music from the bandstand
Yorkshire survived a major scare to complete a Clydesdale Bank 40 double over the Unicorns at Headingley today by chasing down 162 from 37 overs for the loss of five wickets. After Andrew Gale and Phil Jaques had got the reply off to an impressive
Otley’s pace was too much for visitors Penrith in the Cross Greeners’ first pre-season friendly yesterday. The hosts won 88-7, with winger James Twomey bagging a hat-trick of tries as early as the 25th minute. Teenage fly half Ben
A full business case has been submitted to the Government for a multi-million pound scheme to provide ultra-fast broadband to key business areas in Bradford. It was announced in March that Bradford and Leeds had been provisionally accepted onto
Ossett Town 3, Guiseley 0 Guiseley’s pre-season campaign ground to a losing halt at Lions boss Steve Kittrick’s former club Ossett Town. It was a seventh warm-up game for the Conference North club before their league season begins
Britain’s athletes at the Olympics did not just exceed expectations, they smashed them, and in doing so a series of previously little-known athletes became household names. Nicola Adams was just one example, the 29-year-old former Bradford College
Anthony McGrath column I would be surprised if we have seen the last of Kevin Pietersen in an England shirt. Although this is a situation that will take some repairing, I’m sure it will blow over given time. There’s been plenty of things
New captain Glenn Roberts has one ambition left as his Pudsey Congs career draws to a close – to keep the one- time JCT600 Bradford League champions in the First Division. And the experienced all-rounder led from the front as Congs gained an important
Silsden had home advantage for their derby tie against Brighouse Town in the FA Cup extra-preliminary round yesterday but it did not prevent their visitors snatching a late winner to complete a second-half comeback. The Cobbydalers took a firm
Whitby Town 3, Bradford Park Avenue 1 Bradford Park Avenue lost their pre-season unbeaten tag in their final friendly as they underperformed on their trip to the seaside yesterday. Bradford had been building up nicely to next Saturday’s Conference
Yorkshire were set a revised target of 152 runs from 37 overs to beat the Unicorns in their latest Clydesdale Bank 40 match at Headingley. Rain meant the loss of three overs per innings, so the Unicorns’ total of 150-6 was altered by Duckworth-Lewis
Leaders Woodlands’ 15-match unbeaten run came to an end yesterday when they suffered a 51-run home defeat against Lightcliffe to give renewed hope to the chasing pack in the JCT600 Bradford League First Division title race. Chris Taylor made 63
The Dales Council League's match of the day in Division A, between leaders Leeds Sikh and second-in-the-table Apperley Bridge, proved a one-sided affair. Batting first, visitors Bridge were routed for just 43, with home bowlers Saravakumar
It’s as you were at the top of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League after the top four GROUP A teams all won again. Leaders Girlington beat Hallfield by 23 runs in a match which saw 443 runs scored. Zaheer Hussain (59no), Abdul Rehman (
Thousands of women in the district joined the fight against cancer by taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life in Bradford and Ilkley earlier this summer. Now organisers are saying ‘thanks’ to everyone who took part and are urging them
A long-running campaign to lower the speed limit on a country road at Pool -in-Wharfedale has taken a step forward. Residents, backed by ward and parish councillors, have been trying to get a lower limit imposed on the unrestricted lower section
Teenagers have been condemned for terrorising animals at a smallholdings. Denholme Small Holders’ Association keeps animal pens near Foster Park, which some of its members say are being targeted by youngsters who let animals out and chase them
Fourteen people have been arrested by police investigating a brawl in Killinghall Road, Undercliffe , Bradford, on Wednesday, August 1. And Inspector Andrew Gallant, of Bowling, Barkerend and Bradford Moor Neighbourhood Policing Team, pledged police
Plans to put patients at the heart of the NHS will be discussed during a live webchat with a GP involved in one of Bradford’s new clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Dr Yasmin Khan, an elected member of Bradford Districts CCG, will be online
