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  • Silver service for Fawcett

    Fred Fawcett won a silver medal at the European Karate Championships in Manchester. This was the second European medal won by the seventh dan, adding to a gold he earned several years ago. Fawcett is chief instructor at Bradford Shotokan Academy

  • Guiseley hit by Mudd in the eye

    Guiseley were left with Mudd on their face as Vicky Mudd of Chester-le-Street struck twice to help secure a 4-2 win in the North East Regional Women’s League Premier Division. Caroline Hulme doubled up in reply but Chester player of the match Rae

  • Brown’s return is seven heaven

    Running log Sue Brown made a winning return after a break from racing in the Stainland Seven-Miler over tough roads around Greetland. The Baildon runner’s time of 46min 07sec was three minutes quicker than second-placed lady Sue Becconsall

  • Sir Norman Bettison clarifies comment on Hillsborough fans

    West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison yesterday apologised to Liverpool fans and denied besmirching them over the Hillsborough disaster. The top police officer is facing calls for his resignation following the shocking report by the

  • Batley in good heart to beat drop

    Batley took four points from their Central Yorkshire League game at Northowram Fields to leave just ten points separating the bottom SEVEN clubs with two games remaining. Naweed Ghany was Batley’s match-winner with a 3-39 return from 15 overs followed

  • Yorkshire go up in style with big win

    Yorkshire ended the season in style with a 239-run LV= County Championship win over Essex and executive chairman Colin Graves admitted: “It’s been a year to remember.” It was not quite enough to win the Division Two title, Derbyshire pipping them

  • Fallen tree blocks road in Baildon

    Police are diverting traffic in Otley Road, Baildon , after a tree fell down partially blocking both carriageways tonight. It is yet not known whether any damage was caused in the incident near Green Lane. Police officers are expected to remain

  • East Bierley plan to get a cup final flier this time

    The JCT600 Bradford League’s top flight has too much strength in depth for any opponent to take another for granted. But East Bierley certainly received a wake-up call in the initial staging of the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup final against

  • Witter: Hatton ring return will be big mistake

    Ricky Hatton has been told that making a ring comeback is a mistake, by the man who spent most of his career calling him out. The 33-year-old has confirmed he is coming out of retirement, three years after he last threw a punch. But according

  • Guiseley's England trio triumph in Belgium

    Lions skipper Simon Ainge, along with his two club-mates Stephen Brogan and Josh Wilson, all played their part as the England C team earned a victory in Belgium in midweek. Former Bradford City defender Ainge and recent Guiseley signing Brogan

  • Sandhu relishing Albion Sports' FA debut

    This weekend will be momentous and memorable in equal measure for Albion Sports irrespective of any result. Albion head to the north east to take on Esh Winning in the FA Vase and it will be their first involvement in an FA knockout competition

  • Bradford Bulls granted probationary Super League licence

    The Rugby Football League board of directors today awarded a one-year probationary licence to Bradford Bulls which will allow the club to remain in Super League. This season’s financial crisis, leading to a slide into administration and a subsequent

  • Laughter is continuing theme with Playhouse

    Moonlight and Magnolias has been proving a great hit with Ilkley Playhouse audiences, but a few tickets still remain for the final three performances up until Saturday. John Cohen’s display of memorabilia relating to Gone With The Wind (the play

  • What is a hero?

    What is a hero? And no, I’m not talking about chocolate, as I’m sure quite a few of you just so cleverly answered. ‘Hero’ is a word that has taken many forms over time. The adjective ‘heroic’ has been converted to a grand noun, and now it is a

  • Ilkley Literature Festival round-up

    Philosophy of a hearty diet plan A hearty diet of philosophy – and a sturdy bucket – could be the key to beating the current obesity crisis. Dr Peter Hayes will be offer-ing an alternative approach to weight loss, as well as recalling a revolutionary

  • Bradford clubs on Senior service

    After a fixture-list last week of solely cup action, this weekend sees a mixture of league and cup action in the Bradford Sunday Alliance League, with the Bradford & District Senior Cup taking centre stage. Buttershaw Celtic entertain Cuedos

  • Hawksworth Indy mood to celebrate after cash boost

    Andy Murray wasn’t the only Brit to conquer North America last weekend. Cullingworth ’s Jack Hawksworth is coining it in after winning the 2012 Star Mazda Championship in North America, as reported earlier this week. And the 21-year-old,

  • Guiseley boss tried and failed to get Chester game postponed

    Guiseley manager Steve Kittrick has admitted that he tried to get Saturday’s top-of-the-table clash against Chester postponed. The Lions manager explained: “We had three players in last night’s England C match against Belgium, Forest Green also

  • Yorkshire: Title run-in going to the wire

    Yorkshire are closing in on a victory against Essex in the LV=County Championship. However, the Tykes look like they could be pipped to the Division Two title by Derbyshire on what’s turning out to be a thrilling final day of the season. This

  • Bradford Girls' Grammar blamed for road chaos

    An increased intake of pupils at Bradford Girls’ Grammar School is being blamed for congestion chaos outside its gates. Residents along Squire Lane and parents have been caught up in the early morning and home-time mayhem. Cars have been parked

  • Stuart Maconie sell-out show was a jewel in festival crown

    According to Stuart Maconie, the start of celebrity culture can be traced back to Live Aid. “Imagine if it happened in the 1970s – Morecambe saying to Wise: “We need to do something about The Sudan. Let’s get Dick Emery, Tarby, and Larry Grayson.

  • D-day for Thackley and Ben Rhydding

    A year ago, Thackley and Ben Rhydding were celebrating being champions of their divisions in the Aire Wharfe League, tomorrow they face matches to avoid being relegated with Adel. Thackley claimed the Division One title last year but never looked

  • There’s no stopping Bradford Cathedral organist Henry, 15

    Bradford Cathedral’s music department has been undergoing something of a youth revolution. Jonathan Eyre, 31, has been appointed assistant director of music to Alex Woodrow, at 24 the youngest director of music in the country. And 15-year-old

  • Wibsey man, 50, died after surgery to remove tumour

    A 50-year-old man died from complications after having surgery to remove a cancerous tumour in his colon, an inquest in Bradford heard yesterday. Martin Larkin, of Beacon Road, Wibsey , was admitted to Bradford Royal Infirmary last October for

  • David wins Manningham and Girlington in Bloom award

    Bradford gardener David Sugden is top of the crops. Mr Sugden, of Lingwood Road, Manningham , has been named overall winner of this year’s Manningham and Girlington in Bloom Awards. And he also won the medium-sized garden category in the

  • West Bowling man who stored shotgun for criminals jailed

    A 29-year-old man discovered storing a pump action shotgun and ammunition for criminals has been jailed for three years and four months. Sentencing Mohammed Asif Salim at Bradford Crown Court yesterday, Judge Christopher Batty said Salim’s act

  • Bradford district infant mortality rate ‘still too high’

    Members of Bradford Council’s Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee yesterday recognised progress being made to reduce infant mortality rates in the district, but said they were still unacceptably high. Latest figures for 2010-11 reveal the

  • Osborne criticised over capital ruling by Bradford business

    A Bradford boss has criticised Chancellor George Osborne for cutting capital allowances by 75 per cent cut in his last Budget,which he feared would dent companies’ investment plans. Dominic Pix, managing director of industrial automation specialist

  • Why Ilkley child Olivia Wilkinson simply loves school

    A four-year-old with an incurable heart defect has passed another big milestone with her first day at school. Olivia Wilkinson underwent 18 hours of surgery after birth at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) and had to be resuscitated on two occasions

  • Friends of Ilkley Moor launch GPS trail

    Today’s technology is linked with ancient carved stones in a new trail launched by the Friends of Ilkley Moor. The Friends group has created a Cup and Ring Stone GPS trail on Ilkley Moor. There are more than 400 known carved stones on Ilkley

  • Friday, September 14, 2012

    25 years ago: Joe Johnson was voted snooker’s Personality of the Year by his fellow professionals. 50 years ago: Most boys were smokers by the age of 15, Keighley health workers discovered during discussions at schools.

  • Toilets plan does not hold water

    Among the most basic of human rights is to be able to spend a penny. The network of public conveniences around the country have been a source of much-needed relief to most of us on occasion because no matter how busy our lives get, or where we

  • Fight back to full fitness has been a long hard slog

    Ricky Ravenhill column It doesn’t seem like I’ve ever been away after playing my first game of the season on Wednesday. It was a good feeling to get 70 minutes under my belt for the reserves at Port Vale. I’ve had to wait a long time for that

  • Time to plan the festive finances

    Christmas may be months away, but when it comes to financial planning, the festive season comes around all too soon. Britain’s recovery from the so-called double dip recession is slow and, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics

  • CCTV quite in order

    SIR – Perhaps before rushing to criticise local schools (T&A, September 12) for having CCTV in the sink areas of toilets, ‘Big Brother Watch’ should consider why this is the case. It is perfectly sensible for Titus Salt School (and others

  • Truck found ablaze in Bradford quarry

    Firefighters put out a blazing 4x4 truck at the bottom of a quarry in Bradford last night. Crews from Fairweather Green were called to the quarry, off Cemetery Road, at about 7.20pm. A West Yorkshire Fire Service spokesman said the cause of

  • Referendum puzzle

    SIR – I have gleaned from a reliable source – not Scottish messrs Salmond, Darling or Galloway, who never replied to my questions on a future referendum on Scotland’s independence – that only residents, irrespective of their true nationality, will

  • What lies beneath?

    SIR – I suppose the British scientists who are poised to begin a mission to probe a lake that has been sealed off from the outside world for up to 500,000 years and is beneath 1.8 miles of Antarctic ice (pictured, T&A, September 8) will be looking

  • Women-only wine?

    SIR – Visiting relatives in Sutton -in-Craven the other day, I was amazed to overhear from the deputy manager in a supermarket that boys don’t drink rose wine. Is this something peculiar to Yorkshire? Did I commit a breach of some village by-law

  • Bigger picture is clear

    SIR – Re Councillor Warnes’s letter, ‘See the bigger picture’ (T&A, September 11). We very much see the bigger picture, Saltaire is of such importance it is listed as a World Heritage Site and Conservation Area. Both Saltaire Village Society

  • Taxi theft hassle

     SIR – To the person in Bradford who stole my Peugeot taxi from outside Asda, Keighley , last week. You have no idea the mountain of hassle, expense and anxiety you’ve caused with your moment of impulse. Just when trust in the public was improving

  • Unfit for purpose

    SIR – Baildon Parish Council is a waste of my money in that it spends more than 50p of every £1 I pay in running costs. The last straw is that it should even contemplate spending £10k on a by-elelection for a councillor in a council that most people

  • Election a needless waste of money

    SIR – I have to agree with Rob Higgie, secretary of Baildon Conservatives, when he says (T&A, September 11) that a Parish Council by-election in Baildon is an expensive and needless waste of taxpayers’ money. The common sense move would obviously

  • Can’t get to grips with technology

    I am having a conversation on Twitter with someone. How very modern. They have a book out which I think looks quite entertaining. However, the book is only available as an e-book. “I don’t have an e-reader,” I tell them. “That’s all right

  • Bradford addict stabbed friend in drugs row

    A drug addict stabbed his friend in the leg after threatening him with a pogo stick in a row over dividing up their methadone, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday. James Clarkson, 38, of Parratt Row, off Leeds Road, Bradford, pleaded guilty

  • Bradford Crown Court judge praises have-a-go hero

    A judge has praised a have-a-go hero who collared a violent drunk smashing windows at Bradford Interchange. Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC awarded recycling worker Jason Davies £100 from public funds for his citizen’s arrest of Zafran Hussain on

  • Ilkley Brewery recreates a taste of the past

    A brewery has delved into the archives to recreate a Victorian Pale Ale. Ilkley Brewery has given the 130-year-old recipe for Dinner Ale, from Ilkley Brewery and Aerated Water Company’s records, a modern slant to create a light, crisp 3.3 per

  • Pledge to track down 'hidden' assets of Bradford drugs gang

    Police have vowed to track down the assets criminals “hide” using family and associates after members of a Bradford drugs gang, which made nearly £300,000, were found to have combined assets totalling less than £5,000. Mohammed Asim Khan, known

  • Bradford City: Wells told to keep calm and carry on

    Nahki Wells has been told to ignore his hip problem and carry on regardless through City’s next two home games. The striker, who was left out last week, is expected to come back in the squad to face Barnet at the Coral Windows Stadium tomorrow

  • Man in court on firearm and drug charges

    A man has appeared in Court on firearms and drugs charges after police seized a sawn-off shotgun and a semi-automatic sawn-off weapon in a crackdown on gun crime in Bradford. Jameel Ahmed, 22, was remanded in custody when he appeared at Bradford

  • City set for World Curry Festival

    Visitors to Bradford next weekend will be able to spice up their lives with the colours, smells and tastes of the World Curry Festival which hits the city for the first time. The three-day festival will begin on Friday, September 21, at 11am in

  • Buttershaw shop wrecked in ramraid attack

    Ramraiders used a 4x4 truck to smash their way into a Bradford off-licence leaving it looking like a war zone and its owner £20,000 out of pocket. The vehicle was reversed through the front of the shop in Torr Road, Buttershaw , early yesterday

  • Saltaire Festival set for thrilling weekend finale

    Thousands of visitors are gearing up for a weekend of food, music, history and art as the Saltaire Festival finale weekend begins tonight. The culmination of the ten-day cultural festival is expected to draw record crowds to events including a

  • Tong High School unveils new construction centre

    A Bradford school was today unveiling its new construction centre, created from a converted caretaker’s house, which will give pupils the chance to hone their building skills in a real-life environment. The centre at Tong High School, which is

  • Potter waves goodbye to Bradford Bulls

    Bulls coach Mick Potter has revealed he is leaving the club and returning home to Australia. Potter, who joined the club on a two-year deal from St Helens, has won praise for the way he galvanised his team under adversity after the

  • Bradford MP seeks answers over fire cut 'risks'

    A Bradford MP has called for top-level meetings with fire and union chiefs to demand answers over the planned closure of two fire stations in the district in a cost-cutting plan. David Ward, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, will meet

  • Friday, September 14, 2012

    The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Addingham : construction of dormer window, extension and extension to garage, Glen Rosa, 5 Heathness Road. Addingham: construction of front extension, 8 Park Crescent