A “cold and calculating” mother has been jailed for eight years after robbing her unborn baby boy of his chance of life when she aborted him within a week of his due date. Sarah Catt, who was married but had been having an affair for seven years
EXCLUSIVE Bradford Bulls’ new owners today revealed fans will have to pay twice as much for their season tickets compared with last year’s prices to bring the struggling side back to a “sound financial footing”. Bradford restaurant boss Omar
Yorkshire believe they have built a platform to challenge for silverware in the coming seasons on the back of an impressive 2012. And their main aim is to compete with champions Warwickshire next year in a bid to win their first LV= County Championship
After winning their first six Blue Square Bet North fixtures, Guiseley have slumped to back-to-back defeats so tomorrow night’s derby at Nethermoor will be a test of character. Lions boss Steve Kittrick will be looking for a positive reaction at
Steeton missed the chance to go clear at the top of the West Riding County Amateur League Premier Division when they conceded a last-minute penalty to draw 1-1 at home to Huddersfield-based Golcar United. Damian Whiteoak had given Steeton a first-half
Pudsey Pacers' Dave Woodhead broke the 40-minute barrier with a speedy 39min 46sec run at the Wetherby 10K. Clubmate Mark Nolan was close behind in 41.02, while John Woodhead clocked 54.26 and Carol Parkinson 60.47. Meanwhile, Pudsey
A late Deroy White goal secured a 4-2 Bradford Sunday Alliance League win for Thornton United against Baildon Trinity Athletic and lifted them to third in the Premier Division . Thornton raced into a two-goal lead thanks to Danny Walker’s double
Dave Woodhead of Pudsey Pacers broke the 40-minute barrier with a speedy 39min 46sec run at the Wetherby 10K. Clubmate Mark Nolan was close behind in 41.02, while John Woodhead clocked 54.26 and Carol Parkinson 60.47. Meanwhile, Pudsey duo
Bingley Harriers brought the 2012 track & field season to an end with an appearance in the British Athletics League Super 8 Cup and Plate Finals in Derby. The ladies’ team finished third in the ‘Cup’ Final, only two points off second place.
Yorkshire Amateur League sides fared well in the first round of the Bradford & District Cup . Calverley United beat Abundant Life 3-2 in a see-saw match. Nylle Rosendale and Garry Trewhitt gave Calverley a 2-0 lead but Abundant Life hit back
Joe Root has become the tenth Yorkshire player to win the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year award. The opening batsman has won this year’s award after team-mate Jonny Bairstow took last year’s honour. Root, 21, received the
The only game to take place in the Spen Valley League saw BD3 United beat TVR United 5-3. BD3 scorers were Mohammed Ahmed, Yasin Ihtisham, Arman Yasin, Sheraz Mahmood and David Nggada, while Waleed Raja, Ashiq Uqbal and Abdul Qasim netted for TVR
Bradford have appointed former Leeds winger Francis Cummins as their new head coach on a three-year contract. Cummins, who was recommended for the job by his predecessor Mick Potter after he opted to return to Australia, was unveiled this morning
SIR – The idea of appointing a town centre manager for Ilkley is inspiring. The job of town centre manager has been around in the UK for many years since the first manager was appointed, I think, in Reading in the late 1980s. The manager provides
Detectives, hunting “heartless” thieves who conned a 92-year-old man out of his money, today released images of two suspects. The pair tricked their way into their victim’s home by pretending to be from an electricity company, then stole hundreds
Farnell Land Rover Bradford, part of the Co-operative Motors Group, are celebrating selling more than 500 Range Rover Evoques over the last 12 months. To show they were ‘tickled pink’ with the achievement they created what is believed to be the
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David Dracula by Saul Ruthven Fast Print Publsihing, £9.99 BD8 And Beyond by David Moulds Grosvenor House Publishing, £9.49 I’m no longer a teenager, I’ve never been a goth and I have zero interest in vampires, so when a book called David
"Lie down! Lie down now!” the boatman shouted, and we pressed ourselves against the floor of the boat. The cliff face loomed ahead of us, and I could see the tiny opening we were heading for. It looked impossible to get through. At first, everything
A police investigation is underway after a 68-year-old woman died following a two-car collision in Ilkley . The woman was a passenger in a Mercedes C240, which was in collision with an Opel Kadet in Hangingstone Road last night. She was taken
Friday’s demonstration in Bradford’s Centenary Square highlighted the issue of attacks by American drones in Pakistan. Think of a radio-controlled model aircraft with weapons and you have an idea of what’s involved. The supporters of the Bradford
25 years ago: Trolley buses were coming back to Bradford after it was announced work on the new scheme, the first of its kind in Britain, was to start the next year. 50 years ago: Residents near the Cliffe Gardens site in Bradford Road, Shipley
Bradford should rightly be proud of the work that was done in the city to pioneer the idea of free meals at school early in the last century. So it is particularly sad to see the level of children who are living in poverty and the number of families
25 years ago: Fine Art Developments, based at Dudley Hill , celebrated after winning their £2.6 million take-over bid of the garden product division of the famous Geest’s of Spalding. 50 years ago: A fierce fire broke out at the Telegraph &
It’s a complaint heard often from the skilled trades that not enough young people want to work in traditional jobs. Anyone who has tried to find at short notice a reputable plumber who doesn’t charge the earth will certainly relate to that.
SIR – I would like to thank all of your readers who shopped in Sainsbury’s during Farm Animal Week (June 18 to 24) and helped raise money for farm animals by choosing RSPCA Freedom Food labelled products. A whopping £31,600 was raised for the
SIR – This summer, with the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee , followed by the Olympics and Paralympics, the traders in the centre of Otley have gloriously bedecked their premises with Union and Olympic flags. Sadly, these happy events
SIR – Do you know a young sailor or powerboater in your area who always goes the extra mile? It could be someone who has overcome adversity and carried on sailing, or someone who can demonstrate an exceptional achievement. If so, then why not nominate
SIR – It appears that Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe has changed consultants mid-Pool . The last lot justified the £30m – and still counting – cost of the Mirror Pool by telling us that it would attract 2.2m visitors a year and bring in an extra
SIR – In his letter (T&A, September 11) Keith Rayner says something needs to be done to start Bradford’s regeneration. Has he forgotten that the Council loaned the developers of the Southgate complex £6 million, enabling them to finish building
Councillors are being urged to back a reduced £27,000 package of measures to repair roads and paths in Keighley and Ilkley amid a warning that some essential repairs will not be carried out. By agreeing the programme they hope to reduce the numbers
New electronic footfall counters installed around City Park in Bradford have recorded an average of nearly 100,000 visitors a week at the six-acre park throughout July and August. The latest figures have been revealed by Bradford Council after
Some of the most vulnerable young people in the Bradford district will get the chance to work with a rapper to write lyrics that promote positive relationships and safe sex. The event, at the Bingley Youth Cafe, is one of many planned for sexual
SIR – It is a big shame that organisations like the Muslim Women’s Council Bradford Circle (T&A September 13) continue to give George Galloway MP a platform for his extremist views. All organisations in Bradford District need to realise that
SIR – I was pleased to read Sally Clifford’s article on the dangers of using mobile phones at the wheel (T&A, September 13). These dangerous drivers should be made aware that if caught they face a fine and penalty points on their driving licence
SIR – One of your interviewees (T&A, September 12) sacked only a couple of days ago, said that maybe having less to live on would give the unemployed an incentive to find a job. I think she will find that what they need is not an incentive
SIR – The (new) Hillsborough report will at first sight mystify many of today’s generation and perhaps cause them to wonder how it was that so many police would conspire together to protect themselves and divert the blame for the Hillsborough disaster
It was lovely to see my youngest daughter’s face as she emerged from her first pop concert. We’d taken her to see JLS in Scarborough and she’d loved every minute, from the support to the amazing fireworks – which my husband and I watched in the pouring
Alan Connell reckoned patience was the key as City kept up their perfect home record with a third straight win on their own patch. Connell was among the scorers in a three-goal blast at the start of the second half to sweep away rock-bottom Barnet
A soldier who was killed with his colleague by a man dressed as an Afghan policeman has been named as Sergeant Gareth Thursby, 29, of Skipton. Married father-of-two Sergeant Thursby and Private Thomas Wroe, 18, were shot dead in the south of Nahr-e
Francis Cummins is set to be appointed as Bulls coach today on the recommendation of Mick Potter, who believes his former assistant is being rewarded for his “loyalty and honesty” during a traumatic campaign. Cummins has served as Potter’s assistant
A charity helping to feed poverty-stricken families is making a desperate appeal for food donations as it is revealed that more than 37,000 youngsters in Bradford are now living below the breadline. Last month Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank
Bulls legend and former England rugby union international Henry Paul has joined Bradford & Bingley. The 38-year-old former New Zealand rugby league player, whose last game of union was when Leeds Carnegie secured their Premiership status at the
A community leader has welcomed more than 250 jobs created with the opening of a new supermarket – but warned it will create traffic problems. The 38,000 square-foot Asda store is due to open in Bradbeck Road, off Cemetery Road, Lidget Green ,
A mum poisoned by a chocolate muffin at Butlins has won the right to compensation after violent sickness wrecked a precious family holiday. Coeliac sufferer Clare Garbutt, 28, must not eat products containing wheatflour and so took her own gluten-free
A couple who have been told by social services they cannot adopt their child and take her to start a new life in Australia, because they are married, have discussed divorce as an option to secure their future. Bradford builder Andrew Shackleton
A head teacher who sent home more than 100 pupils to get changed after coming to school in the wrong uniform has said tightening up the school’s policy has had a “dramatic impact” on the atmosphere in the school. Challenge College sent 132 pupils
Two women were left terrified when a knife-wielding robber burst into the store where they worked. Detectives are hunting the man, who wore a Halloween ‘skull’ mask and walked into Listers newsagents in Stone Hall Road, Eccleshill . He pulled
City 3, Barnet 0 The noise, or rather lack of it, as the half-time whistle sounded was telling. It showed how far this City team – and the public perception of them – has already come. There were no audible boos; few, if any catcalls; just
A teenager who lost her twin sister and her father in a car crash will mark the ten-year anniversary of the tragedy by fundraising for a national charity for bereaved children. Sophie Thomas, of Cowling , near Keighley , was just five when her
