City will travel to Wigan in the Capital One Cup fourth round. It will be the first time the Bantams have faced Premier League opposition since losing 4-1 at West Brom in the same competition in September 2005. But it still comes as an
Kate Hardcastle will meet with Gerry Sutcliffe next week about a potential role with the Bulls. The award-winning Bradford businesswoman and Bulls fanatic, hailed as a potential “Karren Brady of rugby league”, recently spoke of her passion for
A former betting shop manager sobbed in the dock as a judge heard she was being hounded for a drug debt when she stole £18,000 from her employer. Micheala Lesniarek, 22, was a cocaine addict when she ran up a £4,000 debt with dealers that soon
Yorkshire are looking for a new name in one-day cricket – and want their members and supporters to help them choose. Yorkshire will no longer be followed by Carnegie in Clydesdale Bank 40 and Friends Life t20 cricket from 2013. They have had
Right on Cue Entry forms have now been sent out to all clubs for Bradford & District Billiards & Snooker Association competitions. The fee for the best-of-seven, two-legged snooker singles is £15, as it is for the best-of-five pairs
Injured caddy Billy Foster admits watching this weekend’s Ryder Cup will be a bitter-sweet occasion for him. The Keighley -born bag carrier rates the competition between Europe and the United States as the ultimate event in golf and one of the
An Otley father who has been languishing in a Greek jail has been cleared of all charges - but may still have to endure another month behind bars. Fran Prenga (pictured with his daughter), who runs a plumbing and bathroom business in the town,
Claire Staniland’s tenacious work in defence earned her the player of the match award and helped Bingley Bees’ women’s first team gain a 3-3 draw against Otliensians in their opening league game. Gail Day crossed for Mel Burgess to open the scoring
Guest speaker Paul Lowe, from Symbio, will talk about soil health and vitality at the Institute of Groundsmanship West Yorkshire-Leeds branch’s first winter meeting at Cleckheaton Sports Club on Wednesday, October 10 (7.30pm). The national quiz
Bradford Teaching Hospitals is reminding patients and visitors to wash their hands in a bid to help healthcare staff fight the hospital superbug C.difficile. The awareness week is part of the Foundation Trust’s action plan to keep up levels of
Welcome to a car that dares to be just a little different. This is a Chrysler, a famous American brand, which is really an Italian Lancia. But it’s built in Poland. Confused? It’s easy to lose track of some cars these days. Essentially, Chrysler
Coming soon, one of the most important new cars of the year. Toyota is unveiling its Derbyshire-built Auris later this week at the Paris Motor Show ahead of a launch in the UK in December. It’s an important car for Toyota. Auris is the modern name
Age is no barrier to motorist Arthur Whitaker. Arthur has just clocked up his 100th birthday but still enjoys getting behind the wheel of his car. He uses his Seat Arosa to attend lunches at Keighley Golf Club, where he has been a member since
Crossgates won the Bradford Saturday League title for a second successive year after defeating Clayton A 20-10 to edge Pudsey A into second place in the Naylor section. Despite a slow start, losing their first two games, Crossgates showed their
BRADFORD LEAGUES SATURDAY Naylor: Eccleshill A 182 (9), Brighouse Sports A 204 (21); Eccleshill A 204 (28), Rufford A 118 (2); Pudsey A 206 (28), Ladyhill A 121 (2); Pudsey Littlemoor A 206 (25), Cross Roads 153 (5); Brighouse Sports A 192
New under-tens team Baildon Dynamos kicked off with a 6-0 Keybury League win against Calverley , Will Robinson netting two headers. Further goals flowed from Louis Anderson, Louis Fialdini, Harvey Weston-Beyer and Ben Stevens, with Louis Turner
CRAVEN, AIRE & WHARFE JUNIOR LEAGUE – Under-10 X: Bingley Barca 5, Skipton LMS 2; Bingley 0, Menston 1; Wilsden 1, Oakworth Wasps 1. Y: Bingley Bayern 3, Nab Wood 3, Campion 1, Salts Lions 5. Z: BD3 6, Fairbank 2; Bolton Woods 1, Campion Lions
Bradford Park Avenue under-13s are looking to attract backers for their Craven League campaign. Any company or individual willing to sponsor equipment or donate raffle prizes can call Teresa Skelly on 07909-841401.
The Bradford Referees’ Association hold their first meeting of the 2012-13 season at the Central Club, Manchester Road, tomorrow at 7.30pm. Guest speaker will be Football League official Bobby Madley. Old and new members are welcome.
A Bradford-based technology company has clinched its seventh major deal of the year. Belgravium Technologies, which provides hand-held computers and services, has won its second deal with Ireland's largest cash and carry wholesaler Musgrave Wholesale
Freshers’ Week in Bradford was quieter this year as the number of new students at the city’s university slumped by ten per cent as fees rise to £9,000 a year. Although performing better than the national average, the University of Bradford still
Though far from the Ides of March, the portents have not been good – strange flashes in the sky followed by storms and torrential downpours. It’s been enough to make the hardiest soul forget that the first production of Julius Caesar took place
The Pool Road is closed between Otley and Pool-in-Wharfedale and the A660 still closed between the Bradford Road roundabout and Burley bypass, due to a long stretch of water covering Maple Grange Bends. Callers report no signs at the Otley end
New jobs have been created at a fast-growing haulage and distribution business which has invested £750,000 in a new warehouse and launched new services. R M McDowell Haulage and Distribution Ltd has hired 17 extra staff after opening the new warehouse
A new six-part multi-million-pound drama with an international cast commissioned by BBC2 has started filming in Yorkshire, including locations in Keighley , Ilkley and Skipton due to Bradford’s City of Film status. Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster
Rail commuters faced severe disruption today due to a signalling fault at Shipley train station. The problem was reported at 6am and services from Bradford Forster Square to Skipton were cancelled at 7.30am. Trains were still running to Skipton
25 years ago: Bradford Council rejected a plan to set up its own accommodation agency in a bid to stop illegal services ripping off the homeless. 50 years ago: Bradford Fire Brigade christened its new engine, naval style. But it seems the champagne
Any hospital stay for a child can be frightening, anxious and traumatic – they are away from their home environment, families, school and friends, and that is as well as dealing with whatever illness, condition or accident has brought them to hospital
The RSPCA is urging cat owners to spay or neuter their pets after being inundated with unwanted kittens. The Craven branch said that an unspayed female cat and her offspring can produce thousands of kittens within five years. “The branch is
Emmerdale star Natalie Anderson was guest of honour at a dance school’s prize-giving evening. Natalie, of Guiseley , who plays Alicia Gallagher in the Yorkshire soap, presented prizes at the Wysoczanski School of Performance in Calverley .
A long-established city centre cafe is to close this weekend, blaming a lack of trade against a backdrop of the stalled shopping centre development on nearby Broadway . The Acropolis Cafe has been trading in Bradford since 1968, first from Bridge
New jobs have been created at a fast-growing haulage and distribution business which has invested £750,000 in a new warehouse and launched new services. R M McDowell Haulage and Distribution Ltd has hired 17 extra staff after opening the new warehouse
Bradford-based Yorkshire Water has been fined £12,000 after a mechanical fault at a pumping station discharged sewage into the River Calder, near Brighouse . The water utility company was also ordered to pay full costs of £913.42 to the Environment
An amateur rugby player who bashed down the door at his former partner’s home and beat up her friend has been jailed for 27 months. Dwaine Smith had drank up to 11 pints and taken “some sort of tablet” when he attacked Stephen Cox after bursting
A councillor is going on a fact-finding walkabout to investigate which Keighley roads are most in need of repair. Coun Steve Pullen will join a Bradford Council traffic engineer to check roads and pavements on the shortlist for possible funding
Another spell of heavy rain has once again wreaked havoc upon communities across the country. Televised images of people paddling through knee-deep water in their living rooms, or others being evacuated by boat, causes us to think we got off lightly
SIR – All terminally-ill and disabled people should be looking forward to their enforced medical with ATOS so they will be told shortly afterwards that they are now cured and are fit for work. Like the Remploy employees, they will then be available
SIR – Letters regularly appear from Lib Dem supporters trying to justify their party’s support for the Coalition. They mention a promise of increased tax allowances and the largely ineffective pupil premium, but otherwise produce little evidence
SIR – So, once again Lib Dem Ian Lyons (pictured) tries to justify his standing in the Baildon Parish Council by-election (T&A, September 24). Despite the other candidates offering to withdraw and thereby avoid unnecessary expenditure of about
SIR – The Government is planning changes to the way new medicines are priced across the country. These changes are likely to have a significant impact on millions of people living with cancer throughout the UK. It is vitally important that the
SIR – Odeon (in ancient Greece or Rome): a building used for musical performances. (Concise Oxford English Dictionary). In the Bradford tradition of calling a spade a spade, let’s have an Odeon used for musical performances and the city centre
SIR – Great news that the Odeon will hopefully be restored to all its splendid glory. To make all this worthwhile, however, serious thought will need to go into how its regeneration, and how its future use, will be beneficial and viable enough
SIR – We now know the world has gone mad. Morrisons , a Bradford born-and-bred supermarket employing many local people, shipping out to India. Sir Ken must be tormented by the fact that what was a local family business is now being turned into a
Last year, as part of the centenary celebrations of Bradford City’s 1911 FA Cup victory and as curator of the football club’s bantamspast museum, I led a party of supporters on a pilgrimage to the final resting places of the nine City players killed
Following an excellent ‘harvest’ last year, the Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank decided to go scavenging again at Leeds Festival, in Bramham Park, near Leeds. There was considerable potential among the devastation left by the departing 80,000 music
Life is sweet and nice as pie at Bradford’s Picnic Parlour this week. The venue is situated upstairs at Handmade, in Tyrrel Street, which has turned itself into the Appley Cafe to celebrate the humble apple and all its varieties. Until Saturday
Bradford City 3 Burton Albion 2 (aet, 2-2 after 90 minutes) Surely the God of cup draws will finally smile on City tonight. The team that never ever get a dream tie have surely earned a juicy one when the fourth-round balls are plucked
New dad Chev Walker had double cause for celebration last night after it was revealed he has agreed a new one-year deal. The Bulls star, who performed admirably in the centres and the pack during 2012, became a father for the first time on Saturday
A Bradford taxi driver who was stabbed during a knifepoint robbery is considering quitting the trade. Mohammed Abbas, 35, is so shocked by the late-night incident he is worried about getting back in his cab. Mr Abbas, a driver for Girlington
A new charity was unveiled in Bradford today to raise money to buy home comforts and state-of-the-art medical equipment for the city’s sick children. The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Dale Smith , visited Bradford Royal Infirmary to meet
A delivery driver wept in the dock at Bradford Crown Court when he was jailed for setting up and running a £40,000 cannabis farm at his home. Robert Poole, 32, had never been in trouble with the police when he was caught red-handed nurturing his
People in the Bradford district living with a heart rhythm disorder are invited to attend a support group which holds its first meeting in Shipley next month. The meeting at Westcliffe Medical Centre will be led by Dr Matthew Fay, a GP specialist
A Conservative councillor has come under fire about the content of an e-mail he sent charity Just West Yorkshire over the Hillsborough Report and its call for West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison to resign. Councillor Roger Taylor
At least £400,000 is to be ploughed into Bradford schools to help youngsters not achieving the required grades in reading and maths when starting secondary school. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will today announce secondary schools will be given
Thousands of people are expected to stage a peaceful protest in Bradford on Friday against a US-made film they claim attacks Islam. Talks are ongoing with police and Bradford Council about the mass gathering, which is scheduled to start at 3.30pm
Residents have told of their fears for their children after gunshots were fired during a street brawl thought to be linked to drug dealing. Damage was caused to three cars from gunshots after two groups of up to 20 men were seen fighting with
A trusted company book-keeper who stole £70,000 from her Bradford employer to spend on holidays and her wedding has been jailed for 18 months. Laura Spinks, 26, was led sobbing to the cells after a judge told her: “People have lost their livelihoods
Groundsman Mick Doyle was held up as the unlikely hero behind City’s first League Cup fourth-round appearance for 24 years. An extra-time blast from right back Stephen Darby sealed an incredible 3-2 fightback win over Burton at the Coral Windows
Leeds United 2 Everton 1 One of the favourites to lift the Capital One Cup bit the dust at the third-round stage as in-form Everton were shocked by Championship side Leeds at Elland Road. A flying start to their Premier League season had seen
The weather will have to improve today if Albion Sports and Eccleshill United are to get their games in Northern Counties East League Division One played. The Eagles will be under the guidance of former England Under-21 scout and coach Dia Jones
Farsley finally kick-started their season when they romped to a handsome 4-0 home win against ten-man Ossett Town at Throstle Nest. The home side had their two new signings from Bradford Park Avenue on show, James Riley and Matt Dempsey, and one
In the Baris Northern Counties East Premier Division, Liversedge had an excellent win away at Arnold Town. Danny Toronczak hit Sedge’s winner early in the second half to break a three-game losing streak. The one local non-league club with a
