Bradford Park Avenue face a tough fixture in the Blue Square Bet North Division tomorrow night when they make the journey to Chester FC. It will be the first meeting of the clubs in the higher division after both were promoted from the Evo-Stik
Ritchie Jones completing 90 minutes for the first time this season was the highlight of Bradford City’s 7-0 Central League defeat at Mansfield Town tonight. Nick Wright (3), Ben Hutchinson (2), Chris Clements and Luke Jones got the goals against
By his own admission, Bradford golfer Dane Bairstow did not set the world alight in 2012. The Bingley St Ives professional struggled to find his best form and is currently working on a building site with his dad to help make ends meet. His
Wyke suffered a shock 12-7 defeat at the hands of Dodworth in Pennine League Division Two. Wyke travelled to Barnsley full of confidence and looking to secure top spot. The first half was a tight affair, with only scrum half Aidy Doherty’s
Bradford Park Avenue Eagles under-12s continued their impressive start to the season with their best performance yet, winning 6-1 at Horsforth Colts in Craven, Aire & Wharfe League Division D. Eisa Faulding got the visitors off to a great start
Yorkshire suffered a landslide Champions League t20 defeat against Sydney Sixers at Newlands in Cape Town today. The White Rose opened their Group B campaign with an eight-wicket loss as they only posted 96-9, their second lowest total in Twenty20
Thornton United are expanding into junior football – after a chance chat in a pub. The club, which has two adult teams in the Bradford Sunday Alliance, now run sides at five different age groups ranging from under-nines to 18s. Thornton’s first
Bradford Dudley Hill’s National Conference promotion dreams hang in the balance following their surprise 22-20 defeat by Rochdale Mayfield. Former Bradford Bulls player Matt Calland proved a real thorn in Hill’s side, helping himself to two tries
The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun Dale Smith, urged Bradford Bulls fans to get behind their team as he bought his season ticket for this year. The Lord Mayor was at Odsal with Bulls owner Omar Khan as both he and his wife signed up to watch the
Bury have captured Leeds United duo Zac Thompson and Dominic Poleon on one-month youth loan deals. The two young professionals link up with former United boss Kevin Blackwell, who took charge of the Shakers last month. Poleon, 19, has made
People will have the chance to take a look back in time as Low Moor Local History Group holds its 1910 Valuation Day. The event will showcase information gathered from the 1910 Valuation Survey, including data on local houses and their former inhabitants
In what has been a lean weekend for local races, runners from the Airedale and Wharfedale area have travelled further afield to find competitions. In North Yorkshire, Dave Kellett, organiser of the Wistow 10k, was expecting good performances in
One of the JCT600 Bradford League's most distinguished figures has landed a top national award. Derek Shuttleworth, who has served the league as an umpire and scorer for 48 years, was named the 2012 winner of the Lifetime Achiever Award at the
West Bowling rookie Luke Robinson impressed for Yorkshire Under-17s as they slipped to a close-fought 19-18 defeat at the hands of their Lancashire counterparts. The match, played at Wigan St Patricks ARLFC, saw Lancashire edge the Roses clash
A West Yorkshire firm which helps businesses communicate with their employees is celebrating its 125th industry award. Otley-based Words&Pictures won its latest accolade at the Institute of Internal Communications’ regional awards, taking its
A Swedish motorcyclist who died after being thrown from his bike when it collided with a car in Saltaire has been named as Karl Olof Nilsson. The 55-year-old was riding a foreign-registered Triumph along Victoria Road, near Shipley fire station
A Government crime mapping website, similar to a scheme pioneered by West Yorkshire Police, has been expanded, giving the nation the chance to compare crime levels in their district with other areas. The Home Office says the website, police.uk,
Surgical treatments which can prolong life and improve living standards should not be denied to older patients because of their age, a new report warns. Age discrimination in the NHS has been made illegal but a report by the Royal College of Surgeons
A local MP has backed calls for major investment in carbon capture and storage in Yorkshire which it is claimed would create thousands of skilled jobs and deliver a major boost to the regional economy. Skipton MP Julian Smith has endorsed a new
A petition signed by nearly 1,000 people was today being presented on behalf of a primary school to Bradford Council, calling for traffic calming measures on a road which claimed the life of one of its pupils. The petition was started by Rukhsana
SIR – As the founder and so far sole member of the informal Methodist Society for the Preservation of Pubs, I am very concerned about your leader on October 13 ‘Burden of the older drinkers’. Pubs are places of conviviality and community where
SIR – Take note, fellow Bradfordians, that not all councillors are the same. Well done, Coun Malcolm Sykes (T&A, October 11 re Greenfield Housing) for making a stand and for making the people of your ward a priority and for thinking about the future
SIR – I went to City Park to look at the ‘electric-light’ flowers. The whole area looked really superb. The atmosphere was very positive with families with young children to more elderly people, all enjoying the beautiful display. Well done to
SIR – When Bradford Council proposed plans for the City Park, I was absolutely dead against it, I thought it was a terrible waste of money and resources. But after visiting various exhibitions in Centenary Square and the City Park, I have changed my
SIR – The man of Islam broadcasting his hatred of Britain on the internet should just remember some of the soldiers he wishes dead just might be Muslim brothers, because in a democracy such as ours the military recruits from believers of all Gods and
SIR – Thanks to Christopher Hindle for giving us the facts and figures of the current economic conditions of the country (‘Look at the figures’, Letters, October 12). What is remarkable is that he seems to believe that this has happened overnight as
SIR – I read with interest B Barraclough’s letter on bus and rail travel, allegedly having to go via Leeds (T&A, October 13). However, it ain’t necessarily so, as Grand Central operates a service from Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross
SIR – What greater display of contempt for the British people and our Parliamentary democracy could there be than David Cameron’s possible agreement to allow the voting age to be reduced to 16 years for the Scottish independence referendum in isolation
The East Bowling Allstars under 12s football team are proudly sporting the Marie Curie Cancer Care logo on their new football kit in support of the Bradford Hospice. The team, whose home ground is Bradford Academy, are a newly-formed 11-a-side
Sitting outside the Woolpack, enjoying a swift half with Marlon Dingle, I felt like I’d shrunk to the size of a Borrower and stepped inside my television. Emmerdale is a world that enters our living rooms five nights a week. Originally a tale of
Staff, pupils and parents of a Bradford primary school met the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Dale Smith, to celebrate being named the “most outstanding” primary in the country. The civic invitation went out to Iqra Primary School, Manningham
Every Christmas, Maggie Smallridge receives a greetings card from a woman she helped to be free from a life of crime. “I was working as a probation officer and she was assigned to me,” she says. “She always sends a card to my office and thanks
A city the size of Bradford should be able to support a venue like the former Bradford Playhouse in Little Germany, so it is to be hoped that the latest attempt to revive the venue is a success. After various financial issues, a new company has
Bradford Bulls’ new owners have issued a rallying call for fans to volunteer their time to get the club ready for next season’s Super League campaign. Bradford restaurant boss Omar Khan and former Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe are asking for
Support from a Bradford-based business fund is helping a specialist local manufacturer maintain cashflow and stay on track for future expansion. ShowGuard Ltd, based at New Works Road, Low Moor, is one of only three designers and manufacturers
Illegal private hire vehicles have been taken off the streets following a joint crackdown by police and Council licensing officers. Police officers and Special Constables from Bingley Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) along with staff from Bradford
Bradford’s famous Little Germany theatre will reopen its doors this month as a group of artists launches a last-ditch bid to save the troubled venue from closure. The former Bradford Playhouse, which went into liquidation with historic debts of
Police in Bradford have seized more than £3 million from the district’s criminals in 18 months. The figure was revealed at the end of Proceeds of Crime Act Week during which police in West Yorkshire recovered tens of thousands of pounds of criminal
A delivery driver told a murder trial his girlfriend fell face down on the kitchen floor after he slipped while pulling her arm. Santosh Kumar said he did not mean to hurt Samantha Warren badly when he flew into a jealous rage and attacked her.
A man murdered his 91-year-old father in growing frustration at his dementia, a Court heard. Robert Cordingley, 57, smothered his father, George, to death using a pillow wrapped in a bin liner in January this year. His father, a widower who
Relatives of kidnap hero Malik Iqbal yesterday attended the opening of an inquest into his brutal murder in Pakistan. Bradford dad-of-four Mr Iqbal was killed in Rawalpindi, as he waited to testify against alleged abductors who held him to ransom
Home Secretary Theresa May is to consider a letter from Bradford West MP George Galloway claiming a “dirty tricks operation” against him, involving a senior counter terrorism officer in the Metropolitan Police and a member of his constituency office
A Bradford MP who has backed a petition against the planned closure of two fire stations said he was “sceptical” about assurances over public safety. David Ward, the Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, yesterday urged the public to sign an online
A rise of more than 500 per cent in long-term youth unemployment in Bradford has been highlighted in a new campaign by the Prince’s Trust. According to figures provided by The Office for National Statistics, the number of people aged under 24 claiming
Bradford Council chiefs are considering using a disused former college building at a prime site in Keighley as a base for employees, despite calls for it to be handed over to the community. The Council-owned former Keighley College building in
Bulls prop Manase Manuokafoa has been rewarded for an outstanding debut campaign at Odsal with a new two-year deal. The Tonga international, 27, arrived from Parramatta Eels last winter and went on to prove himself one of the best overseas signings
Hundreds of mourners are expected at the funeral of former Bradford Lord Mayor Stanley King on Friday. They will gather at St Barnabas Church in Heaton at noon to say their farewells to the 80-year-old who died in hospital after a short illness
Phil Parkinson admits City’s free week could not have come a moment too soon. Today is the first Tuesday for over a month that they have not had a game in a hectic schedule. It is a brief respite before City face three more midweekers on the
John Hendrie column: The last four games have been a reality check for City but I don’t see anything to worry about. In the grand scale of things, the only result in that run that has knocked you a bit was the Dagenham one. It started with
A plumber who spent more than five months languishing in a Greek jail is celebrating with his family after returning home. A banner on the door of Fran Prenga’s Otley house simply saying “Welcome home Fran” marks the return of the 34-year-old who
