There were home wins for Albion Sports and Eccleshill United in Baris Northern Counties East League Division One tonight. The Eagles had former skipper Jermaine Springer back in their ranks and he opened the scoring in a 4-0 victory over Appleby
A stand-off by police lasting ten hours turned into a search tonight after two young men who got on to the roof of a Keighley house slipped away in the darkness. Police had cordoned off the neighbourhood around Redcliffe Street, Highfield, as trained
Like every Bulls fan, Megan Potter’s heart sank when it was announced that the club effectively stood on the brink of oblivion. On March 27 came the news that unless supporters raised £1million – at least half by mid-April – a sporting institution
Megan Potter enjoyed an emotional reunion with husband Mick in Australia this week after admitting she was ready to return home. She continued in her role as ticket office manager for seven weeks after the former Bulls coach flew back Down Under
Bradford No 1 are sitting pretty at the top of Division One of the Yorkshire Inter-District League. Their latest victims were Castleford No 1 at Undercliffe Cricket Club on Sunday. Wayne Cooper got the team off to the perfect start, taking
A robbery took place at Costcutter store in Station Road, Burley-in-Wharfedale, this afternoon. Police confirmed two men escaped with an unknown quantity of cash in the raid which took place shortly before 3.20pm. The shop remained cordoned
An appeal has been submitted over plans to create car servicing, valeting and a car wash in a car park at the former Wellington Hotel, 89 Harrogate Road, Bradford. The scheme was turned down by Bradford Council planners in October, but now a planning
Bingley Bees’ men climbed to second place in Yorkshire Division Six North with a comfortable 3-1 win at Leeds Adel Carnegie Fifths. For once the Bees did not score in the opening minutes, as has become their custom, and instead they had to wait
Two late slips cost Myrtle Park Wanderers under-16s maximum points as they lost 2-1 to Menston in the Craven, Aire & Wharfe League. Chris Dauffy-Wheatley opened the scoring for Wanderers in the first half but his side were unable to add to
Police have sealed off part of a town centre street this afternoon after two young men were allegedly throwing missiles from the roof of a building. Officers were called at about noon to the incident, in Redcliffe Street, Keighley, and are still
Police are hunting a woman who rifled through a store till, escaping with hundreds of pounds in notes. The thief dipped into the till as she pretended to buy batteries at the B&Q store in Leeds Old Road, Thornbury, Bradford. She then fled with
Leeds manager Neil Warnock was at a loss to understand how his side had ended up empty-handed after a late Charlie Austin header earned Burnley a 1-0 win at Turf Moor. Austin headed in a Chris McCann cross seven minutes from time but it was Leeds
Oakbank Table Tennis Club player Ffion Myers has been selected to represent Yorkshire at Draycott & Long Eaton Table Tennis Club in Derbyshire on Saturday. The 13-year-old has also been busy qualifying for the English National Championships
An award-winning Bradford security business is set for major growth after buying the protection arm of the Co-operative Group. It will mean that the family-run King’s Security Services will be responsible for managing the security at more than
The Fire Brigades Union’s newspaper advertisement is dramatic. Above a picture of Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne are two words in bold black print and two in red: THEY SLASH, YOU BURN. Today, just two
From the T&A... 25 years ago: Grattan workers who feared for their jobs backed the company’s fight to halt plans for a Council-run gipsy camp in Brown Royd. 50 years ago: Princess Margaret’s visit to Bradford went ahead after she defied
There are clearly highly-sensitive issues arising from the decision by the European Court of Human Rights to overturn British courts and rule that a Bradford bus driver should not have been sacked from his job because he was a member of the BNP.
I identify with David Rhodes’s problem with who to vote for in the Police and Crime Commissioners election (Letters, November 5). The political candidates are the usual mix of the boring and predictable. Having seen them on TV, I feel inclined
Too often we take for granted the very finely balanced system that gives us life on this wonderful planet. Not only is the temperature just right, with enough water for most of us, but the chemical balance of the atmosphere provides us with the
SIR – I would like to alert readers to a public debate due to take place later this month. Philip Davies (MP for Shipley) and I will be going “head to head” on the topic of the coalition Government’s economic policy. Mr Davies will be proposing
SIR – It seems incredulous that while working for an organisation with so much “previous”, politicians can still find ways to fiddle expenses and perpetrate homes scams. In all sizes of private business, expense claims are usually vetted by the
SIR – Once again, Christmas is nearly upon us and once again the Post Office hasn’t come up with a plan for their loss in Christmas card postage. Last year I wrote a letter to the T&A suggesting the Post Office introduce a special price stamp
SIR – Over the last few days there has been in the T&A publicity for the The Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage And Products Competition. While not being a vegetarian, I avoid at all costs pies, sausages and black puddings, because whenever
An expanding Bradford-based transport, logistics and distribution company has launched a new division to focus on helping small and medium-sized firms improve their business efficiency. Advanced Supply Chain, based on the Euroway trading estate
SIR – Yet another potential nightmare for motorists with talk of ‘road pricing’, ie pay-per-mile on motorways or trunk roads. You don’t have to look far to find the rationale behind this, which has arisen from the Government’s obsession with carbon
SIR – I was horrified to read your report (T&A, November 3), which says that 85 per cent of NHS Trusts, including Bradford Teaching Hospitals, have adopted the (so-called) Liverpool Care Pathway, which can involve withholding food and drink from
SIR – I’m not quite sure what he means by “banks create 97 per cent of UK money supply out of nothing at all” – that’s the Bank of England’s job – but I would, however, like to agree with the sentiments of my socialist friend Christopher Hindle’s letter
SIR – As a pensioner, in reply to Mr P Hadfield’s letter (T&A, October 27), I would ask him who, after being re-elected as Prime Minister, immediately after his first budget, removed an allowance to pensioners to reduce Council Tax? Mr Brown.
SIR – He may not have been everyone’s ‘cup of tea’, but the sacking of long-serving John McCririck from Channel 4 Racing (T&A, October 27) won’t have gone down well with his fans. Well informed, he always had news to impart to the racing fraternity
SIR – While I agree with David Rhodes (T&A, November 5) about not being impressed by the candidates for the post of Police and Crime Commissioner on television, I suggest that he looks them up on policeelections.com. There he will find that
SIR – I hope the people of Yorkshire take the trouble to find out how their MP voted in the debate over demands for a cut in the EU budget. I am obviously delighted that the House voted with the country, rather than the Government whips. I
SIR – Regarding the current M62 misery caused mainly by work to the hard shoulder (T&A, November 5), it puzzles me why we have hard shoulders at all. As I understand it, the argument appears to be that occasionally a car breaks down and prevents
When it comes to turning on the waterworks, I’m a bit of a hard nut. I rarely cry at films (the end of Whistle Down The Wind always gets me, but little else), and I’d never cry in public. Not for me the communal sobbing that, since the mass grieving
A visually-impaired ten-year-old Allerton boy went ‘ape’ for a fun-filled tree-top adventure. Fearless Hasan Sankriwala (pictured) was one of 12 youngsters from Bradford Actionnaires, a club for blind and partially-sighted children who went along
Working arrangements giving people the chance to bid for buildings and land to keep them in community use were agreed by Bradford Council’s decision-making executive yesterday. Under the Localism Act, the community right to bid was introduced earlier
Debt charities in Bradford are warning families “you can’t buy the perfect Christmas” as a study today reveals the average family will spend £478.50 celebrating the holiday. Research by Bradford supermarket giant Morrisons has found households
Detectives and minicab firm bosses have welcomed the jailing of a thug who terrorised a cabbie in a knifepoint robbery. Mohammed Abbas, 35, needed hospital treatment for a cut to his hand after suffering a knife wound in the incident. He was
Two Bradford schools have been praised for their progress by Ofsted inspectors. The education watchdog hailed Lilycroft Primary School for its good progress and quality of teaching, while Woodside Primary School and Children’s Centre was recognised
Jonathon Davies was earning a decent living as a steel worker, but his heart wasn’t in it. So, aged 26, he decided to quit his job, sell his home and possessions and set off overseas to find out what he really wanted from life. Jonathon’s journey
The news that the Provident Financial Group is to create a further 250 jobs is fantastic news for Bradford. And it will also contribute to the renewal of the city with the financial giant expanding into new premises to accommodate its faster-than-expected
From the T&A... 25 years ago: Bradford Northern were on the brink of financial ruin with the club facing closure unless gates increased by 2,500 a match. 50 years ago: It was announced Bradford schools would not close for a planned visit
In April next year the University of Bradford’s ever-expanding campus will have a new addition, a £1.3m purpose-built centre dedicated to the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths, or STEM for short. Constructed of wood and located
Planning permission for a joinery workshop to be turned into 15 flats has been renewed by Bradford Council. But the permission, for Victory Works, Garden Field, Wyke, Bradford, by Peter Hanson, has only been granted subject to the signing of a
Santa Claus will begin a busy schedule of fundraising in the Otley area this weekend. A Santa’s Grotto, organised by Otley Lions, will start operating at Stephen H Smith’s garden centre each weekend from this Saturday until Sunday, December 16.
Firefighters will discuss how they handled this summer’s flooding during a meeting on Friday. Members of the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority community safety committee will hear about the service’s response to severe weather and flooding
The district’s largest social landlord, Incommunities, has given some early festive cheer to an emergency food charity helping people in Bradford with a £1,000 donation. Bradford Foodbank provides food donations to people in need in Bradford and
Leigh Beattie could end a traumatic year at the Bulls on a glorious high after being nominated for a prestigious national award. The Bulls’ head groundsman and kitman has been named in the Professional Rugby League Groundsman of the Year category
Severance payouts to staff at a Bradford health trust as part of the controversial shake-up of the NHS has cost the taxpayer almost £2.7 million. According to figures compiled by the Department of Heath, a total of £2.692 million was paid out to
Bradford Council’s executive yesterday agreed to give the initial go-ahead to turn a former school site into a Rugby League centre of excellence. The authority will work to develop a £1.5 million scheme on the former Wyke Manor School campus, with
Bradford-based supermarket giant Morrisons has revealed a budget Christmas feast costing £2.49 per person in response to “tough economic times”. The company, which has its headquarters in Gain Lane, has announced its cheapest-ever festive dinner
Police busted a £60,000 cannabis factory in Bradford’s Horton Grange Road after reports of a burglary at the premises, a jury was told. Drugs squad officers seized 429 cannabis plants from five rooms at the four- bedroom terraced house on February
Protesters have raised a 1,700-name petition against turning a greenfield site at Baildon into an industrial estate. And the strength of opposition will be used to force Bradford councillors to take a fresh look at the Buck Lane project next month
A burglar who smashed his way into a house to steal £2,300 of electrical goods has been spared custody after returning to the scene of his crime to give himself up. Simon Beaumont, 19, tried to hand himself into the police, saying he was a wanted
Keighley Scouts are holding their biggest gang show in decades. Sixty-seven young people will take to the stage at Victoria Hall, Keighley, on November 23 and 24 for We Are Legend. The production, which marks the 80th anniversary of the first
A host of willing helpers will descend on Wilsden Park this weekend for a “Day of Action” to tackle stubborn problems of litter, mess and rowdy behaviour. Organised by Bradford Council and Wilsden Parish Council, the grand clean-up will involve
Phil Parkinson admitted City missed James Hanson’s presence after Chesterfield did a smothering job at Valley Parade. The targetman was still recovering from a virus as the Bantams were held to their first goalless home draw of the season last
Visitors to Airedale Hospital are being urged to help prevent the spread of the winter vomiting bug norovirus. Anyone with a cough, cold or flu-like symptoms, or who has had vomiting and/or diarrhoea within the previous 48 hours, is being asked
Senior councillors at Bradford Council have agreed to find £235,000 from its reserves to pay for the aftermath of a diesel spillage from a ruptured underground tank earlier this year. The spillage from a tank at its Shearbridge Road depot left
Bulls coach Francis Cummins believes Ben Evans will benefit from crossing swords with England and France’s finest during the autumn internationals. Warrington prop Evans, 20, played in both Wales’ recent outings but has yet to make his Super League
A father has paid tribute to his “bright, happy son” whose body was found in a tunnel next to a railway line. A jury at Bradford Coroner’s Court today heard how Hassan Mir, who was 14, and of Gloucester Avenue, Bradford Moor, had died from traumatic
Roberts Park in Saltaire will shine with the glow of hundreds of runners’ noses next month during the annual Reindeer Stampede. Now in its third year, the run is organised by Epilepsy Action and raises money for the 600,000 people effected by Epilepsy
Hundreds of photographs, including many history-making images, are to be displayed in a new exhibition at the National Media Museum in Bradford. Called Art of Arrangement, the exhibition will feature both classic examples and works that challenge
Bradford Council’s decision-making executive agreed yesterday to make changes to the council tax exemptions and discounts currently allowed on empty properties and second homes. This will see more than £2 million extra a year being brought in to
An army smoke grenade was used in a bonfire night attack on a new hairdressers in Bradford when it was hurled through the smashed window of the salon. Firefighters attended the incident at DB Hair and Beauty in St Enoch’s Road, Wibsey, at 10pm
A decision by the European Court of Human Rights to snub British law and rule that a Bradford bus driver should not have been sacked from his job because of his BNP membership came under fire last night. Arthur Redfearn, who represented Wibsey
A sub-postmistress left distraught after a chemical was sprayed in her face during a robbery has had her trauma made worse by the organisations who should have helped her, says a Bradford vicar. Victoria Kendall was offered counselling over the
A local “blade runner” told a packed auditorium that running on his prosthetic can sometimes be as difficult as balancing a pencil on its tip. In his talk at Airedale Hospital yesterday, Philip Sheridan, 48, of Worth Village, said the freedom it
Proposed plans for a new extra care housing scheme in Bradford will be available for the public to view next week in order to gather feedback before the final scheme is submitted. The new development is to be built on brownfield land adjacent to
City 0, Chesterfield 0 The goalless draw at Wigan last Tuesday was greeted like the greatest of victories. Last night’s stalemate at Valley Parade felt more like a case of two points slipping away. City never looked threatened against a Chesterfield
Four Bradford amateur footballers are a step closer to winning a professional playing contract with League One side Swindon Town or Leyton Orient. More than 5,000 players from all over the country entered Samsung’s Win A Pro Contract competition
