Rawdon racing driver Sam Tordoff finished his challenge for the 2012 Carrera Cup GB with a win and second place at Brands Hatch. The two podiums and near-maximum 39 points took Tordoff to third place overall at the end of only his second season
Leeds Carnegie No 8 Rob Baldwin is sure that his new team will get a warm welcome from supporters in Wharfedale when the team play there on Saturday in their ‘On the Road’ Championship fixture against Moseley. Baldwin, who was captain of Wharfedale
Whetley Lane face a repeat of last year’s final when they take on Harrogate in a West Riding Vets Cup group game at Marley Stadium on Monday (8pm). Manager Sean Kerry hands a debut to former Farsley player Paul Stephenson as Lane look to build
Former Wales international Ivor Powell, who died this week aged 96, will be remembered as a hard but fair man during his two and a half years as City player-manager in the 1950s. His death brings to an end an extraordinary football career spanning
Jason Gillespie is not worried about the possibility of having his Yorkshire squad significantly hit by international call-ups next summer. In fact, the Australian is happy to see more of it. As the White Rose county first-team coach enjoys a well-earned
Bradford Bulls have unveiled a four-year £1.2million sponsorship deal, believed to be one of the biggest the Super League has ever seen, with money-lending firm Provident Financial Group. The news was announced at a press conference at Odsal stadium
Bradford Park Avenue may have lost their FA Cup first-round tie at Doncaster Rovers last weekend but they won the battle for hearts and minds. Avenue headed to the Keepmoat Stadium as huge underdogs but any neutrals would have had trouble defining
Domestic cup football replaces county ties as knockout action takes centre stage for a second successive week in the Bradford Sunday Alliance League. Premier Division leaders Buttershaw White Star host mid-table rivals Dudley Hill Rangers in their
Guiseley face a testing FA Cup first-round replay on Tuesday but manager Steve Kittrick knows his side will be led by a captain determined to ensure the club progress. The Lions allowed a 2-0 lead to evaporate against Barrow last Saturday and must
Airedale Hospital staff who take blood from patients now have a distinctive new image. Members of the phlebotomy team are seen here proudly sporting their new uniforms. The staff run a drop-in service taking blood from patients. The team is
Bradford City will be hoping their wretched run of four successive postponements ends on Sunday against unbeaten North East Regional Women’s League side Rothwell in the third qualifying round of the FA Women’s Cup at Thackley. City, still undefeated
Thieves masquerading as a family on a day out have been striking at beauty spots in Otley, Bramhope and Eccup. Visitors to Otley Chevin, Eccup Reservoir and Golden Acre Park are being warned by police to be on their guard following a spate of recent
Kulwinder Sandhu has been delighted with the recent form of his Albion Sports squad and feels the club are doing better than merely consolidating their standing on the non-league ladder. Albion are in just their second season on the football pyramid
A Saltaire stalwart who prepared the ground for two decades on his way home from a night shift has won the Sir Leonard Hutton Trophy, the JCT600 Bradford League’s top accolade. Julien Young has served the Roberts Park club for 51 years and becomes
The annual meeting of the Bradford Cricket League Umpires’ Association will be held at Cleckheaton Sports Club on Thursday, November 29 (7.30pm).
Bradford Bulls have unveiled a four-year £1.2million sponsorship deal, believed to be one of the biggest the Super League has ever seen, with money-lending firm Provident Financial Group. The news was announced at a press conference at Odsal stadium
A new booklet has been published to guide people around a geological trail. The trail and booklet for Penistone Hill, near Haworth, have been developed by the West Yorkshire Geology Trust. The 20-page booklet was written by geologist and trust
PEOPLE LIKE US (12A, 114 mins) *** Starring Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Hall D’Addario, Jon Favreau, Michelle Pfeiffer, Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Dean Chekvala. Director: Alex Kurtzman here are skeletons aplenty cluttering up one family
Brave servicemen and women who lost their lives in conflict will be remembered in the Bradford district as Remembrance Day services take place on Sunday. The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Dale Smith, will attend the service at Bradford Cenotaph
UK metal band I.C.O.N are about to undertake their most extensive UK tour to date continuing the promotion of their debut album New Born Lie. The tour, which ends in December, arrives in Bradford tonight at The Gasworks. I.C.O.N consists of
An Army veteran who admitted “screaming” at Comet staff for refusing gift vouchers has told of his relief at the retailer changing its mind. Disabled Malcolm Thorn, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, said he “let it all out” when
The first of the district’s Industrial Centres of Excellence has been unveiled at Shipley College. Representatives from four of the region’s leading employers signed up last night to the scheme between Shipley College, Titus Salt School, Bradford
It’s full steam ahead for a miniature railway’s expansion plans. Spenborough Model Engineers have been delighting children and big children alike for decades with their miniature railway in, aptly, Littletown. Now they plan to turn their clubhouse
HERE COMES THE BOOM (12A, 104 mins) ** Starring Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Bas Rutten, Greg Germann, Mark DellaGrotte, Charice. Director: Frank Coraci Here Comes The Boom initially sets out its stall as a broad comedy, before trading
The mother of a Bradford soldier who died in Afghanistan says she will be proud to join the Lord Mayor’s Remembrance Day parade in the city on Sunday. Monica Kershaw’s son Christopher was killed along with five of his comrades when their armoured
Dementia workers in Bradford have welcomed a rallying call for members of the public to become “dementia friends”. The Government wants to train a million people in England by 2015 to provide support for dementia sufferers. This will mean people
When he pulls on his maroon brewery-issue blazer, Al Murray is the lager-swigging, xenophobic Pub Landlord, holding court from behind his bar. But in reality Al is a softly-spoken, thoughtful Oxford graduate with a passion for history. The
ARGO (15, 120 mins) **** Starring Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Tate Donovan, Scoot McNairy, Kerry Bishe, Christopher Denham, Clea DuVall, Rory Cochrane, Victor Garber. Director: Ben Affleck iction couldn’t be any stranger than the truth
A consortium which is constructing two new schools in Bradford has pledged they will be completed, despite one of its partners going into administration. The Telegraph & Argus reported yesterday that The Patton Group, based in Northern Ireland
Bradford Festival Choral Society has turned to jazz for its next production. Tomorrow evening, the choir will perform Mass In Blue by Will Todd, whose song The Call Of Wisdom was commissioned for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in St Paul's
Bradford Catholic Players are stepping back to the Roaring Twenties for their production of high-spirited musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. The show, running at the Alhambra from November 21 to 24, is set in New York City in 1922. Millie Dillmount
Ste Clough’s latest musical theatre role has left him as happy as a pig in muck. Ste, who grew up in Cleckheaton, is currently appearing as one of the three pigs (pictured) in Shrek The Musical in London’s West End. The young actor has starred
The Weeton & Huby Players are preparing to mark their 90th season with a challenging two-hander in which the actors play seven parts each. Two, by Jim Cartwright – who also wrote The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, which visited the Alhambra
Metal fans are in for a treat when Firewall take to the stage. Don’t expect to hear the usual repertoire of cover versions, though, the Hull fourpiece pride themselves on playing “only the hardest and heaviest tunes”. Vocalist Mark Pollard
Forty years after St Bede’s classmates Chris Norman, Alan Silson and Terry Uttley decided to form a rock band, the members of Smokie are on the road again. Apart from a brief hiatus in the early 1980s, the band has rarely been off the road. When
This weekend the nation will remember them. As the Last Post is played at Remembrance services throughout the country on Sunday, silent tributes will be paid to those who lost their lives during both world wars and other conflicts. Gathering
A bar will buck the national trend and undergo a £450,000 refurbishment in the new year, creating 15 new jobs. Amber Taverns plans to merge the Old Library pub and Berlin’s nightclub on Main Street, Bingley, into a single bar, mezzanine floor,
Bradford Bulls’ fans are planning to stage a play in memory of club legend Trevor Foster to mark the 50th anniversary of the rescue of Bradford Northern. The show will chronicle the life of the late Welsh forward, who acted as a figurehead for
A royal oak tree is to be planted by Clayton parish councillors in Victoria Park, Clayton, to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The planting will take place at 11am tomorrow in a new Jubilee Garden currently under construction on the site
From the T&A... 25 years ago: Pregnant women could face nightmare journeys to hospital under a controversial £3.5 million shake-up of Bradford’s maternity services, a leading health watchdog warned today 50 years ago: Classroom space, achieved
The Government’s initiative to create a volunteer army of friends for those who suffer dementia is a very welcome move in the fight to improve the lives of those who are hit by this terrible disease. It comes on the back of good work already done
THE SAPPHIRES(PG, 103 mins) **** Starring Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Miranda Tapsell, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Tory Kittles. Director: Wayne Blair. Based on Tony Briggs’s 2004 stage play, The Sapphires is a crowd-pleasing, feel-good comedy
SIR – Further to reading the report (T&A, November 7) regarding taxpayers’ money paid out by Airedale Primary Care Trust in redundancy payments, I was slightly surprised by the amount. Many readers may consider £2.7 million of redundancy payments
SIR – In Islam, we need less because we look for the barakah (blessings) in things; we don’t deal in usury; we tell the truth and reveal defects when we have business dealings; we help our neighbour and everyone shares and looks out for everyone else
SIR – Having just read the T&A front page (November 7, pictured) and Comment, I am disgusted with Gerry Sutcliffe and Serco. I am not a member or supporter of the BNP. Indeed, I think their racist views are abhorrent. But to sack a man purely
SIR – This week is National Adoption Week, and Barnardo’s in Yorkshire is looking to highlight a chronic shortage of people coming forward to adopt. Successful adoptions not only change the life of a child for the better but also that of their
SIR – After having the finest police force in the world since policing was introduced, we now have to appoint a Police Commissioner to control things. It appears that this is to be a position for a politician. Politicians cannot run our city or
Following last week’s revelations that as a youth I had never been to an organised bonfire, our community instead preferring to make our own fire-based entertainment on a patch of land in the street, my wife came to the conclusion that as a child I
SIR – We in Britain are rightly proud of our democracy, but how far do our governments allow us to truly exercise it? We are at pains to point to other countries where there is little or none. However, there are plenty of instances where our exercise
Bradford Bulls’ new owners are expected to unveil the club’s main sponsor for next season later today. It is believed new owners Omar Khan and honorary chairman Gerry Sutcliffe will announce a big-money deal with money-lending firm Provident Financial
Guy Branston would love to see Phil Parkinson lead City to promotion this season – even though he bombed him out. The pair will come face to face for the first time since the outspoken centre half’s exit when the Bantams face Branston’s Aldershot
A butcher from the district has scooped a hat-trick of gold awards in a national contest. Ellisons, of Cullingworth, took the accolades for its traditional pork sausages and pork pies and its Lamb Chunkie – part of a leg of lamb, scored and marinaded
Detectives investigating an indecent assault on a 13-year-old Ilkley girl on-board a train are linking the incident to a separate attack on a 38-year-old Keighley woman. Officers from British Transport Police (BTP) last week released CCTV images
Phil Parkinson believes City can prey on Aldershot’s fragile confidence and keep them pinned to the foot of League Two. Like City, the Shots had a goalless home draw in midweek after playing for an hour with ten men against fellow strugglers Wycombe
Jamie Foster last night signed a one-year permanent deal with the Bulls and declared himself confident of proving a success at Odsal. The goal-kicking winger had one year left on his contract at St Helens but has joined Bradford in search of regular
Businessmen and women last night began a night living on the streets of Bradford in a bid to help the district’s homeless. The Suits on the Street event was organised by Bradford charity Inn Churches, which provides emergency accommodation for
TV antiques dealer Tim Hogarth today pledged to carry on trading, despite another robbery at one of his Bradford shops. Shop manager Amanda Ryan was forced to hand over £500 after the armed raider pointed a gun at her. The masked man then grappled
Cancer patients at Airedale Hospital are being made more comfortable during treatment – thanks to an £85,000 refurbishment of the Haematology Oncology Day Unit (HODU). The funding has come from charitable donations from patients, relatives and
A woman who says her mother was “condemned” to death after being placed on the Liverpool Care Pathway without her knowledge is calling on the Government to force hospitals to stop using the controversial programme for elderly patients. Mother-of-three
A church missionary has been jailed for sexually abusing a 14-year-old schoolgirl he preached to and “chastised”. Matthias Heinrichs incited the teenager to send him naked photos and graphically described how he wanted to take her virginity, Bradford
A man was in custody last night after he was arrested at gunpoint following an hour-long police siege outside a house in Saltaire, Shipley. Armed response units were called in yesterday afternoon after officers, who had been sent to the address
Eight teenagers were arrested yesterday following an alleged assault in Keighley. Two boys, aged 15 and 16, were taken to hospital following an incident on Spring Gardens Lane on Wednesday afternoon. A police spokesman said officers were called
