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  • Dance school drums up votes for Kimberley

    Strictly Come Dancing star Kimberley Walsh’s old dance school has launched a campaign to get the nation voting for the Bradford-born Girls Aloud singer. The DM Academy in Shipley is exhorting the public to “Vote Kimberley!” after the singer, 30

  • Bradford Dragons aim to quickly get over defeat

    Bradford Dragons will look to put last week’s derby disappointment behind them as they return to vcars.co.uk Division One action tomorrow night. The Dragons lost 73-67 at neighbours Leeds Carnegie but have otherwise made a great start to the season

  • Bradford City: O’Neill tips Egan to make full recovery

    Sunderland boss Martin O’Neill is confident that John Egan has the character to bounce back from his double leg-break. The young defender will undergo surgery this morning after returning to the north-east when the horrific injury cut short his

  • Kittrick hails Guiseley spirit after claiming ref justice

    Lions boss Steve Kittrick was philosophical about their midweek setback but was still disappointed by the referee’s handling of two key issues. Guiseley would have claimed a share of the leadership in the Blue Square Bet North Division with a victory

  • Extension plans for petanque in Heckmondwike

    Petanque is proving so popular in Heckmondwike that the town’s club, formed earlier this year, are seeking permission from Kirklees Council to extend their playing area. With 50 members already playing regularly on two terrains in Firth Park, a

  • Thornton and Woods flying Sunday Alliance League flag

    Two Bradford Sunday Alliance League clubs fly the flag in national knockout action this weekend as they compete in the FA Sunday Cup. Thornton United host Birmingham outfit Punchbowl, who play in the Premier Division of the Festival Sunday League

  • Albion Sports feel 'in limbo' over Halifax date

    Albion Sports were looking forward to what may well be the biggest game in their history but have been frustrated as their date with former Football League outfit FC Halifax Town has become flexible. The one certainty is that Albion - based at

  • Bingley Harrier Haynes is golden oldie in Masters

    Bingley Harrier Les Haynes, who turned 70 last month, won individual and team gold representing England in the British and Irish Masters at Queens University in Belfast. The Thackley-based runner was first over-70 by 25 seconds, winning his 6km

  • Bradford Park Avenue pair loaned out for match fitness

    Jamie Jackson and Ross Daly have been sent out on loan but remain part of John Deacey’s plans. The pair have suffered injuries and the Park Avenue boss wants to get them match-fit by playing regularly. Jackson has gone to Evo-Stik Premier side

  • Bradford City Women look to make up ground

    Bradford City face their biggest game of the season to date on Sunday when they take on promotion-chasing Chorley at Thackley AFC desperate to close the gap on their Lancashire rivals in the Northern Women’s Combination League. A wave of postponements

  • Motorcyclist air lifted to hospital after collision with van

    A motorcyclist is in hospital with serious injuries following a crash near Cleckheaton this afternoon. His bike was in collision with a van on the A649 Halifax Road in Scholes, near the junction with Walton Lane. The motorcyclist was airlifted

  • Dales Council League roll of honour

    Farsley’s Ryan Blackburn and Chad Morris, Leeds Sikh’s Harcharan Seehra and Tong Manor’s Steve Phillips were all double winners at the Dales Council League’s annual dinner and prize presentation at Bradford’s Cedar Court Hotel. The John Morgan

  • Royston can help fire up White at Keighley Cougars

    New Cougars capture Paul White is relishing getting up to speed for the new campaign under conditioner Paul Royston. The Denholme-based winger, who is renowned for his pace, became reunited with player-coach Paul March after signing from Halifax

  • Ousted Apperley Bridge join Mutual League

    Twelve days after they were expelled from the Dales Council League, Apperley Bridge have found a new home. The former Bradford Central League club have been admitted to the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League. The league’s annual meeting at

  • Two lanes of M62 remain closed after van overturns

    Two lanes of the eastbound M62 remain closed after a van overturned, shedding its load of drinks cans across the motorway. Police initially shut both carriageways of the busy motorway, but all three westbound lanes and one eastbound lane have now

  • Batley up first for Keighley Cougars

    Paul March will begin his reign as Cougars player-coach with a trip to Batley in the opening game of the 2013 Co-operative Championship season. March has been appointed as successor to Jason Demetriou and his men will face the Bulldogs on their

  • Three lanes of M62 closed due to shed load of drinks cans

    Three lanes of the eastbound M62 are one lane of the westbound carriageway are closed due to a shed load of drinks cans. A van is understood to have overturned during the incident between junction 22 at Rishworth Moor and junction 23 at Huddersfield

  • Charity’s mission to bring relief around world

    Bradford charity, the Human Relief Foundation, has spent two decades delivering aid and relieving crises in strife-torn countries around the world. HRF, which has its international headquarters at Claremont in Great Horton, has been responding

  • Children who are left to care for parents

    Among the children in Bradford living in poverty, some as young as five are taking on roles as carers in their family, says children’s charity Barnardo’s . Each year its Young Carers Service works with about 250 children for whom household tasks

  • £2.8m delight for Bradford College

    A further £2.8 million has been awarded to Bradford College to enhance the existing £49 million funding to create a new state-of-the-art facility. The Skills Funding Agency has announced that the college has been awarded the funding to renovate

  • Groups receive a share of £130,000 grant pot

    More than 30 groups across the district are set to receive a share of almost £130,00 to help run projects that benefit young people. Applications have been submitted to Bradford Council's Youth Opportunity Fund, a pot of £250,000 available to groups

  • Help make a child’s Christmas

    Christmas is, for most of us, a time of great joy. But it is also a hugely expensive season which can be a very worrying time for those suffering economic hardship. That is why we impore you to support the Telegraph & Argus Children’s Secret

  • A waste of money

    SIR – Here we go again. Whose brilliant idea was it this time to waste taxpayers’ money on voting for a Police and Crime Commissioner at a cost of £100 million or so? I had no idea who these people were and we were supposed to put our trust in

  • Holes lot of trouble

    SIR – Re ‘Mower falls into mine shaft’ (T&A, November 16). This is incredible news. This was once the home ground of Mailcoach Odsal FC, of which I was club secretary. To think there were tunnels and shafts below us which could have opened

  • What a light show!

    SIR – My daughter, grandchildren and I went to see the switch-on of the lights in Bradford on Saturday. I never thought Bradford could put on such a wonderful show. Well done, Bradford, let’s have more like it. H Metcalfe, Cavendish Road, Eccleshill

  • Missed opportunity?

    SIR – Mr Kris Hopkins MP has said, in the context of grooming, that most mainstream politicians have failed to address the issue. Included among those failing politicians is one Kris Hopkins. In 2005, Dr James Lewthwaite, and his then-BNP colleagues

  • A headline howler?

    SIR – Don’t you just love the headline writers of the T&A ? ‘Tories hang on to Wharfedale ward’ screams the headline! If all the other candidates’ votes were consolidated into another party, say The Let’s Get Rid of the Tories Party, the total

  • Row site’s origin

    SIR – It was interesting to read the comments about the Baildon footpath row (T&A, November 20), especially the general assumption that people were making about the origin of the land concerned. Without exception the contributors inferred that

  • Incidents on buses must be reported

    SIR – I was astounded to read in the T&A (November 19) about the pensioner being attacked by five thugs on a bus. To some extent I can understand the driver’s position of non-involvement; you don’t go to work to get beaten up. Were there other

  • High Noon outside the school gate

    You can feel it in the air when something’s going to happen. It’s like the wind suddenly dies, the birds fall silent, the scraps of litter that swirl in breezy eddies flop to the pavement. Everyone stops talking. It was a classic face-off.

  • Fire at Bradford car wash under investigation

    Firefighters from Bradford were called to a container fire on the forecourt of a car wash business. The blaze broke out at Bradford Hand Carwash, in Leeds Road, Thornbury, just after 7am today. Electricity cables from an office feeding into

  • Washout summer good for Yeadon airline Jet2

    Leisure airline and package holidays group Dart is braced for second-half losses after boosting profits and turnover by more than 30 per cent in the half-year to September 30, when business was boosted by the UK’s washout summer. Philip Meeson,

  • Healthy-living scheme to be extended across city

    A healthy-living charity which works across Shipley is expanding its work into inner-city Bradford where there are health inequalities. HALE (Health Action Local Engagement) project has teamed up with the Bradford West Area Co-ordinators office

  • Councillors unhappy at plans for new Shearbridge school

    Members of a key planning committee have insisted that plans for the expansion of an inner-city primary school must undergo major revisions before they could consider approving them. Councillors initially deferred the application to replace Princeville

  • Keighley newsagent angry after second shop raid

    A Keighley newsagent said his livelihood was under attack after burglars broke into his business twice this month. Abul Barkat, who has owned Habeeb’s Newsagent in High Street for 12 years, said the raiders inflicted thousands of pounds of damage

  • "Help us bring joy to Bradford district's poorest children"

    Today the Telegraph & Argus launches an important appeal to provide just a little Christmas joy for some of the Bradford district’s 37,000 children who live in poverty. We have teamed up with Bradford-based international charity, the Human

  • £1million boost for alcohol misuse treatment

    Doctors in charge of NHS spending in the district have pledged to make tackling the harm caused by alcohol a priority, as they announce a £1 million investment in more front-line specialist nurses and support staff. Bradford and Airedale’s new

  • Selling Bradford to London deemed ‘a success’

    A London visit by business and civic leaders to promote Bradford as the place to invest has been declared a success, with as many as 100 companies hearing what the district can offer them. Dalton Phillips, the chief executive of Morrisons, told

  • Royal Mail calls for tougher law on dangerous dogs

    Royal Mail bosses have called for tougher legal sanctions against owners of dangerous dogs that attack postmen and women. Figures show that 19 postal workers across the Bradford postcode area were attacked by pets between April 2011 and April 2012

  • Man praises fire service after Shipley house blaze

    A Shipley family who escaped tragedy when a faulty electric blanket sparked a blaze praised fire services for saving their home. Fire broke out yesterday at the detached house in Aireville Rise where the blanket had been used to warm a bed for

  • Bradford City: Meredith’s case for the defence

    James Meredith is convinced City’s back four can ride the latest stunning injury blow. Tuesday’s clean-sheet win over Plymouth was marred by the sight of John Egan being stretchered off with a badly-broken leg. The on-loan Sunderland defender