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  • Live: Bristol Rovers v Bantams

    4:27pm The drought is finally over as James HANSON scores for the first time since September 18. Thompson's cross is right on the button and the big man does the rest with his head. It's 3-3 and surely City aren't going to

  • Sci-fi writer pops in

    Teenagers at a school were inspired by a visit from an author who writes fiction for young adults. Alex Scarrow dropped in at Oakbank School, Keighley, to talk to Year Nine pupils. He spoke about what led him to become a writer and signed copies

  • Layout bid to beat dangerous drivers

    Proposals which are aimed at stopping motorists using the wrong lane to skip the queues at the busy Odsal roundabout are to be brought forward next year. In the meantime police have warned that drivers using the nearside lane at the Rooley Avenue

  • Councillor’s appeal over cycle safety

    A councillor is encouraging schools to help their pupils learn to cycle safely. Councillor Ryk Downes has written to all primary schools in his Otley and Yeadon ward to encourage them to take up free cycle training for their pupils from Leeds City

  • Bradford is in the market for festive fun

    The centre of Bradford will be getting into the festive spirit next week as a Christmas market with dozens of stalls comes to the city. It will feature more than 40 stalls and takes place between 9am and 5pm, from Thursday, November 29, to Sunday

  • Firefighters give charity a cash lift

    Bradford fire station handed over a cheque for £566 to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance after raising the cash through a social night. Fire station commander Richard Hall passed the money on to Kerry Garner, West Yorkshire regional fundraiser for the

  • Cricket hero Moin Ashraf out to aid Gaza children

    Yorkshire fast bowler Moin Ashraf is using Twitter to raise money for the children currently suffering in Gaza. The Bradford-born fast bowler is auctioning off cricket memorabilia during the next month, starting with a Chennai Super Kings shirt

  • Airedale Hospital praised for care of vulnerable people

    Airedale Hospital has been praised for the way it treats elderly patients in a national report by a health watchdog. The State of Care report published yesterday by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), highlights the findings of an unannounced visit

  • Dare to drop Torres? Only in fantasy land

    Any minute now I’m expecting to see imposing Siberian shadows and a knock at the door. You see, I’ve just done the unthinkable – I’ve dropped Fernando Torres. He who must never been left out will be surplus to the requirements of my fantasy

  • ‘Predatory stores’ put pubs at risk

    An MP is urging all of the major supermarket chains to stop “predatory purchasing” pubs across the country. Greg Mulholland, MP for Leeds North West, is also calling on the Government to close a planning loophole that allows the “scandal” of losing

  • Cue the Arsenal ticket frenzy

    The queue began early, three hours before the office was due to open. But then nobody wants to miss out on watching Arsenal at Valley Parade. Phase two of City’s sales operation kicked in this week. After the season-ticket and flexi-card holders

  • Concern at dangerous empty chip shop in Eccleshill

    Children narrowly avoided injury when high winds ripped a board off a “death trap” former fish and chip shop in Eccleshill. The youngsters were in a car outside the crumbling former Plaice to Eat shop, when the board slammed on to the vehicle’s

  • Warning that high speed rail link may damage Bradford

    by Chris Holland Business Reporter Extending the proposed High Speed Rail 2 link to West Yorkshire would damage Bradford's regeneration and accelerate the city's decline, a former rail industry chief has claimed. Phase one of the £33 billion high-speed

  • Bradford bus firm did not keep footage of yobs’ attack

    Police have no CCTV evidence of the moment a 68-year-old pensioner was viciously attacked by a gang of yobs on a Bradford bus. As the Telegraph & Argus exclusively reported on Monday, grandfather Fred Gilroy was kicked and punched to the floor

  • Regeneration of slum site on track

    The first phase of plans to regenerate the Goitside area of Bradford city centre is on course to be completed by March. A report into the four-pronged project also reveals that work could begin on a second phase, which would give a new lease of

  • MPs call on Government to act over housing

    MPs in Bradford have warned the city’s “housing timebomb” is likely to get worse before it gets better without urgent Government action. Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe last night urged cross-party MPs to lobby Housing Minister Mark Prisk about

  • Otley teenage thug in Shipley train station attack

    A gang of hooded muggers who attacked a rail commuter and stole his rucksack and phone had left their victim with deep psychological damage, Bradford Crown Court heard. Oliver Hemingway and three accomplices pounced on the middle-aged man from

  • Three crashes bring chaos to Bradford roads

    Three crashes in less than an hour brought chaos to the roads today. The first, at 1.40pm, saw a transit van smash into two police cars as it was allegedly speeding from the scene of a burglary. Officers had been called to reports of a burglary

  • Bradford Bulls prop Scruton vows: aisle be back with a bang

    Nick Scruton will tie the knot today to cap a momentous year off the pitch – but is already looking ahead to a massive 2013 on it. The Bulls prop endured an injury-stricken campaign during 2012 after being sidelined by a long-term shoulder problem

  • Paedophile assaulted girl, aged six

    A predatory paedophile who cruised Bradford’s streets hunting for young girls was today behind bars after he was found guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Car salesman Qamar Malik, 28, was also convicted by a jury