Jack Hawksworth has been tipped to “show what he is truly capable of” in 2013 by former Formula One world champion John Surtees OBE. The motorsport legend presented the gifted Bradford-born speed ace with the Henry Surtees Award at the prestigious
Injury-hit Bradford Dragons must shrug off a heavy defeat in last weekend’s double-header as they travel to Derby Trailblazers tomorrow night. The Dragons edged out Medway Park Crusaders 68-65 but then ran out of steam and slumped 79-61 to Hemel
Generous shoppers have demonstrated goodwill by donating food to the needy as part of the Help Feed People In Need project between a Bradford foodbank and Tesco. Shoppers heading to the Peel Centre Tesco in Canal Road last weekend were urged to
A birthday card aimed at 13 year old girls and which suggests they can get a rich boyfriend in a year’s time “when you’ve bigger boobies” has been roundly condemned for sexualising children. Bradford-based Hallmark has said they will now track
Proposals to reduce second-team matches to 45 overs and play matches to a conclusion in the evenings as long as bad light and weather permit were narrowly defeated during the Aire-Wharfe League’s annual meeting at Otley Rugby Union Club. Silsden
Mohammed Esa Hussain is making quite a name for himself in the world of kick boxing – at the age of five! The Hollingwood Primary School pupil has amassed quite a collection of trophies as he regularly beats older children in the tournaments he
It seems to be one step forward and one step back for Bradford Park Avenue boss John Deacey in his attempts to strengthen his squad ahead of the busy Christmas period. After signing two more players to add to the capture of Simon Garner, the Horsfall
A new six-a-side league is being set up at Nethermoor Park’s 4G pitch in Guiseley. Organisers are appealing for teams to register ahead of the big kick-off. The league will run every Sunday evening between 6pm and 8pm and games will last for
Guiseley boss Steve Kittrick feels his side learned from last season’s concerted promotion push and hopes they can go that one step further this term. Last week’s win at struggling Hinckley United filled the manager with renewed optimism but he
Bradford City have had good radio coverage ahead of their Women’s FA Cup first qualifying-round tie against Stockport at Thackley FC on Sunday. But the question remains as to whether it goes ahead in the light of a series of postponements over
Ilkley’s Josh White has scooped a subsidised prize drive in the 2013 Ginetta Junior Championship with multiple title-winning team Hillspeed after emerging as the successful candidate from a scholarship ‘shoot-out’ featuring 12 of the best young competitors
Quest Taekwondo took 18 young members to a grass-roots tournament in Doncaster and they returned with 12 category wins between them. The competitors – from Baildon, Bingley, Greengates, Cullingworth, Silsden and Settle – took part in the sparring
Eccleshill United Eyebrows will have been raised throughout non-league football following the appointment of the highly-qualified and vastly-experienced Bobby Davison as coach at Eccleshill United. Davison needs no introduction as a former Leeds
Otley Badminton Club are offering a free racket to anyone who completes a new adult beginners’ course backed by Badminton England. The six-week course starts on Friday, January 11 at Prince Henry’s Grammar School and follows its launch at a sports
Two Bradford Sunday Alliance League clubs will try for a third time to fulfil their FA Sunday Cup ties this weekend. Rain and then frost have denied Thornton United and Bolton Woods in the national knockout competition over the last two weekends
Leeds Carnegie rising star Jack Walker, 16, has received national recognition for an incredible year that has seen him play international rugby above his own age group and learn skills from World Cup-winner Jonny Wilkinson. Prince Henry’s Grammar
Airedale Hospital’s achievement in being named the joint second-best hospital in England in the annual Dr Foster report has been hailed on the floor of the House of Commons by Ilkley MP Kris Hopkins. Speaking at Business Questions, Mr Hopkins told
A town councillor is fuming after workers clumsily painted no-waiting hatch lines near his market stall in Skipton town centre. The lines, next to Councillor Martin Emmerson’s slipper stall at Manby’s Corner, have left rivulets of yellow paint
THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS (18, 96 mins) ** Starring RZA, Rick Yune, Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, Byron Mann, David Bautista, Jamie Chung, Daniel Wu, Chen Kuan Tai, Andrew Lion, Grace Huang. Director: RZA. Shot on location in China, The Man With The
Renowned gipsy music trio Koshka are bringing a seasonal flavour of Russia to Saltaire this month. Described as vibrant and enthralling, the music is interspersed with light-hearted Russian anecdotes, providing an insight into the country’s cultural
CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER (15, 92 mins) ** Starring Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Will McCormack, Emma Roberts, Elijah Wood, Chris Messina, Rebecca Dayan, Ari Graynor, Eric Christian Olsen. Director: Lee Toland Krieger. Love burns fierce and bright
City tonight confirmed they are to appeal against being booted out of the FA Cup for fielding an ineligible player in their second-round tie against Brentford last Friday. The Bantams did not receive written permission for Curtis Good, on loan
An exhibition of works from the early stage of David Hockney’s career is to open at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. David Hockney: The Early Years will bring together items that have rarely been seen in public including the large oil painting A View
The Bishop of Bradford joined members of the community to celebrate the Near Neighbours programme. Near Neighbours brings people together in religiously and ethnically diverse communities, creating friendships, building relationships of trust and
A Keighley Town Councillor believes it has a solution to the town’s long waiting lists for allotments, but says Bradford Council is unwilling to help. Coun Brian Morris has identified several small sites around the town he feels would be ideal
A new performance singing group starting up in Bradford desperately needs a keyboard player to help them rock. The Sing From The Heart group is for adults with learning and physical disabilities and is the brainchild of Maralyn Adey who sings with
The last time Lynda Bellingham was on the Alhambra stage the only thing she was wearing was a smile. This time around, the popular actress is the shimmering Fairy Godmother, working her magic to get Cinders to the ball in West Yorkshire’s biggest
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (15, 110 mins) **** Starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko, Gabourey Sidibe, Michael Pitt, Michael Stuhlbarg. Director: Martin McDonagh
Members of Buttershaw St Paul’s Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society are well into rehearsals for Return to the Forbidden Planet at St George’s Hall in early 2013. The juke box musical, featuring a lively score from the 1950s and 60s, follows
Norwegian singer Maaike Breijman not only shares a birthday with Kate Bush, she is also said to have an uncanny resemblance in appearance, performance and vocal style with the iconic singer. In February Maaike brings her tribute show, Wow, to Bradford
The New Bradford Playhouse has opened its doors to visual artists by creating an exhibition space in the basement of the Little Germany theatre. The first exhibition showcases the work of printmaker June Russell, painter Patricia Calver and photographer
Following their successful pantomime run at Guiseley Theatre, Carpetbaggers Theatre Group welcomes back Guiseley’s own Elvis, to sing carols for an audience of diners. The Christmas concert will be held at the newly-refurbished Wetherby Whaler
A new bistro and deli is to open tonight in Centenary Square. Forster Community College is behind Forster’s Bistro and Deli, a 100-seat restaurant, which aims to provide quality dining with a fresh and locally-inspired menu. The restaurant
A motorist had a lucky escape when a car crashed into a wall and ended up on its roof on Haworth Road, Cullingworth, this morning. The incident, not far from the Flappit, is believed to have been caused by icy conditions. It happened just before
A collision between a tractor and a car led to traffic chaos for motorists travelling near Pool and Bramhope this morning. The A660 at Pool Bank, just before the Harrogate Road turning, was closed after the 7.30am collision because an electrical
A rather distressing rumour has reached me, one that is apparently circulating around primary schools in the Bradford area. It is obviously a blatant lie, an insidious untruth that nefarious individuals for reasons best known to themselves have decided
SIR – Merry Christmas to all at the T&A and to all of you that write letters, keeping us up to date with your moans, sorry, your opinions, on how you feel about everyday goings on within this city. You have had a full year to express how you
SIR – One of the biggest points to get across to people when trying to understand politics and economics is the simple fact that since the 1980s, the two are no longer related. The whole ethos of Free Market Economics (which Thatcher introduced
SIR – So Tony Blair says we would lose our global leadership role if we leave the EU. Is that statement meant to be a joke? How can we lead anything if we are ruled by those unselected clowns in Brussels? Me thinks Mr Blair has got designs
SIR – Bradford’s new City Centre Growth Zone has enabled the opening of a new bistro and bar in Centenary Square, creating 16 full-time jobs and training opportunities for catering students (T&A, November 27). Not so long ago, Bradford Council
SIR – It seems, judging by T&A reports on November 21 and 22, that neither Rob Higgie nor Mark Burns-Williamson have really understood the new Crime Commissioner’s proper role. If they read the Home Office blurb, they will find a number of
From the T&A... 25 years ago: The “Herculean” efforts of Bradfordians to bring their city back from the doldrums were praised by one of Britain’s top industrialists. Bradford University chancellor Sir John Harvey-Jones, former chairman of ICI
A new calendar features snapshots of life in Heaton and Manningham throughout the 20th century. Every year, Heaton Graveyard Community Project produces a calendar, using vintage photos of local scenes. This year, photos show trams in Highgate in
A charity that works with homeless people in Bradford has reported that demand is rising as winter bites. The warning comes as national charity Shelter revealed that it had seen an 80 per cent increase over three years in the number of people its
It is heartening to hear of a Bradford-based company doing well at any time, but the success of cleaning products manufacturer Astonish is cause for celebration on more than one front. With the country still struggling through one of the worst
On Monday night at a champagne reception at London’s Tate Britain gallery, actor Jude Law announced the winner of the £25,000 Turner Prize for art. Elizabeth Price looked momentarily stunned when her name was read out and she was invited to the stage
Patients at hospitals in Bradford praised doctors for treating them with respect, but criticised waiting room delays in a national study of accident and emergency care. The Care Quality Commission surveyed 205 people who had attended A&E at
Phil Parkinson has a simple message for his players as City’s marathon campaign gathers pace – keep calm and stay professional. The Bantams will play their 30th game of the season and their second of eight in December when promotion rivals Torquay
Bradford Council traffic officers and policing teams are teaming up to educate drivers and enforce speed restrictions in South Bradford, and hope to receive £3,000 for extra equipment. The trial method of working will focus on the Royds, Wibsey
Masked raiders attacked a Bradford mum and tried to suffocate her in a terrifying gold jewellery robbery at her Bradford home. Farnaz Khan, her 18-year-old daughter Farzana, and two of her neighbour’s children aged eight and nine were subjected
A pilot project inspiring residents in Bradford city centre to make a difference in their communities started this week. Neighbourhood Ventures, which was awarded more than £5,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All for the initiative, will
Hundreds of vintage enthusiasts are set to help support the Telegraph & Argus Children’s Secret Santa Appeal tomorrow. Caroline Brown, organiser of Saltaire’s Vintage Home & Fashion Fair, is hoping collectors will show seasonal goodwill
Bradford grandmother-of-eight Sarasvati Patel has fallen in love with the internet – and now a campaign has started to inspire hundreds of thousands of older people across Yorkshire to do the same. The 62-year-old ‘silver surfer’ from Horton Grange
The search is on for toys and games from the 1970s for a project to create a period house of the time at Bradford Industrial Museum. The Friends of Bradford Museums group has been refurbishing the Bradford Council-run site’s back-to-back houses
A witness told a murder trial jury yesterday that the victim had a bad temper and was more aggressive than the man accused of killing him. Josef Dianovsky told Bradford Crown Court he tried to separate victim Roman Copija and Jacek Adamczewski
A Bradford solicitor accused of conspiracy to nobble witnesses in a £300,000 fake Duracell drink fraud trial told a jury he never paid off anyone. Solicitor Majed Iqbal, 32, admitted he flew to Dubai two months before a trial of three Bradford
More tax rises and welfare cuts are “on the cards” in the three years after the 2015 general election to fill a £27 billion gap in the Government’s budgets, a respected economic think-tank warned last night. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said
Adrian Purtell has been handed a massive boost after being given the green light to resume his playing career. The Bulls centre’s future was plunged into serious doubt when he suffered a heart attack in the aftermath of the Magic Weekend encounter
A pensioner has been jailed for sexually abusing a six-year-old girl during trips to the Philippines. Churchgoing Raymond Keeley, who had never offended against children before, confessed to his bishop and wanted help with his problems, Bradford
A 51-year-old man who was warned to expect a long prison sentence for repeatedly raping a girl over a four-year period had his sentencing adjourned until next month. George Leadbitter, of Grayswood Crescent, Holme Wood, Bradford, was remanded back
Curtis Good was not quite sure what he was letting himself in for when he joined City on a short-term loan deal from Newcastle last month. The 19-year-old Australian knew little of English football other than the Premier League fare he had watched
Ricky Ravenhill column: I don’t think I’ve known a season like this. We’re coming up to Christmas and as things stand we are going well in the league and still alive in all the cup competitions. That’s absolutely unbelievable for a League Two
