Angry locals voiced their frustration last night at the long-running saga of a new rail station for Low Moor. More than 70 people turned up for a public meeting with representatives from Metro, Network Rail and Northern Rail. Many residents
Bradford Royal Infirmary hit tough A&E waiting targets in December despite an incredible surge in the number of people seeking treatment. The “tremendous efforts” of hospital staff were praised by hospital management and foundation trust governors
Airedale General Hospital was today given a slice of a £25 million fund to improve maternity units. The hospital in Steeton, near Keighley, will receive £748,000 for its New Life: Improving The Birthing Experience project. The scheme aims to
The Bradford Mutual Sunday School League may be taking a new direction with their annual dinner. “We should look at Asian food,” said Mohammed Amir Majid of Bradford Moor YCA. Last year’s dinner was held at the Dubrovnik Hotel on Oak Avenue
Bradford City’s reserve game at Hartlepool tonight was postponed because of a frozen pitch – the Bantams' second string have not played for over three months.
Amateur Colin Peace missed out on the top prizes during the trip of a lifetime to compete in the United Arab Emirates. The 22-handicapper, who plays at Willow Valley near Brighouse, and 14-handicap partner Malcolm Crowson, from Leeds, finished
Popular cricket personality Peter Birbeck, known to hundreds of the sport’s followers as the ‘tie man’, has died in a Farsley care home aged 79. A keen cricket supporter at league and county level, he always had a supply of ties with him at matches
Bradford's billiards side and snooker's Division Three leaders Bradford No 2 are both in action at the weekend in the Yorkshire Inter-District League. The billiards team of Stephen Kershaw, Paul Devitt and John McEachran host Huddersfield
Tom Addison won his first Soreen Stanbury Splash on Haworth Moor, beating reigning champion Tom Adams by just a second in a thrilling finish. The six-mile Woodentops fell race, featuring 900 feet of climb, was a changed route due to Ponden Kirk
The Upper Airedale Junior Cricket Association paid tribute to Derek Hurren at their annual meeting. The organisation’s secretary died aged 61 just before Christmas after a short illness. Hurren, who lived in Cononley, took up his role as league
Sir James Roberts Cup holders Great Horton Church have received a bye into the second round of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League’s blue-riband event. They will be at home to Yorkshire LPS on Sunday, May 26. Hallfield, runners-up in 2012,
The draws for the Solly Sports Heavy Woollen Cup and Crowther Cup were postponed last night because of the snow. They will now take place next Tuesday at Gomersal Cricket Club (7.30).
To mark Bradford City's historic victory in the Capital One Cup semi-final, the T&A published a 12 page supplement in our souvenir edition today. It's packed with reports, pictures, analysis and reaction from last night's game, which saw City
An expanding Bradford-based logistics and distribution group will help open the gateway for Yorkshire exports to southern China with the launch of freight forwarding operations. Advanced Supply Chain, based on the Euroway trading estate, has announced
A firefighter has thanked work colleagues who saved his life after he broke his neck in a road accident. Mike Titmarsh, a watch commander at Shipley fire station, snapped two vertebrae when he cycled into the back of a coach. He was on his
by Miran Rahman T&A Reporter Construction work on a residential site in the district has ground to a halt after the firm in charge of the project went into administration. Britannia Developments was building 14 houses at the Charlotte Court
The Sweeney (Cert 15, 108 mins, Entertainment One). Starring Ray Winstone, Ben Drew, Hayley Atwell, Steven Mackintosh, Damian Lewis, Kara Tointon, Paul Anderson ** Flying Squad hard man DI Jack Regan (Winstone) and sidekick George Carter (Drew)
Beyond Here Lies Nothing by Gary McMahon (Solaris Books, £7.99) Gary McMahon is a sick man and should be avoided at all costs. I don’t think he’ll mind me saying that, because being a sick man is sort of McMahon’s business. The Pudsey-based
The T&A story of Billy Pearce and members of the Cinderella panto cast visiting Bradford Royal Infirmary, reminded Wilsden reader Baron Owen of the occasion in January 1948 when the pantomime being presented at the Alhambra was also Cinderella,
A Bradford-based education agency has been hailed for playing its part in boosting British export earnings. Study Links International Ltd, based in Low Moor, which specialises in helping overseas students aged between seven and 19 study at UK boarding
A Bradford-based education agency has been hailed for playing its part in boosting British export earnings. Study Links International Ltd, based in Low Moor, which specialises in helping overseas students aged between seven and 19 study at UK boarding
Keighley Town Council chiefs still believe the town’s Civic Centre, which is maintained with council funds, can someday pay for itself. The Council re-opened the empty North Street Centre, formally the town’s police station, last summer, and it
Trading Standards officials are warning Bradford people who are tempted to buy electrical goods from the back of vans not to be so hasty despite wanting a bargain. Although a new television at a knock-down price might be hard to resist, it could
Councillors joined forces last night to call for Bradford Council to help support credit unions in the district ahead of the introduction of major benefit changes later this year. It comes amid fears that the Universal Credit single payment could
25 years ago: Football fanatic Garry Sawyer, 34, announced that his newborn son reminded him of his soccer idol, Bradford Park Avenue’s Jimmy Scoular. Mr Sawyer said little James had “legs like Jimmy Scoular’s”. 50 years ago: Many people in Bradford
Sweeping benefit changes have prompted much debate. Child benefit is the latest financial support to come under scrutiny. For families who are comfortably off, child benefit could be seen as ‘pin money’, but to those less well-off that little extra
SIR – It would appear that nothing in Bradford is safe from the hands of Leeds, and nothing is sacred either. The demise of the Bradford diocese is lamented by churchgoers and non-churchgoers alike, and also those not of the Christian religion
It was in many ways the impossible dream. But Phil Parkinson and his band of Bradford City heroes made it real last night. How many fans who travelled to Birmingham or who watched the game on television last night woke up this morning and pinched
SIR – As a long-exiled Bradfordian (left in September 1968), I still care and have concern for the city of my birth, education and upbringing. I allow myself occasional daydreams and constructive wishful thinking. How would I redevelop the
SIR – Perhaps the main lesson that history teaches us is that history continues to repeat itself. Unfortunately, the lessons learned are either soon forgotten or conveniently ignored. I recall in the early 1960s that another ex-French colony sought
SIR – I have been interested to read the articles about the fire at the old cinema in Shipley. It is indeed a sad day that such an iconic building has been destroyed. My only question is, if it was so important, why wasn't it looked after properly?
SIR – We have been told that prospective tenants, including M&S and Debenhams have signed commitments to take space in the Westfield development. To be meaningful, these commitments will not be open ended, but will detail the latest dates for
SIR – As a member of the the Bronte Birthplace Trust and Councillor for Thornton and Allerton Ward, I was totally dismayed to hear from the Council that our right to a Community Bid for the Bronte Birthplace was not valid due to the fact that it had
SIR – Tremendous news that Yorkshire is to receive the 2014 Tour de France. Congratulations, therefore, to those who were instrumental in bringing it to the county. Not only do we get to see this spectacle, but some of our most scenic routes will
You really wouldn’t want to be a politician with all the difficult decisions they have to make. Not only do they have to satisfy the needs, and self-interest, of the public that elect them, but they also have to keep in mind the future of the country
Jubilant Phil Parkinson insisted City’s Wembley-bound cup heroes will go down in history. The Bantams will face either Chelsea or Swansea in next month’s Capital One Cup final after writing another extraordinary chapter in the story of their
Aston Villa 2 Bradford City 1 City win 4-3 on aggregate Don’t just look for them, start booking those hotels for London. Bradford City are off to Wembley. “This is the best trip we’ve ever been on.” For years, the put-upon Bantam fans have
James Donaldson believes Bulls coach Francis Cummins will have a selection headache for next weekend’s Super League opener at home to Wakefield. Donaldson made his comeback from injury when playing the last 20 minutes of Danny McGuire’s testimonial
MPs today heap praise on Bradford Council for continuing to provide vital careers guidance in schools – as they condemned a “worrying deterioration” across the rest of England. The authority is picked out as one of the few that still offer advice
Witty ways with snow were on show across the district as folk found ways of making their own unique snowmen. There was a handstanding fellow in one Bradford garden, and a tour de force of a Tour de France homme de neige in another. As ever,
A man accused of the murder of four-year-old Keighley boy Riley Turner will appear before a crown court judge today. Anwar Rosser, 32, is alleged to have murdered the boy at Harewood Road, Keighley, on January 20 this year. Riley, an identical
A 20-year-old struck down by a rare paralysing infection could be helped back on his feet by a new trust fund called Operation Bambi. Callum Hall, who has worked at The Station Pub in Guiseley for one and a half years, was fit and healthy until
Two men are on trial at Bradford Crown Court accused of raping and assaulting schoolgirls after picking them up in the street and plying them with drink and drugs. The vulnerable underage girls were targeted in Keighley and taken to hotels where
A dad who was killed in a collision with a car in Manningham was due to get married later this year, it has emerged. Norman Cowen, who died last Friday, was set to wed his sweetheart Mandy, 41, on June 8 in Bradford – the same day as his brother
Retired residents at a sheltered housing complex in Idle, Bradford, are tackling a property firm about window frames they claim are rotting and letting in the cold. One 74-year-old woman has her heating on 24 hours a day in a bid to warm her flat
A former boss at a Bradford motor dealership has been warned he could face jail for letting an employee take the blame when he was caught speeding. Gordon Mee, 46, who was principal dealer at JCT600 BMW and Mini Bradford until August last year,
Preserving Neighbourhood Policing Teams because they are a “bedrock of policing” was among the priorities outlined by West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner on a visit to Bradford yesterday. Mark Burns-Williamson, who was elected in November
Two contrasting images at the end of a tumultuous evening will endure in the memory as long as the events of the match itself. The first was of Phil Parkinson and his men being feted by 6,500 ecstatic City supporters in two emotion-filled sections
City goalkeeper Matt Duke will realise a “dream” of playing at Wembley after City booked their place in the Capital One Cup final. The Bantams beat Aston Villa 4-3 on aggregate after taking a 3-1 lead into the second leg of their semi-final at
It could quite easily be the start of a fairytale. Once upon a time there was a football club that dared to dream. After overcoming two battles with administration and falling to the fourth tier of the game, it defied its underdog status and stunned
