A three-vehicle smash at lunchtime caused traffic chaos on the M62. Two vans and a Ford Focus collided on the eastbound stretch between junctions 25 at Brighouse and 26 at Chain Bar at 1.30pm. Queues snaked back to junction 24 at Ainley Top as two
Cleckheaton star Iain Wardlaw is set to complete a remarkable rise from office worker to international cricketer inside two years. The 27-year-old Yorkshire fast bowler has been called up to a Cricket Scotland training camp in Edinburgh across
Brendan Cole is out of breath. He has just stepped out of a rehearsal for his new show to answer the phone, and I sense a flicker of impatience in his voice. Since this is the man labelled the bad boy of Strictly Come Dancing, I brace myself for
No-one will be more keen to see Avenue back in action tomorrow than Ross Daly. The midfielder has only recently returned to the squad following a hip operation and is desperate to continue his comeback. Daly spent some time on loan at former
A woman has praised a hospital’s remote video link after it proved vital in helping to ease her terminally ill husband’s final months. Jane Walton, who cared for her husband Geoff at their home, has spoken in glowing terms about Airedale General
A youngster from Allerton has helped his school to a regional final of a national table tennis competition. Ben Hemsley, a former Wilsden Primary School pupil, is one quarter of The Grammar School at Leeds’ (GSAL) under-13 team which became West
The Bradford Sunday Alliance League have bowed to requests from a number of clubs and agreed to postpone all matches scheduled for Sunday, February 24. The fixture schedule for that day has already been circulated but players who are also City
Head coach Paul March believes consistent team selection in pivotal positions is important for Keighley Cougars this campaign. His side open their Championship season at Batley on Sunday, February 3 on the back of some mixed friendly results.
Guiseley could do without any more weather interruptions as they play catch-up with runaway Blue Square Bet North leaders Chester. It is a fortnight since the Lions played a league game and tomorrow’s visit from Lee Sinnott’s Altrincham is under
A three-vehicle smash at lunchtime today caused traffic chaos on the M62. Two vans and a Ford Focus collided on the eastbound stretch between junctions 25 at Brighouse and 26 at Chain Bar at 1.30pm. Queues snaked back to junction 24 at Ainley
Paolo di Canio has a keen eye on Kayden Jackson after the Albion Sports youngster earned himself an opportunity to be fast-tracked into the professional game. Jackson entered the ‘Samsung win a pro contract’ competition, along with thousands of
Oakworth rider Tom Moses is looking forward to his first year with a professional cycling outfit after signing for Team Raleigh. Just days after news broke that a stage of the Tour de France will take place in the Keighley district next year, the
Bradford Dragons face a mammoth double header on the road this weekend. They are due to travel to Northumbria tomorrow for their vcars.co.uk Division One game after being unable to make the trip last week due to the weather. Dragons then face
Birkenshaw Juniors will be running three teams this year: under-sevens (school years one and two), under-eights (year three) and under-nines (years four and five). Training at the club’s home pitch at East Bierley playing fields, off Hunsworth
If you didn't already know, Bradford City's home game against Wycombe tomorrow has been postponed after a morning pitch inspection. We are increasing our resources this weekend to cope with the expected increase in bursts on our network
Bradford East Liberal Democrat MP David Ward is facing party disciplinary action over a statement he made about Israel's treatment of Palestinians ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day. The Bradford East MP said on his website he was committed to "honouring
THE LAST STAND (15, 107 mins) *** Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Jaimie Alexander, Luis Guzman, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Zach Gilford, Genesis Rodriguez. Director: Kim Jee-woon. Arnold
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Return To The Forbidden Planet St George’s Hall When Buttershaw St Paul’s Amateur Operatic Dramatic Society elected to present Return To The Forbidden Planet they knew they were taking a risk. This was a rarely performed show inspired by
Dominic Grace’s play Rabbitskin premieres at Bradford University’s Theatre in the Mill on Monday. It was commissioned by West Yorkshire Playhouse and developed as part of WYP/Theatre in the Mill new writing season in 2012. Joe can name his
Comic Bill Bailey is coming to Bradford, bringing his trademark musical mash-ups, philosophising and silliness. Bill will be in town with his new show, which boasts the “classic Bill Bailey elements” of musical wizardry, multi-lingual riffs, films
Mike Leigh’s sublime comedy Abigail's Party is heading to Bradford this spring and summer. The show, running at the Alhambra from May 6 to 11, stars Hannah Waterman as the monstrous Beverley, whose attempts to host a drinks party for her neighbours
Leeds will not be making leading scorer Luciano Becchio another contract offer as he edges closer to the Elland Road exit door, according to manager Neil Warnock. The Argentinean striker, who has 19 goals to his name this season, handed in a transfer
In 1997 John Paul Anderson made a movie called Boogie Nights. It was set in the San Fernando Valley and charted the rise and fall of nightclub owner Eddie Adams in the world of pornographic films. The same year Jon Conway and Shane Richie came
Keighley Amateurs celebrate their centenary this year, and a large part of the society’s success has been its annual pantomime performed for more than 40 years. This year’s panto, Aladdin, is described as “a spectacle of colour with lavish costumes
Bright young talent shone with the leading lights of Bradford’s business world at the glittering Telegraph & Argus Bradford Means Business Awards last year. Companies from across the district battled it out in 11 closely-fought categories,
Telegraph & Argus editor Perry Austin-Clarke on why the 2013 Bradford Means Business Awards are more important than ever his is the third year of our Bradford Means Business Awards. We launched them in 2011, when the country was struggling
Do you think your company deserves to be in the running for a Bradford Means Business Award 2013? Here’s how to get involved. In the first instance, we’d like you to spend some time perusing this section of our website and the 11 distinct categories
At Bradford Grammar School, 98 per cent of pupils got at least five A* to C grades at GCSE, including English and maths, placing it in the top 200 of schools nationally. Head teacher Kevin Riley said: “We have bright, aspirational children, hard-working
It has been a year of ups and downs for Bradford schools, according to the latest league tables. The tables, released yesterday, reveal record GCSE results but a decline in A-level results. The district fell 17 places, to 120th of 150 local
Staff at a Keighley surgery are in the pink for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. Staff at North Street Surgery have been wearing pink and the waiting rooms are adorned with pink balloons, in support of the effort. Posters and information boards
City's home game against Wycombe tomorrow has been postponed after a morning pitch inspection.
Bingley’s Wednesday market has withered away to nothing, said a local business leader after not a single stallholder turned up this week. Bingley Chamber of Trade and Commerce spokesman Harold Martin said it would be hard for the midweek market
Visits to swimming pools across the district may have sunk by more than 150,000 within two years, but Shipley Pool with its 5m diving board and serious sporting credentials is buoyed up by the legacy of the Olympics. One of its proteges, 16-year-old
SIR – Bradford is once again ‘cut off’ from the outside world, the Tour de France begins in “capital of West Yorkshire” – Leeds, that place where everything passes through it; M62, M621, M1 and the East Coast line. The Tour goes to York, Harrogate
SIR – At 5.30am on January 21, my early morning cuppa and TV news were disturbed by the sounds of an engine revving its bottom off. I looked from my window and there was a van stuck in drifted snow at the junction with Crossdale Avenue. I thought
SIR – What on Earth are our MPs playing at, asking for a 32 per cent pay rise which would see their salaries increase from £65,738 to £86,250? There are hundreds of thousands of public service workers who have been told they will only get a one
SIR – My usual retailer had sold out of tonight’s (January 23) T&A! No surprise, though I garnered a copy elsewhere. How fantastic to see a front page devoid of murder and drug-dealing and just simply overjoyed, smiling faces, all an absolute
SIR – The Labour Party were in government when the financial crisis overwhelmed the world’s banks, but the roots of the crisis belong back in October 1986. The Thatcher government de-regulated the banking industry in what became known as ‘the big
SIR – On visiting the town centre recently, my wife and I were asked our views on the city for feedback to Council Leader, David Green. Our response was mainly concerning lack of progress on the city centre project, like many other concerned Bradfordians
SIR – On a miserable winter evening, I have read a warming contribution by Chris Holland in the T&A about Airedale Springs, a firm which suffered a terrible factory fire. Enough of a disaster to discourage any business to lose heart, but Tim
I am proud to report that I am now an official member of my street’s snow patrol. In last week’s column I sang the praises of Geoff, Trevor and Simon, the neighbours who form the lynchpin of the street’s emergency snow-clearing SWAT team, and revealed
It’s good to see Bradford Council improving GCSE performances in the school league tables released yesterday, but the drop down the table in terms of A-Level results is a cause for concern. Although still very much in the bottom half of the table
While football might not actually be a matter more important than life or death, despite Bill Shankly’s immortal words, those who have little interest in Bradford City’s storming cup run might give pause and consider that 22 men chasing a ball around
A disabled mother and her arthritic teenage daughter are living with no heating because they cannot reach their gas meter. Anne Woods said despite pleading with npower to put in a new meter at her home in Longfield Drive, Dudley Hill, Bradford,
A Bradford City fan in Australia has launched a Facebook campaign to convince his wife to let him fly across the world to watch the club’s Capital One Cup final against Swansea at Wembley next month. David Bowers, of Melbourne, yesterday posted
Police found 11 cannabis plants growing in an upstairs room at a house in North Dean Road, Braithwaite, Keighley. Officers had called at the house after receiving reports of an unusual smell from outside. Police arrested a 29-year old man and
Older people in Bradford are being encouraged to use life-saving bowel screening kits as part of bowel cancer awareness week next week. Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer and home testing kits, which have been used by people
A senior Bradford Council highways engineer, recycling officer and council warden will answer residents’ questions at Menston Neighbourhood Forum on February 5. Principal Highways Engineer, Simon D’Vali, will give an update on traffic and highways
An antique clock, silver ornaments and £200 of charity donations were stolen from a Silsden house. Burglars are believed to have broken into a safe to take some of the items. Anyone who may have since been approached and offered the distinctive
A family-run restaurant and bar is to close after 35 years in Haworth. Weavers, in West Lane, will open for the final time on Saturday, February 16. It has been run by husband and wife team Colin and Jane Rushworth and their daughters, Sally
An Otley man has been killed in a collision early today. Police are appealing for witnesses following the death of the 21-year-old man in a road traffic collision at Beckwithshaw, near Harrogate. The man was pronounced dead at the scene of
A triathlon training course is starting at Shipley Pool as interest in the sport swells following the success of the Brownlee brothers, who first developed their swimming skills there. A waiting list now exists for triathlon sessions at Bingley
Thousands of household were left with un-emptied bins over Christmas because of problems with official communications, councillors were told. Guiseley and Rawdon councillor Graham Latty raised the issue at a full meeting of Leeds City Council following
Bradford is set to be hit by heavy snowfall today, warned the Met Office, with 15 centimetres predicted for some of the district. An amber alert - the second highest bad weather warning - is in place for the West Yorkshire region. Snow is expected
A man has been fined £200 for dropping litter. The 21-year-old was found guilty of littering on Town Gate, Wyke. The man, who is from Wyke, failed to turn up at court and the case was proved in his absence.
A bathroom was destroyed by fire after clothes were left on an electrical cable. The blaze, at a house on Wellington Street, Queensbury, started at about 9.30am yesterday. The 63-year-old man who lives at the end-terraced property was on his
Julia Wright, head teacher at Bingley Grammar, said she was delighted her school again featured in the country’s top 200 and was the district’s best-performing state school at GCSEs. She said: “We have been in that list consistently for many years
Members of a Bradford Council committee have disagreed with officers over a planning appeal and insisted that flooding concerns remain part of the authority’s case when the matter goes before a public inquiry. Harron Homes wants to build a housing
A new supermarket proposed for Shipley should be carbon-neutral, according to a local councillor. Bradford Council has received an outline planning application to demolish buildings at Airedale Mills, in Salts Mill Road, and build a superstore.
A Bradford foodbank which has outgrown its premises is looking for a warehouse base in preparation for an expected surge in demand when changes to the benefits system are implemented later this year. The Bradford Metropolitan Foodbank, which operates
Andrew Davies will use City’s short sunshine break in the Canary Islands to launch his Wembley bid. The influential centre half has been out for three months with the knee injury he suffered at Burton in the same game that wrote off Luke Oliver
A little boy suffering from an incredibly rare medical condition which means a common cold or chicken pox could kill him needs a stranger to come forward to save his life. Six-year-old Uzair Akhtar has a rare genetic disorder which affects just
A family-run restaurant and bar is to close after 35 years in Haworth. Weavers’, in West Lane, will open for the final time on Saturday, February 16. It has been run by husband and wife team Colin and Jane Rushworth and their daughters, Sally and
Local businesses of all sizes are being given the chance to pitch for work on the £50 million rebuild of Bradford College. The college and lead contractor BAM Construction are holding an event where potential suppliers can meet the team behind
Two Bradford men have been cleared by a jury of all charges alleging they imprisoned and sexually molested two teenage girls. Abdul Rashid, 28, of Hoxton Street, Girlington, and Mohammed Hussain, 26, of St Leonard’s Road, Girlington, were each
Ian Sibbit has not ruled out pulling on his boots for the Bulls again this season – but admits it is a distant prospect. The former second-rower, 32, announced his retirement at the end of last season and has since begun working as a personal trainer
A quarter of the country’s 20 worst postcode hotspots for home burglary insurance claims are in the Bradford district, a survey revealed today. And the BD12 area, which covers Wyke, Low Moor and Oakenshaw, has the second highest claims rate in
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been judged to be largely compliant with national standards following a snap inspection by a healthcare watchdog. A team from the Care Quality Commission visited the Foundation Trust, which manages
Airedale Hospital is set to create a new bespoke midwifery-led unit to create a homely environment for women giving birth after receiving £748,000 from the Department of Health. The hospital is one of more than 100 across the country to get a share
A new supermarket proposed for Shipley should be carbon-neutral, according to a local councillor. Bradford Council has received an outline planning application to demolish buildings at Airedale Mills, in Salts Mill Road, and build a superstore.
Firefighters were called to try to re-float a sinking canal barge at the Dowley Gap locks near Bingley yesterday. Keighley and Bingley crews were called shortly after noon following reports a boat was sinking and the owners needed help. They
Shipley MP Philip Davies has condemned fellow MPs calling for 16-year-olds to be given the right to vote as "pathetic" – accusing them of trying to "look trendy and youthful". The Commons voted yesterday in favour of lowering the voting age – by
An application to allow Debenhams to expand its store plans in Bradford’s long-awaited Broadway shopping centre was passed yesterday, amid a call for developer Westfield to “get on” with the scheme. Amended plans went before Bradford Council’s
A Bradford swimming instructor has been locked up for two years for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy. University student Daniel Bendjelloul, 20, was arrested after the boy accidentally texted a police officer requesting another sexual encounter
Phil Parkinson will send his Wembley-hungry City players back into the league fray with the challenge: Show me why you should play in the cup final. The Bantams boss admits it will be impossible to get his team to banish any thoughts about next
Carl McHugh insists he is not expecting to hear from Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni just yet. City’s teenage defender is flying high after getting called up for the under-21 international friendly with Holland in Dublin a week on
Guiseley’s Blue Square Bet North home clash with old foe Lee Sinnott’s Altrincham is in doubt because of ongoing weather problems. The club is doing everything in its power as they try to come out of an unscheduled winter break following the prolonged
The game was off, then it was back on again but the weather could yet mean it will be off again. Further explanation needed? Well, Bradford Park Avenue were scheduled to make the journey to Gainsborough Trinity in Blue Square Bet North tomorrow
All the latest from the local angling scene. SALTAIRE AA Canal match result (Jan 13): 1 P Booth (Halifax) 6lb 8oz; 2 E Green (Halifax) 4lb 13oz; 3 D Senior (Saltaire) 4lb 8oz. River match result (Jan 20): 1 Andy Fox (three grayling and one chub
Planning Minister Nick Boles saw first hand the problems facing Guiseley and the A65 corridor in a visit to the area yesterday. And he stressed the need to look at the existing pressure on infrastructure when considering future plans. Mr Boles
Deteriorating footpaths in Keighley, Silsden and Oakworth will soon undergo repairs, but because of limited budgets councillors compared it to putting a plaster on an open wound. Bradford Council’s Keighley Area Committee met tonight to decide
A quarter of the country’s 20 worst postcode hotspots for home burglary insurance claims are in the Bradford district, a survey revealed today. And the BD12 area, which covers Wyke, Low Moor and Oakenshaw, has the second highest claims rate in
Leeds striker Luciano Becchio has submitted a formal transfer request following the breakdown of new contract talks. Becchio, 29, the club’s leading scorer this season with 19 goals from 31 appearances, has been the subject of much speculation
The Bradford Bulls Foundation, in partnership with Bradford Bulls, will be presenting free season tickets to Birkenshaw Juniors in a special ceremony at Birkenshaw Liberal Club on Sunday between 12-2pm. Bulls first-team players will be in attendance
