An electrical fault in the engine sparked a van fire in Manningham on Wednesday. Fire crews from Idle station were called to Queen’s Road at 5.06pm. The fire was contained within the engine and the passengers escaped unharmed.
Yorkshire can quite rightly blame the weather for missing out on a third successive LV= County Championship win of the season following what turned out to be a thrilling draw against Somerset at Headingley. Rain and bad light accounted for the
Police and the ambulance service attended a pub in Bradford this evening after a man was assaulted. The emergency services were called to George III, Chapel Street, Queensbury, at about 6.15pm. The assault is believed to have happened in the
Three men caught driving on remote moorland at dead of night fully equipped with a “sinister” burglars’ cache have been sentenced at Bradford Crown Court. “Career criminal” Wayne Pogson, who has a 24-page record of offences, was jailed for two
Good afternoon from the Twickenham Stoop on what is a delightful evening in West London.... Perfect conditions for tonight's game as the Bulls look to progress into the Challenge Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2010, when they lost to
An Oxenhope pigeon keeper has applied for planning permission to build a replacement loft, which he says will improve the look of the area in time for next year’s Tour De France. Oxenhope and its surrounding country lanes will be the backdrop for the
Manager Neil Parsley stated last week that he was glad the season was over but he showed his appetite for the game has not diminished even slightly by adding that he was looking forward to a busy summer. Parsley said: “You won’t hear this from
A shop has helped collect more than 7,000 items of clothing to help people enjoy the outdoors. Rohan at Salts Mill, Saltaire, has been running its Gift Your Gear appeal since the beginning of March. Staff asked people to nominate themselves
Baildon A and Highdale B were both on the double trail on Bradford League cup final night at Hermits but had contrasting fortunes as once again the handicap final produced an exciting finish. Before the two finals began players and officials held
The Dennyboys’ season ended with a trophy and that was a fitting end to Vince Brockie’s short stint in the hot-seat. Brockie had two seasons in charge and landed the Northern Counties East League Cup in both campaigns. He departed in a blaze
St Andrew’s CE Primary School and Nursery is a good school in all areas, say Ofsted inspectors. They believe the school, off West Lane, in Keighley, has improved at a good rate since its previous inspection in 2011. The inspectors said the
A group for sufferers of the gynaecological condition endometriosis has received cash from the Lord Mayor of Bradford’s Appeal. Coun Dale Smith, has granted £1,000 to the Endometriosis Support Group from his Sunshine Appeal. Group founder Michelle Middleton
A support event for young people who hear voices takes place tomorrow. Voice Collective, a London-based project supporting children and young people who hear voices or see visions, is coming to Bradford to host the event, in partnership with the Bradford
An old warehouse could be pulled down and replaced with a taller one, if planning permission is given. The former Bradford Foods ‘Park House’ warehouse, in Essex Street, Bradford, is thought to be about 30 years old. Planning consent for the refurbishment
Bradford City's quest for the Womens Northern Combination title remains on course - just! A 1-0 defeat at leaders Chorley left them with the task of winning their last four games to finish top and though they won 1-0 at Wakefield in midweek, with
Songs from Steeton Male Voice Choir’s repertoire over the past year have been released on a new CD. Take Me Home was recorded last autumn, and features 18 songs regularly performed by the choir during the past year. Visit kurtwoodrecordings
Yorkshire claimed three wickets during a shortened fourth afternoon, but their LV= County Championship match against Somerset at Headingley will be a draw. When play started at 2.10pm with 56 overs left in the day today - after rain wiped out sessions
Researchers at Airedale Hospital are joining a national campaign to celebrate the success of clinical research and persuade more patients to get involved. To mark International Clinical Trials Day on Monday, May 20, there will be information stands
Jay Willey today officially ended her association with the Bulls after citing “irrevocable differences” between her and the club’s board of directors. The Telegraph & Argus revealed in March how the Bradford businesswoman was poised to pump
It is Bank Holiday! It is the hottest day of the year so far! We are going to the seaside! An hour later and we are sitting on the A64, having ground to a halt just outside of York. Scarborough is distressingly far away. Surely, I say, half to
From the T&A... 25 years ago: A team of police officers from Batley and Spen took to the football field and beat Saville Arms, Hansworth, by three goals to nil, to raise more than £1,500 in memory of a victim of cot death. 50 years ago:
It is a matter of grave concern that an estimated 18,000 pensioners are living in hardship in the Bradford district because they are struggling to meet everyday living costs. And in many cases, according to the latest research by Age Concern, not
SIR – According to a report by Bradford Council’s Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee (T&A, May 4), the Council is failing to get the best deals from its suppliers. This, one assumes, is costing ratepayers dearly. It was highlighted
SIR – Thanks for John Hall’s response to ‘Facing Facts’ (T&A, April 25) where Mr Hall actually faced the fact that ‘extreme weather cannot reliably be linked to increased CO2 in the atmosphere’. A few more weeks of debate and Mr Hall could
SIR – This year, Mental Health Awareness Week (May 13 to 19) is focused on the benefits of physical activity and exercise on mental health and wellbeing. To celebrate the event, Hive would like to say a huge thank you to the people of Bradford,
SIR – Re Mr Godfrey’s letter (T&A, May 9), about a pedestrian on the new £4 million bridge on Manchester Road. We have a lovely red bridge and a fantastic £26 million water feature in the centre of the city. We could have had a £30 million
SIR – The Council’s latest ten-year plan is basically flawed in that it presumes that there is a demand for Bradford’s production, when there is not. Other than certain niche remnants of our traditional mass production, Bradford’s former textile
SIR – Regarding St George’s Day Parade and the probable decision not to police it after this year – this is a disgrace. Not only is it our National Saint’s Day (we have St Andrew’s Day, St David’s Day and St Patrick’s Day about which we hear plenty
An eyecatching footbridge connecting two Bradford communities has been shortlisted for a design award. The red Manchester Road bridge is a contender for the 2013 Structural Steel Design Awards. The awards are open to steel-based structures built
Bradford University has been awarded first prize at the Greenbuild Awards for the refurbishment of its JB Priestley Library. The project won the Education Retrofit category during Greenbuild Expo 2013, hosted by TV presenter Patrick Kielty.
An 81-year-old is one of two men up for a police award after he helped hold on to a man seen climbing through a house window. The 81-year-old and a 58-year-old grabbed the man as he clambered back out of the home in Hammond Square, Heaton, on May
A Dutchman who caused the death of a grandmother in a near head-on crash while driving on the wrong side of the road in Ilkley was today sentenced to a six month jail sentence suspended for 12 months. Bradford Crown Court heard that Michel Vanderburgt
Police are hunting a man who was spotted acting suspiciously in a residential car park in Crossflatts. He was one of two men in the car park on Micklethwaite Lane at about 2.40am on Monday. The duo ran off when officers attended the scene. One of the
The process to merge Bradford into a super Church of England diocese covering all of West Yorkshire and the Dales has moved one step closer. The proposal by the Church of England’s Dioceses Commission, accepted locally in March, will be put before
Furious transport bosses have accused Communities Secretary Eric Pickles of seeking to derail a £1 billion local transport plan. The Government wants a referendum to be triggered if “unelected local quangos” force an increase of more than two per
Sex pervert and paedophile Jimmy Savile offered his “services” to detectives during the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper a report into West Yorkshire Police’s dealings with the inquiry revealed today. Savile volunteered to act as a go-between with
Learning is a hoot for children at a Silsden school. Six different types of owl were brought to Aire View Infant School by Oxenhope-based company SMJ Falconry & Crafts. The feathered visitors included a huge, talkative Eagle Owl, and the
Firefighters climbed through a first-floor window to rescue a woman who had collapsed behind the door to her flat at Scholebrook Court, a sheltered housing complex yesterday.
West Yorkshire probation chiefs claim Government changes to the handling of released prisoners could put the public at risk. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling yesterday announced radical reforms for the way criminals are rehabilitated when they
A memorial service to remember the 56 people who died in the Valley Parade fire will be held in Bradford city centre tomorrow. Relatives and friends of those who lost their lives, or were injured, will be among those at the 30-minute service in
A mentally-ill man who wrecked a supermarket after being locked in by staff for shoplifting has been sentenced to a 12- month community order with supervision and 100 hours of unpaid work. Ian Escreet, 54, did £4,000 damage to the Co-op on Otley
A Bradford man has been arrested for stealing garden equipment from a house in Huddersfield. Police said the 28-year-old, of Tyersal, was one of two suspects who travelled there in a van and allegedly stole the property. The man has been interviewed
West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner will discuss concerns with residents in Otley next week. Mark Burns Williamson is holding a surgery at the Otley Core Resource Centre, on Orchard Gate, from 3pm to 5.30pm on Friday, May 17. His
Six fire crews battled a blaze at a Guiseley mansion early today. Rawdon firefighters were alerted at 1.50am to the fire at the £1 million Victorian house, which stands in secluded grounds. Greenlaw Manor, a sprawling house with an annexed
Ben Evans has tasted Challenge Cup glory twice before – now he wants to do it again with Bradford. Warrington have won the trophy three times in the previous four seasons and Evans has been to the Wembley showpiece to saviour the atmosphere.
A former problem pub in Bradford will get a new lease of life tonight when it re-opens as a real ale venue. The Wyke Rose, now a free house under new licensees Tom and Michelle Marrow, will open its doors at 6pm. Mrs Marrow said the revamped
Two loyal Bantams’ fans will miss the club’s League Two play-off final – because they’ll be representing Mencap at this summer’s European Championships in Switzerland. Antonio Gesso and Adam Duckworth, both 18, were called up to the charity’s national
Enforcement officers have stepped in over concerns the historic interior of a grade II-listed Bradford pub is being ripped out without permission. The Cock and Bottle in Barkerend Road is described as “a late Victorian gem with one of the finest
A project which turns social housing tenants into interpreters for their landlord has scooped a top prize. The scheme, run by housing provider Incommunities, trains up tenants who can speak a second language into self-employed translators.
A burglar who raided a veterinary surgery at dead of night after twice being bailed for shoplifting has been jailed for 14 months. A judge told Joseph Reid he had “a truly dreadful record” for offences. Reid, 31, appeared at Bradford Crown
Jamie Foster column: As soon as I got home from my visit to the specialist and told my family the news I would not require surgery, my gran’s first words were ‘Langtree Park’. When I ruptured my pectoral muscle during the Tetley’s Challenge Cup
Kyel Reid is ready to pen the final chapter of City’s storybook campaign at Wembley. The flying winger was a frustrated substitute at the Capital One Cup final and never came off the bench as they were hammered 5-0 by Swansea. But he believes
Elliot Kear was back in his home city of Cardiff last weekend after playing for the Bulls in Friday’s derby against Leeds. Bonhomie was everywhere in the Welsh capital as Cardiff City celebrated promotion to the top flight of English football after
Shows by the Royal Opera House and the Royal Ballet are to be beamed direct from London to Bradford’s big screen this summer. This year marks the first of a new five-year commitment from BP to support the live and free screenings from the Royal
British Transport Police has released an image of a suspect after a conductor was assaulted at Shipley railway station. The conductor, a 24-year-old Keighley man, had asked two men on the Leeds-Bradford Forster Square service to remove their feet
The RSPCA in Bradford is appealing for good homes for its abandoned cats and dogs. The appeal came after a cat and her two kittens were found in a carrier box on the doorstep of the Bradford branch in Mount Street. Terry Singh, general manager
The Friends of St Ives in Bingley have organised a bird walking morning tomorrow at 7.30am with local expert Mark Doveston. Meet at the gate to Coppice Pond.
Francis Cummins has warned his players they face a backlash from London Broncos tonight as the Bulls seek to move into the quarter-finals of the Tetley’s Challenge Cup. Tony Rea’s men were stuff-ed 48-12 at Hull FC last week – their tenth defeat
The owners of a Drighlington pub caught without a TV licence have been ordered to pay £270 by magistrates. The company Barock Inns Limited, which operates the Malt Shovel pub on Whitehall Road, Drighlington, Bradford, was fined £70 for the offence
Five illegal workers face deportation and a Bradford supermarket could be fined up to £50,000 after an immigration raid following a tip-off. Illegal staff from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India were arrested after a Home Office Immigration Enforcement
A campaign to get more cash for the elderly has been unveiled as Age UK revealed that everyday living costs were causing considerable hardship for an estimated 18,000 pensioners in Bradford. Research by the charity shows that everyday living costs
A masked gang rammed a police car in a bid to flee a bungled shop burglary. The raiders panicked when officers caught them in the act and blocked them in with their vehicle. They tried to smash their way out, but when that failed they abandoned
Staff at Morrisons’ Bradford headquarters ‘dressed down for a pound’ yesterday to raise an impressive £1,846 for the £1 million Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal. Workers at the supermarket giant’s Gain Lane head office threw
A new, state-of-the-art psychiatric intensive care unit welcomed its first users yesterday, with many of them being saved a long journey for treatment. Called the Clover Ward, the facility has moved from the Airedale Centre for Mental Health at
A four-year-old girl has been bitten by a snake which had found its way into her home in inner city Bradford. Terrified Wajihah Sarmad suffered a foot injury and was rushed by ambulance to Bradford Royal Infirmary for treatment. The reptile
A town centre could be getting a boost to its night life with a bar mooted for a site opposite a new nightclub. A planning application has been lodged with Bradford Council to convert a shop, which has three flats above it, to a licensed cafe and
Tyres and bushes set alight at a farm in Farsley after a rubbish-fire got out of control. Fire crews from Stanningley attended the farm on Priestthorpe Road at 12midday yesterday. A spokesman from the station said bits of burning rubbish were spread
The following have been dealt with by Bradford and Keighley magistrates: Wasam Mugal Hussain, aged 22, of Queens Road, Manningham; using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, 18 months’ conditional discharge, £265 costs. Terence
Today a meeting takes place at Manningham Mills Community Centre which has been described by the Bishop of Bradford’s advisor as important and brave. Dr Phil Lewis said the meeting, organised by local and national Muslim groups, marks the beginning
