Four crumbling schools in Bradford and one in Cleckheaton will be rebuilt, ministers have insisted – but the projects face a delay of up to one year. The DfE has announced that private cash would be sought to rebuild the schools “within the next
The league season ended with a glut of derby fixtures between Guiseley and FC Halifax Town but tomorrow night’s clash between the rivals could be the last for a while. Steve Kittrick’s Lions and Neil Aspin’s Shaymen go head to head at Valley Parade
A 15-year-old boy was robbed in a park on his way home from school. The teenager had his phone and some money stolen during the incident in Lister Park, Manningham, Bradford. Police ] released an appeal for information on the robbery, which
People who are too sick or disabled to end their “unbearable” lives without help are currently being condemned to “suffer in silence or make desperate attempts to kill themselves”, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. A QC, representing Paul Lamb
Jason Gillespie is delighted with the way his Yorkshire players have turned their season around after being labelled as LV= County Championship relegation favourites on the back of an opening-round defeat against Sussex. Yorkshire suffered an innings
Bradford Dragons have scopped an end-of-season double. Vilma Jurgaityte has been named as vcars.co.uk Division Two North women’s player of the Year, while Mark Gunn is the vcars.co.uk Division Two Women’s North coach of the year
Greenside Primary School from Pudsey have won two West Leeds School Sports Partnership competitions. The boys’ six-a-side soccer team won their local league before entering a round-robin competition against champions from Bramley, Calverley, Armley
Stanningley Albion have just become the first team to win five consecutive Bradford Sunday Alliance League titles, taking them from Division Four newcomers in 2008-09 to promotion into the Premier Division as First Division champions
In the face of competition from local clubs, Undercliffe Cricket Club are seeking players aged up to 15, but particularly those who can play under-nines and under-11s. The club have a dozen qualified volunteer cricket coaches or assistants in the
A dog that snapped a delivery man’s forearm in two in a savage attack in Bradford is still under investigation, police said today. Chris Hirst’s arm was left hanging by its skin after he was set upon by the American bulldog last month. The
Coaches from Bradford Fencing Club went to Featherstone Sports Centre last Sunday as part of Wakefield Council’s Paralympic Gold Weekend to prove how inclusive wheelchair fencing is. Coach Tim Noble and fencers Bex Dunn and Liz Bell helped
Buttershaw White Star won the Bradford & District FA Sunday Senior Cup after a convincing 3-0 win over Dudley Hill Rangers at Eccleshill United. After opening the scoring in the fifth minute through Mark Betts, White Star never looked
Gary Ballance column I am looking forward to returning to Edgbaston this week as I scored my first hundred for Yorkshire there in 2011. It was in the season we were relegated but it is always special to score your first hundred at a ground
After an absence of two years, Bradford will again be staging a long-distance race walk on Spring Bank Holiday Monday. Races of 35k (seven laps of Baildon Moor) and 15k start from Baildon village centre from 11am, with changing facilities at Baildon
Fairbank United have won the Spen Valley League's Sonder Heating and Ventilation Cup, defeating Soothill 2-1 after a hard-fought final. The Bradford-based club blitzed their opponents from Dewsbury in a barnstorming opening ten minutes.
After the penultimate Saturday of the West Riding County Amateur League season, the destination of the Premier Division championship is still in the balance. Defending champions Ovenden West Riding still lead the way on goal difference over Steeton
Police officers are travelling on buses in Bradford to crack down on anti-social behaviour by youngsters. A special police unit has been set up to ride on buses across West Yorkshire, dubbed Operation Trojan, to crack down on hooligans. A Trojan
St Bede's have stopped their headlong plunge towards relegation in the Yorkshire Amateur League Senior B Division. They defeated Stanningley Old Boys Reserves 3-2 in midweek, with Tahir Akram (2) and Gary Litvinov finding the back of the net
Tong High School student Chris Corbally has been offered the first apprenticeship resulting from a pioneering partnership between the school and Bradford building and civil engineering company, Moortown Construction. The Classroom in Construction
David Cutter, group chief executive of the Skipton Building Society has been elected chairman of the Building Societies Association for the coming year. He replaces David Webster, chief executive of the Hanley Economic Building Society. Mr
Simon Spencer, managing director of Bradford-based turbo-charger producer BorgWarner UK, has been named as one of the new private sector representatives on the Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership board. John Parkin, chief executive of
The Highways Agency is continuing to test the new managed motorway system on the M62 in West Yorkshire. The system was tested again yesterday on the eastbound and westbound carriageways between junctions 27 and 28. For part of the day, the
A Coronation Dance celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation is being organised by Menston Parish Council on June 1 at Kirklands Community Centre, Main Street, Menston, at 8pm. Band Time Warp will play classic hits from the 50s, 60s
Bargain hunters will enjoy Ilkley Cricket Club’s popular car boot sale at the Denton Road venue on Sunday, June 2.
A steam locomotive will go on public display in the Bradford district for the last time this weekend before it is stripped for its £776,000 overhaul. Jubilee class number 45596, named Bahamas, will be restored to running order as a result of a
A shopping complex could be extended if planners give it the go-ahead. An application has been submitted to extend the Kashmiri Bazaar in Barkerend Road, Bradford. If approved, the extension would give the retail outlet an extra 360 sq metres
Two teenagers have been charged with racially aggravated public disorder and assault. Police arrested a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old in relation to an incident at the Hotspot Takeaway, in Holme Wood, Bradford. The investigating officer carried out
A community group meets at Baildon Community Link, Cliffe Avenue, Baildon, at 7.30pm tonight. Items on the agenda include funding a defibrillator in the centre of Baildon, an application to nominate Buck Lane fields as an asset of community value and
Young people in the Bradford district are being asked to learn knitting and join in with a charity challenge. Children and their parents and grandparents are being invited to join a knitting project to help raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Spyware company Datong, which put itself up for sale in February after an approach was made for the business, is to be bought for nearly £7 million. The Horsforth-based business is being acquired by Seven, parent company of Seven Technologies,
A craft fair is coming to Heckmondwike market.There will be more than 20 stalls selling jewellery, homewares, art and vintage items on May 26 from 10am to 4pm. Fairground rides and face painting will also be on offer. For details, phone 07742 251565
A row over work to City Hall’s roof shows no sign of abating. Conservatives at Bradford Council had raised concerns that scaffolding was up at the landmark Council building before the Council’s Executive had approved a £400,000 spend on repairs
Soaps and truffles will be among a selection of handmade gifts at the next Haworth Craft Fair from 10am until 4pm in the Bronte School Room, Church Street, Haworth on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2.
Haworth sculptor Craig Dyson is raffling two of his works for charity. The 23-year-old, who works out of Railside Studios in the village, is raffling a golden eagle with a 6ft wing span created from copper, brass and bronze, and a spitfire with
An appeal has been launched at Haworth to find long-lost art treasures. Professor Ann Sumner, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, is seeking the public’s help to trace over 20 paintings by landscape artist Thomas Fearnley. She and a fellow
A comedy drama co-written by an actress from Otley will be shown on TV next week. Stage Door Johnnies, which shines a light on the often hilarious lives of five zealous theatre fans, is the work of Laura Power and writing partner Catherine McCormack
A Bradford Teaching Hospitals’ cardiographer cycled to the most northerly point of Europe to challenge himself after receiving life-saving surgery. Nick Marston timed the challenge to coincide with his 40th birthday, cycling a total of 4,408 miles
A couple have been violently attacked by three masked men in a late night robbery at their Bradford home. The raiders broke into the bungalow on Hindley Walk, Horton Bank Top, shortly after midnight yesterday. They assaulted the occupants,
Growing demand for construction industry customers had led Bradford-based steel supply group Barrett Steel to launch a new operation. It has established Barrett Constructional Steel business to extend its service to constriction customers across
A family did everything right when their chip pan caught fire, firefighters have said. The couple and their son, of Withens Close, Great Horton, Bradford, turned off the heat, shut the kitchen door and went outside to wait for fire crews to arrive
Taber Holidays, based in Cleckheaton, has merged with Specialised Tours to form a company offering the largest range of Scandinavian packages. The deal will see the new operation, which will retain the Taber Holidays brand, offering 125 holiday
Ukelele players are invited to find out more about joining a band which meets on Saturdays in Ilkley. They are invited to contact the Ilkley Ukelele Dance Band. The band meets from 10.30am to noon. Contact Alyson Evans on 07956 275915 for more information
Bradford and District Care Trust is organising weekly walks in Ilkley for people who are getting back to fitness or living with long term health conditions. Walkers meet at Springs Medical Centre, Springs Lane, at 10.30am on Tuesdays. Contact Champions
A takeaway which uses the basements of two nearby properties to bake and store food has landed in hot water with planners. The Lahore takeaway, at 348 Great Horton Road, is part of a terrace with shared access to basements at number 350, a hairdresser
Diabetes UK is looking for volunteers in the Bradford district to help organise a collection weekend at their local Tesco store. The Big Collection weekend will take place in stores between October 4-6. The aim of the events is to raise money
A team of Bradford whiz-kids who want to be the next generation of Britain’s bosses have been highly commended in a school business enterprise awards scheme. The six-strong squad from Woodhouse Grove School, Apperley Bridge, made a profit of £500
An overturned vehicle on a busy commuter route is causing delays to traffic heading into Bradford this morning. The incident happened this morning on the westbound carriageway of the Stanningley bypass, between the A6110 Ring Road Bramley and the
A broken-down lorry at the Chain Bar roundabout is causing delays for commuters this morning. The lorry blocked an entry sliproad onto the M62 eastbound, causing traffic to back up along the M606 southbound. At about 9am, vehicles trying to
How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin: The Untold Story Of A Noisy Revolution by Leslie Woodhead (Bloomsbury, priced £12.99) The Fab Four have had many accolades including being the most successful band of all time, had the most number one albums,
Mystery At The Mill by Elspeth Rawstron (Helbling Languages, £6.99) Those familiar with the black and white drawings of Nick Tankard at Salts Mill can see more of his work in a newly-published book, Mystery At The Mill, a story by Elspeth Rawstron
A row of back-to-back terraced houses which chart changes in family life over a century has opened at the Industrial Museum in Eccleshill. The Gaythorne Row workers’ cottages offer a window into the home life of workers through the decades from the
So, what are we going to learn from this year’s internationally-acclaimed horticultural show? While sustainability may be the watchword of this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, with emphasis on biodiversity, wild planting areas and inviting eco-systems
Browse and buy cakes and crafts at the Vintage and Handmade event hosted by Lothersdale School at Skipton Town Hall, on Saturday, May 25.
Volunteers are needed to help with weeding, painting and planting at Wibsey Park Community Garden on Wednesday, May 29. Anyone who would like to help can visit the site, at the corner of Wibsey Park, off Beacon Road, between 11am and 3pm. Children
Walkers have been invited to join East Riddlesden Hall’s walking group. The group meets at the National Trust hall, just outside Keighley, once a week, rain or shine, and takes in the grounds and surrounding area. The walks are free and all
A Bradford finance business has been recognised for boosting the coffers of Britain’s lifeboat service by £200,000 – double the amount it set out to achieve. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is making a corporate supporter award to Yorkshire
A skip fire could have spread to nearby homes if a passer-by had not spotted it and called the emergency services, firefighters have said. A crew from Fairweather Green was called out to an alleyway in Arnold Place, Manningham, at about 12.30am
A Keighley pensioner has been left in fear of going shopping after her bag containing an irreplaceable drawing of her late daughter was stolen at a local supermarket. Sandra Ellis was shopping at Morrisons on Worth Way last Tuesday afternoon when
An Ilkley councillor has slammed Local Government Association (LGA) proposals which would open the door for authorities to abolish a 25 per cent council tax discount for single occupiers. Councillor Anne Hawkesworth (Ind, Ilkley) claims “widow
The tumour-blasting ‘smart bomb’ cancer treatment which inspired the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal has been awarded an extra £1.6 million of funding. A Wellcome Trust award means researchers at Bradford University are now
This August, Telegraph & Argus reader KEN CLAYTON, of Eaglesfield Drive, Woodside, will be 92. For a good many of those years, he has contributed to health insurance run by Sovereign Health Care – formerly the Bradford Hospital Fund. On April
A skip fire could have spread to nearby homes if a passer-by had not spotted it and called the emergency services, firefighters have said. A crew from Fairwather Green was called out to an alleyway in Arnold Place, Manningham, at around 12.30am
We’re sitting in a giant slipper, racing through a series of wacky contraptions at Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s latest attraction. As Wallace would say, “It’s a cracking ride, Gromit.” Wallace and Gromit’s Thrill-O-Matic takes a trip through
The recent focus on the press by the Leveson Inquiry has shone a light into the shadowy corners of newspaper activities. But while there has been criticism levelled at the way some national news organisations have behaved, Lord Leveson in his report
25 years ago: Youngsters at Wycliffe Middle School in Saltaire Road, Shipley, raised most of the £3,200 needed to replace their old minibus. 50 years ago: Bradford Chamber of Trade was to ask Bradford City Council to conduct a poll among 6,000
The idea of allowing victims of crime to meet those who committed the offence to both allow the perpetrator to apologise and give those who have suffered some kind of closure is, inherently, a sound one. So it is a little disappointing that the
Isn’t gardening supposed to be relaxing – something you do on days off or bank holidays to unwind? In theory maybe. But in practice it’s anything but. Gardening programmes make it look easy. There’s Monty Don pottering about in the flowerbeds
25 years ago: Bradford Council was plunged into chaos when Odsal Labour councillor, Edward Johnson, announced he had quit the party and joined the Tories. 50 years ago: Sheep men and their dogs came to Bradford to take part in the annual trials
The formation of the Community Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation in Bradford yesterday marks another step forward in the ongoing fight to tackle the issue of grooming in the district. It shows that all sections of the community are taking the
SIR – Friday, May 17, is Nautical Friday – Seafarers UK’s annual fundraising day – when people are being asked to ‘wear something stripy’ to show their support and give money to support seafarers in need. Seafarers UK was formed in 1917. For 95
SIR – Philip Coote needs to take a reality check if he seriously believes that UKIP is an alternative to a Tory government (T&A, May 8). In all honesty you couldn’t put a cigarette paper between the policies of the Conservatives and UKIP.
SIR – Ashley Forsyth (T&A, May 7) rightly highlights the Tories’ devastating plot to concrete over our district’s countryside, mentioning that David Cameron made a comment about our ‘lovely countryside’. What I think David Cameron was thinking
SIR – What a pathetic response by Councillor Jeanette Sunderland to the crisis in social care funding highlighted by Age Concern in Bradford (T&A, May 7). While the next council elections are a year off, it is some consolation to know that
SIR – The Government has any number of so-called tax incentives to support what it regards as worthwhile ideas. Thus the interest on Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) (Graham Hoyle, Letters, May 1) is untaxed to persuade people to save a bit more.
SIR – Further to the letter by Sonya Chowdhury, chairman of AFME (T&A, May 5), I would like to add that as well as feeling incredibly ill, many ME patients are too weak to speak, eat or stand. To further compound their difficulties, the illness
SIR – May I ask where councillors Naylor and Hawkesworth live? Do they have factories coming out of their ears? I’ll bet they don’t, but we in south Bradford do. Have they both tried to get on to the Chain Bar roundabout during rush hour in order
SIR – Someone needs to tell ‘Dave’ Cameron how the nation is governed. His proposals on immigration are illegal under articles 20 to 24 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. And for good measure, his proposal on cigarette packaging
SIR – I clearly upset some bleeding heart liberals with my last correspondence about the cut in housing benefits (T&A, April 3). May I reiterate, it is not a tax. Maybe Mr Lacy is due to receive a cut in his. But here’s the thing. The pot I
SIR – The Register Office is one of eight buildings the Council could sell in a bid to avoid a multi-million pound maintenance bill (T&A, April 30). The move could see the office put within City Hall. It has also been suggested Silsden Library
SIR – It brought back memories to see the photograph of Paul McCartney in the Telegraph & Argus in Saltaire 1968 (T&A, May 4). McCartney had been commissioned to write the theme tune Thingumybob for a new TV comedy drama and hired the Black
SIR – Bradford Council is literally throwing money down the drain maintaining three-year-old gully cleaners which spend as much time off the road as on it (T&A, May 7). If, as reported, the Council has millions of pounds in reserve, why does it
SIR – The new model Labour Party wasted £8,000 million on a failed NHS computer project. Now with universal benefit the Tories are about to match that. How are the disparate and complex computer systems of the Inland Revenue and the DWP going to
Lion-hearted Andrew Davies is tipped to win the Wembley power struggle with Northampton’s heavyweights. City’s fearless centre half is expected to be a key figure in Saturday’s play-off final against a side who like to keep it physical. The
An application to build a house on a site next to 9 East Dene, Silsden, has been refused by Bradford Council for the fourth time. Council officers have ruled the house would be “poorly conceived and cramped”.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary in the Crossflatts area of Bingley. At around 2.40am last Monday, two suspects were seen acting suspiciously in a residential car park on Micklethwaite Lane. Officers from Bingley
An appeal has been lodged after Bradford Council rejected plans for a detached dormer bungalow at Cullingworth. Planning officers said the proposed development, at 1 Hallowes Grove, lacked a proper road frontage and would affect the privacy of other
The following planning applications have been submitted to Bradford Council: Little Horton: dormer window to rear elevation and reconfiguring hipped roof, 138 Southfield Road. Manningham: change of use of B1 business offices to D1 non-residential
Crafters can socialise and share skills at the next Red House Craft Bee on Saturday, May 25, at Red House Museum, Oxford Road, Gomersal. For more information, call (01274) 872224.
Haulage firm staff will be taking to the skies to raise cash for a children’s hospice. Six workers from Expect Distribution, which has offices in Bradford and Low Moor, are doing a skydive to raise money for The Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice
Two Cleckheaton companies used the Government’s Funding for Lending scheme to finance their expansion plans. LSi Gifts and Home Furnishings UK, have acquired new premises with funding from Barclays. LSi has bought Braemar and Northfield House
The increasing popularity in cycling is prompting more people to resort to pedal power. According to Francine Hoddy, head of Bradford-based cycling training company Safe 2 Cycle, numbers joining the Wibsey Park Wheelers are increasing weekly.
A new exhibition brings together artwork created by people inspired by visits to local museums and art galleries. The show incudes a mix of sketches, works in progress and completed pieces that were created in workshops over the past 20 years.
The Friends of Beamsley are hosting a table top sale with stalls selling everything from bric-a-brac to household items at Christchurch in The Grove, Ilkley, from 10am until 4pm on Saturday, May 25. Entry is free.
A student from the Aire Valley is preparing a £60,000 show garden for a prime spot at a national flower show. Natalie Graham is part of a team of landscape architecture students from Leeds Metropolitan University working on the creation for the
Francis Cummins will step up his search for loan signings today after it was revealed that Brett Kearney is set for a spell on the sidelines. The full back sustained a groin injury during Friday night’s Tetley’s Challenge Cup fifth-round exit at
Police are appealing for help in tracing a man they would like to speak to in connection with a burglary. Detectives would like to speak to anyone who has recently seen or knows the whereabouts of Daniel Inamdar, who has links with the Bradford
Hundreds of children including a 12-year-old have been arrested for mobile phone muggings, with more offences reported in the Bradford South area last year than anywhere else in West Yorkshire. Figures released by West Yorkshire Police under the
A file has been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service relating to the former deputy chief executive of a Bradford community organisation 16 months after his arrest on suspicion of fraud. Zubare Khan, 33, was arrested in January 2012 by detectives
The young people of Bingley decided to break stereotypes and do something about the town’s ailing bandstand on Saturday, picking up their paintbrushes and giving it a new lease of life. The bandstand in Myrtle Park is often the centre for town
Work was set to get underway today on Bradford Royal Infirmary’s new £2m neonatal unit. These artist’s impressions show how the state-of-the-art unit will look once the expansion and refurbishment is completed in a year. Parents of babies who received
Those who braved the weekend’s chilly weather to attend the Bronte Vintage Gathering in Cullingworth were treated to a range of entertainment. Horse-drawn carriages and souped-up lawnmowers were among the attractions at one of the biggest events
Bradford shone brightly in last night’s glittering Baftas ceremony, sharing the limelight with other local starring towns. The prize for Best Drama went to popular series Last Tango in Halifax, a witty and touching tale of mature love and romance
Few Bantams’ fans will have travelled 38,400 miles and spent £4,000 cheering on their team since January. But come Saturday, May 18, Bradford City fire survivor Philip Ideson will be able to make that claim. The 34-year-old flew from his home
The impact of a scheme that allows offenders to apologise to their victims and resolve their differences has been “lower than hoped.” Neighbourhood Resolution Panels were introduced in the Bradford area last May to deal with low level crime and anti-social
A 100ft crane is dominating the skyline in Haworth as Yorkshire Water carry out a £1.3m repair project. But completion of the scheme has been delayed by a month after the Bradford-based water company experienced contaminated ground conditions from
