Brighouse Town 2, Huddersfield Town XI 2 Brighouse Town hosted a youthful Huddersfield Town squad at the Dual Seal Stadium and although the first half remained goalless, there was plenty of late action as it finished 2-2. The home side broke
Keighley-born teenager Jonny O’Mara’s impressive run to the semi-finals of the Aegon GB Pro-Series tournament at Ilkley was finally halted today. O’Mara came unstuck 6-2, 6-1 against fellow Briton Tom Farquharson, who booked a place in the final
A jury will continue to consider its verdicts on Monday in the case of a 26-year-old man accused of sex offences. The jury of was sent home for the weekend by a judge at Bradford Crown Court yesterday after deliberating for four hours. Hersh
A burst water main has closed one lane of a busy road in Shipley this evening. The incident, on the A6038 Otley Road northbound at its junction with Fox Corner, is causing traffic queues back towards Bradford. Traffic heading towards Guiseley
Friends of Bradford City have set the fund-raising wheels in motion for next season by presenting the club with a new minibus. The vehicle will be given an immediate “debut” when it is driven over to Ireland on Sunday to carry kit and equipment
Chib Chilaka was on target in Avenue’s opening pre-season friendly at the weekend and the former Bradford City prospect looked in excellent condition. Bradford boss John Deacey had spoken about the individual fitness of the players as they returned
The Farsley players will be exerting themselves on the training pitch only this weekend after enjoying their first warm-up game on Saturday. Neil Parsley and the club want to restrict Saturday friendly games but were more than happy to accommodate
Town have lost one influential member of last season’s squad – goalkeeper Tom Taylor – but the signs are good they will be able to hold onto another key player. All the focus was on leading scorer Tom Matthews when the club finished last term as
Yorkshire were outmuscled with bat and ball by Durham as their Friends Life t20 hopes took a significant blow with a 76-run loss. Phil Mustard’s brilliant 91 off 52 balls realistically ended the Vikings’ quarter-final bid. But they are still mathematically
It has been 36 years since Lightcliffe last appeared in a Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup final and they are hoping they can bring that barren spell to an end on Sunday. It won’t be easy though because they face a tough semi-final at Tofts
An Otley-based charity is celebrating becoming one of the first voluntary sector groups to be named a Living Wage Employer. Otley Action for Older People has earned the accreditation for committing to pay staff an hourly rate more than the minimum
A Bradford pub is holding a summer festival tomorrow to raise money for the city’s Marie Curie Hospice. The Horse and Farrier pub in Kings Road will start its day of entertainment at 10am, with bouncy castles, face-painting and refreshments to
Seven Bradford Fencing Club members pitted their skills against some of the best exponents in the county at the Yorkshire Team Foil competition. The two Bradford teams, with some of them having been participating in the sport for less than a year
More volunteers are needed to help with a collection in Yeadon next week for Macmillan Cancer Support. The charity’s Otley and Wharfedale Fundraising Group is collecting at Yeadon Morrisons from Monday, July 15 to Sunday, July 21. To find out
Paul March is confident his resurgent Cougars side have finally kicked their losing habit and discovered a winning formula. The Cougars will head to Swinton on Sunday on the back of successive wins over Doncaster and Hunslet, which have encouraged
Celebrity chefs Rosemary Shrager and Jean-Christophe Novelli recently popped into a Gomersal antique centre. The pair were being filmed for the BBC’s Antiques Road Trip hunting valuable pieces among the two floors packed with antiques and retro
A movie filmed in and around Lund Park and featuring local teenagers will be unveiled to the public next week. Keighley Film Club will host the first public screening of Bottle on Wednesday as part of a short film season at the Picture House.
People are being urged to use only the water they need because of the current hot spell. Demand for water in Yorkshire has risen by 7.7 per cent from about 1.3billion litres a day to 1.4billion as temperatures have risen in the past week. Bradford-based
An 86-year-old from Bradford is following in her mother’s footsteps by moving into the same Shipley care home that she became the first resident of 30 years ago. Molly McIlvenny is the daughter of Czajka Care Group’s Brookfield Home’s first resident
The RSPCA’s Bradford and District branch is hosting a family fun day and fun dog show from 11am until 3pm on Sunday, August 25. Booking in for the fun dog show runs from 11.30am until 12.30. No animals with docked tails are allowed. There will
Halfords in Guiseley is asking people to bring old bikes in as part of an initiative to provide affordable transport for communities in Africa. The cycles can be brought in to any of the company’s stores until Tuesday. Anyone donating a bike will
Ilkley’s Tesco branch in Springs Lane will hold a charity car boot sale on Sunday, August 4, from 4pm to 7pm. All proceeds go to the supermarket’s charity partner, Diabetes UK. Cars are charged £7, vans or 4x4s £10. To book a place ask
Workers who tried to tackle a machinery fire in a Bradford felt factory were rushed to hospital with smoke inhalation. Firecrews from Bradford and Odsal were called to a groundfloor blaze at Felt Supplies Ltd on the Wharfedale Business Park near
A newly-arrived peacock at a Denholme garden centre can be excused for strutting around like an emperor. He’s been named Pharaoh Ellison by a local resident in honour of a villager who served in the First World War. And he certainly feels like
Staff at Morrisons’ Bradford headquarters who ‘dressed down for a pound’ handed over a cheque for £1,846 to the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal, as donations continue to roll in. Workers at the supermarket giant’s Gain Lane head
The University of Bradford is hosting a sustainable building event this weekend. Delegates from the Sustainable Building Association will gather for its annual conference today and tomorrow. Dave Morland from Leeds-based architects Farrell
Balloon modelling and money advice are among the attractions at a fun day in the Fell Lane area of Keighley. The event on Friday, August 16, at Salisbury Road will offer a bouncy castle, face painting, tombola, a DJ and music workshop. Money advice
Volunteers and staff at Otley’s Oxfam shop have raised nearly £1,700 to fund a clean water supply project for an overseas school. Customers of the Boroughgate store also helped in an effort that spanned several months and involved knitting and
A man and a woman were arrested as they stole a go-kart in West Bowling. Police said two people broke into premises on Wednesday before stealing the kart. A go-kart was recovered.
Sounds of the countryside will be combined with music from the Last Night of the Proms in Silsden next weekend. The tenth Proms on the Farm will be staged at Sycamore Farm, Brunthwaite, on Saturday, July 20. Over the years, the event has raised
Two firms have used Government-backed grants to fund investment in expansion and job creation. Bradford catering equipment business Victor Manufacturing has used a grant to invest in metal folding machinery. Managing director Mick Shaddock
Detectives are treating a blaze that ripped through a popular pub as arson. The fire comes just weeks after a gunman walked in and fired a shotgun into the ceiling. Police are now urging anyone with information to contact Bradford North CID
A 42-year-old man drove at excessive speed while almost twice over the drink-drive limit, a court heard yesterday. Michael Brown drove at speeds between 50 and 60mph in a 30mph limit, and turned into oncoming traffic, causing other vehicles to
A planned housing development could bring with it a Government grant of around £400,000 to improve the city, a meeting heard. A plan to build 66 homes and four shops on land off Legrams Lane, Bradford, was given the green light at a meeting of
A scheme aimed at encouraging adults to take up cycling, or get back on their bikes, is to start in a second location. Following the successful launch of the sessions in Wibsey Park, the first of their kind in Bradford, similar sessions are planned
Bus users are to be asked how services can be improved at consultations held by First and Metro. Drop-ins about the 33, 33A or X84 services to and from Wharfedale and Leeds will take place at: Ilkley Library on Monday, July 22, from 2.30pm to 6.30pm
Three cases of tuberculosis have been reported in people with links to Thornton Grammar School in the last 12 months, it emerged last night. The Telegraph & Argus reported yesterday how Public Health England (PHE) said one student at the school
A support group for Manorlands Hospice has totted up 20 years of charity success and £75,000. The Baildon Support Group for Manorlands Hospice started in July, 1993, after Susan Fretwell saw an appeal from the charity in the Telegraph & Argus
Youngsters will have the opportunity to explore what lies beneath their feet. ‘Digging the Past’ enables 10 to 16-year-olds to participate in an archaeological dig from 10am until 3pm at Oakwell Hall on Nutter Lane, Birstall, on Tuesday, July 30. The
There will be double delight for a Keighley teacher and her classroom assistant – they’re both expecting twins! Eve Roche and Sharon Nelson discovered they were pregnant within days of each other during Christmas. Their August due dates are
The chairman of Oxenhope Parish Council hit out at motorists who “abused” people marshalling the village’s annual Straw Race. Councillor Neal Cameron, of Station Road, said he was outside his home on the day of the race and heard what the marshals
A 38-year-old man who sold cannabis to friends has been given a community order. Police found cannabis with a street value of £1,470 in David Robinson’s bedroom at the house where he was lodging in Heather View, Skipton, Bradford Crown Court heard
Armed police raced to reports of gunshots in a street off Dick Lane to discover a stolen car on fire whose petrol tank had exploded. The armed response vehicle arrived at Dareen Street where the Fiat Punto car was ablaze and had also set fire to
Distance Learning courses at Bradford College have been given the seal of approval. Awarding body NCFE moderated the NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Safe Handling of Medicine, NCFE Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health Awareness and NCFE
Leaving university should be an exciting time for students. Finally, all that hard work and commitment can finally pay off. Or it should do, only many of Britain’s graduates are still struggling to find employment. The recession has, no doubt
25 years ago: The theft of a 75p beer glass ended with four men appearing before Bradford magistrates – despite claiming on a night out it had been brought from home – and cost them a total fine of £300. 50 years ago: Ten years after the mysterious
It is staggering in these straitened financial times that our Members of Parliament have not said no en masse to the proposed 11 per cent pay increase an independent body has awarded them. After the negative publicity they have, often quite rightly
SIR – I’ve received a letter from Holland to say I’ve won £14,000 – they will send the cheque provided I send them £30. If I do, I’ll never hear from them again. How many others across the country receive these, and how many send the £30? It’s
SIR – I am writing to inform your readers of a fundraising initiative taking place at Superdrug stores across the country this weekend. Stores are raising funds to help Marie Curie Cancer Care provide more free nursing care to terminally-ill patients
SIR – Today, the UK Government has the chance to update an 80-year-old law to protect more vulnerable children. The current antiquated law – the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 – only covers physical harm against a child and doesn’t recognise
SIR – Millions of people in the public sector whose wages have been frozen for at least two years are to get an increase of only one per cent, while the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is considering setting a pay rise of around ten per
SIR – I have chronicled Westfield's promises dating from assurance that the complex would be open by Christmas 2007 to their promise to start work in the second half of this year, which is now extended until the fourth quarter. This further delay
SIR – Hundreds of thousands of people in this country are apparently turning to food banks to feed themselves and their families. Benefits are being widely cut regardless of need and even the sick and disabled are being penalised. Public sector
You know that bit in the remake of Casino Royale when Daniel Craig’s James Bond steps out of the waves wearing a skimpy light blue swimming costume? I have that exact same pair of budgie-smugglers. I didn’t buy them – an enterprising PR firm sent
More than 80 staff at an NHS hospital are on controversial “zero-hours” contracts, it has been revealed – with no guarantee of pay. And the use of the contracts, at Airedale NHS Trust, is sharply on the rise, up from 49 staff affected just three
A dad who viciously assaulted three of his daughters – breaking the elbow of one with a cricket bat – has been jailed for three years. The man, who cannot be named so as not to identify his children, was told by a judge he had abandoned his duty
The Airedale Dodgers will again lead the way at Silsden Gala. The Airedale Hospital running group will push a bed through the village ahead of the traditional procession. The fundraising stunt will begin an afternoon of festivities on Sunday
The next Baildon Farmers’ Market is in the Lower Ian Clough car park from 9am until 1pm on Saturday, July 27.
Windybank Youth Club meets from 6.15pm until 8.45pm on Sunday, July 21, in Windybank Community Centre, Central Avenue, Hightown, Liversedge. Activities include sport, music, dance, drama and art.
Forty-two-year-old family film The Railway Children, filmed near Keighley, has received its first complaint – by a viewer who thinks it encourages children to play on railway lines. Yesterday British Board of Film Classification released its annual
A man drove his car into the front of his partner’s house as she cowered inside, a court heard. Damien Knapton, 30, was jailed for 20 months yesterday after pleading guilty to damaging property being reckless as to whether life was endangered.
Youngsters and leaders from a Keighley Scout group took the plunge to raise money for charity. Members of the St Anne’s group abseiled more than 100 feet down the north face of Keighley Shared Church tower. Saturday’s event raised just over
A budding young Hitchcock from Keighley will see his slasher film, about an escaped killer stalking the streets of Menston, premiere at an international film festival this month. George Holmes, 17, who studies media at Ilkley Grammar School and
John Bateman believes he is close to recapturing his best form as the Bulls bid to defy the odds and reach the play-offs for the first time since 2008. The 19-year-old back-rower underwent a shoulder reconstruction during the winter which forced
Andrew Davies will be forced to sit out the start of City’s pre-season programme. The centre half has felt a recurrence of the calf problem that has been troubling him on and off. Davies is undergoing treatment and will miss the opening friendly
City will be back in blue on their travels next season. The Bantams unveiled their new away strip today, which sees them change last campaign's gold tops - worn at Wembley in their play-off final triumph - for a return to a more traditional colour
Two people were injured as they tackled a man who was stealing property from a garden in Holme Wood. The pair, both residents, are fine and well, said police, who added they were grateful for their help. A 32-year-old man from Holme Wood was arrested
Morrisons boss Dalton Philips has admitted that its absence from the online food market is costing the Bradford-based retailer £500 million a year in lost sales as rivals enjoy double digit internet sales growth . Mr Philips also revealed that
Pupils from Wyke took to the water in fierce dragon boats. Children from Appleton Academy attended a school Dragon Boat race at Doe Park Water Sports Centre in Denholme, with four teams competing to be named top dragon. Earlier this year the
An evening with a West End star enabled Keighley Playhouse to raise £587 for Manorlands hospice. The venue welcomed former Keighley man Simon Shorten, who has performed the lead role in the hit musical Les Miserables. He was joined on stage by his
The complex logistical effort required to host next summer’s Tour de France Grand Depart was outlined at a meeting in Keighley. Bradford Council sports events officer Andy Ross told a gathering at Keighley Civic Centre that the Council may deploy
The monthly craft fair supporting Sue Ryder takes place from 10am until 4pm at Christchurch Methodist/URC, The Grove, Ilkley, on Saturday, August 3. Entry is free.
The latest Yorkshire Craft Fair takes place from 10am until 4.30pm tomorrow at the Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Road, Ilkley. Entry is free.
A second scarecrow festival and open gardens day will be held in Long Lee and Thwaites Brow. The event on Sunday, July 21, will see three gardens open from 1pm. The fee is £1 to view all gardens and teas will be served in the village hall, where
Paintings done by people with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses are going on display at Bradford’s Industrial Museum. The three-month exhibition, showcasing work by patients from the Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford, opens tomorrow at 11.30am
A Bradford limousine company with multiple convictions for illegally running vehicles made “huge profits” from its activities, a Traffic Commissioner has claimed. A report released by the Office of the Traffic Commissioner revealed that Oasis Limousines
Comics Sarah Millican, Bill Bailey and Russell Brand, folk queen Kate Rusby and opera star Lesley Garrett are among the stars treading the boards at Bradford Theatres this autumn. The Alhambra’s new season includes Cabaret, direct from the West
Specialist support is being offered to primary school pupils after allegations a young girl was raped by five schoolboys. Calderdale Council said it is giving support to schools in Rastrick, near Brighouse, following the arrest of the boys, aged
by Julie Tickner T&A Reporter Charity workers have been left devastated after thieves caused hundreds of pounds of damage to a bus used for outreach work and hired out to raise vital funds. Thieves took a laptop worth around £500 and new awning
A decision that could lead to one of the biggest Catholic schools in the country being created in Bradford will be made next week. Bradford Council’s Executive decides on Tuesday whether to give the go-ahead to the closure of two single-sex Catholic
A haulage company must pay £12,000 in fines and costs after breaching animal waste transport rules on three separate occasions when foul-smelling carcasses or fluids were spilled on a road. Kintore Transport Haulage was before Bradford Magistrates
A controversial animal rendering plant has been sent back to the drawing board over its extension plans. But it has partly succeeded in winning more freedom from Bradford Council scrutiny. Residents have long been complaining about smells from
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Allerton: signage, Dixons Allerton Academy, Oaks Lane. Apperley Bridge: construction of conservatory to rear, 14 Overland Crescent. Baildon: change of use of area of land
