A teenage girl reported missing after she failed to return home after school was tonight found safe and well. Bethany Pemberton, 13, had last been seen at Appleton Academy in Wyke just after 3pm. She is believed to have been spotted at Asda
Bradford Park Avenue will be expected to maintain the 100 per cent start to their pre-season campaign tomorrow night. John Deacey’s Conference North outfit have already played two warm-up games, while it will be a first run out for hosts Liversedge
Police are appealing for help in finding a 13-year-old girl who failed to return home after school today. Bethany Pemberton, who police say has a bright pink pot on her right arm, was last seen at Appleton Academy in Wyke just after 3pm. The
A crash between two cars and a bus caused rush-hour delays for motorists in Bradford this afternoon. The vehicles collided at about 5pm on Thornton Road, near its junction with Listerhills Road and Lower Grattan Road. One lane was closed which
Henry Paul, director of rugby at Bradford & Bingley Rugby Club, is encouraging people to use the charity receptacle at the Wagon Lane sports complex in Bingley for unwanted clothing, shoes and household textiles. “These clothing banks are major
Steve Patterson’s return to action will be crucial to Yorkshire’s chances of beating Derbyshire this week, according to team-mate Phil Jaques. Patterson has recovered from a broken toe he suffered in their last LV= County Championship match against
A motorcyclist has been injured in a collision with a car in Bradford this afternoon. The crash happened at about 5.15pm on Rooley Lane, between Tong Street and the M606. The Highways Agency said Rooley Lane was closed in both directions as
The Liberal Democrats have unveiled their Bradford Cares campaign in a bid to stop Bradford Council moving ahead with social care cuts to more than 2,000 vulnerable residents. Bradford East MP David Ward was joined by the former Care Services Minister
An MP is campaigning for an independent investigation into alleged problems with a Post Office computer system. Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood fears the Post Office’s Horizon transaction system could have made innocent staff members look like they
A man was today fined after he was found in possession of extreme images of people having sex with animals, including a chicken. Saeedurrahman Abdulqayyum, 31, had been given a suspended prison sentence and a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO
A blaze in about 800 tonnes of green waste at a water treatment works was today being controlled by firefighters, 24 hours after it started. Yorkshire Water staff called the fire service yesterday afternoon to the waste water treatment works in
A weekend qualifying tournament has finalised the line-up of players to take on world number 26 Stephen Lee at an exhibition evening hosted by Cue Gardens at Odsal on Wednesday. The session will start at 7pm with some of Joe Johnson’s academy juniors
JCT600 Bradford League new boys New Farnley have reached the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield final in their first season with a dramatic last-ball triumph over Woodlands by one wicket. Now they will play Hanging Heaton in the final at Hartshead
People in Keighley are invited to visit their local police station, quiz detectives and experience life as a prisoner at an open day. Visitors to Airedale House can also find out what it is like to be part of a public order event when officers
An Ilkley ranger travelled to Holyrood Palace earlier this month to receive her Gold Duke of Edinburgh award in the presence of the Earl of Wessex. Naomi Warrenberg, 18, a member of the 1st Ilkley (Parish Church) Rangers, was presented with her
A Shipley woman was fined for being drunk and disorderly in Bingley in the late afternoon, police said. Officers were called to York Street following reports of a woman acting disorderly. The woman was arrested at 5.40pm on July 7 and released
Hanging Heaton and Lightcliffe will contest this season’s JCT600 Bradford League's Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup final at Farsley on Sunday, August 25. Both ended long waits yesterday to reach the final. Hanging Heaton last made it in 2000
Andy Geary is thrilled to be back in charge of the Silsden team and is enjoying the process of building a squad. Geary was appointed caretaker-manager midway through last season and has been confirmed in the hot-seat for a second spell as full-time
The Bradford Bulls Foundation is putting its heart into a new project funded by Heart Research UK to get pupils from across Bradford more healthy. The ‘Take Heart Take Part’ programme, which will deliver fun, lively and visual three week sessions
Cougars full back Craig Moss made it a double for the club after being named the Premier Sports player of the week. The Welsh international full back followed team-mate Scott Law in clinching the accolade after scoring a hat-trick in the 36-16
A forum to raise the profile of mental health issues in older people takes place in Bradford on Wednesday. Positive Minds, a not-for-profit organisation seeking to improve the lives of older people who are at risk of developing depression, is holding
Developers hoping to build a new supermarket in Shipley say they will pay towards the cost of calming traffic for neighbouring residents. The Hall Royd Area Residents Association is concerned about increased traffic in the area should Bradford
Taxpayers who have failed to submit tax returns are being offered the chance to come forward and pay up under a new HM Revenue and Customs campaign. It is aimed at people who have received a self-assessment tax return or notice to complete a tax return
Eighties folk maestro Paul Metsers is to put in a rare appearance at Bradford’s Topic Club. He was well-known on the UK folk circuit during the 1980s, releasing five critically acclaimed albums during that time. His song Farewell to the Gold
A charity is appealing for people across the Bradford district to donate to pay for milk to feed orphan kittens. A number of kittens are being hand reared at Yorkshire Cat Rescue, in Cross Roads, near Keighley. Charity founder Sara Atkinson
Following Andy Murray’s Wimbledon success, Salts Tennis Club is offering a week’s free tennis camp for children aged four to 16 this summer. Head coach Richard Senior said: “We are trying to put a racket in the hand of as many people as possible
Volunteers are needed for a charity bike ride which will raise cash for the T&A Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal, and there is still time to enter and raise cash for our £1 million campaign. Yorkshire Cancer Research is appealing for people to
Children should be seen and heard – that’s the message from a project encouraging parents to chat with their children more often. Nurseries and schools across the district have been working on the Talking Children Charter to promote the benefits
Helen Hirst and Steven Millward have been promoted to associate level at Bradford and Leeds law firm Schofield Sweeney. Steven, a corporate and commercial solicitor, trained at Schofield Sweeney and qualified as a solicitor in 2008. He advises
Ilkley Visitor Information Centre has been selected as a finalist for an award at the Welcome To Yorkshire White Rose Awards. The centre, run by Bradford Council, made the shortlist of five for the category of Visitor Information Award. It will
Gardeners and allotment holders can swap their surplus fruit and vegetables for vouchers at the award-winning Keelham Farm Shop. Now in its fourth year, the shop’s pioneering vegetable exchange scheme allows green-fingered folk to exchange their
A film revealing inspiring stories of Bradford men and women who served in the armed forces over the last century will be shown in schools. Bradford’s Armed Forces, Past and Present is produced by Bradford UNESCO City of Film with funding from
Martyn Moxon dedicated Yorkshire’s Friends Life t20 win over Derbyshire at Chesterfield yesterday to the absent Jason Gillespie following the sudden death of his father in Leeds on Saturday. The White Rose county’s first-team coach has been given
A group that hopes to bring Bradford’s former Odeon building back to life revealed plans for a live music venue at a day of free concerts yesterday. Bradford One wants to turn the derelict city centre building into a concert hall that could fit
I’d forgotten how bad it can be. It was as if I’d smeared a handful of chilli seeds on my eyes. All day they itched and I would have needed handcuffs to keep from rubbing them. I rarely suffer from hay fever, but when I do, it brings it all
A Bradford academy is one of four schools in the country to enter a national programme to become a centre of excellence in financial education. Santander and the UK’s leading financial education charity, pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group)
Bradford-based choir Chordiality helped raise £860 for Macmillan Cancer Support when the 32-strong mixed voice choir performed at St Saviour’s Church in Harden. Local organiser Jenny Wrightson said: “The concert was first class and everyone that
More than 100 businesses will this week attend a second event to help boost the region’s export as recent figures reveal a ‘tidal wave of enthusiasm’ for overseas sales. The We Are International Export Network event is part of a big push to boost
Two Bradford city centre nightclubs were ordered to take urgent action after fire safety breaches were found during a crackdown, West Yorkshire Fire Service has revealed. Firefighters say NV, on Great Horton Road, and Chronicle, on Barry Street
The Lord Mayor of Bradford has praised the people behind a soup kitchen which serves hot meals and drinks once a week in Keighley town centre. Councillor Khadim Hussain visited volunteers from the Intouch Foundation at their latest session on Church
A teddy bears’ picnic will be held not in the woods, but in Bradford’s City Park. Local libraries are organising the Bookstart Teddy Bears’ Picnic on Tuesday, July 23, to kick off their summer activities. Children and their teddy bears are
A Haworth-based furniture maker is almost ready to start work again at his original base following a “nightmare” fire at his workshop. Much of the interior of the premises at Damside Mill, off Lees Lane, was wrecked by the flames in December last
A volunteer who has been helping people with sight loss in Bradford for more than ten years has been nominated for a national award. Jim Illingworth, 78, from Wyke, is in the running for an honour from the Macular Society’s Awards for Excellence
A Bradford couple drove through seven European countries in a £300 banger to raise money for charity. Paul and Ayesha Marshall, of Wibsey, have completed the Wacky Rally – Barmy to Barcelona. The couple took on the challenge to raise money
It is a disturbing fact of life in the 21st century that increasing numbers of families are becoming dependent on food handouts. The Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank is distributing seven times more food parcels a month than it was two years ago
25 years ago: Heroic clergyman Alex Welby was inducted as the vicar at St Stephen’s Church in West Bowling. The induction ceremony was delayed because of injuries suffered by the Rev Welby when he saved his two-year-old son Simeon from a burning car
While no one would begrudge local tradesfolk the right to carry out their businesses, the state Leslie and Norma Williams’ drive was left in by a builder was, quite frankly, a disgrace. And the fact this couple were in their 80s, and that Mrs Williams
25 years ago: Former Keighley teacher Colin Young played his way into the Guinness Book of World Records and raised £3,000 for Mencap by playing golf for a week in daylight hours. He totted up 1,260 holes and 70 rounds. 50 years ago: A four-year-old
One can only wonder at the mentality of the gang of idiots who terrorised elderly passengers on a bus by hurling stones at the vehicle, shattering the windows. It takes a specific kind of cowardly thuggishness to even conceive of the idea of pelting
SIR – I really enjoy being by the coast in Yorkshire and Northumberland. We were all promised a continuous path along England’s coast, but now it looks like the Government might go back on its word. Along with the Ramblers, I am worried that plans
SIR – I would like, through your paper, to thank a kind motorist for helping my wife on Monday, July 8. She suffers from MS and needed to pick up a prescription from the chemist next to the GP surgery in Low Moor. Suddenly her legs gave way, fell
SIR – Westfield have finally committed to starting to build in the final quarter of 2013. Thank you, Westfield, we are ever so grateful. Thanks are really due to David Green, the leader of the Council, for ensuring that this episode is finally
SIR – While I agree with David Austin that it’s wrong for banks to speculate on food prices (T&A July 8), this is just small fry for the banking cartels which must now be among the world’s biggest ‘criminal’ businesses where money laundering and
SIR – Vanda Greenwood (Letters, July 9) has stopped accusing Lib-Dems of being “in coalition” with Tories on Council “for ten years”. Now, Lib-Dems “propped-up” Tory-run councils! Well, we voted with Tories on Council where sensible to do so –
SIR – Re the proposed ‘Super Council’ for West Yorkshire, some of us have painful memories of previous local government re-organisations, eg, 1974 when, as a former Pudsey ratepayer I was dragged into Leeds and found by 1976, just two years later,
SIR – Ed Miliband’s proposed changes to Labour’s relationship with the unions clearly shows he is trying to distance Labour from the left, though this is nothing new. The shift to the right had been going on throughout the Blair-Brown governments
SIR – At last, a letter suggesting a practical solution to the controversial occupation by travellers of the empty Buck Lane site in Baildon. John Pashley’s proposal that the Council, through the traveller liaison officer, should come to a gentleman
SIR – With the recent arrival of hot weather, we should be reminded that animals suffer and die when temperatures rise. Dogs die very quickly in hot cars and they should not be left inside them even for very short periods. Opening a window a few
SIR – Re David Rhodes’s questions on Lib-Dems curbing Tory excesses in Government (Letters, July 5). Social housing is a problem due to sale of stock and lack of building under Tory and Labour governments. Will the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ achieve
IR – While appreciating the Amateur Stage Magazine editor’s letter (T&A, July 8), theatre buffs must not forget professional local theatre, too, such as the Alhambra, which needs all the support it can get (especially plays) to increase the coffers
SIR – If Sam Gardner, another dyed in the wool republican who has crept out of the woodwork, thinks he can persuade right-minded people to become republicans he is on a hiding to nothing, especially when he says the Duchess of Cambridge’s unborn child
Jarrod Sammut is hoping to be back to boost the Bulls in Friday’s crunch home clash with Hull FC. The skilful stand-off has been out with a dead leg and then a quadriceps injury since the 28-18 loss away to Hull KR at the beginning of June.
Fundraising for Manorlands is hitting a high note. Live music festival Woodfest is again being staged to coin-in cash for the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice. More than 20 bands are set to perform on the main stage during the extravaganza, which
Motorists are being warned about resurfacing work on major routes in and out of Bradford next week. The southbound M606 is being resurfaced between junction 3, at the Staygate roundabout, to Chain Bar, at the M606’s junction with the M62. This
Antiques expert David Dickinson visited Bradford this weekend. ITV1's popular antiques show, Real Deal, rolled into the city on Saturday morning. Mr Dickinson, its presenter, and his dealers gave their expert valuations throughout the day at
A Bradford MP has welcomed the judgement by the High Court that the Government’s minimum income requirement set at £18,600 for family visas was “unjustified” and “disproportionate”. This has led to the Home Office pausing decisions on applications
Employment levels in the Yorkshire region increased over the past three years and outstripped the national level, a new report says today. Total employment has risen by 4.9 per cent between 2010 and 2013 in Yorkshire and The Humber, outperforming
Otley Olympian Lizzie Armitstead’s recent cycling success has been praised in the House of Commons. MP Greg Mulholland (Lib Dem, Leeds North West) has tabled a Parliamentary motion in recognition of the 24-year-old winning the British National
A Bradford timber business is on course to beat its sales target a year after being rescued from administration by its boss. Taylor’s Timber Centre in Thornton Road is heading towards a turnover of nearly £1 million in what managing director Charles
Athletes from Benton Park School in Rawdon enjoyed a golden sporting moment when they posed with an Olympic torch after representing Leeds in the West Yorkshire Youth Games. The students had competed against all other Leeds high schools in a series
A schoolboy cricketer has broken a 20-year batting record after scoring a total of 949 runs in a season. Dylan Budge scored 101 not out and 153 not out in the final two day match of the season to set a new record at Woodhouse Grove in Apperley
A mum has been too terrified to let her daughter play out at their Incommunities home, where only rusty metal railings separate the garden from a sheer drop into a quarry. When Shelley Banks moved into the house at Farleton Drive, Fagley, with
The owner of a French restaurant travelled to the country to compete in a gruelling cycle race – but came up against a hitch. Simon Gueller (pictured centre), owner of The Box Tree Restaurant in Ilkley, took part in L’Etape du Tour in Annecy, an
Fed-up business owners claimed Eccleshill is rife with crime when they met with a local councillor. They said the village was a hotspot for armed robberies, break-ins, vandalism, vehicle crime and drug-dealing. Eccleshill ward Councillor Geoff
The recent blazing temperatures in Bradford are set to linger into the start of the school summer break, weather experts have said. The hot spell of weather will last into next weekend when many primary and secondary schools will have finished
Guiseley 0 Bradford City 4 For the superstitious, as one fan on Twitter pointed out, a City injury overshadowing a 4-0 warm-up win at Nethermoor need not be a bad omen. After all, the same happened 12 months ago and the season that followed
Developers behind one of two supermarket plans for Shipley say their proposals offer the greatest benefit to the town. Cardinal shop fitters wants its Airedale Mills base, in Ives Street, to be turned into a superstore so it can move to more modern
A Co-op shop in Wilsden could get a new look if planning permission is granted. United Co-Operatives Limited has applied for permission to remove a totem sign, paint the customer entrance ‘standard Co-op green’ and replace a bin store, equipment on
A former building society boss and hotelier has died aged 74. Gerald Hey owned the then Three Sisters Hotel at Haworth for a decade, until 2002. But he had begun his working life at the Bingley Building Society – later to merge with the Bradford
A determined group of neighbours has been galvanised to formalise its residents’ association by superstore proposals which they say make living on “an island surrounded by traffic” even worse. The Hall Royd Area Residents’ Association in Shipley
Bradford Council’s Visitor Information Centre is now selling official Bradford Bulls merchandise. Supporters can buy replica home and away shirts, training shirts, polo shirts and other Bradford Bulls items from the centre on Britannia House, Broadway
At their time of life everything should be coming up roses – but for pensioners Leslie and Norma Williams, it’s dandelions. The couple, both in their 80s, say they feel they have wasted £4,000 after getting the driveway and path outside their home
Phil Parkinson voiced his sympathy for Andy Gray as City begin their Ireland tour today without him. The experienced striker is desperate to make his mark this season after an unconvincing start to his second spell with the club. But he now
Wakefield 0 Bradford Park Avenue 2 The sweltering conditions must agree with Avenue’s playing squad as they eased to victory in their second pre-season friendly in the baking heat. Bradford added a win at Wakefield on Saturday to their opening
Local residents joined in a campfire singalong during the launch of the Friends of Park Wood. More than 35 people of all ages went along to the event at the picnic area at the top of the Keighley beauty spot. The group has been set up to protect
Exhibitors are being sought for Keighley Show. Organisers say although the event has a strong agricultural theme, there is a huge range of classes. Traditional sections include tractors, cattle, sheep, pygmy goats and horses, plus show jumping
Police were called to Barkerend to help disperse a crowd containing children as young as five who were getting dangerously close to a fire. Firefighters from Bradford and Idle were called to a blaze that had engulfed a row of garages in an alleyway
A cafe at the heart of an award-winning Bradford park has been severely damaged in a suspected arson attack. The incident, which left Lister Park’s cafe and boathouse engulfed in smoke, has been described as a blow to the whole community, who regard
Gary Ballance column: It may have been a three-and-a-half-week gap since our last Championship match but we are still definitely on a high from our good form in the first half of the season, which saw us win four of nine matches. Not only that,
The RSPCA in Bradford has urged dog owners to leave their pets at home in the heat after it was alerted to five more incidents of dogs being left in hot cars in the district. The Telegraph & Argus revealed last week how a brindle Staffordshire
A controversial end-of-life regime once described by Bradford health chiefs as the “gold standard” could soon be phased out, it has emerged. An independent review of the Liverpool Care Pathway, has been hearing evidence from patients, families
