Bradford potter Simon Bedford admits he is paying the price for having to focus on his full-time job after he crashed out in the first round of the UK Snooker Championship tonight. Bedford was the only man to beat Ronnie O’Sullivan last year –
Jack Brooks admits he would be amazed if Yorkshire ever willingly followed Warwickshire’s lead and changed their name for Twenty20 cricket. The Edgbaston club revealed this week that they will play as the Birmingham Bears in the 2014 NatWest T20
Two men arrested in Bradford and Leeds in connection with allegations of supplying drugs to former Co-operative Bank boss and Methodist minister Paul Flowers have been released on bail. West Yorkshire Police said the suspects, aged 26 and 34, were
Prime Minister David Cameron presented a Special Recognition accolade to Aagrah restaurant boss Mohammed Aslam at the ‘Curry Oscars’ in London. The family-owned Aagrah business was set up 36 years ago in Shipley and now has 16 branches in Yorkshire
Right on Cue Bradford No 1 maintained their 100 per cent start in pursuit of retaining the Yorkshire Inter-District League snooker title with a 4-2 victory against Harrogate. Wayne Cooper once again opened in emphatic style, taking little time
Firefighters cut the roof off a car to free a woman following a crash in Manningham yesterday. The collision, which involved a blue Volkswagen Passat and a silver Proton Impian, happened at about 8.45am on Victor Terrace. Fire crews from Fairweather
Police received reports of several vehicles being damaged on an unlit traffic island on Killinghall Road in Bradford. Drivers reported bollards being missing and the island being moved into the middle of the carriageway due to lines being re-painted
A four-year-old pupil from Birkenshaw Primary School will have the honour of switching on the village’s Christmas lights on Sunday. Isobella Stephenson has been crowned Princess of Light after winning the village association poster competition
Leeds Adel Fourths 2, Bingley Bees 4 Bingley Bees, who are third in Yorkshire Men's Division Five North, travelled to fourth-placed Leeds Adel Fourths, determined to consolidate their position by opening up a four-point
A roadshow visited Keighley as part of a campaign to attract governors to Bradford District Care Trust. Chairman Mike Smith and medical director Dr Andy McElligott outlined the work of the trust and the challenges it faced as a provider of NHS
Possible closure of home delivery library services would be a blow to households in Wharfedale, says an Ilkley councillor. Councillor Anne Hawkesworth (Ind, Ilkley) says residents who have contacted her about the plans in Bradford Council’s budget
Otley’s MP has renewed calls for a pub company to sell the struggling Black Horse Hotel. The pub, on the corner of Westgate and Kirkgate, is to shut again from next Monday, December 2. The managers took over running the Enterprise Inns-owned
Otley’s revamped town centre toilets will open next week following a £110,000 re-build. The facilities on Orchard Gate have been redesigned to prevent vandalism and so reduce recurring costs to the town council, which runs them. They will also have
A family fun and health day will be held at Central Hall in Keighley from 10am to 2pm on Friday, December 6. There will be a children’s lucky dip, refreshments, alternative therapies, food displays, face-painting and advice from community specialist
Cross Hills traders are holding a late night shopping evening next Thursday, December 5. It will run from 5.30pm to 7.30pm and will include a Santa’s Grotto outside Wilman and Wilman and carol singing with Cononley Singers and Glusburn School Choir
A Keighley couple turned to pedal power to raise money for Manorlands hospice. Lee and Kate Orviss cycled nearly 400km across Tanzania to coin in cash through sponsorship for the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice. The couple completed the week-long
Record turnouts of a 1,000 runners led to congestion at the finishes in the opening races of the two local cross-country leagues. In Leeds' Temple Newsam Park, 738 juniors and seniors competed in the 20-team Peco League, and 254 from ten clubs
While Embassy B and Laisterdyke A battle it out for the top two places in Bradford Table Tennis League Division Three, the other five teams in this section are fairly evenly matched, with only four points separating them. To illustrate the point
Bingley Grammar School A-Level student Sam Bilham was finally victorious in the last round of the British Junior Rally Championship last Saturday. Leading the Lincolnshire-based event from the first stage, Sam and co-driver Gareth
The Craven, Aire & Wharfe Junior League have raised over £600 for men’s health charity Movember by holding under-sevens and under-eights festivals at GOALS Soccer centre in Bradford. The festivals involved over 250 children from 32 teams, and
The Treasury will be asked to look at whether or not Bradford & Bingley could be resurrected and returned to the high street to provide greater competition, a minister said. It comes after MPs lobbied the Treasury to release documents revealing
A total of £10,425 has been given to 15 different good causes at a presentation evening in Keighley. The organisations have all benefited from this year’s popular Oxenhope Straw Race. They received their donations at an event at Keighley Rugby
Three men have now been charged with murder, and a fourth is to be charged, in the case of alleged acid attack victim Barry Selby, it was revealed today. Co-defendants Lee Calvert, 22, Joseph Lowther, 21, and 28-year-old Robert Woodhead appeared
Two brothers from Bradford plotted to travel abroad for terrorist training under the influence of an in-law who was later convicted of a terrorist offence, a court has heard. Muhammed Saeed Ahmed, 21, and Muhammed Naeem Ahmed, 20, were "radicalised
Two men arrested in Bradford and Leeds in connection with allegations of supplying drugs to former Co-operative Bank boss and Methodist minister Paul Flowers have been released on bail . West Yorkshire Police said the suspects, aged 26 and 34,
The family of Bradford City supporters were standing in the Midland Road stand, excitedly awaiting kick-off of the match that was a celebration of the Bantams’ title-winning campaign. They managed to attract Stuart McCall’s attention and asked
Disliking the flat he was allocated by Foundation Housing, Craig Boyd set about wrecking and caused damage of almost £6,000, magistrates were told. When questioned why he caused so much damage to the apartment in Highfield Terrace, Skipton, the
Smoking causes more than 100,000 deaths a year in the UK, with smoking-related deaths in Bradford higher than the national average. The habit costs the NHS an estimated £1.5 billion a year, and to tackle the problem locally, health professionals
SIR – My family and I visited Bingley Arts Centre to see an amateur show of a musical, Hello Dolly. It was fantastic, everything about it was truly professional. A happy atmosphere. It was a welcome change from the awful din of so-called music
SIR – Following on from Terry Tordoff (Letters, November 21) I suggest our university students take a cheap day return to London to visit the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square just to see one painting, The Rokeby Venus, painted by the Spanish artist
SIR – Recently it was asked in your columns if anybody had any articles with sufficient interest and suitable for a new Bradford Police Museum, a good idea so I thought. In my possession I have one or two items that I thought may be suitable. I
SIR – Within the last three weeks I have travelled with P&O Ferries, spent time in Birmingham City Hall and, somewhat unusually for me, quite a lot of time in Sainsbury’s. But not only that, I have been in Downton Abbey and experienced the delights
SIR – While Mr Beaumont (Letters, November 23) and the usual braying horde continue to rejoice at the fall from grace of Mr P Flowers, there are a few points he (and they) should note. The Co-op Bank was one of the very few high-street banks not
SIR – The cases of Paul Flowers and Irfan Faiz, the airline pilot who thought he was safe to fly after consuming three-quarters of a litre of whisky, highlight the way society fails to treat issues of addiction. While I can’t say too much about
SIR – How sad that the staff of the Pictureville cinema are incapable of organising a simple event. Saturday night’s 3D showing of Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor was supposed to be a ‘global simulcast’ at 19.50. At 19.48 the doors finally opened
JIM GREENHALF casts the spotlight on the Bradford Army Cadet Force of 60 years ago, and recalls a 1971 expedition to the seaside by cadets This large photograph of 90 or more uniformed young men is thought to have been taken 60 years ago in 1953
A shop has opened inside Keighley Campus Leeds City College to help prepare students for the world of work. Worth Valley ward councillor Russell Brown launched the outlet, which is in the atrium of the Bradford Road building. The shop will
Months of essential structural work and repairs costing £400,000 starts at Stubden reservoir, Denholme on Monday. Yorkshire Water has commissioned the work to meet safety standards at the 145-year-old reservoir off Long Causeway and ensure it continues
Improvements made to Steeton cricket club’s pavilion and meeting room will be revealed at its Christmas pantomime. The club is able to host the pantomime thanks to a £7,200 project which has seen internal works carried out to its pavilion on Summerhill
It’s a site more used to hosting waltzers, candy floss stalls and hook-a-duck games. But now Wibsey’s fairground could also become a car park, in a move designed to ease the village’s parking woes. Businesses on High Street say they have been
Apart from a little heat from the earth’s core, all the energy that makes our planet comfortable for life comes from a star – the sun. It’s been getting hotter for the last four billion years and will continue to do so for another five billion.
A Gomersal museum which was given a reprieve from closure last year is seeking volunteers to help provide its programme of seasonal celebrations. Celebrations start at the Red House Museum on Sunday, December 8, with Christmas crafts for children
People looking to get in the festive spirit can still sign up to the annual Reindeer Stampede in Saltaire. The family fun run will support Epilepsy Action, which helps the 50,000 people affected by epilepsy across Yorkshire. The event, on Sunday
The following have been dealt with by Bradford and Keighley magistrates: Tina Judson, aged 31, of Herschel Road, Lower Grange; drink-driving, £100 fine, £105 costs, banned from driving for 17 months. Zain Younas, aged 19, of Toller Lane, Heaton
With the spiralling cost of fuel bills more and more people are finding it harder to find the money to heat their homes. This can prove especially problematic for older people – it is believed that 31,000 deaths were attributed to the cold weather
Police divers are continuing to carry out underwater searches for missing Bradford mum Seemberjeet Kaur. The 35-year-old disappeared from her home in East Bowling on Wednesday, October 23 – five weeks ago today. There have been no positive
Television show the Great British Bake Off has significantly boosted demand for food products made in Bradford which helped increase sales by 31 per cent at a West Yorkshire group. The Low Moor-based home baking division of Leeds firm Symington
One of the last remaining operations of a well-known name from Bradford’s industrial past is set to close at the end of this week. Finishing of confectionery packaging at the former Fields printers, which since 1999 has been Chesapeake Branded
A towering landmark has been upgraded and placed among the top eight per cent of nationally significant buildings – including world-famous Salts Mill. Historic Dalton Mills in Keighley has had its status reviewed by English Heritage and has been
The Bay Horse Inn at Oxenhope is to remain as a pub after being bought by a West Yorkshire-based chain. EM Inns hopes to have the hostelry in Upper Town open in time for Christmas with a new manager. The rescue comes after villagers and local councillors
Santas will be invading Skipton’s streets on Sunday. Skipton Craven Rotary Club is staging its fourth Great Skipton Santa Run and nearly 1,000 runners and walkers, dressed in Santa suits, are expected to tackle the five-kilometre route. Participants
Bradford hospitals’ principal dietician Clare Gelder has been manning the new Good Food Advice stall at Bradford’s Oastler Shopping Centre in an effort to raise awareness of healthy eating. Mrs Gelder, along with student dieticians Amy Butterworth
Jack Brooks believes Yorkshire will be among the favourites to win the LV= County Championship when they kick off 2014 against Somerset at Taunton on Sunday, April 13. The former Northamptonshire fast bowler, who meets his old team-mates a week
Two cricket clubs in the district are celebrating today after they were given large grants as part of a Sport England programme designed to protect the playing fields of England. Haworth Cricket Club, on West Lane, has been granted £50,000 from
Teenage centre Sam Wood is hoping to continue his rugby league education under the tutelage of latest Bulls overseas recruit Adam Henry. The former Bradford academy captain made his Super League debut on the wing at Wigan last season in place of
Phil Parkinson has put City into quarantine after their sickness-hit side were held by struggling Notts County. The players have been given an extra day off in a bid to clear out the germs – and the Apperley Bridge training ground is also being
A primary school near Keighley is celebrating after scooping a lottery grant of £50,000 to set up a brass band. The ‘Sutton’s Got Brass’ project, spearheaded by Sutton-in-Craven Community Primary School, secured the £49,990 Big Lottery Fund grant
Scouts from Menston tasted Army life when they visited the 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. The 25 boys and girls visited the Keighley TA Centre, where they were put through their paces by a drill instructor who rapidly taught them the difference
Bradford West MP George Galloway has called for urgent action after newly-released figures showed that the number of people admitted to hospital for malnutrition has almost doubled in five years. Mr Galloway asked for the statistics in response
Work has been promised this week to solve a major problem affecting street lighting in Silsden. Dozens of street lamps have been knocked out due to the malfunction with a fuse at one of the town’s electricity substations. Workers from Northern
A revamped post office was officially opened by a Bradford MP yesterday. Bradford South’s Gerry Sutcliffe cut the ribbon to open Wyke post office. He said: “The Post Office is vital to the community in Wyke and I’m sure the improved office
An Ilkley singer-songwriter has scooped an award for a music video as part of Leeds International Film Festival. Rupert Stroud, 26, won The People’s Choice Award at The Leeds Music Video Awards, which is part of this month’s 27th Leeds International
Bradford-based replacement doors and windows company Safestyle Uk is set to float on the Alternative Investment Market next month in a deal worth £70 million - the largest AIM company flotation of 2013. The company, which makes and installs PVCu
A charity has helped the elderly claim £1.3 million in pension benefits and credits to help them cope with budget cuts. Age UK Bradford and District is now urging other pensioners to check they are getting all the cash they are entitled to as it
A narrow, but busy village road would be turned into a “death trap” if plans for a new housing estate went ahead, a resident has claimed. Applicant Mrs H Watts is seeking outline planning permission to develop Madge Bank in Cononley, a parcel of
The Bulls have renewed their partnership with Kingstone Press Championship outfit Dewsbury. The agreement, which was first made prior to the start of last season, has been extended for a further 12 months and will again see all eligible members
City 1, Notts County 1 Mark Yeates won’t like to be classed as a fringe player but for the second game running it was someone from outside the regular group who came up trumps for City. The Irishman reinforced his claims for a recall to the
Burglary conspirators targeted frail and vulnerable victims with an average age of 90, stealing thousands of pounds from them, a court heard. People with dementia, mobility problems and blindness were among the victims. Prosecutor Andrew Kershaw
A top judge called for defendants to be more open about the supply of class A drugs as he jailed a number of men, arrested in the third phase of a major police operation. The first five of 35 defendants were appearing at Bradford Crown Court yesterday
School pupils whose creative thinking saw their own original work performed by a West End cast have been nominated for a Telegraph & Argus Schools Award. Earlier this year, Appleton Academy’s Year Nine music class were winners of a writing
Residents living near Great Horton Road said yesterday they were not being listened to after a licence crackdown culminated in three food outlets being given permission to open later. Two residents’ groups say the area’s night-time economy, while
The widow of a former Bradford Council plumber who died from an industrial illness is appealing for his former colleagues to come forward to help lawyers investigating whether more could have been done to protect him. Michael Pitman died aged 71
A young film-maker worked round-the-clock at a Bradford warehouse and bakery to fund his debut movie. Rafi Usmaan Raja, 26, of Girlington wrote, directed, produced and stars in the short film, called Love... It’s never Easy, a romantic comedy shot
Generous residents of Bradford have donated more than £81,000 to an appeal that is helping people affected by the devastating typhoon in the Philippines. The money – raised in just two weeks – is among more than £60 milllion handed over by the
