The next stage of a process to encourage members of Oxenhope’s community to get involved with making spending decisions will take place later this month. For the first time, Oxenhope Parish Council has been operating a participatory budgeting initiative
A Keighley-based charity has released the first in a series of guides aimed at dispelling common myths about cats to curb unwanted breeding and improve animal welfare. Yorkshire Cat Rescue devised Myths About Matings in response to last year’s
Otley’s pubs are preparing to serve vast crowds of thirsty cycling fans when the Tour de France passes through. The riders on the Leeds to Harrogate opening leg of the Grand Depart are expected to reach the town just after noon on Saturday, July
A Keighley gym has given Manorlands a £330-plus boost. Betta Bodies raised the cash with an Olympia Roadshow at its Goulbourne Street premises. About 100 people attended the event, organised by business partners Robert Carr and Mark Holmes.
A councillor has presented images of rubbish in shop doorways and rusting street furniture to colleagues in a bid to trigger debate on maintaining standards of care for Ilkley town centre. Councillor Mike Ridgway gave a presentation to Ilkley Parish
Queensbury's Jamie Nicholls was delighted with his sixth-place finish for Great Britain as American Sage Kotsenburg stormed to gold in the first ever snowboard slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Nicholls looked well placed for a
Police are appealing for witnesses following a report of a sexual assault in Bradford last night. Bradford District CID would like to speak to anyone who has information about the incident, and in particular, a man who may have disturbed the attacker
Scientists have found "disturbing" problems in more than a third of foods sampled in lab tests, it was reported today. The results of 900 sample tests by councils in West Yorkshire found 38 per cent of foods were mislabelled or not what they claimed
Police have issued a warning about “determined scammers” after a resident in Bradford was targeted. A man from Great Horton contacted police yesterday to say he had received a phone call from someone pretending to be from a technology company.
Girls in the senior section of Girlguiding Wharfedale have been presented with four silver and 15 bronze Duke of Edinburgh Awards. The badges and certificates were handed out by Ilkley Parish Council chairman, Councillor Mike Gibbons, at Outside
The author of an acclaimed new book for the teenage market has been helping Otley students create their own fictional characters. Steven Camden, whose novel Tape was a recent Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week winner, led a busy creative
A plan to increase the police precept for West Yorkshire council taxpayers to protect frontline policing in the county has been approved. The decision, by the West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel, to give the go ahead to the increase, was welcomed
Staff at Bradford University will strike on Monday, partly over how much pay they have been docked during previous strikes. The University and College Union has been holding strike action over what they see as an “unsatisfactory” pay deal.
The number of students applying to study at Bradford University is back on the rise, and higher than the national average. Last academic year 122 more pupils started studying at the university than in 2012, according to figures released by admissions
A riding school that welcomed Princess Anne just two years ago faces an uncertain future due to a planned housing development in Fagley. Throstles Nest Riding School is on an area of land near Fagley Quarry – a site which is the subject of an extensive
A group of Bradford College students confronted two Bradford MPs over the proposed sell off of the student loan book yesterday. Gerry Sutcliffe and David Ward were at the college to visit its under-construction Hockney Campus when students greeted
Jamie Foster has no doubts the Bulls will be vastly improved when they face Castleford again in next weekend’s Super League opener. Francis Cummins’ side were stuffed 66-10 by the Tigers in their third and final pre-season outing last Sunday.
Bradford’s Classic car festival will be bigger and better this year thanks to three brothers from the city. Tony Bhogal and his siblings, Nicky and Paul, who have been car enthusiasts since they were boys growing up in Bradford, have been announced
The debate about whether people accused of rape should have anonymity has divided opinion among Bradford MPs. The issue is back in the spotlight following the high-profile acquittal of Coronation Street stalwart William Roache. The actor was
A new pop-up shop aims to get budding entrepreneurs on the way to success. On Monday, social housing landlord Incommunities will open the city’s first pop-up shop helping job seekers and those wanting to start businesses. Staff at the Open
Bradford District Care Trust is offering people the chance to get creative through its Creative Craft and Chat group led by community health champion Sheila Jefferies. Sessions run fortnightly, starting on Thursday, from 1.30pm until 3.30pm at
Pupils served up panto fun to children at a school with their performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The five to 11-year-olds, from Swain House Primary School, Bradford, visited children at Frizinghall Primary School, in Salisbury Road
A new super-council overseeing £1.4 billion of investment in transport and the economy is just two months away from being created. West Yorkshire’s new Combined Authority, which will be formed in April, will manage a £1 billion West Yorkshire Plus
Schoolgirl Katie Lygo is having her long locks chopped to help little girls battling cancer feel like princesses. The 11-year-old, whose mum Marie Burman is currently fighting her own battle against cancer, has only ever had her hair trimmed before
Patients are “largely in the dark” about plans to share their personal medical records, according to a health consumer group in Bradford. NHS England is to bring together the population’s personal data in a bid to improve research into the outcome
Aaron Mclean today told his fellow City new boys: It’s time to deliver. The Bantams are bidding to put their Valley Parade drought to bed against Crewe at the tenth time of asking. Matty Dolan expects to be registered in time to join the fleet
Police have stepped up patrols around the campuses of Bradford University and Bradford College in an effort to cut down on harassment of students. And people who make sexually inappropriate gestures to others have been warned it may actually be
An up-and-coming hammer thrower, of Cullingworth, has received £1,500 sponsorship from a Wilkinson store in Bradford. Jessica Mayho, who is preparing for the British University Championships and the AAA National Championships this year, received
A Keighley man who fell to his death from his hotel balcony in Majorca, had been drinking excessively and taking ecstasy on holiday, an inquest heard. But 22-year-old Sam Hill, who fractured his skull in the fall, had also been suffering an ear
Community workers on a Bradford estate are putting their area in the spotlight in a link-up with the centenary of the First World War. And their efforts have been given a massive boost with an £8,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It
The weather is playing havoc with Bradford City women’s fixture-list. Four successive postponements have left City still waiting to complete their WFA Cup second-round tie with Blackpool Wren Rovers. After being twice called off at Thackley
A man was treated in hospital for smoke inhalation after being rescued from a house fire in Bradford. Firefighters say his life was only saved because a friend of his turned up, after a blaze broke out in the bathroom at the back-to-back terraced
A demolition worker who had drunk eight pints beat up his partner so badly he left her severely brain damaged, Bradford Crown Court heard. School secretary Stephanie Bedford was discovered unconscious with a life-threatening head injury at the
A Bradford fundraiser is urging people to come together ‘For Onesie Day Only’ to write their name into the record books and raise money for a baby care unit in the city. Wibsey-born Conner Conley, 44, is hoping to attract a world-record number
British Transport Police were called to meet five “loud and boisterous” men when their train arrived in Keighley yesterday. Station staff at Skipton reported the group, in their 20s, to police at 4.30pm. A spokesman for BTP said: “They were being
The following have been dealt with by Bradford and Keighley magistrates: Sharon Norman, aged 40, of Mount Pleasant, Queensbury; commission of a further offence while subject to conditional discharge, dealt with for the original offences; original
A man was taken to hospital tonight with extensive burns to his face and chest after being found on fire. Police, ambulance staff and firefighters were called to a property on Steadman Terrace, Bradford, at about 8.10pm. How the man, aged in
Beer connoisseurs were out in force yesterday to sample real ales, ciders and perrys at the annual Ilkley Beer Festival. Ilkley Round Table's fifth beer festival has taken over the Kings Hall and Winter Garden, Station Road, raising money for good
