Bradford Park Avenue will be going into Saturday’s tough game at promotion-chasing Brackley Town in high spirits following their handsome midweek win. John Deacey’s men enjoyed a 4-0 victory in Wednesday’s Skrill Conference North clash with Gainsborough
Keighley Cougars chairman Gary Fawcett is kicking off a Sport Relief cycle at Sainsbury’s in Keighley tomorrow. He is set to pedal for an hour with the deputy store manager, and Cougars first-team players, plus Sainsbury’s and Workouts Gym staff
The Bradford Bulls Foundation have announced the return of the popular Play Touch and Pass rugby league competition. The tournament will run for ten weeks with this year’s games taking place on the new 3G pitch at Thornton Grammar School. The
Greg Hancock and Chris Holder are helping fellow former speedway world champion Gary Havelock celebrate his farewell meeting tomorrow night in Poole (7.30). Havelock, 45, won the world title in 1992 during his 11 seasons with Bradford Dukes but
Leeds owner Gulf Finance House Capital has demanded a decision from the Football League on Massimo Cellino’s proposed £25million club takeover by the end of today. Bahrain-based investment firm GFH Capital has written to the the governing body
Nursery and reception children at Parkwood Primary School in Keighley rose to the challenge when “Baker Mike” visited. Master baker Mike Armstrong showed the youngsters how to make animal-shaped bread rolls and hot-cross buns. And the 50-or-so
Animal lovers are needed to help run a charity store in Otley. Veterinary charity PDSA is seeking new volunteers for its Kirkgate shop. For more details about volunteering call the PDSA’s National Volunteering Centre on freephone 0800 854194
Voluntary groups are being urged to join a new networking group. Keighley and Ilkley Voluntary Community Action (KIVCA) has revived its Voluntary and Community Sector Forum. KIVCA officer Julie Lintern said: “It is a troubling time with Bradford
A 24-year-old man has been jailed for 20 months for squirting a chemical into the face of his former partner’s new boyfriend. Thomas Trotter turned up armed with the substance in a Lucozade Sport bottle when he agreed to fight Jordan Smith on a
Bradford & Bingley have suffered a blow to their hopes of avoiding relegation from SSE National League Three North. Winger Jordan Davies, who has scored four tries for them in three matches since joining from Harrogate, has got a job in London
Matt Smith has called on Leeds to end another tumultuous week with a much-needed home win. The Whites once again try to put off-field turmoil to the back of their minds when they host third-from-bottom Millwall. After leaking five and four
Planning for this year’s Burley-in-Wharfedale Summer Festival is well underway, with the events taking place this year through August. The Festival is now in its sixth year and continues to go from strength to strength, with over 40 events already
The following have been dealt with by Bradford and Keighley magistrates: Warren David McLay, aged 28, of Moresby Road, Woodside; failure to comply with requirements of a community order, order revoked and dealt with for the original offence; original
A man collapsed and died on a Bradford city centre street yesterday. It happened outside Piccadilly Chambers, Upper Piccadilly, at about 12.40pm. Police said the man was aged in his mid-50s and that his family had been informed of his death. It is
Five robberies – including one where a screwdriver was brandished – happened in the Manningham and Toller area of Bradford in just seven days, said police. Mobile phones, a tablet computer, money, and wallets were among the items stolen, between March
Police sealed off a Shipley street this afternoon after a dispute between two neighbours escalated into an assault. A police spokesman said that two men received minor injuries as a result of the incident, which occured in Redburn Road at around
An 18-year-old Bradford man, involved in a “deep, hereditary feud,” punched a relative outside a mosque, a court heard. Muntazir Shah confronted Saqvi Shah as he sat in a car, Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday. Prosecutor Kathryn Stuckey
Firefighters were called to a house in Baildon yesterday after a tray of meat was left on the hob to defrost. A fire service spokesman said it wasn’t known if the hob had been turned on by accident or on purpose. The plastic tray had melted to a liquid
A former soldier sexually assaulted a young woman at her 21st birthday party, a court heard yesterday. Richard Norbury, 27, groped the woman after she got drunk at the house party in Bradford, but he told police he had no memory of what happened
A Bradford MP has warned of the “detrimental” effect for residents if a temporary market licence is granted for an Asian bazaar. David Ward (Lib Dem, Bradford East) has written to the chief executive of Bradford Council, Tony Reeves, highlighting
Abi Ekoku could return to the Bulls as chairman after it was revealed he is backing the London-based consortium seeking to take control of the club. Ekoku, who was a winger in his playing days with London Broncos, Halifax and Bradford, previously
Vicky Reader is trying to drum up support to reach the final of a national contest. The percussionist has entered the Hit Like A Girl female drumming competition, open to female drummers. Vicky hopes to become one of five to 10 ‘wild card’
A young Keighley artist is celebrating winning a television drawing and colouring competition. Seven-year-old Amina Touray was rewarded with toys and a certificate after entering the competition run by Channel 5’s Milkshake! Mother Sarah Touray
A young mother has been convicted by a jury of causing grievous bodily harm with intent by biting off part of a woman’s ear at the Horse and Groom pub in Wibsey. Sophia Blackburn, 24, of Torre Road, Horton Bank Top, Bradford, will be sentenced
A family business has gained a major export order of birthing pools to an Australia hospital. The £25,000 order, for five birthing pools for a new maternity unit at Canberra Hospital, has been won by husband-and-wife business, AquaBirths, owned
The former Keighley College building in North Street could be knocked down by next April, says a councillor. Coun Andrew Mallinson claims Bradford Council will be forced to demolish the derelict building if it is not sold soon. He revealed
Historic maps showing how Bradford district developed from Victorian times to the 1950s are now available free online. The detailed, six-inch-to-a mile, Ordnance Survey maps show road and rail networks, buildings and streets, and smaller things
Short films encouraging people to stub out their cigs and get more healthy have been created by Queensbury pupils. Students at Queensbury School had a day of filming, editing and premiering their short anti-smoking films. They will be entered
Baildon Players will be tickling the ribs with their next production, a comedy that inspired a TV sitcom. Father’s Day, by Eric Chappell, centres around Henry Willows, a lonely divorcee who is visited one night by this wayward son, Matthew, and
Plans to bring in charges at rail stations where people currently park for free have been shelved. Many of the 18 stations that would have been hit by parking fees are in the Bradford area, including Shipley and Crossflatts. A storm of protest
On March 25, 1996, a £1.2m purpose-built temporary market was opened to absorb the traders of the historic Rawson Market, which was largely demolished to make way for a super new £6m development. It was all part of Bradford Council’s Building A
The decision to abandon plans for parking charges for a number of railway stations in the Bradford area which are currently free will certainly be welcomed by the commuters who use them daily. However, not everyone will feel the same way, particularly
From the T&A... 25 years ago: Animal rights campaigner Angelene Schofield tucked into a lentil burger at a stall in Bradford to raise awareness of vegetarian food. 50 years ago: A teenager who searched the telephone directory for single
BullBuilder took the most decisive step in their relaunch after eight new committee members came on board at their annual meeting. Simon Foster, son of Bradford legend Trevor Foster, addressed the audience, along with actor Duncan Preston, who
Figures released yesterday by the Office of National Statistics showed that 98 more people claimed Jobseekers’ Allowance in February than the previous month. In January, 17,244 people claimed JSA in Bradford – compared with 17,342 last month. However
Jamie Langley could be forgiven for viewing Sunday’s visit of the Bulls to Hull KR with mixed emotions. He spent 12 seasons in Bradford’s first-team and experienced the highs of the glory-filled Brian Noble era to the lows of financial meltdown
For most people, running a marathon would be a massive undertaking, but a group of Cleckheaton firefighters are preparing to tackle one after cycling to Amsterdam. The group of 13 from the station’s Blue Watch, led by Watch Commander Damian Cameron
Police have scotched claims from residents that a vital community contact point is to close. Volunteers who run the Thornton contact point in the village’s Methodist chapel, say they have been told it is to close because there is no more funding
Hospital staff in Bradford have been serving up a special afternoon tea to patients as part of national Nutrition and Hydration Week. This is the second year the campaign, which runs all this week, has taken place and health professionals at Bradford
The University of Bradford has stressed it only uses animals for research “when there is no viable alternative.” A petition against animal testing at the university has received international support as it reaches its target of 7,000 signatures
A Bradford restaurant boss who has been fined thousands of pounds had let standards slip after “taking on more than he could chew” running the family business, magistrates heard. Barber Rashid, who had taken over Mughals Restaurant and Sweet Centre
Plans by Shipley College to construct a £1.9 million building in Saltaire could ruin the feel of the World Heritage Site, according to some residents. The two-storey building would replace greenhouses used by the horticultural department on Exhibition
Phil Parkinson predicts that Kyle Bennett will continue to improve as he finds his feet with City. The Doncaster winger had a tough start to his loan spell in January when he was sent off on his debut against Preston. He took a while to get
Campaigners have lost their battle to save Keighley’s main post office from closure. The Towngate premises will shut and the facility be shifted to WH Smith next month, it has been revealed. Opponents claimed the move would be a disaster for
For one young bride from South-east Asia, starting a new life in Bradford in the 1960s gave her a freedom she had never known before. “It was fantastic,” she says, recalling the bustling new city a world away from the life she’d left behind in
Bradford Park Avenue 4 Gainsborough Trinity 0 Avenue stormed to a landslide victory at Horsfall Stadium last night to move back up to 12th in the Conference North table. The goals were spread around, with four different names on the scoresheet
The gap between Bradford Council’s highest and lowest paid workers has narrowed slightly, new figures reveal. The authority’s top executives have had their pay frozen over the past year, while other workers have been given a pay rise of one per
Filming has begun in Bradford on a major film adoptation of Vera Brittain’s classic set around the First World War, Testament of Youth. Dominic West, who found fame in The Wire, and Emily Watson, star of War Horse and The Book Thief, head the cast
A tour of Bradford’s movie hot spots through the eyes of a film locations manager will take place in the city centre this month. Organised by the Bradford City of Film team, the tour will take in locations such as City Hall, where Billy Liar and
Two “delighted” organisations will battle it out to win the right to redevelop the Bradford Odeon. The future of the iconic building will be in the hands of either Bradford One or Bradford Live. Bradford Council announced that the two groups
A man has told a jury at Bradford Crown Court he was left temporarily blinded and struggling to breathe after ammonia was sprayed in his face when he turned up for a fight on a football pitch. Jordan Smith spent the night in intensive care at Bradford
The deep end of Manningham’s Edwardian swimming pool retains the original ceramic spittoons and 6ft 6ins markings, but there’s no water lapping against the sides. The sound of generations of Bradfordians splashing about over the past century is
The University of Bradford has stressed it only uses animals for research “when there is no viable alternative.” A petition against animal testing at the university has received international support as it reaches its target of 7,000 signatures
A Bradford mum is hoping to clinch a national title and use the status it would bring to raise awareness of eating disorders and low body confidence with children. Kul Sarai is one of ten finalists competing in the Mrs UK World final in Beaconsfield
An illegal immigrant who fathered five children after arriving in the UK on a fake British passport has been sent to jail. Mohammed Zulfiqar, 55, of Amberley Street, Bradford Moor, Bradford, was caught after he applied for a licence to get work
Firefighters were called to a blaze at a house in Pudsey tonight. The fire was in a bedroom at a property on Victoria Gardens. Crews from Stanningley and Bradford stations were called at about 8.30pm. The cause of the fire was under investigation
