Headingley Stadium will be floodlit in 2015 after Leeds City Council granted planning permission for the installation of permanent lights. The West Yorkshire venue received the news in the wake of a council meeting this afternoon. Once erected
Firefighters had to break into a house tonight after an occupant had apparently turned on the gas supply and started a fire in the front room. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service had been standing by at the address, in Kensington Street, Girlington
Some of the region’s big business names were called in as speakers for the Bradford Telegraph & Argus-backed Bradford Means Business network event tonight. Bradford Bulls Chief Executive Robbie Hunter Paul and Chairman Marc Green, who are helping
Ben McGregor has been teaching for 13 years at Bingley Grammar School. But there is little doubt as to what the best week’s work has been in that time for the director of physical education. It was in this year’s February half-term when he
Experienced coach Stephen Wolstenholme has set up a beginners' club for runners aged 16 and above from the BD5 and BD6 postcodes. Organised within the Run England structure, they have sessions every Tuesday from the Richard Dunn Sports Centre in
Jer Lane, double winners in 2014, have suffered their first defeat of the season in the Foster's Halifax League. Their loss to Sowerby Bridge indicated that the latter could be title contenders rather than just early pacesetters after an exciting
Leeds Rhinos and partners Jet2holidays are holding rugby, activity and dance camps over the summer holidays. One is at Birstall Victoria, Leeside School Playing Fields (next to Fairfield School) on Monday, August 4 and Tuesday, August 5, while
Ilkley Karate Club, now celebrating their 26th year, have welcomed four new members to their ever-increasing black-belt group. Alex Miles and George Kent, who are both ten, and sisters Annabelle, 13, and Katie Connor, 15, successfully completed
Pudsey’s Nile Wilson won the all-around junior gold medal at the European Gymnastics Championships in Sofia, team-mate Brinn Bevan taking bronze. Wilson, 18, slipped up on the parallel bars but recovered on the floor and pommel horse to finish
Bradford Park Avenue’s finance director Kevin Hainsworth says the club are finalising a date with Hartlepool United for a pre-season friendly. Avenue have already compiled a list of five warm-up games, which includes Doncaster Rovers and Sheffield
The Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup final is not only a carrot for established JCT600 Bradford League First Division clubs. It is also a lure for Undercliffe, the only remaining Second Division side in the last eight who are hosting the decider
Last week's total All Rounder Cricket Equipment Central Yorkshire League washout out has left clubs champing at the bit as they prepare for a hoped-for return to action on Saturday. Unbeaten Premier Division leaders Scholes will fancy their chances
All matches in the Bradford & District Evening League last night were rained off.
Guiseley boss Mark Bower is continuing with his recruitment but he has ruled out the possibility of Nicky Boshell linking up with his brother Danny again. Former Leeds United defender and Bradford City loanee Ben Parker and Danny Hall have both
JOE LUMB COMPETITION: Nidderdale 133-7 (S Gell 38, H Stanford 37, J Whale 3-29, M Heritage 3-39), Pontefract 86 (A Rollin 20, R Pit 2-2, S Witham 2-19, S Gell 2-20). BRADFORD JUNIOR LEAGUE – Under-17s, Hope: Saltaire 98 (W Livingstone 31, J Baguley
South African Brian Jackson could have strolled the last couple of runs to give Guiseley victory over Rawdon in the Aire-Wharfe League on Monday - instead he smashed his seventh six in a sparkling unbeaten 109. Partly it was the nature of the man
A burst water main is still causing misery for motorists in Bradford, with surface water keeping the A647 Leeds Road at Thornbury partially closed this afternoon. One lane is closed in both directions between the Gain Lane junction and the B6154
Two more people have been arrested following a triple stabbing in Bradford city centre. An 18-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, while a 21-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods.
There will be a book sale at Refreshed cafe and charity shop at Bolton Villas Church, on the corner of Wrose Road and Livingston Road, from 11am to 4pm each day until Saturday.
Action is being taken to open an historic Keighley footpath which has been blocked for years. Bradford Council has ordered the landowner to remove obstructions in Becks Road, Keighley. It follows a campaign by councillors and residents over
A chartered accountancy firm is closing its Keighley office. Clough & Company will shut its Devonshire Street branch this summer. Operations are being centred on the firm’s headquarters at Cleckheaton. All eight staff employed at Keighley
Fire crews attended two rubbish fires on Hall Ings, Bradford yesterday morning. Two crews from Bradford Fire Station were called to a blaze at a loading bay in between the disused Sportsshoes.com shop at 10.25am. The fire started after a pile
A man and woman are wanted by police in connection with a theft that happened at a shop in Bradford. The duo are alleged to have stolen alcohol from a store on Huddersfield Road, Low Moor, on May 21. Anyone who recognises the duo is asked to
Bogus workmen who claim to represent Yorkshire Water are stealing from vulnerable residents in Bradford. The fraudsters pretend to be from the utility firm to trick their way into elderly people’s homes. Scams include claiming to need to check
Rugby legend Austin Healey will be in Bradford on Saturday to promote the British Military Fitness organisation’s attempt to encourage more residents to get fit. That is National Outdoor Fitness Day and a free one-hour class is being held at Peel
A Bradford woman who went missing on holiday in Norfolk has been found safe and well. Carol Watson, 62, was found late on Saturday night in Bradford. She was reported missing on May 18 from Heacham in Norfolk.
A man arrested on suspicion of stealing was found in possession of stolen property, foil-lined bags, class A drugs and a knife, said police. The 36-year-old was allegedly spotted running from Boots, on Forster Square retail park, being chased by
Coroners in Bradford are appealing for any friends or family of Thomas Upton to come forward. Mr Upton, 80, was found dead at his home on Dalcross Street, West Bowling, Bradford on Bank Holiday Monday. There were no suspicious circumstances
Investment firm Brewin Dolphin, which last year transferred its Bradford business into Leeds, said its half-year profit before tax tripled to £21.4 million from £6.8m after the wealth manager attracted more funds to the business. The firm said
Fifty different activities will feature in the 2014 Otley Walking Festival. The organisers have lined up everything from 16-mile moorland hikes to a gentle Teddy bear stroll for this year’s event from Saturday, June 21 to Sunday, June 29. The
A Yorkshire Dales retreat used by many leading businesses for team building and management courses is being sold after being run by its owners. High Trenhouse, near Malham, is on the market for about £1.2 million. The venue has hosted events
Keighley butcher Roy Dykes has been elected president of the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils. His first act was to issue a clarion call to butchers across the region to support the annual Great Yorkshire pork pie, sausage and products
Children have painted pictures of themselves to mark an extension being built at their school. Ashlands Primary School in Ilkley has been expanded to two- form entry and every child is creating a self portrait to be displayed in the building’s
A unit in a former ironworks in Bowling Back Lane, Bradford, could be turned into a frozen food store if a new planning application is approved. Bradford Council has received an application for Unit 1A, Ironworks Works, by a Mr Mustafa that would
Trains in and out of Bradford Interchange faced minor delays this morning due to cows making their way on to the line near Wyke tunnel. The animals were reported at around 9am, and clearing them off the line caused two to three minute delays to
SIR – The RAC highlight the fact that more accidents and deaths on the road are caused by teenage drivers than those of other age groups. They wish to introduce smaller passenger numbers and curfews on teenage drivers as a means of reducing accidents
SIR – With regard to: ‘Brutes who threw cat into dogs den’ (T&A, May 21) and ‘city children need to have empathy’ (T&A, May 23), it was Mahatma Gandhi five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who said: “The greatness of a nation can be judged by
SIR – Although the EU election results in most countries are a revelation, no-one should forget that for the key post of President of the European Commission, currently up for grabs, not one of the hundreds of millions of ordinary EU citizens will
SIR – Tasawar Iqbal had his whole thumb sliced off by a machete while defending himself against five raiders of his store in Wibsey (T&A, May 26), but thanks to consultant plastic surgeon Ajay Mahajan at the BRI, the digit was reattached. Amazingly
SIR – It is disappointing to see our political leaders, re: the President Putin/ Hitler comparison, so frightened to offer an honest opinion, because they feel they must always defer to members of the Royal family. This remains an unfortunate relic
SIR – As I gather in the research files from my predecessor Godfrey Bloom in preparation for my forthcoming term of office, I could not help but notice that in order to comply with EU rules, drugs, smuggling and prostitution will now form part of GDP
SIR – As all the major political parties react to their comparative drubbing in the recent elections, they seem to think they’re just failing to get their message across and so must try harder. The real truth is that they’ve succeeded in getting
SIR – I read with dismay about the further drop in visitors to the Media Museum (T&A, May 22) It was interesting to note much of this fall was in museum cinema attendances. Last August, I wrote to this very letters page saying that the museum
Although the late Margaret Thatcher was an Oxford University chemistry graduate before she became leader of the Conservative Party and the winner of three consecutive General Elections, the word ‘engineer’ is still a bit of a dirty one as far as women
25 years ago: More than 1,000 shoppers voted in an unofficial ballot to oppose the introduction of the ‘poll tax’ during a trade union protest against the new charge in Keighley town centre. 50 years ago: Police were searching for a lorry and its
The planning regulations are in place to give some semblance of order and management to the way in which new buildings are erected, extended or otherwise altered. Without them there would be a chaotic free-for-all with people building where they liked
While the view that ‘we’re all in it together’ is wishful thinking at the political level, it certainly is bang-on for a world climate that is now warming faster than it has done for millions of years. None of us are immune from what is happening
Visitor numbers to Bradford’s new City Library have almost trebled in the six months since it opened its doors following a £9m project to move it to City Park and convert the old library to offices. The new site, in the former Bradford 1 Gallery
A Keighley man who kept a host of animals, including horses, pigs and rabbits, in “filthy” conditions has admitted 15 counts of animal cruelty brought by the RSPCA. Nigel Hudson, 48, of Harewood Road, Oakworth, pleaded guilty to 15 charges of causing
A halogen floodlight is thought to have caused a fire in Manningham that resulted in ten people being taken to hospital. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze could have started accidentally because the light, which should be used
A man, 26, is due to appear before Bradford and Keighley Magistrates after being charged in connection with a car break-in on April 30 on Grove Avenue, Shipley.
A 72-year-old former nurse has successfully tackled Peru’s Inca Trail, raising more than £5,000 for a local cancer charity. Liz Madden, of Bailey Hills Road, Bingley, has returned from her South American adventure, in which a team of 17 fundraisers
A Bradford woman has been banned from owning any animal for five years, after she neglected a cat and tried to dispose of its body in a wheelie bin, a court heard. Natalie McHugh, 23, of Freemantle Grove, Tyersal, was sentenced at Bradford and
A group of young Muslims are to embark on a 600-mile cycling challenge visiting 13 mosques from Glasgow to London, including an overnight stay in Bradford, to raise £100,000 for charity. The 25 cyclists belong to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association
Campaigners are targeting Bradford Council in an attempt to halt grouse shooting on the publicly-owned Ilkley Moor. A coalition of anti-bloodsports campaigners, called Ban Bloodsports on Ilkley Moor (BBIM) says it already has 500 signatures on
City chief executive David Baldwin has called on supporters to snap up season tickets and become the “12th man” at Valley Parade next term. Adult season passes have been frozen at £199 but fans only have until 5pm on Saturday to secure their seats
A new £50 million building at Bradford College will be finished two weeks ahead of schedule and ready to welcome students in September. Many of the current college classes and facilities will be moving into The David Hockney Building over the summer
Bulls coach Francis Cummins admits it feels like “an eternity” since he had so many players vying for selection. Cummins has seen his squad ravaged by departures and injury all season but five men are poised to return in Sunday’s crucial home clash
The books have been credited with interesting otherwise-bored children in the details of history. Now the Horrible Histories brand has moved to the stage and brought its Barmy Britain cast to Bolling Hall Museum to preview a forthcoming run at
A Bradford school has made “remarkable” improvements just a year after inspectors claimed it had “serious weaknesses.” Reevy Hill Primary School in Buttershaw was branded inadequate by Ofsted inspectors in April 2013, with a report saying there
A historic Keighley mill complex is enjoying a £30 million renaissance. More than 85 per cent of business space at Dalton Mills is now occupied following extensive restoration. The impressive Dalton Lane site, which boasts a grade II-listed
A Bradford-based building society executive has backed calls for the Bank of England to delay any action to cool the housing market with prices outside London still well off pre-crisis levels. The call came from Graham Beale, chief executive of
Whether devout Muslim women should remove face veils for reasons of national security and in daily matters involving identity was tackled head-on at a discussion chaired by Bradford’s Council for Mosques and attended by local MP Philip Davies.
Punters can quench their thirst at this year’s Skipton Beer Festival from today between 3pm and 11pm. The event continues tomorrow and Saturday from 11am to 11pm on both days at the Rendezvous Hotel, in Keighley Road, Skipton Admission is free
A tongue-in-cheek video telling Tour de France cyclists what to expect when the famous race comes to Yorkshire has gone viral on the internet. Brothers Alistaire and Peter MacGregor’s humourous montage pays homage to the flat cap, pie and peas,
When Nick Scruton helped the Bulls to victory at Wakefield on February 20, little did he know it would prove to be his last game for the club. Just over a week later, he followed Garreth Carvell and Jarrod Sammut out of Bradford in the wake of
A couple have spoken of their “nightmare” battle with the Council over the future of their garden. Amanda Wadiun and Paul Garnett bought land next to their home from the Council, on the condition they could only use it as a garden. But after
The founder of Keighley-based Wildlife Rescue Sanctuaries has been arrested on suspicion of theft of £12,000 from the charity, but has vowed to carry on fundraising and caring for animals. It has emerged that Marianne Crowley, who set up and runs
Jason Gillespie has urged Yorkshire to improve their performances if they have genuine ambitions of shrugging off last season’s title disappointment to win the LV= County Championship this summer. Yorkshire’s first-team coach has praised their
A new rail station for Bradford commuters will open next summer, potentially bringing economic growth and jobs to the city. Yesterday, the Department for Transport announced it was ploughing £9.5 million into building two new stations on the Bradford
People are being allowed to ride roughshod over planning rules in the Bradford district, a senior councillor has warned. Councillor Howard Middleton, who sits on the Bradford Area Planning Panel, said all too often the Council was turning a blind
A woman rape victim leaped in terror from a window to escape her attacker, a court heard. Brutal Jaspal Singh, 31, was yesterday jailed for seven years and two months after pleading guilty, on the day of his trial, to rape. Bradford Crown Court
A letting agent took thousands of pounds in rent she should have paid to the landlord, a court heard yesterday. Samantha Wood, 46, took the money after suffering business problems, Bradford Crown Court was told. Wood, of James Street, Thornton
After more than 30 years as a Labour MP and local councillor, Gerry Sutcliffe won’t be contesting the 2015 General Election. The former Sports Minister in Gordon Brown’s Labour Government, leader of Bradford Council and print union negotiator has
