BOSSES at Bradford University have been issued with warnings over any potential threat of the Ebola virus to its students ahead of the new term which starts next month. Universities UK, the group which represents the heads of all UK universities, has
YORKSHIRE maintained their position as the leaders of the LV= County Championship by easing past Sussex by nine wickets at Scarborough today, their sixth win of the season. With second-placed Nottinghamshire beating Northamptonshire at Wantage
THORNTON duo Josh Hutchinson and wicketkeeper Ross Soames, plus Raqeeb Younis of Jer Lane, have been named in the Foster's Halifax League side for their Nixon Trophy Twenty20 final against the Huddersfield Central league at Booth Cricket Club on Sunday
TICKETS for City’s Capital One Cup derby with Leeds will go on sale from 9am tomorrow. They will be available to season-ticket and flexicard holders only up until 7pm on Friday. Each season-ticket and flexicard holder will be able to purchase
A FOOTBALL team has blasted the "disgraceful" mess left behind on the pitch by travellers - on the eve of the new season. A group of travellers started to arrive on the pitch at Wesley Place Field, Fifth Street, Low Moor, Bradford, last Thursday
BRADFORD Ice Arena will host a major fundraising event later this month to raise money for the family of a brave tot who has spent most of the summer in hospital.Elliot Woodhead is only 16-months-old, and is now being treated for myeloid leukaemia at
ILKLEY-based property developer and investor Opus North has been given to go-ahead to redevelop the derelict Tudno Castle Hotel in Llandudno.Opus North, together with local landowners Mostyn Estates, is creating Tudno Point, a flagship retail and
A GROUP of teenagers are looking to give homeless people in Bradford a boost through a summer-long volunteering project.The kind-hearted group of seven youngsters, aged 16 and 17 are from Bradford and Harrogate have organised a project to give out packages
ISRAEL despatched its UK ambassador to Bradford today as a result of controversial comments by Bradford West MP George Galloway which have already seen him become the subject of complaints to police. Daniel Taub said he was in the city as a result
SHAHID Mahmood is going to need a bigger mantlepiece.The Haworth Road II all-rounder won the man of the match award for the third successive year in the Cowling Cup final as his team thrashed Bradford & Bingley III at Haworth.Mahmood blasted ten sixes
CHILDREN have been making mythical masks as part of a project to encourage them to keep reading during the holidays. The session at Shipley Library was one of many being held across the district.Team leader for Shipley, Bingley and Baildon libraries Patrick
A passenger train and Bingley railway station were evacuated after a driver noticed smoke coming from a rail car after pulling to a halt. It is believed the fire was caused by an electrical fault and caused only minor damage to the train, but it
A FOOTBALLER lost three teeth after he was punched in the face by an opponent during a friendly five-a-side match. David Simpson was attacked after tackling Adam Wainman from behind during the evening game at Goals Bradford in Swain House, the
WEST Bowling, pre-season favourites in most people's eyes for the Bradford Sunday Alliance League title, have been beaten in their opening Premier Division match.The elements played a large art in their game against visitors Bolton Woods, who trailed
CONTINGENCY firefighters were called out twice in Bradford district during the latest three periods of strike action.Members of the Fire Brigades Union walked out between 10.59pm and 11.59pm on Friday, and from 12 midday to 2pm and 10.59pm to 11.59pm
A FUNDRAISING event will take place next month for a teenage leukaemia victim at the soccer club where he has been a player since the age of six.Luke Harrison, aged 15, has played at Queensbury Celtic FC since he was a youngster but is now facing a battle
THE hidden gems of Bradford's landscape have been included in the 2014 South Pennines Walk and Ride Festival this September.Taking place between Saturday, September 6, and Sunday, September 21, the festival has more than 140 events across the South
HANGING Heaton comfortably retained the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield despite the efforts of Pudsey St Lawrence young guns Jordan Moore, Harry Cullingford, Josh Wilson, Josh Smith and Archie Scott. Saints opted to bat at Keighley on an
THE funeral of University of Bradford student, who died after being attacked on a night out in Sheffield last May, took place on Saturday.Anowar Tagabo (pictured) had attended a friend's wedding in Sheffield and had then gone on to meet someone in
TRAVELLERS who moved on to a playing field in Low Moor, Bradford, and disrupted a football club's preparations for the new season, have been moved on. Caravans arrived on the pitch at Wesley Place Field, Fifth Street, on Thursday evening and overnight
A WOMAN was led to safety by firefighters after her flat filled with smoke. A blaze had started in a bin store under the staircase to the first-floor flat in Kettlewell Drive, Little Horton, at about 10pm on Saturday. The woman, aged in her
ANDREW Gale believes Matthew Fisher has taken to first-team cricket like a duck to water. The 16-year-old fast bowler, currently on duty with England under-19s for their one-day series with world champions South Africa, has taken two wickets in
ABOUT £6 million was raised for charity during Ramadan in Yorkshire, it was revealed at a community dinner in Bradford last night.The fundraising effort, revealed by Bradford Council for Mosques, was celebrated at an event at the city's Khidmat
ABDUL Hamid was man of the match as bowlers dominated the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League's Sir James Roberts Cup final. Hamid took 8-24, including a hat-trick, for Bradford Moor as Girlington were dismissed for 62 on their own ground, eclipsing
YORKSHIRE Cancer Research is urging people to consider how they can reduce their risk of cancer following a study which found that overweight and obese people had a greater chance of developing the disease.The research, published in the Lancet medical
THE time was right for a Bradford golfer when he scored a hole-in-one during a recent club competition. John Trenham, 59, scored his ace on the 150-yard, par-three fourth at Normanton. The 14-handicapper was rewarded with membership of the
SILSDEN'S Development team kept their 100 per cent record intact as a result of a second win this season in the Lancashire League. They defeated Eccleshill United Reserves 2-1 with goals from Brad Fay and Josh McNulty – but Thackley Reserves suffered
POLICE are appealing for information after jewellery valued at a total of £90,000 was stolen from a house in Cross Hills near Skipton.The suspects broke into the property in Clayton Hall Road through the back door between 8am and 5.15pm last Wednesday.Officers
POLICE have released this image in the bid to wipe the smile off a grinning thief. He is wanted for stealing a Samsung Galaxy phone from a pub in High Street, Wibsey, last month. The man is described as white, about 5ft 4ins tall, slim with
A group of ten youngsters in the Bradford district, aged nine, 16 and 17 will give a Wyke community centre a makeover as part of the National Citizen Service summer programme.After a couple of weeks of team building exercises and planning, they will be
BRADFORD Salem were defeated 26-15 by West Leeds in the inaugural Craig Busby Memorial match at Blue Hill Lane.Tries for the visitors came from Amesh Ahir, Ali Veitch and Sam Dunn but they could not add any conversions.Salem included players in their
THESE images of two men who stole used cooking oil during a burglary have been released by police as they continue to hunt for them. The two burglars broke into a container in Rawson Road, Bradford, to steal the oil being stored inside. The incident
FORMER Cleckheaton all-rounder Marcus Walmsley captained Methley to an eight-wicket success against Birstall in the final of the All Rounder Cricket Equipment Central Yorkshire League's Jack Hampshire Memorial Trophy at Ossett.Walmsley (44) put Methley
A SCHOOL has been granted permission to build a new sports facility, which will be available to the community on evenings and weekends.Immanuel College has been given the go-ahead to build an artificial grass football pitch, netball courts and car parking
Keighley Cougars 18 North Wales Crusaders 30KEIGHLEY are a point away from Championship safety after a final play Danny Jones goal saw them gain a bonus point in defeat to North Wales Crusaders.Cougars are now six points clear of tenth-placed Batley,
UNEMPLOYED people under 25 have been urged to sign up for a free construction course in Bradford. Starting next month social housing group Incommunities’ Swan Project and construction teams are running a four-week taster construction course covering
THIS image of a man who using counterfeit cash at a shop has been released by police in an attempt to identify him. At noon on July 12 the man, wearing sunglasses and a grey polo top, used the notes at a business in Cleckheaton Road, Low Moor,
DETECTIVES are investigating after the landlord of an unoccupied house found the garage was being used to strip down a stolen car. He called police after visiting the house, on Clayton Road, Bradford, which had been empty for a few months and found
A TEENAGER who concealed her pregnancy from her family, hid the baby girl's body in a shoebox under her bed, an inquest has heard. College student Ayesha Tariq wore baggy clothes to disguise her swelling stomach until she gave birth alone in her bedroom
SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies was left feeling the heat after judging a chilli growing contest at a Saltaire software firm.Staff from Cimlogic have been growing chillies at their office at Salts Mill since January this year and drafted in Mr Davies to act
"Not only must justice be done; it must also be seen to be done." The infamous phrase was coined almost 90 years ago by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Hewett. And it remains as true today as it did in 1923. Open justice is a basic tenet of
It is great news for Bradford that the council has approved ambitious plans for a new underground retail and leisure development in the heart of the city centre. Utilising old tunnels that criss-cross the area under Sunbridge Road, the developers
Yorkshire are chasing just 106 to beat Sussex at Scarborough and go six points clear in the LV= County Championship title race. Tim Bresnan, Adil Rashid and Steve Patterson all struck twice on day four to bowl the visitors, who started their second
EVIDENTLY stealing charity collection boxes from shops and cafes is old hat. Apparently, the trend is to break into charity shops. And once in the thieves unconscionably ransack the place for cash. The raid on the Sue Ryder Manorlands charity shop
From the T&A... 25 years ago: A group of 25 doctors and nurses at Bradford Royal Infirmary raised £1,000 to buy four colour televisions and a radio for patients in the hospital's Ward Four - by doing a pub crawl taking in a dozen pubs in Bradford
From the T&A... 25 years ago: A "space age" waterslide considered the centrepiece of the £3.5 million Keighley Leisure Centre was shut down only three weeks after opening after cracks were found in two sections. 50 years ago: A man needed
SIR – May I first congratulate the T&A on their special souvenir of the Great War (but two battles involving the British Army in August 1914, Mons and Le Cateau, were left out.) In answer to your correspondent of August 7, the ‘Truth of the
SIR – If I had been the judge dealing with the thug who swung a defenceless cat round by its tail (T&A, August 14) I would advocate a very large person picking up the miscreant by his ‘tail’ and swinging him round a few times. Let the punishment
SIR – What does one have to do to get bins emptied? The monthly garden bin collection does not happen. Our street collection was missed inJuly – it was the day after the strike – and missed again in August. When I could eventually get connected
SIR – Re proposed Bradford boycott of Israel. In the course of very nearly four millennia of recorded history repeated attempts have been made by mendacious and insane persons to destroy God’s ancient people, the Jews. All have failed. Only the
SIR – More than three million English NHS patients are awaiting treatment, figures published on Friday, August 8, show, as “cracks begin to appear” in the service after four years of crippling Con-Dem cuts. NHS England statistics for June exposed
SIR – The taxpayer subsidised Parliament’s exclusive bars and restaurants to the tune of £6 million last year (T&A, August 11). The bill in the House of Commons fell after a series of revenue raising measures but surprise, surprise costs of
SIR – Very good news about the Odeon renovations, but unfortunately it does not solve Bradford’s problems. I visit the Alhambra on a regular basis and talking to theatre goers I found although they love the theatre they do not like the city. The
Luke Wright brought up his third LV= County Championship century of season to hold up Yorkshire’s bid for victory on day four at Scarborough. The England limited-overs all-rounder shared a fifth-wicket partnership of 127 inside 36 overs with Steffan
Meanwhile, a bumper crowd enjoyed a fun-filled start to Burley Summer Festival over the weekend. Spread over Saturday and yesterday, the event opened with a variety of activities for all ages to enjoy. On Saturday there was a dog show on the
A MUM has slammed an airline after her family's return flight from holiday was cancelled.Nasreen Ayoob was thrown into a last-minute panic when she found out her flight from Islamabad, Pakistan, to Manchester was no longer scheduled for August 31.
AN online prankster who posed as a homeless man in Bradford has praised the kindness of strangers in the city. Speedo Shy, whose real name is Shayan Shayegani, uploaded his latest video filmed in Bradford to YouTube called 'Undercover Homeless
BRADFORD'S Serena Nash is taking part in the under-16 girls' singles at the Nike Junior National Championships at Nottingham Tennis Centre today.The unseeded Heaton member is facing 15-year-old Sussex left-hander Holly Thompson in the first round
SHOPPING centre security guard Sean Ridley is a good man to have round in case of emergency. The 23-year-old, of Eccleshill, who volunteers as a Community First Responder with West Yorkshire Ambulance Service and gives up free time to help The
UP to 100 jobs could be created if plans to turn the former Morrisons head office into a new retail and leisure site get the go-ahead. The supermarket group wants permission to build four shops, a restaurant and an industrial unit on the site of
STEVE Parkin expects Jordan Pickford to grow into his role of City number one after his first clean sheet. The Sunderland youngster protected the unbeaten start to the season with a crucial late save in Saturday's 0-0 draw at Walsall. Pickford
Bradford Bulls 34, Hull FC 28 IT is an intriguing thought. If Jimmy Lowes had been appointed several weeks earlier, might the Bulls still be in with a chance of Super League survival? That we will never know, but there is no denying the
JIMMY Lowes today spoke of his delight after the Bulls claimed their third straight win and Danny Addy agreed a new two-year deal. The 23-year-old Scotland international, who impressed during last year's World Cup, has joined Dale Ferguson, Lee
SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies has vowed to ask questions in Parliament about criminal justice issues after spending a day on the Bench with Bradford's top judge. Mr Davies, an outspoken critic of judges, took up an invitation from the Recorder of Bradford
A TIME capsule dating back more than 140 years has been discovered by builders redeveloping the site of an old church. The glass capsule, containing coins, newspapers and pamphlets, was found by contractors working on a £1.4 million enterprise
PARENTS whose children attend a Bradford children's centre are fighting plans to shut the its "baby room," meaning they have only a matter of weeks to find new places for their youngsters. Some mothers even fear they will have to quit their jobs
Walsall 0, City 0 WHAT a difference a wonder goal makes. City's latest trip to Walsall bore many similarities to last season: chess-match passing games cancelling each other out, defensive discipline at both ends and a strict premium on scoring
MOST robbers who targeted victims on the streets of Bradford city centre in the last year are unlikely ever to be brought to justice. Statistics compiled by the West Yorkshire force reveal more than 60 per cent of investigations into city centre
VINTAGE engines from Britain's engineering past were still proudly puffing and chugging away as the final visitors left the Summer Fun Day at East Riddlesden Hall. A Ruston Hornsby agricultural paraffin model from 1924 was the oldest on display
BRADFORD continues to be a hotspot for sky-high car insurance premiums - after the city bucked a national trend and saw a rise in prices. According to the latest AA figures, motorists in the district were charged an average of £661.79 for an annual
