ALBION Sports rocketed up six places to fifth in the early-season Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division table with a 3-2 home win over Retford United. Albion took a 2-0 lead into the break after a first-half brace from Alex
ANDREW Gale has been banned from Yorkshire's last two LV= County Championship matches for his part in a heated verbal altercation with Lancashire's Ashwell Prince during Tuesday's third day at Emirates Old Trafford. The Yorkshire captain led his
A CATALOGUE of failings by a Bradford GP which put both patients and health service staff at risk has been struck off by a medical tribunal. Dr Sirajam Haque did not attend the hearing and unless he appeals within 28 days, the ruling will become
THE Bradford Bulls Foundation have appointed Richard Squires and Tom Duff as rugby league development officers. The Foundation is the Bulls' official charity and delivers projects in the heart of the community to make a positive impact on people's
UNEMPLOYED people in Bradford must hunt for jobs from “nine to five" or be stripped of benefits, under a controversial new crackdown. The city, which has more than 14,500 people claiming Jobseekers' Allowance, has been picked for the first trial
THE final of the 2014 Spen Masters, sponsored by P&I Hopkins Butchers, takes place on Saturday from 4.30pm. There are only two Bradford League bowlers in a strong line-up – Pudsey brothers Thomas and James Hanson – but unfortunately they take
Heckmondwike Cycle Speedway Club's star rider Pawel Idziorek returned to Poland to take part in the Euro Series, scoring well against strong competition in the qualifying stage to score 15 points. This took him through to the elimination rounds
DANIELLE Brown, who is now training just once a week compared to six times due to her declassification and setting up her own business, won a silver medal last weekend at the Nottingham Building Society GB National Series Finals.Lothersdale'sBrown
UNITY finished the Bradford Table Tennis Summer League season in style by adding the Bower Cup to their Division Two title. Their opponents in the final were Hermits D, who had knocked out Division One side Yeadon B in the semi-finals after receiving
A COMEDY fan is campaigning for a derelict shop in Bradford that featured in a Monty Python sketch to be formally recognised. The small, nondescript building - which has been an antiques shop and a butchers in the past - is at the junction of Toller
POLICE are trying to trace a woman, suspected of stealing two wooden chairs from outside a charity shop in Skipton.Officers say a woman was seen to park a dark-coloured people carrier outside the SCAD shop, on Newmarket Street, Skipton, at 6.50am on Tuesday
A DISABLED woman who alleges her school "house father" repeatedly raped her almost 45 years ago said she wanted to strangle him. The woman, with learning difficulties, was a pupil at Hilton Grange Children's Home in Bramhope, Leeds, when she says
Four teenage boys facing allegations of raping a girl under 13 have been told their trial will take place next month.The youngsters, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were charged with the offences following a police inquiry into an incident
BRITISH Transport Police has only five constables from minority backgrounds in the North East division which covers Bradford and the surrounding area.The force has revealed there are no officers from minority ethnic backgrounds at any rank higher than
IMAGES have been released of two teenagers who stole a woman's purse early on a Sunday morning in Bradford City Centre.At around 5.10am on August 17 the two boys approached a 29 year old woman Princes Way, snatched her purse and ran off behind the
AN image has been released of a man who stole petrol from a Bradford service station wearing a Phantom of the Opera style mask. Police are hunting the man, who filled up a car at a Rooley Lane petrol station before the vehicle left without paying
A DEBATE around the so-called Trojan Horse schools controversy is to be hosted by Bradford Muslim Women’s Council.The organisation, through its Bradford Circle initiative, will be holding a discussion event about the scandal and its implications
A COMPANY at the centre of a long-running wrangle over noise and odour complaints at its animal rendering plant could have its operating permit suspended under a recommendation by Bradford councillors. Omega Proteins Ltd which runs the Erlings
A 32-YEAR-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after panes of glass were smashed at the front of Bradford Crown Court last night. Police officers were called to the Crown Court building last night at around 10.18pm after
TRANSPORT chiefs have agreed to explore re-opening the Skipton to Colne rail line, after pleas from campaigners.The One North group will examine the proposal, as part of its £15bn blueprint to improve road and rail links across the Pennines.The
THE clean-up and dismantling operation is well under way at Myrtle Park after the three-day Bingley Music Live festival. Thousands of people attended the event, with top acts including Pet Shop Boys, Example, Shed Seven, Gaz Coombes, Naughty Boy
A WOMAN who stole a bright pink suitcase from a building in Bradford is being hunted by police. The theft happened on August 15, at about 6pm, on Stott Hill, opposite Bradford Cathedral, said a police spokesman. The woman (pictured) was captured
DIEHARD supporter Colin Raistrick has been rewarded for his unstinting devotion by being named Bradford Bulls BRUT Fan of Pride 2014. Raistrick was chosen following an online public vote, which recognised the lengths to which the now Morecombe
A CONVICTED sex offender who claims he has information about a paedophile cover up in Westminster has had his case further adjourned at Bradford Crown Court.Michael McAuliffe, 50, of Norfolk Square, Haworth, was arrested in London hiding under a new
SATURDAY LEAGUE Naylor Premier: Shipley Club A 205 (23), Eccleshill A 163 (7); Ladyhill A 189 (21), Brighouse Sports A 154 (9); Shipley Club A 172 (15), Brighouse Sports A 163 (15); Asa Briggs A 136 (7), Crossgates 188 (23); Ladyhill A 187 (16)
BRADFORD University's academic standards, along with the learning opportunities and information it provides for students, all meet expectations, a report has confirmed.The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education found that learning opportunities
CULLINGWORTH Scarecrow Festival has raised £1,500 for Manorlands and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Each charity will receive £750 from the proceeds of last month’s event, which attracted hundreds of people to Cullingworth. Residents and visitors
CUSTOMERS of Northern Rail can meet the manager behind their service at a session at Ilkley station on Friday.The company is holding the session - where people can ask questions and have a say on services - as part of a series of open meetings with station
CROSS Hills Post Office will next week move into the village’s Spar mini-market. The present branch in Prospect Street will close on Thursday, September 11, at 5.30pm. Staff will reopen for business at 1pm the following day at three new counters
Yorkshire remain firmly in the hunt for their seventh LV= County Championship win of the season, having taken two Lancashire wickets before lunch on day four at Emirates Old Trafford, both going to Adil Rashid. The red-rose side, battling for a
TWO young apprentices from a West Yorkshire engineering firm will be heading to London later this month in a bid for the student of the year title in the RAC Cooling Industry awards. Jamie Acs and David Strong from Rawdon-based Airedale International
A HISTORIC part of the Sunny Bank Mills complex in Farsley is now fully let following a £330,000 refurbishment. The Festoon Rooms, dating back to 1850 and originally used as finishing rooms where damp wool cloth was hung to dry in ‘festoons’, has
TWO local entrepreneurs who earlier this year set out to shake up the car leasing market have now turned their attention to health and safety. Mark Hall and Jonny Ratcliffe, both from Ilkley, have launched a new health and safety and employment
THIS afternoon the House of Commons is expected to pave the way for a debate on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses, leading ultimately to a ban in December next year. The Wild Animals in Circuses Bill is being introduced as a Ten Minute
The safety of children and young people from the attentions of sexual predators has never been more in focus, thanks to the sad and sordid events which have unfolded in Rotherham recently. The "grooming" of young people - preparing them for abuse
A COMMUNITY exhibition which honours the Gomersal men who fought and died in World War One will be at Gomersal Moravian Church on Fridays for the next five weeks.The touring display will be at the Quarry Road Church from Friday, September 5, from 10am
THIS year’s Tour de France Grand Depart in Yorkshire provided a major boost to the health of the region’s hotels, a new report has confirmed. According to the latest report from insolvency body R3, hotels in the region have seen a marked uplift
CLOSE ties with businesses have helped a record number of students gain top honours at Bradford’s business school. Three-quarters of Bradford University School of Management students who undertook a placement year graduated with first-class honours
SIR – It was reported over the weekend that some of Britain’s most influential imams have put fatwas on jihadists fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria. This surely has to be good news, and one step along the way against those inhumane creatures
SIR – Re “Liberal Betrayal”. Like Mr Harry Watson, I was interested in the thoughts of Mr Parsons (Letters, August 22). Mr Parsons doesn’t see the irony in complaining of, (not total), Lib-Dem support for Tory plans to increase LABOUR’S tuition
POLICE are looking for witnesses to a knifepoint robbery in West Bowling that left the victim with a cut face and neck. At 5.10am on Sunday, August 24 a 20-year-old man was walking along Crawford Street when he was approached by two men who threatened
SIR – ON August 31, it was announced that about 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank has been claimed for the state of Israel. The land, south of Bethlehem, is considered as being Israeli property because it is in the neighbourhood of an existing
INVENTOR Melih Abdulhayoglu has come a long way since his days as a young electronics engineer in Bradford driving around in an old Austin car. The company he founded here in 1998 as a spin-off from his studies at the University of Bradford where
A LEADING property landlord has vowed to fight Labour plans to reform the private rented housing sector, claiming the changes would encourage rogue operators, push up rents and reduce the availability of quality rented housing. Belvoir, which has
SIR – Following your article (T&A, August 29) re High Royds Menston, I thought readers would be interested to know that West Yorkshire Archive Service holds the archives of this establishment. The county-wide collection of hospital and health
SIR – AS someone who is closely observing the independence debate that is going on in Scotland, I am somewhat perplexed by the part that George Galloway is taking in the debate. Please do not think that I object to him having an opinion on the
SIR – WITHOUT any doubt hospital food should be nutritional and have a content which is best suited to helping sick people get better. But why should it be free? When people are at home they have to spend money buying and preparing their food.
SIR – TRADING standards warn over rogue roofers targeting the elderly, yet again another warning of substandard work that can cost thousands (T&A, September 1). Our community has many vulnerable elderly that need society’s care and concern
A REFURBISHED "all singing all dancing" community learning centre in Queensbury marked its first day with a bumper event yesterday.The £90,000 project has seen a former NatWest bank, on High Street in the village, transformed into a new
WEST Yorkshire's top police officer has personally assured Shipley MP Philip Davies that the force is fully behind the sale of the old Keighley Magistrates' Court in Bingley. Mr Davies has campaigned for swift action in selling the redundant building
IT RANKS among the classics of cinema's history and now Singin' In The Rain has been re-invented as a stage show which is expected to capture the hearts of audiences at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford. Big names Maxwell Caulfield and Vicky Binns
VOLUNTEERS have spoken of their devastation after thieves broke into a village hall causing £5,000 worth of damage.A group of thieves broke a window and smashed six doors to steal a host of goods from Clayton Village Hall.The group's haul included
AN eight-year-old Bradford boy battling cancer for a second time has been given a boost by kind-hearted workmen, as fundraising continues for him.Shane Edwards, of Miles Hill Crescent, Bierley, was handed a Nintendo Wii computer games console by staff
MATT Diskin has confirmed he will retire at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on an illustrious career which has seen him achieve his boyhood dreams. The Bulls captain progressed through the ranks at Leeds and was part of the side
PHIL Parkinson summed up City's late JP Trophy exit at Oldham and insisted: "We didn't deserve to go out." Jordan Bove's 88th-minute goal sent the Bantams tumbling out of the competition at the first stage for the second year running. Parkinson
THE BOSS of a Bradford newsagents will appear at crown court later this month on charges of supplying so-called legal highs. Pervez Abbas, 63, who runs Barkers shop in Sunbridge Road, was up at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court yesterday
FAMILIES have told of their terror after three cars went up in flames outside their front doors on a road in Bradford. A silver Citroen C3 was destroyed, and a green Ford Mondeo and blue Peugeot 106 were severely damaged, in the early-morning arson
A DEFUNCT Bradford Bulls company owes creditors £2 million a year on from when it went into liquidation, a new report reveals. The figure - £1.97m to unsecured creditors and £31,000 to preferential creditors - is revealed in a report by liquidators
Oldham 1, City 0 WHEN City last visited Boundary Park in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy three years ago, it felt as if the best chance of ever reaching Wembley again had slipped through their fingers. Little did any of the 2,500 fans who travelled
UP to 100 children in the Bradford district are at risk of being groomed or sexually exploited, a new report has revealed. And covert surveillance carried out between July 2013 and March this year has led to warnings being issued to 26 individuals
MURDER squad detectives are urgently seeking a vital witness to a vicious assault on a Bradford street, which has left the victim fighting for life.The 40-year-old man was walking home when he was attacked in Hollybank Road, Great Horton, shortly after
