PROFESSIONAL singer Chris Peltier, who is a former Campion player, will be the star turn at his ex-club's 50th birthday party on Saturday night at Manningham Mills Sports Association (7.30). All former players are invited to attend, preferably
CLECKHEATON and Bradford & Bingley start their brave new worlds on Saturday, albeit after contrasting campaigns. While Cleckheaton were winning SSE North One East last season, the Bees were being relegated to level six, thereby denying their
WILL this finally be the season that Bradford Salem are promoted from SSE Yorkshire Division Two. The pre-season signs have certainly been good as they prepare to host Knottingley. Not only did they win the Skiptens tournament but they saw
A BRADFORD man who groomed a young Asian girl on social media before sexually assaulting her has been jailed for six years. Akif Ali, 24, of Cumberland Road, Lidget Green, pleaded guilty to four sexual offences in June of this year. He was
A PROJECT that has transformed a derelict Bradford graveyard into a "peaceful haven" for local residents may have to end unless more volunteers can be found. The Heaton Graveyard Project was founded in 2003 with the aim of returning the graveyard
POLICE were needed to assist staff at Carlton Bolling College in Undercliffe, Bradford, today after hundreds of people converged on the premises for a protest surrounding a teacher. One man was arrested for a public order offence during the incident
COMMUTERS faced delays when two lorries broke down on a city centre roundabout tonight. Traffic built up on roads leading to the Jacobs Well Roundabout opposite the National Media Museum. The lorries were removed shortly before 7pm.
A GROUP of Bradford businessmen will swap their suits for strips today to take part in a football tournament in the city centre.Teams of five will do battle for the Suits in the City event on specially constructed pitches at City Park.Organisers hope
WITH the early-season midweek games behind them, the surprise Premier Division leaders in the West Riding County Amateur League are Golcar United.After five games, they are the only side with a perfect start, and on Saturday Salts, who lost 3-1 at Halifax
MEASURES to prevent a recurrence of the horse meat scandal have been welcomed in the district as a Government-commissioned report recommends a national food crime prevention network with unannounced audits and a zero-tolerance approach.Professor Chris
SCOTT Thwaites and Lizzie Armitstead have been named in the Great Britain cycling squad for this month's Road World Championships in Spain. Thwaites, from Burley-in-Wharfedale, earned a bronze in Glasgow's Commonwealth Games and has been included
FARSLEY go into their home game against Northwich Victoria in Evo-Stik Division One North hoping that two of their players have come through the International break okay. Neil Parsley’s men were used to losing striker Adam Priestley every time
POLICE have been called to a Bradford school to help handle an ongoing protest. It is thought the disruption relates to comments made by a staff member on Facebook. A witness said staff had barricaded themselves inside Carlton Bolling College
TRAVELLERS should be made to foot the bill when they are evicted from illegal sites, according to an MP.Shipley MP Philip Davies said it was "a scandal" that Bradford Council did not already chase travellers for the costs of removing them from
ANTHONY McGrath expects Andrew Gale to play a significant role in Yorkshire’s title run-in, even though it won’t be with the bat or as on-field captain. Gale’s will miss their LV= County Championship matches against Nottinghamshire and Somerset
On Friday 26 September, people in Bradford will be getting together with friends for a cuppa and a delicious slice of cake – all in the name of Macmillan Cancer Support. So gather your favourite people together for the World’s Biggest Coffee
A SELF-CONFESSED child abuser has denied repeatedly raping a girl at a residential special school and molesting another teenager during Sunday school sessions at a Bradford church. Father-of-three John Laister, 72, has already admitted that he
THE push to secure a future for Ilkley’s historic Manor House Museum and Art Gallery has taken a step forward with confirmation of Bradford Council backing for a major study.The local authority, which owns and currently runs the museum, has agreed
DOZENS of kind-hearted people have so far helped kickstart a fund to build a new memorial to the city's World War One heroes.People from across the district are being asked to donate money to help fund a new memorial in France to the Bradford Pals
A BRAVE Skipton-born woman has told how she was sexually abused in the town as a child and demanded that British-Pakistani community leaders speak out about sexual and physical abuse. Ruzwana Bashir has spoken in the wake of the Rotherham sex
MIDFIELDER Filipe Morais has signed with City until January. The experienced Portuguese had been on a short-term contract which ran out after the Rochdale game. He has started four times so far. Phil Parkinson said: "I'm pleased that Fil is
Every news bulletin these days seems to include more and more stories of dissent, aggression, fighting, and open warfare somewhere on the planet. Recent statistics support this view and apparently there are only eleven countries in the world that are
SIR – Today, having tried fruitlessly to speak to a national company via the internet, and then been directed around in circles by their automated telephone line, I went to their store at Forster Square Retail Park. A helpful sales assistant called
SIR – Re the article in the T&A on August 28 in reference to Green Lane Primary School. When I was a young child in the early 1940s, I remember the wonderful smells coming from the kitchens at the bottom yard at Green Lane. We kids used to
SIR – Why are all the condemnations and requests for Rotherham councillors, senior police officers and senior social workers only asking for resignations? We should be demanding that all the people who played a part in this disgraceful crime be
THE heartbroken owner of a chihuahua is appealing for her safe return after the car the tiny pooch was in was stolen outside a vet's surgery. Tia, a black and tan chihuahua, had been left in the £13,000 Nissan Juke while her owner dropped a parcel
THE start of a new term and nearly two million schoolchildren are now tucking into free school meals. Under the Liberal Democrat policy, every five to seven-year-old can now eat a free school meal, easing the financial strain on families with a
SIR – While appreciating that new swimming pools are needed in the Bradford area, it seems folly to build a new pool in Squire Lane, thus adding more traffic to the already congested area around the Bradford Royal Infirmary and Bradford Girls’ Grammar
SIR – Every year up to 1,300 individuals are recognised through the honours system and there have been some fantastic honours awarded in the Yorkshire and Humber region this year. However, the latest statistics show that as a proportion of the
SIR – After reading in the Telegraph & Argus that a man had been bitten three times by an adder and black poisonous spiders had been found in the South of England, I was not surprised to hear on the BBC News channel scientists predicting that because
SIR – Shoplifting for food is said to be on the increase. So much so, that one chief constable has recommended sending food shoplifting suspects to foodbanks. It would help if Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith sorted out long-winded sanctions
KEIGHLEY Golf Club member Liam Blacka has been crowned TaylorMade-Adidas amateur champion following an exciting final at Turnberry.Treading the same fairways as legends Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson during the famous Duel in the Sun at the 1977 Open, Blacka
WITH the cladding being applied to the exterior of the framework of The Broadway shopping centre, which has been going up at a fair lick these past few months, it really feels like the new facility is getting closer to completion. It has been amazing
DYNAMO returns to TV screens tonight with the fourth run of his Magician Impossible series, with the Bradford illusionist confirming that the current shows will be his last. The new series shows the now world-famous performer travel the globe from the
BILLY Foster is looking forward to working at his12th Ryder Cup after Lee Westwood made it into the Europe team via a wild-card selection. The Eldwick-based caddy, who has been back on Westwood's bag all season, admitted it was 'gut wrenching'
A NURSERY says it will challenge the results of an inspection that saw it downgraded from "good" to "inadequate" based on safeguarding issues.Ofsted inspectors visited Wilsden Village Nursery in July, and released their findings yesterday
CHESS enthusiasts can pitch their skills against Grandmasters when the Bradford Chesstival gets under way.The event, now in its second year, features some of the game's top players including Grandmasters Nigel Davies and Gawain Jones; International
A POLISH man who died after apparently setting himself on fire on a Bradford playing field has been identified.Police yesterday named him as Piotr Karwasz, 30, of Hartington Terrace, Great Horton.An inquest was opened yesterday at Bradford Coroner'
A WOMAN who alleges a Bradford doctor sexually abused her 30 years ago was "shocked and numb" when she saw him driving past her in the street, a jury heard.She was frozen to the spot and said "It's him," her friend told Bradford
DETECTIVES are stepping up the hunt for a getaway car used in a gunpoint robbery in which about £50,000 was stolen.Two men were confronted by a five-strong gang in Buck Street, off Leeds Road, at about 2.30pm on Monday.One of the attackers used
CHILDREN are still putting their lives at risk by jumping into the water at a spot where an eight-year-old boy was badly hurt.A local resident reported that five youngsters jumped into the weir at Tinker Bridge, in North Beck, on August 28, a month after
BULLS chairman Marc Green has called on fans to form Odsal’s biggest crowd of the season in Sunday’s visit of Widnes as a tribute to the club’s departing players. Club captain Matt Diskin is retiring and Brett Kearney, Luke Gale, Jamie Foster,
CHILDLINE has stressed the importance of its ground-breaking work in Bradford schools after one of its visits netted a wicked paedophile from the city.A victim of child rapist Ian Burbank spoke out after hearing a talk from a representative from the charity
JAMES Meredith has stressed that there are no guaranteed places in the City side.Full back Meredith has regained a starting spot since Andrew Davies broke his arm – and played in central midfield in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy loss at Oldham.But
WORK is continuing apace on the Westfield Broadway shopping centre in Bradford, as cladding is starting to appear on the outside of the site. The £275 million project is taking shape with work now complete on the frame of the development. Last
COMMUNITY leaders in Keighley must do more to tackle child sex grooming, claims the town's MP.Kris Hopkins has blasted a 'wall of silence' over the issue from leading figures, including councillors.But his allegations have been strongly refuted.Mr
A POLICE team set up to tackle nuisance quad and off-road bikes has snared more than 60 machines in its first two months. The Anti-Social Bike Team targets people riding those vehicles illegally on Bradford's roads. And since it was set up
BRETT Kearney will run out at Odsal for the last time on Sunday when the Bulls host Widnes in the final home game of the season. A tumultuous five-year chapter in his life is about to close.The Bulls star, his wife and their two young daughters are heading
A DISABLED Keighley mobility scooter user says she has been banned from using the drive-through lane at the town's McDonald's Restaurant.Tina Cougill, who only has one lung and has heart disease, said she was "disgusted" to be told she
AROUND 2,000 Roma children are thought to be attending schools in the Bradford district following increased migration from Eastern Europe.Bradford Council is in the process of developing a 'new arrivals strategy' to deal with the large number
BUSINESS and regeneration chiefs are heading to the capital to beat the drum for Bradford. Bosses from Westfield, Debenhams and Bradford Council are meeting potential investors in London today to tell them there has never been a better time to
A FRUSTRATED gambler who threatened staff in a betting shop, demanding his gaming machine losses back, has been given a suspended jail sentence after a judge described it as a “highly unusual case”.Leeds Crown Court heard for two days in a
A CONVICTED child abuser has been jailed for having sex with a teenage girl more than 30 years his junior and beating her up when she left him for a younger man.Michael Spriggs, 59, grabbed his victim round the throat and banged her head on a wall when
BRADFORD pair Emile Cairess and Ambah Thompson are among 1,600 youngsters competing at the Sainsbury's 2014 School Games, which runs from today until Sunday. They will represent England North East in athletics – one of 12 sports being contested
A BUNGLING burglar, who ransacked a community centre in Bradford, was caught on camera when he switched on the lights. The intruder illuminated himself in full colour CCTV images after breaking into Parkside Community Centre, in Avenue Road, West
A NEW group is being set up to tackle the growing problem of illegal travellers' camps appearing across the district. It will bring together experts from Bradford Council, police and other bodies to look at how to prevent such camps from springing
Singin' In The Rain The Alhambra WANT to forget about the blues of the world? Like a bit of pezaz? Then here is the show for you. This touring production of Singin’ In The Rain is a Rolls-Royce production, full of verve, vim and glamour
