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  • Pack power helps Wharfedale to rare home win

    Wharfedale 32, Darlington Mowden Park 18  Wharfedale recorded their first home league win since December 2013 with a convincing SSE National League One display over newcomers Darlington Mowden Park. Leading 18-10 at half-time, Dale put together

  • Otley run out of time in bid to draw

    Otley 17, Preston Grasshoppers 24 Going 12 points down with ten minutes remaining, Otley fought back to quickly get No 8 Jack Paul Scott over in this SSE National League Two North encounter. Then they were straight back to hammer the visitors

  • Bees play it fast and loose as they romp to win

    Bradford & Bingley 34, Old Crossleyans 8 Bradford & Bingley thoroughly deserved the five points from their first home game of the SSE North One East season, and for much of the game looked different class. However, Old Crossleyans were

  • Falwasser says farewell with two tries for Bradford Salem

    Leeds Medics & Dentists 14, Bradford Salem 43 Kiwi No 8 Kris Falwasser fittingly scored a brace of tries in his final appearance as Bradford Salem secured their first bonus-point win of the season in SSE Yorkshire Division Two over newly-promoted

  • Late flurry takes Cleckheaton to spoils

    Cleckheaton 37, Wirral 20 These two promoted clubs put on a great show for the crowd as Cleckheaton gained an SSE National League Three North bonus-point win in a game which could have gone either way until the strong home pack asserted their superior

  • Sheffield Eagles join Keighley Cougars' side in row with RFL

    COUGARS and Sheffield Eagles are prepared to take joint action against the RFL over the non-punishment of fielding ineligible players in the dual registration row. Cougars chairman Gary Fawcett estimates that last weekend’s relegation will cost

  • Injuries take their toll on Keighley

    Knottingley 25, Keighley 5 Keighley started well in this SSE Yorkshire Division Two clash, having the edge in the loose and taking the game to the bigger Knottingley pack. Some sleight of hand from prop Craig Spencer gave winger Luke Carter

  • Farsley make form and home advantage count

    FARSLEY are through to the second qualifying round of the FA Cup after a comfortable 2-1 win over Frickley Athletic. Frickley play their football a division higher than Farsley in the Evo-Stik League structure but they are bottom of the higher

  • Bower sees red over Ellis dismissal

    Hednesford Town 1 Guiseley 1 TEN-man Guiseley were denied an unlikely victory in heart-breaking fashion as Hednesford Town netted a stoppage-time equaliser. The Lions had been a man down for most of the second half after centre back Danny Ellis

  • Hall's not lost as Thackley ride their luck

    Thackley 1 Pickering Town 1 THE new regime stopped the rot as Thackley put an end to a five-match losing streak with a point at home against a good Pickering Town side in the Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division. Thackley

  • Avenue bidding to avoid bunch of fives blow

    Lowestoft Town 3 Bradford Park Avenue 2 BRADFORD Park Avenue go into tonight’s home clash with Oxford City desperate for points after a fourth consecutive defeat in Vanarama Conference North. All four losses have been suffered in close games

  • Grovians finish strongly as Baildon fizzle out

    Old Grovians 43, Baildon 5 OLD Grovians made it two wins from two, following up their victory over Bramley Phoenix with a six-try SSE Yorkshire Division Three derby victory over Baildon, who have now lost both their matches. Grovians made their

  • Play re-enacts First World War recruitment in Craven

    STUDENTS are staging a play re-enacting the first recruitment drive of young men from South Craven and other parts of the district to the battlefields of the First World War.The production, being performed by young people from the Skipton Academy, recounts

  • Soap actress in campaign to save libraries

    BIRSTALL actress Tracy Brabin has thrown her support behind a campaign to safeguard four libraries in Batley and Spen.Kirklees Council is currently consulting on what services should be retained as it prepares to make cuts imposed by central Government.The

  • Charity seeking unwanted laptops to help Airedale carers

    A CHARITY is appealing for donations of unwanted laptop computers to help improve the IT skills of carers across Airedale.The machines will be renovated and used by clients of the Carers’ Resource.The organisation's CReate service runs free

  • Man needed hospital treatment after house fire

    A MAN required hospital treatment for smoke inhalation after a house fire in Brighouse in the early hours of Saturday morning. Crews from Brighouse and Elland were called to Brookfoot Lane at 4.08am, but the blaze, thought to have been started by a chip

  • Chess lovers take over City Park during annual Bradford event

    BRADFORD was filled with chess lovers from Grandmasters to complete novices as the second annual CHESStival took over City Park on Saturday. Hundreds of people attended to check out the fun, which featured the chance to play on three giant chess sets,

  • Holme Wood library stages book give-away

    A Bradford library was chosen as one of 200 libraries across the country to host a big book giveaway as part of Save the Children's national literacy campaign.The event, held on Saturday at Holme Wood library, was part of a scheme to encourage parents

  • Riddlesden army cadet completes gruelling challenge

    A RIDDLESDEN army cadet has followed in the footsteps of famous Scottish explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie and completed a gruelling trek in the Rocky Mountains.James Lewis was among 13 cadets from across the region chosen to take part in the three-week

  • Police name boy who died after collision in Barkerend

    POLICE have named the boy who died following a road traffic collision in Gilpin Street, Barkerend, Bradford, on Friday morning. Saliq Amjad Malik, aged 15, from the BD2 area of Bradford, died after the Volkswagen Golf GTI he was a passenger in collided