LEEDS caretaker-manager Neil Redfearn praised his Italian imports as Giuseppe Bellusci scored a stunner on the way to a 3-1 Sky Bet Championship win over Bournemouth. Redfearn, who is not yet sure if he will be in the dugout against Huddersfield
THE National Media Museum has secured a £1million cash injection from Bradford Council to help secure its future. Welcoming the news today, museum director Jo Quinton-Tulloch said: "It's a great day for the National Media Museum." But council
9:46pm CITY rode the loss of James Hanson in the warm-up to claim a remarkable win at in-form MK Dons tonight. The Bantams have lost three in a row at home in the league - but now they've matched that with a hat-trick on
AN INVESTIGATION was under way tonight into a rail death between Bradford and Halifax. The incident happened near Lightcliffe Golf Club this afternoon after train staff reported someone had been hit while on the track. A British Transport Police
RICHARD Nichols produced a chanceless, unbeaten century that helped ensure Skipton survived to fight another year in Aire-Wharfe League Division Two.Nichols smashed 21 boundaries in making 151off just 131 balls to take his tally in all competitions past
INGROW St John's are in pole position for the Mewies Solicitors Craven League Division One title after a dramatic penultimate weekend.Leaders Oakworth went to Foulridge, lost and fell off the top of the table.They won the toss, put the Noyna side
A HARVEST festival of food and drink will take over Bingley town centre in an event run independently for the first time by town leaders and traders.The two-day gourmet spectacular takes place on Friday and Saturday, September 26 and 27 in the market
BIRSTALL, threatened with relegation for so much of the season, finished in style at home to an Ossett side who began the season with hopes of a title challenge in the All Rounder Cricket equipment Central Yorkshire League Premier Division. Until
A TEENAGER from Bradford had two teeth knocked out in a "violent, vicious and unprovoked attack" in a Leeds bar. The 19-year-old was on the dance floor at Stone Roses - a bar under the railway arches on Lower Briggate - when he was punched in the
COUNCIL leaders are confident a strategy to regenerate Bradford city centre is starting to work despite a slight rise in the number of empty shops. A report published yesterday by The Local Data Company, shows 21.5 per cent of retail and leisure
CLAYTON, hit by departures before the start of the season, have joined Outlane in being relegated from the Foster's Halifax League Roy Smith First Division.Visitors Oxenhope shuffled their batting and bowling order but still managed to defeat Clayton
A BRADFORD MP will join the fight against breast cancer by wearing pink in parliament. David Ward, who represents Bradford East, will sport a pink jacket for the Breast Cancer Campaign's Wear it Pink Day, which has the theme 'look good, do good
TWO lorry trailers were destroyed by a blaze at a yard in Bradford.Fire crews from Bradford and Odsal stations were called to a yard off Shetcliffe Lane, Bierley, at about 4.30pm yesterday.A fire service spokesman said the trailers were well-alight when
KEIGHLEY pensioners will go back to the 1960s during a special event on September 30.They will be invited to recall the days of the Beatles, hippies, VW camper vans, peace campaigning and the Summer of Love.The Swinging 60s celebration at Central Hall
RELATIVES of four men, convicted of the acid attack murder of Barry Selby, held a protest outside Bradford Crown Court today.They claim the men - Lee Calvert, Joseph Lowther, Robert Woodhead and Andrew Feather - were wrongly convicted and say they are
AN HISTORIC gala in a village near Keighley will be axed unless new volunteers come forward to run it.The warning came after the organising committee stepped down at the event's annual meeting.Cowling Gala was first held over 75 years ago and village
A BOLLYWOOD ball has helped put smiles on more children’s faces at Bradford Royal Infirmary.The event earlier this year made £2,000 for Bradford Hospitals Children’s Charity, and was boosted by a further £1,000 from Barclays Bank
A CHURCH warden from the district has become president of the country’s Inner Wheel Clubs. Thelma Pacsoo has been installed as the ‘Big Wheel’ by the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Thelma, warden of St Stephen
A KEIGHLEY town centre charity shop's public appeal to help return a set of family photos to its rightful owner has been a success.Yorkshire Cat Rescue, which has a shop in Cavendish Street, had said the pictures had been donated accidentally in mid-August
BRADFORD'S former Irish Club will be turned into a Sikh Temple after Bradford Council approved plans for a large redevelopment of the building. The club, on Rebecca Street, closed earlier this year, and over the summer the Shri Guru Ravidass Bhawan
POLITICIANS are divided over how a proposed Silsden supermarket could affect existing shops in the town.District councillors Adrian Naylor and Andrew Mallinson spoke following the release of conflicting reports on the potential impact of the new Tesco.Plans
One hundred years ago the first Royal Navy warship to fall victim to a U-boat was sunk in the Firth of Forth.More than 250 sailors and Royal Marines were killed when HMS Pathfinder was torpedoed within sight of land as she patrolled near May Island
SIR – Scotland goes to the referendum polls on Thursday with ‘Yes’ supporters hoping for a massive change in the way the country is run. As Will Hutton explained in The Observer newspaper recently, emphasising the motivating factor of these voters
SIR – On the surprise de-selection of certain Bradford city councillors (T&A, September 13) with others also having the Sword of Damocles hanging over them, regardless of what party they represent, some of the things they have been convicted of
SIR – Are conservation areas still important or was it just an expensive exercise to define what and where they are? Recently I drove through Thornton and noticed the Yorkshire stone roof slates on a roof in the village were being replaced by modern
SIR – I can honestly say I feel as though I live in a middin. The litter in my area, namely Brantwood and Haworth Road is disgusting! It just gets worse – cans, sweet wrappers, tissues, bottles (broken), bottles whole, plastic bottles – it just
OXENHOPE is in "desperate" need of more youth worker support to help keep local youngsters occupied, according to a parish council chairman.Oxenhope Parish Council chairman Councillor Neal Cameron praised his colleagues, Councillors Penny Cusdin
Bradford is well documented: The Civil War, becoming a city, The Industrial Revolution and so on. However there seems to be one omission. I can find no record in the history books of the date or purpose of that famous edifice at the junction of
SIR – So an application to build an education and community centre on some derelict land in West Bowling could be turned down “over suspicions it would be used as a mosque”. (T&A, September 12). The council’s officers say that if the community
SIR – In answer to the enquiry about Robin Hood (Letters, September 11). He is arguably the world’s most famous outlaw. From being an obscure local robber, thought to have been active around the 13th or 14th centuries, he has become known throughout
SIR – I travelled on the 662 Keighley to Bradford bus on September 11. The bus was quite full by the time we reached Beckfoot School and lots more children got on. They’d had a long day at school and had to stand for their journey home, but their behaviour
THIS month thousands students will begin a new chapter of life here in Bradford. Many of them will be living away from home for the first time and will understandably be nervous as they settle in. Fresher’s week at Bradford College and the
THE CASE of the young mother who was raped by her father - and even fell pregnant in one of his horrific attacks - is a tale of tragic, sustained abuse and the substantial damages paid to her can never erase the memory of the pain she has suffered.
POLICE working on Bradford's anti-social bike team adopted a low key approach, working in plain clothes with an unmarked car, to score their latest success in the Holme Wood area.Officers wanted to return to the area after arresting one suspect and
A NEW group set up to clean up and improve public land in Highfield, Keighley, has been lending a helping hand to a local rugby club.Members of the Friends of Burgess' Field organisation teamed up with members of Cowling Harlequins to paint and clean
THE FIRE station in Haworth which is due to cease operating as a retained fire station at the end of this year will host a "commemorative event" next month.Members of the retained Haworth fire fighting team are inviting all current and past
Plans to convert a four story mill in Bradford's Employment Zone into apartments have been refused by Bradford Council.Altex UK had applied to turn 12 - 14 Adelaide Street, in the city centre off Manchester Road into a mixed use development of offices
Bradford Park Avenue have signed former Bradford City left back Luke O’Brien. The 26-year-old Halifax-born defender played over 130 games for the Bantams Bradford City between 2007 and 2012, going on to play for Exeter City and Oxford United before
A FAMILY of three fled a house in Little Horton, Bradford, yesterday after the cooker caught fire. They had been making potato waffles for dinner but forgot to turn the grill off. A spokesman for Odsal fire station said a build-up of food on
A COUPLE returned to their house in Keighley yesterday to find a spotlight had overheated and set alight. Firefighters from Keighley and Bingley stations were called to a property on Bracken Bank Grove at about 7.30pm. A spokesman said a light fitting
A WOMAN'S car was seized by police after officers caught her husband driving it without a licence or insurance. The Volkswagen Golf was stopped by police on Wakefield Road in Bradford at about 8.30pm yesterday. The man was reported for driving without
GARY Liddle denies that City are developing a phobia about playing at Valley Parade.But he hopes the three-game road trip coming up can get results back on the rails before they return to home soil a week on Saturday.Part one of the double header against
MANASE Manuokafoa admitted his last-gasp try in Saturday’s win at London Broncos marked a fairytale ending to his Bulls career. The Tongan prop had not touched down since scoring against the Broncos in a victory at Odsal in July 2012. But he
FRENCHMAN Christopher Routis is poised for his League One bow as City bid to stop the rot at free-scoring MK Dons tonight. With Alan Sheehan banned, Routis steps in to a back four that has come under the spotlight for the number of set-piece goals
A FOOTBALL club is dedicating its season to a "polite and lovable" 15-year-old former player who was killed in high-speed car crash in Bradford. Bradford Horton Sports, whose first team play in Division One of the West Riding League, will also
AN INTREPID Bradford man today starts a 112-mile charity canoe challenge along the River Aire - and he will drink the river's water along the way.Robin Naylor, 61, is travelling the length of the waterway between Malham Tarn, near Skipton, and the
POLITICAL freedom for Bingley is at the heart a petition calling for a new local council for the town. The petition will officially be started at an event next month organised by volunteers campaigning for a new authority covering Bingley, Cottingley,
A 56-YEAR-OLD man accused of chasing two mothers and their young children with a Taser stun gun had a large collection of weapons at his home, including an axe, a crossbow and a garotte, Bradford Crown Court heard.Gulfraz Majeed told them he had been
A YOUNG mother, who gave birth to a child by her evil raping dad, is being paid £160,000 damages by Bradford Council after it admitted a breach of duty by failing to remove her from the family home. The woman claimed social services failed to protect
IT WAS a record-making challenge where table manners were definitely not required. Seventy people turned out for the Great Poppadom Challenge last night to support Bradford’s bid to be crowned Curry Capital of Britain for the fourth consecutive
