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18th September 2014    20th September 2014

  • No average season for champions Cleckheaton

    CHAMPIONS Cleckheaton have six players in the JCT600 Bradford League Division One batting averages for the second successive season.And three of them have repeated the feat – James Lee, Mal Nicholson and Tim Jackson, while overseas player Tanzeel

  • Leagues in talks over under-17 revamp

    THE Bradford Junior League are in talks with the JCT600 Bradford League about revamping under-17 cricket in the area. The oldest age group in the junior league has always been the most vulnerable, with many of the participants already playing senior

  • Drug-fuelled Allerton mugger jailed for three years

    A DRUG-FUELLED mugger who headbutted a man in the face and punched him up to five times to steal his wallet and phone has been jailed for three years.Dean Whittaker, who had taken alcohol and cocaine, targeted his victim late at night on Allerton Road

  • Peltier and Sheriffe commit to Cougars' cause

    COUGARS have been handed a double boost after prop Ross Peltier and full back Jesse Sheriffe agreed terms for next season. The duo become the latest players to commit to the club in the wake of their relegation from the Championship. Bradford-based

  • Fox delighted with Bulls accolade

    PETER Fox has spoken of his pride after being inducted into the club's Hall of Fame, recognising his achievements during two spells in charge of Bradford Northern. Born in Sharlston and the brother of Don and Neil, the former Championship-winning

  • Man who set fire to his Bradford flat jailed for three years

    A MAN who set fire to his flat to kill himself because his life was "meaningless" has been jailed for three years.Depressed David Foster ignited the curtains with a lighter at his home in Fairbank Terrace, Girlington, Bradford, at 11pm on May

  • Event offers to help out smaller businesses

    A CONFERENCE in Ilkley aims to help out small and medium-sized businesses and give them the skills to grow. Thrive Yorkshire, held at The Craiglands Hotel on Thursday, September 25, aims to equip small and medium sized businesses with the knowledge

  • Sales in the South help boost profits for Bradford glazing firm

    BRADFORD-based double glazing firm Safestyle UK yesterday announced a 10.3 per cent increase in pre-tax profits for the first six months of this year.The firm, the largest retailer and manufacturer of PVCu windows and doors for the UK homeowner replacement

  • Pub fundraiser to be held for boy, 8, in cancer battle

    A CHARITY event will take place on Sunday to help raise funds for an eight-year-old Bradford boy who is battling cancer for a second time.The Windmill pub in Wibsey is hosting the special day from noon and there will be stalls, a bouncy castle, raffles

  • University course is first to become fully accredited by NHS

    BRADFORD University's medical engineering course had just been fully accredited by the NHS. It means that any student who has completed the course - which teaches students prosthetics, rehabilitation and radiation therapy amongst other groundbreaking

  • Police are looking to trace pair over Bradford dogs attack

    DETECTIVES investigating a savage dog attack on a father-of-three want to speak to a paper boy and a young mum who fled for safety. Lee Flatt thought he was going to be killed as he was mauled by two banned American Pit Bulls in the "terrifying

  • Campaign group blasts removal of trees in town centre

    COUNCIL chiefs have defended their decision to chop down trees on one of Keighley’s busiest main streets.They say the trees felled to make way for new paving on historic North Street were old and in very poor condition.But campaign group BANDAG

  • 'At risk' Bradford patients are urged to get flu jab

    People in at-risk groups are being urged to get their flu jabs before the onset of winter. GPs are in the process of inviting eligible patients – including pregnant women, over-65s and those with long-term health conditions – to have a vaccination

  • Open meeting to discuss ideas for next year's Bradford Pride

    AN open meeting to brainstorm ideas on next year's Bradford Pride event will be held next week. The Bradford Pride annual meeting and open meeting will take place in the Equity Centre, Longlands Street, Bradford, on Tuesday from 7pm. A committee for

  • Hanson could miss five Bradford City games

    TOP scorer James Hanson could miss City’s next five games with his injured thigh. The club today confirmed that a scan on the problem revealed it was more serious than they had initially thought. Phil Parkinson expects to be without his centre

  • Regional tiers threaten local democracy

    IT WAS probably inevitable on the back of the Scottish referendum that a debate would swiftly follow about devolution for Yorkshire. There is no doubt that more funding needs to be allocated to the North along with more power over how money is

  • Amateurs’ tap dance show is hailed ‘warm and funny’

    YEADON Amateurs have reinforced their stage floor – so cast members can tap dance their way through their next production. Once rehearsals got under way for the society’s production of light comedy Stepping Out, about a tap dancing class, it came

  • I’m not controversial says the king of Asian comedy

    PAUL Chowdry is setting out to defy prejudices with his new show, PC’s World, coming to Bradford next week. Widely regarded as the leading British Asian male comedian, he has whipped up a fair amount of controversy during his critically-acclaimed

  • Industry greats meet fans at annual animation festival

    THE history of women in animation will be one of the themes of this year’s Bradford Animation Festival – the line-up for which has now been announced. Events for the week-long festival include a screening of the oldest surviving animated movie,

  • Trade unions did much to improve the workers’ lot

    SIR ­- Once more the union bashing season is upon us as evidenced by your correspondent Bob Watson and his chums the Taxpayer’s Alliance (Letters, September 11). Whether one sympathises with his sentiments, trade unions have been responsible for

  • A million misspent?

    SIR - Once again Bradford Council has turned its back on the weak and the afflicted in our city (‘Bradford Council can’t afford tax breaks for vulnerable groups’, T&A, September 17). The authority’s executive committee has decided that it would

  • Whither Nora Batty

    SIR - This line from Last Of The Summer Wine’s skiving policeman when reflecting on their jobs seems to reflect perfectly the attitude to Bradford having a busy city centre: The job is perfect but spoiled by people! (T&A, September 17). We

  • Issues of sovereignty

    SIR - Further to Mr Hindle’s letter (T&A, September 10) it is certainly true that the US and EU have shown blatant hypocrisy when supporting the overthrow of an elected government in Ukraine. However, as in earlier demonstrations in 2004, mass

  • Traveller powers

    SIR - The Department for Communities and Local Government tell me that councils can act swiftly with strong powers at their disposal to remove illegal traveller encampments. The strongest powers, they say, under Section 62A-E of the 1994 Criminal

  • Helping with autism

    Sir - The National Autistic Society is calling on local people affected by autism to nominate individuals and services that have made a difference to their lives for the third annual Autism Professionals Awards. We know that groundbreaking work

  • Disability in business

    SIR - Seven years ago, I set up the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs with the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability to recognise the many talented, ambitious and inspiring disabled people who have set up their own businesses. This year’s

  • Bradford man on trial over £37 million heroin smuggling plot

    A BRADFORD man was part of a plot to smuggle heroin with a street value of £37 million found hidden in a Jaguar being imported into the UK, a court heard. The battered X-type car had no ignition, no electrics and could not be driven, but was "rammed

  • Football tournament to be held in memory of Kallum McCarter

    A FOOTBALL tournament and fun day is being held tomorrow in memory of a 20-year-old man who died after a car crash in Queensbury.Kallum McCarter died from his injuries almost five weeks after the Mini he was a passenger in was in a collision with a Toyota

  • Drive to secure greater powers for Yorkshire gathers pace

    THE drive to secure greater powers for Yorkshire in the wake of the Scottish referendum is gathering pace. But the idea is not popular with everyone, with Conservative MP Philip Davies warning it could lead to an unaccountable group of local politicians