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  • Brighouse Town are back on track

    BRIGHOUSE Town have the opportunity to take their points tally into double figures when they host Prescot Cables on Saturday. Town were only promoted into Evo-Stik Division One North at the start of the season, so it will be a minor watershed for

  • Adam Lyth half-century makes up for forgotten birthday

    IT HASN’T all been good news for Yorkshire’s Adam Lyth this last fortnight despite an LV= County Championship title win, nearly 1,500 runs in a season and an England Performance Programme call-up. Lyth even celebrated his 27th birthday today with

  • Snowden in the frame for Salem

    BRADFORD Salem have recalled prop John Bradbury and promoted replacement Dan Snowden into the second row as they seek to maintain their perfect record in SSE Yorkshire Division Two at home to Moortown on Saturday. Mark Smith and John Morrell drop

  • Whites aim to continue marching on in the capital

    MIRCO Antenucci is hoping Leeds can maintain their winning streak when they travel to Brentford in Darko Milanic's first game in charge tomorrow.United head to the capital in the midst of a rich run of form which has seen them collect ten points from

  • New 'world-class' cycle race confirmed for Yorkshire

    A major new international cycle race for Yorkshire has been confirmed.The provisionally titled Tour de Yorkshire has been officially added to the world cycling calendar for 2015 by the sport’s world governing body, the UCI.The event will be run

  • Shipley doctor backs new health guidelines to save £11.2m

    A SHIPLEY doctor has backed new national health guidelines which could save the NHS more than £11 million a year. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended patients taking warfarin check their own blood levels

  • Lee Duxbury leaves Thackley after less than a week

    THACKLEY keep stealing the headlines but it is the off-field drama rather than the football that is keeping the club in the news. The Dennyboys will have a new manager-head coach for the FOURTH consecutive Saturday when they host Garforth Town

  • Tony is Sharp by name and sharp by nature

    TONY Sharp landed a lifetime-best 5lb 4oz wild trout while fishing on Keighley Angling Club’s waters on the River Aire between Kildwick and Silsden. Trotting a fast stretch of water using a simple rig, baited with bread on a size-eight hook, Sharp

  • The laziness of people is apparent in their littering

    I DON’T have to go far to find evidence that many human beings are too self-centred and lazy to do much to slow down significant climate change. I just have to walk to my front gate. I live on a well-used road opposite a row of shops, with a bus

  • Yorkshire recover after Rashid mops up tail

    Yorkshire started their second innings against Somerset in fine fashion during the third afternoon of their LV= County Championship Division One match at Headingley by reaching 102-1 at tea. Joe Root’s side conceded a first-innings lead of 184,

  • Greens backs are asked to spread the load

    WHARFEDALE coach Jon Feeley wants his backs to take some of the burden off his pack. "Our forwards are doing far too much carrying of the ball," he said in the wake of last Saturday's frustrating 20-17 defeat at Tynedale in SSE National League

  • Angling lines

    KEIGHLEY AC Tony Sharp landed a lifetime-best 5lb 4oz wild trout while fishing on Keighley Angling Club’s waters on the River Aire between Kildwick and Silsden. Trotting a fast stretch of water using a simple rig, baited with bread on a size-eight

  • Attempted robbery at Bradford shop

    Police are appealing for information about an attempted robbery in Bradford.At about 8.40pm yesterday, three men entered a convenience store in Manchester Road and made demands for cash and cigarettes.One of the men was carrying what was believed to be

  • Tories should not take Scots vote as an endorsement

    SIR – The Scottish independence vote was interesting not for the result itself, but for the factors behind it. The refreshingly high turnout to vote, bolstered by lowering the eligible voting age, was unusual – except in parts of the world where

  • Let will of majority rule

    SIR – I have heard of an old Arab proverb – “Take your pleasure but then pay for it”. The Labour Party granted Devolution to Scotland taking pleasure in the votes of their Scottish MPs at Westminster forcing through legislation on, for example,

  • Long way to fight a fire

    SIR – You just simply couldn’t make it up. There was a report in T&A (September 19) about workers who controlled a fire in a factory in Liversedge until the fire brigade arrived. But I feel it must have been a misprint as the fire crews arrived

  • Polio fight’s not over

    SIR – Two new cases of polio were reported in Karachi, Pakistan this week; taking the total number of those affected by the disease to 160 in the country this year. Pakistan is one of the few remaining nations living with the threat of polio and

  • MP works very hard

    SIR – P Hope and S Pickup (Letters, September 2) are obviously not in the least interested in the good work that David Ward does for Bradford East, Bradford as a whole and specifically Idle and Thackley where he lives. He is working hard for us

  • Should the RAF join in air strikes?

    TOMORROW, the House of Commons may give Prime Minister David Cameron a narrow mandate to order the Royal Air Force to join forces with the United States and five Arab allies and bomb the unholy warriors of Islamic State. The party conference season

  • Sending out a clear message on quad bikes

    THE use of quad bikes on our streets and local open land has become a modern-day blight for many people. Those who ride them often do so with little thought for the safety of others and themselves, tearing up green spaces and racing along residential

  • Keighley window firm win top Network VEKA award again

    A KEIGHLEY window company has been awarded a coveted customer service accolade – for the sixth year running. David Brunskill has again won the Network VEKA award for the north east and Yorkshire. The company, which installs PVC-U windows, doors

  • Bradford City old boy De Vita signs for Cheltenham

    FORMER City winger Raffaele De Vita has joined Cheltenham on a short-term deal.The Italian, whose time at Valley Parade was dogged by a thigh injury, has signed for three months for the League Two club.Cheltenham boss Mark Yates revealed that ex-City

  • Man cut free from car after Keighley crash

    FIREFIGHTERS freed a man from his car after it hit a bollard and flipped onto its roof in Keighley last night. Crews from Keighley and Haworth stabilised the white Honda Integra and cut open a door to free the male driver, who was then taken to Airedale

  • Firefighters called to student flat after shower fire

    FIREFIGHTERS were called to a student flat in Bradford after a shower unit caught fire and activated the alarm. Crews from Bradford, Odsal and Fairweather Green attended the incident in Tumbling Hill Street just before 2am, although the blaze, which was

  • Keighley Cougars poised to step up fight in RFL dispute

    COUGARS chairman Gary Fawcett has urged supporters to attend tonight’s meeting on the club’s legal fight against the Rugby Football League, admitting he will stop at nothing in his quest for justice. Keighley announced last week that, along with

  • China boost for Melling

    CHRIS Melling has qualified for the International Championships in China after beating Luca Brecel of Belgium 6-5. The Keighley potter produced breaks of 50 and 52 to win the last two frames and overturn a 5-4 deficit. Melling had earlier opened

  • Bradford Bulls fans urged to help club break 4,000 barrier

    BULLS managing director Steve Ferres today welcomed encouraging season-ticket sales figures as he urged fans to continue backing the club through the turnstiles. Since the 1863 membership packages were launched a fortnight ago, sales have approached

  • Patterson leads Yorkshire bowling fightback

    Steve Patterson struck twice and Jack Brooks and Adil Rashid once apiece as Yorkshire attempted to restrict Somerset’s first-innings lead on day three at Headingley, the penultimate day of the LV= County Championship campaign. Somerset advanced

  • Bradford City won't risk skipper's long-term fitness

    CITY will not press Stephen Darby straight back into service if they feel he is not right. The skipper was not involved in Tuesday's Capital One Cup exit at MK Dons – the first time he had missed out for 86 games. Gary Liddle filled in at right

  • Wilson holds his nerve to retain Classic crown

    GRAEME Wilson (Audenshaw) successfully retained his title in the £5,300 Brighouse Classic, sponsored by Limegrove Leisure, with a thrilling 21-20 victory against Lower Hopton team-mate Ashley Tattersley. The large crowd had seen Wilson beat Dave