TWO local sides are involved in key games in the lower reaches of the Toolstation Northern Counties East Premier Division tomorrow night. THACKLEY dropped down to 17th following Saturday’s home defeat to new boys Cleethorpes Town. They head to
CITY have been drawn away to either West Yorkshire neighbours Halifax or Chorley in the FA Cup first round. The two non-league sides meet in a replay at the Shay tomorrow night. It will be the first time City have played non-league opposition in
LESLIE Bentley, arguably the most valued volunteer in Bradford rugby union for the past 50 years, has died aged 93. Shipley-based Leslie, nicknamed 'Legs' for his athletic prowess as a youngster – he could run 100 yards in ten seconds – was a tireless
YOU may be opening your front door to mischievous trick or treaters in ghoulish guises this Hallowe’en, but peep into your back garden and you could also spot some stinking, spiky and poisonous subjects. While would-be wizards and witches may be
IT’S not long now until Halloween – that fun time of year when the shops are full of ghosts and ghouls, and when we stick sheets over our heads and light candles in hollowed-out pumpkins. There’s always plenty going on in Yorkshire for Halloween
DIWALI, also known as Deepawali or the “festival of lights”, is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated every year in autumn. The spiritual significant of this event is the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil and hope
WYKE Wanderers missed a golden opportunity of climbing into the top three of West Yorkshire League Division One.They dominated their match against Kippax, missing chance after chance, while the visitors scored from their only opportunity.Wyke's reserves
HAVING finished ninth in last month's National Taekwondo Championships, Horizon Taekwondo Academy confirmed their status as West Yorkshire's leading sparring team by finishing third at the Yorkshire Open at Bradford's Richard Dunn Sports Centre, and
THIRD-placed Peel Park shared eight goals and the points in a nail-biting Bradford Sunday Alliance League PREMIER DIVISION home clash with West Bowling. The hosts took the lead through 50-year-old Allan Morley senior. Aidan Day pulled one back
BRADFORD Dragons secured their place in the National Cup fourth round as they overcame EBL Second Division side Lancashire Spinners in a game that coach Chris Mellor described as "a tough battle".The Dragons returned from Bury with a narrow
CAMPION dominated the first half of their West Riding County Amateur League Premier Division meeting with Storthes Hall at Manningham Mills.However, they only had an Andy Tasker strike on 30 minutes to show for it, and the second period very much belonged
UNDER-19 players could be given more cricket next season if they are attached to Aire-Wharfe League clubs. Knaresborough have proposed that juniors up to and including under-19s can be loaned out to clubs in lesser leagues on a Saturday without
ST BEDE'S almost made it an unhappy long journey home for Middlesbrough-based St Mary's College in the Yorkshire Old Boys' Shield.The Bradford side were the underdogs but played a full part in a classic cup tie, Liam Darke and Andrew Scullion
TVR United have lost their 100 per cent record in the Spen Valley League Premier Division.And the leaders' first draw after five straight victories came against an unlikely team – eighth-placed Smokin Aces.Imran Farooq (2) and Fateh Laher were
BRADFORD Council leader David Green has pledged to maintain pressure to ensure the district benefits from improved major infrastructure plans - including the newly proposed HS3 trans-Pennine high speed rail link.Councillor Green acknowledged that HS2
A FIELD of 2,000 textile poppies was unveiled at Bradford Industrial Museum yesterday.The work has been created by nine groups of older people from across the district to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the First World War.More than 100 people
NEW signing Etu Uasele will be among the guests for a Bulls fans’ forum at Odsal on Wednesday. The Tongan international joins chairman Marc Green, managing director Steve Ferres and head coach James Lowes at the members-only event from 7pm.
Darko Milanic may have left Leeds after just 32 days in charge but says he will be paid by the Championship club through to 2016 and as such is available to the club should they want him back. The Slovenian became trigger-happy owner Massimo Cellino's
ESTATE agency group Hunters is opening a new branch in Shipley following the success of its Bingley office which opened two years ago.Dale Hesketh, owner of the Hunters franchise, in Briggate, also launched the Bingley office and has worked in the local
INCREASED passenger numbers at Yeadon-based leisure airline Jet2.com have failed to match increased seat capacity, according to its owner. In a trading update, the Dart Group said while passenger numbers grew by 12 per cent to 4.6 million, this
BRADFORD Cathedral has been given £350,000 to repair its main gateway from the city centre. The £349,479 grant is one of 31 for cathedrals across the country from a special Government fund set up to mark the centenary of the start of the First
A MAN was struck with an iron and his friend hit with a baseball bat during a robbery at his home. A second friend escaped injury when the iron was thrown at him, but missed, during the incident at a house on Valley Road, Liversedge, at 5.45 pm
BRADFORD Teaching Hospitals has been selected to be part of an elite group of hospitals committed to working together to provide the best care possible for patients. The Foundation Trust is one of just 15 Foundation Trusts involved in the NHS Quest
BRADFORD Industrial Museum is staging a event to mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. A Week at War will be held on Saturday, from11am-1.30pm, in the museum’s Cafe Gallery. Harbinder Singh will talk about ‘Invisible Heroes
A BRADFORD pet store will be holding a dogs breakfast for charity. Pets at Home store, Forster Square Retail Park, is hosting a breakfast event to raise money for Dogs for the Disabled. There will be fun activities, including Toastie the dog
A FORMER Bradford League opening batsman and his wife were guests for a talk at the Huddersfield Advanced Motorists Group’s latest meeting. Keith and Sylvia Thompson gave a talk on their cricketing exploits. The couple met when he was 19. The
YOUNGSTERS at a Worth Valley school (pictured) made a contribution towards needy families at this autumn’s Harvest Festival. The children from Haworth Primary School and their parents collected and donated tinned, dried and other non-perishable
SALTAIRE-based Aire Valley Singers has raised £500 for the British Heart Foundation at its concerts throughout the year. The choir’s conductor, Barbara Bancroft, presented a cheque to the charity’s local fundraising volunteer manager, Sue Green
A COLLECTION of paintings of Keighley and the surrounding area has gone on show at the town’s Cliffe Castle Museum. Art group Small World was asked to develop the display by Keighley area co-ordinator’s office. Schools and community and youth
THE contribution older people make to society has been celebrated at events across the district. National initiative Silver Sunday aims to bring older people together to combat loneliness or isolation. In Burley-in-Wharfedale, local councillor
FOUR people have been arrested after police raided a suspected brothel in Bierley. Two women, aged 20 and 25, and two men, aged 27 and 30, were arrested from a residential property in Brompton Road on suspicion of managing or keeping a brothel.
A TRAINEE doctor returned to Oakbank School, in Keighley, to encourage current students to take up medicine. Former Oakbank student Katherine Harris (pictured) put year 13 students through their paces with a mock interview. Katherine is currently
CHILDREN have visited a Keighley restaurant to learn more about both food and future life opportunities. Two Year Two classes from St Andrew’s Primary School visited the Balti House Restaurant, in Albert Street. The 60 pupils had a chance to
PUPILS from Stanbury Primary School took part in an authentic archaeological dig to get hands-on experience researching ancient history. They visited a site in the valley between Stanbury and Oldfield to follow the same process as real archaeologists
MANORLANDS has this month received large donations from a bulk transport company and a Freemasons Lodge. Debra and Chris Hagar, who run CSH Bulk Transport Limited, presented the £5,481 proceeds of a party they organised at their Cross Hills home
NAZARENE Church is celebrating 80 years in Keighley. Two services marking the milestone will be held at the Oakworth Road church on Sunday. There will be an 11am family service and a 6.30pm event, at which former minister the Rev David Thirkell
REGIONAL airline Flybe has launched a new shuttle service from Leeds-Bradford Airport to Aberdeen as part its 2014-15 winter schedule. The Flybe Shuttle not only creates a new route for the airline between the Scottish city and Leeds- Bradford,
AN AWARD-WINNING Keighley brew has gone down a treat in the country’s seat of power. Timothy Taylor’s Boltmaker was chosen by Keighley MP Kris Hopkins as guest ale for a week at the Strangers’ Bar, in the House of Commons. And the company’s
BRADFORD Council has passed the first step in its attempt to achieve a Gold Standard award for its homelessness services. Run by the National Practitioner Support Service, it is a framework that local authorities can work with to demonstrate they
RIDDLESDEN Cricket Club is staging a bonfire event to stump up cash to see it through the winter. Proceeds will also help with the club’s proposed launch of a junior team. The bonfire is at the cricket ground, off Grange Road, this Saturday
NEW help is at hand for South Craven people researching family history. Scanned images of handwritten baptism, marriage and burial registers held by the North Yorkshire record office have been published online for the first time. The images
A GREEN-fingered group of more than 200 staff from Provident Financial got back to nature for a community scheme. The employees spent more than 1,700 hours digging, painting, scrubbing and building at schools across Bradford as part of the company
RADIO Leeds gardener Joe Maiden is appearing in Silsden next month. He will give Christmas-themed demonstrations and answer questions from the audience. There will also be a raffle. The event is at Silsden Methodist Church on Saturday, November
AIREDALE Hospital is going green. Three new boilers and a combined heat and power unit have been installed at the Steeton site as part of energy efficiency improvements. The upgrade is the final stage of a programme which has also seen the
CHILDREN at Cullingworth Primary School have designed posters encouraging dog walkers to clear up after their pets. Pupils in Years 3, 4 and 5 took part in a competition organised by Friends of The Dell, a voluntary group dedicated to improving
TWO women used pedal power to raise funds for Manorlands. Karen Wadworth and Maz Simmons (pictured), of Cross Roads, near Keighley, cycled the length of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal towpath in aid of the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice. They covered
SOUVENIR hunters who want a reminder of when the world’s greatest cycling race came to Yorkshire are to have a chance to bid for bunting and banners. Craven District Council is to auction off the Tour de France artefacts that adorned Skipton in
TIP-offs from members of the public led police to the scene of a suspected evening drug deal in Idle. Officers searched a white Vauxhall Corsa – and its 19-year-old male owner – after seeing it alongside another vehicle in the car park of Holy
GET a piece of the action at a fundraising jigsaw festival in Ilkley. Jigfest will be held at Christchurch Methodist/URC, The Grove, October 30-November 1, 10am-5pm each day. Proceeds will go to Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Dan’s Den Project and
A PROJECT to improve the South Pennines landscape and boost people’s involvement in the environment has been shortlisted for a coveted global award. The South Pennines Watershed Landscape initiative is among 34 British and international schemes
Leslie Bentley, one of the most important administrators in Yorkshire rugby union over the past 60 years, has died aged 93. Shipley-based 'Legs', whose nickname came from his prowess as a sprinter when he was younger - he could run 100 yards in
PROCEEDS of an annual coffee day in aid of Manorlands have been handed over to the Oxenhope hospice. Kath Neal – with her daughters Jenny and Rachel – has staged the event at her Dimples Lane, Haworth, home for the past 22 years. This year’
LOGISTICALLY we couldn’t do without them. They spend their days trucking up and down our roads and motorway networks transporting goods and parcels from one place to another. Food, clothing and other everyday essentials we rely on are delivered
SIR - Bradford corporation used to own all the public services. Our waterworks, based on Anthony Gadies reservoirs, the coal gas works up Back Lane, the electricity generating plant on Canal Road and the only profitable sewage plant in the country
SIR - I was interested to read the extensive coverage of Bradford Council’s new target of “making sure every one of its schools is rated good or outstanding by 2017” (T&A, October 22). Your readers may be interested to learn that in the glossy
SIR – No-one can see into the future, thank goodness, but if any wonder what life might be like under a future Labour Government they need look no further than Wales where the NHS was one responsibility devolved to its Assembly, which is under rigid
SIR - Bob Watson in his letter (T&A letters, October 22) alleges that the Labour council is not at the forefront of raising Bradford’s rail needs. Actually the council leader Dave Green is directly in touch with the HS2 Company and also has been
SIR - While it is true, as John Hall implies (T&A October 23) that some employers may think a non-disabled candidate for a job would always do better than a disabled one, this is not necessarily always the case. Prejudice, combined with unhelpful
A MURDER victim who was stabbed at a house party in Bradford has been named by police. Marek Benak was found with serious injuries after police were called to a property on Great Horton Road in the early hours of Thursday morning. The 23-year-old
SIR - Perhaps D Hodgson in his rant against George Galloway MP (Letters, October 23) could bring himself to condemn the individual who assaulted Mr Galloway following his comments regarding Bradford being an Israeli-free zone and recognise that Mr
SIR - Once again your correspondent, D S Boyes, lambasts the Labour party for immigration problems, the cost of keeping foreign nationals in British prisons, the West Lothian question, again conveniently forgetting that the Labour party is not in power
SIR - Your correspondent, D. Hodgson, falls into the trap the Israeli government’s propaganda machine has spent many years setting all over the world, from the streets of Bingley to the White House, that is linking any criticism of their regime with
POLICE have made use of new legislation to tackle nuisance behaviour problems in Bradford city centre. Since Friday, officers have issued seven dispersal orders, using new anti-social behaviour legislation introduced on Monday. Two out of the
SIR – Revelations about the deplorable state of so many private hire cars must be taken more seriously than they have been in the past. Goods carrying vehicles on a hire and reward basis needing to be licensed for that purpose under the ‘O’ licence
SIR – Our family has looked after mum from 1990 until she died in 1999 (89), my sister-in-law Brenda from 1996 till 2011 when she died (76) and now by brother Ralph, Brenda’s husband, since 2009 till now (80). They all suffered with dementia and lived
THE new police inspector for the Bradford South Area Neighbourhood Team says his new role makes him feel like he is “coming home”. Kevin Pickles, who takes up his new role today, grew up in the Bradford district and began his West Yorkshire policing
THE issue of the radicalisation of young Muslims in the UK is a very real one. We have seen the results, both at home and abroad, of what happens when young men are seduced by the siren call of Islamic revolution and persuaded to take up arms, and
WHILE there might be some comedic aspect to the sorry tale of the benefit cheat who was claiming incapacity payments while maintaining a career as a tribute act of the pop star Robbie Williams, it is in fact a very serious matter. The welfare system
A BABY and a two-year-old boy were rushed to hospital after yobs threw a firework into a Keighley house. The youngsters were taken to Airedale Hospital as a precaution following the incident, which happened shortly after 5pm yesterday. A man
FIRE crews from Bradford and Odsal were called to a van blaze in West Bowling in the early hours of this morning.A Mercedes Sprinter van was on fire parked outside a property in Spring Mill Street at around 3am. The fire did not spread away from the vehicle
A 47-YEAR-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died at a house party in Bradford. The man was arrested in Manningham at around 8.15pm last night and today remained in custody for questioning about the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old
A BRADFORD catering scheme providing training and employment to people with learning disabilities has been recognised as one of the region's top three social enterprises. FoodWorks received the top-three ranking at the Social Enterprise Yorkshire
PHIL Parkinson has five days to solve City's central-defensive predicament after their costly loss at Oldham. Saturday's defeat against the in-form Latics, their traditional bogey side, came with a heavy price. Rory McArdle's red card just
THE former general manager of a Bradford market has won his claim for more than £13,000 of unpaid wages, notice and holiday pay at an employment tribunal. Bradford Bazaar Limited, which denied ever employing Ubaid Mughal as general manager, has
RESIDENTS in part of Bradford have raised strong concerns about plans for a new business park in their village.Lynne O'Neill, who is one of the residents campaigning against the scheme that could create up to 1,000 jobs, said it would "kill&
A rape victim, who wrote songs about her experiences as she battled to rebuild her life, is hoping one will soon be released as a single.The 44-year-old Bradford woman aims to have 'Voices' released to coincide with the publishing of a book of
TWO new jobs, with more in the pipeline, have been created by leading logistics and distribution business Torque which has built a new technical services centre in Bradford.The Leeds-based business has invested in the 400 sq ft centre at its Holme Lane
POLICE and council officials are investigating after mature trees were sawn down on a plot of land owned by the local authority hours before it was sold at auction. A power-saw was used to hack down one tree and the second was attacked at Leicester
CHRIS Ulugia has been inspired by the achievements of Bulls legend Shontayne Hape as he bids to establish himself at Odsal. Hape scored 85 tries in 136 appearances during his time at Bradford before crossing codes and joining Bath in 2008.
AN EVENT will be held in Shipley this week to encourage people to show their bikes some love. The Bradford Big Bike Revival is being held on Wednesday from 10am to 3pm at The Quays, Victoria Street, for people to take their bikes along where experts
A CCTV camera will be put up to catch fly-tippers in a rubbish dumping hotspot after a company threatened to leave the city because the situation was so bad. Bradford Council is also piloting a scheme with a full-time street cleaner and running
A PROJECT which has helped educate dozens of Asian women who were previously unable to read or write is being continued by its founder even though official funding has been exhausted.The Aghii, or Awareness, course was set up by Riffat Shah, of the Asian
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two 23-year-old men were stabbed in a town centre yesterday. One of the men was found dead on the street, and the other remains in a "critical" condition with serious stab injuries. A 34-
TWO traditional red phone boxes in Bradford city centre could be ringing the changes as they're turned into mini shops or cafes.A Brighton-based charitable trust has applied to transform the boxes on Rawson Square after the success of a similar scheme
Oldham 2, City 1 THE pause lasted no more than five or six seconds but it felt like time had stood still. Phil Parkinson tried to articulate his verdict with the utmost care as he gazed across an empty Boundary Park. The gap between the
A PUB that is subject to controversial plans to convert it into a Tesco convenience store could be given extra protection if a parish council gets its way. Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council has applied to have the Royal Oak, in Mill
BRADFORD children as young as eight are to be steered away from radicalisation in a new project in the district.Some city schools have become so concerned about the welfare of youngsters who appear to have fallen under the spell of those trying to radicalise
A CHAMPION veteran athlete is hanging up her gym shoes after 11 years helping recovering addicts at Bradford's largest drug treatment charity. Caroline Marler, 63, has managed the gym at The Bridge Project on Salem Street since 2003, helping hundreds
