Halifax 5 Chorley 0 THE chant at The Shay began early: Bring on the Bradford. The home fans were determined to savour the moment last night as they booked an FA Cup first-round derby clash with the Bantams with consummate ease. Now they
A MAN has been charged with murder in connection with a stabbing death in Keighley town centre.Grzegorz Dzierzak, 34, of Chapel Lane, Keighley, is due to appear before magistrates in Bradford tomorrow..He is accused of murdering Edgaras Masliuskas, 23
A COMMUNITY is in mourning after the grim discovery of the bodies of a family of four at their Bradford home. Neighbours, friends and local councillors all spoke of their shock at the news of the deaths of Jitendra Lad, his wife Duksha, and their
A ROYAL Marine who cheated death fighting the Taliban said British troops time in Afghanistan was not in vain - despite so many ultimate sacrifices. Liam Brentley, 29, who was shot in the head by an insurgent on his first tour of Afghanistan in
SUNDAY'S BRADFORD CITY RUNS half-marathon featured outstanding performances from Frank Beresford (Otley AC) and Saltaire's captain Will Kerr. They formed a breakaway group with Jonathan Walton (Leeds City) and Tom Hooper (Bingley Harriers).
YORKSHIRE have got a magnificent seven players in the provisional England Lions touring party for their New Year trip to South Africa, where they will play first-class and one-day cricket.The White Rose's reputation as English cricket's strongest
BIRKENSHAW have withdrawn from the Pennine League due to a shortage of players. The club, who have failed to complete any of their scheduled Championship Division One games this season, have reluctantly pulled the plug for this season after it became
A MAJOR blaze erupted in Becks Road, Keighley, after a fire which had been started in nearby shrubbery spread into an industrial yard. Fire crews were called to the scene near Springfield Mill shortly after 1.40pm today. The spectacular blaze
A WARNING about dozens of marshmallows laced with poison and filled with nails and ball bearings has reached millions of people after it was posted on Facebook.A dog walker found around 12 of the sweets on the field near Guiseley Cricket Club on Saturday
LAMIN Jannah grabbed four goals as Brighouse Town Reserves mounted a second-half comeback in their Lancashire League Cup derby at Albion Sports Reserves. Bill Law (2) and Callum Charlton also scored as Town recovered from a 3-1 half-time deficit
FAST food giant McDonalds is calling for Bradford Council to re-think its plan to bar takeaways from opening outside schools.The Council has suggested banning new takeaways from opening within 400m of a school, youth centre, play area or park, in a bid
A CITY centre cafe and restaurant which has just undergone a £200,000 makeover has been targeted by arsonists. It will cost more than £10,000 to repair damage to Smorgasbord Coffee Bar's shopfront and its re-opening has been delayed. The cafe
CHRIS Melling held his hands up after being defeated by another Chinese teenager in the International Championship.The Keighley potter went down 6-1 to 16-year-old Zhou Yuelong in the first round in Chengdu, and tweeted: "The lad played brilliant
THE discovery of four bodies at a house in Bradford is being treated as murder. Police were called to the large detached property in Blackberry Way, Clayton, at about 8.30pm yesterday after the bodies of the family were found. They were today
WORKPLACE equipment supplier Slingsby has won a supplier award from leisure centre operator Center Parcs. The Shipley-based firm won the gong after supplying a range of products to the company’s new £250 million Woburn Forest Village in Bedfordshire
ALL 31 lambs were sold in the Dalesbred Sheep Breeders’ Association’s annual show at Skipton Auction Mart. Shearling rams averaged £173.05 per head and aged rams £81.90. Father and daughter Godfrey and Alison Haygarth, of Aigden Farm, Wigglesworth,
LIZ Preston, of Craven Safety Services, is the speaker at the next monthly meeting of the Enterprising Women group. The event will be held at Utopia on the Broughton Hall estate on November 6. New members are welcome at the meeting from 10am
KEIGHLEY-based personalised marketing specialist Hello Market has developed a new way of enabling fundraising groups to raise extra cash through the sale of greetings cards. Charities joining the Giving.Cards initiative include St John Ambulance
VOLUNTEERS answered the call to help clean up one of Keighley’s public open spaces. They responded to an appeal broadcast by the newly-formed Friends of Burgess Field group. The three-hour clean-up session took place at Burgess Field, in Highfield
CHILDREN in Bradford are sure to be seen with high-visibility jackets being given out by an optician. Staff at Specsavers in the Bradford Darley Street and Girlington stores will be handing out high-visibility vests to all children who visit the
BRADFORD District Care Trust has teamed up with Barnardo’s Children’s charity to offer young people mental health advice and support. Health care professionals and young people will be in City Park tomorrow from 11am until 2.30pm. A range of
A VILLAGE’S infrastructure will be unable to cope with yet more housing, it is claimed. Concerns have been raised after the submission to Bradford Council of a planning application for up to 31 new homes on land west of Green Lane, Eastburn, near
HALLOWEEN themed fun will help Jamie’s Ministry of Food Centre celebrate its fifth anniversary on Friday. There will be cooking demonstrations, pumpkin carving, face painting and a guess the weight of the giant pumpkin competition. People will
YOUNG people attending Keighley Bangladesh Community Association are celebrating being the first group in the district to fully complete The Lord Mayor’s Award. The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Mike Gibbons, and Lady Mayoress Elizabeth Sharp
A MAN jumped to his death from the window of a Bradford charity hostel after leaving a suicide note based on dark lyrics from a Red Hot Chili Peppers single, a city inquest heard. Craig Smith, 44, of Apsley Villas in Manningham, was discovered
A WEEK during the First World War will be remembered by a free talk at Bradford Industrial Museum on Saturday, November 1. Curator Liz McIvor gives an insight into life during early November 1914 in ‘A Week at War’. Harbinder Singh will discuss
DOG owners can have their pets microchipped for free and get a health check today. Visit the Hut, by the tennis courts, at Bowling Park, using the Burras Road entrance, between 10.30am and 2.30pm. It’s been organised in partnership with the Dog Trust
A GROUP of students has completed a vocational programme provided by Keighley Astronomical Society. They have been rewarded for finishing the five week Introduction to Astronomy qualification. Dominic Curran, secretary at astronomical society
A BRADFORD fundraising family has handed over more than £12,000 to two Bradford charities in memory of their father. In the past eight years the Mistry family have taken up challenges and organised events making more than £110,000 to help change
PUPILS at one of Bradford’s oldest schools have been shown round what will become their new library. In 2015 Bradford Grammar School on Keighley Road will open its “21st century Library,” which is under construction. The library will have open-plan
TRANSPORT Minister Baroness Susan Kramer has backed calls for better access to Leeds Bradford airport ahead of a decision by the Government. Traffic at the airport is expected to rise sharply, with more than five million passengers expected to
AN investigation has begun into the unauthorised pruning of protected trees at a former hotel. But those using the site said the work was done after a branch fell on a car in the recent high winds. Yesterday, Kirklees Councillor Kath Pinnock
I’M loathe to admit it, but I have a Facebook site. “Don’t call it a site, it’s a page,”my 16-year-old daughter sniped, “and you need a photo.” I agreed to her terms, allowing her to paste up (that expression is probably wrong too) a picture
A VACANT commercial building in Bradford, a Keighley pub and a plot of land in Lidget Green all failed to sell at auction. The 2,318 square metre former QLM building on Idle Road was under the hammer at the Eddison’s auction at Elland Road stadium
MORE than 40 members of staff at Bradford College have taken part in a challenge to prove that keeping active can improve life in the workplace. The Global Corporate Challenge saw people around the world walking, cycling, swimming and salsa dancing
A NEWLY opened Keighley business has thrown its weight behind the Lord Mayor of Bradford’s appeal. Aamir Khan’s cafe, in Bradford Road, presented Lord Mayor Councillor Mike Gibbons with a cheque for £250 during the cafe’s official launch earlier
A QUARTER of people diagnosed with dementia hide the fact for fear of being stigmatised, according to a new report. The Medical Research Council (MRC), which commissioned the joint report by think-tank International Longevity Centre UK, said the
FIRE-FIGHTERS have been stoned by yobs on two consecutive evenings after being called to deliberate fires in the Bond Road area, near Toller Lane. As a result they will now be accompanied by police to future calls in the area and firefighters have
FUNDRAISING for a local charity has become a real family affair for the Kershaws. Johnathan Kershaw, the youngest of his siblings, decided to carry on what has become a family tradition and use his presidential position with the St James Markets
DOZENS of people took part in a successful bulb and wildflower planting session at Keighley Tarn. A group of more than 30 school pupils from Our Lady of Victories Primary School were among the green-fingered enthusiasts who gathered beside the
AN inquest has opened into the death of a 79-year-old Addingham woman who fell down the stairs at her home. Sarah Elizabeth Baggllay, who was born in Karachi, lived in Main Street with her husband. On Friday she was taken to Leeds General Infirmary
A PARISH council boss has welcomed a £9,500 lottery grant to carry out improvements around a community facility. The Awards for All Big Lottery cash will pay for landscaping and work on the car park at Steeton Hub. Cllr David Mullen (pictured
FIVE Keighley good causes will share in a charity handout from the Yorkshire Building Society. Beechcliffe School, Keighley Bandwagoners, Airevalley Counselling & Therapy, Manorlands and Keighley Sea Cadets are each receiving £100 from the
BRADFORD’S month-long science festival, which has seen thousands of people of all ages enthralled by science events, experiments, films and lectures, is drawing to a close. One of the last events will be a screening of sci fi classic Quatermass
HE arrives as though prepared for military parade inspection. Shiny black shoes, crisp white shirt and sporting the British Legion tie, Richard Styan bears the marks of a man who puts service above self. Old habits evidently die hard for Richard
SIR – Last night while walking my dog near St John’s Church, BD10, I came across a cat that had been run over. I managed to tether my dog to a fence close to the roadside, and I then stood in front of the cat to protect it from passing cars and
SIR – Councillor Debbie Davies (T&A , October 27) needs to look up the definition of a target. It is something to be aimed for, not a promise. Even Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor doesn’t hit treble 20 every time he aims for it. Her call for Councillor
SIR – Obvious Labour ‘apparatchiks’ Messrs Holmans and Robertson are again confusing past with prologue. The West Lothian question did not exist during the time in office of Thatcher or Major, with the root cause of it, ‘devolution’ to the Scottish
SIR – The T&A editorial (October 25) rightly condemns benefit cheat James Crockett, and points out that his unacceptable actions are a very serious matter. Judge Durham Hall, presiding, stated that the offence passed the custodial threshold
SIR – Labour left-wing MP Katy Clark slammed the planned closure of 14 tax offices (Friday, October 17) as “economic madness” while billions go uncollected from corporate avoiders. The cuts announcement came as HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) confirmed
SIR – In a few days we will be honouring those who fell during the two world wars. I lived through the last war and had relatives who fought in both. I, therefore, consider it a total anathema that the country we fought now rules Europe, unlike
A WOMAN was taken to hospital with burns following a kitchen blaze at a house in Bradford. She was already out of the property, in Blenheim Road, Manningham, when firefighters arrived and was taken by ambulance hospital. Fire broke out in the
PLANS to create hundreds of extra places at four district primary schools will soon be decided. Bradford Council will decide whether to give the go-ahead for the expansions of Barkerend Primary School, Wycliffe CE Primary in Shipley and Stocks
SINCE it opened in Bradford five years ago Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food is accomplishing its mission of helping people learn basic cooking skills. In his Channel 4 series, Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef looked into why many home
THE announcement that the Prime Minister is backing proposals for a trans-Pennine high-speed rail link, dubbed HS3, brought with it the now par-for-the-course snub for Bradford. It would, we were told, boost journey times between “the great northern
A 34-year-old man was still being questioned by police last night after a man was stabbed to death in Keighley on Sunday morning. The man was arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 23-year-old on Chapel Lane in the town centre
BRADFORD Council has approved plans to turn a shop in West Bowling into a day centre. Shahid Alishan applied for permission to change the use of 10 Boynton Street into a centre that would open between 10am and 10pm. Approving the application
OCTOBER has been a poor month for the Bantams with only one point from the last 12 on offer. But for Andy Halliday, it’s still a far easier working environment to go on loan than his last one. The Middlesbrough winger, who scored in his second
KARL Harrison believes that operating with a full-time squad will give the Bulls a significant advantage over their part-time rivals next season.The new assistant coach has plenty of experience of a full-time environment during his previous stint at Odsal
PHIL Parkinson has vowed to get to the bottom of City’s weekend flop and promised: I will sort it. The loss at Oldham was their third in the last four games – and the Bantams boss was furious at a first-half display that was at complete odds with
A YOUNG mother has recalled the moment she was shot in the stomach as an attempted murder trial got under way. Hasan Khan, of Newlands Avenue, Fagley, pleaded not guilty to the attempted murder of Ashleigh McPherson, 22, who suffered two gunshot wounds
AN independent school in the Aire Valley for children with behavioural difficulties has been shut down by its operators after a highly critical Ofsted report.New Gables, based on New Close Road, Shipley, was a small independent school for children aged
A MONSTER sized stunt show will form part of this year's bonfire celebrations across the Bradford district.Airborne daredevils on BMX and freestyle bikes, motor-cross bikes, monster trucks, drift cars and even a 20-tonne fire engine will all be part
THE "driving force" behind the Mumtaz brand has gone on trial accused of fraudulently attempting to claim a £100,000 business grant from the Government to get a new £5m food factory and headquarters development off the ground.Gul-Nawaz
COACH drivers staged a walkout in Bradford yesterday over a pay dispute.The drivers, who say they are employed by the Derby-based Yourbus company but are franchised out to National Express, were picketing outside the Neville Road depot yesterday.One of
A CONFERENCE to help formulate the Muslim community's response to the threat of grooming in the city will take place this week with a panel of experts lined up to discuss the issue.The Professional Muslims Institute (PMI) has organised the Child
EMMERDALE actor Duncan Preston is to host this year's Bradford (Yorkshire) Festival of Remembrance this weekend.The Eccleshill-born actor is well known for many theatre and TV credits including Victoria Wood comedies Acorn Antiques and dinnerladies
REDUNDANCIES among 300 children's centre staff across the district are part of plans to make savings of £2.4 million in the next year, it has emerged.But Bradford Council has revealed that none of its 41 children's centres will be shut down
DETECTIVES investigating the murder of missing Bradford car dealer Sajid Saddique have handed over a file to the Crown Prosecution Service naming three suspects. The file contains the names of two men arrested on suspicion of murder, Clive Andrew
