Wibsey have flankers Scott Taylor and Mike Greaves, who can also play second row, back for their SSE Yorkshire Division Five match at Rossington Hornets.However, prop Andy Rose is out with a shoulder injury and flanker Martin Howarth faces a late fitness
BRADFORD Dragons will pay tribute to Yorkshire under-15 boys with a medal presentation during the interval when they open their National Basketball League Division One campaign at home to Reading Rockets on Saturday (6.15pm). The juniors, which
NEIL Redfearn continues to wait to sign a contract to be the third permanent Leeds boss of the season but says he is "very close" to doing so. The 49-year-old has been the man-in-waiting to replace the sacked Darko Milanic since the Slovenian was
THE 'will he, won't he debate' regarding Damien Pearson has gone into overdrive on social media this week. Bradford Salem's former skipper has returned to West Leeds immediately before the promotion contenders meet at Shay Lane, with Salem in second
CITY are pondering whether to take a punt on Sylvan Ebanks-Blake. The former Wolves striker is currently without a club and has been training with the squad at Apperley Bridge. Ebanks-Blake, whose career has stalled since breaking an ankle
THE Pennine League have called an urgent meeting of all Premier Division and Championship Division clubs for next Tuesday at Elland WMC. A major worry is that there are only seven clubs in the top flight, while, longer-term, the current leaders
The Honorary Assistant Bishop of Bradford has resigned from his position after a report into allegations of child abuse by a former cathedral dean found "systemic failures" by the Church of England. Last week's report by Judge Sally Cahill QC said
DONCASTER boss Paul Dickov insists he is not feeling the heat after a tough start back in League One. Relegated Rovers sit just a point above the drop zone – and have won only once at the Keepmoat. But Dickov maintains he still has the support
A JURY has been told that the Government had a "secret agreement" to pull funding from a Bradford food business it had previously promised to help expand. Gul-Nawaz Khan Akbar, the "driving force" behind the successful Mumtaz food firm, is on trial
CHILD killer Anwar Rosser will find out tomorrow if an appeal against his full life prison sentence has been successful. Rosser, 33, was convicted in February of the brutal murder of four-year-old Riley Turner in the toddler's Keighley home.
LEGENDARY golfer Gary Player said: "The harder you work, the luckier you get." Wharfedale's 38-20 home victory over Loughborough Students last Saturday in SSE National League One certainly wasn't down to luck – but it was down to a lot of hard
DETECTIVES have released images of two men they want to speak to in connection with a vicious street attack in Bradford that left a man with a bleed on the brain. Christopher Johnson suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket after being hit
A CAR dealer caught with two suitcases full of 46,000 illicit cigarettes as he was driving through Bradford has been given a community order.Tudor Strisca, 26, was sentenced by Bradford and Keighley magistrates after he admitted possessing the cigarettes
TWO children were punched in a robbery on their way to school. Two men – both believed to be aged about 20 – approached the youngsters in a ginnel between Tofts Road and Peasland Road, Cleckheaton. One of the victims was knocked to the floor
A 47-YEAR-OLD Bradford man has received a suspended jail sentence for attacking a an “unprovoked and sustained attack” on a man in a pub toilet. Richard Whitfield, of Silwood Drive, Eccleshill, was jailed for 12 months, suspended for two years
A 66-YEAR-OLD Shelf GRAND-MOTHER has raised more than £2,000 for charity after shaving her hair off to help make wigs for children suffering hair loss. Grace Elliott, 66, (pictured) filmed the headshave which took place at the Shoulder of Mutton
YOUNG dancers from the Bradford district have returned from a festival with a total of 24 glittering trophies. The youngsters, who attend Diamond Freestyle, a dance school in Thornton, competed at a dance festival which took place at Skegness Butlins
A BRIGHT future lies ahead for a Bradford-based medical waste management firm – one of the oldest in the sector – according to its new Scottish owner. GW Butler, based on Bowling Back Lane, which started in 1933 as a scrap metal recycling business
BRITAIN’S Indian summer will knock £25 million off profits at retailer Next after the sustained period of mild weather saw its sales performance melt away. Sales grew by 5.4 per cent in the third quarter to October 25, compared to original expectations
FALLING milk prices again impacted on trade at Skipton Auction Mart’s main monthly Craven dairy auction. Smaller milk cheques meant that sale prices were lower than of late. Newly calven heifers again fetched the best prices, with local vendor
EMPLOYMENT specialists at Bradford and Leeds law firm Gordons have been named the top regional employment or human resources team in the country. The team was selected as the best in Yorkshire before taking the national title in the Legal 500 awards
LIDGET Green Primary School in Bradford has been selected to become a financial education centre of excellence as part of a ground-breaking partnership between global information services company Experian and the Personal Finance Education Group.
THREE new directors have been appointed to the board of Standard Wool, the Bradford -based wool trading and processing group. Paul Hughes Jr has been promoted to group trading director and Mark Andrews to production director. Ian Marwood joins
MORE than half-a-million pounds is to be invested in new services at Manorlands as part of a charity partnership. An initial £170,000-plus has already been earmarked for expanding community provision at the Oxenhope hospice as a result of supermarket
AN AUTUMN bazaar at the Ukraine Club in Legrams Lane, Bradford, on Sunday, November 16, will be raising funds to support people in need, including soldiers and children in the troubled country. It starts at 2.30pm with stalls and traditional food
THE Rotary club of Bradford Blaize has donated £1,000 raised at a summer garden party to the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital Appeal, as thanks for the treatment received by a club member. Graham Robinson, of Shipley, needed treatment by the
THE author behind one of the most popular children’s books series spoke to his young fans at the National Media Museum in Bradford yesterday. Terry Deary is the creator of the “Horrible Histories” series of books, which have been praised for getting
MOST of us have never heard of Nauru unless we watch the BBC 1 programme Pointless, where it often scores very low points as the smallest independent country in the world, with fewer than 10,000 people. It’s an eight square mile coral island, north
A RETAIL warehouse has been given permission for a new car park to stop staff having to park on residential roads nearby. Next Plc has been granted planning permission for the extra 74-space car park on wasteland near its warehouse in Toftshaw
BRADFORD’S most haunted building is once again opening its doors for some ghoulish fun this Halloween. Now a Council-run museum, Bolling Hall is also one of the city’s oldest buildings, and for one night every year its grand furniture and fittings
COWLING is one of three Craven villages to benefit from a new supermobile library that hit the road this month. North Yorkshire County Council’s new flagship vehicle replaces the previous supermobile. It will call at the village’s St Andrew’s Methodist
IT WAS awards galore as Haworth Riding for the Disabled celebrated a year of success. In the club’s juniors category, Thierney Priestley was named best volunteer, Tyla Hockey took fundraiser prize. Lily Rise Chamberlain, Charlotte Seth and Callie
A BRADFORD MP has helped to start a new awareness campaign designed to protect those most at risk of investment fraud. David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East (pictured), has backed the actions of finance regulator the Financial Conduct
MALSIS School is to close at the end of the autumn term. The independent preparatory and pre-preparatory school at Glusburn had been looking to merge with Giggleswick School. But the governors have announced that the merger talks had ended
MORE than 150 cyclists took the opportunity to give their bikes a well-deserved health-check at a workshop in Shipley yesterday. The Bradford Big Bike Revival, part of a national programme to encourage more people to dig out their old bikes and
BUILDERS at a Keighley housing development have donned a range of pink protective clothing to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Staff at Barratt Homes posed in bright headgear and high-visibility jackets while working on the
A GLAMOROUS celebration of art, food and music is set for Bradford next month. The event on November 21 from 6pm will see a charity art auction in aid of the Lord Mayor’s charity supporting the Marie Curie Hospice and other local causes with grants
PROTESTERS angry at the introduction of evening peak fares on many Northern Rail routes have given a 4,000-name petition to the Department of Transport. It calls on the government to reverse the decision, meaning many rail users either having to
A SCHOOL is celebrating after being judged as outstanding by church school inspectors. Whitechapel Church of England Primary School in Cleckheaton got top marks in a Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) report, following
A GIANT private firm with expertise in construction will run West Yorkshire’s probation service, under a controversial shake-up. The contract for monitoring violent criminals has been handed to Interserve, an £850 million multi-national, supported
A SAFER project warning communities to be on their guard for scams and frauds has reached more than 4,300 older people in the Bradford and Leeds area and 1,100 professionals. Over the past two years the community protection and empowerment programme
YOUNG golfers lit up the fairways during a glow-in-the-dark round of golf. About 20 junior members – aged five to 18 years – took part in Baildon Golf Club’s first Night Golf event. They wore fluorescent clothing and used special glow-in-the-dark
A DISPLAY by the Pizzazz Patchers group will take place in Addingham on Saturday, November 8. The event, which runs from 10am to 5pm at The Memorial Hall on Main Street, will feature hands-on demonstrations, a trade and sales table, and a raffle
SIGN UP for a weekly martial arts class in Bingley and Bradford. The Tang Soo Do classes take place every Tuesday at Nab Wood Sports Centre, Cottingley New Road, Cottingley, between 7.30pm and 9pm. A second session on the same night is at Appleton
VILLAGERS have mounted a campaign to add some sparkle to their community this Christmas. Steeton and Eastburn residents are raising money to provide trees and lights in the villages, following a “paltry” display last year. But parish council
STAFF and customers from the Bradford-based supermarket chain Morrisons have smashed through the £1 million funding barrier just nine months into a charity partnership with Sue Ryder care. The figure signals the most successful start to a charitable
YOUNGSTERS in Guiseley have been helping the British Legion by glittering hundreds of poppies. It is the second year that Guiseley Saint Oswalds Guides, Brownies, and Rainbows have been helping to prepare the poppies for sale. They will also
FREE wifi is coming to a host of public buildings across the district. To start with, the wireless internet hotspots will be set up at seven libraries. In Bradford, people will be able to enjoy free wifi at libraries in Shipley, Ilkley, Laisterdyke
STUDENTS in Bradford can challenge themselves to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. The expedition is being organised by the charity Dig Deep, which works to bring clean water and sanitation to communities in Kenya. It will take place next
A DRUG used to treat people in the early stages of bladder cancer is in limited supply in Bradford, it has emerged. The city’s hospital trust acknowledged the supply of BCG was a “potential worry and distress” for patients, but said efforts to
A PLANNING committee was split down the middle over a plan to build four homes in East Bowling. The meeting heard applicant Wajid Akram already had permission to knock down a garage and build three terrace homes on land at the junction of Fenby
THE Deadwood stage will be roaring into Bradford early next year, when Wild West musical Calamity Jane comes to town. The new production of the popular show stars Jodie Prenger in the title role of Calamity Jane alongside former Emmerdale star
Paul Royston is in talks to become the Cougars’ director of rugby as the club seek an immediate return to the Championship. Royston currently serves not only as the club’s highly-regarded head of strength and conditioning but also as performance
MUCH is made of rugby league’s reputation as an M62 sport but head further north up the M6 and you will find another, often forgotten, heartland of the game. Cumbria boasts a vibrant amateur scene, three professional clubs in Barrow, Whitehaven
ALFIE Moses survived a fall to win the second round of the National Trophy Cyclo-Cross Series at Southampton Sports Centre. The Paul Milnes Cycles-Bradford Olympic RC rider took a tumble when leading into the woods on the first lap, and finished
KEIGHLEY’S Muhammad Ali overcame a sickness bug to earn boxing glory. The 18-year-old battled through his illness to win gold in the European Youth Championships at Zagreb. It completed a remarkable treble for the teenager this year, who has
JAMES Feather is having second thoughts about joining Hunslet Hawks, according to Cougars chairman Gary Fawcett.It was announced earlier this month that the long-serving hooker, who has been a fixture at Cougars for a decade and was club captain, was
CITY'S short trip to Halifax for their FA Cup first-round tie will be televised live by BT Sport on Sunday, November 9 at midday. Each club will be guaranteed £67,500 in television money.
BULLS ace Danny Addy is gearing up for potentially the “biggest game of his life” in Scotland tomorrow night. The back-rower will be a key player in the Bravehearts’ bid to win the European Championship – and automatically qualify for the next
A TRUST planning to open a free school in Bradford next September wants it to become a community hub.Khalsa Engineering Academy will be a primary school, likely to be based at the former Fagley Community Centre, and intends to open for its first 60 reception
JON Stead has indicated he would be open to a longer stay at Valley Parade. The experienced Huddersfield striker is enjoying his second spell on loan with City. Stead has played twice so far and was singled out by Phil Parkinson for his contribution
NOT surprisingly when five of the seven matches finished all square, the leading teams in Division Three of the Bradford League lost their 100 per cent records. Pudsey B were one and had Alex Waring to thank for preserving their unbeaten run as
BRADFORD Council has been accused of "holding its constituents in contempt" after the announcement that several children's centres will see a reduced service.Centres in Ilkley, Haworth and Baildon are among those that will go from being
BRADFORD College has been praised by Ofsted inspectors, with its health and social care and English courses deemed "outstanding."The school was inspected late last month, and the report released yesterday listed it as "good" in all
THE WORLD'S biggest sleeping bag was unfurled yesterday - ahead of a sleepout event at Bradford Bulls' stadium in aid of two charities.Shipley-based youth homelessness organisation Centrepoint has teamed up with the rugby club's foundation
DETECTIVES probing the deaths of a family of four have revealed the father died from hanging at least a day after his wife and teenage daughters were stabbed to death in their beds. Post mortem examinations carried out on all four members of the
ANYONE who remembers bopping the night away at the Mecca Locarno on Manningham Lane will recall the huge dance floor, surrounded by a balcony, which had a starring role in 1963 film Billy Liar. Today the building stands empty and boarded up, the sound
THE police sat in on a planning meeting to keep the peace as a controversial application for a mosque was discussed.The chairman of the panel, Councillor Shabir Hussain, said he had heard reports that neighbours objecting to the planned mosque had suffered
A MAN appeared before magistrates yesterday to answer murder charges in connection with a fatal stabbing at the weekend.Grzegorz Dzierzak, 34, of Chapel Lane, Keighley, is accused of murdering Edgaras Masliuskas, 23, at an address in Chapel Lane, early
FIREWORK hooligans have been issued with a tough warning by Bradford's public safety boss following two incidents where people were put at risk.In one incident a terrified family were ambushed in their home by hooded yobs who hurled a lit firework
