A PHOTGRAPHER accused of trying to take pictures of two convicted sex offenders in Bradford and Keighley to make money has been acquitted. Andrew Stone was found not guilty on charges of fraud and blackmail by a judge after prosecutors offered
AN expanding Aire Valley chemicals manufacturer has invested £500,000 in three new vehicles for its distribution fleet to meet growing demand.The move has created two new drivers’ jobs in the 23-strong transport department. which last year completed 32,000
SANDRA Corcoran, who runs Bradford-based Pennine Cycles with her husband Paul, is included in cycling's first-ever Women of the Year list. She has been named alongside legends of the sport, including Otley's Lizzie Armistead.The list of 100 women was
I spent at least an hour at the weekend struggling to open household goods. A carton of orange juice had me cursing after I wrestled with the pop up flap. I took so long trying to find a seam on a cellophane DVD wrapper that had been superglued on and
KEIGHLEY'S general election candidates will face the public in a Question Time-style event at Silsden.They will have the chance to give their views on the NHS and related issues, before the audience has the opportunity to voice its opinions and ask questions.The
A LIFE-SAVING defibrillator unit has now been installed at Eldwick Memorial Hall - thanks to the generosity of Bingley Airedale Rotary Club and villagers.The group has worked with Eldwick Village Society to provide and install the defibrillator in the
FAIRTRADE will be the focus of a community event in Keighley this weekend.About a dozen stalls will be set-up in the Airedale Shopping Centre on Saturday promoting the ethical trade.The 10am to 3pm event starts efforts this year by Keighley's Fairtrade
NEWLY-installed wheelchair-friendly facilities will be unveiled at Otley Sailing Club this month. The club has used a £50,000 Sport England grant to create a wheelchair accessible wet room in its clubhouse, at Weston Water. The money has also
WORK being carried out to improve health services will be outlined at a public meeting in Keighley on Thursday.Governors of NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group will meet at Central Hall, Alice Street, at 6.30pm.Chairman Dr
A MOTORIST who got insurance by providing the wrong details had their car seized by police in Bradford. The driver was stopped on the M606 overnight between Thursday and yesterday. Police said the insurance policy was void from the start.
TWO "educated and intelligent" street drug dealers have received lengthy prison sentences after they were caught red-handed with a stock of 126 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine. Mudassar Nazar-Akhtar, 37, and Nadeem Khan, 39, who have seven children
PRESSURE group the Campaign for Better Transport has urged companies bidding for the Northern and Transpennine rail franchises to up their game. Its West and North Yorkshire Rail Group has called for a series of improvements including introducing a
MORE details have emerged about how a missing Siberian husky dog came to be at an animal hospital in Manchester.A huge online campaign started to find Murphy when he slipped his lead and was thought to be stolen on December 4.But the three-month search
A MEMBER of Keighley Town Council has been chosen to be the Ukip candidate for Keighley West in election for Bradford Council in May. Councillor George Firth (pictured), of Whin Knoll Avenue, Keighley, won a seat in the Fell Lane & Westburn
A NATIONAL drive to improve cycle safety has been extended to Bradford, Road Safety Minister Robert Goodwill has announced. The campaign, which uses a series of practical tips to remind motorists and cyclists of the rules of the road, will this
BRADFORD MP George Galloway has said he will consider legal action against anyone who calls him a fascist or anti-semitic. The warning came in the wake of heavy criticism of the Respect politician after about a dozen Twitter-users were sent letters
LABOUR bosses have chosen a replacement candidate to take on George Galloway in Bradford West.Naz Shah is chairman of mental health charity Sharing Voices Bradford and had been on the original all-women shortlist of candidates. Last week, the party's
WESTMINSTER Warriors finished their English National League match at Bradford Dragons with only four players after ten men were ejected by the referees following a late melee.The visitors, who had beaten Division One title contenders Derby Trailblazers
BRADFORD City have their support all wrapped up as the excitement builds for their FA Cup quarter-final clash this weekend. A collection of giant scarves in Bantams' claret and amber will be draped across the stands of Valley Parade for Saturday's
BRADFORD boxer Darren Tetley maintained his perfect record as a professional with a third straight stoppage success.Tetley finished opponent Luke Brassfield inside two rounds at Doncaster to make it five straight wins in his paid-for career.The Holme
PREMIER Division leaders Stanningley Albion suffered only their second Bradford Sunday Alliance League defeat of the season as title rivals Peel Park edged a 2-1 win.The long-time front-runners soon went 2-0 behind to goals by Danny Carr – his first in
LABOUR bosses have chosen a replacement candidate to take on George Galloway in Bradford West. Naz Shah is chairman of mental health charity Sharing Voices Bradford, and had been one of the original all-women shortlist of candidates. Last week
A SUPPORT group has been set up in Bradford to get equal respect and sympathy for families grieving loved ones lost to drugs and alcohol. The woman coordinating the scheme, family support worker Mary Womersley, hopes more bereaved people will join
POLICE are hunting a Bradford convict who is wanted on recall to prison for breaching restrictions imposed when he was released from a burglary sentence last month. Officers are appealing for information about the whereabouts of Joseph Coultous
THACKLEY Reserves swept to a 3-0 win against Silsden Development in the Lancashire League.Josh Eastwood put Thackley ahead and Danny Nazir made it 2-0 with a penalty just after half-time, before Joe Keen completed the scoring.Thackley assistant manager
TYERSAL Reserves are the new owners of an unwanted West Riding County Amateur League record.The second-bottom Division Two side lost 27-0 at leaders Gildersome Spurs Old Boys to surpass the 26-0 thrashing that Trinity Athletic Reserves suffered at home
CLECKHEATON Sporting are finally off the mark in the Spen Valley League.Having lost their previous 12 matches in Division One, they ended the drought in style with a 5-1 victory at Savile Town, who were only two places higher but nine points better off.Liam
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 40-year-old suffered "life-changing" injuries when he plunged 40 feet from a window. Detectives are also hunting a second man following the flat fall in which the victim received
AFTER 13 games without a win, St Bede's turned the Division One table upside down in the Yorkshire Amateur League. The second-bottom hosts defeated leaders Colton Athletic 3-2 – and this after the latter side had led 2-0 in the 51st minute.
PLANS to create a car wash at a former car insurance sales office in the Bowling and Barkerend ward have been turned down by Bradford Council planners. The change of use bid for the site at the Drive-in Centre, Sticker Lane, was refused due to
DANNY Cunningham grabbed the West Yorkshire League headlines as Field maintained their iron grip on the Premier Division title race.He scored four times in a 5-0 home victory over East End Park, with Josh Milner competing the tally.Field assistant manager
A SCHOOLBOY who attacked his former girlfriend with a kitchen knife after sending Facebook messages threatening to slash her wrists has been locked up for 32 months. The 15-year-old attacked his 17-year-old victim at a Halloween night party while
YOUNGSTERS at a Bradford special school are set to benefit from donations in memory of a retired toffee boiler.Lewis Spinks, who died aged 82, had 11 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren but had an extra-special relationship with one of his grandsons
POLICE and paramedics were called to the scene of accidents on a steep Haworth road this morning as snowy conditions caused traffic chaos. Several cars hit walls or other vehicles while travelling down Brow Road in snowy conditions at around 8am
KARLINE Symes is a working mum among a growing band of women who are forging their way in what were once male dominated professions.The 26-year-old from Bradford became interested in joinery after moving house. After embarking on a taster course for joinery
25 years ago: Two children were recovering from the potentially-deadly typhoid disease with the pair, a Keighley baby and a young Bradford child, being nursed in isolation at the specialist infectious diseases unit at the hospital in Leeds Road.
SIR - Peter Ashton, (Letters, February 27), reinforces my earlier point about socialism and the truth. (“How does he reach his conclusions Holmes?” - “Leninmentary, Watson, leninmentary!”). Just because Lib-Dems didn’t oppose even the most sensible
SIR - Yes I watched the parliamentary debate where Tory MP Phillip Davies criticised Labour leader Ed Miliband’s call for MPs to be barred from taking second jobs (Letters, February 27). Mr Davies secured his five minutes of fame and then mysteriously
SIR - Once again, Jason Smith does his very best indeed to paint UKIP as an inclusive party, citing defections from other parties, and calling it a ‘stampede’. Viewers watching BBC2s “Meet The Kippers” on Sunday, February 22, where UKIP members
SIR - We have had the highest employment figures on record and the good news in Bradford that the number of people claiming Job Seekers Allowance is down 28% in the last 12 months. We have now heard the news that the OECD, a leading international
SIR - When are our so-called leaders going to grow a spine and deal in the only realistic way with the issue of so-calledBritish Nationals leaving this country to fight and support ISIS in the Middle East and, by association, harm this country?
SIR - As this unholy coalition government sinks in the West, it is appropriate that Amnesty International’s recent report singles the UK out for special mention. The report suggests that Britain’s recent fast-tracked expansions to surveillance
SIR - The news that Jacob’s Well is to be flattened and replaced brings with it a rare opportunity to develop a striking building that could help Bradford’s perceived image problem. Most proposals for new office developments in the city are speculative
NEW legislation aimed at dealing more effectively with those who drive while under the influence of drugs is a welcome, if long overdue, addition to our statute book. It means police will from today carry equipment which makes roadside testing
THERE were doubtless many people who thought that beloved family pet dog Murphy would never be returned home after going missing almost three months ago. The four-year-old husky was thought to have been stolen, and if the Smith family of Lidget
SIR - Once again we are treated to the Dave Green show and how he is determined to put up people’s expenses. Even more than what they the elected body have to do although nowhere do we see any savings from the actual councillors expenses Maybe
SIR - My name is Herta Hübner (formerly Reinbarth) from Germany. I am 76-years-old and I am looking for my au-pair family, with whom I stayed from May 1958-1959. The family name was Hopkinson and they lived at 6 Esholt Avenue, Guiseley. Unfortunately
SIR - Not a week seems to go by without another tax avoidance scandal. Whether its celebrities like Jimmy Carr or Gary Barlow, or large multinational companies like Starbucks, Amazon or Boots. The cost of tax evasion to our economy has spiralled
SIR - It was quite humorous to see Labour criticise the Tories regarding tax dodging only to find out that Labour leader Ed Miliband had signed a ‘deed of variation’, apparently this little trick allows him to reduce the inheritance tax eventually
SIR - I fear that the state of politics in this country has reached the stage where it needs to be completely reinvented, or at least brought up to date. It’s all very well sticking to the historic ways of Parliament with the “men in tights” and
A ROOFER with an allergy to cats saved one from suffocation. Daniel Dixon, 28, was working on a building site in Canal Road, Bradford, when he saw a bin liner moving as he discarded some rubbish in a skip. Inside was a frightened black and
THE NHS Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is hosting two focus groups to discuss people’s experience of using maternity services across Bradford this month. Participants must have received their pregnancy care under either Airedale
FORMER Bradford Bulls owner Omar Khan has won a court victory against the administrator of defunct holding company Ok Bulls Ltd. The High Court has ruled that Mr Khan had put more money into the business than the administrator had said and has
BRADFORD-based Yorkshire Water will be one of 40 local, regional, and national employers attending the 2015 Kirklees Apprenticeship Event tomorrow evening. The event, which is being run by C&K Careers on behalf of Kirklees Council and the Kirklees
BRADFORD City bosses have warned fans that any remaining tickets for Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final clash against Reading will not go on general sale today as originally planned. The club is contacting fans in a bid to ensure that all season ticket
DEBT charity Christians Against Poverty has been been named as one of the UK’s best employers. The Bradford-based organisation was placed second in the Sunday Times Best 100 Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2015. Bosses John Kirkby
A DRIVER has died following a crash near Oxenhope, police have confirmed. Police believe the man, aged 69, was taken ill at the wheel of his car, which then veered off the road in Hebden Bridge Road, Peckett Well. No other vehicle was said to be
ARSONISTS destroyed a car outside a house in Bradford early yesterday. The Seat Leon was parked on a drive in Myers Close, Idle, when it was set alight at about 2.45am. Firefighters from Idle station tackled the blaze. A spokesman said:
BRADFORD West MP George Galloway (pictured) was among the speakers at a counter-demonstration to Britain’s first anti-Islam Pegida rally which took place in Newcastle on Saturday. Five people were arrested during a major police operation to keep
A FLEET of classic steam trains, including one returning to action for the first time in 13 years, attracted crowds to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s annual Winter Steam Gala. The five-mile long rail track runs between Keighley and Oxenhope
SHOPPERS felt the glamour of Hollywood on Saturday as retailers in Bradford city centre dressed up to mark the start of the Bradford International Film Summit on Wednesday. Staff at the Kirkgate Centre and in Marks & Spencer, Boots, Dorothy
A GROUP set up to keep Haworth’s threatened community centre open is applying for cash grants. The working group was established to save what is now being called Haworth Village Hall and Community Hub. Parish councillor Ashna Yates, a member
TWO men and a woman were arrested during a swoop by drugs squad officers at a Bradford flat suspected of being at the centre of Class A drugs supply. And dispersal orders were issued by Bradford West Neighbourhood Policing Team to 19 people who
A PROPOSED development of shops and apartments has been refused. Bradford Council refused the application by Ibrar Akram for two shops with two apartments above at 31 Whetley Lane, Girlington. There used to be a bungalow on the site, but it
A CALL for funding for the first mixed-ability rugby world cup in Bingley this summer has attracted government support. Sports Minister Helen Grant hinted funding for the event would be available as she agreed to a meeting with Shipley MP Philip
SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies said police should not pick and choose which laws to enforce. Mr Davies (pictured) said: “The job of the police is to enforce the law where it is clearly being broken. Where there is clear evidence, it should be properly
CAMPAIGNERS took part in a protest this morning outside the Bradford branch of Maximus in the city centre, as the firm takes on the job of assessing whether people are eligible for sickness and disability benefits. Maximus was appointed by the
A PAIR of miniature electric cars used to teach schoolchildren about road safety in the 1980s have joined new exhibits at the Bradford Police Museum. Retired Bradford police inspector, Martin Baines, who spent more than a year sourcing exhibits
RESIDENTS in Great Horton, Bradford, have been urged to attend a meeting tomorrow about plans to improve a park in the area. Members of the Friends of Brackenhill Park will be outlining their plans for Brackenhill Park, off Hollingwood Drive, and
THE Estonian ambassador to the UK has visited Bradford’s Estonian club to help celebrate the country’s independence day. Members of the city’s Estonian community came together to celebrate the event at the club’s home in Clifton Villas, Manningham
POLICE today issued an appeal after a man took a quantity of cash during an armed robbery at a shop in Bradford. The suspect entered a shop in the Parkside Centre in Keighley Road and made demands for cash from the female member of staff. He
THE future of one of Bradford Council's six remaining care homes for the elderly will be decided in the next financial year as it continues to move away from directly providing day care. Bradford Council's "Great Places to Grow Old" programme has
Peterborough 2 Bradford City 0 IT WAS a bad end to a bad week, on and off the field, for City. These are once again great times to be following the Bantams as they hover on the verge of another Wembley appearance. But savour the special
THE Bradford Catholic Players have been mourning the loss of one of the society’s long-standing musical directors. Basil Walsh took over running family funeral directors D Walsh and Son, which his grandfather founded in 1963, and expanded the business
JAMES Hanson’s return tomorrow will give City a timely lift after back-to-back defeats, according to Phil Parkinson. The key striker is set to lead the line again for the Valley Parade clash with improving Crawley, the final dress rehearsal before
Featherstone Rovers 4 Bradford Bulls 40 OF all the ways to make a statement about your promotion pedigree, going to a rival and giving them an absolute pasting is right up there. The Bulls took Featherstone to the cleaners yesterday with a
A CITY centre charity needs to expand to cater for the growing number of children across Bradford being diagnosed with some form of autism. Bradford Autism Support, based in Caledonia Street, says the city is leading the way in diagnosing the condition
ROYAL Mail manager James Holmes has completed one of the toughest armed forces training courses in the world to become a Royal Marine commando. But the 25-year-old, of Undercliffe, said he will not be giving up his day job despite now being the
DALE Ferguson admitted he had a sleepless night before making his latest comeback for the Bulls during yesterday’s 40-4 win at Featherstone. The former Huddersfield back-rower has endured a torturous time with injuries since joining Bradford but
THE Bradford Catholic Players have been mourning the loss of one of the society’s long-standing musical directors. Basil Walsh took over running family funeral directors D Walsh and Son, which his grandfather founded in 1963, and expanded the business
A MAJOR overhaul of a Bradford retail park has been given the green light by planners. Improvements to Forster Square Retail Park, including more pedestrian links to the rest of the city, a children's play area and a new customer service building
A FORMER police officer, who found an elaborate cannabis farm in a Bradford city centre apartment, has revealed how he was told by police to dismantle it himself. Garry Gregory, who served in murder, robbery and drugs squads during a 26-year career
HOSPITAL bosses are locked in a dispute with staff nurses about plans to cut frontline nurses on a ward for critically ill patients at Bradford Royal Infirmary and replace them with healthcare assistants. A letter leaked to the Telegraph &
LEEDS has been named as the most overcrowded prison in England and Wales. The Category B jail, which holds many Bradford prisoners either on remand awaiting court proceedings or serving sentences, has almost twice as many inmates as it was designed
POLICE in West Yorkshire will be equipped with new equipment from today to detect motorists breaking new laws which set alcohol-style limits for those using both legal and illegal drugs. The legislation makes it simpler for police to prosecute
SALTAIRE was awash with cameras and film crews today as it became the backdrop to a new BBC production of one of Bradford-born dramatist JB Priestley’s most famous plays. An Inspector Calls, set in 1912, is a mysterious detective thriller considered
