CLECKHEATON have got the new season off to a cracking start with a double county success on the same weekend.Megan Lockett won the Yorkshire Ladies Championship, while club-mate Nigel Colbeck triumphed in the Yorkshire Order of Merit event, the Cleveland
ANNUAL incomes in Yorkshire are well below the minimum needed for first-time buyers to get a foot on the housing ladder, new figures show. It also reveals that it is not only low-wage earners who are finding it tough to buy a home. Research
Where were you born? Born in 1966 on the outskirts of Nottingham. Where did you start your working life? After a brief stint in the marketing and RMD department of Boots, my first real job, when 19, was in the media buying department of
PUPILS from two Bradford schools had a day’s work experience with a leading West Yorkshire employer as part of activities to inspire them about potential careers. The 15 youngsters from Tong High School and Parkside High School gained an insight
A £750,000 extension was recently unveiled at the purpose-built Bradford headquarters of the Dalesman Group to enable it and its customers to create even more ingredient varieties to satisfy people’s ever-changing tastes. The new area includes
A LEADING house builder says it is leaving a ‘green footprint’ across West Yorkshire through an environmentally-friendly approach to development. Barratt Homes’ Yorkshire West division built 515 new homes during 2014, 69 per cent of which were
CITY of Bradford members won 27 gold medals, 28 silvers and 17 bronzes in the Harrogate & District Spa Graded Meet at Harrogate Hydro.Outstanding performances and gold medals in the A Grade meet went to Oliver Wain (6), Frankie Woodman (3), Archie Minto
A TEENAGE girl has been hurt in an accident with a car in Bradford city centre tonight. Emergency services are at the scene in Hall Ings and police are stopping traffic at the junction with Bridge Street. Police were called shortly after 6pm
BAILDON Trinity Athletic have boosted their chances of promotion from Division Two of the West Yorkshire League following a 6-3 victory against Great Preston.Trinity's goals came from Louis France, with a fine hat-trick, Tom Craven, substitute John O'Connell
FORMER supermarket supremo Sir Ken Morrison is to tell how he grew Bradford-based Morrisons from one small grocery shop into the UK’s fourth largest supermarket with more than 500 stores. Bradford-born Sir Ken, now a gentleman farmer in North Yorkshire
CHANGING its business model enabled a West Yorkshire NHS supplier to increase turnover by 32 per cent in 2014 and recruit 11 new staff. Medical equipment and services provider, Essential Healthcare Solutions, grew turnover from £1.6m to £2.2m.
The key issue of the campaign – just how scary are the SNP? (from April 20) WITH the SNP still surging in the polls, one man was on a mission to find the most, er, colourful description of the party’s all-conquering leader. We awoke to newspaper
A SHADOW minister has said Labour has a good chance of bagging three more seats across the district in the General Election.Speaking during a visit to Bradford, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper was bullish about Labour's chances of winning not just
CROSSGATES' Kieren Smith won the Yorkshire Parks Merit, which was held at Spen Victoria on Bank Holiday Monday. He bowled well throughout and beat reigning champion Chris Mordue (Pudsey BC) 21-14 in the final. A total of 64 entries competed in superb
A HISTORIC men’s tailoring firm has adopted the latest renewable energy option to heat its premises – and make significant savings in energy costs. Keighley-based Brook Taverner has installed a biomass pellet boiler to turn its 180,000 sq ft Ingrow
A PAIR of brothers have been jailed for ransacking a house in Bradford and causing "immeasurable fear" to its occupants, which included two young children. Bradford Crown Court heard that Alex and Curtis Braybrook went to the property in Brindle
UNCERTAINTY surrounding possible changes to business tax reliefs and incentives after the General Election have helped to fuel recent mergers and acquisitions activity in Yorkshire and the North East, according to experts at EY. The professional
BLIZZARDS added to the treachery for 235 runners in the CONISTON FELL RACE, a tough eight-miler at the best of times which navigated 3,300 feet of ascent.Wise behaviour from the runners, ensuring that they clustered and kept an eye on each other – plus
MARK Hirst has become Bradford billiards champion for the seventh time – and the third in succession – after victory over first-time finalist Steve Wilman at Great Horton Conservative Club.Former professional Hirst won the match 523-215 and set the pattern
PUB group Greene King said it suffered tougher trading in the second half of its financial year, despite record sales at Easter and Valentine’s Day. The firm, which runs around 1,900 pubs and restaurants, said in an update that like-for-like sales
GROWING demand has seen a Bradford-based haulage firm substantially expand its warehousing capacity and increase its vehicle fleet. Low Moor-based Peckover Transport Services Ltd has invested more than £200,000 in a new 74,000 sq ft pallet storage
CHEMICALS giant BASF, which is investing around £80 million in new technology at its Bradford operation, has reported a strong start to its current financial year. In the first quarter of 2015, the German-based company grew sales by three per cent
A man who drove across the Pennines to have sex with a schoolgirl in Bradford has been jailed for three and a half years. Bilal Hussain befriended the 13-year-old by chatting over BBM, the Blackberry messaging service, and lied about his age by
TWO Tour de Yorkshire bosses paid a surprise visit to an Ilkley pub. Gary Verity, Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive, and Christian Prudhomme, general director of the Tour de France, enjoyed a pint at The Black Hat, Church Street on Sunday.
HIGHFIELD Community Centre in Keighley will celebrate its tenth anniversary later this month. Highfield Community Association has organised the event on Wednesday, May 27, which will include stalls, food, face painting, henna, games, a bouncy castle
YOUNG people’s paintings produced at a weekly youth club run by Down Syndrome Training & Support Service, in Bingley, will be on display until this Friday. The exhibition of work will be on show at Bingley Library, Myrtle Court. Local artist
THE Hall Brothers are the headliners at the Kirkgate Irregular Roots concert in Shipley on Saturday. Yorkshire-born brothers Nick and Duncan Hall will perform alongside fiddle-player and producer John Carey at the concert held at the Kirkgate Centre
A DRIVE has started to up household recycling rates on a Keighley housing estate. Bradford Council staff are promoting the message at Braithwaite, where, already, scores of extra recycling bins are now in use. “The team aims to speak to as
PARK guardians in Cross Roads, Keighley, have threatened court action against children damaging the bowling green. The Friends of Cross Roads Park says that prosecution for criminal damage could be the next step to stop youngsters playing football
A POP-UP charity shop which was hugely successful in Haworth last year is set to return next week. The temporary shop, which will raise cash for Christian Aid, will once again be in Sonia’s Smile, in Main Street. The initiative is being organised
PREPARATIONS for the Build A Roof fundraiser in Cross Roads, Keighley, are well under way. The June 6 event, set to take place on June 6, from 11.30am, will offer activities for all ages to raise money to repair the roof at St James’s Church in
A WORKSHOP on Flowers and Nature will be held on Otley Chevin this month. The Chevin Forest Wool Project event takes place in the Education Building, beside the White House Cafe on Johnny Lane, from 10am to 1pm on Saturday, May 23. The workshop
BRONTË fans can explore the Parsonage Museum by candlelight next week. The Haworth museum is taking part in the national Museums At Night event on May 14 and 15. Next Thursday, visitors can have a glass of wine and view some of the museum’s
BLOOD banks are urging people to make a date to donate as another Bank Holiday approaches. Hospitals across England and North Wales need more than 6,000 blood donations every day to treat patients and save lives. Senior Marketing Coordinator
THE Friends of Red House Museum group will hold its annual general meeting on Sunday, May 10. The group comprises volunteers who help to promote and care for the Grade II listed cloth merchant’s home as well as lending a hand at events. The
THE FRIENDS of Cross Roads Park (FCRP) have taken over the running of the park toilets from Bradford Council. Friends Volunteers including Trevor Hargreaves, Pam Peel, Kim Krysko and Clare Arana, began cleaning the toilets inside and out. Friends
STAFF from a hardware store in Bradford have taken part in a national fundraising drive. To mark the opening of its 400th store, Screwfix asked employees from each of its shops to take part in a cycling challenge. Cameron Mackenzie-Smith, Michael
A LONDON-based classic rock trio will headline Keighley Blues Club this month. Voodoo Room focus on the 1960s and pay homage to American virtuoso guitarist Jimi Hendrix and British blues/rock supe group Cream. A club spokesman said: “They perform
A NEW operations officer has been appointed by the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Richard Jones is returning to his Yorkshire roots following many years running heritage railways elsewhere in the country. Most recently he has been general
SATURDAY LEAGUENaylor Premier: Ladyhill A 210 (26), Littlemoor S&SC A 152 (4); Whitkirk 181 (18), Crossgates 160 (12); Shipley Club A 186 (18), Clayton A 157 (12); Eccleshill A 166 (11), Pudsey A 194 (19); Cranmore 178 (11), Brighouse Sports A 190 (19
RESIDENTS in Tong, Bradford, are invited to take part in a community event on Saturday. It has been organised by the Friends of Black Carr Woods and is happening between 11am and 2pm. There will be a litter-pick, treasure hunt for youngsters
KEIGHLEY councillors have been asked why they are spending thousands of pounds renting storage space in Russell Street when they have so much space available elsewhere. Keighley Town Council was challenged about this policy at the annual town meeting
THE Bradford & District FA Sunday Cup final at Fields was not short of incident – with two goals in the first two minutes, seven in all and two dismissals by referee Akeel Ahmed.Queensbury went ahead with their first attack via Stephen Mason but fellow
A HAWORTH man overcame debilitating blisters to complete a gruelling 24-hour non-stop walk in aid of Manorlands. Ross Montgomery started suffering hours after setting off from the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice on his energy-sapping challenge.
TWO companies prosecuted following the collapse of a hotel balcony in Brighouse will next appear at court in Bradford on October 15. Casa Events Ltd and Castelite Ltd admitted charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act at a previous hearing
BRADFORD runners can get their trainers on and take part in the York Run for All 10k on Sunday, August 2, in aid of the Annette Fox Leukaemia Research Fund. Each runner needs to raise a minimum of £75 in sponsorship money. The charity will
BRADFORD’S Talking Telegraph newspaper is looking for volunteers. The city’s free weekly talking newspaper for visually impaired people, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, has a range of roles to fill. A technician is needed for two
CELEBRATING its 25th anniversary in the West End, the acclaimed stage production of The Woman In Black returns to the Alhambra Theatre from Monday, May 25, for one week only. The acclaimed stage play Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of Susan Hill
A PRIEST who served a Keighley church and school during the 1960s has died, aged 78. Father Terry Tolan was living in Sheffield when he died, but was previously a curate at Our Lady of Victories Church. He was also chaplain to Holy Family Catholic
PEOPLE are already being encouraged to get their trainers on and sign up for this year’s Bradford City Runs. The event, organised by Bradford Council and Bradford Athletics Network, follows a 5kfive-kilometre, 10k or a half-marathon course, and
CONSTRUCTION students in the Bradford area have triumphed in a national skills competition. Plastering student Dayle Cairns, 31, of Wibsey, Bradford, came first in the new entrant section for plastering in the Construction Industry Training Board
THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in Bradford will host a peace forum to promote peace. The event, called Wars in the Name of Religion – Can They Ever Be Justified?, will be held on Sunday, May 10, at 2pm at the Al Mahdi Mosque in Rees Way, Undercliffe
ART gallery bosses are looking for volunteers to support a major photography project taking place this summer. Impressions Gallery, based in Bradford city centre, and The Caravan Gallery need help with the Pride of Place project. The volunteers
A COMMUNITY charity is setting up four new projects to help people young and old. Kidz Klub Allerton, which received a Big Lottery Fund grant of nearly £500,000, is rolling out the projects over the next week. These include an enterprise-themed
YOUNGSTERS have been urged to sign up to become a reading ambassador in Bradford. Bradford Libraries is running its Record Breakers Summer Reading Challenge this year. Staff are looking for ambassadors aged between 13 and 21 to sign up.
POLICE officers seized an unregistered quad bike in Great Horton. Officers from the Bradford District Off Road Bike Team responded to reports a quad bike (pictured) was being ridden in an anti-social manner on roads and grassed areas off Windermere
Messages from the party leaders ahead of the local council elections. YOUR LOCAL ELECTION CANDIDATES COUNCILLOR DAVID GREEN, LEADER OF THE LABOUR GROUP AT BRADFORD COUNCIL The Government has imposed massive cuts on Bradford
AS the country goes to the polls tomorrow to elect the UK's next government, it's also election time for Bradford Council. A third of the seats on the Council are up for grabs, with the ruling Labour group fighting to retain overall control.
TWO parliamentary candidates for Bradford South have visited a primary school in the constituency to speak to pupils about the forthcoming general election.Judith Cummins, who is standing for Labour, and Tanya Graham, who is standing for the Conservatives
25 years ago: Bradford's ice cream makers were working flat out to meet demand as the district sizzled in the hottest start to May since records began, with sales up 400 per cent on the previous year due to the 26.5C heat. 50 years ago: Three children
25 years ago: Detectives in Bradford revealed that gangs of youths armed with razor-sharp craft knives were setting out to trap, attack, and rob taxi drivers, after a spate of assaults in a two-mile radius on the Buttershaw estate. 50 years ago
25 years ago: Labour seized control of Bradford Council from the Tories in a result hailed by jubilant party officials as a resounding vote of no confidence in the community charge, or poll tax, with new leader Phil Beeley declaring City Hall would
YORKSHIRE will fly England one-day trio Jonny Bairstow, Tim Bresnan and Adil Rashid back from Dublin on Friday night after being given ECB clearance to charter their own private plane to Leeds. The White Rose county want the players to train on
BRADFORD Bulls will donate proceeds from the club's upcoming Poker Evening to the family of Keighley Cougars star Danny Jones, who died on Sunday. The Poker Evening makes up a part of ‘Robbie’s Big 10’ – a Bradford Bulls Foundation initiative running
A SHEEP had to be treated by a vet after it was attacked by a dog in a field at Micklethwaite. The dog, believed to be a Staffordshire bull terrier, was allegedly off its lead in the private field at Beck Road. After West Yorkshire Police revealed
LABOUR grandee Hilary Benn was on the campaign trail in Bradford yesterday. The shadow cabinet member went out canvassing in Bradford West along with his party's candidate for the seat, Naz Shah. Ms Shah said the visit had gone "really well
CHANCELLOR George Osborne visited Pudsey for the second time in five weeks yesterday, as the battle over the key marginal entered its final days.Mr Osborne called in to transformer manufacturer Winder Power, as part of a 24-hour tour of the country from
UKIP claims voters in Bradford can "have their cake and eat it", and has unveiled a rosette-themed cake to drive home the point.The party's Bradford district chairman and Bradford South candidate Jason Smith said in last year's local elections
TWO care providers in Bradford have been rated as inadequate in the latest round of Care Quality Commission reports. Dignicare and Malvern Nursing Home were among 60 reports published yesterday on the quality of care provided organisations across
AN ARREST warrant has been issued for a Bradford man accused of starving three Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppies to death.Mark Alred, 39, failed to attend Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court to answer a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to
POLICE have appealed for witnesses after a pensioner suffered serious head injuries in an accident with a Toyota 4x4 as he crossed Harrogate Road, Greengates, Bradford.The incident, involving a 67-year-old man, happened last Saturday at about 9.45am near
THE 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day this Friday should remind us that the Second World War did not end with Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945; the war in the Far East was to continue for another four months.One of thousands
FOR the British public, wars before 1914 were conflicts that occurred in far away lands, but as the First World War entered its second year, that image had already been challenged as war's reality was increasingly felt around the country. In December
The death of Keighley Cougars player Danny Jones at such a young age is a tragedy for his family, everyone who knows him, and the fans of the club and of Rugby League.All our thoughts go out to his wife Liz and their five-month old twins after Danny died
SHE arrived fashionably late, and her designer style has already caused a stir worldwide. The new royal baby made her first public appearance wrapped in a shawl made by the same company that presented swaddling to her father and brother at birth. The
Sandy Needham, Bradford Chamber of Commerce chief executiveIT may seem a strange thing to say, but not all of the changes brought about by the recession were bad. Many businesses took a good look at what they were doing and how and made improvements.
Keighley captain James Feather is backing calls for regular heart screening to be introduced into the Championship in the wake of the tragic death of Danny Jones. Jones, a 29-year-old Wales international, collapsed and died of suspected cardiac
A COMEDY writer and former soap star hopes to write a TV series after a pilot he penned was nominated for a national award. Lee Otway, of Allerton, has had his show, School on Report, nominated in the Royal Television Society (RTS) Student Television
FOOD banks, sex education, abortion, assisted suicide, benefit sanctions and religion were on the agenda at a hustings event in Bradford last night. Four out of the five candidates for Bradford South answered questions in front of about 50 people
5:06pm That's all from today's live blog. We'll be back with an election day blog tomorrow, as well as live coverage throughout tomorrow night as the General Election poll counts take place.
ALMOST 900 solar panels could be installed on a Queensbury hillside to help power a neighbouring factory. Parkinson Spencer Refractories in Holmfield, which provides products to the glass industry, has submitted the application for an array of
JON Stead remains confident that he will become a City player – with or without the possible takeover.The striker, who was officially released by Huddersfield yesterday, has made no secret of his wish to pen a permanent deal at Valley Parade.Contract
SAMIR Tahraoui has vowed to force his way back into Jimmy Lowes' plans after being axed for the Bulls' past four games.The close-season signing from Whitehaven played in the win at Dewsbury on Easter Monday but has not featured since.Paul Clough and Adam
WILL Rhodes says he should have scored a century during his three-match spell as Yorkshire’s replacement opener for Adam Lyth. The White Rose all-rounder stood in for Lyth during the opening stages of the LV= County Championship season whilst his
NOBODY can dispute that Chelsea are the true champions of England. Boring, boring? Pragmatic at times, maybe. Best in the country? That's beyond any doubt. Out of 51 games this season, Jose Mourinho's blue machine have lost only three.
SUPPORT staff at a Bradford primary school have been told they could soon lose their jobs with one teaching union fearing the situation is likely to be repeated in other schools.More than 20 members of staff at Lapage Primary School and Nursery in Barkerend
A BRADFORD cancer survivor is encouraging women in the city to pull on their trainers and take part in this year's Race For Life to help beat the disease.Samantha Allan hopes as many women as possible will join her in the annual 5km event at Lister Park
A BRADFORD Council plan to build homes on the site of a demolished Baildon school has sparked instant opposition. The local authority has submitted an application for the first two stages of a four-phase development on land once occupied by Ferniehurst
A BRADFORD cricket club has had all its ground keeping machinery stolen in two break-ins, leaving club officials without any means to tend to the pitch ahead of two home matches this weekend. Great Horton Park Chapel Cricket Club's third team play
THE owner of Bradford's Forster Square Retail Park is planning to significantly expand it on the site of a former Royal Mail delivery office. British Land bought the prime city centre site - which borders the Broadway shopping centre - only months
