GUISELEY go to Preston North End tomorrow for an FA Womens Premier League (North) game but they, doubtless, wish they could be playing in the County Cup every week.Having beaten Dewsbury Rangers 23-0 in the first round they went to County League basement
POLICE searching for missing Skipton man Rory Johnson-Hatfield, who disappeared in York last week, have suspended river searches after divers drew blanks in their hunt for evidence.Mr Johnson-Hatfield, 29, was last seen on CCTV in the early hours of Friday
PUDSEY'S Gymmagic Gymnastics Club, who are based on Grangefield Industrial Estate, have 'pommelled' the opposition in the Women’s Artistic Yorkshire Levels competition at Catterick Garrison. They won 12 individual titles and six team championships
THE inclusion of big air into the Winter Olympics programme would have been welcome news for many snowboarders – but Jamie Nicholls insists he will be focusing solely on slopestyle at Pyeongchang in 2018.Snowboard big air, which involves competitors performing
COLIN White was described as both a rock and tube of super glue by Steve Wilkes, chairman and appointments' secretary of the Dales Council League Umpires' Association (DCUA) at their annual meeting at Pudsey Congs.In his address, Wilkes said: "What
A MAN who made a late night visit to his ex partner was banned from driving after she reported him to the police.Christopher David Oldcorn, 26, of Hazel Grove, from Sutton in Craven, near Keighley, was sitting in the passenger seat of his Mitsubishi L200
THE owners of Forster Square Shopping Park have reinstated three hours free car parking over Christmas. A decision earlier this month to reduce the free parking time limit to 90 minutes (pictured), which coincided with the opening of The Broadway
YORKSHIRE captain Andrew Gale has blasted the England and Wales Cricket Board's decision to remove the mandatory toss in both divisions of next year's LV= County Championship.The move is designed to help produce more international quality spinners and
SPECIAL safety measures are to be made at a notorious bridge which has claimed the lives of two cyclists within a year.An interlocking post and rail barrier will be fixed to the parapet on one side of Dibbles Bridge on the Pateley Bridge to Grassington
STAFF at a housing group have raised thousands for a charity for vulnerable people by asking their staff to complete a year long physical challenge.Horton Housing raised £3,000 for Support Dogs UK by its staff completing the health and wellbeing challenge
THE Aire-Wharfe League have got round the anomaly of clubs being handicapped by bowling out their opponents cheaply.Previously clubs were only likely to gain a maximum of 15 points if they bowled first and dismissed their opponents for under 125.However
NFORMATIONCastle Howard is near York.Christmas at Castle Howard runs until December 23.Call (01653) 648333 or visit castlehoward.co.uk THEY know how to decorate a Christmas tree at Castle Howard.Wandering around the historic Yorkshire property's sumptuous
ARCHIE Dunne has rewritten City of Bradford Swimming Club's 11-12 years' records in winning three gold medals at the ASA North East Region Age Group Short Course Championships at Sunderland Aquatic Centre.He won the 50 metres butterfly, 50m freestyle
A KEIGHLEY town councillor has been kicked off all four of the council committees he sat on for discussing "confidential" council business on social media.Councillor Samuel Fletcher was removed from the committees with immediate effect following
A GUISELEY care home has been classed as good by the Care Quality Commission.Staff at Anchor’s Extra Care – The Laureates, in Shakespeare Road were celebrating this week after receiving the accolade.The home, which cares for 22 residents, was praised
A GRANDMOTHER battling ovarian cancer is staging a masquerade ball to support a charity which has helped her.Sue Croston is holding the event at the Three Acres pub, Lees Moor, on Friday, December 11.Proceeds will go to Cancer Support Bradford & Airedale.Mrs
LOVE them or loathe them, monster sprouts will be hitting Morrisons stores in Bradford this week.According to the Bradford-based supermarket giant, the super-size sprouts are the biggest for a decade and have grown 20 per cent larger this year.This is
THE interior of a Golf GTI was destroyed after the car was set on fire in Little Horton, Bradford. Fire crews from Bradford station were called to Little Horton Lane at 8.30pm on Thursday. A spokesman said: "It was driven to the end of the lane and
A WOMAN reported missing more than three weeks ago was found safe and well in Bradford last night.Dagmara Holanova, 34, had last been seen in Armley, Leeds, on November 3 between 5pm and 7pm.The Slovakian was spotted in Bradford city centre about a week
FIREFIGHTERS have warned against 'rubbernecking' after a car fire led to a five-vehicle pile-up on the M62.Fire crews from Cleckheaton station were called to a blaze in a Renault Clio on the westbound carriageway, between junctions 27 (Gildersome) and
A CORONER has released the bodies of two young girls, allegedly stabbed to death by their mother, so their funerals can take place.Assistant Bradford Coroner Oliver Longstaff today opened an inquest into the deaths of three-year-old Evelyn Lupidi and
A FOOTBALL pitch was damaged after two wheelie bins were set alight in the centre circle. Firefighters from Cleckheaton fire station were called to a recreation ground off Kingsley Drive, Birkenshaw, at 7.30pm on Thursday. A spokesman said
A GANG of four robbers who raided a Baildon shop are being hunted by police who have now released CCTV images of the crime taking place. The incident occurred at around 9.50pm on Sunday, November 22, when three men with face coverings entered the
Supermarket Asda has dropped the price of unleaded petrol today - despite saying it would not take part in the Black Friday discount day. It is knocking four pence off a litre of fuel across its 277 petrol stations for three days, and drivers can
A CABBIE from Bradford has been convicted of refusing to take a blind passenger with their guide dog.Shahid Mehboob,of Paternoster Lane, off Great Horton Road, Bradford, who was working for Woods Taxis in Salendine Nook at the time, was caught in July
Early morning queues formed at some Bradford stores today as Black Friday sales started. Security guards were on hand at electrical store Sonic Direct in Ingleby Road, Bradford, which opened its doors at 8am. About 100 people had waited, some
A BROKEN down freight train caused disruption to services between Shipley and Leeds today. The train broke down at Thackley Tunnel at 6.30am. Northern Rail said some services cancelled or delayed, including those to and from Bradford Forster
CITY’S scouting report will advise them not to take too much notice from Walsall’s surprise upset at Swindon earlier this week.The 2-1 loss ripped up the League One formbook as the Saddlers suffered their first defeat in six games.But long-serving boss
KEIGHLEY ACKEIGHLEY Angling Club hope to attract more youngsters to the sport of fishing after junior member Ross Pickles was voted on to the committee this week. The talented 16-year-old became the youngest person to join Keighley’s governing body after
CITY want to hit the FA Cup “break” in a play-off position.After tomorrow’s trip to third-placed Walsall, the Bantams will go a fortnight without league action.Having forced their way into a play-off position for the first time this season, Phil Parkinson
POLICE have stepped up patrols in a Bradford neighbourhood following reports of children being approached in suspicious circumstances by unknown men. The incidents, involving school-aged children, have occurred in the Killinghall Road area of Bradford
YOUNG eye cancer survivor Eliza Deakin and her mum Lucy performed the official opening of the new Vision Express store in Bradford's Broadway shopping centre.Eliza, 3, who is an ambassador for the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, was diagnosed with a rare
ACTOR Christopher Biggins stepped in at the last minute to make sure an awards event for local trainees and employers was a star-studded occasion. .The former I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here winner presented prizes to 20 winners on the red carpet at
FARSLEY Celtic will be looking to build on their recent run when they host Tom Baker’s Trafford in Evo-Stik Division One North tomorrow.The Celts have won their last two league games, scoring eight and conceding three, and triumphed over high-flying Division
NATHAN Clarke can sense a promotion vision building within Bradford City.The in-form Bantams can make further inroads on League One’s leading pack when they tackle third-placed Walsall tomorrow.Unbeaten in ten games, City could set a club record of six
ECCLESHILL United will go into tomorrow’s game at Hall Road Rangers in Toolstation Northern Counties East League Division One under the sole guidance of Sean Regan after midweek developments.The Eagles parted company with manager Mark Greaves and his
IF league form goes out of the window in cup games that could be a bonus for the spectators at The Angel Telecom Stadium tomorrow when Silsden host AFC Blackpool.The North West Counties League Premier Division rivals, who are both in the bottom four of
CAMPION are hoping to join the Northern Counties East League next season.The Taylor's Timber West Riding County Amateur League Premier Division club announced this week that they have been in discussions with representatives from the semi-professional
GUISELEY go into Saturday’s home game with fellow National League new boys Bromley looking to end their run of three straight defeats.Having been beaten by the highly-fancied trio of Cheltenham, Eastleigh and Tranmere, boss Mark Bower is keen for his
BRADFORD Park Avenue are stepping into the unknown when they head to the Silverlands to take on Buxton in the FA Trophy tomorrow, and they will have to do it without skipper Simon Ainge and midfielder Luke Dean.The Bucks play their football a division
TODAY shoppers will be clamouring online and in stores for pre-Christmas bargains during the Black Friday sale.However, there is that old school rule to question things that may be too cheap as, often, they can be too good to be true.Conscious of the
THE delayed second-round Pennine League President's Cup tie between Queensbury and Odsal Sedbergh at Deanstones Lane should finally get underway tomorrow.Both sides have taken full advantage of the two-week weather break to get a number of key players
ADRIAN Purtell says an end-of-season players' trip to Magaluf helped blow away the frustrations over the Bulls’ promotion near-miss.The players headed off for Majorca straight after losing the Million Pound Game to Wakefield.Purtell is now back in the
YOU would expect someone to be a shoo-in to retain their starting berth after scoring a hat-trick of tries.However, that is not the case for Otley winger Sam Melville, who bagged a treble in their 30-22 National League Two North victory at South Leicester
AFTER five successive National League One defeats, the last four of which have not even resulted in a bonus point, Wharfedale's selectors have rung the changes in personnel.The experienced Steve Graham, recently returned from Ilkley, comes in at hooker
FORMER Otley centre Luther Burrell felt "let down" by head coach Stuart Lancaster after he was left out of England's squad for the World Cup.The 27-year-old Northampton Saint was overlooked for the 31-man squad in favour of fellow centres Henry
CHRISTMAS magic will be sprinkled over the district this weekend, with a host of festive activities for the whole family.Keighley, Bingley, Baildon and Saltaire are all gearing up for their Christmas lights switch-on events, while Haworth is preparing
A NINE-year-old boy's Christmas wish to help keep the homeless warm through winter has gone viral, with donations of blankets and warm clothing flooding in to the family's Bradford home - some from the other side of the world.Alfie Watkiss surprised his
A £1.5 MILLION cash injection aims to breathe new life into key city-centre shopping streets in danger of being left behind by the opening of The Broadway shopping centre.The new scheme offers grants of up to £141,000 to traders willing to take on an
GOVERNMENT plans to regulate and inspect madrassas in England have been criticised by a Muslim community representative in Bradford.Under the plans, any out-of-school setting providing intensive education would have to register and be open for inspection.The
A TEENAGER is still fighting for life after suffering severe head injuries in a high speed crash in Bradford a month ago. The 19-year-old was the front seat passenger in a powerful R-DSG series Volkswagen Golf which crashed into three parked cars
A MORRISONS employee who lost the supermarket group more than £2 million with a vengeful data leak is fighting a compensation claim to seize up to £450,000 from him.Andrew Skelton was brought back to Bradford Crown Court yesterday from the prison where
A BAD-TEMPERED bully who fractured his girlfriend's shoulder when he pushed her to the ground in a row over a windscreen wiper has been spared an immediate jail sentence.Edward Thornton, 59, shoved petite Natalie Johnson over on the car park at Halfords
THE GOVERNMENT'S new benefit Universal Credit hits jobcentres in the Bradford district from Monday, combining in work benefits and out of work benefits for the first time.Described as a "revolution in welfare" it is designed to replace six existing
A PROLIFIC offender with more than 80 convictions has been jailed again after a confrontation with a Haworth shopkeeper.Long-term drug addict Michael Holt, 48, was spotted by owner Ann Wiles in her Main Street gift shop last April, but as she stood near
LIAM Bridcutt may only have seen reserve and under-21 action so far this season for Sunderland but insists that he is "100 per cent ready" to help Leeds United if needed tomorrow at QPR.The 26-year-old midfielder completed an emergency loan
