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  • Four people injured in Shipley crash

    FOUR people were injured when two cars crashed in Shipley today. A blue Mercedes and a black Volkswagen Golf collided on Bradford Road, near its junction with Birklands Road, at about 7.05pm. A spokesman for Yorkshire Ambulance Service said

  • Amin helps Moor take over Dales Council leadership

    BRADFORD Moor are the new leaders of A Division after winning a close game against Thornbury at Laisterdyke.Moor scored 158 (N Andrabi 67) before M Amin took 6-24 to help bowl out Thornbury for 141.Previous front-runners Leeds Sikh were bowled out for

  • Willey helps Yorkshire fight back against Surrey

    DAVID WILLEY picked up two of six wickets to fall for 66 after tea as Yorkshire responded strongly to an opening day century from Surrey’s Steven Davies at Headingley today.The England limited overs seamer finished with 3-55 from 20 overs to help stymie

  • Bantams bang on form for play-offs with magnificent seven

    CITY 2 CHESTERFIELD 0 PHIL Parkinson was barely a month old the last time City were on a home run like this. With a seventh straight Valley Parade victory this afternoon, Parkinson’s present day side are on the club’s best form for nearly half

  • Partnerships take Interlink to the top

    INTERLINK are the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League Group A leaders after an eight-wicket win over Apperley Bridge. Bridge were 6-3 but reached 159-8 thanks to a fifth-wicket partnership of 61 between Sher Khan and Mohammed Junaid and an eighth-wicket

  • Former Bantam Chris Mitchell dies aged 27

    FORMER Bradford City player Chris Mitchell has died aged 27. Defender Mitchell, who was capped seven times by Scotland under-21s, played 11 times for the Bantams under Peter Jackson in the 2011-12 season, scoring one goal, and moved to Valley Parade

  • Cougars forced to fight hard to overcome resilient Bears

    KEIGHLEY Cougars maintained their recent unbeaten run with a 36-16 victory over Coventry Bears in glorious sunshine in the East Midlands. However, the Cougars were made to work for their ten point half-time lead in front of a healthy 1,097 crowd

  • Wharfedale duo score as Yorkshire lift title again

    DOMINANT forward play from the off and clinical finishing helped Yorkshire win the National Under-20 County Championship by defeating Northumberland 53-20 at Twickenham.It was revenge for the white rose, who suffered a surprise 39-10 defeat in the 2014

  • Twickenham revenge for West Leeds

    WEST Leeds, who have already pocketed the Yorkshire Division Two title after a season-long battle with Keighley. have added the RFU Senior Vase to their collection after defeating Cornwall& Devon League's Withycombe 42-22 at Twickenham.Withycombe initially

  • Davies ton puts Surrey on top at Headingley

    LIAM Plunkett and Jack Brooks struck during the opening afternoon of Yorkshire’s Specsavers County Championship Division One match with Surrey at Headingley today, but the visitors remain on top thanks to a fine century from Steven Davies. Plunkett

  • Nightingale on song at Celts' awards night

    LEWIS Nightingale was a double winner at Farsley Celtic’s awards night in the clubhouse at Throstle Nest.The free-scoring former Bradford Park Avenue midfielder had an excellent and consistent campaign which was marked in the best way possible. Nightingale

  • Ton-derful Edgar helps inflict maiden defeat on Cleckheaton

    BRADFORD & Bingley's new opener Jack Edgar hit a maiden Bradford Premier League century as his side inflicted a first defeat of the season on Cleckheaton.Edgar struck four sixes and 13 fours in an unbeaten 110 which helped his side to post a score of

  • Sangakkara settles in for Surrey at Headingley

    YORKSHIRE have picked up two wickets, but have dropped three catches during an entertaining opening morning of their Specsavers County Championship Division One clash with Surrey at Headingley. Opener Arun Harinath was dropped three times on the

  • Friends of Haworth Road complete salvage mission

    YOU wouldn't have given Haworth Road Methodists Cricket Club much chance of seeing leather on willow for the start of the this season after the Boxing Day floods.The water was within six inches of the pavilion roof, all of the club's mechanical equipment

  • Silsden's 11-year stay in top flight comes to an end

    North West Counties League Premier Division: Silsden 1 Bootle 1 SILSDEN’S relegation to Division One was confirmed on Saturday but not by the result at the Angel Telecom Stadium.The Cobbydalers earned a draw against a Bootle side that ended the campaign

  • Tearful Evans fears for his Leeds United future

    EMOTIONAL Leeds manager Steve Evans knows the ball is now in owner Massimo Cellino's court regarding his future but his gut feeling is he will not be in charge at Elland Road next season.Leeds concluded their campaign with a 1-1 draw as Jordan Hugill's

  • Two hurt as car flips onto roof

    TWO teenagers escaped serious injury after their car flipped on to its roof in an accident at Oxenhope. The Toyota Corolla was travelling out of the village along Hebden Bridge Road when it left the road and turned over on its roof on soft ground