AN OUTSPOKEN WWII veteran, author and columnist has told an audience in Bradford how they need to stand up and speak out against society’s injustices.Harry Leslie Smith, who fought in the RAF, was one of the guests at this year’s Bradford Literature Festival
A NEW sculpture for Bradford city centre remains under wraps after an unveiling ceremony was postponed. The Baby of the North, by Haworth-based artist Craig Dyson, was due to be revealed outside Bradford Council's Margaret McMillan Tower office
GUISELEY boss Mark Bower admits the last-day drama which saw Guiseley retain their status in the top flight of non-League football was a totally new experience to him – despite decades in the game. After years in the Football League as a player
SKY Ride Bradford is set to give city traders a major boost with more than 5,000 people expected to take part in this year’s event. The annual 5km ride has been moved from its traditional September slot and will be held on Sunday, June 5, between
STEETON failed in their bid to lift the Taylor's Timber Premier Division Cup for the first time when they lost 2-1 in extra-time to West Riding County Amateur League top-flight champions Huddersfield YMCA.Sam Rooke scored with ten minutes remaining
HOLDERS Bradford Moor have booked themselves a tasty second-round tie against Interlink in the Sir James Roberts Cup.Moor scored 205-8 off their 40 overs in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League competition, with Jahan Zeb (72) and Malik Nazir (54)
SPEN Victoria and Townville were the only All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League teams to dodge the showers and record victories in the Championship B Division.The Cleckheaton club defeated Hartshead Moor by eight wickets, opener Craig Field (80no
BUTTERSHAW St Paul's had a comfortable victory as they secured their place in the second round of the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League's Jack Hampshire Memorial Trophy.Ben Platt (53no) and Jamie Robinson (48) led the way as Saints made
SPORTS facilities in Bradford city centre have received a major boost after a £500,000 grant was awarded to improve grassroots sports.The University of Bradford was awarded the grant to carry out a major overhaul of its Laisteridge Lane sports site, creating
A PHOTO exhibition charting the rise of pay-as-you-feel cafes will open this year’s Saltaire Arts Trail. Photographer Shy Burhan has visited about 70 of the cafes across the UK, from Plymouth and Southampton to Edinburgh and Glasgow, taking pictures
FIELD returned to winning ways in the West Yorkshire League by defeating Knaresborough Town 2-1 – but they left it late.Town went ahead in the Premier Division clash through a far-post header on the half-hour mark before Field were awarded a penalty,
A FUNDRAISING drive is now officially under way to buy land in the next two years to build a women-led mosque in the heart of Bradford.The announcement was made at the Daughters of Eve Conference, one year after plans for the mosque, which would be the
A BRADFORD man has swapped the wrestling ring for the radio studio with his new show in the city. Glenn Rawnsley (pictured) has joined Radio Royal at Bradford Royal Infirmary as part of the hospital volunteer service with his own show every Tuesday
A GOVERNMENT minister has warned that jobs would be lost in Bradford if the UK votes to leave the European Union. Anna Soubry, minister for small business, industry and enterprise, met with around 20 local business owners in Bradford today to mark
NEWLY married couple Graham and Cheryl Orme said they are looking forward to putting their feet up, after completing the Great Manchester Run - the day after their wedding.The couple, of Thornton, Bradford, were married on Saturday in St John’s Church
THE team hoping to rescue Bradford's former Odeon building have said there is a "huge amount" of work being done to secure the future of the project. The Bradford Live group plans to turn the long-vacant 1930s building back into a live music
STAFF at a rescue centre in Bradford are looking for a new home for two inseparable dogs. AJ and Hope (pictured), who are mother and daughter, are in kennels while new owners are sought through the On The Way Home Dog Rescue Centre. AJ is a petite tan-coloured
PLANS to turn a clothes shop into an Italian restaurant have been refused by Bradford Council over concerns it would cause traffic problems on an already busy road.Yasin Rehman had applied to change the use of the two storey clothing store at 1212 Leeds
BURGLARS have stolen 24 laptops from Craven College's Campus at Skipton Auction Mart - for the second time in two months.Police say the offender broke into the building at about 10.10pm on Sunday, May 15, forcing a laptop security cabinet and stealing
POLICE are hunting thieves who stole a teenager's "pride and joy" scooter from the car park of a pub in Wibsey.The theft, which happened last night at about 9.45pm, was captured on CCTV at the White Swan on High Street.Becky Taylor, mum
A BABY boy died suddenly in his sleep, a Bradford inquest heard.Noah Hall, a healthy baby aged three and a half months, died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.Noah had been a healthy baby who was born at Airedale General Hospital on October 29 last year
POLICE have urged the public to help identify a man they believe could help in a shoplifting investigation.The theft was reported on the Bradford East area on Wednesday, May 18, and police want to speak to this man, captured on store CCTV.The man was
A MAN and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs after a pre-planned police operation in Manningham. Officers recovered a quantity of Class A, cash and a mobile phone when they stopped a grey Peugeot
COMMUNITY-spirited residents clubbed together to repair a “hazardous” pothole-ridden road in Low Moor, Bradford.Thirteen households across three streets gave their own money so work could be carried out on the unadopted Main Street. The road runs along
A 29-year-old man has appeared in court accused of stabbing a pensioner. Hamid Mahmood, of Harrogate Street, Undercliffe, Bradford, appeared before District Judge Richard Clews at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates' Court this morning. Mahmood
A TEAM of mums and sons who set up Baildon and Shipley Flood Relief Group after the Boxing Day deluge are heading back to water to raise charity cash with a sponsored swim. Denene Capper and her son Josh, together with her sister Merane Todd
THE fundraising mum of Bradford TV presenter Anita Rani is back from India where she laid the foundation stone of a holistic haemophiliac centre for children. The centre will be the first of its kind in India and is being built in Pune. Lucky Kaur
A MAN suffered minor smoke inhalation after he left a lit tealight candle on top of a television and fell asleep. A crew from Shipley Fire Station were called to a ground floor flat in Rochester Street, Shipley, at just after 3.10am today.
AN abandoned car was set on fire in Bradford this morning. A crew from Idle Fire Station were called to Idlethorp Way, Thorpe Edge, at 2.30am where a blue Nissan Micra was set alight. No-one was around the vehicle at the time of the blaze.
THE County Championship title isn’t won this early on in the season. We haven’t played very well really in any match, yet we’re second with one win and four draws.As long as you’re in the hunt, that’s the main thing.Imagine what it’s like when we do play
ROHAN Smith admits he is hugely encouraged by the collective spirit in the team following his first week in charge as Bulls head coach.The 35-year-old Australian took control last Monday and presided over Friday’s hard-fought 25-14 win at Sheffield.The
PHIL Parkinson today begins the business of converting City from play-off nearly men into genuine promotion material for next season.The disappointment of Friday’s play-off exit at Millwall is still raw but the Bantams boss insists there is no time to
AN APPEAL to raise money for a fitting memorial to the Bradford Pals of the First World War has received a major boost. The Honour the Pals Appeal has seen hundreds of individual Bradfordians, as well as groups, donate more than £2,700 to pay for
EDIN Rahic will walk into Valley Parade tomorrow to herald a new era for City.Rahic and Stefan Rupp will take over full control of the club, ending the joint reign of Julian Rhodes and Mark Lawn.Talks with the German-based investors have been on-going
ONE of Bradford’s biggest secondary schools, placed into special measures last year, will become an academy in September.Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, which has almost 1,500 pupils, is expected to join the Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust
IMAGINE coping with a dementia diagnosis if you have a young family, a job, a mortgage and credit card debts.That’s the reality for those diagnosed with young onset dementia, a term used for people of working age with the condition.Dementia is thought
BRADFORD Council is set to receive more than £1.5 million to boost its work in supporting "troubled" families across the district. The funding will come from a pot of £9.4m allocated to the Leeds City Region, which includes Bradford, by the European
JOBS could be at risk from new rules enforcing plain tobacco packaging, an Ilkley-based industry leader has warned. Cigarettes are now being sold in standardised green packaging with graphic warnings of the dangers of smoking under new rules designed
CALVERLEY football club has set up a permanent legacy to its former chairman who died suddenly. David Cooper, who served as a coach and chairman at Calverley United JFC for more than ten years, has had the club’s Volunteer of the Season award named after
FANS of Bradford City admitted last night to a mixture of excitement and caution as news broke that the club had been sold to two German investors. Edin Rahic and Stefan Rupp will be unveiled at Valley Parade tomorrow and assume full control of
A PENSIONER remained in a "serious" condition in hospital last night after being stabbed at his Bradford home. The 68-year-old man suffered a chest injury during an altercation in Harrogate Street, in the Peel Park area of the city. A 30 year-old
If George Mallory were alive today I wonder what he would make of our mountain climbing gear. Lined with materials whose names you struggle to pronounce: Thermalite, microlite, even laminate - which I thought was used for flooring - jackets and
