A 20-YEAR-OLD man suffered minor injuries after being struck by a car in Bradford tonight. The accident involving the pedestrian took place on Killinghall Road, at the junction with First Avenue, Bradford Moor. The type of car was unknown.
FORMER Bradford Bulls player Paul Anderson has been appointed as the full-time assistant to England boss Wayne Bennett. Anderson, 44, will support Bennett alongside fellow assistants Denis Betts and Paul Wellens in preparing the England side for
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CRAVEN, AIRE & WHARFE JUNIOR LEAGUE – Under-12A: Dudley Hill 1 Silsden Dragons 1, Menston Rgrs 2 Salts Tigers 4. U12B: Crosshills Cosmos 7 Horsforth Mustangs 0, Crossley 3 Bingley Ajax 4, Eldwick 1 Embsay 6, Sutton 4 Grassington 6. U12C: Idle 3 Eccleshill
A MISSING man has been found safe and well. Stephen Bennett, 44, is from Leeds but was last seen in the Bradford area, was found by police officers in Bradford at 2.15pm today, a West Yorkshire Police spokesman confirmed.
A FIRE at a derelict former St John Ambulance building in Saltaire is being treated as arson. A crew from Shipley Fire Station were called to the fire at the empty building in Caroline Street at just after 4.55pm yesterday. Crew commander Philip
MOTORISTS have been warned of rush hour delays tonight following a crash between a lorry and a car on the M62. The accident, on the eastbound M62 between junctions 26, M606 (Chain Bar) and junction 27, M621 (Gildersome) involved a white lorry and
TWO bikes were seized after they were being ridden by a gang of youths in a Bradford park. A PCSO who was patrolling Horton Park, near to Horton Park Avenue, Little Horton, saw a number of young men taking turns on two off-road motorbikes, riding
BRADFORD’S Golden Years Film Festival - aimed at older audiences - is working in partnership with an acclaimed American cinema project exploring the richness and diversity of the ageing process in film. The three-day festival, starting on Monday
MUSLIM comedians are on tour in a new show raising funds for orphaned and vulnerable children. The Super Muslim Comedy Tour is back, with even more big names in the comedy world, for a UK tour taking in 13 dates this month. Following the side-splitting
A BRADFORD band that packed out local venues in the 1980s is re-forming for a one-off gig to mark their 30th anniversary.Western Dance, a four-piece indie rock outfit, played at Queen’s Hall, Bradford University and The Royal Standard between 1986 and
MORE than 40 events have been taking place across the Bradford district today as part of Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.People at community groups, charities, schools and businesses across the city have been channelling their
A GROUP of five construction apprentices has been taken on by a social housing group. Electricians Baily Burdett, 17, and Victoria Cherrington, 25, plumber Kyle Throupe, 22, joiner Adam Ahmed, 21, and plasterer Matthew Brady, 16, have started their careers
A MAN believed to have the world’s longest marriage has died at the incredible age of 110. Karam Chand, of Girlington, Bradford, died of natural causes in hospital, his family said. He was just six weeks away from celebrating his 111th birthday
GOALS Bradford, which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary, have six new state-of-the-art synthetic grass five-a-side pitches.Part of an £8 million national investment package covering over 150 new pitches, the ProTurf Arena, which is exclusive to
BRADFORD Dragons' Eisley Swaine, Haben Malcolm-Warner and Joseph Barrett have been named in England youth squads.Swaine is in the under-17 and under-18 squad, while Malcolm-Warner and Barrett are in the under-15 and under-16 squad. A total of 38 players
CLIVE Pearson will be the guest speaker at the first winter meeting of the Institute of Groundsmanship's (IOG) Yorkshire branch at Cleckheaton Sports Club on Wednesday, October 12 (7.30pm).Pearson, technical sales director at XL ProBio, will talk
BRADFORD Salem are hosting a women's pitch up and play event tomorrow (11am-1pm).The session at their Shay Lane headquarters (BD9 6SL) provides an introduction to rugby for women who may have played and given up or women who have never played and
A CARE worker has been cleared of ill-treating a severely disabled man at a Bradford nursing home.Rene Mouel was swiftly found not guilty by the jury at Bradford Crown Court today of three charges relating to Stephen Smith, a blind resident at Branwell
A MAN in his 60s has died after being found with serious chest injuries at a house in Riddlesden. Police were called to the property, in Arnside Avenue, by ambulance staff at 2.13pm yesterday. The man, who has not been named, was pronounced
A BIKE was seized after police witnessed its rider pulling wheelies in Fagley. The rider was seen carrying out anti-social riding on Folkton Holme on Monday evening. The officer was unable to stop it but recorded details of the bike. The
An uncle of a teenager who died in a horror crash in Bradford delivered an emotional plea at the youngster's funeral today. Thousands of mourners gathered at the Hanfia Masjid Mosque, in Ambler Street, Manningham, to pay their respects to Adnan
RESIDENTS and businesses in flood-threatened areas of the district need a coherent and understandable plan of action in case a disaster strikes again, a meeting heard. A handful of Boxing Day flood victims from affected areas such as Bingley and
Bradford artist David Hockney could smash his own record at auction with a painting from his Woldgate Woods series going under-the-hammer for the first time.The artist, 79, created six paintings of Woldgate Woods in his native Yorkshire, charting the
PUPILS at a Bradford primary school were joined by their counterparts from yesteryear to celebrate the culmination of a history project focusing on the Second World War era. Crossley Hall Primary School, in Fairweather Green, officially unveiled
STATE of the art technology at Bradford College has helped re-create the city’s iconic statues of former rulers in materials as varied as paper to plastic. When the college’s Advanced Technology Centre on Great Horton Road opened last year, it
The founder of a flagship free school has been jailed for five years for defrauding the Department for Education of thousands of pounds from Government grants. Sajid Hussain Raza, 43, was jailed at Leeds Crown Court with former academy staff members
ANOTHER battle line has been drawn in the increasingly difficult fight to protect the district’s greenbelt land. Proposals to build 500 homes on the greenbelt in Burley-in-Wharfedale will concern those who want to see our green spaces protected
STUART McCall has no plans to permanently ditch the diamond despite admitting he got City’s shape wrong against Fleetwood. McCall’s men head to Chesterfield as the first team in the club’s history to start the season undefeated in the first ten
“I NEVER try to think like that. I never, ever, ever try to think like that.” Mark Marshall may be loving every minute of City’s impressive campaign but don’t ask the winger if he feels he has finally cracked it at Valley Parade. Marshall’s
POLICE are appealing for information about an injured, missing man who was last seen in Bradford. Stephen Bennett, 44, is from Leeds but was last seen in the Bradford area. He was wearing a grey, roundneck jumper, dark coloured Addidas bottoms
BRADFORD CITY AADespite the heavy showers over the past few days, it has remained warm but windy, though the forecast is for cooler and wetter days over the weekend. The last day of the trout season is today and from now until the end of March next year
TWO cars were destroyed and an under construction building damaged after a suspected arson early this morning. A fire crew from Bradford were called out to Ivanhoe Road, Great Horton at 1.30am after reports of a car on fire. Witnesses had seen
50 YEARS AGO: IT SEEMS that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to the Bradford Cricket League.The late-season meeting in 1966 heard that 30 second-team matches had involved teams being short-handed, while there was a complaint from an Umpires
STUART McCall does not feel corruption is rife within football – and stressed he had never been offered a "bung".The game's name has been dragged through the mud with national newspaper allegations that led to Sam Allardyce's exit as
KRIS Welham is hoping to win the first silverware of his career on Sunday – but admits he would be almost too embarrassed to lift the trophy.The Bulls host Sheffield in the Championship Shield final as they bid to claim their first trophy since the 2006
I HAD a dream, or some will say a nightmare, about the delay in repairing Bradford's wonderful City Hall. It was about it being a positive decision, rather than the contractor going into administration and ceasing to trade. It would be internationally
COMPANIES in Yorkshire have helped the UK re-enter the world’s top ten manufacturing nations according to a new report.Findings by manufacturers’ body EEF and Santander bank show that regional producers account for around £16.2 billion worth of output
INTOXICATED yobs making people’s lives a misery in central Bradford will soon face new £100 fines or alcohol confiscations.City-centre businesses have long complained that street-drinkers and people taking so-called legal highs are putting people off
INCONSIDERATE and illegal parking too close to school entrances is a countrywide problem. Across the Bradford district complaints are received throughout the year, from schools, parents, residents and the emergency services. In an effort to
A COMPLAINT by Shipley MP Philip Davies about comments made about him during a TV comedy programme has been rejected by the BBC Trust. Mr Davies complained that comments made about him during episodes of Russell Howard's Good News programme on
THE £4 million restoration of Bradford’s City Hall will be completed on time, it has been confirmed, following the buy out of the associated business carrying out the work. York firm William Anelay, the specialist contractor working on the Grade
A HEROIN addict who burgled a pensioner’s home and a mosque while limping along on crutches has been jailed for more than three years. Three strike housebreaker, Imran Ali, was in a leg brace when he targeted the 75-year-old’s address in Aspley
A DISTRAUGHT mother desperately tried to revive her 11-year-old son after finding him hanging in his bedroom - minutes after he had complained about being bullied at school. Asad Khan - who was described as a happy and confident boy - died in hospital
A DAZZLING light sculpture installation will illuminate Bradford next week when City Park is transformed into a ‘Forest of Light’.The Mirror Pool area next to City Hall will be turned into a cornucopia of light, with more than 59 gigantic sculptures filling
AN MP has called for all brownfield sites in the Bradford district to be developed before greenbelt land is even considered for housing. Shipley MP Philip Davies has expressed strong opposition to newly-unveiled plans to build 500 new homes on
A MAJOR literature festival and a journey back in time are two of the highlights of events taking place in the Bradford district this weekend. Ilkley Literature Festival kicks off this weekend, with headline appearances at the weekend coming from
