A DOG had to be rescued by firefighters after a parked BMW caught fire, rolled into a neighbouring house and melted its door. At 3.30pm yesterday fire crews from Cleckheaton and Odsal were called to Marsland Court in Hunsworth to reports of a car
MALCOLM Harrison was a man in a hurry and on a mission.Running up and down the steps that leads to Bradford Ice Rink's ballet room, Bradford Speed Skating Club's chairman was trying to organise a fitness session for his members.The wiry 59-year-old
CITY chief scout Greg Abbott and Radio Five Live chief football reporter Ian Dennis are guest speakers at Cleckheaton Cricket Club's annual dinner in their clubhouse on Friday (7.30pm).The comedian is John Lory and the Master of Ceremonies is John
THE BANTAMS made it two wins in four days at Vale Park as City reserves won 2-0 this afternoon.Following on from the first team's win over Port Vale, a young City line-up produced a strong second-half performance to end deserved winners.The visitors
GUESTS at the funeral of former Bradford League secretary and Dales Council League chairman Steve Raistrick have been asked to wear bright clothing.It will be be held at St Andrew's Church in Pudsey next Wednesday (12.30pm). Afterwards there will
A RESTAURANT pub which was ravaged by fire shortly before Christmas will soon reopen. The White Hart at Pool-in-Wharfedale was badly damaged when a blaze began in a kitchen and storage area. The fire on December 21 caused extensive damage to
THE TV licence fee will increase for the first time since 2010, the Government has announced. The annual fee for BBC programming will increase to £147 from £145.50 on April 1 this year, the Government has said. The announcement comes as the
IT WAS perhaps testament to Oscar Thomas' recent impressive form at full back that new signing Lee Smith had to sit out their latest win over Toulouse.Former England international Smith, with a wealth of Super League experience, is sure to play a
SIR - Every year, heart and circulatory disease kills around 14,000 in Yorkshire and the Humber and currently, around 616,000 people in the region are living with its burden. The need to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat these terrible conditions
A FINAL drop-in session over the possible axing of gluten-free foods on prescription takes place on Friday.The event is at Skipton Town Hall, High Street, between 10.15am and 11.45am.Anyone wishing to comment is invited to attend.NHS Airedale, Wharfedale
A MAN in his 60s has died after being hit by a lorry near Wyke today. Police and ambulance services, including a Yorkshire Air Ambulance, were called to the incident in Whitehall Road at about 11am. The male, believed to be in his 60s, was
POSTMAN Pat took time out from his rounds on Saturday to call at Keighley's Airedale Shopping Centre.Accompanied by Jess, his black and white cat, he greeted hundreds of youngsters.The event, organised by Keighley Business Improvement District (BID
A COFFEE morning is being held this weekend by the Friends of the Rydings group, which supports Brighouse Library, The Smith Art Gallery and the Brighouse War Memorial. It is being held at the art gallery on Halifax Road, on Saturday, March 4, from 10am
A TRAINEE surgeon from Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has won a national competition.George Mori was a winner in ‘Are You Cut Out For It?’, which required competitors to don their surgical gowns, gloves and masks and show they had the
BRADFORD South MP Judith Cummins yesterday called on the Prime Minister to provide investment to get Bradford moving.The Labour MP asked Theresa May to commit to infrastructure spending in the district and to ensure the city has a station on the new HS3
YORKSHIRE MEP Amjad Bashir is organising a conference on the potential for post-Brexit UK-Pakistan digital trade partnerships.The event is at Chelsea Football Club next Wednesday. Speakers will include Anusha Rahman, Minister of State for Information
THE 22-year-old law graduate killed in a crash in Bingley on Sunday gained his degree from the University of Bradford, his family said today. Shumas Fakeer had been working at an insurance firm in Leeds before his death, said his uncle, Adil Shaan
MORE fundraising events are planned at Keighley Catholic Centre.An Irish night takes place this Saturday, with dancing to Mickie's Boys. Doors open at 7.30pm.A Body Shop party and ladies' afternoon is being held on Sunday, March 12, from 2pm.There
A 24-YEAR-OLD man who was involved in trafficking vulnerable people from his native Poland to Bradford has been told he will be sent to prison. David Zielinski was remanded into custody to await his fate tomorrow after a jury at Bradford Crown
A FLAG in honour of International Women’s Day will be raised to mark the annual event by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Cllr Geoff Reid, next week.NEESIE, a community voluntary organisation for single mothers which gives support to help them live well in
IF YOU were to ask the vast majority of people heading into later life with growing health failings or disabilities how they would choose to spend their remaining years they would almost certainly say at home, preferably with family and friends rallying
COUNCIL tax in Calderdale will rise by almost five per cent next month, councillors have agreed.The Council has set a budget for the next three financial years and has voted to raise additional money through a three per cent social care precept.In addition
BRADFORD City women’s player-manager Charlotte Stuart is confident of a strong end to the season after a rejig of the fixture list. Over the last few months, City have endured countless empty Sundays, with only the odd game thrown into the mix.
Today’s letters cover topics as diverse as Brexit, charity collection issues, social care, foreign aid and the delights of John Street Market. TODAY'S LETTERS
Sir – In response to Pauline Austin’s letter (‘I would really like to help this charity, but...’, February 25), we would like to sincerely apologise that our charity bags were not collected from the Laverton Road area on the stipulated day.Yorkshire Cancer
SIR – I read with interest the article in the Telegraph & Argus (‘Battle of Ritz puts ballroom at risk’, February 22).In the thirties when the silent films were changed to the talkies, the Associated British Cinemas (ABC) built a new chain of buildings
SIR – Here is another non-Brexit topic at the top of this Government’s agenda - social care.Our elderly citizens haven’t just overnight become older by living longer, they were living longer at least under the past eight Prime Ministers.Where was the
BIRKENSHAW Bulldogs can't believe that they are not in the hat for the second round of the Pennine League's Supplementary Cup following their best display of the season against unbeaten Division Three champions Eastmoor Dragons. Birky made the
SIR – John Hall asks what happens when I am wrong about Brexit (Letters, February 21).To be truthful, John, I haven’t a clue. I simply observe and comment from a Brexiteer standpoint. There are too many imponder-ables swirling around Brexit for anyone
A KEIGHLEY charity has announced an offer to help pay for cat neuterings for owners who cannot afford this procedure for their own pet.Keighley Cat Care has managed to save enough money to offer 20 neuterings.People wanting to take advantage of this need
SIR – Well said, Alan Chapman, pointing out that, post-Brexit, the UK will earn more from tariffs on imports at £12.9 billion than we will pay on (smaller) exports, (£5.2 billion). Marvellous! Our Government will be £7.7 billion better off.Who ultimately
SIR – Mr Durkin presumes to advise that I need not be embarrassed by my supposed rightist political views (T&A, February 7). Mr Durkin seeks every opportunity to declare his leftist sympathies and presumes others have the need to make comparable declarations
SIR – There are major concerns over the bloated Foreign Aid budget where at a time when we the people suffer endless austerity with higher taxes yet less and less in return, especially care of the elderly, but more and more money is given away overseas
FORMER winner John Wellham saw off the challenge of Dean Parker to reach the quarter-finals of the Bradford Snooker Championships with a 4-1 last-16 victory. Wellham, who won the title in 2014, will now face Lewis Walsh for a place in the last
SIR – This is a letter full of hope and nice things happening.It’s John Street Market, I can’t call it anything else.Just to see the butchers and the greengrocers doing such good trading and the stalls so cheap. I thought with Morrisons closing it would
THE founder of an online shopping business set up to boost Saltaire trading will speak at an international conference today. ShopAppy.com was created to give residents who live within a five-mile radius of Saltaire the chance to buy goods from their own
BAILDON B maintained their unbeaten record and extended their lead at the top of Bradford League Division Four following their derby with second-placed Baildon C. Steve Crossland and John Atkinson have been a formidable duo this season for the
THREE water filter plants, one of which was sponsored by a Bradford company, have opened in Pakistan. The three plants in Lahore will provide clean water for 9,000 people each day. The plants are located in the Badshai Mosque, one in a church and one
Chris Holland reviews Sunny Afternoon at The Alhambra THE Kinks is a name that resonates from the heyday of British pop music when young musicians from ordinary backgrounds created the swinging sixties. Sunny Afternoon, one of the band’s 14 top ten
A DINNER has been held in Bradford to drum up support ahead of a charity walk which is taking place later this year.The event was organised by members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Elders Association for Yorkshire and the North East ahead of the Walk for Peace
Insurance giant Aviva has warned it will take a £385 million hit after the Government announced a change to the way personal injury claims are calculated.The Norwich-based firm said the exceptional charge to its full-year post-tax profits recognises the
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club have expressed their sadness at the death of club president John Hampshire.Hampshire, 76, a former club captain, Yorkshire and England batsman and successful Test umpire, passed away peacefully at home after a long illness.Yorkshire
A BRIGHOUSE man has been left shocked after a mound of soil was dumped on his family's graves, ruining dozens of bulbs he had lovingly planted. Widower Stephen Booth, 60, discovered the state of the graves of his parents, wife and baby daughter
ON July 27, 1916 the Bradford Pals were in trenches near the village of Richebourg, northern France, when German troops broke into the front line armed with pistols and bombs. They left with several prisoners, including Bradford City footballer Dickie
A CHILDREN’S cancer charity is asking men across Bradford and the rest of the county to raise thousands of pounds by growing and removing their beards this month.Candlelighters wants Friday, March 31, to be Yorkshire’s ‘Beard Removal Day’, with men across
A NEW information hub has just opened at Bradford Royal Infirmary to keep patients in the know.The Information Centre is part of the Trust’s new £28m wing and is close to the new retail concourse, which officially opened earlier this month, nearthe hospital
A DRIVER who reached speeds of more than 90mph during a five-minute police chase through Ilkley has avoided jail. James Dixon, 24, only came to a stop after crashing his Seat Leon car into a wall and gas main on Bolling Road in the early hours of August
ALMOST three quarters of parents in the Bradford district have been award their first preference secondary school, figures from Bradford Council have revealed. In the district, 73.94 per cent of parents were allocated their first choice, up from
PROPOSALS to turn a community hall into a mosque have been approved by Bradford Council.The community hall, in Saffron Drive, Allerton, can now be turned into a place of worship.The single-storey building was built on behalf of the charity Barnardo’s
Otley 34Huddersfield 14WITH National League Two North clubs not entering the Yorkshire Cup until the quarter-final stage, Otley were given a testing home draw against Huddersfield.The latter side had come through the first round 37-9 over once-mighty
THE new Boots store has officially opened its doors at Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA). The store, which is in the departure lounge, has created 12 jobs at the Yeadon site. Asif Aziz, director for stores in the south and airports at Boots UK, visited LBA
THIS year’s Bradford Dragonboat Festival has been officially unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Bradford in City Park.The Lord Mayor, Councillor Geoff Reid, was joined by last year’s winning team and members of teams already signed up for this year.They were
SWEET or savoury, rolled or flat – however you enjoy your pancakes doesn’t really matter, as long as they don’t end up on the floor! Here we take a look back at pancake day races – and some mishaps – across the years.
Vanarama National League: Guiseley 1 Barrow 0 GUISELEY increased their points cushion over the clubs in the Vanarama National League drop zone to three with a hard-earned home victory over promotion-chasing Barrow. Kevan Hurst’s 13th-minute
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council:Heaton: double storey side and rear extension with ground floor extended by 750mm, 1 Woodland Grove. Heaton: formation of front and rear dormer windows, construction of single
ON July 27, 1916 the Bradford Pals were in trenches near the village of Richebourg, northern France, when German troops broke into the front line armed with pistols and bombs. They left with several prisoners, including Bradford City footballer
TOWN PARKS finally got his head in front last time out so his confidence should be high ahead of the Lycetts Farm And Estate Insurance Brokers Handicap Hurdle at Wincanton.He has made steady progress this term and eventually got his due reward when edging
SOFA retailer DFS, which has two bases in Bradford, has been accredited as one of the top employers in the country.Outstanding workplace standards have earned the firm an accolade for the third consecutive year from the Top Employers Institute.The Sunday
STUART McCall reckoned it was a “good point” as City celebrated a year without a League One loss at Valley Parade with their 17th draw of the season.The Bantams made it 25 games since their last home defeat but had to do it the hard way after twice going
A FUNDRAISING campaign to enable a Riddlesden boy to undergo life-changing surgery has so far coined in over £14,000. The family of little Ryan Weatherall say they have been overwhelmed by the public response to the appeal, launched less than three
A BRADFORD free school that has had a turbulent few years has been judged to be one of the best in the district. Ofsted inspectors have judged Dixons Kings Academy in Lidget Green to be outstanding in every area, and say the rate of improvement
FAMILIES fighting to keep open a specialist dementia care unit in Bradford, are stepping up their campaign. Relatives with loved ones living at Holme View care Home in Holme Wood have already secured more than 2,000 names on an on-line petition hoping
MORE details have emerged about a plan to cut the number of elderly and disabled people needing long-term care. Bradford Council, which had already agreed to cut its care budget by £8 million a year for the next two years, has now set out its vision
DISABILITY groups and traders have both reacted in anger to Bradford Council’s latest idea about tackling the safety risks posed by advertising A-boards. The Executive is expected to row back on moves to ban A-boards in certain areas, and will
A BRADFORD MP has accused the Government of “moral cowardice” over the funding of social care.Judith Cummins, Labour MP for Bradford South, used a Commons debate to call on Chancellor Philip Hammond to address the social care funding crisis in next month
A DRUG addict damaged a police car by repeatedly ramming it with a stolen van he was driving following an extended pursuit. Sultan Ali, 24, led officers on an eight-minute chase from Bradford to Yeadon starting at about 1.45am on January 29 this
A CLUB in Bradford for disabled people is bidding to bag a cash boost from supermarket giant Tesco. Bradford PHAB Club is on the shortlist to win one of three grants as part of the retailer’s Bags of Help initiative. Tesco teamed up with Groundwork
When doing our weekly shop, we rarely consider the farmers who have toiled to produce the food we buy.But we should. In developing countries across the world there are many small-scale farms or plantations employing workers who are in turn supporting
CITY 2 MK DONS 2 MENTION the name MK Dons and the shackles are sure to rise among football traditionalists. The so-called franchise club are still viewed with disdain by many 14 years on from their controversial flit from London. But for
