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  • Drive on to reopen cafes at courts

    THE chaplaincy service at Bradford’s criminal courts wants to restart the buildings’ cafe service. National cuts forced the closure of canteens at Bradford Crown Court and Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court in 2015. Now, the Bradford Court

  • Inspectors rate surgery

    QUALITY care watchdogs have ranked an Ilkley dentist as part of a routine round of inspections.The Grove House dental practice in The Grove, Ilkley, was found to be meeting standards expected.A team of inspectors from the Care Quality Commission visited

  • Practice wins top award

    BRIGHOUSE-based private and cosmetic dental practice Town Hall Dental is celebrating having been awarded Dental Practice of the Year 2017. The award, organised by Global Health & Pharma, recognises Town Hall Dental as providing the highest standards of

  • Opening date set for long-awaited railway station

    THE long-awaited new £10million Low Moor railway station in Bradford will open next month - after more than 15 years of campaigning.The first train to call at Low Moor for more than 50 years will be the 8.30am service to Halifax on Sunday April 2, said

  • UPDATE AND GALLERY: Wonderlab opens at rebranded museum

    THE National Science and Media Museum has officially opened its £1.8 million new attraction. The Wonderlab is a major interactive gallery based around light and sound. Attractions include a mirror maze, a 15-metre echo tube and a musical laser

  • READER LETTER: Retrospective planning application concerns

    SIR - There were two further articles in the T&A (March 13) which involved applications for retrospective planning permission. These applications seem to be happening with great regularity, and perhaps it is now time for retrospective applications

  • Man taken to hospital following two-car crash

    A MAN was taken to hospital with a shoulder injury following a two-car crash. The crash between two Vauxhall Corsas, one black and one silver, took place at Keighley Road, Bingley, at just after 7.30am today. West Yorkshire Police and ambulance

  • Bradford academy to battle other schools in enterprise contest

    A BRADFORD school will battle with others across the region next week to be crowned the most enterprising school. Dixons Kings Academy will next week take part in the Mosaic Yorkshire Enterprise Challenge Regional Final, the mentoring charity founded

  • Stage set for magic at Circle’s big night

    CHILDREN’S entertainers and TV illusionists will take to the stage for Bradford Magic Circle’s show, Hey Presto, this weekend.The MC is Mark Shortland, who appeared on Penn and Teller’s Fool Us TV programme and has entertained audiences around the world

  • Chance to feel the beat

    WORKSHOPS are now running where people can learn the spiritual and therapeutic rhythms from the ancient Ibo people from Eastern Nigeria. The workshops allow people to either grab a drum, have a go or just dance along.Sessions are being held throughout

  • Race night raises £4,000

    A RACE night organised by young people from the National Citizen Service raised more than £4,000 for a volunteer scheme in Sri Lanka.The event, run by teenagers from the Bradford City Community Foundation, was held to raise funds for the young people

  • Cabs taken off the road

    FIVE cab drivers in Keighley were suspended from operating by police after their cars were found to be defective.The private hire vehicle drivers were among those stopped and checked by police officers and a Bradford Council licensing inspector.A West

  • Avenue aiming to boost survival bid

    BRADFORD Park Avenue’s National League North survival bid was stalled in midweek following the late call off of their clash with promotion-chasing Darlington 1883 due to a waterlogged pitch.Now Mark Bower’s men face a totally different test as they host

  • Drama filmed in city wins top award

    POWERFUL drama National Treasure, which was partly filmed in Bradford, was a top winner at this week’s Royal Television Society Awards.The drama, starring Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters, about a popular celebrity facing sexual assault allegations,

  • Exhibition is ready to shut up shop

    THERE are just a few more days left for art lovers to visit an exhibition celebrating Britain’s shops at a local gallery.Red List at Cartwright Hall is a collection of photos by Walter Breuer. He is based in Hamm, Germany, Bradford’s twin town, and the

  • Afternoon tea puts cash in pot

    THE Deaf Women’s Society of Bradford has hosted an an afternoon tea in aid of Cancer Support Yorkshire.The event which combined delicious cakes with a variety of stalls including henna, face painting and a raffle, raised £280.39.The afternoon tea was

  • Architect to give City Hall talk

    AN environmental architect whose projects have been inspired by termites has been invited to give a talk in Bradford.Mick Pearce, a British Zimbabwean, is best known for his signature buildings, the Eastgate Building, in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the Councul

  • Vandal-hit golf club launches appeal

    A GOLF club has started a crowdfunding appeal after “mindless idiots” on quad bikes caused £10,000 of damage to its course.Queensbury Golf Club was targeted by three people who destroyed the third green and badly damaged the putting surface on the second

  • Two injured in crash in Keighley

    TWO people were injured in a road crash in Keighley today. The crash involving a red Seat and a red Hyundai occurred in Staveley Road, Keighley, shortly before 7.30am. A crew from Keighley fire station were called following reports that one

  • Angling Lines

    BRADFORD No 1 AAThe final round of this year's Raskelf Winter Series is on Sunday, drawing at the Black Bull in Raskelf at 9am (don't forget that the clocks go forward on Saturday night). Heading into the match, Graham Jackson leads the Ronald

  • Appeal for help at becks tidy-up

    VOLUNTEERS are being sought to help out with a litter-pick along Bradford’s becks this weekend.Friends of Bradford Becks are joining forces with the River Stewardship Company and will be meeting at the bridge over the beck at Poplar Road, Frizinghall,

  • Victory is enough to seal Dragons' play-off berth

    BRADFORD Dragons won one and lost one over the penultimate weekend of regular fixtures, but their victory was enough to secure a place in the National Basketball League Division One end-of-season play-offs.They beat Leicester Warriors 92-86 but were then

  • Ryden is just champion

    RYDEN Hindle (Keelham Primary School) has been crowned Yorkshire under-nine boys' cyclo-cross champion.The Thornton youngster, who rides for Shibden Cycling Club, took the title in an entry of 31 at the British Schools' Cycling Association Regional

  • Church is ‘honoured’ by guests

    A PARTY from the Ecclesiastical Architects and Surveyors Association visited a church in the district following its annual national conference.They visited Whitechapel Church in Cleckheaton, where they were welcomed by music from the church’s bells, and

  • VIDEO: Teenager given summons after car is seized by police

    A youth has been issued with a summons after making off from a car in Bradford this afternoon. West Yorkshire Police, pictured in Bolton Road near Bradford Cathedral at around 1.30pm, say a number of suspects made off from a vehicle in nearby Priestley

  • Cousin returns as West face a big test against Sharks

    WEST Bowling are forced to make two changes when they welcome Warrington-based Rylands Sharks to Emsley's Rec in Kingstone Press National Conference League Division Three. Centre Jack Milburn misses out with a torn bicep and hooker Kyle Carter

  • Prop Boyce signs for Harlequins

    FORMER Prince Henry's Grammar School pupil Lewis Boyce has signed for Aviva Premiership Harlequins for next season. Harlequins' director of rugby John Kingston said of the Yorkshire Carnegie loose-head prop:  “Lewis is an extremely exciting prospect

  • Wibsey end their chase for Keith Dyas Cup

    WIBSEY have given up on their bid for double glory. The Yorkshire Division Five champions were hoping to add the Keith Dyas Cup, which also involves clubs from Yorkshire Division Four, to their league silverware, but the intermittent nature of

  • Bail for man arrested over arson incidents at take away

    A MAN arrested on suspicion of arson after two firebomb incidents has been released on bail.The 38 year old man was arrested yesterday in relation to incidents at Raja’s Appetisers Bar, a take away on Leeds Road.Police and firefighters were called out

  • Company signs new deal with Microsoft

    AN ONLINE marketing company led by David Hood, who founded Shipley-based Pace Micro Technology, has been chosen as the first Bing Ads Elite Partner in the UK.Infoserve has been chosen by Microsoft to grow its customer base for online search advertising.The

  • Belcher gives Salem boost

    EIGHTH-placed Bradford Salem made use of their weekend off to watch Saturday's Yorkshire Division One opponents West Leeds. The Blue Hill Lane club were in action in the RFU Senior Vase, defeating former giant-killers Aspatria 50-10. Salem’s chairman

  • READER LETTER: We paid Europe with our wartime service

    SIR - So the EU want us to pay in ‘prep’ of Brexit talks! We have paid millions in ‘Blood Money’ of dead soldiers in the 1914 and 1939 World Wars; go over there and walk around the cemeteries, and then read the sacrifice of the Bradford Pals. There

  • READER LETTER: Osborne can’t do jobs as they should be done

    SIR - My first thought when I heard about George Osborne taking on another job was that he is just plain greedy. And that first thought hasn’t changed since... Most of the population who take on three jobs do so out of economic desperation. The

  • READER LETTER: Inappropriate for MPs to have a second job

    SIR - George Osborne certainly wouldn’t win the title of ‘Politician of the Year’ but he might just be in with a chance of ‘Most Brazen Politician of the Year’! With all his MP’s duties to perform in London and in his northern constituency of Tatton

  • READER LETTER: Council split not a solution

    SIR - Correspondent Bob Watson (Letters, March 18) thinks that splitting Bradford Council will bring back our services and all will be rosy in the Aire Valley again. The services he lists need proper funding but this Government is committed to

  • Thackley break their away duck

    THACKLEY Under-19s won 3-2 in their Northern Alliance League match at AFC Emley. The Dennyboys youngsters produced a brilliant performance at a windswept venue to record their first away victory of the season. Thackley equalised via Joe Storey and a Callum

  • Benton bites the bullet before must-win clash

    CLECKHEATON'S coach Scott Benton admits: "I have been caught between a rock and a hard place this week." With his side only two points and one place above a relegation berth in National League Three North, the former England international has been

  • Guiseley's adaptability is a real game changer

    MANAGER Adam Lockwood has pin-pointed his team’s adaptability as being a key factor in their resurgence.   Successive away draws at Boreham Wood and Gateshead extended Guiseley’s unbeaten run to five games and they are now seven points above the

  • Granger: I wasn't ready to be world champion

    REBECCA Granger has now reached the Eden Ladies' World Snooker Championship semi-finals for the past two seasons.Yet the 28-year-old Keighley potter confessed that she is not yet ready to be world champion.Battling jet lag and disrupted sleep during

  • Safestyle UK announces record profits

    SAFESTYLE UK has today reported record sales and profits for last year. The Bradford-based firm reported a gross profit of £55.6 million for 2016, which was an 11.9 per cent increase on 2015. It also posted revenue of £163.1m in 2016, an increase

  • Huge away win for Albion Sports

    Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division: Cleethorpes Town 0 Albion Sports 3 ALBION Sports inflicted the first home defeat of the season on leaders Cleethorpes Town last night. The Owls were fresh from confirming their place

  • Lingard tells Cougars: Wolfpack stars are only human

    CRAIG Lingard has reminded his players that Toronto Wolfpack are 'not super heroes' as Cougars bid to spring an upset against League One's new powerhouse.The first ever trans-Atlantic professional rugby league side head to Keighley on Sunday

  • An incomplete curriculum

    OFSTED, the school inspection system, finds that most schools tick all the boxes for socially acceptable behaviour, good attendance, punctuality, homework in on time, respect for the property of others, the use of litter bins and, for some, a strong spiritual

  • EMMA CLAYTON: Time something was done about quad bike menace

    ISN'T it time something was done to clear our roads of the menace that is the quad bike? On farms and other private land these vehicles are acceptable, and in a controlled environment they can be fun even for youngsters to ride on. But on highways

  • Bradford teams reach national schools' finals

    BECKFOOT School's under-19 boys' team and Bradford Grammar School's under-19 girls' team, who were runners-up last year, have both qualified for the finals of the English Schools’ Table Tennis Association's Butterfly National Team Championships.

  • Keyes taking nothing for granted against struggling Rams

    JOE Keyes is refusing to take early Championship whipping boys Dewsbury lightly on Sunday.The Rams come to Odsal on a desperate run of league form, having scored just 20 points and conceded 178 in five straight opening defeats.However, four of those losses

  • RACING TIPS: Sweet Mariee to cut loose at Chelmsford

    MARIEE has not got her head in front for over a year now but her consistency can finally pay off with victory at Chelmsford's evening meeting.Mark Johnston's charge has yet to finish out of the first four in 11 starts but it certainly does seem

  • McCall issues Iron-clad warning to Bantams

    STUART McCall views Scunthorpe as a timely warning for City about how fast the promotion picture can change.The fourth-placed Bantams head into Sunday's televised date at Glanford Park with a two-point advantage on their hosts.Having led League One

  • Image released after 'savage and cowardly attack on lone woman'

    THIS is the face of a man suspected of carrying out a brutal armed robbery at a shop.Officers want to identify the man in this e-fit image in connection with the incident in Devonshire Street, Highfield, Keighley, at around 8pm on Tuesday, March 7. Kausar

  • Man, 28, jailed for drunken street attack

    A MAN who threatened his friend at knifepoint after staying up all night drinking has been jailed for 21 months. Jamie Lovric (pictured), 28, was outside his home in Western Fold, Bradford, at about 7am on November 26 last year when he attacked

  • Saltaire Festival will go ahead this year, say organisers

    THE organisers of a ten-day festival whose future was under threat from cuts say this year’s event will now go ahead. The team behind Saltaire Festival started an appeal for funds after facing a shortfall due to cutbacks. They have now revealed

  • Wellwishers rally to desperate husband's plea for help

    THE family of a mum fighting bowel cancer say they now have enough money for one more round of treatment in a German clinic after well-wishers responded to their desperate appeal in the Telegraph & Argus. Sally Major’s husband Liam spoke exclusively

  • New stores for city shopping centre

    THE arrival of three new stores has given the Kirkgate shopping centre a boost following a busy start to 2017 at the mall. Along with the new retailers, three current tenants at the city centre mall have recently renewed leases, and a tenant has