A NEW charity dedicated to feeding the homeless has made its first handout of food in the city centre.Creating Smiles - every life matters, has been started by Keighley man Raz Hussain and will be officially launched in June.“We started the project off
A TEENAGER disturbed two burglars as they searched a house for keys to the householder's performance car.The 18-year-old was woken at around 5.30am today to find the intruders, both of whom were wearing balaclavas, inside the house in Dalton Lane,
ENGLAND discard James Vince scored his first century in a year as Yorkshire’s bowlers struggled on day one against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl. Yorkshire struck four times in good batting conditions after Gary Ballance opted to bowl. Vince’
BRADFORD Park Avenue broke their duck in emphatic style with a 6-1 victory against Thackley in the Northern Under-19 Alliance League.Brad Oliver led the way with a hat-trick and the other goals were scored by Kieran Suddards (2) and Bobby Athey.The Lancashire
DRIGHLINGTON are through to the final of the Heavy Woollen & District FA's Wheatley Cup final.The Championship Division winners in the Yorkshire Amateur League defeated Hartshead, who have been promoted from Division One of the West Yorkshire League
A BUSINESSMAN from Bradford who had his stomach removed to prevent cancer will tackle the London Marathon on Sunday.Dan Taylor underwent a six-hour operation in June 2012 after discovering in 2011 that he carried the mutant CDH1/HDGC gene that meant he
GUISELEY Vixens need just a point at Blackpool Wren Rovers this weekend to be crowned Northern Division One champions in the FA Women's Premier League.There was huge disappointment when the club were relegated after just one season in Premier League
PAUL Newbould has warned clubs that there may be a shortage of umpires, particularly in the opening weeks of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League's season, which starts tomorrow [Saturday].At the league's pre-season meeting at Great Horton
LIVERSEDGE have no game on the penultimate day of the Toolstation Northern Counties East League season this weekend and manager Jonathan Rimmington is counting down the days until their final fixture.Sedge's campaign comes to an end with next Saturday
SOUTHOWRAM and Sowerby St Peter’s have withdrawn from the Spenser Wilson Halifax League's Sunday section due to difficulties in raising sides.Fixtures start on Sunday with round-robin matches in the Rod Warhurst Cup, and it was too late for the league
A SENIOR councillor and keen cyclist has criticised the state of the new Cycle Superhighway linking Leeds with Bradford and Shipley. Kirklees councillor Martyn Bolt, who sits on the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s (WYCA) transport committee
THREE Titus Salt School pupils are heading to next month's British Schools' Gymnastics Championships at Stoke-on-Trent after winning medals in tumbling events at the Yorkshire Schools' Championships.Year Ten student Catherine Duffy won the
BRADFORD Disability Football Club's under-16 team are through to the national finals of the The FA People's Cup, which will be held in Birmingham on the bank holiday weekend of April 30-May 1.After winning the West Riding final in Halifax, the
BRAZILIAN JIU Jitsu Club Gracie Barra Bradford picked up nine medals at the Junior National Championships in Wolverhampton, including three golds.The national champions among an overall entry that topped 600 were Sa?a Paterson and brothers Lucas and Logan
HAMPSHIRE enjoyed the better of the opening afternoon against Yorkshire at the Ageas Bowl despite wickets at either end of the session.Yorkshire struck twice after lunch on day one of the Specsavers County Championship match but the hosts reached tea
A WOMAN trapped in an abusive relationship with a drug addict was driven to steal £23,000 from her employer, Bradford Crown Court heard today. Siobhan Collier was an honest and hard-working member of the team at Carnaud Metal Box Company in Shipley
THREE women are still receiving hospital treatment, some for serious injuries, after a two car crash.Four people were taken to hospital following the incident involving a white Volkswagen Golf and a black Vauxhall Vectra in Buck Street, off Leeds Road
The Vestry, Denholme Road, Oxenhope, Keighley£449,950The Green Partnership 01535 680553Situated on the outskirts of the popular village of Oxenhope, by Leeming Reservoir, lies this truly individual property which has been created as part of the old chapel
RITCHIE Hawkyard has not ruled out being available for Cougars' next game despite suffering horrific facial injuries against Hunslet.The Cougars half-back was knocked out and needed plastic surgery on his mouth after splitting his lip in a sickening
ONE of the things Bradford can be very proud of is its film history, spanning more than 100 years, and its status as the world’s first UNESCO City of Film. And, thanks largely to the City of Film team, which has worked hard to attract film-makers
A CARE trust has won a national award after staging a music and arts festival for people with mental health problems.LYNFEST, held last year by Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, has earned a Breaking Down Barriers/Tackling Stigma accolade.The
CALDERDALE Council has issued a warning over scam emails being sent from what appear to be its accounts. The emails come from addresses ending ‘@calderdale.gov.uk’, and say a PayPal transaction has been processed. The fake emails can be spotted
YORKSHIRE claimed only one wicket during an attritional opening morning of their Specsavers County Championship match against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl.Ben Coad had Michael Carberry caught behind on the drive in the sixth over after Gary Ballance had
A COUPLE whose dysfunctional relationship included the long-term sexual abuse of a young girl have been jailed for a total of 15 years. Martin Panton, 49, who first had sex with the child when she was 12 and went on to abuse her until she was 16
ST George's Day celebrations started early today as members of the Royal Society of St George visited City Hall to drop off some red roses to the Lord Mayor. Members of the Bradford Branch of the society visited the Lord Mayor of Bradford
Tory MPs who supported the UK remaining in the European Union have been challenged by the Liberal Democrats to reject Theresa May's "hard Brexit" plans. Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said the election was a "litmus test" for pro-EU Tories, and urged
A PROTEST is being organised in Bradford's Centenary Square tomorrow against the killing of a university student in Pakistan. Mashal Khan, a Pashtun student at the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, was killed on campus earlier this month by
Former England footballer Adam Johnson has been filmed laughing in prison while discussing his conviction for sexual activity with a 15-year-old fan. Johnson was found guilty last year of sexual activity with a child in relation to meeting up with
ARTWORK by people who have fled their home countries to find safety in the UK is now on display in the Bradford Peace Museum.Journeys is an exhibition that mixes artwork by refugees with photography of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais.Running until May
AN operation to crack down on nuisance bikes and quads has seen five vehicles seized in its first 10 days.Operation Thricelake began after residents of the Batley and Spen area raised concerns over anti social riding in the area.Since it began on April
IT didn’t take long for word to get out that Game of Thrones star Kit Harington had been spotted in a Saltaire bar, or that he and other cast and crew of his new TV drama had descended on a nearby bistro for an evening. The actor has been filming BBC
LIKE many youngsters, 13-year-old Dylan Miles-Davis loves School of Rock, the hit movie about a maverick high school teacher who enters his fifth graders into a Battle of the Bands contest.And now Dylan gets to act out the story for real - on a West End
JONNY Bairstow and Joe Root will fit straight back into our dressing room and team environment, almost like they haven't been away, when we face Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl today.They will be with us for a couple of weeks before England's international
TOMORROW is the last day of the regular season for clubs in the Evo-Stik League and while Farsley Celtic hope it is the conclusion of their campaign, Brighouse Town are looking to gatecrash the play-off party. FARSLEY had looked set to land the Division
BRADFORD CITY AADESPITE the weather not quite living up to forecasters' predictions, many anglers took advantage of the long weekend to get out onto the banks. Insect hatches are starting to emerge on the rivers and fish are becoming more active in
LOWER Hopton took a huge stride towards lifting the West Riding County Amateur League title for the first time when they beat fellow Premier Division high-fliers Littletown 3-1 in midweek.The leaders will be seeking another three points towards their
WIMBLEDON have achieved their target of League One survival with something to spare – but don't be fooled into thinking they are already mentally 'on the beach'.The Dons head north with one more aim from the final two games of their fledgling
ALL the pressure will be on visitors Stockport County tomorrow as Bradford Park Avenue host their former Football League rivals.It is a must-win game for the Hatters as they are two places and four points outside the National League North play-off zone
STUART McCall insists speculation linking Mark Marshall with Charlton is “irrelevant”.Sources in London have confirmed the Addicks are keen on the star winger, who is among the City first-teamers out of contract in the summer.But McCall sees that as no
BULLS are hoping the Dane Chisholm deadlock is edging closer to being resolved. The Aussie halfback remains at the centre of a wrangle between Bradford and Sheffield Eagles. Bulls last week announced they had recaptured the 26-year-old, three months
LOOKING for a positive play-off omen for City? Best not ask Nicky Law then. One point against Wimbledon tomorrow – or friendly results elsewhere – will confirm the Bantams are in for the nerve-shredding promotion showdown next month. Law has
COMMUNITIES in Bradford are gearing up for the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire, which brings riders into the city centre for the first time next weekend. A programme of events, activities and entertainment is being organised for the city centre and across the
ORGANISERS of a project to clean up the River Aire are looking for £60,000 of funding to continue for at least another year following a successful pilot. The River C’Aire Project, run by The Aire Rivers Trust and River Stewardship Company
ANYONE dining or enjoying a drink in Saltaire over recent months could well have rubbed shoulders with Game of Thrones star Kit Harington, who has been a regular in the village's bars and restaurants while filming there. Mr Harington, star of new BBC
A DOCTOR failed to mention evidence that was of “pretty dramatic importance” to his defence when interviewed by police investigating a sexual assault claim against him, a court heard. Fesal Hussain, 33, denies two charges of sexually assaulting
THE local branch of a recruitment firm will soon be moving into a much more prominent city centre unit, that was once the subject of a prime time TV series. Stafforce currently has its Bradford base on Salem Street, but will be moving into the former
NEXT month’s snap General Election will see a rematch between two of Bradford’s political heavyweights. Bradford East’s former Liberal Democrat MP David Ward is poised to be selected as the party’s candidate to fight its sitting Labour MP Imran
A STEETON woman has undergone life-changing surgery in America. Catrina Farnell, who has a condition known as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, travelled to the United States for a specialist operation. A massive fundraising campaign was launched
FOOTBALL training with a side order of maths, English and science, if desired, are now going hand-in-hand at a club first established to bring hope to children in a deprived area of the city. Alpha United Juniors Football Club, founded by Mohammed
AN "EVIL and controlling bully" who imprisoned a woman in his flat and filmed himself raping her has been jailed for more than 11 years. Rizwan Khan held his victim captive for several days, ordering her to strip naked and stand in a corner before
DOUBLE UP was a source of minor frustration last year but he has been cherry-picked a nice opportunity at Newbury to set the tone for the summer.Roger Varian's sprinter must have at least been expected to win a race in 2016, yet he was continually
