It's 21 years since the first time the Bantams went to Wembley for the Division Two play-off final. On that account Chris Kamara's men triumphed 2-0 over Notts County under the old twin towers, in front of a crowd of just under 40,000 - only just
CRAVEN LEAGUE Division Three leaders Cononley had to be at their best as they recorded a 24-run victory over Bingley Congs II at Beckfoot Lane. The South Craven side saw Andrew Starkey (85) and Tom Feather (89) put on 181 for the fifth wicket as they
SINGAPORE has emerged as a potential venue but the Dacia World Club Series is set to stay in England for 2018, according to Super League executive director Roger Draper.Organisers are putting the final touches to the next series, pencilling in the weekend
IT USED to be easy to identify any high street in any village or neighbourhood in this country by the presence of just three institutions: a baker, a butcher and a bank. The growth in out-of-town supermarkets put paid to many of the first two a
SUPER League is bracing itself for a dip in attendances at Magic Weekend as organisers consider a move away from Newcastle.St James' Park will host the annual two-day extravaganza for the third successive year this weekend as fans from all 12 Super
NINE-man Riddlesden were no match for Craven League Division One leaders Embsay.The Grange Road hosts could only make 104-8, with Mohammed Arshad top scoring on 22 as Elliot Stockton took 3-37. Stockton followed up with 36 to go with Joe Holt’s 46no as
THEY may be considered the underdogs but Brighouse Town forward Jodie Redgrave is confident her side can upset the odds when they take on holders Bradford City in the West Riding County FA Women's Cup final.The two teams clash at West Riding headquarters
A 45-year-old arrested after police were called to reports of a man with a knife at a shop in Wibsey has been charged with theft and threatening a person with a blade/sharp pointed article in a public place.Police were called to McColl’s in Beacon Road
WORKERS at three train operators, including Arriva Rail North, will stage a fresh 24-hour strike on the same day in the bitter disputes over staffing and driver-only trains. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Southern Railway,
WHAT Ben Coad and Matthew Waite have achieved during the first month and a half of the season has not only been great for themselves but also the rest of us young lads in the Yorkshire squad.Coady is the leading wicket-taker in the County Championship
BRADFORD’S new Lord Mayor has been formally installed in a ceremony at City Hall.Councillor Geoff Reid passed on his chain and robes to Councillor Abid Hussain after a year in the post at Bradford Council’s annual general meeting at City Hall today.Cllr
DAVID Wagner hopes his Huddersfield players have been inspired by the last Terriers team to play top-flight football as they look to overcome Sheffield Wednesday and reach the Championship play-off final.Sunday's 0-0 draw at the John Smith's Stadium
AIREDALE has been named one of the country’s 40 top performing hospitals.It has received the accolade from CHKS, an independent provider of healthcare intelligence and quality improvement.Results were announced at a ceremony in London.It is the sixth
FORMER Oxenhope Rec youngster Will Wells has been rewarded with a new one-year contract at Guiseley.The 19 year-old, who came up through the National League club’s academy system, made four appearances for the first team last season, spending much of
THERE was a run feast in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League at Park Avenue. In a Group A game that went down to the last over, Apperley Bridge made scored 241-8 off their 40 overs, skipper Mohammed Junaid (79) and Salman Khawaja (71) sharing
BRADFORD City fans were in buoyant mood as they queued up for tickets for their club’s League One Play-off Final at Wembley on Saturday. Bantams supporters lined up at the Valley Parade ticket office today to get their seat for the showpiece clash
ALMOST 1,000 soccer-mad youngsters have kicked off one of the country's biggest school festivals which has been taking place in the district this week - and celebrated a special anniversary to boot.The Bradford District Schools 5 v 5 Football Festival
ON the day an 11-year-old Bradford boy killed himself he told another boy he felt unsafe in his new school and was going to skive for a very long time, an inquest hearing was told today. Asad Khan's mother Farheen Khan found him hanged on September
AFTER the bowlers were on top in the first two weeks of the Bradford & District Evening League season, the batsmen held sway in week three, with two matches producing over 300 runs and two games being won by just one run. Greenfield and Shelf
THORNBURY have set a new record partnership for the Dales Council League. They scored 378-3 in the A Division match against visitors Cookridge, with opener Arsalan Shaikh (187no) and Yassir Javed (146) putting on 302 for the second wicket.
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THE new Lord Mayor of Bradford was formally installed today at a ceremony at City Hall. Councillor Abid Hussain (Lab, Keighley Central) succeeds Councillor Geoff Reid, who will return to his role as a Liberal Democrat Councillor in Eccleshill. The
THE simple facts of Burley’s record-breaking Waddilove Cup innings that crushed Leeds Modernians are extraordinary enough. Their 499-8 total in the Aire-Wharfe League's premier knockout competition eclipsed the previous best – Otley’s 376, set in last
GAVIN Hamilton hit a century to steer Guiseley towards a comfortable win over Horsforth and keep them in touch with the pack at the top of Aire-Wharfe League Division One. With the help of an unbeaten half-century from James Davey, Guiseley set
SANDY Lane won the most prestigious cup competition in the area open to Sunday clubs, beating Hope Inn Whites in a tense West Riding County FA Sunday Cup final.Bradford Sunday Alliance outfit Lane fell behind when Hope Inn scored in the fourth minute,
FARSLEY Celtic are in shock after joint bosses John Deacey and Neil Parsley left the club with immediate effect within 24 hours of each other. Deacey was the first departure on Sunday, and the announcement that Parsley had also left followed yesterday
THE Alzheimer’s Society is urging people to come together against dementia this week.The theme of this year’s Dementia Awareness Week is uniting against dementia - to volunteer, donate and campaign for change to help find a cure, improve care and offer
BRADFORD City Women's final game of the season is tomorrow as they take on Brighouse Town in the West Riding County Cup final.It follows a weekend of cup finals for City's juniors, with the under-tens and under-12s having competed for trophies
BRADFORD Park Avenue lost 2-0 against Shelley at Horsfall Stadium in the Northern Under-19 Alliance League.Brad Benn and Andre Tavernier came close to open the scoring for Avenue but it was goalless at half-time.Shelley went ahead with a cracking shot
MATTHEW Waite has admitted his surprise at being placed above the likes of Adil Rashid, Liam Plunkett and David Willey in Yorkshire's batting order – but the rising talent says he is relishing the chance to prove his worth.The all-rounder has been
ON October 2 2015 Lisa Thompkins gave birth to her beautiful daughter Taniesha - her fourth child - but knowing she had a serious heart defect made it a tense and traumatic time for her and her partner, Buba Jallow."They were watching the heart machine
CARPE DIEM LADY would not be winning out of turn and there are reasons to believe she can break her maiden in the 188Bet Handicap at Chepstow's evening meeting.Now with Ralph Beckett, having left Clive Cox, she has a string of placed efforts next
RORY McArdle will share the pain of his personal Wembley heartache to remind City just what is at stake on Saturday.McArdle is gearing up for his third appearance in a play-off final when the Bantams face Millwall for a place in the Championship.The rugged
MIKOLAJ Oledzki has hailed the Bulls' "outstanding" work ethic after slotting seamlessly back into the squad.The teenage prop is back at Odsal for a second loan spell from neighbours Leeds Rhinos and has been impressed by the attitude among
IT MIGHT be lost in all the hype as City build up for another trip to Wembley on Saturday. But Valley Parade’s quiet revolution is beginning to gather pace. Last week’s low-key announcement about three fresh-faced additions to the squad was the
A BUSINESSMAN has started a company which will allow people everywhere to benefit from the latest and future advances in cutting-edge medicine.Ilkley-based Mark Hall, who has been the driving force behind a number of local start-up businesses, is now
FINAL preparations are being put in place for this year’s Haworth 1940s Weekend, which begins in the village on Friday. The 2017 event will raise money for the Pilgrim Bandits charity, which helps severely injured service personnel rebuild their
JEREMY Corbyn sought to put education at the heart of Labour’s election pledges as he unveiled its manifesto at the University of Bradford today. Mr Corbyn garnered huge cheers from the crowd of students and party members by saying a Labour government
THE officer running Operation Steerside has praised the Telegraph & Argus’s “invaluable” Stop the Danger Drivers campaign for helping to make the police operation a success. Sergeant Cameron Buchan was commenting on the importance of the regional
A MAN’s asbestos death has sparked a search for former colleagues.Anthony Minter’s family are hoping people who used to work with him will come forward to shed light on working conditions from the past that they believe made him ill.Bradford man, Mr Minter
BRADFORD Council has been given a chance to “reconsider” its controversial decision to approve plans for a waste to energy incinerator in Keighley.Campaigners who are considering asking for a Judicial Review of the decision to pass the application for
A FORMER cricket club captain, who was killed while fighting in France during World War One, was remembered in a special memorial service on the 100th anniversary of his death.Members of Thornton Cricket Club, sporting cricket shirts embroidered with
A BRADFORD man who has never passed a driving test and has been banned from getting behind the wheel nine times over the past 25 years has been jailed. Kevin Holmes, 42, became involved in a lengthy police pursuit after officers saw him driving
EMPTY warehouses and offices next to the newly re-opened Low Moor Station will soon be flattened, and the site could eventually be used as parking for the station.The empty depot on Dealburn Road, formerly used by Shipley Transport, has been earmarked
A BRADFORD pensioner is to be sentenced next month for a string of sex offences against children dating back to the mid-1980s. Glynn Bishop, 65, had been due to stand trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday in relation to three offences against
RESIDENTS with disabilities at a supported living complex in Bradford are still stranded in their upstairs flats because of a broken lift, despite a promise to get it fixed by last weekend.Last week the Telegraph & Argus reported how repairers were struggling
A NEW project begins in Bradford tomorrow to bring young people from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds together using their shared First World War heritage. ‘Unknown & Untold’ will see teenagers from three centres in the city interview descendants
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THE former leader of Respect has denied she is fighting a grudge match against Labour’s Naz Shah on behalf of her former colleague George Galloway, saying she would be the “last person” to do so. Salma Yaqoob, who is standing as an independent
A 25-year-old man, who hopes to pursue a boxing career, has been jailed for two offences of dangerous driving in the space of four months. Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC described Theophilus Barrett's first offence last August as "outrageous" after
“VIBRANT and vital”, “a bedrock of democracy”, and the “glue that binds communities” - just some of the phrases used by political party leaders to describe the role played by local newspapers. Alongside hundreds of other newspapers up and down the land
A CABBIE has spoken of the heart-stopping moment he was shot at by hidden”bandits”. Shamas Farooq said shots which shattered a side window and cracked the windscreen could have cost his and other road users’ lives. He claims pellets from an
A CARER at a children’s home sexually abused three boys and a girl in the 1970s, a jury at Bradford Crown Court heard. One complainant told the police that Stuart Thornton threatened to withhold privileges or dish out punishment if he did not do
