POLICE have discovered a cannabis farm growing in the vicinity of Bradford Royal Hospital.Officers attended a property in Duckworth Lane at 11.29am today and discovered around 70 small cannabis plants growing. Investigations are ongoing in relation to
CORONERS are appealing for information to trace relatives of a Brighouse woman who recently died. Deryn Lovell, aged 78, died on June 17 at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary of natural causes. She lived In Common Terrace, Rastrick, in Brighouse
BRADFORD is a "great arts and culture news story," according to Pete Massey, north director for the Arts Council England.Here, he explains why the Arts Council is investing in the district:"Bradford is a city with a heck of a lot going
PERSONAL identity is a tricky issue. Where we were born, where our parents come from, what language we speak, where we live... all of these affect our sense of self to a greater or lesser degree. Witness the way our nation has wrestled for centuries
I KNEW Tom Kohler-Cadmore was a good player before he signed for Yorkshire but this last couple of weeks has really shown me what he can do.He has scored runs in almost every game he's played of late, be it for our second XI or for Driffield Town
BULLS loanee Jordan Lilley has been recalled by parent club Leeds Rhinos ahead of their Super League clash with St Helens.Rhinos head coach Brian McDermott has named the half back in his 19-man squad for Thursday evening's encounter at Headingley
MORE than 60 Eid gifts have been handed over to Bradford Hospitals Children's Charity to help make poorly children smile.It was the fifth year Manningham man Nazim Ali organised the initiative and this time he was sponsored by Shiraz Ahmed who is
LONG tailbacks and delays were caused earlier today after a collision occurred on the M62 motorway between a lights goods vehicle (LGV) and a caravan.The collision occurred just before 10.36am at Rishworth Moor and was attended by emergency services and
CYCLISTS from across the UK saddled up to compete in a road race in memory of a Bradford rider.The Nigel Moore Memorial Road Race attracted 54 cyclists from the Bradford district, Liverpool and Carlisle who completed 20 laps of a course which started
A HEATON man has appeared in court in connection with a shooting on a Bradford street. Nasir Humayun, 27, of Highfield Crescent, appeared at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.
ANDY Murray pulled out of his scheduled Wimbledon warm-up match at the Hurlingham Club today because of a sore hip.The world number one had scheduled two matches at the exhibition Aspall Tennis Classic event following his first-round exit at Queen'
THE BRONTË Parsonage is to star in two popular TV property shows. Film crews for Escape To The Country and A Place In The Sun descended on the Haworth museum on the same day. Nicki Chapman, presenter of BBC’s Escape to the Country, visited
VIOLENCE is recorded on a daily basis in HMP Leeds and the use of drugs and mobile phones is also a cause for “concern”, a new report has revealed. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at the prison, which is based in Armley and houses a number
BRADFORD enjoys the fastest internet speeds in the whole of Yorkshire, new figures have revealed. Broadband speeds in the district average out at 19.1 megabits per second (Mbps), almost double the 10Mbps that the government considers an acceptable
YORKSHIRE and Surrey were made to wait to start day two of their Specsavers County Championship match at Headingley.No play was possible before the first scheduled interval following overnight, morning and early afternoon rain, although the scene does
WARREN Gatland has insisted he doesn't care about the New Zealand Herald mocking him up as a cartoon clown.The British and Irish Lions head coach laughed off New Zealand's daily paper publishing a second clown caricature of him in six months.Gatland
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD year-old Olivia (not her real name) spent her early years suffering from neglect and witnessing domestic violence and drug misuse at home. She became a mother figure to her younger brother, often taking charge of the cooking and
OXENHOPE continue to surprise long-standing Spenser Wilson Halifax League Premier Division clubs. Their latest victims at The Flatt were Warley. However, hosts Oxenhope were 33-3 before the in-form Joe Ousey took the visitors' attack apart
RAZA Ali hit an incredible 19 sixes as he cracked his second century of the weekend for Wilsden. He also hit four fours in his 110-ball knock of 155 as the home side totalled 259-7 against Gargrave in the third round of the Mewies Solicitors Craven
BRADFORD-based Morrisons has achieved the strongest sales of the big four grocers, according to latest market share data. Supermarkets have seen their highest sales growth in five years, with Morrisons seeing a 3.7 per cent increase despite its
AFTER a freak accident at Windhill, the last two Cross Roads & Daisy Hill batsmen were knocked unconscious as they collided with each other in the final over of their match against Crossflatts in the Bradford & District Evening League.
THE unarmed police officers who chased down and captured the gun and knife wielding murderer of MP Jo Cox have been nominated for a national Police Bravery Award. PCs Craig Nicholls and Jonathan Wright pursued Thomas Mair through the streets after
FORMER England scrum-half Richie Myler will join Leeds on a three-year contract from next season.The 27-year-old former Widnes, Salford and Warrington half-back is in his second season with Catalans Dragons but is keen to return to England for family
SECOND-placed Embsay blew their chances of going back to the top of Mewies Solicitors Craven League Division One. With Ingrow St John’s on a free week, Embsay slumped to defeat against bottom side Crossflatts at Ryshworth Park. The home side
SUPERMARKET giant Morrisons has wished a shopkeeper well after a cheeky re-brand of his business.Jel Singh Nagra recently changed the name of his convenience store on Benton Road in West Allotment, North Tyneside, to Morrisinghs - complete with a familiar
SECOND-placed Burley romped to a 73-run victory over fourth-placed Bilton and now look like the only side who can stop Beckwithshaw cruising to the Aire-Wharfe League championship crown. The leaders looked in trouble at third-placed Otley when
INTERLINK looked like losers at one stage but march on at the top of Group A in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League. They made 231-6, with Mohammed Data scoring 119, but Allerton needed only 24 with four wickets in hand. However, Interlink
CAMPAIGNERS calling for Bradford to get its fair share of national arts cash have chalked up a major victory. A total of £7m in Arts Council funding is heading to the district, representing a massive 65 per cent increase. And three local organisations
LITERACY experts will congregate in Bradford on Thursday for a conference focusing on closing the literacy gap.Bradford based charity Reading Matters is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and experts in literature will be giving talks and taking
JASON Roy, Rory Burns and Kumar Sangakkara excelled for Surrey to ensure Yorkshire were not in the pink at the end of day one of their floodlit Specsavers County Championship match at Headingley.Roy was in aggressive mood for 87 off 91 balls as Surrey
A series of events that will help shape a Bradford festival will be held this week.The WOW - Women of the World festival returns to the city in November (17-19), and like last year, community groups and members of the public will be asked what events
DALES Council League A Division leaders Thornbury were knocked off top spot at Broad Lane. They made 141 (Mohammed Amin 5-36), which Bradford Moor overhauled for the loss of five wickets (Owais Khan 67) to climb to fifth in the table. Crompark
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD year-old Olivia (not her real name) spent her early years suffering from neglect and witnessing domestic violence and drug misuse at home. She became a mother figure to her younger brother, often taking charge of the cooking and cleaning.After
MR POCKET can enjoy another moment in the spotlight by landing the Love Fairs Antiques 27 Aug Handicap at Brighton.The three-year-old kicked off the current campaign by dead-heating at Bath in April, after posting some fine efforts among six juvenile
A PLAN to change the name of a West Yorkshire ‘supercouncil’ just underlines its bias towards Leeds, critics have claimed.The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, which brings together six local councils, is set to be rebranded as the Leeds City Region
A COMMUNITY clean-up operation is under way after a field was left in a “disgusting” state. A group of travellers, with at least 20 caravans and other vehicles, had been parked up on a field in Keighley Road, Crossflatts. The camp
A SYRINGE-wielding shoplifter who persistently threatens to stab store security guards with needles to infect them with diseases has been locked up for 23 months. Robert Hill, 37, struck again when he was caught stealing packs of meat from Sainsbury
THREE teenage friends are heading to a swanky BAFTA awards ceremony after coming up with a novel video game idea. Adam Mehta, Daniel Lee and Owen Hickman, all 18, have featured the unlikely combination of space pirates and a good brew in their
A CHARITY has provided almost 15,000 books to children in two of the most deprived areas of Bradford in the past year. Canterbury Imagine was set up in 2012 by Jan Winter, and provides free books for children on the Canterbury estate from when
A BUSINESSMAN will reveal his rags to riches story at the Bradford Literature Festival. Gordon Black, who was chairman of Keighley-based Peter Black Holdings between 1977 and 2007, will speak at the festival about his book, From Bags to Blenders
CONTROVERSIAL plans for 47 homes on land in Cleckheaton look set to be approved later this week. Redrow Homes has been pursuing housing plans for the land off Ashbourne Drive for a number of years, having gained outline approval after a public inquiry
A GRAPHIC artist has achieved unexpected success in the music industry, after putting his passion for songwriting on hold for more than 30 years. Russell Jeanes, of East Morton, used to write songs frequently in his teens, but gave up his passion to
THE team behind a major Bollywood movie being filmed in Bradford is seeking around 2,000 local extras to appear in it.Gold – about India’s first Olympic Gold win as an independent nation in the 1948 London Olympics, the year after Partition – is shooting
TWO dodgem cars stand idle and abandoned at Shipley Glen; a former textile mill exposed as a cavernous empty space; and a roofless factory lies open to the elements, its skeletal beams reflected in the rainwater below. The striking images were captured
YOBS who attacked a pet rabbit with a spade left it so badly injured that one of its legs had to be amputated. Tracy Bebb, 48, of Bishopdale Holme, Buttershaw, said she woke up to find her daughter’s rabbit, Chinny, had been removed from his locked
PEOPLE are being invited to pay their respects at a special remembrance event in Bradford at the weekend honouring the sacrifices made by local men during World War One.Saturday will mark 101 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme when 1,400
FIVE months ago Adam Harrison was lying in a hospital bed with multiple broken bones. Despite his predicament, his overarching feeling was one of gratitude at still being alive following a serious mountain biking accident on Otley Chevin. The
RESIDENTS have criticised builders in charge of a £10.4million extra care and dementia unit in Bingley for only partly replacing a fence amid fears of anti-social behaviour. The 84,000 sq ft Abbeyfield Society development called The Dales, on the
CITY’S summer has been a lot shorter than most in League One. When Stuart McCall’s squad reconvene at Woodhouse Grove on Thursday, it will be only 40 days since the agony of Wembley defeat to Millwall. But you’ll not hear Matt Kilgallon grumbling
CITY are looking to boost the squad with a couple of fresh faces in time for their pre-season return. Head of recruitment Greg Abbott today revealed they were closing in on deals to add to the two summer signings Adam Chicksen and Paul Taylor.
BULLS winger Ethan Ryan insists the team will not lose their focus after finally reaching zero points.Ryan returned from a two-game injury absence and scored four tries as Bradford ended a sequence of nine consecutive defeats with a 47-12 victory against
