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THERE was a standing ovation even before the first act was over when dazzling musical La Cage Aux Folles opened at the Alhambra this week.The show, based on a French farce, is about Georges, owner of a St Tropez nightclub and his partner, Albin, the club

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms in the north of England this evening.  Thundery downpours are expected to break out over parts of northeast Wales, central and northern England, moving from west to east

LEEDS have announced the signing of defender Matthew Pennington on a season-long loan from Everton.The 22-year-old centre-half has teamed up with the Leeds squad on their summer tour to Austria and could make his debut against Borussia Monchengladbach

MORE than £80 million of road improvements are planning in Yorkshire for the rest of this year.The work, which is in addition to major improvement schemes currently taking place in the county, includes resurfacing more than 207 miles of roads using more

THE first Bradford Print Fair will be held this Saturday as part of the North Parade Street Party. Organised by Anna Parker and Katie Holmes (pictured), two local creatives, the event will see 28 artists from across West Yorkshire displaying and

Haworth’s hugely popular annual 1940s Weekend is in jeopardy for next year after the event’s organising committee resigned. The 2017 Haworth 1940s Weekend was successfully staged in May, but a detailed message posted on the event's official Facebook

PARENTS, local mosques and churches have been invited to join hundreds of primary school pupils and staff on a Peace Walk to celebrate diversity.The walk, organised by Miriam Lord Primary in Manningham, will take place on Friday morning at 10am, and is

A MAN and woman were taken to hospital following a chip pan fire. Crews from Fairweather Green and Shipley were called to a fire in the kitchen of a house in Durham Road, Girlington, at 12.20pm today. A chip pan was left unattended in the ground

A BRADFORD man has won a national health award.Phillip Marshall, 47, has been voted the Healthcare People Management Association’s human resources (HR) director of the year.He works as Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust’s director of workforce

THE IMMINENT retirement of Rob Burrow will bring another era of greatness at Leeds Rhinos to a close.The 34-year-old's decision to hang up his boots at the end of the season comes just a week after his long-term half-back partner Danny McGuire announced

THE British Crown Green Bowling Association's Senior Individual Merit takes place at Griff & Coton Sports Club, Nuneaton on Saturday, July 29 (10am), with 64 bowlers looking to become All-England champion. A total of 11 are from Yorkshire or South

BULLS will be without loan forwards Mikolaj Oledzski and Cameron Smith for their must-win clash at home to Swinton on Sunday.The Leeds Rhinos youngsters have been recalled by parent club Leeds Rhinos for their game with Wigan on Friday.Rhinos, who have

THE outgoing head of a Baildon primary school has been praised for “maintaining a high quality.”Lynda Florence, head of Hoyle Court Primary on Fyfe Grove, is retiring this week, but before she left Ofsted released an inspection report that said the school

A 40-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and false imprisonment following an altercation in Girlington.Police were called to an address in West Park Road after an altercation involving a group of men. A 23-year-old man suffered minor

BRADFORD SATURDAY LEAGUEGodwin: Wyke A 196 (25) Shipley Club B 126 (5).Observer: Littlemoor S&SC B 198 (26) Wyke B 136 (4), Hipperholme & Lightcliffe A 196 (22) Drighlington 151 (8).Bartle: Peel 122 (2) Royd House 209 (28), Hove Edge C 184 (19) Pudsey

THE burial chamber for a Stone Age man has been discovered in Silsden.Archaeologists excavated the barrow created for an “important individual” at least 4,500 years ago and found items including an ancient urn.Experts described the find, on the site of

A SLIP road to the M62, which had been closed for more than two hours following an accident, has reopened. The eastbound entry sliproad at J25 for Brighouse was closed while a spillage was dealt with, causing delays for motorists. Highways

BRADFORD play their third match in the Federation on Sunday against Menai, with the home match at Wibsey Park and the away match at Bangor City. Bradford will be looking to build on victories over Bolton and Warrington in their attempt for back-to-back

YORKSHIRE lost their final group game in this year’s British Parks Senior Team Championship 21-10 to the East Midlands, who progress to the semi-finals.The white rose struggled throughout, only managing six home winners, with Marc Armitage (Littlemoor

FAKE car parts worth tens of thousands of pounds have been seized during a police raid in Bradford. Officers from the City of London Police's Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) found a haul of fake car parts, including 250 Audi and Volkswagen

SALEM Athletic have reached the final of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League's H Broadbent Trophy for the seventh consecutive season.They convincingly beat Allerton by 126 runs in the semi-final after scoring 270-7 off their 40 overs, with Tahir

DARULSHAFA survived a major wobble to reach the Quaid-e-Azam League's Yasmin & Shaid Solicitors Cup final.Heaton Park had made 125 in the all-Premier Section clash, with Amir Hamza taking 4-14, and Darulshafa were cruising at 92-2 before losing five

A SPECTACULAR performance of a beloved musical brought the house down on its first night at the Alhambra Theatre.La Cage Aux Folles began its five day run at the theatre yesterday, with an opening night that brought the audience to its feet and had them

IF WE can get on a run of three or four wins on the bounce in the T20 Blast, starting against Birmingham at Headingley tomorrow, I reckon we'll be nearly qualified for the quarter-finals.We've made an okay start with a win and two one-pointers

A NEW leader for Bradford’s business community has been elected at the annual meeting of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce. Nick Garthwaite, the managing director of hygiene solutions company Christeyns, was unanimously elected as the new president

PATIENT satisfaction across Bradford's GP surgeries is falling below local NHS targets, new figures have revealed. Localised findings from an independent survey for NHS England carried out by social research institute Ipsos Mori show many patients

A MANHUNT was continuing today for a driver who fled the scene of a crash leaving a badly injured woman passenger trapped in the wreckage. He had been driving a blue Volkswagen Golf towards Bradford when the crash occurred at the junction of Hunters

AN acclaimed acting troupe will bring a traditional re-telling of one of Shakespeare’s classics to East Riddlesden Hall this summer. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men is an all male group who perform the Bard’s works like they were originally performed

COUGARS forward Brad Nicholson has been handed a one-match ban after being sent off in the 30-30 draw at Workington – but three of his team-mates have avoided suspension.At last night's disciplinary hearing, Nicholson, who was initially charged with

KEIGHLEY Cougars will begin their Super Eights campaign with a trip to Doncaster on Sunday, July 30.The Cougars lost on their visit to South Yorkshire earlier this season and the fifth-placed Dons will provide Craig Lingard’s side with a tough opener

Pre-season friendly: Ossett Town 0 Bradford Park Avenue 1 MARK Bower’s Bradford Park Avenue kept their momentum going with a fourth straight win as they returned from Ossett Town with their 100 per cent start intact. It was a narrow victory

THE PET department of a garden centre has been destroyed by fire killing many of the animals. The blaze broke out in the Pet Safari unit of Stephen H Smith's in Pool Road, Otley, late on Tuesday night. Most of the animals, which included reptiles

FIFTEEN years after Wimbledon was founded a fledgling club began introducing tennis within the local community. In distance they are more than 200 miles apart, but their similarities are in the sport they have been promoting ever since they began

MAKE TIME may have not lived up to connections' Classic aspirations but he can finally get his season on the right track by winning the Robert Dyas Handicap at Sandown's evening meeting.Trainer David Menuisier had high hopes for the Makfi colt

THE first of the three days of graduation ceremonies were held at the University of Bradford yesterday.And as well as thousands of students who will be donning cap and gown for the events, held in the university’s Great Hall, a number of notable figures

GORDON Greer should find out if he is in City's plans within the next day. Stuart McCall is keen to get the experienced Scot on board at centre half. Greer enhanced his claims tonight with a goal to cap a solid display as the Bantams won 2-

BRADFORD College is the first college in the country to be given “lead status” by the Royal Shakespeare Company, meaning it will take an active role in teaching the district’s young people about the Bard’s work. The college is one of ten places

MOST teenagers want to spend summer with their mates in a sunshine resort – but not 17-year-old Adam Hussain. The A-level law student from Horton Bank Top has just returned from three weeks in South Africa, 6,000 miles away, where he volunteered

TWO young entrepreneurs aim to open pop-up shops across the country after unveiling their firm’s new base in Bradford.Sign n Print, run by friends Khalid Thabet, 26, and Wasiq Khan, 24, has moved into its headquarters in Boynton Street, West Bowling.

VOLUNTEERS are wanted to help re-start a community group to look after a beauty spot in Baildon. The Friends of Ferniehurst Dell are looking for new members to help with the maintenance of the area. The group, which will re-launch next month, is looking

A SHOP owner says his business has fallen victim to repeated raids by a gang of youths. Michael Haylock, who runs the J&M Off Licence in Cleckheaton Road, Low Moor, has spoken out after seeing the turmoil suffered by other crime-hit business-owners

A DECISION to challenge the implementation of traffic regulation orders (TRO) on a new cycleway connecting Shipley and Bradford has been “called in” to a Council committee amid fears any delay would put the entire £2.5 million project “at risk”.

A PLUMBING company which has been run by three generations of the same family is marking its 60th anniversary this year.R Dakin & Sons was founded in 1957 by Ronald Dakin, grandfather of its current boss, Richard Dakin.The 45-year-old took over the family

A PIONEERING safety initiative is being unveiled in an area of Keighley where youngsters are deemed to be at the second highest risk of child sexual exploitation (CSE) in the whole of Bradford district. Three schools are taking part in the venture

A TEENAGER who used a combat knife to “jab” at a doorman after being refused entry to a Bradford nightclub has been spared custody. Kalem Wilson, then 19, was part of a group of men involved in an altercation with staff outside the Krizma club

SIGNS have gone up on Brighouse Jobcentre advertising the building for sale, following confirmation that it will close in a restructuring of the service. Earlier this month the Government announced that a number of Jobcentres across the country

PAUL Taylor aims to take his career one step beyond at Valley Parade this season – and put the first promotion on his CV. The attacker has never gone up in his time with Peterborough and Ipswich. He is desperate to break his duck and believes City

JOE Keyes believes the Bulls must learn to stop "over-playing" in possession as they prepare for their do-or-die clash at home to Swinton.Bradford were guilty of trying to force the pass at times in their latest defeat against Batley and half-back

GUISELEY 1 CITY 2AFTER the blurry memories of Germany, last night’s trip to Nethermoor brought pre-season into sharper focus for City and their fans.Anyone still nursing a fuzzy head from the Echterdingen antics returned to reality as the warm-up programme