PLANNED roadworks will see the westbound carriageway of the M62 junction 27 to junction 26 Chain Bar fully closed overnight for four nights from Monday, August 21.The work is for gantry painting and will take place between 8pm and 6am each night. Drivers
A JUNIOR football team’s achievements have been celebrated at City Hall.The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Abid Hussain, met members of Bradford’s Alpha United Junior Football Club today.Around 150 children aged six to 16 play in the club, based at
MANORLANDS and the Upper Airedale Junior Cricket League are the beneficiaries from Sunday's Keighley Cup finals day at Keighley Cricket Club. Ingrow St John's face Oakworth in the first semi-final at 10.30am, followed by Harden against Keighley
BUSINESS leaders across the North have united to accuse the Government of a “massive U-turn” on rail investment in the region.Three major Chambers of Commerce, representing 8,700 Northern businesses, called on the Government to commit to a “long term
RECORD-BREAKER Adam Lyth is hoping he can force his way back into the England reckoning after his stunning 161 for Yorkshire in Thursday’s run-ladened NatWest T20 Blast win over Northamptonshire at Headingley.Lyth underpinned Yorkshire’s staggering score
IT’S been compared to the year Rangers spent in the bottom league in Scotland. For Annan Athletic, Peterhead or East Stirling read future opponents Hemel Stags, Gloucester All Golds and Oxford. The 2018 season in League One will be a huge eye-opener
AN out-of-this-world piece of modern history will be landing in Bradford next month.Soyuz TMA-19M - the Space capsule that brought British astronaut Tim Peake safely back to Earth after his months-long stint on the International Space Station - arrives
JOSH Tonks makes a welcome return into Cougars' 19 man squad for Sunday's trip to Whitehaven.It is set to be his first appearance since July’s defeat to Haven after serving a five-match suspension for his dismissal in June’s defeat to the York
LEROY Griffiths - jailed for murdering a man in Addingham in 2002 - is to be released and deported back to Barbados this weekend, it has been reported. Twenty-one year old Mark Webster was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife by chef Griffith
Kaspersky gets the nod in what looks a wide-open renewal of the Betfred Hungerford Stakes at Newbury. The six-year-old was a multiple Group-race winner on the continent before joining Jane Chapple-Hyam earlier this year and although he has failed
BULLS back Jonny Campbell makes his return to the 19-man squad for Sunday's trip to Swinton Lions.The winger/full back has missed the last two games through suspension after receiving a red card, ironically against the Lions in the 16-6 defeat at
4 The Narrows, Harden Asking Price: £350,000 Dacre, Son & Hartley 01274 560421 When the current owners purchased this home two years ago it was in urgent need of some tlc, But that didn’t put them off at all. “It was just what we were looking
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YORKSHIRE stage legends Alan Bennett and Barrie Rutter bookend this year's Ilkley Literature Festival, respectively opening and closing the17-day festival.The packed programme of 250 events features novelists, broadcasters, poets and performers.One
A MAN suffered "extensive" facial injuries after being knocked down during an argument in a Brighouse take away.The incident happened between 1am and 1.30am on Sunday inside Dino’s Pizza takeaway on Bethel Street.Police are now appealing to
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The changing face of the Bierley Estate is the theme of our latest nostalgia gallery. Bierley has seen a lot of upheaval through the years and our photographers have been there through good times and bad to capture these evocative pictures of life
POLICE are appealing for information to help recover 200 new horseshoes that were stolen during a burglary.They were among items taken during a commercial burglary in the Liversedge area, and West Yorkshire Police's Horsewatch service is now appealing
Here are links to school-by-school A-Level results from around the Bradford district. Results are listed in alphabetical order of surnames, with subjects attained represented by a short code - the key to subjects can be found here. RESULTS
BRADFORD bands are joining forces for Musicians Against Homelessness - a day-long festival in the city.Justin Sullivan and Dean White from Bradford rockers New Model Army will headline the event, in aid of homeless charity Crisis. It takes place on Saturday
ADAM Lyth scored a scintillating, record-breaking 161 to maintain Yorkshire’s hopes of quarter-final qualification in the NatWest T20 Blast by thumping Northamptonshire by 124 runs at Headingley.Lyth’s 73-ball effort underpinned Yorkshire’s 260-4 after
POLICE have appealed to the public to help track down a man they want to speak to in connection with burglaries in Bradford and Batley. Enquiries have been ongoing by Kirklees Police to locate Louis Taylor-Broadfield, 23, from Gomersal, and they
A 22-YEAR-old man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving after an early morning car crash.The Seat Leon was spotted by officers on Wakefield Road at 4.16am on Thursday. The car failed to stop and drove on a short
A MENSTON couple are appealing for information about the theft of a garden sculpture and sundial which were taken from their home last week. The sculpture and sundial were stolen from the garden of a house in Derry Hill some time between Monday
A FAMILY escaped their home without injury after a fire started in their kitchen.At 7.34pm yesterday a fire crew from Shipley were called to a property in Oswalthorpe Avenue in Thornbury after reports of a kitchen fire.Smoke alarms had alerted the family
CO-OWNER Andrew Chalmers insists Bulls are not for sale following a report claiming he had offered to sell half the club. Twenty four hours after Chalmers had confirmed his commitment to relegated Bradford, Press Association Sport stated that Salford
A MOBILITY scooter was destroyed in a suspected arson this morning.At 1.27am a crew from Shipley Fire Station was called to Idle after reports of a fire on a public footpath linking Rowantree Drive with Shelby Grove.The fire turned out to be an abandoned
A MAN was seriously injured in a head on crash involving two cars earlier this morning. At 3am emergency services were called to Legrams Lane after reports of a serious crash. When they arrived they found two cars, a Seat Alhambra and a Volkswagen
THERE’S a rare chance to watch Dunkirk, Lawrence of Arabia and My Fair Lady in widescreen format at this autumn’s Widescreen Weekend in Bradford.The National Science and Media Museum world-renowned celebration of cinema technology, past, present and future
A MAN has been arrested after police found drugs and three air weapons during a raid at an Idle property. Police carried out the raid on an address on Orchard Grove on Wednesday, finding quantities of heroin and crack cocaine, £800 in cash, four
IT WOULD be an exaggeration to say that rail users have got used to very low annual increases in fares.Certainly, the last couple of years (with increases of just 0.8 per cent in 2016 and 1.8 per cent from January this year) have been easier to swallow
BRADFORD No 1 AACalder 8 claimed an individual 1-2-3 in round four of the Calder League but it was only enough for fourth on the day in a match which produced 18 double-figure weights. Result: 1 Paul Bennett 28lb 4oz (chub), 2 Craig Turbitt 20lb 8oz,
THE fifth game of a busy start to the Vanarama National League North season has Bradford Park Avenue hosting FC United of Manchester tomorrow as the two strugglers battle it out.There were high hopes and great expectations from the supporters in both
WOODLANDS may have batted first in all four previous rounds of the Solly Sports Heavy Woollen Cup, but skipper Tim Jackson reckons that is not their prime asset ahead of Sunday's final against Hoylandswaine at Hanging Heaton (noon). Jackson said
FARSLEY CELTIC have taken four points from their first two games in the Evo-Stik League but they face a difficult trip to Halesowen Town tomorrow.The Celts are looking to continue their momentum as they seek to stay on the coat-tails of Premier Division
MACHINE LEARNER has a cracking chance of winning a nice prize at Newbury as today's nap selection.The four-year-old gelding has been in grand order since his transfer to Joe Tuite in April and should be considered a leading contender in the one-mile-five-furlong
FATHER and son Carl and Kyle Trennery were both on the scoresheet as Campion started their West Riding County Amateur League season with a 6-0 midweek home Premier Division success against Thornton United.New signing Kyle scored twice, while his dad found
BEN Rhydding can move closer to promotion from Division Two of the Aire-Wharfe League tomorrow when they entertain a Leeds Modernians side that have slipped into the relegation dogfight.The match includes a fascinating personal duel between Ben Rhydding
THE preliminary round of the Emirates FA Cup – the world's oldest and most famous knockout competition – includes three of the area's semi-professional clubs this weekend.Albion Sports and Liversedge have had to battle through the extra preliminary
A CARE home closed by Bradford Council would be demolished and replaced with housing, under a scheme lodged with planners.But one local councillor has said she is “surprised to see” the size of the houses being proposed.Thackley Grange care home in Booth
MORE than 250 people were waiting for bowel cancer tests in Bradford earlier this year, new figures have revealed. The NHS standard is only one per cent of patients waiting more than six weeks for such tests, but in June statistics showed the city
ENGLAND Women’s Karate Team captain Carla Burkitt is the new gym manager at Bradford Hospitals’ fitness centre. The 27-year-old who hopes to go for Gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics headed North from home in Luton to be nearer the team’s Silsden-based
A FILM shot largely in Bradford, starring Hollywood heavyweights Harvey Keitel and Gabriel Byrne, will have its debut screening at a world famous film festival. Production company Bradford International Film Associates unveils its debut feature film
A CENTRE at the hub of Bradford’s West Indian community for more than three decades is up for sale.Management at Checkpoint in Westgate hope to get the full £225,000 asking price so they can invest it in a new home elsewhere.The stairs leading up to the
DEVELOPERS should be allowed to build on land currently in the Green Belt as soon as possible, a prominent planning consultancy has said. Barton Willmore, which represents a number of major developers, said the district had a severe housing shortage
A CARE home remains in special measures after inspectors found it failed to make enough improvement. Heaton Grange Residential Home, at Toller Lane, Heaton, was judged to be an inadequate overall following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission
MATT Kilgallon believes that now might be the best time for City to face his old club Blackburn.Tony Mowbray's side head to Valley Parade tomorrow still looking for their first point since being relegated from the Championship.Rovers are hotly fancied
'PAKISTAN is open for business.' That was the resounding message from Syed Ibne Abbas, Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, on a visit to Bradford yesterday. Speaking at the Consulate of Pakistan, at Bradford Business Park, Kings
LIVE music, a classic car show and two charity rugby events are among a host of entertainment taking place across the district this weekend.One of the biggest events of the summer in Ilkley draws to a close this weekend, with the final two days of Ilkley
SOMETIMES it can take a while for the favourites to hit their stride.Think back to this time last year and the stumbling start that had some Sheffield United fans calling for Chris Wilder's head.Yet a team that lost four of their first five games
CHARLIE Wyke is poised for a spot on City’s bench against Blackburn tomorrow. The centre forward is yet to kick a ball this season after tearing a hamstring in Austria last month. But he could be in line for a call to arms as a substitute as
A man has gone on trial accused of carrying out a terrifying hold-up at a beauty salon. Junaid Ahmed, 21, is alleged to have pointed an imitation handgun at a beauty therapist and her client as he demanded the keys to the customer’s black Audi
IT was standing room only in the South Bank Stand at Odsal as fans eagerly awaited to hear from the Bulls hierarchy.This season may have been yet another one to forget as the club slipped further away from their glorious Super League past after suffering
See our special multimedia report above, then read on for full details of our exclusive peek inside St George's Hall. BEHIND the hoardings and scaffolding at Bradford’s historic St George’s Hall, contractors have been busy since moving on
