BRADFORD Council has been urged to be more honest and up front about upcoming plans that will see millions cut from "early help" services. The authority is currently consulting on plans to cut over £13 million from its Early Help and Prevention
A BRADFORD woman has vowed to “brave the shave” and raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support after one of her friends was struck down by the disease.Kelly Gill, 35, from Holme Wood will have her head shaved on February 1 and has started a fundraising
ECCLESHILL United Junior Blues are through to the fifth round of the West Riding County FA's Under-12 Junior Shield – despite being a year young.They beat visitors Littletown 11-3 with goals from skipper Tom Sugden (4), Mohammed Mustafa (2), Aaron
A PROMINENT development site in Bradford city centre which was formerly a Yorkshire Water depot has been sold for £2.2 million.The 2.59 acre site, at George Street near The Broadway Shopping Centre, has been bought by Land and Securities Ltd.The site
A RUGBY club chairman says he is "disgusted" after a new fence was vandalised. The fencing, which cost £2,500, has been up around the Northfield Road playing fields, Wibsey, for less than a week, but has been cut open. It was put up as part
The Met Office has issued a new yellow warning for snow, with Bradford in the area covered. Bradford is on the fringes of the area affected by the warning, which runs from 6pm on Wednesday to 6am on Thursday, and so may miss out on the worst of
SHIPLEY Feminist Zealots are marking the first anniversary of their Shipley Sister march by launching a new ‘zine’ - Cake for Everyone. The publication (pictured with co editors Lorna Faye Dunsire, left, and Sophie Powell) will feature stories,
North One East: Cleckheaton 12 Driffield 22 DRIFFIELD'S win over Cleckheaton, coupled with Morpeth’s defeat at West Hartlepool propelled last weekend’s visitors to Moorend to the top of the North One East league table. Cleckheaton went into
TRIBUTES have been paid to a former Bradford man who died following a motorway crash. Father-of-two Wasim Zayn, 31, died almost three weeks after being involved in a crash on the M1. His life support machine was switched off at a hospital in Nottingham
DANNY Forrest has revealed Joe Gaughan's contribution to Silsden's title bid stretches beyond his chart-topping goal-scoring feats.Currently with 28 goals to his name, the Cobbydalers hitman has hit the target more than any other player in either
HOPES that the future of Queensbury Tunnel can be secured as a cycle and walking route have been buoyed by Bradford Council agreeing to look into its adoption. The 1.4 mile long Victorian structure was built in the 1870s under the village of Queensbury
MICHAEL Sweeney won seven successive ends in both his semi-final and final to win his first Spen Winter Sweep of the season.The Netherton bowler defeated Frank Griffin (Mirfield Old Bank) 21-7 in the semi-finals and prolific Winter Sweep winner Mark Regan
COACH Chris Mellor was disappointed with Bradford Dragons' performance as they fell to their second defeat of 2018, going down 80-69 at Loughborough Student Riders in Division One of the National Basketball League.In only their second season in the
BRADFORD'S billiards team won 8-5 at Doncaster in the Yorkshire Inter-District League and remain among the front-runners at the halfway point of the season.Steve Wilman got the Bradford team off to a flying start with breaks of 27 and 41 to lead 78
IF AZEEM Rafiq is classed as the 'Renaissance Man' at Yorkshire, then you might say that Jonny Tattersall is the county's 'Comeback Kid'.Off-spinner Rafiq's story of being let go by Yorkshire towards the end of 2014 before being
HERMITS have been given a real boost for the second half of the season after capturing the services of Friday Ng'andu.The Zambian was looking for a club in the Bradford area, discovered Hermits on the internet and, following a Friday (of course it
POLICE are warning bank customers to be wary of fraudulent texts. West Yorkshire Police's fraud team are advising people not to click on links in texts pretending to be from HSBC. The messages claim there has been suspicious activity on a customer's
AKESFELD is a small, quiet town, where nothing much happens.That is until new arrival Jack Hunter turns up; a charismatic stranger who has a way with words and insists that he will bring change to the town. When Dean Naysmith, a local wheeler dealer,
JONNY Bairstow laughed off suggestions that England's winning start to the one-day series was down to an Ashes hangover by Australia.At the start of the trip it was the tourists who found themselves fending off questions about a damaging drinking
Bradford Council has come under fire after roads across the district became impassable due to ice last night. Furious drivers took to Twitter to lambast the authority's gritting operation after treacherous conditions led to gridlock, accidents
KYLE Edmund's mum makes sure he is always ready for the sun – and the Yorkshireman is showing form as hot as the Melbourne summer at the Australian Open.The British No 2 followed up his statement upset of Kevin Anderson in round one by breezing past
THE Culture Secretary could soon visit Bradford to see the talents of its young artists after getting a personal invite from Bradford College students. Students of the Northern School of Creative Industries at urged Matt Hancock MP, the new Secretary
ONE of the district’s quirkiest events will return to Saltaire next month. Saltaire Potato Day, run by the West Yorkshire Organic Group, will be held at Shipley College’s Exhibition Hall on Saturday February 10. The event, which runs from 10am
CRAIG Lingard is going back to the future with his Keighley Cougars squad.They face the head coach's old club Batley Bulldogs at Cougar Park on Sunday (2pm), having played them at the Fox's Biscuits Stadium on the identical weekend last year,
LAST UPDATED: 9.25AM A NUMBER of schools are closed across the Bradford district this morning due to bad weather and unsafe travel conditions. Bradford Council tweeted this morning its routes had been gritted all night and that its gritters
PLANS to turn an empty shop into a dessert cafe have been withdrawn, the day before they were likely to be refused by councillors.Usman Yaqoob had applied to change the use of the ground floor of recently refurbished 160 Allerton Road (above), on the
IT is a saddening sight.Crouched in the corners of buildings or huddled in shop doorways, the reality of homelessness surrounds us as we stroll our cities streets.Many of us will contemplate the circumstances that led the person to be sleeping on the
COUNT OTTO is of interest as he makes his handicap bow for trainer Amanda Perrett at Lingfield.Winner of his second outing in a Kempton novice in November, the three-year-old could not build on that when sent off favourite for a similar event back at
THE Police and Crime Commissioner for the district is asking people how much extra money they would be willing to pay for policing the county. Mark Burns-Williamson said money raised through an increase council tax precept would be used to recruit
PLANS have been submitted to turn a care home that was branded inadequate by a care watchdog into a private home.The Brontë Park Care Home in Haworth closed in July 2017 after a devastating report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).The Grade II-listed
CITY today denied their free travel offer for fans this weekend is a softener for transfer market frustration. The Bantams have already seen a good take-up from supporters willing to make the trip to Bristol Rovers. The club are confident they
THE co-founder of Rawdon-based air conditioning manufacturer Airedale International, and who was also instrumental in the formation of Bradford & Bingley Rugby Football Club, has died at the age of 73.Peter Midgley, began the air conditioning company
JOHN Kear is toying with the plan of unleashing some more of the Bulls' young talent against Dewsbury.The Bradford side that beat Sheffield in their second pre-season friendly had an average age of just over 23.But Kear is prepared to lower that for
A 16-YEAR-old Cross Hills boy hit by a train near Kildwick level crossing last October took his own life, an inquest heard. Coroner Rob Turnbull recorded the verdict on Aidan Blake Russell Mazurke after reading statements from his friends about
A SUSPECTED drug dealer caught in a Bradford car park with nearly £50,000 in his BMW has been jailed for a year.Tabarak Hussain, 35, was detained by officers from the National Crime Agency as they swooped on a car park on Northcote Road on March 17, 2016
