SPECIALIST firefighters were called to a house in Yeadon tonight to help remove a bariatric patient in a medical emergency. The technical rescue team, from Cleckheaton, were called to a house in Coverley Garth, at 7pm to assist the ambulance service
A PRESENTER of Bradford-based BCB Radio has paid tribute to the late Peter Wyngarde who has died aged 90. The British actor was best known for his TV role as suave, flamboyantly-dressed sleuth Jason King in Department S and its Seventies spin-off
POLICE are becoming increasingly concerned for a missing 11-year-old who was last seen this afternoon. Kai Myers was last seen in Pudsey Park wearing a Stanningley rugby Club grey and white shirt, Puffer-style jacket which is black at the top and
A SUSPECTED stolen motorbike has been recovered in Ravenscliffe.Officers from the police bike team said they accessed waste ground earlier today where a suspected stolen pit bike was being ridden around, to the annoyance of the public who alerted them.A
LEEDS United have announced the signing of midfielder Adam Forshaw from Sky Bet Championship rivals Middlesbrough for £4.5million. Forshaw, 26, has put pen to paper on a four-and-a-half-year contract and will go straight into head coach Thomas
A PROPOSAL to split the Specsavers County Championship into three conferences of six teams apiece has been put forward to the England and Wales Cricket Board by two high-ranking Yorkshire officials.Mark Arthur and Martyn Moxon, respectively chief executive
PLANS to carry out extensive refurbishments to a Grade II listed pub in Horton Bank Top have been submitted to Bradford Council. The application has been submitted by Greene King to carry out internal and external refurbishments at The Crown public
PARK Avenue's academy match away to Campsmount Academy was abandoned after a serious injury to youngster Joshua Hall.It was feared the scholarship player had fractured his ankle following a challenge and was taken to hospital by the Doncaster ambulance
ECCLESHILL Pool is offering all sessions this weekend at 50p to celebrate its 50th anniversary. A whole range of special events and sessions are taking place this weekend to mark the pool’s birthday weekend for everyone to enjoy including large
A TOP councillor has tried to allay concerns that a city centre office building could be left half empty due to proposed job cuts.Councillor Val Slater, executive for health and wellbeing at Bradford Council, was responding to concerns raised about the
POLICE have detained a 38-year-old man after giving chase in Great Horton Road, Bradford, in the early hours of this morning. The man was seen to be acting suspiciously at 12.50am and was found to be wanted on recall to prison. Police also
PLANS to build a new Costa coffee shop on the edge of a retail park in Heckmondwike look set to be approved next week.The scheme is at the Northgate Retail Park, which houses 10 units, including a Lidl supermarket and a drive-through McDonald’s.A planning
PLANS to fit a new CCTV system at Cartwright Hall have been submitted retrospectively by Bradford Council.The works, which began at the start of December 2017, will see a new internal and external security system fitted at the Grade II listed building
A new yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in place for Bradford - and runs through until midnight on Friday night. A Met Office spokesman said: "Ice will form in some areas overnight. Travel delays on roads are likely, as are public transport
YORKSHIRE'S bid for future international matches, including an Ashes Test in 2023, and to be one of the eight host venues for the ECB's new city-based Twenty20 competition has reached its final stage.Chief executive Mark Arthur is leading a six-man
PLANS to set up a charcuterie cafe and record shop in Haworth are being considered by Bradford Council.The proposals for 5 Mill Hey were also put before members of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council at their latest full meeting.An applicant
A MAN has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £1,000 in costs after running an illegal tyre recycling business in Cleckheaton.Stewart William Eatwell, 50, of Harrop Grove, Morley, was sentenced today at Leeds Magistrates’ Court
A MAN who fell to his death from the top floor of a bus station car park had returned to the same spot of a failed suicide bid 18 years earlier, an inquest has heard. Paul Crossland from Liversedge told staff at Calderdale Royal's mental health
A TOP poet has visited a Year 9 pupil and her class to give a poetry masterclass.Aamna Rafaqat, 13, from Bradford Girl’s Grammar, won the Kirkgate Shopping Centre’s Young War Poet competition in November for her poem - The Fate of Soldiers.Part of her
FORMER Prince Henry's Grammar School pupol Lewis Boyce is one of eight uncapped England players in a 35-man squad selected to prepare for the NatWest Six Nations opener against Italy on Sunday, February 4. The 21-year-old front-rower has benefited
SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies has hit out at rumours claiming he will not be standing in the town at the next general election. Mr Davies was elected for a fourth successive term in the town in June last year. He was re-elected with 27,417 votes, which saw
A 200-YEAR-OLD former pub is set to be converted into six new flats after Bradford councillors gave their backing to the plans. Members of the Friends of the Kings Arms Community Benefit Society worked for a year to try and save the pub of the
AIREDALE Hockey Club coach Richard Stewart sensed there was "something special" about Matthew Ramshaw from an early age.The Bradley teenager, who first learned to play the game with the Keighley club, is the youngest player called up for the
A SCHOOL bus has crashed into railings this morning after skidding on black ice. It happened at around 7.45am on Gaisby Lane, Shipley. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said it's not thought anyone has been injured. Brian Glover shared
Toolstation Northern Counties East League Cup third round: Bottesford Town 0 Campion 3 CAMPION became one of the first teams to reach the Toolstation Northern Counties East League Cup fourth-round last night when the Division One club claimed the
A LOCAL school has installed a revolutionary new acoustic system, made from thousands of recycled plastic bottles, to reduce noise levels in its dining room.Fulneck School in Pudsey is the first in the country to use ‘Tile Acoustics’ which reduce the
A ROAD was blocked in Addingham this morning following an accident. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said police were called to the B6160, close to the junction of Main Street and Bolton Road, at around 7.40am. The spokesman said it's thought
DANNY Forrest finds himself in the rare position of having a full squad to choose from ahead of Silsden's most important week yet in their title bid.The Cobbydalers have three home games in eight days, with visits from fellow promotion contenders
MELTING snow has caused flooding in Keighley. West Yorkshire Police's roads unit tweeted a picture of Redcar Lane in the early hours of the morning. They said: "Past the tarn there is localised flooding due to the melting snow. Please avoid
BY 2022 India will be the most populated country in the world, so everything is on a large scale, and the use of energy is no exception.Currently coal production is just over 600 million tonnes a year, third after China and the United State and until
HANDSOME DUDE can make his second start at Southwell a winning one in the Betway Handicap.The David Barron-trained gelding has won five times in his career and his run here in December offered plenty of hope that he is capable of adding to that tally
A BRADFORD cabbie has been mingling with movie stars on the red carpet. Grandfather-of-four Mehmood Sultan, who doubles up his day job as an actor, was at the London premiere of a big-screen thriller out next month called Lies We Tell. Mr Sultan
I HATED maths so much at school that even now I can’t look at a sheet of graph paper without feeling queasy.The very mention of an algebra equation or Pythagoras’s theorem has me in despair. “I don’t have that kind of brain” I say, if ever (rarely) I
A CARE home has been ranked inadequate by quality watchdogs who found there were not enough staff to keep residents safe.Care Quality Commission inspectors who visited Duchess Gardens Care Centre in Bingley also said a lot of staff training was out of
FORMER Bradford Lady Mayoress Jean Cairns, who supported her husband, Tony, as Lord Mayor of Bradford in 1997/1998, has died. At a meeting of full council on Tuesday, current Lord Mayor of Bradford Councillor Abid Hussain expressed his sorrow at
THE woman who raised the alarm about vulnerable girls being exploited by grooming gangs in Rochdale will speak at Bradford conference on child sexual exploitation.Sara Rowbotham, who was recently portrayed by Maxine Peake in TV drama Three Girls, will
THE number of children’s homes in the district that have been rated outstanding or good has risen in the past three years.At their last inspections, 70 per cent of the district’s children’s homes were rated good, and 20 per cent rated outstanding, according
ADAM Chicksen is hoping for third time lucky after recovering from his second City injury setback.The left back has made just ten starts since joining the club last summer.But after playing his first game for three months in the reserves on Tuesday, the
A PAIR of burglars who led police on an 85mph chase with a stolen quad bike in the back of their van have avoided jail.Adam Romani, 26, and Jordan Thackary, 23, were reported to police while in the process of burgling a building at School Cote Farm, Brow
A FAST-food restaurant has been criticised after waste was dumped down a grate outside one of its stores in Bradford.However, the restaurant has hit back at claims the waste was used oil and grease, saying it was actually “dirty water”, a claim which
PAUL Sykes is backing the Bulls in their promotion push as he prepares to face his old club this weekend.John Kear's men continue their pre-season build-up at Dewsbury on Sunday with a testimonial game for the former England international.Sykes began
A FATHER-OF-TWO who deliberately ran over a teenage girl after she tried to break up an argument between him and his then girlfriend has been jailed. Bradford Crown Court heard that Haroon Rashid, 28, was involved in a confrontation with his partner
CITY have had a bid accepted for Blackpool defender Kelvin Mellor. The Telegraph & Argus understands that the Bantams have moved ahead of League One leaders Wigan in the chase for the right back. A deal is thought to be far from cut and
