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  • Bradford Cycling club told: Get on your bikes

    A CYCLING hub allowing disabled children to ride adapted bikes and former prisoners to volunteer inside is facing closure. Directors at Capital of Cycling, in Hall Ings, Bradford, claim their immediate landlord, NCP, has contacted them to explain

  • Taekwondo gives Birkin a golden glow

    TAEKWONDO is proving a golden sport for Steven Birkin.Initially rejected by clubs due to his failing eyesight, he has found a home with the Horizon Taekwondo Academy and has become a real winner.The 48-year-old retired British Forces veteran from Shipley

  • Junior taster day at Heaton Tennis Club

    HEATON Tennis Club are holding a taster day for juniors on Sunday, March 25.It will provide an introduction for players aged four upwards to get used to the club and their coaching programmes in a fun way.They can also meet the coaches and either find

  • Radrizzani critical of Leeds squad after slump

    LEEDS owner Andrea Radrizzani has publicly criticised the club's players following their slide out of Championship play-off contention.Radrizzani, who completed his 100 per cent buy-out of former owner Massimo Cellino in May, has questioned the players

  • Bank closure not convenient for local people

    SIR - After reading in the Telegraph & Argus about the intended closure of our village branch of the Yorkshire Bank, which has been here for so many years and is so convenient for older residents as well as local businesses, it's not acceptable

  • Check-up twice a year isn't going to stop tooth decay

    SIR - I've been following your 'Stop the Rot' campaign with interest and was shocked but not surprised to hear that between April and December 2016 190 children from the Bradford district were admitted to hospital to undergo multiple tooth extractions

  • Bradford Territorials in Spring Offensive

    SIR - January 1918 saw a change in the manning in the British Army, the Bradford Territorial battalion (2/6 West Yorks) was disbanded and the men distributed between the 2/5 West Yorks (Harrogate Territorials) and 2/7 West Yorks (Leeds Territorials

  • Sick of this Russian propaganda

    SIR I'm becoming increasingly sick and tired of all the anti Russian propaganda spewing forth from both the British government and the mainstream press. The attempted murder of the former intelligence officer and his daughter have added grist to

  • May's words don't match government's actions

    SIR - Theresa May has often spoken about her concern for "the just about managing" but, so far, her words have not matched the actions of her government. And, this seems to be continuing, revealed by new analysis coming from the Resolution Foundation

  • Evidence piling up that leaving EU was wrong decision

    SIR - Does it help in life if people are intellectually honest? Do we get better outcomes if voters are led by the evidence in making their choices, rather than blindly sticking to a decision made in the past because they are too stubborn to admit they

  • Bradford City defender Chicksen called up by Zimbabwe

    CITY defender Adam Chicksen has been handed an international call-up by Zimbabwe. The left back has been named by head coach Sunday Chidzambwa in the squad for a four-team tournament in Zambia. Angola and South Africa are also included in the

  • Shortlist for T&A Schools Awards announced today

    THE shortlist for this year's Telegraph & Argus School Awards has been announced today.The awards will be held at the Aagrah Midpoint in Thornbury on Thursday.Today's T&A includes a 16 page supplement on the awards, including details on all 33

  • In-form Otley shock promotion chasers

    National League Two North: Hinckley 13 Otley 15A TRY in each half by Tom O'Donnell maintained Otley’s impressive return to form and dealt a significant blow to Hinckley’s promotion hopes.Otley's director of rugby Peter Clegg said “In recent months

  • Bradford School team in final of F1 engineering event

    A TEAM from a Bradford school will compete against schools across the country in a science and engineering themed competition. Three teams from Hanson School competed in the F1 in Schools Regional final in York last month winning four awards with

  • Prospect v Station Hotel cup semi-final postponed

    TONIGHT'S Bradford & District FA Sunday Senior Cup semi-final between Prospect and Station Hotel has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch at Thackley FC.The tie has been rearranged for Thursday, April 5 at the same venue, starting at 7.30pm.

  • Brook leads way with century in Yorkshire opener

    ANDREW Gale says day-one centurion Harry Brook has set the example for Yorkshire's batsmen to follow this season after hitting 154 against Nottinghamshire in Potchefstroom.Brook, aiming for more regular first-team cricket this summer, made the perfect

  • Sedge average game every two-and-a-half days!

    LIVERSEDGE are still waiting to play their first game in March after last night’s trip to Bottesford Town in the Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division became their latest postponement.It was a fifth consecutive fixture that Sedge

  • School film club to hit red carpet at star studded awards event

    MEMBERS of a primary school’s film club will walk the red carpet today after being nominated for a national film award.Pupils from Horton Park Primary will attend the Into Film Awards at BFI Southbank to hear of the club will get the award for their exceptional

  • Ofsted praise school for rapid improvements

    A KEIGHLEY primary school is celebrating after Ofsted deemed it to have moved from requiring improvement to being “good” in two years.Long Lee Primary was judged good in all areas in its latest inspection. Ofsted said senior leaders at the school have

  • We undervalue great museums at our peril

    I AM one of those people who tends to get completely lost in museums, art galleries and stately homes.I don’t mean in a literal sense – I actually have an excellent in-built satnav, I’ll have you know – but I can spend hours and hours (and hours) poring

  • Bradford is only Yorkshire date for smash hit show

    HIT family show Matilda The Musical is coming to Bradford's Alhambra theatre - the only Yorkshire date on its first UK tour - the Telegraph & Argus exclusively reveals today.Based on the much-loved Roald Dahl children's book, the Royal Shakespeare

  • Bradford author raises the profile of Rett Syndrome

    "I HOPE everybody can learn that life is for living. We think we will do this in future and sometimes the future isn't guaranteed."It is a decade since Sara Meredith lost her beautiful daughter, Olivia, to the rare condition Rett Syndrome

  • RACING TIPS: Buveur D'Air set to join Champion Hurdle greats

    BUVEUR D'AIR can join the greats by defending his crown in the Unibet Champion Hurdle on the opening day of the Cheltenham Festival.Hardy Eustace was the last to retain the title back in 2005 and while others have tried since then, none have been

  • Jennie hated gyms - now she owns one!

    A FEW years ago Jennie Gadsby didn’t even own a pair of trainers. The thought of joining a gym, she says, was as mortifying as doing karaoke in the nude.Now she owns a gym, has climbed the Three Peaks and is currently training for her third 10k ‘mud run

  • Councillors address concerns over sports complex plans

    COUNCILLORS have moved to reassure residents following outcry over plans for a new sports complex on playing fields.The One In a Million Free School, based at Cliffe Terrace, Bradford, has lodged an application with Bradford Council to build a new changing

  • Decision due on coffee chain plans for retail park

    PLANS to build a new Costa coffee shop on the edge of a retail park in Heckmondwike are to go before planners for a second time.The scheme, at Northgate Retail Park, which houses 10 units including a Lidl supermarket and a drive-through McDonald’s, was

  • Fire-hit business submits plans to re-build head office

    AN award-winning business left devastated by a fire at its head office last year has formally submitted plans to rebuild its factory and offices at the same location. Gordon Rhodes & Son, part of the Dalesman Group, has been operating nomadically

  • Grayson's Bantams smarten up their act

    SIMON Grayson will insist City are all suited and booted for his much-delayed Valley Parade debut – if the weather allows it.The Bantams boss is "very hopeful" they will get the game on against high-flying Wigan tomorrow night after two postponements.Saturday

  • Peltier: My Bulls prediction came true at Keighley

    BULLS enforcer Ross Peltier enjoyed the last laugh on the Keighley boo boys by declaring: I was right all along.Peltier got plenty of stick in the build-up to Sunday's derby clash after predicting a convincing victory over his old club.But the Bulls

  • City defender Kilgallon spurred on by pain of Wembley woe

    IT REMAINS the game that Matt Kilgallon refuses to look back on.The view from the substitutes' bench at Wembley was painful enough as City's promotion dream was killed by a late strike from Steve Morison.The suspicion that the Millwall striker

  • Bantams: It feels like I'm still unemployed, says Grayson

    SIMON Grayson admits City's long lay-off has left him feeling like he's still unemployed.Successive home postponements mean he will have been in the job for 31 days by the Wigan game on Wednesday.His new club have played just twice in that time