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YORKSHIRE’S batsmen have work to do if they are to secure a Specsavers County Championship draw against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl after a mixed third day. Faced with a 93-run deficit and 36 overs to bat in their second innings before close, the White

BRADFORD Dragonboat Festival got off to a great start yesterday as more than 450 schoolchildren took to the water for the festival’s Youth Championship.Teams from schools representing the entire district took part in the first day of the annual event

PRODUCERS of a community documentary about Brexit are filming a session in Keighley.People are invited to go along to Central Hall, in Alice Street, on Saturday, June 30, to air their views.Visitors can stay for the full event – between noon and 3pm –

A CIVIC reception took place at City Hall today to mark Windrush Day.The event was a celebration to mark 70 years since the arrival of migrants from Jamaica, Bermuda and Trinidad on the Empire Windrush, which docked at Tilbury, Essex, on June 22, 1948

FOUR men whose plan to rob a Bradford business of thousands of pounds was thwarted by armed police have been jailed for a total of 21-and-a-half years.David Hindle, Shahid Farooq, Benjamin Bateman and Leon Donovan were all sentenced at Bradford Crown

HARRIET Dart couldn’t quite get over the line in the Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy.The 21-year-old Londoner, who was the first Briton to reach the quarter-finals of the $100,000 ITF Women’s Circuit tournament in the four years it has been held, was beaten

HAMPSHIRE have gained a first-innings lead of 93 during the third day against Yorkshire at the Ageas Bowl.The White Rose have work to do with the bat if they are to avoid a second successive Specsavers County Championship defeat after losing to Surrey

FIREFIGHTERS tackled a car blaze in Bradford this afternoon. A crew from Shipley were on their back from Shipley when they attended the fire on Heath Street, in the Leeds Road area of Bradford, at around 4.30pm. The car's engine compartment

A Leeds city councillor has spoken out against a decision to build an industrial estate on a flood plain in Keighley, claiming people in Leeds could suffer.Bradford Council voted this week to approve the plans for an industrial park off Royd Ings Avenue

SIR - HGV driver Tony Banks is rightly furious that the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, only handed down a community order to Carl Walker (T&A, June 14). This despite Walker being convicted of dangerous driving and a "road rage

WOLVES winger Sherwin Seedorf has joined City on a six-month loan. The 20-year-old Dutchman, who is distantly related to Netherlands legend Clarence, has signed a deal from the newly-promoted Premier League club until January. Seedorf is yet

YORKSHIRE have claimed four wickets and kept Hampshire in check during the opening session of day three at the Ageas Bowl.Hampshire, replying to a first-innings 350, have advanced from 245-3 overnight to 311-7 on a slow pitch at lunch, trailing by 39.

A GANG who plotted together to blow up and take cash from ATMs at post offices across Bradford and other parts of West Yorkshire have been jailed for a total of more than 40 years. Jenson Grant, 32, of Pennington Terrace, Little Horton, Bradford

A TEAM of four friends who drove to Benidorm and back in an old Volvo have made it back to Blighty and are already planning next year's trip.The quartet of Paul Wilson, 42, from Idle, who runs LEJ Property Solutions, Steve Gill, also from Idle, who

A gardener who scooped £3 million on a scratchcard said he will go to the World Cup if England make it to the final stages.James Evans, 30, from Romney Marsh, stopped to buy the scratchcard thanks to a convenient parking space, and is looking forward

A YOUNG woman who knew about her friend’s imminent plot to launch a knife attack on Westminster has been jailed for two years and four months. Khawla Barghouthi, 21, also faces deportation to Tunisia after she admitted failing to disclose Rizlaine Boular

THE people of the Windrush generation showed resilience as they helped rebuild post-war Britain, often in the face of adversity, a service to commemorate the 70th anniversary of their arrival has been told.Prime Minister Theresa May, whose Government

BRADFORD Bulls Under-19s hammered home their superiority, returning to winning ways, moving to within four points of the play-offs, after brushing aside Castleford 36-18. The Academy Bulls had too much firepower up front and were too clinical in their

A TEAM of hospital researchers and industry partners from Bradford and Leeds have won a prestigious grant to develop a new device set to have a major impact on patient safety. The funding has been awarded to a team from the Yorkshire Quality & Safety

A CONTROL worker at West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service's Birkenshaw headquarters has received a prestigious award.Sarah Goodall won the Supporter of the Year- Control award at The Fire Fighters Charity's Spirit of Fire awards in London (pictured

TWO Scouts officials from Bradford are about to start on the second leg of a marathon fundraising effort for Cancer Research UK.Nathan Allatt, 19, from Idle, and Sarah Faulkner, 29, from Thackley, whose families have both been affected by the illness

A CHEERLEADING school in Bradford has been celebrating after it was crowned the best in the country at a national competition.Panache Cheer School's team competed in the Junior Elite team event at the ICC Battle of the Champions held in Peterborough.The

Decision-makers have agreed to grant a bar licence, despite concerns from local people.Leeds City Council’s licensing sub-committee heard an application to open a bar at the former Natwest building in Silver Lane, Yeadon.The terms of the licence would

Youngster Danny King is included in the Bulls squad against Doncaster.The second-rower makes the 19-man line-up for Sunday's League One game at Odsal, which also includes Callum Bustin.The forward missed the last two games with a shoulder injury but

TEMPERATURES are set to soar over the weekend - and weathermen say the mercury will continue rising. Bradford will experience temperatures in the mid to high twenties by Wednesday - potentially making West Yorkshire hotter than Ibiza.

THERESA MAY is facing calls to abandon her Brexit “red lines” after aerospace giant Airbus warned it could pull out of the UK with the loss of thousands of jobs if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal.The company, which employs 14,000 people at

A man who was missing for two months has been found by police. Anthony Brown, 52, had last been seen on May 1, but has now been found. West Yorkshire Police thanked the public and media for their help in locating Mr Brown.

A TOTAL of 15 former Bulls players and two ex-Cougars are taking part in tomorrow's Rugby AM War of the Roses Origins Legends clash at the Mend-a-Hose Jungle in Castleford (7pm).Chev Walker (captain), Wayne Godwin, Andy Lynch, Lee Gilmour, James Lowes

BRADFORD Golf Union captain Martin Gaffney is putting his faith in a young side against Halifax-Huddersfield at Dewsbury in the Yorkshire Inter-District League this Sunday, as one talented teenager makes his season debut.Max Berrisford, of Skipton Golf

STEVE Patterson felt Yorkshire tried everything with the ball during what he described as a “tough” second day against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl.Hampshire have the advantage at the halfway stage of this Specsavers County Championship match, although

FOR the third week in a row, Green Lane take on one of their Division Three top-four rivals in the Aire-Wharfe League, and the visit to New Rover tomorrow promises to be the toughest challenge yet.After losing their unbeaten record to Harden two weeks

POLICE arrested 14 people, including two for weapons-related offences, and seized 11 vehicles in an operation during the Eid period in Bradford West. The operation ran in the Great Horton Road area of the city and was co-ordinated by the Bradford

BRADFORD CITY AA LAST week’s forecast promised rain, but very little arrived. All the Dales rivers are still running very low and clear and the Met Office forecasts no rain in sight. Anglers can also expect sun and a bit of wind, so angling conditions

ANDY Robinson has returned to his rugby home.The 31-year-old Bradford Salem fly half or centre has rejoined Wibsey for whom he played a few matches as a teenager before trying to make it in rugby league and then reverting back to union.Robinson will be

FIREFIGHTERS spent more than three hours tackling a major blaze that broke out at a door company in Bradford last night. Crews from Bradford and Odsal stations were called to the scene on Factory Lane, off Rooley Lane, just after 10.30pm. On

FARSLEY go into this weekend's Bradford League Premier Division clash at home to Cleckheaton full of confidence after travelling to hapless Lightcliffe last week and dismantling them by a huge margin of 183 runs.James Logan was the star of the show

BRADFORD'S Darren Tetley hopes to receive plenty of support after announcing he will fight for the first time as a professional in his home town later this summer. Unbeaten Tetley, who has won 16 times, will box at the Hilton Hotel in the city

THE CONTINUING saga of public sector cuts has led to some charities being put out of action and left many more community groups struggling to survive.Good causes which, at one time, relied on local authority funding or service contracts to keep them going

BRADFORD performer Kafayat Adegoke is helping to tell the story of life in Leeds in the final production before the capital redevelopment of the city’s Quarry Theatre.For Kafayat, who honed her acting skills in her native Nigeria, it is the most ‘iconic

COLIN Doyle has confirmed he is leaving Valley Parade. The Republic of Ireland international played 88 times for City since joining them for £1 from Blackpool in 2016. He had been offered a new deal at the end of last season but it was believed

JACQUI Drake has been dancing all her life - and says it helps to keep her positive."My energy levels aren't what they were but I still love to dance, and I find being around dancers very uplifting," says the Bradford dance teacher, who

CLIFFE House Day Nurseries has cause for celebration again as another of its branches has been rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.The group's nursery in Main Street, Burley-in-Wharfedale, has been rated Outstanding, improving on its previous rating

The Telegraph & Argus celebrates it 150th anniversary this year and in honour of the occasion we are printing a story from our archives every day for 150 days.Today we look at the Telegraph & Argus, Tuesday, December 8, 1970: Dozens of major factories

A busy supermarket is celebrating a multi-million pound store re-fit.Morrisons in Mayo Avenue, Bradford, has been undergoing in-store changes since April this year as part of a £3 million development that has seen the introduction of several new services.Workers

Several cars were damaged when an air pistol was fired at vehicles parked along a street in Bradford.The incident took place on Harlow Road in Lidget Green, with three balaclava-clad males identified within CCTV footage from the scene, according to police.One

BRADFORD will be celebrating the contributions made by the country’s Windrush migrants this weekend - and one local school will be playing a major role in the events.To mark the 70th anniversary of the Empire Windrush’s journey from Jamaica to the UK,

A PRE-school rated outstanding is being forced to close down next month as the church building which hosts it is to shut due to the mounting cost of repairs. East Bierley Pre-School has operated out of the St Luke's Church centre building in the

MICHAEL Collins welcomed City’s testing start to the new season – because his new team will have to be bang at it. The release of the fixtures handed the head coach a demanding baptism, with an opening-day trip to play-off finalists Shrewsbury

BULLS starlet Reiss Butterworth is reaping the benefits of his loan stint at Batley.The 19-year-old has scored two tries in three appearances for Matt Diskin’s Championship side.Butterworth has been playing at half-back rather than hooker for the Bulldogs

WELLS Farhh Go looked very much in need of the outing when contesting the Dante Stakes on his return at York, but he should feel the benefit of that run in the King Edward VII Stakes at Ascot today.He won each of his two starts as a juvenile and Great