DESPITE the bright, wintry sunshine in and around Bradford, two of the area's semi-professional clubs faced more Saturday postponement frustration.

Brighouse Town's trip to Derbyshire to take on New Mills in Evo-Stik League Division One North was a non-starter.

A morning pitch inspection appeared to be a formality, as the hosts knew their pitch was waterlogged and had snow on it in parts, but they had to go through the motions before calling it off.

Town's fixture was just one of three called off in the league's three-tier structure, one in each division, yet the North West Counties League was hit harder with seven matches off.

One of three Premier Division games postponed was Silsden's as they were due to travel to face 1874 Northwich.

The Cobbydalers were saved a wasted journey as the Cheshire outfit had an early pitch inspection and posted a picture of the sodden ground on their Twitter feed.