Dick Porter entrusts his eight-year-old son to the care of a summer camp in Surrey. YOU HAVE to steel your heart to leave an eight-year-old for his first-ever holiday without Mum and Dad. Especially when, at the very moment of your brave goodbyes, there's
Quiz show winner Samantha Thomas today hit back at Bradford's civic leaders for failing to see the funny side of a joke about the city made by host Chris Tarrant. The 30-year-old sales executive from Great Horton Road says when she first won a place on
AA strong current and a flooded River Wharfe prevented frogmen from diving in the notorious Strid yesterday in their search for missing honeymooner Barry Collett. The water was too high when divers arrived from York to search the stretch of water at Bolton
Tenant power on Bradford housing estates is setting a fine example to the rest of the country, says Government minister Hilary Armstrong. Ms Armstrong, minister for housing and local government, paid tribute to the way tenants are actively helping to
Calderdale Council has hit back at criticism it was slow to move travellers who set up camp at Brighouse's Wellholme Park. The gipsies spent more than four months living at the park's picnic area before being ordered to leave, and the Council spent nearly
A disabled Baildon woman says she has become a prisoner in her own home because a lack of adequate parking space near her bungalow. Roz Rushworth, 64, of Knoll Park Drive, Baildon, says she has not left her front door for more than a week because her
A survivor of a typhoon disaster which claimed the lives of 22 people has told a Bradford inquest the tragedy should not have happened. Stephen Hardy, 33, of Moor Lane, Gomersal, was one four Britons who died when the American-based McDermott International
Your guide to what's on, where. Week beginning September 5 WEDNESDAY CRICKET Britannic Assurance Championship - Riverside: Durham v Surrey. Cardiff: Glamorgan v Derbys. Canterbury: Kent v Somerset. Leicester: Leics v Essex. Lord's: Middlesex v Gloucs.
Bradford Bulls former Great Britain forward Sonny Nickle is set to miss the rest of the season. Nickle sustained a whiplash injury in the clash with Wigan at Odsal on June 12 and has not figured in the side since. Coach Matthew Elliott had hoped to get
Paul Jewell has accused his Bradford City side of being "out-fought and out-thought" during last night's 3-0 drubbing by Ipswich Town. The City boss was seething after seeing the Bantams tamely surrender at Portman Road and has told his side that there
Ernie Wise was one. So was the actor and author Leslie Sands. So, come to that, were more than 40,000 other people over the years - the T&A Nignog Club was phenomenally popular. It took its last gasp just 20 years ago this year, having served children
Demolition gangs marked the end of an era today as they moved in to knock the controversial Waddington's fat refinery plant in Filey Street to the ground. The 100-year-old company has moved to a hi-tech factory in nearby Dryden Street, transferring all
Councillors have given the final seal of approval to the biggest ever overhaul of Bradford's educational system. Yesterday they formally put an end to the talking and signalled the beginning of action of a process which began as an educational review
Plans to create a new Wharfedale hospital by refurbishing the existing buildings at the High Royds site in Menston has received the backing of Ilkley parish councillors. A working party has examined the suggested schemes for a hospital and come out in
A Burley-in-Wharfedale church has widened its fundraising operation as it seeks to raise £350,000 for a refurbishment scheme. Every household in the village has received a leaflet explaining the aims of Burley Methodist Church's five year plan fundraising
Intrepid David Chapman is to walk 1,085 metres blindfolded up Mount Snowdon in a bid to raise money for the adventure of a lifetime. Mr Chapman, 21, of Bramham Road, Bingley, decided on the stunt after he was told to raise £3,000 for a three month trip
Firms from throughout West Yorkshire are being given a chance to do deals with companies in the USA. Keighley Business Forum and Bronte Country Tourism are going to North America next month on a trip which could result in major contracts being won for
Local Cricket: Rawdon threw away a winning position to lose at North Leeds and give the championship to Adel for the second year running. Martin Hing's 24.3 over spell of 4-60 helped bowl North Leeds out for a 133, but Rawdon never got to terms with the
Motor Sport: Leeds schoolboy trial rider James Dabill wrapped up the Class C youth National Trials Championship at Holloway, north Derbyshire with a convincing victory over all the top challengers in the four round series. James rode the demanding muddy
Paul Jewell writes: I am bitterly disappointed by that performance. It is going to be a long drive home for us. we were ragged and all over the place. The players were obviously dejected on the pitch but it is times like that when you have to roll your
Ipswich Town 3, Bradford City 0; Richard Sutcliffe at Portman Road. Ipswich Town's Portman Road ground could never be considered one of Bradford City's favourite venues. Since the two clubs first met in League competition a little over a decade ago, the
The law too often does not seem to back decent citizens as wholeheartedly as it should. The latest example of this is the case of David Fossitt, who was driving through Bradford with his family when they passed a group of young people by the side of the
Thousands of Bradford teenagers could see their GCSE results bumped up after a computer blunder delivered the wrong marks. Around 120,000 students nationally who took Northern Examination and Assessment Board's Science or Humanties paper may have been
A Good Samaritan motorist whose family was left traumatised after their car was attacked by two Bradford louts today told how his wife and daughter were still coming to terms with the attack. David Fossitt, 50, said he thought the decision by a judge
Health minister Paul Boateng will unveil Bradford Council's first Civic Year of the Child on Friday. The aim of the scheme by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Tony Miller, is to focus attention on the needs of children of all ages. As well as pulling together
