Company bosses are being warned they could face a shortage of young people to recruit for training in Craven this summer. More young people are staying on at school and with unemployment at its lowest level for years - just two per cent in the Skipton
The creation of a wide-ranging planning blueprint which could pave the way for a relief road east of Otley and increasing the size of Pool-in-Wharfedale by up to 40 per cent has moved a step closer to reality. Leeds City Council has just received the
Bradford has more than 14,500 private houses which are unfit to live in, a report reveals today. Thousands of people are living in squalor in damp, rotten slum conditions, with many houses needing severe structural repairs, and some still with outside
A former fireman has gone on trial accused of "hunting out" young children to satisfy his sexual needs. Malcolm Vickers, 55, of Brompton Avenue, East Bowling has already pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting one teenage girl, who was part of a group
A Bradford financial advice firm has drawn up plans to expand now that it has moved into new offices in a former textile mill. The company has gone full circle by starting in a former wool warehouse and moving to a former textile mill. Manor Financial
Athletics: Bingley Harriers took top honours in the British Veterans Indoor Championships at Birmingham. Neil Robson won the over-50s 3,000 metres in 9min 25sec and Les Haynes emulated that feat in the over-55s race. Fred Gibbs grabbed double gold in
Fears that highly-rated Bradford Bulls scrum-half Paul Deacon would miss the start of the Super League campaign eased today. And there was a further boost for coach Matthew Elliott ahead of Sunday's opener with Challenge Cup holders Sheffield Eagles at
Huddersfield Town can do neighbours Bradford City a favour when they take on fourth-placed Bolton at the McAlpine Stadium tonight. Bolton will be looking to bounce back from their shock 3-1 home defeat by bottom team Crewe on Saturday - a result which
Bradford City today had a £1 million bid for Oxford's Dean Wind-ass rejected. The 29-year-old former Hull and Aberdeen midfieldman has scored 15 league goals for the Division One club this season and has also been a target for Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield
Bradford has real problems with some of its private housing - or, rather, with quite a lot of its private housing, judging by the evidence presented in a new Council report. Ten per cent of the district's owner-occupied houses are deemed to be unfit to
Bleary eyes and exhaustion are features of life for all parents at one time or another after hours spent through the night tending children who just cannot sleep. But the problem if it becomes persistent can have a devastating impact on work, relationships
If there's one word I hate it's diet. It is a perfectly sensible word in itself. All it should mean is the food we eat. But it has come to have medical connotations - a way of eating specifically designed to improve your health. There are diets to reduce
There are times in my life when I have felt supremely confident and I know I shouldn't have. For example, when my glasses were smashed to bits by my little brother: I was blind but still remarkably cheerful when climbing aboard a double decker thinking
Care of the elderly is something that should concern all of us. Even those of us who aren't already elderly more than likely will be some day. And some of us, unfortunately, will be infirm and in need of care in a residential or nursing home. That's not
A Telegraph & Argus cartoonist and a merchant navy captain are among the district's Open University graduates. Tony Hannan, 35, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in combined arts, edits the newspaper Total Rugby League and provides the T&A's Walt
A series of partnership schemes aimed at improving community and race relations in the Bradford district have helped West Yorkshire Police win special praise from Home Secretary Jack Straw. Mr Straw says a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary
Bookshop assistant Lianne Hall has been included on a high-profile new CD showcasing the best of up-and-coming British musicians. She will also feature in an episode of the new television series John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs which started at the weekend
A serial paedophile who assaulted five young girls has failed in an appeal court challenge to his 16-year prison sentence. Christopher Clayton, 45, of Ranelagh Avenue, Ravenscliffe, pleaded guilty to four counts of rape and three of indecent assault at
A mother-of-two was discovered suffocated with her throat cut, a jury heard today. The grim discovery was made by police who were alerted by friends when had not seen anything of Janine Dolecki, 40, of Granton Street, Bradford Moor, last February. Stephen
Ideas on how to combat truancy in Keighley schools - where Greenhead Grammar has one of the highest rates in the country - are to be thrashed out at a special conference. The event is being spearheaded by Julie Evans, Keighley's anti-truancy co-ordinator
Civic campaigners hope to hear next month if funding has been secured to draw up a Lottery bid for Ilkley's historic Kings Hall and Winter Gardens. Bradford Council submitted an application last year for Arts Council money to carry out a feasibility study
A highways chief has demanded an urgent report on lighting around roadworks at night to alert drivers following a crash in Birkenshaw. Councillor David Sheard (Lab, Mirfield), chairman of Kirklees Council's highways committee said: "I have asked the highways
A verdict of unlawful killing has been returned on a mother and her two-year-old daughter gunned down in America at an inquest in Bradford today. Melanie Edwards, 33, and Carli Fay, two, were shot as they sat in a car by her estranged husband Carlton
The recent series of interest rate reductions is bad news for savers. The obvious losers tend to be older people, and especially pensioners, many of whom depend upon the income from their savings to supplement their pensions. But actually we will all
Sunday Alliance: Michael Nagy was at his majestic best linking superbly with hat-trick, hero Dale Hoyle as Ventus reached the Senior League Cup semi-final with a third round 5-1 win over Albion Sports. The match was expected to be much closer than that
Greg Blewett's omission from Australia's World Cup squad means that he will now have a full season with Yorkshire and is due to arrive at Headingley in the second week of April. Yorkshire skipper David Byas said today that he was 'thrilled' at the news
Saltaire novelist Sophie Hannah is one of the new faces for the Millennium. With the publication of her first book, Gripless, on Thursday, she forms part of a crop of rising young British talent heading your way very soon. Isobel Fox met her and discovered
We've seen it all - stroppy passengers screaming blue murder at check-in staff, live lobsters in hand luggage, travellers forgetting their passports, ticket mix ups - it's all part of the ups and downs of day to day life with easyJet airline in the popular
Recognising pain in animals is rather like understanding that in small children. There is no set of rules to follow, you just have to work each case out as you go along. Lemonade, my own fiercely independent young tabby cat, spends much of his life outside
First World War veteran Harry Holmes has died at the age of 101 - more than 80 years after he was blown up by a German shell in Flanders. Mr Holmes, who lived in Guiseley, died peacefully in his sleep at Leeds General Infirmary on Sunday afternoon with
Bradford headteachers are calling for the reinstatement of the school nurse to stem the problem of head lice. Teachers are urging the health authority to bring back regular head inspections to combat the menace. But health experts say it should be a community
A murder trial took a dramatic twist today when the Crown accepted a plea of manslaughter on grounds of provocation and wounding with intent. Pub disc jockey Phillip Edwards, 29, of Brantwood Crescent, Stoney Ridge, Bradford, had pleaded not guilty at
