Musical maestro Jenny Robertson's latest composition has so impressed judges in a national competition that she is to perform her song in the Millennium Dome. Skipton Girls High School pupil Jenny, 17, of Grassington, is one of 22 youngsters who will
A headteacher has called on Kirklees Council to prevent a phone mast being installed near her school. Susan Muscroft, headteacher of St Peter's Junior, Infants and Nursery School in Birstall, has called on the Council to block plans by Mercury Communications
Parents are being warned to brace themselves for the worst ever scramble for places at Bradford's most popular schools next year. With three year groups entering secondary schools in September 2000, teachers are predicting heartache and education bosses
Motor Sport: Dougie Lampkin has taken his fourth consecutive British Solo Trials title and his fifth in six years. He goes to Whitworth on Sunday, where the main interest is if Graham Jarvis (Rathmell Sport Bultaco) can hold Steve Colley off for runners-up
Five Leeds United players are in the England under-21 squad to meet Denmark at Bradford City's Bradford & Bingley Stadium next week. The presence of Elland Road favourites, strikers Alan Smith and Michael Bridges, midfield player Lee Bowyer, full
Grand Final bound Bradford Bulls received another boost today when the Paul brothers were called up by New Zealand for forthcoming Tri-Nations Series Down Under. The news of Robbie and Henry's selection comes just a week after James Lowes, Mike Forshaw
A Bradford pensioner has spoken of his pride after his army officer son became a hero by risking his own life to smuggle 30 terrified East Timorese people to safety. Major John Petrie, whose father Kenneth lives in West Bowling, drove through militia
A woman has been awarded more than £2,600 compensation against a Bradford clothing store after a tribunal ruled she had been wrongfully sacked. Shehzadi Bono, 24, of Scholemoor, Bradford, was dismissed from her job as an assistant manager at Bombay Stores
Fining parents whose children refuse to go to school will not boost attendance, according to the headteacher of a Bradford school with the second worst truancy rates in the country. Education Secretary David Blunkett today unveiled plans which could see
A 32-year-old mum who battled for three years against a disease of the pancreas has died three days after being admitted to hospital. Hairdresser Denise Atkin, of Hainworth Crag Road, Keighley, died in Airedale General Hospital, Steeton as a result of
An open invitation for people to design the kind of road signs they actually want has so far met with a lukewarm response. People in Rawdon, Guiseley and Yeadon were given the opportunity to come up with their own designs after the huge public backlash
Ilkley Literature Festival's 26th year kicks off this week with one of the event's stars eagerly awaiting his return to the town. Liverpudlian poet Roger McGough is appearing at Ilkley Playhouse on Sunday to read extracts from his new book The Way Things
Owners of Bradford's biggest city centre shopping complex today unveiled plans for a massive £3 million revamp. The Kirkgate Centre which was built in 1976 as a showpiece development in that era will be transformed in a bid to beat off competition from
The father of a 13-year-old girl who has undergone a leg amputation has hit out at youths who have subjected the family to a two-month reign of terror. Kevin Redshaw whose daughter is recovering from an operation two weeks ago when her leg was amputated
Amateur Rugby League: Queensbury are joint top of the Pennine Premier Division following an impressive 28-4 success at previously unbeaten Moldgreen. The return of second row forward Matthew Galtress gave the pack more fire power and Martin Potts revelling
Bradford Bulls fans have made a stampede to Odsal for Grand Final tickets. In just two days the club have sold 15,000 tickets and are halfway to chairman Chris Caisley's target of 30,000 Bradford supporters at Old Trafford on October 9. And Super League
Bradford Bulls are being linked with a sensational swoop for Great Britain skipper Andy Farrell. The rugby league scene is awash with suggestions that Farrell is allegedly in dispute with Wigan Warriors and that he is ready to join the Bulls for Super
Bradford City's transfer listed Jamaican defender Darren Moore is battling to be fit to face Dwight Yorke in a friendly international against Trinidad and Tobago. Moore is currently nursing a hamstring injury which has ruled him out of tonight's FA Premier
The new scanner at Bradford Royal Infirmary - bought by you - is up, running and has now had the enthusiastic blessing of Health Secretary Frank Dobson. We might not have a lot in Bradford, but when it comes to sharing what we've got, we're not backward
An investigation has been launched to stop youngsters risking their lives by leaping into the River Wharfe from Ilkley's bridges. Parish councillors are worried someone could be injured or killed and are looking into putting up signs warning of the dangers
The long-awaited Darwin Gardens Millennium scheme will be officially launched this week. And individuals, community groups and businesses will get the chance to dedicate stones and trees in their name as part of a Millennium maze. The maze scheme is part
Police are getting tough with parents who persist in flouting the no parking zigzag lines in front of schools to drop off their children. Selfish parents face getting a fixed penalty £20 ticket or even prosecution for wilful obstruction at Parkwood Primary
Bradford is all set to be at the hub of the region's electronics industry now a major training partnership has won nearly £7 million to narrow the skills gap. Five hundred jobs will be created in the city and 2,500 across the Yorkshire region in the next
Bradford illusionist Shahid Malik - one of the world's top magicians - is to star at the city's biggest night of the year in December. Mr Malik, whose death-defying stunts have won him an army of fans, has agreed to perform for free at the Telegraph &
A unique support scheme for runaway girls today revealed it had dealt with hundreds of incidents in Bradford within the last six months. The Barnardo's-run operation - the only one of its kind in Britain - made contact with about 130 girls reported missing
Two decades after a Bradford lorry driver held the north of England hostage to his reign of murder and savagery, a TV documentary has pieced together the full, shocking story. The Hunt For The Yorkshire Ripper discloses not only one man's evil but also
Cyclists will be pedalling down Memory Lane at their centenary dinner next week. The boneshakers and penny farthings which were on the roads when East Bradford Cycling Club was first founded have given way to aluminium frames and aerodynamic helmets.
The ordeal being endured by a Bradford couple and their disabled daughter at their specially-adapted Allerton home is an appalling indictment of a society in which some people seem to take a cruel pleasure in making the lives of others a misery. The Redshaw
A massive £1.3million project to pump new life into the Ravenscliffe estate has been given the go-ahead by councillors. But how will the residents react to their new look estate? Charles Heslett and Isobel Fox investigate. POSTWOMAN HEATHER Strothard
An hysterical teenager was seen running down the middle of a country road after she escaped from her alleged attacker, a jury heard. The youngster was helped by people in a passing car and was eventually taken to the Flappit pub, near Keighley. In a statement
