Yorkshire Television has apologised after Otley traders and shoppers were left without anywhere to park on one of the busiest days of the week. Workers and visitors were left fighting for spaces in the town's hard-pressed car parks last Friday after three
Former Keighley MP Gary Waller is to attempt a political come back by running for the Shipley Conservative nomination. The 54-year-old was defeated at the last election and recently told his constituency he would not fight it again. But he is eager to
Snooker: Bradford left-hander Richard Lodge is to make his England debut - at the age of 53!" "I found out when I was playing in an Amateur Billiards Circuit tournament in Liverpool," said the Lidget Green WMC member. "It is an eight-man team to play
Great Britain coach Andy Goodway has defended his decision to go into tomorrow's Tri-Nations match against New Zealand with just two specialist props. Injury to Bradford Bulls front rower Paul Anderson forced Goodway into shuffling his pack but, instead
Sky Sports pundit Rodney Marsh has stepped up his "war" on Bradford City with a renewed attack on the TV company's website. And Marsh, who has infuriated City fans with his constant putdowns of the club, is prepared to confront his own critics head on
Brass talent in Bradford is set to bloom with Black Dyke Band's first ever album made with the BBC. The legendary musicians, based in Queensbury, have been playing the title music of Ilkley-born Alan Titchmarsh's gardening programme, Ground Force. The
A Wharfedale pensioner claims he is almost a prisoner in his own home, because the village where he lives has no dropped kerbs. Harold Mason, of Arthington Lawns, Pool-in-Wharfedale, can only get about by using an electric wheelchair - but he has found
An angry company boss today claimed work on one of Bradford's busiest roundabouts was 'ambling' towards the Millennium as motorists fumed in massive queues. Work began on the Thornbury roundabout in April and was expected to finish last month. A new date
Bradford's brave Lord Mayor Councillor Harry Mason is back on his feet and ready for action as he issues a clarion call for residents to get behind the re-launch of his appeal. In May this year, Coun Mason urged people across the district to play their
Millennium fever is gripping a Shipley church - nine weeks early. A programme of events entitled Whose Millennium is it Anyway begins on Friday as part of St Peter's Church's 90th birthday celebrations. They include an invitation to join the Vicar for
A grandmother could come to the rescue of her unborn grandchild who may be taken away from its epileptic parents. Penny and Stephen Greenwood fear they could lose their baby because Bradford Council social services want to carry out an assessment to decide
Bradford firm Pace Micro Technology is at the forefront of a hi-tech revolution set to net it millions of pounds in sales. The Saltaire firm is one of the global partners working with California-based Cisco Systems to develop new products which will deliver
Children as young as seven are risking their lives playing with fireworks, worried pensioners say. Elderly people living in the Lilycroft area of Bradford have been disturbed two nights running by groups of youngsters setting off fireworks and starting
A Bradford hair stylist has won a £9,000 payout from her former bosses after a tribunal found she had been the victim of race discrimination. Dawn Harriett, 36, from Little Horton, was accused of ''doing Afro Caribbean customers at home'' during her maternity
A Skipton dance teacher, who has dedicated her life to educating youngsters all over the world, has been rewarded at a ceremony in London. Margaret Jaffe, who runs the Northern Dance School at Skipton Girls' High, the community centre in Otley Street
Talented artists at Greenhead School, Keighley, are flying high after receiving praise for stained glass window designs bound for an international airport. Art students in Year Nine submitted designs for the new multi-faith prayer room, being built at
Ilkley Grammar School has had its bank account 'frozen' by education bosses in a desperate bid to reduce a projected £300,000 overspend. With nine months to go to the end of the academic year, the school is not allowed to spend any money on books, stationery
The Mayor of Kirklees has pledged to back six families who could be ordered to tear up gardens which have no planning permission. Mayor Councillor Harry Fox has promised the home-owners from East Bierley will get a "fair hearing" after he was approached
Builders have started work on a long-awaited £1m medical centre at Wilsden. It will replace the Townfield surgery and is expected to be ready for use in July 2000. The state-of-the-art centre on Wellington Road will comprise eight consulting suites and
A police car caught fire after it crashed on the way to a reported firearms incident in Bradford today. The Vauxhall Omega patrol car collided with a red Nissan Sunny in Leeds Road, Bradford, at about 7.30am today and smashed through the plate glass window
Hockey: Bradford 3, Huddersfield 0. Bradford took all three points in this Yorkshire League encounter at Thornton at the weekend with a lively display that eventually confounded a skilfull Huddersfield side. For the opening 15 minutes, Bradford found
The impact football has on people's lives has been vividly illustrated in Bradford over the past few days. City produced the perfect retort to their critics with a comprehensive victory over high-flying Leicester which moved them out of the bottom three
The row at East Bierley could develop into high farce if Council planners insist that six families turn part of the gardens they have cultivated over more than three years back to grazing land. It will be the sort of triumph for bureaucracy over common
One evening last week I managed to keep my eyes open long enough to sit down and glance at the paper - and wish I hadn't. "Sleep keeps you young," it said. "Cut down on hours and it will pile on the years." Apparently, lack of slumber produces "worrying
Experts from the NHS Executive have praised Bradford's plans for looking after the district's elderly people over the Millennium bank holiday. Troubleshooters from the Department of Health's Millennium Executive team visited Bradford to check what plans
An Addingham resident has asked parish councillors for help in a bid to force house builders to trim fast-growing bushes near his home. The bushes are notorious Leylandii which grow at a phenomenal rate and have been the cause of numerous and expensive
Weather presenter Paul Hudson will brave Burley-in-Wharfedale to switch on the very Christmas lights he ridiculed last year. Paul, a familiar face on BBC Look North, caused uproar last year when he suggested to Look North presenter Peter Levy he had '
A memorial to tragic teenager James Raw is to be established at his former school, it was revealed today. Meanwhile a police investigation into the bus crash which killed the popular student just weeks into his university career is continuing. James,
Pakistani police have been pounding the beat with officers from Bradford during a week-long stay to cement international links. Senior Superintendent Sabir Hussain and Inspector Mohammad Khan, based in Azad Kashmir, are guests of West Yorkshire Police
The student son of a Bradford GP has been found hanged by his shoelaces at the jail where he was remanded, accused of arson. Danyal Matthew Qazi died on Tuesday night - the day he wrote a letter to his family which gave no warning of what he was about
Detectives today stepped up their hunt for a hit-and-run driver who killed a 51-year-old Bradford man. Police were handing out hundreds of leaflets asking for new information. The leaflets are being distributed to homes and businesses in the Great Horton
