The sign on the boarding house door didn't mince its words. "No Irish, no niggers," it read. "That'll be us, then," thought the two strangers on the doorstep. And off they walked together. The year was 1961, the place Liverpool. The little B&B in
This week bald men everywhere will have been walking around with smiles of eager anticipation on their faces. What will have cheered them up is news that a new anti-balding pill is coming on to the market. At least, that's what we're supposed to believe
A SHOCKED animal lover whose pet rabbit was killed and hung outside her house spoke out this week about the "disgusting" act. Jodie Park, 19, of Stonebower Cottages, Burton-in-Lonsdale, said her boyfriend Colin Read, had found her pet rabbit, Rachel,
"Have you ever thought you would like to do something to help towards the problems in the world, both at home and abroad, but didn't know where to start?" That's the question asked by Jean Brockbank, of the Keighley branch of the Soroptimists, in a bid
A Bradford group helping the 'forgotten victims' of sex abuse - the children's mothers - has expanded after a Lottery grant of nearly £200,000. Mosaic (Mothers of Sexually Abused In Control) began life as a project run by the NSPCC children's charity
Bradford Council, police, fire service and other bodies have teamed up for the first time to produce an information pack for people handling potentially lethal pyrotechnic displays. The move comes as shopkeepers were warned not to sell fireworks to children
Hundreds of mourners packed Otley Parish Church to bid farewell to tragic student James Raw, who was killed in a bus crash just weeks into his university career. Colleagues from the teenager's Venture Scout unit, some in tears, and uniformed Scouting
A Bingley man has scooped a whopping £48,931 payout by betting on the Irish Lottery. The win - believed to be the biggest of its kind in the north - came from a £4.36 bet which was placed at Ladbrokes in Bingley. The man, who wants to remain anonymous
A hospital has introduced new rules for pregnant drug addicts after a new mum was seen having sex on a maternity ward. The incident, which shocked expectant mums sharing the ward, took place at Bradford Royal Infirmary. It was one of a number of incidents
Oakworth swimmer Neil McCallum made a splash in his biggest-ever international competition by bringing home two gold medals. He and team-mate Ashley Dale, from Sandbeds, were among ten swimmers representing England at the Inter-national Gateway Swimming
A thriving junior football club has been given new home turf to help cope with increasing numbers. Cross Roads Juniors is having part of Cross Roads park converted into a new pitch so its growing number of young footballers will have space to play. The
DOTING great grandma Freda Phillip is looking forward to braving minus 30 degree weather, a flight across the Arctic Circle and a high speed skidoo trip so that her six-year-old great grandson can meet Father Christmas. The 92-year-old is flying little
Yorkshire next year make their earliest one-day start to a season when they open their programme with a Benson & Hedges Cup Group match against Durham at Chester le Street on Saturday, April 15. The season stretches for a full five months and concludes
Sky TV pundit Rodney Marsh admitted last night that Bradford City were better than he thought but still confidently tipped them for the dreaded Premiership drop. Marsh, who had angered manager Paul Jewell with his claims that the Bantams were the worst
with the Rev Harold Stuteley, of the Church of the Nazarene in Oakworth Road The Keighley News has printed letters recently regarding the Centre which helps drug addicts break free of their habit. I am not becoming involved in arguments about where the
I've had one or two requests asking what we are doing over the Christmas and New Year - Millennium - period. Are we bringing out a special edition etc.? The answer is that at this stage we will be publishing as normal over the period - albeit a day earlier
IT went into injury time for six Skipton football fans who secured gold dust tickets to the England v Scotland Euro 2000 qualifier, just days before they went on sale to the public. Stephen Sowerbuts, of Regent Crescent, who is a member of the England
SKIPTON Town Council has fiercely objected to proposals to build new houses on a local garage site Craven District Council asked members to consider the opportunity of demolishing garages and allotments on the rundown East Castle Street garage site and
Toddler Damian Clough has been given his freedom to play - thanks to kind-hearted people. The three-year-old is autistic and therefore has no concept of what causes pain. That means he can easily hurt himself on objects around the house. But now he has
Detectives are hunting masked attackers who robbed two businessmen of jewellery in a Keighley hotel car park. The robbers struck at 2.15pm last Friday in the grounds of the Beeches Toby Hotel and Restaurant in Brad-ord Road. They escaped in a silver Rover
THE first clinic in the country dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of bowel cancer will be up and running at Airedale Hospital, Steeton, by Tuesday. The Clear Cancer Campaign, launched in April by Skipton Rotary Club, has raised enough money to
A perfect day for Craven League football with a full programme and some very interesting and tight matches with lots at stake was spoilt by four referees failing to turn up after acknowledging their appointments. Consequently Embsay v Oxenhope in the
A SCHOOLBOY disobeyed his father in a bid to rescue four people trapped in a sinking canal barge. David Grimm, then 15, dived into the water after the Drum Major sank in Stegneck Lock, near Gargrave, more than 14 months ago. Sadly his efforts were in
Former Keighley MP Gary Waller is staging a dramatic political comeback by running for the Tory nomination to fight the Shipley seat. Mr Waller, 54, was ousted at the 1997 general election by Labour's Ann Cryer after 14 years as Keighley MP. Last month
On the outside the Shimla Spice looks more like a Pizza Hut than a poppadom parlour. But don't let the strange modern design of the building put you off because once inside the Shimla is a tastefully-decorated and traditional restaurant. So far, so good
With only two months to go to the start of a new Millennium, I wonder if there is a living thing in the Dales that might have been alive 1,000 years ago? Maybe one of our churchyard yews or an ancient oak at Bolton Abbey was a sapling before the Normans
EIGHT new houses are to be built and then sold to fund the construction of a new St John Ambulance headquarters on Shortbank Road, Skipton. The plans, which were approved by Craven District Council's planning committee, include the demolition of the old
National Division One Wharfedale 22 Reading 14 (Half-time 19-0) Wharfedale were given a stiff test by a competitive Reading outfit but passed with flying colours to maintain their impressive home record of only one defeat in their last 16 games at The
THE West Marton based company, British Creameries Ltd, owned by Van den Bergh Foods since 1987, has been sold to a private company. Yieldingtree Ltd a chilled food wholesale and yoghurt manufacturer in Stourbridge and Central Provisions Ltd, a cheese
Keighley MP Ann Cryer has been chosen to defend her seat at the next general election. All six Labour Party branches in the Keighley constituency, which includes Ilkley, have voted unanimously to re-select her as their candidate. Separate selection processes
Keighley MP Ann Cryer has spoken out in Parliament on rail safety. In a recent speech to the House of Commons, she praised Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott for his prompt launching of an investigation into the recent Ladbroke Grove rail disaster. She
A health watchdog is to broaden the way it looks at suggestions made by patients and medical staff. Airedale Community Health Council (CHC) will take a stronger view of comments made by patients about the local health service. Members of the CHC will
An extra £7 million is being devolved into local schools, we can reveal. Bradford council education chairman Cllr Susanne Rooney told the KN that a new financial strategy is to be implemented to ensure that education is treated as a priority. She refers
Eastburn residents have vowed to fight development plans until the bitter end. Taywood Homes intends to build 198 houses in fields near the village, which presently contains around 340 homes. Local opposition has grown since the plans - which have not
When it comes to best business practice Keighley is becoming very fashionable, according to MP Ann Cryer. Ann was in bullish mood about the local economy and the town's future in general when she spoke at Keighley Business Forum's lunch meeting on Friday
A beleaguered community group is to hold a second annual general meeting to sort out its management and constitution. Bracken Bank and District Community Association was criticised by former members after its last meeting ended in chaos. Some of the protestors
Keighley's world-famous steam railway has appointed its first-ever female president. And local MP Ann Cryer - who was elected to the post on Saturday - is believed to be the only woman in the country to hold the presidency of a preserved railway. She
Parents claim their children will be in danger if a car park is not soon found near a school. Mums and dads whose children go to Foxhills First School used to park in the Pineberry Inn car park, where the licensee was also a school governor. But a change
Staff at Bradford's Pavers shoe shop are making great strides to encourage more people to shop locally. Part of a group of six city centre shops across the North of England, the Bradford branch is the only one of its kind in West Yorkshire - its owners
Weeks of scrutinising weather forecasts, crossing fingers and, I admit, blind hope for a fine fortnight in Scotland were shattered even before we had left England. After a searing hot Friday, we awoke to a murky, although dry summer Saturday. But as we
Graham Mitchell retired as chairman of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway on Saturday. He talks to Alistair Shand Growing up in a home overlooking a bustling railway goods yard, it was perhaps inevitable that the young Graham Mitchell would develop
A drug dealer who was caught thanks to an anti-crime initiative in Keighley town centre has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Zahid Bashir, 23, was arrested because a shopper saw him hiding a package in bushes and reported the incident to store guards
A ground-breaking scheme in which young people turned a shabby tower block of flats into comfortable apartments has won a housing "Oscar". The scheme off Park Road, Bradford, was given the top national award in its category in a glitzy ceremony at the
Lotte Lori Michaelis was 26 when she was forced to flee her homeland. The year was 1939 - the dawn of the outbreak of war in Europe - and Mrs Michaelis, a Bavarian Jew, was on the run from Hitler's Nazis. As a Jew, Mrs Michaelis and her family had suffered
A Saltaire resident today called for a referendum on the bid to gain the historic village World Heritage status. And Angela Williamson - a residents' representative on the multi-agency Saltaire Project Team which is backing the bid - has written to Culture
CRAVEN consumers and traders are getting behind the area's farmers by supporting them in their battle to get a French ban on British beef overturned. The French government is refusing to allow the sale of British beef, even though it has now been given
Oakbank School had a 'positive' meeting with government officials about its lost sports-college status, it has been revealed. Head-teacher John Roberts, sports teacher Helen Plimmer and governors' chairman Mark Curtis met with Department for Education
Highfield Middle School could be demolished to make way for social housing. Manningham Housing Assoc-iation has applied for planning permission to build 17 family houses on the site off Drewry Road. The school is due to close next summer as part of Bradford
A yet-to-be-chosen boarding school in the Leeds-Bradford area could well play a vital role in the future of British tennis. Pupils aged 14 and over would stay there and commute to Carnegie Regional Tennis Centre in Leeds - one of seven nationwide venues
City of Bradford members won nine gold, six silver and nine bronze medals when the club hosted their annual Graded Meet, with 13 visiting clubs from North of England and Scotland competing at this ever-popular event. The fast-swimming Shipley Pool produced
with Tom Smith The recent State visit of China's President Jiang Zemin has caused a few red faces in Government circles. Although how you can see the red faces through the egg I don't know. As a public relations exercise I should think that it ranks alongside
Sir - I refer to your article of a few weeks ago, entitled 'Run down buildings will be developed'. I am extremely concerned to note that the developer and also his cousin (who has bought Central Chambers on North Street) have applied to the SRB. (Single
The very essence of village life is being threatened throughout the length and breadth of this country. The challenges for the future well-being of rural communities are growing by the day. These range from the livelihood of hill farmers, the lack of
Keighley MP Ann Cryer is urging the boss of a planned drug-rehabilitation centre to consult concerned residents. People living near the proposed centre, in Woodville Road, Keighley, have hit out at the plan. They believe it will lower the value of their
IT'S about time the Eurocrats in Brussels put their foot down! When are they going to realise that there will always be an anti-Europe backlash in Britain until they are seen to be doing their jobs properly and not making the rules up as they go along
FOR the second time in three weeks, the Rylstone WI Calendar girls have been guests at London's Savoy Hotel. The 'girls' famous for their alternative WI calendar in aid of leukaemia research were guests of actress Maureen Lipman at the Women of the Year
Paul Nicholas Uschakow, of 42 Dawson Road, Woodhouse, Keighley, was ordered to pay a total of £240 for motoring offences including having no insurance and test certificate and having a defective tyre. Roberta Dawn Jones, of 32 Malsis Road, Knowle Park
Millions of pounds in public money is being wasted on ill-fated visitor attractions at the expense of local tourist draws, it is claimed. Leading figures in Keighley's tourism industry allege that a glut of so-called interactive glitzy draws is strangling
Our story last week on UFOs over Keighley caused a spooky stir. Several people called to say they too had seen strange things in the skies above the town. Sophie Seal, 13, of Best Lane, Oxenhope, says she saw a silver ball with a red ring around it hovering
Three long-time members of Keighley Amateurs have been honoured for their 180 years' combined service to the theatre. Keith Marsden, Geoffrey Rundle and Alan Park were each given 60 years' service awards by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association
100 years ago TALKS were going on in West Craven into the possible opening of a butter factory at Marton, on the Gledstone estate. The idea came about because of the large amount of imported butter coming into the country from all over the world - around
Village shops in South Craven are fighting for survival - against the tide of modern lifestyles. Sutton's two main general stores are struggling to compete with supermarkets, the Uniform Business Rate and new European legislation. Meanwhile, residents
A couple claim to have suffered cold and abuse at the hands of a window company. Michael and Patricia Heaton say they were treated awfully by Safestyle UK, one of the country's biggest window firms. But the company hits back, claiming the couple have
Britain's premier motorcycling family - the Lampkins of Silsden - have reached the pinnacle of their sport. The Lampkins have won seven world titles, six British titles and innumerable victories in moto-cross and trials. And now for the first time they
Stephen Perry, the elusive Cross Hills jeweller is again being sought by police. Mr Perry angered customers who had goods at his shop by disappearing for nearly two months last summer. He was later discovered to have merely extended a holiday with friends
Leaflets urging people to oppose plans to build hundreds of homes on green-field sites dropped through letter boxes at the weekend. Worth Valley Tory councillor Kris Hopkins and helpers went out armed with 1,500 leaflets which Oakworth residents are being
A coroner has adjourned an inquest on a teenage girl after pleas from her family for more information. Alexandra Rachel Clayton-Alsop, of Cliffe Wood Avenue, Shipley, died at a friend's apartment in Spain after a birthday celebration. Bradford Coroner
A 13-year-old Bradford boy appeared before Bradford magistrates yesterday accused of possessing an estimated £4 million worth of heroin with intent to supply, as reported in the T&A, left. Lyn Barton talks to drugs project organisers who reveal a
Keighley MP Ann Cryer has spoken out on a drugs detoxification centre being set up in the town's Woodville Road. Local residents have hit out at the centre which they believe will lower the value of their property and lead to dealers operating in the
Motown legend Martha Reeves last night lived up to her massive hit Forget Me Not in an emotional reunion with two of her biggest fans. Bradford couple Phil and Kim Dick had the greatest day of their lives two years ago when they married in Detroit's Motown
