Robin Luscombe's day at Bonsall Moor in north Derbyshire was not a howling success. The Cullingworth sidecar champion, with his passenger Les Ashby, finished a poor second to Robin and Gill Morewood but still scored 17 championship points to trail them
City chairman Geoffrey Richmond has appealed to supporters who are making the trip to Holland for Saturday's Intertoto Cup match to be good ambassadors for their club and country. With scenes of violence before England's Euro 2000 match against Germany
First Division neighbours Huddersfield Town were today told to forget any interest they may have in Bradford City striker Lee Mills. Town manager Steve Bruce is known to be an admirer of the 30-year-old player, but City chairman Geoffrey Richmond said
It is important that life is made as uncomplicated as possible for disabled people. It is enough for them to have to face the personal challenges presented by their disabilities without them proving a barrier to many of the facilities taken for granted
A touch of magic made all the difference to a Bradford firm's tenth anniversary celebrations. Marsh Corporate Consulting, based in Greengates, and founder Kieran Marsh brought in magician Alistair Cook to add that vital spark to the proceedings. The firm
Staff from a Cleckheaton marketing company are using pedal power to raise funds. Three members of Colleagues Direct Marketing Ltd in Bradford Road, Chain Bar, got on their bikes to ride from Cleckheaton to their Bath office. Paul Lythgow, James Cracknell
Bradford & Bingley boss Christopher Rodrigues today vowed jobs would not be scrapped as a result of yesterday's decision to convert to a bank. And Mr Rodrigues, the B&B's chief executive, said it was likely jobs would be created rather than axed
Bradford Council been left with a clean- up challenge after flytippers dumped white asbestos sheeting on a public right of way in Queensbury. The material was tipped along with building rubble at the Thornton Road end of a footpath which runs past Foxhill
Big-hearted fundraisers have helped to generate hundreds of pounds for disabled Shipley tot Connor Entwistle. The fundraiser at Bradford's Carlisle Hotel included a coffee morning, table top sale, a pool and domino knockout contest, a three-mile mother
A project which restores old computer systems and sells them at low cost to charities, start-up businesses and schools has been awarded £96,774. The Byteback Bradford project will use the Biffaward - from Biffa Waste Services - to help cover some of its
Council bosses have been accused of acting in a "disgraceful and high-handed way" by evicting an Asian restaurant to make way for a multi-million pound development. Furious Bradford West MP Marsha Singh today turned on regeneration chiefs, who sent bailiffs
SIR - Many weeks ago I contacted Bradford Council bulk refuse for them to remove some large items of furniture. I was assured that this would be done within ten days. After 14 days the items were still in my back garden so I contacted bulk refuse again
Bosses in Bradford are being given a chance to make deals at a networking lunch hosted by the district's Chamber of Commerce. The lunch, to be held at the city's Dubrovnik Hotel on Monday, July 24, will follow the Chamber's annual meeting. Members will
THE top Methodist on the Skipton and Grassington circuit is to leave the area at the end of the month. Arthur and Helena Harbottle have been working in the Craven district since 1995 when they moved from Keighley. Their next move is a completely different
A young woman with a one-in-a-million blood disease today hit out at bureaucrats who have refused to pay her a disability allowance. Brave Tracey Knowles is 'lucky to be alive', according to her family doctor. She has crippling symptoms and needs two
An ice-cream seller today claimed he is living in fear after being viciously attacked by an iron bar-wielding thug. Sajid Mehmood Sheikh, from West Bowling, believes the attack was the latest incident in a campaign of terror by rival vendors to force
Bradford's former Lord Mayor, Harry Mason, was today spearheading a campaign to bring disabled people access to hundreds of public buildings in the district. Coun Mason - who has Motor Neurone Disease - was making his bid as a shock report showed just
A former care home owner who claimed benefits for some of his residents after they had died has admitted illegally obtaining more than £85,000. Michael Bovenseipen, 46, was due to stand trial at Bradford Crown Court yesterday on 98 charges of obtaining
A new scheme to deter motorists who fill up with fuel and drive off without paying has had a major impact in its first month. The Forecourt Watch initiative in the Toller Lane police division has slashed the number of offences by 87 per cent. Since its
The crowning centrepiece of Keighley's new Emily Street mosque has been fitted. Crowds watched with interest as the giant dome, the first to be fitted to a Keighley mosque, was lowered into place by crane. The dome's metal frame, nine metres in diameter
Bradford & Bingley boss Christopher Rodrigues today vowed jobs would not be scrapped as a result of yesterday's decision to convert to a bank. And Mr Rodrigues, the B&B's chief executive, said it was likely jobs would be created rather than axed
Crime levels in West Yorkshire are bucking the national trend by continuing to fall. The county has enjoyed a five per cent overall reduction in offences during the past year, while the UK as a whole has suffered a 3.8 per cent rise. There were around
A widower was left shocked and distressed after hospital transport came to collect his wife for a clinic appointment - three months after she died. Transport staff came to Ronald Marlow's home in Idle and told the startled 76-year-old they had come to
People trying to quit smoking in the Allerton area of Bradford can now turn to specially trained 'buddies' for help. Nine women from the estate have completed a training course run by Bradford Health Promotion. The women, who include reformed smokers,
Police today cordoned off a Bradford street after another victim was gunned down in the city. The 20-year-old Asian man was rushed to Bradford Royal Infirmary after being shot in the leg early today. It was the second shooting to hit the city within four
