Peter Atherton is looking forward to doing battle with Alan Shearer in tonight's Worthington Cup third round. The 30-year-old defender has played against Shearer several times in his career, but he missed the former England captain in his most rampant
Bradford Bulls back Nathan McAvoy is to undergo a knee reconstruction. McAvoy, whose World Cup ambitions were ruined when he broke down in a warm-up game for England against the USA in Florida, has had an exploratory operation. Now surgeons will wait
New customers have been lined up by a Bingley firm after it took part in a glass exhibition in Germany. Penico Gauges, based in Keighley Road, has struck deals to provide mould gauge equipment used to make glass containers. The company has also launched
World-beating Bradford firm Ciba Speciality Chemicals has appointed a new chairman. Dr Armin Meyer steps into the post formerly held by Rolf A Meyer who has resigned. Dr Meyer also becomes the company's chief executive officer with effect from January
The jobs of 40 textile workers were saved from the axe after a Bradford firm stepped in to buy up a threatened business. The entire workforce of the 130-year-old Huddersfield firm Butterworth & Roberts faced redundancy at Christmas after the owner
The commitment of Kirklees Council to the development and expansion of learning opportunities for three and four-year-olds is spelt out in a new document. It was put before the Lifelong Learning Manage-ment Board yesterday. Councillor John Smithson, chairman
Comic Mark Rough today told how his jokes helped him through a month behind bars on fraud charges. And he says he has returned to Saltaire determined to put his comedy career back on track. Rough, 37, spent four weeks in Durham prison on remand until
Canadian police today made a fresh appeal for help in identifying a mystery Yorkshire man who lost his memory in a street mugging. It is now a year since the man - who speaks with a Yorkshire accent and believes his name may be Philip - was attacked in
Stunt master Shahid Malik has spoken of his world-record escape from a straightjacket while dangling 18-feet above London's Trafalgar Square. The 46-year-old Bradford magician and illusionist, who smashed his own world record by five seconds, said the
West Yorkshire's snarled-up main roads are saturated with traffic at peak time - and there is no more space, according to a major transport plan taking the county from next year up to 2006. The first West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan supports the Government's
Wide-ranging cuts, from the scrapping of the unadopted roads programme to transferring all training centres to another organisation, were agreed at a stormy three-hour meeting last night. The cuts agreed by Bradford Council's Executive Committee - which
A champion bodybuilder was today behind bars after being caught conducting a drug deal in a supermarket car park. Reigning Mr UK Patrick Warner had been hoping to defend his title this weekend, but yesterday the Bradford athlete was jailed for six months
Catalogue giant Grattan is to axe about 200 jobs as a "last resort" measure to slash company costs. After a thorough efficiency review of the operation, bosses of the Bradford-based company concluded they had no option but to lay workers off. The move
A patisserie lecturer has returned from a mouth-watering mission to teach Russian chefs how to perfect their pavlovas. Leighton Anderson, who teaches at Bradford College, answered a call from the Baltic to show staff in a top hotel how to dish up delectable
Keighley Leisure Centre resembled a field hospital as staff coped with the human cost of the floods. Dozens of families who were rescued from their homes as the River Aire reached its highest levels for half a century were taken to the converted evacuation
Hundreds of households and businesses were today counting the multi-million pound cost of the worst flooding in 50 years. The floods swept along the Aire Valley leaving a trail of destruction in Skipton, Keighley, Bingley, Shipley, Baildon, Esholt and
Ideal Isberg 26 Dudley Hill 18 Dudley Hill produced a great performance before finally losing 26-18 in the National Conference Premier Division. They could console themselves with having the best player on the pitch in Neil Shoesmith who was well supported
Bulls coach Brian Noble is backing England to prove the gulf between themselves and the southern hemisphere giants is not as wide as some pundits have claimed. Noble was at Twickenham to see the Aussies confirm their status as tournament favour-ites with
Man of the moment Matt Clarke has given Bradford City a major injury scare before tonight's Worthington Cup clash at Newcastle. City's goalkeeper, whose outstanding displays have sparked a campaign for an England call, is struggling with knee and groin
Once again, it seems, the big stick is being brandished at motorists in a bid to drive them off the roads and on to public transport. The latest proposal for an assault on the drivers whose vehicles choke up West Yorkshire's roads at peak times comes
In 1815, Crawford W Long, the doctor who first used an anaesthetic in surgery, was born. In 1858, 17 people, including five children, died from eating arsenic contaminated sweets in Bradford. In 1863, the Holy Trinity Church, Leeds Road, Bradford, was
A Bingley boss called for private patrols to protect businesses after a spate of attacks left him facing a massive clean-up bill. Michael Heaton, managing director of Beton Machinery Sales Ltd, in Whitely Street, returned from a two-week business trip
Bradford student nurses are to sleep on the street on Friday to protest against poor pay and conditions. The group is expected to join nurses from across the region in a 'Big Sleep' outside the Department of Health offices at Quarry House, Leeds, from
Millionaire Brendan Larkin today came up with plans for a major new stand for the Bradford Bulls at Odsal Stadium. The businessman has stepped in as talks founder between the Bulls, Bradford Council and the authority's preferred developer Horsforth-based
A counselling service for people who feel they are of the wrong sex is being set up in Bradford. Trained counsellor Louise Wheatcroft is offering advice and counselling to transsexuals as she says there is little, if any, available. Miss Wheatcroft's
Families have won their battle for a pelican crossing at an accident blackspot used by more than 19,000 vehicles a day. Parents taking children to school say they struggle to cross Barkerend Road, Bradford, where a six-year-old boy was knocked down in
A verdict of unlawful killing has been recorded on a 70-year-old heavy drinker who was beaten up in a Bradford flat. Edwin Norford was left with irreversible brain damage following a serious assault in the Manningham area of Bradford nearly three years
A Bradford couple have won a four-year fight for compensation after their daughter was left brain damaged when she swallowed a balloon. But Nadeem and Shahnaz Butt said today that the settlement, which is understood to run into six figures, was no victory
SIR - The reply to Mr Jeffrey Gordon's letter (October 25) is that the powers that be, mainly the Conservative Government, did not heed the lesson of history. British Railways was formed by amalgamation in 1947 of the four main lines then in existence
