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  • Salem bale out underwater Bees with pitch offer

    Bradford Salem are prepared to bale out neighbours Bradford & Bingley following the flood damage they suffered to Wagon Lane. They have offered Bees the use of their Shay Lane ground for training every Monday and Wednesday until their own ground is

  • Wetherall calls for a quickfire start

    New captain David Wetherall believes City must make a positive start against Everton tomorrow if they are to end their miserable run of ten matches without a win. On the rare occasions City have gone in front they have done well, but all too often they

  • Smith is latest to leave Odsal

    Back-rower Hudson Smith has followed fellow Aussie Justin Brooker out of Odsal. Smith, 27, had two years to run on his Bulls contract but the parties have agreed a settlement and he is expected to return Down Under soon. The former Balmain and Salford

  • Now I can smile again!

    Stuart McCall leads Bradford City into battle tomorrow feeling like a man who has won the pools. McCall takes temporary charge for the Valley Parade showdown with Everton, knowing that victory could lift City within a point of escaping the Premiership

  • Important to protect the young

    It has been a long and sometimes frustrating road for Mr John Knowles and Pudsey MP Paul Truswell, but all being well, by Tuesday their crusade to close a loophole in the licensing laws should have achieved its very worthwhile goal. That is the day the

  • Bangladeshi MP visits town

    Discussion and debate were the order of the day when a major political figure from Bangladesh paid a visit to a Keighley organisation. Bangladeshi MP Shah Azizur Rahman, who represents the Sylhet region of the country, visited the Bangladeshi Community

  • Students come out on top

    High achieving students from Keighley's Bangladeshi community have been rewarded for making the grade. Seventy students were presented with congratulatory certificates during a special ceremony at the Bangladeshi Community Association's Shurma Building

  • MP backs primary call

    Keighley MP Ann Cryer has given her backing to an Oxfam campaign for universal primary education. She was among the guests at a Brazilian cinema evening staged as part of the charity's Education Now campaign. More than 130 people attended the event, at

  • Centre to be given back to the people

    A Keighley community centre will be "given back" to the people next week. Residents of the area around the recently-renamed Hainworth Wood Centre will form their own management committee. They will be encouraged to organise new activities in the building

  • Pride of place for town's roll of honour

    Remembrance Day commemorations in Silsden this weekend have been given an extra significance as the parish council honours the town's fallen men and women. The town's roll of honour, listing all those people from the Silsden area who died in the Second

  • Seminar on success

    Bradford Chamber of Commerce is offering a seminar on success to help firms maximise their potential and turn dreams into reality. Turning Business Strategy into Success is on Tuesday in Phoenix House, Bradford. For more details ring (01274) 772777.

  • Cheers for city

    Variety FM, one of the contenders for the last FM radio licence in Yorkshire, has teamed up with Bradford City to jointly sponsor the Bantams' game against Everton tomorrow. Jeff Stephenson, radio executive for Variety's owners the Guardian Media Group

  • Anna sets her sights on Chile expedition

    A Stanbury teenager is taking part in a 10-week expedition to Chile. Anna Jagan, 16, will tackle a wide range of community and environmental projects. Tasks will include helping to build an old people's home and community centre, conservation work and

  • Walkers scale Three Peaks

    Sore-footed walkers raised £1,000 for the Airedale Hospital special care baby unit after conquering Yorkshire's Three Peaks. Players and friends from Keighley Crusaders Rugby Union Club tackled the gruelling walk -- up Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough

  • Cash starts flooding in for pool

    The plans are in place, the support is unanimous and now the hard work starts as Silsden parish council battles to reopen the former Hothfield school swimming pool. As reported in the Keighley News, the parish council recently stepped in at the last minute

  • Magnet factory to go up in smoke

    One of Keighley's biggest factories will be on fire this month -- but there'll be nothing to worry about. In fact, the bogus blaze will help firefighters make workplaces around the town safer in future. The massive Magnet complex, in Hard Ings Road, is

  • World beating centre sets up £500,000 appeal

    A £500,000 appeal has been launched to extend the internationally acclaimed Keighley Disabled People's Centre. New state-of-the-art facilities are planned which will keep the town at the global forefront of provision for the disabled. A one-stop-shop

  • Help us make hospice Christmas a cracker

    Manorlands fundraisers are appealing for public support to make this Christmas a cracker. The Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice is seeking volunteers to help sell tickets for its annual festive prize draw. The event is among the home's biggest single money-spinners

  • Amanda gets her 'gown'

    Amanda Thompson, Keighley's world-famous young pianist, is to receive her "gown" following success on her university course. She is going ahead with the ceremony on Wednesday despite the death of her father Bill a fortnight ago. Mr Thompson insisted Amanda

  • Hospital Trust pays out over knife killing

    The widower and children of a Bradford woman who was stabbed to death by her mentally ill brother-in-law have received "substantial" damages after suing Airedale NHS Trust. Mr Justice Leveson, sitting at High Court, in London, approved the confidential

  • Joseph gets thanks from Queen Mum

    Joseph Thorpe was so concerned when the Queen Mother injured herself that he wrote to ask how she was. The seven-year-old Haworth boy was delighted to receive a reply this week from the Queen Mother's home in London. The letter, from a lady-on-waiting

  • Wiggles wiggle raises a giggle

    THINGS could only get wetter, thought Stockbridge resident Pete Bibby, up to his waist in water as he sorted out the devastation to his conservatory, with his wife and kids trapped upstairs. But he was forced to smile as a toy fish floated past, singing

  • Romantic Skipton is the place to wed

    THE Skipton area is turning into the Gretna Green of England. Couples are choosing it as one of the most romantic spots to plight their troth at a civil wedding rather than in church. Civil weddings in north Yorkshire have risen by 11 percent - up from

  • Farewell for king of dance

    Scores of mourners were expected to pack Shipley's Lakean Ballroom today to bid farewell to the town's 'Lord of the Dance'. Veteran dance teacher and ballroom owner Tommy Kean died in his sleep from a heart attack at his home in Cullingworth on November

  • Heartfelt offer for a better lifestyle

    Heart attack victims are to be offered exercise, lifestyle help and counselling to cut heart deaths. Four specialist cardiac rehabilitation nurses have been appointed to work throughout the district making sure most heart attack patients have access to

  • Almost there - David's Law

    The father of a 14-year-old boy who was killed crossing a road after drinking cans of lager is hoping to succeed in his crusade to close a legal loophole next week. John Knowles is hoping that the House of Lords will give its assent on Tuesday to a Bill

  • Facelift for M&S man's birthplace

    An eyesore yard in the centre of Skipton's conservation area and near the birthplace of the founder of high street retail giant Marks and Spencer, is set to be developed. Plans have been drawn up to demolish an asbestos commercial garage and two residential

  • Cabbies told: You must take guide dogs

    Bradford Council today warned all taxi drivers that they cannot refuse to carry guide dogs in their cars. The warning comes after a private hire driver was suspended for 21 days for refusing to take a blind person and his dog. Bradford Council hackney

  • Guy Fawkes misery worsens for elderly

    A pensioner claims household appliances dumped on a bonfire opposite her home could cause a health hazard. Joyce Bean, 70, of Lilycroft Walk, Toller, Bradford, is angry items including a television set and oven were burned as part of the celebrations

  • 'I can't afford to go to work,' claims father

    A Bradford father is battling with the Child Support Agency to save himself from bankruptcy. Stephen Hunt, 31, from Wyke, says he is left with just £155 a week to look after his girlfriend, her three-year-old disabled daughter and himself after his £92

  • Top award tonic for city health achiever

    Bradford Health Authority staff were celebrating today after scooping a national award. The organisation has been named Health Authority of the Year by medical publication the Health Service Journal. Bradford South and West Primary Care Group, now a trust

  • Invasion of the rats sparks alert in city

    The number of rats scampering through Bradford's drains has jumped by a fifth over the last year. Contractors working for Yorkshire Water had to deal with 1,483 rat infestations compared with 1,232 in the same period last year - an increase of 20 per

  • Terror of victim in locked blazing flat

    A 21-year-man was lucky to be alive today after being rescued from a terrifying ordeal locked in his burning flat. The alarm was raised at 4am today when Jodie Bates was woken by smoke in his first-floor home at Whetley Grove, Girlington. Unable to find

  • House wrecked as wife has tumour op

    Shocked postman Malcolm Airey returned from his wife's ten-hour brain tumour operation to find their home had been ransacked by vandals. The 40-year-old husband had been at his wife's bedside while burglars tore through their home in Bolton, Bradford.

  • Boxing: Popular show puts talent on parade

    Keighley Catholic Youth are joining forces with Keighley Amateur Boxing Club to present their 10th annual show at Holy Family School on Monday. Keighley Boxers taking part include Robbie Spencer, Luke Tuck, Matthew Booth and Paul Dowse.Tickets for the

  • Rugby Union: Parkshow strength

    Richard League powers into the pack Keighley Crusaders 7, West Park Bramhope 13 - A combination of ill discipline, bad luck and poor finishing combined to deny Crusaders the victory they deserved in their non-league match against Bramhope, currently a

  • Table Tennis: Teriers let lead slip away

    The omens looked good for Terriers 'B' following Paul Lister's 20-22, 21-11, 21-12 win in the first game against Steve Fuller as they took on their 'C' team in Division Two. However, the gods were not on their side as their only other point came from

  • Soccer: Craven League round-up

    ONLY three matches survived the weather as rain took its toll on the CravenLeague programme. A total of 17 were called off bringing the total number of postponed matches to 56 so far this season. "It is only the first week In November and I dead to think

  • Soccer: County Cup triumph for Silsden

    Jimmy Hedges An injury-hit Silsden team pulled off a fantastic victory, away from home, in the West Riding County Cup beating Beeston St Anthony's 2-1. It was always going to be a difficult tie against a side who finished second in the West Yorkshire

  • Gt North: Lozza blasts to KN run victory

    Laurence Hellawell after the run with daughters Rebecca (11) and Maisey (8) who took party took part in the junior Great North Run. LAURENCE HELLAWELL put in a storming run to win our 'Run-within-a-Run' after over 40,000 people ran the 20th Great North

  • Rugby League: Yorks call for young stars

    Mathew Langstaff and Keith Shackleton have been selected to take part in the final trials for the Yorkshire Schools Under-15 rugby league team. Mathew (left), a pupil at South Craven School, and Keith who is a student at Oakbank Sports College, earned

  • Gt North: Run boosts charity cash

    Two community nurses took up the challenge of the Great North Run and raised £500 for the Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust. Anne Coward, 46, and Ruth Thomas, 28, who work for the Airedale NHS Trust completed the gruelling run - the biggest half

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - The Odeon is an imposing building worthy of being retained as part of any proposed development in the area. Bradford does not have many examples of Art Deco-style 20th century architecture so those that exist are worth preserving. The 20th century

  • Smith pays tribute to his former pupil

    When Stuart McCall was considering the pros and cons of combining playing with managing, he knew where to turn for some advice. McCall got straight on the phone to Everton boss Walter Smith, his old mentor from Rangers. The straight-talking manager remains

  • It looks like wet weather will win again

    The amateur soccer programme has again been washed away by the wet weather. Bradford, Leeds, Calderdale and Kirklees councils have all called off matches on their pitches for the second successive week. Now football leagues are facing a massive backlog

  • Jobs hit at flooded factory

    workers have been laid off at flood-devastated Yorkshire Dales Ice Cream, in Cononley. More than half the workforce, around 60, was called in to the factory on Friday and told the news, days after the River Aire broke its banks and flooded the premises

  • Lotter cash is ready and waiting

    Keighley volunteers are being urged to help the town get its fair share of lottery cash. A special meeting is being organised to tell voluntary and community groups how to apply for the money. Members of any group in the Keighley area can attend the informal

  • Memorial village to servicemen

    The most heavily damaged four engined bomber ever to return and land Pilot Officer Thomas Stanley Harris Whitehouse's last flight was on January 13, 1945. The 21-year-old from Hebden Road, Oxenhope, climbed into his Halifax bomber at Snaith Airfield in

  • Firms call for help from Blair

    Greater Government help for West Yorkshire businesses and more assistance for small and medium-sized firms have emerged as some of the main concerns for Bradford's private sector in a survey. Grant Thornton, a financial and business adviser to owner-manager

  • Walkers scale the Three Peaks

    Sore-footed walkers raised £1,000 for the Airedale Hospital special care baby unit after conquering Yorkshire's Three Peaks. Players and friends from Keighley Crusaders Rugby Union Club tackled the gruelling walk -- up Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough

  • Guide marks the way

    A handy guide has been produced for ramblers keen to explore a new walk around the district. A pocket-sized guide to Bradford's new Millennium Way has been launched to provide walkers with a plan of the route. The 45-mile circular walk around the Bradford

  • Youths hunted after sex attacks

    Police are hunting for two youths in connection with a brazen indecent assault committed on Sunday. At around 1.50pm, a 16-year-old girl was walking along Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, when she saw two youths standing on the pavement in front of her.

  • Dancers prove a big hit

    DISCO dancers from South Craven are proving a hit. The girls from the KLH dance school, which runs classes in Cononley, Silsden and Carleton, won almost a dozen trophies at a freestyle dance tournament. Among the first prizes was an award for the KLH

  • Winning works of art

    The artistic talents of two Keighley schools have earned them each £250. Steeton company IMS Response sponsored a schools competition for entries to Keighley Arts Factory's summer 'Communication' exhibition. The winners - Whinburn Pupil Referral Unit

  • The right to dare to be different

    By Sarah Duffy ,15, who is studying for GCSE's at Ilkley Grammar School Well I've been asked to write an article on an issue that is important to me, so I've chosen different social groups and people making comments on what they don't know about. Different

  • Trolley good show from volunteers

    Two members of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service at Airedale Hospital have been rewarded for 30 years of combined work. Jean Pickles and Anna Greig were presented with WRVS long service medals to thank them for their 15 years of sterling service to

  • Art gallery luanches Euro-cash bid

    Keighley Arts Factory is hoping to secure its future with grant funding. Keighley College faculty head John Bewick, who has backed the factory since it began a year ago, announced plans to apply for a Yorkshire Arts grant and tap into European Objective

  • Festival searches for help

    RESIDENTS can play a part in the future of Keighley Festival as it tries to build itself a stronger future. They can offer their help during the annual meeting of the festival committee on Wednesday. Organisers plan to return to the event's roots next

  • Tracey gets action on problem path

    Prompt action is being taken by a housing association to help a disabled Keighley woman get out of her home. Tracey Ebbage says she regularly falls out of her wheelchair while turning on to the path outside her ground-floor flat. A wooden ramp running

  • Pudding money where their mouth is

    Cheque handover ... Walter Shaw, Warren Oates, Sally Owthwaite and Brian Parkin Regulars at an East Morton pub are real puddings when it comes to fundraising - and they are delighted. A Yorkshire Pudding Club formed at the Busfeild Arms about a decade

  • Internet funding bid

    Internet support for neglected firms in socially-excluded areas could be on way after a Bradford firm launched a bid to secure £800,000 worth of Government funding. SME-Zone plans to initially employ six people and create up 24 projects at two centres

  • Ride in honour of mum

    A Riddlesden father and son are honouring the memory of their wife and mother with a European bike ride. Jane Daw died of breast cancer three years ago. This inspired husband Kenneth and son Joseph, who live on Arnside Avenue, to join a sponsored bike

  • Hamlet set to double in size

    Residents living in the tiny village of Goose Eye are furious that a developer changed his plans long after being granted planning permission. Ian Ball, who lives on the outskirts of Goose Eye, at the top of Fell Lane, claims the original development

  • Water protestor to go on the attack

    A Riddlesden man says he will jump in front of bulldozers to stop Yorkshire Water entering his land. Richard Mozejko, who lives on Bradford Road, was told last May YW planned to hack up his riverside garden. The company says it needs his and four other

  • Naan but the best

    The biggest Naan bread in the world has been baked in Keighley. The Moghuls of India restaurant in North Street broke the record with a whopping 23 inches wide, 33 inches long and two-inch deep Naan on Tuesday - National Curry Day. This smashes the original

  • Disused building to get new life as on-line centre

    A disused building in Lawkholme could be turned into a high-tech training and education centre. Sangat Community Association plans to spend £300,000 renovating Cater House, which lies almost opposite its current premises in Marlborough Street. The group

  • Station upgrade for rail travellers

    Keighley rail passengers are set to benefit from a host of station improvements, according to a draft rail management plan. In the report published by Metro, the West Yorkshire rail authority, rail bosses have set out proposals for the regions rail network

  • Hospice staff put on the style

    Manorlands staff and supporters are turning on the style. A cast of around 20 is putting on a millennium show, with songs and sketches covering several decades from the 1940s to the present day. A performance was given at the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice

  • Flood: Selby evacuees move in to South Craven

    A Cross Hills residential home is sheltering Selby flood victims. A mixed band of nine pensioners, aged 80 plus, was shipped to the Town End Close old people's home on Wednesday. An Anchor Homes spokesman says: "They are from a home in Selby called Firth

  • Haworth housing scheme go-ahead

    Keighley planning councillors have passed the second part of a housing development in Haworth after they were warned behind closed doors that refusing the application could lead to a costly legal challenge. Labour councillor Martin Leathley originally

  • Tears flow as the big clean-up begins

    Families in flood ravaged Stock-bridge began the long process of cleaning up their homes this week. As some were told they faced a 12 months' wait before returning to their homes a series of appeals were launched -- and a warning issued. One of the first

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - May I take this opportunity to thank all the various agencies and services which responded so magnificently to the flooding in Stockbridge last week. May I mention one specific example. Our dog, Muttley, who was pictured on the front page of the

  • Now Albert's made a recycled caravan!

    A man who made himself a DIY cut-price coffin for just £10 has now built his own Romany caravan.. from old rubbish. Albert Beaumont has often been told he is living in the past, but for him it's not a problem - its his inspiration. The retired bricklayer

  • Delay for school's extension

    Plans to transform a Cottingley school with a multi-million pound extension have been delayed. Councillors on Shipley Area Planning Panel deferred the application amid fears that pupils may be put at risk from increased traffic. The full application to

  • Down Memory Lane with Iain Dewhurst

    THIS smiling group of Keighley Brownies and their leaders was supplied by Mrs Irene Kelly, of Oakbank Broadway, who appears as young Irene Marsden. The occasion was probably the Brownie Revels of either 1943 or 1944, held at Red Holt, Ingrow, thanks to

  • He told them I was 'psychotic'

    A Bradford psychiatrist diagnosed a woman as psychotic after chatting to her through a window. Doctor Sasi Bhusan Mahapatra, told solicitors the woman was mentally ill after being asked to provide evidence in divorce proceedings, a disciplinary hearing

  • After 25 years, it's write stuff

    Life has started at 40 for Guiseley writer John Metcalfe. The former sports correspondent, who covered matches for the Telegraph & Argus, had spent 25 years submitting film and television scripts without success. But now - just after his 40th birthday

  • Postman hid 300 letters in bushes

    A teenager got a job as a postman - despite previous convictions for dishonesty, a court was told. Philip Maloney, 19, dumped more than 300 letters outside a Bradford school just six weeks after conning bosses at the Royal Mail into believing he had no

  • Cycling: First steps to Olympic gold

    YOUNG cyclists will have a chance to take their first steps on the ladder to Olympic cycling glory when the Yorkshire Cyclocross Championships are held next weekend at Holy Family School. "Anyone who fancies being the next Jason Queally or Yvonne McGregor

  • Rugby League: Youth victory

    Keighley & Craven Under-13's swept to victory in the Yorkshire Schools tournament held at Castleford last weekend. The squad which draws pupils from schools throughout the Keighley area, Skipton and West Craven started the tournament with a comfortable16

  • Rugby League: Ready for World Cup show

    CANADA COUGARS are hoping for huge local support when the World Cup bandwagon rolls into town on Wednesda night. The Maple Leaf team adopted the Keighley Cougars logo in tribute to the club and local people after receiving a warm welcome during the Student

  • Cougars: Steve backs his home town club

    HIGH-FLYING Keighley company Raiseprint are to be main sponsors of the Cougars next season. The club approached national and international companies in abid to find a main shirt sponsor, but their new partners are just around the corner from the Cougar

  • There's money for the taking

    Serious and genuine concerns are being raised in many quarters about the lack of money available to help continue voluntary and charity work. The annual lottery for cash is abhorrent, as we have stated many times. It does nothing for security and advance