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  • Heaton appeal against cup ban

    Heaton United have appealed against their expulsion from the Bradford and District FA Cup. The Sunday Alliance club were thrown out of this season's cup and banned from next year's competition after October's stormy tie against fellow Alliance club Harps

  • Cougars skipper in late fitness check

    Leaders Keighley Cougars will give late fitness tests to skipper Graeme Hallas and prop Mick Slicker as they bid to extend their winning sequence to seven against Featherstone Rovers tomorrow. Coach Steve Deakin is optimistic that both players will recover

  • Allegations heard in secret

    A victimisation claim brought by a social worker from Shipley against Bradford Council will be held behind closed doors. At a two-hour plea and directions hearing in Leeds yesterday, an employment tribunal panel ruled that a case brought by Steve Hayes

  • GP quizzed in death probe

    A doctor at the centre of an investigation into the death of a patient, is no longer at work. A locum is to take over the duties of Dr Thomas White at the Fisher Medical Centre in Skipton. Dr White, 46, pictured, has been questioned by Skipton police

  • Boy, 14, is cleared of rape bid

    A boy of 14 has been cleared of trying to have sex with an 11-year-old girl. A Bradford Crown Court jury heard the Keighley teenager allegedly pinned the girl down on a bed and put her hands behind her back. But after a three-day trial, he was found not

  • Terror that went into my snake snapsss

    When saleswoman Julie Overton was asked by her beautician to take part in a glamorous photo shoot, she was excited and flattered. But she had to think twice after learning her companion in front of the camera would be...a 12-foot python. Julie, who is

  • Two die in road carnage

    Two people died and a lorry driver had a miraculous escape in a spate of road accidents today. In one tragic incident, a young man died early today after being hit by a car in front of his horrified friends as they walked home from a night out. Police

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - When people say to me "Bradford's not what it used to be", they're right - and what's more it never will be. We must be the only city of this size with only one department store. We can certainly build offices and leave them empty. We are even trying

  • Andy signs up for the ice brigade

    Andy Smith has become the second former Bradford Dukes rider to sign up for the indoor ice international at Telford on Sunday, February 18. The 34-year-old joins ex-Odsal team-mate Kelvin Tatum at the meeting. Smith, who rescued an undistinguished 2000

  • McGregor tells rivals: Hands off!

    World pursuit champion Yvonne McGregor today issued a warning to the pretenders to her throne. The 39-year-old Bradford cyclist, pictured, who defends her title in Antwerp at the end of September, said: "My commitment and dedication are as total as they

  • Albion in need of 'awayday special'

    Albion Sports will have to produce another of their awayday special performances if they are to make the last eight of the FA Umbro Sunday Cup tomorrow. The Bradford Sunday Alliance League champions face a testing fourth round battle against Bristol side

  • Vanzie up in air over bout

    Bobby Vanzie's future plans have been thrown into confusion by the postponement of tonight's Commonwealth lightweight title defence against James Armah. His management team are hoping the clash with the Ghanaian can be rescheduled for later this month

  • Key to a Locke transfer

    Hearts have given Bradford City the green light to go back for Gary Locke. Boss Jim Jefferies indicated he was happy to wait until the summer when the 25-year-old wing-back is out of contract after a £30,000 bid was rejected before Christmas. Hearts turned

  • Sykes is Noble's tip for the top

    Young Bradford Bulls full back prospect Paul Sykes is being tipped for the top by new coach Brian Noble. Sykes, 19, has had his share of disciplinary problems in recent years but there has never been any doubting his ability and Noble is hopeful that

  • Bradford City 0, Man United 3

    Bradford City suffered their fourth Premiership defeat in a row against leaders Manchester United in front of their biggest crowd for 31 years at Valley Parade. The 3-0 scoreline did scant justice to a creditable City performance as the Bantams matched

  • Not easy to lure back passengers

    Given the problems which have made rail travel to London such a nightmare over the past few weeks, it is hardly surprising that passengers have been seeking alternatives. The rail speed slow-down and detours following the Hatfield crash, further complicated

  • On This Day

    In 1903, Bradford Chamber of Trade was formed. In 1957, Elvis Presley recorded All Shook Up. In 1991, 13 demonstators died as Soviet troops cracked down on pro-independence protests in Lithuania. From the Telegraph & Argus of January 13, 1976...A

  • Cycle track plan beats objectors

    Plans for a children's cycle track in Brighouse have been approved by Calderdale councillors. An application from the Field Lane Action Group to change the use of a former garage site to a track in Malham Road was made to the Council's planning committee

  • Burglar hits man with screwdriver

    A Brighouse resident was hit on the head with a screwdriver after confronting a burglar. The incident happened at around 4.35pm yesterday in Toothill Lane, Toothill. A man and woman drove up to the house in an E-registered white Ford Escort. The man forced

  • Hero rescues blaze children

    A teenager and two children were rescued by a workman after fire broke out at their Cleckheaton home. Nicola Watson, 17, was watching TV in her Platt Square home when a fire broke out in the cellar kitchen. She was looking after her 19-month old sister

  • Police step up hunt for missing man

    Police are stepping up their search for a Bradford man who disappeared during a Christmas party. Officers from Toller Lane are joining forces with the British Transport Police and West Yorkshire underwater search unit in the hunt for Michael Allison.

  • Businessman quits amid fears of 'a ghost town'

    Controversial Bradford businessman Jack Leach has retired, fearing the city is becoming a ghost town. He has sold the historic Old Crown to leisure boss Peter Cilenti, who now has the monopoly of the city's gaming centres. And he has passed on the lease

  • Is Nellie Britain's oldest person at 111?

    A 111-year-old has been told to dig out her birth certificate in a bid to prove she is Britain's oldest living person. Nellie Bradley, who for the past 16 years has lived at the Gables nursing home in Skipton Road, Silsden, was born during the reign of

  • Historic busts come under Sotheby's hammer

    A set of carved ivory busts featuring Keighley's first MP - Sir Isaac Holden - and his family is to be auctioned at Sotheby's. The six sculptures, which are from a private collection, date from around 1870. Auction house bosses anticipate strong interest

  • Care homes face closure in funding crisis

    Elderly care services across the district could be thrown into turmoil if Bradford Council doesn't solve a major funding headache. That was the stark message delivered by owners of independent residential and nursing homes at a crunch meeting with social

  • Robbery victim, 72, left with broken hip

    A pensioner suffered a broken hip after being dragged to the floor by a man trying to steal her handbag. The incident happened at about 11.35am last Tuesday when 72-year-old Phylis Regan was walking along a snicket between Terrington Crescent and Pentland

  • Teenage girl's fire attack on flat

    A teenage girl who pushed burning newspaper through a letterbox has been made the subject of a hospital order under the Mental Health Act. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was said to have an interest in fire and Judge Roger Scott