Only five league and three cup games out of the 35 scheduled beat the freeze with all the postponed West Riding County FA Challenge Cup/Trophy games now rearranged for Saturday (1.30pm). Silsden reached the last eight of the West Riding County FA Challenge
Bradford Bulls chairman Chris Caisley has admitted that time is tight if Odsal is needed to stage a TXU Energi Challenge Cup tie on the weekend of February 9 and 10. Caisley (pictured) said: "Work started yesterday on turning the Trevor Foster Lounge
City are casting an eye over Sweden under-21 international Ola Tidman. The twice-capped goalkeeper, 22, will spend next week training with the Bantams. Tidman, who began his career with Malmo, is contracted to Belgian club RAA Louvieroise but is desperate
The scrapping of the Community Health Council watchdog organisations around the country, at the behest of the Government, is a move to be viewed with caution. When Bradford Council's overview and scrutiny committee takes over the job of closely monitoring
In 1867, Drake Street Railway Station, Bradford, was renamed Exchange Station. In 1921, the first women jurors sat at Bradford Quarter Sessions. In 1989, Japanese Emperor Hirohito died. From the Telegraph & Argus of January 7th, 1978... Cottingley
An evening of fun and fundraising is on the cards at a glittering charity ball. The Telegraph & Argus Bradford Can...Cancer Research Appeal Celebration Ball takes place on Saturday, February 15, at the Hilton Hotel, Bradford. The black-tie evening
Bradford Council has pledged an urgent review of security at shops in the city following a spate of ram-raids. Supercigs on John Street was hit for the fourth time in a year when £2,000 of goods were stolen and damage estimated at £10,000 caused to the
A judge has imposed an indefinite restraining order on a father-of-three after he climbed a drainpipe to get into his former partner's bedroom. In May last year, 23-year-old Michelle Bailey woke at about 7am to find Darren Brough clambering through the
The brother of a teenager shot dead at a petrol station today said that new five-year minimum sentences for illegal gun possession are not long enough. Mohammed Sadique, pictured, whose 16-year-old brother Yasser Hussain was murdered, said the sentences
Bradford-based construction company Totty has been sold in a deal worth £23.3 million. The sale, which went ahead after shareholders approved it at a recent meeting, means Totty no longer belongs to Leeds-based Peterhouse. Totty, part of Propencity plc
Police are warning elderly people to be vigilant following five burglaries by bogus callers in just three days. Pensioners have been targeted by a gang which police think is operating in the Spen Valley area. Three elderly people were conned in one day
A Bingley firm which made all the doors for London's famous Park Lane Hotel is set to close after more than a century in business. WR & R Atkinson joiners is expected to close its doors in March because of rising insurance costs, a high number of
A couple torn apart when they fled for their lives from Nigeria have been reunited in Bradford. Ahmed Kareem and his wife Zainab (pictured with their children) were brought back together by the Red Cross after six months apart. The next day Zainab gave
The chairman of a new health watchdog has vowed to keep an eye on the performance of local NHS organisations as it takes up its new role in Bradford. From this month Bradford Council's overview and scrutiny committee for health gained the power to scrutinise
A 72-bedroom hotel is to be built in Bradford on the site of a successful business park development. Surrey-based developers Atrium Hotels Ltd have signed up for a one-acre plot called Parkside Court off Rooley Lane, opposite the headquarters of the Yorkshire
Health experts are calling for a revolution in eating habits after Bradford was named the sixth "fattest" city in the country. The survey found that large numbers of the city's population are overweight with many indulging in idle lifestyles. It discovered
Members of a WI whose naked calendar inspired a film are planning to organise a special screening of it in Skipton. The women hope to raise even more cash for leukaemia research by selling tickets for the event. And among the guests could be stars from
An exhibition will open in Bradford next month of seven artists' vividly differing interpretations of the district's Capital of Culture bid slogan "One Landscape Many Views". The work ranges from a set of portraits depicting the faces of Asian riot suspects
A pensioner fought off car-jackers after they attacked him with a table leg and screwdriver in the latest strike on sports cars. The 72-year-old man was threatened by four Asians yesterday afternoon while he was visiting relatives with his wife in Nab
SIR Your Comment (January 2) suggests that many eyebrows no doubt will be raised at the £120,000 salary attached to the post of chief executive of Bradford's Urban Regeneration Company. Mine for example. As a taxpayer helping to foot this bill, I feel
