Brian Noble has promised this week's bad weather will not affect preparations for Saturday's crunch cup tie. Recent downpours have left the Apperley Bridge training pitch heavy, but the Bulls coach insists his players can still prepare properly for their
The distribution of National Lottery largesse is a complicated matter. It depends to a fair extent on local authorities identifying those organisations and projects which need and merit additional funding and helping them to fill in their detailed applications
A 2.2 per cent rise - averaging slightly more than £1 a week in Kirklees Council house rents - will be recommended to the council's Cabinet tomorrow. Changes in how local authorities work out council house rents will mean more than 1,000 tenants will
A progress update on Bingley's relief road is to be unveiled alongside youngsters' artistic views of the project. The one-day event at the town's arts centre on Thursday, February 13, will be the final public exhibition before the three-mile route roars
A community development worker has been recruited to help transform an area once branded as being "in despair". Ali Mantle has been appointed to help improve Frizinghall, near Shipley, through a £25,000 grant from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. Today
Bradford MPs have pledged to back a Bill requiring councils to provide every home with a recycling bin. Bradford Council supplies 15,000 homes with green bins with plans to extend that to about 100,000. But only ten per cent of the district's waste is
A brave 12-year-old Bradford City fan celebrated a dream double on a special visit to the city. Cystic fibrosis sufferer Adam Whalley made the long trip from his home town of Felixstowe to see the Bantams secure an impressive win against Ipswich Town
Car boot traders are expected to move into a £1.3 million temporary market hall in the city centre. Bradford Council is considering letting about 100 stalls in the temporary Rawson Market while it goes through the process of selling it. The empty hall
Students at a Bradford school are organising a glittering "graduation ball" for classmates this summer. But only pupils who meet academic targets and do not play truant will get tickets. The idea has come from youngsters at Wyke Manor School who are determined
A Hungarian asylum seeker, deported from Canada, is making a last ditch plea to stay in the UK amid claims he will be persecuted back home. Peter Balogh claimed that if he had to go back he would be arrested at the airport and beaten up. He alleged he
Council chiefs today started an inquiry into why snow flurries brought gridlock chaos to many of the district's roads last night. Bradford Council insisted its squadron of gritters was working overtime, but thousands of frustrated motorists faced huge
Bradford Bulls have become the latest team to show their support for the launch of the Co-op Sports for Schools Scheme, which has just been launched in Yorkshire. The scheme allows local schools to collect vouchers from United Co-op stores, and exchange
Albion Sports made it through to the last four of the West Riding County Sunday Cup but Queens Athletic will have to wait until the weekend after drawing their game. Queens were held 1-1 by Huddersfield visitors Sikh Temple. With a heavy ground preventing
Lutz Pfannenstiel's Dunedin Technical went down 2-0 to Tauranga City United last weekend in the former Avenue man's first game as player-coach. And although the German's initial impact in New Zealand wasn't quite what he was hoping for, the goalkeeper
Gordon Gibb today launched a withering attack on Scarborough boss Russell Slade after his U-turn over the City youth-team job. Slade changed his mind after verbally agreeing terms over the weekend - but didn't tell the Bantams chairman. An angry Gibb
In 1874, Messrs Forster and Ripley were elected as MPs for Bradford. In 1953, Sweet rationing was abolished in Britain. In 1963, Learner driver Margaret Hunter's instructor leapt from her car shouting "this is suicide" and she was fined for driving unsupervised
A company has claimed a remarkable sales success with a pioneering textile for athletes. Ilkley-based Woolmark - the world's leading wool promotion company - said sales of Sportwool garments, which are licensed to manufacturers, increased by 250 per cent
A key figure in Bradford's theatre life has scooped a top job with the National Student Drama Festival - and has pledged to promote Bradford. Andrew Loretto is the Fellow in Theatre at Bradford University's acclaimed Theatre in the Mill. Now the 31-year-old
Micro-brewing father- and-son team Jack and David Atkinson have concocted a new tipple to help romantics on February 14. They have produced a St Valentine's Day ale at their Goose Eye Brewery just outside Keighley which will soon be at the pumps in pubs
Bradford has missed out on more than £18 million of "good cause" funding compared to the UK average since the National Lottery came into existence. While the UK average amount of lottery funding per person is £191.33, Bradford has received only £151.41
Council tax payers across Bradford face an 11.5 per cent hike in their bills this year. The Telegraph & Argus can reveal Bradford Council is considering increasing its proportion of the bill by about 8.9 per cent - more than three times the rate of
Detectives were today investigating a dozen new leads in the hunt for the killer of Tasawar Hussain after a major hunt for information in Bradford. Around 100 police officers were drafted into the city yesterday to quiz motorists and passers-by, exactly
SIR - At a risk of a ritual lynching from one of my work colleagues I must challenge the Family Credit gravy train that exists in this country today. When working couples can attract substantial family credits while running cars, mobile phones, digital
