Carl Serrant is hoping to lead the side for a second time tonight when Avenue face fifth-placed Alfreton Town in the UniBond Premier at Horsfall Stadium. Following the departure of club captain Wayne Benn last week, the former Newcastle United and Oldham
City today rubbished rumours that the Midland Road stand would be shut if they were relegated. A story on the Internet suggested that the club would close off the east side of the Bradford & Bingley Stadium next season as a cost-cutting measure because
Bradford's own lifeboat - paid for by Telegraph & Argus readers - is continuing to save lives on some of Britain's most dangerous coastline. Four years after she was officially unveiled in Cent-enary Square, the Royal Natio-nal Lifeboat Instit-ute
The nearest thing Bradford may ever get to the historic trolley bus arrived in the city yesterday. A £180,000 "hybrid" bus - a cross between a diesel and an electric - is being trialled this week with a view to running them full time in the city. The
A watercolour painting and expensive car-audio equipment are to be auctioned off to raise money for the Telegraph & Argus Save Our Play Appeal. The two items are up for grabs in a grand postal auction. They have been given to Bradford Toy Library
A distressed mother told a court how she found her baby son in the back of an ambulance after she had left him in the care of her boyfriend. Jodie Denton, 20, said she felt useless after dashing back to her home in Dalcross Street, West Bowling, when
Football fanatical mums and dads hold the key to Bradford City enjoying a brighter future, club officials said today. Managing director Shaun Harvey said the club was keen to generate a positive family atmosphere at matches at the Bradford and Bingley
People gathered in a marquee drinking mulled wine in the freezing cold last night to see Bradford city centre turned into an open air cinema. Opening Doors, a video by multimedia artist Ju Gosling, was projected onto the side of the city's magistrates
Queensbury gained sweet revenge for the defeat at Birkenshaw the previous week with a convincing 17-4 home win in the return match against their Premier Division rivals. Bury had the game in the bag early doors after tries from full back Steve Eyles and
Liversedge 4 Lincoln Moorlands 1 Liversedge got a much-needed boost when they reached the quarter-finals of the Northern Counties East League Cup with a comfortable win over Lincoln Moorlands. The lower division visitors came from a goal down to turn
Guiseley 3 Belper Town 0 Neil Parsley's men put daylight between themselves and mid-table rivals Belper Town with a solid win and earned their first clean sheet in UniBond Division One this season. Two-goal hero Scott Jackson was only denied a hat-trick
The Bulls' chances of World Club glory suffered a hammer blow yesterday when star Great Britain scrum half and goal-kicking supremo Paul Deacon was ruled out with a torn retina. Deacon suffered the injury when he copped a stray hand in a tackle against
The derisory fine imposed on the American lorry driver responsible for the death of a Bradford couple's daughter brings the US legal system into disrepute. Brian Pickford, the father of 34-year-old Diane McDermott, says the least they expected was a British
In 1932, Japanese troops occupied the Chinese city of Shanghai. In 1956, Elvis Presley made his first television appearance, and said: "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." In 1965, The Who made their first appearance on the
A Bradford man who had 200 indecent images of children on his computer had tried to delete them, a jury heard. Simon John Breton, 44, has pleaded not guilty to 20 counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of a child. Pseudo photographs
The first patients were today being admitted to a new £1.8 million community hospital in the heart of north Bradford. The mainly elderly people will benefit from nursing care closer to home, as they recuperate from acute illnesses and operations. Built
Four of the district's MPs joined a massive Labour revolt on university top-up fees last night which Tony Blair survived by the skin of his teeth. The Prime Minister's flagship Higher Education Bill was backed by 316 votes to 311 - a majority of just
Former World Darts Champion John "Boy" Walton is supporting a 19-month-old girl with a life-threatening brain tumour by holding a special darts match. Little Hannah Hayton's cancerous tumour was diagnosed after mum Jenny Ratcliffe took her to hospital
The devastated parents of a mum-of-two, killed when a lorry ploughed into her car in the US, today spoke of their outrage after the truck driver was given just a ten dollar fine. Hospice nurse Diane McDermott, 34, died from multiple injuries when the
What creates these angry young men? SIR - I noticed contradictory, but complementary, pieces in the T&A on January 20. Two correspondents complained about the effects of racism on white Bradfordians. Opposite was a description of the damaging effects
