THE stark warning that we will have to recycle more or pay for it is not surprising. The British are a fairly filthy race, prepared to wallow in our own rubbish and with a flippant attitude to just chucking things on the floor, confident in the knowledge
Farsley Celtic and Guiseley have difficult ties against clubs from their league in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup. The Celts have the toughest draw against Marine. The Celts opened this campaign with a visit to the Merseyside club and were beaten
Brian Tinnion played more than 150 times for City in four years at Valley Parade. But the Bristol City player-boss does not anticipate a rousing reception tomorrow. "It was a long time ago," said Tinnion, who left West Yorkshire for the West Country in
The disturbing case of long-serving Bradford magistrate William Stanley, whose name was yesterday linked with the British National Party in a Commons question from Bradford North MP Terry Rooney, raises some important and worrying issues. If Mr Stanley
A plain-clothed police officer saved the day when fire hit a Keighley clothing store. Police are investigating following the blaze at Ethel Austin, in Low Street, last week. A small amount of clothing was ablaze when the policeman dashed inside the shop
Mother of three Karen Robinson, kennelsman for the Airedale Beagles, based in Silsden, was among thousands of pro-hunters amassed in Parliament Square on Wednesday. Mrs Robinson, who has been running the 60-dog pack for three years, drove down to the
Single mothers in Braithwaite will be given a free hairdo, nail manicure and clothes in a bid to get them back into work. The government-sponsored "pampering" comes as part of a new course aimed at improving lone parents' self-esteem. The women will also
A SCHEME which started off in Skipton and resulted in a number of unruly individuals being banned from entering any of the pubs in town, has now been successfully extended to include Settle. Originally named "Skipton Town Against Night-time Disorder",
A BARNOLDSWICK man suffered an anxious five day wait for news of his family in the aftermath of the devastating hurricane which tore through the Cayman Islands earlier this week. Harold Green, 84, of Dam Head Road, was praying for the safety of his son
SKIPTON'S Chamber of Trade has objected to plans to build a new council building on the town's Coach Street car park. Craven District Council has mooted the idea of creating a one-stop shop for council services as part of the Renaissance Town project.
NINE pupils were moved from a tiny Dales primary school because their parents were so unhappy with the teaching standards, an employment tribunal heard. A father who had three children at Arncliffe School said parents were willing to drive several miles
THOUSANDS of households across Craven are set for waste bin number three, when the council introduces recycling units at a cost of £575,000. Craven District Council will be heavily fined by the Government if it does not up its recycling targets, which
IN the immortal words of the Londonderry Air - that's Danny Boy to you, kiddiewinks - the summer's gone and all the flowers are dying. And this is always a bitter-sweet time of the year in Beggarsdale. The kids are back at school, the Bats are back at
SIR - Perhaps one of your readers could answer a question for me. Why have the Regents and Greenacres area of Skipton become the driving school capital of the North? It seems that we are now deluged with driving schools from all across the region. On
Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Saltaire this weekend as the village's festival reaches its finale. The culmination of the ten-day festival centres around Roberts Park this weekend with a gala on Saturday and a fun day on Sunday
A woman who has no movement below her neck is to complete the course of the Great North Run - in her wheelchair. The 52-year-old mother of two, struck down by motor neurone disease four years ago, is to take on the challenge of the half marathon. Diane
Communities across Bradford are being asked to get involved in a new initiative to deal with flooding. Groups are to be set up in areas in danger of being flooded to put together action plans, which will include emergency numbers, details of people who
Community groups are being urged to apply for funding from the Telegraph & Argus's parent company. Community groups wanting to be part of the Gannett Foundation's next round of awards have until Friday, October 1 to put in their bid. Charities can
Armed officers in Bradford have been given the go-ahead to use electric stun guns in firearms incidents. Home Secretary David Blunkett has announced that police firearms officers across England and Wales would be authorised to use the Taser guns after
Police are warning Bradford motorists to watch out for a persistent car thief who has just been released from prison. West Yorkshire Police have taken the unusual step of releasing a photograph of prolific offender Dominic Khan in a bid to safeguard the
Two paedophiles who bought and sold a teenage boy on a Bradford car park have been jailed for a total of 15 years. Leeds Crown Court heard how the vulnerable 14-year-old was "groomed" for sex then abducted and sold into a week-long "blur" of abuse at
A major stumbling block to the multi-million pound redevelopment of Odsal Stadium has been overcome. It was revealed yesterday that the Bradford Bulls and the NHS had struck an agreement over development of the nearby former Northern View Hospital site
A long-serving magistrate has been named in Parliament as a member of the far right British National Party by a Bradford MP. Bradford North MP Terry Rooney told the House of Commons yesterday that Bradford JP William Stanley was a member of the BNP and
The Bells -- Viaduct Theatre, Halifax Another new venture for Yorkshire's finest -Northern Broadsides -- and another absolute triumph. Conrad Nelson took the directorial reins for the first time as the Halifax-based company gave us Leopold Lewis's little-staged
The music of Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, Metallica, Pink Floyd and Alice in Chains will be recalled at a concert in Bradford tomorrow. The ten Keighley, Bradford and Leeds bands will play a wide range of music at the last show to be organised by Keighley's
HISTORY will be made in local bowling when the first ever Yorkshire Final comes to Cross Hills on Sunday. It will be the first time a county final has been held in the Skipton League area and the competition, the E F Cockroft Yorkshire handicap gets underway
KEIGHLEY were left hanging on the telephone waiting to see if their bid to reach the Bradford League's top flight had been successful. They signed off the season with a comfortable win over Esholt, but knew that the result of the game between Morley and
Halifax 30, Cougars 22 - COUGARS looked like a team terrified of winning as they let a glorious opportunity against Halifax slip from their grasp. Certainly after 13 consecutive defeats winning is a lost art and the sweet taste of victory has long since
RUGBY LEGEND Enslin Dlambulo has been recognised as a South African 'Springbok' international - 42 years after he left his native country. Enslin became a star of Keighley RLFC in the 1960's and settled in the town where he was one of the best known faces
SKIPTON AC's popular annual open cross country meeting, which celebrated its silver jubilee last year, has run into problems this time. Organisers of the event, which has sometimes attracted upwards of a thousand athletes, were a bit slow out of the blocks
THE points against column makes horrific reading for Wharfedale supporters. A 26 match campaign last season conceded just 505 points. After just two matches of the new season, the points against tally has already reached treble figures. Coach Peter Hartley
100 Years Ago AFTER months of deliberation, a site had finally been selected for a new auction mart at Skipton. A sub-committee set up to investigate had initially been in favour of a site at Spring Gardens, off Otley Road, but the main committee had
The season may be only in its third weekend tomorrow, but Bradford and Bingley and Cleckheaton are facing opponents for the second time this campaign. It's the first round of the national knockouts, and the Bees are at home to Bedford Athletic in the
Coach Brian Noble will pick from a squad missing only the injured Paul Anderson for tonight's grudge match against St Helens. Anderson is not yet fully fit after knee surgery and the rampaging form of Richard Moore means Noble is in no hurry to rush him
Bobby Vanzie admits that boxing is against his religion. Bradford's former British lightweight champion made the shock admission as he came to terms with another defeat. Vanzie lost to unknown Dave Stewart in a late-night four-rounder at a near-deserted
Wigan striker Neil Roberts will sign for City in time to face Bristol City. Roberts, who has played three times for Wales, was today finalising a month's loan after the Bantams were given special clearance by the Football League. Although they are up
Last time St Helens visited Odsal they enraged both Bradford fans and players alike by fielding a second-string team. "We prepared to fight George Foreman but got George Formby instead," quipped coach Brian Noble after the Bulls' 54-8 victory. The fallout
The old phrase "where there's muck there's brass" rings true for a pioneering Bradford firm after profits increased by more than a third. The Canal Road-based PM Group, which makes waste disposal equipment, reported pre-tax profits up 34 per cent to £1.58
A SCHEME which could mean the difference between life and death for those who suffer a heart attack outdoors has been launched. And Paul Stevens, network response manager for West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, has asked the public to show
Three Keighley teenagers are to be honoured for their swift action in saving an elderly woman's life in a fire at her Riddlesden home. Patrick Parkinson, Thomas Clark and Adam Haigh rescued Audrey Biltcliffe then put out the fire in her entrance hall.
White fascists and Asian extremists are equally to blame for segregation in Keighley, alleges MP Ann Cryer. She claims both the BNP and segregationists within Keighley's Asian community are desperate to generate division and conflict. And she urges the
A PENSIONER had her birthday day-out in Skipton ruined after she fell over a broken bollard in the town's bus station. Sheila Shaw celebrated her 67th birthday last Saturday and on the following Tuesday her husband and son brought her to the market town
BOLTON Abbey Estate has received a glowing report from judges who decided it was the best tourist and visitor attraction in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom contest. The estate entered the Yorkshire Tourist Board's tourism award category and judges found
Local St Peter's Methodist Church, Cross Hills: September Serenade, light music including shows, opera and party pieces, with pianist Norman Hudson, soprano Maureen Thompson, tenor Richard Cook and baritone David Bainbridge, tomorrow 7.45pm. Admission
The music of Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, Metallica, Pink Floyd and Alice in Chains will be recalled at a concert in Bradford tomorrow. The ten Keighley, Bradford and Leeds bands will play a wide range of music at the last show to be organised by Keighley's
Keighley people could join a leading opera company during the Triumphal March of Verdi's popular grand opera Aida in Halifax on October 2. Helen Kent and Opera International want 40 extras to join the principals, a hand-crafted bejewelled elephant and
SIR - With great sadness I read your leading article about the courageous, caring Soraya Ahad. I have been a supply teacher in Bradford schools for nearly three years. These have included Rhodesway, Grange Technical College, Belle Vue Boys, Belle Vue
A long-established Bradford refrigeration company is making redundancies at its plant in Idle. George Barker & Company (Leeds) Ltd declined to discuss a new wave of redundancies at the hard-pressed firm. One former worker, who would not be named,
Two years after it was founded the first members of Bradford's youth Parliament are to retire - and those behind the £200,000 project are admitting to mistakes. Questions have been raised over the parliament's transparency and even its purpose, but the
Vital child care courses at a Bradford community centre could be axed if people do not start enrolling on them. With the courses due to start at the end of the month, just one person so far has registered for the child care course at Wrose Community Centre
Council chiefs have pledged to fight for a piece of land to extend a Bradford school. Overcrowded Miriam Lord Primary School in Church Street, Manningham, wants to turn the neighbouring reservoir site into playing fields and extend the present building
A waiter jailed for hurling missiles at police during the Bradford riots three years ago has failed to win a cut in his jail term, despite pleas concerning his dire health. Abdul Saheed, of Curzon Road, Bradford, was one of an angry mob which battled
A couple who suffered the heartache of three miscarriages have suffered another blow with the death of their two-day-old daughter. Little Paige Liee Meehan, who was born with Down's Syndrome, died in the arms of her mother Stephanie Testa with her dad
A Bradford solicitor accused of setting up a "sham" legal partnership has been struck off for "improper and unacceptable behaviour". The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal yesterday found all allegations proved against Aurangzeb Iqbal, 43, as well as two
Taxi drivers in Bradford are using 'spy in the cab' mini cameras to protect them from violent passengers. Cabbies' leaders are planning talks with Bradford Council licensing bosses to try and get the cameras fitted in all taxis. And the Council is keen
In a spooky coincidence that could have come straight from the pages of a ghostly novel, two school friends have penned contest-winning eerie short stories for a new collection. The two pals took up the challenge of a national competition to create ghostly
Spider-Man 2 It's not often I jump while watching an action movie -- and less often that I shed a tear. But this terrific sequel had me leaping about and sniffing half a dozen times. Partly this was due to the film -- probably the most thrilling and the
Local St Peter's Methodist Church, Cross Hills: September Serenade, light music including shows, opera and party pieces, with pianist Norman Hudson, soprano Maureen Thompson, tenor Richard Cook and baritone David Bainbridge, tomorrow 7.45pm. Admission
Keighley people could join a leading opera company during the Triumphal March of Verdi's popular grand opera Aida in Halifax on October 2. Helen Kent and Opera International want 40 extras to join the principals, a hand-crafted bejewelled elephant and
MICHAEL SCARBOROUGH set a new course record at Riddlesden on his way to win the club's September Stableford competition. He shot a gross 59 as he scored 44 points in the competiton. The Hesp Trophy was won by Mrs Betty Dale and Ray Bolton with a nett
Victoria Rangers 11, Keighley Albion 17 - Albion trailed 11-4 at half time after a poor first half where both sides made too many handling errors. Chris Cullen scored Albion's only try in the first half with with a well worked move created by Condran.
Selby 1st XV 22, Keighley 1stXV 17 - Keighley threw away important league points in a lack lustre display at Selby. For the first 20 minutes they flattered to deceive, running in three tries in quick succession before tamely handing the initiative to
Silsden just had the edge over Steeton in their season long 'derby' battle. They finished one point ahead as both clubs finished the seson mid-table in Division B. Steeton's 2nd XI were crowned champions of the second team's B Division. Silsden 2nd XI
LANCASHIRE club Barrowford have been crowned champions of the Craven League for the first time in their history. They secured the title with a last game victory over closest rivals Embsay. After being asked to bat first Barrowford lost two wickets for
CULLINGWORTH got their hands on the Keighley Cup - at their third attempt. They had reached the final for the previous two years, but each time were beaten by Silsden. On Sunday they faced a Craven League showdown with Oakworth at Keighley CC's Lawkeholme
THE FUNERAL took place on Tuesday of former rugby league player Eddie 'Ed' Wilkinson who died following a battle against Motor Neurone Disease. Eddie, who was known to all as 'Big Ed', was born in the Gorbals district of Glasgow and come to Keighley with
SILSDEN'S 'Red Army' will be on the move to Barrow-in-Furness tomorrow as their team moves into the First Qualifying Round of the FA Cup. The Cobbydale side has already clocked up victories over Hebburn Town and Hallam in the first two rounds. Tomorrow
THE final curtain came down on a Craven Cricket League season badly affected by the weather and Saturday was no different to quite a few others in that the rain put in an appearance to curtail play. However, in all the matches where the result affected
THERE'S probably not been any £1 million players gracing the Craven Football League. But Rick Holden, who went from Oldham Athletic to Manchester City turned out for his first club, Embsay in a night match - and scored two goals. Holden, Embsay born and
Vital role Royal Mail has to play Sir - Why use the Royal Mail? asks Liza Grievson, (T&A, September 8). As a prolific user of e-mail and the internet I still advocate the need for some form of postal service, be it Royal Mail or an alternative. Ms
The Conservative Party should breath a sigh of relief that Mohammed Riaz has pulled out of the race to become the next MP for Keighley. He says he has set aside his own political ambitions to give his party -- the Conservatives -- a better chance of taking
