Farsley Celtic have the chance to finish the job they started on Saturday when they face Marine in tonight's FA Cup first qualifying round replay in front of their own fans at Throstle Nest. "It will be the third game between the sides in just over four
Anyone who thought the Pudsey Congs team will break up after notching a second treble in three seasons look as if they will be sadly disappointed. Congs captain Matthew Doidge said after his side had won a record-equalling fifth successive Bradford League
When the fortunes of how well a Bradford League club often hinge on how good their overseas signing is, the end-of-season First Division averages have again thrown up an amazing statistic. Last season the leading 11 batsmen were all non-overseas, but
The Bradford & District Senior Cup always throws together teams from different leagues, and this made for some intriguing matches at the weekend. West Riding County Amateur League side Westwood were on a hiding to nothing when they visited T&A
Colin Todd wants Nicky Summerbee to make a habit of churning out top-notch performances. Summerbee stole the show in the 4-1 thrashing of Bristol City with arguably his best display in a City shirt. The veteran right winger pulled all the strings as he
Minimum pricing deals to help curb binge drinking and drink-fuelled violence in the city centre have come under fire from a Government department. The Office of Fair Trading has written to police in Bradford to express concerns about the pricing agreement
A 20-year-old man has been locked up by a judge after hearing how a Bradford teenager was pulled into a snicket before being robbed of her phone and sexually assaulted. Edward Lowther started chatting to the youngster while he was out walking his dog
The country's leading urban regeneration experts have arrived in Bradford to learn all they can about the changing face of the district. More than 100 delegates from across the UK are attending the prestigious, two-day Freedom to Regenerate conference
A minister is calling for a supermarket chain to remove plastic crosses sold as Halloween merchandise, saying they are offensive to Christianity. The Reverend Marcus Bull, vicar of Trinity Church, Rawdon, has called on Asda to withdraw the plastic gold
When Peter Sawaryn first set eyes on Elisabeth Mosor, it was love at first sight. The young soldier had come to Britain with the Polish Army. After the war, in 1946, he moved to a hostel for Polish soldiers in Calverley to start a new life for himself
A £100 million Government plan to close the cash gap between the North and South has sparked fury by lumping Bradford into a new 'Leeds City Region'. The plans - announced yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott - see Bradford and vast areas
Many teams in Division Two have come to rely on their overseas signings so it was a shock to see two of them leave mid-summer - for entirely different reasons. Windhill lost the services of their 19-year-old Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Yousaf in July
The Second Division's 2004 season will be remembered for a tremendous promotion battle - and many quality performances from players who could easily play at a higher level. At one stage, six clubs were in the frame for one of the two promotion spots.
The big news of the weekend was the resignation of Stanley Road from the Sunday Alliance Premier Division. The club broke new ground last season with a four-trophy haul and had entered the National Sunday Cup, but they couldn't raise a side yet again
Bulls chairman Chris Caisley is confident the club can go on to reach a fourth consecutive Grand Final after they overhauled Hull to claim second place ahead of the play-offs. "I'm full of admiration for what the players and the coaching staff have done
There will be few complaints today, surely, at the news that the Government plans to invest £100 million to help close the economic gap between the North and the South (except, perhaps, that the amount is pitifully small for the task in hand). There have
Decision makers and high flyers can meet to chew over business issues at a new breakfast club set up by Business Link and Bradford Chamber of Commerce. Breakfast Bites, which will meet every other month, has attracted high-level keynote speakers for its
Police are probing whether three shootings which happened in the space of ten days in Leeds Road, Bradford, are linked. Detectives from Pudsey, who are investigating the latest incident, near to Thornbury roundabout in the early hours of Saturday, are
Graffiti artist Rick Shipley wants Bradford Council to free up more walls across the city for people to express themselves legally. Mr Shipley, 30, of Shipley, has been teaching graffiti for the past seven years since setting up his business Cageone,
Teenager Abbey Bunn will be taught at home until she gets the school of her choice, her defiant mum vowed today. The youngster, of Clayton, Bradford, has now been away from classes since August 2003 after she failed to get into Thornton Grammar School
A headteacher is furious that Bradford Council failed to provide a signer for deaf teachers and parents at a meeting over a proposed radical revamp of education for deaf children. Education Bradford is proposing to teach more deaf children in the district's
An asylum seeker in Bradford has sewn up his own eyes, mouth and ears in a desperate protest to stay in Britain. Tears ran down Ali Mohammedi's face as he carried out the gruesome act, because he could be sent back to Iran. Paramedics were called to the
Vulnerable youngsters in care in Bradford are now getting the best health care in the country in a ground-breaking scheme. Instead of having to go through medical examinations and being seen by a confusing variety of different people, they get their own
The system is letting us down Sir - I am compelled to write because of the situation I find myself in. Two months ago I was diagnosed with a cancer in my neck. This means I have had major surgery and am awaiting chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Because
