Football has come full circle for Mickey Williams. The 35-year-old returned last November to help revive the of fortunes Bradford Moor, the team he started out with as a 17-year-old before moving on and eventually playing in English football's top flight
There was a deluge of re-arranged games in the Naylor Premier League as teams rushed to finish their fixtures with Clayton packing four games into five days. A Tuesday night trip to Eccleshill ended in a 23-7 defeat, (Eccleshill's Mick Angus a 21-5 winner
Farsley Celtic 4 Marine 0 The Celts had threatened to end this first qualifying round FA Cup tie at Marine on Saturday but last night they emphatically put it to bed in front of their own fans to earn a trip to Altrincham. The hero was Michael Midwood
Saturday's home defeat dropped Bradford Park Avenue into the bottom two of the Conference North making tonight's home clash with basement side Vauxhall Motors a real six-pointer. The visitors are still looking for their first win of the new season. They
A right-wing immigration pressure group is using a campaign by Keighley MP Ann Cryer to back its call for a clampdown on marrying overseas spouses. The group Migrationwatch has called for a fundamental review of the Government's policy on allowing spouses
A Bradford school is celebrating after education watchdog inspectors revealed it has made huge progress and announced it is no longer struggling. In 2002 Ofsted found Poplars Farm Primary school, in Bolton, was still reeling from the district's schools
Residents have launched a campaign to ensure a piece of communal land does not fall into private hands. They are concerned that several hectares of green space between Wrose and Windhill is one of many Bradford Council-owned assets which could be sold
Women are being encouraged to flash their assets - especially their midriffs. And they have won lottery cash to cultivate their passion in Bradford and the Aire valley. The South Pennine Belly Dancing group plans to spread the word to their sisters at
A pensioner fighting to keep Bank Street post office open today trudged the uphill routes to Bradford's alternatives and and said it was "nonsense" they were viable options. Jean Landowski, 77, said Post Office Ltd was "patronising" directing pensioners
A 67-year-old woman banged her head as she grappled with a street mugger, a jury heard yesterday. Doris Hardisty was walking along Leylands Lane in Heaton in February last year when her attacker ran up from behind and grabbed the bag she was carrying
Bradford City administrators were today confident the club would still come out of administration, despite a last-minute appeal by one of the club's major creditors to its rescue plan. Former chairman Gordon Gibb's pension fund, which owns the Valley
Find cash to keep post offices open SIR - We attended the meeting at St George's Hall on September 15 to oppose the closing of Exchange Post Office and 17 sub-post offices in our city. The meeting was organised by the Regeneration and Economy and Improvement
Chorley 2 Guiseley 1 FA Cup specialists Guiseley are out of the competition for this season after losing to a side a division lower than them in the UniBond League. Guiseley have a good recent record in the world's oldest knock-out competition but a poor
Colin Todd has one problem with his selection headache up front - that he hasn't got them all over the pitch. With Dean Windass back from suspension at Swindon this weekend, Todd has an embarrassment of riches in attack. Both Dele Adebola and new loan
Bulls juggernaut Joe Vagana is set to continue terrorising Super League defences for another two years after agreeing a contract extension at Odsal. "It's awesome to be staying," said Vagana. "The bunch of guys we have here are great and the coaching
The extent of the vandalism at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School in Bingley is shocking. The catalogue of anti-social behaviour described by the head teacher is truly appalling on any scale of values. The school is effectively under siege from
Bradford is to have its first fully Islamic bank within the next few months to provide financial services for the city's Muslims. The Islamic Bank of Britain is looking for premises in the Great Horton Road area and it expects to open for business in
Plans are being set in place to meet surges in demand for health care as the winter weather takes hold. Director of public health Dee Kyle told a meeting of the Bradford South and West Primary Care Trust yesterday that the health service is gearing up
Grand designs for rebuilding Bradford have been praised by regeneration leaders at a major UK conference. Many of the UK's leading planners, developers and architects were asked if Bradford was a good model for regeneration and if its masterplan is delivering
Work to transform a run-down recreation site - once recognised as a centre of sporting excellence by former England football manager Sir Bobby Robson - got underway this week as 300 volunteers rolled up their sleeves. Major regeneration plans to transform
A key witness in the trial of a vicious torture gang plunged to her death after climbing out of a window in a block of flats. An inquest in Bradford heard that Lisa Galloway had become suicidal in the months after the trial of her torturers. However,
A head teacher wants an eight-foot fence put up around her small primary school after a catalogue of disgusting attacks by yobs. Mary McAndrew says the level of abuse and damage at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Bingley, has become so bad
