A DEBATE on Radio Five this week focused on the incredible growth in the popularity of genealogy - the study of family trees. What drew our interest was the heavy reliance placed upon local newspaper reports of inquests for shedding a little light on
New owners of a natural mineral water source are hoping to see their bottles spring onto the local market. ABV Wholesale have profited from their contacts in the haulage and brewing industry in Keighley to take on the running of Royal Spring Natural Mineral
Undercliffe, 18 points adrift at the bottom of Division One of the Specialist Ducting Supplies Bradford League, are rapidly running out of time in their bid to avoid relegation. About the only good thing for the Intake Road club is that they have matches
Matthew Wood rapped out his first century of the season in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 161 in 39 overs with Anthony McGrath as Yorkshire made up for lost time on the first day of their championship match with Derbyshire at Headingley yesterday.
Dele Adebola signed for City today to beef up their plans to tackle Doncaster at Valley Parade. Adebola joined on a month's loan from Coventry and goes straight into the side for tomorrow's first Yorkshire derby of the season. The 29-year-old will partner
The terrible accident suffered by a 14-year-old Bradford boy who was badly burned after coming into contact with a flammable liquid at unoccupied industrial premises is a grim reminder of just how many dangers lie in wait for adventurous youngsters, particularly
A 28-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs. Police officers from Bradford District Drugs Team arrested the man after stopping a car at Ingrow and searching the passenger. A quantity of what
The planned closure of two post offices in Keighley has been condemned by town councillors. Having been asked to comment on the potential closure of the post offices, councillors said they would oppose the proposals to shut Guard House Post Office, in
Businesses in the Worth Way area had to put emergency measures into force when the River Worth broke its banks. The petrol station at Morrisons was closed and staff had to remove all stock from the kiosk after it was submerged in several inches of floodwater
Work has started on the conversion of a former car sales garage into an Asian supermarket. The £250,000-plus development on the vacant Sunwin Peugeot site, in Alice Street, Keighley, will include a retail outlet selling Asian foods and spices, office
A football-mad bridegroom adopted the colours of his favourite football team, Leeds United, to adorn his wedding and reception. Anthony James Harrison and Wendy Bishop were married at St Anne's RC Church, Keighley, surrounded by white, yellow and blue
Residents in Cullingworth are busy preparing for their summer scarecrow festival. The event, held around the village from September 4-5, will raise money for Manorlands hospice and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Parish Councillor Kenneth Batchelor said:
Speed cameras installed on an accident-plagued stretch of road will be operational by the end of this month. Six units have been positioned in Halifax Road, between Ingrow and Cross Roads. The cameras have been installed by West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction
VILLAGES in South Craven have literally been left in the dark as publishers fail to include them in the Bradford A-Z map book. The lost villages came to light after vice-chairman of Steeton-with-Eastburn parish council, Coun Dianne Lear, highlighted the
A SKIPTON-based government training scheme established 12 weeks ago is already putting local teenagers on the path to success. New initiative e2e, located in Victoria Square, helps young people in Craven aged between 16 and 18 to build their confidence
THE Calendar Girls have topped the £1 million fundraising mark - thanks to an English businessman living in Monaco. The Rylstone WI members started their fundraising in 1999 when they launched their nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research.
The Comedy of Errors - Piece Hall, Halifax Claps of thunder from the stormy skies above could not match the claps of the audience during a mini monsoon at the Piece Hall. A lightning-filled sky may have been more suited to the production of Macbeth the
BRITAIN'S biggest blues festival is set to hit the streets of Colne again over the August Bank Holiday weekend -- with performers who laid the foundations of modern music. The festival takes over the town with hundreds of musicians playing in pubs, clubs
It's a double whammy at Keighley Picture House this week with two cat-related movies to choose from. First up is Garfield (U). I have loved Jim Davis's Garfield since I was a youngster, as I am sure thousands of others have. When I saw that a feature
Miss Saigon is followed by a brace of other well-known musicals at the Alhambra this autumn. Drama by Arthur Miller, RC Sherriff and William Shakespeare also features during the season at the Bradford theatre. The season opens with I Got Rhythm, from
IT is an understatement to say that announcements by politicians rarely raise cheers in Beggarsdale. The last one that anyone can remember was Maggie ordering us to rejoice because the Union flag was flying once again over Port Stanley in the Falklands
SIR - I think I have an idea as to where the Peacemakers could start. It would mean going over the head of Cllr Rhodes though: a close examination of that area in your front page War Memorial photo shows that Tommy Atkins still has no bayonet. Bearing
An historic mansion overlooking the Aire Valley has been put up for sale at £3.5 million - just five years since it was last on the market at £1.5 million. Kildwick Hall a seventeenth century Grade 11 listed building - which cost just £6,000 in 1967 -
A Bradford eye specialist has returned from a visit to Madagascar in his latest bid to alleviate the growing problem of blindness in the country. Oliver Backhouse, a consultant ophthalmologist at the Yorkshire Eye Hospital, Harrogate Road, Apperley Bridge
A financial crisis which left Bradford Cathedral with millions of pounds of debt has today been solved, senior churchmen revealed. Creditors owed money after the failure of Bradford Cathedral's Life Force project have agreed a new financial arrangement
A youth worker has today spoken of how he helped save a teenager who is battling for life after being engulfed in flames. The 14-year-old boy, who has not been named, suffered serious burns after playing behind a disused warehouse at the EuroCam Technology
THE wet weather has certainly come down with a vengeance this week with Cougar Park under water -- as was the gym -- on Tuesday according to a phone call received from Farmer. "Night off then, Gary?" said one of the lads when when we arrived for training
EVENTS at Settle have tended to dominate the news from the Veka Ribblesdale League this season and last weekend was no exception as the Marshfield men took over top spot from Read thanks to a comfortable win over Oswaldtwistle Immanuel and the leaders
SETTLE Cricket Club hopes of matching their rugby brethren by winning a place in the Lancashire Cup final at Old Trafford were denied in an absorbing semi-final at Marshfield in which the visitors from the Bolton League managed the improbable feat of
AN 'Old Firm' derby in the J P Mewies Craven League's Wynn Cup final, Settle's bid to take the Ribblesdale League's Ramsbottom Cup for the first time since 1970 and Steeton Seconds' attempt to clinch the first part of a Birtwhistle Cup and league double
Wheelie bins are such a nuisance Sir - Although I applaud Bradford Council's efforts to achieve as much household recycling as possible, I am greatly disappointed that it disregards the fact that many householders simply leave their wheelie bins permanently
100 Years Ago SKIPTON Locomotive Ambulance met at the Old George Hotel in Skipton to present certificates and make a special presentation to Dr Waugh, the instructor. The great work which the railway ambulance did was shown a few weeks previously when
Silsden-based Riverside Fabrics has appointed three senior sales and marketing managers to help drive forward its ambitious expansion plans. Riverside, already one of the UK's largest manufacturers of fabrics for the commercial and residential interiors
Junior Witter has been promoted to number three in the world in the latest WBC rankings. And that puts the Bradford light-welter six places ahead of domestic rival Ricky Hatton. Witter's jump comes on the back of winning the European belt in June when
The new campaign for Park Avenue begins in earnest tomorrow when the newly-formed Conference North gets under way. The Bradford club have been handed a difficult opening fixture, with Avenue boss Carl Shutt tipping Alfreton Town - last season's UniBond
Move over Dean Windass - the skipper is on a hot scoring run. David Wetherall's reaction header to turn in Ben Muirhead's sliced shot in midweek was his second goal in 2004! And Colin Todd will be hoping that it is the first of many this season as he
Robert Atkinson's Otley side can take a giant stride towards safety in Division A with victory at home to main relegation rivals Menston tomorrow. Third-from-bottom Otley are five points clear of the drop zone, and victory would nudge them 11 points clear
July 16 was one of the first dates Paul Johnson circled on his calendar when this season's fixture list came out. That was the day the Great Britain centre would make his much anticipated return to the JJB Stadium to take on home-town club Wigan - a team
Bradford's huge Ciba chemical plant is facing a squeeze on margins due to the high price of gas and oil, the company said today. The sprawling Low Moor plant, which is a major part of the Swiss-owned chemical business, has been hit by a global shortage
A campaign to recruit retained firefighters has been extended in a bid to help a station suffering from dwindling numbers of personnel. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has moved into the second phase of its recruitment campaign by displaying banners
A members allowance of up to £600 will be available to each Keighley town councillor. Although the fund has been formed to recompense members for performing their duties, councillors were told they should not feel forced to accept the money. The annual
Home owners and businesses in Haworth were counting the cost of flooding this week following hours of monsoon style rain. The Bridgehouse Beck, which runs through the village, burst its banks at about 9am on Tuesday after about a month's worth of rain
The Lord Mayor has issued a rallying call to the people of Keighley. Speaking exclusively to the Keighley News, Councillor Irene Ellison-Wood urged everyone in the town to get behind her civic appeal. She is asking individuals, groups, businesses and
A BNP councillor is standing for a vacant Keighley Town Council seat. Angela Clarke, who represents Keighley West on Bradford Council, was yesterday revealed as one of the two people standing for the Guard House Ward by-election. But her application has
Water sports facing the axe because of the dry spring and summer, have been saved by the storms. Torrential rain over the last few days has poured millions of gallons into Doe Park reservoir in Denholme. It means sailing, kayaking and canoeing, due to
RACES that have been run since before the Second World War are being axed from this year's Kilnsey Show. The flat races - the 100 yards, 440 yards and the mile - have all been removed from the event, to be held on Tuesday August 31. Show secretary Jack
SKIPTON'S new town centre manager Chris Aldred believes "tweaking" rather than radical changes is the way forward for Skipton. Mr Aldred took up his post last week and since then has been wading through paper work to get to grips with events in the town
WHEN Jim Surr stands at Skipton War Memorial on Sunday to mark Victory over Japan Day, he will be thinking about his fallen comrades. The war veteran will also reflect upon the twist of fate that meant that out of his whole regiment only he and five colleagues
DEVELOPERS hoping to build 59 homes on the now disused Embsay Tannery site have been asked to think again by the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The controversial development - described as the biggest in the national park area for many years - has aroused
AS Craven became engulfed by floods, agencies across the district leapt into action. A police logistics room was set up on Tuesday as the flood chaos headed for crisis level. Officers gathered to compile reports that were coming in and collated emergency
IN these days of early specialisation, when children are asked to map out their future careers when they are barely into their teens, it is sometimes hard to remember that there was a time when Dales folk could turn a dab hand to almost anything. It was
SIR - I see that various local NHS Trusts, in particular Airedale General, are considering the imposition of a 100 per cent smoking ban. In my view, as a lifelong health service worker, and as a lifelong total non-smoker this would be a mistake. For patients
Residents of part of inner-city Bradford are being given the chance to air their views on how to boost employment in their community. Bradford Council has asked a team of regeneration experts to draw up a masterplan on how Mann-ingham could be improved
Bradford City's administrators have defended the decision to charge supporters who bought 25-year season tickets an extra £150 to take up their seats for the new campaign. Kroll has issued a series of detailed responses to fans who raised questions at
Close co-operation between two textile companies - one in Bradford, the other in Keighley - has led to further prestigious orders from the top echelons of sport. The companies have already helped kit out the British Olympic team with their official uniforms
A judge sentencing a mother-of-three to a drug rehabilitation scheme urged her to become only the second person he had dealt with to complete the programme. Judge Roger Scott said his own record in respect of imposing drug testing and treatment orders
Visitors to Bradford International Market are in for a hair-raising experience when a team of Spanish "street hairdressers" let themselves loose on an unsuspecting crowd. The idea of a spontaneous, sky-high "hair sculpture" may not appeal to everyone
Hundreds of people have put pen to paper in the battle to save Bradford's busiest city centre post office from closure. More than 200 readers have already signed up to the Telegraph & Argus campaign to save the Exchange Post Office in Bank Street
Thousands of cycling fans will get the chance to get within touching distance of some of the sport's biggest stars when the prestigious Tour of Britain winds its way along the district's roads. And positive exposure from the Yorkshire leg of the race
A couple whose teenage daughter was killed in a car crash today condemned the legal system after the driver walked from court with a £750 fine. Adele Barnes, 18, died when Christopher Dyer, then also 18, lost control of his Citroen Saxo on a wet road
A DREAM of that elusive hole-in-one is enough to drag most golfers onto the course come fair weather or foul. But Keighley man Kenneth Young completed a remarkable landmark last weekend when he scored the tenth -- yes tenth -- hole-in-one of his golfing
TWICE World Pool Champion Chris 'The Magician' Melling is looking to become a snooker sensation after agreeing a management deal with the legendary Jimmy White. One of snooker's all time best-loved players, White believes with his help, Melling can become
TWO POINTS are a must as Cougars coach Gary Moorby prepares his side for the clash against Rochdale on Sunday, 3pm kick-off. With the Cougar Park outfit's National One status already hanging by a thread, only maximum points will do against a Rochdale
COWLING confirmed that their win over Oakworth the previous week was no fluke when they toppled J P Mewies Craven League Division One pacemakers and defending champions Embsay last weekend. Defeat for the leaders opened the door for second-placed Barrowford
Keighley is back under the national microscope again with the announcement that a television documentary -- a segment of which accuses Asian men of grooming under-age girls for sex abuse -- is to be shown three months after it was pulled from the schedules
