Yorkshire pace bowler Nick Thornicroft from York is to join Essex on a month's loan and will be available for their championship match against Durham which starts at Riverside next Thursday. Thornicroft, 20, becomes the first Yorkshire player to join
A woman has vowed not to pay a fine she was given while parked in a deserted car park. Emily Snowdon parked on the almost-empty seventh level of the Airedale Shopping Centre car park in Keighley. But because the tyre of her Seat Ibiza was on the line
A mother has praised the bravery of her daughter who paid the ultimate price for sunbathing. Elizabeth Holmes's daughter, Imogen Potter, died last week after a five-year battle with skin cancer. Imogen, 37, who lived in Cross Hills and Skipton as a child
When the world's top golfers tee off on the immaculate St Andrews Old Course at this year's Open championship, a team of Bingley turf experts will be in the crowd. But instead of admiring the shots of Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and other top players, the
A Bradford community centre is expanding its operations thanks to thousands of pounds of Lottery money. The Greenwood Youth and Community Centre in Swain House has received £45,207 from the Big Lottery Fund to provide bigger and better services. It provides
A controversial plan to store hundreds of tonnes of deadly asbestos waste yards from a housing estate has been withdrawn at the 11th hour. Up to 500 tonnes of the material would have passed through the yard in Oakenshaw each year, with between five and
Bradford Council is reconsidering its all-out ban on city-centre storefront pavement displays after more than 700 shoppers opposed the ruling. James Street florist John Hardaker had argued the decision would cripple his trade, because much of his stock
A former Bradford University student, who planned to become an air traffic controller, was today beginning a five-year prison sentence for running a major cannabis-growing operation from a house in the city. Jose De Nova had to be extradited back to the
Three new companies including a bookmaker are in legal negotiations to move into the £12 million Rawson Quarter shopping centre being completed in the heart of the city. When they sign their leases only one unit will remain to be let in the reconstructed
Cougars boss Gary Moorby brought full back Matt Bramald to the club expecting him to score 15 tries a season. Moorby was right, although he would never have dreamed the 32-year-old Wakefield-born veteran would pass that target by the end of May. But pass
New Avenue manager Gary Brook met the players for the first time on Wednesday and says he cannot wait to start working with them when pre-season training gets underway in a fortnight. Brook is well known locally for the time he spent as a strike partner
Danny Cadamarteri is close to a Valley Parade return. Sources at Sheffield United believe that a City deal to bring back Cadamarteri, one of seven players transfer-listed by boss Neil Warnock earlier this week, could soon be struck. Colin Todd has already
Rob Parker admits to feeling slightly "gutted" that his run of 48 consecutive matches came to an end. He missed last week's victory over Hull at the KC Stadium to witness the birth of his first child - an 8lb 11oz girl called Dixie - the sturdy pack man
There are plenty of negative role models around for today's young people, particularly on TV where drama programmes are packed with losers and lawbreakers galore, too often portrayed in ways which glamorise them. It is hardly surprising that many of them
Four men and a woman who were involved in a drunken brawl in Bingley town centre have been locked up by a judge. Bradford Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of the incident which happened in the early hours of April 12, 2003 and was also featured on the
A man accused of a string of arson attacks across Bradford burgled a garden centre and set it alight four times, a court heard. James Bradshaw, 24, denies starting 18 fires in the city between August 1999 and March 2004. It is alleged that he is obsessed
Friends of a popular pensioner today condemned a 12-month jail sentence for the banned driver who left him dying in the street. Thomas Osborne, 87, was flung into the air when he was struck by disqualified Jason Goodaire's Nissan car outside the club
The service that must not be lost SIR - Many people in Otley will know we have enjoyed the provision of Rangers, employed by Leeds City Council, to work on Otley Chevin. Being based at the White House they are easily accessible to the community, local
