Upper Wharfedale will be in Division B for the first time next season after clinching promotion with a win over Colton. Among their opponents will be Guise-ley, whose defeat by Burley meant they were relegated from Division A for the first time since
Mick Angus started off a rout with a 21-3 verdict as Eccleshill A saw off Armley Cons 27-3 in the Naylor Premier League. The big-hitting scorelines did not stop there either with Paul Matthews (21-5), Liam Griffin (21-6) and John Benson (21-6) also helping
Nicky Summerbee could return to the scene of one of his greatest City moments on Friday - playing against the Bantams. The 34-year-old winger is hoping to earn a contract with Tranmere, where he has been training since last week. And it might happen in
Captaining Great Britain will be the greatest achievement in Jamie Peacock's already glittering career. Peacock was yesterday confirmed as original choice Paul Sculthorpe's replacement for the forthcoming Gillette Tri-Nations. Wigan winger Brian Carney
Britain has become an overweight nation. Too many people are carrying around more pounds than they should be doing, putting a strain on their hearts in the long term and courting other health problems such as type 2 diabetes, strokes and even cancer.
The man who helped turn round the fortunes of Shipley-based set-top box maker Pace Micro Technology plc is to pave the way for a new era at the company and spearhead plans for radical diversification. Although John Dyson will step down as chief executive
A £4.5 billion pension scheme for the region's local government employees is under pressure to stop investing in tobacco firms. The Bradford Council-run West Yorkshire Pension Fund will face calls to be more ethical at next week's meeting of the Council
An actress is fronting a popular television music show after winning a national competition. Dina Mousawi is presenting the final week of T4's summer show on Channel Four after viewers chose her and fellow contestant Michael Blair from the ten hopefuls
An epilepsy sufferer is backing a campaign by a Yeadon charity which is urging people with the neurological condition to take control. Jo Smith, 33, of Daisy Hill, Bradford, says the Epilepsy Action campaign Take Control encourages sufferers to help doctors
A businessman is bidding to open an NHS dental practice in Shipley using three Polish dentists. Jan Bostock, director of health company Reach 2000, believes the ground floor of the company's home at Lambert House, Kirkgate, is ideal for the business.
Patients in Bradford will be guaranteed being able to book an advance appointment with a GP under measures to improve access to family doctor services, the Government announced today. The move to guarantee advance booking should allow patients to be able
For those of us of a certain age, this recreation of one of the most popular radio shows of the Sixties was pure nostalgia, but with a modern edge. It's difficult to believe that it is some 40 years since we huddled within earshot of radios as we ate
A teenager has told a jury how he was shot at several times during an incident outside a Bradford nightclub earlier this year. Tyrone Bailey, 18, said he heard a bang as he was sitting in his car outside the Functions nightclub in Hallfield Road, Manningham
A health tsar could be brought in to tackle alarming levels of obesity which have resulted in two out of every three adults in Bradford being overweight. The appointment is one of a raft of proposals to slim down the district's population and prevent
Drivers dealt with too leniently SIR - There is no doubt that the worst crime a driver can commit is to cause an innocent person's death by driving dangerously or without due care. Yet those drivers who do exactly that are dealt with so leniently by the
Yorkshire will have to take care not to get knocked over by the Rawalpindi Express if they are to complete a double over Worcestershire in their final home championship game of the season, which was due to begin at Headingley today. Pakistan paceman Shoaib
A pathologist has admitted that he changed a previous report which led to a surgeon being accused of the manslaughter of a Liversedge pensioner. Dr Kenneth Shorrock left out a passage in a second report into the death of a woman on the operating table
The new director of Bradford Samaritans has made an appeal for new volunteers. Sue Harrison, a Samaritan for more than six years, has taken over as director of the Bradford branch and hopes to increase the amount of life-saving volunteers staffing their
As an urban landscape artist, June Russell holds strong views on the Bradford of the future. And she has urged children to put pencil to paper to create their own visions by taking part in the Telegraph & Argus Super City Drawing Competition. The
A survey of Bradford pupils has found that Muslim children want to eat English dishes for their school dinners while their non-Muslim classmates prefer curries. School dinners bosses carried out a consultation with parents and pupils to see how they could
