Ilkley is a very desirable place to live. If you're in any doubt as to why, try this four-mile walk which passes through a posh residential area where the houses have magnificent moorland views before heading out into open countryside and returning via
Another division has recently become apparent in this fragmenting nation of ours: the one between the retail sector and the public services. In the former prices are plummeting, with clothing, electrical goods, furniture and even some foodstuffs and
League Cup winner Terry Wilson has applied for the vacant Bradford Park Avenue manager's position. Wilson, who is only 37, played 105 times for Nottingham Forest alongside Nigel Clough, Stuart Pearce and Neil Webb. He was in Brian Clough's Forest side
City's game with Blackpool today was a victim of the wintry weather as the match was called off yesterday following a pitch inspection from Premiership referee Martin Atkinson. The Leeds-based official checked the surface shortly after 3pm and his decision
Injury-jinxed Lesley Vainikolo is out of tonight's game in France - but Brian Noble insists his star player will shine again soon. The prolific winger is left out of the Super League showdown against Catalans Dragons, with Academy flier Andy Smith getting
The future of a village hall could be under threat if it continues to be hit by arsonists. The fire exit doors at the rear of Ian Clough Hall, in Baildon, have been set alight twice in four months, causing the hall to close on both occasions for health
A supervisor at a former children's home has been jailed for five years for sexually abusing youngsters in his care. A court heard that social worker Gordon Oliver, 58, grossly abused the trust of vulnerable children over 25 years. His offences began
Two Bradford employers have been named among the best to work for in the country. Bradford Council is the first local authority to be named in the survey's history, being rated among the top 20 best places to work. And Thornbury-based call centre, Loop
Opera North last appeared at the Alhambra in 1992. On the strength of last night's performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, before an almost sell-out audience of 1,300, the company's return to Bradford has been long overdue. Snow, which fell across
The multi-national giant which runs Bradford schools has been warned by councillors that it must cover its own financial losses. Education Bradford, operated by Serco, has built up a deficit of £8.5 million since it took on the contract to run Bradford's
Ladies' man Lennie Fulbirg charmed a succession of women at will. But his tangled love life ended in his grisly death at the hands of his former lover and her violent partner. Lennie had lived a colourful life, marrying four times and fathering at least
Detectives will quiz the evil lovers who murdered wheeler dealer Lennie Fulbirg to try to find out what they did with his body. Senior officers from the murder inquiry will visit Graham Haylett and Tracey Cameron in prison in the next few weeks. They
Muslims wrong to be so offensive SIR - The undignified behaviour of some Muslims over the past few weeks has done as much if not more damage to the name and honour of the Prophet Mohammed. Danish cartoonists who were previously unknown are now martyrs
Yorkshire Academy's Bradford-born slow bowler Adil Rashid has been singled out as the best leg-spin prospect in the country. And the modest Rashid, who lives in Heaton and last week celebrated his 18th birthday, told the Telegraph & Argus that one
There's something rotten in the state of the dental service in Britain today, with more and more people finding they simply cannot get treatment on the NHS and people feeling they have to resort to extreme measures, such as our story this week of the
Brave Phil Harrison broke his back rescuing his pal's bird of prey. He plunged 30 feet inside a disused mill chimney while reaching the hawk which had escaped from an aviary. And he owes his life to his landing being cushioned - by a deep covering of
Children in Bradford are missing out on specialist dental care because of a wrangle over funding. Orthodontist Shandeep Sharma this week opened a surgery in Victoria Road, Saltaire, with the aim of cutting waiting times for children needing specialist
A Bradford councillor has been jailed for trying to evade capture after he was involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident. Minicab driver Intkhab Alam was locked up for a total of two years and four months after he admitted perverting the course of justice
