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  • Gallant Dalesmen make Waterloo fight

    Waterloo 32 Wharfedale 8 Waterloo underlined their National League Two promotion credentials with a comprehensive six tries to one victory - but they were made to fight for every score. The Greens earned considerable credit for a valiant performance

  • Binnings so costly for Cleck

    Cleckheaton 24 Darlington 48 Cleckheaton started this National League Three North game hoping to build on the last few weeks' form but Darlington had other ideas. The game started well for the hosts when, from the kick-off, they retained the ball

  • Bees must learn to bite their tongues

    Bradford & Bingley 32 Preston Grasshoppers 21 Bradford & Bingley centre Stuart Dixon has professed himself satisfied with his comeback match on Saturday following groin problems. The 29-year-old, whose last National League match was the shock defeat

  • Otley learn lesson from Bees defeat

    Pertemps Bees 12 Otley 33 Otley eased up to eighth in National League One by eclipsing a Birmingham side who were high on ambition but who were never able to take advantage in the first half. The hosts had the benefit of the wind then on a day of increasingly

  • Cook's goal is clear to see

    Although you may not have actually seen him through the dense fog, Matt Cook did make his first start for the Bulls on Friday night. "Yeah, I set up five of our tries, scored two and made 60 tackles!" laughed the 19 year-old, after emerging from a mist-shrouded

  • Cook's goal is clear to se

    Although you may not have actually seen him through the dense fog, Matt Cook did make his first start for the Bulls on Friday night. "Yeah, I set up five of our tries, scored two and made 60 tackles!" laughed the 19 year-old, after emerging from a mist-shrouded

  • A taste of crafts skills for jobless

    A pioneering project to provide vital skills for young people interested in a career in construction is proving a success. Links2, part of the Council's Invest in Bradford scheme, has joined youth employment and training body Connexions to provide week-long

  • 'Life's a frill in our idyll'

    It is spoken of nationwide as a template for transforming ailing agriculture into thriving business. It has been 20 years in the evolution and is still growing, its message and ideas being spread across the UK and abroad. The place is Broughton Hall,

  • Cabaret to help sick Polish boy

    Members of Bradford's Polish community have organised a fundraising drive to help a young boy in their homeland get treatment for Cystic Fibrosis. They will take to the stage in a bid to raise thousands of pounds for three-year-old Bartek Porte, who lives

  • Terrific response to Asian 'Juliet' audition

    A tale of forbidden love, cultural intolerance, and segregated communities is to be played out in the city as Romeo and Juliet is transported to Bradford. The play, part of this year's Bradford Festival, will have a mixed cast with Juliet being from a

  • They are my Pagan idols!

    Christine Peck-Russell is about to swap spreadsheets and invoices for tour dates and concerts as she takes on the role of tour manager for an up-and-coming rock band. Christine, 44, who works as company accountant for a Bradford design firm, confessed

  • Cooke strike nets Guiseley reward at last

    Guiseley ended a very demanding eight days with a much-needed - and some would say overdue - victory after four defeats on the trot had dropped them out of the play-off chase and dumped them out of the cup. During that testing period, from the previous

  • Colbeck's no average Joe

    Joe Colbeck today relived the thrill of his first full City game but admitted: I should have won it for us. The 19-year-old winger turned in a bubbly debut in Saturday's 2-2 fightback at relegation rivals Walsall. But Colbeck, pictured, knows he could

  • 'Happy slapping' is no joke

    So called "happy slapping", where gangs of youths use the movie capture capabilities of their mobile phones to film themselves assaulting other people is, pure and simple, bullying. Those who take pleasure from inflicting pain and humiliation on other

  • Directors in threat to quit

    Directors at Morrisons are threatening to quit over chairman Sir Ken Morrison's continued failure to appoint a new chief executive, it has been reported. A number of non-executive directors were expected to consider tendering their resignations if a new

  • Who gave power to the people?

    Curators at Bradford Industrial Museum are appealing for help after they were given a rare generator which played a key role during the Second World War. Believed to one of only two of its kind in world, the Scott/Jourett generator is on display at the

  • Pupils invited to centenary celebrations

    A Bradford girls' school is appealing for pupils from its past and present to help celebrate its centenary. St Joseph's Catholic College will be marking its 100th anniversary in 2008. And it hopes former pupils who attended the school as long ago as the

  • Darren switches sport for art's sake

    An artist more used to portraying the glamour of football has turned his skills to cricket stars. Darren Baker has completed a painting depicting all 18 county cricket captains in action for the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA). And he has now

  • Mystery as mobile phone shop closes

    Trading standards chiefs are trying to trace the boss of a mobile phone shop after customers complained they were owed money on a cash back deal. Officers have received about a dozen complaints from people who claim cheques from the shop did not arrive

  • Leader's showdown over house failures

    Bradford Council leader Margaret Eaton is to meet ministers over the authority's failings in a major housing project. Independent inspectors found a £19.5 million scheme to help vulnerable groups live more independently was 'poor' with 'uncertain prospects

  • 'Happy slap' victim is kept off school

    A dad is refusing to allow his son to return to school after claiming the 16-year-old was filmed in a so called 'happy slapping' attack. Stephen McLaughlin said his son Michael suffered a black eye after he was attacked by fellow pupils at St Bede's Grammar

  • Man, 38, injured in shooting at home

    Detectives were today investigating a shooting at a Bradford bungalow. A 38-year-old man suffered gunshot wounds and was in a stable condition last night after he underwent surgery at an unnamed hospital. A second man, in his late 30s, was treated in

  • Schools to close in council staff strike

    At least 19 Bradford schools will be forced to close or partially close tomorrow because of a one-day strike. About 12,000 council workers in Bradford are expected to take part in the industrial action over plans to change their retirement age. The walk-out

  • One in eight cabbies has a conviction

    One in eight of Bradford's hackney carriage drivers has been convicted of a crime. And the range of offences committed by drivers includes violence, indecency, drug possession and dishonesty. The statistics were uncovered during a lengthy Telegraph &

  • Letters to the Editor

    Who qualifies for Continuing Care? SIR - For a couple of years I have had concerns about the care vulnerable adults receive or are entitled to. I have, over the last 12 months, tried on many occasions to set up meetings with my MP Gerry Sutcliffe and