A drinks manufacturing plant has expanded in a £5.2 million revamp. The new production line at the Princes Soft Drinks factory off Tong Street, Bradford, will see the firm improve its efficiency and capacity, as well as making it more versatile. Princes
Silsden have an opportunity to get back into the Division B title race tomorrow before their big challenge next week against leaders Collingham. This week they entertain Knaresborough, a side who have only won twice all season and who are currently in
Keighley may currently be 17 points adrift of safety in the SDS Bradford League First Division but their all-rounder Richard Robinson is adamant that they won't go down. Initially held back by unavailability of players due to a wedding Down Under, the
A Gale blew its way through North Marine Road yesterday and the 4,000 fans watching Yorkshire's match against Warwickshire loved every minute of it. Andrew Gale, the 22-year-old left-hander, hammered out his maiden century to tighten the Tykes' grip
Experienced defender Matt Robinson is the latest to take on the "poison chalice" of City's left-back role. The 31-year-old will become the third trialist in eight days to fill that position when he lines up at Boston tomorrow. Unlike Sylvain Meslien
Bradford Bulls have been boosted by the appointment of former Huddersfield hooker Lee St Hilaire as their assistant coach. St Hilaire, who cut his coaching teeth with the Giants, was assistant coach to Tony Smith at Wakefield Trinity Wildcats until last
Housework is becoming less of a priority for men and women as they try to juggle personal time with hectic work schedules. The traditional role of the woman in the home has been changing for years, with men bearing more of the domestic burden. But domestic
The world's top golfers are currently battling it out at this year's Open championship thanks to a team of turf experts. While Tiger Woods, Ernie Els and other golfing stars look to top the leaderboard at the Royal Liverpool course, agronomists from
A driver has died after a crash involving a high-powered Porsche and an Aston Martin supercar. The blue Porsche 911 GT3 barrel-rolled several times then demolished a lamppost trapping the 21-year-old driver upside down. It took paramedics and firefighters
In 1927, five-year-old Prince Mihai succeeded to the throne after the death of King Ferdinand of Bucharest. In 1932, British doctors said young people are too slim, smoke and drink too much and have little sleep, clothes or food. In 1958, the Government
This week British Shakespeare Company actor-manager Robert Williamson must have been grinding his teeth with anxiety. Unbroken weather, perfect for evening outdoor performances of Shakespeare, coincided with a week off for his actors who next Tuesday
Bradford band Three Mile High will be launching their new single Always Watching this weekend and the track has already been snapped up by the makers of a new film. The band, which has been likened to the Foo Fighters, is building up quite a following
Jeremy Paxman, Melvyn Bragg, Kate Adie, Billy Bragg and John Mortimer are some of the names appearing at this year's Ilkley Literature Festival. Regarded as one of the country's top arts festivals, the two-week programme features more than 100 events
A week-long festival taking a contemporary look at the lives and work of the Bronts takes place in Haworth this summer. The Radical Bronts features Bradford writer Joolz Denby, the festival's artistic director, comic duo LipService and Turner Prize nominee
Jim G Dutt is the chairman of the Pakistan Asian Christian Welfare Organisation, a Bradford-based group representing the interests of Christians in Pakistan, who they say are often persecuted. The Pakistani Christians in the UK feel deeply distressed
Government fund- raiser Lord Levy has been arrested and questioned by police. Cabinet Ministers have been sacked for incompetence and demoted for immorality. Councillors have been jailed for corruption and charged with sex offences all this and more
SIR Having never had the privilege of playing tennis with Lord Levy and Tony Blair, I can't pretend to be an authority. But I must take issue with Philip Bird, who argues that women players "by the very nature of their womanly physiques" don't deserve
SIR It is reported that as a result of the Government's initiative in building houses for key workers at enormous cost to the taxpayer, some 94,800 homes are now lying empty. These properties are registered to various public organisations. They should
SIR Stuart Hewitt calls upon me to be "even-handed" in my fight against racism and of course I am. My family protested against Nazi persecution of the Jews when many people claimed stories about concentration camps were Communist propaganda. It was
SIR Do you think that if the people involved in the Enron affair had not been affluent middle class bankers, but working-class types from the back streets of Leeds or Liverpool or some sprawling council estate in Bradford, they'd have received the same
SIR Sometimes it is hard explaining Conservative policy. Between putting pen to paper and a letter's publication, events can overtake the best of intentions, like Philip Bird telling us that Europe was not a fault line. A subsequent e-mail leak had
SIR I refer to G Tasker's letter (T&A, July 13) concerning his view that the pensioners are not that badly off. England has one of the lowest pensions in Europe if not the lowest. The European Poverty Directive in 2000 was an income of at least £205
SIR Arthur and Kathleen Grimshaw are refusing to pay a penny towards an emergency call system they neither need nor want (T&A, July 12). Shipley Community Housing Trust is looking into the matter but what concerned me more was the comment made by the
SIR I would like to pass on my congratulations to the students of Rhodesway School who participated in the great science debate organised by Setpoint, at City Hall, on July 14. The school entered two teams, who I was there to support and mentor for
SIR How pleasing it was to read about the reunion of mill workers at Listers Mill (T&A, July 17). My abiding memories of my time at Listers (1966 to 1977) were rubbing shoulders against the likes of Mary Hoddy, who competed in the 1936 Olympics and
The trouble with most vans is that they're so, well, van like. Try as they do to be svelte and stylish, most miss the mark by some way. They're better than they used to be, offering creature comforts van drivers of the 1960s and 1970s would have died
A petition calling on the Government to stump up the cash to put a halt to congestion problems at the controversial Saltaire roundabout has been handed over in the House of Commons. Mother-of-three Rachel Adamson collected 400 signatures from people
A taxi passenger died after he fell head first from the open door of the speeding vehicle, a jury was told. Iain Cain, 31, had been struggling with the driver Nazam Khan in the car which was swerving from side-to-side with the front passenger door wide
An award-winning Bradford park was transformed into a living room to get more people to recycle and re-use furniture. A three-piece suite, coffee table, dining table and chairs were set up in Lister Park along with a computer and pots of paint to highlight
Reckless and speeding drivers are responsible for a sharp increase in road deaths in West Yorkshire. Fatalities from road crashes in the county have shot up by more than a third this year. Between January and May there were 44 people killed in road
A charity worker has spoken of his lucky escape and the nightmare for Lebanon's local people as bombs fell on the strife-torn country. Teacher Nick Dobson, of Snaygill, Skipton, was evacuated days after he arrived in the country to work with refugees
