Ken Bates has decided to call Leeds fans' bluff and cut prices for the vital midweek relegation battle against QPR on February 20. Ever since he took over as chairman two years ago, Bates has had a running battle with supporters, who have complained
Lifelong socialist John Prestage will meet the Prime Minister next week when he attends a reception at 10 Downing Street. The Bradford councillor, who lives in Sandbeds, will travel to London to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Co-operative Party
Samaritans in Bradford have been inundated with calls as Blue Monday' lived up to its reputation as the most depressing day of the year. Volunteers at the Bradford branch of the Samaritans said their phones did not stop ringing from 8am when the office
Good quality teaching allows pupils at a Bradford primary to "achieve well from their starting points", inspectors have noted. Harden Primary School's latest Ofsted report identifies high standards throughout all categories at the popular school. Lead
Pupils could have been fooled into thinking they were wearing rose tinted glasses when staff raised money for charity by dressing top-to-toe in pink. Pupils at Immanuel Community College, Leeds Road, Thackley, also joined in the fun by paying £1 each
A Belgian student needs a new host family in Bradford so she can complete her exchange programme in the area. Belinda, who is studying in Bradford as part of an exchange programme organised by charity organisation AFS, needs to move families. Belinda
Teams from Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, Thornton Grammar and Beckfoot School, Bingley, have been selected to take part in the prestigious UK Rocketry Challenge. The nationwide competition, hosted by Bradford-based space education provider
Steve Schumacher reckons he is on a winner in the midfield betting stakes. Schuey's fifth goal of the season at Tranmere on Friday night drew him level with Marc Bridge-Wilkinson in the scoring charts - and that means all wagers are on! The pair have
Nine days and counting. A week on Wednesday and the transfer window clunks shut for the rest of the season. And City fans can breathe a sigh of relief if Jermaine Johnson is still at Valley Parade. With Dean Windass gone, the flying Jamaican is the
A confiscation hearing has got under way against a businessman who was jailed for 33 months after he admitted being involved in a cigarette smuggling operation. Gerrard Strange, who had previously been managing director and chief executive of Bradford-based
Four people were checked over by paramedics after breathing in smoke from a flat fire. A bag of rubbish caught fire in the kitchen of a ground floor flat in Yateholm Drive, Westwood Park, Horton Bank Top, Bradford, just before 5pm today. The middle-aged
A Bradford Council boss has outlined plans to replace an influential education panel. The Education Policy Partnership committee is expected to meet for the final time in March. It was established in 2001 at the same time Education Bradford started
A Bradford primary school has been forced to close after an outbreak of a winter vomiting bug. Home Farm Primary, off Cooper Lane, was forced to shut on Friday and again today after more than 150 pupils were hit by the highly-contagious virus. Staff
The district's residents are being warned to be on their guard against rogue tradesman who are exploiting weather-damaged households. Workmen are scouring neighbourhoods for vulnerable victims, offering to repair wind-ruined roofs and chimneys, according
Iestyn Harris has delivered a big thumbs-up following his comeback from injury. The Bulls stand-off played more than an hour of Sunday's friendly at Hull KR and later reported no reaction to his troubled knee. Harris had undergone major surgery in October
Samaritans in Bradford were inundated with calls as Blue Monday' lived up to its reputation as the most depressing day of the year yesterday. Volunteers at the Bradford branch of the Samaritans said their phones did not stop ringing from 8am when the
New signing Omar Daley is relishing the high level of expectation generated by his arrival at City. Fans are predicting big things from the jet-paced Jamaican midfielder in the wake of Jermaine Johnson's success. And Daley, who trained with his new
SIR - When Arthur Waterhouse (T&A, January 17) suggests Bradford College uses the coat of arms of the local authority he is evidently not aware that the college has its own coat of arms which it has used successfully for many years. The arms were officially
SIR - The recent stormy weather is just as predicted with climate change. Warmer air means more energy in the atmosphere and more water vapour and so heavier rain and stronger winds. Structural damage and flooding will be the norm in years to come as
SIR - As a passionate supporter of Help the Aged, I am encouraging readers to sign up for its latest challenge event, Trek India 2007, to raise vital funds for disadvantaged older people in the UK and overseas. Trek India, from October 13-23, 2007, includes
SIR - Regarding the letter from Eric Firth (T&A, January 19), I am sure G Tasker, whom I do not usually support and whom Eric Firth criticises, did not mean the British had never lost any battles but that the British Tommy never shirks on the battlefield
SIR - With reference to the letter from Mr R J Lacey (T&A, January 5), I would like to thank him for his kind words of support for our recycling cycles scheme and the suggestion that Bradford Council provides us with bikes from the scrap metal bins at
SIR - Could I please answer a question posed by Councillor Greenwood (T&A, January 1) concerning my relationship with the ward? I grew up in Windhill attending Crag Road Junior School and then Salt Grammar and my family still live there. I took an active
Thank goodness. I thought it was just me and my husband. I believed we were the only parents in the country mean enough to raid our children's piggy banks. But I now know that we are not alone. Not by a long way. This month a staggering 1.3 million parents
SIR - So Lottery funds, which are presumably raised by ticket sales across the UK, are being siphoned off to pay for the London Olympics. I am sure that the disabled children and homeless people in Bradford whose grants are being cut will be more than
SIR - People complain about rising interest rates, but they rise because the same people borrow money to live beyond their true means. The banks happily lend the money knowing it will be spent on businesses they fund - with our money - will return with
SIR - It seems it is Eric Firth who has been brainwashed by the EU (T&A, January 15), I wonder, has he been reading the EU's school information' packs? He claims packs sent to schools are simply showing children how the EU works. Unfortunately, they
SIR - Famous travel writer Bill Bryson, so scathing of Bradford and the mistakes of the Sixties, wrote recently that he now felt sorry for a city that was clearly down on its luck. One of the reasons for the mistakes of the Sixties he cited was a city
SIR - I think it's clear that there was racism afoot in the Celebrity Big Brother TV show but how clearly it shows us the stupidity and ignorance that fuels all forms of intolerance. The main three people involved were exhibiting their weak thinking
SIR - Anyone who had doubts as to how shallow, moronic and media-driven our modern society has become has only to look at the fiasco referred to as the "Big Brother controversy". How crushingly depressing it was to learn that a programme as sad, unimaginative
Credit where it's due, as the saying goes, and there can be fewer more deserving recipients than those who scoop the annual Community Harmony awards in Bradford. These aren't gongs that go to members of the mutual appreciation society or the great and
The Lord Mayor of Bradford believes more should be done to congratulate the "fantastic" people who promote community spirit across the district. Councillor Choudhary Rangzeb, Bradford's third Asian Lord Mayor, was speaking during the official launch
Police Community Support Officers are an "ill conceived concept" and their presence does not reassure the public, a police boss claimed last night. Chairman of the West Yorkshire Police Federation Tom McGhie said he would prefer to see more fully-trained
A civic society is hoping to see more new faces when it meets this week. Aireborough Civic Society wants to recruit new members at its meeting at 7.30pm on Thursday, January 25 at Yeadon Library.
Bradford Council is being asked to find funding to enable long-term plans to be made for a programme of events such as the Big Summer last year. The regeneration and economy improvement committee heard how the wide-range of festivals and events between
Bradford Council has promised to review the way stock is withdrawn from its libraries to make the process more transparent''. The move follows anger after 1,500 books were removed from Keighley's reference library and sent for recycling or sold, some
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Imran Khan, aged 20, of Hartman Place, Heaton; driving while disqualified, dangerous driving, £100 costs, jailed for five months suspended sentence order for 18 months, 180 hours' unpaid work
Upwards of £250,000 in Government funding will be spent in Bradford on tackling anti-social behaviour following the district's selection as a Respect Action Area. Bradford is one of 40 such areas, as well as Leeds and Kirklees, which are being held up
Councillors will hold talks with a property tycoon to discuss a scheme which would incorporate a £6 million bridge over a traffic-choked railway crossing. District and parish councillors will meet Brian Verity, managing director of Skipton Properties
Food company Mumtaz has signed a major contract with the National Health Service to supply its Halal baby food to hospitals all over the UK. The Bradford restaurant and food supplier will supply the baby food to hospitals on a supply and demand basis
A rail users' group has paid tribute to a councillor who campaigned for the preservation and improvement of train services in the district. County and district councillor Ralph Atkinson, who grew up in Bradford before retiring to Bentham, died at the
Craven College bosses are hoping to unearth the next Bill Gates when computer software students are pitted against each other in a business competition in February. As part of the More and Better Craven Businesses project, competitors will use specially-designed
Politicians and senior community leaders will be among a panel of experts when a debate about the US base at Menwith Hill takes place. The debate, which will be structured in the style of the TV show Question Time, will take place at Otley Civic Cen-tre
A 20-year-old man is fighting for his life after a car somersaulted into a field. The victim was the front seat passenger in a black Volkswagen Golf which went out of control on the A65 near Ilkley last Saturday night. The car, which was travelling
Four Bradford siblings have pulled all the right strings to win places in two top orchestras. The Twaddles: Michael, 14; Christopher, 13; Joanna, ten, and Sarah, eight, have landed places in the prestigious National Youth and National Children's orchestras
An entrepreneur who has been ordered to remove feel-good banners outside his firm has vowed to fight the decision in court. Printing company boss Randolph Victor, who says he has spent £1 million on a personal crusade to help improve Bradford, has been
A hair salon will throw open its doors to the public for its grand opening on Saturday - nearly 50 years after it started. The June Caneo Hair Salon, on Bradford Road, Guiseley, began life as Joyce Dixon's hairdressing salon on The Parade, at White Cross
Two men who got themselves caught up in a drug dealing operation have been spared jail by a judge. Nadeem Hussain, 26, and Joseph Stott, 18, were caught by police who had been observing them in September 2005. When they saw Stott leave Hussain's house
A charity is hoping to become the talk of the town through its team of speakers who are willing to visit community groups. Manorlands, the Sue Ryder Care hospice in Oxenhope, has a group of staff and volunteers who will talk on any aspect of the home's
A party with a pirate theme organised by students at Yorkshire Martyrs Catholic College in Tong raised more than £180 to help local skin cancer sufferers. The event was the idea of student 14-year-old Leanne Stourton, whose grandma Linda Gardner, 57,
A sister of a man accused of murdering a Keighley taxi driver has told a jury that she identified her brother on closed circuit television. Father-of-six Mahmood Ahmed was stabbed in the chest and struck eight times on the head with a hammer after he
Dancers are being urged to attend the sequence tea dances which take place from 1.45pm to 3.45pm every Thursday at the Winter Gardens, Ilkley.
Homeowners are being warned to keep valuables out of sight after a spate of house burglaries. Police in Ilkley say they are worried that there have been a number of burglaries at homes in the Wharfe Valley where burglars have gained entry by forcing
Six-times Bradford champion Wayne Cooper has played in many a big tournament. He has reached the final of the English Amateur Champ-ionship, has been a stalwart of the England amateur team over many years and has played on snooker's main professional
A council has sent letters to nearly 5,000 residents who have a valid application to vote by post or proxy. Craven District Council is asking the voters for their signature and date of birth. New rules have been introduced aimed at improving the security
The owner of a silver Toyota Yaris has been left with a £250 repair bill after vandals damaged the wing mirror. The incident occurred while the vehicle was parked on Cross Street, Skipton, between 6.30pm on Friday and 10.30am on Saturday.
A teenager who has performed on stage and screen despite having Down Syndrome has been nominated for a top award. Katie Matthews, a member of Bradford performing art school Stage 84, has been nominated in the Participation for Success category in the
Residents have the chance to play a key role in an ambitious plan to increase greenery across the Bradford district. Volunteers from the Forest of Bradford environmental group will host a tree planting session at Town End Farm, Laycock, between 10am
A florist's shop was the target for a vandal who smashed a window. Berries Florists, on Swadford Street, Skipton, faces an estimated £200 repair bill after the incident between 7pm on Friday and 8.30am on Saturday.
Bradford firefighters have pushed a fundraising appeal nearer to its £10,000 target by handing over a cheque for £800 to help a youngster who needs pioneering treatment for autism. The Jude Barker Appeal is aiming to raise the money to allow Jude to
An annual charity ball which looked set to end after 20 years could be set for a reprieve. Organisers of the Holly Ball, in Ilkley, are considering staging the event again next year after strong support at what could have been its last event. More than
Dozens of budding politicians have thrown their hats into the ring as they vie for a seat on Bradford and Keighley Youth Parliament. Throughout the next week young people will elect their peers to represent them on the BKYP - six in each of the five
A history group is to hold a discussion on the topic of books written about their village. The History of Pool group's next meeting will take place at Pool-in-Wharfedale Memorial Hall from 7.30pm on Monday, February 19.
A fundraising event based on the Can't Cook Won't Cook television show will take place next week. The culinary event, organised by Soroptimist International of Aireborough, will be held at SS Peter and Paul's Parish Centre, in Yeadon, at 7.30pm on Wednesday
A lycra-clad editor will get on his bike to raise money for the Lord Mayor of Bradford's Appeal. Malcolm Hoddy, editor of the Keighley News, a sister paper of the Telegraph & Argus, is joining a team of cyclists who will be pounding their pedals for
Police are appealing for witnesses after a 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a man in a Bradford alleyway. The attack happened when the girl was walking in a snicket off Central Avenue, Canterbury, and left her badly shaken, said police. Her
Guide Dogs is launching a children's photographic competition called Puppy Love that will give the winner chance to see Blue Peter filmed live at BBC Television Centre in London. Youngsters must submit photos of their puppy or dog and a selection of
Police are appealing for witnesses after an attempted robbery in Pudsey. A 23-year-old man struggled with a group of teenagers who demanded his mobile phone. He was confronted by up to ten young people at around 7pm on Saturday in Lidget Hill. He refused
Firefighters from Fairweather Green were called to an arson attack on a van in Clayton Road, Clayton, Bradford, at 10.30pm on Sunday. The LDV Convoy vehicle was gutted by the blaze.
Wibsey joined the five other County Amateur League sides in the quarter-finals of the West Riding County FA Challenge Cup with a 3-2 victory over West Yorkshire Premier Division outfit Howden Clough. After two postponements on their opponents' ground
Just two games survived the weather in the Bradford Sunday Alliance League. In Division Four, Idle AFC beat Lord Clyde 3-1, while in the third round of the Sunday Cup, Bradford Youth went down 1-0 at home to Otley Road. Bradford Youth have been a dominant
The terrible weather once again took its toll on the local football scene and one of the only matches to beat the conditions was the Telegraph & Argus League Premier Division clash between White Horse and Gateway Trinity. The match was played in terrible
A teenager was treated in hospital for an arm injury after he fell off his motorcycle. The 18-year-old was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary after the incident shortly before 9am today in Rowantree Drive, Idle, Bradford.
Plans for a development of 40 flats at a former works site have met with strong opposition. All three Idle and Thackley ward councillors have objected to the proposed development of two and three-storey flats at Moorend Works, Highfield Road, in Idle
Three people had to be evacuated from their flat after a grill pan left unattended in the kitchen caught fire. Fire crews were called to Leylands House, Keighley, at 7pm yesterday. The occupants were moved out until the fire could be extinguished.
A petrol station was evacuated and a road closed after reports of leaking propane gas. Firefighters were called to the Brobot Filling Station, in Halifax Road, Keighley, where they made safe the scene until an installation engineer arrived. Firefighters
Owners of unused mobile phones are being asked to do their bit for the environment by recycling them. Barclays bank, in Market Street, Bradford, in partnership with The Woodland Trust, is today launching the Re-Leaf Appeal which aims to turn old and
A new public database is being set up to help groups find meeting rooms to hire. Keighley Voluntary Services (KVS) will provide details of organisations that have rooms they can hire to other groups. The agency hopes the internet service will make it
Plans to demolish a Shelf cottage and build three homes in its place look set to be approved tomorrow. The scheme for Valley Farm, South Lane, is due to go before Calderdale Council's planning committee.
Permission has been granted to demolish a building and build eight flats in Birkenshaw. The plans for Town Street were passed by Kirklees Council.
A new website of meeting and conference facilities in Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Batley has been launched. Visitors to the new website, www.conferencehuddersfield.com, can browse through 30 venues in the area ranging from award-winning modern buildings
Air force, army and sea cadets raised more than £2,500 for the Royal British Legion during last year's Poppy Appeal. Cadets from the Keighley units have been officially thanked for their service. Medals were presented to the cadet from each unit who
Conservative members of Bradford Council gathered in Ilkley for an interactive policy session aimed at fine-tuning the group's approach to some of the key challenges facing the district. The centrepiece of Saturday's event at the Craiglands Hotel was
People learnt how to be creative with willow at workshops held at Oakwell Hall Country Park in Birstall at the weekend. Ranger Patrick Crowley ran the free sessions to show how to make willow sculptures such as arbours, tunnels, screens, seats and domes
A 38-year-old man who had been missing from home for two weeks has been found safe and well. John Thomas Bootland had been staying at the Devonshire Arms at Cracoe, near Skipton, when he went missing. Police issued a plea for information last week and
A walking group is planning a nine-mile walk next week. Malham will be the destination for the Ilkley Evergreens on Tuesday, January 30. Cars will leave the Ilkley Old Bridge meeting place at 9.30am. For more information call (01943) 463297 or (01535
The Bradford Urban Wildlife Group is hosting a talk on 'moths of Yorkshire' this week. Dr David Chesmore, from Yorkshire Moths, will be chatting about the topic at Shipley Library, Wellcroft, Shipley, from 7.30pm on Thursday. Admission at the door,
A cashier is in hospital with serious injuries after he was repeatedly stabbed in a robbery last night. Police say the 50-year-old man was locking up at Coral bookmakers in Market Street, Thornton, Bradford, at 6pm when the robber forced his way in.
In 1771, Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain. In 1939, the uranium atom was split for the first time. In 1955, snooker player Joe Davis recorded the first official 147 break. 25 years ago From the Telegraph & Argus of January 22, 1982...A
In 1265, the first English Parliament met in Westminster Hall. In 1959, obesity was more of a problem in Britain than malnutrition for the first time. In 1981, Keith Richards' New York neighbours tried to get him evicted for playing music too loud at
Bradford today officially pledges to take a lead role in tackling anti-social behaviour as the district is named a priority Respect Action Area. The designation, due to be announced this morning by Prime Minister Tony Blair, names Bradford as one of
If you're feeling particularly fed-up today, then you're not alone, as January 22, has been designated the most depressing day of the year. The nights are cold and wet, the Christmas financial hangover is kicking in and the summer seems like a lifetime
Morley firefighters were called to an overturned car at the junction of the M621 and M62, Gildersome, at 7.40pm on Saturday. No one was injured in the accident, caused when the vehicle hit a crash barrier.
Fire crews from Cleckheaton and Batley fought a shed fire that spread to a house in Ealand Road, Wilton Estate, Birstall, at 2.15am yesterday. The brick shed was badly damaged in the fire that ignited the back door of the property. A bedroom window
Cleckheaton firefighters put out a blaze started deliberately in a phone kiosk in The Green, East Bierley, Bradford, at 1.30am yesterday.
Shipley firefighters were called to two blazing cars in the early hours of yesterday. A Vauxhall Vectra was burned out by arsonists in Park Drive, Heaton, just after midnight. An hour later the crew was alerted to an Alfa Romeo, in Moorside, Baildon
Bradford firefighters were called to make safe a gas pipe that ignited in Curzon Road, Bradford Moor. The alarm was raised just before 6pm on Saturday when burning rubbish behind a house set the pipe alight. Firefighters put out the blaze and stayed
Firefighters in Rawdon tackled a grill pan fire at a house in Marshall Street, Yeadon, on Saturday. The crew carried out a home fire safety check at the property after putting out the blaze at 2pm.
Fire crews in Rawdon are fitting free smoke alarms in the bedrooms of children under ten years of age. The new service is in addition to the free home fire safety checks already on offer. Call the fire station on (0113) 250333 for more information and
A fire crew from Idle, Bradford, broke into a flat after a blaze was started by an unattended pan. Saturday's fire in at flat at Runnymede Court damaged the cooker and filled the kitchen with smoke.
Firefighters were called to a house in St Wilfrid's Court, Fairweather Green, Bradford, after high winds left a chimney stack leaning dangerously. The call-out at 9am on Saturday involved a two-and-a-half-hour operation to dismantle the chimney.
Police and the fire service are investigating a suspected overnight arson attack on a house in Edge End Road, Buttershaw, Bradford. Firefighters from Odsal were called out at 3.17am yesterday to put out a blaze around the front door. A fire service
A 24-year-old Bradford woman is critically ill in hospital after she was struck by a car that failed to stop. Bradford South Police are appealing for information following the accident at about 2am yesterday. The woman was crossing Mayo Avenue, near
Skipton firefighters rescued two ramblers who sank up to their waists in thick mud at East Marton. The crew used manpower and fence panels to free the pair, in their 40s, after they became trapped in a mire while walking near the Leeds/Liverpool canal
The heartbroken mother of Anthony Bentley, who died with his girlfriend in a three-on-a-bike smash, has appealed to youngsters to learn from the tragedy. Anthony, 18, of Mayfield Terrace, Cleckheaton, and Natalie Athey, 15, of Leyburn Avenue, Heckmondwike
