The return of a dedicated inspector to Ilkley Police Station marks a new era of locally-based crime fighting in Wharfedale. Inspector Sue Sanderson and Sergeant Darren Minton recently became the first senior officers to be stationed at Ilkley in several
This diamond and gold necklace, worth £1,000, is up for grabs in a competition at the Civic Ball next Saturday. The ball, which will be hosted by the Lord Mayor, takes place at the Hilton Hotel in Bradford. It is hoped that the auction will help to raise
The main two political parties in Bradford drew closer together today as only one seat separates the pair. As the votes were counted in the Bradford Council local elections it became clear that while Labour maintained its position as the largest group
Only a third of women in Bradford are being screened for breast cancer within the recommended three-year period, new figures have revealed. According to the Government, 37 per cent of women are attending the Pennine Breast Screening Unit where Bradford
A worker was found collapsed and dying at a factory in Bradford, an inquest heard. Zulqarnain Mughall, 41, was found on the floor of the Grattan warehouse, in Thornton Road, Bradford. Mr Mughall, who lived in Thornton Road, was pronounced dead on arrival
A motorist who died after his car hit a lamppost had fallen asleep at the wheel, an inquest heard. Bradford Coroners Court was told Maurice Gent, 59, was fasting for the Muslim festival of Ramadan and was "feeling tired" at the time of the collision.
A man accused of gross indecency against children has been remanded in custody. Brian Christopher Hearns, 65, of Heath Crescent, Bradley, is charged with four counts of gross indecency on a child under the age of 16 between May 2 1982 and May 1 1983.
Leeds are looking to have 20-goal top scorer Jermaine Beckford back for the promotion play-offs. Beckford's ankle injury has already kept him out for three weeks and plans to restore him to the attack for tomorrow's home game against Gillingham have
Yorkshire Water Services Ltd was fined £5,000 in a case involving the serious pollution of a Leeds watercourse heard today, at Leeds Magistrates' Court. The company, based in Bradford, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay full costs of £2,578.76 to
A "depressed" father-of-four died after accidentally overdosing on morphine at his Bradford home. An inquest heard how Patrick Durkin, 50, a labourer, of Sticker Lane, Bradford, suffered from pancreatitis brought on by heavy drinking. Before his death
A woman was taken to hospital following a house fire in Pudsey today. Firefighters from Stanningley rescued the woman from the burning building in Hammerton Street at 5.06pm. She was treated by an ambulance crew outside the house and taken to Leeds General
Morne Morkel marked his debut by taking his first Yorkshire wicket but they could not build on a bright start to day three at Headingley. The hosts toiled in the field for little reward as Nottinghamshire built a sizeable first-innings lead thanks to
A woman, accused of battering her grandmother to death with a spade asked her brother to lie for her after the killing, a court heard yesterday. Joanne Hussey, 33, asked brother Richard to verify in court she had been hearing voices, he said. Hussey
A 22-year-old barmaid with psychiatric problems took her own life, an inquest heard. Colleen Casey, of Springfield Avenue, Shipley, was found hanging in an upstairs room at her home. Her partner, Selma Bham, made the grim discovery, cut her down from
Bradford City's women are in the midst of a hectic spell of fixtures that will include the appearance of three teams in cup finals at Ossett Town's Ing Field ground. A 20-strong group of A-teamers have been working hard to clinch a place in the 16-player
Stuart McCall is happy to bring in a couple of long-term loans as part of his squad-building plans. Hereford's unlikely promotion success has shown that borrowing hungry young players over longer spells can pay off. McCall would love to bring back Scott
Excited Steve McNamara is adamant his Bulls side can come full circle and inflict a rare defeat on arch-rivals Leeds tomorrow night. Bradford have won just once in the last seven meetings between the clubs and it is only six weeks ago since the Rhinos
A homeless killer who went on a burglary spree after the Telegraph & Argus highlighted his accommodation problems could be released from jail later this month. But this time a judge is hoping to organise proper support for 30-year-old Matthew Stubbs
Jamie Langley column Rugby league is probably the only sport in the world where you could imagine sets of supporters from 12 different clubs all mingling together enjoying a game with no trouble. I remember going out for a coffee here in Cardiff on
Recalled Ryan Hall is back in the Leeds side for the fixture in which he made his big-time debut last season. The sprightly winger, then aged just 19, had never featured for the Rhinos first team until getting a late call-up for Millennium Magic. Hall
SIR - I shall miss the many letters from readers concerning the feeble sentences imposed in the Magistrates' Courts. The complaints will stop because we shall not know what is happening there. Her Majesty's Court Services - recently established I believe
SIR - What are the powers that be doing to the Wrose-Shipley 624 bus? First, they changed the bus stop, which was quite convenient for shoppers, from John Street to outside the Star pub in Westgate, crossing a busy road. Now they don't run up Westgate
SIR - I am in utter amazement that the Government continues to ignore the will of the public in pursuing this course of action to close post offices. I gathered over 3,000 names against these closures which were presented to the House of Commons last
SIR - Pig farmers will, rightly, be very angry with Justin Kerswell's comments (T&A, April 30). If everybody stopped eating bacon or pork the pig population would be decimated. How many would survive as family pets? I wish the vegetarians, and especially
SIR - Gordon Brown must have very sore feet at the moment by shooting himself so many times over the past months. He has removed the 10p tax hurting low paid workers and the retired most, and he can't understand why teachers will not accept an "independent
The last of the Bradford Sunday Alliance League cup finals takes place on Sunday (2.15) at Eccleshill United's Plumpton Park when Albion Sports face Premier Division opponents Bolton Woods in the Kitz n' Pieces Senior Cup. It is the first of two finals
A disabled woman died in "tragic" circumstances after she was taken swimming for the first time in seven years, an inquest heard. Bradford Coroners Court heard how Christine Akeroyd, 52, started coughing and spluttering, then had a panic attack after
Bradford's Tim Sugden took part in the Monza 1000km race in Italy after a late call-up from James Watt Automotive, who had a vacant seat in their Porsche 997RSR. Sugden, who was in the country in his capacity as manager to Renault World Series driver
A couple pulled the wool over their employer's eyes by involving themselves in a £45,000 scam stretching from New Zealand to China, a court heard. Expert wool tester Philip Parkin and his partner Christina Irving produced false certificates while working
Ilkley's Chris Holmes drove home a healthy 60 points haul in the second meeting of the American Skip Barber motor racing series in Virginia thanks to fourth and sixth-placed finishes. He said: "I was immediately taken with the Virginia circuit. It's
A teenager who injured a man with a wine glass during an incident in a pub has been ordered to pay her victim £500 compensation. Laura Tully, 18, of Main Street, Menston, caused a cut to the bridge of Christopher Louram's nose as she tried to throw the
Extortionate tariffs placed on rice are threatening the livelihood of Bradford's curry houses, an MP has warned. Shipley Tory MP Philip Davies has called for Britain to regain trade policy from the European Union to stop hitting customers and businesses
Thousands of people are expected to flood into Skipton this Bank Holiday weekend for the Waterway Festival. This year's theme is the Olympics and one of the high points of the three-day event will be a raft race. It will take place in the Leeds-Liverpool
So let’s get this straight. Not content with demanding their own national anthem at Wembley and an English European place if they win, Cardiff have now had their sent-off skipper restored for the cup final – by the Welsh FA. Darren Purse’s foul on Andrew
Oscars? Pah! Baftas? Don't be daft. These are the golden gongs that matter. I present to you the Parker prize for League Two. It is traditional at this time of year for lazy columnists, sorry I mean knowledgeable critics, to drum up a list of best players
Morne Morkel took his first Yorkshire wicket as the home side dominated the morning session to grab three big scalps and put themselves firmly in control at Headingley. Matthew Hoggard's wicket late last night looked all the more important at the start
It's not hard to find the stand-out clash in the first round of the Sovereign Health care Priestley Cup on Saturday when Pudsey Congs entertain Pudsey St Lawrence. They may have lost their mantle to Woodlands as the team to beat in the league but Congs
The partner of a firm is warning people to take precautions after lead thieves caused £10,000 damage to his building. Richard Hudson, of Stirk Lambert & Co chartered accountants and tax consultants in North Street, Keighley, realised the firm had been
From the brow of Ivegate to the tip of the Delius Leaf, artist Joan Pook has captured Bradford's buildings, monuments and street scenes in a collection of striking drawings and paintings currently on display. Bradford Buildings, Joan's first solo exhibition
Avenue boss Dave Cameron has been faced with the same dilemma his counterpart across the city has encountered in the final week of the season. While City chief Stuart McCall was deciding on his retained players and presenting his wish-list to Julian
Labour came out on the wrong side of two extremely tight local election races and lost a total of four seats on Bradford Council, with the Conservatives making the biggest gains. The Labour losses at the Tories' hands came in Keighley West, Keighley
Q What is slapped cheeks' syndrome? When my doctor told me my daughter has it I felt insulted at first, until he explained it was a kind of rash. A It's called slapped cheeks syndrome because it looks just as if someone has been slapping both cheeks
The news last week of the use of gene therapy in making a near-blind young man see again must have touched everyone. What a magnificent achievement it was. It wasn't just a story about preventing blindness - that would have been huge enough. It was also
Marina Luz Chapman has no memory of her life as a young child with her parents. For when she was four, Marina was kidnapped and taken away from the world she knew. "I have no memory of my parents," says Marina. "I must have been kidnapped because I
Nadeem Siddique is muscling up for his next fight by weight training with Junior Witter. Siddique appears on Witter's undercard at Nottingham Arena next Saturday and he intends to pack just as powerful a punch. The unbeaten Bradford lightweight said
The hurt of just missing out on the play-offs is still leaving a bitter aftertaste as Guiseley see out their fixtures for the reserves and youth teams. Nethermoor is still busy, with April showers having made the staging of the rem-aining games a lottery
An encouraging end to the season has reinvigorated Eccleshill United and given the management duo plenty to be positive about next season. Boss Mick Watson and assistant Andy Patterson have been given the nod by the board to carry on in the hot seat
Liversedge's season may have petered out over the last month after winning the President's Cup at the beginning of April but it has not been a case of the squad just winding down after the main event. Boss Steve Newton has been hampered by a glut of
Thirty years ago, if you wanted to see a TV programme, you had to plan ahead, stay in, settle down, and watch it when it was being broadcast. Then came the video recorder. All you had to do was set it to capture the programme, then you could watch it
SIR - Having cast my vote in the local elections, I wonder why I bothered when - for the second election running - virtually no effort was made by the politicians to canvass my views. Am I alone in this or do other voters in Bradford feel ignored by
SIR - So Gordon Brown did a U-turn on the 10p tax rate. So what? This wasn't a weakness, it was an act of strength and character. He made a mistake and he's sorting it out. He was willing to listen to the voice of the people through the representation
A rubbish fire in a DIY store's delivery yard spread to a juggernaut containing garden furniture today. Firefighters from Shipley and Idle were called to Focus in Baildon just after midnight. It took firefighters three hours to put out the blaze. Shipley
SIR - There is no doubt the TV programme "I'd Do Anything" which is looking for Nancy and Oliver, is proving to be good, family entertainment. The Labour Party, who most people think could do better, perhaps could be auditioning for Oliver. Possible
SIR - Re the teachers' strike - who have an average wage £33,000 per annum, according to the news. How would these people go on when they will eventually become pensioners on £5,000 a year with the same bills, etc, to pay? It is about time that these
SIR - What a perfidious lot we have in the current parliament. This manifested itself in a comment by Ed Balls, which was that he was "disappointed that the teachers had not accepted the pay rise offered, as it had been arranged by an agreed body."
SIR - I often occupy a different position from Sid Brown, but his heartfelt tribute to Humphrey Lyttelton (T&A, April 30) is one I can echo. I was fortunate to attend his very last "Clue" performance in Harrogate, less than a fortnight before his death
SIR - After all the criticism of the budget, I checked up on my income this month. My pension from previous employment - approximately £1,000 per month - rose by £23 and income tax on this fell by £10 per month. Of course, I am very lucky to have this
SIR - The threat to local post offices does not come from the European Union as some have claimed in your letters page. The EU's intervention concerns opening up competition in the postal and parcel sectors, not post offices. To prove the point over
SIR - Tony Blair, he's such a comedian! Apparently, he plans to set up a Tony Blair Faith Foundation', which he hopes will bring different faiths together. Actually, hang on, it's not a joke - he is really going to do it! Blair as Middle East Peace
SIR - I read the article regarding the international market and was astonished at the comments made by the MP for Bradford South. Part of his quote read: "The Council has just taken receipt of £58 million from the sale of Leeds Bradford Airport, yet
Massive tailbacks stretched down Shipley-Airedale Road and Leeds Road in Bradford this morning after a lorry shed its load of girders. The incident happened at around 7am when an articulated lorry carrying the girders was involved in a collision with
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Ilkley: construction of single storey extension to rear, 51 Lawn Avenue, Burley in Wharfedale. Ilkley: conversion of barn to residential dwelling, Stead Hall Farm, Moor Road,
In 1536, Queen Anne Boleyn was charged with adultery and taken to the Tower of London. She was accused of sleeping with five men, including her brother. In 1969, the QE2 set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage. In 1997, John Major resigned as
Scott Phelan is primed to play his first City game for five months tomorrow - four days after being released. The former Everton midfielder was one of the unlucky 13 players to be axed by Stuart McCall as he cleared the decks for next season. But with
Iestyn Harris reckons rugby league will NEVER see a repeat of last season's Millennium Magic mayhem. The Bulls return to Cardiff tomorrow night for the first time since that dramatic showdown, when Leeds stole a last-gasp victory following some shocking
The district's schools are facing a head-teacher "timebomb" as a raft of top teachers approach retirement. And education chiefs fear there are not enough younger staff willing to replace them. Louise Smith, co-chairman of the Bradford Primary School
Regular park-goers are "relieved" at the success of a salvage operation to rectify damage caused to an historic park. A large section of grass at Lister Park, in Manningham, was turned into a mudbath during the Easter Fair a month ago. Vehicles and
School cook Shirley Watson has retired from Springwood Primary in Manningham after serving more than 3.2 million dinners during her time at the school. To mark her contribution, staff and pupils presented her with a silver plate engraved with a message
Bradford Industrial Museum is set to come alive this Bank Holiday weekend sending visitors on a journey to the past. The popular venue is offering visitors "A Grand Day Out" on both Sunday and Monday taking people back to a bygone era. The museum's
Audi are innovators. They've made great strides in recent years launching premium cars which people really want. You fancy a two-seater sports car? The TT is arguably the most desirable and fashionable on the road. You want a huge 4x4? Well, the Q7
Dementia drug campaigners in Bradford have welcomed a landmark ruling by the Court of Appeal which means plans to restrict certain Alzheimer's drugs on the NHS may be reviewed. Three judges found the process by which the National Institute for Health
A gang of yobs burst into the house of an elderly, blind woman, punched her in the face and attacked her son - because he had asked them to be quiet. Minutes later they hurled a chimney pot through the lounge window, narrowly missing 71-year-old Joyce
Former school friends have gathered to remember Casey Mason on the anniversary of her tragic death. The nine-year-old was cycling when she was involved in an accident with a lorry in Stockbridge, Keighley, and died four years ago. Now her former classmates
Train passengers are being warned to expect widespread disruption across the district's rail network when major engineering works get underway tomorrow. Rail users are urging transport bosses to learn lessons from last November's engineering works, when
An important road will remain closed until 2010. Brewery Lane, Skipton, which was closed temporarily 17 months ago to allow the £40 million redevelopment of Belle Vue Mills, will remain shut until work is finished. This would be around April, 2010.
An £18 million city centre complex which could develop sporting legends of the future is to be named Trinity Green. Bradford College ran a competition to decide the name for new campus buildings, which are near to completion on Easby Road, Bradford.
It was all hands to the pumps at a Bradford pub when sewage from a blocked drain flooded the boozer. Landlord Malcolm Stevenson had to get regulars to abandon ship when a surge of unpleasantness from the waste pipes rose through the pub. Now the Prince
