Police have closed Back Lane between Allerton and Clayton after a frozen water leak caused treacherous driving conditions. Inspector David Roberts, of Airedale and North Bradford police said: “We had a report from a member of the public
A judge has told a national boxing champion he wants to see him on TV and not in court again. Rising Thai Boxing star Sam Clay pleaded guilty to hitting a man in the face with a stone outside a Bradford pub. Clay, 21, was a teenager when he caused Trevor
Keighley and Ilkley MP Ann Cryer has had her appeal against a demand to pay back “substantial” expenses upheld. Mrs Cryer will have to pay out just £1,600 after initial reports that her dues were as high as £19,000. She said she would
An obsessive stalker plunged a kitchen knife into a woman after confronting her in a gym steam room, a Court heard. Jealous Suleman Malik, 28, left his victim – who was dressed only in her bikini – with a life-threatening wound to the abdomen
The parents of a young woman who died after being hit by a speedboat in south-east Asia have questioned the length of a jail sentence given to the pilot. Former Guiseley School pupil Joanna Stillwell died aged 23 after the collision with the
A cost-cutting Bradford businessman who put his house on the market to pay off a £90,000 compensation bill to a severely injured worker has not yet completed the sale, a Court heard yesterday. Shah Nawaz Pola, 38, of Springcliffe Street, Heaton
Gary McSheffrey has joined Leeds from Birmingham on loan until the end of the season. The 27-year-old striker goes straight into the squad for tomorrow’s home game against Colchester. McSheffrey cost £4million from Coventry in 2006 and has scored 20
New Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale, England one-day international Tim Bresnan and England Under-19 captain Azeem Rafiq will be the guest speakers at Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s opening-of-season lunch at Headingley Carnegie on Thursday, April 8. They
Bradford Dragons have signed shooting guard Tom Martin ahead of possibly the biggest weekend in their history. They host Sefton Stars tomorrow evening looking to remain top of EBL Division Three North, before taking on Loughborough Cardinals on Sunday
The University of Bradford Students’ Union has voted to twin with the Islamic University of Gaza. The motion was passed by a majority of the union’s council members after it was presented by the Students’ Union Bradford United 4 Palestine society. The
Yorkshire chief executive Stewart Regan has dampened fears that Ajmal Shahzad’s call-up by England will affect his county commitments. The club’s latest international star has been selected for the forthcoming tour of Bangladesh after a superb County
Simon Parker column Macca raps slack City: The headline neatly summed up the frustration of another away-day setback. Dreams of a play-off push remained just that, although the gap to the relegation trapdoor and potential non-league
Simon Parker column The sight of Wayne Rooney banging in goals willy-nilly will have cheered England fans everywhere. Even those of a Hull or Man City persuasion might eventually agree that it is a good thing our main man is scoring from anywhere.
Ryan Harris, Yorkshire’s new overseas signing, claimed his second consecutive five-wicket haul as Australia downed Pakistan in a one-day international at Perth. The 30-year-old snared five for 19 in just his third international, form which has heightened
Mark Senior can now finally call himself the new Eccleshill boss because, despite being appointed first-team manager before Christmas, he had to wait until Tuesday to take charge of his first game. A series of postponements delayed the start of his tenure
Avenue boss John Deacey feels today’s non-league players are far fitter than their counterparts of yesteryear and points to this dreadful winter as evidence of his claim. In years gone, players on the fringe of the professional game would tuck
A councillor attempted to challenge a teenage cyclo-cross star as they both tried out new hi-tech bikes at Thornton Recreation Centre, Thornton. Ward councillor Mike McCabe raced against junior gym members and one of his challengers was Bingley’s Hannah
Shoppers in Pudsey will soon be rewarded for staying local thanks to a new reward card scheme being launched this week. The ‘Shop Local’ reward card is a first for the town and is designed to encourage more shoppers to use the local retailers. Six
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Allerton: construction of first- floor extension, 9 Oaks Drive. Allerton: construction of front dormer window, 2 Byland Grove. Allerton: construction of proposed lean-to upvc
Police have issued this e-fit of a man they are hunting following an attempted robbery on a woman in a park in Farsley. The 51-year-old woman was walking along a path in Westroyd Park, New Street, at about 7.40am on Tuesday when a man pushed her and
A slimmer who had almost given up hope of losing weight has become one of the faces of a national weight-loss programme after shedding seven and a half stones. Angela Moulds, of Burley-in-Wharfedale, flew down to London this week to be photographed as
Two significant signings have boosted Mark Brier’s squad at Brighouse and they have played a part in the two games since the big freeze. Town matched Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Division One promotion rivals Emley in a League Cup third-round
A Bingley school celebrated its anniversary by sticking to a long-running tradition. Pupils at Lady Lane Park staged a pantomime of Aladdin. Usually, pupils put on a show on January 11 each year to celebrate the landmark, which this year saw the school
The injury to Bulls prop Craig Kopczak is not as bad as first feared. Kopczak was stretchered off during last night's 18-16 friendly win at Hull KR with a suspected broken leg. But, after undergoing an x-ray, no fracture was discovered and Kopczak will
An Ilkley aid worker is appealing for funds to help thousands who have lost their homes in Peru. Leander Hollings, who runs children’s charity Mysmallhelp, volunteers in the Inca capital of Cusco where rivers have burst their banks, washing away buildings
Hammer-wielding robbers struck at a Bradford bank today. The raid took place at the Yorkshire Bank in Leeds Road at 11am. Three suspects forced their way into the back of the bank shortly after a cash delivery had taken place and threatened
A residential home for disabled young people at St Ives has been bought by a national care homes company. Elder Homes Group has taken on the St Ives Care Home in Harden, which has 59 beds in an adapted mansion house on the estate. The home is one of
Children at a Skipton special school are benefiting from a new cycle track. Brooklands School’s new £18,000 track has been built on land not previously used. And now, thanks to £10,000 from the lottery’s Awards for All, the area has been transformed
It was no longer all Greek to them after children at a Bradford school were given a lesson on Ancient Greece by a restaurant owner. George Psarias, co-owner of The Olive Tree, Rodley, welcomed the pupils of Crossley Hall Primary School yesterday, who
An Ilkley chef was hoping to impress industry experts at The Great British Pub Food Awards this week. Sabi Janak, of the Ilkley Moor Vaults pub, was one of three finalists who travelled to London to take part in the national cook-offs for the
Farsley boss Neil Parsley has praised the attitude on his former Bradford City defender Patrece Liburd. The Celts have a tight squad this season, due to their financial plight, but Liburd has still found himself on the bench more than he would like.
It’s the clash of the Bradford Sunday Alliance League giants this weekend as Premier Division top two Buttershaw White Star and West Bowling clash at Harold Park. This is the first time the teams have met this season. They should have faced off last
All publicity is, as they say, good publicity. So I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those who so kindly serenaded me at Lincoln last week. Sadly I didn’t catch their heart-felt efforts – I don’t think it was exactly the Welsh male voice choir
When Chris Jeng realised his girlfriend was not going to make it to hospital in time to give birth, he prayed for divine intervention. He was driving along Cemetery Road, Bradford, in their Ford Focus in a mad dash to Bradford Royal Infirmary with 30
Today marks the final day of operation for the company set up to drive through Bradford’s regeneration. After a nine-month handover period, Bradford Centre Regeneration (BCR) has now officially transferred its activities to Bradford Council
A “holistic” approach needs to be taken to tackle the problem of underage boozing in Bradford. That’s the view of the city’s Bridge Project alcohol charity, as figures show Yorkshire’s youngsters drink the equivalent of seven pints of lager a week.
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Ashley Fraser Jolaoso, aged 20, of Chapel Drive, Bradford; two counts of assault, community order made with 100 hours unpaid work, £100 compensation, £100 costs. Jozef Konev, aged 38, of Wilmer
A couple whose home started to fall down after a defunct mine shaft collapsed have finally moved in to a new house. One year on and Graham and Brenda Robertson are only now able to unpack the belongings they saved and start afresh. The
A man accused of using a young girl as a “sex object” when he was an adolescent yesterday told a jury that nothing improper ever happened. Supermarket butchery worker Richard Smith, 22, who is accused of raping the girl when she was aged between
A trauma surgeon is being investigated over concerns about his treatment of patients, including a 21-year-old Bradford man who had a leg amputated. Trainee accounts clerk Simon Aitcheson, of Oakenshaw, has been left with long-term mobility problems and
Planners have cleared the way for a £1.4 million clubhouse providing a new base for Ilkley Rugby Club and facilities for the wider community. Ilkley Rugby Club is now calling on the community to help it complete its own fundraising towards the scheme
Former waste space at a Bradford ‘business nursery’ has been converted into eight small affordable offices – and five have already been let to budding enterprises. Bradford Kickstart, the Council’s enterprise support programme, has invested £176,000
Airline and holiday companies operating from Leeds Bradford International Airport are over the moon about business levels. Domestic airline Flybe had record ticket sales at LBIA last weekend, while Yeadon-based package holiday firm Jet2holidays.com says
Redundancy can be devastating, regardless of age. For someone who has been in the same workplace long-term, the need to refresh their CV won’t have arisen. The recession has resulted in redundancy for people of all ages, and for older people it is
A robber who battered an elderly woman with his metal crutch as she counted her Christmas shopping money has been jailed for six and a half years. Drug addict Craig Moore forced his way into his 78-year-old victim’s home and repeatedly hit her about
25 years ago: The £73,000 scheme to convert Shipley Hospital into a specialist unit for the elderly was due to be completed in the next two months. 50 years ago: It was the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Labour Exchange, Bradford
The company set up to spearhead Bradford’s regeneration bows out today after six years. In that time Bradford Centre Regeneration (BCR) has polarised opinion as to whether standalone development companies of this nature are a good thing or not. There
SIR – What an appalling disgrace that Chemical Ali, who gassed 5,000 people, has been executed in Iraq! Will the British Government be closing down our embassies in both Iraq and China now? Does executing this evil monster bring Iraq down to the level
SIR – Keith Thomson must surely accept that a hole in the ozone layer is not on a par with planet’s overall climate. I have just read that the BBC is considering sacking the Met Office because some of its forecasts are based on expectations rather than
SIR – The myth that man is responsible for global warming continues to fall apart on an almost daily basis. First we had the falsification and manipulation of computer data by climate scientists at the University of East Anglia. Now
SIR – Mrs Heal (T&A, January 22) may object to people describing our Labour MP as ‘invisible’, but she cannot deny that our local Lib Dem councillors and their team are very visible here in Eccleshill. They keep in touch with people all around the year
SIR – I notice in the letters page recently people condemning the Human Rights Act. I wrote similar letters over a year ago and was slagged down for my efforts. I believe that my comments at the time stated that the Act was a dire threat to British society
SIR – Is it not a joy that Bradford University pharmacy graduates Sajid Hussain and Qaisar Sheikh have a sense of history and wish to restore Rimmingtons Pharmacy in Bridge Street to its former glory, they will create a unique shop. They put our elected
SIR – We learn that South Yorkshire and Humberside Fire Authorities have spent £3m on new appliances which turned out to be illegally overweight for UK roads. These have been lying idle for three years and they now propose to spend a further £700,000
SIR – I welcome the extensive coverage you have given to the future of the former Bradford & Bingley headquarters. Certainly this presents a chance to return again to the options and opportunities identified in the Airedale Masterplan.
Michael Flynn today jumped to the defence of under-fire boss Stuart McCall, stating: Blame us, not the manager. The pressure is mounting ahead of the trip to fifth-bottom Torquay as City look for their first win since beating Darlington on December 5
MPs are demanding student tuition fees are capped and a graduate tax introduced to allow more Bradford students to go to university. Research shows that school-leavers living in parts of Tong are less likely to go to university than anywhere
A former head teacher who spent more than three decades at the helm of Bradford schools was today celebrating her 100th birthday. Marion Williams, originally from Tong, was head at St Michael’s Infants’ School in City Road for 11 years before
A school is helping pioneer a social networking system to protect pupils from cyberbullying. Eastburn Junior and Infants School, near Keighley, is piloting a safe Facebook-style system developed by Keighley company, WebAnywhere. It follows the school
Steve McNamara hailed debutant Matt Orford after the Bulls’ high-profile signing dazzled on his first outing in English rugby. It is very early days for the Aussie scrum half but he did a superb job of dictating play in difficult conditions during the
Leeds will tomorrow attempt to end a five-match victory famine – their worst run since Gary McAllister lost his job in December, 2008 – and current manager Simon Grayson says he and his players can’t wait for the kick-off. Visitors Colchester United
Hull KR 16, Bulls 18 Northern Beaches or north of England, none of it seems to make the slightest bit of difference to Matt Orford. On a miserable night at Craven Park, the former Manly scrum half settled seamlessly into unfamiliar surroundings
