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  • Cougars fight back to pinch cup victory

    Blackpool 22 Cougars 24 Cougars chief Barry Eaton knows his side have a long way to go after they got out of jail late in their Northern Rail Cup opener. The crucial try came five minutes from time as Keighley won a nail-biter against Blackpool Panthers

  • Avenue give home fans summit to cheer about

    Park Avenue 2 Marine 0 Bradford Park Avenue made the most of Retford United’s postponement and Boston United’s defeat to storm to the summit of the UniBond Premier Division on Saturday. Just three of the nine scheduled fixtures survived

  • Krief holds nerve from spot to net three points

    Solihull Moors 1 Farsley Celtic 2 Farsley improved their placing in the Blue Square North with a second victory in a week as they edged to a narrow win at Solihull Moors. A second-half penalty and the late dismissal of the home skipper ensured it

  • A happy return but Silsden ride their luck

    Silsden 2 Formby 0 The Cobbydalers made a belated return to action following the adverse weather and bagged a welcome three-point maximum. No one could predict just how Chris Reape’s men would respond to their first game since mid-December

  • Ring-rusty Sedge suffer derby defeat

    Liversedge 0 Thackley 2 The Northern Counties East League derby was in doubt before a pitch inspection at high noon. It went ahead but Liversedge could be excused for wishing it had been temporarily shelved. It was their first tentative

  • Guiseley will try again on Tuesday

    Guiseley’s forward thinking ahead of their FA Trophy home tie with Blue Square Premier Division outfit Tamworth failed to pay off as Saturday’s third-round clash at Nethermoor was called off. The cup game fell foul of the weather as Friday night’s sub-zero

  • There's no doubting Thomas is Dudley Hill star

    Bradford Dudley Hill 20 Rochdale Mayfield 12 A virtuoso performance from scrum half Danny Thomas ensured Hill came away with the spoils in a hard-fought National Conference Division One encounter at Parry Lane. Hill made a slow start and

  • Shop boss climbs Mount Kilimanjaro for charity

    When serious illness struck two of his loved ones, shopkeeper Kamlesh Chavda went on a fitness drive to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and raise funds for the charities helping them. The 47-year-old, who runs a Yeadon convenience store, decided to

  • Right Approach pays off

    An all-female PR team has scooped a national industry gong for its work in promoting a business awards scheme that originated in Bradford. The success of the team at Little Germany-based Approach PR comes hot on the heels of winning gold in regional

  • Bradford Council gritting bill hits £1.5million

    Bradford Council has forked out nearly £1.5 million to keep the district’s roads useable over the recent severe bad weather, it has been revealed. Almost £1 million has been spent on supplies of 18,000 tonnes of rock salt which was spread on icy and

  • Leeds Beck in the old routine

    Leeds 2 Colchester 0 Two more goals from Jermaine Beckford ended Leeds’ run of three league games without a win and five in all competitions, but chief interest centred on the impressive debuts of loan pair Gary McSheffrey and Shane Lowry.

  • Anderson Mills converted into laser tag arena

    A decaying mill building in Bradford city centre is being transformed into a laser tag arena where new infrared technology from the US will be used in Europe for the first time. Laser Adventures Ltd, which already operates a successful LaserZone