Thousands of people flocked to galas across the district as the warm weather held out for another weekend. Vintage cars and football mascots provided some of the entertainment at Wrose Carnival on Saturday. The City Gent and Billy Bantam
Keighley Cougars 6, Featherstone Rovers 24 Cougars chief Barry Eaton hailed his team’s performance in defeat against Featherstone as one of their best today. Despite losing 24-6 to the Co-operative Championship leaders, Eaton remained delighted with
The best efforts of Bradfordian Adil Rashid were not enough to stop Yorkshire throwing away victory in the Friends Provident Twenty20 for the second time in three days, this time against Warwickshire. Rashid bowled with an exemplary control of both line
Coronation Street star Steve Huison led a 12-mile sponsored bedpush from Leeds to Bradford yesterday to raise money to help young people in mental health crises. The Shipley actor, who plays Eddie Windass in the soap, took part in the bed push
Hundreds of people gathered on the streets of Oxenhope this weekend to witness men in ‘mankinis’, Thunderbirds and Batman race while carrying bales of straw today. The annual Oxenhope Straw Race didn’t disappoint as racers in fancy dress
The top three teams all lost as the Bradford League Division One title race took a dramatic turn. Only 20 points separate the leading six sides, with Undercliffe’s advantage at the summit cut to two points after their two-wicket defeat at defending
Skipper Paul Hutchison is upbeat about East Bierley’s JCT600 Bradford League Division One title chances after their crushing 125-run win over relegation-threatened Yeadon yesterday. Fifth-placed Bierley – one of the teams to take advantage
At the halfway point of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League season, it is as you were at the top of Group A as Cambing and Yorkshire LPS won their respective matches, leaving Cambing still with a one-point lead. G Ali took 9-29 as LPS dismissed
Bradford Central League Division One leaders Allerton maintained their six-point after posting a monstrous 367 against basement boys Greenfield, who, still waiting for their first win, replied with 151. The mainstay of the huge Allerton total was a third
The Bulls slumped to a seventh straight defeat in all competitions after losing 28-22 to Hull FC. For long spells it looked as if they could end their run, coming back from 22-6 down at half-time to level the scores with 20 minutes remaining
Adam Lyth’s stunning start to the season, particularly in County Championship cricket, has got the romantics dreaming of an unexpected call-up to England’s Test squad for this winter’s Ashes tour. But it is pretty plain to see that the man himself is
Tino Best gets a lot of column inches – but only because of the character he is. You speak to most people involved at Yorkshire – and I will vouch for this – and they will say that the bloke just makes you smile. I have lost count of
Keighley MP and former Bradford Council leader Kris Hopkins has called for a full parliamentary debate on the use of postal votes in this country. Speaking during Business Questions in the Commons, he said he believed postal voting “has been
