Heating engineer Victoria Hardy has been named as the top apprentice in Yorkshire and Humberside. The 21-year-old beat off 1,300 other hopefuls for the prestigious title and was the only woman out of nine finalists. Now she goes forward to the national
Three illegal Vietnamese immigrants have been locked up for working at a cannabis farm. Bradford Crown Court heard Thuong Nguyen, 25, Quang Hoang, 18, and a 17-year-old youth all admitted being concerned in the production of cannabis. A police raid
Skipton magistrates told Phillip Yates, 56, they were appalled by his speed and were sick of motorcyclists using roads as racetracks. The court banned Yates from driving after he admitted doing 102mph on the Clapham bypass, in North Yorkshire. The court
Post-Christmas preparations start here, with a series of races from Boxing Day through to the New Year. Weather permitting, naturally. Boxing Day sees the Chevin Chase from Guiseley, with Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee expected to battle to retain the
David Syers’ cracking strike against Hereford last week was City’s quickest league goal of the season. But did you also know that it was only the second time in League Two they have scored in the opening ten minutes since Peter Taylor took charge in
Otley’s National One derby at home to Wharfedale is an early victim of the returning cold snap. Also postponed due to a frozen pitch is Bradford & Bingley’s National Three North clash at Penrith.
The Jai Freestyle Martial Arts and Fitness Academy has expanded and changed its name to the Eastburn Fitness Centre. The new 5,000 square feet facility is divided into a boxing gymnasium and a specialist dance studio. Robin Shepherd first opened the
Simon Parker column It must have been a long journey from Bradford to Southampton late on Tuesday night. A very long drive indeed. Saints stalwart Jason Dodd and his young academy prodigies will have suffered every mile. They were fancied to go a long
Simon Parker column As job swaps go, it is surely a no brainer. Sam Allardyce thinks he is worthy of managing the European super powers; Blackburn’s new owners want a boss who can deliver a top-five position and look good doing it. The ultra-cool Pep
The man behind a Shipley company that sold bogus car insurance has been jailed for 14 months. Tim McCaskill, 30, of Great Horton Road, Great Horton, Bradford, ran a car insurance firm called Castlemire and sold cheap policies to high-risk drivers
The pick of the fixtures in the Bradford & District Sunday Senior Cup ties sees Recruitment Rovers and Westwood Park clash in the third round at the new Myra Shay. Another all-Bradford Sunday Alliance League Premier Division tie is the round four
With Christmas just one week away, Bradford Park Avenue have had just one opportunity to bank points in the month of December. The only Evo-Stik Premier Division fixture they have had that beat the weather so far – they are due to host Ashton United
Hereford have appointed former Bantams boss Lennie Lawrence as technical director to work alongside manager Jamie Pitman, who has been put in charge until the end of the campaign. Having started the season as the club’s physio, 34-year-old Pitman had
Guiseley's players just keep on bouncing back from any disappointment and are yet to feel the pain of back-to-back defeats this season. They have lost just two league games, despite being promoted into the Blue Square Bet North this season,
Farsley AFC manager Neil Parsley has vowed to step up the training regime at the club as the arctic conditions threaten to freeze the area once again. Parsley had said early in the month that his club were fortunate to have their own excellent training
Craven League secretary Ann Coe has revealed that working on behalf of ‘cricket mad’ people is the motivation behind her role. The position of secretary has become an increasingly onerous one – as Joy Wigglesworth from the Bradford Mutual Sunday
City’s postponed trip to Aldershot has been rearranged for Tuesday, January 18. It means the Bantams face two long journeys in four days as they are schedued to play at Oxford the previous Saturday.
Bradford wrestler Katie Hawthorn is on the lookout for female sparring partners as part of her preparations for the London Olympics. The 17-year-old, who trains at the Bradford Amateur Wrestling Club, started in the sport aged just six but quit when
Departing Cougars boss Barry Eaton is hoping for a send-off to remember in Sunday's Peter Fell Memorial (3.30pm). Weather permitting, the game against a Keighley Amateur Select XIII will be his last in charge after four years in the Cougar
Christmas has come early at a Bradford school which has been given two reasons to start celebrating. St Luke’s Church of England Primary School, in Eccleshill, has received double joy from consecutive Ofsted inspections. Ofsted rated the school’s performance
Residents have clubbed together to win the battle of the biggest Christmas tree in Ilkley. A towering 21ft pine has been installed in the atrium of Wells House, thanks to its management committee and subscriptions from apartment owners. It was transported
The following planning applications have been lodged with Kirklees Council: Birstall: erection of illuminated and non-illuminated signs, Exchange Bar and Grill, Gelderd Road. Cleckheaton: extension to time limit for implementing existing permission for
Staff at a branch of the Yorkshire Building Society have launched their Christmas appeal which will raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The appeal has been backed by actress Angela Griffin. The Skipton branch, in Keighley Road, will be selling
Volunteers manned Skipton’s Sense shop and organised an online auction of goods to raise at least £3,000 for the charity. Staff from Lombards, a financial services company based in Leeds, took over Sense charity shops throughout the UK for one day and
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Anthony Robert Walsh, aged 32, of Avenham Way, Pollard Park; theft, original offence of driving while disqualified re-sentenced, 12 months’ community order, £50 compensation; failure to comply
Gritting bosses have pledged to keep city and town centres ice-free for shoppers this weekend. With freezing temperatures predicted, Bradford Council is bracing itself for a busy couple of days. Councillor Dave Green said: “Our teams of gritters will
A Bradford woman who has “brightened the lives” of her neighbours has been given an award for her acts of selflessness. Rose Lannen, of Woodside, was last night presented with the Gerry Pickersgill Award for outstanding tenant involvement, which is given
Police are encouraging pedestrians to go to extra lengths to make themselves visible to motorists. The warning comes after two people were injured in separate road accidents in Bradford yesterday. One of the victims was left needing
Plans to ease overcrowding on the Wharfedale and Airedale train lines have been criticised as “not ambitious enough” by transport authority Metro. Network Rail, which owns and operates Britain’s rail infrastructure, has published a draft proposal
The new Bishop of Bradford was expected to be named today as the controversial “blogging Bishop” Nick Baines – who sparked a storm for apparently rubbishing traditional Christmas carols – to succeed Bishop David James. The former Bradford University
Five Rise Locks is the first site in Yorkshire to be recognised as one of the most significant locations in the country’s transport heritage. The Grade 1 listed structure in Bingley – the only one on the Leeds Liverpool Canal – has been awarded
Gillian Corcoran, who joined Bradford chartered accountants Watson Buckle five years ago as a graduate trainee, has been promoted to the new post of audit manager. Her appointment is part of a planned expansion of the department as the firm continues
Budget airline easyJet, launched its first route from Leeds Bradford International Airport today. The low-fares airline has started operating from Leeds to Geneva. It will run five times a week until April 24 next year. Ali Gayward, easyJet UK commercial
Boosting the local economy by nearly £10 million a year has helped clinch a national award for a booming Bradford farm and shop business. Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton has been named Non-Multiple Retailer of the Year in the 2010 Food and Farming
The eyesore site of a mill that burned down two decades ago could be transformed into a development of detached houses, it has been revealed. Fresh plans have been submitted for 14 four-bedroom homes at the overgrown site of Perseverance Mill, in Station
25 years ago: Special language centres in Manningham, Bradford, were to close as councillors agreed their work should be brought within the scope of first schools. 50 years ago: Burglars targeted the home of the parents of popular soprano
A new television drama about Morecambe and Wise traces their early years back to a chance meeting when Ernie Wise was a child performer in Bradford. Eric and Ernie, to be broadcast on BBC2 on New Year’s Day, focuses on the making of the much-loved
Yesterday we reported on the theft of lead from the roof of a building in Saltaire’s historic Roberts Park. And earlier on in the week we told how a lightning conductor was stolen from a church spire. Today, metal theft is once again
SIR – As bad as the estimate of 7,500 job losses from the cuts to public expenditure look, the picture may be far worse. Official figures still assume growth in the overall economy of more than two per cent a year and private sector investment to compensate
SIR – With the cold, icy conditions forecast to continue for the rest of the year, Action for Blind People are urging local people to spare a thought for residents with sight loss. Freezing weather can be a real pain and can cause inconvenience
Last week, troops from The Royal Regiment of Scotland and 32 Signal Regiment helped ambulances to attend emergency calls in Glasgow and Edinburgh. They later helped clear Edinburgh streets near care homes, doctors’ surgeries and hospitals. The Army may
SIR – As Labour’s new leader Ed Miliband’s lacklustre performance comes under increasing criticism from every direction, not least his own party (including some Labour peers), is it a case of ‘when’, not ‘if’ a challenge will be made soon? Whatever the
Thieves have put Christmas celebrations at a Bradford school in jeopardy by plundering lead from its roof. Pupils at Thorpe Primary School, Idle, were set to perform a nativity for their peers at another primary school ahead of today’s show
SIR – Some of your correspondents and Shipley MP Philip Davies, seem unaware that children are more than capable of coping with several languages. I lived in a country where children starting school, many of them immigrants, had to cope with the vernacular
SIR – Once again we read about the possible rail link-up in the T&A. It’s a brilliant idea but we all know none of this will ever happen. It’s all right for someone to come up with the idea of a viaduct across the city centre, but how do they come up
SIR – Philip Davies seems to believe that new carriages will help to relieve overcrowding on the Airedale and Wharfedale trains (T&A, December 16). If he used these trains regularly, he would know that they are almost all four-coach electric
SIR – Re Andrew Mawson’s letter “Why single out books?” (T&A, December 8). What Conservative MP Philip Davies did say, referring to Bradford Council allowing children’s books in Urdu to be available in libraries around the district, was “the policy did
Two Bradford brothers told a jury they were innocent of claims they had raped and sexually assaulted two young girls in allegations dating back more than 40 years. David Woolham, 60, of Highgate Road, Clayton Heights, and 59-year-old wheelchair-bound
Leeds United are hoping the predicted weekend snow and ice spares their mouth-watering home showdown with npower Championship leaders Queens Park Rangers tomorrow. While Simon Grayson’s men have strung together an eight-match undefeated run, Neil Warnock
Luke Oliver insists City are not scared by the prospect of muzzling League Two’s hottest attack. Crewe have rattled in 40 goals so far, with Bradford-born Clayton Donaldson bagging 11 of them. It promises to be a tough task for the Bantams back four
Shaun Ainscough is slowly rebuilding battered confidence with the Bulls. A try-scoring sensation when he broke into the Wigan team during 2009, the winger’s career has failed to take off quite as expected. Overlooked by Wigan coach Michael
Today was expected to be one of the busiest of the year at Leeds-Bradford Airport as thousands of people fly out of the county in the great Christmas getaway. Bosses at the Yeadon airport anticipate that more than 40,000 people will leave West
A 62-year-old Bradford householder will not be prosecuted over the death of a man who suffered a fatal stab wound during a bid to steal cannabis from the property. Prosecuting authorities have decided there is insufficient evidence to prove
