Bradford’s Matt Wells, Guiseley’s Debbie Flood and Andy Hodge from Hebden, near Skipton, take part in the final Great Britain rowing team winter assessment on the 2012 Olympic course at Dorney Lake this weekend. Successful rowers will receive an invitation
Bulls legend Robbie Paul is guest speaker at Wibsey Warriors’ gala dinner on February 26 at the Raggalds Inn, Queensbury. Tickets are £25. Contact James Riley on 07807-080063 for details.
Queensbury welcome neighbours Clayton on Saturday in the eagerly-awaited Jack Senior Bradford Cup first-round tie at Hilltop. With National Conference giants Bradford Dudley Hill hoping their Challenge Cup tie at Kells goes ahead at the fourth time of
Lee Bullock column:Hopefully I’ll be back training properly next week and I can’t wait. I’ve been out a month and it seems like ages when you’re not able to join in. It goes without saying that you aren’t much use at a football club when you’re injured
Back-to-back victories sandwiched between consecutive weekend postponements mean Bradford Park Avenue go into Saturday’s Evo-Stik Premier Division fixture with mixed feelings. The squad appears to have returned to form as they have bounced back well
Bradford & Bingley are keeping their cards very close to their chest ahead of yet another big National League Three North contest on Saturday. The Bees, who are second, host leaders Stockport, who are six points better off having played a game less.
If Otley are to pull off the great escape for a second successive season in National League One, they must address their away form. So far this campaign, the Cross Greeners have lost all nine of their games on their travels, and club secretary Marc Lawrence
Wharfedale coach Tom McGee says that their two weeks of inactivity should not be used as an excuse for their 21-14 National League One. The Dalesmen’s last two fixtures at home to Sedgley Park and at Cinderford were both victims of the frost
Third-placed Cleckheaton are ‘doing a Manchester United’ and blaming their new kit for defeats against bottom two Northern and Hartlepool Rovers in their latest matches! However, far from being grey, as was Sir Alex Ferguson’s team’s colour when they
Baildon draft in former England Schools’ and Leeds Carnegie scrum half Ollie Shaw for their home derby against Aireborough in Yorkshire Division Three on Saturday. However, the Jenny Laners have otherwise delayed selection in order to assess the fitness
Head coach Graeme Sheffield has heaped praise on Alex Brown after Keighley consolidated their third place in Yorkshire Division One with a 32-7 home victory over York. “It helps your team when your fly half is playing well, and Alex Brown was almost
Young guns Alex Flett and Dominic Rowe will be relishing the build-up for Saturday’s big game. The duo’s efforts in City’s FA Youth Cup heroics have earned them shirt numbers in Peter Taylor’s squad. Just as importantly, they are now training every
With the memory of Manchester United’s defeat at the hands of Wolves last weekend fresh in the memory, Farsley will be taking nothing for granted when they host Hallam on Saturday. Neil Parsley’s men climbed back to the summit of the Kool Sport Northern
Following just one game in December and one in January, Silsden are hoping they get their February underway on Saturday with a trip to Cheshire to take on Winsford United in the Vodkat Premier Division. The home side may be second in the table while
With a fine day forecast for Saturday, the West Riding County Amateur League are looking to complete a full fixture list for the first time since mid-December. Albion Sports, who have played fewer games than any of their rivals for the Premier Division
Omar Daley has played his last City game after switching places with Rotherham winger Kevin Ellison. The Jamaican winger, City's longest-serving player, has completed a move to the promotion-chasing Millers this afternoon on a three-month emergency
The death has been announced of George Parker, aged 84, who was a member of the West Riding County Amateur League management committee for over 30 years. George, who lived in Halifax, joined the league as the representative from the West Riding
NEVER LET ME GO (12A, 103 mins) Four stars Starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Izzy Meikle-Small, Charlie Rowe, Ella Purnell Based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Police in Bradford made 17 arrests, seized 24 vehicles and handed out almost 300 fixed penalty tickets during a four-month road safety campaign in the Manningham and Toller wards of Bradford. Operation Serein ran on six days between October
Campaigners drawing up a comprehensive catalogue of derelict land across the Bradford district have received backing from environmental organisations. Heaton Township Association is leading a fight to stop green fields being swallowed up by developers
A woman suffered minor injuries in a crash involving three vehicles in Manchester Road, near the junction with Carr Bottom Road, Odsal, Bradford, shortly before 8am today. A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said the woman, believed to be in her 30s, was
GNOMEO & JULIET 3D (U, 83 mins) Three stars Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Maggie Smith, Ashley Jensen, Matt Lucas, Stephen Merchant Shakespeare’s tale of star-cross’d lovers and self-sacrifice
The personal lives of nearly one in three workers in Yorkshire are suffering because of work pressures, a poll published today has warned. A survey by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health found 29 per cent of those surveyed in Yorkshire
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: The following failed to notify change of registered keeper of vehicle (£175 fine, £75 costs unless stated): Karl Dickinson, aged 36, of Brendon Walk, Dudley Hill. Aleksanolrs Drozdovskis,
Francis Cummins doesn’t buy into reports of Leeds’ demise. After losing their Super League crown to Wigan last year and undergoing a complete backroom overhaul, the Rhinos have had their fair share of critics in the build-up to the new campaign but
YOGI BEAR 3D (U, 80 mins) Three stars Starring Tom Cavanagh, Anna Faris, TJ Miller, Andrew Daly, Nathan Corddry and the voices of Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake Created by Hanna-Barbera, Yogi Bear gained a cult following in
A record number of nominations have flooded in for this year’s Young Citizen Awards, which honour the achievements of youngsters across the district. Almost 200 nominations have been received in the Bradford Council-run awards scheme, which is supported
TRUE GRIT (15, 110 mins) Four stars Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper John Wayne won the Oscar – from his only nomination – as hard-drinking gunslinger Rooster Cogburn in Henry Hathaway
Romantic cards and messages from centuries past are on show as part of a Bradford exhibition celebrating Valentine’s Day. Among the exhibits at West Yorkshire Archive Service’s offices at Bradford Central Library is a letter from a lovelorn
A youth club is to open on Friday nights in a bid to steer youngsters away from anti-social behaviour which was blighting a village. Bradford Youth Service, backed by police and councillors, is throwing open the doors of Haworth Youth Club in the community
An Ilkley boy has returned home from the United States after surgery to help him walk unaided. Ben Smithson, nine, who has cerebral palsy, underwent the pioneering operation after a massive fundraising campaign raised more than £45,000.
Work has begun on a major 56-apartment care home complex on the former site of an Ilkley school. Emmandjay Court is expected to be opened in the summer of 2012 to provide independent living with care homes for the over-60s. The project is being developed
A 20-year-old man has been locked up for 12 months for driving a stolen £25,000 Mercedes-Benz into a public park, scattering children and dog walkers. Andrew Rubery, of Broadstone Way, Holme Wood, Bradford, reached speeds of up to 70mph as he tried to
Three people were arrested in a major police and RSPCA operation to crack down on animal cruelty in Keighley. Officers swooped on five addresses in the area early yesterday, following a long-running investigation. Several animals, including
Human rights campaigners in Bradford say thousands of young flood victims in Pakistan are still at risk of malnutrition. Six months after the floods affected more than 20 million people, destroying 10,000 schools and two million homes, lives are still
A husband and wife team behind a cycle firm are looking forward to further growth this year as the business does its bit for the UK export drive. Sandra and Paul Corcoran recently celebrated the 11th anniversary of buying Pennine Cycles, on Thornton
Neighbourhood policing officers in Bradford have formed a transatlantic twinning scheme with counterparts in America. Officers in the Tong and Wyke NPT have struck up a link with police from the Cincinatti District One Neighbourhood Team in
A teenager took an overdose and self-harmed after becoming the victim of bullies at a Bradford secondary school. Sanah Atta, 16, who hopes one day to be a barrister, should be taking mock tests ahead of her GCSE exams this summer but she has
25 years ago: Race relations, not unemployment or housing, was the biggest issue facing Bradford, said the Council’s top official. 50 years ago: A man and a woman died when their car ran into the back of a stationary ten-ton articulated lorry, about
Zulfi Hussain couldn’t speak a word of English until he was 12. He spent a year in an immigration centre after arriving in Bradford from the small village in Pakistan where he grew up. It wasn’t until secondary school that Zulfi began to learn English
Parents fear a newly-built children’s centre in Ilkley could be earmarked for closure as Bradford Council prepares to tackle millions of pounds of funding cuts. Although the Council has yet to reveal its plans for the future of its 41 Sure Start centres
Parents on a deprived Bradford estate have started a petition to save free Sure Start childcare. Mother-of-three Anne-Marie Fletcher, who uses the children’s centre at Reevy Hill Primary School in Buttershaw, says they were told childcare provision
The turmoil that his hit Egypt over the last few weeks has caused many people to question their travel arrangements. It appears many have decided not to fly out there, even to resorts like Sharm el Sheikh which are considered safe by the Foreign
A GP has been banned from driving for two years for drink-driving. Jane Hornsey, 53, who was suspended 18 months ago from her practice in Keighley, had denied the offence, which happened in Kilnsey, near Skipton, on October 18, 2009, but she
SIR – Would it not be a good idea to use the excess money from the National Lottery in order to get the country out of this monetary disaster? It is an indirect tax which people don’t mind paying as there is a slight chance of winning a life-changing
SIR – Is Bradford’s Playhouse Theatre the city’s best-kept secret? I recently came to Bradford to see The Demeter. I know the city well enough, and with hindsight I should have found out where the venue was beforehand. Arriving by train at 7pm for a
Entrepreneurs in West Yorkshire are bucking the national trend by stepping up their exporting efforts as new figures revealed a record trade gap with imports rising twice as fast as exports. Enquiries from new exporters for help from trade
SIR – What a surprise – MP Kris Hopkins has proposed that Keighley and Ilkley should separate from Bradford MDC (T&A, January 19). After all, Mr Hopkins has spent the last few years spearheading Bradford ‘degeneration’ – hardly surprising, then, that
SIR – It was interesting to read Bradford Council chief executive Tony Reeves lambasting the Government for cutting resources and wanting to dismantle the state (T&A, January 21). This from a man who appears unwilling to reduce his salary, suggested
SIR – In a way, we have had a multicultural society for many years – African, Jamaican, Czechs, Poles, Russians, Chinese, Malays etc. all of whom, while retaining their national identity, integrated into British society, abided by our laws and learned
SIR – It seems that some people are only too ready to take a pop at our magnificent NHS. For the last year or so, I have been a regular visitor to the BRI, in and out for procedures and tests, and I have always found the treatment that I have been afforded
SIR – Once again we see Muslim leaders in denial over the issue of self-imposed segregation by Muslims in Bradford and many urban areas around Britain (T&A, February 7). Prime Minister David Cameron is accused of being ‘out of touch’ because he dared
Airline Jet2.com is facing an angry backlash from passengers over its sudden decision to cancel its flights to and from Egypt from next month. Steve and Jenny Tonks, of Guiseley, said they were furious at being told the carrier would still
Have you entered our Bradford Means Business Awards yet? If not, and you’re planning to, there’s only one day left… entries have to be with us by the close of play tomorrow. Of course, with the online entry form at telegraphand argus.co.uk
Andy Lynch reckons it’s time for the Bulls to put the past behind them. Memories of last season still linger in the memory for all the wrong reasons but Lynch is ready to wipe the slate clean. An off-season overhaul has helped – the impetus provided
Bradford Council has finally fallen in line with a Government order to publish all its expenditure of £500 or more. Figures published yesterday, shows the Council spent a total of almost £18 million on 2,344 purchases for services or items
Peter Taylor believes City’s relegation rivals Hereford will not lose any points for fielding an unregistered player. Hereford, who currently sit one place below the Bantams, are facing a Football League charge after picking Rob Purdie against
