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  • Bradford & Bingley feel the Heat as Farsley go top

    Farsley took over at the top of Division One after leaders Bradford & Bingley crashed to a crushing 180-run defeat at Hanging Heaton. Their 42-run win over defending champions Pudsey Congs gives them a two-point lead at the top but so closely-packed

  • Safraz is smash hit for Woodlands

    Overseas player Sarfraz Ahmed produced a superb all-round performance as Woodlands underlined their JCT600 Bradford League Division One title credentials with a 37-run home win over Cleckheaton. Promoted in the batting order with Woodlands

  • Brown is century star for Allerton

    Allerton remain ten points behind GROUP A leaders Cambing in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League as Chris Brown made an unbeaten century in their win at home to Girlington. The visitors posted 218-9 (K Ahmed 52, Raza Gul 64) but, after an opening

  • Khan is king as Shipley Prov win crunch clash

    The match of the day in Division A of the Dales Council League saw leaders Shipley Providence win by 44 runs at second-placed Rodley. Prov were indebted to Shebak Khan’s 123 out of the visitors’ 242-9. In reply, despite Garry Walton’s 66, the home side

  • Yorkshire slump to big hitting from Outlaws

    Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale had claimed this year’s Friends Life twenty20 was coming at the perfect time for his side following their difficult start to the 2011 season. But after losing against the Nottinghamshire Outlaws to make it two defeats out

  • Yorkshire bowlers take a pounding

    Yorkshire were set a mammoth victory target of 216 to win their Friends Life twenty20 match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. This is after their hosts recorded their highest-ever score in this form of the game to close on 215-6. Adam Voges top-scored

  • Harrison repeats TT podium finish

    Sidecar racer Conrad Harrison waited 18 years for his first-ever podium finish at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy – and he did not have to wait that long to claim his second. Harrison, from Idle, ended his trophy drought last year by finishing

  • Brownlees make it a Spanish one-two

    Brothers Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee completed a Great Britain triathlon one-two AT the ITU World Championship race in Madrid. Elder sibling Alistair completed his third successive win in the Spanish event and Jonathan took silver after the pair held

  • Tough to assess Yorkshire form in Twenty20 format

    Anthony McGrath column Before the Twenty20 started, we sat down and said that two or three wins out of the first five would set us up well for the rest of our campaign. Immediately after that Warwickshire game on Friday, it was stressed that there’

  • Historic archives opened for public to chart family history

    Family history researchers are being invited to look over a wealth of old documentation at Bradford Central Library this month. The West Yorkshire Archive Service will be allowing visitors to browse through parish registers, house deeds, voters registers

  • Bradford girl helps put child poverty in spotlight

    An eight-year-old girl from Bradford is at the centre of a television documentary about poverty. The programme, called Poor Kids, looks at life through the eyes of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. With Britain having one

  • Bradford Council worker sentenced for metal theft

    A Bradford Council employee has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work after he admitted stealing municipal cast iron grates and selling them on for scrap. Gary White, 40, of Wibsey Park Avenue, Wibsey, also received a 12-month