A police hunt was under way tonight following a robbery at a jewellery store in Bradford. A gang of men forced their way into Heera Jewellers, in Leeds Road, Bradford, at about 6pm yesterday before making off with a quantity of jewellery.
All tickets for Bradford City's FA Cup first-round tie against Rochdale will go on general sale from 1.30pm tomorrow. A club statement said: "The reaction to the club offering season-ticket holders the chance to reserve their usual seats has
Keighley Cougars player-coach Jason Demetriou is in talks with another Super League player as he bids to bolster his squad further ahead of next season. Demetriou, 35, and his promotion-winning side met on Thursday ahead of their first pre-season
Simon Eastwood is no stranger to the drama of cup football. The goalkeeper will be thrust into the national spotlight on Sunday when his FC Halifax Town team host Charlton Athletic in one of the FA Cup first round’s live televised ties. But he played
The Duke of Gloucester has presented the boss of a Shipley electronics firm with its Queen’s Award for Innovation. Eric Hawthorn, managing director of Radio Design Limited, was presented with the award on Friday, which it won earlier this year
Gary Walker has stood down as Otley’s director of rugby for business reasons. Club secretary Marc Lawrence confirmed: “Gary has resigned his position as director of rugby. “He informed the players on Tuesday night of his decision which
Pool ace Laura Brennan is right on cue to achieve national recognition. Brennan, who lives in Wibsey, will play for Ireland later this month at the European trials in Dublin, having qualified through her Irish grandfather. She explained: “It was on
In a week when behind-the-scenes events threatened to overshadow Bradford Park Avenue’s on-pitch heroics, fortunately the focus remains on tomorrow’s FA Cup first-round tie at AFC Totton. Avenue have battled through to the stage when Football League
The Dales Council League have become the latest league to change the way they are governed. At their annual meeting last night at Pudsey Congs, they opted to be run by a slimmed-down executive committee, rather than officials and club representatives
Plumes of water were fired into the air today in Bradford’s City Park as engineers tested the water features surrounding the flagship project’s mirror pool. Testing and commissions of the water features has begin as the construction of the
A familiar frustrating scenario is facing Kulwinder Sandhu and his Albion Sports side this weekend as they face another blank Saturday. Albion’s first season on the non-League pyramid has been affected by a glut of away fixtures and some inactive weekends
Farsley boss Neil Parsley was disappointed that his side were unable to beat ten men last weekend but had praise for his opposite number. Parsley’s men lost 2-1 at home to Evo-Stik League Division One North leaders Skelmersdale United after the game
Bradford City travel to Huddersfield Town on Sunday for a Women's FA Cup third-round qualifying game that should be yet another close contest between clubs who span 23 years. Fortunes have fluctuated between the two but this latest clash sees them separated
After last week's County Cup and Trophy exploits, the Bradford Sunday Alliance League clubs are still in cup action this weekend but this time it is the League Cup that take centre stage. West Bowling and Mill Lane clash in an all-Premier Division
A judge has spared a 25-year-old man an immediate jail sentence for his fifth offence of dangerous driving because of the unusual circumstances of the case. James Mellor, of Swarland Grove, Little Horton, Bradford, had a full driving licence and was
Saturday, April 21 Division One: East Bierley v Pudsey St Lawrence; Lightcliffe v Undercliffe; Manningham Mills v Farsley; Pudsey Congs v Cleckheaton; Hanging Heaton v Saltaire; Woodlands v Bradford & Bingley. Division Two: Bankfoot v Brighouse; Spen
Teenage thieves dressed in hospital clothing threatened a woman in her Bradford home before stealing several items of jewellery. Detectives today said that the 57-year-old woman was left shaken and distressed after the raid at about 5.30pm
Crowds gathered at Bradford Cenotaph to observe a two-minute silence marking Armistice Day today. The tribute started at 11am, the time the guns on the Western Front fell silent at the end of the First World War on the 11th day of the 11th
Two Bradford College students have got a helping hand into the animation world after they won the chance to be mentored by three big names in the industry. The students were selected after they won a prestigious animation competition in conjunction with
An inquiry has started into allegations that workers at a nursing home posted ‘humiliating’ pictures of some of its elderly residents on a social networking website. The Telegraph & Argus understands a number of staff at Currergate Nursing Home in Skipton
A Bradford teenager is starring in a gripping television drama alongside some of Britain’s top acting names. Aqib Khan, 17, made his acting debut in film comedy West is West and the young actor’s second role is in The Jury, a five-part series which has
Support is building for a campaign to retain a children’s heart surgery unit which serves the residents of Bradford. Representatives and trustees of the Children’s Heart Surgery Fund (CHSF), doctors and councillors presented the Yorkshire and The Humber
Today’s Telegraph & Argus front page focuses on two people generations apart but united in remembrance. On the day the nation unites in tribute to our fallen servicemen and women for Armistice Day, 17-year-old Rosemary Clarke and centenarian Albert Joyner
Making Britain is the title of a forthcoming exhibition of photographs by Bradford photo-journalist Tim Smith, marking the 21st anniversary of Bradford jobs and training charity QED-UK – Quest for Economic Determination. Channel 4’s two-part reality
SIR – Having two railway stations both with great freight yards and fine hotels did not hinder Bradford from becoming the wool capital of the world, where at least three-fifths (it may have been more) of all the wool grown in the world was processed,
A Bradford charity has been given a cash boost towards its work supporting women and children suffering domestic abuse. Staying Put has received a £35,000 grant from the Lloyds TSB Foundation to support and protect Eastern European women living with
Bradford’s Citizens’ Advice Bureau has issued a warning about bogus callers impersonating the agency to prey on vulnerable people with money worries by offering them fraudulent debt help. The organisation’s debt manager Alex Bohdanowicz branded the scam
25 years ago: A scheme to transform a rundown city centre area into Bradford’s own West End was set to be launched. 50 years ago: Right Reverend Clement George St Michael Parker, the new Bishop of Bradford, led his ministers past the crowded pews after
SIR – The recent letter from John Atkinson on the provision of a light rail link across Bradford is in line with points I mentioned in your columns over 12 years ago. For a long time my heart has been with the provision of a cross-rail scheme for Bradford
SIR – I’ve just been into the city centre and I am reminded of an old Bradford saying when sceptical of a planned event – “If City Park is opened this month, I’ll show my bald-head in Busby’s shop window”. Come on City Hall, any day now another delay
Ross Hannah has been waiting five years to apply his own magic touch on the FA Cup. The striker got a rare start at Bramall Lane and is keeping his fingers crossed to stay in the side to face Rochdale. Having come through the non-league ranks, Hannah
SIR – My friend and fellow-Christian, Emmerson Walgrave, is under the same misconception as most of the media when he describes those who occupied Centenary Square, and still camping out on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and 900 other sites throughout
SIR – Coun John Hall’s claims regarding his Coalition Government’s treatment of our schools (Letters, October 31) do not bear scrutiny. He trumpets the Pupil Premium as evidence that schools budgets are growing. If only. Our schools’ capital budgets
SIR – I wonder if any of your other readers have experienced this particular way the banks go about extracting money from their customers. I normally pay my credit card bill in full each month but in August after checking all the entries I wrote a cheque
I have long been of the opinion that my family deserves its own motto. I’ve just never been sure of what it should be. I once looked up the meaning of the name “Barnett” on one of those genealogy websites, and it turned out to be “a patch of land cleared
A Bradford humanitarian charity’s project to build a children’s hospital in Pakistan has been given weighty backing by boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Basic Human Rights, based in Sunbridge Road, is already running medical camps and mobile health units in
SIR – Last June I was sitting outside the cafe by the River Wharfe in Otley enjoying a mug of coffee when a beautiful grey chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce drew up. A man got out of the passenger seat. It was Jimmy Savile. He fetched a coffee
Residents of a Wilsden housing estate are locked in a battle with a developer over the management of an overgrown mill pond, which they say is dangerous and will cost thousands of pounds to put right. Procter Brothers Master Builders, based
A director of Bradford Park Avenue said that he knew dreams of a new 20,000 seat stadium would “never happen” as soon as the recession hit. Kevin Hainsworth, a retired gardener who holds the majority shareholding in the club along with chairman
Bradford-based Morrisons attracted record numbers of customers to its stores in the latest quarter, it has revealed today. The supermarket chain, which boasts an 11.8 per cent share of the grocery market, said like-for-like sales were up 2.4 per cent
A trench which collapsed on a workman as he dug, burying him alive, was a “ticking time bomb,” an inquest heard yesterday. Health and Safety Executive expert Mark Hatfield, who investigated the tragedy in Bingley Road, Heaton, Bradford, said adequate
Luke Gale is raring to go as he prepares to begin life as a Bradford player on Monday morning. The 23-year-old half-back, signed from Harlequins on a two-year deal, will begin pre-season training on the back of two recent outings for the newly-formed
An uninsured driver filmed from the police helicopter as he was pursued at speed across central Bradford acted with “sheer stupidity,” a judge said. George Leadbitter, 50, sat in the dock with his head in his hands as aerial footage of the chase was
Phil Parkinson insists the Valley Parade faithful are as crucial to reviving City’s fortunes as the team. The Bantams aim to deliver a knock-out double tomorrow by adding Rochdale’s scalp in the FA Cup to their JPT upset at Sheffield United. And Parkinson
About 50 teachers received honks and waves of support from motorists and passers-by as they staged the first in a series of strikes in Otley yesterday. The staff were joined by parents and union representatives as they picketed outside Prince Henry’s
Jason Gillespie could be set for a return to Yorkshire as their new first-team coach. The former Australian Test fast bowler, currently coaching Gary Ballance’s Mid West Rhinos side in Zimbabwe, has thrown his hat into the ring to replace Craig White
I told the lads it was a lucky superstition that I missed the first penalty again on Tuesday! I had full confidence in the rest of them in the shoot-out and they came through brilliantly. But I had a chat with Fages afterwards about
Work starts on Monday on a £2.5 million project to replace old water pipes in 43 streets across the Bradford district. In one of the biggest projects of its kind, Yorkshire Water is replacing cast iron pipes, many dating back to Victorian times
The number of women giving birth at home in Bradford is increasing, bucking a national trend. Nationally there has been a continued fall in the proportion of women giving birth at home, according to new data published yesterday. In 2010 in England and
