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  • Raiders take cash in robbery at food store

    A “substantial amount of cash” was stolen during a robbery at a food store in Cleckheaton. Police are appealing for information following the robbery at Jack Fultons in the Central Arcade, Cleckheaton, at about 4.17pm this evening. A police spokesman

  • Bradford couple's diamond day

    A Bradford husband and wife, who met at a school for deaf children, are celebrating 60 years without a single row. Doreen and Maurice Newsholme, of Great Horton, say being deaf has helped them be more understanding towards each other – the

  • Bradford planning applications

    The following planning applications have been submitted to Bradford Council: Undercliffe: extensions to school building over two phases: phase one, a two-storey extension to the north west including new hall, extended kitchen and ancillary

  • Home finish to year for Bradford Dragons men

    Bradford Dragons men's next home game is on Saturday against Westminster Warriors in English Basketball League Division One at the Trinity Green sports hall, Bradford College (6.15pm). Admission is £5 for adults, £2.50 for under-16s, concessions and

  • Embassy maintain perfect start

    Bradford League Division Three leaders Embassy C were given a stern examination when they faced third-placed Hermits X, with their 100 per cent record under threat. Hermits had the better of the opening exchanges as Dave Palmer conquered Palminder

  • Assessments are winter warmers for Bradford trio

    Bradford’s three Olympic rowing hopefuls will be in action this weekend at the Great Britain Rowing Teams’ Winter Assessment. Guiseley’s Debbie Flood, Bradford’s Matt Wells and Hebden’s Andy Hodge will compete against other leading GB London 2012 contenders

  • Cullen ready to be No 1 in Yorkshire

    He’s finished off Yorkshire’s greatest darts player – now Joe Cullen wants to take his mantle. Twice world champion Dennis Priestley is set to retire his arrows after failing to qualify for the tournament for the first time in an illustrious

  • Perfect swarm sinks Bees Ladies

    Bingley Bees found themselves on the wrong end of a swarm in their last game of 2011, being beaten 3-0 at Wakefield Thirds in the Yorkshire Women’s Premier Division. The young Wakefield side consisted of fit and fast players who moved the

  • Skipton's golden children

    Skipton Karate Centre won two kumite (fighting) gold medals in the Inter-Club Childrens’ Championship at Guiseley’s Aireborough Leisure Centre. They went to Rebecca Newbury in the girls’ black belt and Joseph Simmonite in the boys’ under four

  • Bingley derbies are back on

    Bradford & Bingley’s third team can look forward to derbies against Bingley Congs second team next season in Division Four of the Mewies Solicitors Craven League. Bradford & Bingley were spared demotion from that section while Congs won a belated

  • Masters tonic for Bradford cueman

    Right On Cue Kevin Firth has qualified for the last 16 of the ENGLISH AMATEUR MASTERS CHAMPIONSIP at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds after comfortably winning his group matches. The Bradford potter opened with a break of 44 to go 1-0 up against

  • Donkin spearheads Ilkley's karate medal haul

    Despite facing competitors who travelled to Cheshire from all over the United Kingdom, Ilkley Karate Club members still showed that they had the golden touch in the Shito-Ryu Shukokai National Championships. Under the guidance of chief instructor

  • Top award for Cleckheaton groundsmen

    Cleckheaton groundsmen John Hawkesworth and Keith Johnstone have received a top accolade for their work at Moorend. They have been named Volunteer Sports Ground Management Team of the Year at the prestigious Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG

  • Earlier starts in JCT600 Bradford League

    The JCT600 Bradford League have opted for earlier starts in 2012 after a proposal from Pudsey Congs that was seconded by Windhill. The league’s annual meeting at Pudsey Congs Cricket Club voted in 1pm starts up to the end of August and noon starts in

  • Wednesday, December 14, 2011

    The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Bridget Esther Farrell, aged 36, of Maidstone Street, Bradford Moor; driving without insurance, no separate penalty; driving while disqualified, criminal damage, 12 months’ community order made

  • Wednesday, December 14, 2011

    The following planning applications have been submitted to Bradford Council: Oxenhope: internal alterations to extend the existing kitchen into the adjoining bedroom (west-east) by the part demolition of an internal wall, the insertion of three conservation

  • Calling all sportshall athletic youngsters

    Bingley Harriers are organising West Yorkshire Sportshall Athletics selection meetings at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre, Odsal in the new year. The under-11 trials are on Sunday, January 8 and the under-13 and under-15 trials are a fortnight

  • RFL announce rule changes

    The number of substitutions during matches will be reduced from 12 to ten from next season, the Rugby Football League have announced. Clubs will still have four players on the replacements bench but coaches will have to make more use of their 17-man

  • Singer Anita Maj records debut album in Los Angeles

    A Bradford singer was flown to a top recording studio in Los Angeles after she was spotted busking by a collaborator of rap star Kanye West. Anita Maj is currently recording her debut album and one of the tracks has been selected for the latest edition

  • Pace chief executive steps down

    Neil Gaydon, who has overseen spectacular growth at Saltaire-based digital TV technology group Pace plc, has stepped down as chief executive after 16 years with the company. In a brief statement the firm said he would be replaced by Mike Pulli, currently

  • Deer on motorway causes traffic delays

    A deer running loose on the M62 caused a traffic hazard earlier. The deer was reported to be running on both the east and west bound carriageways of the motorway, between the Brighouse turn-off at J25 and the slip road to the M606 link road

  • Carleton IT man jailed for child porn images

    An IT training manager who viewed “disgusting” images of child pornography on his laptop computer and mobile phone has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment suspended for two years. Michael Judge, 33, of West Road, Carleton, near Skipton, was ordered

  • Zayn splits from Little Mix girlfriend

    Bradford pop star Zayn Malik has reportedly split from his girlfriend Perrie Edwards, a member of the band Little Mix which won the X Factor on Saturday. Zayn, 18, of East Bowling, is in chart-topping boy band One Direction, who were runners-up in last

  • Spate of deliberate car fires across Bradford

    Firefighters tackled three separate car fires - all started deliberately and outside people’s homes - in just six hours last night. Crews from Fairweather Green fire station were called to a burning Audi A4 parked in a back lane near its owner’s owner

  • New cells opened by top officer

    A retired police officer who arrested the first criminal to be locked up at Pudsey Police Station more than 30 years ago was at the opening of the station’s new state-of-the-art custody complex. Peter Krushniak, who joined West Yorkshire

  • Daisy Hill man 'raped confused woman' court is told

    A 30-year-old man raped a confused and crying woman who was lost and alone on a night out in Bradford, a jury was told. The 21-year-old woman from Skipton was assaulted in Croscombe Walk, Little Horton, after she became separated from her friend, it

  • Ilkley Brewery unveils expansion plans

    A rapidly growing company that revived a brewing tradition in Ilkley is looking forward to continued expansion in 2012. Ilkley Brewery has increased sales by 100 per cent and seen a five-fold rise in production over the 12 months. The company, founded

  • Repeat sex offender Peter Macmillan-Collins spared prison

    A 52-year-old man with a history of sexually assaulting young men has been spared prison after a judge took a “merciful approach” to his fifth similar offence. Peter Macmillan-Collins wept in the dock at Bradford Crown Court last month when a jury convicted

  • Forty jobs created by Discount UK store opening in Bradford

    A new discount store set to open in Bradford this week will create about 40 new jobs. The Discount UK outlet at the Forster Square retail park will open on Friday. It comes hot on the heels of the recently-opened Poundworld Express store in Ivegate

  • Fall killed suspected Shipley murder victim

    An alcoholic’s death that triggered a murder squad inquiry was eventually found to be an accident, an inquest heard yesterday. Alan Steane, who was 54 and lived in a bed-sit in Kirkgate, Shipley, was found with serious head injuries by a house-mate at

  • Police appeal after shots fired in Bradford street

    Police are appealing for witnesses after suspected gunshots were fired at a car on a Bradford street. It is thought up to four shots were discharged before the vehicle was driven away at speed. Nobody was hurt in the incident. Officers

  • Bradford drug charity boss fears effect of cuts

    Funding for drugs charities is under threat and will get more challenging in the next few years, the chief executive of the Bridge project in Bradford has warned. Jon Royle said changes to cash allocations by the Government means that previously-protected

  • Keeping a wolf from the door

    It seems that nowadays we can’t even rely on the nursery rhymes that we learned as children. The one about the three little pigs and their house-building endeavours will need to be rewritten in the light of modern house-building techniques and the challenge

  • Judge demands road sign after fatal crash in Cullingworth

    A judge has called on Bradford Council to explain why a warning sign has still not been fitted 16 months after a fatal accident on a notorious road. Motorist Susan Jones, 58, a quality assurance manager at a sweet factory, suffered fatal head injuries

  • Send them some Christmas cheer

    Loved ones, friends and festive well-wishers are being asked to send their Christmas messages to our brave servicemen and women serving abroad as part of a project run by the Telegraph & Argus. Anyone who wants to support our troops is asked to e-mail

  • Making road sense

    SIR – Re the article ‘Roads and stations needed for growth’ (T&A, December 6). The proposal seems an excellent idea, but may I suggest falls short of complete relief of one of the district’s major areas of road congestion. Surely it would make more

  • Is £1m a surplus?

    SIR – Re ‘Council sickness purge saves £1m’ (T&A, December 4). If this is so, then logically some sickness claims have been, and are, not genuine? Unless the Council has someone administering instantaneous cures on site. However, as £1 million has been

  • Population problems

    SIR – Bradford MDC, like all local authorities, is legally bound to produce a district-wide development framework for the creation of 45,500 living units and all associated infrastructures, to accommodate the Government’s projected population increase

  • No sense in this parking fine

    SIR – I feel compelled to write this letter after reading an article in a national newspaper by retail guru Kate Hardcastle about “Bradford’s dreary high street, littered with boarded-up shops” – her quote not mine. This is the time of year when shopkeepers

  • Airport is fined over ‘pollution’

    Leeds Bradford International Airport has been fined a total of £45,000 after admitting releasing potentially harmful surface water into a nearby beck. The Yeadon-based airport appeared before a district judge at Leeds magistrates court yesterday and

  • Binmen – at 67?

    SIR – It’s all very well the Government raising the retirement age, but I wonder how many manual workers like, say dustbinmen, will be able to carry on until they are 67? “There might be nothing really wrong with them – only anno domini, but that’s the

  • The lack of toilets

    SIR – May I, as an ex-serviceman of 13 years in the Royal Marines, have a moan about the lack of toilets in Queensbury. I remember in certain parts of the world we had to dig our own toilets – surely not in modern Queensbury! There are none. I have lived

  • December 14

    25 years ago: A welcome of tears and jubilation greeted Bradford City Football Club as 15,000 turned out for the emotional homecoming at Valley Parade yesterday. 50 years ago: Bradford’s takeover of the Queensbury and Shelf water supply, due to take

  • Robbery terror at city bookies’ shop

    Masked robbers, armed with a handgun, escaped with a significant amount of cash, following a raid at a Bradford bookies’ shop. Two male members of staff were working alone in the Betfred shop, in Tong Street, when the raiders burst in with what appeared

  • Bradford following Mary Portas's blueprint

    Bradford is on the right track in taking steps to revitalise the high street, as a new report by TV retail guru Mary Portas is unveiled. Moves to revive struggling high streets and shopping centres have been formulated by the BBC programme-maker who

  • Common sense ideas for revival

    There is a lot to be said for what Mary Portas is recommending in her new report on the future of the High Street as a place to shop in our towns and cities. In fact, she sounds as if she has been a regular T&A reader for some years! For a long time

  • Fly-tipping more than doubles across Bradford district

    The number of fly-tipping incidents across the district has more than doubled in a year topping 8,000. But despite the rise across Bradford, nationally incidents of illegal dumping have fallen. Figures released yesterday by the Department for Environment

  • Masterchef show a ‘big boost’ for Oli Farrar

    by Hannah Baker T&A Reporter A Bradford-born chef who made it to the final of this year’s Masterchef contest is now hoping to open his own restaurant. Oli Farrar, originally of Clayton, was knocked out of the contest this week after beating 36 other

  • Bradford City must wait for Davies verdict

    Andrew Davies will put talk of his future on hold to concentrate on City’s present predicament. The club want to extend the Stoke defender’s current three-month stay, which runs out after the FA Cup third round at Watford on January 7.

  • Bradford green belt concerns raised

    Under draft plans setting out a district-wide blueprint until 2028, a total of 4,000 new homes will be needed in the north-west of Bradford. Public consultation is continuing over Bradford Council’s Local Development Framework core strategy, which sets

  • Bradford businessman plans network of retail parks

    Property experts have paid £2.5 million for a former tramshed premises at Thornbury, Bradford, where they plan to develop a new retail park with units at affordable rents. The move by developers Roadside Retail will see the historic facade of the former