Bradford East MP David Ward has met with residents angered over the installation of 6ft gates across a Bradford road. Residents claim the gates in Ventnor Street, Barkerend, erected earlier this month by the nearby Gobind Singh Gurdwara Sikh temple,
Impressive City broke their away duck with a notable scalp as Luke Oliver sunk Southend tonight. The big centre half struck late but it was no more than Phil Parkinson's men deserved against a team who would have gone top with a win.
City lined up at Southend with just one change to the side that drew at home to Plymouth last week, with Nahki Wells replacing Jack Compton. Wells was handed a chance to partner James Hanson up front as Compton dropped to a bench that also included Mark
Sixty young ice skaters performed for friends and family tonight at their Christmas show at Bradford Ice Arena. They took part in the ‘Dream, Wish, Believe’ production, most of them members of Bradford Ice Skating Club. Over the past year, several
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Heaton: external works including regrading of existing levels, and new 3.5m high fencing, and creation of new fire escape for refurbishment of existing ward to provide new Psychiatric
A musical written by 50 Skipton primary school children has made its public debut. Skipton the Musical was premiered at Skipton Girls’ High School to an audience of parents and music lovers. The scheme was funded by North Yorkshire Music Action Zone
Jason Gillespie believes Yorkshire’s first-team squad has the ideal blend of youth and experience. The county’s new first-team coach - he hopes to begin his new role in late January - has refuted suggestions that the players are at a low ebb
People who commit drugs-related crimes are being targeted by police in a new drive to cut crime in Keighley. Officers from the Keighley Neighbourhood Policing Team have begun new late-night patrols in Highfield, Victoria Mews, Cliffe Castle and the town
A cat refuge has issued a desperate plea for funds to help it keep up its good work. Brenda Satterley. who has run Cat Rescue from her home in Allerton for more than 40 years, said the shelter was struggling to cope with the number of cats in
Barbarians chairman John Spencer (Wharfedale), through their Charitable Trust, has donated £2,000 to the Rugby Football Union Injured Players’ Foundation (IPF). Injured players from across the country will now receive vital support. The Barbarians Charitable
Woodhouse Grove School are through to the last 16 of the RBS Daily Mail Under-18 Cup. They braved the cold and wet to defeat visitors Barnard Castle School 7-3 in the fifth round, having already beaten them 25-23 earlier in the season. Barnard Castle
Revellers are being warned to steer clear of drugs over the festive period. It comes after two 20-year-old men collapsed after taking what police described as “an unknown substance” in Bradford. Both men spent two days in hospital before being discharged
Former England international Andy Titterrell has joined his former club Sale on loan from Leeds Carnegie. The switch is part of an extension of the partnership between the Aviva Premiership club and their trans-Pennine Championship neighbours. While
Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird was the special guest at Haworth Cricket Club’s end-of-season presentation event. The internationally-renowned umpire and former Yorkshire and Leicestershire player presented the awards at the Mewies Solicitors Craven League outfit
Bradford’s Ryan Laybourn was proud as punch after winning the cruiserweight final at the Senior Novice Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) Championships. The 20-year-old, who boxes for the Huggy’s Platinum Amateur Club, was always
Bradford Park Avenue boss John Deacey was obviously disappointed and frustrated following his side’s defeat at North Ferriby United in midweek but he was quick to put it into context. “We are keeping pace with some very, very good sides so there is no
Farsley AFC's home victory over Woodley Sports last weekend began with a sixth-minute penalty which only served to fuel the gossip-mongers. Farsley are gaining a reputation for penalty kicks being awarded to them but boss Neil Parsley believes
Former Bradford City player Ian Banks, who has also been assistant manager at Valley Parade, has brought his vast experience to Eccleshill United, and the Eagles are going from strength to strength. However, after a run that has taken them to within
Eighty students from South Craven School, Cross Hills, stepped into the limelight with their annual production. This year, they performed “Our House”, based on the music of Madness and charts the life of Joe as he follows two paths – one good and one
A nursery and community garden has been opened by the Bishop of Bradford, in memory of a children centre’s former caretaker. The Right Reverend Nick Baines was on hand to open the garden at Mortimer House Children’s Centre in Mortimer Avenue, Bradford
A nursery and community garden has been opened by the Bishop of Bradford, in memory of a children centre’s former caretaker. The Right Reverend Nick Baines was on hand to open the garden at Mortimer House Children’s Centre in Mortimer Avenue
A man needed hospital treatment after he was struck with a hammer by street muggers last night. The 34-year-old victim was getting an ice scraper from the boot of his car, outside Walden Drive in Chellow Grange, Bradford, when he was approached
Pupils at a Bingley primary school continued their impressively high standard after once again being named in the top 200 in the country. Every pupil at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Bingley achieved level four or above in English
Youngsters are enjoying new play equipment at a Bradford school, installed as part of a project to improve standards for pupils. The playground at Byron Primary School, in Barkerend Road, officially unveiled by Lord Mayor of Bradford Councillor
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Allerton: construction of side and rear extension plus annex, 20 Egerton Grove. Allerton: construction of two-storey side and rear extension, new roof construction
A total of 4,500 new homes will be needed in the south west of Bradford, according to draft plans by Bradford Council as part of its Local Development Framework. The district-wide blueprint details a broad approach to where 45,500 homes could be built
A Liberal Democrat councillor is calling on schools in the district to better publicise bursaries available to sixth form students. Councillor Geoff Reid (Eccleshill) had asked that Bradford Council do more following the scrapping of the Educational
We’re under no illusions how tough it’s going to be at Southend tonight. Paul Sturrock has built a good squad down there and put a team together who have got something to prove. A lot of them have been at a higher level and they’ve obviously
The jury in the trial of a 30-year-old man accused of raping a woman on a night out in Bradford has been discharged from giving a verdict. Judge John Potter dismissed jurors yesterday and ordered a retrial on May 28. John Cawley, of Hazelhurst Road,
Firefighters have had to contend with yobs throwing fireworks and stones, acting aggressively and abusing them verbally, a report has shown. A total of 31 attacks on fire service workers were reported in the last financial year in the Bradford district
Police in the Shelf area have outlined their current priorities. Officers are working to reduce thefts from motor vehicles in the village and to crack down on parking problems around Shelf Primary School at drop off and pick up times.
City are not spooked by the nightmarish prospect of dropping out of the Football League. Defeat at high-flying Southend tonight would leave everyone sweating over the rest of the weekend results. Wins for Plymouth and Dagenham tomorrow would see the
Police say thousands of pounds are being stripped from convicted criminals in the Bradford South Division, after a 34-year-old man was ordered to repay more than £5,000 in ill-gotten gains. Troy Bland was given six months, by a judge at Bradford Crown
An independent scrutiny panel has been set up by West Yorkshire prosecutors to further increase the success rate of rape cases taken to court. Successful rape prosecutions in West Yorkshire went up by 12 per cent in the last year. Now chief Crown prosecutor
A Bradford youth choir which has recorded songs to be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 is singing in the city tomorrow. The Family Christmas Spectacular concert, by Bradford Festival Choral Society, features the Bradford boys’ and girls’ choirs. The boys’ choir
There is a woman with an expression on her face that suggests she is not having a good day. She is sitting in her car on the main road at the bottom of our street, looking ahead at the long line of cars heading off into the kind of infinite vanishing
25 years ago: Severely disabled children at a special school in Bradford started their Christmas holidays four days early because their school had been declared too dangerous to use. 50 years ago: The minister of the Bradford Hebrew Congregation at the
A lack of funds is putting a popular children’s project at risk of closure. More than 250 youngsters aged between eight and 13 have enjoyed Wild Adventures over the past four years, but financial constraints mean it could all come to an end by March.
Anyone caught up in the chaos on Bradford’s roads as a small covering of snow left many roads gridlocked will support the question we ask on the front page of the Telegraph & Argus today. How did the early morning flurry of snow leave thousands of commuters
SIR – I am writing as me and my partner were clamped at Changegate car park after a day in Haworth. We were reportedly parked over the line, but I have photos to show we were on the line. The lines themselves are very unclear and once parked can only
SIR – I share Michael Murphy’s deep disappointment about the way Liberal Democrats have sold out to the Conservatives in Government (Letters, December 3). I am particularly frustrated that these two parties have cut Bradford Council’s budget so savagely
SIR – How can it be right that the Council has paid one of its members £12,000 to chair some obscure panel for meeting only once a year, and then to read that some Bradford youngsters are going to school hungry? If the councillor in question has read
SIR – The T&A is again full of complaints about the gritters. The Council should offer a free trip in the passenger seat on a gritting run and see what the gritter drivers have to put up with. I worked for the Council in the vehicle maintenance section
SIR – Last winter, there were more than 16,000 hospital admissions in England as a result of falls on ice or snow. While roads are routinely gritted in more affluent areas, pavements and roads in Owlet Hall, East Shipley, are often neglected, making
An inquest is likely to be opened next week into the deaths of Pudsey couple Clair and Richard Smith and their two young sons (pictured. Police continue to investigate the tragic deaths of the family, whose bodies were found on a bed in their detached
Yesterday’s brief early morning flurry of snow wasn’t that heavy; but the speed with which it turned to slippery slush seems to have caught out hundreds of drivers, causing traffic jams into Bradford from the south, the west and the north. In October
SIR – Alex Eaton,who died last week, was not only an inspiration musically, and a political comrade, he was also someone I was proud to call my friend. We disagreed on many things but our discussions never degenerated into angry arguments. He was a man
SIR – There’s a certain irony when, on the very same day the retail guru, Mary Portas, published her recommendations on improving high-street shopping, principle among which is the reduction in car-parking charges, Bradford Council should announce its
Sharing cups of tea and freshly-made pakoras is helping two groups of women in Keighley bridge their cultural differences. Keighley Soroptimists and a group of mums from Eastwood Primary School of Pakistani origin have been meeting in the school’s family
The NHS in Bradford and Airedale will get an extra £25 million to provide services for patients in 2012-13, the Government has announced. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust will get a revenue allocation
A total of 4,500 new homes will be needed in the south west of Bradford, according to draft plans by Bradford Council as part of its Local Development Framework. The district-wide blueprint details a broad approach to where 45,500 homes could
A 45-year-old man has been jailed for six years for shattering a promising rugby player’s arm with a blow from a sledge hammer handle. Stewart Craven lost his temper and struck 19-year-old Connor Hinchcliffe on the elbow as the teenager raised his arm
Jamie Langley is cautiously optimistic about the Bulls’ prospects for 2012 but admits the real test of their mettle will come when the new season kicks off. Few players in Super League have experienced the highs and lows that Langley has during a decade
The councillor in charge of keeping Bradford’s roads open in bad weather last night admitted the network “struggles to cope” under pressure after thousands of commuters faced delays of several hours in snarled-up traffic. Main routes into the city were
Children who have to stay in hospital over the holidays were overjoyed yesterday to receive gifts from students and staff at the University of Bradford. Following the success of its Christmas Present Appeal last year, the School of Health Studies
Kyel Reid believes he can be the talisman to break City’s Southend hoodoo. The Bantams make their 15th appearance at Roots Hall tonight and have never won there. But Reid relishes the trip to the Essex seaside, having won all three of his previous senior
Former Telegraph & Argus columnist Andy Broadfoot has died aged 79. Mr Broadfoot, who had run away at the age of 14 to join the Royal Navy, wrote for the T&A’s Ex-Servicemen’s weekly column during the 1990s. Mr Broadfoot’s son Scott Broadfoot said his
More than 1,700 trouble families across Bradford which cost the taxpayer in excess of £130 million a year are to be targeted in an attempt to help them “turn their lives around”. The Government will spend £450 million on 120,000 problem families in England
