Brighouse Town lost out in a five-goal thriller in the Baris Northern Counties East League Premier Division tonight but Thackley marched through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup on a mixed night for the neighbours. Town twice took the lead against
A senior councillor behind a proposal to scrap free on-street parking across the district last night told angry traders he would be willing to talk to them on all parking issues facing their town. Councillor David Green, Bradford Council’s portfolio
A UK car plant launched by the current chairman of a Bradford-based retail group had a record-breaking year in 2011. The Nissan plant in Sunderland produced 480,485 vehicles last year, up 14 per cent on the previous record of 423,262. The factory was
Students at the University of Bradford should secure their homes and protect their possessions, a convicted burglar has warned. Peter Findlay, 33, who served four years in prison for burglary, said students are a “ridiculously easy” target.
This year could be the year in which property renting becomes the new ‘owning’, according to one of the UK’s largest letting experts, Belvoir. Increasing consumer nervousness, unemployment, a squeeze on purchasing power triggered by a downturn and the
More than 270 runners of all ages and experience competed in the first major local orienteering event of 2012 in Middleton Park, South Leeds. The park is well known in orienteering circles for its complex network of paths, two steep-sided valleys
The world’s leading two triathletes, Bingley Harriers duo Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, destroyed the 221-strong field to take gold and silver at the Yorkshire Cross-Country Championships. Older brother Alistair made up for a narrow defeat
Lawn Tennis Association president Peter Bretherton celebrated his first year in the post by reflecting on a successful 12 months for the sport in this country. Bretherton, who has been a member of Heaton Tennis & Squash Club for over 30 years, was speaking
Glenn Barraclough’s hat-trick helped West Bowling A coast to a comprehensive 48-6 win over Odsal Sedbergh A in the opening round of the HUDSON FOSTER SUPPLEMENTARY BRADFORD CUP. Bowling had the tie in the bag as they built up a 24-0 lead by half-time
Scunthorpe United reserves 0, Bradford City reserves 2 Goals from Ross Hannah and Mark Stewart helped City ease to a victory over their counterparts from Scunthorpe United this afternoon and extend their good form in this season's Central
Dougie Lampkin thanked his army of fans as he brought a close to a long and successful relationship with his favourite event. The 35-year-old Silsden rider was competing in the Sheffield Indoor Trial for the final time, having taken part in every event
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Kevin Michael Holmes, 36, of Martin Dale Close, Fagley; failure to comply with requirements of community order, order revoked and dealt with for the original offences; original offences of theft
Historic charities are offering money to Burley and Menston people and organisations in financial need. Burley and Menston Charities are inviting organisations in the villages to apply for awards, and can also make awards to those who find
Guiseley Rangers are inviting old and potential new players to attend their junior indoor training sessions ahead of the summer season. Anyone aged seven-12 can join in at the Ferinni Football venue at Kirkfields Industrial Centre in Yeadon on Sunday
Johnson Services Group said it expects full-year profits will fail to meet City expectations after being dragged down by the performance of its drycleaning arm Johnson Cleaners, which includes branches in Shipley, Guiseley, Horsforth, Pudsey and Yeadon
Sportswear firm JD Sports Fashion has confirmed it is close to landing “certain assets” of the ailing retailer Blacks Leisure. The company, whose largest shareholder Pent-land owns the outdoor brands Berghaus and Brasher, has reportedly offered £20 million
Craven, Aire & Wharfe League – U10A: Skipton LMS 1, Shipley Lions 2; Sutton Rascals 3, Oakworth Hornets 1. U10B: Shipley Tigers 0, Shipley Panthers 0; Sutton Rebels 1, Oakworth Wasps 1; Sutton Rogues 9, Bingley Bocker 0. U11A: Oakworth Hornets
Two teenagers have been arrested for public order offences. The boys, both 17, were arrested on Overland Crescent, Apperley Bridge, after they made off from police earlier on two quad bikes. They received a reprimand and a final warning respectively.
Around 20 rail users are to receive compensation after a fallen tree caused chaos on the lines. The passengers were stranded on the train for more than two hours and then had to walk along the tracks when a tree fell on power lines near Menston last
Former Sheffield United and Barnsley right back Rob Kozluk is appearing for City's reserves this afternoon. The 34-year-old, who recently played for Port Vale, faced Scunthorpe with a view to being offered a deal until the end of the season
Transport chiefs say one of the main railway lines in the district is “under-performing” in its role as a strategic route connecting Bradford with Leeds and Manchester. A report drawn up by consultants pinpoints the Caldervale line, operated by diesel
A Skipton man hurled abuse at police who had been investigating reports of a domestic incident. Jamie Halford, 19, told Skipton magistrates on Friday that he had been arguing with his girlfriend when officers turned up at Belle Vue Terrace just before
The former chief executive of Thomas Cook received £1.17 million from the company after he resigned, even though the the group's performance deteriorated under his watch. The holiday giant’s annual report revealed Manny Fontenla-Novoa received the payout
A male driver in Bradford was fined £260 and given six points on his driving licence after being caught without car insurance. The man was stopped by neighbourhood policing officers in Buttershaw after they spotted an illegal number plate on his vehicle
A horrific crash with claimed the life of an Otley pensioner has been judged a “tragic accident”. Peter Kerr was killed when his Vauxhall Meriva was in collision with a bus on the A659 Pool Road near the Shell garage at Pool-in-Wharfedale, on April 20
Keighley Musicians Centre is to move from the railway station to the town’s former Employment Exchange. The move from its cramped premises will allow the long-established family business to expand. As well as music lessons and instrument sales the two-storey
A Keighley folk rock band is ‘setting sail’ for the Big Apple. The Sailmakers are to perform two acoustic gigs in New York in March. The quartet, fronted by singer Ryan Madden, has also been championed by the BBC Introducing website
A cricket club has welcomed a donation of £200 from a supermarket in Bradford, which will go towards re-starting its junior section. The Tesco store in Queensbury has donated the money to Westwood Park Cricket Club, in Clayton Heights, to help provide
Work by new and experienced artists will be on display in Keighley’s Cliffe Castle Museum for two and a half months, beginning with an afternoon preview this Saturday. The exhibition will be staged by Keighley Art Club and Bingley Art Society and will
Organisers of the Saltaire Arts Trail are calling for applications from artists and craftspeople for its Makers’ Fair. The fair will be at Victoria Hall, Saltaire, over the bank holiday weekend of May 5 to 7, from 10am to 5pm each day. There will also
The amount of calls to the RSPCA about abandoned animals has risen for the fifth year in a row. In 2011, the charity took 28,162 abandonment calls, compared to 27,755 in 2010. But the December total last year was 1,997, the lowest it has been since
More than 1,100 homes were left without electricity following a power cut in Wilsden, Cottingley and Sandy Lane. Northern Power Grid, which is responsible for electricity supplies in Yorkshire and the North-East, said an underground cable fault
Family mediators in Bradford have said they are on standby to receive on unprecedented number of inquiries from couples who have decided to split after the stress of the Christmas holidays. The Bradford-based West Yorkshire Family Mediation Service said
Motorists will have an extra feeling of security when they part at Bradford University’s car parks which are now part of the Park Mark Scheme. Members of the scheme have had their car park vetted by the police with other measures also in place. To find
Sales activity in the Yorkshire housing market remained firm during December, despite subdued levels of supply and demand, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. For the second month running, the average number of sales per surveyor
A Birkenshaw soldier badly injured in an explosion in Afghanistan which killed his friend has been reunited with his family. Private Matthew Light, son of Kirklees Council Tory leader Councillor Robert Light, was flown out of Camp Bastion to
Bradford could cut its energy bill by £189 million a year if major investments are made in energy and carbon management, a report says. Bradford’s annual energy bill currently stands at £689 million, which is almost nine per cent of all income
Tributes have been paid to a great-grandmother who ran a well-known Shipley newsagents for more than two decades. Ethel O’Hara, who ran the shop in Otley Road for many years with her late husband Jim, has died at the age of 94. The great grandmother-of-three
More than 35,000 children in Bradford are growing up in poverty, according to research published today. And experts say the picture will get even gloomier as the Government’s spending cuts bite. The Campaign to End Child Poverty, which has produced
An elderly couple were given oxygen after a fire at a Keighley house. They were alerted to the blaze, which started in an electrical fuse box, at 12.30am today by a smoke alarm. Keighley firefighters said the man and woman in their 80s
SIR – Thank you for publishing my letter on pensioners’ power (January 5th). Unfortunately, the telephone number which I gave for anyone wishing to contact me was incorrect. This was my fault entirely – let’s call it a senior moment! I would be grateful
In his remarks about patient care in hospitals (T&A, January 7), David Cameron has suggested patient groups could have the right to visit and check up on hospitals, without any warning. This is a good idea, but he doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel,
SIR – Further to reading the Telegraph & Argus piece published on January 3, regarding the Conservative group proposal to scrap the free parking and free shuttle buses available to Council staff, I was appalled, though not at all surprised, to read the
SIR – Never thought I’d say it, but bravo David Rhodes (Letters, T&A, January 5). Mr Rhodes is quite correct in that the reason tobacconists are losing trade on the sale of tobacco products is the astronomical amount of tax duty imposed on the said
A new NHS dental practice, based in Manningham, Bradford, was officially opened yesterday. Ravat and Ray Dental Practice, open and treating new patients since last July, will see up to 5,500 patients a year when it is fully up and running.
Visitors to Bingley’s world-famous Five Rise Locks will this month get a rare glimpse of parts of the engineering masterpiece normally hidden underwater. British Waterways has drained the Grade I listed structure for maintenance revealing the
A Bradford pub landlord has welcomed news that he is owed more than £17,000 after being mis-sold payment protection insurance by his bank. Tony Reed, landlord at The Venue, in Park Lane, Little Horton, has now urged people to check to see if they are
Frugal shoppers made a late rush for Morrisons’ stores during the week before Christmas but on average bought one item less per basket of goods, the Bradford-based mass market grocer has confirmed. Shoppers also turned to cheaper cuts of meat, such as
SIR – In addition to having some of the worst postcodes for uninsured cars and car insurance-related fraud, Bradford has now won the accolade of having the lowest percentage of driving test pass rates in the country. The main reasons for this problem
SIR – The Local Development Framework is fundamentally flawed through being based on the false premise that Bradford’s population increase of 103,000 between 2010 and 2028 will neccessitate an additional 45,500 houses. This equates to each new house
It is good news that a police operation to cut down on incidents of pick-pocketing and purse-dipping in Bradford city centre is yielding positive results. As we have reported many times in the pages of the T&A, theft from shoppers and people going about
From the T&A... 25 years ago: Bradford Council had been holding secret talks aimed at selling off six of its old people’s homes. Negotiations with an unnamed housing association had begun in July and had been stepped up a gear. 50 years ago: An anxious
Many drink drivers caught out during the Christmas and New Year period will be anxious and concerned as to what is going to happen to them. For some, the conviction could lead to a complete change in attitude towards their use of alcohol and to how it
Mouth cancer patients in Bradford will be the first in the world to try a new battery-powered gum shield that could end the misery of a dry mouth. The pacemaker device fits over the lower teeth and uses minor, painless, electric shocks to trigger saliva
A primary school has launched its first Stephen Lawrence Week to help pupils learn to love and let live. The week, at Bradford’s Horton Grange Primary School, involves lessons on how to celebrate each other’s differences rather than see them
A Bradford man who provided police with CCTV of a gunman blasting his family home has spoken of his frustration that nobody has been brought to justice nearly three months later. Pir Khan, 31, produced his own surveillance video to detectives
Every now and then, I get the feeling I’m watching the Emperor’s new clothes. Sitting in a darkened multiplex, wearing a pair of plastic glasses I knew I looked ridiculous in, the scales fell before my eyes and I realised I’d fallen victim to a three-dimensional
Karam and Kartari Chand were teenagers when they were introduced in their native India – and now they have just celebrated their 86th wedding anniversary. The couple, aged 106 and 99 respectively, got married back in 1925. The Guinness Book of Records
Friends and family of John Duffey raised £6,000 at a charity dinner for the tragic groom, struck down with a brain haemorrhage days before his wedding. The 28-year-old was left stranded in a Greek hospital needing an £11,000 operation after collapsing
A brave woman who lost an arm in a savage dog attack says she is ready to get on with the rest of her life after being fitted with a new prosthetic arm. Linda Woodhall, 61, has now returned to her volunteering work at the Gateway Community
Organisers of the Saltaire Arts Trail are calling for applications from artists and craftspeople for its Makers’ Fair. The fair will be at Victoria Hall, Saltaire, over the bank holiday weekend of May 5 to 7, from 10am to 5pm each day. There will also
A heartless criminal stole £50 from a 90-year-old woman after conning his way into her Bradford home. The suspect barged past the pensioner after calling at her home in Whetley Lane, Manningham, holding up a blue identification card and saying “electric
A police Christmas campaign to clampdown on purse-dipping and pick-pocketing in Bradford city centre is being hailed a success. Latest figures reveal that ‘theft from person’ offences last month were down by 20 per cent compared to the previous year.
Bulls coach Mick Potter is confident Keith Lulia will prove a hit at Odsal and has backed him to win his fitness battle ahead of the new season. The imposing centre linked up with Potter’s squad last week following his arrival from NRL outfit Newcastle
A Bradford cinema, forced to close its doors last week while essential maintenance work was carried out, will not open “until further notice”. The Odeon Leeds-Bradford (pictured), at the Gallagher Leisure Park, in Thornbury, has been closed since the
A major decision will be made on multi-million pound plans to introduce 20mph zones and install speed humps in residential streets surrounding the notoriously traffic-choked Saltaire Roundabout. Bradford Council’s Shipley Area Committee will decide tomorrow
A 45-year-old man has been convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court of sexually assaulting a ten-year-old boy. Neil Watkin, of Danecourt Road, Holme Wood, Bradford, will be sentenced on January 30 after a jury found him guilty of the charge yesterday
Abrar Hussain, 54, from Bradford, was 18-years-old when he first developed jaundice and the early signs of liver disease. In 1988, soon after he moved to Bradford, tests revealed an underlying liver complaint which needed regular check-ups and
Bradford Bulls rugby league player Chev Walker will be at the city’s Kirkgate Shopping Centre on Saturday encouraging more people from black and Asian communities to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register. Chev will pledge his support for
A 26-year-old man has been jailed after a high-speed car chase across Bradford, in which a Subaru Impreza was pursued by the police helicopter and four patrol vehicles. Banned driver Baber Hussain swerved into a police car and rammed a dog van, injuring
A man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying controlled drugs after a teenage student from Bradford was found dead at his halls of residence. Tributes were paid yesterday to first year Leeds Metropolitan University student Adam Dixon, 18, of Shelf
A self-styled preacher on trial accused of a catalogue of rapes, beatings and sexual abuse over three decades has told a jury: “I am not a violent man.” Brian Jackson said he was a born again Christian who found God at Bradford’s Abundant Life Centre
Bradford’s business leaders are pressing Chancellor George Osborne to include some strong economic stimulus measures in the Budget following a dip in confidence at the end of last year. The latest quarterly economic survey by Bradford Chamber of Commerce
The Bulls have confirmed the dates of the final pre-season games at Keighley and Hull. The game against Hull at the KC Stadium for Lee Radford’s testimonial will take place on Sunday, January 29 (3pm), two days after the game at Keighley (7.30pm
City are confident that Marcel Seip and Ricky Ravenhill will both be signed up by Saturday. But Steve Williams is set to head for the Scottish Premier League to join Inverness on loan. The former non-league centre half, who has
There is only one obvious question to ask a Premier League defender who has just committed his immediate future to a club at the wrong end of League Two: Why would you do it? And Andrew Davies will give you an answer as straight to the point as any of
Demolition of disused buildings is under way at the headquarters of mail order company Freeman Grattan Holdings in Ingleby Road, Great Horton. The buildings, a mixture of vacant warehouses and office space, have stood empty for some time with the business
Keighley Musicians Centre is to move from the railway station to the town’s former Employment Exchange. The move from its cramped premises will allow the long-established family business to expand. As well as music lessons and instrument sales the two-storey
