Bradford West MP George Galloway proudly declared: “I am a supporter of United – Fairbank United!” before handing out trophies to the triumphant teams as Fairbank celebrated a fantastic season. Both the under-13s and under-11s clinched their
A civilian police worker allowed her bed-ridden mother to die of malnutrition and infected sores after living in squalid conditions at their Guiseley home, a jury was told. Eileen Pearson, 82, was “dirty and severely emaciated” when her
One of the driving forces behind supermarket chain Morrisons’ recovery from its controversial Safeway acquisition is to leave the business. Finance director Richard Pennycook, who joined the Bradford-based company in October, 2005, is seen as a “safe
Unborn babies whose fathers smoked around the time of their conception can inherit damaged DNA, increasing their chances of developing diseases such as cancer in childhood and throughout their lives, according to new research. The study was led by Professor
Joint top of the North Division with three wins from five matches this season, stand-in captain Azeem Rafiq says things have never been better for Yorkshire in Friends Life t20 cricket. The off-spinner, 21, has led the side for the last two
A 13-year-old boy who has battled leukaemia was among the Bradford Olympic torchbearers who took part in the historic relay today. Sohail Husenbhai, a pupil at Dixons Academy, West Bowling, was nominated by his big sister Sama. He carried the flame through
Paramedics were called to a crash involving two cars outside St George’s Hall, at the junction of Hall Ings and Bridge Street, Bradford, at 5pm today. It involved a silver Ford Focus and a maroon Volkswagen Polo. An ambulance and a rapid response vehicle
Olympic road race medal hope Lizzie Armitstead is bored with the furore surrounding her row with Great Britain team-mate Nicole Cooke but admits she only has herself to blame. Armitstead fell out with Cooke last year when she was the designated
Bradford & Bingley sealed their place in the semi-finals of the JCT600 Bradford League's Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield yesterday with a three-wicket win over Great Horton, with two balls to spare. They chased down a Great Horton score of 185
Leeds Rhinos, Plate winners last year, are hoping to go one better on Rugby League Nines finals night at Headingley Carnegie tomorrow. Rhinos have named a strong squad after coming through their half of the group stage in second place, just one point
Old Brodleians have parted company with head coach Ian Armitage and assistant Clive Harris, with John Cole taking over the role. Armitage, 46, had overseen two promotions and a relegation in his five years at the helm of the Hipperholme-based club.
Having spent the whole of the season hovering just above the bottom of Aire-Wharfe League Division Three, Silsden may have turned their season round in a weekend. On Saturday they produced a gutsy display to earn a creditable draw against
The country’s top professional riders return to Brighouse tomorrow evening for the start of the 2012 British Cycling Elite Circuit Race Series. Elite racing is back in the town after a two-year absence and spectators can look forward to watching a top-class
Sajid Mahmood of Hallfield took 7-28 in just nine overs to help his side to a 19-run win over Cambing in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League's Sir James Roberts Cup. Hallfield batted first and made 148, with Zafar Iqbal scoring 40 and
Entries are now being taken for the fifth annual ‘Bringing Communities Together’ five-a-side tournament in Bradford, with Hockney Unity All-Stars aiming to defend their title. The event is organised by Naqshbandia Active Development Association (NADA
Only one of the three outstanding second-round ties in the Mewies Solicitors Craven League Cowling Cup managed to beat the weather. Holders Embsay Seconds entertained Bradley Seconds, who took first knock and it turned out to be a one- man show as Chris
Chocolate lollies stand guard aloft bars arranged like bullion. Welcome to chocoholics’ heaven! Billed as York’s newest attraction, Chocolate – York’s Sweet Story unfolds in a three-storey former toy shop at the heart of the city, some distance
We recently published, on this page, memories of Bradford store Marshall and Snelgrove, prompted by an appeal for information about the ‘posh frocks’ shop. From the flood of e-mails, letters and phone-calls that came in, the exclusive ladieswear shop
For the last 15 years, Nick Hamilton, son of the late Geoff Hamilton, has been busy following in his father’s green-fingered footsteps. Just wandering around some of the 38 small gardens created for TV at Barnsdale in Leicester, you can feel Geoff Hamilton
Wyke Wanderers under-11s won the Soccer City Hudderfield Five-a-side tournament. The team won every game in the league format, playing some sparkling football along the way, before defeating Dewsbury in the semi-final and Kirkburton in the final.
A 14-year-old basketball player from Odsal who has been scooping up titles throughout Yorkshire and the rest of the country is now to receive help from Bradford Council and SportsAid. Rhianna-Mae Laing, who currently plays for Sheffield
Sixteen teams from Bradford battled it out at the Goals Soccer Centre off Kings Road at its own version of this year’s European Championships. All teams were assigned a nation currently competing at Euro 2012 and the tournament mirrored exactly the
Staff at a Bradford school are celebrating after winning a victory to get a pedestrian crossing installed outside their gates in a bid to prevent speeding motorists putting children’s lives in danger. Bradford West Area Committee has decided to earmark
A family were forced to flee their home when a toaster on top of an electric hob set alight last night. Firefighters were called to Willow Tree Close, Long Lee, Keighley, at about 11.30pm. They arrived to find a mum and her two teenage
It was meant to provide a safe haven for elderly tenants tormented by thugs using a Bradford park. But a fenced-off area of Greengates recreation ground looks set to disappear after it has emerged social housing landlord Incommunities failed
Former skipper Guy Branston has left Bradford City. Branston agreed to cancel his contract by mutual consent, even though he had another year to run. Signed last summer by Peter Jackson, the well-travelled centre half found himself out
SIR – I’m not one to defend the Tories or their policies, but I’m afraid my old friend Max Hey is letting his left-wing bias get in the way of the facts again. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t recall any politician talk of “getting the disabled out of their
SIR – In response to Terry Tordoff’s letter (T&A, June 12) on us teaming up as superheroes. After much head-scratching, I have come up with the following: 1, I have contacts in the rag trade with heaps of fur fabric off cuts and the like. All I need
SIR – Brian Holmans (Letters, June 15) strangely links my gentle disapproval of Republican demonstrators at Jubilee events with some imagined disdain for the concept of republican government. Germany and the USA are indeed valid examples of the successful
SIR – It is common knowledge that the way out of economic recession is by creating employment through public sector infrastructure works, usually, building and civil engineering. The Government knows what to do – but it has other priorities. It is also
SIR – Terry Tordoff (Letters, June 16) is right to claim that greed is at the root of the financial crisis. He is wrong, however, to say it has developed almost overnight. It is the result of a great many people wanting to have things they were not earning
It’s the only time of year when I wish we had two televisions. As it is, we have just the one and I’ll have to content myself with occasional snatches of Wimbledon in between Hollyoaks, Big Bang Theory and assorted history programmes which between them
SIR – My answer to Mark Neale, ‘Beeching not to blame’ (Letters, June 13) is, why did Beeching lift the line along the Spen Valley? Why didn’t British Railways keep the lines in place, “just in case”. The people of Brighouse line up in jams, trying
SIR – I have read with alarm, as a person who has carers coming into my flat three times a day, the proposal to increase the charges. I am already paying approximately the same amount a week as I receive in state pension. I am considered having the
SIR – I would like to thank WYITA, Metro, Leeds and Bradford councils for giving us another, more efficient way to get to Leeds to do our shopping. Unfortunately, Leeds people won’t be rushing to Bradford to shop, will they? Dennis L Smith, Hazelcroft
SIR – With regard to social mobility and John Prescott, who was MP for East Hull, where the fine art department at the Regional College of Art was located when I was a student there, apparently he was quite hurt that he and his wife were never invited
SIR – At Thomas Cook’s AGM in February 2012, reference was made to the remuneration and pay-off to its former chief executive, Manny Fontenla-Novoa. Having received salary plus benefits of around £2 million a year, it was reported that he was awarded
SIR – I am glad the wearing of Nazi uniforms on so-called 1940s re-enactment weekends is at last being objected to. This has nothing to do with a re-enactment, as Nazi Germany did not in fact invade and occupy this country. To many people the sight
SIR – I was so pleased to see that one of your regular contributors Mr D S Boyes (Letters, June 16) apparently thinks, like I do, that the history of two world wars is not a subject for entertainment, albeit well meant. I have complained before about
Those people – and they are a huge part of the population – who care for family members who are old, infirm or seriously ill rightly expect that they will be given as much help as possible. Many organisations and agencies provide support for carers,
It’s something of a hoary old newspaper cliche to begin any report of an outdoor event beset by foul weather with the phrase “rain failed to dampen the spirits...” But in the case of the Positive Bradford event in the city centre yesterday, sometimes
A new Government-backed guide is aimed at encouraging children to be confident about their bodies, and be aware of the reality behind unattainably perfect depictions of celebrities in the media and advertising. The pack is helping parents make their
A friend of a tragic young man, who died from septicaemia at the age of 20, is organising a big fundraising event to pay for a gravestone. Callous wreckers attacked the grave of Dean Jeffreys at Bowling Cemetery, snapping a wooden cross in
Elliott Whitehead felt he had repaid his team-mates after the Bulls registered a close-fought 34-26 victory over Wakefield yesterday. The homegrown second-rower was still grieving from the death of his father Terry just days earlier and a minute
Phil Parkinson acknowledged Luke Oliver as City’s stand-out performer last season – and then challenged him to step up a couple of notches. The towering centre half was a worthy winner of the club’s player of the year crown in a campaign that was best
Bradford Bulls 34 Wakefield 26 Stephen Coulby will spend today locked in talks with potential investors as the Bulls bid to secure the investment required to save the club. Heaven knows how he will fare, but it is fair to say the outcome
Masked robbers stole thousands of pounds of cash and jewellery after threatening two terrified women in their Bradford homes. Detectives are investigating after the victims suffered “extremely distressing ordeals”. In the first raid,
Crowds turned out in their tens of thousands to welcome the Olympic Flame to Keighley, Skipton and Ilkley. Bradford Council has estimated crowds of 20,000 each witnessed the historic event in both Keighley and Ilkley. And in Skipton, it was
They came in their thousands to get a fleeting glimpse of the Olympic Flame as it arrived in Bradford on its mammoth 8,000-mile journey across the UK. Bradford Council has estimated 30,000 spectators greeted the Torch Relay as it passed through
A six-month wrangle over who should pay for a Down’s syndrome sufferer’s one-to-one care is wrecking his family’s life, says his devoted mum. Maralyn Adey said the stress of waiting to find out who would pay for the extra support hours her
They came in their thousands to get a fleeting glimpse of the Olympic Flame as it arrived in Bradford on its mammoth 8,000-mile journey across the UK. Bradford Council has estimated 30,000 spectators greeted the Torch Relay as it passed through
