A volunteer at Shipley Glen Tramway is in hospital after a two-ton metal laithe fell on top of him. The 66-year-old man had been trying to move the piece of machinery with two other volunteers in a workshop at the top of the tramway when the accident
Leeds have moved a step closer to a takeover after granting a due diligence period to a potential investor. The Leeds United Supporters Trust revealed at the end of last month that the Championship club were in talks with two interested parties regarding
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 yesterday. It involved a silver Ford Focus and a maroon Volkswagen Polo. An ambulance and a rapid response
Yorkshire are still waiting on a decision from Cricket Australia over Mitchell Starc’s availability. The left-arm fast bowler, currently enjoying an impressive run in the Friends Life t20, has been selected for his country’s three-week A tour of England
The joint administrator of Bradford Bulls has pleaded with any potential buyer to come forward and save the Bulls from extinction. The crisis-torn club today finally admitted defeat in its bid to raise the funds needed to pay debts owed to
Apperley Bridge dropped from the top of Bradford & District Evening Divison One to fifth place after their defeat at Bingley Congs. After struggling near the foot of the division last year, Congs are currently joint top. Josh Evans has been instrumental
Thackley are paying a high price for not being able to finish off teams they are dominating and it looks likely to cost them the defence of their Aire-Wharfe League title. On another weekend ravaged by rain – more than a quarter of Aire-Wharfe games
It isn’t halfway through the season but the Mewies Solicitors Craven League Division One title race is becoming a two-horse race. Leaders Haworth Road have not lost a game to the weather, while Airedale have lost six and Embsay five. Play was possible
Bradford Dudley Hill turned on the style in an emphatic 44-12 win over Stanley Rangers in National Conference Division One. Hill currently share first place with Yorkshire rivals York Acorn at the midway point of the season. Centre Craig Tyman soon
Six members of Bradford Ice Skating Club are competing in the British Solo Ice Dance Championships, which started today at ice Sheffield and will finish on Saturday. Cottingley’s Danielle Calthorpe, 19, who has had extensive experience in the
Former Bradford Central League side Low Moor sprang a major upset when they knocked Premier League table- toppers Booth out of the Towergate Halifax Cricket League’s Parish Cup. Low Moor, who are bottom of Division One, travelled as huge underdogs but
Local runners scattered far and wide in search of races over a wet June weekend. Diane Haggar (Ilkley) was fourth female at the Clougha Pike – which climbs 1,312 feet over 4.9 miles – outside Lancaster. Robb Jebb (Bingley) broke the exisiting course
Former Craven League player Arran Brindle made 29 off 23 balls as England Women made a winning start to their summer. The ex-Barrowford starlet added 53 with skipper Charlotte Edwards (72no off 61 balls) as they made 136-4 against Ireland in
Amer Ayub is Kashmir’s run machine in the First Division of the West Riding Sunday Council. He has had three 50s already in this damp season, and last weekend his 59 not out enabled the team to beat Khan's 128 by seven wickets. Just
Two Bradford primary schools finished among the top four in the West Yorkshire area final of the 2012 Drax Cup - the biggest cricket competition for under-nines in the country - at Pudsey St Lawrence. East Morton, from Keighley, and Feversham
Joel Gill has left Wharfedale to join Championship side Rotherham Titans. The 21-year-old centre arrives with a reputation that oozes immense potential. Physically strong, Gill has represented Yorkshire under-20s and is also capable of covering the
Jon Greenwood won the Five Nations Thai Boxing title with a victory over Dublin’s Jono Bracken (Bridgestone Thai Boxing) at Manchester Civic Suite. The contest was over five three-minute rounds of full Muay Thai rules – which allow boxing,
A historic firm of chartered accountants is using a blast from the past to look to the future in a venture aimed at encouraging new businesses – and change the perception of accountants as mere ‘number crunchers’. Partners at Bostocks Boyce
Visitors to an annual festival will get a chance to vote for their “crop idol” as preparations continue. The Burley-in-Wharfedale Summer Festival will feature a scarecrow competition involving residents and businesses as one of many attractions during
England Under-20s, captained by Leeds Carnegie and Otley’s Chris Walker, rounded off their IRB Junior World Championship campaign in South Africa with a hard fought 17-13 win against Australia for seventh place. Walker said: “We’re delighted with the
Reckless motorists who have created their own downhill tracks as a shortcut over derelict land on a Bradford housing estate are putting lives at risk, a councillor has warned. Coun Geoff Reid (Lib Dem, Eccleshill), said youngsters playing on the land
A couple who robbed a man in his own home have been jailed for a total of ten years. Victim Mohammed Nasir was threatened with violence by Michael Gill, who was armed with a piece of wood, and his partner Chloe Heffernan. Yesterday at Bradford Crown
Sky Ride is coming back to Bradford this Sunday offering a great day out for all the family with plenty of entertainment alongside the cycling. The event is back for a third year in the city and this time takes place on a traffic-free circular route
A family-of-five were led to safety by firefighters after a blaze at their home. A small fire broke out behind the kitchen door of the mid terraced property in Florist Street, Stockbridge, Keighley, just after 10pm yesterday. A smoke
08.00 Bulls forward Jamie Langley, the club’s longest-serving player: “It’s absolutely devastating. “Even though rumours were circulating that administration was on the horizon, you still have that glimmer of hope underneath that
Staff at a £1.25 million eco community centre are counting the cost after a suspected burst pipe flooded it with six inches of water, The damage at Baildon Community Link in Cliffe Avenue was discovered by staff on Sunday morning and means the venue
Work on a new £1 million underground water supply reservoir at Steeton has been completed. The Yorkshire Water scheme was part of a £23 million programme to create 16 underground tanks across the region. Ed Hinton, Yorkshire Water’s project manager,
Women in Bradford have been keeping fit for 50 years – thanks to an exercise class at Thornbury Methodist Church. The women’s keep fit group was started in 1962 by the late Mary Dinsdale, of Gain Lane, to raise funds for Sunday school trips at the church
If you want transfer tittle-tattle, then forget it. Phil Parkinson’s lips will remain sealed when it comes to potential targets. Some managers are happy to let names slip out into the public domain. Some even revel in it. Sky Sports and the like make
Firefighters rescued a 79-year-old wheelchair bound woman yesterday after a newspaper fell onto a heater, causing a fire at her Skipton home. Two crews were called to help the woman when the fire started in the living room of her bungalow in North Parade
A ceremony has been held at the Consulate of Pakistan in Bradford to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. More than 250 guests attended the event, including Councillor Mike Gibbon, deputy Lord Mayor of Bradford, and Councillor Ann Castle, Lord Mayor of
Three Bradford organisations have been handed a share of £153,000 after appearing on Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire show. Top poker player Andrew Feldman kept his true identity under cover when he posed as an unemployed person making a
A 21-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs after a suspected cannabis farm was discovered in a house in Bradford. Police in Great Horton and Little Horton Neighbour-hood Policing Team were called to a house in Bowling Old Lane
Police are hunting a car driver who mowed down a moped rider in a road rage incident. The 23-year-old man was pushing his moped on the pavement when he was knocked down by a green Vauxhall Corsa. The victim suffered a fractured ankle and cuts, but detectives
Police have made a fresh appeal to find a Polish woman who went on the run from her home in Bradford after being convicted of organising sham marriages. Andzelina Surmaj is thought to have netted about £26,000 by acting as “fixers” for the so-called
A record number of people have applied for Bradford Council allotments – with some facing a decade-long wait for a plot. About 2,000 people are now on the waiting list, with about 100 fresh inquiries coming in every month. The most popular sites are
We are the champions! Pupils at Hollingwood Lane Primary School got to try on the jackets worn by the last Bradford Dukes speedway team which competed in The Elite League Championship in 1997. They were brought in to the Bradford school by speedway enthusiast
If you haven’t already started thinking about your beach body, now’s definitely the time to mark your bikini SOS plan on the calendar, especially if last year’s costume is feeling a little too snug! The dreaded flesh-flaunting season means bikini angst
According to a recent survey for Moontide swimwear, 53 per cent of women start thinking about how they’ll look in their costumes more than two weeks before their holiday, with 15 per cent worrying more than a month beforehand. But don’t fret if finding
t’s like a secret society. Hoardes of home bakers arrive at a venue they have only known about for a short time before their get-together. For those who regularly try out recipes on family and friends, it’s the perfect platform to test their baking
SIR – The slur that Odeon regeneration supporters are non-progressive is utterly unjust (Letters, June 20). Many do remember fondly the building’s proud place in a city centre once worth visiting, but predominantly our vision is futuristic with a revitalised
I know it’s all very worthy, and a huge thing for the UK, but I’m afraid I’ve struggled to summon up any enthusiasm for the London 2012 Olympics. I grew up in quite a sporty house and it was rarely off the telly. We watched everything from football to
SIR – At last the news is out all over town – the Tory party has let us down by allowing millionaires to pay one per cent tax on their enormous incomes while the poor old working man and OAP has to pay 20 per cent. The Emperor’s Clothes don’t exist after
SIR – I write further to two previous published letters with regards the “development” of Bradford. I have read with interest both comments by Mr Galloway and those of Councillor Green. I am no fan of Mr Galloway. However, he has achieved more in his
SIR – In support of B Barraclough’s recent letter (T&A, June 25), many correspondents, including me in 2008, have noted the lack of a rail link to Bradford from the South and suggested the resurrection of the Spen Valley line. However, nothing seems to
SIR – I have recently watched a documentary about the history of corporal punishment. This brought back memories of my early days at the school of hard-knocks – Farfield Junior, and Buttershaw Comprehensive. In those days, instruments of correction were
SIR – Would Bradford Council have revealed that 438 acts of violence had been carried out by students on their teachers between 2009 and 2011 if the T&A had not made a Freedom of Information request? We might never have known that these little monsters
25 years ago: Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Heseltine had been invited by former Tory MP for Bradford North Geoff Lawler, but because he lost his seat at the general election, Mr Heseltine cancelled his visit. 50 years ago: The number
There are rightly real concerns about the dramatic decline in bus passengers in West Yorkshire over the last 15 years. At a time when there is a focus on getting more people using public transport for environmental reasons, the number of journeys on
There are few things as satisfying as sitting down to a feast of vegetables you have sown, nurtured and grown yourself. And it is a pleasure more of us are seeking, as concern over the quality and source of our food increases. The on-going debate about
A Cleckheaton woman was rescued by firefighters after a lit cigarette started a blaze in her bedroom. Fire crews from Cleckheaton and Odsal had to smash down the front door of the home in Hunsworth Lane, Hunsworth, shortly before 2am yesterday to lead
Guy Branston admitted he was stepping off a rollercoaster after leaving City for Aldershot. The no-nonsense centre half signed a one-year deal with the Hampshire side just hours after his Valley Parade exit was announced. As he prepared
Homeless young people in the district are to benefit from a concert celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The concert, featuring songs from six decades of music, was held at Bradford Cathedral and among the performers were 75 children from Stage 84
A chef was almost beheaded with a meat cleaver by a brutal murderer who then set fire to his home, a jury heard. Amjad Hussain, who was married to a primary school teacher and was the father of a nine-year-old son, was killed because he was trying to
Nearly 2,000 tax office staff in Bradford district went on strike yesterday in protest against “massive cuts” they claim undermined efforts to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes. About 1,700 members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS)
An annual golf day to raise money for Bradford charity, The Ear Trust, has been held at Bingley St Ives Golf Club. Organiser and Ear Trust fundraiser Breeda Barry said: “There was a full field for the four-ball event which started with lunch and ended
Bus operators across West Yorkshire could soon be subject to new regulation and public control under plans proposed by the transport authority Metro to turn the tide of falling passenger numbers. West Yorkshire’s Integrated Transport Authority
The Rugby Football League have admitted their concerns as the Bulls bid to beat today’s investment deadline and stave off the looming threat of administration. Up to £1.2million is needed to safeguard the club’s future until the end of the
Any plan to regionalise benefit payouts to bring them in line with local wage rates would be “cruel and heartless” and almost impossible to implement, MPs have said. Radical reforms being considered by David Cameron aimed at getting people back into
by Hannah Baker T&A Reporter More than 10,000 children from schools across the district filled Odsal Stadium yesterday for a dance, sport and musical extravaganza to celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games. The Bradford District Schools Sports
Steeton and Silsden GP Practice is seeking new recruits to join its Patient Participation Group (PPG). Membership of the PPG, which meets evenings four times a year, is open to anyone registered with the practice. “The major overhaul of health services
An exhibition celebrating a town’s sports clubs will open next month. In recognition of the Olympic summer, Bradford Museums and Galleries has organised the event celebrating the sports clubs of Ilkley and Ben Rhydding, which opens at the Manor House
A rail link to Leeds-Bradford Airport, electrification of the Caldervale Line and development of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, are among a list of “aspirations” a senior council figure wants taken forward up to 2026. Metro, the West Yorkshire
