Young entrepreneurs descended on Bradford city centre today to sell their wares and make a profit for charity. Schools from across the Bradford district, including Challenge College, Lidget Green Primary, Bowling Park Primary and Horton
A total of 48 junior football teams will be competing in Queensbury Celtic’s tournament – for under-sevens, eights, nines and tens – at their ground opposite Raggalds pub on Sunday, July 15, beginning at 9.30am.
Detectives have been given the go ahead to enter a fire-ravaged building in Keighley to investigate whether the blaze was started deliberately or not. Structural engineers had to give the commercial garage on Beck Street the all-clear before police could
Drighlington Primary School lifted the winners’ cup at the Yorkshire RFU YAZOO Regional Tag Rugby Festival. The event, attended by around 250 boys and girls from across the region, took place at Pontefract RUFC. The festival is one of
Former England paceman Steve Harmison has joined Yorkshire on a month-long loan from Durham. Harmison, 33, has found himself on the fringes of the first team at the Riverside this season and has been confined to the second XI for much of the
Firefighters have been tackling a house fire on the edge of Bradford city centre. The fire service was called to a house in Claremont Terrace, just off Morley Street, at 6.31am today. A fire service spokesman said 25 per cent of the
A teenager turned heads when he turned up at his high school prom in a lorry. Daniel Connell and girlfriend Jessica Illingham, both 16, bucked the trend of arriving in a luxury limousines when they pulled up at Bradford’s Cedar Court Hotel
Campaigners fighting plans for wind turbines in Bronte country have developed an online interactive map to highlight the proliferation of turbines on moorland above Bradford. Thornton Moor Wind Farm Action Group, which is challenging plans by Banks
An award-winning Keighley baker is preparing for the national launch of his acclaimed bread recipe. Mike Armstrong, who works in the bakery at the Sainsbury’s supermarket in Keighley, came up with the idea for a loaf incorporating beer and three cheeses
Her Majesty The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will visit the Bradford district later this month as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The Royal couple will have lunch at Pace plc, a leading technology developing company located in historic
Sporting youngsters can join a summer camp organised by Keighley Cougars rugby league club. Activities will be held over a fortnight, starting on July 30, offering rugby, football, cricket and other sports. There will also be a camp teaching street
An audience of 60 people gathered at Bradford College yesterday to hear a keynote speech on how to help young people with disabilities, by former Home Secretary David Blunkett. His visit was part of the College’s Meeting Individual Needs five-day conference
Paintbrush wielding police officers have been on a roll after giving up their spare time to help spruce up a community skate park. Officers from the Ilkley Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) put on work clothes to help clean up the Ilkley Skate Park on
Education experts and Government ministers are set to come to Bradford to meet MPs and see what can be done to raise educational achievement across the district. Bradford West MP George Galloway said standards at senior pupil level in Bradford are “a
Otley Town Football Club is celebrating a £5,000 cash boost. The money, from Leeds City Council’s North West (Outer) Area Committee, will go towards a £29,000 project to modernise and improve the club’s facilities. The work will include: l Refurbishing
When he joined the Bulls from London Broncos during the winter, Luke Gale could not have foreseen the meltdown that has driven the club to the brink of liquidation. Not in a million years. He believed he was coming to a fallen giant that
Bradford District Care Trust is looking for participants for a clinical trial that could benefit people who suffer with depression. Researchers are looking into the effects of Metyrapone, a drug that blocks production of the stress hormone cortisol,
A former school volunteer worker has been jailed for six years after police seized £56,363 of cocaine and a stash of cash from his home. Robert Jefferson, 22, became hooked on Class A drugs when he failed to find a job after training in information
Drug experts in Bradford have warned of the grave dangers of using ketamine, a horse tranquilliser increasingly being used as a party drug. Prolonged and heavy use of the drug can cause urinary incontinence and bladder blockage, as well as damage to
With free entry and free family activities, the National Media Museum is the place to discover the worlds of animation, the worldwide web, television, photography and videogaming this summer. Science of Media is a series of live shows taking place throughout
Brewers are celebrating after their beers were picked for sale in a luxury department store. Beers from the Ilkley Brewery are now available in Harvey Nichols stores across the country after being selected as the only regional brands to make the grade
Police had to call in the fire service to get a suspected burglar down from a roof. A passer-by alerted police to a possible burglary in progress in Chapel Lane, Keighley, after spotting someone on the roof just before 2am yesterday. Officers went to
Pouring rain failed to dampen spirits at an opening ceremony for the £80,000 natural children’s play area in Northcliffe Park, Shipley, yesterday. Pupils at Shipley Church of England School attended a cake-cutting opening ceremony, moved into the school
Past and present pupils at Thornton Grammar School are calling for a 400m former footpath to be reopened to cut 1km off their journey to school. Students at the Leaventhorpe Lane school and members of alumni group the Old Thorntonians urged Bradford
A mentally ill man who thrust a kitchen knife into his mother’s face after accusing her of black magic has been sentenced to a Hospital Order with a restriction under the Mental Health Act. Judge Jonathan Rose said it was “miraculous” Hafsa Begum was
Plans to slap VAT on non-grass football pitches will do nothing to encourage people to get active and tackle obesity, an MP has warned. More than 150 sites around the country offer all-weather pitches but the tax man is now demanding VAT at 20 per cent
Work is set to start on a £200,000 community centre. Builders will fence off a section of land next to Steeton Bowling Green before construction work begins on the Steeton Community Hub on Monday. The hub will provide facilities for groups and replace
Poignant inquests on four Bradford men who all had asbestos-related lung cancer were heard in the city yesterday on what was Action Mesothelioma Day. In all of the four cases, verdicts of death from industrial disease were recorded. More than
A garage and an MG car went up in flames after a spark from a hammer and chisel ignited spilled petrol. It happened as two men were trying to cut a scrapped Ford Fiesta in half with hand tools. The men managed to get out of the garage in York Street
Phil Parkinson has pledged to leave “no stone unturned” in making sure City are fit for purpose next term. Pre-season begins properly for the players on Monday after two days of fitness testing. They had also been called in a couple of weeks ago for
Dangers of revellers slipping in mud and injuring themselves have forced organisers to pull the plug on plans for many of this weekend’s ‘summer’ events. Torrential downpours have seen a month’s worth of rain fall in just 24 hours, leaving some organisers
Rail commuters returned to Shipley to find thousands of pounds of damage to their cars – with most believed to have been written off – after Bradford Beck burst its banks, flooding a road used for parking near Shipley station with up to four feet of water
Two markets operating illegally in Bradford have been ordered by the Council to stop trading or face prosecution. The Bazaar market in Drummonds Mill, Lumb Lane, and Tradex Bazaar, at the former Shires Bathroom site in Beckside Road, must stop
RFL chief executive Nigel Wood yesterday expressed his confidence that a buyer for the crisis-torn Bulls could be found to avert the looming threat of liquidation. And he said there is no reason why the club should not finish the Super League season,
Yorkshire are believed to be lining up a loan move for Durham’s Steve Harmison as they look to avoid a personnel crisis in their fast bowling department. Mitchell Starc is set to link up with Australia A after the end of the Friends Life t20 group campaign
Mick Potter has not completely given up hope of overseeing the Bulls for the rest of the season but admits he is now looking for jobs in his native Australia. Potter and his coaching staff, who were all out of contract at the end of the year, were made
The manager of an industrial unit ripped apart by a huge explosion has claimed two national awards for his efforts in keeping the business afloat. The effects of the blast at Speedy Hire Centre at Cross Hills Enterprise Centre, near Keighley, in March
