Guiseley 1 Altrincham 1 Guiseley’s preparations to host newly-crowned Blue Square Bet North champions Chester did not go according to plan as they finished with ten men and had to settle for a draw at home to play-off rivals Altrincham tonight.
Kristian Keinhorst scored 19 points as Old Otliensians won 34-19 at Skipton Seconds in the first round of the Spray Plant UK (Ltd) Aire-Wharfe Cup. He scored a try, kicked two penalties and added four conversions. Sam Walker, Sean Minikin
In a repeat of last year’s semi-final, holders Whetley Lane will play Wortley in the quarter-finals of the West Riding Veterans' Cup at Marley Stadium on Monday (8pm).
Emergency gas main repairs were being carried out tonight after the system was damaged by builders working on the construction of the new Bradford College buildings in Great Horton Road. Ian Cunningham, Northern Gas Networks, customer operations
Yorkshire face a tough fight to avoid defeat in their opening LV= County Championship game of the season after the Sussex batsmen strengthened their side's position on the second day at Headingley. Andrew Gale's men go into tomorrow morning's play
Bradford Dudley Hill welcome talisman Neil Wall back into action at Eccles on Saturday. The international wingman, who has completed a period of suspension, will re-inforce a Hill outfit looking to get back to National Conference League Division
With six weeks left to the end of the West Riding County Amateur League season, many sides will be playing at least twice a week and, in the case of a few, three times in a week. Salts will be playing their final home Premier Division game on
Pupils will be digging into the past in a heritage project run by West Yorkshire Joint Services. The My Place Project, a two year initiative funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and supported by Bradford Council and Museums, will work with 20 schools
The next free Walk Leader Training Course for volunteers wanting to lead health walks will take place at Oakwell Hall and Country Park on Nutter Lane in Birstall on Tuesday, April 23 from 10am to 4pm. The one-day course will qualify those that
Bradford Park Avenue’s promotion prospects took a double hit in midweek as they banked just one point from a possible six. Back-to-back fixtures against Oxford City resulted in a home defeat followed by an away draw, leaving Avenue in seventh place
Award-winning UK crime writer and former newspaper journalist, Stephen Booth, will give a talk at Birstall Library and Information Centre from 7.30pm on Monday, April 22. Born in Burnley and brought up in Blackpool, Stephen attended Birmingham
A survey by a Worth Valley-based cat welfare charity revealed 73 per cent of cat owners have made no provision for their pets if they become unable to care for them. Yorkshire Cat Rescue, which operates from Cross Roads, surveyed 315 people across
It is potential make or break for Brighouse Town on Saturday as the top two in the Baris Northern Counties East League Premier Division go head to head at the Dual Seal Stadium. Town are second and host leaders Scarborough Athletic, who
Skipton has become the official host of this year’s Yorkshire Day following a handover ceremony in Scarborough. Yorkshire Day, on August 1, will signal the start of a three-day festival in Skipton involving businesses and organisations and is set
Permission has been granted for a new convenience store. Plans to turn 259 Bradford Road, on the corner of Ford Street in Stockbridge, Keighley, from a house into a 40 square metre convenience store were refused by Bradford Council last year, but
An Ilkley Harrier is preparing to take on the BUPA Great North Run challenge to help raise funds for Hearing Dogs for Deaf – and there is still time to join him. Andrew Mitchell, a regular runner, hopes to complete the 13-mile run in one hour 50
The prize might not be as prestigious as some but Wibsey reckon that Saturday is their defining moment of the season. They host Wensleydale in SSE Yorkshire Division Five, and the booty is seventh place. Wibsey's coach Dave Grayson said
Promotion is secured from SSE Yorkshire Four and the title is in the bag but Old Grovians' director of rugby Martin Whitcombe is challenging his team to finish the season in style. Before the visit of Hornsea, he said: "We want to finish
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Addingham: demolition of existing garage and construction of detached dwelling with integral garage and parking, 44A Main Street. Addingham: two-storey side extension to both
Baildon have revealed that head coach Dave Duxbury will leave the club at the end of the season to become director of rugby at West Park Leeds. Andy Whitley, Baildon's chairman of rugby, said; "In the three years that Dave has
Former Reading boss Brian McDermott is poised to succeed Neil Warnock as manager of Leeds. The 52-year-old has held advanced talks with United owners GFH Capital, who want McDermott in place as soon as possible in a bid to guide the club away from
Bradford Salem know all about the distractions of playing at Twickenham, having done it three times, and reckon visitors Selby could be suffering from it on Saturday when they meet in SSE Yorkshire Division Two. Selby will play at HQ against Drybrook
A teenage boy told a jury his then-girlfriend sent him photos of a semi-naked girl lying covered in mud and being sexually abused. The 16-year-old prosecution witness said he received up to nine pictures, one after the other, on his Blackberry,
An eight-week course starts next week in West Bowling looking at the heritage of colour dyeing. The first session is on Tueday at the community room in St Stephens Church, West Bowling. The sessions will be from 9.30am to 11.30am. The course
Keighley have reached the point of no return. To avoid going straight back into Yorkshire Division One, they need to win their two remaining matches in SSE North One East and hope that Middlesbrough slip up. “It is out of our hands
Yorkshire fought back on the second day of their LV= County Championship Division One game against Sussex at Headingley but Ed Joyce's side were still able to build a powerful lead of 260. Sussex were bowled out for 356, with skipper Joyce
Two housing aid charities which merged into one last year have celebrated the official opening of their new home. CHAS @ St Vincent’s had its ceremony at its new premises in Allenby House, Rees Way, Undercliffe today. Its director Ruth Batty
Coroners are appealing for relatives of Bradford man Brian Butler to come forward. The 73-year-old was found dead at his home address on Midland Terrace, Canal Road on Thursday, April 4. He died of natural causes. Any friends or relatives
It hasn't been the season that they would have wished for but Bradford & Bingley could be celebrating something by Saturday tea-time. The Bees, who host Percy Park, will ensure their survival in SSE National League Three North if they match
After suffering two narrow defeats, Otley are looking to return to wining ways at home to a Westoe side fighting to avoid relegation. Interim director of rugby Ryan Duckett expects a tough test for his side, who are anxious to secure fifth place
Horton Community Farm is looking for more volunters to give a helping hand. Jobs need doing in the polytunnels, to build paths and raised beds. Anyone who can help get the community garden ready for the growing season should call 07811 376870
In terms of who joins Cambridge and Sedgley Park in the departure lounge from SSE National League One, a mathematician will tell you that tomorrow's match between Wharfedale and Macclesfield will decide nothing. But with respectively only
A Bradford school has been given permission to install a timber open canopy. The proposed works at Woodlands CE Primary School, in Oakenshaw will form a canopy extension to the front of the building. A Bradford Council planning officer’s report
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has today informed Bradford Council that it will provide £3.5 million in funding to secure the future of two major city centre sites – the former Odeon building and the former Tyrls police station. The
Silsden councillors have clashed over which of the town centre’s pedestrian crossings should receive a £35,000 upgrade. Andrew Mallinson and Adrian Naylor believe crossings at separate ends of Kirkgate would most benefit from safety improvements
City have offered pro contracts to midfielder Scott Brown and striker Louie Swain. Brown, who arrived at Valley Parade as a 16-year-old in 2011, has made three FA Cup appearances this season against Northampton twice and Brentford. Lanky centre
A Roman Catholic priest who sexually assaulted a teenage girl was today jailed for six months. The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, told William Finnegan, known to his parishioners as “Father Bill”, he committed a gross breach of trust
Local historian Alex Cockshott will talk about ‘Ilkley – A Village To Town’ at the next Addingham Village Civic Society meeting at 7.30pm tonight at Addingham Memorial Hall, Main Street.
There were wickets for Liam Plunkett and Azeem Rafiq but also 132 runs off 31 overs for the Sussex batsmen on an eventful second morning of the LV= County Championship Division One match at Headingley as top-tier cricket continued to be a hard school
Designer Pam Lonsdale will be teaching the basics of wirework jewellery-making at Red House Museum, Gomersal from 1.30 until 3.30pm on Sunday. To book, e-mail pamlonsdale1@ gmail.com.
Plans to partly demolish a car showroom and rebuild it to form a ground-floor car sales area with first-floor residential accommodation have been refused. The scheme would have taken place at Ivanhoe Works, at 280 Canal Road, Bradford. But
Two Bradford men have been arrested by police investigating the theft of catalytic convertors from vehicles. The men, aged 22 and 24, are from the Canterbury area with links to Buttershaw.
A colourful Tudor rose-style design has landed first prize in this year’s Ilkley Carnival painting competition. Eleven-year-old Marisa Allen, from Westville House School, was chosen by the judges to be the winner and her picture will now adorn
Out-of-use public toilets beneath an Ilkley public hall could be leased out by Bradford Council. Ilkley Parish Council recently asked the local authority to consider bricking-up the closed toilets underneath the King’s Hall on Station Road, following
Black Sheep Brewery is providing the official beer of Bradford International Film Festival, which opens today. The brewery’s marketing director Jo Theakston said: “The festival is a huge event which has become synonymous with UK film and the region
Youngsters can embark on an Easter chick hunt. Red House Museum in Oxford Road, Gomersal is hosting the event daily from noon until 5pm until Sunday. After finding the Easter chicks hidden in the rooms the correct entries will be entered into a
Police investigating a robbery in Burley-in-Wharfedale have released an image of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident. A woman was in her car waiting for her husband in Main Street at about 8.30pm last Friday when a
An event is being held in Bronte Country as part of a national walks festival. ‘Where the Brontes Trod’, on Saturday, May 11, will start at Haworth and cover a distance of five miles. Walkers will set off from the Penistone Hill car park at
Last week police dog Gimley and his handler PC Tim Yates were praised after tackling knife-wielding burglars on Bradford’s Ravenscliffe estate. HELEN MEAD looks at how man’s best friend is still one of the most powerful weapons in the fight against
Planning permission has been granted for four houses to be built at 331 Highfield Road, Idle, Bradford.
A suspected thief was arrested after being spotted by two Police Community Support Officers on patrol. PCSOs Eric Austin and Val Soor detained the 38-year-old man in the City Ward on Sunday. When the man, who was wanted for a number of theft
Marie Curie will benefit from a £300,391 slice of Government funding to help improve its Bradford hospice. The centre in Maudsley Street is one of the beneficiaries of the Government’s £60 million fund, which is being given to hospices to improve
Six children are fighting for every place in some of Bradford’s most popular new free schools. The figures, released yesterday, show how popular the new type of school is with parents, the Department for Education has claimed. Free schools, introduced
Calls were made last night for a major re-think over Bradford Council’s new homes strategy after latest Government figures showed that the growth in the number of future households will not be as high as first thought. The amended forecasts show
Guiseley and Rawdon councillors are aiming to deal a knock-out blow to cold calling in their ward. Councillors for the area are giving £3,000 to Guiseley Neighbourhood Watch Association to restrict or eliminate the practice of cold calling, which
The boss of a Bradford takeaway food shop who pleaded not guilty to 11 food hygiene charges will stand trial at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court. Mohammed Adill, 31, of Fagley Court, Fagley, is the proprietor of Krazy Chef, in Harrogate
A leading councillor has praised pavement repairs on one of the main pedestrian routes into the town centre. Coun Adrian Naylor believes the £5,000 spent repairing stretches of Howden Road, Silsden, was money well spent by Bradford Council's Keighley
Gasket-maker Klinger UK is looking to build a new 20,000 sq ft factory in Bradford to double its capacity and bring more work in-house rather than outsourcing. The company has abandoned plans to extend its factory and offices on the Euroway trading
Wrestling superstars from across the world will return to Bradford later this month following the success of their first event. UWE Megaslam American Wrestling will bring its 2013 WOW Factor Show to Bradford City’s Valley Parade stadium – three
A lively meeting was staged as part of a £1 million regeneration programme for Keighley. A group of about 35 residents went to Hainworth Wood Community Centre to discuss the Keighley Valley Project. The scheme is one of six across Yorkshire
A woman who created an inner-city floral oasis has picked up a regional gardening award at a star-studded ceremony. Green-fingered Georgina Graydon caught the eye of judges from Gardening Against The Odds, a botanical awards ceremony with a difference
A Bradford man who was the butcher at the first purpose-built Morrisons supermarket at Bolton Junction has died at the age of 93. Sam Morris, who lived in Myers Avenue, Bolton, made many friends through his willingness to accept roles in local
Locals are being encouraged to spruce up for spring. Addingham Village Society is hosting a village clean-up on Saturday. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Memorial Hall at 9.30am.
Spotting a gap in the market has helped two boyhood friends to launch a new pet food business – with support from Bradford University. Mathew Cockroft, 27, and Dan Valdur Eha, 25, have established Pure Pet Food after a year researching and developing
Mercedes-Benz is enjoying a fine old time. Forget the recession and banking crisis, this company has never been more in demand in the UK. March was the most successful year in the company’s history with 18,655 cars registered in this country, up
The Spen Valley Neighbourhood policing team will be at Cleckheaton Library and Information Centre in Whitcliffe Road, Cleckheaton, from 6.15 until 7.15pm today. For more details, call (01274) 335170.
Youngsters can learn about wildlife in the Oakwell Nature Club from 10am until noon on Saturday, April 20, at Oakwell Hall off Nutter Lane, Birstall.
Train operator East Coast is offering passengers the chance to put questions, comments or suggestions about its services to senior managers. Any aspect of East Coast’s service will be open for discussion during an online forum at talk.eastcoast.co
The senior detective investigating the brutal murder of Bradford grandfather Clement ‘Butch’ Desmier last night urged those whose “allegiances may have changed” to break their silence and stop shielding his killers. Detective Superintendent Mark
Bradford city centre could get its own dedicated ‘parish council’-style body to fight for the rights of its residents. The idea for the new community council has come from Bradford-based not-for-profit organisation Neighbourhood Ventures, which
A thief has stolen prescription medicine from an unlocked vehicle in the car park at Morrisons, Skipton. It was in a holdall in the rear of the vehicle and was taken between 1pm and 1.20pm on Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to contact PC
A new trike bought by Round Tablers is already making a difference to the life of a six-year-old boy with a rare disorder. The special trike, costing more than £1,000, was bought for Tom Newton, a pupil at Chellow Heights Special School in Bradford
25 years ago: Fireman Jeff Cummins was not likely to blaze a trail when he ran in the London Marathon. But he was aiming to raise hundreds of pounds for charity by attempting the arduous 26-mile course dressed as an elephant. 50 years ago: Bradford
By anyone’s estimation, a potential haul of £2.3 million in fines from people caught speeding in the roadworks that seem to have become a permanent fixture of the M62 near Bradford is a lot of money. And those motorists who have fallen foul of
The impact of the benefit cuts are far-reaching. Food banks in Bradford are already over-stretched supplying demand, and in some parts of the country it has been reported that families were actually resorting to shoplifting food simply to feed
SIR – Mr John Hall suggests that I am guilty of bending the truth on the issue of the EU’s human rights (Letters, April 5). Interestingly, Mr Hall manages to badly misquote me by naming Article 42 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, when the
An acclaimed production of Singin’ In The Rain is coming to Bradford, from a smash hit West End run. Tickets go on sale on Monday, April 22, for the show, which has its final performance at London’s Palace Theatre on Saturday, June 8 ahead of a
SIR – ‘Mary’ lives alone in her two-bedroom home now that her son has left. She can’t find a job or a smaller place to live, so she will have to pay the £14 bedroom tax on her spare room plus 25 per cent council tax. With inflation at nearly three
SIR – Plans to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War are increasing in number and complexity as 2014 approaches. Two problems, however, remain. We lack an overriding national project that would capture the public imagination
SIR – Regarding Mr Dickson’s letter (T&A, April 9) regarding the need of a passport to get a job in the UK, everyone has to prove that they are eligible to work in the UK regardless of whether they were born here or not. To assume based upon
SIR – No matter what anybody thought of Margaret Thatcher and her policies, no-one should make such contemptible remarks about her, not even George Galloway. I wish he would volunteer to be thrown on the fire to keep it going for the dead lady.
SIR – Through your letters page may I say thank you to the lady from the Yorkshire Building Society on Bank Street, I believe her name was Carol. I had a fall outside there. She was so kind, bringing me a cup of sweet tea, and looking after me.
SIR – While, as a Christian, I cannot wish for any of God’s children to be consigned to eternal hellfire, I welcome George Galloway’s reaction to the cynical outpouring of crocodile tears at the death of Margaret Thatcher, in many cases by the very
SIR – I was shocked and deeply embarrassed when I read the vitriolic comments made by George Galloway MP regarding the death of Margaret Thatcher. This man represents our city on a national level. I found his comments to be deeply offensive both
Sparks from a passing steam train started a grass fire in Keighley last night. Fire crews were called to the scene, off Halifax Road, at 8.30pm. They had to douse the flames from 30 metres away because the spot at the side of the tracks, which form
Two drug addicts who worked the streets of Bradford peddling heroin and crack cocaine have been given jail sentences totalling ten years. Mohammed Dad, 39, was locked up for six years at Bradford Crown Court yesterday. Jason Walker, 37, arrested
Tributes have been paid to a stalwart of llkley Playhouse who died suddenly at home on Sunday. Pat Dyson was a well-known Ilkley resident and a long-serving assessor for the Wharfedale Festival of Theatre. She and husband Alan moved to Ilkley
A Keighley pub has proved so popular that its owners plan to expand the brand to Huddersfield. Keith and Tracey Veer opened Percy Vear’s Real Ale House in May last year, taking the struggling Friendly Inn and turning it into a successful business
Comrades of a fallen soldier – nicknamed The Bull because of his fearless nature – are to take part in the famous running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, to raise cash to support injured troops and families of soldiers killed in conflict. Nine
The shopworkers’ union is hoping to minimise potential job losses at Bradford-based Morrisons supermarkets, which is looking to cut cash-handling staff from its 490 stores and replace them with machines. Nearly 700 jobs are at risk as the supermarket
An overtaking motorcyclist hit the driver’s side of a 4x4 Mercedes M Class as it drove along the A65 from Gargrave to Skipton. Police say the motorcyclist – who was lucky not to lose control – was with another biker and was overtaking on the last
Work is under way to improve the exit route from New Pudsey railway station as part of improvements that will see car parking spaces increased from 267 to 440 later this year. Leeds City Council has started work on improving the exit route on Owlcotes
Police are appealing for information after the theft of Yorkshire stone from a Bradford street. Three men were seen at Beehive Ward in Woodside, where the stone was taken at about 11.30am on Monday. It is believed they had a blue flat-back
Almost 1,000 athletes are expected in Skipton on Sunday for the annual triathlon. A 25 per cent increase in entries from last year is set to make the Skipton Triathlon the most successful yet. Organised by Freebird Events on behalf of Craven
A care roadshow is being held in Bradford on Tuesday. The event, at the Cedar Court Hotel, will include a seminar by Deborah Westhead, from the Care Quality Commission. Lee Sheppard, from catering organisation apetito, will be discussing malnutrition
James Hanson is relishing City’s assault on the play-offs after admitting: “I thought we’d blown it.” The seventh-placed Bantams are the form side in the promotion chase after three straight wins. With four games left, all against fellow challengers
Jamie Foster reckons Wigan are the team to be shot at – but believes the Bulls will meet them at the right time. The Super League-topping Warriors head for Odsal on Sunday on the back of seven wins in their last eight games. It promises to
A mobile health bus will be in Bradford’s Centenary Square tomorrow. A number of public health specialists will be on hand from 10.30am to give advice and health and lifestyle tips. Representatives from the smoking cessation service will be
A “gentleman” cyclist has been found guilty of assault by beating after punching a van driver who drove too close to him. Christopher Alan Wade, of Crofters Mill, Sutton-in-Craven, near Keighley, denied assault and said he had acted in self-defence
Three teenagers are on trial at Bradford Crown Court accused of carrying out a humiliating sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl and photographing her semi-naked body as she lay comatose on vodka. The defendants, a boy of 15 and two girls, aged
Plans for a gym in Wilsden have been thrown out by Bradford Council. Stacey Gill wanted to turn an empty warehouse unit off Shay Lane – one of nine recently built units – into a personal training centre and had applied to the Council for a change
A Knit and Chat session runs from 5.15pm until 6.45pm on Monday at Birstall Library and Information centre, Market Street, Birstall. Call (01924) 326227 for more information.
St Margaret’s Church on Shipley Fields Road, Frizinghall, is inviting people to a “Messy Church” event on Sunday, from 3pm to 5pm. The theme will be Joseph and his Brothers, and activities will include painting, sewing and bread-making before a short
A coffee morning to raise funds for Manorlands hospice, in Oxenhope, will be held on Saturday, April 27. It will take place at Little House, Queens Court, Bingley, from 10am to noon. A selection of homemade cakes will also be available.
Much is made of the home-grown players who have progressed through the Bulls’ Academy, and rightly so, but the club’s Foundation manager Gareth Cook makes a salient point. “Their hopes of becoming a professional rugby league player don’t start
The Bradford dad-of-three shot dead during a police drugs raid last week was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head, it has been revealed. Colin Berry, 49, of Buckingham Close, Clayton, died as unarmed police officers executed a search warrant
South Craven School, in Cross Hills, near Keighley, is celebrating gaining the best possible grade awarded by a team of official inspectors. Following a two-day visit, the Ofsted inspectors rated the school as “outstanding”, the highest of four
West Yorkshire Police have performed a U-turn over a refusal to provide the Telegraph & Argus with statistics of how many motorists have been snared by speed cameras in the M62 roadworks. And it can be revealed today that there were nearly
A pioneering trial in the Aire Valley to give special needs students work experience is proving a success for employers and helping to break down stereotypes. Shipley College is one of 14 colleges piloting supported internship trials, which are
A veteran peace activist caught the attention of Bradford residents yesterday as he brought his ‘Scrap Trident’ protest to the city. Bruce Kent, 83, delivered his message to Bradford as part of a national speaking tour he is carrying out. He
Bradford pop singer Kimberley Walsh is going back to her roots... by writing her autobiography. Although most famous for her ten-year career with record-breaking pop group Girls Aloud, Kimberley, 31, of Sandy Lane, Bradford, was studying for an
A think tank set up 21 years ago to promote Saltaire village could be scrapped and replaced with a new and more inclusive initiative. The Saltaire Project Team was created in 1992 to address local problems, and after the area was given World Heritage
A long-time Bradford City fan was treated like a VIP by the club to celebrate his 90th birthday. Arnold Thompson, 90, from Pudsey, who has been a Bantams season ticket holder for 78 years, got the present of his dreams when he was welcomed to join
Police were called when furious customers descended on a Keighley travel agency claiming they had been cheated out of thousands of pounds worth of flight tickets. Officers rushed to A-Z Money Transfer & Travel, in North Street, shortly before
A teenager had a VIP meeting with her heroine – after dislocating both knees trying to get an autograph! Katherine Dodds stumbled outside the Noel Coward Theatre in London’s West End on Friday night as crowds flocked to see the stars of the show
