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  • Bingley vicar stages church service to pray for town

    Residents of Bingley came out in force tonight to pray for their town, its future and economic resurrection. More than 200 people, young and old, packed into All Saints Parish Church for a service entitled Catching the Vision before sharing their

  • Bradford & Bingey still lack cutting edge

    Bradford & Bingley 10 Rossendale 27 There can be no doubting that the better side won this game. Although the Bees were equal in defence to their league-leading visitors for large periods, they rarely threatened the Rossendale line.

  • Ireland's points in vain for Otley

    Preston Grasshoppers 37 Otley 22 Preston proved an unhappy hunting ground again for Otley, who lost their third league match on the bounce there. A slight advantage in the forwards gave the strong- running home backs plenty of ball to keep

  • Victory slips from Bradford Salem's grasp

    Bradford Salem 13 Moortown 14 Bradford Salem slipped to a second successive league defeat as a resurgent Moortown took the spoils in slippery conditions. After home fly half Andy Robinson fluffed a relatively simple penalty attempt, Moortown

  • 'Best half of season' fuels Baildon hope

    Baildon 0 Roundhegians 29 A second straight trip to Twickenham and promotion from SSE Yorkshire Division Three are beginning to seem a lot longer than five months ago for Baildon. Fielding a side that contained only six of the 15 who started

  • Good start a false dawn for Wharfedale

    Rosslyn Park 51 Wharfedale 20 Wharfedale competed for the first 30 minutes of the match but finished on the wrong end of a heavy defeat. They built on their good work from the previous week as penalties from Park’s Scott Sneddon and Dale’s

  • Blackwell penalty stops the rot for Keighley

    Keighley 20 Pontefract 18 A Ben Blackwell penalty saw Keighley end a run of five straight defeats as they overcame fellow strugglers Pontefract. The hosts broke the deadlock when scrum half Ian Woodwiss cleverly slipped the ball to big centre

  • Wibsey concede before battling friendly defeat

    Wibsey conceded their SSE Yorkshire Division Five match at Garforth due to a lack of front-rowers but travelled anyway for a friendly. The Bradford club lost 45-10 but first-team manager Steve Brooke said: “I was proud of the 12 who did play as

  • Cleckheaton clash abandoned due to ref injury

    Cleckheaton travelled all the way to Doncaster for just seven minutes of action. The score was 0-0 in their SSE North One East match at Wheatley Hills when referee Simon Park, from the South Yorkshire district, badly injured his knee after a collision

  • Three see red but Farsley nick point

    Northwich Victoria 3, Farsley AFC 3 Farsley finished with just eight men after a rash of late cards but held out for a point from this Evo-Stik League Division One North clash at Northwich Victoria. Neil Parsley was fuming over the performance

  • Howarth the FA Cup hero with late Bradford Park Avenue winner

    Bradford Park Avenue 2, Penrith 1 There was late FA Cup drama at Horsfall Stadium but it will be Avenue who are in tomorrow’s fourth qualifying round draw thanks to Chris Howarth’s last-gasp winner. John Deacey’s men were being frustrated by

  • Bates signs for Bradford City

    Former Middlesbrough defender Matthew Bates has signed a three-month deal with City – and comes straight into the squad this afternoon. The 26-year-old, who played 13 games for Bristol City in the Championship last season, has been training with

  • Sian joins the elite team for World Cup

    A Keighley teenager has become the youngest member of the Rugby League World Cup cheerleading squad. Sian Reid, 14, will travel the UK performing for World Cup qualifying matches with the Elite Cheer Team. The Holy Family School student will cheer

  • Live blog: Bantams v Tranmere

    4:22pm Crowd today is 14,674 with 430 away fans 4:21pm Yeates almost in behind Tranmere back four. Wonder if Wells would have got there? 4

  • Cerys will perform festive show

    Former Catatonia frontwoman Cerys Matthews will be presenting a very different side of her music live in Otley this winter. The award-winning singer-songwriter, presenter and author is promising a "festive feast of carols, stories and sing-along

  • Keighley pupils urged to use bike route

    Major efforts will be made to get schoolchildren using Keighley's new £150,000 cycling route. Two of the town's secondary schools have pledged to support the proposed route linking Stockbridge and Beechliffe. University Keighley Academy and Holy

  • Big row over small Oakenshaw footpath

    A big row has started over a small footpath in Oakenshaw. The footpath, which runs between Dyehouse Road and Cleckheaton Road, was temporarily closed off in 2011 to allow a developer to build six new homes on an old car park. According to the plans

  • Hopkins hands Thackley the edge

    Thackley battled to a narrow home win to stay top of the Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division table – and it proved to be a big victory as their two main rivals dropped points. The Dennyboys’ 1-0 success over Staveley MW leaves

  • Burgess raring to go for England

    Sam Burgess is looking forward to making up for lost time with England as he steps up his preparations for the World Cup. The former Bulls forward, who has been training with England at a high-altitude camp in South Africa, has missed the last

  • Women in hospital after smash on A65

    The A65 between Skipton and Gargrave was closed in both directions on Saturday evening after a two-car crash near Thorlby. Firefighters from Skipton freed a woman driver, in her thirties, who was trapped in her car. She was taken to hospital on a

  • Shipley and Bingley befriending service seeks volunteers

    Elderly people who may go for days or weeks without outside contact are having to wait to be part of a befriending scheme in Shipley and Bingley, due to a lack of volunteers. Shipley Area Links Befriending Service is taking referrals all the time