Leeds manager Brian McDermott will appeal against the red card striker Matt Smith received in Saturday’s 6-0 thrashing at Sheffield Wednesday. The 6ft 6in forward (pictured) was a half-time substitute but was sent off inside the first minute of
Education chiefs were branded “stupid” last night in their handling of the Kings Science Academy scandal, at an inquiry by MPs. Margaret Hodge, of the powerful Public Accounts Committee (PAC), tore into the “shocking” lack of oversight of the Bradford
Illegal stores of more than 2,000 litres of duty-cut red diesel, which could have proven “a real danger to the public”, have been uncovered during raids at car washes in Bradford. Officers in the Great Horton Neighbourhood Policing Team working
Firefighters doused a burning pile of rubbish in an external stairwell next to the Hilton hotel in Bradford. Crews from Bradford, Odsal and Idle stations were called out shortly before 5.30pm today. They had put out the fire, which had been deliberately
Grangefield Old Boys were indebted to goalkeeper Phil Gill as they earned a penalty shoot-out victory over Huddersfield Amateur in the Terry Marflitt Trophy quarter-finals. Gill, on his return from injury, saved the second spot-kick diving to the
BRADFORD & DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL BILLIARDS LEAGUE – Bradford Deaf Centre 7, Eastbrook 0; Great Horton 5, Princeville A 2; Princeville B 5, Pudsey 2. Breaks: S Wilman (Great Horton) 49; T Kershaw (Princeville A) 42; J Allan (Pudsey) 34.
Spare a thought for the referee, one of the least appreciated people involved at any level of football. Together with groundsmen, who are struggling to get pitches playable during the current spell of wet weather, match officials can expect to
Just a handful of West Riding County Amateur League matches scheduled for the weekend survived the continuing bad January weather. Campion took advantage of their pitch being declared fit to beat Huddersfield YMCA 4-1 and seal a semi-final berth
A road closed by police after a major crash in Bradford was reopened this afternoon. Officers had shut Oak Lane, Manningham, after the smash at noon, which involved an ambulance and a sports car. The front of the white Peugeot RCZ sports car
Foster’s Halifax League champions and Parish Cup winners Jer Lane have made a second big signing. Left-arm slow bowler Simon Collins, who won the league’s bowling averages last season by a country mile, is joining the Bradford club from Bradshaw
A picturesque reservoir near Haworth provided the setting for a big announcement relating to the Tour de France. The team behind the 100-day cultural festival which will take place during the build up to the Tour’s 2014 Grand Depart revealed the
Council workers have been rapped for using too much jargon in public documents. Coun Lynne Smith, chairman of Bradford Council’s governance and audit committee, said she was baffled by what parts of a council report meant, and she suspected the
Help is at hand for people wanting to trace their ancestry. Bradford Council's libraries service has teamed up with Bradford College to stage three ten-week courses in Keighley. Participants will receive expert help and guidance on tracing
A Stanbury reservoir was chosen as the location to reveal the name of the 100-day festival which will take place in the run-up to this year's Tour de France. Yorkshire Festival 2014 will showcase the region's finest creative talents as part of
Walks across the moors around Keighley and Haworth are chronicled in a new book by a specialist footpath surveyor. Christopher Goddard has illustrated The West Yorkshire Moors with his own pencil sketches and hand-drawn maps. He wanted to capture
Airedale Male Voice Choir, conducted by Steeton man John Smith, will be in action next weekend. Formed in March 1997 by Mr Smith and accompanist Ken Brook, the choir has a maximum of 50 members and is renowned for its high quality resonant tone
Vandals attacked a Peugeot 306, parked on Heather View, Skipton. Police say they used a sharp implement to puncture three tyres between 5.15pm on Friday, January 3 and 7.45am the following day. Anyone with information is asked to contact PC
A GP who admitted speeding in his Porsche 911 on the A59 has hung on to his licence after magistrates accepted his patients would suffer. Graeme Summers, 41, was recorded doing 86mph on the 50mph section of Beamsley Hill at just after 6pm on September
With just six months to go before Le Tour comes to Craven, planning for the world’s largest sporting event has begun in earnest. Landowners and farmers have been approached about the use of their land for car parking and camping, an original task
Robbers posing as customers punched a taxi driver and stole his takings. The driver picked up two men from a pub in Bell Dean Road at about 1.40am on Saturday. He took them to a block of flats off Saffron Drive, Allerton. There, one of
A taxi delivering a client to a house in Broughton Road, Skipton was hit from behind by another car, spinning it into the road, a court heard. Malik Murtaza, 27, admitted driving without due care and attention, but pointed out – through an interpreter
A Bradford charity which helps transform the lives of profoundly deaf people is looking for people to run next year’s Great Northern Run in September. The Ear Trust which supports the work of the Yorkshire Cochlear Implant Service at Bradford Royal
Manorlands is urging people to get active and support the hospice at the same time. The Oxenhope Sue Ryder centre has a series of fundraising events lined up. Keighley’s annual BigK 10k takes place on March 30, Mother’s Day. The run/walk
Groups in Bradford can apply for a slice of £14 million funding towards community building projects. The grant pot managed by the Homes and Communities Agency can be used to cover the cost of getting ideas for community building development off
While interviewing a member of the TV licensing authority, I was amused by the list of excuses conjured up by members of the public who had been caught without a licence. The dog chewed it up, the children tore it – one person even blamed a microwave
A new hotline for families interested in adoption has been set up across Yorkshire and the Humber as regional figures showed that an estimated 900 children will require adoptive care during 2014. The helpline, established by Being Family, will
Often described as “iconic”, the 137-year-old sandstone brick St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church building on East Parade, Leeds Road, contains a much more imposing creation. The First World War memorial, seen here, shows the names of 230 parishioners
SIR – Between Monday, June 2, and Saturday, June 7, I will be leading a group from the north of England to attend events in Normandy to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign in 1944. There will be an opportunity
SIR – After reading in the T&A on Monday, December 16, about Professor David Sharpe retiring, I felt I wanted to wish him a long and happy retirement. Professor Sharpe and I go back almost 20 years when I had cancer and he gave me the bad news
SIR – I’m no socialist and, unlike Max Hey, (‘No job for the courts’, Letters, January 3), I don’t trust all our elected representatives. Who brought in the Poll Tax? Human rights a threat to democracy? Personally, I’d pull Parliament down tomorrow
SIR – A New Year always brings a sense of hope and as all of us adopt our various resolutions, I would urge your readers to resolve to make a difference this year and support The British Polio Fellowship in raising awareness of the plight of those
Bulgaria has been getting some bad press recently, what with worries about immigration from the eastern European country and the antics of British holidaymakers at Black Sea resorts. But look behind the headlines and there is a fascinating country
The Frozen Ground (15, 90 mins) *** Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, Radha Mitchell, Dean Norris, 50 Cent, Kevin Dunn. Detective Jack Halcombe (Nicolas Cage) is preparing to leave Anchorage with his wife Allie (Radha Mitchell
SIR – As we enter 2014 inevitably thoughts will turn to those terrible events of 1914 and the start of the Great War. Often referred to as “the war to end all wars”, history has taught us that was not the case. SSAFA was one of the few charities
Join clean campaign SIR – With just a few months until the next local elections it has become clear that my opponents in Baildon are intent on fighting a petty campaign of personal insults and dishonest claims. However, just like the last election
SIR – The assertion by Joe Ashton that in 2007, Baildon Parish (now Town) Council was established “by popular demand” is hardly borne out by the figures on the Baildon Village Website. In 2005, out of an electorate of 12,836, 1,322 people signed
SIR – In response to Councillor Davies’s letter (T&A, January 7). I didn’t criticise her for putting the needs of her constituents first. I would’ve thought that was a basic expectation people have of their ward councillors and wouldn’t criticise
It is interesting to see that David Cameron and Boris Johnson both feel they have to come to the rescue of Michael Gove following his pronouncements about Blackadder being used in schools to create a biased view of WW1. Have any of them actually
SIR – So Christopher Hindle (Letters, January 4) is a true socialist? Well I beg to differ – Stalin the leader of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and his cronies were, and they did not dictate what information was given to the masses
SIR – We’d like to urge your readers to make a New Year’s resolution to become part of a team that helps support vulnerable children in your area. As the UK’s leading children’s charity, we’re looking for people to volunteer in our stores and help
Gareth Malone – Voices (Decca) *** The genre-breaking new group, Gareth Malone’s Voices, make their debut with their new album Voices which treads uncharted territory by mixing lush, choral textures with innovative and contemporary recording techniques
SIR – In the Christmas period I ordered a taxi to take me to the railway station in Bradford. It was a dull, wet morning. The taxi arrived but the driver didn’t move. I had to open the boot and install my case. The vehicle was filthy. On arrival
25 years ago: A security guard was attacked with a hammer and robbed of a substantial amount of money in a targeted raid outside Barkerend Post Office in Bradford. 50 years ago: The 230 staff involved in an ongoing industrial dispute at William
A head-on collision closed a major road for around an hour last night, with four casualties taken to hospital. Emergency services were called out to Bradford Road in Oakenshaw at around 9.30pm after there was a crash involving a car and a minibus
25 years ago: A secret document leaked to the Telegraph & Argus revealed that rents for the 36,000 council tenants across the Bradford district were set to increase for the second time in fewer than six months. 50 years ago: More than 1,500
Oxenhope-based Bridgehouse Brewery is toasting successful festive fundraising in aid of Manorlands. Its Rudolph's Ruin ale, from which 5p on every pint sold went to the Sue Ryder hospice, raised more than £250. The kitty was boosted to more than
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Keighley: construction of a dwelling house, former Marlands Mill, Bingley Road. Manningham: taking stairs out to basement and creating passage through with door on
Jowetts Of The 1920s by Noel Stokoe Amberley Publishing, £14.99 As boys, William and Benjamin Jowett helped out in their father’s blacksmith’s business in Girlington. They were involved in mechanical repairs and, by the late 1890s, were working
Shopping by mail order is meant to make our lives easier, but the reality is often a little different – especially, it seems, if you’re a gardener. In fact, according to a recent survey carried out by Which? Gardening, the Consumers’ Association
A scratchy recording of troops singing It’s A Long Way To Tipperary haunted my visit to the Imperial War Museum North. The first sound you hear entering the museum, it accompanies grainy footage of fresh-faced young soldiers marching to their fate
The pernicious scourge of human trafficking is a growing problem across the globe, and one that has raised its ugly head in Bradford in recent years. Any efforts to tackle the problem are welcome, and news that Police and Crime Commissioner for
At this time of year we tend to turn our attention to throwing out things we no longer need, to make room for all the new items we accumulated over Christmas. We live in a throw-away society, but a Bradford woman is hoping to change attitudes and
It is vitally important that private hire cars which are used to ferry people around the district are in the best condition they possibly can be. They must be safe, comfortable and secure if both residents and visitors to the district are to have
How to heat better and how to eat better were the messages at a community help event run by Bradford Moor action group Street Life on Saturday. Dozens of people called into the Thornbury Centre in Leeds Old Road to learn how to successfully save
The inaugural Ilkley Film Festival, of which Dame Judi Dench is patron, opens its box office for ticket sales today. The festival will have more than 20 events and screenings, which will transform the town’s King’s Hall and Ilkley Playhouse, Weston
Brighouse Art Circle will host an acrylics demonstration with television and magazine artist Jeremy Ford on Thursday. A subsequent workshop based on practicing acrylics will be held on January 23. The group meets at 7.30pm every Thursday at Waring
A review of former Batley and Spen Conservative MP Elizabeth Peacock’s debut book is to appear in the political magazine Order Order. Mrs Peacock’s autobiography, A Yorkshire Lass at the Court of Thatcher – charting her 14 years within the political
Deliveries of groceries ordered online from Bradford-based Morrisons have begun in the Midlands. The first new Morrisons.com operation began by focusing on households across Warwickshire, Staffordshire, the West Midlands, Derbyshire, Leicester
A cannabis factory that was operating yards from a Bradford mosque was uncovered after growing equipment caught fire. Police estimate the cannabis found inside the lock-up yesterday to be valued at about £35,000, and are searching for the owners
Two men have been arrested in a raid that uncovered bags of heroin and crack cocaine at a house in Fitzroy Road, Barkerend, Bradford. Officers forced their way into the house and found three 1oz bags of what is believed to be heroin, a 1oz bag
City are very close to landing Hull striker Aaron Mclean, the Telegraph & Argus understands. It is thought that terms have been agreed between all parties for 30-year-old Mclean to replace Nahki Wells. But there is still some number-crunching
Adam Henry is out to stake his claim for a regular starting spot when the Bulls open their pre-season campaign against Hull FC on Sunday. The Auckland-born centre could make his first appearance in a Bradford jersey as Francis Cummins’ men take
The Princess Royal will be in the Aire Valley tomorrow visiting two companies. Saltaire Brewery and Manor Coating Systems Ltd, both based in Shipley, will welcome the Queen’s daughter for afternoon visits. The companies were selected from a
Police in Bradford are seeking to get injunctions against ten men to prevent them from associating with each other, in a bid to crack down on violent crime in the city. Senior officers in the district have already secured full court orders against
A minicab driver was due to appear before Bradford and Keighley magistrates today, charged with causing the death by careless driving of a Bradford pensioner. Mohammed Meharban, 60, of Heidelburg Road, Manning-ham, Bradford, has been charged following
Pupils will celebrate the official opening of their new £4 million school building in inner city Bradford tomorrow. The Rainbow Primary Free School, which runs classes on Saturdays and an extra week of lessons during the summer holidays, started
A new partnership has been forged to improve care and research into diabetes in Bradford, it was announced today. Bradford Royal Infirmary and charity Diabetes UK have got together on a scheme to deliver the right services people need. The
A home in the district threw a party as one if its residents celebrated her 100th birthday. Homecroft Residential Home in Ilkley welcomed the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Khadim Hussain, to celebrate Doreen Ferrend’s birthday. Mrs Ferrend
Labour Party chief whip Rosie Winterton MP gathered signatures from Guiseley shoppers on Saturday morning as part of a campaign against rising fuel prices. She joined her party’s local prospective parliamentary candidate Jamie Hanley outside Morrisons
City 1, Bristol City 1 The whack on the nose was a medal of honour for James Hanson. City’s targetman had put his head in where it hurts all afternoon and reminded the Valley Parade faithful that while one half of their vaunted frontline had
The closed magistrates’ court in Bingley which still costs taxpayers £5,361 a month is now being actively marketed by the Ministry of Justice after proposals to sell it together with Bingley Police Station and council offices fell through, MP Philip
The author of a Government-commissioned report into food fraud has warned that areas like Bradford are “vulnerable” to the supply of contaminated meat, as an investigation into an illegal food processing plant in the city continues. Professor Chris
A pioneering project is breathing nw life into run-down empty homes while helping victims of the so-called ‘bedroom tax’. But the team behind it has warned that those stung by the reform are having to choose between heating their homes and feeding
The building of a new multi-million pound ward block and Zen garden at Bradford Royal Infirmary has been given the green light by planning chiefs at Bradford Council. But although bosses at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust insist
A hammer-wielding gang of robbers forced a terrified manageress to hand over £11,500 during a dawn raid at a Shipley convenience store. Two muscle-bound men in balaclava masks smashed a door panel then burst into the One Stop shop in Bradford Road
New analysis of crime figures by a national research centre appears to back claims by Shipley MP Philip Davies that too many serious offenders are dodging jail. Research by campaign group the Centre For Crime Prevention published today shows that
A Bradford school has become the first in the North of England to deliver a new range of construction qualifications. Tong High School was named as an accredited delivery centre by the Construction Industry Training Board in November, and a cohort
Reports of sex abuse against primary school children in West Yorkshire have almost doubled in a year, it has been revealed. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by children’s charity the NSPCC show there were 603 cases of sex crimes
The mother of a patient who died while in the care of a psychiatric hospital is questioning why the company running it has not taken more responsibility following the tragedy. Karen Barnes was speaking after she learned Cygnet Health Care had been
The principal of a free school in Bradford, arrested last week as part of a fraud probe by police, will not return to his post pending the completion of the criminal investigation, its chairman of governors has announced. Sajid Hussain Raza was
Thirsk 0 Wibsey 7 Second-from-bottom Wibsey are looking upwards after this victory at basement club Thirsk. The Bradford club’s second victory of the season has put them five points ahead of their North Yorkshire rivals but only two points
