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  • Paul Flowers bailed again by police over drugs allegations

    Disgraced Methodist minister Paul Flowers was bailed again today after reporting to a police station on drugs allegations. The Reverend Flowers, who the Telegraph & Argus revealed today is still being paid his church salary of £11,106 and is

  • Thackley hang on to win but Brighouse Town miss out

    Thackley built up a good lead at home to struggling Northern Counties East League opponents Parkgate and were glad of their four-goal cushion as the visitors snatched two late replies. Damian Hopkins headed the Dennyboys in front early on but picked

  • Wibsey Warriors foiled by Queens’ late rally

    Wibsey Warriors 4 Queens 14 Wibsey Warriors’ bid to escape from the lower reaches of the Pennine League Premier Division came unstuck against a well-organised Queens outfit at Northfield Road. Honours were even in the opening exchanges as both

  • Yorkshire bowler Ashraf bidding to cash in on old kit

    Moin Ashraf may have sights set on helping Yorkshire enjoy a successful 2014 season but he has still found time between training to spark a Twitter charity auction for his old kit. The 22-year-old Bradford-born seamer came up with the idea of raising

  • Respect the keyword on dignity day

    Ill-treatment of older people is unacceptable. Yet, sadly, incidents of abuse in care homes have been dominating the news. Respecting our elders, and treating them with dignity, is the subject of a dedicated ‘Dignity Action Day’ this month

  • Shipley brewery's toast for Royal visitor Princess Anne today

    The Princess Royal was toasted with a specially-brewed commemorative ale when she visited Saltaire Brewery in Shipley today. The brewery produced the ‘Celebration Ale’ to mark the royal visit, during which  Princess Anne officially opened the firm

  • Former Leeds United legend dies

    Former Leeds United and Scotland midfielder Bobby Collins has died at the age of 82. Collins started his career with Celtic before going on to make over 300 combined appearances for Everton and Leeds. Leeds United said on their official website

  • Jayanne and Serena are future stars

    Two up-and-coming junior tennis players from Bradford have been highlighted as some of the brightest talents in the country after they were included on the Lawn Tennis Association’s (LTA) Aegon FutureStars programme, which recognises and supports

  • Euan shows true grit

    Mishaps at the start and at the second corner made life very difficult for two leading Bradford area hopefuls in the National Cyclo-Cross Championships at Moorways Leisure Centre in Derby. Keighley’s Alfie Moses had problems from the off

  • Airedale Symphony Orchestra gives a concert for the family

    Airedale Symphony Orchestra will give a concert for all the family on Sunday. The afternoon of family fun will take place at 3pm at Victoria Hall, Saltaire. The programme includes music from the Pirates of the Caribbean, Borodin’s Polovtsian

  • Kirklees Council supports anti-smoking campaign

    Kirklees Council has announced it is promoting the Department of Health’s new smoke-free ‘Health Harms’ campaign. The new scheme will offer a variety of free resources, support and advice via local pharmacies and the Local Stop Smoking Service.

  • Improving Baildon are chasing podium place

    Baildon Runners are set for their best set of results in the West Yorkshire Winter League. After the third of the five events on January 5 at Skipton, they lie an unprecedented third in the ten-team league. Emma Stoney and Emma Hinkles

  • Calderdale Council addresses falling number of hedgehogs

    Calderdale Council is asking residents to report any sightings of hedgehogs in an effort to address falling numbers across the district. By identifying where hedgehogs are located, the Council hopes to implement conservation plans and expand on

  • Keighley MP Kris Hopkins welcomes inflation boost

    Keighley and Ilkley Conservative MP Kris Hopkins welcomed news that inflation in the UK fell to two per cent last month, its lowest level since November 2009 and the sixth consecutive month that the rate has fallen. Speaking from Westminster, the

  • Calderdale Council plans to freeze council tax

    Calderdale Council’s Cabinet has announced budget plans to freeze council tax and continue to protect front-line services in 2014/15. Now the authority wants to hear what the public think. Have your say on the budget proposals at calderdale.gov.uk

  • Police name man found dead in A65 near Skipton

    A man who was found dead on a main road has now been named by police. Harry John Chamberlain, 47, of Skipton, was found on the A65 at Draughton, near Skipton, on the night of Wednesday, January 8. He was on the carriageway, between the two

  • Cab driver suspended for bald tyres

    A minicab was found to have two bald tyres during random vehicle checks in Bradford. The driver was suspended and given a ticket. The crackdown, led by police, targeted Rooley Lane and Tong Street. Police said another driver was stopped

  • Chance to have say on future of Post Office

    People in Bradford interested in helping shape the future of the Post Office are being encouraged to get involved in a new advisory council. Voluntary members are being sought for the advisory council, whether they are a customer, someone already

  • Veteran Keighley musician Ges Smith dies aged 66

    A musician with a Keighley band has died in Manorlands hospice, aged 66. Gerald ‘Ges’ Smith’s time with psychedelic rock band Dawnwatcher was the culmination of several years’ playing with a number of local bands. In the 1960s and 1970s he was

  • Holme Wood man arrested

    A 20-year-old has been arrested on Holme Wood estate for breaching a restraining order. He was found by police on Sunday at a property at Lansdale Court and later charged. He will appear in court in the near future.

  • Bag-pack for Diabetes UK at Heckmondwike Morrisons

    Fundraisers will be packing bags at Heckmondwike Morrisons on Sunday, in aid of Diabetes UK. Family and friends of Louise Pinder, of Mirfield, who is running the London Marathon in April to raise cash for the charity, will be at the Union Street store

  • Free gypsy jazz night at Undercliffe Cricket Club

    Undercliffe Cricket Club will host a musical performance with a difference tomorrow, as the newly-formed Matt Holborn Quartet take the stage to play contemporary gypsy jazz. Violinist Matt Holborn, who has played all over the United Kingdom and Europe

  • Man found dead on main road is named by police

    A man who was found dead on a main road has now been named by police. Harry John Chamberlain, 47, from Skipton, was found on the A65 at Draughton, near Skipton, on the night of Wednesday, January 8. He was on the carriageway, between the two

  • Bradford ‘pop-up’ shop set to help carers

    A charity is opening a pop-up shop to showcase the skills of the growing number of carers across Bradford and Airedale. Carers’ Resource hopes the initiative in Market Street, Bradford, will appeal to those unpaid carers who make products in their

  • Hipperholme Grammar School students remember the fallen

    Students from Hipperholme Grammar School have begun their acts of remembrance as the 100-year anniversary of the start of World War One approaches. Pupils paid a visit to the Colne Valley British War Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, where former school

  • Minister guest at Shipley charity's awards night

    A Government minister will be guest of honour at an awards ceremony celebrating the mental health community. The Shipley-based charity The Cellar Trust is hosting its third annual Mental Wealth Awards on February 12. Esther McVey, Minister of State

  • ‘Boardroom’ plans for school governors

    School governors should act more like company directors to help raise standards in the classroom, ministers have said. Under new plans to improve school governing bodies, in future, individuals should only be appointed if they have the right skills

  • Feeling the weight of an increase in obesity

    Obesity, and its impact on health, is rarely out of the headlines these days. But if you think it’s something that only overweight people should be concerned about, think again – it’s predicted that 50 per cent of the UK population could be obese by

  • Great Horton mosque plan bid

    The owners of a madrassa in Great Horton, Bradford, have applied to Bradford Council to lift conditions that prevent them turning it into a mosque. Mazhar-e-Islam Ghosai was given permission to turn a workshop on Low Green into an Islamic education

  • Otley woman's hope for Miss Galaxy final

    A former Prince Henry’s School pupil has won a place in the final of Miss Galaxy England 2014. Alexandra Homayoonpoor, 24, of Otley, won the title of Miss West Yorkshire 2013 and has now been selected as Miss Yorkshire Dales Galaxy 2014. Sponsored

  • Mealtimes that are Med to measure

    Mediterranean-style eating has long been thought of as healthy, but now even mainstream medics are singing its praises – and advising that people in the UK take heed. There’s mounting evidence to suggest that a diet full of fresh fruit, vegetables

  • Heroes and villains help reading skills

    Some of literature’s greatest heroes and most dastardly villains are helping Bradford Primary School children improve their reading skills as part of a newly-launched literature festival. The BD5 Literature Festival is run by the six primary schools

  • Bradford health boss launches clean plea

    Schools and parents are being urged to remind children about the importance of hand-washing to prevent the spread of germs. The plea has been issued by health chiefs in Bradford, following youngsters’ return to the classroom after the festive holidays

  • Approval is sought for Aspire-i bid

    A training centre for young people, planned for an empty warehouse in Bradford city centre, is likely to get the go ahead tomorrow. Bradford Planning Panel will discuss the application by social enterprise Aspire-i which Bradford Council planning

  • Otley MS sufferer backs Leeds hospital appeal

    An Otley man who suffers from multiple sclerosis is supporting a new appeal to raise funds to create a world class Yorkshire Brain Research Centre. The Leeds Teaching Hospitals Charitable Foundation appeal aims to raise £2 million by 2015 towards

  • Royal Navy ships return home after busy Christmas

    A Royal Navy warship has returned to Portsmouth after ensuring a number of Russian ships had a safe passage along the UK coastline at short notice over Christmas. HMS Defender, one of the UK’s newest Type 45 destroyers, began her 700-mile journey

  • A workout for your wardrobe

    If you signed up for gym membership at the beginning of January and you’re already flagging, look to your workout wardrobe – the perfect way (besides a shouty personal trainer) to boost your motivation levels. Ditch the tired, crumpled gear last

  • Yorkshire twist to one-stop shop

    Walking into The Local Pantry is like stepping back to a gentler age when village shops were the focus of communities. Among the customers enjoying coffee and pancakes, while browsing through morning papers, are regulars who call in most days.

  • Stores cut fuel costs at pumps

    Motorists are getting some new-year cheer, with supermarket Asda lowering its fuel prices and rivals expected to follow suit later. From today, Asda will be cutting the price of petrol and diesel by up to 2p a litre at its 229 forecourts. The company

  • Charity's fortunes lifted by Kimberley Walsh's TV quiz spot

    When Lisa Midgley’s son, Christian, was diagnosed with Congenital Cytomegalovirus – a birth disorder affecting around one in 150 newborn babies – shortly after he was born, she found solace in a charity supporting families affected by the condition

  • Tuesday, January 14, 2014

    25 years ago: More than 1,000 Muslims gathered in Bradford city centre to protest against author Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses, burning copies of the book outside police headquarters in the Tyrls. 50 years ago: Plans to turn the former

  • Vital backing in battle for green spaces

    Housing Minister Kris Hopkins today gives his support to the view that this newspaper has been expressing for years – don’t build new homes on our green spaces when there are so many brownfield sites available. When the Telegraph & Argus launched

  • Need for foster carers

    SIR – Barnardo’s has launched its sixth annual Fostering & Adoption Week this week The UK’s leading children’s charity is campaigning on the urgent need for more foster carers across the UK, in particular the recruitment target of 750 more carers

  • Forces call is a farce

    SIR – You couldn’t make it up could you? Our Government make such drastic cuts to our armed forces that now they are paying millions to a private company to recruit new soldiers to replace the experienced ones they have just made redundant. It

  • Panto is perfect

    SIR – It was fascinating to read about all the efforts of crew work for the first-class panto at Bradford Alhambra (T&A, January 11) starring Billy Pearce. And congrats to all concerned with stage management and crew in such a combined working

  • Senseless comment

    SIR – When Councillor Lynne Smith complains of council officials using inappropriate jargon (T&A, January 11), she would usually expect general applause. But then she goes on to ask “whether the man on the 96 bus will actually be able to make sense

  • Survey misinterpreted

     SIR – The statement from Jane Collins of UKIP that a well-respected organisation, the Sex Education Forum, would tell parents not to let children kiss their grandparents (Letters, January 10) seemed ridiculous to me. So I searched online, and

  • What aversion plans?

    SIR – Christopher Hindle, (Letters, January 4), accuses me of repeating “gutter press” headlines. I read the T&A, Guardian and Observer, and listen to Radio 4. He says that banks caused the “global financial crisis”, not the last (Labour) government

  • A resolution that’s worth sticking to

    Whether it’s losing weight, packing in smoking or promising yourself a monthly facial, New Year resolutions usually veer towards self-improvement rather than improving the lives of others. When it comes to resolving to be a better person, we tend

  • Financial incentives for fracking a concern

    SIR – The news that David Cameron is to offer financially-hard-pressed councils what amounts to a ‘bribe’ of £1.7 million per year for allowing fracking in their districts shows a very questionable morality. There are many legitimate question marks

  • Allerton taxi robbery plea

    Police yesterday appealed for help in catching two robbers who punched a taxi driver and stole his takings. The driver picked up two men from a pub in Bell Dean Road, Allerton, Bradford, at about 1.40am on Saturday and took them to a block of flats

  • Keith pens first novel aged 82

    An 82-year-old grandfather has written his first book. Keith J Wilson’s “Letters from the Past” is an historical novel, set during the English Civil War. Mr Wilson’s son Adrian said his dad – whose daughter Amanda and her two children both

  • Kings Science Academy: company says rent is fair

    A company owned by the executive patron of a scandal-hit free school in Bradford insisted it is not over-charging for the site the school was built on. The Government public accounts committee had demanded to know more about the link between Alan

  • Most blame parents for obesity in children

    People in Bradford think parents should do more to prevent child obesity, according to a snapshot poll conducted by the Telegraph & Argus. The T&A took to the streets to gauge public opinion on the issue after a new report suggested predictions

  • Bradford law firm delighted by relaunch plans

    After stirring up interest on social media about its future plans, Bradford-based law firm Last Cawthra Feather has today unveiled a new identity. The firm, which is shortly transferring to a new base in the city, is now known as LCF Law. The

  • Carvell presence at Bradford Bulls a boost for Scruton

    Nick Scruton believes the arrival of fellow prop Garreth Carvell will help to bring the best out in him this year. Scruton was the star man in the Bradford pack last year and won a clutch of prizes at the club’s end-of-season awards night.

  • Muslims in Keighley to celebrate prophet's birthday

    Up to 1,000 Muslims are expected to march through Keighley on Sunday to celebrate the birthday of the prophet Muhammad. Roads in central Keighley will be closed for the procession between 11am and around 12.30pm. The holy prophet’s birthday

  • New sensor opens up Cartwright gallery to whole new art world

    A new state-of-the art sensor monitoring light, temperature and humidity at Bradford’s Cartwright Hall means the gallery will now be able to show rare works without risk of damage. Gallery bosses hope the environmental monitoring system will make

  • Two fined for dumping rubbish in Spen Valley

    Two people have been fined a total of £1,600 for dumping rubbish in the Spen Valley. Joga Singh Bahgota, of Broad Lane, Bramley, and Michael Allwood of Ring Road, Seacroft, were handed the fines by Kirklees magistrates. Bahgota allowed Allwood

  • Bradford Bulls chief Hunter-Paul hails partnership

    The Bulls have today announced a new and improved sponsorship deal with IT specialists Hollinbay – taking the partnership into a tenth successive year. The branding of the Yeadon-based systems, support and service firm will feature on the Bulls

  • How Queensbury's Black Dyke Mill may reclaim its former glory

    One of the most impressive mill buildings in Bradford could soon be restored to its former glory and become the hub of the community. again. Black Dyke Mills in Queensbury, the chimney of which towers over the village, is home to several businesses

  • Residents protest over Bingley school plans

    The major development of a Bingley primary school means councillors are set to approve a pedestrian crossing, despite some residents’ complaints. Trinity All Saints Primary School is to double in size after securing permission to build nine new

  • Mackail-Smith: Mclean could be a Bantams favourite

    City target Aaron Mclean is tipped to become a big hit with the Valley Parade faithful if he signs. The Bantams are still mulling over whether to take the plunge on the Hull striker as they line up a replacement for Nahki Wells. As revealed

  • Residents protest over Bingley primary school plans

    The major development of a Bingley primary school means councillors are set to approve a pedestrian crossing, despite some residents’ complaints. Trinity All Saints Primary School is to double in size after securing permission to build nine new

  • Whitcliffe Hotel closure: brides are offered help

    The former manageress of a hotel which closed unexpectedly in the New Year has offered to help brides left without a venue. Andrea Murdock worked at the Whitcliffe Hotel in Cleckheaton until September 2012 and expects many brides to be panicking

  • Campaigners in Queensbury fight to save swimming pool

    Campaigners working to save public baths from closure hope to step-up the fight and gather more support. Residents of Queensbury are invited to a public meeting on Thursday, January 23, as Bradford UKIP announced it is backing the push to save

  • Teenager denies abusing sister

    A Bradford teenager subjected his younger sister to years of sexual abuse from the age of six, a jury was told. The youth, now aged 17, told his sibling not to be “a wuss” when she started to cry about his behaviour, Bradford Crown Court heard

  • Council chief hits back at Hopkins over house building

    Bradford’s housing chief has criticised Kris Hopkins’ comments, calling the idea of building 20,000 homes in the Canal Road corridor “ludicrous.” Councillor Val Slater, Bradford Council’s executive member for housing, planning and transport, responded

  • Bingley Swimming Club fears for future of gala

    The chairman of a swimming club fears for the future of its popular annual gala as the future of Bingley Pool hangs in the balance. Geoff Killock said the event had been running “beyond the memory” of any of those currently running Bingley Swimming

  • Ilkley dentist denies assault charge

    An Ilkley dentist accused of causing actual bodily harm to a woman has appeared before a crown court judge. Jonathan Cape, 45, pleaded not guilty to assaulting Allie Winslade, causing her actual bodily harm, on June 9 last year, when he appeared

  • Thackley and Brighouse set to get back to business

    Thackley and Brighouse Town will be looking to get back into action tonight after Saturday’s postponement. The Dennyboys were due to host Town in a Toolstation Northern Counties East Premier Division derby. That was washed out but both clubs are