Yorkshire’s hopes of bouncing back from their opening weekend defeat in the NatWest Blast were ended by rain washing out their encounter with Birmingham Bears at Edgbaston. Umpires Peter Hartley and Peter Willey abandoned the game shortly after
Simon Parker column Before I get going, it’s only right to start with a few words of appreciation. I’d like to show my personal gratitude to all you dear readers. So happy birthday, anniversary, bar mitzvah, bank holiday, graduation, driving
Simon Parker column There is something special about county cricket grounds. In a past reporting life, I used to go up and down the country covering Hampshire’s fortunes. One of the joys of the job, other than the copious amounts of ice cream
Time is running out for City fans to sponsor shirts from the club’s past for a new Valley Parade exhibition. Support group Friends of Bradford City want to show every Bantam jersey, home and away, from the 1970s onwards in a long-term display at
Bradford City head coach Steve Winterburn made no promises at the start of the club’s first season in the northern section of the FA Women’s Premier League. Winterburn admitted at the turn of the year: “I just want us to finish as high as possible
Former Bradford Grammar School pupil Jacob Rowan has left Leeds Carnegie to join Gloucester. The 24-year-old from Cononley captained Leeds to a third-placed finish in the Greene King IPA Championship this season before they suffered play-off elimination
Bradford fight fans are being offered the opportunity to meet boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather when he arrives in West Yorkshire next month. The 37-year-old American is embarking on a UK-wide tour which comprises six dates, the third of which
Pennine League Premier Division outfit West Bowling have announced their new coaching team for next season. New head coaches will be former Keighley Cougars assistant Glen Barraclough, who has been coaching at Keighley for seven years, and Douggie
Olympic champion Nicola Adams maintains her motivation levels are higher than ever as she prepares to embark on a triple title quest which could further cement her place in British boxing history. Bradford-trained Adams will start as a hot favourite
Review of season The season ended in frustration for Farsley as they fell agonisingly short of making the Evo-Stik League play-offs, finising seventh in the table. Neil Parsley’s men were on track even after their Division One North rivals
The only thing giving Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive Gary Verity sleepless nights as the Tour de France approaches is the unpredictability of the British weather. The greatest endurance event in world sport starts in Leeds in just over a
Bradford Dudley Hill are holding a celebration barbecue on Sunday to mark the 30th anniversary of the club’s greatest achievement of winning the National Cup in Blackpool. Hill caused a shock by seeing off a strong Pilkington Recs side in the semi-finals
Review of season Silsden began the season with back-to-back victories and were certainly glad of those as the campaign unfolded. Under the guidance of Andy Geary – the manager who had led the unfashionable club into the North West Counties
A ten-year-old girl from the district is celebrating after returning from the Dwarf Sports Association UK competition with a haul of medals. Savannah Troughton-Webb, a pupil at Addingham Primary School, received a gold for athletics (throwing a
Labour has clinched full control of Bradford Council by a whisker – the first time one party has had a majority for 15 years. The Labour administration, which previously had to rely on the support of other parties or independents to push through
A gang of masked robbers leapt over a shop counter and threatened staff before fleeing with cash and cigarettes in a late night raid yesterday. The incident happened at 10.50pm at a shop on the A65 Leeds Road near to Wheatley Lane in Ben Rhydding
Champions Baildon Trinity Dynamoes under-12s wrapped up the season with a 7-2 victory over their much-vaunted BPA rivals in the Keybury League. Louis Fialdini and James Whitoak scored twice apiece, backed up by goals from Courbon Carr, Louis Turner
Brighouse Town have been confirmed in the new Evo-Stik League constitution after approval of the proposed list of clubs by the Football Association. Following their promotion as champions of the Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier
There has been a steady drip-feed of information from Bradford Park Avenue this week and press officer Lewis Sale has primed supporters to expect plenty more during the close season. Avenue boss John Deacey has been negotiating with players and
A firefighter who has “enjoyed just about every minute” of his job is retiring after 25 years. Martin Shaw, of Silsden, is calling time on a career that has seen him serve at Bingley and Illingworth fire stations. “It has been great,” said
Rotarians in Otley are celebrating winning a top award for their environmental improvement work. The Rotary Club of Otley Chevin, after previously taking bronze and silver, has gone one better by scooping an Eco Gold Award. The accolade was
Detectives investigating a robbery in Bradford in which a shopkeeper had part of his thumb chopped off have released CCTV images of the gang they suspect were involved. Shop owner Tasawar Iqbal, 39, was badly wounded injury in an altercation with
More signs that the countdown to the Tour de France has begun in earnest have popped up in Otley. Leeds City Council has attached ten official Yorkshire Grand Depart banners to lampposts along the Tour’s route through town. The date was significant
The family of a tireless charity worker has given £500 to the Lord Mayor’s Appeal in Bradford in his memory. It is hoped the donation could be the first step towards establishing a permanent charitable trust in his name. Relatives of Rashid
Celebrating a health group’s first birthday was a slice of cake for hospital staff. Healthwatch Bradford and District was set up to help the public get the best out of health and social care by giving it a stronger voice in decision-making.
Creative workshops and activities can be enjoyed at next month’s Bradford Festival. Many of the workshops and activities will be run by local artists and performers who received special grants from Bradford Council. Organisers will create a
The West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner is calling for greater awareness on cyber crime following the attack on eBay. Mark Burns-Williamson said the hacking of the auction website highlighted the importance of addressing the issue, one
A Sikh temple in Bradford has clinched an Alzheimer’s Society award for its work to improve the lives of people with dementia. The Bolton Road Gurdwara project is aimed at raising awareness of dementia in the Sikh community and tackling stigma
Polling day passed relatively peacefully yesterday, despite concerns over potential violence or intimidation on the streets. Bradford Council seats across the district were up for grabs as well as seats on the European Parliament, with churches
Photographer Mick Melvin has been using his skills to record images of the Wibsey area, including a picture of Wibsey Park lake which was used to illustrate an advertisement feature in the Telegraph & Argus to promote shopping in the area.
A Cleckheaton man who worked in the brake lining industry has died from industrial disease due to his contact with asbestos years ago, an inquest has heard. Kenneth Toulson, 87, of Hunsworth Lane, retired early aged 56 from the town’s British Belting
A former building society executive who was personal assistant to the man behind the creation of Bradford & Bingley in 1964, has died at the age of 91. Ken Berry spent more than 40 years with the organisation, formed through a merger with the
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LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (U, 88 mins) ** Featuring the voices of Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Belushi, Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Stewart, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt, Tacey Adams, Michael Krawic. Directors
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (12A, 131 mins) **** Starring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Evan Peters, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page, Halle Berry, Shawn Ashmore, Josh
SIR – Apparently, new drivers in Bradford were not telling the truth when they told Sight Care, who were carrying out a survey, that they were unable to see the registration plate during the eyesight assessment in their driving test but were still
SIR – Low Moor Station is to be built, let’s wait and see as until the builders arrive on site, have no faith. As for Mr D Rhodes who sometimes criticises my letters, it seems he lives nearer to a station that I do. He may comment on why there
SIR – Over the past three years nursing staff in the NHS have had a cost of living pay freeze. That pay freeze means nurses have, in real terms, taken a pay cut as the cost of living has gone up. Now the Government’s proposal not to award nursing staff
SIR – All credit should be given to this young man Khasim Ahmed for questioning where George Galloway has been (T&A, May 20). He is not even eligible to vote but is aware of what is going on in his ward. May other young people follow his lead
SIR – Dr Raminder Singh MBE’s letter (T&A, May 20) “Trivial intervention” on the history of why Sikhs are exempt from wearing safety helmets at work brought back memories. In 1971, Leeds City Transport dismissed two Sikh bus drivers for wearing
SIR – I was sorry to see the announcement of the death of the violinist Joan Spencer (T&A, May 20). I attended what was probably her first major concert when she played the Beethoven violin concerto in Keighley with a local orchestra. This
SIR – The recent comments attributed to Prince Charles, comparing Russian President Putin to Hitler, are indefensible and worse, show the sayer to be extremely badly flawed in judgement. As a republican, I usually avoid criticisms of royal personalities
The reason why people make a will is to ensure that their finances and possessions go to their loved ones, or those they nominate as recipients. But what if those who have made a will suffer from a condition affecting their state of mind? How does
An inquest has been opened and adjourned into the death of a man whose body was found in a decomposed state at a flat in Bradford. The death of unemployed Sean Sheppard, 42, of Cunliffe Terrace, Manningham, was discovered on April 18. He had
An antiques dealer hit a teenager with his metal walking stick in what a judge described as a “dreadful” drunken attack, after catching him apparently smoking cannabis outside his house. Alan Cox, 47, admitted striking the 18-year-old man over
Police and trading standards bosses are working together to clamp down on distraction burglaries after an increase in complaints. Three elderly people have been targeted in similar incidents and in one case a blind and partially deaf woman had
I thought last week’s display was a good effort while we had the energy. We were playing with only one out-and-out prop against a team with the biggest pack in the competition. That’s a massive ask for our middle unit but we didn’t really have
Anyone keen to help boost Bingley and interested in creating a new local council is invited to an open public forum at the town’s Arts Centre next month. An information event has been organised by Bingley Community Council Group to sound out popular
Horible Histories author Terry Deary was last seen on MasterChef explaining the origins of humble pie. In Tudor times ‘umbles’ was the offal from cattle that was given to servants for them to make into a pie, hence humble pie. There’s a lot
Thieves have rewarded a Bradford businessman’s charity fundraising efforts by stealing the bicycle he rides to raise the cash. Jon Ellis, managing director of Ferno, a manufacturer of medical and patient handling equipment based in Cleckheaton,
25 years ago: Labour councillors staged a mass walkout as the new Lord Mayor of Bradford, Tory Councillor George Hodgson, took his seat, arguing his casting vote would be used to push through the party’s £5.8million package of cuts. 50 years ago
The Hamzah Khan case – in which a toddler died of starvation after being neglected by his mother – horrified the entire nation, and rightfully so. But after legal proceedings were concluded, questions were inevitably asked as to why the child seemed
Tuesday morning sees me, in that golden half-hour between dropping the kids off at the school gate and catching the bus into Bradford, sawing frenziedly at a half-inch thick layer of fat on a slab of pork. I have – somewhat rashly, I realise –
A motorcyclist in his 20s has suffered a suspected back injury in a crash at Stockbridge, Keighley, today. He was involved in a collision with a car in Bradford Road, at the junction with Royd Ings Avenue, at about 7.25am. Police and ambulance
For Leon Pryce, Bradford-born and bred, any match against the Bulls is an occasion to increase the heartbeat. That his hometown club are fighting desperately for their Super League lives merely adds further intrigue to tomorrow’s clash in Perpignan
Idle and Thackley Theatre Group is following up its successful production of The Odd Couple, which revised Neil Simon’s classic comedy with female characters in place of the traditional male roles, with another much-loved comedy. The group will
A 20-year-old man who was injured in a car crash last month died last night. The man was a passenger in a red Mini which collided with a red Toyota Hiace in Queensbury on April 21. He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with serious injuries
A 13-year-old boy has been given an Asbo barring him from nuisance activity throughout Calderdale. Lewis Warren was made subject of the two-year order by Calderdale magistrates for his anti-social behaviour mainly in Rastrick, Brighouse. The
Antonio Kaufusi admits he is champing at the bit to face Catalan Dragons tomorrow after being reduced to the role of spectator during the Magic Weekend defeat to Huddersfield. The on-loan Giants prop, 29, is poised to return to the side in Perpignan
A woman whose body was found under an empty car parked in a Cleckheaton street was outside her home, an inquest has heard. Police and paramedics were called to Prospect Street at 12.03am on May 5 after a passer-by spotted Jacqueline Monger’s lifeless
Campaigners are claiming a victory for people power after NHS England bosses have ruled a village’s dental surgery is to stay put. People in Thornton lobbied hard to stop the practice in Market Street moving more than two miles out of the village
Phil Parkinson today admitted City’s recruitment plans are “in limbo” until they know what is happening with the out-of-contract players. Parkinson has been pressing on with transfer targets but the money available hinges on members of the current
The number of young people not in education or work is at its lowest level since 2008, new figures reveal. The total number of 16 to 24-year-olds in the Yorkshire region classed as ‘not in education, employment or training’ (NEET) has fallen to
Shipley will host its first “street arts” festival next month when organisers say the town will be bursting with world-class talent at every turn. The three-day event has just been announced following confirmation of £30,000 in grants split between
An animal welfare group said instilling empathy into Bradford’s young people is vital to help them become decent adults after a cruel attack on a cat. Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) made the statement after shocking video footage
Traffic congestion is the main concern of Bradford business bosses, according to a new survey. An increasing number of businesses across the district have cited the impact on their operations of clogged roads in the Bradford Chamber of Commerce
A bullying and oppressive husband who raped his wife when she refused to have sex has been jailed for eight years. The “isolated and vulnerable” woman had been obliged to live in a refuge and resorted to self harm and said she wanted to die since
A bid to open Saltaire’s Tramshed brasserie and bar for an extra 90 minutes every night has been rejected by Bradford planners due to fears it would create drunken noise and mayhem. Ossett Brewery Taverns Company had applied to extend the Bingley
An organisation opposing racism and fascism in Britain has been set up in Bradford. Anti-Britain First, led by father-of-three Faisal Nawaz Khan, was formed in response to far-right group Britain First going into mosques around Bradford on May
Bradford’s acting bishop has spoken out against the “disgraceful behaviour” of a far-right group at mosques in the district. Britain First members entered the places of worship on March 10, handing out Bibles and urging worshippers to renounce
Frustration at making GP appointments and getting past ‘gate-keeping’ receptionists are among Bradford patients’ biggest gripes. Those gripes and others have been put to a meeting of practices from across the district to help promote new ways of
A street party encouraging Bradford students to get active and travel by foot, bike or public transport, got under way yesterday. A road near both Bradford College and Bradford University was blocked off to allow the Active Travel Street Party
A shop owner was badly wounded as he bravely defended his business against a gang of robbers armed with a gun and a machete. Tasawar Iqbal was last night recovering at Bradford Royal Infirmary after undergoing emergency surgery on his injuries,
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Allerton: form contemporary orangery extension to side, Oaklee, 23 Greenbank Road. Baildon: construction of single storey side and rear extensions, 18 Greenfield Avenue
Bradford Council’s safeguarding children board is receiving about 100 more referrals a month since the high-profile criminal trial last year relating to the tragic death of four-year-old Hamzah Khan. Government inspection body Ofsted today released
A watchdog will soon publish a report about its investigation into whether West Yorkshire Police officers did all they could to prevent Hamzah Khan being starved to death by his alcoholic mother. The Independent Police Complaints Commission started
