Bradford Park Avenue can take renewed hope into tomorrow night’s Vanarama Conference North derby clash at promotion-chasing Guiseley. The clubs have had vastly differing fortunes this season, with fifth-placed Guiseley looking for their 16th victory
PRIVATE hire drivers in Bradford have condemned Leeds Bradford Airport bosses for a "ridiculous" parking price increase.Drivers now have to pay £3 instead of £2 to drop off or pick up outside the main terminal building for up to 30 minutes -
A CRAFT and chat group runs from 10.30am until noon on Thursdays at Heckmondwike Library in Walkley Lane.
SPEN Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team meets from 10am until 11am on Mondays and from 6.15pm until 7.15pm on Thursdays at Cleckheaton Library and Information Centre, Whitcliffe Road, Cleckheaton.
CLECKHEATON farmers’ market runs from 9am until 1pm on Saturday, March 7, in the St John’s car park, Bradford Road.
AN EIGHT-mile circular walk around Birkenshaw has been organised for next month by Kirklees Countryside Volunteers. It will take place on Saturday, March 14, starting at St Paul’s Church, Bradford Road, Birkenshaw, at 10.15am. For details call
AN IRISH night at The George III pub in Queensbury will raise money for the town’s 1940s day. The evening will take place on Friday, March 6, and feature live music, Irish-themed food, a raffle and quiz. There will be a prize for best singer or dancer
A SERIES of weekly benefits advice sessions start on Wednesday in Bradford. Girlington Training Advice Centre is hosting the session, from 1.30pm to 4.30pm, at St John’s Church, Saint Street, Great Horton. The drop-in sessions are for local residents
BURLEY-in-Wharfedale Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meets on Wednesday, March 4, at the Generous Pioneer pub, Ilkley Road, from noon to 1.30pm.
TAKE a free five-and-a-half mile walk to Bingley’s Viking Village on Wednesday, March 4. Meet guide Colin Pitts at Bingley Arts Centre, Main Street, at 10.30am.
THE next meeting of the Menston Business Association, scheduled for Thursday, has been postponed with a new date to be confirmed.
JOIN guide Peter Beaumont for a free eight-mile circular walk around Burley-in-Wharfedale. The walk will start from Burley-in-Wharfedale Railway Station, Station Road, along paths to the Cow and Calf rocks, returning through the moor edge to York
BAILDON Fairtrade Group will have an information stall at the Co-op, Northgate, on Friday, February 27, as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Bradford councillor Debbie Davies will be on the stall and there will be a small group of pupils from Glenaire
A FREE guided history walk around areas of Haworth sets off at 10.30am from Haworth visitor centre at the top of Main Street, on Wednesday, March 11. For more information, call 01535 645735.
A STORYTIME for young children will be held at Thornbury Library on Thursday, from 2pm to 3pm at The Thornbury Centre, Leeds Old Road. For details, call 01274 666984.
MUMS can meet up at Bradford Breastfeeding Buddies’ next weekly drop-in session on Wednesday. It will take place at City Library, Centenary Square, between 11am and 12.30pm.
Bradford Family History Society’s next free drop-in session is on Thursday, at Bradford Local Studies Library, Prince’s Way, between 10.30am and noon.
RESIDENTS of Bowling, Barkerend and Bradford Moor can join in with a community clean-up on Thursday. Volunteers from Bradford’s Thank You Project will meet between 10am and 3pm. For details, contact ishaq.shafiq@bradford.gov.uk or 01274 431066.
A WEEKLY workshop for elderly residents will next be held in Keighley on Friday. Surviving the Experience of Getting Old is at Central Hall, Alice Street, between 10am and noon. The workshop offers advice on a range of issues including wills
CONDITIONS were far from ideal as the Bradford Sunday Alliance League returned to a full programme of league fixtures – without interference from the weather or cup competitions – for the first time since October 26.But the muddy pitches didn't hinder
THIEVES have stolen children's carved wooden furniture destined for a new outdoor classroom set in a community beauty spot.The wooden chairs and toadstool seats had been carefully hewn from a Victoria Road tree, recently felled as part of controversial
COMEDIAN and ornithologist Bill Oddie has joined calls for Bradford Council to end grouse shooting on Ilkley Moor. The celebrity bird watcher and TV presenter , who also once performed ‘On Ilkla Moor Baht’at’ has expressed concern at the damage being
TWO of the leading teams in the YORKSHIRE AMATEUR LEAGUE Premier Division, Ealandians and Farsley Celtic Juniors, could not be separated after a tense 2-2 draw.The deadlock was not broken until the 70th minute, when recent signing John Mallinson converted
BRADFORD City co-chairman Mark Lawn has warned anyone found profiteering from tickets for the club's FA Cup quarter-final will be banned for life. Thousands of fans queued up outside Valley Parade on Sunday to secure their seats for the club's
SPEN Valley League strugglers Whitburn Athletic are off the bottom of the Premier Division table.The hosts from West Bowling beat Savile Youth 3-1 at Parkside Road with goals from Matty Proctor, Craig Thomas and Kirk Taylor (penalty). Abdullah Aswat replied
RAIL services between Bradford and Ilkley have been affected by a road crash where a vehicle struck a bridge at Wheatley Lane in Ben Rhydding.Engineers halted services as a safety precaution so the bridge could be checked for possible structural damage
WYKE Wanderers are through to the semi-finals of the Heavy Woollen & District FA's Wheatley Trophy, despite not being at their fluent best.The West Yorkshire League side defeated Wakefield & District League visitors Crackenedge 5-2, Ian Horrocks putting
A CONMAN who went on the run during his fraud trial has been hit with a £300,000 bill after a second court hearing. If Yasar Hussain, 33 - who was last known to live at Ashburnham Grove, Manningham, Bradford - fails to pay up, he will face an extra
BRADFORD Dragons recorded a first-ever victory against arch-rivals Hemel Storm to revive their English Basketball League play-off hopes.The Dragons travelled on the back of a five-game losing streak but a high-scoring 106-96 win left them ninth in Division
POLICE in Bradford have praised the public after the first of their ten 'most wanted' villains was jailed - hours after he was named and shamed.Magistrates sentenced Michael Crossley to four months imprisonment after he was fast-tracked to court following
SALTS have been unable to secure a second semi-final berth. The West Riding County Amateur League club, who were already through to the last four in the West Riding County FA Challenge Cup, gave a below-par performance in their Bradford & District
POLICE are trying to identify a man who was part of a trio of robbers who left a man with facial injuries after accosting him at his Shipley home.The men, all wearing balaclavas, demanded money from a 44-year-old as he was about to enter his home on Denby
QUEENSBURY, Jer Lane, Denholme Clough, Oxenhope, Thornton and Low Moor have all been given first-round matches in the Foster's Halifax League Twenty20 competition, which starts in May.Jer are at home to Northowram Hedge Top, Denholme Clough host Booth
SILSDEN Development edged out Eccleshill United Reserves 2-1 in the Lancashire League.After a goalless first half, Silsden went ahead when a through ball from Travon Thompson set up Aaron Hollingdrake. With 15 minutes to go, Giorgos Soupoulis ran clear
DETECTIVES say people should be "rightly shocked" after a 93-year-old pensioner was manhandled by three men who broke into his home and forced him to sit on a chair. The trio ransacked the man's home stealing cash and bank books in the incident
FOUR Bradford men accused of riding motorcycles dangerously have had the cases against them dropped at Bradford Crown Court. The Crown Prosecution Service today offered no evidence against Jake Fry-Morrell, 21, of Stone Hall Road, Eccleshill; Levi
A WOMAN was taken to hospital suffering smoke inhalation after a kitchen fire left three rooms of her house clogged with thick smoke. Fire crews from Bradford and Fairweather Green were called to Whetley Lane at 10.43am today after reports of a
PAST Lions Club members are invited to join Keighley Lions to celebrate the group’s Diamond Charter Anniversary marking 60 years of service in Keighley and the surrounding communities. The charter dinner will be held on Saturday, March 21, at the
A 17-YEAR-OLD boy was issued with a warning meaning his motorbike could be seized if it is ridden in an anti-social manner again. Police were called after residents complained of quad bikes causing a nuisance at Pitty Beck in Allerton last Tuesday
THERE’S still time for community groups in Bradford to compete for awards and a share in a £75,000 of funding. Organisations that work to make a difference to their communities could be in line for a boost in the Yorkshire Bank’s Spirit of the
WOMEN going through cancer treatment have been given a make-up masterclass by volunteers and students at Bradford College. The college joined forces with Look Good Feel Better to deliver the skin-care and make-up classes at the Cancer Support Centre
STAFF at the Shipley branch of McDonald’s are flushed with pride after their bathrooms won an award. The takeaway, on Tony Miller Approach, took a gold award at the annual independent Loo of the Year awards which recognises the best washrooms across
FORTY residents have been helping to tidy up areas in the Bradford East constituency. The clean-up, which is part of the Thank You Bradford project, started last August and will continue next Thursday from 10am to 4pm when the group of 18 to 60
PLANS to turn a Grade II listed former pub and restaurant in Queensbury into a cosmetic health centre would be “detrimental to its visual and historic integrity”, say council officers. Bradford Council refused a plan to convert the Paprika bar
THERE will be an increased police presence outside a Brighouse school because of complaints about parents’ vehicles causing obstruction or blocking driveways. PCSO Brian Mardell has increased patrols outside Woodhouse Primary School, Daisy Road
WEST Yorkshire is among the worst areas in the country for child abduction and kidnapping cases, according to figures worked out by a charity. Parents and Abducted Children Together says there were almost 900 abductions and kidnappings in the last
VOLUNTEERS are wanted to be community lifesavers. Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) needs them in Otley, Guiseley and Horsforth to join its Community First Responder (CFR) scheme. CFRs provide immediate life-saving care to members of their
A CROSS Roads-based cat and kitten welfare charity has revealed the cost of its successful effort to save a rare cat. Yorkshire Cat Rescue has to cover a vet bill of £1,000 after stepping in to care for Elsa, a ragdoll cat who had previously been
A CHARITY race night in aid of the Haworth 1940s Weekend’s chosen good cause will be held in Haworth next month. All proceeds from the March 3 event will go towards the Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen’s Families Association (SSAFA). The event
SIR – John Appleyard talks about Conservatives defecting to Ukip (Letters, February 2) as if there is only one political train line in to Ukip. The truth is quite the reverse. He might remember early in the year we had a high profile Labour activist
BOOKWORMS can now access more titles online from library web pages. Two hundred books have been added to the 7,000-plus already available for download. So far this financial year, North Yorkshire’s library service has issued 38,000 digital loans
A PARISH council is again inviting people to have a direct say in how it spends some of its cash, after last year’s initiative saw grants enable the cricket club to buy a new line marker, the under fives pre-school to buy a computer, and the village
BAILDON Players presents Out of Focus, a comedy by Peter Gordon, at St John’s Church Hall, Baildon from Tuesday, March 10, until Saturday, March 14, at 7.30pm each evening. Admission is £6. Tickets on sale at James Gray hairdressers, Northgate,
SIR – The wheels of the Tory experimental social policy tumbrel roll inexorably round in the quest to round up benefit system fraudsters. Rightly so, one might say. The latest miscreant to clog up the channels of our overworked Crown Court
BRIGHOUSE Art Circle members have a friendly criticism evening with John Rudyard coming up this Thursday at 7.30pm. On March 5 it will be the monthly life model session. Members enjoy demonstrations, workshops, life models, costume models and
SIR – When Bandwagon Jumping becomes on Olympic sport, Philip Davies MP would be a serious contender for the gold medal. A few days ago, for example, Nick Robinson (pictured) the BBC’s political editor was reported as having said that a Labour party
BRADFORD people are being asked to encourage their MPs to attend a debate in the House of Commons on epilepsy. MPs will hold a three-hour debate in the House of Commons on Thursday at 2pm. The Epilepsy Society is urging everyone with epilepsy
SIR – Helen Mead’s article (T&A, February 18) congratulates Yorkshire Water on the work they are doing to create dramatic improvements in water quality, biodiversity and carbon storage through the application of sphagnum moss. One would have
SIR – I don’t need any lessons in geography from your correspondent Geoff Reid with regards to Ravenscliffe: I was brought up on the estate and went to the two schools I mentioned. Holybrook Primary is on Rillington Mead and this is in Greengates,
SALTAIRE Brewery is toasting an awards hat-trick for its special beers. The company has won its third consecutive gold medal at the biennial International Brewing Awards, the industry’s most prestigious competition. Taking the honours is the
SIR – This year sees the 30th anniversary of the Talking Telegraph, Bradford and District’s talking newspaper for visually impaired people. This organisation has always been run by unpaid volunteers who donate their time and goodwill to help visually
SIR – I have, in the recent past, made reference to the subject of religion within education. This was highlighted yet again in a TV interview last night involving Anglican Bishops and politicians. Just as we generally accept that children are not
A LEISURE centre serving the Spen Valley could be expanded, if Kirklees councillors agree on the scheme. The £395,000 project would see extra gym and fitness facilities built at Spenborough Pool in Liversedge. It is designed to compensate for
DOG and cat owners in Bradford are being urged to get their pet microchipped. A microchipping event will be held at Pets at Home stores across the district between on Saturday, February 28, and Sunday, March 1, to help protect pets from being lost
BAILDON Farmers Market takes place on Saturday, February 28, in the lower half of Ian Clough Hall car park, from 9am until 1pm. There will be lots of stalls offering bread, cakes, preserves, fish and meat.
OH how I long for the old days, when everything was simple. When the TV had three channels, shops closed on a Sunday and cat food was simply cat food. I’m not a child of the 21st century, and I never will be. I’ve tried, I really have, but
BRADFORD District Care Trust is hosting an event for people who are interested in speech and language therapy as a career and want to learn more about the profession, on March 19. Gail Silcock, a speech and language therapist at Bradford District
A BRADFORD academic, who swapped bringing up children to research First World War heroes, has produced a fascinating book. Dr Kathryn Hughes uncovered unknown tales of heroism by Bradford citizens and, after four years of painstaking research,
THEY say a little in moderation is all you need, but is fat really that bad for you? Recent research, published in online journal Open Heart, appears to point to the fact that national dietary advice on fat consumption issued to millions of UK
25 years ago: Two Silsden families were celebrating after winning football pools jackpots totalling more than £150,000. One won £69,373, the other scooped £82,000. 50 years ago: Staff at Bradford’s Majestic ballroom were left to count the cost
BRADFORD Cathedral is appealing to youngsters to join its choir. There are currently six vacancies for boys aged seven to ten and up to six vacancies for girls aged seven to 14 to join the choir by September. For more information, contact Alexander
BRADFORD MP George Galloway is the latest politician to harness crowdfunding for his election campaign. The Respect Party leader hopes to raise £20,000 in 30 days, and is now more than half-way towards the target. The Bradford West MP is pledging
ANY drive to get commuters out of their cars and on to bicycles to help cut road congestion has to be accompanied with investment to improve their safety. Ask any regular cyclist about the dangers they face and their two main gripes will be about
FORMER Keighley MP Ann Cryer will be giving a talk called ‘Apartheid or Cohesion’ at Sherdil Luncheon Club tomorrow, at Habib’s Restaurant, at the junction of Killinghall Road and Barkerend Road, Bradford. To book, call John Cole on (01274) 592989.
YORKSHIRE Water is quietly making much bigger cuts in bills for customers with meters than for those without, the Telegraph & Argus can reveal. The company has sent out letters telling customers they will enjoy an average three per cent reduction
THE Subway franchise has applied to build a restaurant at Keighley Retail Park in Hard Ings Road. The company wants to develop a single-storey property and an outside seating area. It notes that the development would lead to a loss of 15 car
FIND out how to measure your Body Mass Index at a healthy eating session in Bradford. The Good Food Advice Stall – Health Trainers will be held at Oastler Market, John Street, on February 27 between 9.30am and 12.30pm. The NHS Health Trainer
AN innovative home from hospital scheme, managed by Horton Housing Association, has been shortlisted for a national award. Bradford Respite and Integrated Care and Support Service is a new scheme which prevents bed blocking by providing high quality
THE Department for Transport is expected to open the door for bids to run the north’s rail franchise within the next few days,. but a pressure group is already warning new investment is needed. But the Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) said
MORE than one in four people in Yorkshire region said it took someone they knew to have a heart attack for them to take their heart health more seriously. Over half of the people surveyed as part of the BUPA study said they were worried about getting
BRADFORD’S Trident Community Council is to be asked for assistance to save a three-acre development site in West Bowling as a community open space. The land originally housed blocks of flats, but they were demolished years ago, with the site given
THREE offenders in Bradford have been offered a way to dodge court with conditional cautions imposed by city police officers. One was issued to a male who was responsible for theft after he was involved in a domestic legal action which had left
THREE offenders in Bradford have been offered a way to dodge court with conditional cautions imposed by city police officers. One was issued to a male who was responsible for theft after he was involved in a domestic legal action which had left
A BRADFORD care home is set to open its doors for a new on-site cafe. Cooper House Care Home, Cooper Lane, will open its new facility on Thursday, February 26. Cafe Amore will be available not only to the home’s residents and staff but also
POLICE have bailed a man who was being questioned after he was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The 34-year-old Bradford man was arrested at an address in the city on Saturday afternoon and kept in custody overnight
A PUB landlady has told how she desperately tried to save ‘gentle giant’ Michael McDermott after his mobility scooter was involved in a hit-and-run tragedy. Jeanette Kinsella attempted to revive 70-year-old Mr McDermott as he lay fatally injured
THREE crime suspects have been barred from Bradford city centre and will appear in court for allegedly breaching dispersal orders issued against them there. One is accused of being in breach of a dispersal order banning him from the city centre
POLICE have released a 20- year-old man without charge following his arrest with another man after a suspected stolen car was involved in a collision and police chase in Bradford last Wednesday. A Lexus was seen by police on Legrams Lane, but the
CHILDREN were encouraged to adopt healthy eating habits at a specialist event at Oastler Market. The Good Food Advice Stall invited people to take part in food-based activities and watch cooking demonstrations by nearby Jamie’s Ministry of Food
AN ANTI-CUTS protest group is planning a city centre rally outside this year’s council budget meeting. The Bradford People’s Coalition Against the Cuts is planning to meet in Centenary Square from 3.30pm on Thursday, when councillors will meet
A SECOND man has been arrested following a fatal road crash in Bradford. Michael McDermott, 70, died when his mobility scooter was struck by a black Seat Leon as he crossed Leeds Road, near to Thornbury Avenue, Bradford, at around 12.45pm on Friday
BRADFORD City fans have been reassured that they will still be able to buy tickets for the club's upcoming FA Cup quarter-final today. The club has reacted after angry season ticket holders complained of missing out on tickets for the club's clash
POLICE at the sharp end of the Government's counter-radicalisation strategy believe Bradford’s Muslim communities are vulnerable to intimidating fundraising which may be supporting criminal or terrorist activity, according to a new report. Officers
TEENAGE Nottingham Forest winger Oliver Burke is joining City on an initial 28-day loan. The 17-year-old Scot, who made his senior debut in the Capital One Cup at Tottenham in September, will link up with the Bantams thjs morning. Right winger
JIMMY Lowes will challenge his players to put together an 80-minute performance at Featherstone next weekend following their 34-4 victory over Whitehaven. The Bulls were well below par during the first half and led only 10-4 against the Cumbrian
GARY MacKenzie sees no reason why City cannot keep fighting their campaign on two fronts after sneaking back into the League One play-off zone. The point from Saturday's draw against Walsall was enough to edge them above Doncaster into sixth spot
Bradford Bulls 34, Whitehaven 4 IT WAS difficult to put a price on the value of keeping Lee Gaskell at Odsal following last season's relegation. The 24-year-old had attracted interest from Super League clubs and could easily have stayed in
City 1, Walsall 1 IT'S not all about glitz and glamour; sometimes football is just a good old-fashioned slog. When the tale of season 2014-15 is written, a home draw with Walsall will barely make a footnote. But it was another point on the
AN angry father has branded some of Bradford's roads as "death traps" for cyclists after his teenage son was badly hurt in an accident caused by a gaping pothole.John Ciesielski said it was only a matter of time before a cyclist was killed in
CASH reserves at Bradford Council could fall too low in as little as two years' time, its finance boss has warned. Director of finance Stuart McKinnon-Evans said the authority's unallocated reserves, which currently stand at £32.8 million, were expected
AN amateur photographer from Bingley has been documenting the last days of his town's most recognisable building.After years of standing empty, demolition of the Bradford & Bingley building began last month. The building, which has been a towering presence
A WOMAN undergoing chemotherapy has had her long locks shorn to help a children's cancer charity.And next month Emma Astwood, who is recovering from a breast cancer operation, will have a total head-shave to boost her fundraising efforts.But while she
AN international athlete from Cleckheaton has vowed to keep fundraising to achieve her Paralympic dream in Rio despite an eye operation dashing her world game hopes in Seoul this summer.Visually impaired goalball player Brittany Stead had already raised
FORECASTERS have warned that snow could return to the Bradford area today with enough to cause hazardous driving conditions into tomorrow.According to the Met Office, frequent sleet, snow and hail showers can be expected throughout today, persisting well
A HEARTBROKEN son of the pensioner killed when his mobility scooter was involved in a horrific crash said it had been a tragedy waiting to happen.David McDermott told how he had been with his father, Michael McDermott, previously when they had near misses
A PUB landlady has told how she desperately tried to save 'gentle giant' Michael McDermott after his mobility scooter was involved in an accident with a car.Jeanette Kinsella attempted to revive 70-year-old Mr McDermott as he lay fatally injured in the
A FIRE victim was unconscious and had stopped breathing when he was rescued from a blazing flat in Bradford tonight but was revived by firefighters and paramedics. Police discovered the blaze, at a flat in a maisonettes complex on Tanton Walk in
