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ECCLESHILL United under-19s recorded their first Northern Alliance League victory as they beat Selby Town 4-1 in the North Division. Donovan Price opened the scoring after 22 minutes and Manuel Lopez quickly made it 2-0 from 30 yards, before Selby

A BUSINESSMAN who was fined for selling illegal goods including toy water pistols and children's colouring chalk has lost an appeal against the sentence and had some of the fines increased.Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC, who heard the appeal along with

KULWINDER Sandhu is cursing the fixture list after his Albion Sports side slipped to a home defeat Wednesday. They lost 2-1 to Bridlington Town in their first run out since a 3-1 home win over Garforth Town two weeks earlier. Sandhu, whose

THE FA Cup was back in Bradford today, helping to raise more than £200 for Sue Ryder care. Staff at Morrisons head office at Hilmore House, including head of corporate affairs, Guy Mason (pictured), had a chance to have their pictures taken with the famous

PLANS for a £20 million housing development at Apperley Bridge have been welcomed by a senior councillor - who hopes it will push forward funding to improve a nearby congested main road junction.Yorkshire housebuilder Ben Bailey Homes is seeking permission

LEE Duxbury has swapped the dug out for the classroom and there is just one question the pupils want to ask the former Eccleshill boss. All the kids want to know how hard it is to become a professional footballer. It is something Duxbury, who is

BRADFORD Park Avenue boss John Deacey paid tribute to his new signings for the impact they have had and to the supporters for cheering them to victory in the midweek derby at Nethermoor. Avenue are unbeaten in three matches and have climbed out

A 42-YEAR-OLD woman appeared at Bradford Crown Court today charged with five offences of benefit fraud. Karen Harvey, of Jubilee Close, Skipton, is alleged to have fleeced the taxpayer out of around £31,000. Prosecutor Emma Downing said she

AN owner has spoken of his delight today after being reunited with his stolen Bradford husky Murphy. Murphy, who has been microchipped, was found in Manchester yesterday and returned back to his owner Andy Smith. The four-year-old went missing

THE British Red Cross in Yorkshire wants Bradford runners to join its team to head over the Pennines and take on the Mancunians at their own Great Run – a distance of a little more than six miles. The Bupa Great Manchester Run is one of the biggest

DIGGERS are now busy flattening the construction site for an Aldi store in Bingley.Heavy machinery was hard at work within days of the German retail giant taking over the 37-space Ferncliffe car park from Bradford Council.Councillor David Heseltine (Con

FITNESS facilities are set to be expanded at Spenborough Pool in Liversedge after Kirklees Council approved a project that could cost up to £395,000. The expansion will include a new fitness studio, spin studio and female changing room. The cost

WOMEN from African and African Caribbean backgrounds are invited to attend a fitness class and talk in Bradford. Woman 2 Woman: Fitness & Couch Conversations group next meets on Friday at Sharing Voices, Clifton House, Clifton Villas, Bradford

REAL ale fans will be raising a glass or few at this weekend’s Bradford Beer Festival. Thousands of enthusiasts are expected through the doors of Victoria Hall in Saltaire for the popular event which started last night and ends tomorrow. Bill

FIVE people are due to stand trial in August accused of trying to claim nearly £170,000 by committing “crash for cash” insurance fraud. The four men and a woman, all of Keighley, along with a Nelson man, appeared for a preliminary hearing at Bradford

GROUPS and organisations in Shipley, Baildon and Saltaire are invited to join in planning for a Heritage Open Day at a meeting. A discussion and planning session will take place on Friday, March 6, at 1pm in the Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, to discuss

MP GREG Mulholland led a group of politicians to victory in a charity rugby league match against a team of journalists. Mr Mulholland (Lib Dem, Leeds North-West) won 10-6 and helped raise almost £1,000 for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy charity

EPALAHAME Lauaki looks set to make his debut this weekend after being included in the Bulls' 19-man squad for Sunday's game at Featherstone. Dan Fleming and Dale Ferguson have been passed fit to play and Nathan Conroy is also in the squad but Harry

A BEER festival is being held at Jacob’s pub in Bradford to mark English Tourist Week. All the beers in the event, from March 14 to 21, are new releases from 20 West Yorkshire breweries all within 30 mile radius of Bradford. There will be a

A GOVERNMENT crackdown on companies behind unwanted cold calls has been welcomed by Keighley MP Kris Hopkins. From April 6 firms will be more at risk of facing fines of up to £500,000 if they are found to have used cold calls and nuisance texts

WORLD class champion of contemporary circus, Cirque Eloize, is in Bradford this spring with new show Cirkopolis. Showcasing the multidisciplinary talents of its artists, Cirque Eloize combines circus arts with music, dance and theatre. Cirkopolis

A HEADLINE appearance by blues veterans The Spikedrivers at a social club in Keighley marked the start of a renowned blues scene in the town that’s still thriving a decade later. On March 11, 2005 The Spikedrivers, and support act Blues Breakdown

JAZZ singer Claire Martin will join forces with saxophonist and singer Ray Gelato in a A Swingin’ Affair, coming to two West Yorkshire venues next month. Like Rod Stewart and latterly Bob Dylan, they are celebrating the Great American Songbook

A STORE detective was threatened with a piece of wood after detaining a suspected shoplifter in Bradford city centre. Police arrested that suspect and a second youth who were accused of stealing from TK Maxx in Forster Square on Tuesday afternoon

THE WORTH Valley Storytelling Guild will next month host the last in a traditional line of Jewish storytellers. Shonaleigh Cumbers will be the guest at the guild’s Open Storytelling Circle on Monday, March 16, in the back room of the Old Hall Inn

TOMORROW, Bradford Festival Choral Society is holding a ‘come and sing’ workshop. If you would like to join the workshop and try out singing in the choir, it costs £10 in advance or £12 on the day. The choir is rehearsing and performing Howard

ORGANISERS of Leeds Festival have unveiled more than 50 acts, including legendary troubadours The Libertines. Other acts announced this week, joining headliners Mumford and Sons and Metallica, include Bingley band Marmozets, All Time Low, Bring

POLICE are continuing to appeal for information after a woman was assaulted and robbed in a Bradford park. The 39-year-old woman was walking through Horton Park at about 11am on Tuesday, when she was pushed to the ground by a man. There was

ANYONE who has seen the powerful production of War Horse will recall the haunting score played by actor musicians on stage throughout the performance. The folk songs return to the stage in An Evening With The War Horse Songman, coming to Bradford

THE Early Communication Partnership at Bradford Council’s Early Childhood and Library Services and the National Literacy Trust are hosting a conference for people who work with children up to the age of three. Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, one of the speakers

WHEN Billy Crocker discovers that his heart’s desire, debutante heiress Hope Harcourt, is engaged to an English aristocrat, he stows away aboard the SS American to win her back. Aided by an assortment of eccentric passengers on board the luxurious

A FEROCIOUS fire that destroyed a flat in Bradford last night is believed to have been started deliberately. The blaze consumed the first-floor property in Firethorn Close, Four Lane Ends, and left its occupier - a man in his 60s - needing treatment

AN ALLEGATION that a man had tried to entice a young girl into a van has proved to have been unfounded. Police received a report that a man in a white van had asked an 11-year-old girl to get in the vehicle, in Leeds Road, Shipley, on Monday.

WEST Yorkshire Police has today launched a publicity campaign to find nine fugitives wanted on European arrest warrants, some of whom are thought to be in Bradford. The force is appealing for information about the whereabouts of seven men and a woman

BRADFORD East MP David Ward has published details of his Private Members Bill in Parliament calling for off-road vehicles to be registered. The text of the Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill 2014/15 was published in Parliament yesterday. If implemented

THE Touring Consortium Theatre Company’s new production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, produced to mark the centenary of the playwright’s birth, comes to The Alhambra Theatre next month. Set in the mysterious world of New York’s Brooklyn

A NEW play currently in production at Bradford Playhouse looks at the story behind a renowned acting school, Esme Church’s Northern Acting School. Esme Church’s Northern Acting School was a hotbed of young talent, producing stars such as Billie

A TALK on eating disorders and how they can be managed will take place in Bradford next week. Nicky Dawson, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and Suzanne Heywood-Everett, a clinical psychologist at Bradford District Care Trust, will give the

AS plans get under way to develop historic Guiseley Theatre into a 21st century arts venue, its amateur society has been packing out the auditorium with a glittering production of Crazy for You. Guiseley Amateur Operatic Society took over running

SMOKERS in Bradford are being encouraged to stub out the habit in time for No Smoking Day on March 11. Figures compiled by the British Heart Foundation show that 23 per cent of adults in the city smoke – the national average is 18 per cent. Studies

SIR - I wonder if I could call upon the assistance of your readers in helping me trace an ancestor who lived in the Bradford area about 100 years ago. William Stenhouse, born in 1871 in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, moved with his wife Susannah

Debate that descends into a political diatribe SIR - With more than one contribution to T&A Letters, the writer may be responsible for the wrath of your correspondent, Dennis Moran, who wants the “self-ego chorus” to cease with the “same tired

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL **** (PG, 122 mins) Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton and Ronald Pickup TOWARDS the end of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a secret inspector is asked for an

CAKE *** (15, 102 mins) Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Sam Worthington, Anna Kendrick, Felicity Huffman, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, William H Macy and Evan O’Toole LIFE is pain cocooned within extended periods of contentment and the mundane

PHYSICS students at a Pudsey School have visited the CERN facility in Switzerland. Year 11 and 12 students at Fulneck School were taken on a tour of the centre, home to the Large Hadron Collider. Year 11 pupil Oliver Hobbs said: “Going to CERN

SIR - The report (T&A, February 24) that there had been a huge drop in the number of motorists fined for using hand-held mobiles whilst driving made disturbing reading. We all know from travelling around Bradford that this problem is still

SIR - As a pragmatic socialist who votes Tory because they have the best candidate, I am disturbed that Peter Ashton’s prime incentive is apparently to disparage his political opponents as the “privileged and greedy few” (Letters, February 26).

POLICE have issued this picture of a man they wish to speak to in connection with the theft of groceries from a shop in Queensbury. The incident occurred at a shop in High Street at about 5.30pm on Friday, February 13. The suspect was described

SIR - John Hall (Letters, February 25) rewrites history when he denies Tory/Lib Dem collusion on Bradford Council. He may recall an occasion when Labour voted with the Tories but this does not compare with the Lib-Dems having propped up minority

SIR - Sincerest apologies to Ian Parsons, (Letters, February 21). I seem to have misled him on my views on socialism, but first let me correct one point: Lib-Dems allowed the Tories to form an administration as Labour would not support our preference

STAFF and customers at a Wibsey bank will get on their bikes without leaving the branch to raise money for Sue Ryder charity. Natwest in Fair Road will be holding the challenge on Tuesday, March 10. The 202-mile feat will see the group take shifts

SIR - I was rather bemused by the letter from Elaine Neale (February 20) re her visit to Bradford archives. The archives haven’t been moved and they remain in what was previously the Bradford Central Library. The only change is that they are now

THE BOY NEXT DOOR ** (15, 91 mins) Thriller/Romance/Action. Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Ian Nelson, John Corbett, Kristin Chenoweth, Hill Harper NEVER trust a good-looking stranger with your heart. The Boy Next Door harks back to a bygone era

CAMPAIGN group Bradford World Development Group has unveiled a new name and logo. Global Justice Bradford will keep organising regular meetings, running stalls, lobbying local MPs and organising protests. It is one of 45 groups which are part

MOST of us have experienced the frustration of a nuisance call. How many times have we raced to the phone only to hear a recorded message drone on about how to get yourself out of debt, or being forced to listen to people selling everything from

25 years ago: Bradford beat off a number of rival bids to become the new Yorkshire base for TV-am, with the sixth floor of the city’s National Museum of Film, Photography, and Television set to be turned into a new £100,000 studio and live broadcasts

LOVERS of some of the world’s strangest plants will soon celebrate the platinum anniversary of the Bradford branch of the British Cactus and Succulent Society. And as part of the celebrations, people are invited to share snaps of the plants for

It is fair to say that Bradford City has recognised that it has not covered itself in glory over the issuing of tickets for the club’s FA Cup quarter final with Reading next month. But it is also fair to say officials quickly recognised there was

POLICE have raided a cannabis factory in Barkerend, Bradford, following a tip-off from the public and recovered about 100 cannabis plants. Officers in the Bradford East Neighbourhood Policing Team yesterday afternoon swooped on an address in Percival

BRADFORD-born escapologist Antony Britton is selling tickets in aid of Comic Relief for people to watch him being buried alive in a six foot grave. The Comic Relief stunt on March 13, will only be the third time it has ever been attempted.

ANTI-AUSTERITY protesters made their views known outside City Hall as councillors decided where the axe will fall on local services. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) held a demonstration against the cuts, waving placards and banners

A £20MILLION plan to demolish the Jacob’s Well offices used by Bradford Council and replace them with a new building for 3,500 staff has been unveiled today. The state-of-the-art 200,000 sq ft city centre building (pictured) would bring together

A COLLECTION of knitted items from up and coming contemporary craftmakers has gone on display in Bradford. Knit, held at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, looks at materials, designs and technologies used in contemporary craft. A collection of 25

Rail passengers in northern England, have been promised more seats, more services and new trains under franchise plans announced by the Government - but the outdated Pacers will not be replaced until 2020 at the earliest. Outlined by Deputy Prime

SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies wants the BBC licence fee to be axed – arguing it is wrong to charge viewers for something they may not want. The Conservative MP called for the £145.50 annual levy to be replaced by “voluntary subscription”, after taking

A POLITICAL party pledging to stand up for Yorkshire has unveiled its general election manifesto. Yorkshire First was born out of last August’s announcement of the Yorkshire Pledge, which calls for the white rose county to have its own decision-making

SHIPLEY MP Philip Davies has rebranded Labour leader Ed Miliband as “Ed Moribund” because he is claimed to be such a rare sight in his Doncaster constituency. Conservative MP Mr Davies told the House of Commons it was hypocritical for Mr Miliband

NEW parents Sarah and Mike Presto have been judged Bradford's most romantic couple.The loved-up pair won a competition run by The Flower Room in Eccleshill after Sarah nominated her husband for looking after her and their premature baby Daisy born on

TWO city centre traders have been left shell-shocked by problems in finding new premises for their shop.Steve Lewsley and Jane Wynn say they have been foiled at every turn in looking for a new base - even though Bradford has scores of empty units.Their

IDEAS are being sought for items to be put in a time capsule to be buried in Bradford for 100 years. Staff at the new Wright Enterprise Centre, on the junction of Albion Road and Thorp Garth, Idle, have started the appeal for suggestions of things that

BRADFORD CITY AASome important rule changes have been introduced for our extensive length of the River Aire above Inghey Bridge to the west of Skipton.Probably as a result of the banning of the diploid brown trout for restocking purposes by the Environment

PHIL Parkinson is calling for officials to work together in teams to improve the standard of lower-league refereeing.The City boss admits he is still "absolutely livid" that his side were not awarded a late penalty at Swindon after Ben Gladwin

EPALAHAME Lauaki could be unleashed on Featherstone when the Bulls travel to face their promotion rivals on Sunday. The imposing Tongan prop has been steadily building up his match fitness since arriving in England earlier this month. He was

THE prize of an appearance at Odsal Stadium in April adds more spice, if any was needed, to tomorrow's eagerly-awaited semi-finals of the Bradford ARL competitions.In the Jack Senior Memorial Cup, Pennine League Premier Division outfit Queensbury entertain

CARETAKER boss Dave Robertson has been told the job will be his if he can get Peterborough winning again.City's visit to London Road tomorrow will double as a first audition for Robertson, who stepped up following Darren Ferguson's departure last weekend.Chairman

RYAN Shaw is hoping to erase a few painful memories of his previous tussles with Featherstone and also stake a claim for regular Bulls action.The 22-year-old Cumbrian is in line to face Rovers on Sunday with Harry Siejka starting a two-match ban and Danny

KEIGHLEY'S pack may be getting the lion's share of the plaudits as the team climb the SSE Yorkshire Division Two table – but director of rugby Graeme Sheffield prefers to take an all-round view.A 20-10 home victory over Roundhegians was Keighley's sixth

A BRADFORD MP visited a school yesterday as part of his campaign to provide more funding for education in the district.David Ward told how he wants the 'Cradle to College' scheme to ensure "comprehensive education support" for children in Bradford.Mr

A FAMILY who tackled a 200-mile cycle ride from Edinburgh to Newcastle in memory of their late father and raised £7,000 for Diabetes UK, has won a volunteering award from the charity.The Perry family, of Oakleigh View, Baildon, won the fundraising award

SECOND-placed Ilkley, who have won their last eight matches in SSE North One East, are favourites for tomorrow's derby at struggling Bradford & Bingley.The Dalesmen are five points behind Sheffield and beat the Bees 32-13 at Stacks Field in November.

THE best-laid plans certainly went awry for Wharfedale last weekend.They only arrived at Blaydon 15 minutes before the scheduled 2pm kick-off but started just ten minutes late in their SSE National League One encounter on the way to a 34-27 defeat."

FANS have welcomed Bradford City's move to make more than 400 extra seats available for the FA Cup quarter-final clash. Engineers will be working up to the Reading tie on Saturday, March 7, to remove unused seating from an area of the main west

TO celebrate passing an interview to join the Army, a man went on a drinking spree which led to a 'horrifying' knife-point sex attack on a lone woman, a court heard.Jamie Jones had drunk 13 pints after realising his long-term ambition to become a soldier

A SCHEME designed to boost the district's economy has been accused of operating as a "secret society".Bradford Council's Producer City concept aims to give the district a national – and even global – reputation for being a good place to make

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A CALL for writers to pen a poem to help mark the route of Bradford's buried beck is gathering pace.The Friends of Bradford’s Becks (FOBB) group wants to plot the course of the waterway, which flows beneath the city centre, using 15 stone markers, each

A 5l-YEAR-OLD engineer has been jailed for 15 years for a catalogue of "disgusting and terrible" sexual abuse against a young girl.Paul Yeadon preyed on the child when she was aged between six and 14, raping and assaulting her "hundreds

A £20 MILLION plan to demolish the Jacob's Well offices in Bradford city centre and replace them with a new building for 3,500 staff has been revealed. The state-of-the-art 200,000 sq ft building would bring together people who work across the