Great Britain's Alistair Brownlee was disqualified in the final race of the World Triathlon Series after failing to go around a buoy during the swimming on the Gold Coast. The 30-year-old two-time Olympic champion was initially hit with a 15-second
THE draw for the FA Vase third qualifying round will be made at lunchtime tomorrow, with Thackley, Steeton and Silsden looking out for their next opponents after winning their second qualifying round ties. Thackley were 5-2 home winners over Carlisle
KEIGHLEY Cougars set a new club record victory in thrashing depleted West Wales 112-6. The League One whipping boys had only 12 players available for their home game as Keighley ran riot. Four players scored hat-tricks as Ritchie Hawkyard, Cameron
Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa accepted responsibility for the touchline confrontation that occurred towards the end of the 1-1 draw at Millwall. Bielsa confronted the home bench after they attempted to slow down the clock with their team 1-0 up and
A LAST-MINUTE Jassim Alali strike saw Eccleshill United take maximum points from a five-goal thriller and boosted them three places up the Toolstation Northern Counties East League Premier Division. There were just five games in the top tier due
FARSLEY Celtic hauled themselves back up three places in the Evo-Stik League premier division with a home win following two defeats and draw which had seen them tumble down the table. There were few chances created by either side at Throstle Nest
GUISELEY stretched their unbeaten run to eight games and climbed into the top half of the Vanarama National League North table with a 3-0 win over FC United of Manchester. The Lions broke the deadlock before the half-hour mark, but it was Rowan
A LEAKY defence caused Bradford (Park Avenue) to drop points for a third consecutive game as Altrincham hit two goals inside a seven-minute second-half spell to win 3-2 at Horsfall Stadium. There was more than a touch of fortune about the Robins
SIR - Despite Government claims to the contrary, things are getting worse in our schools. Approximately £2.8 billion has been cut from school budgets and this has obviously had a detrimental effect. Teachers and school staff are being cut or not replaced
SIR - So, on and on it goes. Travellers have now moved onto fields in Peel Park (T&A, September 7), the third field occupied in less than a month. This scourge on our community has to be better dealt with, and one despairs at the comments of
BUS services to Ilkley Grammar School are being retimed from Monday morning. Keighley Bus Company has announced that the services will be 10 minutes earlier on mornings to improve punctuality. The bus company is also remind students from Bingley
THE POND in East Bierley Village is being dredged after completely drying up in the summer heat. The village's pond is one of its main attractions but all that is left is a layer of silt, several feet deep. A contractor, Edward Crosby, is to
THE “posh southerner” is preparing for his final outing as an adopted northerner on his home ground this week, and Jack Brooks admits he has loved bowling in front of the Yorkshire faithful. Brooks faces Hampshire at Emerald Headingley in the penultimate
THE M606 has fully re-opened after a four-vehicle accident this afternoon. Highways England says the accident happened just before the Chain Bar junction with the M62. The southbound carriageway was blocked and West Yorkshire Ambulance and
OFFICERS from Bradford West Neighbourhood Policing Team found a haul of drugs in a vehicle on Saturday night. They sighted a male acting suspiciously around a vehicle in the Grantham Road area. On sighting officers this male locked the vehicle
UNDERCLIFFE pipped Wrenthorpe to the Championship One title on a thrilling final day to the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League season. Wrenthorpe struck the first blow in the see-saw battle for top spot when they bowled out Baildon for
PUDSEY St Lawrence saw their hopes of reaching a second Yorkshire Premier League play-off final shattered at Scarborough. They suffered an 18-run defeat at the hands of North Yorkshire South Durham League side Great Ayton who will now play Wakefield
THERE was a thrilling finish to the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League Championship Two title battle with Keighley taking the trophy by a single point. They started the day in second place and made short work of their game at Northowram
TWO computing students from Bradford will test their skills at a national competition later this year, which takes place at a conference attended by more than 70,000 people. Hamza Kumran and Sohaib Ashraf, who both study at Bradford College, will
POLICE are reopinig a section of the M62 after an incident this morning. The east and westbound carriageways of the motorway were closed from J24 A629 (Ainley Top) to J22 A672 (Rishworth Moor) while police dealt with the ongoing incident. Police
DRIVERS have been warned of delays today because of resurfacing work. The work is on A6177 Smiddles Lane from Dovesdale Road to Manchester Road until 7pm. Diversions are via Thornton Lane, Little Horton Lane, Clarges Street and Ransdale Road.
MATTHEW Wilson has packed plenty into his 18 years. For example, he has played hockey for England Under-17s in the School Games in Loughborough and appeared in Gold, a Bollywood film about hockey. “I have been playing hockey since I was 12,”
BORIS JOHNSON has urged MPs to focus on "chucking Chequers" rather than Theresa May, days after Brexiteers met to war-game ways to oust the Prime Minister. Fevered speculation continues to mount over the former foreign secretary's leadership ambitions
PLANS to turn an empty takeaway into a bar have been refused by Bradford Council. Planning officers said the application, which would see the former Adam's takeaway on Saltaire Road converted into a bar called The Peacock Lounge, did not include
OSCAR-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has spoken of the challenges of writing star-studded BBC miniseries Trust. Beaufoy, who grew up in Glusburn, created Trust, based on the true-life kidnapping of the heir to billionaire John Paul Getty.
INTERNATIONALLY renowned opera singer Danielle de Niese said she lost her voice while pregnant weeks before a major audition. The Australian-American soprano revealed she sounded like a "husky, James Bond type character", and was unable to sing
WEALTH taxes should be imposed to create a £100 billion "citizens fund" in order to spread Britain's resources more evenly, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has said. Such a sovereign wealth fund would also strengthen the UK's public finances
A MAN who threatened police and fled from pursuing officers has been jailed. Waseem Ali, 24, of Brantdale Road, Heaton, appeared before Bradford Crown Court yesterday to be sentenced. The first offence unfolded in October last year following
HOPES the anti-social use of fireworks in the district is to be tackled have been buoyed with news a report on the subject is being sent to all five Bradford area committees later this year. The nuisance caused by the explosives has been taken
AFTER a Saharan summer, when I feared our climate had changed for good, I was thrilled when, last week, the temperatures plummeted overnight and autumn arrived. With press reports like this one: ‘Britain could bake in the heatwave until the end
