Two suspects have been arrested in a fast-moving police inquiry into four ‘nasty burglaries’ in the district. Three of the raids took place last night in the Keighley and Silsden areas. Two males have been arrested and charged with multiple
Five of Bradford’s most prolific beggars were arrested on Monday during a ‘day of action’ to tackle the issue. As well as making arrests, police and partner agencies were able to signpost a number of genuinely homeless people towards the help they
KEIGHLEY Model Railway Club will next month hold its 10th annual 7mm Festival. Several visitors will display their layouts alongside award-winning layouts created by the club’s own O gauge specialists. Club spokesman Stephen Ward said: “Over
THE Duchess of Sussex's first solo project as a member of the royal family has been announced - supporting the publication of a community cookbook helping Grenfell families and others. Meghan has written the foreword to the new book produced by
A BRADFORD tattooist has received international acclaim at a convention down south this month. Mason Preece, 21, of Keighley, achieved two separate awards for his work, at the annual Oxford International Tattoo Convention on September 1 and 2.
RIDDLESDEN were pipped to promotion in Division Three of the Mewies Craven Cricket League after a controversial no-result at leaders Barrowford II. The wicket was not adequately prepared and was therefore unplayable, much to the frustration of
A 20 MPH speed limit would be introduced on the vast majority of roads in Bradford city centre under new plans revealed by Bradford Council. Speed limits are also likely to be cut around a “significant” number of the district’s schools as part
AN e-fit image has been released of a man police would like to trace after a bogus caller burgled a house. It happened last Friday when the suspect, who pretended to be a council employee, called at the victim’s home, at Kipling Court, Greengates
BINGLEY Congs blew a golden opportunity to win Division One of the Mewies Craven Cricket League, losing to Haworth Road when a win would have seen them pip Barrowford, who were out of action. Barrowford travelled to Ingrow and found the ground unplayable
SIR - Could things be worse for most people in this country, in peace time? Most families are on average £800 worse off than before the economic crash which happened exactly 10 years ago. More are in work but many on low wages. The neo-liberal concept
SIR - Diabetes UK has launched a free and easy-to-use learning tool for people with diabetes. Learning Zone is a new digital platform to help people understand more about their condition and how to manage it. On average people with diabetes spend
SIR - So now we know. £3bn is to be spent on the direct faster rail connection between Yorkshire and Lancashire. Even this proposal insults Northern commuters by admitting the electrification involved will cease west of Huddersfield and only restart
SIR - Seriously? Do we need to ask why there are fewer cyclists in Bradford area? Hills, bad drivers, no facilities for cycles or cyclists. As for the new cycle way - why build one that will impact severely on the vehicular traffic and retail park?
TELEGRAPH & Argus Camera Club member John Shackleton’s picture of his trusty mountain bike is good enough to be a product shot in a sales brochure. William Oliver’s close up of the polished wood roof of a trolley bus was taken at the Beamish
DUE to Bradford & District FA matches and other district cup ties, there were few matches in the Bradford Sunday Alliance League at the weekend. However, what there were proved exciting. For example, in a top-of-the-table Premier Division
PARENTS-to-be should be banned from using a blood test to determine the gender of their baby in the early stages of pregnancy, Labour has said. The call comes amid concerns that some could choose to terminate the pregnancy because of a fetus's
LEEDS boss Marcelo Bielsa has refused to be drawn into a row with Millwall counterpart Neil Harris following Saturday's 1-1 draw at The Den. Harris described the Leeds bench's celebrations after Jack Harrison's late equaliser as "a disgrace" and
ANTI-BREXIT campaigner Gina Miller has told the Liberal Democrat party conference she is not their leader-in-waiting. Insisting she was not political, Ms Miller defended liberal values and attacked Conservatives and Labour, saying she did not know
FORECASTERS have downgraded warnings that Storm Helene could pose a risk to life when it hits this week - but warned coastal communities to stay vigilant. The Met Office warned on Friday the storm could bring hazardous conditions when it sweeps
CROSSFLATTS has a new defibrillator. The village society took delivery of the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) from the charity Cariad on Saturday. It follows months of hard work raising funds from Easter egg hunts, big lunch tea parties
BAILDON are the new second teams' Championship Division One winners in the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League after rounding off their season with a five-wicket win over relegated Wrenthorpe. Seif Hussain set up their 17th win in 22 games
HANGING Heaton skipper Gary Fellows was delighted to put the Bradford Premier League on the map as his side won the coveted Vitality ECB Clubs T20 Cup at Derby. Fellows made an unbeaten 88 to help his team chase down Swardeston's 164-8 with three
SILSDEN won 1-0 in their derby clash at Albion Sports in the FA Vase Second Qualifying round and their reward is a trip to Staveley Miners Welfare for the First Round Proper. Reece Kendall got the winner at the weekend and his side can expect another
JER Lane crowned their first season in the All Rounder Cricket Bradford Premier League by securing the conference title with a 123-run over East Leeds. The win saw them finish with 338 points. They will be joined in Championship Two next season
FARSLEY Celtic Juniors made it three wins from three in the Yorkshire Amateur League Premier Division with a 5-1 home triumph over Calverley United. United, still without a point after two matches, defended in numbers and tried to hit the Celts
A GROUP of women from the Hindu community have raised nearly £3,000 for the flooding victims of Kerala in India. The women hired a church hall, booked musicians and traditional Raas Garba dancers, sold 200 tickets for the event and provided savoury
BRADFORD won the ECB City Cup for the first time in Leicester on Sunday with a 22-run victory in an all-Yorkshire final against Sheffield. A half-century from Hamza Iqbal, their 20-year-old captain from Baildon, set up the win – and could earn Iqbal
THE team at Tong Garden Centre have delighted a young fan by recycling redundant signage as the seasons change. Nine-year-old Summer Young from Farsley was thrilled to see signs bearing her name when she visited the Tong Lane site to buy a hamster
WITH 40 goals in their first six games in the West Yorkshire League's Alliance Division One, Field Reserves gave Calverley United Reserves, their visitors in the Bradford & District FA's Saturday Senior Cup first round, a lesson in finishing
A WEATHER alert warning of strong winds across the district has been issued by the Met Office. The yellow warning is in place from 9pm tonight until 6pm on Tuesday. Forecasters said: "Although now expected to bring less strong winds, the remnants
The Bradford Sunday School Billiards League are starting their centenary season this week. There is no change in teams, although Eastbrook are moving from Great Horton Park Chapel Cricket Club to Greatt Horton Conservative Club. Some teams are
OTLEY skipper Ben Morley smashed a six to pass his half century, take his side to victory over Horsforth, and clinch the club’s third Aire-Wharfe Division One title in five years. Starting the day only two points ahead of Burley, Otley came flying
BRADFORD (Park Avenue) Under-18s play the biggest match in their short Academy history tomorrow[Wednesday]. They face Harworth Colliery in the first qualifying round of the FA Youth Cup at Horsfall Stadium (7.45). Avenue manager Alex Meechan
SINCE winning the West Yorkshire League Premier Division title in 2014-15, Field haven't really pulled up that many trees in what is a competitive environment. They were third and fourth in the following two seasons and seventh in 2017-18, with
LET’S be honest, in a lifetime of driving all of us can expect to have at least one accident. If you have been driving for a few years and haven’t been in a car accident, consider yourself lucky. Or overdue. When it does happen the odds are that
DETECTIVES are still trying to trace two men today after an armed robbery at a shop on Tong Street. Bradford District CID is investigating the raid, which took place at 12.45pm on Thursday after a man ran inside Cash Converters and smashed
THIS Friday’s meeting of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority Transport Committee will be asked to back a call for more accessible information and open data around bus services. The Department for Transport (DfT) is seeking views on ways to provide
FIRE crews had to stay with a woman for an hour waiting for an ambulance after she was injured in a crash. The crash, involving two cars, happened almost directly outside Fairweather Green fire station in Thornton Road, at 8.15pm yesterday.
AFTER concerns that this year’s edition of races would not take place, Bradford Council has confirmed this year’s Bradford City Runs will go ahead next month. The annual event will take place on Sunday, October 28, and will see hundreds of runners
A GIANT piggy bank took to the sky in Bradford highlighting Age UK’s call for more Government funding for social care for the elderly. The inflatable, called Penny, is raising awareness of data from the charity suggesting that 1.4m older people
25 Years Ago: Mother Teresa had astonished doctors by surviving a high-risk surgery, planning to return to work within the next ten days. The 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner had been described as “amazing,” after her operation to clear a blocked
TWO firefighters have retired from Bingley Fire Station after giving three decades service to protecting and saving lives. Watch Manager Andy Gray worked his last shift for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service on Saturday and his colleague, Simon
A HOUSING development can be built on the site of a recently demolished pub after Bradford Council gave the scheme the go ahead. The Tempest pub on on Kesteven Road, Holme Wood was torn down late last year after years of standing derelict.
OVER 30 food premises were given a caution or improvement notice by Bradford Council in the past year – and two were prosecuted for breaking food hygiene laws. There are currently 4,477 food businesses in the Bradford district, including 96 supermarkets
A CAMPAIGN urging motorists to been their distance from the car in front has been launched by Highways England following 272 Yorkshire and North East casualties. ‘Don’t be a space invader’ - stay safe, stay back, is backed by former Formula 1 world
More than 1,000 crashes involving council-owned vehicles resulted in the local authority’s insurers paying out more than £1.3 million over six years. Bradford Council’s fleet of gritters, bin lorries, trucks and vans have been involved in 1,324
RECRUITMENT agency The Works Recruitment has become the latest firm to sign up to the #GiveBradford 100 Club. Here, founder and managing director Craig Burton explains why his firm has signed up for the initiative. What do you like most about
ATTACKS on firefighters have continued over the summer, with fire engines pelted with rocks and threatened by homeowners. Between April and July there were 10 attacks on firefighters in Bradford, many of them carried out by teenagers. But they
A TEENAGER has been locked up for supplying Class B drugs in a Keighley park. Usman Ali, 18, of Springfield Road, Keighley, was handed a sentence of one year in a young offender's institute. He was caught by a plain clothes police officer in
EOIN Doyle insists David Hopkin is the right man to pull City out of their rut. Four successive defeats have dropped the Bantams into League One’s bottom four. Hopkin’s home opener ended in a 2-0 loss to Charlton – but Doyle believes they have
OLDHAM 16 BULLS 24 IF THIS was a play-off warm-up, maybe the Bulls can claim a slight psychological edge for the battle to come. But the workmanlike win at the Vestacare Stadium was hardly a case of stamping their authority on a potential rival
JOHN Kear was left “mystified” by the Bulls’ second-half no show in yesterday’s win at Oldham. They hit back from an early 10-point deficit to beat play-off rivals Roughyeds 24-16 at the Vestacare Stadium. But the Bulls failed to score after
CITY 0 CHARLTON 2 THE tackle earned universal appreciation from the stands and the dug-out. The unity and togetherness that David Hopkin has preached since day one encapsulated in the sudden spike in Valley Parade volume. Jim O’Brien’s
