STANNINGLEY firefighters were so touched by a letter of thanks from a local youngster, they returned the compliment. The crew said 10-year-old Anya sent the firefighters at Stanningley a letter to say thanks for all their hard work during the Covid
DETECTIVES have issued a renewed appeal for witnesses following a robbery at a house in Liversedge. Kirklees CID are continuing extensive investigations into a robbery at a house in the Roberttown Lane area by four men, and can now release more
BRADFORD Police are appealing for information to help them locate Umbar Hussain who is wanted on recall to prison. A number of enquiries have been carried out to trace Hussain, 26, who was previously jailed for drugs offences and is thought to
BRADFORD East Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) has caught a total of 52 drivers speeding during speed watches carried out between July 2 and 8, The speed watches were carried out in Bolton Road, Manchester Road, New Street, Wakefield Road, Idle
Fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore has become the first member of the Lionhearts squad of inspirational heroes, receiving a personal visit from David Beckham. The former England skipper made a trip to Keighley-born Captain Sir Tom's Bedfordshire home
ROALD Dahl, Nick Drake, Jamaica Inn, The Foundling Museum, World War I - these are just a few of the things that Bradford author IRENE LOFTHOUSE has written about for the award-winning 26 Characters Ltd collective. It’s a project that, says Irene
WEST Yorkshire’s Rugby League Museum is unlikely to be ready in time for the sport’s World Cup next year. Originally the museum was going to be based in Bradford City Hall, but earlier this year those plans fell through. It will now
LEVI SUTTON has become City’s first signing of the summer on a two-year deal. Sutton, aged 23, played under Stuart McCall and Kenny Black at Scunthorpe where he came through the academy and can play in both midfield and at the back. Sutton
THEFTS of motor vehicles in West Yorkshire have risen by almost 61 per cent, against a national average of 56 per cent in four years, new figures obtained by RAC Insurance show. Across the UK Some 152,541 vehicles were stolen in 2018/19 compared
Jack Charlton, the former Leeds and England defender who won a World Cup winner’s medal in 1966, has died. He was 85. Charlton had been diagnosed with lymphoma in the last year and was also battling dementia. He spent his entire 21-year playing
Work on a major £2.75 million refurbishment of Oakworth Crematorium and its chapel is due to start next month. The scheme is part of an overall £24 million Bradford Council bereavement services improvement package, which also includes the construction
THE re-opening of pubs has prompted us to re-visit some old Bradford pubs, many of them now sadly closed. These pictures - taken mostly in the 1980s - are from Paul Jennings, author of The Local: A History of The English Pub. Were you regulars
CHRIS and Rose Bax had been running a foraging and cookery course - Taste the Wild - for 15 years when they started experimenting with distilling foraged ingredients. Motivated by a love of botanical flavours, they set out to produce alcohol-free
SALLY Clifford on how a local cancer charity has been helping people in lockdown: “We are still here for you.” That message - symbolised with a daisy on the Cancer Support Yorkshire website - is one that Sarah Wood, the charity’s Executive Director
A HAWORTH man is taking on a 24-hour walking challenge in memory of his father – and to raise funds for the hospice that cared for him. Richard Stuttard aims to walk 40 miles – along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath – from Riddlesden to East
KEIGHLEY MP Robbie Moore is urging people to “eat out to help out”. He is calling on constituents to back a scheme designed to tempt the public back into pubs, cafes and restaurants – and help the businesses recover from the impact of lockdown.
PLANS to build housing on the site of a former nursery have once again been refused. Bradford Council this week refused a second attempt to develop the former Hirst Wood Nurseries site as three houses and a "managed woodland trail."
UP to 600 business in Bradford have yet to submit details to get Covid 19 Support Grants. Shortly after lockdown began, the Government provided Bradford Council with £135 million to pass on to local businesses to help them survive the crisis
YE Olde Crown is one of Bradford’s oldest pubs, dating back to the early 19th century. Now it has a new look taking it into the future, with an extra floor to accommodate more customers and a soon-to-be-unveiled roof terrace. Regulars flocked to
A NUMBER of Facebook Live events will be held next week as part of a consultation on plans to re-locate Cleckheaton Fire Station. The plan to close the station, sell the site and move fire cover to the West Yorkshire FIre Service HQ in Birkenshaw
A DOTING dad is to climb majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in a fundraising trek for a charity which helps people living with epilepsy. It’s a personal mission for Jon Newsholme, from Queensbury, whose son, Oscar, has a rare epilepsy syndrome. Now
COUNCILLORS have called for meetings to once again be held in City Hall, rather than online, during a meeting one called "embarrassing." Bradford Council's Corporate Scrutiny Committee met for the first time since March during an online meeting
The rise in the popularity of diesel saloons was one of the reasons for the petrol-only Toyota Camry being withdrawn from the UK marketplace in 2004. A decade and a half later – with things having gone full circle – it’s somewhat ironic that a downturn
BRADFORD has so much to be proud of from its history, with many things it can boost and brag about that it gave to the world. Here is just a selection of six of them, why not write your own in the comments section below. Home to first
THE Halifax Cricket League have announced that they will be returning to action on July 18, after the government announced that recreational cricket was safe to play. Paul Whiteley, the league’s PR & media officer, confirmed that first XI cricket
YORKSHIRE are on the hunt for silverware and new chairman Roger Hutton for one will be shouting from the rooftops should they achieve success during the shortened summer. The White Rose squad are preparing for a jam-packed two months of four-day
IT'S the weekend so you might be looking for a sweet treat for your lockdown meal and instead opting to call up for a takeaway dessert. Here are six of the top dessert takeaway places in Bradford, as currently rated by the Just Eat website.
JOHN Kear is confident he can get the Bulls up to speed in three weeks if they get the green light to play again in 2020. Championship and League One clubs expect to know by the end of the month whether there can be a resumption to the season that
STUART McCall is braced for a League Two salary cap as he looks to complete his first business since coming back as City boss. McCall is close to tying up deals for two players while the club are also understood to be in talks with Billy Clarke.
THE SISTERS of a Bradford partygoer who died three years after being fatally injured by a single punch thrown by a 16-year-old have welcomed his jailing for manslaughter. But Andrea Milne and Dawn Gilroy have branded the 12-month sentence for Landon
