Golfer Karl Curran, a 31-year-old sales rep, is the new Bradford Amateur Matchplay Champion. His stunning victory at West Bowling against Phil Wood has set his South Bradford club alight. The winner's plaque already has pride of place in the clubhouse
Australia's captain Steve Waugh warmed up for the forthcoming Ashes series with a resolute century at Yorkshire's expense in the final Championship match of the season at Headingley yesterday. In an innings of contrasting moods, Waugh held Kent together
The Bulls know their defence will be in for another crucial test at Hull tomorrow. But Bradford skipper Robbie Paul isn't worried about what Shaun McRae's side will throw at them in the Bulls' latest Sky TV clash. "We have rediscovered the aggressive
Peter Atherton has been ruled out of City's plans until mid-November. Like David Wetherall, the experienced defender has been dogged by injury problems. And he has been given further bad news with the discovery of a tear in his groin. Atherton suffered
David Wetherall may fly to Denmark for further treatment on his injured hip after breaking down in his comeback game. The City skipper played only 42 minutes for the reserves against Aston Villa at Odsal last night before hobbling off. Wetherall, making
Proposed boundary changes in Horsforth will represent a boost for the town and a unique opportunity for its voters to have a greater say in local democracy, according to the chairman of Horsforth's Pudsey Conservative Association group. Neil Hunt has
Receivers have this week said that 34 people will be made redundant at Guiseley's Silver Cross factory and that the business has been put up for sale. Receivers from Deloitte & Touche were called into the world-famous pram factory last Wednesday after
The almost unanimous John McEnroe-style response to a suggestion that rail fares should go up to discourage people from travelling by train says it all. They cannot be serious! If the Strategic Rail Authority really didn't have its tongue firmly in its
In 1885, Lord Cranbrook opened Harold Park, Bradford. In 1892, £18,000 worth of damage was caused in a fire at Parkside Mills, Bradford. In 1898, two people were killed and many injured in a tramcar accident in Grange Road, Bradford. From the Telegraph
A voluntary worker in Keighley last night scooped an accolade in this year's Servicemark Yorkshire & Humber Customer Service Awards 2002. Paul Holroyd, who works for the Vintage Carriages Trust at the Ingrow Railway Centre, was nominated for the voluntary
Three years ago, when I was 19, I had septicaemia, caused by a throat infection. The following week I had my tonsils out and my throat haemorrhaged. It was not a pretty sight and I lost about five or six pints of blood. Since that time I've always thought
AN "eyesore" plot in the middle of Barnoldswick is set to be developed as the controversial site for two new bungalows. Land next to Station House - the dental practice opposite the old library on Fernlea Avenue - has stood empty and overgrown for several
A CROSS Hills woman is campaigning to give a voice to disabled people in South Craven. Anna Duggan was, until two years ago, an able-bodied and independent woman and, like so many others, she did not realise how overlooked disabled people were in the
OBJECTOR Terence McCallum is planning further action after a controversial Lothersdale biodisc sewage treatment works received retrospective planning permission on Monday. At a meeting of Craven District Council's planning sub-committee on Monday, the
BATTLING to improve the lives of pensioners in North Craven is the remit of Christine Broadhead, Age Concern's new chief officer. As head of Age Concern North Craven, Christine aims to net more funding for projects and to maintain and develop the services
EXCITING £365,600 plans to redevelop facilities at Wenning Avenue Playing Fields in Bentham were unveiled on Monday. The playing fields are home to Bentham's cricket and football teams. There are also tennis courts and a sports clubhouse on the site.
A SURVEY in Grassington has revealed that 95 households will need extra or different housing within the next 10 years. The data has been gathered by Mary Russell, rural housing enabler with the Craven Housing Scheme and the need for extra housing was
THE closure of Skipton General Hospital will be opposed by the new group covering primary care provision in Craven. Instead ownership of the hospital could be transferred to the new Craven, Harrogate and Rural District Primary Care Trust, which controls
ALTHOUGH it was the only school in the latest building programme to fall behind schedule, staff at Ben Rhydding Primary are delighted with the progress made. Two additional days summer holiday had already been planned at the Bolling Road school to allow
THE famous Ilkley Literature Festival has announced a partnership with the town's Grove Bookshop which will become the official bookseller. Festival Director Dominic Gregory said: "This is a great step towards building support for the festival in the
ILKLEY was beaten by just a single point in the Yorkshire in Bloom awards - but the town still managed to carry off two other top awards. While Ripon won the best town category, Ilkley's Darwin Gardens took the trophy for the best millennium project.
VETS are more popular than doctors - or rather, general practitioners - these days with TV producers. But even if we went back to the good old days of Dr Finlay's Casebook, the most imaginative scriptwriter would hesitate to create a story line like this
SIR - We read with alarm the section in the Craven Herald about the threat of closure of Skipton General Hospital. When Airedale General Hospital first opened in July 1970, it covered a number of towns, Bingley, Keighley, Skipton, Grassington, Settle,
Bradford's Footsteps theatre school is continuing to celebrate its tenth anniversary in style - at the Victoria Theatre, Halifax. At the start of the year the school, based in Bolton Lane, Bradford, decided to produce ten shows this year to mark its first
Yarnbury 20 Old Crossleyans 35 TWO games into the new season and Yarnbury remain pointless after suffering a 35-20 home defeat at the hands of Old Crossleyans. Like the previous Saturday, against Dinnington, Yarnbury were playing another team new to Yorkshire
Robin Hood Ath 4 Pool 2 POOL effectively lost the match in the first 15 minutes by gifting Robin Hood two goals. Injury had forced 'keeper Gavin Phillis out at the last minute so centre-back Chris Hodgson bravely stepped in. Unfortunately, it was his
Harold Styans 0 Burley Trojans 2 Trojans eased to victory over Premier Division new boys Harold Styans without ever really getting into top gear. Their opponents have endured a nightmare start in the top flight, losing their first six games but are nowhere
York RI 31 Old Otliensians 8 With several backwords Otliensians were soon on the defensive in this Yorkshire League Three game and York RI took an early penalty goal lead. Otliensians immediately counter attacked taking play to the home 22 but opted for
Otley 24 Worcester 62 OTLEY were under no illusions about their visit from promotion hopefuls Worcester who arrived at full strength boasting 11 of their new signings in their line-up, which contained four South Africans, two more from Africa, two Scots
Caring Telegraph & Argus readers have raised almost £8,000 to help save the lives of six million starving children in southern Africa. The T&A joined forces with UNICEF - the United Nations Children's Fund - to launch the appeal in Bradford last
Health watchdogs have questioned whether mentally ill patients should be cared for at a hospital which is near a river, road and railway. Five psychiatric patients at Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, died within a year on the line after walking out
Bradford Council has relaxed its 18-year ban on striptease acts to allow lap and table dancing in two city centre clubs. A clause in entertainment licences granted by the authority was introduced in 1984 banning striptease because it was thought to be
A brightly coloured flag bearing the Bradford 2008 logo flew proudly over Nelson's Column yesterday as Bradford took over the capital. The Bradford Embassy is the first regional embassy of its kind in the UK. Situated in Trafalgar Square it is raising
IN the end it didn't matter. Skipton's rivals at the foot of Division B of the Airedale & Wharfedale League all collected enough points from their final league games to make them impervious to any last-gasp Houdini act by the Sandylands men, (writes
SKIPTON step up in class a couple of divisions at Sandylands tomorrow when they entertain Hull in the first round of the Powergen Intermediate Cup. Having enjoyed good success in the bottom tier of the Rugby Football Union's three-part national knockout
WHARFEDALE go into their fourth National Division One game of the season against Nottingham at The Avenue tomorrow with confidence sky-high after a couple of impressive away victories, their eight-try demolition of Doncaster last weekend underlining that
Thirsk Falcons 4 Addingham 1 With Thirsk having a so far 100per cent record from their first five games the last thing Addingham needed was a weakened squad but unfortunately once again that is what they got. Marriot, Kernick, Cummings and 'keeper Dobson
Ilkley 8 Spa Athletic 2 A stunning second-half performance by Ilkley secured an emphatic win. They scored five times after the break to make it five wins out of six in the Harrogate Premier League. The early portents did not bode well for Ilkley who lost
Heath 24 Ilkley 9 Ilkley's first visit to Heath since the inception of league rugby was to turn from a composed performance with victory in sight to a nervous unco-ordinated effort in which they were well beaten. At half-time Ilkley looked good for their
INDUSTRY in Aireborough is reeling this week after the bombshell news that the world-famous Silver Cross pram manufacturer is to shed 35 jobs and has been put up for sale. The news is an even greater shock because it comes only weeks after the Guiseley
100 Years Ago Two balloonists making a journey from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Manchester to Barnard Castle were given a less than welcome reception in Settle when they were shot at from the ground. The pilots heard a bugle before two shots came whizzing
READERS cannot fail to have noticed the tone of letters criticising the state of Skipton in our letters column of the last few weeks. This week we report on how one man who thought Skipton was an ideal place to settle down in retirement is fleeing to
ANYONE reading the Gazette's past reports of some of the goings on associated with the Bradford children's home in Menston could be forgiven for reacting to the news of a similar home to be built in Ilkley with dismay. The last thing Ilkley needs is more
THE DEMOLITION of a Menston hotel and building of apartments is expected to gain approval from planners after local opposition to earlier schemes. Developer Hilton Associates is today expected to gain outline planning permission to create 16 apartments
Young footballers in Otley have been presented with a new strip thanks to the town's Neighbourhood Watch group. Neighbourhood Watch chairman Bill McIlwraith wanted to encourage the youngsters at Weston Lane to be aware of crime prevention following the
Last year it was big, this year it's better than ever, the 11th Black Sheep Otley Folk Festival promises to be a huge success. Weekend tickets for the event have sold-out, but there is still room available to enter venues by turning up on the night. The
Pornographic material, DVDs and videos worth more than £165,000 were seized when seven stalls were raided at Yeadon car boot sale. Three people were arrested in a raid on Yeadon car boot sale, next to Leeds Bradford Airport, last Sunday. The weekly event
Cars raced through Otley at the weekend in a stunning car chase being filmed for Yorkshire Television's latest series of the comedy drama At Home With The Braithwaites. Television crews descended on the town to film the scenes where the family are passing
Wharfedale and Airedale villages, towns and businesses have been praised for their colourful entries in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition. Hawksworth achieved the acclaimed Small Village title for the fifth year for their top class entry and
Former Doctor Who Peter Davison took time out of his busy filming schedule to surprise Otley people and help raise money for a meningitis sufferer. A fun day was held on Sunday at the Black Bull pub, in Otley, to raise money for Danielle Skilbeck, who
Supermarket chain Morrisons is set to expand its Horsforth store by acquiring land from the neighbouring Conservative Club. The Conservative Club members are likely to move to the cottages on their Town Street property and Morrisons will use the current
OTLEY and Horsforth will both get new libraries at a combined cost of more than £1.3 million, it has been revealed. An £800,000 state-of-the-art library will be built in Otley in the next three years following the sale of two local schools. Plans have
HORTON residents are pressing for a new road for quarry traffic which would bypass the village. Arthur Bruce told Horton Parish Council he was concerned about the possible damage quarry lorries were doing to the bridges in the village, and asked if the
A GROUP of men who all attended school together and met up by coincidence while serving in the forces has been reunited 50 years on. It was back in 1946 that the men, then all 14, first met at Brougham Street Primary School. They all subsequently went
DREAMS of retiring to idyllic Skipton with its historic charm and cobbled streets have turned sour for one man. After four years in the town, Terry Cryer says he has had enough and is glad to get out. Thirty years ago former photographer Mr Cryer came
A LIFE of scripts, clipper boards, out-takes and cuts beckons four former pupils of Aireville School who have picked Skipton to get their feet on the ladder to stardom. After leaving the Skipton school six years ago, the four went their separate ways
WARNING sirens and stockpiles of sandbags could protect homes across Craven from future flooding disasters. At a meeting where funding and technical difficulties were said to be not an issue, experts and local residents joined forces to come up with long
A CLOSE-knit Craven community has been shocked this week by the death of a two-year-old girl in a tragic accident involving a lawn mower. Hazel Weston, the much-loved youngest daughter of Chris and Julia Weston, of Cappleside, Rathmell, had been playing
CRAVEN folk have been outraged at suggestions that Skipton Hospital may be closed in order to cut costs at Airedale NHS Trust. Here's your chance to join the fight to prevent the loss of yet another service in the district. Doctors in the town have backed
AIREDALE NHS Trust is going to have the 'fight of its life' if it is going to threaten health services in Craven, local MP David Curry has promised. If necessary, he will take the issue to Parliament, he added. He told the Herald: "I will do everything
HEALTH services provided by Skipton General Hospital must be reviewed if Airedale NHS Trust is to meet the stringent financial targets set by the Government, chief executive Bob Allen has argued. Speaking at the annual general meeting of the trust on
A GROUP hoping to build a skate park for Ilkley's young people has gone back to the drawing board - after withdrawing a controversial plan for the Middleton Recreation Ground. Skatepark committee PipeDream this week dropped its application to build the
ELDERLY Ilkley residents must come forward with their ideas or risk missing out on having their say in the spending of £40,000 in the area, a researcher has warned. Research worker Annie Bhogal was assigned to the Ilkley area by Age Concern earlier this
THE search for land for a new residential children's home in Ilkley could be hampered by opposition from locals. Fears that people living near the new home might experience similar problems to those living near Hawkesworth Drive in Menston, could spark
The case for 'broadband' in Burley SIR, - I wonder how many of your readers are aware of the discrimination that is being carried out against the residents of Burley-in-Wharfedale? We are being held back in our access to technology due to a fact that
THE WI were at it again this week and, wham, did the sparks fly. It was debate time, you see, and ever since those calendar girls got all that publicity for taking their clothes off, our ladies have been looking for a bit of controversy of their own to
The case for 'broadband' in Burley SIR, - I wonder how many of your readers are aware of the discrimination that is being carried out against the residents of Burley-in-Wharfedale? We are being held back in our access to technology due to a fact that
Businesses in Bradford and Airedale are being urged to get on board a new initiative which will boost tourism in the region. A £5 million national on-line network is being compiled which will put vital information at the fingertips of potential visitors
England International Rob Hope (Pudsey) won the annual Briscoe's Brewery Fell Race, held in Danefield Forest Park on Otley Chevin. In this unique event, on completion of the gruelling 3 mile fell course, competitors are then required to drink a pint of
BURLEY'S return to the top flight was shortlived and they now go back to Division B along with Rawdon. The final day's programme saw Guiseley and Menston retain their Division A places despite Guiseley being defeated by runners-up Bilton and Menston gaining
York RI 31 Old Otliensians 8 With several backwords Otliensians were soon on the defensive in this Yorkshire League Three game and York RI took an early penalty goal lead. Otliensians immediately counter attacked taking play to the home 22 but opted for
Otley 24 Worcester 62 OTLEY were under no illusions about their visit from promotion hopefuls Worcester who arrived at full strength boasting 11 of their new signings in their line-up, which contained four South Africans, two more from Africa, two Scots
Guiseley 3 Hebburn Town 0 GUISELEY pocketed a cheque for £7,5000 and set their sights on doubling their money after securing a deserved FA Cup first qualifying round win. The Nethermoor side now face an away tie against Northern Leaguers Guisborough Town
Harold Styans 0 Burley Trojans 2 Trojans eased to victory over Premier Division new boys Harold Styans without ever really getting into top gear. Their opponents have endured a nightmare start in the top flight, losing their first six games but are nowhere
Guiseley 3 Hebburn Town 0 GUISELEY pocketed a cheque for £7,5000 and set their sights on doubling their money after securing a deserved FA Cup first qualifying round win. The Nethermoor side now face an away tie against Northern Leaguers Guisborough Town
One of Britain's most famous pubs is to go under the hammer. The Woolpack Inn in Esholt, once popular TV soap Emmerdale's local, will be auctioned in Leeds next month. The Main Street hostelry, owned by Bradford Council and the only real pub ever used
Changes to the busy M62 motorway and Chain Bar roundabout in the Bradford district could see a four-lane carriageway and special lanes for priority vehicles. Traffic consultants have examined motorway congestion throughout West and South Yorkshire on
Managers from Barclays bank swapped their suits for spades as they took part in an allotment make-over in Heaton. Twenty-four team leaders from Barclays branches across the north of England took part in the Bradford Cares initiative - aimed at forging
A firefighter who works in Bradford is urging more people from ethnic minorities to follow him on the career ladder of what he calls the "ultimate job". Mohammed Quadafi, pictured, who joined the fire service a year ago, believes many youngsters are overlooking
Most people are happy to grow a few tomatoes and lettuces in their vegetable patch, but one Frizinghall gardener has had a marvellous success this year with his marrows. Mohammad Manzoor, 62, has grown more than 30 marrows this summer at his garden in
The policeman who made the headlines when he officiated as an assistant referee at a Premiership football match while on sick leave is to run the line at Saturday's Roses clash between Bradford City and Burnley. But City fans have warned that if stressed-out
Rail regulators have been described as being "off their trolley" for suggesting fares hikes could be used to stop overcrowding on trains. The suggestion by the Government's Strategic Rail Authority has been described as "plain daft". The proposal will
THE second Saturday of the Craven & District League season saw some high scores, quite a number of matches without official referees, matches where the appointed official just did not turn up, nor had the decency to let the clubs know, a couple of
On Saturday, the Briscoe's Brewery Festival Fell Race had a change of venue from that advertised to give a Danefield-Relay type course over 3.5 miles and 800ft of climb, with a lung-bursting, gut-busting finish. Ilkley Harriers made the best of the extra
BRACKEN GHYLL: The Annual Medal Salver, for all monthly medal winners throughout the year, was played in ideal conditions on Saturday. The winner was Nick Page. Results were: 1, Nick Page 78 (12) 66; 2, Russell Clark 84 (16) 68; 3, Neil Riley 83 (14)
Ben Rhydding Seconds 1 Harrogate 3 Ben Rhydding Men's Second XI were well beaten in the first match of the new season by a very accomplished and experienced Harrogate team. Indeed, the margin of the 3-1 defeat could have been greater had it not been for
SIR - The country is short of housing, wildlife is diminishing at an alarming rate and farmers cannot make as good a living as they did and never will again with imports. Why not release some land for residential building in five-acre plots, one acre
