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Stories for 12 September 2003

Bingley,Bradford,Shipley,Spen Valley News

Entrepreneur is left in dark over future

A Bingley entrepreneur who supplies furniture to the country's top stores - including one where David Beckham shops - says he is outraged after being kept in the dark about plans to buy his business.  more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Business

New partnership boost for Airedale

Airedale firms could see a turnaround in their fortunes with the launch of a new partnership to build on the area's economic potential.   more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley News

Letters to the Editor

SIR - Each time I pick up the T&A to read what local residents think is best for the proposed children's care homes, it infuriates me to the core.  more...

Tunnel plan for Shipley revived

Radical traffic-busting schemes, including resurrecting a plan to build a road tunnel from Cottingley Bar to Shipley, have been unveiled by Bradford Council.  more...

`We'll fight these plans every step of way'

Protesters vowed to march on Bradford City Hall when the road plans are discussed next Thursday after they learned of the controversial proposals at a packed public meeting last night.  more...

Nurse in hospital inquiry is named

The nurse at the centre of a major inquiry into suspicious hospital deaths was today revealed as Ann Grigg-Booth.  more...

Blast from the past at court

A re-enactment of a Victorian courtroom trial is one of the attractions to draw crowds to Bradford's City Hall over the weekend.  more...

Graduate actress refuses to bare all

A leading actress is to bare `almost all' when a hit West End production comes to a Bradford theatre later this year.  more...

Jail for man who abused a child

A man who sexually abused a young girl was today starting three years in jail.  more...

Mum and children are freed

A mum and her three children from Bradford were free again today after spending three weeks in a deportation centre in Scotland.  more...

Tide turns on blanket project

A Bradford attempt to make the world's biggest blanket has been abandoned squares short of finishing the project.  more...

City still short of teachers

Bradford has the second highest number of teacher vacancies in the Yorkshire region, new figures show - but the Council says the situation has improved since the figures were compiled.  more...

Arrested brothers win an apology

Police have apologised after two brothers were arrested while they were watching a hunt for car thieves.  more...

Bishop rallies fight against racism in city

The Bishop of Bradford will rally the fight against racism at a service for Racial Justice Sunday this weekend.  more...

Minister to open new £3m centre

Sports Minister Richard Caborn is to visit the district to officially open the new £3 million sports centre at Woodhouse Grove School.  more...

Market festival is set for city

The aroma of French bread, German sausage and Continental cheeses will be spreading through Bradford's city centre streets next summer.  more...

On This Day

In 1940, 17,000-year-old cave paintings were found in France.  more...

Roads need a radical re-thinking

It seems a little late in the day to be starting to think about what will happen to traffic heading for Shipley when the new Bingley relief road opens in a few weeks' time.  more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Sport

I am feeling the pressure, says Law

Nicky Law today admitted to feeling the strain of City's bad run.  more...

Defeat adds insult to injury for Bridge

A spirited fightback from the Bulls under-21s could not prevent defeat by Wigan in the Senior Academy Championship Grand Final at Odsal.   more...

Grand Final despair for young Bulls

Bulls Academy 30, Wigan Academy 36: The Bulls under-21s faced a Wigan side in the Senior Academy Championship Grand Final at a rain-soaked Odsal and despite a gallant fightback by Phil Veivers' side, the Lancashire youngsters held on to head back across the Pennines as champions.  more...

We will snap out of slump, says Branch

Michael Branch cannot wait to get the monkey off City's back.  more...

Tykes going flat out for promotion

Yorkshire were today shutting out the disappointment of their National League relegation and focusing their attention on trying to beat the championship's Second Division leaders Worcestershire in the game which began at New Road.  more...

Leaders Saltaire on brink of title glory

With all the major issues having been decided in Division One of the Specialist Ducting Supplies Bradford League, the focus turns to Division Two this weekend.  more...

Keighley,Bronte Country Features

Amateurs go for classic

The subject is horse racing and the style is racy in the latest production from Bingley Little Theatre.  more...

Theatre reviews

A Midsummer Night's Dream  more...

Sounding Out

Steve Tilston is respected on both sides of the Atlantic for his songwriting.  more...

Keighley,Bronte Country News

Football grant highlights town's sporting success

The fame and fortunes of many cities and towns throughout the land rely to some extent on the success of a "team" -- normally football -- bearing its name.  more...

Down Memory Lane

This was the view along Bradford Road, looking towards Stockbridge from the end of Aireworth Road, on the morning of September 20, 1946, after a night and more of torrential rain which caused the worst flood in then living memory.   more...

Letters to the editor

SIR - May I through your pages thank all those who supported the multi-cultural concert at Victoria Hall, on August 29, in aid of Keighley for Bangladeshi Acid Survivors(KBAS).  more...

Man who flouted ban is jailed

A man with an "horrendous" driving record has been jailed for flouting a three-year driving ban to take children on a holiday outing.  more...

Wagon driver `failed to see warning sign'

A driver escaped injury when he jammed his articulated wagon under a low railway bridge in Keighley.  more...

Show back at full strength but farmers warned to be vigilant

Keighley Show was back at full strength on Saturday for the first time in three years.  more...

Town's best gardeners pick up prizes

A best-kept gardens contest in Keighley was a blooming success.  more...

Company has world at its feet with nasal spray

A Keighley company is selling fresh air around the world.  more...

Royal Mail stamps on demands to reverse sorting office changes

Businesses angry at opening-hour changes at Keighley Sorting Office are being backed by their MP.  more...

Keighley,Bronte Country Sport

Cougars: Final countdown

KEIGHLEY Cougars National League Two season is at the make or break point for coach Gary Moorby and his men as they prepare for Sunday's home play-off against Hunslet Hawks, kick-off 3pm.  more...

Melling ready for pro ranks

HE can count pop megastar Robbie Williams as one of his biggest fans and now Keighley's Chris Melling is ready to launch his own career as one of snooker's brightest lights after turning fully professional.  more...

Friends on the run

Two Keighley women will race to save lives when they take part in Newcastle's Great North Run on September 21.  more...

Keeping it in family at championships

IT WAS a family affair for Keighley riders at the Ponies Association UK Championships held at Peterborough recently.  more...

Cougars: Gary Moorby's diary

Well, that's the end of the league programme! Played 18, won 13, lost five, and now we are about to compete in the play offs for a chance to appear in the Grand Final and gain promotion.   more...

Riddlesden's sixth hole gains notoriety in book

RIDDLESDEN Golf Club has been given something of a claim to fame with its most unusual hole making it into a book of 100 difficult, different or downright impossible holes.  more...

Cougars match report: Cougars see off Thunder storm to end with win

COUGARS SIGNED their league campaign off with their 13th win in 18 games on Sunday, but it was not among the best of those victories during what has been an outstanding season.  more...

Shipley,Bradford,Bingley,Spen Valley News

MP's help sought over `terror' flats

Residents have appealed to their MP to support their attempt to get nearby flats demolished or improved.   more...

Skipton,The Dales Features

The Curmudgeon

WHAT should have been an unfortunate meeting in Beggarsdale sub post office earlier this week turned out to be a mega-surprise: agreement on a single subject by three of the Dale's most vociferous opponents - verbally speaking, that is.  more...

Dalesfolk: David Tayler

I HAVE absolutely no idea how many shopping days there are to Christmas, but I know already the pressies I will be buying for my grandchildren.  more...

Skipton,The Dales News

Craven through the years

100 years ago  more...

More taxis than we need on ranks

SIR - On one of my numerous trips to Skipton - I hasten to add I have been doing these trips for as long as I can remember - my husband and I went to park our car in the car park in front of Sunwin House and, lo and behold, I thought it was a taxi convention.   more...

£½ million grant will boost sports facilities

SKIPTON footballers will soon have access to some of the best sports facilities in the area, thanks to a half million pound grant from the Football Foundation.  more...

Homecoming for Craven's Calendar Girls

IT was the hottest ticket in town - strictly invitation only for a sneak preview of the Calendar Girls film which opens nationwide today (Friday).  more...

Mum wants to move after son is shot with air gun

A GARGRAVE woman is demanding to be moved from her home after her young son was shot in the back by another youth.  more...

Parish council fined for pruning protected trees

A PARISH council has been fined for the unauthorised pruning of eight trees subject to a Tree Preservation Order.  more...

Bus firm worried about pupils' safety

A BUS company taking pupils to and from Upper Wharfedale School, Threshfield, says a delay in building a new turning area could put children's safety at risk.  more...

New lease of life for nursery site

SKIPTON'S derelict Aireville Nurseries site is to be transformed in an £81,000 scheme to provide new horticultural headquarters for a group of adults with learning difficulties.   more...

Authority gets new chief executive

THE new face at the helm of Craven District Council is looking forward to steering the authority to top marks in the forthcoming Government performance review.  more...

Detectives follow up vital leads in railway assault

DETECTIVES investigating a serious assault at a village railway platform say they have more vital information to follow up.  more...

Volunteers needed to implement lifesaving scheme

VOLUNTEERS in three Dales villages are being sought to pilot a lifesaving scheme to help heart attack victims.  more...

Villages face 'long wait' for broadband

GARGRAVE resident Gary Watson is continuing his battle to have broadband brought to the village, but needs the help of fellow residents and computer users to win the war.  more...

Road markings cause confusion

RESIDENTS in Grassington could not believe their eyes when a parking bay was painted over the top of a new pedestrian friendly crossing.  more...

Jubilee show is hailed a success

THE cream of the crop from Skipton Gardeners' Club was on display at its 25th anniversary show at the weekend.  more...

Weather fails to deter exhibitors

HORTON-in-Ribblesdale Show day dawned with that sense of déjà vu - heavy showers and Penyghent remaining behind a gloom of heavy cloud were reminiscent of previous years.   more...

Lorries face all-night ban from town centre

LORRIES look set to be banned from Settle between 8pm and 5.30am.  more...

Cyclists complete gruelling race

TWO North Craven cyclists successfully tackled a 750-mile bike race.  more...

School heads in right direction

OFSTED inspectors have praised a South Craven school for its standards of pupil care and improvements since its last inspection.   more...

Demolish derelict mill, say villagers

A SENIOR planning officer received a grilling at the latest meeting of Steeton parish council about a "dangerous" derelict mill in the village.  more...

Bradley shrugs off dire forecasts and disasters

IN defiance of the dire warnings broadcast by last year's guest, BBC weatherman Paul Hudson, the sun gods smiled last Sunday as the Earby Brass Band led the procession of floats and fancy-dress competitors around Bradley and into the playing fields for this year's Family Show in perfect weather - sunny but with a breeze.   more...

Svelte Sylvana is a shadow of her former self

AN art teacher is the toast of her local Weight Watchers class after shedding six stones of weight in just nine months.  more...

Town festival continues with high-flying spectacle

HOT air balloons filled the sky above Barnoldswick in the town's first ever balloon spectacular.  more...

Licensees celebrate award

AN Earby landlord and his wife are celebrating after winning a coveted "Pub of the Season" award.  more...

Increased ticket sales and entries ensure show is a huge successstart

BENTHAM Agricultural Show welcomed back cattle and sheep to the showfield at the weekend for the first time since the foot and mouth crisis.  more...

At long last sport gets a look in

CRAVEN has long been regarded as a sporting backwater.   more...

Skipton,The Dales Sport

Title win is icing on cake for Skipton CC

SKIPTON CC first team supplied the icing on the 150th anniversary cake on Saturday when their nine-wicket win over neighbours Addingham clinched the Airedale & Wharfedale League Division C title.  more...

Wharfedale keep faith with winning line-up

WHARFEDALE take an unchanged team to Lydney tomorrow for their second National Division Two match of the season, the only adjustments to the squad being on the replacements bench.  more...

Craven sports diary

Cricket  more...

Athletics duo on medal trail

ALTHOUGH media eyes have understandably focussed on recent athletics events in Paris, the pyramid structure which culminates in high-profile events like the World Championships and the Olympics has also produced some intense competition throughout the summer, (writes Roger Ingham).  more...

Jeeva's farewell flourish

BARNOLDSWICK professional Jeevantha Kulatunga rounded off his first season at Victory Park in fine style on Saturday with another outstanding all-round display.  more...

Andrews claims 18th century

BRADLEY'S Neil Andrews took his total of League centuries to 18 as his side plundered an impressive 10-wicket win at Denholme.  more...

LMS benefit from late penalty miss to share points

THE Devonshire Carpets Craven & District Football League opened in earnest last weekend, the first day of action in the Premier Division providing plenty of entertaining football, sweetness and light all round and even a kind word for match officials in a number of cases.  more...

Spen Valley,Bradford,Bingley,Shipley News

Boy on line was struck by express

A boy was picking stones from a railway line to throw at trains moments before he was struck by an express, an inquest heard.  more...

  
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