Bradford Dudley Hill bowed out of the BARLA National Cup, going down to Conference Premier side Oldham St Annes but it wasn't without a fight. Hill coach Stuart Tighe was full of praise for his side: "It's been a long, hard season and the lads have done
Birkenshaw impressed new coach Darren Collins by taking the game to Premier Division champions Elland before the floodgates eventually opened in the second stanza. Birky's pace out wide was evident straight from the off when centre Morton Robinson put
Four soft tries shipped by the Cougars defence proved the difference as they went down to Batley Bulldogs in their second LHF Healthplan National League One match at Cougar Park yesterday. The Cougars have struggled with the step up to Division One and
Cleckheaton skipper Oliver Ackroyd scored five of his side's ten tries as they built-up to Saturday's home play-off against Kettering with an all-round team performance against local rivals Huddersfield in their final North Division Huddersfield had an
All season, Baildon's player-coach Hugh Gumbs has been saying 'We're getting there' and on Saturday they got there. The visitors, knowing they needed a win to secure promotion as runners-up from Yorkshire Division Four, took many supporters to Wetherby
Avenue returned from recently-crowned UniBond Premier Div-ision champions Huck-nall Town with a well-deserved point after holding the title-winners to a goalless draw. It was only the second time Hucknall had failed to score at home in a season that has
Bradford and Bingley captain Barry Clark has revealed how quickly Saturday's Powergen Intermediate Cup final passed by. The Bees skipper, speaking after their 46-18 victory over Gloucester Old Boys at Twickenham, said: "The first half only seemed to last
In 1782, The Netherlands recognised American independence. In 1933, Britain banned all trade with the USSR. In 1966, Australian troops set off to join US troops in Vietnam. From the Telegraph & Argus of April 19th, 1979... A 30-minute experiment on
A Bradford social enterprise company, which helps find work for unemployed people, has rewarded the success of its first five trainees. The sales trainees have just completed the first stage of a year-long programme at Impact Mobile Technology (IMT),
A family-run Bradford manufacturing firm is set to increase output and staff after being snapped-up by a huge Dutch-owned conglomerate. Heat resistant fabric manufacturer Biscor Limited, which was founded in Little Germany 28 years ago, has been sold
Bradford motor dealership JCT600 today reported a 51 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to more than £11 million as it unveiled further spending plans for the next 12 months. The family-run company increased turnover by 22 per cent to £415 million during
A Bradford firm has produced a revolutionary system to simultaneously protect homes against fire, accident and burglary. The Secura Smart System connects smoke detectors, burglar alarms and panic buttons to a single source and allows the householder to
Business at a Bingley firm is hotting-up after it went to the aid of a morning television show. Feature Radiators, based on the platform at Bingley railway station, is supplying GMTV with radiators after the early morning show launched an urgent appeal
Organisers of a dance event in Saltaire are hoping their 20th event will bring the money they have raised for charity and other causes up to £100,000. The Day of Dance, which sees a wide variety of dance, music and song workshops take place in the village
In the dark days after the First World War, it used to attract up to a thousand mystically-minded people to meetings in a cramped Bradford cinema. These days, however, its membership has dwindled to only a handful. Formed in 1891, the Bradford Theosophical
An anti-crime body has stumped up cash to create a garden haven for residents concerned about rising crime. Drug and alcohol-related crimes, like house burglaries and car theft, have increased in Eccleshill as criminals are pushed out of other areas.
Arsonists have been blamed for starting a massive blaze which gutted an empty social club in Bradford. Crews battled for more than four hours last night to control the fire which ravaged the former Old Bath Social Club in Cuncliffe Road, Manningham. The
Bradford City today faced the reality of relegation as the deadline was set for a make-or-break meeting which will determine the club's survival. City's eight-year stay in the top two divisions of English football came to an end on Saturday with a 3-2
SIR - Having wasted a couple of hours listening to the cringing voice of Patsy Palmer trying to emulate the great singers who have preceded her performing Tell Me on a Sunday, I walked out of the Alhambra last Saturday with a stack of flyers promoting
Otley were unable to exercise the same control they demonstrated against Wakefield the previous week, finding both London Welsh, fighting to prevent a double and the referee something of a handful, but they did score two excellent tries to nil. The collapse
Bradford and Bingley followed their game-plan virtually to the letter to complete a memorable double at Twickenham on Saturday. Already champions of North Division One, thereby ensuring promotion to National League Three North and with it a place in the
A late brace from Goole gave the scoreline a respectable slant but Liversedge were rightly rewarded with all three points from a game they controlled from beginning to end. Sedge were still operating with a makeshift squad but that meant a second successive
A storming second-half saw the Celts come back from a two-goal deficit but they could not salvage their title bid and the afternoon ended in an unsavoury fashion as both teams had a man dismissed. Though a spirited display earned them a point, Hyde United's
Guiseley confirmed their promotion to the UniBond Premier next term by taking all three points from their UniBond Division One roses clash at Bamber Bridge despite falling behind to an early own goal. The Yorkshire side spurned a host of first-half openings
An 89th-minute own goal robbed Thackley of a deserved victory over title-chasing Ossett Albion and the visitors knew their championship challenge had been threatened. Albion were pleased to escape with a point after the home side had created the better
Brighouse's splendid new ground made its debut in Bradford League Division Two on Saturday - and the batting track promises to provide the platform for a feast of runs this season, provided the sun shines. And Brighouse began the season confident enough
Bryan Robson felt like joining in as the boos cascaded down from the Carlsberg Stand. It was the most hostile reaction the City chief had encountered. Not since the dark days of Nicky Law's final weeks had the home fans lost faith so audibly. And Robbo
Bryan Robson has instructed City's young guns to go out and show what they can do from the start. The late show inspired by the three teenage substitutes was the only chink of light on a black Saturday which saw relegation confirmed by a woeful home loss
Bradford City are standing on the brink of a double disaster. It is bad enough that after Saturday's defeat by Wimbledon the club faces the reality of relegation to Division Two. The stay in the Premiership, with the mighty boost that gave to the morale
A Bradford-based manufacturer of steel and titanium profiles has snapped up a French firm. Osborn Metals Ltd, which has its head office in Brighouse Road, Low Moor, has acquired Provins-based Gautier Troussel. The French business, which had been in administration
A Bradford bank is arranging Islamic mortgages with a combined worth of more than £500,000 every week as the market for Muslim-friendly financial services escalates. HSBC's South Asian Banking Unit in Market Street is finding the growth of its products
Saltaire mobile phone components manufacturer Filtronic will be hoping to get back on track this week after its share price suffered another blow from its biggest customer. Filtronic, which last week warned that profits would be lower than predicted due
Architects have gone back to the drawing board to produce a different scheme to breath new life into Bradford's Conditioning House. Caddick Construction bought the five storey landmark building three years ago and obtained planning permission to turn
A desperately-ill man has started a heart-rending poster campaign in a bid to save his life. Zahier Kazmi needs a bone marrow transplant to cure him of Hodgkin's Lymphoma - but he is struggling to find a suitable match who must be from the same ethnic
The detective leading the investigation into the murder of Jimmy Adams today admitted his killer might never be caught. Officers reopened the 22-year-old murder mystery after technological advances allowed them to create a DNA profile of the wanted man
A three-year police investigation into the Bradford riots is finally drawing towards its conclusion. A massive police inquiry - Operation Wheel - was started after the disorder which erupted on July 7, 2001. Since then 305 people have been arrested and
A couple who believe their teenage daughter was killed by the contraceptive pill are to mark the tenth anniversary of her death by presenting a tree to Prime Minister Tony Blair to be planted in her memory. Jenny and Tom Bacon will travel to London this
Eleven brothers and sisters from a Bradford family have run their way into the record books by becoming the largest group of siblings to ever complete the London Marathon. The Flahertys smashed the existing record, set by six brothers last year, when
