Jer Lane's chairman Malcolm Nixon is blaming the Bradford Central League's management committee for the number of clubs that have left the league. His own club have announced that they are leaving at the end of the current season to take the sole vacancy
Crime-fearing residents in Shipley are calling for street lighting to be introduced on a shadowy footpath to stop it being used as a drug drop-off point. Home-owners in the town's Windhill area are demanding action to prevent drug dealers using an unlit
A teenager has been locked up for three years for robbing and raping an 11-year-old boy in a Bradford mosque. The 14-year-old boy stole pocket money from his terrified victim, marched him into a toilet cubicle, beat him with a belt and raped him before
Bradford Park Avenue's new chairman Dr John Dean feels it will be very difficult appointing a new team manager simply because of the high quality of the applicants. "We had a very encouraging response after we advertised but we managed to cut it down
Yorkshire saved their best until last against Durham at Riverside yesterday when Richard Dawson and Deon Kruis earned a couple of unexpected batting points with a tenth-wicket partnership of 75, the highest of the innings. It took Yorkshire's total to
City goal hero Dean Windass has been asked to break his goal-scoring record yet again. The 36-year-old hit a career best 28 goals for the Bantams last season - a figure well beyond many fans' wildest dreams. His free-kick at Oldham ensured he ended the
Bulls coach Brian Noble has confirmed his desire to stay at the club next year and beyond. Noble's five-year contract runs out at the end of this season but he has already spoken to chairman Chris Caisley about a new deal and the pair are close to agreeing
The majority of people in Bradford take it for granted that if they want to get around and don't have their own car they can take a taxi. For 46,000 people in the district, though, life isn't as easy as that. Not only do they have to cope with the day-to-day
A knife-wielding father carrying his baby son who threatened to kill himself and police officers in an hour-long stand-off has been spared jail. Daniel Parker, 21, was staggering drunk and holding the ten-month-old baby when he made the chilling threats
A Bradford eye specialist is spearheading an effort to beat blindness on an impoverished Indian Ocean island. Ophthalmologist Oliver Backhouse works at the Yorkshire Eye Hospital at Apperley Bridge and founded Yorkshire-based charity Madagascar Organisation
The father of a young man who died in an accident as he rode a moped designed for children begged others to take more care. Kamran Shah, a 22-year-old father-to-be, died after a collision near his home at the junction of Spring Mill Street and Wood Road
Dozens of extra taxis may be brought on to the district's streets in order to meet the needs of wheelchair users. Council bosses are considering handing out 40 more hackney carriage licences on condition the new cabs are fully accessible, as new figures
A historic church has been vandalised by yobs just weeks into a £250,000 restoration project. Police are investigating after vandals climbed scaffolding erected around St John's Church at Bierley, reached the 150-year-old tower and twisted two of its
A woman is facing jail after being found guilty of three arson attacks on neighbours' homes. Care worker Jean Hinchliffe, aged 56, of Thornhill Bridge Lane, Brighouse, had faced three allegations of "arson with intent to endanger life" following the apparently
Scores of angry shoppers have signed up to a campaign to stop Bradford Council from banning pavement displays from outside their stores. At least three separate petitions have been launched in response to the clean-up of the city's pavements after one
Good old Bradford, I really miss you! SIR - I love Bradford, I was born and bred there but I left four years ago because I was finding it hard to get a private rented house. I made lots of applications but the first one that came along was in Halifax.
