When I was first asked about taking this job, there was no way of knowing if the club would survive. Some might have been scared off but I never hesitated. I looked at it and thought there was nothing to lose but everything to gain. Of course, there remained
Dudley Hill Rangers finished their First Division campaign with an exciting 6-3 win over Idle. A Steve Brooksbank hat-trick was not enough for Idle, who equalised three times before finally slipping to defeat - Floyd Phillips celebrating his 100th game
Carl Shutt's tenure as manager of Bradford Park Avenue has come to an end after the club announced that they would not be offering him a contract for next season following their relegation from the Conference North. Avenue have made an almost meteoric
Dean Windass today hailed Bobby Davison as the inspiration behind his record-breaking season. Windass has notched a personal milestone with 27 goals for the campaign and is still on a high from scoring his first hat-trick since 2000. But City's red-hot
Election officials were today opening the first of the 50,348 postal ballots expected to be returned before Thursday's close of polls. From 9am this morning a team of 70 people began working around the clock to check and sort the first of the returned
With the withdrawal from the fight of former sitting tenant, Labour's Harold Best, Leeds North West is a constituency in the melting pot. Mr Best had a 5,000 majority in 2001 over his nearest rivals the Tories, with the Lib Dems hard on their tail. The
A disabled man said he would be left housebound for months because he must wait to be assessed for equipment he needs to help him walk. Philip Marsh, 64, of Windhill, Shipley, said he has been told by North Bradford Primary Care Trust and Bradford Teaching
Legends of rugby league and cricket will be going head-to-head to guess "what happens next" at a major charity event in Bradford. A star-studded live version of the popular television quiz show A Question of Sport is taking place to raise funds for the
Police have started a 12-month blitz on villains across the Bradford district. Senior officers have made extra resources available for specialist operations across the three Bradford divisions over and above normal day-to-day policing. Already more than
Youngsters have decided to give something back to the community by spearheading two clean-up projects. Young people from the Prince's Trust will take to the streets, picking up litter and washing away graffiti, to boost inner city areas. The group of
A colourful horse-drawn May Day parade which took visitors at a Bradford museum back to the 1940s was among the highlights of the district's Bank Holiday weekend fun. Bradford Industrial Museum stepped back in time as part of the "Their Past, Your Future
Time the retailers' voices were heard SIR - I recently had the misfortune to spend a Sunday morning at a car boot sale for the first time, and hopefully the last. We were there raising much-needed funds to help send a container of humanitarian goods to
Only five matches finished in the first round of the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup on Sunday, but two of them produced upsets. Manningham Mills, from Division Two, beat Division One Baildon by 33 runs at Scotchman Road, and another case of Second
The problem of illegal dumping is well documented in the Bradford area. Unscrupulous people avoid the cost of disposing of waste, particularly industrial and trade waste, in the proper manner by taking it to some out-of-the-way spot or patch of spare
A woman who lost her hair after undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer will soon not be the only bald woman in her family. Mary Byrne was diagnosed with Primary Peritoneal Cancer, which affects the peritoneum membrane which lines the wall of the
Bradford's open-air art gallery has opened for business and is delighting city-centre shoppers as part of the 'Buy it in Bradford' campaign. Artists have put the finishing touches to a series of masterpieces lining the shopping area which is about to
Bradford's flagship city centre leisure development has been sold to a London-based investment business, it has emerged. Rock Capital Group has bought the Leisure Exchange, in Vicar Lane, for an undisclosed sum from JJ Gallagher, the company that originally
A major environmental investigation has been launched in Bradford after it was revealed hundreds of tonnes of potentially lethal waste has gone missing. The Environment Agency is particularly concerned about what may have happened to 250 tonnes of asbestos
