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  • Akroyd brace inspires Cleck to fine win

    Cleckheaton 19 Tynedale 10 Cleckheaton, 41-6 victors over Tynedale at Moorend last season, repeated the result and would have had two more tries were it not for some excellent defence by the visitors. The hosts tested the Tynedale rearguard from

  • Land erosion 'has to stop'

    Business and regeneration chiefs say the need to protect land for industrial and commercial use is growing. Two plans for flats on former industrial sites in Bradford caused concern last week. One is at the Worthington Group's former textiles plant

  • Late point is such a bonus for Bees

    Bradford & Bingley 42 Leicester Lions 0 Despite the scoreline, this was largely an exercise in frustration for Bradford & Bingley. While victory wasn't in doubt, despite a tough opening five minutes against the wind, whether the Bees got the bonus point

  • Planning a change of Pace

    Led by chief executive John Dyson, Saltaire's Pace Micro Technology has ridden the digital wave, producing set-top boxes for TVs. Now, Mr Dyson is retiring, so what lies ahead for the global market-leading company? T&A reporter WILL KILNER finds out.

  • Greens consolidate fifth place

    Wharfedale 17 Esher 13 Encountering a pitch liberally soused with water, the gleeful visitors started the stronger in this National League Two clash. Given impetus by a fierce wind at their backs, they miss-ed an early opportunity with a dropped pass

  • Todd: We made a big point

    Colin Todd applauded his City battlers for refusing to be bullied at Brentford. The Bantams made it eight points from the last 12 by holding the second-placed Bees. The draw leaves City on 53 points a haul that has been enough to avoid relegation

  • Danger ahead warns Harris

    Downbeat Ben Harris concedes the Bulls will get a drubbing from arch-rivals Leeds if they repeat their error-strewn Warrington performance. The champions capitulated 22-18 against the Wolves on Saturday night, losing at Odsal for the first time since

  • Siddique desperate to fight a champion

    Nadeem Siddique has issued a "come and get me" plea to anyone with a title. The Bradford light-welter wants to challenge himself against a better quality of opponents. But so far his appeals have fallen on deaf ears. Siddique's name had been put

  • Saima wins top award

    A Keighley female rugby player picked up a top award to mark her achievements at a star-studded awards ceremony in London. Saima Hussain, 26, who plays for the Keighley Cats rugby league team, walked away with the award for the Most Up & Coming Sports

  • 'We'' help Imran in his college quest'

    University bosses in Bradford are helping Chancellor Imran Khan build a new technical college. The cricket legend is calling on the expertise of Bradford University to help provide education to teenagers in one of the poorest parts of Pakistan. Mr Khan

  • Khan set for break after fight is ko'd

    Amir Khan will be given a two-month break following the postponement of his latest fight in Glasgow on March 25. The unbeaten Bolton teenager was lined up to take on tough Argentinian Diego Alejandro Madole at the Braehead Arena in his seventh professional

  • Milan win the double

    The footballers of Keighley-based Milan AFC made a clean sweep in the first winter season of the newly formed Keybury Charity League. Having already won the league's inaugural cup competition, Milan beat local rivals BCA 3-1 in a closely-fought league

  • 'We'll fight cricket ban blow'

    Community leaders are outraged that plans for a flagship cricket academy to help young Asian players has been scrapped. Bradford Council, which has set up a steering group to run the board of regeneration company Regen 2000, has pulled the plug on the

  • Police get tough with bike menace

    Illegal motorcyclists who are damaging woodland and putting walkers at risk will have their bikes confiscated, police have warned. A crackdown on nuisance motor vehicles saw a team of police looking for motorcycles and quad bikes that are being illegally

  • 'Emmerdale' pub is back in action

    A new family has made its debut appearance behind the bar of one of television's most famous pubs. The McGrath family's new starring role will be pulling pints at The Woolpack pub in the original Emmerdale village, Esholt. The 173-year-old pub officially

  • A lorry load of courage

    A lorry driver who lost his leg in a motorbike smash is back on the road thanks to a specially adapted truck. Darren Littlewood passed his category C licence to drive heavy good vehicles last year 17 years after his left leg had been amputated from

  • Deana offers the best of both worlds

    A dance teacher is to head a pioneering performing academy allowing youngsters to follow their dreams. Deana Morgan been appointed the new director of the groundbreaking Calderdale College Dance Academy, which will provide teenagers with a rare opportunity

  • Tributes paid to 'caring' Stephen

    A care worker died before he could fulfil his ambition to celebrate the birth of his hero, the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Stephen Smith, 28, was found dead in his family home just days before he was due to make a trip with his

  • Call from takeaway saved teenager's life

    A teenage asthma sufferer trapped in a burning flat says she owes her life to owners of a neighbouring Chinese takeaway. Tammy Harding, 17, told how she feared she would not escape the blaze alive after it broke out in her boyfriend's flat. Now the

  • Expert: Attack led to Aimee death

    An attack on tragic teenager Aimee Wellock DID lead to her death moments later, a senior Home Office scientist said today. The claim contradicts the conclusion of three senior judges who ruled that the attack on Aimee was not directly responsible for

  • Nick finds a common language in the Far East

    Thirty years ago Nick Toczek was a major player on the local punk scene, singing in bands, writing in the music press and embracing a bit of anarchy in the UK. These days he's a successful poet, novelist, playwright and performer and is involved in

  • New blow for Symes

    They are big on staying upbeat in Brentford. The programme was full of messages of support from fans - and the best-selling souvenirs in the Griffin Park club shop are red wristbands proclaiming "positive mental attitude". It is a message constantly rammed

  • Three-peat defeat!

    No one could blame this on the weather. The Bulls lost for the first time in ten months at Odsal on Saturday night as bogey team Warrington completed a third successive victory over the champions. It is true that Bradford have endured some horrific conditions

  • Awful second half angers Boyle

    Anyone who was at Dennyfield on Saturday will understand why people still trot out the old standard 'it was a game of two halves' - because there is no other description that does this game justice. After 45 minutes, Thackley were a goal in front and

  • Calcutt's efforts come to nothing

    Three goals in the last 16 minutes broke Avenue's hearts as promotion-chasing Marine completed the double over them in the space of three weeks. Avenue desperately needed some-thing out of this game and, for the first 60 minutes or so, they were the better

  • High street set to go dotty for glue

    An award-winning manufacturer is predicting extra annual turnover of at least half-a-million pounds from a new retail initiative. Production and warehouses for Fantastak Ltd are still at the original premises on Station Road in Shipley. But, thanks to

  • Land erosion 'has to stop'

    Business and regeneration chiefs say the need to protect land for industrial and commercial use is growing. Two plans for flats on former industrial sites in Bradford caused concern last week. One is at the Worthington Group's former textiles plant in

  • Bus station battle is not over yet

    SKIPTON'S two county councillors have said they will fight for the refurbishment of the town's decrepit bus station. North Yorkshire County Council has shelved a £1.5 million plan to transform the Keighley Road site. The project has been put on the reserve

  • Tributes paid to 'caring' Stephen

    A care worker died before he could fulfil his ambition to celebrate the birth of his hero, the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Stephen Smith, 28, was found dead in his family home just days before he was due to make a trip with his father

  • 'Emmerdal'' pub is back in action

    A new family has made its debut appearance behind the bar of one of television's most famous pubs. The McGrath family's new starring role will be pulling pints at The Woolpack pub in the original Emmerdale village, Esholt. The 173-year-old pub officially

  • Developers submit plans to Council for 25 apartments

    Developers who are transforming a former Bradford court house into apartments have now taken over the former police station nearby. Bonum Developments Ltd has submitted a planning application to Bradford Council for the conversion of empty York House

  • International help for local research

    Internationally renowned researchers have gathered in Bradford to begin to plan in detail how the biggest single piece of work into finding out the causes of disease will evolve. The scientific committee of the Born in Bradford project met at Bradford

  • Charities call for caution over tests

    Charities have urged parents to be cautious about a new product which would allow them to test their children for signs of drug use. The Home Drug Test has been developed and marketed by Shipley-based Modern Health Systems, run by retired police chief

  • Why I'll help black and Asian women

    Helping black and Asian women into work is to be the focus of a Bradford woman who has been appointed onto a new campaign group. Adeeba Malik has been appointed to an Equal Opportunities Commission advisory board to look at the problems faced by women

  • Expert: Attack led to Aimee death

    An attack on tragic teenager Aimee Wellock DID lead to her death moments later, a senior Home Office scientist said today. The claim contradicts the conclusion of three senior judges who ruled that the attack on Aimee was not directly responsible for

  • Late point is such a bonus for Bees

    Despite the scoreline, this was largely an exercise in frustration for Bradford & Bingley. While victory wasn't in doubt - despite a tough opening five minutes against the wind - whether the Bees got a bonus point very much was. They notched their

  • Todd: We made a big point

    Colin Todd applauded his City battlers for refusing to be bullied at Brentford. The Bantams made it eight points from the last 12 by holding the second-placed Bees. The draw leaves City on 53 points - a haul that has been enough to avoid relegation over

  • Harris warns of danger ahead

    Downbeat Ben Harris concedes the Bulls will get a drubbing from arch-rivals Leeds if they repeat their error-strewn Warrington performance. The champions capitulated 22-18 against the Wolves on Saturday night, losing at Odsal for the first time since

  • Mistrust can be a killer, too

    One of the biggest worries facing parents today must be the fear that their children are going to get caught up in the drugs culture that is a scourge of modern-day society. Drugs can and do cause criminality, health problems and, far too often, the loss

  • Shares week

    Morrisons has replaced Dutch broker ABN Amro with N M Rothschild as adviser. This move has reinvigorated city tittle-tattle that the supermarket is set to fend off an approach from a potential acquirer and some feel the blue-blood investment bank will

  • Planning a change of Pace

    "Our engineers in Saltaire are the best in the world," says John Dyson, reflecting on the factors that have made Pace Micro Technology a global market leader. The retiring chief executive has spent nine years with Pace, in which time the pioneering company

  • 'Call from takeaway saved my life'

    A teenage asthma sufferer trapped in a burning flat says she owes her life to owners of a neighbouring Chinese takeaway. Tammy Harding, 17, told how she feared she would not escape the blaze alive after it broke out in her boyfriend's flat. Now the 17

  • Deana offers the best of both worlds

    A dance teacher is to head a pioneering performing academy allowing youngsters to follow their dreams. Deana Morgan been appointed the new director of the groundbreaking Calderdale College Dance Academy, which will provide teenagers with a rare opportunity

  • Council's row over 'gagging'

    A Bradford councillor has accused the authority of gagging him as he spoke at a public meeting. Councillor David Ward (Lib Dem, Idle and Thackley) was interrupted as he named the authority's former chief executive during a Council speech on the handling

  • Joe's shop beaten in battle with giant

    A small phone shop has suffered a major blow in a battle with a leading mobile phone retailer over its name. Telephone House in Wibsey, Bradford, claims it has lost thousands of pounds and been forced to drop its name after corporate giant Carphone Warehouse

  • Letters to the Editor

    How St Peter's deal was done SIR - You allege St Peter's House is being sold to an Asian arts group for an apparently knockdown price (T&A, April 4). This is not the case. Bradford Cathedral's multi-faith project closed more than five years ago. The

  • Chat's the way to do it, everybody

    I thought I was reading a description of my husband: 'Barely able to speak, communicates in monosyllabic grunts.' It is him to a tee - particularly on an evening, when we are sitting watching TV. "If I didn't talk to you, we would go for hours without