A Good Samaritan who made a citizen's arrest of a teenage thief who preyed on elderly women says he hopes the boy will learn his lesson while serving his sentence. Matthew Lyons, 31, helped to catch the 16-year-old boy after he snatched a handbag from
Fashion designer Ben De Lisi - famous for styling celebrities on the red carpet - has teamed up with a housing developer to give some interior inspiration for a former Rawdon school. The American-born designer ,who has styled Hollywood A-listers including
A man who could not read or write when he left school at 14 has had his first novel published - aged 80. And in his book, You Found That Rainbow, Eric Dawson draws on his "tough" childhood life in Keighley in the 1930s for inspiration. Mr Dawson has
SIR - I am afraid Emma Driver (T&A, June 25) misses my point (albeit I suspect deliberately). It is a question of resources and the seriousness of the crime. Not wearing a seat belt is a civil offence, stealing a trailer is criminal. Let the punishment
SIR - Messrs Firth, Tasker, Holmans and Shipman will be welcoming Ian Slater (T&A, July 3) to their Rose-Coloured Specs' party. They obviously live in a different world from the bulk of your contributors. I agree with Mike Priestley and say good riddance
SIR - It is reported that Leeds City Council is considering building a concert venue to rival that at Hallam, Sheffield, as they can clearly see the value in attracting world-class artistes, and therefore visitors, to their city. I wonder what it would
SIR - Last Sunday myself and three friends visited Centenary Square in Bradford. As it was the Veterans Weekend we thought we would go and see what was happening. To say that the weather was terrible is an understatement, the rain poured down, it
SIR - How disappointing though to find out, via the terrorism incidents, that there are 22,000 doctors from overseas working in the NHS, at a time many newly qualified doctors born in the UK cannot find work. Many of these UK doctors without work are
SIR - In this day and age, most of us are very quick to complain about experiences in our local NHS, but very slow to praise the good ones. I have just spent two weeks on Ward 8 at the BRI and I would like to thank the nursing staff - nothing was too
As a teenager, Jane Lovell, of Keighley, received the devastating diagnosis that she was suffering end-stage renal failure. At just 17 years old she was immediately put on dialysis and thereafter the procedure became a nightly ritual that kept her healthy
A man was shot at a Bradford pub early today. Police were called to the pub in Lumb Lane, Manningham, at about 5am where a 24-year-old man was found injured. He was taken by ambulance to Bradford Royal Infirmary from where he later discharged himself
A collection of artefacts will be shown to the public for the first time in nearly 40 years. The Holgate Collection has not been on display since 1969 but for the next two months it will be on show at the Craven Museum and Gallery in Skipton. And the
People are bracing themselves for traffic disruption during the closure of the main road between Otley and Menston. Bradford Road will be closed for up to 16 weeks from July 22 as Bradford Council carries out work to replace a culvert that runs underneath
Pupils at Belle Vue Girls' School, Bradford, linked up with businesspeople and university representatives to raise knowledge of China and international enterprise. Year ten pupils at the school in Thorn Lane, Heaton, worked with Mandarin speakers at
The former medical superintendent at Scalebor Park Hospital, Burley-in-Wharfe-dale, has died at the age of 100 in the Troutbeck Nursing Home, Ilkley. Born in Glasgow in 1906 James Valentine, who was known as Jim, was the third child and eldest son Dr
A wealth of coaching knowledge will be on hand at Ben Rhydding Sports Club during the first week of the summer holidays. Boys and girls in school years five to eight are invited to take part in the first Ilkley Sporting Academy which consists of five
Arsonists who started fires at two empty homes in Marsland Place, Bradford Moor, Bradford, have been condemned by firefighters. Lighted material was stuffed through letter boxes of the adjoining Victorian terrace properties shortly after midnight today
A Bradford police firearms officer who was shot at three times by a man armed with seven rifles and a revolver today told how he was just doing his job'. PC Graeme Macdonald and his colleague PC John Marsland were fired on repeatedly by gunman James
Three men have been arrested for drugs offences following a police operation in the Knowle Park area of Keighley. A 34-year-old was arrested for possession of suspected Class A drugs, a 19-year-old for the supply of suspected Class A drugs and a 20-year
These pupils travelled back in time to celebrate their school's centenary. Youngsters at Myrtle Park Primary in Bingley dressed up in fashions from the past ten decades to mark the occasion. And they buried a stainless steel time capsule in their garden
A father-of-one who raped two young girls and subjected one of them to systematic and repeated sexual abuse has been jailed for nine years. Anthony Swift could have been as young as 12 when he began molesting his first victim and yesterday Judge Peter
A Keighley woman is one of the faces of a campaign to get more people to pledge to become organ donors. Jane Lovell, 34, of Hemsby Grove, was given the gift of life when she received a new kidney 16 years ago. Now she is calling on people to pledge
Wigan 25, Bulls 18 The Bulls will be kicking themselves after this defeat. Unlike their previous outing at the JJB Stadium, when rampant Wigan blitzed them last September, this game was there for the taking despite Bradford being nowhere near their best
Steve McNamara saw his side's five-match winning run grind to a halt at Wigan and admitted: "We weren't good enough." The Bulls missed out on the chance to go joint-top of Super League as they crashed 25-18 following an error-ridden display. Front-runners
