Bradford pop music hopefuls Ooberman have landed the biggest gig of their career - supporting chart-toppers Blur in Paris. The five-piece will perform at the Mutualit venue in the French capital before heading out on a autumn tour which also includes
Stanley Kubrick's final film took longer to make than the Millennium Dome is taking to finish. Many of those involved did not expect it ever to be completed; but for his death, it may have remained unreleased. As it is, the studio has taken the computer
Members of a Gipsy family were said to have fled outside Bradford's borders after the Council adopted a fast track legal system and served them 24 hour notices to quit - just hours after they settled on to an illegal camp. The notice requiring them to
Rail passengers will be bussed across Bradford for almost five months when no trains will run into the Interchange because of a massive scheme to improve Leeds station. Trains from Bradford's Forster Square station to Leeds will increase to four an hour
Maurice Ackroyd, Yorkshire's first police immigrant liaison officer and the father of television presenter Christa Ackroyd has died at the age of 72. As the tributes poured in, Mr Ackroyd, who died suddenly at his Bradford home, was remembered as "a true
All Bradford schools hit by a classroom crisis are expected to be fully open on Monday, it was announced today. Emergency talks were held today in a bid to sort out the chaos caused by the failure to complete portable buildings supplied by Portakabin.
St Helens have been boosted by the arrival of New Zealand Test winger Sean Hoppe as they seek to secure second place in Super League. Victory for Ellery Hanley's men tonight, who missed a chance to book the runners-up spot when they lost at Wigan last
Rising Bulls stars Leon Pryce and Paul Deacon have been handed a major boost ahead of tonight's top-of-the-table clash at St Helens after being nominated for Super League's Young Player-of-the-Year award. League officials have still formally to announce
"We told you so!" is the justifiable cry from head teachers as they try to pick up the pieces amid the chaos which has ensued as a result of various failures in installing temporary classrooms at schools throughout Bradford. This has nothing to do with
A Bradford pensioner has revealed her misery after being told she may have to wait two years and four months to see a hospital doctor about her painful knee and foot. Alice Fisher was horrified when she received a letter revealing the long wait for an
Bradford Bulls boss Chris Caisley is backing a £80 million plan to redevelop Odsal Stadium. In a dramatic U-turn today he said he was supporting proposals by Horsforth-based Sterling Capitol to breathe new life into the home of the Super League club.
Diving expert Graham Jessop has told of his delight at finding the wreck of the Carpathia, the ship famed for rescuing hundreds of survivors from the Titanic. Mr Jessop, 42, said: "It is a major discovery which will put Keighley into the history books
A helpline has been launched by Pakistani women to provide a listening ear to people of the same cultural background. Almost two years ago the Pakistani Women's Forum tried out a helpline for one month, using a phone line in someone's house. The response
Rogue traders selling deadly gas lighter refill canisters to youngsters will be the target of a tough campaign in West Yorkshire later this year. New laws come into operation on October 1 aimed at reducing the number of young people who die each year
Schoolboy Karl Harper is taking the first steps towards fulfilling his ambition of becoming a Hollywood film star. Karl, 12, of Greengate Farm, Keighley, is to appear in the BBC 1 drama Pure Wickedness starting on Wednesday night. And he has just finished
Thirty years on from that first manned moon landing, people still wonder what exactly the world gained from it. Here's the answer: a robotic ventriloquist's doll. The space agency NASA didn't exactly plan it that way ("One small step for a man - now let
Globe-trotting 90-year-old Dora Allison, pictured, has visited 60 countries in the last 18 years. The Skipton woman, who was 90 this week, really caught the travel bug after her husband died in 1981. She had just got two artificial hips but she said:
A piece of history plucked from the wreckage of a warship pounded by the Germans in 1943 has returned to take pride of place in Silsden. A wooden plaque commemorating the efforts of townsfolk in raising £77,000 to buy a motor torpedo boat was brought
Health chiefs today pledged to spend more than £1 million to improve conditions at Menston's High Royds Hospital and the Roundhay Wing at St James's in Leeds. The announcement comes on the day the findings of an independent inquiry team's probe into Leeds
A former nurse has accused three female psychiatric patients of colluding to make allegations that he raped or indecently assaulted them. Mark Brittain, 36, of The Oval, Otley, denies two charges of rape and seven of indecent assault. The offences are
Leeds City Council is expected to demand road improvements to a motorway junction if land near Birkenshaw is developed. The authority fears the Drighlington by-pass and junction 27 of the M62, which fall within its boundaries, would become choked by traffic
Local Cricket: Baildon feel they have a great chance of winning the Bradford League First Division championship 12 months after missing out on the title on a dramatic last day of the season. In a winners-take-all match at Jenny Lane, Baildon needed to
Non-League: Bradford Park Avenue will give fitness tests to two of their players tomorrow morning before manager Trevor Storton names his line-up for the UniBond Division One match at Trafford. Left side midfielder Stephen Ball is looking to make a recovery
Rugby Union: With the uncertainty over how leagues are going to be re-organised next season, Bradford Salem have set themselves a simple enough target in 1999-2000. "We are still very disappointed about being relegated from North East Division Three last
Yorkshire had a mountain to climb when they resumed their second innings on 93 for five against Glamorgan at Headingley today, still 265 runs away from avoiding the innings defeat, and Richard Blakey and Gary Fellows set off confidently from base. They
Stuart Fielden hasn't had too many low points in his career but one certainly came at St Helens in April. Then a patched-up Bulls side crashed to their heaviest defeat of the season (58-14) and the Great Britain hopeful hasn't forgotten. "I was on my
New signing Bruno Rodriguez is hoping to emulate his hero Alan Shearer when he starts life in the Premiership with Bradford City. The Bantams beat off competition from top clubs in Italy, Spain and France to snap up the 26-year-old in a loan deal until
Bradford pensioners John and Doris Woodruff are trying to solve the mystery of night-time "ghosts" they say are using their phone to make calls. According to their phone bill, the couple made more than 370 calls in the first three months of this year
Businessman John Pennington will bring about 100 new jobs to the city when he turns the clock back at the former Maestros nightclub this month. The venue, which will now be called Pennington's Variety Club, will go back to the swinging days of the 1960s
A £675,000 course run by Bradford Council for the unemployed has been branded a disgrace because only two people are known to have got jobs. Councillor Kris Hopkins (Con, Worth Valley) said the Council's attempts to deliver the Government's much-vaunted
The new school term is spelling misery for people on one Bradford street. Angry residents are calling for action to ease traffic congestion outside a Heaton school and warn that tragedy could strike unless something is done. Residents of Rossefield Road
Bradford businessman David Rhodes has been named West Yorkshire's top entrepreneur. And Professor Rhodes, who is chairman of Shipley firm Filtronic Plc, is not only ahead of any other boss from West Yorkshire but 22nd in the national 1999 Enterprise 100
