Work has started this week on the traffic count spearheaded by Silsden resident Beryl Simister. Mrs Simister's campaign to get an unadopted road, Spencer Avenue, made up and repaired at Bradford council's expense, has caught the attention of the parish
A cow was seen eating manure-infested straw at a farm where a young heifer became so ill it had to be put down, Bingley magistrates heard. Animals were walking in their own filth and liquid muck was so deep at David Holmes' Silsden farm it was nearly
A convincing performance by Bradford brought them a deserved point against Yorkshire Hockey League Division One leaders Leeds University - but it could so easily have been all three points. After going a goal down early in the first half to a students
Bradford's billiards and snooker teams are hoping to continue their winning start to their Yorkshire Inter-District League season on Saturday. The unchanged sides face Leeds No 2 at Lilycroft WMC (7.30pm) with victories over Wharfedale behind them. The
Bradford boxer Bobby Vanzie looks set for a testing Commonwealth lightweight title defence at Manchester next month. Durable South African Peter Kolubu is being lined up as his opponent on Saturday, December 4 and his track record suggests he will stretch
Bradford City received a chilling warning today as Chelsea boss Gianluca Vialli told his Euro stars to produce their sparkling best form in Sunday's Premiership clash at Stamford Bridge. The Londoners were back to their fluent best to beat Feyenoord 3
Bradford movie buffs have voted James Cameron's disaster film Titanic as their Movie of the Millennium. The Bradford vote bucked the trend nationwide with filmgoers across the country voting George Lucas's 1977 sci-fi epic Star Wars into top place. Nearly
James Bond killed off? I certainly wouldn't mourn his passing. A bloke who claims to be a spy, yet with his striking looks and ultra-suave manner is - in the company of any group of people other than a society party on the Cote d'Azur - as conspicuous
The group which pays the wages of three key officers at Bradford's troubled Racial Equality Council has pulled the plug, saying it has lost its credibility. The Commission for Racial Equality, which gives the REC £75,000 a year, has stopped paying the
War veterans in Ilkley have been criticised for not helping enough to support the Poppy Day appeal. And they have warned that unless more help was forthcoming the traditional collection and Remembrance Day parade might not survive. President Ronald Rosindale
A woman who slashed a man's stomach with a knife during a New Year's Day disturbance has narrowly escaped a prison. Bradford Crown Court heard that Mark Mead did not realise he had been injured by the knife until he saw blood on his clothing. Prosecutor
A community worker who failed to attract any teenagers to a meeting about youth activities is to try again tonight. Tom Hinchcliffe has invited youngsters from Cleckheaton to St John's Church Hall in Church Street, Cleckheaton, to discover what facilities
A new group set up improve Bradford's image nationally has launched a campaign to attract tourists. Thousands of copies of a 60-page magazine are being distributed across Britain to sell Bradford as a top tourist and conference city. A partnership to
Residents have welcomed the clearance of a neglected Low Moor cemetery after fears it was being used for drug-taking. The quiet area around the disused Methodist cemetery, between First Street and Chapel Road, has been cleared of overgrown trees, bushes
Residents on a Bradford estate have launched a campaign to save their youth worker after the Council axed his funding. Michael Pascal, best-known locally by his nickname Muppet, has spent three years working with the youngsters on the Ravenscliffe Estate
Secondary school league tables for schools in England are published today. Education reporter Lyn Barton looks at how pupils in the Bradford district fared. EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS in Bradford are on the up, according to the Government's secondary school
You must be joking! That was the view of residents when City Hall bosses told them their house numbers would have to be renumbered. Bradford Council wants to issue new house numbers to all the odd-numbered homes in King Street, Eccleshill, to allow for
Craven District Council's new area forum format was criticised at the Airedale & South Craven Area Forum. Edward Gee, a member of South Craven Road Action Group, who attended Monday night's meeting at Cowling Village Institute, feels a reduced number
Animal-rights activists were targeting world-famous Harry Ramsden's restaurant today in a bid to put diners off their fish and chips. Customers arriving at the Guiseley restaurant at lunch-time were being greeted by Gill, a giant six-foot 'fish' clutching
A war hero is up in arms about the loss of a memorial to Ilkley Grammar School pupils who died fighting for their country. Donald Waddington, 76, now of Camberley, Surrey, is a former pupil who fought for his country during the Second World War. The missing
A coroner's officer has returned from Sri Lanka with fresh information for an inquest into the death of a Cleckheaton woman. Peter Rose, who spent a week in Sri Lanka investigating a car crash involving Andrea Smith and colleague Michelle Kerr of Barnsley
Firebugs, one believed to be as young as five, have put the future of a popular playground in peril. Bosses at Wrose Community Centre were tonight due to discuss removing outside play equipment following the latest in a catalogue of vandalism attacks,
A gang of teenagers surrounded police officers near a school as they tried to make an arrest, eyewitnesses said today. Violence flared at a bus stop and onlookers told how officers were taunted and then pinned against the wall of a shop in Allerton, Bradford
Bradford Bulls have promoted another four of their talented crop of youngsters to their top squad for the new Super League season. Teenagers Gareth Handford, Craig McDowell and Robert Parker, who have all still to make their senior debuts, will be looking
The big local derby between Bradford Park Avenue and Guiseley in the second group stage of the UniBond Cup was postponed after a floodlight failure at Horsfall Stadium last night. The problem only became apparent in the early evening and fans were being
Yorkshire fans had a double cause for celebration today with the news that Michael Vaughan and Gavin Hamilton both made their Test debuts today. It was the first time since 1951 that two Yorkshire players had made their England debut in the same match
Manchester United have named a largely young and inexperienced side for tonight's FA Premier Reserve League match against Bradford City at Valley Parade (7pm). The exception is £4.5 million Italian goalkeeper Massimo Taibi. The side includes midfield
Bradford City have postponed their plans to bring St Kitts striker Keith Gumbs to Valley Parade for a trial - despite the intervention of his country's Prime Minister. City were impressed with the player during their close-season visit to the West Indies
The combined initiative by Hanson School and Bradford Airedale Athletics Club to encourage more youngsters to take part in athletics is a welcome move and a sensible use of £5,000 from the Millennium Lottery Fund. The new indoor facilities the money will
Bradford secondary schools receive less cash per pupil than anywhere else in the country, according to a new survey published today. The National Association of Head Teachers has revealed that Bradford Council spends only £2,014 per secondary school pupil
Bradford hospitals are laying on extra clinics in a bid to slash the number of people waiting more than 13 weeks for an outpatient appointment. The extra work they need to do before next March to meet Government targets has increased dramatically because
Bradford police today hit back at criticism over its handling of violence in the city on Bonfire Night. Their response follows an official complaint lodged with the Police Complaints Authority that officers stood idle as youths wrought havoc in the Manchester
A mother's hope of taking her sick daughter to Germany for treatment that might help her walk again have been cruelly dashed. Anne Yeadon was due to take Becky to the University of Lubeck in Ratzeburger on Monday but had to cancel the trip after the 23
Social services bosses are to use Government cash to keep more elderly Bradford people in their own homes. Performance figures for social services departments showed that Bradford's social services department had helped a relatively low number of over
A campaign will start in Bradford next week to encourage 15 to 17-year-olds who have left school or college to have the new meningitis C vaccine. They are being invited to attend drop-in clinics - for which no appointment is necessary - at locations in
A disabled Bradford toddler is set to get special equipment thanks to a man whose own three children were born after IVF treatment. Paul and Rachel Howker were so moved when they went to visit little Rachel Garforth when she was in intensive care that
Youngsters in Bradford will be provided with new indoor athletics equipment thanks to an initiative by a school and an athletics club. Hanson School in Sutton Avenue, Swain House, Bradford, and Bradford Airedale Athletics Club have joined forces to encourage
An engineer who knifed a dog to death in a Bradford street has been fined £175. Craig Fleming, 23, killed the Staffordshire terrier after it was involved in a fight with two other dogs near his home, Bradford magistrates were told. The court was told
A heroin-addict mother whose child died after drinking her methadone has pleaded guilty to cruelty. Leeds Crown Court heard three-year-old Isaac Ebrahim Karolia was found unconscious with the drug on his hands, clothes and hair after his mother Malainy
