Musician Martin Dawson has put a collection of his favourite songs onto one album. Skipton-based Martin, who is best known for his role in Custer's Last Band and Something For The Weekend, has released his EP called Into The Waters just in time for Christmas
Organisers of an annual swim in the River Wharfe fear it could be marred by New Year revellers still drunk from the Millennium celebrations. For more than 15 years, members of Aireborough Lifesaving Club have celebrated the New Year by indulging in a
Pub chain JD Wetherspoons is among four potential buyers for Cleckheaton's only nightclub. A spokesman for the firm, which opened a pub in Brighouse earlier this month, said it had been looking at Foxy's Night Club in Bradford Road. Foxy's was put on
A man who met his girlfriend through a lonely hearts column stabbed her repeatedly in a jealous rage and held her two young children hostage during a five hour siege, a court heard today. James Steele, 29, above, also dangled Carolyn Westmoreland's two-year-old
The Government has ordered Bradford Council to explain itself before it will consider baling it out of its £47m schools shake-up crisis. Schools Minister Estelle Morris told Council chiefs yesterday that she wanted a detailed breakdown of why there is
The Bradford Central League, who have lost five clubs since the end of last season, have decided against admitting any new blood for the year 2000. Their decision will be a disappointment to four Bradford Mutual Sunday School League clubs who applied
Bradford Bulls will give youth its chance when they take a welcome break from the training ground to face Leeds Rhinos in Boxing Day's Tetley Bitter Challenge at Headingley. Fresh from his man of the match showing with Great Britain & Ireland Young
The Queen's speech, the special two-part edition of Eastenders and pantomime are all familiar Christmas landmarks. And for one Bradford family pantomime will have triple significance this time round. That's because this year, for the first time, three
Devoted couple Alison and Joe Rance planned to spend their first wedding anniversary in Canada, exploring Toronto and Niagara Falls. Instead, Joe found himself at his wife's bedside in hospital, willing her to pull through after she almost died. Helen
With the end of the year, century, millennium, well-nigh everyone is clamouring to make lists of the best everything of the last 100 years. It does, after all, make good television and interesting reading. So far, we have had the sports person of the
Businesses in Bradford need to become more involved in the training of their future workforce, according to the new leader of a city group. Tim Hindley, who has been appointed chief executive of Bradford Breakthrough, says companies need to speak up if
A company whose gyms include one used by the late Diana, Princess of Wales has bought a Bradford health and fitness centre, it was revealed today. The Surrey-based Cannons Group has shelled out millions to acquire the Cottingley Manor Health and Leisure
Campaigners say they are at the end of their tether after unsuccessfully battling to clear their street of rubbish for more than three years. Churchgoers and local businesses are furious about items being dumped on wasteland on Pakington Street, off Park
Rent owed by 'moonlight flitters' from Council property has soared to more than £2 million in five years - and now bailiffs are likely to be drafted in to recover some of the cash. Auditors have criticised Bradford Council over the amount of arrears left
Two people embroiled in allegations they provided information to the East German secret police have been given fresh hope their cases may be dropped. A series of revelations about alleged spies earlier this year named Keighley professor Vic Allen and
People in Ilkley have been urged to shop drink-drivers over the Christmas and New Year holiday. And police will be using undercover officers in unmarked cars to observe drivers who they think may be over the limit. They have warned partygoers that drink
A Bradford woman is looking forward to a Christmas she never thought she would live to see after fighting back three times from the brink of death. Alison Rance, 28, survived against the odds as doctors at Airedale Hospital fought desperately to save
Simon Bedford has taken another large step towards returning to snooker's main tour next season. The 23-year-old Bradford left-hander, who also qualified for the final stages of the UK Tour's opening event, has qualified for Event Two at Jesters, Swindon
Player Profile: It's fashionable in all sports for enthusiasts to pick individuals or teams of greats to celebrate the start of the new millennium. I think anyone given the task of picking a side from the Bradford local football scene would have to give
The annual Christmas fancy dress cyclo cross promoted by Sowerby Bridge 88 CC at Friendly near Halifax on Sunday brought down the curtain on the 1999 racing season in West Yorkshire. This annual fun race attracted 19 riders and illustrated again the lack
Bradford City will have to wait almost three weeks before knowing who their fourth round FA Cup opponents will be. And they will be without a match on Saturday, January 8 following the postponement of tonight's replay between Gillingham and Walsall. The
The Council is right to be planning to take a hard line with those people who between them owe it about £2 million in unpaid rents. Many of these are not existing tenants but people who have built up large-scale rent arrears and then done a "moonlight
Great grandmother Freda Phillip is prepared to brave Arctic conditions and a high-speed sleigh ride for the sake of her great grandson, Luke, and granddaughter, Alyx. Isobel Fox found out why SPRIGHTLY GREAT grandma Freda Phillip is prepared to go to
With the present cold snap there seems little enough to remind us that spring is on its way. But there was one small hint this past week when Jemima's owners brought her in to see him. She is an eight-month-old kitten who suddenly seemed very distressed
So Christmas is the time of peace on earth and goodwill to all men? It doesn't often work out like that. It's also the time in the whole year that we are most stressed. It's a combination of the rotten weather, the dark nights, the pressure on us to buy
It's been a terrific week for what you might call "Grey Pride". People in the Who's Counting? age group have really been coming up trumps. Top of the list has to be Lori Michaelis, who at 86 was named Citizen of the Year in the T&A Bradford's Best
A drink driver who knocked down and killed a Bradford woman on the pavement has been jailed for five years. Bradford Crown Court heard how 35-year-old Ian Ward drank eight or nine pints of strong lager before driving along Crow Tree Lane, Daisy Hill,
Commuters faced a grim struggle to work today as the severest snow of the winter blew in. As rush hour became the slush hour, police urged motorists to take extra care and allow more time for journeys. Some schools in Bradford - including Dixons City
The hopes of thousands of residents of a deprived inner city community are resting on Prime Minister Tony Blair. A decision on whether a massive Little Horton regeneration scheme can go ahead will be announced in mid-January. Among imaginative proposals
Bus passengers will earn "Bus Miles" by paying their fares with new smartcards being pioneered in the Bradford district. The bus company First Bradford is bringing in the cards in a bid to tempt more people out of their cars by making fares easier and
Elderly people across the district are being armed with a device to help them keep warm during the winter. Every person over the age of 75 is to be given a life-saving thermometer card which warns them when they are in danger of suffering from hypothermia
The highly acclaimed Channel Four series, the Kid in the Corner, examined the turmoil created in a family when one child has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Telegraph & Argus Reporter Lyn Barton looks at how a Bradford mum coped with a child
Licensees are getting into the party spirit in West Yorkshire - by keeping their booze in tip-top condition. A survey by Trading Standards officers found fewer were watering down brand name spirits or substituting inferior makes. Of the 73 samples taken
Two men were found guilty of snatching a cashbox containing £20,000 during a street robbery two years ago. A jury at Bradford Crown Court took less than one hour to return their unanimous verdicts yesterday on Steven Barker and Mohammed Khan. Prosecutor
New plans for a multi-million pound leisure centre on Bradford's biggest car park took a stride forward today. JJ Gallagher - which came back into the running last month after millionaire Eddie Healey dropped out - have signed a development agreement
Parents who take out smoke alarm batteries to use in their children's electronic presents this Christmas will be putting their lives at risk, a senior Bradford fire officer has warned. In fact, many Bradford householders rendered the life-saving devices
