Contractors who helped to transform a Bradford warehouse into a Bollywood cinema claim they are owed tens of thousands of pounds. Several firms who worked on the Malboro Cinema renovation have now joined forces and issued a petition for the company
AT a meeting of Ilkley Parish Council this week the subject of public toilets was raised. Nothing new about that, one would think. However, when the issue of the toilets in the Riverside Gardens was discussed, there was much outrage that the facilities
Billy McKinlay is winning his fight to be fit for Bradford City's tussle with leaders Manchester United at Valley Parade on Saturday. The midfieldman has recovered quickly from the injury which forced him to hobble off during the FA Cup defeat against
Dan Petrescu could be on his way to Southampton six months after snubbing them for Bradford City. The Romanian international, one of the three star names to be told they have no future at Valley Parade, missed training today to travel south for talks
A YOUNG Burley-in-Wharfedale woman who travelled half way across the globe to help disabled children found an unusual reminder of home, writes Vivienne Francis. Emma Trousdale, pictured right, was surprised to come across a printing press made in Otley
AN environmentalist has fled Otley - claiming that the town is a pollution black spot. Geoffrey Jones, who had lived in the town for 15 years, says poor health has forced him to move to the healthier seaside resort of Filey in North Yorkshire. Mr Jones
A PROTESTER campaigning to stop an 80-foot high mast being put up in Yeadon claims a lack of publicity may have prevented more residents objecting. Andrea Rowe, of Marshall Street, got together a 100-signature petition, protesting against the replacement
TRAFFIC chaos will return to inconvenience residents in the Back Lane area of Guiseley for a further fortnight as work on the latter stages of a major housing development continues. Residents were relieved over the Christmas and New Year period when the
POLICE have warned people to be on their guard against conmen masquerading as police officers in Horsforth. This comes after an elderly woman was conned out of her pension money. And in a separate incident, another thief claiming to be a policeman took
THE LEAFY surroundings of Menston Station could soon become the base for a state-of-the-art business with computer training. Former college lecturer and IT expert Alison Barraclough has set up a caf and Internet facility at the station - and now hopes
MAJOR plans to change Leeds health services have suffered a setback. The £200 million scheme, which will see the transformation of Leeds General Infirmary and St James's hospitals, will now be reconsidered by health chiefs. Announced more than a year
THE plug has been pulled on an ill-fated Burley-in-Wharfedale pantomime after one of its stars chopped off the end of his thumb. Burley Millennium Theatre Group's production of Cinderella was due to open at the village's Queens Hall tonight after months
A YOUNGSTER'S Christmas present was stolen during a cruel incident in Pool-in-Wharfedale. Two youngsters were playing in Pool School's yard on Arthington Lane when they were approached by a man in a blue or grey car. He asked them if they had a mobile
PEOPLE are being asked to be on their guard after thousands of pounds of roofing tiles were taken from town centre businesses. The council offices in Boroughgate, the Dales Veterinary Centre in Cattlemarket Street and the Bridge Street medical practice
A MAJOR hurdle has been cleared in the fight to get a new hospital built in Otley by the year 2004. This week the regional health executive approved plans for a new Wharfedale hospital to be built on the present site in Newall Carr Road. And now health
The story of Robert Diamond, who appears to have been abandoned to his fate on a Bradford housing estate by the authorities, is a deeply worrying one. It is a story of failure to cope, both by the individual concerned and by the system which should have
Firms are being offered cash to start regeneration schemes. A total of £70,000 has been earmarked for projects which involve partnerships between businesses and Bradford Council's Regeneration Division. Already nearly £40,000 has been used to help eight
THE father of a teenager who was hit by a vehicle in Bentham has called for road improvements at the scene of the accident. Bernie Wills, of Tatterthorn Road, wants to see a pavement between Springfield and Mount Pleasant. This is the second time he has
OYEZ Oyez Oyez! Skipton is expected to appoint an honorary town crier to shout about forthcoming events. Barnoldswick town crier Kevin Griffiths, tipped to be world champion within two years, is likely to be offered the position as the honorary crier
A PARTIALLY sighted 78-year-old woman who claimed that a tree outside her home was blocking light from her sitting room has been refused permission to pull it down. The woman on Broughton Mews, Skipton, asked Craven planners to overturn a tree preservation
A MILKMAN is recovering at home after being attacked while doing his round on early Monday morning. The man, who has not been named, was delivering milk in Thacking Lane, Ingleton, when he was attacked by a person wearing a balaclava and brandishing a
CRAVEN'S Domestic Violence Forum has appointed a new development worker - thanks to a successful lottery grant. Jo Purdy is due to start work on February 1 but the forum has been unable to find suitable office premises. Forum chairman Barbara Cox said
A PRIVATE nursing home owner has spoken out about the lack of funding provided by social services to look after the area's elderly. Derek Ingham, who runs Laurel Bank Nursing Home in Embsay, said private care home owners were facing a deepening crisis
THE PROUD tradition of scouting looks set to die out in Addingham unless a willing troupe leader can be found. Marilyn Doherty, who runs the village's cub group, says Addingham has been without a scout leader for almost a year and a half and the situation
AN ILKLEY woman has proved she is a veritable pantomime dame after taking part in her fourteenth show with the same company. The curtain is set to rise on Shirley Britton, of Ben Rhydding, in her latest starring role in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
GOLFERS at a Ben Rhydding club claim their fairways have been ruined by an onslaught of selfish sledgers. The club, at High Wood, traditionally allows fun seekers to take advantage of the snow and use its hilly course for sledging. But, after last week's
A MAJOR hurdle has been cleared in the fight to get a new hospital built in Otley by the year 2004. This week the regional health executive approved plans for a new Wharfedale hospital to be built on the present site in Newall Carr Road. And now health
ILKLEY Parish Council this week may have signed its own death warrant by accepting a document which could eventually lead to its dissolution. Forced to contemplate radical changes imposed on it by internal and external pressures, the body which has represented
WE stood in sad little groups along The Lane and watched it drain away. There were some, I suppose, who were glad to see it go and with good reason: for those who make their living travelling in the Dales, it is at best a damned nuisance, at worst a danger
SIR - I am writing to you to encourage your readers to take part in the very important debate on the future of Health Care services in Craven. There are discussions going on now about changes in the NHS which could have serious consequences for hjealth
SIR, - There are 24,000 people in Ilkley and Mr Frazer Irwin seems to be in a minority of one! The other 23,999 think that the Christmas lights in Ilkley this year are the best we've had and they surpass all other local towns' efforts. I support M Raynor
Otley's Ian Fisher won the Nike Yorkshire Cross-Country Championship at Boddington Hall, Lawnswood, on Saturday. Over the incredibly muddy course, he took gold in the senior men's 11,000 m with the excellent time of 40mins 43secs. Fisher, the 30 year-old
HAMPSTHWAITE........4 BURLEY TROJANS......4 BURLEY Trojans carried on the Christmas spirit in to the New Year as they gifted ten man Hampsthwaite a point. Trailing 4-2 with their 'keeper sent off, the league's bottom side scored twice inside the last
Otley Town...............2 Fields..........................1 Not for the first time this season Otley Town dominated the opposition from the first to last whistle yet found themselves behind to a break away goal on the stroke of half-time. As is becoming
SOCCER legend John Charles will join another former Leeds United player in a sportsman's soiree to be held at Pool Mills Social Club on Friday, January 19. The former Leeds United legends will be the speakers at a fund raising event for Pool Mills Cricket
Addingham.......2 Grindleton......2 THE White Swan-sponsored Addingham FC were in confident mood on Saturday following a fine 6-3 away win the last time out against in-form Keighley Lifts. Grindleton, like Addingham, had gained promotion last season and
BEN Rhydding Hockey Club's first men's and ladies' teams are itching to get back into league action. The men, who lie fourth in the league, last played on December 9 when they beat Timperley 3-2. Their next league game is set for Saturday, January 13,
ORRELL.......................20 OTLEY..........................23 OTLEY finally clinched a win to ease their relegation fears when they overcame Orrell on Saturday and narrowed the gap between the two sides to just one point. Otley left the field to thunderous
A railway company has been suffering its own fuel crisis as diesel supplies struggle to get through because of work on the £165 million revamp of Leeds Station. Northern Spirit has been forced to set up special refuelling points at Skipton because trains
Contractors who helped to transform a Bradford warehouse into a Bollywood cinema claim they are owed tens of thousands of pounds. Several firms who worked on the Malboro Cinema renovation have now joined forces and issued a petition for the company in
Robert Diamond has been left to rot in sub-human conditions on a Bradford housing estate. One of only four residents on an abandoned street on Buttershaw, he lives behind boarded up windows, surrounded by vandalism and rubbish. Even though his rent is
Ilkley U-14s.......6 Wortley Boys....2 Ilkley Under-14s, sponsored by Bella Italia White Cross, are through to the quarter-finals of the West Riding Junior County Cup after a gutsy performance against a resilient Wortley side. Ilkley took time to settle
West Leeds...............41 Ilkley........................10 ILKLEY and their loyal band of supporters travelled to the aptly named Blue Hill Lane for this important league match. Important for Ilkley, for they badly need some league points, and important
100 years ago THE chairman of the Skipton bench of magistrates expressed his displeasure at parents who gave their offspring unusual names. When a witness by the name of Doctor Grimshaw, of Barnoldswick, was called to the stand, onlookers looked on in
WHOEVER came up with the idea of changing the name of the Post Office needs sacking. And if it's true that the cost of dreaming up the ridiculous name of Consignia was £2 million, then they should be asked to pay for it out of their own pocket. Just why
Bradford Bulls coach Brian Noble insists there will be nothing Mickey Mouse about their sunshine retreat to Florida. Noble was heading a 26-man playing squad which headed for Jacksonsville today and pledged it will be hard work all the way as the 2001
Homesick Benito Carbone wanted to return to Italy even before being told he could leave Bradford City. Carbone admitted his family could not settle in England and he was looking for a move back home. City boss Jim Jefferies, speaking at a fans forum at
A PUBLIC meeting will be held to discuss road safety around a new housing estate in Yeadon, which was granted planning permission this week. Plans for 40 houses and a block of 24 flats off Gill Lane were approved by city councillors, despite opposition
STRESSED passengers on early-morning trains are collapsing in overcrowded carriages, commuters claim. Regular travellers on the Wharfedale Line have often criticised the overcrowding, which has arisen on early Ilkley to Leeds services when previous trains
RETIRED surveyor John Smallwood has revealed a behind the scenes look at one of the area's leading estate agents and surveyors. Mr Smallwood, 85, who was a senior partner at Dacre, Son and Hartley when he retired in 1980, spent most of his working life
A FORMER Bramhope man has been awarded the MBE for his work in countries devastated by war, famine and floods. Paul Smith-Lomas, Oxfam's Humanitarian Director, has been working to improve conditions in the Third World for more than 20 years. A trained
PRIME Minister Tony Blair and Manchester United's David Beckham are just two famous names who have contributed to a celebrity cookbook compiled by budding business tycoons in Guiseley. The would-be Richard Bransons at Guiseley School are running their
BARRY Morgan always wanted to do something different to celebrate his 21st birthday - and jumping out of an aeroplane at 12,000 feet certainly fits into that category. The 20-year-old is not just doing this for himself - he is hoping to raise lots of
WOMEN are being urged to consider their own safety when they are out at night by themselves after a woman was injured in a mugging in a dark Horsforth street. The victim got off a bus outside the Eleventh Earl Pub and began to walk along poorly lit Back
In 1916, Bradford's Chief Constable enforced stringent lighting conditions on carriages and motor vehicles. In 1924, four people died when the top floor of Zetland Mills, in Wharfe Street, Bradford, collapsed. From the Telegraph & Argus of January
The Bradford Chamber of Commerce has called on the Monetary Policy Committee to follow the example set by the US Central Bank last week when it cut its interest rate. The bank cut rates by 0.5 per cent to prevent the country's economy entering recession
Bradford faces a challenging but essentially bright future - if Bradford Council can help engineer a more inviting climate for entrepreneurs, its leader claimed today. Councillor Margaret Eaton said she was particularly keen to improve the city's image
CALLS for a major crackdown on boozy youngsters roaming the streets of Silsden have been made by townsfolk. Children as young as 12 have been seen walking the streets at night clutching cans of beer. Now police are being urged to crack down on them by
PLANNERS have given the green light to a new 51-berth marina on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Barnoldswick, boosting prospects for tourism in the town. It was the latest in a series of plans for a marina at Lower Park stretching back 25 years, but
A WEST Craven school has achieved the seemingly impossible, with a virtually perfect report from official inspectors who praised every aspect of life there. The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspectors were so impressed with Thornton-in-Craven
A NEW £2.5 million railway station for Cross Hills is on track to reach its destination. The first stage of a study to look at where to put it on the Airedale line arrived this week. The report, commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council, identifies
A NEW project which aims to give the young farming community in Craven a chance to expand their entrepreneurial skills will be launched on Monday. The Cornerstone project, is a unique five-year initiative, which aims to link young people in the countryside
A MOTORIST is calling for traffic lights at a busy junction. Muriel Nowell has suggested that traffic lights be used at peak times at the junction of Kirkgate, Clogg Bridge and Elliott Street in Silsden. And she has approached the town's parish council
A CAMPAIGN is growing to introduce more one way streets to Skipton to improve safety for pedestrians. The top target is Newmarket Street, which is the narrowest street in the town, with a tiny width of pavement for pedestrians. Coun Mike Doyle is to put
WHEN the owners of Skipton Bed and Suite Centre swapped outside lights for smaller more energy efficient bulbs they never dreamt they could be prosecuted. Terry Turner and business partner Louise Marren have been told they must take down the four top
AN ADDINGHAM man of letters is compiling a postal history of the village and needs residents' help in hunting down postmarks from the past. Frank Laycock already has some of the earliest Addingham postmarks from the 1830s but is on the lookout for more
ZUT Alors! Ilkley could be in danger of losing its French connection unless more councillors get involved. The civic twinning with the town of Coutances in Normandy has lasted 30 years but is in danger of disappearing because of a low profile and less
WORRIED parents in Addingham have blasted Bradford Council this week for refusing to place a lollipop lady on a busy school road. Last week, the Gazette reported the council's decision not to place a crossing patrol on Bolton Road, outside the village's
THE rat population of Bradford could reach 'medieval' proportions soon and Ilkley is still regarded as a vermin hotspot by environmental control officers. A private pest control expert has blamed increasingly mild winters on the explosion of rats in the
SIR, - Mr Dickinson may well continue to entertain your readers with his unfounded allegations and wild assertions directed at the Tories but it does get a little tiresome after a while. This time his not very seasonal greetings embraced BSE and SERPS
A man who was convinced he was ugly hanged himself in a hospital toilet, an inquest heard. Richard Jackson, 30, was found hanging from a pipe in the toilet of the accident and emergency department at Dewsbury District Hospital last July. Psychiatrist
Policing in Bingley could be controlled from Shipley under a shake-up of law enforcement in the district, it was claimed today. Councillor Colin Gill (Con, Bingley) said he understood the Bradford Police Review for the Bingley area would involve a special
Ripon City Magnets..... 3 Baildon Trinity.............0 Top of the West Yorkshire League Division One1, Magnets took all three points, but could count themselves fortunate. Their only defeat had come at Baildon, and for long periods they were outplayed
IN 1982 a group of St Bede's Old Boys began to follow the training advice of Bingley Harrier Dennis Quinlan printed in a local newspaper prior to the first Bradford Marathon and duly entered the race. They were never the same again. They were runners
Saracens....................50 Orrell........................19 DUE to injuries and illness the Saracens team was not finalised until shortly before kick-off. Andy Simpson and Chris Booth came into the front row and Ross Landeman and Graham Tasker into
OTLIENSIANS.......8 barnsley...........7 FRASER Ritson returned to take the scrum-half berth in this first league game of the New Year for Otliensians - a game which produced their fifth successive league win. Simon Coates reverted to stand-off with Chris
STUART Yeadon, captain of Ben Rhydding Golf Club, drove in with style on Sunday morning. He chose a Texas scramble as the first competition of his year of office. The course, which has been extremely wet for quite a few weeks, played its full distance
GUISELEY AFC are holding a fund-raising comedy night on Valentine's Day. The event at Bradford Golf Club, Hawksworth, will feature a three-course dinner and entertainment by comedians Andy Swallow and Micky Gunn. The MC will be Gary Marshall. Tickets
Sowerby BI.........0 Park Rangers...8 " The New Zidane" was the cry from the touchline as Man-of-the-Match Matt Healey inspired a goal feast in this much delayed third round County Cup game. Yeadon's Park Rangers started confidently and played some excellent
THE reputation of Ilkley Squash Club coach Robbie Burnett is certainly growing apace along with the facilities the go ahead club has to offer. This week Robbie has been coaching the South African Under-17 squad. They arrived on Boxing Day to play in the
Pool.......................5 Killinghall.........1 HOLDERS Pool moved into the quarter-finals of the League Challenge Cup with this comfortable victory over lower opposition. On a near perfect playing surface Pool started the brighter and were allowed
NORTH FERRIBY......1 GUISELEY.................2 MANAGER Neil Parsley rang the changes for Tuesday night's League Cup tie at North Ferriby and his side emerged with a victory - their first in seven games. Out went goalkeeper Nigel Muttick - left to shoulder
Plans for a £300,000 bingo and gaming centre in Shipley have been approved - despite fears it will attract children and to the fury of ward councillors. The centre will have all-cash fruit machines and be in a unit at the market square, close to bus shelters
Water bosses and former Olympic showjumper Harvey Smith are in financial deadlock over the value of land to be used for a sewage outfall. Mr Smith, of High Eldwick, Bingley, has been offered ten times the market value for an area of land he owns in Riddlesden
The long-awaited multi-million pound facelift for John Street Market, Bradford, has taken a huge step forward. A planning application has been submitted by the council's markets section for the facelift, which is now expected to begin in March. It follows
Pupils who have already lost three weeks of lessons now face being crammed into classrooms normally used by half the number of children. The extra disruption at Cottingley Village Primary School comes because work is beginning on removing asbestos from
The United States intelligence service used it to spy on military activities in Iraq at the height of the Gulf War. And soon Global Positioning by Satellite (GPS) could be another weapon in the battle against the beasts of Bradford's sewers - rattus norvegicus
A social worker claimed today he lost his job after threatening to 'blow the whistle' on alleged malpractice at Bradford Council. Steve Hayes, pictured, alleged he was victimised after asking awkward questions. His claims were due to be heard by an employment
Former Bradford Council leader John Ryan has been suspended by the Labour group for six months for failing to toe the party line. Councillor Ryan - who also heads the Bradford NHS Hospital Trust - was suspended for chairing an area panel meeting against
Living conditions on a Bradford council estate were today condemned as outrageous by an MP. Gerry Sutcliffe said he was appalled to hear that Robert Diamond was living in a derelict maisonette with the full knowledge of the local authority while a multi-million
Otley Town Res.......6 Ilkley AFC.................2 A poor second-half performance by Ilkley allowed Otley to gain three points after the visitors had the better of first-half exchanges. With both teams seeing little action over the past four weeks and
SIR - I thought you might like to know that not only are our children at Cottingley being denied their education for two extra weeks so eight classrooms can move a quarter of a mile, but today we have been told that asbestos removal will be done this
STEALING Yorkshire stone is not the most heinous of crimes. In fact, when town centre roofs start getting stripped, the sentiment is one of bemused amazement rather than disgust at the crime. However, it is no laughing matter for the 'victims' who face
