Australia's preparations for Saturday's Ashes decider against Great Britain have been rocked by the sudden illness of coach Chris Anderson. The 48-year-old Anderson, pictured, was detained in hospital overnight for tests after complaining of chest pains
Yorkshire open up their defence of the County Championship next season with a tough home match against star-studded Surrey, starting at Headingley on April 24. It is a game Yorkshire will be keen to win against the side who wore the crown over the two
Jim Jefferies saluted another Robbie Blake wonder strike as City collected a point at Preston. The Bantams took their unbeaten run to six games with a 1-1 draw at Deepdale last night. And once again Blake served up a long-range cracker - his fourth goal
Preston North End 1, Bradford City 1: Stuart McCall, the old warrior, wasn't due to play last night. Jim Jefferies had thought of sparing the skipper from midfield duties at Preston to keep him chipper for the battles to come. The Bantams boss had indicated
Bradford City will not call off any matches this season - irrespective of any strike action by players. Club chairman Geoffrey Richmond today vowed that the Bantams will honour every fixture of the campaign, even if it means fielding an under-strength
There are few things more effective at making boys and youths behave themselves than a mother on the warpath. Throughout history, in just about every culture, it has been women in the home who have taken on the prime duty of guiding their children's behaviour
A salad cress producer is celebrating a transformation in fortunes which has brought in £100,000 in profits. In 1996 Tineke Bentley, having just suffered an annual loss of £50,000, wondered if her company, WS Bentley Growers, of Cleckheaton, was a lost
A village football club is hoping to cultivate the soccer stars of tomorrow by building a "centre of excellence'' on a former landfill site in Shipley. Bolton Woods Community Association and Bolton Woods Junior Football Club have prepared a bid for £750,000
Darran Flavell is looking forward to the hurly-burly of family life, when he moves into his new home in Cullingworth in the new year. He will be able to join his wife Jacqueline, 39, and three children Georga, seven, Jacob, four and 18 month-old Zac for
Steps to open the countryside to walkers and riders are being made by Yorkshire Dales guardians, following the lifting of foot and mouth restrictions. Farmers are also now freer to send animals - many of which have been confined to farms since February
A Bradford MP today called for a Government investigation into the closure of wool mill W&J Whitehead. And the Transport & General Workers' Union is backing Bradford North MP Terry Rooney's demand for a full examination by the Department of Trade
A prison worker is urging Bradford youngsters to improve their literacy skills and steer clear from crime. John Armitage, a support prison officer at Armley Jail, has joined forces with Reading Matters for Life to help teenagers improve their reading
A man who was shot after he left a Bradford nightclub staggered back inside and collapsed, bleeding, in front of horrified revellers, police revealed today. Door staff at the Planet Venus club raised the alarm after the 20-year-old Afro-Caribbean man
Cinema-goers were evacuated when a display poster caught fire at the Odeon Cinema at Thornbury. More than 300 people, including three coach parties of children, were escorted out of the building as the blaze was tackled by staff. People attending neighbouring
The Save the Priestley campaign was today dealt a new blow with the cancellation of a fund-raising performance. Poor ticket sales have forced The Priestley Centre for the Arts to pull its one-man-show by Edward Petherbridge on Friday. Anyone who had tickets
A Bradford community programme to bridge the gap between young and old is set receive a royal seal of approval. A representative from Bradford Bulls Challenge Project will travel to St James's Palace in London tomorrow to receive congratulations from
A cash machine was found in the back of a getaway van after ram-raiders struck at a Heckmondwike bank. The white Ford Transit van and another vehicle were repeatedly smashed into the front of the Bradford & Bingley bank in High Street to try to smash
At the age of four daredevil Jordan Anderson leapt off his sister's cupboard in a bid to fly like his hero Buzz Lightyear. Three years on, his dream of flying high has come true as he prepares for a role in Peter Pan. The budding actor from Wrose hit
SIR - Blair calls them "The finest Armed Forces in the world". Their commanders tell us these politically correct, slimmed-down forces are fighting our battles with one hand tied behind their backs: 600 pilots short, two-thirds of the fleet mothballed
Clayton got back to winning ways with a 29-6 success in the Pennine League relegation battle with Underbank Rangers at home. The Villagers were in the driving seat with a 19-6 half-time lead, and the fact they kept their line intact in the second period
Bradford Park Avenue tonight aim to bounce back from the disappointment of Saturday's home defeat when Gateshead visit Horsfall Stadium in the UniBond Premier Division. Defeat to Vauxhall Motors stalled their run of four straight victories at home which
In 1917, fire damaged the Empire Theatre in Bradford. In 1923, Mrs. Mary Binns of Shipley, celebrated her 100th birthday. In 1934, Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" opened in New York. From the Telegraph & Argus of November 21st, 1976... Singing
A former Bradford City and Bradford Park Avenue goalkeeper died as a result of being exposed to asbestos as a teenager 60 years ago, an inquest has heard. Mitchell Downie, who died in July aged 78, had been working as a plumber at a shipyard in Scotland
A chill wind blows through the crumbling skeleton of Manningham Mills but a community group hopes one day it could be the waft of cooking from around the world. Members of the Manningham Mills Community Association have spent six months gathering the
If music be the food of love, play on. Shipley lovebirds Hannah Mason and Nick Ransley are hoping to raise more than a "tenor" on the streets of York this Christmas. The opera-singing duo are planning their own Marriage of Figaro - and hoping they get
A small dog from Clayton has been honoured for protecting her owner as he lay on the edge of a 90ft precipice. Alan Ward probably owes his life to his eight-year-old West Highland Terrier, Beanie, who has just been voted a national "Supa" dog. Mr Ward
A "mums' army" has taken to the streets in Bradford in a bid to curb troublemakers. The head-scarved Muslim women have teamed up to help bring some order back to Manningham, Heaton and Girlington. The mums have started a series of evening patrols to reprimand
