Queensbury got off to a flying start with a splendid 32-8 home win against Birkenshaw in their opening game of the Pennine season. Bury are determined to go one better than last year's Premier runner-up spot and made their intentions clear by posting
Yorkshire decided against wholesale changes for today's final Championship match of the season against Kent at Headingley, which they need to win to be sure of getting off the bottom of the table. They were selecting from the same 12 which went to Edgbaston
Leicester City 4, Bradford City 0: Before the game City chairman Gordon Gibb cast an admiring look around Leicester's flash new home. The Walkers Stadium is a slightly smaller copy of Sunderland, right down to the booming orchestral anthems that accompany
Bradford Bulls are changing their home night when they return to Odsal next season. Instead of Friday nights at 8pm, as it has been at Valley Parade this season, the Bulls will revert back to Sundays with a 6pm kick-off, as was the basic rule of thumb
Ashley Ward is a target for First Division leaders Portsmouth. Centre-forward Ward, City's skipper again in last night's 4-0 defeat at Leicester, could be lined up as Harry Redknapp's latest swoop for the ambitious south coast side. Redknapp said: "He
Small businesses in the region can now access grants to help them put safety first. A partnership between the Health and Safety Executive and the Small Business Service means firms in West Yorkshire can get funds to help them set up working health and
Software developer Atlantic Global plc has reported a 67 per cent rise in turnover in its interim results. The Peckover Street-based business, set up in 1993 by its managing director Eugene Blaine, has seen turnover rise from £515,000 in the first half
PM Group plc has reported an operating profits increase of 99 per cent in its maiden results as a public company. The Bradford business, which designs and manufactures weighing systems for bulk haulage and waste management industries, floated on the Alternative
Baildon residents can find out more about how to protect themselves at a special neighbourhood forum on Friday. The event, organised by the Shipley Constituency Area Panel, will focus on issues of personal safety. It comes in the light of recent sex attacks
Bradford has some beautiful buildings - and now you can go and see for yourself at the latest photographic exhibition in the city. On display at the Priestley Centre for the Arts in Little Germany are the winners and entrants of an architecture photography
A teenage rioter, who threatened to kill a teacher who identified him to police, has been sentenced to a total of five years and nine months in custody. Oulfath Hussain, 19, will serve 51 months in a young-offender institution after pleading guilty to
The Government's Minister for Young People today urged the district's children to get out and vote for their own special parliament. John Denham said the new Bradford and Keighley Youth Parliament - which will be the biggest in Britain - would bring major
A buyer is being sought for cash-strapped pram-makers Silver Cross after the company announced 60 redundancies. The Guiseley-based pram firm made the decision to go into receivership last Thursday after "financial irregularities" of £3 million were uncovered
Scores of placard-carrying campaigners fighting to keep some Bradford care homes open staged a demonstration in Centenary Square then handed over a petition signed by 700 people at City Hall last night. The families packed into the public gallery at a
The Telegraph & Argus Bradford Can... Cancer Research Appeal has smashed through the £750,000 mark after a £150,000 boost from a Bradford company. Sovereign Health Care, in Manningham Lane, Bradford, pledged to match all money raised by individuals
A special embassy was opened in London today to put Bradford on the map - as a survey reveals that most southerners have no idea where the city is! The Bradford Embassy, running today and tomorrow, is taking a slice of Bradford life to an entire floor
Bobby Vanzie today admitted he was close to walking out on boxing. Bradford's British lightweight champion is fed up with the politics which have restricted him to just ONE fight in the last 16 months. The final straw nearly came when it was announced
Patrick Wiggins, Bradford Council's newly-appointed director of regeneration and business partnerships, comes with what look to be the right sort of credentials to tackle the challenges ahead. He is currently director of business transformation at Scottish
In 1709, author and dictionary maker Samuel Johnson was born. In 1955, four years after fleeing to Russia, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean admitted they had been spies. In 1978, Egypt and Isreal reached a peace agreement brokered by U.S. president Jimmy
A brewery has announced a £1 million-plus expansion programme. Timothy Taylor, which is based in Keighley, plans to build four new vessels at Knowle Spring Brewery to increase its fermenting capacity by nearly a third. It is also set to install a new
Marketing and communications firm MBD Ltd has expanded staff levels to handle its recent growth in business. The Shipley firm, which has recently taken on a number of new clients, has appointed five new staff members. Delia Bean has been appointed as
One of South Craven's biggest employers has been rescued from the "brink of disaster", securing 300 jobs. A management buy-out at Transtechnology in Glusburn has turned around the company's fortunes and hopes are high that plans will create even more
Kirklees Council is being asked to investigate starting up a service to remove graffiti from all buildings and structures in the district. Councillor Ann Raistrick (Lib Dem, Cleckheaton), Cab-inet member for community safety, was putting the idea to the
A fundraising appeal set up in memory of one of the youngest women in Britain to die of breast cancer has almost reached its £100,000 target - less than a year after it was launched. Appeal organisers hope to raise £10,000 from a Bingley dinner being
A leading member of the scouts, who dedicated more than 60 years of his life to the Bellraven troop in Bradford, has died aged 82. Family and friends of Harold Heppleston, affectionately known as Mr H, have paid tribute to a man who brought joy and inspiration
Bradford has some beautiful buildings - and now you can go and see for yourself at the latest photographic exhibition in the city. On display at the Priestley Centre for the Arts in Little Germany are the winners and entrants of an architecture photography
The Governor of Armley Jail today vowed her prison would continue to improve standards despite being named one of the most overcrowded in the country. The jail, which houses many Bradford prisoners, is at bursting point with 1,254 inmates - more than
Women living in an area being prowled by a serial sex attacker were today offered free self-defence classes. A Bradford martial arts school has started the course after the spate of at least four assaults in Bingley, Shipley and Baildon over recent months
Government boasts that there are more bobbies in Britain than ever before are not reflected in West Yorkshire - which has over 300 fewer officers than a decade ago. Home Secretary David Blunkett yesterday revealed that there were 5,000 more officers on
A high-flying Scottish regeneration chief has been appointed as "deal maker" to rebuild the district and drive its economy forward. The appointment of 46-year-old Patrick Wiggins comes as Bradford bids to become European Capital of Culture in 2008. And
Shoppers who make their way along a town centre street in Keighley will be unaware they are treading on hidden history. For beneath their feet lies a subterranean street, frozen in time. Entombed under the businesses and below the Royal Arcade in Low
SIR - As a former pupil of Temple Bank School from 1965 to 1977 I find it hard to understand why Education Bradford wants to close such a needed service to the community. Some of the pupils who were there when I was had very poor eyesight indeed and without
