Ilkley have plenty of ground to make up if they are to challenge Kirkstall, Rawdon and Burley in the chase for promotion to the top flight. Yet the men from Denton Road had the top three looking anxiously over their shoulders after going on a run spree
Raith Rovers 2, Bradford City 0: It was half-an-hour after the final whistle and Dean Windass was still shaking his head. "Where did that fella come from?" he wanted to know, trying to piece together the farcical goal that sealed City's fate in Kirkcaldy
Paul Evans sees himself as one of City's band of new recruits. The Welsh firebrand played in last night's 2-0 defeat at Raith Rovers, his first game for the club since December. He showed no after-effects from the knee injury which cut short his campaign
Karl Pratt has gone under the surgeon's knife to try and salvage his season. The utility back faces six weeks on the sidelines after an operation to repair cartilage damage in his shoulder but should return ready for the play-offs. The Great Britain international
Residents of some of the areas chosen to be the locations for new children's homes in the Bradford district were last night accused of "bigotry and prejudice" by Councillor David Ward for their opposition to the proposal. It is surely not quite as clear-cut
In 1904, the first ice cream cone was seen at an exhibition in the USA, invented by Charles E. Menches. In 1940, Britain's Local Defence Volunteers were renamed the Home Guard. In 1952, Egypt's General Nasser overthrew King Farouk I. From the Telegraph
Bradford-based credit and insurance firm Provident Financial today announced half-yearly pre-tax profits had risen almost ten per cent to £82 million. The company, announcing its first results to the stock exchange since joining the FTSE 100 earlier this
An apprentice joiner is hoping his mother can give him a vital gift - a kidney. Richard Cocking, of Shelf, needs a kidney transplant to return to a normal life. The 20-year-old, pictured, felt poorly one day in February and by the afternoon was in Bradford
A mother whose teenage daughter claimed she was raped by a pub manager told a jury of a tense phone call she had with the man. Nigel Bairstow, 48, who was the manager of the Station Hotel, Harecroft, near Wilsden, has already pleaded guilty to indecently
Police were today investigating claims that a man in drag may be conning people by raising money allegedly for a cancer charity. The Laura Crane Trust has called in the police to investigate the fundraising efforts of a man calling himself Andy Wilmot
A memorial commemorating "unsung heroines" of chemotherapy development could be installed at St Luke's Hospital, Bradford. Pat Featherstone, pictured, has asked for a plaque on ward A2 to recognise the pioneering work of consultant surgeon Mr George Whtye-Watson
A former Bradford businessman today revealed he is to lead the campaign against a Yorkshire Assembly. John Watson, a former president of Bradford Chamber of Commerce and Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon, will act as chairman of the new organisation
Tragic mum Teresa Innes will be allowed to die after the hospital that left her in a permanent vegetative state was given permission to stop feeding her. One of the country's top judges yesterday decided that the 38-year-old care worker - fed artifically
SIR - For some 18 months Crossflatts has been a building site for a structure which, at this point, is beginning to resemble the Great Wall of China. In the process the community has lost many mature trees, an access road and a footpath across the bridge
Craig White and Yuvraj Singh went into Yorkshire's championship match against Hampshire at Scarborough today with sharply contrasting batting fortunes. White, on his home ground, was looking to continue the phenomenal form which has brought him 338 runs
An inmate at Armley Jail has described how a prison doctor performed an alleged sex act on him. Dr John Anthony Sykes, of Cleckheaton, is appearing in front of the General Medical Council's Professional Conduct Committee in Manchester to investigate whether
A row over rent could see Bradford Council give up its lease on Shipley Indoor Market Hall. The authority believes a hike in charges by the site's landlord is too high and is refusing to sign a new contract in September unless this changes. At yesterday's
Wendy Holmes was under the age of 40, was careful about her diet, did not smoke and took regular exercise. So when she died suddenly from a heart attack caused by furring of the arteries at the age of just 38, it came as a total shock to her family and
Bradford Council is pressing ahead with plans for five new children's homes despite facing a barrage of protests from angry residents. There were furious scenes at City Hall as the green light decision was met with cries of "This stinks" and "It's a disgrace
A ferocious blaze ripped through an historic Bradford mill building leaving the city centre shrouded under a plume of thick black smoke. The fire left the derelict mill building in Thornton Road severely damaged and caused major traffic chaos during last
Sally Dawson's biggest fan on her Fame Academy debut will be a girl who's already been there, seen it and sung it - none other than Kimberley Walsh. The Girls Aloud star and 26-year-old Sally went to the same schools in Bradford and even starred in a
