Deadly defensive duo Mark Bower and David Wetherall have scooped the top honours for City's season. Ever-present Bower has been named the T&A/JCT600 Player of the Year while Wetherall is the first winner of the T&A Most Consistent Player award
Morrisons has stepped up efforts to create a more efficient network with the sale of former Safeway supermarkets in the Channel Islands. The Bradford-based company has sold the Safeway stores in Jersey and Guernsey to CI Traders Ltd, an Alternative Investment
A fundraising charity which helps Bradford people with disabilities take part in sport is planning its 20th anniversary celebrations. It will be marking the occasion with a fun run on June 18 at Keighley's Marley Stadium. Organisers at Bradford Sport
A deaf man has backed an initiative to cut the number of house fire deaths after a chip pan fire almost gutted his home. Graham Kershaw, 49, from Brighouse, was at the Bradford launch of a county-wide initiative yesterday targeting deaf people to help
A convicted killer is today back behind bars after he led police on a high-speed car chase around Bradford. Ernest Wright, 63, was jailed for life in 1973 for battering Trevor Hale to death with an iron bar and then trying to burn his body in shallow
An arts project which brings musicians from different cultural backgrounds together, to create a fusion of sounds, is staging its first major concert in the city. The Community Self-Awareness Project develops skills and helps people express them through
Parents outraged by plans to close a Bradford primary school within months have said they will do whatever it takes to fight the closure. St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School in Jermyn Street, off Church Bank, was due to close in August 2006 but education
Penalty-taking pupils have helped raise more than £1,000 in memory of the victims of the Bradford City fire disaster. Six primary schools have teamed up with the Bantams for a charity event to educate children about the tragedy which happened 20 years
Spen Victoria did more than growl at visitors Pudsey Littlemoor when they came through the gate for their Thurston League battle. A fine win by Spen's John Armitage (21-4) in the early jacks set up what was to become an annihilation, sending the visitors
Morley's season is up and running. After league defeats to Farsley by four wickets and Woodlands by seven wickets and being washed out by the rain at Spen Victoria, the First Division newcomers won their delayed first-round tie in the Sovereign Health
On a day when rain prevented play in all but six matches, one remarkable innings stands out, but only thanks to an act of sportsmanship by Rawdon skipper Craig Walsh. North Leeds' overseas player Abi Nayor was still in single figures when he appeared
Jamie Peacock is next in line to captain Great Britain after yesterday being named as new skipper Paul Sculthorpe's No 2 for this year's Gillette Tri Nations. Peacock was one of seven Bulls to make Brian Noble's 40-man training squad. Young loose forward
Although the official election campaign has been only a short one, the build-up to it was protracted. There is a danger that the public, weary of the negative nature of much of the electioneering and finding very little in it to inspire them, could have
A Bradford fabrics company is back on its feet after its old shop and warehouse was destroyed by fire last year. In October 2004, fire engulfed the warehouses and offices of Sakhi Baba in Manningham and brothers Naeem and Waseem Choudhry could only watch
A teenage girl has told a jury how the wife of a man accused of indecently assaulting her made threats towards her family. The 15-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has alleged that Shameem Akhtar tried to get her to drop the complaint
Shift worker David Raistrick today thanked his neighbour, Darren Winter, whose quick-thinking actions prevented a massive gas explosion. "I keep seeing my life flash before me. It could have been so different. I am just so grateful to Darren," said Mr
Detectives are warning young hooligans who fire air weapons for kicks they could face police gunmen and long jail sentences. Police in Bradford are investigating an incident earlier this month at Manningham where a projectile from some type of weapon
The building containing the city centre's Darley Street post office has been put up for sale at a price of nearly £1 million. But the property - which has 16 apartments on its upper floors - will continue as a post office on a long- term lease. The sale
The biggest revamp of Bradford's city centre road system in 40 years will take place with the closure of Petergate this month. The road, which until recently carried 40,000 vehicles a day, will shut for good on May 29 and Church Bank will be closed to
Is homes cash available to all? SIR - Having just looked through the Regen 2000 BD3 magazine I read that £75,000 of Regen funds and £26,000 of residents' money had been spent on refurbishment of private properties on Killinghall Road. While this is, in
