Anti-smoking campaigners in Bradford have welcomed a new opinion poll showing that 72 per cent of Britons would back a total ban on smoking in workplaces. Campaigners claim the survey, commissioned by Cancer Research UK and Action on Smoking and Health
SO, farewell then 2005. You will not be remembered as one of the great years in the history of the area. Looking back it is hard to think of one outstanding event which defined the year. Other years have had their foot and mouth outbreaks, their floods
As one of only two Bradford League clubs without a bar, Saltaire Cricket Club have to find other ways of raising income. But their chairman Jeff Driver did once question his sanity when he was trudging the streets of the village in the snow and the rain
Clubs in the Central Yorkshire League seem to be having a change of heart over a rule change they voted for that restricts bowler in Division Three and Division Four (second teams) to a maximum of nine overs per innings. "I can only assume that it is
Director of football Alan Hirst has urged Bradford Park Avenue supporters to get behind the team as they battle to end a depressing run of form which has seen them fail to win in seven games. A section of vociferous fans rounded on right back Liam Brompton
Junior Witter pulls no punches when he predicts a knockout 2006. Bradford's treble light-welterweight champion wants to add a major title to his collection. And he insists that everything is falling into place to make that happen. "This time next year
Dave Halley is sick of being labelled one of the fastest men in rugby - he has never even played a Super League game for the Bulls. But the teenage speedster is looking to put that right in 2006 and aims to start by leaving opponents in his wake during
Peter Beagrie will say a special thanks to City's fans tomorrow - nearly five years late. Scunthorpe player-coach Beagrie faces his old club for the first time since quitting Valley Parade in February 2001. And he admitted: "This is my chance to say goodbye
Pupils from South Craven School have been making music as part of this year's two-week homework competition. The year seven and eight students had to design and build a musical instrument that could play the first line of a festive tune and the form and
A Cullingworth school was full of hot air when pupils released 650 balloons into the air. The annual fundraiser is set to make £600 for Cullingworth Primary School, with prizes on offer for the balloons which travel the furthest and shortest distances
A rug made using techniques dating back to the Second World War has brightened up the interior of a school. The decoration, which has been hung on a wall at Parkwood Primary School, in Keighley, is a rag rug, made from old T-shirts and other discarded
The outgoing chief executive of Airedale Primary Care Trust has warned that a local focus must be retained if, as planned, a new super trust is created next year. Airedale, Bradford City, Bradford South and West, and North Bradford PCTs are set to be
Troubled by that mysterious bump in the night, creak of the floorboards or unaccountable closing of a door? Mechanical engineer Steve Watson has the answer -- his spirit sensor. Steve, 48, of Westburn Avenue, Keighley, has invented a machine which will
A man brandishing two knives was shot by police with a stun gun in a Haworth pub on Wednesday night. Armed officers cornered the man in the King's Arms, in Church Street, just before 11 o'clock. They had been searching for the man after he allegedly threatened
CHRISTMAS has come early for the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association, based at Grassington. It has been presented with a donation of £1,030 by Andrew Emsley of the Farm Shop, Yeadon. The money was raised by visitors to the shop at Greenside Farm
CHRISTMAS came early for the children of Kettlewell when Santa arrived to open their brand new playground. The development has cost more than £46,000 and has taken more than six years to complete. Chairman of the Upper Wharfedale Playground 2000 Committee
GRASSINGTON Women's Institute is folding 66 years after it was first founded. The group, started in 1939, is down to 18 members and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find people to take on roles such as president, secretary or president. Secretary
THE new line-up of staff at the Old Hall Inn is very much an international affair. Landlady Hayley Walters left Courts Wine Bar in Harrogate to get behind the bar of the Threshfield pub earlier this month. She brings with her chef Jetzabel Flandres, who
Gordon Tyrrall makes his traditional January appearance at the Bacca Pipes Folk Club to open the year's performances. The "galactic nebula of talent" performs next Friday at the club's home, Keighley Ukrainian Club, 9 Henry Street, off Cavendish Street
Beauty and the Beast heads a diverse array of musical shows at the Alhambra Theatre this winter and spring. The stage adaptation of the Disney film comes to Bradford after record-breaking runs in cities across the world, on June 6-24. The season begins
LAST weekend saw an unusual event in the working life of Martin Wiseman: he was able to spend the whole of Christmas with his young family. This weekend, however, will be different. He will be at the pointed end of other people's New Year celebrations
The Orient comes to Utley in 1957! That July, in a concert just before breaking up for the summer holidays, the top two classes at Utley School performed two scenes and sang eight songs from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado", which proved so successful
The parents of desperately-ill tot Lily Cater have been inundated with good wishes from people who read about their daughter's heart operation in the Telegraph & Argus. Paul and Michala Cater said the messages of support meant a lot to the family.
A shopping era will end in Bradford this weekend as one of the city's biggest stores closes. Littlewoods has been a key tenant in the Kirkgate Centre since 1976 and had a £1.1 million refurbishment in recent years. But today hundreds of shoppers were
A couple told today how they were left terrified when they were attacked by a pack of dogs near a travellers' site. Derek and Susan Craven were walking near the official camp near Esholt Lane, Baildon, when they say five Lurcher dogs ran towards them,
Airport bosses and police chiefs insist security is tight at Leeds Bradford Airport despite there being no 24-hour police presence. The Yeadon-based airport is excluded from a high-priority list of just nine "designated" airports where local forces have
More than 14 million people have ridden the magic carpet and focused the television cameras at Bradford's National Museum of Photography Film and Television since it opened its doors almost 20 years ago. And now visitors are being urged to take a last
Drivers caught kerb-crawling in Bradford's red light districts could lose their driving licences and be named and shamed in the media. The new measures will be part of a zero-tolerance Government crackdown on vice. They are expected to be outlined by
BINGLEY Harrier Matt Watson produced an impressive performance in the Ribble Valley 10K road race at Clitheroe on Tuesday. Matt (above) finished in fourth place with a time of 30min 07secs, less than 30 seconds behind the winner Tomas Abyu of Salford
Colne 2 Silsden 1 A HOWLER from Silsden keeper Martin Foulger gifted Colne the points with ten minutes remaining. A free-kick 30 yards out from Cunningham was so deep that the Colne forwards stood rooted expecting Foulger to deal with the ball easily.
ANYONE wanting a festive fix of sport over the Christmas period would have been hard pressed to find anything as league figures for rugby union and football were not on the schedule for two weeks. Sports fans trying really hard were able to find a return
100 Years Ago THE columns of the Craven Herald give a snapshot of Christmas 1905, long before the era of radio and television. A crowd gathered in Skipton High Street on Christmas Day to hear the peal of bells and then listened to Skipton Prize Band play
There could be no more fitting a tribute to nine-year-old Casey Mason than opening a safe place for children to play. But once again the dream of a number of good folk, backed by locally elected town and district councillors, may be shattered. Bradford
The seemingly never-ending conveyor belt of talent at Thackley owes much directly to Academy coach Graham Clifford and his staff but the whole structure of the club is a draw for the youngsters of the area. Crop after crop has come through the ranks at
A glut of injuries and unavailability almost ruined Eugene Lacy's Christmas but he made sure it did not affect the club's progress as they push for promotion to the UniBond League. Liversedge are one of ten Northern Counties East League Premier Division
The home section of the Nethermoor crowd were left disappointed as Farsley Celtic took all three points from the Boxing Day derby fixture to leave Guiseley with little cheer over the festive period. But the hardy souls who braved the low temperatures
The downturn in violent crime in Bradford's West End leisure zone since the introduction of round-the-clock drinking might be pure coincidence or it might be vindication of the Government's policy of freeing-up the licensing laws. It is early days. Only
A head teacher has said goodbye to her staff and pupils as she sets off for a new life in France. Pauline Anderson has been in charge of Haworth Primary School for five years. She has now left to take up a new job as a management consultant in the Channel
More than 300 people used a free Christmas Day bus service in Keighley. Two classic buses from yesteryear covered linked routes across the town and the Worth Valley and to Airedale Hospital. The vehicles were manned by three volunteer drivers and two
Several children in an Aids-ravaged area of Africa had food and clothing for the first time this Christmas thanks to the work of a Denholme charity. The Mpika Relief Fund, which is based in Commercial Street, Denholme, bankrolls an orphanage, which has
A radiographer retired last week after nearly 40 years in the job -- but not before returning for one last Christmas Day shift. Linda Shearing started working at the former Victoria Hospital, in Keighley, in 1966 and worked on the night of the change-over
A Keighley soldier is helping to train a new Afghan army to take on al-Qaida and the Taliban. Sergeant Major Richard Sayer, pictured left, is working in the barren desert outside the Afghan capital Kabul. His raw recruits are 171 Afghans enrolled on the
Two taxi drivers from Keighley have completed an arduous trip to Pakistan to deliver urgently needed aid to survivors of the south Asian earthquake. Shabir Ahmed, from Highfield, and Hamid Akthar, from Knowle Park, helped to drive three lorries 5,000
A man hypnotised by magic ever since he got his first conjuring set as a seven-year-old is compering the centenary celebrations of the Magic Circle. Peter Greenwood, from Keighley, has this week been fronting the four-day event at The Centre for the Magic
The best Christmas present for Susan Smith's family, in Gloucester Avenue, Silsden, was 6lb 3oz baby Gary John. Gary John, pictured bottom left, came into the world at 6.24am on Christmas Day, and hardly had his half-sisters Naomi Jade Cook-Smith, six
A family which has battled against the odds to overcome two life-threatening illnesses has made a New Year resolution to "make the most" of what they have now. The Hewitt family, who have lived in Asia for ten years, say they are now ready to live life
Two toddlers rescued from their blazing bedroom by their mother's partner were back home today after spending Christmas in a hospital ward. Four-year-old Dean Spiers was severely burned on his shoulder, arm, nose and ears when the fire tore through their
by Louise Long WORK is due to start in the autumn on one of the most significant developments in Skipton's history when Belle Vue Mills - better known to most Skiptonians as Dewhurst's Mill - is redeveloped. It currently houses greetings card manufacturers
MONEY has not been precepted to fund Glusburn Institute's development worker for next year. Instead, the institute's management committee will have to bid for a donation from Glusburn Parish Council. But parish councillors have agreed to increase the
A SKIPTON couple are helping to enhance the wildlife environment around their home. Around 300 trees are being planted on a two-and-a-half acre site at Cobweb Cottage, off Broughton Road, the home of Peter and Karen Westhead. Volunteers from the Northern
THREE sets of parents in Craven received the best possible Christmas present - a baby. Three youngsters were born at Steeton's Airedale Hospital on Christmas Day. First to arrive was Spencer Robertson, who came into the world at 1.12am weighing 6lb 9oz
AFTER more than 50 years in the business, Skipton butcher Philip Sutcliffe has worked his last Christmas and is handing his cleavers over to a new owner. The popular Otley Street trader, who will be dedicating his spare time to once again growing competition-standard
A SETTLE pensioner has been told to leave her home for the past 35 years because Craven Housing Association wants it back. Mary Atkinson has spent thousands of pounds on improving the three-bedroom house on Northfield Crescent and has made a huge emotional
WHO says Santa Claus does not exist? For all those doubters who insist he is just a figment of our imagination, how can they explain away this picture, taken by our very own paparazzi Stephen Garnett, who was up at the crack of dawn on Christmas Day just
Ladytron -- The Witching Hour The suave former Liverpudlian dwellers inspired by the 80's synth ideology of early Karftwerk, Visage and the darker moments of Soft Cell had raised their game with a whole new and decidedly beefier sound. They have in part
Missing Justice -- Alafair Burke Deputy district attorney Samantha Kincaid returns for what appears to be the disappearance of a middle-ranking judge. But missing turns to murder, and suspicion falls on a poor black father who blamed the judge for the
Out-of-town: Mart Theatre, Skipton: family fun in Dickens's "winter pantomime" Great Expectations (Friday 7.30pm). Phone 01756 791411. Alhambra, Bradford: pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (until February 5). Phone 01274 432000. St George's Hall
Readers of the Keighley News from around the world have been making contact to pass on good wishes for 2006 to family and friends back 'home' in the UK. Julie Labes, formerly Coates, wrote from her home in South Florida. Julie, pictured with her family
SIR - In last week's Craven Herald (December 23) a number of Craven District Councillors from across the political divide warned of the impending demise of smaller district councils like our own in Craven. They envisaged that in the near future some form
Anti-smoking campaigners in Bradford have welcomed a new opinion poll showing that 72 per cent of Britons would back a total ban on smoking in workplaces. Campaigners claim the survey, commissioned by Cancer Research UK and Action on Smoking and Health
A charity run to be held in memory of fallen PC Sharon Beshenivsky aims to raise more than £50,000 for her family. The five-kilometre run has been organised by Bradford athlete Zaf Shah and Neil Jackson, who is the general manager at Canon's Health Club
Violent crime has plunged by more than a third in a Bradford city centre hot-spot despite fears that round-the-clock drinking would fuel late-night trouble. New licensing laws have meant that revellers are not pouring on to the streets from clubs and
SOUTH CRAVEN School student Danielle Brown has been crowned Britain's top young archer. Danielle, 17, has swept the board at the national and county indoor and outdoor championships and ends the year ranked number one in compound bow archery. The 'Lord
SILSDEN start 2006 with a Bank Holiday Monday home clash with Glossop North End at Cougar Park - and the chance to take a big stride up the table. After a shaky start to the season following last year's promotion-winning campaign, the Cobbydale club is
Whether on an individual or on a team basis, Craven enjoyed some outstanding achievements in the sporting world in 2005. Hebden rower Andy Hodge staked his claim as a genuine Olympic gold medal prospect while Barnoldswick cricketer Arran Brindle played
North Ribblesdale A 8 Wharfedale Thirds 8 From the kick off, Ribb's pack asserted their domination with forward drives in which both Pawson and the mighty Ridgway were prominent. Following sustained pressure, Walker put up a high ball which was misjudged
Wharfedale Foresters 25 North Ribblesdale 10 A good crowd turned out at the Avenue for the traditional Wharfedale versus North Ribblesdale Boxing Day game which made a welcome return to this season's fixture list. Ribb chose to play down the slope with
Judges living in a fantasy world SIR - How much longer must the British public be forced to accept the ramblings of out-of-touch senior judges? The latest piece of mind-numbing nonsense was masterminded in Bradford Crown Court (T&A, December 22) where
