Eccleshill United hope to get their pre-season back on track tomorrow night, after two fixture cancellations, with a visit from UniBond League opponents (7.30). Wakefield have stepped in after Nicky Law's Alfreton Town failed to take up the offer of
Hall Road Rangers 0, Guiseley 2 Guiseley finally got their pre-season off and running and enjoyed a victory at Hall Road Rangers tonight. Terry Dolan's men won 2-0 thanks to a goal in each half, despite ten changes to the team during the interval.
Bradford Park Avenue 0 Huddersfield Town 1 Coca-Cola League One outfit Huddersfield Town picked up the White Rose Trophy tonight with a single-goal victory at Horsfall Stadium in the traditional pre-season fixture. It was a strong squad that the
Shontayne Hape is back in action this weekend. The injured Bulls ace isn't returning to the field just yet but will be showing his skills - on the decks. A big lover of his tunes, DJ Sh4pe performs a latest set at Bradford's Chino Thai in Centenary
The second phase of a scheme to rebuild or revamp every secondary school in the Bradford district has been delayed. Bradford Council's executive approved plans for Phase Two of the district's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in the spring
Tim Bresnan produced a fine spell of bowling to claim two wickets but they were Yorkshire's only successes on a rain-hit opening day to their LV Championship match against Kent at Scarborough today. They were defied by Kent opener Joe Denly, who hit
Firefighters from Keighley received an unusual call out when they were summoned to free a cow from a bridge in Haworth. The animal had apparently been crossing the low level bridge at Brow Road at around 3pm when its rear legs went through the structure
A 48-year-old man is due to appear before magistrates next month following several incidents of human faeces being found outside a school in Cleckheaton. It follows a surveillance operation by Kirklees Council's dog fouling squad after complaints from
A 25-year-old man who tried to hold up a shop in March has admitted a charge of attempted robbery. William Love, of Basil Street, Canterbury, has pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court to attempting to rob Navnit Mistry of an unknown quantity of money
Two men charged with using £260 in counterfeit money in Skipton are to be committed for trial at Bradford Crown Court. Ian Stewart, 33, of Lichfield Mount, and Christian Stocks, 32, of High Poplars, both Bradford, each face 13 charges of passing a counterfeit
A 26-year-old man from Heckmondwike has been referred to a council's anti-social behaviour unit after his most recent arrest for shoplifting. Police said the man had also been harassing and intimidating shopkeepers in Batley town centre for some time
Councillors are celebrating victory in their battle against a take-over bid. Hazel Blears, Minister for communities and local government, has thrown out the proposal by North Yorkshire County Council to create a single unitary authority covering 3,000
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of attempting to abduct two Shipley women at knife-point on Saturday morning. The man, who has not been named, was arrested at work in Bingley yesterday. He is described as aged 39 and from the Market Weighton
Government plans to start the biggest ever public consultation on tacking drugs has today been welcomed by Bradford Safer Commun-ities Partnership. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith made the announcement yesterday, saying they want to talk to current and former
A solicitor turned detective to confront two men he suspected of plotting to forge a will, a court heard. Robert Foster "door-stepped" the pair after driving from Skipton to Scotland. Mr Foster was acting for Antony Robinson, whose mother apparently
Government plans to raise rail fares to increase capacity on the East Coast Mainline have met with a mixed reaction. Transport secretary Ruth Kelly has promised a £10 billion strategy to make improvements to track and trains, but has warned higher fares
Drinkers will have more than darts and dominoes to keep them entertained when a play about affairs of the heart is performed in a city pub. Ale and Heartless by local writer Berni Bertola will be staged in The Goldsborough in Bolton Road at 8pm tomorrow
The film version of author and poet Blake Morrison's autobiography, And When Did You Last See Your Father, will be premiered in the town where he was born. The movie, which stars British heart-throb Colin Firth as Morrison, is to get its first showing
A man caught drug dealing for the third time has been jailed for more than five years. Paul Collins, 33, of Walker Avenue, Scholemoor, Bradford, faced a seven-year prison term because it was his third conviction, but a 20 per cent discount for his guilty
A fourth Bradford University student has been found guilty of a terrorism charge. Awaab Iqbal, 20, of Grove Terrace, Bradford, had used computer wizardry to include the faces of himself and his friends on a poster depicting the terrorists responsible
A 22-year-old Bradford man has pleaded guilty to breaking a ten-month-old dog's jaw in three places. Craig Finnegan, 22, of Shetcliffe Road, Bierley, admitted beating Tyke, his black cross-breed dog, about six or seven times while he was drunk. Nigel
We use - and waste - a lot of energy in our homes. An average household could save up to £300 per year on its energy bills and about two tonnes of carbon dioxide but it is difficult to know where to start in order to cut the bills and cut that carbon
Cloths have endless uses around the home and garden for soaking things up and wiping things down but you never seem to have enough of them. There's no need to buy them new, why not cut up your old worn towels, sheets and pillowcases to become tea towels
Hi boys and girls, Captain Planet here. This week I want to let you know about the 5th Bradford Boys Brigade who have been busy raising funds for WaterAid. WaterAid is an international charity which fights poverty by helping poor people in developing
There is clear evidence of the way the climate is changing with all the extreme weather records throughout the world. Hottest temperatures, longest droughts, more frequent floods and more forest fires are the norm. Globally every one of the last 13 years
In a tucked-away corner behind a sports stadium in Keighley, Kevin Balding has found his own little piece of Paradise. Sitting down for a cup of tea among neatly-tended rows of potatoes, onions and vegetables of all description, he couldn't be happier
Some may say it would be foolish to bring Matt Cook back for such a high-profile match but the eager Bull is adamant he is ready to bolster his side's push for Wembley. He feels like he's been waiting for ever. The young second-rower hasn't featured
Two young children who sparked a massive police hunt when they went missing last week spent the night sleeping in an inner-city garden protected by their dogs, it was revealed today. Yousaf Hussain, nine, and his sister Sumiya Hussain, 12, from Queensbury
Challenge Cup veteran Terry Newton is targeting a hat-trick of winners' medals but admits: The game's tougher than ever before. The Great Britain hooker will have to be at his finest if the Bulls are to overcome holders St Helens in Saturday's semi-final
City have thrown down the season-ticket gauntlet to fans by challenging them: Let's beat Leeds. The cut-price scheme will smash through the 10,000 barrier within the next couple of days. And the club are bracing themselves for bumper sales over the
Sickness and absence costs Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust £500,000 a year, a workforce report reveals. The report is the first about the trust's 2,495-strong workforce since it was created in October last year. Helen Hirst, director
Businesses have joined forces to step up the battle against thieves and troublemakers in Shipley town centre. Traders have been equipped with hand-held radios so they can warn one another about criminals targeting the town. Shops and businesses have
Shops in Guiseley have been left with a big clean-up operation after flash flooding. One basement shop at Green Bottom was left under two inches of water, and a restaurant had to stop cooking as flood water rose in its cellars. Both restaurants in the
Our columnist this week is Chris Eveleigh, a 17-year-old school-leaver from Otley. Very rarely does a Prime Minister make a resignation speech and just walk away as Tony Blair did, officially at least. Prime Ministers are usually either booted out of
SIR - None of the Met Office predictions for this year included a scorching summer for the UK so David Rhodes (T&A, July 23) should not be too disappointed. However, there have always been exceptional one-in-100-year events, like the 1938 19C in the
SIR - I cannot believe B Hardcastle (T&A, July 19). OK, the non-smokers have got their way, so we can't smoke in public places anymore. Fine, there's nothing we can do about that, but he's not happy with that now and because he has nothing more to
SIR - In reply to G Frayne, "What's the difference" (T&A, July 20) I would simply say this, Coun Paul Cromie's donation of £5 to pensioners was from his own pocket whereas Gordon Brown's £200 "bribe" towards their council tax before the last election
SIR - Great news of the £620,000 plus lottery grant to Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust. This is in addition to all the recent smaller amounts received over the past few weeks. I am sure, however, that the Bill that brought the lottery
Precedent? SIR - Like it or loathe it, the Bradford and Bingley Building Society at 212 Main Street, Bingley is an iconic building. But for three months a massive advertisement has hung from the front wall and dominates the locality. At last a retrospective
SIR - Leslie Dobson (T&A, July 18) asks how I would feel if I lived in a country like China where they kill cats and dogs after torturing them, then eat them. This Government could do a lot by refusing to buy, trade, etc or accept students or workers
SIR - On July 16 and 18, Clayton C of E Primary School, gave a revue called Back To The Future, a musical journey back in time, including the Spice Girls, ABBA, Freddy Mercury, Tina Turner, the Beatles, Cliff and Elvis to name a few. It was fronted
SIR - Imagine my surprise, when I returned from holiday in Wales, to find Britain is on a "fast track to a dictatorship". This at least, is the opinion of Jason Smith of UKIP, who argues that the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act is on a par with Hitler's
SIR -- Last Friday I attended the Award Ceremony for the Conferment of Degrees at Bradford University, where my grandson was a recipient. It was a delight to experience the wonderful atmosphere created as these young students were receiving their degrees
SIR - Regarding Dr Tom Smith's article (T&A, July 21), I find it hard to believe someone with intelligence could have such arrogance as to believe people's organs belong to his profession to do with as they like and that transplants should just go
SIR - I always read the Court File in the T&A because that is one of the few news items that gives me a really good laugh. This week was no exception, there were some pearlers! 1) Driving with no insurance, fined £43! An item which costs me £285 every
SIR - Councillor Mallinson makes the assumption that the proposed New Victoria Place project would be Iconic'. Well, Councillor, Jorn Utzon's Sydney Opera House, Norman Foster's Gherkin', Gaudi's Cathedral at Barcelona, are all Iconic. New Victoria
SIR - What a pathetic letter by New Labour Councillor Ralph Berry (T&A, July 20) in which he criticises Bradford Lib-Dems support for the campaign to save the Odeon and asks them to explain where they will find the money to fund the project. Coming
SIR - Just because a few hundred people turn out to hug the Odeon' out of a population of nearly five hundred thousand it does not mean they represent the whole of Bradford. You cannot let sentiment get in the way of progress. The only way to get the
James Simpson is hoping his game is coming together at just the right time. The Shipley golfer is gearing up for arguably his most important weekend of the golfing calendar. He defends his Bradford Open title at Cleckheaton on Sunday and plays in his
Some familiar names have been instrumental in securing Baildon's fifth Bradford Union Scratch League title in ten years. But their latest success, their second on the trot, has been notable for the emergence of a new one. Tom Usher has stepped up with
Jonty Hawkes has been entering the Ilkley tennis tournament for 41 years but has still to win an event there! After joining the club in 1966, Hawkes, pictured, first entered the junior events, followed by the handicap events (men's singles, men's
Bradford's Mark Hirst came unstuck in the World Professional Billiards Championship, held at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds last week. He was grouped with two of the eventual last four in the round-robin stages, David Causier and finalist Chris
Players from 20 countries, including Iceland, Venezuela and Libya, have made next week's JM Glendinning Ilkley Open truly international. There are 15 different nationalities in the $15,000 Men's Futures tournament and 11 different nationalities in the
The following planning applications have been lodged with Leeds City Council: Bradford: single-storey rear extension and first floor side extension, 71 Grange Avenue. Calverley: dormer window to front, 5 Ravenscliffe Road. Calverley: part two storey
In 1894, actor Walter Brennan, the first actor ever to win three Academy Awards for Come and Get it, Kentucky and The Westerner, was born. In 1943, Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, was voted out of power by his own grand council. In
The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Zahid Hamid, aged 18, of Brantwood Drive, Holme Wood; possession of cannabis, three counts of driving while disqualified, detention in a young offender institution for six months; three counts
A man who snatched a mobile phone, valued at £349, from an office in Saltaire Medical Centre, was sentenced to a further three months on the 18-month community order he is already serving. Raymond Bond, a recovering drug addict, pleaded guilty at
A Bradford woman was nearly twice the drink-drive limit and was not wearing a seatbelt when her car smashed into a lamppost in a fatal crash, an inquest heard. Care assistant Christine Larkin, below, of Carr Bottom Avenue, Bankfoot, died of multiple
City 1, Burnley 1 Valley Parade got its first look at the new City - and liked what it saw. Stuart McCall and Wayne Jacobs were given the warmest of welcomes from the crowd. And the fans, all packed into the lower half of the Sunwin Stand, were treated
A massive police operation was continuing today following reports of an attempted abduction in Manningham. Five people were arrested on Monday evening after reports were made to police, and several police vehicles converged on Oak Lane. Today police
City of Bradford Swimming Club's season may be drawing to a close but there is still plenty for their leading juniors to aim for. Five of their members are competing in the Amateur Swimming Association National Age and Youth Championships at Pond's Forge
Yorkshire under-18 county player Steven Hunt took advantage of the absence of holder Gary Henderson to win the men's singles title at The Grammar School at Leeds and Jackpot Ilkley Lawn Tennis Club Closed Championships. Steven defeated his close friend
Getting Motiv8ed' is the theme as Skipton Leisure Centre embarks on a captiv8ing' schedule of sporting activities for boys and girls aged from eight to 14 years during the summer holidays. Sandylands Sports Centre has launched the Motiv8 programme, which
The girls' rugby team at Lees Primary School have won an award recognising their excellent sporting attitude for the second year in a row. They were taking part in the Keighley Cougars' schools' rugby league festival at Utley Playing Fields. Although
There haven't been many sunny days recently but Burley-in-Wharfedale's Ghyll Royd's school sports day took place on a fine and sunny day. Races included traditional running and relay events, followed by more lighthearted competition in the form of egg-and-spoon
Stuart McCall declared himself "absolutely delighted" with City in his first game back at Valley Parade. A well-worked goal from Paul Evans just before half-time clinched a 1-1 draw with Burnley last night. And McCall said: "I thought we did very well
Jessica Crosby feels her Olympic dream is a little closer now after qualifying for the Horse of the Year Show. The Fulneck School pupil will compete at the NEC Arena in Birmingham on October 6 - the day after she becomes a teenager. Tong-based Jessica
Guiseley School have a Leeds derby in the Daily Mail Schools' Under-15 Rugby Union Cup next season. They will be at Horsforth School in a preliminary- round tie. The winners will be at home to Bradford Grammar in the first round. Woodhouse Grove, winners
The revelation that just four schools in Bradford owe a combined total of more than £2.2 million is cause for concern for a number of reasons. Firstly, no-one can claim ignorance of the problem - it has been aired numerous times in these pages and has
Four secondary schools with combined debts of more than £2.2 million are a step away from losing Bradford Council funding. Bingley Grammar, Queensbury School, Parkside School at Cullingworth and Bradford Cathedral Community College have all racked up
St Mary's School, Menston, had a day out to watch the tennis at Wimbledon thanks to their membership of the British Schools' Tennis Association. Undeterred by a 5.30am start and the closure of part of the M1 due to flooding, the intrepid tennis fans
Bradford Bulls duo Vinny Finigan (winger) and Nathan Armitage (prop forward) were in the England Academy Under-18 rugby league team that defeated France Cadets 40-12 in St Esteve. Bulls' assistant coach Basil Richards was England's assistant coach.
Diminutive last man Luke Sumnall whipped away a leg-side delivery for four to give Skipton a thrilling one-wicket victory over Earby with two balls to spare in the Upper Airedale Junior Cricket League's Under-13 John Hindle Cup final. Earby's innings
Three students from Bradford University are facing jail sentences after being convicted of trying to persuade other young men to go abroad to die as terrorist martyrs. The students were arrested after London schoolboy Mohammed Irfan Raja, 17, ran away
Robert Blenkhorn and Hayley Bridle's plans to get married this year were dashed when they moved into their new home together. It needed so much spending on repairs and restoration, their wedding nest egg was soon emptied. They faced another two years
A media training centre has been launched in Bradford to give hundreds of young homeless people the skills to take up jobs in the media and music industries. Bradford Foyer, which works with up to 30 young people a week developing skills in music, radio
It was the iconic image of the Second World War, the high-flying line of defence that helped defeat the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. But that didn't stop thieves stealing a lovingly-made stone Spitfire from the home of the Baildon craftsman who
Regulars at the Mill Lane pub in Bradford could be forgiven for thinking they'd had one too many when they turned up at their favourite watering hole recently... there was a classic car on the roof! Emma and Adrian Whitworth, who recently took over the
An environmental assessment of a new superheating method which will be used to treat Bradford's rubbish states autoclaving has "at most a minor effect on health". Bradford Council struck a deal last month to revolutionise treatment of the district's
