Bradford University's new vice-chancellor is keen to add to the institution's growing reputation. Professor Mark Cleary took up his new post after arriving from the University of Plymouth where he was deputy vice-chancellor. Now, two months into his
Guiseley 2 Leeds United 0 The kick-off to tonight's friendly had to be delayed as Leeds United supporters turned out in numbers to see their side following Friday's announcement by the Football League that they will be allowed to begin the season in
Rookie Sam Burgess admits he relished being a Bulls main man. Boss Steve McNamara believes the talented 18-year-old "came of age" as their 12 men battled to overcome Wakefield on Sunday. Burgess - switched from prop to loose forward for the injury-hit
Yorkshire opening batsman Craig White has had an extra year added to his contract which will keep him at the club at least until the end of the 2008 season, while wicketkeeper-batsman Gerard Brophy has signed a new two-year deal. White, who stood down
Laisterdyke proved to be real party-poopers in the Waddilove Trophy Final on Sunday when they upset holders Girlington - who were seeking their third successive triumph at their "lucky" venue of Hepworth & Idle. Despite being the underdogs in terms of
Activists taking part in what is hoped to be the longest protest march in history will be coming to Bradford next week. About 20 people from Christian Aid and the World Development Movement in the UK are travelling from Belfast to Scotland as part of
Chocolate-lovers were yesterday given a cheeky invite to unwrap an original Calendar girl for charity. Three of the Women's Institute members who famously stripped off for a charity calendar helped unveil a box of chocolates bearing their image. They
Ilkley-based NG Bailey made a profit of more than £12 million last year following a surge in orders. The building services provider grew operating profit by 37 per cent during the 12 month period to March 2, while net assets swelled to nearly £83 million
Historic agricultural events across the district are being forced to scale down as thousands of cattle and sheep are quarantined following the foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey. And farmers dependent on autumn breeding sales, which began last Friday
Chocolate-lovers were given a cheeky invite to unwrap an original Calendar girl for charity. Three of the Women's Institute members who stripped off for a charity calendar helped unveil a box of chocolates bearing their image. They hope sales of the
A man was recovering in hospital today after he accidentally set himself on fire when he doused a burning bonfire in petrol. The 54-year-old man was engulfed in flames as he set fire to a pile of rubbish in his back garden in Stoney Lane, Eccleshill,
Suspected cocaine and cannabis were seized by police in another raid in the Ilkley area at the weekend. The raid was the third in the area in less than six months, and was carried out by police at around 8am on Saturday. Officers from Bradford District
A couple who met when they were both teachers in Otley are celebrating 60 years of married life. Edward and Myrle Brear were both teaching PE at the old Secondary Modern school on North Parade when they first met. Mrs Brear had been teaching PE to girls
Manufacturers M Halliday & Sons has relocated to new premises in Keighley to cope with its expansion. The 27-year-old firm, which produces windows, doors and other household furnishings, moved to the Universal Mills complex on Mitchell Street, Keighley
Two men will be sentenced next month after they admitted involvement in a cannabis-growing operation. Michael Moran, 53, of Bracken Bank Avenue, Keighley, and 47-year-old Gordon Fraser, from St Margaret's Avenue, Holme Wood, Bradford, were both charged
Haworth's Central Park has retained the coveted Green Flag which is awarded by the Civic Trust to the best green spaces in the country. The site joins Lister Park, Peel Park and St Ives Estate as the only four parks and open spaces in the Bradford district
Councillors in Silsden are stepping up their campaign to stop dogs fouling the town's streets. The councillors will start by putting up posters on lampposts in a bid to promote the anti-fouling message. Craven councillor Michael Kelly told the meeting
Bradford's rental market is performing below the national average of university towns, a report has claimed. Buy-to-let brokers Landlord Mortgages has published a report in which it claims Bradford's rental yield is running at 4.94 per cent, compared
Bradford Chamber is holding a three-part masterclass on how to promote a business. The classes, being held on three consecutive Thursdays in September, will provide detailed examinations of how best to structure delegates' marketing campaigns. Part
A teenager who took part in robbing a 13-year-old boy of his mobile phone has been made the subject of a two-year supervision order and told to do 100 hours unpaid work for the community. Khurham Mahmood, 18, of Washington Street, Girling-ton, was one
Former pupils from Nab Wood Grammar School, Cottingley, are set to find out if there really is "life after 40". Old boy Darren Starkey is organising a reunion for students who left the school in 1983 and are set to enter their fifth decade. Teachers
In the same month as World Environment Day, pupils at a Bradford school have established a tree nursery in order to help establish a range of native species across the district. Pupils at Thornton Grammar School have joined forces with Brunel Housing
The trial of four people, accused of the murder of father-of-two Andrew Ayres, is due to begin tomorrow. A jury of seven women and five men has been sworn in at Bradford Crown Court and is expected to hear prosecutor Adrian Waterman, QC, outline the
It was lucky seven for a 61-year-old Bradford man whose lifetime of betting on horses finally brought him a near-£70,000 jackpot for a stake of just £2. Barry Holt, of Wibsey, shared a bottle of Champagne yesterday with his wife Evelyn, friends, family
An alcoholic who has made his parents' life a misery has been jailed for almost two years and made the subject of ten-year anti-social behaviour order after a judge branded him a "thorough-going nuisance." Bradford Crown Court heard how 39-year-old Joseph
Tommy Lee is hell-bent on spoiling Stuart McCall's glorious return - even though he may not be able to go home afterwards! Macclesfield's Keighley-born goalkeeper will be in the firing line when City aim to make a flying start to League Two at a vibrant
Thackley's Dennyfield ground at Ainsbury Avenue will be the venue this week for a new tournament the club have organised to run on an annual basis to honour the memory of Arthur Hylton. One of the function rooms at the clubhouse is named after the man
A New Forest pony born and bred in Queensbury represented the British New Forest Pony Breed Society with distinction at the international Mare Show at Ermelo in Holland. Highfox Forever, a ten-year-old mare, bred by Queensbury-based Paul and Diane Hadwen
Free team shirts and £500 worth of paintball vouchers are being offered to all new teams entering into the six-a-side league that kicks off on August 16 at Carlton Bolling School. The league, which is being supported by Aston Villa and England's Gareth
City have been so overwhelmed by the number of season-ticket sales that they have run out. The club have been let down by printers who will not be able to deliver the remaining season- ticket books in time for the start of the campaign. With more postal
Allerton will play Bradford Park Avenue Rangers in the Heaton Cup final at Manningham Mills on Sunday (11am). Allerton beat Manningham Ward 2-0 in the semi-final, while Rangers overcame White Eagles 2-1.
West Riding County FA Challenge Cup winners Campion staged a late comeback to win the West Riding County FA's Charity Shield. They trailed Sunday Cup winners Elland 2-1 with ten minutes to go at county HQ at Woodlesford but goals from substitutes Marcus
Steeton's dream of turning the tables on Pool and lifting the Waddilove Cup for the first time since 1999 came to grief in the final at Knaresborough. Steeton, bottom of the Aire-Wharfe League Division One, were always second favourites against the double-chasing
Wrenthorpe won the Solly Sports Heavy Woollen Cup for the first time when they defeated Wickersley by 68 runs at Hanging Heaton in the final. Opener Eric Austin gained the man of the match award after making an unbeaten 101 which helped the Central Yorkshire
Pudsey Congs batsman Scott Cunningham set a new Black Sheep Champions Trophy individual record score of 210 as his side set up an all JCT 600 Bradford League final against holders Woodlands. Cunningham's magnificent innings enabled Congs to make a massive
A fifth man has been arrested by police investigating the brutal murder of Bradford businessman Teddy Simpson. He was held for questioning by murder squad detectives on Sunday night and remained in custody yesterday. Four men arrested on Friday night
Stuart McCall has admitted City have missed out on a striker target. But he could still have "one or two" new faces in for the Macclesfield game. The Bantams boss had lined up a loan move for a pacy young striker and hoped to clinch the deal today.
A job on the wing in League Two is no place for the faint-hearted. Full backs tend to be more of the no-questions asked variety when dealing with opposing widemen at this level. Try anything too clever and you can guarantee a short, sharp - and probably
SIR - Regarding the story of a man having to move from his penthouse in Ivegate due to violence, drugs, drunkenness etc (T&A, July 30), while I sympathise with him, why do people want to pay extortionate price for living in the city? Especially Ivegate
SIR - My apologies to Peter A Rushforth for getting his name wrong, it certainly wasn't intentional (T&A, August 2). However, there is little I can do about what I look like and while I can't guarantee the T&A will provide a photo more to his liking
SIR - Jason Smith of the UKIP is talking nonsense when he says that: "All other European countries are worried about the destruction of their democracy and traditions as the EU forges ahead with its policies of European harmonisation" (T&A, August 2
SIR - Ann Cryer's decision to join forces with Yorkshire CND in opposing the inclusion of Menwith Hill in the US National Defence scheme (T&A, July 31) is further evidence the Keighley MP now lives in yesterday's world. While conceding a missile monitoring
SIR - Re the Queen's wedding dress (T&A, July 31), I saw this dress at Bradford Town Hall when I was a teenager. I went after work with two friends from the office. I believe there was a small entrance admission which went to charity. I would go again
SIR - Every year thousands of us return from holidays abroad, our pockets jangling with coins that we can't spend in the UK. This summer I'm supporting the Help the Aged foreign currency recycling appeal - You Know it Makes Cents - to encourage people
SIR - In reply to Audrey Dawson (T&A, July 31), I can remember going with my mother to City Hall and queuing up the steps, in the rain, to see the Queen's wedding dress. I think it would be 1948, as I was only a little girl at the time. I cannot remember
SIR - I remember going to the Town Hall, as it was called then, to see the wedding dress of Princess Elizabeth (The Queen). I went with friends from school. I think it would have been 1948/49 as the dress had been on display at other towns and cities
SIR -With reference to the letter about the showing of the Queen's wedding dress (T&A, July 31), I still have my pass to the opening ceremony of the exhibition, in the Town Hall, at 11am, on October 25, 1948. It is getting a bit tattered now - nevertheless
SIR - Regarding the front page headline "Refugee killed boy in hit and run" (T&A, August 1), the death is tragic and the driver is a criminal deserving the prison sentence. But why mention the fact that the driver is a refugee? Would you have headlined
SIR - In response to Paul Collins' letter regarding Duckett Lane (T&A, August 1) and how he thought the area could be turned into "a living museum," what an absolutely fantastic suggestion. A cobbled street, complete with flaky advertisement, soaked
SIR - Refugee killed boy in hit-and-run' trumpeted the front-page headline (T&A, August 1), echoed by newsagents' contents bills throughout the city. As a former journalist with a career spanning half a century, I found myself wondering why we were
Three men from the Bradford area were today named as among four killed in a helicopter crash while travelling to a pheasant shoot in Scotland. Tim Newburn, 39, of Brighouse, Andy Patrick, 37, of Askwith, near Otley, and Gary Priestley, 39, of Hipperholme
A collection at Cross Roads in July raised £543 for children's charity NCH. NCH, formerly National Children's Home, has 500 projects across the UK. The charity, which works with children and young people, provides family centres to help and advise parents
Firefighters tackled a burning car in Damems Road, Keighley, at 6am yesterday. It is believed the Peugeot 406 estate had been stolen before being dumped and set alight. Police are investigating.
A new kind of farm holiday involving tents with mod cons.' This headline is typical of those dotted throughout the weekend supplements, to describe articles about camping. Another - How to make happy campers out of townies' - grabbed my attention last
The images the Telegraph & Argus has been running over recent days of criminality on the streets of Bradford city centre are, of course, shocking. The pictures we have published were taken by residents and showed yobs fighting, exhibiting drunken behaviour
There are well-aired views on the merits and demerits of CCTV, with its advocates claiming it reduces crime while its detractors say living under round-the-clock surveillance is too high a price to pay for a safer society. What can sometimes seem an
Yorkshire Water was recently urging people to use the land it owns and the facilities it provides around its reservoirs. From the number of cars filling almost every available spot at the free car park between Fewston and Swinsty reservoirs
"I've had a brainwave!" The Assistant Editor With Special Responsibility For Reviving Old Ideas beamed with satisfaction from behind his desk as The Scribbler and Thelma Gusset (pronounced "Gussay"), the T&A's fragrant women's editor, stood before him
Did Mahatma Gandhi, the peaceful campaigner for Indian independence from the British Empire, intend to cause a split between Hindus and Muslims? If he had foreseen the million-plus deaths that followed the separation of Pakistan and India in 1947 and
What a bizarre, sad twist to the controversy over the death of Alzheimer's victim Malcolm Pointon! Last weekend the media was full of arguments about the rightness or otherwise of the poor chap's passing away after years of decline being screened in
She's massive!" I let out a squeal when I set eyes on Maisy. The dark-brown, gentle-looking mare had been saddled up, ready for me to mount. "She's standing on a step," laughed Elizabeth Leahy, who was about to give me a riding lesson at Tong Lane End
Among women of "a certain age" and from a certain background, there remains even in our liberated modern times a stigma about venturing into pubs alone. They will have grown up hearing stories from their mothers and grandmothers, handed down in turn
Early morning bathroom fever used to hit our house every day, as the five females of the home all tried to mark out their territory. Mostly this involved laying claim to the hairdryer or carrying round the curly brush to make sure it was always available
The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Abdul Majid, 50, of Regency Court, Girlington; driving without insurance, six months' conditional discharge, licence endorsed. Parawaze Khan, 30, of Brantwood Drive, Heaton; two counts of driving
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Ilkley: Two storey extension and addition of dormer windows to rear, velux windows and alterations to roofline, Rowley Gates, Rowley Drive. Ilkley: Two storey side extension
In 1889, the Savoy Hotel opened in London. In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, from an American Boeing B29 bomber. In 2001, the world's first internet-enabled park bench was launched in Suffolk - four people could log on at the
A paramedic from Bradford helped in the dramatic rescue of terrified children trapped on a school bus in the Minnesota bridge disaster, it emerged today. Liz Dewes, 35, was among emergency crews who were first on the scene of the tragedy in Minneapolis
Organisers of the Bingley Show say it will still go ahead - despite fears it may be hit by the recent foot and mouth outbreak. Members of the Airedale Agricultural Society, who have organised the 127th annual event, have vowed it will go on as planned
The push to install CCTV cameras in taxis intensified when Keighley cabbie Mahmood Ahmed was murdered by a passenger in Oakworth in April last year. Many taxi companies across the district stepped up efforts to facilitate the installation of potentially
A company set up in the district 130 years ago says it is proud to be taking its traditional Yorkshire brand to America. Silver Cross, which has been manufacturing hand-crafted prams since 1877, is expanding its distribution to the US as a surge in interest
A five-year-old girl has amazed her parents and teacher by swimming a mile in little more than an hour. Ella Stuttard managed to swim the 64 lengths of the pool at The Girls' Grammar School, Bradford, in one hour and seven minutes. Her mother, Rachel
