Stories for 28 November 2005

Bingley,Bradford,Shipley,Spen Valley News

£600 aqueduct revamp

Work is about to begin on the repair of one of the most impressive features along the 127-mile long Leeds-Liverpool canal.  more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Business

Yorkshire 'needs bold decisions'

Although more people are in jobs and skills are improving, Yorkshire is still failing to address some key issues, leaving the future of the region at a crossroads, according to a new survey.  more...

Customers come first for IT team

Two friends who set up a customer-focused business to sell computer equipment to business just two and a half years ago are on target for a £3 million turnover.  more...

Is worst over for Sir Ken?

Morrisons has finally completed the conversion of the old Safeway stores into the new Morrisons format.  more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley News

Letters to the Editor

SIR - Now the CRE leader Trevor Phillips has acknowledged the myths of multiculturalism in this country it is time for honest debate.  more...

Smash boy 'lucky to be alive'

Traffic police today called for an end to the mini-motorbike menace on Bradford's roads after a boy suffered horrendous injuries in a head-on smash.  more...

PC Sharon: Suspect still quizzed

Detectives were today continuing to quiz a teenager in connection with the murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky as two other prime suspects remained on the run.  more...

Boss sacked me - by text!

A hairdresser is pursuing a claim for unfair dismissal after she received a text from her boss saying she had been fired.  more...

New laws 'shut church shop'

A Christian shop selling alcoholic communion wine has had its last orders.  more...

City Hall fights 30,000 homes call

Council chiefs are to fight regional planners' forecast that an extra 30,000 homes will be needed in Bradford over the next two decades.  more...

Repeat scans for 80 mums-to-be

Eighty pregnant women in Bradford are being offered a repeat ultrasound scan after maternity bosses found paperwork relating to their first scans was not up to scratch.  more...

Good news but a long way to go

The drop in the number of Bradford young people classed as being "NEET" (not in employment, education or training) is encouraging. There were 2,425 16 to 19-year-olds in this category in September of last year. Now there are 1,800.   more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Sport

Todd: We've hit a brick wall

Colin Todd fears City have hit a brick wall.  more...

Tough haul back for Vagana

Last week was one of the quickest in Joe Vagana's life.  more...

Avenue postponed game fury

Bradford Park Avenue made a wasted trip across the Pennines on Saturday when the referee called off the game at Ashton United with less than an hour to go to kick-off.  more...

Guiseley 1 Leek Town 1

Bottom-of-the-table Leek Town picked up a valuable point at Nethermoor in the UniBond Premier Division in a game of few chances as stuttering Guiseley failed to make the most of a visit from the basement club.  more...

Maine Road 1 Silsden 3

Silsden's resurgence is gathering pace after an excellent away win against one of their mid-table rivals in North West Counties Division One, despite conceding a goal directly from a corner.  more...

Sutton Tn 6 Eccleshill Utd 2

Sutton's Ian Brown helped himself to a five-goal haul as the Nottingham outfit ripped through Eccleshill United and left them on the receiving end of a second successive heavy defeat.  more...

Thackley 1 Liversedge 0

A solitary goal worthy of winning any game decided the outcome of the weekend's big Bradford derby - and it went in favour of mid-table Thackley rather than Northern Counties East Premier Division leaders Liversedge.  more...

Farsley Celtic 3 Nuneaton Borough 1

A storming first-half display put the Celts in control of this FA Trophy third qualifying-round tie and ultimately booked them a place in today's draw for the first round proper.   more...

West Bowling 28 York Acorn 6

A spectacular 80-metre interception try from BARLA Great Britain wingman Lee Innes ensured a West Bowling   more...

Bradford Salem 16 Roundhegians 6

Bradford Salem may be the first side into the quarter-finals of this season's Yorks-hire Shield.  more...

Pertemps Bees 22 Otley 29

Otley were in no mood to suffer defeat by Pertemps Bees in successive weeks and made sure they progressed past round six of the Powergen National Trophy.   more...

Cleckheaton 20 Hull Ionians 26

After the previous week's encouraging performance against Nuneaton, Cleckheaton looked to move up the National League Three North table against strugglers Hull Ionians. The hosts started well, a seventh-minute cross-kick by Chris Quinn just inside the visitors' 22 finding John Bentley, who went in for a try, Quinn converting. Both sides then lost plenty of ball until, in the 18th minute, Ionians pulled three points back with a penalty from Nick Cooper 15 metres into the home half. The visitors then upped the pace, full back Chris Harding scoring a try under the posts in the 22nd minute after a forward drive, Cooper converting. Quinn dropped a goal on the half-hour and three minutes later he converted Tom Gwilliam's try. Ionians were let off the hook when a pass to Neil Murray was judged forward, but in first-half injury time Garry Acton scored a try for Hull, Cooper's conversion giving them a 20-17 advantage. He added a penalty in the 47th minute, Quinn missing efforts in the 58th and 70th minutes. Cooper landed a penalty in the 72nd minute but Ionians survived thanks to wrong options and spurned shots at goal from Cleckheaton inside the last ten minutes. Quinn's injury-time penalty secured a bonus point.   more...

Wharfedale 21 Waterloo 21

Deservedly leading 18-8 at the interval, the Greens looked set to put a big dent in Waterloo's promotion aspirations.   more...

Bradford and Bingley 57 Darlington 22 Bradford and Bingley 57 Darlington 22 Bradford and Bingley 57

With skipper Tom Rhodes not available, Bradford & Bingley were forced into a last-minute reshuffle in this battle of fifth versus fourth, Phil Greaves being drafted in to fill the No 10 shirt.   more...

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First and middle schools to go

All first and middle schools in Spen are set to go in a shake-up to bring the area in to line with most other education authorities.  more...