Election 'runners and riders' revealed

From the archive, first published Friday 6th Apr 2007.

The far-right British National Party is launching an assault to wrest Keighley seats from the "big guns" at next month's council elections.

The party is fielding candidates in Keighley East and West and Worth Valley wards and at Bingley Rural, which includes Cullingworth and Denholme.

Among those standing is Rose Thompson, who was sacked as Keighley mayoress in March last year after joining the BNP.

She will attempt to win the Keighley East seat being defended by Tory Dorothy Clamp.

In Keighley West, the Labour seat occupied by former Lord Mayor Irene Ellison-Wood - who last year announced she would be retiring at these elections after 17 years as a councillor - will be defended by Sandra Elizabeth Haigh.

The BNP's John Joy will repeat his attempt of last year to win in the Worth Valley, where Tory Peter Hill is defending his seat.

And Simon Cooke and Michael Kelly are striving to retain for the Tories their respective Bingley Rural and Craven posts.

Meanwhile Mark Taylor will attempt to retain for Labour the Keighley Central seat from which Lynne Joyce - who has represented the ward since 2004 - was controversially dumped by the party.

In total, one third of the 90 seats on Bradford Council will be contested at the May 3 polls. At present Labour has 37 councillors, the Tories 33, Liberal Democrats 12, Greens four and BNP two, and there are two Independents.

The full list of candidates locally is:

Bingley Rural - Andrew Simon Cooke (Con), The Nook, Hallowes Park Road, Cullingworth; Rita Cromie (BNP), Station Road, Queensbury; Brian Newham (Green), Foster Park Road, Denholme; James Albert Newton (Lab), Norr Green Terrace, Wilsden; Jason Paul Smith (UK Independence Party), Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury; Alan Sykes (Lib Dem), Gatesway, Harden.

Craven - Ian Bannister (UK Independence Party), Skipton Road, Keighley; J Alan Edwards (Lab), Brindley Road, Silsden; Valerie Harris (Green), Hall Royd, Shipley; Michael John Kelly (Con), Main Street, Addingham; Angela Pearson (Lib Dem), St Paul's Rise, Addingham.

Keighley Central - Zafar Ali (Con), Cark Road, Keighley; Roger Beaumont (Lib Dem), Skipton Road, Keighley; Mark Patrick Taylor (Lab), West Lane, Haworth.

Keighley East - Judith Brooksbank (Lib Dem), Thwaites Brow Road, Keighley; Dorothy Clamp (Con), High Beck Park, Ilkley Road, Riddlesden; Doreen Lee (Lab), Southlands Road, Riddlesden; Rose Anne Thompson (BNP), Delph House, Parkwood Rise, Keighley.

Keighley West - Maralyn Adey (Lib Dem), Wrose Road, Wrose; Peter David Clarke (BNP), Moorhouse Lane, Oxenhope; Sandra Elizabeth Haigh (Lab), West Lane, Haworth; Brian Hudson (Independent), Bronte Drive, Oakworth; William Root (Con), Westburn Avenue, Keighley.

Worth Valley - Keith Edward Dredge (Lab), Ouse Street, Haworth; Peter Henry Hill (Con), Mytholmes Lane, Haworth; John Paul Joy (BNP), Canberra Drive, Cross Roads; Jack Taylor (Lib Dem), Acre Avenue, Bradford.

Parish and town council elections are also being held on May 3.

Nine of the 15 Keighley Town Council wards are set to be contested. In the remainder there are fewer candidates than seats so no election will take place.

The only other local town or parish council where a contest is due to go ahead is Silsden's Inner ward.

But all candidates have until noon on Wednesday to withdraw nominations, which could in some instances negate the need for a contest.

The candidate line-up for contested wards is:

Keighley Town Council

Bogthorn & Exley (one seat) - George Metcalf, Valley View Close, Oakworth; Joyce Christine Newton, Valley View Close, Oakworth. Fell Lane & Westburn (three seats) - John Robert Baxandall, Laycock Lane, Laycock; Brian Hudson, Bronte Drive, Oakworth; Gerald Mortimer Newton, Valley View Close, Oakworth; Margaret Ward, Branshaw Grove, Keighley. Guard House (one seat) - David Stewart Earnshaw, Mannville Road, Keighley; Brian Morris, Whinfield Avenue, Braithwaite. Highfield (two seats) - Shabir Ahmed, Cliffe Street, Keighley; Sadaqat Hussain, Ashleigh Street, Keighley; Tufail Khan, Ashleigh Street, Keighley; Mohammed Nazam, Cliffe Street, Keighley. Knowle Park (one seat) - Joyce Christine Newton, Valley View Close, Oakworth; Martin Toch, Laurel Crescent, Keighley. Long Lee & Parkwood (two seats) - Siobhan Mairead Alderson, Box Tree Grove, Long Lee; Judith Brooksbank, Thwaites Brow Road, Thwaites Brow; Catherine Evans, Lee Court, Thwaites Brow. Oakworth (three seats) - Jacqueline McGinnis, Windsor Road, Oakworth; Graham Mitchell, Dockroyd Lane, Oakworth; Allan Rhodes, Apsley Street, Oakworth; David Samuels, Highcroft Gardens, Thwaites Brow; Sally Ann Walker, Goose Cote Lane, Oakworth. Town (one seat) - Zafar Ali, Cark Road, Keighley; Ian Wilson, Carr Grove, Riddlesden. Woodhouse & Hainworth (two seats) - Ronald Philip Beale, Higher Row, Hainworth Shaw, Keighley; Mary Lister, Leylands House, Parkwood Rise, Keighley; Tony Wright, Hainworth Lane, Keighley.

Silsden Town Council

Inner (10 seats) - Christopher Michael Atkinson, Oak View, Silsden; Patricia Bottomley, Hainsworth Road, Silsden; Anne Brown, Jennings Close, Silsden; Alison Lynette Coward, Jennings Close, Silsden; John Alan Edwards, Brindley Road, Silsden; Michael John Elsmore, Derwent Court, Daleswater Mews, Silsden; Timothy Richard Maddocks, Dene Grove, Silsden; Andrew Denis Phillips, Park Green, Silsden; Keith Savage, Aire View, Silsden; Liz Trainor, Keighley Road, Silsden; Lawrence Walton, Lower Park Green, Silsden.

There will be no contest in the following due to fewer nominations than seats:

Cullingworth - Manu Ahir, Halifax Road, Cullingworth; Charles Leonard Balding, Ellar Carr Road, Cullingworth; Elizabeth Jane Balding, Ellar Carr Road, Cullingworth; Elvin Brame, Turf Lane, Cullingworth; Jane Susan Breen, Sutton Drive, Cullingworth; John Derek Coultous, Hallowes Park Road, Cullingworth; Anne Jordan, Greenside Lane, Cullingworth; Kathryn Margaret Toledano, Hallowes Park Road, Cullingworth.

Denholme - Dennis Bibby, Station Road, Denholme; Maxine Brotherton, Amble Tonia, Denholme; Neil Deighton, Doe Park, Denholme; Nora Haldenby, Lodge Gate, Keighley Road, Denholme; Anne Jay, Westhill Avenue, Cullingworth; Fergus Stephen O'Connor, Carperley Crescent, Denholme; Alison Otulakowski, Main Road, Denholme; Michael John Powell, Kirkcroft, Regency Gardens, Denholme.

Harden - Michael Charles Ernest Andrews, Ferrands Close, Harden; Kay Ruth Kirkham, Gatesway, Harden; Alan Sykes, Gatesway, Harden.

Haworth, Cross Roads & Stanbury - Anne Knott, Heathcote Rise, Haworth; Ian Shackleton, Spring Bank Rise, Keighley; Rosie Broomhead, West Lane, Haworth; Peter Hill, Mytholmes Lane, Haworth; John Richard Ivor Huxley, Bramble Close, Haworth; Philip Jolly, Dancroft, Haworth; Sam Keighley, Fife Street, Haworth; Rosemary Dorothy Key, Back Mill Hey, Haworth; Barry Kenneth Thorne, Valley View Gardens, Cross Roads; Alan Watts, Clarendon Street, Haworth; Beverley-Ann Watts, Ann Street, Haworth.

Keighley Town Council: Bracken Bank & Ingrow - Maureen Hudson, Bronte Drive, Oakworth; Lionel Lockley, Exley Crescent, Keighley; Kathrine Davinia Roberts, Elmwood Drive, Keighley. Lawkholme & Showfield - Javaid Akhtar, Sandywood Street, Keighley; Amjad Zaman, Highfield Lane, Keighley. Laycock & Braithwaite - John Rennie Philip, Shann Crescent, Keighley. Morton & Sandbeds - David Miller, Cliffe Mill Fold, East Morton. Riddlesden & Stockbridge - George Edge, Kinara Close, Stockbridge; Andrea Catherine Elizabeth Walker, Bar Lane, Riddlesden; Mick Westerman, High Spring Road, Thwaites Brow. Spring Gardens & Utley - Laurence William Brocklesby, Eelholme View Street, Beechcliffe; Paul Heseltine, North View Street, Beechcliffe; David Samuels, Highcroft Gardens, Thwaites Brow.

Oxenhope - Derek Allen, Cross Farm Court, Cross Lane, Oxenhope; David Graham Hugh Ashcroft, Jew Lane, Oxenhope; Pauline Glennis Bedford, Mill Court, Oxenhope; Paula Jayne Louise Berry, Shaw Lane, Oxenhope; Neal Jason Cameron, Station Road, Oxenhope; Reg Hindley, Hebden Bridge Road, Oxenhope; Jeremy George Holroyde Mackrell, Mouldgreave House, Oxenhope; Tony Maw, Sykes Lane, Oxenhope.

Silsden (Outer) - Michael John Elsmore, Derwent Court, Daleswater Mews, Silsden; Adrian Paul Naylor, Ghyll Grange Lane, Silsden.

Steeton-with-Eastburn - Gladys Emmott, Skipton Road, Steeton; Dianne Lois Lear, Lyon Road, Eastburn; Adele Victoria Mitchell, Shoebridge Avenue, Eastburn; Pamela Bainbridge Blagden, Clough Avenue, Steeton; Lorraine Margaret Harding, High Street, Steeton; John Hargreaves, High Street, Steeton; Margaret Moorhouse, Summerhill Avenue, Steeton; David Michael Mullen, Thornhill Road, Steeton; Su Thompson, Cote Close, Thornhill Road, Steeton; Hilda Mary Townend, Styveton Way, Steeton; John James Weller, Elmsley Street, Steeton.

Wilsden - Bob Armstrong, Brown Lee Lane, Harecroft; Peter William Allison, Smithy Lane, Wilsden; Tony Caunt, Birchlands Grove, Wilsden; Raymond Graham, Crooke Lane, Wilsden; Peter Michael Ketley, Smithy Lane, Wilsden; Terence Michael McNamara, Low Wood, Wilsden; Leslie Mosley, Crooke Lane, Wilsden; James Albert Newton, Norr Green Terrace, Wilsden; Caroline Tear, Laneside, Wilsden.

In South Craven, voters will go to the polls in two wards - Glusburn and Sutton - to elect candidates to Craven District Council.

Doing battle for the Glusburn seat will be Graham Michael Peter Beck (Independent), of Old Hall Close, Glusburn, and Jenny Wood (Conservative), of Station Grove, Cross Hills.

Contesting Sutton will be David Harrison-Young (Conservative), of Hazel Grove Road, Sutton, and Ken Hart (Independent), of Meadow Lea, Sutton.

Parish council elections were also due to be held in the Sutton and Sutton Mill wards but there are fewer candidates than seats, so no contest will take place. The following - all from the village - will serve: Sutton ward, Ken Hart, Meadow Lea; Mick Herpe, Park Avenue; Stephen David Morrell, The Hawthorns, and Roy Wilkinson, Park Row, Ellers Road, and in the Sutton Mill ward, Betty Hawkins, Victoria Street; Leslie Joy, Crofters Mill; Barbara Ann Smith, Park Drive, and Neil Whitaker, The Acres.