Bradford & District | Archive | 2000 | February
Agreement on a £45 million deal that would see Menston's High Royds Hospital close and be replaced with new purpose-built mental health units is on the verge of being reached, it has been revealed. more...
They made an unlikely pair of Mrs Mopps. But despite being short in stature and a little younger than most other cleaners, Emily Raw and Katie Holmes-Atkin certainly gave their all to the task in hand. more...
There is a tendency, among those of a liberal persuasion, to dismiss people who worry about Britain offering hospitality to all and sundry as a bunch of racists. more...
When the birds that nest on our moors and fells colour up for the spring, none is more attractive than the golden plover - our Pennine Whistler. more...
Developers have been given the green light to target the Keighley area after an independent report ruled that most of the sewage system would not be overloaded if new homes were built. more...
Visiting a Chinese restaurant is always a dilemma for me. You see, I love Chinese food, but I'm a bit boring and always stick to the favourites which I know will send me home totally satisfied if a little bit plumper and unchallenged. more...
A Bradford religious teacher who committed sex offences against two young children is facing deportation after being jailed for 27 months. more...
Tenants on Britain's first "love thy neighbour" estate say they are living in terror after being bombarded with hate mail and death threats. more...
The mother of an asthmatic teenager ambushed and beaten by a gang of youths says the attack could have killed her son. more...
Police are hunting two men who vandalised more than 20 cars with a metal pole causing thousands of pounds damage. more...
A former airman, who survived three crash landings during World War II before going on to teach maths to generations of pupils, has died aged 91. more...
Three letters by members of the Bronte family and a rare item of jewellery belonging to sisters Emily and Charlotte have fetched more than £10,000 at auction. more...
Plans to spend £20,000 of council tax payers' money on new play equipment for Glusburn Park have come under fire. more...
The owners of a waterside warehouse are seeking ideas for its re-development. more...
West Yorkshire Police Authority has finally agreed a budget for the coming year - staving off the threat of Home Office intervention. more...
An anonymous tip-off led a factory inspector to a firm nine months before a Cleckheaton man suffered a fatal fall from a forklift truck. more...
The parents of nine-year-old Dev Mehta - who was born with a deformed hand - have been boosted in their bid to raise £80,000 for a life-changing operation. more...
She came from Heckmondwike and she stole Jim Davidson's heart. more...
As anyone who walks around the Yorkshire countryside knows, there are lots of pleasant hamlets of centuries-old homes surrounded by oceans of green fields. more...
Bradford Bulls will look to extend a 31-year-old Challenge Cup record against Wakefield Trinity when they visit Belle Vue tomorrow. more...
Rugby League will become the first sport to launch an amateur club-based initiative to address racial equality. more...
Michael Withers won't forget his first trip to Belle Vue in a hurry. more...
The prospects of the second-ever all-Alliance county Sunday Cup final could take another step towards reality this weekend. more...
The small town of Silsden is home to a more...
The England-Scotland schoolboy international, postponed last week, has been rearranged at Valley Parade for Friday, March 31. more...
Cononley villagers have vowed to fight plans for a mobile phone mast at a local farm. more...
A special gala night is to be held in memory of a mother-of-three who was killed after her car was involved in a head-on smash with a fire engine. more...
fromA Keighley couple are devastated that "mindless" thieves have stolen from a children's cancer charity. more...
The funeral of Andrew Carter, the young Cross Roads man thought to be the latest victim of CJD, took place on Wednesday at St Michael's Church, Haworth. more...
The Buzz is that Woody will help bring in cash for Airedale Hospital's special care baby unit. more...
A huge open-air rally is to be held at Cougar Park this summer to celebrate the millennium. more...
A grieving dad has paid tribute to his wife, who died within days of her father's death. more...
Leading local councillor Andy Mudd has resigned as boss of Keighley's £18.7 million Single Regeneration Budget. more...
Keighley could get a Town Council with its own Lord Mayor. more...
Keighley and Silsden firefighters are being trained to use electric shock equipment to treat heart attack victims. more...
Councillor Martin Leathley has certainly touched a nerve with his suggestion that Keighley should have a town council. His letter to the Keighley News has already brought a wide mixture of responses - ranging from the predictable cynicism, those suspicious of the motives behind his suggestion, to outright support. more...
Keighley is set to have its first cyber-cafe, when new computer training organisation Cyber-Dine opens its doors to the public in the next few days. more...
Residents in a quiet cul-de-sac have vowed to fight council plans to turn their street into a car park. more...
A Keighley special police officer has returned from a stint working with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) and now hopes to be able to implement some of their practises in Keighley. more...
JUSTICE costs - We all know that court, solicitors' and barristers' fees can be enormous and that to take someone to court is likely to be expensive. more...
Someone in the office looked at last week's issue and remarked `Whatever happened to the Good News from the News ` slogan. A good point indeed. more...
Staff from KONE Escalators, formerly O & K, took staff to London to see result of almost 10 years of work on the new £3 billion Jubilee Line Extension on the London Underground. more...
Environment Secretary John Pres-cott is being asked to step in to resolve the Keighley signs fiasco. It follows our revelation last week that easy-to-understand signs planned for the town centre had been given the red light by the government. more...
By Derek Walmsley, St Mark's, Utley - DO you like living in Keighley? more...
TWO trains will collide on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway next month. more...
Residents of Cartmel Road in Keighley have finally prompted Bradford council to remove four cars that had been abandoned and left to rot outside their houses. more...
Keighley children are being urged to jump 50 years into the future. more...
A Cross Hills shopkeeper's tools have become museum pieces. more...
England international Sarah Sankey is to be chief guest at the Craven Badminton League's annual dinner later this year. more...
COUGARS are poised to sign at least two new players in a bid to give their title challenge a boost. more...
St Annes took another step towards regaining the Premier Division thanks to their 10 victory over Royal. more...
WELCOME to my new column, every week I'll be keeping fans up to date with what's happening behind the scenes at Cougar Park. more...
Long Lee Under-13's B went down 6-4 at home to Oakworth in a 10 goal derby thriller. They recovered from 5-1 down at the break, but could not make the vital final breakthrough. Long Lee's goals came from Matthew Langford (2), James Pearson and Stefan Ridisi. Steven Latz pipped Joe Flaherty to be man of the match. more...
Crusaders 3rds 8 Pontefract 3rds 46 - Crusaders 3rds were in for a beating right from the start when they lost four players late on Friday night through no fault of their own. With some ringing round on Saturday morning they managed to take the field with 13 players - we need 15 for you Rugby Leaguers. more...
Crusaders 17, Pontefract 46 - IN a totally inexplicable and unpredictable second half debacle Crusaders tamely surrendered what should have been a match winning half-time lead of 10 points to a resurgent Pontefract side. more...
Cats began their quest for a place in the elite National Premier Division on Sunday with a 13-6 victory over Hull Dockers. more...
Doncaster Dragons 19, Cougars 12 - EX-COUGAR players seem to be waiting at every turn to ambush their former team mates. more...
Edna Smith scored a superb hat-trick as Silsden Ladies dumped Thorpe Arch out of the County Cup -- and exact revenge after they were beaten in the Knockout Cup earlier in the month. more...
Keighley and Craven Athletics Club will have their new web site up an runing on Monday. more...
Cavendish Arms 3 Silsden Athletic 1 - A scrappy first half ended without either side being able to break the deadlock, and the second period looked to be following much the same pattern. more...
SARAH KENNEDY continued her superb performance among the country's cycling elite when she took third place in the British Schools Cyclo-Cross championships held at Cleckheaton last weekend. more...
Keighley Albion 17, Waterhead 24 - On a fine but cold afternoon at Crossflatts Albion entertained 3rd in the table Waterhead. They got off to the best possible start when on the last tackle in the first set of six Albion's Rob Haughey charged down the kick and his chase paid off as he tapped the loose ball over the line to open Albions account. The goal attempt went wide but Albion led by 4 points to nil in the first minute. more...
THE weather relented a little on Saturday, allowing 13 games to take place, but almost the same number were called off causing more havoc in the fixture backlog. more...
Silsden Park Rangers 0 Dudley Hill Eagles 22 - Silsden Park Rangers turned in a performance they will quickly want to forget on Saturday, as they struggled to give fellow relegation strugglers Dudley Hill a run for their money. It was very much a case of two steps forward, one step back, following their outstanding efforts against Hollinwood the previous week. To be fair, Rangers were seriously hampered by the pre-match withdrawals due to injury and work commitments of Jason Lister, Eddie Billing and Tobi Hooper, and an early knock to inspirational back-rower Sean Cooper, but this was nevertheless a lack-lustre show more...
Phoenix held on to top spot with a convincing 3-0 win over Tyersal. more...
AN Aireborough woman will be rowing her way towards raising hundreds of pounds in memory of her husband this weekend. more...
MENSTON singer Daniel Wellings sang his way to victory at the more...
FIREFIGHTERS have issued a stark warning after a potentially serious fire broke out in Yeadon - while they were attending a malicious call miles away in Menston. more...
PLANS for a new Wharfedale hospital will forge ahead of a major £135 million transformation of Leeds health services. more...
A HORSFORTH councillor is calling for more nurseries to be attached to schools in the township. more...
TWO major landmarks in Guiseley are to be improved in a bid to make the town look more attractive to residents and visitors. more...
WHAT should have been a fun-filled weekend get-together for old friends ended in tragedy when two women drowned in the North Sea. more...
EVERYTHING to do with the `Welcome to Leeds' signs has been a disaster from the minute they first started going up almost a year ago. more...
YOU know Spring is on its way when moles start making their presence felt. more...
SOMETIMES, I can't help but feel sorry for Teacher Tess. more...
HIGH Royds Psychiatric Hospital at Menston is about to be put up for sale, it was revealed yesterday. more...
TALENTED young artist Katy Renton has designed the winning poster for this year's extra special Otley Carnival. more...
WORKING women and a shortage of volunteers could spell the end of a Bramhope children's charity. more...
A FORMER Horsforth churchgoer is still keeping up to date with services in his home town - even though he lives thousands of miles away in Australia. more...
AIREBOROUGH people are to reclaim their villages - almost a year after the arrival of controversial `Welcome to Leeds' signs at the entrances of villages all over the region. more...
A GUISELEY man was forced to perform a labour of love and help his wife give birth when the midwife was delayed. more...
FORMER pupils of Otley's Prince Henry's Grammar School are planning a millennium reunion. more...
AN operatic society may ban the phrase 'break a leg' after one of its members took the meaning rather too literally. more...
OTLEY'S struggling Victorian Fayre looks set to run for another year - but probably in a scaled down form. more...
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ALL the frustrations of running a football club that is going nowhere came to the surface after Guiseley's 4-2 home defeat by lowly Bamber Bridge on Saturday. The looks said it all on the faces of chairman Phil Rogerson and manager Bobby Davison. more...
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IT'S Challenge Cup time again this week and we are off to Wakefield Trinity Wildcats for the second year in succession. more...
FOR the third year in a row the Prince Henry's Gramar School's Under-15's rugby union side has made it through to the final of the Yorkshire Cup. more...
WEST Park, again suffering from injuries and unavailabilities, couldn't gain that elusive first league victory against fellow strugglers Lymm. more...
YARNBURY travelled to Hessle in this second round Yorkshire Shield match expecting a tough game from a side several leagues below. more...
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MOS completed a league and cup double in the On-The-Ball Skylark Leisure Five-a-Sides at Yeadon on Sunday. more...
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Dougie Lampkin's world indoor trials championship hopes wobbled in Bremen on Friday night where the fifth round in the series saw the triple indoor world champion fail to make the grand final. This was much to the dismay of the five thousand Germans who flooded into the seaport city and the Bremen Sporthalle for the night of action, and for Lampkin, disappointment. Dougie joined the ranks of the spectators after failing the last of six sections in the qualifying runs, the spectators watched with disbelief as the world number one exited from the contest taking only 11 championship points, his lead over winner Marc Colomer dropping to one. more...
STAFF at Skipton Building Society had a double celebration this week after area manager David Chisnall notched up 25 years service and the High Street branch won an award for its performance in the last quarter of 1999. more...
COUNCIL tax increases in Craven for the year 2000-01 are the lowest in the county. more...
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A BITTER February day in Littondale: snow on the tops, a North wind driving sleet into the windscreen, the river - which in summer sometimes disappears underground - a raging torrent, writes John Sheard. more...
A NEW book has been launched encouraging readers to take a closer look at Settle and at the same time raise funds for the town's Victoria Hall Restoration Fund. more...
RETIRED Malhamdale farmer Rob Foster has been selected to represent the nation's farmers at a special ceremony to commemorate the effort made on the Home Front during the Second World War. more...
SETTLE local councillors have reacted angrily to suggestions that Craven District Council might sell Settle Town Hall to avoid repair costs. more...
CUSTOMS and Excise officers called in by an Earby firm found cocaine worth £8 million hidden in a consignment of chemicals from Colombia. more...
AFTER 10 years getting to the top of his chosen profession, Carleton-in-Craven man, Nick Woodhead, is teaching the rich and famous a thing or two about snow. more...
PLANS to spend £20,000 of council tax payers' money on new play equipment for Glusburn Park have come under fire. more...
ONE of Skipton's flagship companies is closing its doors after over 40 years' trading. more...
MEMBERS of Craven University of the Third Age are taking the future of Skipton's 27 footpaths into their own hands and renovating them for the good of the community. more...
A SILSDEN firm is considering taking its planning wrangle to the ombudsman. more...
A FORMER Eastby girl is proving she's a true ace after graduating as a search and rescue Sea King helicopter pilot with the RAF. more...
LITTLE Scott Eley will be six this Easter, and in those few short years he has known more pain and suffering than most of us will experience in a lifetime. more...
CRAVEN-based special constable Peter Nixon has proved he is one of the best. more...
TWO local men stood guard in the rain on Monday in a bid to protect trees in Salterforth which they feared could fall victim to the chainsaw. more...
CONONLEY woman Katherine Ireland has given someone else the gift of life. more...
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Kendal 8 Wharfedale 12 more...
A slight improvement in the weather on Saturday allowed 13 league and a couple of league cup games to be played. more...
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