Bradford & District | Archive | 2001 | April
A Bingley sports club whose fortunes were kicked into touch by last autumn's floods is set to see them re-floated with the official unveiling of its new clubhouse. more...
A personnel agency has struck a 'cracking' deal which will create up to 300 temporary jobs in the city. more...
Landmark has unveiled plans to convert one of Bradford's listed buildings into offices. more...
Business leaders from around the region have banded together to give voluntary campaigns a hand. more...
Bradford firm Ciba has launched a new global e-business service. more...
SIR - I note with much disgust the recent letters to the editor about the availability of arrowroot biscuits in Bradford. more...
A respected family doctor twice stepped past the body of his dead wife after returning home from a night out with another woman. more...
Stand aside Hear'Say, back-off Boyzone, hit the road Robbie - there's a new group of Karaoke kings in town aiming for record success. more...
A decision about the future of a Bradford nightclub, where a couple were shot outside, has been deferred until May. more...
Plans to bring a male striptease act to a Bradford pub were scuppered when an entertainment licence for the premises was refused. more...
A Bradford bus passenger was hit on the back of her head when a brick was hurled through a window. more...
Bosses at a hospice have warned of a potential cash crisis if more money cannot be raised. more...
Police, fire and education chiefs fear lives could be lost as youngsters run amok on derelict Bradford school sites. more...
A major BBC literary programme will be broadcast live from Bradford next month. more...
Bradford campaigners are urging local businesses to help in their battle to bring a 24-hour chemist to the city. more...
Leading Bradford councillors strongly oppose the prospect of the district being led by a powerful people's mayor and influential manager. more...
An abattoir has begun legally slaughtering animals in a foot and mouth-infected area, prompting cries of anger from farmers. more...
Bradford's food festival will be serving up some tasty treats when it returns for another helping later this year. more...
The trust behind plans to build a bandstand in Ilkley could escape a £10,000 tax bill after an MP asked Customs and Excise to change its tune. more...
Walkers and cyclists worried about spreading foot and mouth are being urged not to turn their backs on the countryside this Easter. more...
Protesters opposed to a landfill site face a hefty legal bill in their attempts to secure a judicial review against the decision. more...
Detectives probing the brutal murder of a London restaurant owner are set to return to Bradford where they are focusing their inquiry. more...
In 1861, the American civil war began. more...
The people of Denholme have shown great determination in their battle to defeat plans to turn Buck Park Quarry into a landfill site. Unity in opposition to the application by Integrated Waste Management Ltd has brought the villagers together and strengthened their sense of community. more...
Bradford Bulls coach Brian Noble has admitted injuries could have a big say in the side's bid to retain the Silk Cut Challenge Cup. more...
Bradford City will be releasing more players in the months to come as they as they seek to cut their wage bill still further to cope with life in the First Division next season. more...
The first intake of students for the new Bradford/Leeds University Centre of Cricket Excellence have been sharpening their skills for the new season at Bradford Park Avenue. Their first match is against Derbyshire at Derby on Monday. The squad includes Yorkshire paceman Chris Elstub and England women's international Kathryn Leng. Back, from left,: Laura Spragg, Greg Mann, Simon Noach, Ben Platt, James Lucas, Ross McLean, Ashley Close, Chris Elstub, Tom Durance, Rebecca Vernon. Front: Imran Mirza, Kathryn Leng, Nick Murrills, Eddie Bones, Jonathan Payne, Andy Siddall (Capt), Kevin Sharp (Coach), Jake Capper, Simon Birtwisle, Hiran Marambe. more...
Bradford City booked a final appearance at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff against Leyton Orient on Sunday week after a penalty shoot-out in their Football League Youth Alliance League Cup semi-final at Doncaster. more...
Bradford 5, Ben Rhydding II 3 - This may have been Bradford's final match of the season in Yorkshire Men's League Division One, but the contest was more akin to a cup-tie such were the thrills and spills and end-to-end play. more...
Hooker James Lowes is putting thoughts of Twickenham firmly to the back of his mind as the Bulls approach their busiest spell of the season. more...
Steve Bottomley, the man who came within a few shots of winning the Open Championship, will be offering complete beginners his expertise this year. more...
Prime Minister Tony Blair came to Haworth to stress his belief that Britain's tourist trade was still open for business. more...
SIMPLE pleasures of a cold-looking Edwardian Easter! more...
Manorlands bosses have warned of a potential cash crisis at the Sue Ryder hospice if more money cannot be raised. more...
After a long fight to save Silsden's swimming pool from sinking, the John Stanley Bell Memorial Pool re-opened for lessons on Monday. more...
Wendy Benson more...
A series of new road walks have been mapped so tourists can explore historic Haworth during the foot and mouth outbreak. more...
PEOPLE living in the West Lane area of Keighley fear council contractors are breaking a 90-year-old covenant. more...
Mystery still surrounds the death of a 28-year-old Keighley woman. more...
An angry East Morton resident says the only way she will leave her home is in a coffin. Pensioner Winifred Deacon was responding to the shock news that her house and 17 others on the Carr Bank council estate will be demolished. more...
Four railway carriages from an award-winning museum are to feature in a BBC drama. more...
Around 150 motorcyclists took to the road on Sunday in an annual Easter Bunny Run. more...
Prime Minister Tony Blair was on the campaign trail in Haworth -- not to win the next election, but in his battle to convince the world that Britain's tourist trade was still open for business. more...
A campaigner for multiple sclerosis sufferers' rights made his feelings known to Prime Minister Tony Blair during his visit to Haworth. more...
Sunday is D-Day for the long-awaited operation to build a new £3 million bus station in Keighley. more...
The existing "drive through" bus station and its office building will be completely demolished over the next few months. more...
Magnet's flagship store at Crossflatts is spearheading a nationwide expansion plan which is set to revitalise the way consumers shop for new kitchens and bedrooms. more...
Management consultancy the Phoenix Partnership is enjoying a major expansion. more...
A train became a folk club on Sunday as music returned to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. more...
Owners of a Sutton bakery have sold their business just days after winning their battle to turn the premises into a café. more...
Hundreds of biking enthusiasts from all over Britain converged on Keighley on Sunday for Colin Appleyard's annual Honda Goldwing Day. more...
Day-trippers make up the vast majority of visitors to Haworth, according to a new tourism survey. more...
A roadshow is visiting Keighley and Haworth next week to gather people's ideas on the Bradford bid to be European Capital of Culture in 2008. more...
Haworth's ever popular Forties Weekend will be going ahead this year in spite of reports that it had been cancelled due to the foot and mouth crisis. more...
A Keighley man suffering from cancer claims he is unable to tell his friends about his illness due to problems sending e-mail. more...
The first stone has been laid for a special unit at Eastwood Primary School. more...
A wheel treat was in store for children at Oxenhope Primary School last Friday. more...
Easter went to the heads of pupils and staff at Lees Primary School. Everyone was invited to create their own Easter hat, and prizes were awarded for the best designs. more...
Young footballers at Lees Primary School are over the moon. The budding soccer stars have a new set of strips courtesy of parent Lee Clayton. more...
Ilkley Road mother and toddler group at Riddlesden held its Easter party on Tuesday and had Easter theme fun for the children. more...
Elsie and Finlay Allan's eyes met over bread and cakes. more...
A Keighley couple had the luck of the Irish when they started dating at a St Patrick's Day dance, as they will be celebrating 60 years of marriage this weekend. more...
Flight Lieutenant David Ireland, commanding officer of Keighley Air Training Corps, has received a long service award. more...
Married at St Anne's Church, Keighley, were Daniel Moorhouse and Kathryn Howarth. more...
More than 1,000 people visited a wedding fair, jointly organised by the Craven Herald and the Keighley News, on Sunday. more...
A band formed originally to play German `Oompah' music at a local pub is providing a full `wedding service'. more...
Meet the Keighley girls who waged war on fellow competitors in a dance contest. more...
COUGARS this week named the new management team which will take command following the departure of managing director Nick Crossland and other senior managers. more...
IT WAS a disappointing trip to Whitehaven in many respects -- not just the result! more...
Dougie Lampkin spent a day filming with the BBC in Manchester for a brand new programme motorsport programme. more...
JOHN TAYLOR won the first `Urban Bunny Run' with an impressive performance in Cliffe Castle grounds last week. more...
SCHOOLBOYS James Mann and Liam King have reached the final of the schools FA Cup. more...
KEIGHLEY ALBION still have an outside chance of promotion to Division One of rugby league's National Conference - but face a tough test at Crossflatts on Saturday. more...
ASIAN sports specialist Mazar Iqbal is competing in the English Arm Wrestling Championships. more...
THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Matthew Ferguson went through Keighley Badminton Club's first junior tournament unbeaten. more...
TWO lifters from the Keighley Weight-Lifiting and Powerlifting Club pulled out all the stops in the Yorkshire and North East Championships at Gateshead on Sunday. more...
Craven Cricket League is to press ahead with the season despite a threat from the Foot & Mouth crisis. more...
Craig Murdock more...
Daio Powell's career could have come to an end during the match at Whitehaven. more...
FOOTBALL is set to fall foul of the weather for the first time in the Craven League's league's history. more...
Keighley Juniors go through to the final of the Senior Cup despite losing to Victoria Hotel in the second leg of their semi-final. more...
Striker Howard Wellwood got Shamrocks off to a bright start in their 3-1 victory over Altofts. more...
Long Lee Under-9s became Group D champions after beating neighbours Oakworth C last week. more...
There are a number of times in the life of a racing tipster when one thinks `dash it!' -- or words to that effect. more...
BOWLS get underway on local greens when the Worth Valley Association's season starts on Saturday. more...
Skipotn a 24, Crusaders A 23 - An inept second half performance by Keighley led to a dramatic last kick of the match win by Skipton in this Aire Wharfe Cup first round tie. more...
Moves to investigate ways to ease traffic congestion at one of the district's busiest junctions have been welcomed by town centre bosses in Shipley. more...
TRAGEDY. The world seems awash with it: the countryside is in deep mourning, trains keep crashing, more war threatens in the Balkans. more...
THE fur trappers who opened up the North American wilderness two centuries ago looked upon it as a disease and had a name for it: cabin fever. more...
100 years ago more...
SIR - Firstly I would like to thank the people of Skipton, Wharfedale, and the wider Craven area for their innumerable expressions of continuing friendship, kindness and loyalty over the personally difficult past two years. more...
A CLAPHAM-BASED charity has won a grant of more than £500,000 towards its conservation works in the Dales. more...
MEMBERS of the Yorkshire Dales National Park planning committee decided to defer discussion of a report from auditors calling into question the conduct of its members. more...
NORTH Yorkshire County Council has decided to re-open selected footpaths in the county for Easter, but those in the national park will remain closed for the time being. more...
GARGRAVE Parish Council has pledged £9,000 towards a fundraising appeal by the village's Library and Resource Committee. more...
CHILDREN are being stopped from playing in Aireville Park, Skipton, because they return home covered in mud. more...
SETTLE students are to bridge the generation gap with an award-winning project. more...
MOTORISTS in Cross Hills are being threatened with wheel clamping at a council-owned car park. more...
A NEWLY formed triathlon club in Barnoldswick held its first full event in near ideal conditions last Sunday. more...
THERE'S an old fashioned notion of "doing your bit", putting something back into the place that has nurtured and sustained you. more...
BARNOLDSWICK'S Town Crier is bidding to be crowned the best in the world. more...
IT is nearly five years since young Vicki Cartman tragically lost her life in a car accident. more...
IN THE two league meetings last season, honours finished even, with both games being won by the home team. It was to be expected, therefore, that this would not be an easy game for Skipton and so it proved. more...
A recruitment drive is under way to find more registered childminders in the Spen district. more...
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