Fat lads with a passion for football can get fit with six-a-side games at Marley.
Research has proved that kick arounds cut heart and lung disease and reduces weight in the players.

A competition to design a Christmas e-card for Airedale hospital that was sent to all 2500 staff was won by eight-year-old Connor Slater.
Connor’s design of Father Christmas flying over the rooftops was selected by Brendan Brown, chief executive of Airedale Hospital.

Veteran DJ Alan Bingley is still on air at 91 years old.
Young-at-heart Alan has been doing his dream job of radio presenting after almost two decades at the mike.

Police have release dramatic footage showing how a drugged up driver in an ambulance came within inches of smashing into a passenger train.
Shane Hughes, 41, from Halifax, led officers on a chase for 37 miles before abandoning the decommissioned ambulance he was driving on the railway tracks at Kildwick, on 13 July.

A train guard, who befriended a young girl before sexually assaulting her on two occasions, has been jailed. 

Paedophile Charles Hall, of Fallwood Street, Haworth, appeared before Bradford Crown Court after pleading guilty to five charges. He was handed a 28 month prison sentence, a seven year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and placed on the Sexual Offenders Register for seven years.  

A search operation is underway after a rambler has become lost on Haworth Moor.
Stephen Wright, 70, phoned his wife yesterday after he became disoriented whilst walking from Stanbury.

A Keighley male smashed a police vehicle window and attacked two officers as he resisted arrest on Monday.
He was arrested for a number of offences including assaulting both police officers, possession of an offensive weapon, criminal damage to a police vehicle and resisting arrest.

An 83 year old motorist from Keighley was arrested after a fatal crash with a motorcyclist over the weekend.
Police are appealing for information following two fatal collisions on the same road on Saturday 20 October.

Young patients and staff at Airedale Hospital have been celebrating National Play in Hospital Week by meeting some everyday superheroes.
The week of events, which ran from Monday 8th–12th October, was organised by the National Association of Health Play Specialists (NAHPS) and supported by Starlight Children’s Foundation, a national charity which provides play and distraction services in hospitals and hospices across the UK.

A former scout leader jailed for life for the sexual abuse of 12 boys has been charged with sex offences against six more boys.

Textiles businessman Philip Longbottom, 69, is currently caged in Wakefield Prison - dubbed ‘Monster Mansion’ - after he pleaded guilty to more than 40 offences, stretching from 1968 to 1996, with a further offence in 2010.

Essential resurfacing work is planned for the A6035 - East Parade and Bradford Road in Keighley between Coney Lane and Dalton Lane.

The work will be split into two sections. Work between Cavendish Street and Dalton Lane will take place on Friday evenings on 5, 12 and 19 October between 7pm and 7am.

A Team GB hammer thrower has revealed how she stood up for herself after being attacked by a body-shaming bully at Leeds Train Station.

Jessica Mayho, 24, was shoved and verbally abused for her physique by the man on Friday afternoon.

A 13 year old car thief who drove at 100mph in a stolen VW Golf from Keighley to Bingley has appeared in court.
The tearaway teen, who cannot be identified because of his age, was arrested in the early hours of Monday following a police pursuit.

A man has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a reveller at the Bijou nightclub.
James Etherington, 24, sustained critical injuries outside the bar, in Chapel Lane, Bingley, on November 25.

Police are appealing for witnesses following a serious road traffic collision in Steeton.

Officers were called at 8.22am, yesterday,  to Station Road to reports of a collision involving a blue Suzuki Vitara car and a pedestrian.