Yorkshire's most famous film writer will return home to Bradford to calm his pre-Oscar nerves. Simon Beaufoy, whose creation The Full Monty has won him an Academy Award nomination, will be among the guests at the fourth annual Bradford Film Festival.
Romantic Martin Powis will be whisking his wife Claire off for a St Valentine's Day treat in America tomorrow - for just £28. He used three mobile phones and the couple's house phone to ring through to British Airways in the hope of picking up one of
From April 6, 1998, the Inland Revenue are proposing fundamental changes to the method that certain professionals use to prepare their accounts. It has been a long-established practice that a business should calculate its profits on an 'earnings basis
Bradford Bulls have been named Team of the Year in the 1997 English Sports Council (Yorkshire) Awards. The Super League champions received their award at a dinner at the Elland Road banqueting suite. Silsden's Dougie Lampkin, 21, who won the world indoor
Fans hoping to see Keighley Cougars' Challenge Cup tie with Wigan Warriors are being reminded that the game is ticket only. Club officials have been told by the police that there will be no pay on the day turnstiles at Cougar Park for Sunday's clash,
Bradford rock band New Model Army are releasing their first new album for five years. Since releasing The Love of Hopeless Causes in 1993, the group have been without a record label and have come close to splitting up. But they announced today that their
Support has come in from around the globe for a tiny radio station's bid to broadcast live action from Valley Parade. Bradford City football fans exiled as far away as Canada, New Zealand and Germany are backing Bantams Radio, the latest venture from
Part of Sunwin House in Shipley is set to be transformed into a three-storey bar and restaurant. Plans have been submitted to change the Kirkgate end of the Yorkshire Co-op building into an entertainment complex. And bosses are also looking at having
Phone pest Kevin McEvilly, who made indecent calls to women over 23 years, has escaped a prison sentence. Magistrates at Skipton told the 42-year-old former soldier they were considering a custodial sentence but decided instead to make a two-year probation
The Bradford Centenary Lifeboat Appeal has smashed through the halfway barrier. The £65,000 appeal was launched last May at Lady Royd Junior and Infants school, Duckworth Lane. And pupils at the school have recently being selling buns and cakes, raising
Bradford Council is expected to give the go-ahead to a £600,000 package of traffic schemes as part of its successful campaign to cut road accidents across the district. A total of 31 projects have been included in the package to be discussed by the Council's
Bradford's overcrowded classrooms received a boost today as the Government revealed a £625,000 cash handout to reduce class sizes in the district. The news was welcomed by education chiefs in Bradford as a step in the right direction. Bradford has been
Bradford is set to lose investment worth more than £100 million a year because too many people have got jobs. Barry Seal, MEP for Yorkshire West, today warned that the city is set to loose it's European aid alongside the rest of West Yorkshire, because
The grieving family of killed Bradford teenager Rachel Barraclough today pleaded to burglars - give us back our memories. Two youths were spotted breaking into the Barraclough's home and they stole jewellery belonging to Rachel. They also took a purse
Part of major Bradford hi-tech firm Chase Advanced Technologies has been bought out by two former bosses who have set up their own company. Phil Jones and Richard Seddon have set up Sharedware in Caroline Street, Saltaire. The village, created by former
Bradford City's Gary Walsh is determined to dent the promotion hopes of Middlesbrough on Satur-day, but is still tipping his former club for a quick return to the Premiership. Walsh left the Riverside Stadium for City earlier this season in a £500,000
Bradford Bulls' wing jinx has struck again just three days before the start of their Challenge Cup campaign at Rochdale. Heavyweight winger Jon Scales is the latest casualty after breaking a thumb in Sunday's friendly with Batley and it almost certainly
Plans will be made to breathe new life into deprived streets in Horton Grange after an independent survey found major problems. More than 220 people in the area took part in research and analysis funded by Bradford Council and Europe. It showed 32 per
Health chiefs have been accused of deliberately neglecting Bingley Hospital. Bradford Councillor Eileen Sinclair (Lab, Bingley Town) last night made an impassioned plea for the future of the hospital to be safeguarded in the wake of bed closures. Seventeen
Family doctors in Bradford have been criticised for causing hold-ups in dealing with patient complaints. A new complaints procedure set up in 1996 mainly involves hospitals and GPs and aims to quickly resolve grievances ranging from rudeness by medical
