Bradford Council is aiming to get more people on their bikes by trying to find cheap insurance. Officers have been told to investigate the possibility of a cut-price scheme as part of the Council's drive for pedal power. The local Agenda 21 committee
Residents on Bradford's Thorpe Edge estate could soon be rolling their sleeves up and building their own homes. Community leaders are looking at the possibility of starting a self-build programme, as development work in the area continues. And they are
There could be a kind of hush all over the world tonight - thanks to National Stop Snoring Week which starts today. Bradford's bedtime heavy breathers are being urged to seek help for a problem which can cause misery for many on both sides of the bed.
The body of a man found on a boat on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal may have lain undiscovered for up to six weeks. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus helped to remove the badly decomposed remains from the boat moored beside a towpath near Morton Lane
Yorkshire Water today announced details of a £10 million investment programme designed to improve drinking water quality and reduce leakage in Bradford. But the news was immediately greeted with disappointment by water watchdogs who said the plans were
ACAS, the Advisory, Conciliation & Arbitration Service has recently published its latest Annual Report. In this, the service reports nearly 107,000 claims on individual rights issues received by ACAS in 1997. Although this was 6.5 per cent up on 1996
Bradford's Simon Bedford lost the last five frames to lose 10-6 to snooker legend Steve Davis in the first round of the Embassy World Snooker Championship at the Crucible, today. The 22-year-old trailed the six-times world champion 5-4 overnight and raised
Bradford City 1, QPR 1: Match comment, by Richard Sutcliffe. 'A game of two halves' has to be the most hackneyed clich in football but it is a phrase which best sums up this absorbing clash. The contrast between the opening 45 minutes when Bradford City
Bradford City defender Andy O'Brien hopes yesterday's battling performance against Queens Park Rangers will help make up for the side's poor showing at Bury. The Bantams earned a hard-fought point in an absorbing 1-1 draw after Rob Steiner's 18th minute
The more I see of the fatal consequences of the modern nuclear family, the more relieved I am to have escaped its child-centred tyranny. Fate may have in store an old age of ill-health and permanent solitude, but at least I won't have my heart eaten away
As the Government carries out a major inquiry into BSE, another salmonella-in-eggs "scare" has hit the headlines. But how real a threat was BSE or mad cow disease? Or was it the latest in a line of contrived scare stories? Jim Greenhalf talks to a Bradford
Postman Steven Briscoe finished his usual post round of 12 miles and then began a sponsored walk - 127 miles along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. The 25-year-old from Hillcrest Road, Thornton, was joined by his three-year-old Cocker Spaniel Sally and best
Transport chiefs could examine a passport-style identification scheme to get a better deal for West Yorkshire travellers at Steeton railway station. The move is the latest twist in a long-running War of the Roses at the station being overrun by travellers
Dixons City Technology College in Bradford has received a major boost to its plans to establish an ambitious state-of-the-art computer centre. The college, which opened in 1990, is aiming to create £200,000 facilities which would put Bradford at the forefront
One Bradford school expelled 15 pupils in just a year and had one of the highest exclusion rates in the country, according to a report out today. The New Policy Institute revealed the unnamed Bradford secondary school ranked 33rd out of about 5,000 nationally
Children and parent demonstrated outside a village school today as part of a battle to save it from closure. Dozens of protesters gathered at Baildon's Tong Park First School in response to Bradford Council's proposals to shut it as part of the move to
Police today appealed to company bosses to help them identify the body of a man found on Ilkley Moor. Detectives believe the dead man could have been due to return to work today after an extended Easter holiday. The body was found at about 8pm on Wednesday
The director of a Bradford textile firm has written to European Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan to protest about extra duties which will bump up the price of imported unbleached cloth. Peter McIlvenny, a director at Whaleys Ltd, says the European Union's
Cricket: A defiant eighth wicket stand between Graham Rose and Adrian Pierson frustrated Yorkshire at Headingley today and helped Somerset avoid the follow on. The pair had added 88 together before Rose was finally out for 62 at which stage Somerset were
Bulls goalkicking ace Steve McNamara has survived an injury scare and is on course to face his hometown club Hull next weekend. McNamara was forced to retire early in the second-half of Friday night's 11-4 Super League win at Sheffield Eagles and coach
Paul Jewell writes: It was a tough game for us. You are only as good as your last and we were not very good in our 2-0 defeat at Bury. It's been a long week since then. The manner of the defeat disappointed me at Bury, but we showed a bit of character
The Telegraph & Argus coupon scheme helped boost Bradford City's crowd for their first Sunday match of the season against QPR yesterday. Coupons in Saturday's T&A and Yorkshire Sports gave adult City fans the chance to watch the match from the
Town halls staff and councillors will have to be more accountable to the public under a new Government crackdown on corruption. City Hall reporter Olwen Vasey looks at how it will affect Bradford. It's a rare day when all three political leaders on Bradford
