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  • Come forward and plan for 2000

    Residents are urged to come forward and help plan the future of Bradford before a huge public consultation debate at the end of the month. Some people have already written to Bradford Council's Chief Executive Ian Stewart with their views of how the district

  • Death-crash driver 'had drunk 10 pints'

    A motorcyclist who died after losing control of his machine on a bend had drunk the equivalent of at least ten pints of beer, an inquest heard. David Maskell, 39, was catapulted from the bike after it struck a crash barrier at the Flappit crossroads,

  • New twist in school chaos row

    Parents have been warned to contact their children's primary schools to check they are open - despite an announcement that the classroom chaos was expected to end on Monday. Portakabin promised to bring 40 workers from all over the country to complete

  • Why you must fight for your city

    A powerful case for a skills decision-making organisation in Bradford has been made to Yorkshire Forward - the Regional Development Agency. Bradford Congress, the district's key umbrella organisation, has prepared its case after weeks of consultation.

  • All clear

    New signing Bruno Rodriguez is free to play for Bradford City against Tottenham tomorrow after receiving international clearance. The French striker joined City on loan until the end of the season from Paris St Germain on Thursday but the Bantams were

  • Let's give Sir Titus a clean-up

    What a shame that plans to move Sir Titus Salt's statue out of its sadly inauspicious home in a dark corner of Lister Park have fallen down because of escalating costs. There are two obviously far-more-suitable homes for this statue. One is back in the

  • Legalise drugs, but get tough on dealers

    It's about time someone took a hard line against drug dealers who peddle their wares to ever-younger children. Not many people would disagree with that, which is why William Hague is on fairly certain popular ground in proposing automatic life sentences

  • Anger at delay over police probe

    Police chiefs have been accused of dragging their heels over an internal disciplinary investigation involving a Bradford police officer and his police inspector father. PC Richard Perrett, 27, of Odsal Police, Inspector David Perrett, of Halifax Police

  • As you were, Sir!

    An ambitious bid to bring a 14-tonne statue of Sir Titus Salt back to his home in Saltaire has flopped because of the cost. Members of the multi-agency Saltaire Project Team aimed to bring the statue from Lister Park back to the former mill owner's historic

  • Hi there, I think you're my mother

    A mother who gave up her baby for adoption thousands of miles away has been reunited with the daughter she longed to see for 35 years. Laura Ann Schnick made an emotional trip from America to visit her mum, 54-year-old Kay Carrol, of Greengates, Brad-ford

  • Rival gangs in street clash

    A dispute by rival youths which erupted into violence has left residents fearing for their safety. Police were drafted into Manningham, Bradford, yesterday to diffuse tension between the gangs in an area widely regarded as a haunt for drugs dealers. Friction