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  • Dream home - in the back garden!

    An Otley couple have found an unusual plot to build their dream house - their back garden. Ian and Dorothy Blackie, who have lived in Otley for 30 years, loved the location so much they decided to use the acre of land at the back of their house in East

  • Sky-dive victim Penny urges extra home help

    A woman left paralysed after her parachute failed to open properly is calling for greater flexibility in the rules about how disabled people are manually lifted. Penny Roberts is backing a campaign by Independent Living, based in Oakworth Road, Keighley

  • 'Let us show we care for elderly'

    Community groups in Otley believe a new day centre could be the solution to the town's shortfall in help for the elderly. The centre, part of Otley Action for Older People's plan to improve day care, will be proposed at a meeting organised by Otley's

  • Transfer money to play with the stars

    Football fans are being offered the chance to play against a team of soccer legends featuring the likes of Bradford City coach Terry Yorath and his fellow stars Peter Lorimer and Eddie Gray. Proceeds from next month's match between a celebrity side managed

  • 'Just like living in the Dickensian era'

    An 83-year-old cancer sufferer has condemned historic houses in Saltaire as unfit to live in. Pensioner Ivy Hayton was hoping to rent one of the former almshouses in Victoria Road, Saltaire, after she found travelling to shops from her Baildon bungalow

  • 'It's a disgrace'

    Four elderly widows plan to take Bradford Council to court rather than pay hundreds of pounds for their neighbours' new windows. Home owners Joyce Marshall, 78, Marjorie Cochrane, 76, Maud Chattaway, 73, and Betty Tarrent, 74, of Myrtle Court, Bingley

  • The Judith Donovan, CBE column

    I've said it before and I'll say it again. I fully understand why 95 per cent of business owners say they wouldn't start a business in today's small business-hostile, over-regulated madness. I have to come back to it because as well as implementing the

  • Firms are offered the chance to grow

    Firms across Bradford are being helped to expand thanks a £100,000 growth scheme set up by the district's Business Link. A wide range of companies have been assisted so far using a financial package from the European Union and Business Link Bradford &

  • Support role for firm at station

    Bradford firm Wedge has completed a major order for galvanised steel parts which are being used in a temporary platform as Leeds City Station is refurbished. The deal, worth thousands of pounds, has involved the Canal Road company in galvanising more

  • Underwater device makes waves

    Two new business partners are on the verge of a major breakthrough which will revolutionise the way steel is welded underwater around the world. And when it comes off it will be thanks to The Business - the Telegraph & Argus pink weekly newspaper

  • Dazzling Bulls slay the Saints

    Bradford Bulls 40, St Helens 4; Nigel Askham reports from Odsal. The Bulls won't have any problems grabbing the headlines today as they battered down the door to Old Trafford and left Saints gasping for breath. Chairman Chris Caisley had claimed Matthew

  • Skipper McCall salutes battlers

    Skipper Stuart McCall has hailed the fighting spirit which helped Bradford City end their seven-week wait for a Premiership victory with a one-goal triumph at Derby. The Bantams moved out of the bottom three thanks to a 67th minute own goal from Horacio

  • Toni joins the train set!

    Toni Armitage is determined to put old buffers into the sidings as she pursues her unusual hobby. She prefers building bogies to baking cakes and using an electric drill rather than the food mixer at her Keighley home. For Toni, 37, a health and safety

  • Coast-to-coast cyclists find it tough going

    Cyclists Stuart Barrick and Rob Fowler were blown off their bikes as they attempted a charity bike ride. The drama happened as the pair were taking part in a 140-mile coast-to-coast ride from Whitehaven to Sunderland. "The idea of starting from Whitehaven

  • Jabs to combat Millennium bugs

    Key health and council workers in Calderdale and Kirklees are to be immunised against flu so they are fit to cope with Millennium celebrations. Around 10,000 social workers, hospital and nursing home staff will have flu jabs during the next month to avoid

  • 'Terror of kidnap girl'

    A former Keighley bus driver tried to murder a 13-year-old schoolgirl after picking her up from a stop in East Morton. The terrified girl was allegedly indecently assaulted, threatened with a screw driver, strangled and bitten before blacking out. She

  • Sharewatch: John Craven

    The half year results for Wm Morrison Supermarkets showed pre-tax profits up 11.6 per cent on turnover up 17.9 per cent, with a 20 per cent increase in the interim dividend. Discounting the effects of new stores, the important "like-for-like" sales figure

  • Offering a vision for the future

    People think the world-wide web is available to everybody. But around the world there are millions of people with disabilities who cannot use the Internet without a lot of help. That is where Bradford firm Pennine Data comes in. The company prides itself

  • Revamp heralds new urban village

    The regeneration of a run-down area of Bradford, which will bring with it hundreds of jobs, is being taken a step nearer by the refurbishment of former textile warehouses. The Goitside area of the city, which stretches from Sunwin House in the city centre

  • Landscape firm is growing places

    Bradford firm Urban Planters is becoming even more of a national operator with the opening of its 11th branch. The firm, which started in 1965, began franchising in 1996 and now has a turnover of more than £1 million. The company is the fastest-growing

  • Small car that does a big job is a smart move

    A Bradford office furniture store manager has come up with an ingenious way to beat two problems at once. Kelly Wheatley, manageress of UBS Office Furniture in Sunbridge Road, has acquired a Smart car - designed by Swatch and made by Mercedes - which

  • Pollard not panicking after third setback

    Rugby Union: Baildon 11, Leeds Corinthians 21. Baildon may have lost three successive matches for the first time since September, 1996, but there is no sign of panic at Jenny Lane. New coach Kenny Pollard said after watching his side's second league defeat

  • City bid to give Bassett the chop

    Paul Jewell today welcomed Bradford City's home tie against Barnsley in the Worthington Cup third round next month. The draw, made live on Sky Television yesterday afternoon, paired City with the First Divi-sion outfit in a match which is set to be played

  • Great effort from City

    Derby County 0, Bradford City 1; Richard Sutcliffe reports from Pride Park. The drained looks on the faces of Bradford City's players at the end of this nail-biting Premiership clash told its own story. The Bantams had finally chalked up their second

  • It's grand for Bulls

    Dynamic centre Scott Naylor helped the Bradford Bulls earn their rightful place in the Grand Final and then set his sights on Old Trafford glory. Naylor took the Sky Sports man of the match award as the Bulls stormed to a 40-4 semi-final victory over

  • No logic in Council's argument

    Bradford Council's decision to stick by its guns and insist that four home-owning Bingley pensioners contribute hundreds of pounds each towards the cost of their tenant neighbours' new windows is outrageous. It has completely ignored the fact that these

  • Rise in e-mail sparks 'dump the junk' alert

    A leading financial consultant is warning firms to be on their guard against the rapid rise in junk e-mail. Andrew Bartles said firms faced extra costs if they did not take action to rid themselves of the hundreds of junk e-mails they could receive each

  • Deal is music to Jonathan's ears

    Sales of early music instruments are expected to really take off world-wide thanks to the buy-out of a Bradford workshop by its manager. Jonathan Askey, who has managed Bradford music shop J Wood & Sons for many years, has bought the workshop and

  • Mike Priestley: North of Watford

    Here's a sad little story of our times, as told to me by North of Watford reader John David Whitlam. It relates to an incident early in August. "I saw a man in Centenary Square. It was raining quite heavily and he was lying on a bench with his head pointing

  • Imams' absence 'blow to seminar'

    Islamic religious leaders have been criticised for failing to attend a ground-breaking seminar on the issue of forced marriages. About 200 Muslims gathered in the Carlisle Business Centre, Manning-ham, Bradford, for the meeting organised by local pressure

  • Experts to debate future of the city

    The shape of Bradford's future will be thrashed out at a debate hosted by newsreader and broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald on Thursday. Some 300 delegates, drawn from a wide cross section of the community, will question a panel of prominent people in Bradford

  • Who wants to be an engineer? We don't

    Young people don't want to be engineers, according to the latest figures. Education reporter Lyn Barton investigates and asks what schools should be doing to encourage our next generation of engineers ENGINEERS HAVE an image problem. As far as school

  • Gloom over £30m homes scheme

    Housing chiefs have drawn up a £30 million shopping list on five estates which won a huge injection of cash 18 months ago - but the list may never become a reality. The £17.6 million award from the Government's Single Regeneration budget for the Newlands

  • Trip of a lifetime for battling Diane

    An ambulance driver is all set to embark on a dream trip of a lifetime - thanks to the fundraising efforts of her friends and family. Colleagues and patients of 38-year-old Diane Biggs started an emotional cash appeal in July after learning of her battle

  • Singalong to mark new bar

    Customers will soon be taking their hats off to Ilkley's newest ale and wine bar, the Bar t'at, which takes its name from the Yorkshire anthem On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at. The Cunliffe Road bar is being converted from a shop as part of a £100,000 refurbishment

  • Sleeper hits at airline payout

    A passenger who successfully sued an airline after he fell asleep on a plane and was taken to the wrong country revealed today he might not see a penny of his compensation. Stephen Rees, 40, was awarded £1,150 damages against Egyptair after he was left