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  • 'Settlement' bid in housing battle

    Organisations across Ilkley are banding together to fight 'housing blight' in Middleton. The Parish Council and Ilkley Civic Society will work together to produce a village design statement for the area which they regard as a unique settlement within

  • A £5m injection to boost exam results

    Schools are to get a £5 million cash injection to help boost exam results of pupils across the district. Bradford Council chiefs unveiled the extra money as part of a spending restructure which will mean a three-year strategy to boost the amount of money

  • Tragedy of father, aged 33

    A man who thought he was merely suffering from an upset stomach was found dead by his wife two days later. An inquest was opened and adjourned into the death of Jonathon Kelly, a 33-year-old father-of-one, who was brought up in Shipley. Mr Kelly, a geologist

  • City Hall top jobs bombshell

    Most of Bradford Council's top officers have been told to reapply for their jobs as part of a huge internal shake-up. Chief executive Ian Stewart has won the approval of the ruling Labour group to completely reorganise the top management team. It means

  • Fans face big draw for United tickets

    Bradford City's postbag has been bulging with ticket re-quests for the Boxing Day game with Manchester United at Old Trafford. And for the first time this season they will have to hold a ballot to decide who gets the seats. City have been allocated 2,900

  • Jim Appleby: Past Times

    Asdaftasus the Celt was having a hard morning. His bean crop sagged, battered by gales. His oat yield was enough for about three bowls of coarse porridge. It wouldn't last a week, never mind a winter. He stood on the edge of his strip lynchet, leaning

  • Tragedy of man behind pool hoax

    A man who sparked a bomb scare at a swimming pool was found hanged three weeks later, an inquest heard. John Connolly, 35, of Parkfield Road, Bradford, had been arrested and charged with making the hoax bomb threat at Shipley swimming pool on his birthday

  • Wondrous website is a first!

    A Bingley vicar is claiming a theological scoop after his church Holy Trinity - God's official name - was given its own web site. Reverend Andrew Clarke set up the website a week ago and is looking forward to www.holytrinity.com becoming a hit with a

  • We fight on, vow anxious parents

    Tearful parents at two Bradford special schools have vowed to carry on the fight to save them after Bradford Council decided to close them down. At a stormy meeting of the Council last night, Labour councillors voted to close Heaton Royds Special School

  • Deaf promised a six-month review

    A controversial shake-up of services for deaf people in Bradford will go ahead as a six-month trial. Social services chiefs have promised to look again at the situation six months after transferring the interpreting and social work service from Hallfield

  • CAB makes an appointment with new system

    Skipton's Citizens Advice Bureau is introducing an appointment system in the New Year to cater for demand and reduce client waiting time. Bureau manager Sylvia Valentine said: "We recently held a client satisfaction survey and about 30 per cent of clients

  • Historic buses get a festive outing

    A free bus service using a fleet of historic vehicles - one of which once plied the streets of Bradford in its blue and cream livery - is to be run on Christmas Day. The Keighley Bus Museum Trust is setting up the service for the fifth consecutive year

  • Millennium award for health treatment

    Pioneering medical treatment at a Bradford hospital has been chosen to feature in the Millennium Dome. The microwave technology used as an alternative to hysterectomy for women suffering heavy periods has been named a Millennium Product. Visitors to the

  • Death of biker leads to renewed drink drive warning

    A coroner has issued a festive message to drivers after hearing how a motorcyclist involved in a crash had been drinking. Graham Spencer, 26, of Manor Road, Cottingley, suffered head injuries when his machine struck the kerb and he was thrown over a wall

  • Clayton go out after muddy clash

    Amateur Rugby League: Clayton's foreboding that the heavy ground conditions at The Delph would prove their downfall were quickly realised in the first round of the Silk Cut Challenge Cup against Siddal. The Villagers opened up in style by pounding the

  • Ambitious Dijon takes fast track to success

    Bradford motorcyclist Dijon Compton has set up the Globe Racing team to compete in next year's European Superstock Championship - a sister competition to the World Superbikes. The 21-year-old from Oakenshaw said: "After three years of racing for other

  • Now O'Leary aims for yet more cup progress

    David O'Leary goes back to the scene of one of the few low points of his successful reign as Leeds United manager tonight. O'Leary takes his side to Filbert Street to face Leicester in the fourth round of the Worthington Cup with Leeds top of the Premiership

  • We must shackle Shearer

    David Wetherall believes keeping England skipper Alan Shearer quiet will be the key if Bradford City are to improve their home record this weekend. The inspirational defender will face Shearer when Newcastle United come to Valley Parade on Saturday bidding

  • Chance to make a fresh start

    The proposed shake-up of the top management of Bradford Council, though it might prove painful for some of those directly affected, is inevitable given the changes being made to the Council structure to meet the 20-20 Vision for the future. That new structure

  • Bradford pubs top beer lovers' bible

    Bradford wipes the floor with Leeds when it comes to real ale pubs, says the latest edition of the beer lovers' bible. The news is revealed in The Real Ale Pub Guide 2000, which lists seven pubs serving top quality beer in Bradford compared to just four

  • Richmond's warning

    Bradford City chairman Geoffrey Richmond has warned that his club will not proceed with their £6.5m redevelopment of Valley Parade if it means there is no scope for future expansion. Richmond has been angered by the comments of some members of the Bradford

  • Samaritans make a plea for help in volunteer crisis

    Bradford's Samaritans have called for more volunteers following an alarming fall in new recruits. The charity, which has helped save thousands of lives, has seen the number of counsellors across the country fall to a 15-year low of 19,600 and a loss of

  • £20,000 robbery charge

    Two men have gone on trial accused of snatching a cashbox containing £20,000 during a street robbery two years ago. Securitas guard Susan Phillips had just collected the money from the Kashmir Travel premises in Barkerend Road, Bradford, when she saw

  • Trees are for real again

    The battle of fake versus fir in the Christmas tree stakes seems to have been won by the real thing this year with more and more people choosing to spruce up their festivities with a traditional tree. As people rushed to buy their trees over the weekend