City-centre traders today called for "business as normal, not politics" as turmoil deepened in City Hall. Head of the Tory group, Councillor Margaret Eaton, is expected to become the authority's first woman leader at the annual general meeting tomorrow
Drama teacher Sylvia Greenwood knew the overweight teenager had star quality. And so began the career of one of Britain's most famous actresses. This weekend Dame Diana Rigg made an emotional return to her native Yorkshire to pay tribute to the woman
Ambitious plans to pump at least £4.5m into transforming Bingley's Beckfoot Grammar School will be debated at a special meeting today. Shipley Area Planning Panel will discuss the application which would entail building on Green Belt land. The scheme,
A distraught father today told of his daughter's agonising 12-month wait for a life-saving operation. Sixteen-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer Angela Hartley desperately needs a double lung transplant to live and is now so ill she has had to spend the
The FTSE100 index - the Stock Market's leading indicator of prices for the major UK companies - seems to be going nowhere in particular at present as the market has quietened down after a very busy start to the new Millennium. But there is still reasonable
People looking for a new job are being urged to learn foreign languages as it becomes easier to carry out business in other countries. Closer links with Europe, the arrival of the single currency and the Channel Tunnel have all meant that businesses are
Former Yorkshire vice-captain Neil Hartley is leading a new team to success - this time in the field of sports, leisure and commercial insurance. Neil, who played for Yorkshire between between 1978 and 1988, has set up a new regional office for the SBJ
The new president of a prestigious Bradford-based society plans to expand its influence across the world. Dr Peter Lockett, president of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, said he intended to use his year of office to promote the group more internationally
A bakery which has expanded at a rapid rate in the last few years is preparing to grow even further with massive sales in the UK and abroad. Speedibake's factory in Cross Lane, Bradford, has grown thanks to a £30 million investment in the last few years
Well done Coronation Street, for putting adoption firmly on to the agenda for public debate through having 14-year-old Sarah-Lou consider it as a serious possibility for the child she's expecting. Adoption was also in the real-life headlines the other
The memory of a Wilsden teacher will live on at the African school she loved, thanks to an appeal launched by her family. Ann Crabtree, 58, died of a brain haemorrhage on May 22 last year while working for the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation as
Audacious thieves have ram-raided two stores in Haworth in the last four months. Police have not linked the two incidents but shopkeepers have been shocked by the crimes in the Bronte village. The front of the Haworth Spar store was demolished when raiders
Firefighters want to see a derelict building demolished after it was gutted last night by the latest in a series of blazes. They suspect that vandals were behind the fire at the former business premises on Garfield Avenue, Manningham, Bradford, and they
In the drama of operating theatres, it's the surgeons who tend to take centre stage. But Bradford's anaesthetists are now highlighting their crucial work, from running the intensive care unit to providing a staggering 30,000 anaesthetics a year. Health
A big retrospective of the water colour landscapes of the Yorkshire Moors by Ashley Jackson opens at The Royal Armouries, Leeds, today and runs until September 3. Here the 59-year-old Yorkshire-born artist talks to Jim Greenhalf. "I GO MAD every time
Plans have been submitted to Bradford Council for a £2 million state-of-the-art bus station in Keighley. It will involve demolishing the existing station in Lawkholme Crescent and developing a concourse on the modern drive-in, reverse-out design. The
The 192nd Otley Show enjoyed a bumper crowd as early-morning sunshine brought an estimated 15,000 visitors to the showground at Bridge End. The North's first major agricultural show of the season is notoriously prone to bad weather. But although threatening
A Bradford woman has overcome severe sight problems to win two awards for her learning achievements. Partially-sighted Hannah Wheelhouse, 43, of West Bowling, was travelling to the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre in London today to celebrate gaining
A crisis centre for parents in need is having to turn away desperate mums and dads as the result of the overwhelming response to an NSPCC campaign urging them to get help. The national children's charity has launched a powerful campaign asking parents
A programme with international roots is urging workers to come forward to help make a difference in the community. Bradford Cares, which is based on a model first used in New York, is being piloted by charity Business in the Community on June 8, 9 and
A growing number of Bradford firms are becoming customers of expanding telecoms provider Torch Telecom. And the business-to-business company is now able to provide better services to firms in the district. The new customers have been won in the face of
A Skipton firm has come up with an unusual way of bringing water to a desert region. ACWa Services has installed a series of coin-operated water dispenser units in the Gaza region of the Middle East to guarantee a clean supply from hygienic water tanks
For the first time since starting this column over a year ago I need to write about Business Link itself. We are losing our franchise from the Government. It comes to an end in March next year. The Government has no clear idea who else to award the franchise
Top Aussie outfit Newcastle Knights have admitted triumphant Bulls boss Matthew Elliott is on the shortlist for their coaching vacancy. And there may also be interest from his old club St George after news from Down Under that the Dragons boss David Waite
It is vital that some remedial action is taken soon to safeguard the structure of Manningham Mills. When the Manningham Community Association set up a charitable trust last December to spearhead the regeneration of the building, it warned that the South
When I first commuted over Buckhaw Brow, between my home at Giggleswick and the Dalesman office at Clapham, black rabbits gavorted on the grassy area leading up to the limestone scars. Later, I came under the unblinking stare of owls. These were the so-called
A Government agency is seeking private companies to redevelop massive Manningham Mills. Regeneration body Yorkshire Forward is advertising for development partners following an appeal in Parliament for action on the listed South wing. Today Bradford West
William Stewart, the T&A's Education Reporter, examines the difficult decision teachers will have to take in the near future. IF THE rhetoric from the teaching unions' annual Easter conferences is to be believed, the profession is reaching breaking
