Archive

  • Bulls 'face four-pointer'

    Bulls chairman Chris Caisley has spelled out the importance of Sunday's showdown with Wigan, stressing it will make or break their efforts to claim their third top spot finish in four years. The Warriors are two points ahead of last season's beaten Grand

  • On This Day

    In 1305, William Wallace, who demanded independence for Scotland, was hung, drawn and quartered in London. In 1926, film star Rudolph Valentino, died of peritonitis, aged 31. In 1933, Mahatma Gandhi was relased from jail in India after a hunger strike

  • How effective is your web site?

    A free Internet service for businesses has been set up by a Skipton marketing company. Evaluatemysite.com uses software to allow firms to analyse the effectiveness of their sites. Evaluatemysite is part of Sitemaximiser.com, which has developed a method

  • Training offer to aid sales

    Bradford firms are being urged to take up European funding to help them boost sales abroad. Bradford Chamber of Commerce says there is cash available to boost the export marketing skills of firms in the district from the European Social Fund. A spokesman

  • Marathon man races to New York challenge

    Bradford policeman Paul Fleming will swap plodding the beat for pounding the streets of New York in the city's famous marathon. PC Fleming, aged 38, of Queensbury, hopes to raise £2,000 for the National Asthma Campaign in November. when he joins about

  • Battle to keep the tourists

    Ask people how tourism is doing in Bradford and you will get a mixed response. The industry, worth £3 billion in Yorkshire alone, employs over 135,000 people and there are success stories with attractions in the area reporting bumper figures for visitors

  • 'Speeding car threw me in air like a rag doll'

    A teenager who survived being flipped like a rag doll after he was hit by a speeding car in Italy must now undergo an operation on his ears. Thomas Persson, 19, a former pupil of South Craven School, Cross Hills, was lucky to survive the accident. The

  • Secrecy row over future of stadium

    Multi-million pound plans to redevelop Odsal Stadium were at the centre of a secrecy row today. The Telegraph & Argus can reveal Bradford Council has agreed behind closed doors to contribute £110,000 to a study of the site and its landfill tip. The

  • Baby's body found on tip

    Police were today investigating the gruesome discovery of a naked baby boy's body wrapped only in a towel and dumped at a council tip. Alongside the tragic tot - who was thought to be only a few hours old and weighed just 7lbs - was a cot and a crumpled

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I was recently burgled - numerous personal items were stolen including a music system and more than 100 CDs. I was visited within one hour of reporting the burglary by PC 574 Hardcastle who provided me with advice on how to make my home secure,

  • Idle fail to make up ground on Gomersal

    Second Division leaders Gomersal dropped their first points of the season, apart from rain-affected matches, when they were held to a four-point draw at home by Esholt. Consistent batting down the order from Steve Pollard (50) and Mark Harrison (65) enabled

  • Blake makes fresh start

    Striker Robbie Blake is ready to make a fresh start to his career after joining Notting-ham Forest on loan for two months with a view to a permanent signing. The 24-year-old welcomes the opportunity of playing regular first team football at the First

  • You're safe as houses

    Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli is backing Bradford City to stay up 'with ease' this season. City survived in their first Premiership campaign only by beating Liverpool in their last match of the season, but, after seeing City deservedly beat his multi-talented

  • Odsal: No room for secrecy

    There quite rightly is anger and alarm at the revelation that a decision to spend £110,000 of council taxpayers' cash on a new feasibility study of the Odsal stadium site and its landfill tip has been taken without any reference to a public forum. It

  • A shy hero heads off fire mayhem

    A firm's employee has been hailed a hero after moving a burning trailer to safety when it went up in flames. As the huge trailer packed with plastic crates caught fire, the man leaped into a lorry cab, then hitched the trailer up and dragged it away from

  • Brave Barry takes on the killers

    Exotic pet fanatic Barry Naylor is fast becoming a troubleshooter for holidaymakers bringing home deadly creatures in their luggage. The owner of Art Gecko Exotic Pet Centre in Westgate, Shipley, came to the rescue when two West Yorkshire sisters, Carole

  • Rubbish pile still growing 14 months on

    A long-standing pile of roadside rubbish has grown since an official complaint was made against Bradford Council about it. A 15-metre long heap of wooden pallets, old wheels and trailers now lies alongside and spills into Black Dyke Lane near Cullingworth

  • GPs worried over backlog of addicts

    Bradford GPs are facing a backlog of addicts waiting for treatment three months after Bradford's biggest drugs clinic closed its doors to patients. The Bradford Drugs Dependency Clinical Services on Sunbridge Road reached its maximum of 800 registered

  • Police bid to find minority recruits

    A cash grant from the Government could help Bradford police meet tough recruitment targets for ethnic minority officers. Bradford and District Ethnic Minority Police Liaison Committee has applied for funding through the Home Office Connecting Communities

  • Wedding ring for a girl of 8, jury told

    A 60-year-old man claimed to have exchanged wedding rings with a young girl he later abducted from her home, a court heard. Arthur Jenkinson told a friend in Cornwall that he had married the eight-year-old and that they thought of each other as husband

  • New grades pledge as lost exams found

    Students at Bradford College whose exam papers went missing will now receive their correct grades, after the papers were traced, it was announced today. The Telegraph & Argus told on Monday how a group of 33 psychology students at the college were