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  • Northcliffe 'better than ever' says Bell

    The current double-winning Northcliffe team is even better than the one which dominated Bradford golf in the late 1980s and early 90s. And that verdict comes from someone who should know - club stalwart Martin Bell, who was in the teams which won the

  • Campolo given a chance to shine

    Midfielder Sergio Campolo gets a run-out with Bradford City Reserves in tonight's opening Pontin's League clash with Manchester United at Bury's Gigg Lane ground (7.00). The 28-year-old is a friend of City's new Italian hero Benito Carbone and is being

  • Benito's the best insists Dean

    Bradford City's overseas signings Benito Carbone and Dan Petrescu are having a huge influence on the rest of the City squad. Among the beneficiaries is Dean Windass, whose instant rapport with Carbone was obvious in City's 2-0 win over Chelsea at Valley

  • Fun at the races with the ladies

    Bradford Chamber of Commerce is offering members a chance to entertain clients during Ladies' Day at the St Leger Festival. The Chamber has booked a hospitality marquee at Doncaster Race Course for the Ladies' Day on Thursday, September 7, with a full

  • 'Child arsonists ruined our play area'

    Devastated community centre bosses have hit out after young firebugs torched and wrecked thousands of pounds worth of play equipment. The blaze caused so much damage the purpose-built under-fives play area behind Shipley's Wrose Community Centre has had

  • Job losses at booming firm

    Half the workforce have been told they have lost their jobs at a label firm hailed as a booming company. Some 25 workers at Hong Kong-based Keighley firm SML have been told they are being made redundant only months after the company was being touted as

  • Adopt our hazardous old roads!

    A senior councillor today vowed to press for extra Government cash to renovate an estimated 1,200 unadopted roads across the Bradford district. Bradford Council receives many requests from residents to spend money improving potholed roads but it says

  • When will the boats come in?

    It was meant to be the bustling, colourful centrepiece of a £25 million private estate. But the district's only marina, pictured, has been a sad white elephant, attracting only a handful of narrowboats since it was built five years ago. Now British Waterways

  • Bulls trio top couple's wedding day joy

    Bradford Bulls fans Gary and Michelle Brown had their wedding day made even more special when they bumped into three of their heroes outside the city's register office. And the newlywed Shipley couple were thrilled when Robbie Paul, Tevita Vaikona and

  • Stanley's fight to defend roof from children

    A Normandy veteran is fighting a battle for peace on the doorstep of his own home. In 1944, Stanley Teale fought alongside thousands of Allied troops in the D-Day Landings in France. The landings changed the course of World War Two but now the 78-year-old

  • I didn't have sex with girl, court is told

    A man who vanished with a girl more than 50 years his junior has denied ever having sexual relations with her. Bradford Crown Court was told that Arthur Jenkinson, 60, took the eight-year-old from her North Yorkshire home and travelled by taxi and train

  • City bid to be model of unity

    Bradford is aiming to show the rest of the country how to become a united city. An independent team is being appointed to spearhead a major review on race equality, with the backing of Home Secretary Jack Straw. The aim is to become a beacon district

  • 'My girl was pulled away by escalator'

    A horrified mother has told how she watched her young daughter being hauled 25 feet into the air after she grabbed on to an airport escalator handrail. Nasrat Butt said the two-year-old had been toying with the moving rubber handrail as they sat on a

  • Clubmates lined up for clash in Open

    Bradford's Simon Bedford has an extra incentive to win his first qualifying round match in the China Open today at the Newport Centre in South Wales. Victory over Staffordshire's Troy Shaw would put the 24-year-old left-hander up against his Cuedos clubmate

  • Matt cools Aussie links

    Matthew Elliott says speculation over his Odsal future will not distract him from his number one aim - leading the Bulls to Grand Final glory. Aussie NRL club Wests Tigers say Elliott is on a short-list for their head coaching role after the departure

  • Equality - the way forward

    There was deep irony in the comments of the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality following the "community seminar" held in Bradford yesterday. Gurbux Singh said that the city's review of racial equality "requires political leadership and ownership

  • It's seven up as firm expands

    Shipley communications agency Marketing By Design has expanded so much it has taken on seven new staff. The firm, based in Wellcroft, is headed by managing director Gary Shaw who said today the new team would add to the expertise the firm offered to its

  • £75m office plan anger

    Residents living next to a proposed 60-acre office development in Brighouse fear the scheme will result in more congestion and noise. The site of the planned £75 million development, which could create 3,000 jobs and attract national companies, adjoins

  • Town's trade 'dead' after show moved

    A survey has been launched among traders amid claims that business was "absolutely dead'' when Bingley Show was moved this year. The questionnaire aims to find out whether traders want the historic show moved back to its old town centre home. This year's

  • 'We want our hedges back'

    Leylandii rage has taken root in Bingley. The fast-growing hedges have been the source of many a suburban row across the country. But instead of campaigning to have the hedge lining their cul-de-sac removed, residents in Oakridge Court are furious part

  • From Russia, with love, for 60 years

    It was 'interest' at first sight when Dr John Birkett introduced his younger brother Peter to teenage beauty Vera Behr at Saltaire Tennis Club in 1938. But two years later a perfect match was declared when they married at St Mary Magdalene's Church 60

  • Two quizzed after 'road race' crash

    Detectives investigating a fatal car crash in the city were today questioning two men on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. The pair, aged 19 and 23, were arrested yesterday and are being held at Bradford Central police station. Police have

  • First Bradford calls in the researchers

    Bradford's biggest bus company is calling in an independent market research company to gauge reaction to its pioneering overground bus service. The move comes as controversy rages over the system - which is modelled on the London underground - and extensive

  • Warring families brawl in street

    Machetes and baseball bats were recovered by police after a major street brawl between Bradford neighbours left a number of people in hospital. Scores of police officers were called to Aberdeen Terrace in Lidget Green, after concerned residents called

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - So David Hockney thinks we should follow LA's example on transport. Now let me see: 70 per cent plus of the 66-mile-across LA basin is given to the mighty automobile, in terms of roads, garaging, service stations, used car lots, etc., and they have