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  • Pontefract make it no 'cake-walk' for Cleck

    Cleckheaton 34, Pontefract 24 With other big-name players in the side such as Graham Steadman and Phil Veivers, skipper John Bentley is getting used to finding that Cleckheaton are targets. Pontefract, visiting for the second time in three weeks, showed

  • United pay the price for missed chances

    Eccleshill United missed the chance to break into the Premier Division's top six when they let a comfortable lead slip at Armthorpe Welfare. The visitors missed a host of chances after taking a first half lead in a performance that coach John Price described

  • It's up to you!

    Outgoing Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott has tipped the club to lift more silverware under new boss Brian Noble next season. Elliott's four-year reign ended in disappointment at Wigan on Saturday night when the Bulls slid to a 40-12 defeat and he

  • Fireworks safety is paramount

    The dangers of fireworks are well enough known. Every year there are grim warnings issued about the potentially lethal consequences of not handling them correctly. Every year, despite that, some people are killed, others are horribly maimed, and many

  • On This Day

    In 1835, composer Camille Saint-Saens was born. In 1900, Mr A J Balfour opened Bradford Golf House at Hawksworth. In 1940, Beatle John Lennon was born. From the Telegraph & Argus of October 9, 1975...History was made at the Horse of the Year Show

  • Export advice on offer

    A new series of free-of-charge export events are being held by York and North Yorkshire Export Forum next month. The two-hour breakfast events, which are all held between 8.15am and 10.15am, are aimed at businesses thinking of exporting for the first

  • Home burgled... so cars can be stolen

    Car thieves are making a mockery of sophisticated alarm systems on high performance vehicles by breaking into the owner's house and stealing the ignition keys. In the last two months alone, Bradford's Eccleshill Police division has dealt with 30 burglaries

  • 'Outdated firework laws must change'

    A campaigning mum from Bradford is setting out to re-write Britain's firework laws in a bid to save lives. Elizabeth Hellmich says her safety drive has already won backing from the police, fire and ambulance services, and the support of politicians, Trading

  • 'Speeding drivers could kill a child'

    Angry parents say a child will be killed unless action is taken to stop speeding drivers on a Bradford estate. The parents say the motorists racing along Farm Hill Road, in Thorpe Edge, Bradford, have careered off the road crashing into parked vehicles

  • Dream is at an end

    Wigan Warriors 40 Bradford Bulls 12 There was to be no dream ending for Matthew Elliott as his four-year Bulls reign closed in low key fashion. After a promising opening they were hit with a three-try blitz in a nine minute spell before the break to dent

  • Vanzie expects an action-packed fight

    The scales look to be tipped firmly in Bobby Vanzie's favour as he defends his Commonwealth lightweight title in Liverpool tonight. His Ghanaian challenger Laatekhwa Hammond had big trouble making the weight. The unbeaten 20-year-old was five pounds over

  • O'Brien's on slow road back

    Andy O'Brien is waiting for the all-clear to speed up his return to the heart of Bradford City's defence. The highly-rated centre half has been sidelined for six weeks since breaking his collarbone in a clash with Leicester's Ade Akinbiyi. O'Brien has

  • On-line solution for wool traders

    Wool trademark group, the Ilkley-based Woolmark Company, is to develop an independent e-trading platform for wool fabrics and yarns with Swedish online textile trading group TextileSolutions. The website, to be called WoolXchange.com will be up and running

  • Deadline is looming on pension scheme

    Firms have been warned to get their act together over pensions or risk a fine of up to £50,000. And the warning, from Pudsey accountants Peel Rhodes Broadhead, has been made to firms with more than five staff on their books. Andrew Bartles, a partner

  • Town's anger at hike in car park charges

    Councillors and traders in Brighouse are fighting the new charges being introduced into all the town's car parks from next June. The three car parks that currently charge - Bethel Street, Commercial Street and Parsonage Lane - will see a 10p rise from

  • Cooling-off period over battle of school blazers

    A school has announced a cooling-off period in its clash with parents over a uniform policy. Pupils who turned up at Oakbank School, Keighley, today in the incorrect blazer, were allowed to wear it in school after all. They faced having to hand over their

  • 'Copter crew rescues woman

    A helicopter's infra-red thermal imaging camera helped save a mother and her young son after they became stranded in an isolated ravine. The 29-year-old woman used her mobile phone to call for help after she collapsed near a stream in the middle of Shipley

  • Star who lost a pal backs new group

    A Bradford Bulls rugby player has thrown his weight behind a new support group for families who have suffered at the hands of drink drivers. Stuart Fielden has persuaded his team-mates to sign a ball which will go up for auction this autumn to raise funds

  • 'Come and help us run African nursery'

    It has no running water and no toilets, but children in an impoverished African state are flocking to a primitive nursery set up by a Bradford woman. Hildred Helm, 49, of Dene Hill, Baildon, has just set up The Children of Gambia nursery for children

  • City celebrates the dictator's downfall

    The downfall of the brutal Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic was celebrated in a special church service by Bradford's Serbian community yesterday. Around 80 worshippers from all over the north of England gathered at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Little

  • Ian blazes a trail to catch prank callers

    A Bradford firefighter's idea to trace malicious callers who ring up the fire brigade on their mobile phones has been adopted across West Yorkshire. Firefighter Ian McKelvie, from Bradford Central Fire Station in Nelson Street, devised his idea to combat

  • 'Police scared of tackling vandals'

    Terrified people on a Bradford estate have accused police of 'running scared' of vandals after suffering a series of attacks. Albert Bolton, who lives with his sister, Norma, in Coleshill Way, Bierley, claims he and his neighbours have been left at the

  • School caretaker row may soon end

    The end of a long-running row between a school caretaker and Bradford Council could be in sight, it was revealed today. Alwyne Clapham's future has been shrouded in uncertainty since he was told Bradford's schools shake-up would cost him his job and home

  • Cheer up now me hearties!

    A trip to hospital is being eased for Bradford's youngest patients with the full opening of the children's Accident & Emergency unit. The unit, in Bradford Royal Infirmary's new £4 million A&E department, could be used by up to 25,000 young patients

  • Jack's Big Breakfast treat

    After 25 years without leaving the confines of his home and garden, larger-than-life Bradfordian Jack Taylor stepped out into the full glare of national TV. Fittingly for Jack, who tips the scales at 49-stone, his star appearance came on Channel 4's Big

  • Where's the money gone?

    A community group was today asked to hand back £17,000 in unspent grants and warned it must account for tens of thousands of pounds of handouts. The warning to Ravenscliffe and Greengates Association comes as the council launches an independent probe

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I write with regard to the bus system that is known as a "service". I have been without a car for a month and have experienced this "service" on my travels between Leeds and Bradford each day. Metro/First Bus seem unable to agree who needs to answer