Joe Berry landed back at Cougar Park last night bidding to earn a permanent return to the club where he started his career. Berry, 26, recently had his contract with Doncaster Dragons reduced after the Belle Vue club hit the financial rocks and immediately
Bradford City are appealing to home fans who have bought tickets for part of the Ciba Stand for Saturday's match against Man-chester City to return them to Valley Parade. Block E seats 134 to 140 will form the segregation area and blocks F and G have
Bulls coach Brian Noble admits the form of Tongan winger Tevita Vaikona is one of the most pleasing aspects of his side's impressive start to the campaign. Vaikona was hampered by injury last season and was criticised in some quarters for developing a
Tickets for the Bulls' Silk Cut Challenge Cup semi-final with Warrington Wolves at Huddersfield on April 1, will go on sale to season ticket holders next Monday. The Odsal ticket office will be open from 9.15am to 7.30pm and cash only turnstiles will
Yorkshire Building Society has teamed up with a Bradford car dealership to produce a more environmentally friendly business fleet. The Society, whose head office is in the city, will be taking on a supply of low carbon dioxide emission vehicles from Vauxhall
An 80-year-old woman, who was dragged down an embankment by a mugger, today told how she fought back against her attacker. The elderly woman had collected her pension in Liversedge and was walking up Leeds Road at 12.15pm on Monday, when she was approached
A collection of artefacts connected to the famous Cottingley fairies photographs made double the expected price at auction. The items were sold for £6,000 to a middle-aged man who was bidding from the floor in Bonham & Brooks auction house in London
Benefits staff in Bradford are facing a barrage of abuse from the public and have "in-trays that never empty", it was claimed today. Now Councillor David Ford (Green, Shipley West) has called on the authority's chief executive Ian Stewart for an urgent
Peace-campaigning grandmother Sylvia Boyes was among seven women arrested after they boarded a French frigate near the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland. Mrs Boyes, 57, of Keighley, was photographed climbing the radar rigging by fellow campaigner
Dog walkers and ramblers were reminded today that they face £5,000 fines if they flout bans keeping them out of the countryside. The warning comes as notices - informing members of the public about the foot and mouth epidemic and asking them to stay off
A farmer whose sheep graze on Baildon Moor today blasted the walkers who are putting his livelihood at risk by ignoring pleas to stay away. As thick smoke from burning carcasses continued to rise above Bobby Green Farm in Queensbury, pictured, Brian Gill
Former United Nations peacekeeper Terry Derrick recognised the old house in the Balkans immediately by the hens and pigs running around outside. That it was still standing was in itself a wonder after the ravages of the three-year Bosnian War, in which
A Bradford florist escaped jail by the skin of his teeth this afternoon after admitting stealing flowers from a cemetery to sell on for other funerals. Sydney Walsworth, 55, was told taking flowers from Rawdon Cemetery was "deplorable". Today, he was
SIR - Once more the ludicrous race relations industry rears its ugly head to throw another piece of nonsense at us. This time, though, they have even excelled their own absurdity. They have approached the Crown Prosecution Service with a view to charging
Queensbury and Underbank are facing disciplinary action after a brawl forced the abandonment of their Pennine League Premier Division clash at Hilltop. Basil Richards' side looked to be cruising to an easy home win when they led 10-0 at the mid-point
Jim Jefferies today urged the Bradford City fans to form a united front to shoot down Manchester City. The Bantams boss issued a rallying call on the eve of the two home games that he feels will shape the end of the season. Third-from-bottom Manchester
The fight against addictive substances is a wide-ranging one. Much of the emphasis these days is on combating the devastating effects of heroin, which is rightly blamed for destroying young lives, wrecking families and being the root cause of the crime
In 1892, the first Electric Tram experiment was conducted in Cheapside. In 1914, Winston Churchill spoke at St.George's Hall. In 1922, Rotary Club was formed in Bradford. From the Telegraph & Argus of March 14th, 1976... Tons of school furniture is
Bradford & District Training & Enterprise Council is celebrating a successful marketing collaboration with a call centre. When the TEC decided to launch a youth training campaign recently it needed a supplier to handle the phone side of things
Two companies from Shipley and Bradford have picked up a business award for their efforts. Purification Products, of Saltaire Road, Shipley, and Medics Research Ltd, of Manchester Road, Bradford, have won Department of Trade and Industry Smart Awards.
The family of a disabled teenager with an incurable genetic disorder today called on big-hearted Telegraph & Argus readers to help raise the money which could prolong her life. Amy Stannard - who has Alstrom Syndrome and is unlikely to live past the
Housing minister Nick Raynsford is considering a 20-year business plan which could spell the end of council housing in Bradford. The major blueprint has been sent to the Government following a stormy council meeting two weeks ago. A decision was taken
Today's No Smoking Day motto, Kiss It Goodbye, is a particularly apt one for health workers in Bradford. They have been targeting youngsters since Valentine's Day. Installing displays in eight secondary schools, pupils have been educated about the dangers
A pub-goer who was injured in an alleged stabbing was acting as if he was going to die, a jury has been told. Anthony Shaw described how 20-year-old Paul Murphy came into the foyer of The Pile Bar pub holding his throat and saying: "Help me, help me."
Young people made their voices heard yesterday when they took part in the latest session of the Bradford District Race Review. Pupils from schools across the district are playing a crucial part in the ongoing review and spent two hours discussing race
This was the grisly scene as flames licked around the carcasses of slaughtered cattle at the centre of the foot and mouth outbreak. The macabre pyre was finally set alight after farmer Richard Sutcliffe spent torturous days waiting. It was a grim sight
Up to 13,000 babies could save Bradford millions of pounds in a proposed "real nappy" pilot scheme. Parents in Keighley, are to be asked to use terry towelling nappies on their tots instead of disposables which cost the Council large amounts of cash to
A Wilsden woman has given up the chance of sporting glory to help save the life of a leukaemia victim. Champion squash player Joanne Town, 34, of Wilsden, was preparing to go for a hat-trick of titles at the Leeds Metro Squash Tournament when she got
A babysitter who forced three young girls to take part in sex acts was today beginning a seven-year jail sentence. Ghalib Hussain, 23, was yesterday cleared on six charges of rape, but after almost four hours of deliberation a jury at Bradford Crown Court
Three Bradford men have been jailed for illegally smuggling thousand of pounds of cigarettes into the country. Customs and Excise officers arrested the trio and a fourth man as they arrived off a flight from Tenerife at Southampton Airport on November
Undercover officers are the latest weapon in the battle against burglars on a notorious Bradford estate. The plain-clothes officers have begun patrolling the Holme Wood estate in unmarked cars as part of Operation Beehive. Each officer is linked via covert
