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  • Hartley bowls in to teach the students

    Former Yorkshire and Hampshire paceman Peter Hartley has been putting the Bradford and Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence squad through their paces as they step up preparations for their inaugural season. Keighley-born Hartley, 40, who has now moved

  • Dons want Jess cash

    Aberdeen want a transfer fee for Bradford City's on-loan player Eoin Jess even though he will be entitled to a free transfer at the end of the season. City manager Jim Jefferies, hoping to persuade Jess his future is at Valley Parade, is waiting to hear

  • Driving for success

    A family-run recruitment firm is celebrating continuing growth after 25 years in the business. Family run Rotherwood Recruitment has made its first foray into Lancashire just ahead of reaching the landmark anniversary this month. Set up by chairman Dennis

  • Injured rugby boy airlifted to hospital

    An 11-year-old boy was taken to hospital by air ambulance after injuring his neck in a sports accident at his school. Daniel Mortimer was playing rugby on the playing fields at Salt Grammar School in Baildon when he was involved in the accident yesterday

  • Disabled Asians to get special library

    Disabled Asian people in Bradford are to get a new resource centre through a Government grant. Shipley Leisure Library is to set up an Asian centre for people with disabilities. It will house books, audio tapes and videos specifically for the disabled

  • Owner to raise mill from the ashes

    The owner of a 200-year-old mill gutted by fire hopes it can be partly reconstructed. More than half of Haworth's Bridgehouse Mill was destroyed by fire two weeks ago making about 20 small businesses homeless. Chris James, whose company Cullingworth Investments

  • Bradford streets clean? They must be joking!

    An official report claiming Bradford is one of England's cleaner metropolitan cities was being greeted with derision today. The city's streets were said to be among the cleanest in the country in the report by the Audit Commission. But the study into

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I would like to add my support to the comments made by Councillor Smith and Mr Woodhead of the Ramblers Association regarding the current outbreak of foot and mouth disease (T&A letters, March 15). It is tragic that we now have two cases of

  • Outcast Clarke off to join 'bigger club'

    Matt Clarke has claimed he has joined a bigger club after leaving Bradford City to drop into the First Division. The 27-year-old goalkeeper yesterday joined promotion contenders Bolton on loan to the end of the season to end a four-month spell in the

  • Bowling mistake proves so costly

    West Bowling lost 17-13 at home to local rivals Siddal in a thrilling end-to-end Division One encounter of the highest quality. Injury-hit Bowling took an early lead with a Peter Simpson penalty but this was soon cancelled out with an identical effort

  • Bulls welcome plans to make Grove super centre

    Bradford Bulls will have training facilities to match their status as a top Super League club thanks to their links with Woodhouse Grove School. Chief Executive Abi Ekoku described the school's £4.5m sports and arts project 'an exciting development' and

  • Aintree on knife-edge

    With just over two weeks to go before the Martell Grand Nation-al, Aintree is living on a knife-edge. At the moment the race is still on, but officials admitted last night that should there be an outbreak of foot and mouth in the vicinity they would have

  • From Third World to best in the country

    Bradford Royal Infirmary's Accident and Emergency department today moved from the Third World to the best in the country. The emergency unit was being officially reopened today by Health Secretary Alan Milburn after two years of work costing £5.5 million

  • Residents hit out at tactics of 'npower'

    Angry residents in Shipley who fear they are being misled by sales represenatives have launched a poster campaign to highlight the problem. Beryl Parker and Rita Lee, both of Wycliffe Gardens, drew up the posters after they were both targeted by a sales

  • Ministry gives go-ahead for slurry spraying

    Bradford farmers have been given the all-clear to spray slurry on their land. The change in rules means farmers can spray the manure and animal waste water mix so long as they follow guidelines. Ministry of Agriculture guidelines say the slurry has to

  • Casualty staff praised by Health Minister

    Health Secretary Alan Milburn today swept into Bradford to praise the quality of care delivered by doctors and nurses in the city. Opening the newly- revamped accident and emergency department, Mr Milburn was quick to praise the work of staff. As he unveiled

  • CS spray used on knifeman, jury told

    A jury has heard how riot police forced their way into a Bradford home and sprayed a man with CS spray. Officers carrying shields struggled to overpower Matthew Perry after he lunged at one of them while holding two blades, Bradford Crown Court was told

  • 'Too many gaps in traffic calming bid'

    Traffic-calming schemes to stop back streets leading off one of the gateways in to Bradford becoming a network of rat-runs have been criticised as "piecemeal". Four new schemes will be introduced on roads off Manchester Road to complement a £7 million

  • Back injuries work brings major award

    A Bradford health forum has scooped a national award for its work on preventing back injuries. Last night newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald handed over the award to members of the Bradford Area Occupational Health & Safety Forum at London's Le Meridian

  • Return of car key burglars feared

    Motorists were today warned to keep car keys out of sight in their homes following a spate of burglaries in which vehicles were the sole target. Detectives are concerned that car-related break-ins may be on the rise again despite a successful purge on

  • Police 'take gloves off' in hunt for killer

    Bradford truckers are coming under the spotlight in a police hunt for the killer of a young prostitute. Detectives investigating the murder of 21-year-old Nicky Glass, whose body was discovered on the North Yorkshire Moors last November, said her murderer

  • Taking great pride in a job well done

    Bradford's Training & Enterprise Council will leave a £750,000 legacy to the district when it closes on Friday. Chief executive David Wilkinson announced the pay-out, which will fund computer training courses for businesses, on the eve of the organisation's

  • Elderly warned over killer gas

    Keighley's Help the Aged shop in Cavendish Street is supporting efforts to raise awareness of carbon monoxide poisoning. The potentially fatal gas is often dubbed "the silent killer" because it cannot be seen or heard and has no smell. Now Help the Aged

  • Bulls star Robbie is arrested

    Robbie Paul, Bradford Bulls' star scrum half, has been arrested by police for being drunk and disorderly. Today the club confirmed that the 25-year-old Kiwi international had been detained by officers in Leeds following an incident in the city centre