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  • Melling's tour hope seems to have gone

    Chris Melling's chances of qualifying for the Main Tour next season look to have virtually gone. The 22-year-old from Keighley was beaten 4-3 by Malcolm Bilclough (Leeds) in the final qualifying round of Event Four on the Challenge Tour at the Manhattan

  • Speedy Frew is real Giant

    Australian coach Tony Smith is hoping an injection of pace can lift Huddersfield off the foot of Super League. The Giants have been wooden spoonists for each of their three years in the top flight, but opposition defences have already been warned to be

  • Stuart's worth weight in gold

    The £120,000 the Bulls paid out to Widnes in 1996 for the services of Stuart Spruce still stands as one of the best day's work in the club's recent history. Sixty-six tries later he's still going strong and keen to extend his stay beyond the end of the

  • Cup places on the line

    Challenge Cup semi-final places are on the line as the Bulls bid to make it six of the best at Huddersfield Giants tomorrow And two players desperate to stake their claims are Leon Pryce and Lee Radford who impressed with the Alliance side last week.

  • A question of proper respect...

    There is justifiable anger in Bradford about the decision not to fly the City Hall flag at half mast all day yesterday following the tragic death of a former Lord Mayor. Councillor Harry Mason was a loyal citizen and very brave man who battled heroically

  • Proud role of ethnic groups in our front line

    War time recollections came flooding back for old soldiers who were guests of honour at an exhibition in Keighley, being held to commemorate the role of Asian and black men and women in the British armed forces. Pride was visibly stamped on the faces

  • Ripper sketch decision 'is sick'

    A decision by Channel 4 to show a comedy sketch about the Yorkshire Ripper has angered a local women's group. Channel 4 has announced that it will show a spoof conceived by comic Chris Morris - four years after it was first dropped for being too controversial

  • Driver sped to his death

    A Bradford inquest has heard how a young driver died after crashing at high speed while being followed by police. Imitiaz Ali, 20, was driving his Toyota Corolla along Leeds Road, Bradford, last May when he lost control and smashed into a wall. Police

  • A winter left in the cold for Mary, 86

    An 86-year-old Bradford Council tenant is relieved she is to get a new boiler after her heating system broke down 20 times in the past two years. Housebound Mary Moore, who lives in a ground-floor flat, said she had been left in the cold for almost all

  • Fury at flag snub to former Lord Mayor

    Councillors are furious at City Hall's flag flying at full mast on the day one of its most senior politicians should have been honoured. As many paid tribute to former Lord Mayor Harry Mason, civic officers opted to mark the 11th birthday of Princess

  • Church makes way for healthy link-up

    A 1950s church in the heart of Buttershaw will be flattened next week as part of innovative plans to improve community services. Demolition work on St Aidan's Church, which dominates Lastingham Green, has already begun while a new place of worship is

  • Cannabis grower may go abroad

    A man who grew cannabis because he claimed the drug helped relieve his depression may now go abroad to grow it, a court was told. Phillip Lockwood, 43, said during his trial last month that cannabis helped him calm down and restored his self-respect.

  • Family anger at suicide verdict

    A couple whose son hanged himself after being bullied in Arm-ley Jail have spoken of their outrage at a verdict of suicide. A jury at Wakefield Coroners Court gave its decision on the death of 24-year-old Neil Leyland, who was found hanging in his prison

  • Hunt for the Co-op robbers stepped up

    A series of brutal armed robberies on supermarkets in Bradford and across West Yorkshire will be investigated by a team of detectives from the region's Major Crime Unit. The dedicated team is looking into the robberies at Co-op stores and other commercial

  • Task force tackles countryside crisis

    A task force has been set up to help the Yorkshire Dales tourist industry as the impact of foot-and-mouth disease continues to bite. Craven Council is working with North Yorkshire County Council, which has set up the task force to look at what help it

  • Farmers struck by new blow

    Animal movements across the Bradford district were at a standstill today after a third farm was struck by foot and mouth disease. Anxious farmers were waiting on further instructions from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food after being told

  • A question of sporting the gloves again

    St Johnston 4, Bradford City 2 - Ally McCoist may not have been there to see it but he would have enjoyed Bradford City's version of What Happened Next. In a scene that could have come straight off the script of A Question of Sport, City were plunged

  • Blast off for peaceful Mother's Day

    Mums can have a peaceful lie-in tomorrow - thanks to considerate bosses at a Cleckheaton demolition firm. The Controlled Demolition Group traditionally schedules explosive demolitions on Sundays to ensure minimum disruption to the working public. But

  • 'Scrum on down to help our rugby club'

    Extra hands are needed to make light work of cleaning up a flood-ravaged Bingley sports club as it prepares for its grand reopening. The Bradford & Bingley Rugby Club in Wagon Lane was wrecked by flooding five months ago and has undergone a revamp

  • Perfect 90th birthday gift for Maurice - a pint!

    A Baildon landlord really rolled out the barrel for a very special birthday celebration for his oldest and most valued customer yesterday. Maurice Prest celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday with his usua;l daily treat - a pint at his favourite pub,

  • Bed warning after tragic baby death

    A Coroner has repeated his warning that parents should not allow young children to share their bed, after hearing how a three-month old baby suffocated. Marie Stepan had placed her baby, Chloe, beside her in a double bed at their home in Clayton, an inquest

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - As a member of a well-informed group opposing privatisation of council homes in Calderdale, I am hoping Bradford Council tenants will learn from our mistakes made by not listening to two sides of the argument. Council tenants will be bombarded with