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  • Strong start is key as Bees triumph in cup

    The Bees rarely looked back after making a strong start to their first round Yorkshire Cup tie at Huddersfield last night. The visitors triumphed 27-10, but were 10-0 ahead after just 13 minutes. With play concentrated in Huddersfield's right-hand corner

  • Formation reaping dividends for City

    Robbie Blake has hailed the success of Bradford City's new attacking 4-3-3 formation, believing it will go a long way towards solving their chronic goal scoring problem. City's paltry scoring record - a mere 23 in 30 Premiership matches - has been the

  • Howe's that for an ace!

    Northcliffe junior Christopher Howe is claiming the title of youngest golfer to score a hole in one at the course at the age of nine! The youngster was playing with his dad Andy, a 19-handicap member at the club, when he scored his ace at the first. He

  • Avenue goal kings resume their battle

    Bradford Park Avenue will be aiming to regain an eight point advantage at the top of the UniBond Division One with victory at Horsfall Stadium tonight over Radcliffe Borough. They have the opportunity because second placed Ashton United were held to a

  • Bulls must forget cup

    Bulls coach Brian Noble wants all minds focused on Super League in the run-up to the Silk Cut Challenge Cup final at Twickenham at the end of the month. And he's warned that any slackening off in then next four games could result in players missing the

  • On This Day

    In 1581, Francis Drake was knighted at Deptford by Queen Elizabeth. In 1968, Dr Martin Luther King was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, was hung. From the Telegraph & Argus of April 4th, 1976

  • Legal team helps firm go on-line

    Cleckheaton clothing firm Readman's has teamed up with a Bradford law team to go online. The firm sought advice from Last Cawthra Feather solicitors while setting up its new website, www.readmans.co.uk. The service allows customers to buy a wide range

  • We'll fight for 'home'

    A Bingley father who spent around £5,000 converting a barn into a family home has vowed to fight on after Bradford Council told him to tear it down. Tony Kemp, pictured, vowed to take his case to keep the building to the highest level after an appeal

  • Toddler drowns in pond tragedy

    A Bradford toddler has drowned after falling into a garden pond while visiting relatives. An investigation was underway today by officers in South Yorkshire following the two-year-old's death yesterday afternoon in Doncaster. It is thought the youngster

  • Stephanie beats her obsessions

    For years Stephanie Bairstow was afraid to step outside her front door - instead she hid away in her home and spent days in bed through fear of opening her eyes. The 34-year-old mother-of-two from Lidget Green knows only too well what it is like to live

  • T&A readers raised £7,770

    Caring Telegraph & Argus readers have raised almost £8,000 towards helping to save the lives of more than 100,000 children trapped in the aftermath of the Indian earthquake. The final total of £7,770 raised by the joint T&A and UNICEF earthquake

  • End of the road for car parts company

    A family firm operating for more than 100 years has closed - a victim of big business. Garage parts supplier Thomas Dyson opened in 1896 as a car and cycle manufacturer and parts distributor, changing to the garage trade in 1934. For owner Steve Crossley-Smith

  • Running a marathon 'for dad'

    A student is preparing to run the London Marathon in memory of her father, who was deputy head of a local school. Claire Leaver, 20, of Burley-in-Wharfedale, is hoping her first marathon will raise over £1,000 for research into the brain disease meningitis

  • Tories beaten over bid to cut meetings

    A bid to cut the number of council meetings has been thrown out by Bradford Council's executive committee. Labour and Liberal Democratic councillors joined forces to block a move by the Tories to hold fewer meetings each year. Instead the Labour-Lib Dem

  • Sadness at arson attack on school

    Scores of firefighters tackled a blaze at a derelict Bradford school - the latest in a string of attacks at the site. Arsonists are thought to have started the fire which ripped through the second floor of the former Undercliffe Middle School. About 50

  • City centre slaughter

    The carcasses of up to 2,000 livestock slaughtered in the foot and mouth epidemic are to be brought to Bradford city centre each week to be destroyed. Renderers P Waddington and Co, of Box Street, off Leeds Road, is to dispose of as many as ten lorry

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - The very words which you used in your headline - "fury", "horror" - are enough to incite prejudice against asylum seekers. ("Hostel plan sparks fury", T&A, March 27). I'm sure that many people in Heaton would not share the prejudices expressed

  • Bowling prick Eccles' bubble with a double

    National Conference Division One promotion hopefuls Eccles pressed the self destruct button and crashed to a 15-6 defeat at the hands of West Bowling at Bankfoot CC. Glenn Barraclough's boys fully deserved the double against a Manchester outfit that conceded

  • Council's concern is justified

    There has been much debate about the handling of the foot-and-mouth crisis and whether or not the Government has got to grips with the problem as speedily and efficiently as it should have done. The prevarication over the date of the local and general

  • 'What a super catch'

    Specialist printers Reprovision has struck a winning deal with the English Cricket Board. The Drighlington company has secured a contract to print the Board's rules, regulations and fixture lists for the 2001 season. Reprovision has teamed up with the

  • Planning guru offers a vision of 2025

    A top American futurologist is to hold a conference in Brighouse to encourage Yorkshire executives to look forward to 2025. Dr Sheila Ronis is a highly respected member of her field and has helped organisations ranging from the US Defense Department to

  • Sarah and Clifford's 70 years of delight

    The year Sarah and Clifford Brooks got married the price of coal was one shilling a bag and a loaf of bread cost two and a half pence. But 70 years on, despite enduring two world wars, rationing, and outside toilets called tiplers, they say they wouldn't

  • 'Schools shake-up will disrupt pupils'

    Pupils, parents and staff face disruption if plans to re-organise Otley's primary schools are not amended, a head teacher has warned. Leeds City Council's education chiefs are proposing to replace three infant, one junior and a primary school in the town

  • Dogfight as 'rival' attacks airports

    A war of words has broken out between Leeds Bradford International Airport and the firm behind a potential new rival. Peel Holdings plc, the company driving the £80 million Doncaster Finningley Airport scheme, has accused all three Yorkshire and Humber

  • Rape accused 'took photo of dying victim'

    An alleged rapist poured buckets of water over his dying girlfriend to try to rouse her, a court heard. Jason Halliley, 30, who is accused of raping Rachel Mooney while she was dying of a drugs overdose, told police he did not know she had taken two bottles

  • It's toll of the pops!

    Britney Spears could soon be belting out of the belfry under a revamp planned for the City Hall's clock tower. The teen popstar and some of her chart-topping colleagues could have their tunes played on the city's famous bells courtesy of a revamp of the

  • Fall out of disease now engulfing us

    A financial crisis is threatening to engulf tourist attractions across the Bradford district. As visitors continue to stay away from the countryside and some of the outlying attractions, businesses fear that if the foot and mouth crisis does not end soon