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  • Farsley forge ahead with ten point haul

    Farsley are forging ahead in the Bradford League second teams First Division table. They took ten points from the double weekend of Spring Bank Holiday matches against East Bierley away and Brighouse at home while their other rivals faltered. Gomersal

  • Richmond predicts 20,000 home gates

    Geoffrey Richmond has predicted an average gate touching 20,000 next season as Bradford City push for an instant return to the top flight. The Bantams chairman has budgeted for 14,000 fans through the turnstiles at home matches with a further 5,000 to

  • Jim's budget up to £7.5m

    Bradford City can fight tooth and nail to keep Benito Carbone after chairman Geoffrey Richmond stuck an extra 50 per cent on the player budget for next season. Richmond swept away the gloom engulfing Valley Parade by drastically upping the club's wage

  • Later date for award ceremony

    Organisers of the first Pro-Yorkshire Awards have re-scheduled the event because of the foot and mouth epidemic. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has pushed the awards ceremony, originally due to take place on June 1 back to September

  • Old photo sought of 1951 gala

    A man from Crossflatts is appealing for help in tracking down a picture of Bingley Children's Gala from 50 years ago. Jack Crabtree, of Cedar Crescent, hopes some readers will remember a procession in 1951 when he led a horse-drawn fire engine around

  • Young children put concrete on track

    A shocked train driver narrowly avoided disaster after a group of children as young as six blocked a railway line with concrete and stones. The four youngsters aged six, seven, nine and 11 piled the objects on a stretch of track in Laisterdyke as passengers

  • Sally swaps life on farm for classroom

    Stage-struck youngsters are hoping to follow in the footsteps of their drama teacher, former Emmerdale star Sally Walsh, after auditioning for the top soap. Six pupils at Drama 2000 have now tried out for parts on the programme which made Sally, pictured

  • Footbridges to be felled for guided buses

    Drivers and residents face night-time noise and disruption this weekend as two footbridges are demolished to make way for a £7 million guided bus scheme. A 400-tonne crane will be brought to Manchester Road, Bradford, to help with the demolition between

  • Gunned down in the street

    A Bradford man has died after being shot in an Amsterdam street by an unknown attacker. David Royle, 37, was blasted by the gunman in the north of the Dutch capital. Detectives there said they had no motive for the shooting. A spokesman for Amsterdam

  • Dales farmers fear debacle like Cumbria's as toll rises

    Fears have been voiced that the foot and mouth outbreak hitting the Skipton and Settle area could match the Cumbrian epidemic. Tim Palmer, the NFU Skipton group secretary, said the disease could result in a "meltdown" of the livestock industry there.

  • Crisis could cost £80m in tourism

    The tourist industry in Settle is set to lose up to £80 million this summer because of the foot and mouth crisis. Craven District Council chiefs are resigned to losing most of the summer trade, which last year amounted to £84 million. Fifteen per cent

  • Mr & Mrs Muscle

    Gym really fixed it for body building couple David and Angela Thackray. Bulging biceps drew the pair together when their eyes met across the busy gymnasium. Now they are set to take on the best in Europe in the World Amateur Body Building Association's

  • Shock for YTV as Christa is poached

    The BBC today stunned rivals YTV by poaching top presenter Christa Ackroyd. The long-time Calendar star will now present BBC1's Look North, with her friend Harry Gration. The news is a major blow to the commercial channel, which has struggled to attract

  • Foot and mouth victim hangs himself

    A young farm hand has hanged himself after seeing his life destroyed by foot and mouth. Father of one Andrew Keighley, also called Rocky, had been left devastated after several jobs, including 17 years at the Otley-based Wharfedale Farmers' Auction Mart

  • Final defeat will be a spur, says Noble

    Brian Noble admits the hurt of the Bulls' Challenge Cup final defeat by St Helens will by preying on their minds when the old foes clash again at Knowsley Road on Saturday night. Saints shattered Bulls' dreams of a second successive cup crown at Twickenham

  • Odsal is on track insists Ekoku

    Bulls chief executive Abi Ekoku has given the strongest indication yet that the Odsal Stadium re-development will go ahead as planned. Ekoku has been handling negotiations with all the relevant bodies and fully expects work on the 26,000-capacity complex

  • Your role in easing the crisis

    There is little that anyone can do now to prevent the devastation that will be wreaked on farmers in the Skipton, Settle and now Clitheroe areas following the spread of the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth. But it isn't just the farmers who are affected

  • On This Day

    In 1431, Nineteen-year-old Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. In 1846, Russian goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge was born. In 1923, the Prince of Wales visited Bradford. From the Telegraph & Argus of May 30th, 1976... Masked students

  • Event is just champion

    Anticipation is growing for one of the region's most important business networking events. Motor racing legend and successful businessman Jackie Stewart will be the star speaker at this year's Department of Trade and Industry (DTi) Innovation lecture

  • Classy brass in band's triumph

    Brighouse and Rastrick Band took the winner's trophy at the All England Masters Brass Band Championships on Sunday. Twenty-one of England's top amateur brass bands competed for one of the three major brass band titles in the annual brass band calendar

  • Right track to finding happiness

    Husband and wife-to-be Chris Naylor and Marylene Ballesteros took a ride on Shipley's own love train. The pair, who are to marry in Marseille in June, had a surprise trip on the Shipley Glen Tramway - decorated with French bunting, hearts and flags -

  • Rolf door is a key piece in auction

    Television celebrity Rolf Harris has created a special tribute to a little Bradford boy who died of cancer. A studio door from the set of BBC1's Animal Hospital was painted by its star presenter Rolf and donated for an auction in memory of Harvey Rhodes

  • New centre's boost for Salvation Army

    A new, state-of-the-art Salvation Army centre has breathed fresh life into the community of Wibsey. The £750,000 purpose-built church centre in Holroyd Hill has become a focal point, providing community groups and individuals with a place to meet. Major

  • Workmen move in on £5m leisure complex

    Work on a multi-million pound leisure complex in Bradford was finally scheduled to get off the ground today - after a major licensing hitch. Contractors were standing by poised to start work on the £5 million Glydegate Square in the heart of the city

  • Candidate tells of new threats

    An election candidate wants a change in electoral laws after being threatened when he distributed leaflets giving his telephone number. Fahran Hussain Khokhar claims he has been targeted for the second election running in Bradford. He has reported the

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I am concerned about the future of Bradford. Recently the T&A has reported on a number of issues that would "help" the city - but where is the co-ordination and overall vision? City of Culture: Great idea, but does the recent incidence of racial