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  • 'Gutless' defence sees Avenue lose

    Lancaster City 4, Bradford Park Avenue 0 - Second-placed Lancaster City kept the pressure on UniBond Premier Division leaders Burton Albion with a resounding 4-0 victory over Bradford Park Avenue on Saturday to bring the visitors back down to earth. Avenue

  • Markets could hold the key

    The small towns and villages around Bradford have suffered badly in recent years as trading centres. Shop after shop has closed as people have lost the local-shopping habit, preferring instead to visit supermarkets and out-of-town malls. The result has

  • On This Day

    In 1844, actress Sarah Bernhardt was born. In 1934, American gangster Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd was killed by FBI agents. In 1959, water supplies in Bradford began to be cut off during a drought. From the Telegraph & Argus of October 22nd,

  • Advice to keep staff healthy

    A risk management firm is urging Bradford employers to cut staff illness by improving office conditions. Smithson Mason Group (SMG), which has offices in the city, says up to half a million employees in Yorkshire could be suffering from Sick Building

  • Markets may go to people

    Communities across the district could get their own markets - if local people say they want them. Bradford Council will ask residents in towns and villages outside the main markets in Bradford, Keighley and Shipley if they want their own. Consultation

  • Small brewers demand beer tax cut

    Brewers in Keighley are calling for a reduction in beer tax to help in the battle against giant pub chains. Charles Dent, boss of award winning Keighley brewery Timothy Taylor, and micro-brewer Jack Atkinson, who runs Goose Eye brewery with his son David

  • Rousing show aids theatre's survival

    Crowds packed into the Priestley Centre for a rousing fundraising show put together in a matter of days to help the theatre survive. The show, called Saturday Spectacular, featured music, drama, comedy and dance performed by members of the Little Germany

  • Mike wins at a sprint

    Mike Openshaw made certain lightning didn't strike twice to win yesterday's Bradford 10km road race from the Richard Dunn Sports Centre. The Birchfield Harrier was beaten into second place by Tipton Harriers' Julius Timtai 12 months ago and found himself

  • Thackley robbed by late Woodley winner

    Thackley 1, Woodley Sports 2 - Thackley will be kicking themselves that it took them until they were a goal and a man down before they started to do themselves justice against a neat but workmanlike Woodley Sports. It could have been Thackley rather than

  • Ilkley coach shuns talk of promotion

    Ilkley 11, Keighley 3 - Ilkley made it three wins out of five in Yorkshire Division Two, but you won't find their coach John Atkinson talking of promotion. "You have to have achievable goals," said the former Leeds and Great Britain rugby league star.

  • Six Bulls in GB squad for Agen

    Bradford Bulls have six players in the Great Britain squad of 20 for the Test match against France in Agen on Friday. They are props Paul Anderson and Stuart Fielden, scrum half Paul Deacon, loose forward Mike Forshaw, second row Jamie Peacock and full

  • City below par again

    Birmingham City 4, Bradford City 0 - The Forest of Arden is the perfect place for rest and recuperation with its European Tour golf course and top-notch hotel. It is currently where the battered and bruised Bantams are trying to pick up the pieces after

  • We can't hide now

    City boss Jim Jefferies has warned his players there is no hiding place from their current crisis of confidence. The Bantams have sunk into the bottom half of Division One and go to Millwall tomorrow on a torrid run of five defeats in six league games

  • Newcomers team up

    A new architectural business from Bradford has teamed up with two fellow newcomers on a major industrial project. Hall & Hoyle Architecture is working with Leeds firm Buzzard Developments and Richmond-based York House Construction on providing 18,557

  • Final touches

    US firm Hallmark Cards is putting the finishing touches to its new multi-million pound UK head office in Bradford. From next month around 650 staff will be based at the company's new nerve centre in Cottingley - at the former site of fellow greetings

  • What a plunger!

    A Cleckheaton firm is the mastermind behind the demolition of flats which were neighbours to TV's Del Boy and Rodney. Barrie House, a 21-storey block on the South Acton estate, London, is less than 200 yards from the flat used to film one of the BBC's

  • Roadworks 'cause chaos for bus users'

    Bus users in Harden face commuter chaos after being "ignored" by a roadworks shuttle service, a Bingley councillor claims. A stretch of Harden Lane, from Cherry Tree Row to the Malt Shovel pub, was closed at the weekend until Sunday for major gas works

  • Policing call after shops attacked

    A takeaway boss has called for more police on the beat following vandalism attacks on a string of Asian-run businesses in Baildon. Meanwhile, police are appealing for the public to help them catch those responsible. The Telegraph & Argus reported

  • We could be green beacon to Britain

    Bradford could become a model for green progress if its transport problems are tackled effectively, a survey revealed today. A study by Friends of the Earth found that people living in the more deprived areas of the city, such as Little Horton, University

  • Test to pave way for cancer drug

    Scientists are to begin testing tumour samples taken from breast cancer patients in Bradford to see if a new drug on trial in the city is likely to be a success. It is part of the Cancer Research Campaign-funded Tact trial, to find out whether a new chemotherapy

  • Engineer Naomi is best role model for girls

    A former model who trained as a gas engineer is urging schoolgirls to follow her lead. Naomi Hills, pictured, says she is fed up of being the only woman among 40 men at her workplace. "There's not much you can talk about to a middle-aged bloke - they

  • Mark's giant step into the limelight

    Bradford singer Mark Kerins wowed the nation to win a TV talent show - and booked himself a slot with one of the biggest pop bands of the moment, Steps. Mark not only managed to slaughter the opposition on BBC TV's live show, Star for a Night, but so

  • War of the words

    Britain's new Scrabble champion was crowned last night after a nerve-racking war of words. Using words such as "waxworm" and "cubages", 35-year-old Mark Nyman, a former world Scrabble champion, won the British national award in a tense best-of-three final

  • Pupils 'betrayed' say angry parents

    Children have been 'betrayed' by schools chiefs who have pulled the plug on their move to new buildings, parents claimed today. Pupils at St Phillip's CE School in Girlington are now stuck with vandal-prone temporary buildings at Washington Street which

  • Executed

    A mini cab driver was executed with gun shots to the head as he prepared to go out on a job. Today the family of Mohammed Basharat said they feared the murder could have been connected to a road rage incident the previous night. Mr Basharat, a father-of-four

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I am writing to express my grave concern for the people of Afghanistan. Right now, 5.5 million of them desperately need food. Oxfam have been working in Afghanistan for over 12 years. Families there have already endured three years of severe drought