Nicky Law believes clubs like City should take a leaf out of Nottingham Forest's successful youth production line. The Bantams boss reckons that Paul Hart deserves plenty of praise for nurturing some exciting young talent, despite being forced into selling
Henry Paul could make the bench for the Six Nations showdown with France following a weekend of injuries. Former Bradford Grammar School pupil Charlie Hodgson and Lewis Moody have been ruled out leaving England boss Clive Woodward with two vacancies on
Bulls skipper Robbie Paul, is confident of being fit for action as the new Tetley's Super League was launched yesterday. The Kiwi international will start in Friday's opener at Wigan after going off twice already this season with a trapped neck nerve.
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte began his second conquest of France, after escaping from Elba. In 1915, due to hostilities, the German Schiller Verein club was struck off the clubs' register, in Bradford. In 1916, snowfall was so heavy that football was abandoned
Bradford businesses are failing to capture their share of the nation's £40 billion disability market because they are confused, according to new research. The research, from the Disability Rights Commission (DRC), was announced as new legal guidance on
Digital technology giant Pace Micro Technology has signed a major deal with Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) for Taiwan's first multimedia-on-demand TV service. The deal means an order for Saltaire-based Pace of an initial 10,000 set-top boxes. It will see Pace's
A secondary school's pioneering project to tackle truancy has been an overwhelming success, according to the community. The scheme to clamp down on class dodgers at Immanuel Community College in Thackley, Bradford, was introduced after problems were highlighted
Bradford Diocese's new 'second-in-command' has been casting a fond eye over the city. The Reverend Christopher Hancock, 48, pictured, will be appointed Dean of Bradford Cathedral in June when he takes over from Acting Dean Canon Derek Richardson. An accomplished
Firefighters discovered the charred body of a man in the cellar of a house after a blaze ripped through the property. A member of the public raised the alarm on a mobile phone after smoke was spotted coming from a back-to-back terraced house in Derby
Eighteen pupils at a top independent school in Bradford have been suspended for smoking cannabis in their lunch hour. The teenagers have each been suspended for a few days from Bradford Grammar School, the head teacher confirmed today. The boys and girls
Burscough 0, Park Avenue 2: Park Avenue ended a run of three defeats with a 2-0 victory at Burscough to earn their first away clean sheet in the UniBond Premier Division. It brought the Bradford side some revenge for the early season home defeat at Horsfall
Farsley Celtic 1, Guiseley 2: Farsley Celtic ended the afternoon with ten men and no points as Guiseley took the spoils in a controversial second half to this close UniBond Division One derby. The victory consolidates Guiseley's mid-table placing while
Danny Cadamarteri aims to cut down Nottingham Forest on his home debut tonight armed with a brand new three-and-a-half year contract. City's latest striking sensation has given his hometown club a massive pre-match boost by signing a deal at Valley Parade
It can be something of a gamble to have a large, new school built in the area in which you live. If it is an orderly, successful school it can raise the prestige of the locality. On the other hand, if the school includes a proportion of trouble-making
Traders in Heckmondwike are trying to start a Shopwatch radio system to slash rising crime in the town. Sue Canning, assistant manager of Peacock's clothing store in the Northgate Retail Centre, said hundreds of pounds of stock was stolen each week. "
Council house tenants across the district are likely to face average rent rises of £1.17 a week from April. The annual increase to be decided at today's meeting of Bradford Council's Executive Committee comes as the 26,000 tenants receive ballot papers
Police teams were touring Pudsey pubs today in a bid to glean more information about the murder of a car dealer. Officers will distribute posters featuring a photograph of Phillip Smith and his missing mobile phone in the hope of jogging customers' memories
Family and friends of a man dying of cancer have started an appeal to raise cash for shark cartilage treatment. David Lawler, 39, of Great Horton, Bradford, has been weakened by three years of conventional therapy for bowel cancer, but the disease has
A big haul of banknotes, hidden inside cargo delivered to a Bradford transport firm, was later found to be contaminated with cocaine, a court was told. After hearing evidence about the discovery, the city's magistrates ruled that the £164,840 haul was
Bradford Festival is to be a major player in the international festival circuit. This year's event, which is being billed as Bradford's first international festival, will run from June 7 to 16, replacing the former festival which ran over a five-week
Schools across the district are to get an extra £1.3m from Bradford Council today - which politicians claim would bring spending up to national guidelines. The money, expected to be included in the Council budget, would be on top of £3m already agreed
Kind pop star Gareth Gates has made a dream come true for a six-year-old cancer sufferer by dropping in to have tea with her. Following his exhausting Pop Idol quest the 17-year-old could have been forgiven for putting his feet up at home in Bradford
A distraught father has demanded to know the truth about his three-year-old daughter's death after a hospital dramatically admitted liability. Naazish Farooq died in October 1999 when she was being treated for cancer as an in-patient at St James's Hospital
SIR - If there is one thing that sums up the vacuity of the modern world, then surely it is the spin doctor. Never mind the cynicism of "burying" unwelcome news beneath Ground Zero or the funeral of a Princess, why are these people there at all? Are our
