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  • Blakey glory but Tykes rock bottom

    Captain Richard Blakey ended Yorkshire's Championship season in a blaze of personal glory but he still left Headingley in a gloomy mood as his relegated team remained stuck permanently on the bottom of the table. Although Kent inflicted upon the outgoing

  • A grand finale

    Hull FC 18, Bradford Bulls 32: The M62 heading towards the North Sea isn't the most glamorous stretch of motorway. But Bradford Bulls won't mind as they confirmed their liking for travelling east on the three-lane trans-Pennine highway by adding another

  • Proctor pulls off great escape

    City 2 Burnley 2: Michael Proctor scored a dramatic last-minute equaliser to earn City's nine men an incredible draw against Burnley in a fiery battle of the roses. City looked dead and buried after having both Mark Bower and Danny Cadamarteri sent off

  • Footwear show for charity

    A former Bradford College fashion student is organising a charity event next month to raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. The event, at the White Swan Hotel in Halifax, will feature the latest Italian footwear from Russo, of Westgate, Halifax

  • All set for the final orders

    Auctioneers are preparing for the sale of one of the country's most famous pubs. The Woolpack Inn, at Esholt, near Baildon, which featured in popular TV soap Emmerdale, is currently owned by Bradford Council. But ownership of the building is set to change

  • Bikers hit 200mph to join speed 'club'

    Bikers are using Skipton bypass to reach speeds of 200mph - and become members of a deadly club. The craze has been revealed in a new programme in which a motorcyclist claims to have reached 208mph on the bypass. It has sparked strong criticism from police

  • More help pledged for burglary victims

    Burglary victims in Pudsey and Calverley are being promised help to keep them safe. The area is to get two new Crime Prevention Officers who are aiming to combat repeat offences. PC Neil Walmsley, 49, and PC David Harrison, 48, have developed the strategy

  • Julian's 24-hour portrait of life

    An adventurous artist will focus on a day in the life of Bradford when he hits the streets for a fascinating 24-hour project. Julian Flynn will snap one photograph every minute in a bid to create an insight into the city and its people. The 38-year-old

  • City scales Heights with world premiere

    One of the greatest love stories of all time will be brought to life tonight when Bradford hosts the world premiere of Wuthering Heights. The spectacular new production, created by the Northern Ballet Theatre, will debut at the Alhambra theatre in front

  • Playwright's sister escapes jail term

    The sister of a late Bradford playwright has avoided prison after she admitted selling cannabis to pay her bills. When drugs squad officers raided Pamela Dunbar's house in Brafferton Arbor, Buttershaw, they seized 250 grammes of the class B drug from

  • 'Death threat' man banned from estate

    A 39-year-old man, alleged to have threatened to kill an elderly woman, has been banned from a Bradford estate and faces prison if he returns. Christopher Ellerton is said to have made the threat after the pensioner gave evidence against him in court

  • Boy, 3, badly hurt in gas blast

    A three-year-old boy and his father suffered 40 per cent burns when fire ripped through their tent after a gas cylinder exploded. The family had been attempting to change the cylinder inside their tent alongside the River Wharfe in Pool when the explosion

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - It was my turn next at the supermarket till and I was standing ready with £10 in my hand. When the lady in front of me was told the cost of her shopping, she lifted a large shopping bag from somewhere and rested it on the counter, and from this

  • Show that deserves success

    The Bradford district already owes a lot to the Brontes. It is the literary family's name that brings tourists flocking from all over the world to Haworth from where many of them go on to have a look at some of the other places of interest in and around

  • On This Day

    In 1327, King Edward II was murdered in Berkeley Castle. In 1745, the Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated the English at the battle of Prestonpans. In 1792, France abolished the monarchy. From the Telegraph & Argus of September 21, 1977

  • Housing plan decision is delayed

    A decision on the future of a controversial housing in Gilstead, near Bingley, was deferred at a meeting of the Shipley Area Planning Panel yesterday. Developer Persimmon Homes is planning to build 66 homes on the Yorkshire Water site in Warren Lane.

  • Getting back to Marie's roots

    Tracing her mother's history led a Bradford woman to a fascination with her family tree. And Marie Dorman, 66, of Wrose, has now traced her family back to the 1600s. She had planned to research her family history once she retired. "We had been looking

  • Take-care plea as 22 die on the road

    Motorists have been urged to take more care after an alarming increase in road crash deaths. So far this year 22 people have been killed on the district's roads compared to 17 by the same time last year. This year's death toll comprises 11 pedestrians

  • District farmers join countryside march

    Scores of Bradford farmers and countryside campaigners are to join a national mass protest in London tomorrow. At least 140 people from the district will join an estimated 300,000-strong Countryside Alliance Liberty and Livelihood March - the second demonstration

  • Get it on, bang a gong, 25 years on

    Glam rockers T-Rex are to get it on in Bradford at a special concert - with a very special guest. The event will mark the 25th anniversary of the death of the band's frontman and pop icon Marc Bolan who died in a car crash. And history will be made as