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  • Unity plot double over Fairweather

    The top game in the Bradford Sunday Alliance Premier Division tomorrow is at Fairfax where champions and current second in the table East Bowling Unity entertain Fairweather Green - last season's runners-up, who are currently in fourth. Fairweather were

  • Star turn-out for Jason

    A galaxy of stars will be turning out at Cougar Park tomorrow for Jason Ramshaw's testimonial. Former fans' favourites will go head to head with the current crop of Keighley players in the hall-of-famer's benefit game. Nick Pinkney, Simon Irving, Matt

  • Law to replace Proctor

    Nicky Law is already on the case in his search to replace Michael Proctor. The striker returns to Sunderland tonight at the end of his two-month stay, leaving Law racing against the clock to bring in another loan marksman before Tuesday's trip to Reading

  • Welcome return for Rudolph

    In a week in which the news from various quarters has been filled with gloom, anxiety and man's inhumanity to man, it is a pleasure for us to be able today to shine a little light into the darkness. Last year they were confined to their Scottish Highland

  • On this day

    In 1886, Lord R. Churchill visited Bradford. In 1954, an attempt to assassinate Egypt's General Abdel Nasser failed. In 1956, the Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule was put down. From the Telegraph & Argus of October 26th, 1977... The computer

  • Bosses urged to recognise stress

    A legal expert is urging businesses in Bradford to place more importance on stress in the workplace. Elizabeth Henry, an employment law specialist with Last Cawthra, says firms need to be more aware of the problem which is the biggest cause of absence

  • Management School in the top 50

    A survey has placed Bradford University's School of Management in the top 50 international executive MBA programmes. The results revealed graduates from Bradford are earning nearly £65,000 per year, three years after getting their MBA, an increase of

  • Firm sets its sights on battling a killer

    A Keighley company is set to battle a killer disease. Brookworth Environmental Services has launched a new sanitising division dedicated to combating Legionnaire's Disease. Steven Brookes, chief executive of BES, said: "Legionnaire's Disease has hit the

  • Search for war thoughts

    The Second World War Experience Centre in Horsforth is appealing to readers to let it safeguard their war memories. Although the war affected people across the world, the centre is interested in the stories of individuals who were caught up in events.

  • £500,000 new store

    A £500,000 Co-op store is to be built at Riddlesden. Planners have approved the scheme - for a disused site in Bradford Road - and work should start before Christmas. The store will sell a huge range of products and car parking will be provided. Around

  • Good golly - it's Ollie!

    Ollie the Owl greeted children who attended a Hallowe'en-themed week at an animal farm. Spooky staff from Ponderosa Rare Breeds Farm, in Smithies Lane, Heckmondwike, dressed up as witches, Dracula and devils during the half-term event. Seasonal activities

  • Laser cure in hospital trial

    Surgeons at Airedale General Hospital are running trials on a new hi-tech laser technique which could provide women with an alternative to a hysterectomy. The system called Elitt uses laser technology to cure common gynaecological problems such as heavy

  • Rindeer return

    Rudolf, Prancer and the rest of Santa's reindeer are to return to Bradford after the foot and mouth crisis kept them away last Christmas. The reindeer have been part of the Kirkgate Centre's Yuletide parade for the last six years but last year's outbreak

  • £1m plan to bring jobs into city

    A scheme to be launched in the north of Bradford will bring jobs joy to thousands. Regeneration agency REGEN 2000 is bringing in a £1 million scheme to steer people into jobs. The area covered by the organisation, including Barkerend and parts of Bradford

  • Peru trek boosts charity

    A pharmacist has set off on an adventure of a lifetime to raise money for the Marie Curie hospice in Bradford. Pardeep Bains, of Eccleshill, Bradford, is trekking for ten days in Peru with a group of people from all over Britain. The 24-year-old, who

  • Hi-tech firm axes 30 jobs

    Shipley electronics giant Filtronic has laid-off more than 30 workers in a cost-cutting measure as the firm continues to feel the effects of the global recession. Staff in permanent posts across the firm are understood to have been affected by the news

  • Hunt for sex beast - 150 in clear

    Detectives tracking a serial sex attacker today revealed they had eliminated more than 150 potential suspects from their inquiry. Officers are sifting through a 'wealth of information' from the public in the hope of finding one tip-off which will lead

  • Army ready to step in

    Military personnel will help cut people free from car wreckages in the event of an accident during a planned firefighters strike. A specialist military rescue tender is to be drafted on to the front line in Bradford to help with any emergencies if the

  • Culture shortlist date looms

    Bradford's Capital of Culture team will find out next week whether the district has been shortlisted for the coveted 2008 title. A shortlist of up to six of the British cities bidding for the title European Capital of Culture will be announced by the

  • A perfect match

    A little boy desperately fighting a rare form of leukaemia today found the one person in the world who could save his life. Five-year-old Billy Broxup has been found a perfect bone marrow match in his battle to beat acute myeloid leukaemia. Consultants

  • Avenue want to share with City

    Avenue manager Trevor Storton today called for a ground-share with Bradford City. The UniBond boss believes a move to the Bradford and Bingley Stadium could boost crowds and attract players to the ambitious non-league club. Two players have turned down

  • Reid it and weep Norwich

    City 2, Norwich 1: Paul Reid's sensational two-goal debut earned City their first win in eight matches against second-placed Norwich today. But it needed a fantastic double save by Steve Banks in added time to deny Iwan Roberts an equaliser after substitute

  • 'Get a morale boost'

    Call centre managers are being advised to increase staff training as a means of boosting customer relations and staff morale. While call centres have become an essential part of many companies, there is a fear the image they project could seriously damage

  • Business grows, but jobs are falling

    The latest Purchasing Managers' Index has revealed that while business activity has grown in the region, employment has fallen. Despite manufacturing and service sector companies operating in Yorkshire and Humberside reporting further growth of activity

  • Work begins on green Society HQ

    The Ecology Building Society has started laying the foundations for its new £950,000 head office in Silsden. The building, which is being built by Otley-based Lotus Construction, aims to showcase the environmental principles of the country's youngest

  • Call for firms to support gala

    Businesses in the district are being urged to back a glittering gala dinner in aid of the Lord Mayor's Appeal. The event, which aims to raise money for children's cancer charity Candlelighters, will see international opera stars descend on Bradford on

  • Bibles memorial to son

    A couple have created a different kind of memorial to their only son through a gift of 50 Bibles to their church. David and Pamela Moss gave the pew Bibles to St Wilfrid's Church, Calverley, where they are members of the congregation, as a memorial to

  • Hundred people to become film stars

    A public square will become a floodlit film set tomorrow - as 100 people become movie stars. The public 'stars' will rub shoulders with more familiar names like Bradford Bulls star Robbie Paul and TV presenter Richard Whiteley at Glydegate Square as they

  • 'Give teenagers a place to hang out'

    A senior councillor has called for 'hang out' shelters for teenagers to end the problems they create on children's playgrounds. Councillor Clive Richardson, chairman of Bradford Area Planning Panel, said teenagers would feel they owned them and may be

  • Police hunt knifeman

    An armed robber escaped with cash from a Keighley petrol station. The man - brandishing a penknife - walked into the BP garage in Oakworth Road and demanded money from the till. The cashier handed over a small amount of cash, which the attacker stuffed

  • Death of brave heart girl

    The grieving parents of a nursery nurse today spoke of her bravery in living with a coronary time bomb. Heart defect sufferer Claire Sutcliffe, 27, died suddenly as she dressed for work on Tuesday at her home in Providence Crescent, Oakworth. Terry and

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - Why has Chellow Dene not got a permanent council warden? It is one of Bradford's gems but it always seems to attract the wrong type of people. It has the legitimate fishing parties around the top reservoir and the odd jogger and dog walker and that's