Tevita Vaikona is desperate to take revenge on St Helens - and do so fully fit. The flying Tongan winger was forced to play through the pain barrier at the end of last season but after a close-season operation he is hoping to be back for Friday's Super
In 1546, Martin Luther died aged 63. In 1933, 'Gentleman Jim' Corbett, prizefighter and world boxing champion, died. In 1954, Film actor John Travolta was born. From the Telegraph & Argus of February 18th, 1978... Queensbury branch Labour Party wants
Two prestigious North Yorkshire watering holes are among a dozen pubs and hotels which have been acquired by a brewery giant. Punch Taverns have bought 12 pubs from Honeycombe Leisure, including Steeton Hall at Steeton, near Keigh-ley, and the Devonshire
Just a few kind words began a lasting friendship between Mary Funnell and Eileen Blyth. "I'd just started work as a domestic at Milton House residential home in Bradford and Eileen, who was also a domestic there, came over and said if I wanted any help
Disgusted residents fed up with youths spitting, exposing themselves and vandalising a park have formed a Neighbourhood Watch to combat the problem. And councillors, who attended the launch meeting in Calverley, pledged to get anti-social behaviour orders
A Bradford woman is among the first to benefit from a scheme designed to cut waiting lists for surgery. Fifty-seven-year-old Ann Najib (pictured) had been waiting more than 12 months for a heart bypass operation at Leeds Teaching Hospitals when she was
Ageing and overcrowded GP surgeries throughout the Bradford district are to be replaced by modern health centres in a £60 million project. The new premises will provide a wider range of health services, such as minor surgery and diagnostic treatment -
The plan to improve the premises occupied by GP surgeries and expand the facilities they are able to offer is one which will surely meet with the approval of patients everywhere in Bradford, where the four Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are blazing a £60
Bradford & Bingley plc today announced a hefty leap in profits, but warned much was still to be done. The company announced a rise in its preliminary profits to £273 million from £253 million - a jump of eight per cent before exceptional items in
Proposals which will leave thousands of people changing Council wards went out today for public consultation. The Boundary Commission for England wants to make changes to all 30 Council wards across Bradford - Britain's fourth biggest metropolitan district
More children and young adults will be eating their greens after a district-wide community health initiative received a lottery cash boost. Almost £300,000 has been allocated to promote healthy eating through a project administered by the Shipley-based
Catwalk models could soon be added a touch of glamour to markets across the district. A five-year, £1.7 million regeneration scheme is expected to be given the go-ahead at Bradford Council's Executive meeting today. The Markets Strategy aims to develop
When Steve and Jo White moved into their smart new home in a Bradford suburb they thought they had found an idyllic spot overlooking nearby farmland. The pretty garden of their home on the Poplars Farm development, off Kings Road, Bolton, backs on to
A good deed by kind-hearted pensioner Maria Holmes ended in agony when she was mugged of her holiday savings. Maria, 66, was on her way to visit two poorly friends when the thief attacked. He was waiting in hiding outside a block of flats in Park Grove
They're calling it the female Full Monty: it's the Dales, Disney-style. The wraps have come off the eagerly-awaited movie based on the saucy Women's Institute calendar that put a tiny Dales village on the media map. Touchstone Pictures, the distribution
A leading Bradford jeweller told today how he confronted a knifeman because he was angry that the raider was stealing from his shop. Jeff Frankel, chairman of the Bradford Retail Action Group, needed more than a dozen stitches to cuts above his eye after
SIR - With reference to the row that has been sparked off in Barkerend over the cash that is being spent on regenerating privately-owned homes. I suspect that this row will spread even further. I would suggest it will spread throughout the whole home-owning
