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  • Two city teams in national finals

    Schools table tennis: Two teams from Bradford have won through to the English Schools' national table tennis finals. The under-19 boys from Bradford Grammar School and the under-16 girls' from The Girls' Grammar School, Bradford have both qualified. The

  • Alex is saving his best for the Bantams

    School soccer: Fulneck School goalkeeper, Alex Grace, could be heading for a professional football career after his silky skills attracted the attention of a number of local Football League teams. Following a trial with Bradford City last summer, Alex

  • Emanuel is 'vital to City cause'

    City have some great prospects for the future - and none more so than Lewis Emanuel, says club captain David Wetherall. "People are talking about youngsters Simon Francis and Danny Forrest, and rightly so, but Lewis is still very young - despite being

  • Best team won, says Noble

    Brian Noble admitted his side were beaten "by the better team" as they crashed to a 46-22 defeat at Knowsley Road. Saints bounced back in perfect fashion from their World Club Challenge capitulation, robbing the Bulls of their unbeaten opening day record

  • On This Day

    In 1942, US President Roosevelt ordered General McArthur to leave the Phillipines. In 1960, the British government announced plans to build a supersonic airliner with either France or USA. In 1972, an IRA bomb killed seven at Aldershot Barracks. From

  • To Victor, the spoils

    Bradford printing boss Randolph Victor likes nothing better than to nip upstairs after a hard day's work and relax in his own lap of luxury. Here with a little input from interior design firm, The Style Council, the former joiner has transformed an empty

  • New leads on fugitive in £1.5m fraud case

    A disgraced former Liversedge man is still on the run six months after it was revealed police were hunting him in connection with a £1.5m fraud. But detectives are following up new information after an appeal on TV's Crimewatch programme. Bradford solicitor

  • Extra police for West Yorkshire - at a cost!

    More than 250 extra police officers are to be recruited in West Yorkshire. But households across the district will be asked to pay an extra £13 each on their council tax to cover the cost. West Yorkshire Police Authority yesterday voted for a 2003/2004

  • Two rescued from burning house

    Two people were taken to hospital this morning after being rescued from a burning house. A 17-year-old man was carried out of the lounge and a 21-year-old woman rescued from an upstairs bedroom of the house in Poplar Drive, Owlet, Shipley, by firefighters

  • Cannabis found in washing machine

    A 36-year-old man has been made the subject of a community rehabilitation order for two years after police found cannabis in his washing machine. Bradford Crown Court heard how Michael Spencer had a block of resin hidden behind a panel in the kitchen.

  • Police net 26 in blitz on crime

    Twenty-six people were arrested yesterday when West Yorkshire Police's Target initiative crime-fighting squads took to the streets of Bradford South. Five people were among those arrested following drugs raids in Barkerend, Wyke, Woodside and Buttershaw

  • Training will do away with night-mayors!

    Mayors and mayoresses in waiting who quake in their shoes at the thought of their civic year can now go to 'school' to learn the ropes in the first course of its type ever held in Britain. Bradford Council's former high profile Tory leader Ronnie Farley

  • Merville to get his big chance

    A new face joins the Cougars as they look to get their season back on track in the Arriva Trains Cup at Hunslet. Forward Richard Merville is set to make an appearance from the bench at the South Leeds Stadium tomorrow as Keighley look to halt their three-game

  • Hare targeting another early night

    Boxing: James Hare believes he still has plenty of room for improvement as he prepares to defend his Commonwealth welterweight title in Huddersfield tonight. The 26-year-old Roberttown fighter is gradually shrugging off his reputation as a non-puncher

  • No disputing Saints victory

    St Helen's 46, Bradford Bulls 22: They just couldn't help themselves. Immediately before the hooter, the Saints PA system blared out the briefest of renditions of We Are The Champions. Combine that with the half-time announcer leading the booing of the

  • Story of love and dedication

    The story of the Sinclair family is one of the unconditional love of parents for a child; of selfless commitment; of faith and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. John and Jean Sinclair came face to face with every parent's worst nightmare when, 32

  • Rail strikes over at last

    Arriva Trains conductors have ended their long-running pay dispute - bringing a year of strikes to an end. The RMT executive has told Arriva Trains Northern that it has reluctantly accepted its offer of a four per cent rise for conductors. General secretary

  • Taxpayers face rise to pay for fire service

    Council taxpayers will have to find an extra £7 to fund West Yorkshire Fire Service next year. The increase is, say the authority, the equivalent of less than a packet of crisps a day. But the Tories on the fire authority hit out, saying the rise was

  • Christians' journey of courage to no-go area

    A group of Bradford Christians boldly ventured into no-go zones in Sudan on a diocesan link mission. Sudan, where Osama bin Laden lived before moving to Afghanistan, is on the US hit list of terrorist enclaves. Arabic Muslims and African Christians who

  • Aunt's death inspired surgeon

    Family tragedy led Shabana Iqbal to become one of the country's few female breast cancer surgeons. An aunt died in her mid-30s leaving two small children behind, and a cousin was treated for breast cancer in the same hospital where Shabana studied in

  • City plans to shine a light on its history

    Lighting up Bradford's historic architecture and commissioning public art in the city are among the proposals included in a new report by the district's Capital of Cult-ure team. The report, to be presented to Bradford Council's executive next month,

  • Owen leaves for chief executive's job

    A Bradford Council director is to become one of Britain's youngest local authority chief executives. Owen Williams, Bradford Council's first ever director of marketing and communications, is leaving the authority after three years. Mr Williams, 34, has

  • Human shield Karl arrives in Baghdad

    Peace-campaigning pensioner Karl Dallas, pictured, will be heading to a huge electricity station in Iraq tomorrow to begin his role as a human shield in the war-threatened country. The 72-year-old, of Manningham, Bradford, has finally arrived in the country

  • Robbery victim thanks public

    Bradford businessman Jeff Frankel says wellwishers have restored his faith in human nature after he was injured in a knifepoint robbery at his shop. Mr Frankel needed more than a dozen stitches in a head wound after he tackled the knife-wielding robber

  • Fly tippers destroy wild life haven

    Volunteers who worked for nine years to turn a tatty beck into a wildlife refuge are devastated because their efforts have been ruined by fly tippers. The Friends of Haigh Beck was formed after protestors stopped Bradford Council from building a car park

  • Triumph of tragic accident victim

    A Bradford woman who suffered horrific injuries in a road accident at the age of eight will defy the doctors to celebrate her 40th birthday next month. Despite suffering massive brain damage, Angela Sinclair has defied all the predictions of the doctors

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I would like to reassure people that the fight against the changes proposed for both Meadowcroft and Greenacres are still ongoing. The head of our wonderful Social Services in Bradford, Peter Kay, may not see his job as a personal thing but it has