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  • Bulls deserve final spot, says Caisley

    Chris Caisley today proclaimed: We deserve to be in a final. The Bulls go into Sunday's Challenge Cup semi-final as favourites to beat injury-hit Wigan and the Bradford chairman believes his side deserve another chance at silverware. "We are a big club

  • Millwall to ignore race jibes row

    Millwall will not pursue any action against City over claims that goalkeeper Tony Warner was racially abused. Millwall striker Neil Harris, who scored the winning goal at Valley Parade, was also upset over jibes about his fight against testicular cancer

  • On this day

    In 1900, Bradford Council purchased Baildon Moor. In 1953, alleged 'Mau Mau ' leader Jomo Kenyatta was sentenced to seven years' hard labour. In 1994, Nirvana band member Kurt Cobain died in Seattle aged 27. From the Telegraph & Argus of April 8th

  • Nappy appeal reaches City Hall

    Councillors were challenged to take nappies seriously during Real Nappy Week when they were given a presentation on the steps of City Hall. Emma Hill, sustainable waste co-ordinator for Bradford Environmental Action Trust (BEAT), which co-organised the

  • School buses and taxis found unsafe

    A "worrying" number of vehicles taking children to and from school are unsafe, according to police. Defects were found on 72 per cent of vehicles checked in a two-week campaign by Dewsbury Road Traffic Department, which includes the Spen Valley, with

  • Boy, 11, flees blazing house

    An 11-year-old boy escaped through a window when a motor scooter caught fire in the kitchen of the house in Glenaire, Shipley, at 11am yesterday. The boy, who was off sick from school, fled through a window when he was unable to find the keys to the front

  • Boss is double top with crime victims

    A kind Bradford boss has stepped in to help a group of pensioners who had all their entertainment equipment stolen from their sheltered housing flat - even their dartboard. It had taken the group of about 30 mostly 80 and 90-year-olds more than five years

  • Walkers' grand thanks to Air Ambulance

    Retired people who are members of a successful Bradford walking club have said a £1,000 thank you to the Air Ambulance service for coming to their rescue. Representative of the Senior Wayfarers handed over a cheque at the service's headquarters at Leeds-Bradford

  • Blaze kills mum and boy of six

    A mum and her six-year-old son died in the early hours of today after fire swept through their Bradford home. Three other children, including 13 and 18-year-old boys, managed to escape the fierce blaze in Broadstone Way, Holme Wood. One of them is understood

  • Stylo gets foothold in London market

    Bradford-based shoe group Stylo has acquired rival retailer Shellys in a deal worth £1.5 million. The deal for the firm, which last September reported an interim pre-tax loss of £3.4 million, is the first expansion move it has made for several years.

  • Appeal as village crime doubles

    Police are urging Cullingworth residents to drive down vehicle crime after the number of incidents in the village doubled. PC Ian Hemsworth said vehicle crimes in Cullingworth had increased from six in March, 2002, to 12 for the same month this year.

  • Councillors plan £1.7m boost for private education firm

    Council chiefs are proposing to pay Bradford's privatised education service an extra £1.7 million this year. The cash comes on top of the original deal struck with Serco, worth £360 million to the company over ten years. The Council, which contracted-out

  • Quarantine alert for pupils' holiday

    Public school pupils heading home to the Far East for the Easter holidays have been warned they may be placed in quarantine and have to undergo medical checks before they will be allowed back into the classroom. Woodhouse Grove school at Apperley Bridge

  • Kim swears by new single

    Bradford singing sensation Kimberley Walsh's band Girls Aloud, pictured, has changed the lyrics of its new single because they contained swear words. The band, formed on the hit ITV1 show Popstars: The Rivals, will release its second single No Good Advice

  • European links set to flourish

    Britain might be out of step with Europe politically, but at a personal level ordinary Bradford people continue to build bridges with their counterparts in various European cities via the Bradford Twin Towns Association. The association's annual meeting

  • New name will cost £20,000

    Consultants were paid £20,000 to come up with a new name for the merged university and Bradford College and offered 'Bradford University', 'University of Bradford' and 'The University of Bradford'. Leaders at the university and college, set to merge in