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  • Hot Wind blows in

    One man stood apart from City's celebrations when the final whistle sounded. Amid the scenes of joy and huge relief at clinching the second win in 19 games, Dean Windass was a lone figure in the centre circle. As his team-mates hugged each other and punched

  • On This Day

    In 1798, Portugal, Naples, Britain, Austria and Russia formed a military alliance against Napoleon. In 1982, a Bob Marley commemorative postage stamp was issued in Jamaica. In 1989, thousands of Vietnamese 'boat people' rioted in Hong Kong. From the Telegraph

  • Area needs to build 3,400 new homes

    The Spen Valley has to accommodate 3,400 extra homes by the year 2016, planners have revealed. A huge public consultation exercise is under way in the area to allow people to have their say on the new Local Development Framework (LDF) which replaces the

  • Samaritans' call for help is answered

    The Bradford branch of the Samaritans has been inundated with offers of help following an appeal for volunteers in the Telegraph & Argus. The charity's 24-hour support service in the city was under threat after its 80 volunteers were unable to handle

  • Hospital takes part in pre-cancer trial

    A Bradford district hospital is to take part in a major trial testing whether aspirin can help prevent an increasingly common cancer. Airedale General Hospital, near Steeton, is one of 100 centres across the country taking part in the study funded by

  • Dinner serves up a cash treat

    A celebration dinner is set to boost the Telegraph & Argus Save Our Play Appeal to help closure-threatened Bradford Toy Library. More than 600 guests have been invited to the Pakistan Society of West Yorkshire's annual Eid Millan Dinner at the Hilton

  • Jailed lorry driver back at the wheel

    A lorry driver jailed in Greece after being convicted of smuggling illegal immigrants is back driving again after his ordeal but admits: "I never stop checking the truck". Mr David Wilson, 44, from Wyke, was jailed for ten years last March after being

  • Here's to a great fundraising team!

    A pub which has raised more than £30,000 for charity in just five years is dedicating its next fundraising feast in memory of one of its biggest supporters who died this year. Jackie and Mick Bray, at Baildon's Malt Shovel, said the pub's annual game

  • Letters to the Editor

    Prison is worse than hanging SIR - Mike Priestley, in his Saturday column, advocates the return of the death penalty on the basis of the Ian Huntley case. There is a saying in the legal profession that "hard cases make bad law." There are many cases of

  • Derby signals return of the good old days

    Bradford Salem 14 Baildon 12 In many ways this Christmas Saturday derby was a throwback to BCCC - before the Courage Clubs Championship - rather than BC - Before Christ. One of the more traditional festive clashes has, like so many others, suffered since

  • Bates saves the day as United even the score

    Liversedge 1 Eccleshill Utd 3 Eccleshill avenged their mauling at home to close rivals and near- neighbours Liversedge when they got a maximum from the reverse fixture on Saturday. The win keeps United top of the three Bradford sides in the Northern Counties

  • Oleksewycz injury blow for Avenue

    Bradford Park Avenue 2 Harrogate Town 3 Avenue slipped one place back in the UniBond Premier Division after suffering a 3-2 Boxing Day home defeat to high-flying Harrogate Town, and lost leading scorer Steve Oleksewycz to injury. The striker limped off

  • Brian lets it slip in injury time

    Thackley 1 Borrowash Victoria 1 An injury-time leveller knocked the turkey stuffing out of Thackley as struggling Borrowash Victoria snatched a point from their Northern Counties East Premier Division clash at Dennyfield. Thackley looked assured of the

  • Sinnott joy at five-star Celts

    A bumper Christmas crowd of 482 applauded the players off at the end of this eight-goal derby and in the season of good will it was fitting as both sets of players had given their all. Neither manager would have been handing plaudits out in their respective

  • Deano strike stops the rot

    Bryan Robson has ordered his City players to fight and scrap every minute of the way to save their First Division skins. Dean Windass fired the first goal for eight hours yesterday as Robson's men claimed their first win in a month and only the second

  • Proof that crime can be beaten

    The idea of designing crime out of residential areas is a relatively new one. It is also one that can be very successful, if the experience of the Royds estate at Buttershaw is any guide. By changing the design of the estate to incorporate such measures

  • Brewery stirs up a fuss with folly ads

    A brewery is stirring up a touch of controversy in the Yorkshire Dales - with an advertising campaign declaring that "drinking is folly". Recently-launched Wharfedale Brewery, based at Hetton near Skipton, has paid to have the slogan branded across the

  • Stool firm could be sitting on a fortune

    Where does your average Kansas milk maid possibly find herself a milking stool in these days when hi-tech machines have taken over from the traditional practice? The unlikely answer comes courtesy of a new Bingley business founded by an engineer who has

  • No relief for town hit by the rat-runners

    A solution may never be found to relieve congestion at a busy roundabout, which is expected to get worse now the Bingley Relief Road is open. A Bradford councillor has warned that designs being drawn up to combat congestion at the Saltaire roundabout,

  • Man with a Mission, a vicar's lonely walk

    Human contact for vicar Michael Heslop will be rare when he walks the boundaries of his parish over the New Year. The 60-mile boundary, crossing some of the most spectacular countryside in Yorkshire, is home to more sheep than residents. Michael is vicar

  • Today, Buttershaw: Tomorrow, Europe!

    A Bradford housing estate is being used as a blueprint for beating crime across Europe. Methods adopted on the Royds estate in Buttershaw have been so successful at cutting burglary and vandalism that they are to be presented to the European Union next

  • New Year hopes for brave Frank

    The wife of a businessman who suffered horrific burns when he fell into caustic soda will be celebrating the New Year in the knowledge her husband is on the road to recovery. Hopes were high that Frank Bland might have been well enough to be allowed home

  • Cameras may hold vital clue to riddle

    Police hunting a Baildon man missing in Amsterdam hope closed circuit TV cameras will provide vital clues to his disappearance. Dutch officers were today trying to retrace Ian Walton's movements in the city to see if CCTV footage could unlock the mystery