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  • Maxwell is goal hero for Avenue

    Worksop 1 Bradford PA 2 Carl Shutt had a dream start to his managerial stint at Avenue when his young side came from a goal down to win at high-flying Worksop Town in his first match in charge. The former Bradford City midfielder has managed at Dr Martens

  • Noble pulls the plug on Cook's world trip

    The Bulls' dual code international prodigy Matt Cook has been told to withdraw from England Under-19s rugby union world championship squad. Cook, pictured, has been a regular starter in Under-19 internationals, but the 17-year-old Woodhouse Grove School

  • Double boost for Bantams

    Key duo David Wetherall and Danny Cadamarteri are winning their fitness fight to rejoin City's increasingly frantic scrap for survival. Bryan Robson is keeping his fingers crossed that both will be fit to return against Burnley at Valley Parade on Saturday

  • Helping a neighbour in trouble

    The story of Edith Dickinson's eightieth birthday party is a story of the worst and the best in humanity. The conman posing as a gardener who visited Mrs Dickinson's home in the Canterbury area of Bradford late one evening and ran off with the money she

  • On This Day

    In 1911, Denmark abolished capital punishment. In 1916, the Bradford YMCA opened in Forster Square. In 1958, Elvis Presley was sworn in to the U.S. Army. >From the Telegraph & Argus of March 24th, 1979... Teachers in Bradford have rejected a move

  • Daughter's heartfelt plea to missing dad

    A teenage girl, who last saw her father three years ago, has made a desperate plea for him to make contact. Toni Jefferson, 16, last saw her father Paul just two days before her 13th birthday on February 22, 2001. He turned up at her home in Wyke, where

  • Protest vicar has no regrets

    A Bradford vicar arrested during protests at the Menwith Hill American spy base said today: "I have no regrets, I'd do it all again." The Reverend Chris Howson, curate at St Christopher's at Holme Wood, is due before Harrogate magistrates court tomorrow

  • Clare sings her way to jazz millions

    A 30-year-old singer is set for international stardom after signing a multi-million pound record deal. Clare Teal, from Kildwick, near Keighley, is set to be even bigger than rising star of the moment Jamie Cullum after signing the biggest-ever album

  • Letters to the Editor

    Government action is the only answer SIR - Not content with treating his own electorate, and the rest of the people in our region, with contempt concerning his insistence on postal voting, against the wishes of the vast majority, Shipley MP Christopher

  • Thackley suffer a cup final beating

    Thackley 0 Eastwood Town 3 (Eastwood win 5-0 on aggregate) Thackley's dreams of landing a trophy were ruthlessly quashed by on-song Eastwood Town as they marched to victory in the second leg of the Northern Counties East President's Cup final at Dennyfield

  • Paston back in the groove

    Bradford Res 2 Rotherham Res 2 Mark Paston eased his way back into City life last night. The big man was a welcome sight between the sticks after three months out with a stomach injury. Goalkeepers are like buses. This time last week Bryan Robson was

  • 'Touched by all your kindness'

    A pensioner whose 80th birthday party dreams were shattered by a thief is celebrating again after kind-hearted Bradford folk stepped in. Edith Dickinson's birthday bash is back on after caterers Sheila and Phillip Townsend read in the Telegraph &

  • I wasn't credited for West End hit

    A theatre director from Bradford was at the centre of a High Court battle today over the authorship of a multi-million poundWest End hit. Pam Brighton is suing author Marie Jones because she claims her work on the comedy Stones in his Pockets has not

  • 'Seatbelt could have saved him'

    The family of a teenager killed in an horrific crash are urging drivers to belt up as police launch a new seatbelt campaign today. Aaron Feeley, of Pirie Close, Bolton, Bradford, died from head injuries when he was thrown from his convertible Suzuki Vitara

  • Inquiry to find root of festival problems

    An investigation is to be carried out into why a contract to run the city's annual festival between a private company and Bradford Council ended a year early. A decision to instruct the authority's external auditors KPMG to investigate the circumstances