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  • Hill fired up after blasting

    Bradford Dudley Hill 20 Hemel Stags 10 Bradford Dudley Hill coach Graeme Hallas had to give his team a right royal rollocking at half-time in this LHF Healthplan National League Three game at Parry Lane. Hill were 10-4 behind to a very muscular Hemel

  • Moore to enjoy next season

    Oldham Athletic 2 Bradford City 1 Oldham's celebrity A list can sleep easy in their beds. Everyone from Paul Sculthorpe and page three model Michelle Marsh to Eric Sykes and Take That's Mark Owen had been banging the drum for the Latics in their hour

  • Typhoon Tesseyman batters poor Salts

    Salts endured a nightmare belated start to the season on Saturday when they lost to Lightcliffe in blustery conditions on an unpredictable home pitch. Salts, who hadn't played a game up until this point, batted first but wished they hadn't when they quickly

  • Noble's men are Cooked

    Hull FC 26 Bradford Bulls 24 Another appalling start left the Bulls needing yet another second-half miracle to survive in the Powergen Challenge Cup but, this time, God must have been too busy orchestrating the lightning and thunderous hailstorms that

  • Davies leads from front for Baildon

    Early season doesn't seem to agree with Baildon these days. Last year they were in a relegation place in the SDS Bradford League First Division until early June. However a strong second half of the season lifted them to eighth. This season they have fallen

  • You bet he's a happy man

    Dean Windass has 1,250 reasons to celebrate finishing as League One's top hitman. The City striker had backed himself for £100 at odds of 25/1 before a ball was kicked. So he was understandably cock-a-hoop after scoring the free-kick at Oldham which ensured

  • Half-hearted from Bulls

    All last week the talk coming out of the Bulls camp was about how they couldn't afford to start badly against Hull. They were right. "The proof of the pudding was there to see," lamented coach Brian Noble after his side narrowly failed to overturn a 20

  • Why staying loyal can be so important

    The Morrisons takeover of Safeway has not been without its headaches. The Bradford company took a lot of flak from the City after it was forced to warn of temporary profits difficulties and the grumbling shows little sign of abating in the near future

  • Shares Week

    It has been a busy week, with both good and bad news to keep us on our toes. Atlantic Global issued a profit warning causing a near five per cent fall in the share price. Despite chairman David Cox's statement at the full-year results on April 4 which

  • Cardboard coffins are heat winners!

    An eco-friendly coffin developed by a firm of Bradford undertakers has propelled the funeral directors into the finals of an awards scheme. The long-established company, Joseph A Hey & Son Ltd, developed the cardboard Coffin Cover as a cheaper and

  • Cameras to spy on pest tippers

    Mobile spy cameras are to catch out flytippers in the Spen Valley. Kirklees councillors are setting up a surveillance operation in a bid to stop the people behind the area's worst grotspots. The Spen Valley Area Committee will spend £4,000 on cameras

  • Overseas parcel stuck in system

    A parcel of books journeyed thousands of miles from India to Bradford only to get stuck in a delivery system just two miles from its final destination. Krishan Mittal, 70, claimed he notched up seven hours' driving time and 150 miles trying to track down

  • Party like it's 1945!

    Bradford has been filled with the sights and sounds of the 1940s as people across the district remembered victory in Europe 60 years ago. Yesterday marked the 60th anniversary of VE Day and celebrations took place in the streets, pubs, museums, libraries

  • £10,000 raised by smart dining idea

    Restaurants in Bradford have raised £10,000 for a campaign helping the homeless. The campaign, backed by the Telegraph & Argus, is run by the charity Streetsmart and involves diners in restaurants adding £1 on to their bills. The money, which is raised

  • 'Let us spend this £50m on the city'

    The team behind a planned £50 million-plus city-centre housing complex say they are desperate to spend the money here in Bradford. Developers from Landtask, a firm based in the district, are expected to meet with members of the urban regeneration company

  • School admitted to Most Improved Club

    A Bradford school has been named as one of the most improved specialist schools in the country. Staff and students at Salt Grammar School, in Shipley, have two reasons to celebrate today after receiving a glowing report from Ofsted inspectors and entering

  • Letters to the Editor

    The subjects of public ridicule SIR - What an enlightening article by Mike Priestley (T&A, April 26) speaking to Granville Dobson, the chairman of Bradford Magistrates. Mr Dobson is a man of impeccable character, integrity, and genuine sincerity.

  • McGrath hopes runs will now start to flow

    Mention chocolate fountains to most people and you will get a blank response but not from Yorkshire batsman Anthony McGrath, who has made a business enterprise out of them during the winter, and hopes that things will go just as sweetly on the field of

  • Smillie is not smiling after 'rubbish' display

    Donovan Smillie suffered a shock defeat in Bradford yesterday and admitted: "I boxed rubbish". Smillie was edged 58-57 by Slough light-heavy Ryan Walls at the Town & Country Club show - his first loss since October 2002. On an 11-fight winning run

  • It isn't mess - it's boosting potential

    Career changes aren't often as contrasting as Sharon Bellerby's. From being practice manager at a Bradford dentist's the mother of three bought up the Bradford franchise for a company which offers special art classes for pre-school children. Messy Monsters

  • Co-op serious over bid for Somerfield

    The chief executive of United Co-operatives today insisted he was "absolutely serious" about his company's interest in making a bid for supermarket group Somerfield. The society, which owns a string of convenience stores across the district, has formally

  • Pensioners' anger at health proposals

    Pensioner groups have hit out at a Government health agency which hinted patients could be denied certain health treatments because of their age. A draft report by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) sent shock waves through

  • Land rules put the brakes on bike trial

    An historic event organised by a Bradford motorcycle club is being cancelled because of new Euro-inspired rules governing the use of farm land. The Allan Jefferies Rose Bowl Trial has been held in the Dales village of Halton Gill since 1946. Now after

  • Link hands to put a stop to poverty

    Hundreds of people are set to circle Bradford's City Hall in a bid to create a human white ribbon to raise awareness of the plight of the world's poor. People are urged to put on white shirts and join Bradford Bulls stars Andy Lynch, Jamie Langley and

  • Space is opening up for region's artists

    Artists with designs on wowing wider audiences are being invited to join a project linked to this year's Bradford Festival. For the past three years, the city has celebrated an Open House project during the Festival fortnight, where artists across the

  • Family appeals for life-saving donors

    A family today appealed to people to come forward as bone marrow donors after their 11-year-old daughter died following a transplant operation. Kiran Ashfaq was given an 11th birthday celebration by consultants, staff and friends while she was lying on

  • £100m store wars boost

    Morrisons' takeover of supermarket rival Safeway has boosted the Bradford economy by £100 million, it was revealed today. A string of local companies have been employed on the huge project to convert hundreds of former Safeway stores into the Morrisons