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  • 'Bulls need a sugar daddy'

    Departing chairman Chris Caisley today announced he is stepping down so the Bulls can search for their very own Roman Abramovich. As revealed in later editions of yesterday's T&A, Caisley has shocked Bulls fans by announcing he will quit after the

  • 'Why new business wants to back city'

    One of the city's newest businesses has given its support to the Telegraph & Argus Buy It In Bradford campaign. Abacus restaurant chose Bradford's Leisure Exchange in Vicar Lane as the venue for its second outlet because of the ambitious regeneration

  • 'Traders Rejoice at £450,000 boost'

    REVAMP:PROJECTS BOOST FOR SHOPPERS Stall holders in two major markets were today celebrating a multi-thousand pound boost from Bradford Council. Popular city centre Kirkgate market and Keighley market hall are in line for improvements costing £450,000

  • SHOP for Bradford!

    TELEGRAPH & ARGUS CAMPAIGN GETS OFF TO A FLYING START AS CIVIC LEADERS AND TRADE ORGANISATIONS BACK OUR INITIATIVE The Telegraph & Argus have launched its Buy It In Bradford campaign to urge readers to support retailers as the city centre undergoes

  • Warning to legal firms

    Bradford law firms face extinction unless they adapt to "the brave new world of the future" sparked by a shake-up of legal services. The warning is from Yorkshire law firm Irwin Mitchell in its reaction to the Government's White Paper on legal reforms

  • Tills ring out in festive rush

    Bradford tills are ringing as a last-minute Christmas spending boom draws hundreds of thousands of shoppers to the city centre. The Kirkgate centre, the city's biggest indoor shopping mall, today reported a record quarter of a million people through

  • Bradford moving to the samba beat

    Budding Ronaldinhos or Ronaldos can now learn the finer points of South American-style samba football in Bradford. Bradford City's Bobby Petta and Leeds United Ladies star and England women's international Sue Smith have launched a specialist futsal league

  • Celts aiming to close gap on top five

    Farsley Celtic will have to be on top form tonight if they are to bounce back from Saturday's disappointing exit from the FA Trophy at Kettering Town. Blyth Spartans are the visitors to Throstle Nest and despite being in tenth place in the UniBond Premier

  • Ricketts can earn lucrative progress

    Donovan Ricketts marches straight back into goal tonight as City get serious in the LDV Vans Trophy. The Jamaican keeper is back from suspension for the northern area quarter-final at Kidderminster. Colin Todd is not planning to make too many changes

  • 'Bulls need a sugar daddy'

    Departing chairman Chris Caisley today announced he is stepping down so the Bulls can search for their very own Roman Abramovich. As revealed in later editions of yesterday's T&A, Caisley has shocked Bulls fans by announcing he will quit after the

  • Thanks for a fantastic journey

    Chris Caisley has presided over some of the most successful seasons in the history of Bradford Bulls - and before that Bradford Northern - Rugby League Club in his 16 years at the helm. During his tenure as chairman the Bulls made a leap from a solid

  • Factory outlet opens

    Traditional menswear maker Greenwoods has opened a factory outlet at its headquarters in the Albion Mills business complex in Greengates. The firm said the new operation featured the largest formal hire and wedding suit centre in the north. John Hanson

  • Helping the survivors to walk again

    A little girl can walk again for the first time since she lost her leg in the South Asian earthquake thanks to a pioneering service set up by a Bradford surgeon. Bradford Royal Infirmary orthopaedic surgeon Asad Syed returned to the devastated region,

  • Sharing the art of Islam

    An imaginative programme of Islamic art is to be included in next year's £5 million Illuminate festival. The five cities' arts festival, which includes Bradford, will now also showcase Islamic design, calligraphy, literature, film, theatre and music.

  • Solicitor's legal bid over mother's care

    A solicitor has taken Bradford Council to the High Court in a bid to reunite his elderly mum with her care home friends for Christmas. Jaroslaw Stachiw said Bradford Council moved his 81-year-old mum from Meadowcroft residential care home in Bowling after

  • Horse sanctuary hit by crime yet again

    A struggling horse sanctuary is counting the cost after being targeted once again. In November, thieves broke into Rivendell's stables in Wrose and stole three rugs worth around £200 - and now they have been back for more. Fed-up volunteers are urging

  • Partial smoking ban is 'unjust' say MPs

    Government plans to allow smoking in pubs that do not serve food have been condemned by an influential group of MPs. The Commons' Health Select Committee said proposals to introduce a partial ban were "unfair, unjust, inefficient and unworkable". In a

  • Alliance intended to boost failing school

    Bradford's best performing state school is to partner up with a failing school in a revolutionary bid to boost standards. Dixons City Academy's head teacher Dwayne Saxton will take over as head at struggling Wyke Manor School from the start of next year

  • Tills ring out in festive rush

    Bradford tills are ringing as a last-minute Christmas spending boom draws hundreds of thousands of shoppers to the city centre. The Kirkgate centre, the city's biggest indoor shopping mall, today reported a record quarter of a million people through its

  • Speedster Adal aiming for glory

    Move over the Rawalpindi Express. Here comes the Manningham Missile. Teenager Adal Islam, a pupil at Carlton-Bolling College, has won a cricket speed bowling competition from an entry of over 500 at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Islam, who plays for Manningham

  • Help staff to beat those new year blues

    Improving the working environment and giving staff health supplements could drastically reduce Bradford absenteeism after Christmas, according to an executive business coach. Margaret McAngus, who runs the Yorkshire-based Academy of Achievement, said

  • Share prices set to boom says expert

    Next year will offer big opportunities for investors with a boom in share prices, according to stockbrokers Redmayne-Bentley. The Leeds firm, which supplies share and financial information to the T&A, said a "sparkling performance" by equities this

  • Staff and pupils to fight school closure

    Senior councillors have been advised to close a middle school despite widespread opposition. After consultation education bosses are recommending RM Grylls Middle School in Hightown be shut down next year. Pupils would then be transferred over a mile

  • £5m funding bid for 'urgent care' centre

    Health bosses have launched a funding bid to build a new £5 million treatment centre in Eccleshill. The centre would provide urgent care for the treatment of minor injuries for people living in North Bradford. If the bid for funding from West Yorkshire

  • Court ruling will not deter city developer

    The boss of a company which lost a high court battle to buy one of the city's best development sites today pledged he still believed in Bradford and was here to stay. Managing director of Asquith Properties Russell Baker said they still hoped to buy the

  • Drug-trial car dealer guilty of £7m plot

    A Bradford car dealer was unanimously convicted of masterminding a plot to flood the Bradford area with 130 kilogrammes of heroin. Khalid Malik, 35, is facing a lengthy prison sentence for heading a gang which planned to bring £7 million worth of the

  • Plea for probe into children's casualty

    A Bradford councillor has called for an investigation into poor facilities for children attending Accident and Emergency at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Councillor Jeanette Sunderland, Liberal Democrat councillor for Idle and Thackley, has written to the

  • Letters to the Editor

    Mother Nature really can help SIR - With all the correspondence regarding renewable energy, has Bradford Council taken into consideration that now is the time to take advantage of this possibility? Every building should be crowned with perimeter shaded

  • Okay, so I’ll lighten up for 2006

    It is the evening of the Telegraph & Argus features department Christmas do, and Barnett - for it is he - is trying to get his festive column completed so he can join his colleagues in a pint and a punch-up in one of the less salubrious city centre hostelries