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  • That sinking feeling

    City for the LDV? You've got to be Kidd-ing. Dreams of a day trip to the Millennium Stadium were blown away the moment Lee Crooks saw red at Kidderminster last night. The sending off, City's fifth of the season, proved a fatal blow as it left them a man

  • Carlisle keeper's a big catch for Avenue

    Bradford Park Avenue have taken Carlisle United's teenage goalkeeper Neil Thompson on loan. Thompson, 18, will be the sixth keeper to play in the first team this season. The stopper, who is in his third year as a professional at Carlisle, was loaned out

  • Bulls season tickets in high demand

    Support of the Bulls is enjoying a mini-renaissance in the wake of their Grand Final glory. The club has already attracted more than 1,000 new season-ticket holders for 2006 on the back of lifting the Super League title. The big kick-off is still seven

  • Seeing the future of Bradford

    News that a Middlesex-based property company has already invested more than £10 million in apartments in what its boss has described as a "swanky trendy city", namely Bradford, is not only a terrific boost for the city but is also vindication of the way

  • 'Brown needs more enterprising view'

    There is widespread dissatisfaction across Yorkshire that an enterprise culture is not high enough on the Government's agenda, according to the results of a new survey. And business leaders in Bradford describe the UK's loss of competitiveness as "serious

  • £300 will buy them a home to live in

    A Bradford volunteer aid worker who has been helping injured survivors of the South Asia earthquake has returned home with a mission to do more to help. Zeshan Ahmed, 24, spent weeks with his friend Dr Talat Hussain collecting walking aids to distribute

  • Water way to go Michelle!

    Apprentice Michelle Holdsworth has got herself a plumb job. The 18-year-old is flushed with pride after becoming Bradford Community Housing Trust's first female plumber. And the teenager from Holme Wood is hoping she will set the trend for more women

  • 'Leave our force to stand alone'

    The West Yorkshire Police Authority will tell the Home Secretary it cannot agree to merge with other forces in the biggest shake-up of policing for 30 years. Charles Clarke has come under fire over plans to merge the 43 police forces of England and Wales

  • Why I spent £10m in 'trendy' Bradford

    Bradford was today dubbed a "swanky, trendy city" by a tycoon who has snapped up dozens of new apartments in a multi-million pound spending spree in the district. Manoj Raithatha's company Summertime Properties has paid more than £10 million for top class

  • Hospitals cut jobs to fund better care

    Hundreds of administration jobs at Bradford Teaching Hospitals could be lost in order to redirect cash to front-line services. The Trust has announced it wants to slice more than £1 million from its salaries budget and reinvest the money in the provision

  • Midfields on top as Celts are thwarted

    Farsley had to settle for a draw in last night's UniBond Premier Division clash with Blyth Spartans but it was a result that takes their unbeaten run in the league to eight games. It was a vibrant match but despite the efforts of both sides there were

  • 'Crooks let us all down'

    Colin Todd blasted Lee Crooks after ten-man City came a cropper in the LDV Vans Trophy. Crooks was sent off after only six minutes last night at non-league Kidderminster Harriers. The Bantams lost 2-1 to the Conference side and blew the prospect of a

  • Upturn in home loans

    There has been an "encouraging upturn" in mortgage lending in the second half of the year, according to specialist lender Bradford & Bingley. Mortgage development manager Duncan Pownall said figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showed that

  • Specialists complete asbestos removal

    Demolition specialists GBM have finished knocking down Keighley hospital buildings riddled with asbestos. The former staff accommodation blocks at Airedale General Hospital were removed over a period of weeks to make way for a new mental health unit.

  • Driver refuses to help man in a wheelchair

    A wheelchair user is furious after fellow passengers had to help him off a bus when the driver refused to lower the ramp. The bus company has launched an inquiry into the incident in which disabled Stephen Sunter was left struggling to get off the access

  • Driver's death during pursuit 'an accident'

    A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the inquest into the death of Umar Ahmed who died following a police pursuit. Mr Ahmed, 21, died when his Suzuki Swift car hit a lamp post after he failed to stop when he was pulled over by a police patrol

  • Lucky mum wins a Merc at work

    A Bradford health worker is celebrating beating the odds to win two prizes in a staff draw - including a £20,000 car. Julie Balahura, who works for Bradford District Care Trust, scooped a Mercedes-Benz B Class car only weeks after winning £250 in the

  • Fugitive conspired to sell stolen cars

    A man who went on the run during a Bradford car ringing trial will be sentenced early in the New Year for his part in the £300,000 scam. Imran Arif, 28, appeared before Leeds Crown Court yesterday after he was arrested in Bradford last month and held

  • Fury at runaway death car sentence

    The family of a mum-of-six killed by a runaway car have reacted angrily to the sentence given to the car's owner. Kurdish asylum seeker Arben Emini was fined £400 and banned from driving for a year after his car ploughed into Raqia Begum when he failed

  • Letters to the Editor

    'Pie in the sky' policy disquiet SIR - The fake lake city fathers' dream will come true via the canalside development (T&A, November 30). The sum of £350 million is a lot of money for a Kremlin lookalike. There is no need for another cluster of expensive

  • '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