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  • Clean-up plans as eyesore is sold off

    A blot on the district's landscape has been snapped up for just £500 by Bradford Council. Yesterday's decision by the authority's executive will ensure a long-awaited clean up of the Manywells quarry waste tip in Cullingworth and restore it to public

  • Edghill saved by the bell!

    Richard Edghill today revealed just how close he got to joining another League One club. Edghill is hoping to be back in City's squad for the Tranmere game after recovering from a hamstring injury. Following the "will he, won't he" saga regarding

  • Children's home sex fiend

    A former supervisor at a Bradford children's home is facing jail after admitting a string of sex offences over 25 years. Gordon Oliver, who worked with vulnerable children in the city for 15 years, admitted eight indecent assault charges involving

  • Alternative needed for death row

    Our columnist this week is 22-year-old Leanne Wolstenholme, from South Yorkshire, who recently completed an National Council for the Training of Journalists pre-entry newspaper journalism course at Sheffield. Capital punishment. It is an issue that

  • McGrath goes on tour of Argentina

    Yorkshire's Bradford-born batsman Anthony McGrath and his county spin colleague Richard Dawson are members of an MCC party which left yesterday on a two-week tour of Argentina. The 13-man squad, captained by former England skipper Mike Gatting and managed

  • Right to respect the dead

    It is unfortunate that the discovery of a coffin containing a girl's body on the Eastbrook Hall site should have caused a snag for the development work that is taking place there. However, it is only right and proper that the correct procedures should

  • Minister in plea to city's business

    Bradford businesses were today urged to report on their environmental impacts as Defra issued guidelines to make it easier to do so. Environment Minister, Elliot Morley said his message came on the back of recent coverage on the removal of the Operating

  • Bands could hit right summer note

    The tradition of live music in Saltaire's historic park could be resurrected. A group of park enthusiasts want to bring music back to the site of the former Roberts Park Bandstand. Under the scheme, which could be running by summer, concerts will take

  • Lessons to help travelling supporters

    Football fans are to be given a helping hand cheering on England's World Cup heroes this summer with a new course teaching them German. Bradford College has devised a course to help England fans who are travelling to Germany to watch the World Cup. The

  • Passengers face security delays

    Passengers using Leeds-Bradford Airport face delays under tough new security checks. Legislation announced today gives police and security services added powers to gain access to the advanced travel details on passengers travelling on domestic flights

  • Clean-up plans as eyesore is sold off

    A blot on the district's landscape has been snapped up for just £500 by Bradford Council. Yesterday's decision by the authority's executive will ensure a long-awaited clean up of the Manywells quarry waste tip in Cullingworth and restore it to public

  • Children's home sex fiend

    A former supervisor at a Bradford children's home is facing jail after admitting a string of sex offences over 25 years. Gordon Oliver, who worked with vulnerable children in the city for 15 years, admitted eight indecent assault charges involving two

  • Girls reach final after battering Battyeford

    Pudsey Juniors Girls under-16s advanced to the West Riding Cup final for the fifth year in a row with a 16-1 thrashing of Battyeford Sporting Girls. The girls recorded their third highest score ever in a competitive game, playing some of their best football

  • Barraclough's the boss after call-up

    Former coach Glenn Barraclough answered a late SOS call to play a key role in West Bowling's 13-8 National Conference Division One success at Hunslet Warriors. Barraclough marked his return, after Wests requested his services following late withdrawals

  • Supporters can make world of difference

    The Bulls plan to sign a key player in their bid to become three-times World Club Challenge champions - the support of the city. Chairman Chris Caisley is concerned bad publicity is blighting interest in the Wests Tigers clash next Friday. So far, only

  • Edghill saved by the bell!

    Richard Edghill today revealed just how close he got to joining another League One club. Edghill is hoping to be back in City's squad for the Tranmere game after recovering from a hamstring injury. Following the "will he, won't he" saga regarding his

  • Delays are hitting profits, firm warns

    A food company warned that delays increasing the price paid by supermarkets like Bradford's Morrisons for its products would hit profits in the first half of the year. Arla, the UK's largest supplier of butter and milk upped the selling price of its goods

  • Recruitment firm in expansion plan

    One of Bradford's top recruitment agencies is set to expand. Relay Recruitment already has offices in Bradford, Leeds and Halifax and now has plans to open four in North Yorkshire - the first of which will open in York in March. The offices will see 12

  • Waseem trains for a career in health

    A Bradford man who had to miss much of his schooling while he was treated for a brain tumour is being helped into a job in the NHS thanks to a new training programme. Waseem Shah, 23, is building his confidence and ability to find work by taking part

  • Canal waste will be cut by new project

    The amount of Bradford's toilet waste entering the Leeds- Liverpool Canal will be cut thanks to a new hi-tech project by Yorkshire Water. The company is spending thousands of pounds on a scheme to improve the quality of waste water reaching the canal

  • Shake-up 'chance to boost service'

    Health bosses were grilled at a well-attended public meeting yesterday on proposals to scrap the district's four primary care trusts and replace them with just one organisation. The shake-up of health services will also see West Yorkshire Strategic Health

  • Racism is 'bad thing' activist tells court

    A British National Party activist told a court he did not blame "all Asians" for race problems in Britain. Mark Collett, 25, denies that a series of speeches he made in 2004 were intended to stir up racial hatred and told the jury at Leeds Crown Court

  • Dispute over work on burial ground

    A row is brewing over a development after it emerged contractors illegally dug into a burial ground. Ham Construction should have applied for a licence to move graves beneath Eastbrook Hall. The discovery that the work was being done without a licence

  • Letters to the Editor

    No need to lose any faith in school SIR - In relation to the Asma Shah story, I agree with the headline of your comment (T&A, January 20), this was an 'ordeal that cannot be repeated'. It is right and proper that tighter procedures are being put in