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  • City in bid to host Bollywood 'Oscars'

    Bollywood superstars could be heading to Bradford if a bid to bring Asia's international film 'Oscars' to the UK is a success. The Yorkshire Tourist Board has submitted a bid to the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) to host the 2007 awards in

  • Willow, Rawson Place, Bradford

    Rawson Place has been a sad old street for the past few years. It's still not looking all that jolly, with far too many shops remaining empty. But things are moving ahead for it as the top end of town begins its slow revival. In the wake of the opening

  • No clowning in this sinister circus

    Ilkley-based writer Pat Monteath's first book Who Pays The Ferryman? came about after a chance meeting in a pub with a former member of the Parachute Regiment, who whetted Pat's writerly appetite with his tales of serving in Northern Ireland during The

  • 'A lot of people saw themselves in Billy Casper. . .'

    There can be few people who ever went through the British comprehensive schooling system who didn't, at some point, identify with snot-nosed Billy Casper or know someone like him. The star of Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave and then the ground-breaking

  • Snapshots of the city that JB grew up in

    The writer J B Priestley will forever be linked to his birthplace, Bradford, even though he left the city at the age of 20 to go to war and never really returned on any permanent basis. In 1894, Priestley was born into a Bradford of dark, Satanic mills

  • "I'll never forget my roots"

    It's fair to say that you don't mess with Malcolm McDowell. Anyone who has made a career of playing some of cinema's most extreme outsider characters - Alex DeLarge in the notorious A Clockwork Orange, Mick Travis in If. . . , bonkers Roman emperor

  • She's got her eye on you

    As a little girl who wore glasses, Victoria Gore was a regular visitor to her local optician where she looked in wonder at the odd-looking contraptions used to test her eyes. Such was her interest that she was inspired to become an optician herself

  • Cougars aiming to clean up this season

    Keighley Cougars are working with Woodville Work Activity Centre in a bid to clean up Cougar Park. After consultations with the Centre, which is part of Bradford Metropolitan District Council's Skills for Work Service, it was agreed that learners would

  • Treble target still on for Aireborough

    Aireborough stretched their unbeaten run to 24 games last night as they maintained their pursuit of a treble. Already champions of York-shire Division Four and into the semi-finals of the York-shire Silver Trophy, where they host Guisborough on Saturday

  • Avenue recruits ready for action

    Avenue take on Gateshead at Horsfall Stadium this evening knowing they can climb out of the bottom three of the Northern Premier League if they can force a victory. Manager Phil Sharpe, who signed five new players last week and has since recruited Stephen

  • Deano's vow of silence

    Dean Windass today made the bold promise never to fall out with referees again. City's top scorer is ready to put the bad old days of clashing with officials behind him. Windass, who has just finished a five-game ban for yelling abuse at referee Darren

  • Hospital parking a bitter pill

    There will be those who regularly use the services of Bradford hospitals for whom the news that more than £860,000 has been made from car parking charges over the course of a year will leave a very sour taste in their mouths. For many people, using their

  • Ramsay's TV victim is now living on benefits

    A woman whose restaurant was savaged by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay on his TV show, is now living on benefits and homeless. Sue Ray, who ran the Silsden restaurant Bonaparte's, the first to be featured on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, said her life had

  • Matthew's running in mum's memory

    A man aims to run a marathon in memory of his mother and the treatment she received at a city hospice. Matthew Mitton, 29, will take on the London Marathon for the first time on April 23 to raise funds for the Bradford Marie Curie Hospice. Staff at the

  • Tim's cut out for a role in major movie

    A businessman is to appear in a controversial drama about the relationship between prison campaigner Lord Longford and infamous Moors Murderer Myra Hindley. Part-time actor Tim Wyatt, 53, plays a television reporter and radio broadcaster in forthcoming

  • DIY woman told to demolish extension

    A businesswoman who turned an historic school into a DIY store has been ordered to demolish a new entrance she had built. Simmy Ahktar appealed to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister after she was told by Bradford Council to pull down the structure

  • Retiring GP fears the end of days out

    A Bradford GP known for treating her elderly patients to cheering days out will be retiring next month after 43 years in medicine. Dr Urmila Gupta, 70, will retire in April after running her practice on Green Lane in Manningham for 36 years. But Dr Gupta

  • Five-day strikes on way in pension row

    Bradford could be battered by three, four and even five-day Council strikes this spring as angry workers ramp up the pressure on ministers. Union chiefs have confirmed yesterday's one-day walk-out was just the first in a series expected to blight the

  • City in bid to host Bollywood 'Oscars'

    Bollywood superstars could be heading to Bradford if a bid to bring Asia's international film 'Oscars' to the UK is a success. The Yorkshire Tourist Board has submitted a bid to the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) to host the 2007 awards in Yorkshire

  • 'Terrifying' shotgun raider is locked up

    A 20-year-old man who was involved in a terrifying armed raid on a Bradford mobile phone shop just 18 days after the fatal shooting of PC Sharon Beshenivsky has been locked up for five years. Judge Roger Scott told Arman Nasir that one of the most disturbing

  • My Ashleene is no extremist says mum

    The mum of notorious teen-ager Ashleene Gallagher fears for her daughter's safety after she was branded a "Muslim extremist" by the media. Ashleene Gallagher hit the headlines in 2003 when she appeared in a TV documentary, 'The Last White Kids' about

  • Hospital parking rakes in £860,000

    Hospitals in Bradford raked in more than £860,000 by forcing patients and visitors to pay for parking their cars. New figures reveal that Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust collected a staggering £861,000 in parking charges last year - almost

  • Winger puts his wedding on hold

    Clayton wingman Jason Brooksbank's devotion to duty in postponing his Caribbean wedding to play in the Pennine League Premier Division relegation battle at Illingworth was rewarded with a two-try man-of-the-match display in his side's 28-20 win. The Villagers

  • Deacon has metal plate removed

    Paul Deacon, who missed last weekend's Engage Super League victory over Wigan Warriors, will be back in the frame for Saturday's Powergen Challenge Cup tie against Hull at Odsal. The 27-year-old underwent major facial surgery after a sickening injury

  • City schemes used to promote county

    Regeneration projects in Bradford are being used to encourage businesses to invest in redevelopments across Yorkshire. Property experts Knight Frank, published a report which said perceptions of regeneration schemes as being high-risk ventures were false

  • Accused 'cannot remember stabbing'

    A 34-year-old man on trial for murder blamed anti-depressants for cutting off his emotions, a court heard. Gavin Hogg, of Wellhouse Lane, Mirfield, took the stand at Leeds Crown Court yesterday, accused of stabbing David Burrows to death outside the family

  • Twins are invited to play ball

    As Wayne Rooney, David Beckham and Michael Owen limber up for the World Cup, Bradford's host nation friends are making their own preparations to welcome their Yorkshire "twins". Tourism chiefs in the district's partner towns say the competition is a golden

  • Nuisance light may attract £5,000 fine

    Owners of over-sensitive security lights which activate in a stiff breeze could be fined up to £5,000 from next week. New legislation will make it a criminal offence to annoy neighbours with artificial light. Bradford Council dealt with 17 such complaints

  • Brave Lily is 'stable' after heart operation

    Desperately-ill Lily Cater has been given a new chance at life after surviving major open heart surgery. The two-year-old, who suffers from a rare heart condition called pulmonary atresia, was in a stable condition in intensive care today after undergoing

  • Letters to the Editor

    Drug project has performed wonders SIR - It is a disgrace that despite the millions of pounds Bradford receives to tackle drug misuse and related crime the Agape Project finds itself in dire financial needs (T&A, March 23). Surely when different services

  • Past wars have taught us nothing

    Our columnist this week is a student from Bradford Sonia Kumar In 1914 the soldiers of the First World War were confident that they would be home by Christmas. How wrong they were. They were to suffer a horrific bloodbath that lasted four years