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  • Family's 10-year-old pet parrot stolen during house burglary

    A PET parrot has been stolen in a house burglary.West Yorkshire Police are appealing for information to help reunite the 10-year-old African Grey, named Barney, with his family, following the burglary on Thursday, august 17.Suspects are believed to have

  • Bradford City starlet Patrick signs new three-year deal

    OMARI Patrick has today signed a new deal with City until 2020. The young striker has made an impressive start to life at Valley Parade, scoring the winner on his debut against Blackpool. And the Bantams have moved quickly to protect their

  • A fascinating glimpse of a lost amusement park

    AT FIRST glance it is simply a park - although a very pleasant one at that - complete with formal gardens, woodland, and a large lake.Footpaths for easy walking cross the 137 acre site, passing alongside wild areas brimming with birdlife, flower beds

  • Civic reception helps gallery celebrate 10 years in city

    A CIVIC reception has been held in Bradford City Hall to mark a photographic gallery’s 10th year in the city.Impressions Gallery moved from York, where it was set up in 1972, to its purpose built gallery in City Park in 2007, and yesterday marked its

  • 'Yorkshire Noir' adventure for young readers

    A GLOBAL cyber attack is the setting for Wilsden author William Coniston’s latest children’s adventure. M..I.C.E and the Dragon Worm is a sequel to his previous novel, M..I.C.E. and the Stone, published last year. This new adventure is aimed at youngsters

  • Are you a descendent of this Bradford WW1 soldier?

    INTERESTING what you can find hidden between the pages of a secondhand book...Leafing through an old book, bought from a charity shop, Janet Spears discovered a 100-year-old ‘bereavement silk’ with a Bradford connection.“I found it years ago and during

  • Peltier: It's been tough coping without Leon

    SOMETIMES you don't realise how much you are going to miss something until it is not there.It is like that with Bradford Bulls and Leon Pryce.With the 35-year-old in their team, the Bulls won four out of ten Kingstone Press Championship matches this

  • Silsden friendly defeat was wake-up call

    SILSDEN’S pre-season ended with a surprise defeat at home to a side not on the non-league ladder but there could not have been a greater contrast once the campaign started in earnest as the Cobbydalers won their opening two competitive games.The friendly

  • Liversedge hoping to hit four-figure record for crowd

    LIVERSEDGE are making another attempt to break their record crowd figure for a competitive game when they host Garforth Town on Tuesday. The current record attendance at Clayborn is 14 short of a thousand and the four-figure mark is the aim for

  • CAR REVIEW: Toyota Prius +

    The world’s first seven-seat full hybrid vehicle represents another step forward in moves to combine green technology with practical, family-friendly motoring.Always keen to push the boundaries, Toyota has also used a high voltage lithium-ion battery

  • Fascinating insight into park's past

    At first glance it is simply a park - although a very pleasant one at that - complete with formal gardens, woodland, and a large lake.Footpaths for easy walking cross the 137 acre site, passing alongside wild areas brimming with birdlife, flower beds

  • Mother's desperate plea for £100,000 cancer treatment

    A SINGLE mother with terminal cancer has started a desperate appeal to raise £100,000 to pay for treatment at a German clinic.Mussarat Nazir, 54, is looking to raise the funds to pay for treatment for her stage four breast cancer at the Hallwang Clinic

  • Bentley: I can make the step up with Saints

    JAMES Bentley is backing himself to make the grade at St Helens.The 20-year-old Bradford Bulls player, who has signed a three-year deal with the Betfred Super League club, admitted: "It was a difficult decision (to leave the Bulls) because I have

  • Dieng enjoys the plaudits on return to Bantams ranks

    TIMOTHEE Dieng is happy to ride the rollercoaster of fan emotions now he is back in the City side.With Romain Vincelot still suspended, his fellow Frenchman is set to start once more against Blackburn this afternoon.Dieng has begun the new campaign well

  • 'Cowardly and wicked' attack on defenceless man in City Park

    TWO teenagers caught on camera kicking and punching a defenceless man in a “cowardly and wicked” late-night attack in Bradford city centre have been spared immediate custodial sentences. Toyaib Mahmood, 18, of Cockroft Grove, Barkerend, Bradford

  • Toovey: Bulls players have loads to battle for

    THEY say it's tough at the top, but Geoff Toovey, who has dead-batted speculation about returning to the NRL next season, says that there is plenty for his Bulls players to fight for over the rest of the season.Toovey has been used to success Down