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Fighting injustice - home and away

Bradford Immigration Advisory Service staff, clockwise from the centre, Ateeq Siddique, Asma Ishfaq, Shameem Akhtar, Temoor Raja and Riffat Hussain

7:16am Monday 28th May 2007

With the Darfur region of Sudan in the news again as a cash aid appeal is launched by celebrities, this and other international crises are creating a flow of refugees to the West.

Pitching in as new cricket season starts

Manningham Mills' Nasser Jamal bowling

12:12pm Friday 13th April 2007

On Friday night several hundred young men will be checking their whites, pads and bats on the eve of a new Bradford League cricket season.

Scope for optimism over war on terror

Paul Rogers

5:41am Wednesday 11th April 2007

Bradford academic Prof Paul Rogers has co-authored a new book about the problems facing Earth and its inhabitants. But it's not all doom-mongering, as JIM GREENHALF found out.

Talk to me, border chief urges public

Chris Hudson, the new Border Immigration Agency regional director

7:43am Wednesday 4th April 2007

During the recent travails involving the Home Office, it was the immigration part of the department that Home Secretary John Reid declared was "not fit for purpose".

'Lots of guns in Bradford' claim

Det Supt Dave Oldroyd at the scene of the shooting in Brackenhill Park

6:10am Wednesday 28th February 2007

Detectives probing the chilling point-blank shooting of Skander Habib Rehman, 20, in Brackenhill Park, Lidget Green, have stressed it is an extremely rare offence.

Season of the switch!

A city centre office block is ablaze with light...

2:02pm Saturday 10th February 2007

Next week is about helping people take action that can make the environment better, homes warmer and everyone generally better off.

Are Muslims always the bad guys?

Irfan Ajeeb

2:10pm Thursday 25th January 2007

Are Muslims the new stereotypical big screen bad guys? And, if so, should some movies be banned?

Has the Green Belt idea run its course?

3:40pm Wednesday 24th January 2007

An independent think tank' report calls for the release of more green belt land for house building.

Feel free to ask, but don't expect an answer

Maurice Frankel

1:24pm Wednesday 17th January 2007

The Freedom of Information Act was brought in two years ago to help people find out as much information on public bodies as they could. It has proved a valuable tool, especially for newspapers wanting to get data into the public arena that they previously might have been blocked from obtaining.

City serves up opportunities for Poles

Jan Niczyperowicz, chairman of Bradford's Federation of Poles

10:12am Monday 15th January 2007

Bradford is becoming a magnet for migrants from Eastern Europe, in particular from Poland, looking for new economic opportunities. Reporter JIM GREENHALF went out to meet some of them.


National News

MPs braced for expenses backlash

MPs have published amendments to the Government's Counter-Terrorism Bill

Updated 1:03pm Friday 4th July 2008

MPs are facing further outrage over their expenses regime after they rejected calls for the abolition of the "John Lewis list" and independent scrutiny of their claims.


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