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From the Telegraph & Argus of December 18, 1979...

A new row has flared over the way Bradford Metropolitan Council is being run. It emerged today that the education chairman Councillor Stanley Arthur had been kept in the dark about a controversial issue affecting his directorate. At the centre of the dispute is a plan to move Salt Grammar School out of Shipley if the Aire Valley trunk road is built along the route now proposed and provide a new school on land at Esholt estate.

From the Telegraph & Argus of December 18, 1954...

Negotiations being carried out between Bradford Public Works Development and a London-based insurance company may result in new shopping places for Broadway, Bradford, being almost double the size first proposed. Agreement was reached with the company to lease them the vacant sites between Broadway and Hall Ings, on which they would build five-storey premises for stores, shops and offices.