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Neighbourhood programme reaps its just reward

The Bradford team at the awards ceremony in Harrogate

4:40am Thursday 20th November 2008

Bradford Council’s Streets Ahead programme, which aims to improve the quality of life for residents living in five areas of the district, has just won a regional award.

Keeping a weather eye out for poachers

Allan Pettit, gamekeeper at Bolton Abbey

10:38am Wednesday 19th November 2008

Landowners across the district say they are “alert” to a potential increase in poaching in the face of rising food prices and the reality of recession.

Panto first lesson? Oh yes it is!

Teachers Chris Mayoh and Kate Saunderson and children at Bowling Park Primary School step out during the pantomime roadshow touring Bradford schools

8:54am Wednesday 19th November 2008

Curtain-up as the Ugly Sisters go back to school

New chief pledges to 'put bobbies back on the beat'

Detective Chief Superintendent Rose

9:50am Tuesday 18th November 2008

Police in Bradford are set to “go back to basics” under a new chief.

On the beat among people that matter

Chief Inspector Jason Galvin and Coun Martin Smith on the streets of Bradford city centre

10:39am Thursday 13th November 2008

A criminal justice supremo will make sure the public of Bradford sees the tough consequences for those who break the law.

Can you offer hope in troubled times?

Helen Syrop at the offices she runs for Hope Housing, providing temporary shelter for homeles people in the district

2:49pm Tuesday 11th November 2008

A new charity is appealing for volunteers to help it provide assistance and temporary accommodation for the homeless in Bradford.

Salute to those other 'soldiers'

The Lady Mayoress with the former Land Army girls at her reception

8:50am Monday 10th November 2008

The land girls’ reward for their years of toil in aid of the war effort

Angels have street cred

The Street Angels set off on their task of helping people late at night

12:03pm Monday 10th November 2008

A community scheme set up to make Bradford’s streets a safer place for revellers will celebrate its first anniversary next month.

One man the sea could not claim

Norman Walton, centre, with shipmates enjoying leave in Malta

9:13am Wednesday 5th November 2008

Fascinating biography of the lone survivor of a ship lost in wartime

The cutting edge of ending knife crime

Inspector Esther Hobbs in front of the billboard she hopes will be filled with the faces of young people who are speaking out against knife crime

2:18pm Tuesday 4th November 2008

Teenagers in Bradford today gave their support to a new Home Office scheme to put young people on the front line in the fight against knife crime.


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