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Jim Greenhalf joined the T&A in 1977 looking for a way out. Instead he was thrown into the middle of some of the biggest news stories in the UK - the Ripper, Ray Honeyford, the Bradford City fire, the Rushdie book burning - winning awards along the way. Perhaps he found what he was after.
Posted at 12:11pm Wednesday 5th November 2008
Team responsibilty
Rhys Evans is quite right. The Bradford City goalkeeper said: "At some point people have got to say this has to stop; but that's got to be during the game. It's no good reflecting about this afterwards."
Posted at 12:08pm Wednesday 5th November 2008
Cooking challenge
I can't have been the only soul in Bradford who watched the last episode of Jamie Oliver's campaigning Ministry of Food programme on Channel 4.
Posted at 4:18pm Wednesday 13th August 2008
Tank's for nothing
Reports that criticise Bradford or some aspect of the city are not always wrong-headed, we shouldn’t make the mistake of being parochially defensive about criticism.
Posted at 4:14pm Wednesday 13th August 2008
Another voice of my childhood silenced
One by one they pass away, the invisible voices that kept me company in my childhood.
Posted at 5:21pm Thursday 10th July 2008
Why should cheap shops get such a pounding?
Recent complaints by T&A correspondents about charity shops and pound shops in the city centre entirely miss the point.
Posted at 3:17pm Monday 3rd March 2008
Posted at 3:15pm Monday 3rd March 2008
Not wild about Harry coming home
Bringing back Prince Harry from Afghanistan was a mistake. Once the media made a song-a-dance out of his whereabouts military chiefs should simply have moved him to another area and allowed him to complete his four-month tour of duty.
Posted at 11:38am Tuesday 26th February 2008
A bit of Pickles is what this place needs
Wasn't it good to see Eric Jack Pickles back on his old stamping ground the other day?
Posted at 11:36am Monday 25th February 2008
A Brit for Kylie? She should be so lucky
As a measure of genuine talent The Brit Awards are about as valid as The Turner Prize is for art and The Booker for novels.
Posted at 5:02pm Friday 22nd February 2008
No country for old men
To steal a thought from T S Eliot, there has been "a perfect conspiracy of approval" directed at the film version of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country For Old Men.
Posted at 1:30pm Monday 17th September 2007
Bat's entertainment
The end of the Bradford League cricket season means that I'll have to find alternative ways of diverting myself on Saturday afternoons until April.
Posted at 8:45am Sunday 16th September 2007
The airport millions: food for thought
Friend of mine came up with a great retrospective idea the other day.
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