The Telegraph & Argus: News from across the Bradford district

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.

Wise moves break the zero barrier at last

You really have to be a tree-swinging, knuckle-scraping curmudgeon not to feel even a twinge of admiration for Leeds United.

Yea, though I walk through the valley...

"No matter how I struggle and strive/ I'll never get out of this world alive," sang Hank Williams, who died in the back of a limousine, New Year's Day, 1953.

Movin' on up

On February 21 Lent began with a nice piece of news: the house I had been renting since September 2004 was being put up for sale.

Islam: the urgence of engagement

According to a Muslim acquaintance - we are friendly but do not know each other well enough yet to claim the bond of friendship - truth and patience are two of the four Koranic conditions for success.

The extreme price of the pursuit of truth

I met Ian Wooldridge only once. He turned up in the Press box at Valley Parade for Bradford City's all-important match against Ipswich Town the season the team just missed promotion to what was then Division One.

A bus driver's lot...

Unless you travel by bus in Bradford during the evening rush hour the abuse of bus lanes by other drivers won't mean much to you - unless you are a culprit.

Lords a-leaping towards democracy?

Interesting to see the division among the Metropolitan District's MPs regarding the proposal to inject the House of Lords with a lethal dose of democracy.

Dig in for a better world

Happening to catch the last few minutes of Gardeners' World on BBC2, while waiting for the Wild West docu-drama about Billy the Kid, I had a revelation.

Scared of change? Have faith.

Some believe that either Bradford will become a Western Islamabrad, culturally divided and segregated, or an ideal kind of Bradistan, a happy amalgam of East and West based on tolerance, equality and responsibility.

Is it time for City to leave Valley Parade?

Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough once asked himself a very serious question: "Would I lay down my life for the average British female?"

Karaoke democracy

Cigarette-box democracy refers to the post-war era when people worked in a place for 30 or 40 years and signed off aged 60 or 65 with an inappropriate corporate gift.