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Judge criticises officials after benefit fraud case delay

Judge Roger Scott

3:28pm Monday 6th July 2009

A judge condemned the inefficiency of the Department of Work and Pensions today after it took more than two years to bring a woman to court for benefit fraud.

Hospital probe as patient in 20ft window plunge

Leanne May holds a picture of her and partner Thomas Wilson

6:10am Monday 6th July 2009

A major inquiry has been started by health chiefs after a male patient was badly hurt when he fell from a window at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

‘Drug woven into carpets’

7:19pm Monday 6th July 2009

A Bradford man was part of a plot to smuggle almost £500,000 of heroin into the country, a jury has heard.

Kirklees pair die after contracting swine flu

6:38pm Monday 6th July 2009

A man and a child from the Kirklees area have died after contracting swine flu.

Open-top bus tour launched

Rubina Khan (left) with Rachael Thornton and Kim Ferridge on the new bus

4:53pm Monday 6th July 2009

Bradford city centre’s first open-top bus tours are set to start on Yorkshire Day.

Murder trial judge pays tribute to Kirsty Wilson's parents

Victim Kirsty Wilson

4:27pm Monday 6th July 2009

A judge has offered his sympathy to the Bradford parents of a woman who was strangled and set on fire by her jealous partner.

VIDEO: Plea for help over missing woman

Susan Rushworth

4:13pm Monday 6th July 2009

The son of a missing Bradford prostitute has made an emotional appeal for information as to her whereabouts.

Have your say on M62 hard shoulder plan

Traffic on the M62

3:52pm Monday 6th July 2009

Consultation is due to get under way on a controversial plan to ease congestion on the M62 by allowing vehicles to use the hard shoulder.

Bradford's first pick-up point for swine flu drugs opens

The collection point for anti-viral drugs

3:22pm Monday 6th July 2009

The first anti-viral collection point has opened in Bradford in anticipation of soaring numbers of people being diagnosed with swine flu.

Police appeal for collision witnesses

12:09pm Monday 6th July 2009

Police have appealed for witnesses to a crash involving two cars which left a 91-year-old woman in a critical condition.

Kirsty Wilson's killer jailed for life

Killer Alan Jermey

11:22am Monday 6th July 2009

A jealous martial arts expert who strangled his partner after learning that she planned to leave him for another man was jailed for life today.

Richard tells of his role in bid for club

8:50am Monday 6th July 2009

Bradford-born entrepreneur Richard Williams has spoken about his company’s multi-million pound negotiations to buy Southampton Football Club.

Peak challenge in memory of Jason

Preparing to walk the Three Peaks are, from left, Ben Carpenter, Helen Standing, Toby Carpenter, Michael Suffield, James Whitham, Rosie Sidey and Abby Bishop

8:55am Monday 6th July 2009

Thirteen friends are taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge in memory of their friend Jason Carney, who died last year from a rare form of lung cancer.

3,000 miles in an eBay ambulance!

Mark Nicholson and Louise Gabrielli with the eBay ambulance

8:58am Monday 6th July 2009

Three medical workers will drive to Romania in an ambulance bought on eBay.

Ian pops in to catch up on library

Ian Clayton, of Yorkshire Television, at Manningham Library

8:48am Monday 6th July 2009

Manningham Library has reopened to the public.

All dressed up for fun in the sun events

A group of young farmers dress up as Smurfs for the Oxenhope Straw Race

6:30am Monday 6th July 2009

It’s not everyday you see a Smurf or an umpa lumpa running through the streets with a bale of hay, but that’s exactly the sight that greeted villagers in Oxenhope for its annual Straw Race.

Council tells hotel 'no cage fighting'

The Cedar Court Hotel where the event was set to take place

4:20pm Sunday 5th July 2009

A cage fighting event due to be held in Bradford has been cancelled after it emerged that the host venue did not have the correct licence to stage the explosive bouts.

Drugs worker hits out at sale of 'legal high' pills

3:10pm Sunday 5th July 2009

Drugs workers have warned about the dangers of so-called “legal highs” openly on sale in Bradford.


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It’s not everyday you see a Smurf or an umpa lumpa running through the streets with a bale of hay, but that’s exactly the sight that greeted villagers in Oxenhope for its annual Straw Race.

When Florrie Baldwin was born there were few cars on the roads, radio was being invented and the First World War was 18 years away.

Three medical workers will drive to Romania in an ambulance bought on eBay.

Thirteen friends are taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge in memory of their friend Jason Carney, who died last year from a rare form of lung cancer.




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