From the T&A...

25 years ago: Two prisoners escaped from cells at Bradford police station after an officer accidentally dropped the keys on the floor while pushing a lunch trolley. As one of the prisoners strolled to freedom he came face-to-face with the magistrate who minutes earlier had remanded him in custody.

50 years ago: The “jelly boys” struck again in Bradford, blowing a safe during a night-time raid at the office of Thomas Dyson Ltd on Manningham Lane.