From the T&A...

25 years ago: More than 100 staff were evacuated from a Bradford College building after a routine safety check revealed dangerous structural faults, caused by severe dry rot, in the former Alexandra Hotel at the bottom of Great Horton Road.

50 years ago: S.G. Wardley, Bradford Council's city engineer and surveyor, appeared on BBC television to defend Bradford's city centre redevelopment scheme, claiming "armchair critics" were ignorant of the situation and the comprehensive plans put in place by the authority.

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1955: Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on Ullswater when he reached 202.32mph in Bluebird.

1986: Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, and was made Duke of York following a 600-year-old tradition for the monarch's second son.