25 years ago: Work was set to begin on a 'Home from Home' for cancer sufferers at Bradford Royal Infirmary, after Telegraph & Argus readers reached a £50,000 fundraising target in only 15 weeks, a figure matched by the district's Health Authority.

50 years ago: A burst in an eight-inch water main led to the cellar of a Bradford off-licence in Fourlands Road, Idle, being submerged in two feet of water, with its owners admitting a "few casks of sherry" had been ruined in the flood.

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