25 years ago: Fine Art Developments, based at Dudley Hill , celebrated after winning their £2.6 million take-over bid of the garden product division of the famous Geest’s of Spalding.

50 years ago: A fierce fire broke out at the Telegraph & Argus. Smoke billowed into the corridors on all of the floors of the building in Hall Ings. Two employees fought the flames with fire extinguishers before the Bradford Fire Brigade arrived.