July 2009
  • Rocket-launching pupils at Eldwick Primary School have won a trip to the European Space Agency in Amsterdam.
  • Residents at a Bradford care home made traditional parkin as part of their Yorkshire Day celebrations.
  • Marie Curie nurse Shelley Blacka will compete in the new Bradford City Run, in memory of her brother who died of cancer two months ago.
  • Boys and girls were given animal inspiration at a fun family workshop at Keighley’s Cliffe Castle Museum.
  • Hundreds of children are attending Bradford’s Bolling Hall every day to take part in an arts and crafts event.
  • A big babies picnic has met in Otley for the first time. Moormums, an independent group run by mums and dads, staged the event in to help new parents voice concerns and meet other families.
  • Young people in Shipley are the stars of a new DVD which has been produced to help their peers stay on track.
  • Students at the Saltaire-based Yamaha Music School are making sweet music with Milanese youngsters.
  • Between them they have devoted more than 80 years of service to a movement which has nurtured generations of girls through crafts, camps and a whole range of other activities. Now they're moving on.
  • Students at Haycliffe specialist sports college in Bradford were bowled over to receive the gift of a professional cricket lesson and match with top Yorkshire cricketer Matthew Hoggard.
  • Yorkshire in Bloom judges were impressed by children’s gardening skills and joint community efforts to grow fruit and vegetables in a school garden.
  • Year six leavers at a Bradford primary school got a taste of the limelight to mark their transition to secondary school.
  • Children at St Anthony’s, Clayton CE and Clayton Village primary schools teamed up with elderly residents in Bradford Road to spruce up areas surrounding their bungalows.
  • Yorkshire In Bloom judges have visited some of Otley’s most striking floral attractions, including The Whartons Primary School.
  • A decade at Blakehill Primary School ended in style for teacher Carole Dowlatzadeh. She was driven away from the school, in Idle, Bradford, in a limousine as a heart-felt parting gesture organised by a parent.
  • A group of American media students visiting Bradford on a culture trip have tried their hands at Asian cookery.
  • Patrons of a Bradford Italian restaurant can enjoy a healthy pasta dish and raise money for the Beating Hearts in Bradford Appeal this month.
  • Twelve-year-old Katie Whyatt got a big surprise when a mascot she designed as part of a national competition sprang to life before her eyes.
  • A quartet of school staff have left St Cuthbert and The First Martyrs’ Catholic Primary School, in Heaton, Bradford, after notching up a total of 119 years of service between them.
  • Families enjoyed storytime, crafts and teddy bears at a special event organised to encourage more people to use the library with their children.
  • Hundreds of children and their families involved in the Born in Bradford health research project have marked its second anniversary.
  • There was a lotta Potter in Bradford yesterday when fans of JK Rowling’s world-conquering boy wizard went wild about Harry.
  • A moorland church built at the time of the Brontes which now has just seven regular worshippers is celebrating only its third wedding in ten years.
  • Youngsters at Footsteps Theatre School in Eccleshill are preparing to present an evening of song and dance at St George’s Hall, Bradford.

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