April 2009
  • Schools across the district are to get their own dedicated police officers as part of a flagship initiative to make education and policing a class act in the district.
  • Researchers at the University of Bradford have helped unravel the woolly history of sheep domestication, by examining the animal’s DNA from thousands of years ago.
  • Is this Bradford’s doziest car thief? The 20-year-old man spent ten minutes throwing bricks at the car window and trying to force open the lock with a screwdriver.
  • Daredevils including the Lord Mayor were queuing up to abseil down eight floors of Bradford’s Central Library.
  • A village pub has put itself at the heart of the community with its own library, coffee mornings and even knitting lessons.
  • Unused storage sheds at a Bradford greetings cards manufacturer could be demolished to make way for 161 homes.
  • Yorkshire motorists need ‘enlightning’ the most when it comes to understanding traffic lights, according to a new survey.
  • A grandfather with driving ambition is living proof that you are never too old to learn.
  • Hundreds of fans of science fiction, fantasy and horror were descending upon Bradford for the biggest convention of its kind in Britain.
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  • Employers have called for green education to be at the core of the school curriculum, according to a new survey.
  • Rather than rely on a man to put up shelves at the London squat where she was living, Barbara Jones enrolled on a carpentry course, becoming one of the country’s first qualified female joiners and creating the women-only construction collective she now
  • Bradford actress Natalie Anderson will be casting a spell on the West End this spring, after landing a lead role in hit musical Wicked.
  • The forlorn site of a mothballed shopping development has become the unlikely scene of a passionate piece of poetry.
  • Bradford police’s capture cars have claimed their 21st scalp.
  • Aliens have landed in Bradford… and it’s no April Fool.
  • Many teenagers would grimace at the thought of being exposed to the great outdoors – but not Fiona Procter. The 14-year-old from Wilsden has just been named as a community hero because of her commitment to a drystone walling group.

April 2009

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April 2009

We take a sideways look at some of the stories that have appeared in the Telegraph & Argus.

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