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January 2009
  • Businessman Emon Choudhary has just got back from an Everest expedition that left him feeling “on top of the world”.
  • Bradford Council has secretly monitored members of the public and its own staff more than 500 times in the past five years – an average of around twice a week.
  • 2009 is set to be a monster year for some of Bradford’s brightest young actors and actresses… literally!
  • Former Bradford rugby league star Ellery Hanley is being bullish about his appearance on this year’s hit TV show Dancing on Ice.
  • Bradford’s growing obesity epidemic is costing the NHS tens of thousands of pounds to fund extra-large equipment needed for overweight patients, new figures have revealed.
  • A Bradford student is hoping for a record deal after he was asked to perform a song he wrote about hit game show Deal or No Deal on the show’s New Year’s Eve special.
  • A Scandanavian-style heating system is to dramatically cut carbon emissions at Bradford University.
  • A sassy group of young women in Baildon have formed their own up-to-date branch of the Women’s Institute.
  • A Scout chief claims the movement could be facing crippling costs if new rules on water drainage charges go unchallenged.
  • Pet owners will be able to take their pooches for a check-up while seeing the doctor themselves if a new multi-million pound health centre gets the go-ahead.
  • A father-and-son team drove through a live minefield and across the Sahara desert in a 17-year-old “banger”.
  • Steve McNamara aims to make all his Bulls players “multi-dimensional” in 2009.
  • Pupils at Parkland Primary School in Bradford stepped on board the cooking bus this week to take part in four days of fun cooking workshops.
  • Hospital bosses have embarked on a project to improve the experience of patients being treated at Bradford’s hospitals.
  • Concerned midwives and mothers from Bradford travelled to Downing Street today to present a petition demanding more midwives.
  • Hundreds of motorcycle trials riders are to be barred from using a controversial moorland site.
  • Safer roads campaigners say it is hard to say if tougher new powers to tackle uninsured drivers will save lives.
  • Two former schoolfriends with a taste for adventure are to boost Yorkshire’s fight against cancer by taking part in a charity challenge – 4,500 miles away from home.
  • Northern Rail, which operates across West Yorkshire, cancelled more services last year than any other train company, new figures have revealed.
  • Police dog Vader had the ‘Force’ with him when he survived a 50ft fall while tracking a car thief.
  • Two midwives have won one of the UK’s top prizes at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) annual awards.
  • A shift of airport security guards swapped their walkie-talkies for paintbrushes to help out a colleague and give a local nursery a makeover.

January 2009

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January 2009

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

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