May 2010
  • More than 500 people are battling for eight jobs advertised by social housing landlord Incommunities. And, with the deadline expiring today, housing group bosses expect that figure to swell to as many as 700 – doubling last year’s numbers of applica
  • Truancy at Bradford secondary schools has fallen to a record low. Figures for the autumn term 2009 show 2.29 per cent of all school sessions were missed due to unauthorised absence, down from 2.90 per cent in autumn 2008.
  • Bradford’s Industrial Museum is getting geared up for this weekend’s Jowett Rally. The Eccleshill museum is one of the attractions, including Morrisons supermarket at Idle, on a sell-out bus tour of Jowett landmarks.
  • Pubs and clubs in Bradford are preparing for this summer’s World Cup by installing big screens to show games and putting up flags to display support for England.
  • Jacob Kopasz doesn’t mind being called a boy racer – because that is exactly what he is. The 11-year-old, of Thornton, Bradford, is one of only 25 youngsters in the country who are taking part in the European Drag Racing Championships.
  • Bradford teachers were given a lesson in how technology can be used in the classroom to harness the talents of pupils and help with their learning at a conference in the city.
  • A girl band comprised of four friends who met at a Bradford performing arts school has sailed through the first series of auditions of X Factor. Now Husstle are waiting to hear whether they have made televised auditions in front of Simon Cowell.
  • Bosses at Bradford’s newest hotel have been inundated with applications for 70 new jobs. More than 300 turned up seeking work at the new Jurys Inn. Job seekers started queuing at 8am, two hours before the recruitment day started.
  • To most of us, carrots are simply a vegetable we eat with meat and potatoes. But to John Stolarczyk, they are something of an obsession – and on a visit to the Ukraine, he found out why and it led to him founding his carrot museum.
  • People packed the cobbled streets of Haworth to enjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane during the annual 1940s weekend.
  • The sound of live opera will reverberate around Bradford city centre. World-class opera will be beamed live from the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden to the big screen in Centenary Square.
  • The district’s newly-elected MPs have arrived in Westminster for a week-long induction. Bradford East Liberal Democrat MP David Ward and Keighley Tory MP Kris Hopkins will have just a week to find their feet before Parliament begins on Tuesday.
  • Model trains in Keighley will continue running despite an unusual problem – rabbits under the line!
  • The owner of Midge, the world-famous one-eyed racing cat, has set his sights firmly on the big time after writing a full screenplay for Midge the movie.
  • A rare chance to see some of the most precious artefacts linked to the Brontes is being offered to enthusiasts. Over three evenings experts will open areas at the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth not usually accessible to the public.
  • Drug users who blight Bradford’s student quarter are to be targeted in a new police crackdown following complaints of people smoking cannabis in alleyways.
  • The Bradford district is busy gearing itself up for Thursday's general and local council elections.
  • While most boys dream about becoming a train driver, Charlie Noon has already set the wheels in motion. The 11-year-old is a regular fixture on the trains to and from his home – travelling in his train driver’s uniform.
  • The owner of Midge, the one-eyed racing cat, has set his sights firmly on the big time after writing a full screenplay for Midge the movie.
  • Model trains in Keighley will continue running despite an unusual problem – rabbits under the line!

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May 2010

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

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