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  • Memories of Aaron, a year on

    The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31 last year, touched almost everyone - but as people throughout the world commemorate the tragedy, two Bradford families tell Jan Winter how as the nation mourned, their own lives were thrown into turmoil

  • Plans for bigger mast delayed by site visit

    Plans to replace a 15 metre-high communications mast with an even bigger one have been put on hold. Members of Leeds Council's plans west sub-committee ignored the recommendation of officers to uphold the proposal in Bramhope, and demanded a site visit

  • Road gang double the rubble trouble

    An Ilkley shop owner was seeing double - and a lot of drivers set a puzzle - after council workmen put up a new school warning sign. David Tyldsley said the Bradford Council gang dug a hole outside his showroom in Leeds Road and erected the sign to warn

  • Decision day looms on wheelie bins

    The district's first wheelie bins could be rolled on to the streets of Baildon as early as November. Decision day for the introduction wheelie bins is on September 8 at a full meeting of Bradford Council when it is expected councillors will give the go-ahead

  • Cancer campaigner mourns brother's death

    A Bingley man who is heading a fund-raising campaign in memory of the surgeon who successfully treated him for lung cancer is today mourning the death of his brother from the disease. John Nevison, 50, set up a campaign last month to raise more than £10,000

  • I'm afraid to eat

    A four-year-old boy is suffering from a rare disorder which makes him too afraid to eat. Liam Hirst could only manage four chips and a spoonful of pureed fruit to celebrate his fourth birthday this month. He weighs just two stone and his problems mean

  • Richard Wilson: Business Sense

    The Data Protection Act 1998 became law on July 16 this year and is expected to come into force early next year. The Act introduces, amongst other things, important changes relating to personnel records. Unlike its predecessor, the Data Protection Act

  • Robert takes the plunge in Bronte buyout

    A whirlpool company is cleaning up orders throughout the UK as one of its founders takes sole control of the firm. Robert Bolton has bought the major shareholding of Keighley whirlpool and spa manufacturer Bronte Whirlpools from co-directors Patrick and

  • City fans angered at 'shambles'

    Bradford City are to make an official complaint to the Football League and Football Licensing Authority over ticketing arrangements for Friday night's match at Crewe. Chairman Geoffrey Richmond is said to be appalled that dozens of City fans were let

  • Coach's Comments

    Matthew Elliott writes: It wasn't pretty but it was gripping from where I was sat and I was delighted with the outcome. I thought Castleford's defensive play at the end of the first half and throughout the second was magnificent. The way they shut down

  • Manager's Comments

    Paul Jewell writes: We are delighted to win. And I suppose we will be promotion candidates in the press now. We went behind against Lincoln and came back. We did the same twice against Bolton and then yesterday. Last season it would probably have been

  • Bantams v Birmingham: Match Notes

    1 Rankin flicks Jacobs' cross on to Mills who tries to turn and shoot but his effort is weak and Bennett collects. 7 Jacobs clears a dangerous cross which goes straight to Marsden but his firm shot is straight at Walsh. 15 Marsden places a lovely ball

  • 'Bruno' delivers knockout punch

    Bradford City 2, Birmingham 1; Richard Sutcliffe at Valley Parade. When Bradford City's Darren Moore rose unchallenged in the penalty area to thunder an unstoppable header past Ian Bennett, the joy and relief was evident all around Valley Parade. The

  • New boy delighted at winning start

    Bulls new boy Harvey Howard has spoken of the relief in the camp after yesterday's vital 24-8 victory over Castleford Tigers which puts them firmly on course for the play-offs. Weekend defeats for fifth spot rivals Sheffield and London have put the Bulls

  • Over and out, John

    John Dreyer has revealed that he could have played his final game for Bradford City after his contract expired yesterday. The 34-year-old returned to the centre of the Bantams defence for the first time in nearly a year yesterday against Birmingham City

  • Poetic Justice

    On Monday, David Tipton jets out to Lima to attend a three-day World Conference of Poets. What's extraordinary, however, is that the editor of Bradford's Redbeck Press will be the ONLY British poet among the 26 invited poets from Greece to the Americas

  • Putting dad in the picture

    Nearly all dads say they would like to be present at the birth of their baby, according to a new survey published today. But many say they still lack information about pregnancy and birth. Now the national pregnancy research charity Tommy's Campaign is

  • Journey of a lifetime

    Student Sarah Aynesworth was part of the crew which smashed the world record for circumnavigating the globe by sea in a powered vessel in under 80 days. Here she tells Kate Wadsworth about some of the highlights of the epic journey. NOTHING PREPARED adventurous

  • W.R. Mitchell, MBE: Letter from the Dales

    We arrived in Kettlewell on the day that Nancy Cutcliffe Hyne celebrated her 96th birthday. The upper Wharfedale village was bathed in sunlight, thronged by skimpily-clad tourists and bright with summer blooms. So many years have elapsed since I last

  • Anila Baig: A toddler's wedding day gift

    After the long summer holidays (not that there was much of a summer) we finally got the chance to get dolled up, wear lots of make-up and catch up on the latest gossip. (Well, the women anyway). Yes, it was time to attend another Asian wedding. The invitation

  • Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?

    Just as children toy with the idea of the things they would like to do when they grow up, adults in their middle years speculate on how they might spend their retirement. I'm currently enthused about allotments, having spent a day last week touring various

  • Mike Priestley: North of Watford

    On Monday, most of us will spend a quiet moment thinking about Diana, Princess of Wales. How could we not? Her death just a year earlier sent such shock waves around the world that most of the population of this planet seemed to be traumatised by it.

  • Harley Street!

    The heart of Baildon was awash with gleaming chrome as hordes of leather-clad bikers roared out of the village during a ride-out from the biggest rally of its kind in the country. Organised by the Harley Davidson Riders Club of Great Britain, the Baildon

  • Planners ground model aircraft

    A model flying club's hopes of turning a field at Draughton into its base for operations have been shot down by the council. Club members are permitted to fly their model aircraft at the site on 28 days in the year but wanted more regular use and permission

  • Dynamic team urges groups to seek aid

    Community action across Bradford is set to be kick-started by a dynamic new team. The Integra Project, based in Manningham, is made up of eight young people in their 20s whose mission is to get involved with local communities. So far the team has helped

  • Chatting could combat truancy

    Parents are being urged to help combat truancy in the district by talking to their children about any fears and worries they have about starting a new school. Staff from Bradford Council's Education Social Work Service already work closely with schools

  • Residents hope to transform 'rec'

    Residents on a Skipton estate are getting together to save an overgrown recreation ground as their Millennium Project. The Shortbank Close 'rec' - known locally as The Gully - was earmarked for development last year when youngsters decided it was the

  • Woman cut free from car wreck 'critical

    Two women were cut free by fire crews from the wreckage of their cars following a smash near Keighley. Three people were injured when the two cars, a Volkswagen Golf and a Vauxhall Nova, collided in Harden Road at Long Lee, Keighley, at 3.45pm yesterday

  • Mum's horror at lorry tipping plan

    Housewife Sally Pegg is horrified at the prospect of 20 lorries a day trundling past her garden to dump 40,000 tonnes of building rubble at a quarry overlooking her home. The entrance for the vehicles would be next to her driveway in Denholme Gate Road

  • Now it's Captain Vaughan

    Yorkshire opener Michael Vaughan will captain England A on their tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Pudsey St Lawrence left-arm fast bowler Paul Hutchison is also in the A squad. Darren Gough will be England's leading strike bowler on the Ashes tour,

  • Tigers mauled as Bulls do business

    Bradford Bulls 24, Castleford Tigers 8; Nigel Askham at Odsal. It wasn't exactly pretty stuff but with their top five hopes now looking much healthier the Bulls could make out a pretty strong case that the end justified the means. The most pleasing factor

  • Truancy onus on parents

    Bradford has the second worst truancy record in the country - so it is hardly surprising that the district shows up so badly in the schools performance league tables. Nor does it require too great a stretch of the imagination to relate that high level

  • Saltaire snatch it

    Cricket: Saltaire won the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Shield in a memorable final at Pudsey Congs yesterday. They beat Cleckheaton by two wickets with three balls to spare in a dramatic finish. And the win helped ease the pain of the their first team's

  • Shot-shy Avenue are beaten again

    Non-League Round-Up: It turned into a miserable holiday weekend for Bradford Park Avenue when they slumped to their second defeat in three days in the UniBond League Division One - 2-0 at Radcliffe Borough - one of only three sides below them. They were

  • Vital help for those first few days of life

    Vital treatment is being enhanced in the special care baby units in Bradford and Airedale thanks to the appeal by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun Tony Miller, which has already raised £10,000. Reporters Sarah Walsh and Mike Waites found out just what

  • 61 years as Bradford's 'leading lady'

    Jim Greenhalf talks to Jean Oldfield, veteran committee member of The Priestley Centre for the Arts, former star actress and director, and looks back at her career which started in 1937. J B PRIESTLEY'S comic novel of theatrical life, The Good Companions

  • Spit 'n' sawdust's a vanishing scene

    The brewer Whitbread has announced it is bringing a second Hogshead pub to Bradford. With one publican warning the city centre is now at saturation point Telegraph & Argus reporter Joanne Earp looks at the battle between traditional 'back street boozers

  • 'Cannabis is the only thing that will ease my pain'

    Mum-of-three Julie Harper has recently appeared before magistrates charged with possessing cannabis. But she has vowed to continue smoking the drug because it provides pain relief for her chronic rheumatoid arthritis. Here she tells Kate Wadsworth why

  • Your Pets, by our vet Simon Thomas

    f you are a cat, spring and autumn are the highest risk times for getting run over. Solo's accident happened about half past nine in the evening when it was just dark. He did not notice the car as he trotted across the road. The driver saw his reflective

  • Darned problem of finding tenants

    Bradford's historic Wool Exchange is only two thirds full three years after developers moved in to carry out their ambitious restoration project. The historic building, once the hub of the wool trade, is now buzzing with activity again. But Preston-based

  • Hero priest praised after knife attack

    A Sikh priest was being hailed a hero today after he ran to help a member of his congregation who was being stabbed inside a Bradford temple. Priest Gurmit Singh, 39, heard Butta Singh, 40, cry for help and went to his aid but was stabbed himself. Butta

  • Prayers for the Princess

    Hundreds of people in the Bradford district paid tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales as special memorials were unveiled on the first anniversary of her death. About 150 people stood silently in remembrance at civic ceremony in Centenary Square, Bradford

  • Please let me put my John to rest

    The sister-in-law of murdered Pudsey pensioner John Nutter today pleaded to his killers - "let me put him to rest". Mary Skilton, 56, appealed for fresh information for the hunt to catch the three masked raiders who killed Mr Nutter. They had burst into

  • Bank Jolly-day!

    Hundreds of people across Bradford made the most of a Bank Holiday with a difference - as the sun came out! The prospects for a fine day looked pretty bleak mid-morning but the sun came out in the afternoon. Many people opted for events nearer home with