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  • Hi-tech project is able to Byte Back

    A computer recycling centre that could bring jobs and training to Bradford is set to open in January after winning a battle for vital funding. Manningham project Byte Back made a desperate plea through the Telegraph & Argus for funding and it has

  • Alert after second woman attacked

    Police are hunting an attacker who pounced on a woman crossing a park, only five days after a 25-year-old woman was assaulted in her nearby terrace home. Detectives in Keighley are not linking the two attacks, in the Lund Park area of the town, in which

  • Premier's gift for kidnap tot's mum

    The mother of kidnapped toddler Daniel Grimshaw has traded goodwill gifts and messages of hope with the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir. Detectives investigating the abduction have just returned from a visit to Pakistan - where it is believed the youngster's

  • Forthright Fergie gives his views

    In an age where football autobiographies have become as predictable as night follows day, Sir Alex Ferguson's 'Managing My Life' makes a refreshing change. I have lost count of the number of life stories which feature a 'rags to riches' career where the

  • Sunday Alliance set to encourage youth

    The Bradford Sunday Alliance are planning to launch a league for junior clubs. The league is responding to the fact that Bradford has not had a junior league since the days of the Nig Nog League - run by the Telegraph and Argus - and the Barkerend Road

  • Let's stay put says McCall

    Skipper Stuart McCall says Bradford City should ignore the lure of leaving Valley Parade for the proposed new Odsal Stadium. The Scotland international is hoping City will forge ahead with their ambitious plans to add a second tier to the main stand and

  • Eating Out

    On the spur of the moment early on a Sunday evening, we decided to give the newly-refurbished Brown Cow Inn a try at Denholmegate outside Thornton. Fortunately for the three of us, there was room to squeeze us in early doors, and we took our seats straight

  • Letter from the Dales

    Having received an early Christmas present, a booklet published just 50 years ago about the black-marble clergyman in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, I took the first opportunity of visiting Cowan Bridge and followed field paths to Tunstall Church. This

  • Mike Priestley North of Watford

    The so-called season of goodwill might seem an odd time for the Government to launch a major debate on how we should react to the growing number of beggars on the streets. But then, I suppose no time is a good time to push this emotive issue to a high

  • A treat for the Chuckle lovers

    There could hardly have been a more appropriate choice for a pantomime this year. On the current showing, Dick Whittington stands as much chance as anyone of becoming Mayor of London. The location apart, though, this year's Alhambra panto - traditionally

  • Now become crimebusters, estate urged

    Residents of a Bradford estate which had been plagued by burglaries are being urged to enlist in the war against crime. Detectives said the number of break-ins in Scholemoor had dropped dramatically following the arrest of criminals who targeted the area

  • MP acts to end family's fears over 'jail bullies'

    A Bradford MP says he is receiving a growing number of complaints from constituents about alleged bullying in prisons. Marsha Singh has more than a dozen prison cases on his books and is concerned about the rise in complaints specifically about harassment

  • You tell us how to spend £646,000

    Children and parents are to have a say in how to spend £646,000 on improving the district's child care facilities. Bradford Council has launched a sweeping survey designed to discover whether families want things such as out-of-school clubs and day nurseries

  • Walking with Mike Priestley

    Walking helps you to stay fit. There's no doubt about that. Walking uphill is particularly good for toning yourself up. It sets the old heart and lungs pounding and pushes lots of oxygen into the bloodstream. But walking on the flat is less demanding

  • We'll help you wed, and that's official!

    Pensioners Joan Ball and Jean Stead love watching complete strangers tying the knot. For the pair, who work at the British Heart Foundation shop in High Street, Skipton, have been adopted as the town's first official wedding witnesses. Their unusual role

  • Blessing given to alliance

    Thousands of Bradford Council tenants took a step closer to running their own homes after an historic alliance was set up. Community leaders on the Odsal estate have begun formal talks with bosses at Royds Community Association, which uses £31 million

  • Textile boss fined for 25 felled trees

    One of Britain's top textile bosses has been fined £9,800 after 25 trees were chopped down without permission on the site of a proposed care centre. Brian Whitaker, senior vice-president of the Confederation of British Wool Textiles, ordered the felling

  • Common sense urged in row over Kop stand

    A call for calm was made today as a simmering row continued between Bradford City Football Club and a leading councillor. Bantams' chairman Geoffrey Richmond has demanded a public apology and threatened legal action after Councillor Syd Collard suggested

  • Rugby benefit in memory of Alex

    A rugby international from Bradford has dedicated his benefit season to a former team-mate who was killed by cancer at the age of 29. Steve Ravenscroft, a centre with one of England's top clubs, Saracens, wants to convert interest in his benefit season

  • Named and shamed

    City centre trouble spots are highlighted by a police chief today in a name and shame campaign to cut car crime. Since the beginning of April this year 720 vehicles have been stolen and a further 1,091 have been broken into in the Bradford Central police

  • Records fall at Christmas meet

    Records fell at the City of Bradford's annual Christmas Open Swim Meet held at Shipley Pool. The meet that was billed as Festive Fun and Fast Swimming lived up to its reputation with a tremendous atmosphere that is unique to the Bradford Meet and there

  • Bradford teams are aces on the table

    Three Bradford Schools won titles at the West Yorkshire Table Tennis championships at Armley Sports Centre, Leeds. The winning teams were Lady Lane Park School under-11s boys from Bingley, Bradford Girls Grammar under-13s and Bradford Grammar School under

  • Party gives Lady Mayoress the boot

    Bradford's Lady Mayoress Christine Mason today revealed she had been deselected by the Labour party, ruling her out of next year's Council elections. Councillor Mason - part way through her year in office with her councillor husband Harry, the Lord Mayor