A Bradford dog breeder is distraught after a £500 pedigree bitch was stolen within days of her buying it. Janet Chippendale, 32, of Flockton Grove, East Bowling, Bradford, drove the six-hour journey to a town near Bristol to pick up the £500 pedigree
Heart-swap girl Sally Slater has been moved out of intensive care at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. And she has written a moving note to her grandparents, Tom and Barbara Slater, from her isolation bed, sending them love and kisses. Six-year-old Sally
Small World, a Haworth-based community arts group, has received Lottery cash for its summer project. The initiative will start next month with a weekend of arts activities at a residential centre on the Bront moors. Small World is inviting youth and arts
Residents living near the redundant International Wool Secretariat building in Ilkley have been urged to look at plans to develop the site into housing. Details of proposed changes at the Valley Drive site are on show at Ilkley Town Hall. There was an
A Bradford haulier fears for his future after figures revealed truckers caught carrying immigrants into Britain had been fined £500,000 in the first two weeks of a new Government penalty system. The Telegraph & Argus highlighted the plight of hauliers
Shares in Community Hospitals Group, which owns Cottingley-based Yorkshire Clinic, leapt by more than 80 per cent yesterday after private health-care business Bupa said it could launch a takeover offer for the company. Bupa said it was "actively contemplating
A grandmother from Bradford was saved from almost certain death - by being refused a flight home from Tokyo. Speaking for the first time since collapsing in agony at Tokyo airport, Bradford mother-of-six Janet Rylance revealed she probably wouldn't have
Employers across the Bradford district are being urged to help stamp out age discrimination. The Government is warning firms and recruitment agencies to adapt to population changes which will see 41 per cent of the available workforce aged over 45 within
Plans to improve health and safety monitoring could be a step too far, engineering industry officials have warned. The proposals are included in a document drawn up by the Health and Safety Commission which has been looking at ways of improving consultation
Workers who lost their jobs from Bradford firm DiamondSeal have been thrown a lifeline by the boss of a competitor. John Valente, joint managing director of Coral, manufacturer of windows, doors and conservatories, is looking to take on workers from DiamondSeal
Bradford and District Motor Club are to host an event in the 2000 ACU A & B British Youth Trials Championship on Sunday, June 11 (10.30am). The venue, a new one for the championship, is Skyraikes, on the Skipton to Grassington road. The best of the
Well, it's here at last! We're in the week of the big game and can't wait to get to Edinburgh and set up camp. But this week is the worst week because we are so much looking forward to arriving up there and getting started. We don't go until tomorrow
Bulls coach Matthew Elliott and his Rhinos opposite number Dean Lance today began three days of Murrayfield mind games ahead of the Silk Cut Challenge Cup final. Both coaches are anxious to give nothing away at this stage and there was no further evidence
Cricket is under a cloud again with allegations of skulduggery, match-fixing and too much intimacy with the betting fraternity. Some pundits are bewailing the fact that the phrase 'it's not cricket' may have been devalued. But was cricket ever a wholly-unblemished
A lawyer whose life hung in the balance after an horrific skiing accident is to receive the highest accolade in his profession. Roger Thomas, 45, will be appointed Queen's Counsel on May 3 when he is sworn in at the House of Lords. The prestigious award
Unitarian churches in Bradford are to hold a heritage open day to celebrate the Millennium. The churches - in Manchester Road, Russell Street, off Trinity Road, Bradford, and Pepper Hill, Shelf - will be open to the public on Saturday, May 13 as part
Campaigners fighting a housing development in picturesque Pool-in-Wharfedale are hoping to win their latest battle. Members of Pool Parish Council and residents turned up in force at a public inquiry into controversial plans by Bryant Homes to build nine
Traders are urging their customers to return now a bridge has reopened after vital repairs. Raw Nook bridge, in Cleckheaton Road, Oakenshaw, was closed on April 8 to allow engineers to replace the corroded structure. It reopened on Good Friday - four
A building society which funds mortgages to bring derelict buildings back to life has been praised for the value its mortgages provide for customers. Research by Network Data shows that as the Ecology, based in Cross Hills near Keighley, has grown from
A national pub chain will create 25 jobs when it opens a £1.2 million development in the heart of Bradford next Tuesday. The new Yates's Wine Lodge in Queensgate can cater for a maximum of 520 people and will replace the existing lodge in nearby Ivegate
Keighley Cougars winger Max Tomlinson has been rewarded for a man of the match performance against York with another first team start. Tomlinson has had limited opportunities to impress coach Karl Harrison this season but did enough in this week's 26-
Albion Sports will not have to play a league game three days before their FA Sunday Cup final appearance after all. Opponents Stanley Road have agreed for the Bradford Sunday Alliance Premier Division game to be switched from tomorrow to May 18. It means
Bradford City will have fans on all four sides of Valley Parade for Sunday's relegation showdown with Wimbledon. The Bantams are expecting a sell-out for their most important game of the season with victory over the Dons being enough to lift them out
Because of the very nature of the world, newspapers often trade in tragedy. As a result, we are sometimes accused of ignoring the "good news" stories. It is an unjust charge we put down to the fact that it is the tragic stories which tend to stick in
Bulls scrum half Paul Deacon took positive strides towards a senior return with an 80-minute work-out for their under-21 side against Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants at Odsal last night. The England half-back landed six goals in an immaculate kicking display
Home Secretary Jack Straw kept a promise made to Ravenscliffe residents in 1998 by returning to the estate yesterday. Crime Reporter Joanne Earp accompanied him on his whistle-stop visit. DERELICT DECAYING houses, boarded-up and reinforced with metal
I have just been introduced to one of the oldest sheepdogs in the Dales. Bess is 20 years old. The North Craven farmer who owns her has no difficulty in calculating her age because she was born in the same year as his son. Bess, who was always a useful
Like most other people, I haven't a clue whether or not William Hague (above) made his speech proposing detention camps for asylum seekers for cynical party-political purposes or because he genuinely believes in the rightness of the policy. There's nothing
Yet another report has been published demonstrating the great divide between the North of England and the South in terms of prosperity. This time it's accompanied by a league table which reveals that - considering factors such as production per head,
One of 16 new trains to run along the Airedale and Wharfedale lines was unveiled today at Leeds City Station. The train, part of a £120 million package for Northern Spirit, will carry passengers along the Leeds-Bradford-Ilkley-Skipton corridors. The Class
Rubbing shoulders with Premiership footballers, soap stars and golfers is all in a day's work for James Ferguson. For the Bradford businessman specialises in selling cars to the rich and famous. And when it comes to making new contacts with footballers
Bradford Bulls have urged "true fans" to steer clear of rogue traders cashing in on the club's Challenge Cup success. Street hawkers are dodging breach of copyright prosecutions by selling scarves, T-shirts and caps which did not feature the Bulls' logo
Council chiefs are to be grilled over plans to bring in a private company to run Brad-ford's schools. Members of the Council's economic scrutiny committee are furious that the radical proposals are moving ahead before they have had chance to examine them
