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  • Ace Lambert is tons better than the rest

    Spen Victoria's Australian all-rounder Grant Lambert capped his incredible season by topping both the Division Two batting and bowling averages. The man who smashed a Bradford League record 1,683 runs finished the campaign with an extraordinary average

  • Stuart puts his cup dream on one side

    Young players dream about the sort of month Stuart Fielden has just had, but he's not the sort to swagger around Odsal thinking all the hard work is done. Selection for the 24-man England World Cup squad and the Super League Dream Team confirmed his standing

  • Emergency talks to save workshop

    Disabled people devastated by the news that a special workshop will close are pinning their hopes on a meeting with councillors. DIAL has staged daily woodwork sessions in Dockfield Road, Shipley, for 16 years but the organisation has said it can no longer

  • 'Fill in forms if you want homes cash'

    Families campaigning for millions of pounds worth of improvements in their run-down homes have been warned: "You'll miss out if you don't fill the forms in." Council officers say residents are 'apathetic' about the paperwork after pressing at public meetings

  • Schools: 'Let's hear from every parent'

    Parents are being asked for their views on the action plan drawn up by Bradford education authority in response to damning criticisms made by Ofsted. The report, published by the education watchdog earlier in the year, led the Government to order that

  • Doomed love that ended in hanging

    A troubled love affair between two people from different cultures ended in tragedy when a 28-year-old man felt he could not live without the woman he wanted to be his wife, an inquest was told. Jetender Kumar Patrai hanged himself at his home after Zara

  • Council chief's pay could hit £124,000

    Bradford Council Chief Executive Ian Stewart is in line for a 15 per cent pay rise and his salary could soar to £124,000 in a pay review approved by councillors. But today Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe said it gave the "wrong message" at a time when

  • The story behind a murder

    When divorcee Ian Lowther answered the door at his Baildon home on Saturday, April 8, 2000, he was met by a team of Bradford detectives. They had come to arrest him for the murder of Shipley housewife Mary Gregson - 22 years and 211 days after the discovery

  • LET HIM ROT IN PRISON

    The sister of murdered housewife Mary Gregson today spoke of her hope that her killer dies behind bars. As lorry driver Ian Lowther began a life sentence for the brutal crime he committed in 1977, Judith Sykes told the Telegraph & Argus: "He should

  • An era will end whoever loses

    Emotions will be riding high at Odsal tonight with a host of high-profile Super League personalities preparing to make their farewells. Defeat for Leeds Rhinos in the Grand Final series sudden-death semi-final will bring to a close the playing career

  • IT'S ALL OR NOTHING!

    All thoughts of Canberra will go firmly to the back of Matthew Elliott's mind as he sets about the task of ending his four-year reign at Odsal with his third trophy. He can start to pack his bags if the Bradford Bulls don't put away arch rivals Leeds

  • Improving education standards

    Bradford Council's decision to ask parents for their views on the city's education action plan is an important step. Four months have passed since the Ofsted report was published into the state of education in the district but the way forward is still

  • On this day

    In 1925, horse-drawn cabs were taken off the streets of Bradford. In 1929, the first rocket-powered aircraft flew, designed by German engineer Fritz von Opel. In 1970, Britain swapped hijack hostages for Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled. From the Telegraph

  • Girl, 16, sold drugs to help out family

    A 16-year-old girl turned to drug dealing on the streets of Bradford after her stepfather was forced to give up work because of a rare cancer. Bradford Crown Court was told that when the teenager's mother also had to quit her job to care for him, she

  • Universities ready for the challenge

    The University of Bradford is to branch out across the region and expand its overseas operations in a new alliance with Leeds Metropolitan University. The arrangement also will allow: l joint bids for funding l exchanges and secondments to widen staff

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I am surprised at Mike Priestley for falling for the hoary mistake of taking Baroness Thatcher's comment 'there is no such thing as society' out of context in order to attack her. She was perfectly right to use the phrase to stop people laying blame