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  • Bees stung after a bright opening

    The Bees again left the ground of their bogey side pointless despite taking a 7-0 lead after only a minute's play. From the kick-off Driffield were immediately robbed of the ball and a swift and direct move found centre John Rimmington on hand to score

  • It's a piece of cake as Kendal go down

    Avenue's tenth victory of the season saw them race through the UniBond Division One 30 point barrier and kept them hot on the heels of leaders Vauxhall GM. Kendal Town's mini revival, that has brought them ten points from their last four games, came to

  • Outclassed Roche will be weighing up options

    Derek Roche's world title dream was buried beneath a hail of punches in Belfast on Saturday night. The Bradford-based fighter was stopped in just two rounds by Bristol's Adrian Stone in their IBO light-middleweight battle. Champion Stone unloaded with

  • Fielden relishes taking on Pauls

    England man of the match Stuart Fielden is relishing the clash with Bulls team-mates the Paul brothers in Saturday's Lincoln World Cup semi-final at Bolton. Odsal prop Fielden produced his best display of the tournament so far to help see off Ireland

  • Don't write us off yet

    Skipper David Wetherall today vowed that Bradford City would not hoist the white flag as they dropped back to the bottom of the Premiership. Everton's late win at Valley Parade dumped City back in the basement after winless Derby picked up a shock draw

  • Shopping that comes to you

    Home shopping takes a step forward in Bradford tomorrow with the launch of Sainsburys' first Internet-based delivery service in West Yorkshire. Sainsburys to You will deliver seven days a week, offering customers a two-hour time slot for a flat rate charge

  • Standards upheld by consortium

    A consortium, including the Bradford and District Recognition Service, has been chosen to deliver an excellence award across Yorkshire and Humberside. The team, also including Yorkshire Assessment Ltd and the Humberside Training and Enterprise Council

  • Town will bid for regeneration cash

    Cleckheaton is to bid for a share of £330,000 Kirklees funding to regenerate local towns and villages. The cash is available for innovative projects such as small scale environmental improvements, floral schemes, cultural and arts events and heritage

  • City firms in the running for awards

    Brains and bravado will be recognised at a business awards ceremony highlighting excellence in the Asian community. Entrepreneurs and companies in Bradford head the guest list at this Friday's Asian Business Development Network (ABDN) awards. The event

  • Residents form firm to boost community

    Residents spearheading a £50 million revamp of Bradford's Manchester Road corridor have broken free of Bradford Council and formed a private company. The New Deal for Communities scheme, which is run by a board of residents, councillors and business people

  • Student anger at attacks with bat

    University students beaten with a cricket bat on their Bradford doorstep claimed police told them to move out to avoid further attacks. The victims, aged 21 and 22, said they were shocked by the attitude of the "disinterested" attitude of police when

  • We're rocking all over again

    Tino Palmer is an unassuming Bradford City fan who makes his living selling sweets. Going grey and in his 40s, he wouldn't seem to be the sort of person who would drive groupies wild in Japan. But Tino, who lives in Low Moor, was once drummer for Bradford's

  • Time to get tough on the girls

    The head teacher of a top Bradford school today pleaded with parents to crack down on teenage sex, drug use and under-age drinking. Linda Warrington, head of The Girls Grammar School, Bradford, said she was shocked at the explosion in youngsters drinking

  • Jamie misses Jamaica trip

    Man of the match Jamie Lawrence has withdrawn from Jamaica's World Cup qualifier in El Salvador on Wednesday. The in-form midfield player who walked away from Valley Parade clutching a bottle of champagne, said: "I have got a sore back and a slight hamstring

  • No justice for McCall

    Bradford City 0 Everton 1 Stuart McCall slumped wearily into his chair an hour after Saturday's game and knew that Terry Butcher was spot on. McCall had spoken to his old Rangers pal during the week when the idea of taking the player-manager job was tossing

  • Let's have more of these cup thrillers!

    England 26 Ireland 16 The game's authorities most surely find room for a high profile Home Nations Championship in next season's calendar after this thrilling Headingley spectacle. The World Cup build-up was blighted with high profile players crying off

  • The need for higher standards

    There is a telling quote in the comments of Lynda Warrington, head of the Girls' Grammar School, Bradford, in her speech on teenage behaviour at a major conference in Wales. Speaking as president of the Girls' School Association, she said she feared she

  • On This Day

    In 1850, novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson was born. In 1875, Rawson Place Market, Bradford, was opened. In 1907, £20,000 damage was caused in a fire at Mount Street Mill, Bradford. From the Telegraph & Argus of November 13, 1975... Massive

  • Training chances for jobless

    The long-term unemployed are being given the chance to train for new careers thanks to the Government-sponsored Gateway to Work initiative run in Bradford by Rathbone. The course is designed for people aged between 18 and 24 on the New Deal scheme who

  • Takeover was vital

    The chief executive of a chemical distribution firm, taken over in a deal valuing it at £310 million, has said the firm needed to be part of a bigger group in order to survive. Ellis & Everard (E&E) accepted a 310p-a-share bid by Dutch logistics

  • Firefighters' flood work will be free

    Fire chiefs have reassured householders swamped by floods they will not be charged for emergency pumping work. Chief Fire Officer Phil Toase today pledged there would be no charge for emergency flood work where there was an imminent danger to life or

  • Jaine powers to Miss GB award

    By day Jaine Ellison is a hardworking, high flying legal executive who flexes her brain in complex legal matters. But by night she is a bodybuilding superstar who has just won the title of Miss Great Britain. The 32-year-old, from Norwood Terrace, Shipley

  • Web breaks down the great barriers

    Students at a Bradford school 'went Down Under' to learn about Australia's Great Barrier Reef thanks to a high-tech education initiative. The global video-conferencing project enabled pupils at Baildon's Salt Grammar School to communicate directly with

  • All you could hear was the wind in the trees...

    Thousands of people paid homage to Britain's war dead during Remembrance Day services across the district. And a monument to the Bradford Pals and other West Yorkshiremen who fought during World War One was unveiled in Centenary Square, Bradford. In the

  • Officers praised for catching gun gang

    A police team which helped bring a machine gun robber to justice has been rewarded for its investigation. The team of eight from Toller Lane, Bradford, and a forensic scientist came together in December 1998 after a spate of armed robberies in the city

  • 'Raider' at dye firm causes gas cloud

    Worshippers arriving at a city centre church yesterday were turned away after a gas cloud billowed out of a dye company's premises following a chemical spillage. Police are investigating a break-in at the Wilkinson & Scott building in Nelson Street

  • NHS op 'delayed' by private patient care

    An NHS patient was horrified after being told her examination was delayed by a doctor attending to a private patient. Grandmother Janet Turpin, 44, had fasted for more than 24 hours and stripped to a gown to prepare for a barium enema at St Luke's Hospital

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - While I support the promotion of public transport from all environmental perspective, as a regular user of the 680 service, I can appreciate why only those with no alternative would "choose" to travel in this way. On November 2, I waited at the