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  • Aids scare for guard slashed by armed man

    A security guard will have to wait six months to find out if he has caught Aids after being attacked by an armed man, a court was told. Valereo Romeo had a needle dragged across his wrist during a struggle with the 32-year-old outside a supermarket in

  • Getting the best of British for US firm

    A US-based e-commerce company part-owned by a former Keighley businessman has launched a recruitment drive in West Yorkshire. Frustrated by spiralling wage demands and the lack of suitable job candidates in California's Silicon Valley, Robert Kearney

  • Police name house stab attack victim

    Police have named an Otley man who died from stab wounds. John Walker, 56, of Weston Park View, Otley, and a woman were discovered by police after being stabbed on Sunday night. Mr Walker was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where he later died. The 61

  • Two survive as plane crashes on the moors

    Two men miraculously escaped with their lives when a light aircraft crashed on remote moorland during a training flight. The two-seater Cessna, owned by the Multiflight flying school based at Leeds-Bradford Airport, came down yesterday at Hambleton Hills

  • Now we are on our way!

    Geoffrey Richmond expects Bradford City's successful fight for Premiership survival will mean a difference in income of between £6 and £8 million next year. But the City chief is also quick to point out that staying in the Premiership entails a huge increase

  • My 146-mile run on hot sand

    Running in the Marathon Des Sables, across the harsh Moroccan desert, had long been an ambition for Bradford man Brant Taylor. Last month he undertook the 146-mile event, raising more than £2,000 for the charity Dreams Come True. Pam Wilkinson reports

  • I've got my life back!

    After years of taunting and abuse as a teenager Sally Widd tried to commit suicide. She didn't succeed and continued to put weight on until one day she decided it was time to do something about her future. In just over a year she lost more than six stones

  • Your Pets, by our vet Simon Thomas

    Angus is one of those West Highland terriers who never look as white as his owners think he should. For all that he had been robustly healthy for most of his nine years until a couple of weeks ago. His owner brought him along because he had noticed him

  • Your Health, by Dr Tom Smith

    Most practices nowadays organise special clinics for groups of people with similar long-term illnesses - for example, diabetes, arthritis, epilepsy, gynaecological conditions, and family planning. They are all very rewarding, because people attending

  • Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?

    Grey power in action is a remarkable phenomenon. That was demonstrated clearly enough by the triumph of Denmark's Olsen Brothers in the Eurovision Song Contest. Their song Fly On the Wings of Love was not, to my mind, the best and brightest in the contest

  • Lottery money helps disabled find new goals

    A grant of almost £200,000 from the National Lottery will be used to help integrate Bradford disabled people into society. RIVER - Realising Integration Via Empowerment and Recreation - assists people with learning difficulties to carry out tasks most

  • Sporting chance of help for poor areas

    A major play and sports scheme in deprived Barkerend, Bradford, has been included in a multi-million pound blueprint to breathe new life into the area. The scheme, at Bradford Moor park, Myra Shay, Gilpin Street and Seymour Street, will include cricket

  • £1.2m aid for city's crime-fight scheme

    A project steering children as young as four away from a life of crime will be set up in Bradford after the city was handed a £1.2 million cash boost. The On Track scheme is aimed at helping youngsters who are at risk of becoming involved in crime by

  • Back to reality for Sally's mum

    Bridget Slater returned to her idyllic cottage home in the Yorkshire Dales to find her washing machine had packed in. Six weeks ago her daughter Sally was at death's door, desperately in need of a new heart. But yesterday, as the plucky six-year-old played

  • Festival will celebrate village's forefathers

    Residents in Addingham are gearing up for a Millennium festival weekend at St Peter's Church - and will celebrate the discovery of some of the village's first settlers. The event marking 1,000 years of Christianity in the community will feature references

  • £370,000 aid to help fight city's biggest killer

    Health chiefs were celebrating today after receiving a major cash boost to help tackle Bradford's biggest killer. Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees health authorities are to receive a slice of £10 million of Government funding to help coronary heart disease

  • A welcome for for heroes

    Driving round your home city in an open-top bus after finishing 17th in the league may not be every football club's reason to celebrate, writes T&A soccer reporter Richard Sutcliffe. But anyone who doubted whether Bradford City merited such a salute

  • Lottery winner is jailed

    Lottery jackpot winner Errol Active has been jailed for a "vicious and prolonged" assault on a former girlfriend. Bradford magistrates heard how 39-year-old Active - the district's first big National Lottery winner, who won almost £1 million - repeatedly

  • The talent we must not export

    It says much for the huge appetite for talent of the IT industry that a company based in California's Silicon Valley should be looking to West Yorkshire 6,000 miles away for new recruits. Not only are there not enough suitable job candidates in California

  • Every mother's nightmare

    Watching your child suffer is the worst nightmare a mother has to endure. For 23-year-old Sarah Gillin, it is a waking nightmare she has to cope with every single day. Pam Wilkinson reports. LITTLE NIOMI Gillin is only 23 months old and is undergoing

  • Anila Baig: Claret and amber heroes win me over

    I never thought it would happen, that a day would come when I would not only want to watch a football match on the television but actually be reduced to listening to it on the radio. But dear reader, it happened and I did. This time last year I had little

  • Now the old hall gives up its secrets

    It is a crumbling gem among Bradford's history. Now a hidden heritage is being restored to its former glory after being bought for £59,000 at auction. But it is the mysteries hidden within the stone-built property that are creating the most excitement

  • South Asian poets are brought to book

    The first anthology of poetry in the country written by people with south Asian roots has been produced by a Bradford publisher. The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poetry will be launched at Bradford Library on May 18. It is the brainchild of

  • 'Help me care for my troubled child'

    A single mother today pleaded for help in caring for her troubled child who almost burned her family out of their home. Desperate Suzanne Butters fears the ten-year-old will accidentally kill herself, her sisters and her mother following a string of incidents

  • Nurse who hired a 'hitman' is barred

    A Bradford nurse who tried to hire a hitman to break his ex-wife's legs and beat her until she had brain damage has been struck off the medical register. Yamritlall Futhee was found guilty of misconduct by the Professional Conduct Committee of the United