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  • Relegation cost City £15m cash bonanza

    Bradford City have missed out on a £15 million to £20 million bonanza after dropping out of the Premiership. That's the bumper pay-out each top-flight club will receive from next season's TV gold rush. Chairman Geoffrey Richmond calculated the lost windfall

  • Akram is delighted at all-ten

    Mohammed Akram's all-ten bowling feat for Undercliffe was the best of his career, but the laid back Pakistan Test pace bowler has taken his remarkable achievement in his stride. Akram took ten for 25 to help Undercliffe to beat Cleckheaton by 111 runs

  • Kathryn set to face the men

    Kathryn Leng was set to create a piece of cricketing history today. She has been included in the Bradford/Leeds Universities Centre of Cricket Excellence team for their two-day match with Loughborough at Park Avenue. The England women's international

  • The need to deter boy racers

    The 18-month driving bans and £200 fines imposed on two young men who raced their cars at nearly 120mph on the dual carriageway between Crossflatts and Marley have been welcomed by police and a local councillor as sending out a strong deterrent message

  • On This Day

    In 1908, the Wright brothers patented their flying machine "Flyer 1" In 1911, the Bradford Band of Hope celebrated its Diamond Jubilee. In 1913, a massive fire at Barkerend Mills, Bradford, caused £25,000 worth of damage. From the Telegraph & Argus

  • Bovis backing

    The firm behind Bradford's massive educational building programme is predicting a bright future for women in the construction business. Bovis Lend Lease, which is involved in a £171 million building project affecting some 109 of the district's schools

  • 'Don't do it' warns road-race speeder

    A young motorist banned from driving after racing another man down a dual carriageway at speeds of up to nearly 120mph has warned other drivers not to get involved in racing. Nabeel Khan, 20, spoke out after appearing before Bingley magistrates, where

  • Would-be doctor's appeal to minister

    An aspiring Bradford doctor met Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn yesterday, as he visited Shipley, to ask for help in completing his medical studies. Mohammed Baig, 23, from Bradford told the Minister how his medicine course had been terminated

  • Bakery boss in £1m heart hospital gift

    The boss of one of Bradford's oldest Asian businesses has funded a cardiac hospital in Pakistan which will provide free healthcare to patients. Mohammed Saleem, who owns Kashmir Crown Bakery which opened in Bradford in 1968, is the benefactor behind the

  • Green champion will warm to his new job

    Bradford could become Britain's "green" capital as the man who would like to see disposable nappies ditched by parents steps into a top environment job. Former headteacher Keith Thomson has been appointed chairman of the Council's environment scrutiny

  • Still time to catch Imax show

    If you missed TV superstars Bart and Homer Simpson in Bradford at the weekend, don't worry, there's still plenty of time to catch up with them at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. The father and son of America's most dysfunctional

  • Restaurant kitchen was filthy, JPs told

    The owner of an Ilkley Chinese restaurant, where environmental health officers discovered "filthy" conditions, was ordered by magistrates to pay £4,250 in fines and costs. Sau Wan Chan Lee, 51, owner of the Po Sang Chinese restaurant in Wells Road, admitted

  • Stone age man was hooked on fish

    We all know fish is good brain food, but now researchers from Bradford University have found it probably contributed to the survival of modern man. While Neanderthal man, who lived roughly 150,000 to 30,000 years ago, relied on land animals for protein

  • Carnage in the cup

    THE most spectacular exhibition of ferocious batting ever seen in Craven League cricket left ten-man Jimmy Nelson's in a daze after their Wynn Cup Round One match at Oakworth. Form upsets are the stuff of cup folklore, but this new page in the annals

  • Cross Hills dash Bulldogs' hopes

    SKIPTON Bulldogs hopes of completing a second Cup and League double in successive seasons were dashed when Cross Hills beat them 2-1 in the Northern Plant Hire Challenge Cup final at Barnoldswick United. The result left both teams on level terms at the

  • Skipton need some runs

    WHILE the arrival of Kiwi paceman Duncan Grant brings welcome strengthening to the bowling department, Skipton need to develop their run-scoring credentials to make an impact in Division A of the Airedale & Wharfedale Cricket League. The Sandylands

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - In his letter of May 15, Don Burslam correctly stated that education, taxes and crime would be at the forefront of the election campaign (they always are!), but wrong to say that the "nuclear issue" had been half forgotten. That may be in this country

  • Unity hit hat-trick in penalty victory

    Albion Sports 0, East Bowling Unity 0 (EBU won 4-3 on penalties) - East Bowling Unity completed a hat-trick of cup triumphs after winning a dramatic penalty shoot-out against rivals Albion Sports to lift the Bradford and District FA Sunday Senior Cup

  • Dougie's triumph after bad opening

    Dougie Lampkin triumphed eventually after a poor start to the weekend at the world trial course in Belgium. The Silsden rider started badly on the Mons course in Round three, day one, of the World Outdoor Trials Championship on Saturday but he recovered

  • Do you want to quit City?

    Chairman Geoffrey Richmond asked Jim Jefferies if he wanted to quit as Bradford City boss because he looked so low in the post-match interviews at Coventry. Richmond, who wasn't at the final game of the season, was so amazed by the TV pictures on Match

  • Briefing at breakfast

    Bradford chartered accountants Baker Tilly will host a breakfast briefing by the Regional Chamber for Yorkshire and Humberside next month. Chamber secretary Jane Hustwit will explain the group's agenda for West Yorkshire at the June 21 event. For details

  • Cable's link to Sony

    Owners of Yorkshire Cable have teamed up with Sony to pioneer broadband Internet access for the Playstation 2. The move means owners of the computer console could soon be playing high speed, online games with opponents from around the world. Managing

  • Fish shop manager tied up at knifepoint

    A fish and chip shop manager was tied up at knifepoint by a robber who stole the firm's takings from his home. Steven Parratt, 33, manager of Ivanhoes fish and chip shop in Central Parade, Cleckheaton, was tricked into allowing a man he knew to stay with

  • Striking lecturers set up picket lines

    College lecturers set up picket lines in Bradford and Saltaire today as part of their union's national one-day strike. Lecturers manned the picket lines outside Bradford and Shipley colleges leading to scores of students having their classes disrupted

  • Internet boss bids to save old school

    An enterprising company boss is proposing to save an historic building in Eldwick from being razed to the ground by converting it into a new base for his business. Stephen Brabbins wants to transform the former Eldwick First School into studio space so

  • Residents conned over 'Census fines'

    Unwitting Bradford householders have coughed up 'on-the-spot fines' for not returning Census forms - only to discover they have been targeted by an opportunist conwoman. Police and Census chiefs today warned people to be on their guard against the scam

  • 'Stop sidelining crisis' plea by Bishop

    The Bishop of Bradford today called on the nation's senior politicians to stop sidelining the foot-and-mouth crisis in the run-up to the General Election. The Right Reverend David Smith has visited farmers in the Settle and Skipton areas where a rash

  • 'Erratic pool game led to pub killing'

    A father-of-one was fatally stabbed through the heart by a man he had beaten in a game of pool, a jury has heard. Prosecutor Simon Bourne-Arton QC alleged that 29-year-old Jason Lyons had been in "a difficult mood'' when he went into The Tempest pub in

  • Sisters fight to free jailed father

    Two Bradford sisters are battling for their father's release from an overcrowded jail in the Dominican Republic. Precious metal trader Asaf Darr, 46, and two Dutch colleagues were arrested in November 1999 during a business trip to buy gold in neighbouring