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  • Loan star bolsters Cougars campaign

    Super League loan signing Craig Stanley will makes his Cougar debut on Sunday. The winger, borrowed from a month from Leeds Rhinos as part of the new link between the clubs, comes in for the injured Karl Smith. Smith landed on the ball in the dying minutes

  • A victory in defeat

    Bradford City 0, Manchester City 2: City's week of woe finished with a third loss, a third blank and yet another injury to a centre-half. But at least they got some pride back against a team Kevin Keegan reckons are better than the Newcastle side he took

  • New blow as Myers could be out for season

    Andy Myers will find out over the weekend if his season is over. City's ultra-consistent defender is due to have a scan on the injured hamstring he suffered in last night's 2-0 loss to new leaders Manchester City. Myers was stretchered off just before

  • On This Day

    In 1923, Soviet leader Lenin retired after suffering a massive stroke. In 1925, Bradford Woolcombers gave £13,000 towards building the new Bradford Infirmary. In 1937, George Orwell's "Road to Wigan Pier " was published. From the Telegraph & Argus

  • Watery display ready to open

    An exhibition detailing the site of Calderdale's largest amphibian population will be officially opened tomorrow. The Mayor and Mayoress of Calderdale, Councillor Chris O'Connor and Mrs Dorothy O'Connor, will open the annual exhibition of the Friends

  • Church goes global during renovation

    Pews and gargoyles from a historic Bingley church are to be flown to destinations across the world. Demolition workers have moved in to raze Mornington Road Methodist Church to the ground to make way for a modern chapel and 12 homes. The pews are being

  • Planning to do the business in class

    A Bradford secondary school is hoping to become one of the first in the country to specialise in business and enterprise. Dave Morgan, deputy head teacher at Buttershaw High School, hopes that last year's win for the school in the regional Young Enterprise

  • 'Draw those purse strings even tighter'

    Council bosses have ended the year in the red - despite a tough new regime where they were carpeted by senior councillors. Bradford Council directors are likely to have overspent by £4.4 million by the end of this month in spite of being told by the Executive

  • It's hairy escapades all round in fun for hospital

    Big-hearted fundraisers at a Bradford company had a hair-raising time collecting £2,000 to help new-born babies. Staff and volunteers at Fitness Finesse at Horton Bank Top took part in a sponsored leg wax and head shave in aid of the special care baby

  • Family told to pull down their home

    Planners have ordered the demolition of a family home because it was built without permission in a special landscape area. They want road haulier Roger Feather to pull down the wooden, single storey house in the grounds of Laveroc Hall Farm at Flappit

  • 'I'll wed my rugby hero in hospital'

    A rugby player who broke his back in a match will say "I do" in a special hospital wedding ceremony next Saturday. Prop forward Keith Spinks, 43, needed lifesaving surgery after he was injured in January. He was treated at Leeds General Infirmary before

  • £8m to cut child poverty

    An £8 million scheme to help eradicate child poverty in Bradford was being unveiled today. Bradford has been chosen by the Government to be part of a national pilot programme and will receive one of the largest amounts of cash in the country because of

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - In the debate about the Odsal Stadium project being referred to a public inquiry, the great and the good have been voicing their support of the scheme and Bradford Council has stated that it is prepared to spend millions on legal input to the inquiry

  • Noble appeals for old pals' act

    Brian Noble today called on Bulls fans to turn up in numbers for the Super League home opener. The Bradford Bulls coach want to see full stands when his side run onto the Valley Parade for round two of "Super League Hea7en". And he is calling on the stay-away

  • 'Wolves won't catch us cold again'

    Robbie Paul today warned Warrington's giant-killers, 'you won't slay us'. The Kiwi star said there would be none of the complacency that saw the Bulls go down 18-14 last season, as the Bulls seek to put on a show at home. Paul said that the team wanted

  • Tackling poverty head on

    The inclusion of Bradford in a pilot scheme to help nearly 64,000 of the district's needy and vulnerable children between the ages of five and 13 is to be welcomed. There is surely much that can be done over the next three years with the £8.1 million

  • Shaky Pace 'ripe for a takeover'

    Digital giant Pace may be ripe for a takeover, according to a business expert. Pace, which is based at Saltaire, saw its shares fall to an all time low of £1 this week, following its third trade warning in months. The company, which produces set-top boxes

  • They're serious about play!

    It's a sunny morning and youngsters at Oakenshaw Playgroup are playing together outside. Through play, they learn how to behave with each other. The children, aged two to five, are from the same community, several miles out of Bradford's multi-cultural

  • Pubs kicking early World Cup into touch

    Football fans hoping to sip a pint in their favourite Bradford pub while watching England's progress in the World Cup could go thirsty. Many games during June's World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea will be screened live on TV early in the morning

  • Bravery awards for car-crash rescuers

    Firefighters who rescued six people from the wreckage of a car have been given bravery awards. Nine firefighters have been awarded Station Commander's Letters of Apprec-iation, for acts carried out beyond the call of duty. The passengers involved in the

  • Street beat for video star Gareth

    With his trademark white suit and 2:2:1 hair formation, Gareth Gates is set to take his next step on the road to pop stardom - and has already been compared to a young Elvis in his new video. Gareth's debut single, Unchained Melody, is set to hit the

  • 300 million watch festival in China

    Bradford's eighth film festival sprang into life with a swashbuckling tale of revenge and betrayal. The festival opened last night with the UK premiere of the Hollywood-hit The Count of Monte Cristo kicking off 16 days of exclusive screenings, special

  • Factory axe plan is 'devastating blow'

    A union leader today said plans to shut a Keighley factory will "devastate" the town. Silentnight Holdings Plc yesterday told 220 shell-shocked staff that it planned to close its cabinet factory in Dalton Lane. Gary Baker, GMB organiser, said staff had

  • Rioter who ignored wife's plea is jailed

    A plumber who ignored his wife's plea to come home during the Bradford riots was today beginning a four-and-a-half year jail sentence. Zamir Hussain was caught on police video footage answering a call from his wife on his mobile phone after he failed