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  • City in stalemate

    City 0 Grimsby 0: City were frustrated by Grimsby in a dour stalemate this afternoon as a small Valley Parade crowd witnessed their second goalless draw of the season. Gary Walsh, the fall guy at Stoke, was the major absentee from a City side showing

  • Plan that deserves success

    Bradford has a long-established reputation for pioneering in education. That seems likely to be boosted by the interesting experiment at the giant 1,700-pupil Rhodesway School which will see it split into three separate units when it reopens at the start

  • Milan? No, it's the Kirkgate Centre!

    A Bradford shopping centre will take on the appearance of a Milan fashion show as would-be models parade on a catwalk on Monday. The catwalk, with full lighting and sound, is being built in the Kirkgate Centre for the heats of the Telegraph & Argus

  • Heather phones to advise brave Laura

    A teenager who is trying to raise £20,000 to buy herself new artificial legs is being backed by celebrity model Heather Mills. Laura Campbell is pictured with her mum, Chrisie. Laura had her legs amputated when she was 18 months old and learned to walked

  • Police lay siege to 'crazed' knifeman

    Armed police stormed an Ilkley house last night after a siege involving a "deranged" knifeman which lasted for more than two hours. Officers armed with guns surrounded the terraced house in a quiet Ilkley street after the 50-year-old man threatened to

  • Student, 20, killed in sea wall plunge

    A mother today told how a summer holiday in Spain ended in tragedy when her son plunged to his death from a sea wall. Oliver Edward Batley, 20, was five days into a two-week camping holiday with friends in San Sebastian, near Bilbao in northern Spain,

  • Tigers centre Eager to impress

    Castleford gave notice of their current fine form last Sunday with their 40-16 victory at Halifax - the heaviest home defeat the Blue Sox have suffered all season. And one of the stars was Australian centre Michael Eager - one of their most consistent

  • Odsal deal 'best news for years'

    Bradford Independent Supporters Association (BISA) today hailed the new agreement to give Bradford Bulls a long-term future at Odsal as potentially the best news the club have had for many years. In the deal Bradford Council have ended their 1986 agreement

  • Owzat for a curry night?

    Cricketing legend Geoffrey Boycott was bowled over by award-winning Shipley chef Mohammed Aslam's top dishes. The Asian buffet was prepared at the Aagrah Group's headquarters in Shipley before being cooked by Mr Aslam at the former Yorkshire and England

  • Anderson keen to make up for lost time

    Bradford Bulls prop Paul Anderson will unleash three months of pent-up emotion tomorrow when he plays against his home-town team Castleford Tigers at The Jungle. The 30-year-old, who will start on the bench as usual, has missed the last 12 matches with

  • Bulls do the spade work

    Bulls prop Brian McDermott shows his team-mates, from left, James Lowes, Paul Anderson, Joe Vagana and Richard Moore how to wield a shovel. The quintet were at Woodhouse Grove to look over progress on the £3million training facility that will be shared

  • On this day

    In 1572, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre began in Paris. In 1759, anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce was born. In 1814, British troops captured Washington D.C. and burned the White House. From the Telegraph & Argus of August 24th, 1977

  • Sex attack on woman in street

    A sex attacker was disturbed by passers-by as he attempted to carry out a serious assault on a woman in a quiet village street early today. The 25-year-old woman escaped with minor injuries when her attacker fled the scene in Green Road, Baildon, at 12.50am

  • Stop and let us buy one, plead brothers

    All summer, brothers Declan and Conrad Waggett have listened tantalised by the music of the ice cream van as it has toured their village near Skipton. And then looked longingly as it has whipped past the end of their road in Cross Hills. Not once has

  • School takes on 48 teachers

    A school trying to tackle "serious weaknesses" identified by Ofsted has recruited 48 new teachers. Rhodesway School at Allerton was found to have "a high proportion of unsatisfactory teaching" when inspectors visited last summer. When Ofsted returned

  • Man 'at forefront of riots' locked up

    A 20-year-old man who was "at the forefront" during part of the Bradford riots has been locked up for three-and-a-half years. Nahiem Abid Razaq, of Highfield Lane, Keighley, was sent to a young offenders' institution by Judge Alistair McCallum, sitting

  • Business school in deal with Chinese

    Universities in China have struck a deal with Bradford Business School to help their students achieve a more prestigious degree. Delegates from six Chinese universities yesterday visited the city to finalise an agreement to adopt courses designed by the

  • Bobby's family fun run

    Bradford boxer Bobby Vanzie is roping in runners for a charity fun run to raise money for the Marie Curie hospice. Bobby, nicknamed The Viper, is to take part in the two-mile challenge at the Richard Dunn sports centre with his family on Sunday, September

  • Youths lock men in shipping container

    A Bradford businessman has told of his terror after being locked in a shipping container by two youths. Mohan Sangha, a partner at manufacturing firm Sangha Metrology, was locked in with engineer Terry Brown, one of his employees, on Thursday. The men

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I have recently read a number of letters from outraged citizens of Bradford who are complaining about the group Fair Justice for All and the proposed protest. I agree that "if you do the crime, you must do the time". What happened in Bradford was