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  • Cup star Dunning bowls over Birky

    Scoring chances were thin on the ground with defences well on top in the second-round TXU Energi Challenge Cup tie, which West Bowling eventually won 14-0 at Birkenshaw. A dark and dismal, rain-lashed East Bierley set the scene for a tremendous arm wrestle

  • Benn poised to eclipse Atkinson's club record

    Wayne Benn is 50-50 to make a record-breaking 364th Avenue appearance tonight. The Bradford skipper and aggressive midfielder could break Charlie Atkinson's peacetime total if he takes to the field at Horsfall Stadium against Ossett Town. Although this

  • On This Day

    In 1865, the 13th amendment was made to the United States Constitution, ending slavery. In 1911, four prisoners escaped from the cells in Bradford Town Hall. In 1991, the World Bank granted Brazil $250 million to help save rainforests in the Amazon basin

  • Totty sold for £23.3m

    Bradford-based construction company Totty is being sold in a deal worth £23.3 million. Totty is part of construction and development business Propencity, which is being sold by Leeds-based parent company Peterhouse. Peterhouse is selling Propencity to

  • Man, 23, denies robbing women

    A 23-year-old man carried out bag snatches on two elderly women in daylight, a jury was told. Ashaq Sattar allegedly robbed the pensioners, aged 71 and 82, during separate incidents in Heckmondwike, Bradford Crown Court heard how both were injured when

  • Disabled girl, 10, is hit by raiders again

    A wheelchair-bound ten-year-old girl has been left housebound this Christmas after thieves stole her grandparents' specially-adapted car. Mary Fieldhouse, grandmother of cerebral palsy sufferer Chelsea Senior, said it was the third break-in the family

  • E-coli nursery given all-clear

    Parents have voiced their continued support for a nursery at the centre of an outbreak of the life-threatening bug e-coli after an investigation into its cause wound down. The infection hit 13 children and one adult at Busy Bears nursery in Broughton

  • The goal is to mark century of football

    It was the anniversary Bradford City fans feared they might never see. But plans are now well advanced for the celebrations to mark 100 years since football kicked off at Valley Parade in 1903. Club managing director Shaun Harvey explained how City are

  • Eastern flavour in global graduation

    The University of Bradford made history with its largest ever graduation ceremony - in Singapore. The students, who were mainly Chinese, had been studying at the university's partner institute, Manage-ment Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS). Nearly

  • Cafe's bosses served crack cocaine

    Right up until the moment of his spectacular downfall, Richard "Bingy" Brown carefully maintained his facade of respectability. As joint manager of the Young Lion Cafe in Manningham's Lumb Lane, Brown portrayed himself as a community leader who counted

  • Temple to be turned into women's centre

    A former Sikh temple is to undergo a £500,000 transformation to turn it into a women's centre. It is hoped the new facility, which will include a gym, creche, IT room, training kitchen and function room, will become a hub of the community for the women

  • Kick-off for a new Odsal

    World club rugby league champions Bradford Bulls were today forging ahead with their own £13 million redevelopment of Odsal Stadium. Contractors have started work on the first phase of the project - a two-storey hospitality building at one end of the

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I read with great interest the letter "Nobody cares" from Catherine Alderson (T&A, December 9). There is no Supt Walker working for the RSPCA in Yorkshire and the North East. I assume she is referring to RSPCA Inspector Trevor Walker. In her

  • No return for speedway at new Odsal

    Fans of speedway today received a hammer blow with news that their sport will not make a comeback at the new Odsal Stadium. Any lingering hopes of a return to the days when Bradford Dukes ruled the roost have been dashed in new stadium plans. Bradford

  • Return to Odsal has fans flocking

    Bulls' season ticket sales look set to pass the £500,000 mark by tomorrow night. The return to Odsal has led to a "phenomenal" response from fans keen to watch the world champions at the 'Wembley of the North'. And the Bradford sales staff are expected

  • City left with no strikers

    Bradford City's latest crisis leaves them heading into the festive season with no recognised strikers. A deal to keep Delroy Facey at the Bradford & Bingley Stadium fell through leaving City starting a stretch of four matches in ten days with no one

  • Yes, Odsal is back in business

    The contractors have moved in at Odsal stadium at last. There have been many, many occasions over the last few years when we thought we might never be able to report that good news. It has been a long, rough, obstacle-packed road since it was first announced

  • Women share festivals

    About 120 women shared food and gossip to celebrate the religious festivals of Christmas, Diwali and Eid. The lively event, organised by Bradford Women's Forum, was open to women from across the district and from all communities. The forum provided some

  • Manager dropped off drugs at station

    A Bradford cafe manager has been jailed for 11 years after undercover police caught him making a £55,000 cocaine "drop-off" at a bustling train station. A court heard how, two days earlier, the shipment had been smuggled into Britain from Jamaica by a

  • We're just mad about the girls!

    Girls in Bradford are backing Pop Rivals star Kimberley Walsh by snapping up copies of her new single. Staff at HMV on Broadway said the battle of the sexes was swinging Girls Aloud's way after female fans showed solidarity with the Allerton singer. And

  • Drugs widow who killed two lovers

    A twice-widowed drug addict from Bradford has been convicted of killing two overdose victims. A court heard how 42-year-old Kathleen McCluskey had an "ambivalent" attitude towards men and had stockpiled large amounts of the heroin substitute methadone

  • Chef is guilty of car park murder

    A chef was today jailed for life for the murder of a 21-year-old plumber in a pub car park. Leroy McKenzie Griffith, of Ridley's Fold, Addingham, was found guilty at Leeds Crown Court of the murder of Mark Webster, but found not guilty of the assault