Busan Icons have until Thursday to confirm they will be joining City's centenary celebrations. Managing director Shaun Harvey has given the South Korean club a deadline as he firms up the Valley Parade pre-season tournament on July 26-27. Harvey has just
Since taking over the management of 27,000 council tenancies Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing has achieved a 40 per cent reduction in the number of homes standing empty. In April 2002, more than 1,200 homes remained unoccupied but by April this year, the
Former Bingley businessman John Walker, who ran an advertising agency in the town for more than 20 years, has died at the age of 67. Mr Walker came to Bradford in 1969 when he became creative director of Powney, Furness, Compton after leaving Birmingham-based
A woman told a court how she watched in shock as a driver was rammed and chased by a man wielding a baseball bat on the night a security guard was beaten to death. Seven men stand accused of conspiring to murder Qadir Ahmed, 24, of Gordon Street, Keighley
A memorial charity walk organised by the grandparents of an epileptic girl who died aged four has had its most successful year ever. And Diana and Peter Jenkins are now backing an epilepsy charity's drive to raise awareness and understanding of the condition
A new calendar of nude members of a village WI, whose story inspired a £500,000 fundraising bonanza and now a film, will be launched later this year. The calendar also features photographs of screen stars including Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, who
Crucial talks are continuing over the controversial proposed merger between Bradford College and the city's university. Education chiefs at the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which funds post-16 education, were due to decide whether or not to back
Former teacher Margaret Eaton was expected to become Leader of Bradford Council for a fourth term today - propped up by the votes of the Liberal Democrats at the annual Council meeting. But the political year has got off to a bitter start. Labour Group
Education chiefs in Bradford are to open talks with neighbouring councils in a bid to sort out the controversial six-terms issue. It means that any changes to the school year will not be brought in until at least 2005. Bradford Council wanted to change
SIR - What a coincidence that you published a letter from K J Trocki questioning the decision to pay more money to Serco on the same day that you publish details of the Council's decision (May 15). It would appear that the original contract (which Serco
Schoolteacher Ambrose Griffiths has to explain to his students why he arrives for work battered and bruised. The 24-year-old from Shipley, a teacher at Keighley College, plays corner back for the Yorkshire Rams American football team - and is basically
The Bulls have launched The Big One - the largest sporting lottery jackpot in Yorkshire. All the players turned out to promote last night's event which is offering a £500 a day prize, with one lucky Bulls fan having the chance to win £25,000. The initiative
Andy Gray will imagine he is facing Germany tonight when he slips on the Scotland shirt again. City's top scorer is in the Futures squad against Northern Ireland B at Partick. But his ultimate aim is to win a place for the crunch Euro 2004 qualifier with
Chris Caisley today accused Leeds of 'taking the gloss' off his side's Challenge Cup win. The Bulls chairman stoked the fires ahead of this weekend's grudge clash at Odsal, accusing the Rhinos of making "ill-advised" comments since the April 26 final
There are some strong arguments in favour of switching the school year to six terms. It would enable the holidays to be spaced out more evenly, reducing the long winter terms and avoiding the bunching-up of breaks which occur in the spring and early summer
A Bradford firm is urging visitors to Chelsea Flower Show to swap their traditional garden sheds for a high security alternative. Bosses at office furniture firm Flexiform, based in Leeds Road, have launched a new division specialising in high-tech steel
A guest list of television stars has been lined up for the Saltaire Festival in September, organisers announced last night. Television antiques expert Eric Knowles will present a version of the Antiques Roadshow followed by a talk on Art Deco on September
A Bradford inventor hopes to stimulate the creative side of the city's schoolchildren by launching a district-wide young inventors competition. Pensioner Eddie Holden, who invented the Holden Highlights Light Build Exchanger, a device for removing light
A former Bradford Grammar School pupil was sworn in as one of the city's newest and youngest magistrates at a special ceremony yesterday. Twenty-nine-year-old Ahsan Malik, who works as a project manager for Bradford University, was one of 14 new magistrates
Friends are rallying to help a young mum-of-two fighting cancer for the second time. Adele Cronshaw is facing intense radiation treatment next month for a thyroid growth. It comes nine years after she underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumour. The
A teenage Kurd has gone on trial accused of raping a Bradford prostitute only four months after arriving in this country. Kermang Saleh, 19, is alleged to have carried out the sex attack after dragging the woman down an alleyway off Fulton Street in the
Bradford Council will this week advertise across Europe for a private partner to run its buildings and properties which are worth up to £1 billion. Councillor Simon Cooke, Executive member for the economy, said today that the buildings - including Grade
A heartbroken mum today condemned vandals who have targeted the grave of her stillborn quadruplets. Pamela Wilcock said she had been devastated by the constant damaging of her babies' grave in Bowling Cemetery, Bradford. And her 13-year-old daughter Cally
