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  • Cricket: Somerset are let off the hook

    Yorkshire's bowlers ran out of steam at Taunton yesterday after a dynamic four-wicket burst by Steve Kirby had left Somerset staggering on 40 for five and the West Country side went on to recover from 144 for eight to 275 all out. Kirby, whose first three

  • Saints drop a bombshell

    Bradford Bulls 0, St Helens 35: The last point of the game was once again scored by Sean Long. Although the 80th-minute field goal he landed at Odsal last night had nowhere near as much significance as the one last October that clinched the Grand Final

  • On This Day

    In 1844, Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot dead by a mob in Illinois, USA. In 1886, William Ewart Gladstone said: "All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes." In 1990, authorities in Florence decreed

  • Time travellers

    There will be the chance to meet some of Oakwell Hall's residents and guests from years gone by at an event on Wednesday, July 23. Meet The Ancestors - The Elizabethans will include crafts and activities. The free event for all the family runs from 10.30am

  • What a relief!

    Local people can now get a clearer idea of how the £47.9 million Bingley Relief Road scheme is taking shape. A temporary stretch of road redirects the A650 closer to the Ramada Jarvis Bankfield Hotel while the permanent stretch of road to the roundabout

  • Fame is the aim!

    They will be the new kids from Fame... From September, the cream of the district's young talent will form the first intake to a new 'Fame Academy' opening in Shipley. Auditions start next month for the 40 full-time places at the Shipley Dance and Performing

  • Clampdown on street car traders

    Council chiefs have launched a crackdown on illegal street car traders who have been disrupting the lives of residents and businesses in Great Horton. A campaign was launched by Labour councillor Rev Paul Flowers after a number of complaints that the

  • Traffic trouble ahead

    The following roads could be congested next week as vital water works are carried out in Bradford. Yorkshire Water is investing £100 million in improving the quality of water in the district, but work will continue until December 2005. Works will be in

  • Well-wishers come to rescue of church

    A vicar left with a £10,000 bill after the third burglary at his church in eight months today praised locals who have rallied round with help. One mystery woman turned up at the vicarage with a video recorder and a carrier bag full of tapes to replace

  • Criminal tries to leap from flats balcony

    A brave policewoman tackled a wanted criminal as he tried to jump off a third floor balcony at flats in Shipley. PC Clare Bastow made the arrest yesterday as part of a crackdown on Bradford's most prolific offenders. In all, 28 arrests were made in the

  • Rugby star hanged himself

    A 30-year-old former Keighley Cougars rugby league player killed himself on his birthday after a relationship with a woman ended. Bradford Coroner's Court heard how Wayne McComb, of Brackenbank Avenue, Keighley, took the break-up "rather badly'' earlier

  • Drugs dealer told to pay £150,000

    A major supplier involved in a drugs ring masterminded in Bradford has been ordered by a judge to pay more than £150,000 or face three more years in jail. Paul Haukerdahl was sent to prison for 16 years in April after a jury convicted him of being the

  • £1m scheme for the difficult pupils

    A million-pound scheme targeting badly-behaved pupils aims to cut the number of under-11s kicked out of school. Education Bradford is launching the drive under its Behaviour Support Plan in September. A new emphasis on prevention includes four new centres

  • Bradford bidding for Games gold

    School sport: More than 1,500 competitors aged between seven and 15 are taking part in West Yorkshire's biggest annual multi-sport event tomorrow. This year there are nine sports in the fifth annual West Yorkshire Youth Games at Leeds Metropolitan University's

  • Robbie in race against time

    Robbie Paul is in a race against time to be fit for the play-offs after a broken arm capped off a night to forget for Bradford rugby. The Bulls' skipper was taken to hospital with a suspected double fracture in his left arm after a collision with Paul

  • Windass on a mission

    Dean Windass is back at City. Windass has agreed a two-year contract to return to the club he left for Middlesbrough in March, 2001. He will be at pre-season training on Monday with his new team-mates before signing his deal on July 1. The 34-year-old

  • A step in the right direction

    The problem of badly-behaved children in the classroom is one with wide-ranging effects. For a start, there is the disruption to other children in school who suffer from the disturbances caused by ill-behaved pupils and who take up more and more of the

  • Shoppers will get a whole new look

    Two new major retail developments are on the cards at Bradford's Kirkgate Centre. JJB Sports will open a flagship store in the centre next year, while fashion store New Look will move into a unit this year that is four times bigger than its existing shop

  • Rape verdicts

    A 14-year-old boy has been cleared of a number of rape and indecent assault allegations against three girls. The jury at Bradford Crown Court found the youngster not guilty of three rapes and one indecent assault after six hours of deliberations. They

  • 'Abusive' driver sparks bus sit-in

    Gran Alison Gowthorpe staged a sit-in on a bus after a driver ordered her to get off in a row over a child's buggy. Now she has demanded an apology from bus company First for the way she was treated on the 646 service to Ravenscliffe. She said she boarded

  • Pigeon man told to remove his loft

    Neighbours are celebrating victory in their battle to get a pigeon fancier to remove his 'nuisance' loft from a garden. A Government inspector has ordered David Kernan, 52, to demolish the coop at his home in Oakworth Road, Keighley, by October. He has

  • School scoops drama award

    Saltaire Primary School has won an award for its Dramatic Arts Club. Education Extra, a national charity, made the award in recognition of the school's out-of-school-hours provision. Saltaire is one of 300 schools throughout the country to receive an

  • Royal honour for charity's founder

    A former Bradford nurse has received a knighthood from the Queen of the Netherlands for her work in helping sickle cell anaemia patients. Soroya Beacher, who is half Dutch, first came across the illness when working as a nurse in Leeds. She left Bradford

  • Child porn man gets nine months jail

    A man who used his wife's credit card to download child porn has been jailed for nine months. David Alan Collins, pictured, of Thornhill Street, Calverley, admitted 20 charges of possessing indecent photographs of children. At Leeds Crown Court yesterday

  • The day I tried to be the new Pop Idol

    Ian Briggs (pictured) hit the audition trail to see if he could get on the TV show Pop Idol and be the new Gareth Gates. Manchester, Monday, 10am. A grey, gloomy day in the former cotton spinning capital. Not much to cheer about then as I parked my car

  • Animal cruelty farmer jailed

    Farmer David Holmes, pictured, has been jailed for six months after defying a lifetime ban on keeping animals for a second time. And magistrates called on Bradford Council to contact the French authorities and check on animal welfare rules across the

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - Two recent reports are urging restrictions on people chastising their children. Meanwhile good old Tony Blair has said there is no way he would let this happen. Is this another "Vote for Blair" pre-election scam? This proposed law is being put forward