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  • Sunday Alliance round-up

    The Sunday Alliance programme was decimated by the early-morning frost. The only game to survive in the Premier Division was at Rhodesway where second-placed Fairweather Green moved two points behind Holme Wood Athletic with two games in hand after a

  • Stick by City, pleads Windass

    Injured Dean Windass today appealed to City's frustrated fans: Be patient and stick by us and we can battle our way out of trouble. City's absent playmaker accepts how frustrated the fans are getting with the players' poor home form - 11 points from 14

  • Why we all must learn to recycle

    Bradford Council has spent a great deal of money in an effort to meet its tough recycling targets. It has provided 85,000 new kerbside bins for newspapers and has applied for funding for another 30,000. And for those who don't have room for two bins outside

  • Double up on recycling plea

    Householders need to more than double the amount of waste they recycle if the district is to achieve its tough targets, it was revealed yesterday. The announcement came as councillors and representatives were told Bradford Council was working to increase

  • Amsterdam man still missing

    Family and friends of a Baildon man who went missing in Amsterdam a month ago today said they were determined to keep up the search. Ian Walton, 36, was last seen on Saturday, December 20, while on a pre-Christmas break with friends in the Dutch capital

  • Man 'was strangled'

    A man found dead in a Bradford car park had been strangled, detectives revealed today. The body of Zafar Iqbal, 22, was discovered off Raymond Street, West Bowling by a member of the public on Sunday morning. Three men and one woman, aged between early

  • War victim's flak jacket destroyed

    The flak jacket worn by Sergeant Steven Roberts was destroyed shortly after his death in the Iraq war, it emerged today. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that the Kevlar protective vest Sgt Roberts was wearing was destroyed soon after "because of the

  • Council staff vote 'yes' to strike

    Council services across the district could be decimated from next Wednesday after staff in the computer department voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action. More than 90 per cent of the workers in the authority's computer department said 'yes' to

  • Modest Suzanne scoops Diana's award

    A courageous teenager, who successfully battled against the odds after losing her legs and fingers in an horrific cot fire when she was only eight-months-old, has won a prestigious Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Award. Teachers at Beckfoot School, Bingley

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - I wish to see railways continue to grow and improve. However, I can't help wondering exactly what route the cross-Bradford rail link is meant to take. Besides, I simply do not see the point of building this connection in the first place. Ask yourself

  • West Riding County Amateur round-up

    Silsden played 88 minutes of their Mumtaz Premier Division game at home to Hemsworth Miners Welfare without goalkeeper Martin Foulger, who was dismissed within the first two minutes for handling outside his area. His place in goal for the remainder of

  • Pryce itching for big kick-off

    Leon Pryce wants to get his season off to a bang when the Bulls take on Penrith in the World Club Challenge next month. Last season the livewire 23-year-old played with the threat of a possible jail sentence hanging over him following a bar room incident

  • Joe Johnson quits

    Former Embassy World Champion Joe Johnson is to retire from professional snooker at the end of the season, bringing to an end a 25-year stint in the paid ranks. One of Bradford's most successful sportsmen, Johnson won the title in 1986 having started

  • On this day

    In 1878, the 3,500-year-old Cleopatra's Needle arrived in London. In 1981, Ronald Reagan became the oldest President of the USA as he was sworn in. In 1982, Ozzy Osborne allegedly bit the head off a bat in the USA and was taken to hospital to have anti-rabies

  • Shareholders vote on Morrisons' bid

    Morrisons shareholders will decide whether to approve the £3 billion swoop for rival Safeway at an extraordinary general meeting next month. Offer documents and details of the meeting, which will take place on February 11, were sent to shareholders yesterday

  • Amsterdam man still missing

    Family and friends of a Baildon man who went missing in Amsterdam a month ago today said they were determined to keep up the search. Ian Walton, 36, was last seen on Saturday, December 20, while on a pre-Christmas break with friends in the Dutch capital

  • MP joins fire cover debate

    Shipley's second fire engine should be relocated where it is needed most, the town's MP has said. Labour's Chris Leslie said West Yorkshire Fire Authority, which has proposed to move the engine to Bradford, faces a difficult decision in the light of public

  • Firearms officers to carry pistols on patrol

    West Yorkshire Police firearms officers are carrying weapons while on routine patrol for the first time, as gun crime in the county soars. Armed response units have been given the go-ahead to wear their handguns in hip-mounted holsters, even if they are

  • Bishop puts his faith in Skoda

    A stone-coloured Skoda is the car of choice for the Bishop of Bradford, who has been named as the country's thriftiest bishop. The Archbishop of Canterbury is whisked around in a luxury car with a built-in computer driven by a chauffeur, but the Right

  • We save toy library!

    Generous Telegraph & Argus readers have smashed the £12,000 target of our Save Our Play appeal after just one month... but now we are aiming even higher! The future of Bradford Toy Library has been secured for at least one more year - thanks to YOUR