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  • West Riding County Amateur round-up

    Brighouse Town's Premier Division championship hopes were dealt a severe blow on Saturday when visitors Hemsworth Miners Welfare returned home with a well-deserved 3-2 victory. Starting the day eight points adrift of rivals Silsden but with two games

  • Danny: Drop is a four-letter word

    Danny Cadamarteri has banned all relegation talk as City cling on to their faint hope of staying up. The Bantams, 11 points behind safety, are trying to pick up the pieces for the final seven games of the season. And Cadamarteri, who made a scoring return

  • Still good work to be done

    It seems ironic that just as Bingley relief road is opened, the group that has long campaigned for it to be built with a view to improving the lot of people in Bingley is to fold. Officials of the Better Bingley Campaign have said that only "a miracle

  • Maharajah rules again!

    A fast-growing Bradford textiles business has scooped a top national award to add to its already bulging trophy cabinet. Maharaja Textiles, based in Cemetery Road, was named the Business of the Year at the National Business Enterprise Awards. Today bosses

  • Now you can bin it or bag it in Saltaire

    Residents in a world heritage site village will soon be able to play their part in Bradford's recycling effort - thanks to a new collection scheme being started by Bradford Council. It has provided more than 100,000 wheelie bins for paper collection in

  • Station work 'may start this year'

    Bradford's long-awaited new railway station at Low Moor will take a major step forward this month - and contractors could be on site by the end of the year. Detailed design work for the planned station between Bradford and Halifax is almost finished and

  • Citizens of Britain!

    A six-year-old boy was among eight people to receive British citizenship during an historic ceremony in the banqueting room of City Hall. Lord Mayor of Bradford Councillor Allan Hillary presided over the occasion. A portrait of the Queen was on the table

  • Murder witness to help victims

    A woman who survived the trauma of seeing her have-a-go-hero boyfriend stabbed to death is to use her horrific experience to support other victims of crime. Nadia Mitchell gave evidence in court that helped convict the killer of her boyfriend Mark Webster

  • T&A's top chippy named!

    University graduate Mark Drummond has proved he is something of a high fryer. For his chippy, Bank Top Fisheries in Horton Bank Top, Bradford, has swept to glory in the Telegraph & Argus Fish and Chip Shop of the Year Awards. The judging panel of

  • Gang jailed for illegal immigrant smuggling

    Three Bradford men who were part of an illegal immigrants smuggling ring using false passports were today starting lengthy prison sentences. Bradford Crown Court was told that the trio were part of a sophisticated operation illegally bringing mainly men

  • Letters to the Editor

    Sir - Reading our local council officials' and MPs' reaction to the news that Bradford City could fold this week, you could be excused for thinking it was a complete surprise to everyone at the City Hall. But to the 10,000 people in Bradford and the Aire

  • Bradford Sunday Alliance round-up

    Stanley Road made it to their second cup final in a week with a crushing 7-2 win over Pudsey Royal in the Sunday Alliance Senior League Cup. The victory followed hot on the heels of Thursday night's triumph over Dudley Hill Rangers in the Bradford &

  • Yorkshire going up in the world says Byas

    Yorkshire's director of cricket David Byas has his sights set on a double promotion in his first season in his new role. There was applause from around the hall at the club's annual meeting when the Driffield farmer introduced himself with the words:

  • Toa goes under knife

    Bulls centre Toa Kohe-Love was today undergoing knee surgery. Bulls football manager Stuart Duffy said the club's thoughts were with Kohe-Love and everyone at the club wished him a speedy recovery. "Fingers crossed that it all goes well," said Duffy.

  • City still owe Ward £700,000

    Bradford City chief executive Julian Rhodes will tomorrow hold make-or-break talks with the footballers' union in a bid to secure the Bantams' survival. Mr Rhodes will meet the Professional Footballers' Association to discuss the use of a payment from

  • On this day

    In 1848, theatre artiste Sim Reeve made his first visit to Bradford to sing at the Old Theatre Royal, Duke Street. In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia. In 1978, advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi were hired by the Conservative party

  • Time to be called on Better Bingley

    A group which has spent years fighting for improvements in Bingley was on the brink of closure, its secretary admitted today. Donald Wood, secretary of the Better Bingley Campaign, said it would take "a miracle" for the group to stay alive because no-one

  • Stabbed in stomach by lurking husband

    A husband hid outside his estranged wife's home and stabbed her in the stomach with a flick knife when she returned from a night out. The mother of four had to have emergency surgery and could have died from the attack, a judge told a court. Judge James

  • Drugs Mr Big must pay £300,000

    A Mister Big of the Bradford drugs world, who led a team of kidnappers and torturers, has been ordered by a judge to hand over £300,000 of his ill-gotten gains. Waheed Akhtar, 46, who dubbed himself The Colonel, was put behind bars for 25 years last August

  • Couple's baby scam agony

    A couple who were conned by Keighley baby internet seller Moira Greenslade today spoke of their heartache. As revealed in later editions of yesterday's Telegraph & Argus, 33-year-old Greenslade duped the couple into paying her to act as a surrogate