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  • I don't know if I will be staying at City

    Sheffield Wednesday target Paul Heckingbottom today admitted: Every-thing is still up in the air. City's current Player of the Year is on Chris Turner's hit-list at Hills-borough. And living in south Yorkshire, a move to another Second Division club nearer

  • Loophole that needs closing

    The sickening case of baby Iqra Bibi, battered to death by her brutal father in a fit of rage because she was crying, has quite rightly prompted a lot of soul-searching among the health and welfare services. A little girl suffered greatly because of a

  • "There are more dentists in Poland"

    Bradford does not have an "acceptable" number of dentists per person, a new report has revealed. According to a study by the respected International Journal of Health Geog-raphics, the district's Primary Care Trusts have fewer dentists per person than

  • Firefighters press claim for sprinklers

    District firefighters are backing a campaign for water sprinklers to be installed in homes and schools. The campaign, led by the Local Government Association, is calling for changes in the law to ensure that sprinklers are installed in bedsits and new

  • 'Closed down by rail chiefs'

    The owners of a station cafe say they have been forced to close after being offered an "unacceptable" contract by Network Rail. Husband and wife team Stephen and Ruth Greener, of Clayton, have run Ruth's Whistlestop Cafe at Shipley station for four years

  • Aid to Iraq may have to be cut

    The head of a Bradford charity with aid workers in Iraq admitted today he may have to cut numbers as the situation worsens. Human Relief boss Dr Nabil Ramadhani, from Fairweather Green, said the worsening security situation was giving cause for concern

  • Defenders of the faith

    The 1944 Education Act specifies that schools should include a daily act of collective worship. But schools with children who worship different faiths can find it hard to accommodate everyone and it is estimated nationally that three quarters fail to

  • Letters to the editor

    Where was the Avenue campaign? SIR - Please find attached a cheque for one penny toward the Save Your City fund. It is perhaps ironic your appeal comes almost 30 years to the day after Bradford's former premier football club went into liquidation with

  • £700,000 lottery aid for district

    Thousands of youngsters across the district are to benefit from better sports facilities thanks to a massive lottery boost. Bradford will receive more than £700,000 from the New Opportunities Fund to improve facilities for youngsters and communities across

  • Bradford charity fundraiser is shot while fishing

    A Bradford charity fundraiser was shot in the neck as he sat fishing. Michael Gale was rushed to hospital after the attack which saw an eight-millimetre pellet lodge in the back of his throat. He underwent surgery to remove the pellet which he believes

  • £350,000 to attract young to libraries

    Libraries across Bradford have been given £350,000 to help boost their stocks and attract younger lenders. The cash, which has been handed over as part of Bradford Council's budget, is an extra-large payment to buy books, CDs, DVDS and talking books.

  • We'll show our true colours

    An appeal to help save Bradford City Football Club from extinction has raised more than £61,000 of the £100,000 target in just five days. Gladys Hannah - who is affectionately known as Mrs Bradford City - handed over a cheque for £1,000 collected from

  • 'Flight to hospital saved my life'

    Brave Darren Weston is fundraising for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, saying: "If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be alive today." The 14-year-old's life was saved after he was rescued from under a bus in Manchester Road, Bradford, in September, and flown

  • Noble and Paul on opposite sides

    Newly-crowned Great Britain coach Brian Noble and Bulls skipper Robbie Paul were among the dignitaries as rugby league's Gillette Tri-Nations was officially launched at a glitzy function in London yesterday. The pair were joined by Australia coach Wayne

  • I don't know if I'm staying or going

    Sheffield Wednesday target Paul Heckingbottom today admitted: Every-thing is still up in the air. City's current Player of the Year is on Chris Turner's hit-list at Hills-borough. And living in south Yorkshire, a move to another Second Division club nearer

  • Why did system fail tragic Iqra?

    Murdered baby Iqra Bibi might not have had to endure three weeks of hell at the hands of her father if health systems had not failed her, police revealed today. And now a senior child protection officer has called for procedures to be reviewed following

  • "Flight to hospital saved my life"

    Brave Darren Weston is fundraising for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, saying: "If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be alive today." The 14-year-old's life was saved after he was rescued from under a bus in Manchester Road, Bradford, in September, and flown

  • Why did system fail tragic Iqra

    Murdered baby Iqra Bibi might not have had to endure three weeks of hell at the hands of her father if health systems had not failed her, police revealed today. And now a senior child protection officer has called for procedures to be reviewed following