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  • Foster is ready to commit to Cougars

    Cougars boss Gary Moorby is confident the club will retain the services of star centre Matt Foster for next season. Foster topped the try-scoring charts in National League One despite the Cougars winning just one match and as such is one of the hottest

  • Shutt beginning the big clear-out

    Manager Carl Shutt has begun restructuring his squad following the disappointing midweek home defeat to bottom club Vauxhall Motors. Centre forward Karl Colley has left the club and others will follow. Shutt claimed the side cheated the Avenue supporters

  • Atherton aims for a Christmas presence

    Peter Atherton is ready to take a small but significant step along the road to recovery. Atherton sees specialist Steve Bollen at the Yorkshire Clinic on Monday, hoping that the pot will be removed from his left leg. City's injury-plagued defender, who

  • Don't get intimidated

    Bulls chairman Chris Caisley has called on the RFL to appoint a "strong character" to referee Friday night's Grand Final qualifier at Headingley amid concerns the intimidating behaviour of Rhinos fans could influence the match. "I'm not worried about

  • Schools delay is a big worry

    The delay in securing the cash to build three new special primary schools in Bradford is disappointing and is bound to be worrying for the head teachers and staff at the schools concerned. The Council had initially hoped that the schools would be ready

  • Home sweet home for just £500,000

    One of the most exclusive and expensive flats ever seen in the Bradford area is being offered for sale for £500,000. The luxury penthouse complete with rooftop garden is on offer at the Victoria Mill development in Shipley. The 2,000 square feet space

  • Plan to make festival even bigger

    The organisers of Saltaire Festival are to apply for more funding to ensure next year's event is bigger success than ever. Around 10,000 people flocked to the village last weekend for the finale of the ten-day festival which included a variety of drama

  • Gallery reflects city's mixture

    A colourful new gallery at a Bradford museum marks the city's ethnic mix and history. The You Are Here gallery, designed with families and children in mind, is officially opened at Bradford Industrial Museum tomorrow. The £20,000 display is a fusion of

  • Man was held after police firearms find

    A cross-border police operation led to the arrests of four men, including one from Bradford, after firearms finds in England and Ireland. An Old Bailey court in London heard how the discovery of a murder weapon on an Irish riverbed led to the arrest of

  • Sweet treats at the feast of film

    Bradford's Bite the Mango Festival looks set to taste sweet success as the opening gala got off to a flying start with salsa, martial arts and music. Some of the biggest names in South Asian cinema gathered at the National Museum of Photography, Film

  • Man shot dead in city

    A 22-year-old man was shot dead early today in the fourth shooting in Bradford this month. Police were called to Amberley Street off Leeds Road at 1.26am following reports of gun shots. When police arrived they found a man with a gun shot wound slumped

  • Wall-crash driver gets seven months

    A 25-year-old man who crashed his car into a house wall when trying to overtake was going so fast that bits of the engine flew through the front window of the house, a court heard Balal Maskeen was jailed for seven months at Bradford Crown Court for dangerous

  • Special schools to face teacher crisis

    Special schools bosses fear they will lose vital teachers unless cash for new buildings is secured soon to transform the district's schools. Three new special primary schools are to be built as part of phase two of the multi-million pound Building Schools

  • Vicar delighted as crosses withdrawn

    A supermarket chain has withdrawn the plastic crosses it was selling for Halloween after a minister complained they were offensive to Christianity. Asda has agreed to remove from sale the 97p gold plastic crosses from all its stores after the Rev Marcus

  • College girl Elaine wins dream TV role

    An actress fresh out of drama college will hit millions of TV screens next year in racy drama Footballers' Wives. Elaine Glover, a former pupil of Aireville School in Skipton, beat off hundreds of other hopefuls to win the part in the hit ITV series.

  • Boy, 13, is third on list of burglars

    A 13-year-old boy identified by police as the third most prolific burglar in Bradford has been given a three-year anti-social behaviour order. Luke Menzies was made the subject of the order at Bingley Magistrates' Court yesterday. He became the youngest

  • Now it's over to you, Minister

    The Government minister with responsibility for post offices was yesterday presented with hundreds of objections to the proposed closure of the city centre's Exchange branch. Postal Affairs Minister and Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe received hundreds

  • 'I'll fight on for truth on Teresa'

    The aunt of tragic mum Teresa Innes today vowed to fight on in her niece's memory after police announced no hospital staff will be prosecuted. Teresa, 38, pictured, died in 2001 after being given penicillin at Bradford Royal Infirmary even though she

  • Letters to the Editor

    Get tough with young vandals SIR - What a sorry state of affairs we are in when we read of the vandalism being carried out in our area, particularly at St Joseph's Primary School, Bingley. A few years ago such acts would have warranted immediate removal