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  • Knox

    I knew very little about Knox until the other week. In fact apart from Fort Knox where America's money is kept, and Barbara Knox who's played Rita in Coronation Street for most of our lifetimes, I knew nix about Knox. It turns out it's a tiny, unsignposted

  • Think about pedestrians

    There are justified complaints that Bradford isn't entirely pedestrianfriendly as a shopping centre. It's hilly. Godwin Street, busy and sometimes hard to cross, cuts off the top of the town and Sunwin House from the rest. And if you arrive by bus

  • Parsley knows he must boost morale

    The punishing schedule has taken its toll on the squad and the club in general but no one at Guiseley wanted to release their hold on the West Riding County Cup so they had to accept last week's madness. Four games in eight days left the players playing

  • Fans snap up tickets for Bulls clash

    Leeds Rhinos fans are acting quickly to make sure they have their ticket for the biggest game of the Super League season - the repeat of last season's Grand Final when Bradford Bulls arrive at Headingley Carnegie on Thursday, April 13 (8pm). There are

  • 'My season from hell'

    Andy Cooke today confessed: This season has been hell for me. The City striker, currently on loan at Darlington, admitted he is ticking off the days until the end of his "nightmare" campaign. Cooke took until the end of October to score the first of his

  • Long and winding road row to go on

    A long-running row over a £64,000 scheme to resurface two unadopted roads will go on for at least another six months after a court ruling yesterday. Bradford Council wants to push ahead with a scheme to adopt Summerhill Drive and Summerhill Avenue, in

  • Hall makes link to the people

    A group of children wearing eastern-themed costumes are sitting on a rug beneath a huge painting called the Arab Weaver. The painting, of a carpet weaver, hangs in Cartwright Hall's upper floor and the children are using it as inspiration for their own

  • Letters to the Editor

    Time the districts got their share SIR - I am forever reading in the T&A that another area of Bradford has received a large amount of money - usually at the level of millions. Then you look at areas such as Wyke, Low Moor and Oakenshaw and what do

  • Teams need to step up their over rates

    Clubs in the Bradford League have been warned of the consequences of bowling their overs too slowly this season. A new rule means that if sides do not bowl their 50 overs in three hours and ten minutes, including breaks, (15.82 overs an hour) they are

  • Skipper delivers rallying call

    Club captain Craig Sug-den implored his fellow players not to let what has been a good season fizzle out after the side got back to winning ways without him last Saturday. The big defender was due to play against Arm-thorpe Welfare at the weekend but

  • City fan Bates reassures his supporters

    United boss Ray Price laid his cards on the table this week by admitting his selections between now and the end of the season will be restricted by a forthcoming glut of suspensions. He also scotched rumours about the disappearance from the squad in recent

  • Greaves happy to fight for his place

    While Avenue have been signing players en masse over the past couple of weeks, locally-grown pros-pect Tom Greaves - the club's leading scorer - has been quietly getting on with his job. Greaves, who has watched players come and go at an alarming rate

  • Roe plotting old club's downfall

    With the Northern Rail Cup campaign over for Keighley Cougars this season, they now turn their attention to the Powergen Challenge Cup. They travel to one of coach Peter Roe's former clubs - Featherstone Rovers - for tomorrow afternoon's tasty encounter

  • Shonny delight at tackling Lions

    New Zealander Shontayne Hape has been like a child in a candy store this week. The 24-year-old Bradford Bulls centre has found out that a Super League Anzac (Australia and New Zealand) Select XIII will play a mid-season clash against Great Britain. And

  • Done the crime? Do the time

    Full marks to the Court of Appeal for refusing permission for one of the killers of hospital worker Tarquin Turner to appeal against his life sentence. Mr Turner, of Eccleshill, was murdered in the grounds of Undercliffe Cricket Club in October 2003 by

  • 'Catch maniac before he kills'

    A veterinary nurse appealed today for people to help catch the driver of a stolen Audi who sped off after smashing into her car, before he kills. Jennine Iredale, 29, escaped with severe whiplash injuries when her Nissan Micra was hit by the car which

  • Safety bid after rider tragedy

    A father died in a road accident as his family were waiting for him to join them in their dream move to France, an inquest heard. Firefighter Michael Moore, 29, was killed when his motorbike crashed into the side of a skip truck that pulled out of a private

  • 250 tonnes swept away in clean-up!

    A mountain of waste weighing nearly 250 tonnes has been cleared from the streets of Bradford. The massive Big Sweep scheme to clear Bradford's grot spots has seen 248 tonnes of waste cleared from the area in less than a month. The waste removed weighs

  • Relief as killer told he can't appeal

    One of two men who battered a hospital worker to death in the grounds of a Bradford cricket club has been refused permission to appeal against a life sentence imposed for the crime. William Charlton, 23, and Carl Wood, 19, were convicted of the murder

  • Bradford's Dynamic magician is happy to be home

    Young celebrity magician Dynamo returned to his childhood streets to be filmed for a new TV show. Twenty-year-old Steven Frayne, better known as Dynamo, has just finished making Dynamo's Estate of Mind for Channel 4, which was partly filmed near his home

  • 'Use holiday to help stop bug'

    Parents have been urged to use the Easter holiday to help stop the rampant spread of a winter vomiting bug which has shut more than 40 Bradford schools. Education bosses say the virus is spreading to more schools by the day despite their efforts to contain

  • Police in 'clear the air' talks on merger

    Crunch talks are to be held on Monday to clear the air on the financial implications of West Yorkshire Police merging with three other forces. Home Secretary Charles Clarke wants to create a "superforce" by amalgamating West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire

  • Trust anger at TV breast cancer claims

    Bradford hospital bosses were today embroiled in a bitter row with the BBC over a programme which claims they failed to properly treat women breast cancer patients. An edition of the current affairs programme Panorama, called 'The hospital that failed

  • Trust anger at TV breast cancer claims

    Bradford hospital bosses were today embroiled in a bitter row with the BBC over a programme which claims they failed to properly treat women breast cancer patients. An edition of the current affairs programme Panorama, called 'The hospital that failed