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  • Young guns set to star for Tykes

    Yorkshire will give a Championship debut to at least one of their young fast bowlers in the opening match against Nottinghamshire, which begins at Trent Bridge tomorrow. Australian-born Mitch Claydon and Steve Patterson, from Hull, have both won places

  • Time the dodgers coughed up

    No-one likes a cheat, especially when the results of their cheating rebound on everyone else. When people fail to pay their rail fares in substantial numbers, takings of the rail operators go down and sooner or later fares go up. As in so many other

  • Bulls board aplogises to Noble

    The Bulls board has apologised to Brian Noble for somehow leaving him on the brink of a move to Wigan and will today launch a desperate bid to persuade their coach to stay. Directors have revealed he was "kept in the dark" but will now try to rescue

  • Why ad agency quit 'run-down' Bradford

    A frustrated company has quit Bradford after 24 years, claiming it was handicapped by its "run-down" surroundings. Advertising agency Creative Marketing Services is leaving Spring Bank Place, just off Manningham Lane, and moving to Leeds. Managing director

  • Old boy Mark helps in head's send-off

    A head teacher and die-hard Bradford City fan has been given a retirement send-off by a former pupil who is now one of the club's star players. Shaun Lawlor retired after 20 years as head teacher of St Winefride's Roman Catholic Primary School in St

  • Estranged husband accused of licensee's murder

    The estranged husband of a pub licensee has appeared before Bradford magistrates charged with her murder. Sarah Thrippleton Hall, 37, was found dead after a severe fire at the Chevin Inn in Chevin End Road, Guiseley, early on Good Friday. Her estranged

  • New water treatment is out of this world

    Cutting-edge technology which was to be used to search for life on Mars will help improve water quality for people in Bradford. The Open University's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute team behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission is now working

  • New staff just the ticket to catch fare dodgers

    Extra ticket inspectors are to be introduced on the district's trains to give fare dodgers a rough ride. Northern Rail fears it could be losing as much as five per cent of its revenue on the Aire Valley line at peak times. Now the company is planning

  • Three killed in car smash horror

    Three people were killed and another seriously injured in a horror crash in Bradford last night. Two males and a female were thrown from a blue Citroen Saxo by the force of the impact with a blue BMW 3 Series in Highgate Road, Clayton Heights, shortly

  • Victorian trek of two men in boots

    Lucky indeed is the writer whose next book falls into his lap virtually in ready-made form. Things weren't quite as simple as that for Baildon author Alan Plowright, who found he had a lot of work to do to get John Henry's Walk ready for publication.

  • Malcolm gets the chemistry right

    It's probably fair to say that there aren't many novels featuring pharmacists as heroes. There probably aren't even that many novels with pharmacists as minor characters. Author Malcolm E Brown is determined to change that. Currently living in East

  • Avenue still in with a chance

    Avenue failed to keep their Northern Premier League survival run going at high-flying Blyth yesterday afternoon - but it was a close-run thing. The home side couldn't breach Avenue's defence until the 83rd minute, when a route-one ball found Andy Appleby

  • Super Singh's at it again for Albion

    Following his late winner against Wyke Wanderers the previous Sunday and his only goal of the game late on at Whetley Lane on Thursday, Albion Sports striker Taj Singh completed a 'hat-trick' against visitors Pudsey. An overhead kick in the last 30 seconds

  • Todd reacts to angry City fans

    Colin Todd has hit back at the City boo-boys who abused him after yesterday's defeat at Gillingham. City's five-match unbeaten charge ended with a 2-1 loss despite Danny Cadamarteri's first goal since August. Todd was targeted after the final whistle

  • 'We are sorry, Nobby'

    The Bulls board has apologised to Brian Noble for somehow leaving him on the brink of a move to Wigan - and will today launch a desperate bid to persuade their coach to stay. Directors have revealed he was "kept in the dark" but will now try to rescue

  • Wire buy-in

    A Bradford businessman has led the management buy-in of a steel company. Steve Longbottom, a director of Bradford City, will become chief executive and majority shareholder of Sandbach, Cheshire wire product manufacturer John Pring & Son. Mr Longbottom

  • Family in garden tribute to Liam

    The family of a teenager who lost his brave battle against cancer last year will hold a fundraising garden party in his memory. During his tragically short life Liam Duffy raised thousands of pounds for charity to help his fellow cancer sufferers. One

  • Sarina and pals on African mercy trip

    A teenage Bradford student is preparing to take part in a mercy mission to Africa to help teach children and take part in a school building project Sarina Rashid, 17, is one of 20 pupils from the Girls' Grammar School, Bradford, who are taking part in

  • 'Land by my house is dumping ground'

    A man says he is at his wits' end after months of flytipping on land adjoining the back of his home. Andrew Richards said his back yard had become infested with rats due to litterbugs treating the area as a rubbish dump. Mr Richards has suffered refrigerators

  • Don't use BNP as a protest, voters urged

    Leaders of the main political groups on Bradford Council have urged people not to use the BNP as a protest vote in next month's elections The warning follows a national report which claimed that up to 25 per cent of voters in some areas of the country

  • Farewells are paid to ill Angus

    One of the working horses named by Telegraph & Argus readers last year has been forced to retire due to ill health. Angus, an 18-hand-high Clydes-dale, joined Bradford Industrial Museum's Horses at Work team in November 2004 with his half brother.

  • Three killed in smash horror

    Three people were killed and another seriously injured in a horror crash in Bradford last night. Two males and a female were thrown from a blue Citroen Saxo by the force of the impact with a blue BMW 3 Series in Highgate Road, Clayton Heights, shortly

  • Scrappy City slip at Gills

    Priestfield Stadium is clearly Danny Cadamarteri's lucky ground. Four years ago, Cadamarteri scored at Gillingham on a sparkling City debut. Yesterday he chose the same venue to end an eight-month wait for a goal. The striker netted for the first time

  • Time the dodgers coughed up

    No-one likes a cheat, especially when the results of their cheating rebound on everyone else. When people fail to pay their rail fares in substantial numbers, takings of the rail operators go down and sooner or later fares go up. As in so many other things

  • Fire crisis turns into £2m plus for firm

    An Ilkley company has transformed a crisis-hit textiles group into a new property company worth nearly £2m. Martin Joyce, managing director of Micklegate Special Projects, took over Dewsbury-based Greatcoat plc, formerly Armitage & Rhodes plc, after

  • Why ad agency quit 'run-down' Bradford

    A frustrated company has quit Bradford after 24 years, claiming it was handicapped by its "run-down" surroundings. Advertising agency Creative Marketing Services is leaving Spring Bank Place, just off Manningham Lane, and moving to Leeds. Managing director

  • Mystery of Stride trams benefactor

    A mystery well-wisher has offered to foot the bill for Shipley Stride walkers wanting to save their legs before and after next month's charity hike. Organisers at Macmillan Cancer Relief were touched when an elderly man from Bradford got in touch with

  • Stroke victim gets award for fitness

    A grandmother has been honoured for battling against a major stroke that left her partially paralysed. Sheila Pennie has fought against the effects of being robbed of much of the movement on her right side. The grandmother of two spent four months in

  • 'We want to grow to survive winter'

    Bosses of a top farmyard tourist attraction want to turn one of its barns into a soft-play and learning centre to help it survive the lean winter months. St Leonard's Farm at Esholt, which already has classrooms for visiting schools, is hoping Bradford

  • Estranged husband accused of murder

    The estranged husband of a pub licensee has appeared before Bradford magistrates charged with her murder. Sarah Thrippleton Hall, 37, was found dead after a severe fire at the Chevin Inn in Chevin End Road, Guiseley, early on Good Friday. Her estranged

  • New water treatment is out of this world

    Cutting-edge technology which was to be used to search for life on Mars will help improve water quality for people in Bradford. The Open University's Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute team behind the ill-fated Beagle 2 mission is now working

  • New staff just ticket to catch dodgers

    Extra ticket inspectors are to be introduced on the district's trains to give fare dodgers a rough ride. Northern Rail fears it could be losing as much as five per cent of its revenue on the Aire Valley line at peak times. Now the company is planning

  • Letters to the Editor

    Who pays for the clear-up work? SIR - A little while ago the T&A printed an article regarding the so-called travellers, within which the gipsy liaison officer, Steven Knowles, gave an indication of the problems and costs involved in dealing with the