SIR - After the latest attack by a dog on a child (T&A, August 14) it should be time to ensure we do not keep reading about such incidents. Legislation is overdue making it illegal for owners not to keep their dogs on a lead when in the public domain
Two couples have been financially ruined after falling victim to a pub management training scam involving a Bradford-based company. Scores of would-be publicans claim to have been left out of pocket by Inn Direct Limited, which was wound up in the public
One of the UK's only remaining manufacturers of diving suits, based in Bradford, has helped a daredevil fundraiser on his way into the record books. Divers Warehouse, based in Dudley Hill, designed and made a dry suit for Graham Bounas last year as he
Steve McNamara hailed his side's fierce determination after they turned the tables and cut loose on sorry Castleford last night. After falling badly at Harlequins, Bulls banished that painful memory by hammering the Tigers 48-10 at Grattan Stadium.
A leading national five-a-side football company is to kick-start a £1 million charity fundraising campaign by hosting a football competition. The Bradford Five-a-Side Challenge, in aid of the Born in Bradford research project, is a series of seven tournaments
A poignant movie made by an award-winning filmmaker and staff from Bradford University is to be screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival next week. Ex Memoria is a short film about one woman's experience of dementia and is the result of a collaboration
A talented 13-year-old snowboarder from Queensbury has walked away with the title of British Indoor Slopestyle Champion. Jamie Nicholls, who goes to Queensbury Upper School, on Deanstone Lane, started boarding at the age of just seven and began competing
If Boris, the landlord of the Boilermaker's Arms, had one weakness - and the clientele of the boozer would actually point to many of his foibles, such as his unfamiliarity with the modern invention of deodorant, his penchant for singing I Will Survive
So now we know. If Bradford councillors decline to step in and put a stop to it, the distinctive building known variously as the New Victoria, Gaumont and Odeon will be demolished and a mediocre-looking structure which could be part of any modern city
When I looked at Saffron Desi's menu I thought I had been transported to an Indiana Jones film set. Lamb's brains and trotters (didn't know they had them but wasn't going to test my theory by ordering the dish) were listed among the restaurant's delicacies
Responding to a recent item about the time-machine qualities of parish magazines, John Taylor dipped into his copy of the St Peter's Messenger (Allerton) from December, 1963. In it he found an advert for Seabrook potato crisps which in those days came
Please forgive a bit of self-indulgence this week as the Past Times spotlight turns on the Telegraph & Argus itself, specifically on the glass press hall which 25 years ago this summer began to reflect the city-scape by day while illuminating it by night
SIR - I was sad to read they are thinking of taking Countdown away from Yorkshire. Why did Mr Lynam accept the job? Richard Whiteley will be turning in his grave. Never mind it moving to London; find a good Yorkshireman and keep it in Yorkshire. Veronica
SIR - Surely the appeal of city living is that one is either living closer to work or university or within easy access of shops, restaurants and leisure facilities etc. I wonder how many of the occupants of these apartments being constructed across Bradford
SIR - Countdown could be filmed down south after host Des Lynam, left, is thought to have threatened to quit after complaining about the 200-mile journey from his home in London to the Yorkshire Television Studios in Leeds (T&A, August 10). Bradford-born
SIR - Although I live in Bingley I very rarely visit the depressing eyesore which is Myrtle Walk shopping centre in Bingley, purely because it is so depressing and run down. However, this weekend I ventured in and found the whole experience horrifying
SIR - On Tuesday of last week I had cause to return a faulty item to Argos in the Forster Square Shopping Centre and, despite the fact that being a summer item they did not have it in stock, nor did any of their other stores, the manager, said that he
SIR - On Sunday, August 13, Ken Kenzie, one of our historians from Eccleshill Local History Group, took a few of us around Westgate and the surrounding areas in Bradford to learn about our history and see what could be cleared up and regenerated for visitors
The talk so far about the development earmarked for the former Odeon site has mainly centred on what the buildings which will replace the old theatre and cinema will actually look like. Now that the finer detail of what will actually be included on the
Plans for an interactive learning mall' in the heart of the city centre have been unveiled by Bradford College. The college has announced plans to take up space in the flagship development on the former Odeon Cinema site, creating a gateway between the
A businesswoman has told of the terrifying moment she had a gun pointed at her by a carjacker. The 31-year-old married property developer was filling up her £20,000 Mercedes S320 with petrol when she was confronted by a man armed with a mini-machine
The most direct action yet was taken against litterbugs in Bradford's ongoing war on rubbish. Giant stiltwalkers braved yesterday's rain to patrol the streets of Bradford, shouting at passers-by with megaphones to remind them to put their rubbish in
A former senior manager at Pace Micro Technology has been ordered to pay a £250,000 penalty for insider dealing in shares. James Parker was found to have made £120,000 using confidential information about the Saltaire-based firm. Mr Parker was initially
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was in Bradford yesterday on a fact-finding mission looking at the city's canal regeneration scheme. Mr Prescott came to the Victoria Hotel in the city centre for a meeting with officials involved in the scheme, including
