Bradford charity Mercy Ministries UK this week opened a new home in the district for vulnerable young women. It is the first of its kind in the country. Feature writer EMMA CLAYTON went along to find out more. A year ago the elegant country house, standing
Ethnic women are doing well at school but face poor prospects when they start working, according to a new report. Research for the Equal Opportunities Commission shows Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black Caribbean girls are more ambitious than white girls
Motor enthusiast Trevor Walker is causing a stir with his latest contraption - a petrol-powered bicycle. He bought the Trojan mini-motor as a teenager in 1970 and 36 years later he's just got around to getting it on the road. "It's an amazing piece
SIR - As a supporter of CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading children's cancer charity, I would like to encourage your readers to take part in the charity's Legends Charity Cup, the five-a-side football tournament kicking off in September. Every day in the
One of the most famous beds in films is being auctioned to raise cash for the best-known charity calendar in the world. Harry Potter's four-poster bed, his retreat each night at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is going under the hammer
SIR - We are not told that alterations to our way of life, such as the new set of rules at the Post Office governing letter and package size, weight and cost, derive from directives from Brussels, our masters across the Channel whom we must obey in all
SIR - How come 20,000 recent immigrants from Europe have managed to get cleaning jobs here when many of the indigenous unemployed claim they can't find work? David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford
SIR - It is worthy of note that the honouring of Brian Noble by Bradford Council means he is the second former pupil of Hanson School to be granted the freedom of the city since the Second World War. The other was the late Sir Edward Appleton, the distinguished
Two drivers who were killed in a nine-vehicle pile up both died of broken necks, an inquest heard. Customer Service engineer Robert Jones, a married man of Crossflatts, Bingley, died instantly when a large lorry collided at speed into the back of his
SIR - I have just enjoyed reading Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, the youngest and most religious of the famous sisters. In it she wrote: "The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody. "The end of religion is not to teach us how
SIR - The leader of the Council is right to insist on the highest standards by those who drive our taxis and private hire cars (T&A, September 4). However, he might also ensure that licence plates for private hire vehicles are attached in a proper fashion
SIR - I have read with interest the debate on why I should pay more to increase global warming. I have, as Baldrick would say, a cunning plan. Work out how many drivers there are in the UK, taxed and untaxed, decide what revenue is required, then add
SIR - Who on Earth made the decision to withdraw the sale of TV licences from the Post Office? With the scrapping of pension and allowance order books many sub-post offices are struggling. What next? Do away with postal orders on the assumption that
SIR - It has come to my notice that when, or should it be if, Gordon Brown becomes leader of New Labour, he is suggesting that they now drop the New'' from the title. I just happened to wonder if, in Bradford, the city where the Labour Party was first
SIR - Reading the article on the forthcoming book about the life of the late Richard Whiteley (T&A September 5), I was saddened that the national tabloids had printed untrue facts about Mr Whiteley so soon after his untimely death. In my opinion, he
The findings of the Bradford professor into the sensitivity of young children to their body weight make for sobering reading. Prof Andrew Hill says that children as young as five are worrying about obesity. The things that concern children should not
A judge has condemned a drugs gang boss for "spreading the poison" on Bradford's streets as he jailed him for eight years. Shabir Khan, 22, who steered clear of using drugs himself, was caught along with his brother, and another man and his girlfriend
Sentences handed out by courts are bearing less and less relationship to sentences served. Take the case of Prince Naseem Hamed, for instance. The one-time world boxing champion was jailed for 15 months after driving so dangerously that he crashed into
How did a bundle of old photographs which appear to have been taken in the Shipley/Windhill area around 1900 turn up in a suitcase presented to the South Bristol Historical Society in Maine, US, in 2006? That's been puzzling members of Bradford Historical
The telephone on his desk shrilled, waking The Scribbler from a daydream in which he and Thelma Gusset (pronounced "Gussay"), the fragrant women's-page editor, were testing various whirlpool spa baths together for a feature in the Homes supplement. "
This wasn't the first time my daughter and her fiance had been to The Saw, in Gomersal, but this time they had booked. On their last visit, which was on spec, they were told the restaurant was fully booked. But before they could turn to leave a couple
An expert member of Bradford Council's obesity review committee has warned an international conference on obesity that girls as young as five are worrying about their weight. Professor Andrew Hill, an obesity expert who is helping tackle the rising tide
Frustrated Bulls boss Steve McNamara labelled his side "dumb" after a shock home loss against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. Bradford slumped to a third defeat in four games as they crashed 20-12 at Grattan Stadium last night, handing ecstatic Wake-field
In 1513, the Scots were defeated by the English at the Battle of Flodden Field. In 1850, California became the 31st state of the USA. In 1956, Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.' One third of America watched the programme. 25 Years Ago
Five years of stalemate and legal documents as thick as an Argos catalogue' - that is what it has taken for former workers at some Bradford factories to get even a chance of receiving compensation for health problems caused by asbestos. Administrators
The parents of an RAF pilot killed in Iraq have renewed their calls for the Government to fund the legal costs of an inquest into his death. Flight Lieutenant David Stead, 35, of Burley-in-Wharfedale, was killed in Iraq with nine of his colleagues when
A teenager who shot a fellow student who had been taunting and bullying him has been locked up for two years. Bradford Crown Court heard how the 15-year-old victim was hit by several pellets, one of which lodged in his forehead and had to be surgically
A grieving mother today spoke of her despair after hospital staff refused to readmit her drug addict son who was found dead five hours later. Alan Grimshaw, 23, shouted: "I'll be back in an hour dead" when he was told police would be called if he did
