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  • Family bike day fun!

    Families descended on Roberts Park, Saltaire, for the annual Cycle Fest aimed at getting youngsters and adults involved in a range of cycling activities. They braved the rain today to get one-to-one adult cycle teaching, free bike maintenance workshops

  • City race runs into row over route change

    Organisers of this year’s Bradford City Run have reined in the notoriously tough half-marathon route of the previous three years to a 5k loop from the city centre. Sports and leisure chiefs at Bradford Council said they hoped the new route would make

  • Attention everyone

    Pupils from Thornton Grammar School in Bradford got the chance to experience a day in the life of a soldier in the Army, Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy by taking part in the first ever Armed Forces Exhibition of Careers. Now hosted by the Royal Air

  • £4,000 bikes theft misery at Bradford special school

    Pupils at a Bradford special school have been left devastated after specialist bikes for disabled children worth thousands of pounds were stolen. Bikes worth about £4,000 were taken during the first of two break-ins at Delius Special School

  • Shake-up sparks care cost worries

    Proposed changes in the level of contribution people pay towards the home and day care services they receive are expected to affect around 20 per cent of the 3,500 adults that use the Bradford Council service. It follows a review of the means-tested

  • Decision due on future of Bradford Central Library

    The future of Bradford Central Library will finally be decided next week following months of uncertainty after it was condemned as a serious fire risk. Most of the building has been closed since October, after Health and Safety officers carried out a

  • Fostering agency to hold open day event

    An independent fostering agency wants to recruit more foster carers to provide safe and stable homes to youngsters in Bradford. Foster Care Associates (FCA) is hosting an open day on Thursday, June 28, at Cleckheaton and District Golf Club, where residents

  • ‘Deep and dark’ child sex pervert jailed

    A Bradford man with “deep and dark” paedophile tendencies has been locked up for three years after he admitted a string of offences of inciting children to engage in sex acts. Malcolm Delaney, 59, of Roper Lane, Queensbury, pleaded guilty at

  • £74k boost for hi-tech city link bus

    West Yorkshire commuters are set to benefit from a major new project including internet on buses after transport operators and local authorities agreed to plough £74,000 into a bus route connecting Bradford and Leeds. First, the region’s principal bus

  • Nina is Cononley Queen for the day

    Nina King will be centre of attention at Cononley Gala today, one of several events across the district hoping to avoid being washed out by the weather over the weekend. Nina is the 2012 gala queen and, with attendants Maisie Miller and Katie Spencer

  • Cannabis discovery in Clayton railway tunnel

    More than 500 cannabis plants have been found in a disused railway tunnel near Clayton. The discovery close to Baldwin Lane was made yesterday by a Network Rail worker carrying out a routine inspection. Police confirmed they got a call

  • Sister ‘said dad stabbed Shafilea’

    Alesha Ahmed told a family friend her sister Shafilea was “stabbed” by their father and the body was “in pieces”, a jury heard yesterday. Bradford-born Shafilea’s parents Iftikhar, 52, and Farzana, 49, deny murdering the 17-year-old by suffocating her

  • Occupy protesters are ‘staying put’

    Council officials say health and safety concerns are increasing the longer Occupy Westfield protesters stay put. Recent heavy rain forced the camp to move to higher ground to get away from threatening floods, but numbers seem to have increased at their

  • Fairweather Green woman sentenced for attempting to rob bag

    A woman who tried to rob the bag of a healthcare assistant at Bradford Royal Infirmary has been given a suspended sentence. Sandra Gillie, 29, had admitted the attempted robbery at an earlier hearing along with assaults on a security guard and a police

  • Funding to extend New Pudsey Rail station car park approved

    Passengers using New Pudsey Rail station are set to benefit from improved car parking facilities, thanks in part to £710,000 of funding from transport authority Metro. At yesterday’s meeting, the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority Executive

  • Bradford Council bosses inspire young readers

    “We’re going on a bear hunt,” read Bradford Council chief executive Tony Reeves as he took part in an event to mark 20 years of Bookstart. The scheme aims to inspire young children to read, and Mr Reeves was helping to do just that at Bingley Library

  • 'Be supportive to carers' employers urged

    Employers across Bradford and Keighley are being urged to be more sympathetic to the growing number of carers in their workforce – and help them stay healthy. Local charity, the Carers’ Resource, is spearheading a campaign to raise awareness of the pressures

  • Jail for bank manager who took £750,000 in just 14 minutes

    A commercial manager based at a Bradford bank has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after he authorised overdrafts totalling £750,000 in just 14 minutes. Amanjeet Singh, who worked at the HSBC bank in Market Street, over-rode its systems

  • Week of activities to mark Carers Week

    People who dedicate their lives to looking after others are to benefit from a week of special events, thanks to a Bradford-based carers service. Carer’s Connection, part of Bradford District Care Trust, is marking Carers Week with a host of activities