25 years ago: Court action against the Tory candidate in the recent crucial Bradford Council by-election was delayed until after polling day.

50 years ago: Bradford City directors started an appeal to businessmen, breweries, shopkeepers, cafe proprietors and the public for the £40,000 needed to modernise Valley Parade for supporters.

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1961: Edwin Bush was Britain’s first suspected criminal to be identified by means of an ‘Identi-kit’ picture.