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  • Gardens come to life in due course

    Despite its rugged upland and industrial scenery, Yorkshire has a rich horticultural heritage which will be traced by Dr Gary Firth during a ten-week course on garden history at Christchurch, Ilkley. The course begins on Wednesday, January 19, at 2.00pm

  • How Bradfords of the world are celebrating

    People, culture and heritage make Bradford unique. The only thing that isn't unique about our city is its name. And as people across the district celebrate the new Millennium, "Bradfordians" across the globe will only just be warming up to herald its

  • Dawn of a new golden age

    Golden couple Ronnie and Doreen Long have more reason than most to celebrate the start of the new Millennium. For the husband and wife were set to welcome in the New Year today by holding a party for family and friends as they also mark their own 50th

  • Haworth sees finale to Millennium

    Haworth is the venue for the last fell race of the century tomorrow - the Auld Lang Syne event over six miles from Penistone Hill Country park (11.30am). Bingley harrier Ian Holmes, who holds the course record at 34 minutes, is the favourite in an anticipated

  • The heroes who hit their rivals for six!

    Cricket correspondent David Warner reveals who is in the list of top Yorkshire cricketers. THE BRADFORD area has more of its native sons than any other district in a list of Yorkshire's top 100 players of all time, which has been compiled to mark the

  • The greatest ever to grace Valley Parade

    After an historic year at Valley Parade, David Markham, who has covered City for the T&A for 25 years, selects his Bantams team of the century. HUNDREDS OF players have turned out for Bradford City in their chequered 96-year history. So, picking City's

  • Richmond's big ambitions

    Chairman Geoffrey Richmond is determined that Bradford City's phenomenal rise in English football will continue at a pace in the new millennium. The Bantams chief is approaching his sixth anniversary of taking charge at Valley Parade and has overseen

  • The vital smoking message

    It is a particularly sad note on which to move towards the start of a Millennium which promises so much for our children and our children's children that the most significant story of the day is one that tells such a sorry tale of the way we are preparing

  • A happy new year - if you had the cash

    Back in 1900 chicken was a luxury item at 14 to 16p each, beef was a bargain at just a few pence per pound and leeks cost 1p a bunch. But then wages were low - a woman ironer earned 70p a week and a coachman the princely sum of £1.20p a week. Jim Appleby

  • Films of the year: the good, bad and ugly!

    T&A film critic David Behrens picks the hits and misses among the movies of the last 12 months. IT WAS THE year when small was big - and when the Internet re-wrote the rules on how hits are manufactured. Word of mouth transformed The Blair Witch Project

  • Helen Mead: If only my other half could talk!

    Only one day to go... and then what? Maybe the heavens will open and an old man with a long white beard will appear and deliver a poignant message to the world before disappearing in a puff of smoke. Or the oceans may peel back in Godly fashion, revealing

  • Millennium wish is to be reunited

    Just like millions of other men, newlywed David Scott is enjoying the holiday season with his wife. But spending their first Christmas together as husband and wife - a situation taken for granted by most couples - has been a dream come true for David,

  • The woman who's lived in THREE centuries

    When the clock chimes midnight tomorrow to mark the start of the new Millennium, Elsie Sellers will reach a milestone that few could contemplate let alone hope to achieve. For as the New Year begins, Elsie, of Woodside, will celebrate seeing her third

  • Raiders in gun terror

    Masked raiders brandishing a handgun and knives burst into a Bradford off-licence and threatened the shopkeeper. The three teenagers demanded cash and cigarettes in last night's attack before fleeing the store in Carrbottom Road, Wibsey. They jumped into

  • Beer runners on increase in Yorkshire

    Beer smuggling is on the increase in Yorkshire, claims a new survey. Figures compiled by the Brewers and Licensed Retailers Association (BLRA) estimated thousands of heavily-laden vans made the journey to the county from Calais in northern France over

  • Les is logging on to see his beloved grandchild

    A pensioner is looking forward to "meeting" his great granddaughter for the first time via a hi-tech video link being bought by an Otley group with lottery funding. The scheme has been set up by the town's umbrella group for older people to help them

  • 'There's no place like home for a real curry'

    An 'exiled' Bradford man is defending the curry capital's honour after chefs in his adopted homeland of Japan claimed they had invented the dish. Last month, the T&A carried reports of how a Japanese company had applied for a patent on curry. This

  • Sign up and make our roads safer

    The Telegraph and Argus today throws its weight behind a campaign to cut the number of deaths on Bradford's roads. Readers are being urged to sign up as slower and safer drivers in the New Year with the help of our special pledge form. The Royal Society

  • Our magic wishes for the stroke of midnight

    Champagne corks will be popping all over Bradford when the clock strikes midnight tonight. Thousands of families and friends will get together to welcome in the new Millennium. But before the choruses of Auld Lang Syne ring out the Telegraph & Argus

  • Traders' facing metric hangover at New Year

    Food traders in Bradford are bracing themselves for a numbers headache in the new year when they are forced to dump imperial for metric. From January 1 all loose food will have to be measured and sold in kilograms and grams instead of pounds and ounces

  • 'Did the A-bomb kill my husband?'

    A former prisoner of war trapped in Nagasaki when it was bombed in 1945 has died of cancer. Kenneth Collins, 78, had suffered with multiple myeloma - cancer of the bone marrow - for five years. But his family will never know if it was linked with radiation

  • Calendar girls' year of triumph ends on a high

    The launch of a saucy calendar featuring naked Women's Institute members rocketed 11 mums, grandmothers, teachers and businesswomen from peaceful obscurity in the Yorkshire Dales into the international limelight. It caught the imagination of people from

  • Cryer vows to keep up fight for hunting ban

    Keighley MP Ann Cryer has vowed to continue pressing for a ban on fox hunting in the new year. Mrs Cryer says pressure will be put on the Government to keep its election pledge to outlaw the practice. She hopes the ban will come before next year ends.

  • Back to the future with an aged ale

    Regulars at a village pub will be toasting the start of the 21st century with a tipple brewed in the 19th. The long-lost ale - bottled in 1897 - has been donated to the Half Moon Inn at Pool-in-Wharfedale, near Otley, by regular Dr Jeff Ellison, formerly

  • Goodbye 1999!

    Bradford was today preparing to wave goodbye to 1999 and say hello to a brand new Millennium. Tens of thousands of revellers were gearing up for the district's biggest ever night of celebration. And police and event organisers say they are determined

  • Rescued

    A mother dragged her three sons to safety in a blaze which gutted the top floor of a house in Bradford and destroyed the youngsters' Christmas presents. Four-year-old Brett Wainwright was playing with matches in the second floor bedroom of the property

  • Bradford's Rugby League greats: Focus on the 90s

    The switch to summer rugby and the launch of the Super League era wasn't the only major change to hit the Odsal scene in mid-90s. Despite missing out on the title to Wigan on points difference in 1993-94 under Peter Fox, after a three-way tie at the top

  • Premier year for super City

    Soccer reporter Richard Sutcliffe reviews a remarkable year for Bradford City which saw them win promotion to the Premiership. It was a triumph which sparked massive celebrations among their supporters who had always dreamed of their favourites being

  • Let 2000 bring some trophies

    It was a thrilling year for Bradford Bulls fans, despite the agony of defeat in the Grand Final at Old Trafford. Here Nigel Askham looks back on the joy and the tears. THE BULLS finished top of the pile after a 30-match Super League programme - but that

  • City host England v Scotland

    Bradford will stage their first schoolboy international for more than eight years when England play Scotland in an under-18 match at Valley Parade on Friday, February 18. The teams will play for the Centenary Shield. It is a big venture for the Bradford

  • Wethers misses cup tie

    Bradford City's FA Cup hopes have been hit by the news that David Wetherall will miss their potentially tricky tie early next year. The Bantams will travel to face the winners of the third round replay between Gillingham and Walsall, which is due to take

  • Lines continues on the way up ladder

    Peter Lines has risen 13 places in the Embassy world snooker rankings after reaching the quarter-finals of the China Open two weeks ago. Lines, 30 earlier this month, is now at No 47 having defeated holder John Higgins and world No 13 Peter Ebdon in the

  • Champion Lampkin linked with Honda

    Motor Sport: One of the main talking points in the trials world is whether Dougie Lampkin will be changing bikes next season. There have been rumours of Honda offering the 23-year-old from Silsden a six-figure sum in contract fees. Lampkin is the hottest

  • Sickness worry for Cougars

    Keighley Cougars go into Sunday's home game against York buoyed by the fine victory at Hunslet on Monday, and have few injury worries. The biggest worry is impressive new second rower Ian Hughes. He picked up a hamstring strain in the first half at Hunslet

  • Bradford wakens from its slumber

    What was Bradford like in 999AD and how did it develop in those early days when King Ethelred the Unready was on the throne? Here T&A writer Jim Appleby takes a look at Bradford's early beginnings. THE LAST Millennium didn't have a happy start. King

  • Bang goes another century!

    This has been a year in which momentous events took place around the world. But closer to home the people of Bradford were getting up to all those things that help to make a community tick. Mike Priestley has been dipping into the T&A files to find

  • My illness is terminal, reveals Lord Mayor

    Bradford Lord Mayor Councillor Harry Mason has revealed the "shattering blow" of being told he was suffering from an incurable and terminal illness. Speaking for the first time about the final diagnosis that he has Motor Neurone Disease, the Labour Queensbury

  • Probation scheme in line for award

    A scheme which helps prevent Bradford's sex offenders from committing further offences is in the running for an international award. The nomination for Bradford-based Sexual Offence Services (SOS) recognises its remarkable success over the past three

  • Voluntary grants in huge shake-up

    A hugely controversial points system for giving grants to the district's voluntary groups is expected to be changed - because it is too complicated. Dozens of organisations have missed out because of the system brought in by Bradford Council two years