Police are hunting a would-be robber who targeted a Skipton post office brandishing what appeared to a gun. He went into the Broughton Road branch on Wednesday and demanded money from the counter assistant. But quick-thinking Helen Green dived to floor
An elderly motorist who had lost his way had to be rescued after reversing down a canal-side embankment in Keighley. The man, who was in his 70s and did not want to be named, had tried to turn his car around on the narrow track to Riddlesden Golf Club
Oh dear. It's a clanger that has left bosses of the already-troubled Millennium Dome floundering for an answer. Just how could they mix up the proud city of Bradford with the town of Bedford 160 miles away? "Oh dear, we're sorry. We'll get it changed,
Two Bradford firms 400 yards apart have joined forces to become a bigger and better engineering unit. The H Group, owned by businessman Allan Hunter, has added Paige Manufacturing Systems, based on the Birksland Industrial Estate, to its precision engineering
Nutritionist Rosie Denison looks set to get international recognition after winning a place on a top cruise speaking to hundreds of the catering and hospitality industry's top executives. Rosie, owner of Yeadon-based business Salubris Nutrition, is a
Hundreds of Bradford firms are keen to offer "people power" to their staff by taking up a new version of Investors in People. Some 275 businesses and organisations attended the local launch of the new standard at the city's Cedar Court Hotel. The event
A wide range of help and advice for firms will come to North Yorkshire next year. This follows Business Link North Yorkshire's successful bid to become one of the Government's new Small Business Service franchisees. The Business Link partnership, which
A Bradford firm has proved it is one of the best in the country by reaching the national finals of the prestigious Enterprise 2000 business competition. Complete Logistic Solutions, based in Commerce Court, Challenge Way, Cutler Heights Lane, is the only
Global exports are helping a Bradford speciality chemical company to expand after 144 years in business. The Stephenson Group, based in Listerhills Road, has seen its overseas sales grow by 66 per cent in the last three years. The firm, which also has
Yesterdays' "great escape" by City was one of the best single days in Bradford's sporting history. Staying up in the Pemiership has generated as big a buzz of joy throughout the district as going up did a year earlier. Coupled with the Bulls' magnificent
Just how much of an anything-goes medium should television become? It took a major shift towards free-for-all with this week's news that the Independent Television Commission is proposing to lift 16 specific advertising bans and relax eight more in its
A terrified elderly couple from Bierley have accused the police of leaving them at the mercy of violent gangs of vandals. Albert Bolton and his partner Norma Gabbitas waited in vain for help as a group of youths pelted their house with bricks one night
Lottery lovers can get a new fix of their favourite pastime and raise some cash for a new cancer hospice in Bradford. The Marie Cure Cancer Care's Bradford Lottery is only the charity's second fund-raising draw in the country, following on from one in
The Belgian grave of a First World War soldier untouched by a son who was never able to visit it will be decorated by his family for the first time. Private James Henry Street served with the Second Battalion Yorkshire regiment, The Green Howards, and
Today we complete our series giving headteachers the chance to write on educational issues. This week the head of Bradford Grammar School, Stephen Davidson, focuses on the grammar school traditions. BRADFORD GRAMMAR School was founded in 1548 "for the
Thousands of pounds' worth of 'bootleg' CDs were seized and three traders arrested at a raid on a Bradford market. The planned swoop on a computer fair at the Richard Dunn sports centre, Odsal, was organised by Trading Standards officers to crack down
Actor Andrew Dunn is back on the John Godber production line. The star of Victoria Wood's hit sitcom Dinnerladies plays sewage man Sammy in the writer's latest comedy Seasons In The Sun. Andrew, whose family roots are in Pudsey, first made his name as
A mother-of-two said she is lucky to be alive after a smoke alarm, fitted only weeks ago, alerted her to a fire in her son's bedroom. Health care assistant Janet Weston, 45, of Pasture Rise, Clayton, Bradford, was alone in the lounge when a TV caught
Villagers who appealed to Prince Charles for help in saving Hawksworth Hall have been told he's too busy to help them. Residents wrote to the Prince asking for his support after Leeds City Council passed an application to convert the Grade II-listed building
A Millennium garden with themed areas for all sections of the community is beginning to take shape. And on Sunday the Friends of Micklefield Park in Rawdon are hoping to raise more funds at their fun day for all the family. The group is about to start
A man who needed hospital treatment after being hit on the head by a stone thrown by a ten-year-old boy at a passing train has demanded action to reassure passengers. The 49-year-old father-of-two from Shipley was left with blood spurting from a large
An official complaint has been lodged against Bradford Council for failing to clear away a pile of rubbish at the side of a narrow road - for five years. Robert Hughes, a retired educationalist, travels from his home in Manor Gardens, Cullingworth, along
They said it would be a miracle if Bradford City survived in the world's toughest football league, but the band of players dubbed Dad's Army yesterday pulled off that miracle in sensational style. Paul Jewell's heroes outplayed and out-fought the mighty
The market has quietened down since the heady period up to March, when companies associated with technology, the media or telecoms (TMT) saw their shares rise to unexpected values while those of other companies fell. Even growing Telecom companies such
The pond in the grounds of Stephenson Group's manufacturing site in Horsforth, which attracts wildlife and a variety of birds, shows how environmentally-friendly the company is. The pond, which fronts the manufacturing unit at Brookfoot Mill, is one of
catering supervisor Snobbery over job titles is one of the things causing workers to seeth with envy, according to a study by Office Angels. And the firm, which has offices in Bank Street, Bradford, says a survey it has just carried out shows 90 per cent
Delighted chairman Geoffrey Richmond today promised an even brighter future for Bradford City after yesterday's dramatic Premiership survival. Work on the £7.4 million Sunwin Stand re-development scheme began today less than 24 hours after the life saving
An engineering employers' group is urging member companies to get in touch if bosses have problems over new data protection laws. Ian Hughes, director of the Engineering Employers' Federation Yorkshire and the Humber, said: "We have told member companies
When Prince Charles and Princess Diana were married in 1981, the event was commemorated by a mountain-indicator set on Nine Standards Rigg by members of the local Fell Search Team. That day, almost 20 years ago, a Bradfordian with the well-known local
Bright sparks in Bradford schools have been singled out to benefit from an extra £1.5 million a year in Government money. Every secondary school in the district has selected between five and ten per cent of its most able children, of all ages, for activities
Health chiefs have unveiled a far-reaching strategy to help cut the alarming number of heart deaths in Bradford. And it is hoped the multi-pronged offensive, which centres upon inner-city areas, men and ethnic groups, will be funded by £400,000 of Government
