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Stories for 23 June 2003

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New police `snatch squad' on the streets

A new police `snatch squad' hit the streets of Bradford today with orders to weed out the city's most wanted criminals.  more...

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Prince to open £4.5m car HQ

Prince Andrew will visit Bradford next week to mark the rebirth of the car dealership burned to the ground during the riots of two years ago, it was announced today.  more...

City `graveyard of insolvency'

Bradford businesses are being urged to improve their debt collection after the district was branded an `insolvency graveyard'.  more...

Boost for firms in £130,000 cash gifts

Ten Bradford firms are celebrating a share of around £130,000 of regeneration cash to help boost business in a deprived part of the city.  more...

Loop makes mark in fight on crime

Staff from a Bradford company have turned crime fighters in their latest bid to help their community.   more...

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Letters to the Editor

SIR - My wife and I moved to the Hill Top area of Thornton about a year ago. It is a relatively quiet and peaceful area, or so we thought. Odd items have been removed from our car: aerial (£15), wheel trims (£17 each), part of bumper, wing mirrors kicked off and shattered (£90 each time).   more...

Why wouldn't police listen to me?

Traffic police locked up a disabled grandfather for refusing to take a breath test - even though his medical condition made doing so impossible.  more...

Which is the wackiest art show of all?

A Bradford artist is risking years of bad luck by appealing for broken mirrors to use in her latest work at an exhibition of 200 artists' creations in the city.  more...

University leads way in search for new energy

Researchers at Bradford University are investigating how solar and hydrogen energy can be used to save power in homes across the country.  more...

Mystery of injured man in alleyway

Detectives hope the public can help them solve a mystery by identifying a man found unconscious in an alleyway.  more...

Now we've made a real Mela of it!

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Lottery cash boost helps local groups

Sports and community groups in the Bradford district were celebrating today after being awarded lottery grants worth more than £75,000   more...

Villagers win fight to stop store plans

Bradford villagers fighting a proposed supermarket are celebrating after the plans were withdrawn.  more...

Cleric to stars takes a final bow

A former chaplain of the Alhambra Theatre, who was partly responsible for converting comedians Cannon and Ball to Christianity, is retiring from the clergy.  more...

Helping victims to beat the criminals

Burglary victims will receive a property-marking kit to deter potential raiders, thanks to the Great Horton Community Partnership receiving a Water Works Award.  more...

`Cruising' enthusiast slams boy racers

A car `cruising' enthusiast from Bradford has hit out at boy racers who use a Brighouse street as a race track on Sunday evenings.  more...

On This Day

In 1683, William Penn, he English Quaker, signed a peace treaty with American Indian chiefs to ensure peace in his `New World' colony.  more...

Together, crime can be beaten

The fear of crime is a constant background worry all across Bradford as much as in the rest of the country. However, there are ways in which ordinary, law-abiding citizens can work together to counter the blight of criminality, real or imagined.  more...

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Beaten Bulls 'dumb' struck

Jamie Peacock believes the Bulls can still achieve Grand Final glory if they can just stop playing "dumb football".  more...

New-look City get the ball rolling

City's new brigade met the squad for the first time today to kick-off pre-season training.  more...

Wigan breach fortress Odsal

Bradford Bulls 22, Wigan Warriors 35 - There are some things you never thought you'd hear at a rugby match.  more...

Smith's joy of six

Knocked out of the Priestley Cup in the first round and lying seventh in Bradford League Division One, Pudsey St Lawrence haven't had a lot to smile about so far this season.  more...

Windhill are blown away by super Salts

Salts made hay in Bradford League Division Two, hitting 324 for six at home to Windhill - the highest team total in the Specialist Ducting Supplies Bradford League centenary season so far.  more...

Misery piles up as Tykes go nap

A century from Leicester-shire Foxes' Australian Brad Hodge condemned Yorkshire Phoenix to their fifth consecutive National League defeat at Headingley yesterday and left them embedded at the foot of the Division One table.  more...

It's Valley of tears again for Cougars

Sheffield Eagles 33, Keighley Cougars 6 - Even the momentum of seven wins in a row couldn't help the Cougars beat their Don Valley hoodoo.  more...

Hare on top of world after Roman conquest

Going underground? Into overdrive more like.  more...

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Bride of the '50s in appeal for dress

A Bradford woman is appealing for help in making her silver wedding anniversary a day to remember.  more...