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  • Clayton cruise to Waddilove glory

    Clayton are celebrating after winning the Waddilove Trophy for the first time following an easy six-wicket success over Bingley Congs. The Bradford Central League showpiece final at Low Moor was a big disappointment, however, as Clayton cantered to victory

  • McNamara backing Bradford

    Steve McNamara came close to tears as he was welcomed back to Odsal. The 'Hey McNamara' theme tune was played both before Sunday's game and on the successful conclusion of both of his kicks and he was given rapturous applause by the Bulls faithful. The

  • Bantams refusing to ward off bids

    Bradford City today told in-demand striker Ashley Ward: It's up to you. As Sheffield United made their move for the £18,000-a-week hitman, the Bantams once again made it clear they would not block the way. Neil Warnock's Blades have moved ahead of Derby

  • Welcome 'icing on the cake'

    The area around the Alhambra is one of Bradford's success stories. The West End, as it has become known, hasn't taken shape in the grand form that was at first envisaged. That scheme, it soon became clear, was over-ambitious. But over the years the pieces

  • GP cleared of prison sex act

    A former prison doctor carried out intimate examinations of two male inmates without clinical justification or a chaperone and massaged the genitalia of one, a General Medical Council committee has concluded. But its professional conduct committee ruled

  • Christmas wishes - 14 years too late!

    A Bradford pensioner has received her first Christmas card of the year. But this one isn't early - it was actually sent 14 years ago. Vera Crossley, 82, of Allerton, was astonished when she received the card and letter sent on December 7, 1989. In an

  • 'I knew I would be attacked' - guard

    A security guard told how he felt he was going to be attacked after his armoured van stopped for a toilet break. Two Bradford men are on trial accused of robbing more than £300,000 from Securicor. The guard, David Dyer, told a jury at Leeds Crown Court

  • Horkin doesn't wilt in the heat

    Mirfield have discovered their own marathon man. On a baking hot weekend, Simon Horkin was on the field of play for the whole 188.2 overs as his club not only gathered four precious points in the Bradford League against East Bierley, but also won the

  • Doubts over Gough's future

    Speculation is mounting over Darren Gough's future after he contacted Yorkshire yesterday and asked if he could be rested from tomorrow's day-night match against Warwickshire Bears at Headingley. England's new captain Michael Vaughan and his county skipper

  • On This Day

    In 1729, Thomas Newcomen, English inventor of the automatic steam engine, died. In 1984, actor Richard Burton died at his home in Switzerland. In 1990, US President Bush ordered American troops into Monrovia to evacute American citizens. From the Telegraph

  • Family firm keeps police in the picture

    A family firm in Wilsden has helped to develop a revolutionary system to speed up work in custody areas at police stations across the county. The system captures digital images of prisoners as they are processed at the police station. The images are immediately

  • Villagers in bid to halt mast

    Villagers are fighting plans for a mobile phone mast which they claim would be an eyesore and too close to houses. Video phone firm Hutchinson 3G wants to put up a "telegraph pole-style" mast with three antennae and a transmission dish in Gilstead Lane

  • Fun reopening of revamped park

    A Shipley park undergoing a major facelift is to be officially reopened at a fun day. Windy Hill park in West Royd, Windhill, has been cleaned up, repainted and refurbished with funds from Shipley Area Committee and Bradford Council. Fly tipping has been

  • Inquiry as smell blights the city

    Shoppers, business and workers have demanded action over a mystery stench that hung over the city on one of the hottest days of the year yesterday. Workers who flung open the windows to get cool and people who went out to sunbathe in their lunch break

  • £90,000 for city's 'grey hair' boffins

    Bradford scientists investigating the cause of grey hair have been awarded £90,000. And they believe a breakthrough could be on the horizon. The research project, led by Dr Desmond Tobin, pictured, of the University of Bradford's department of biomedical

  • My hell mail from 'gorgeous psycho'

    A stalker calling himself the "gorgeous psycho", who put a married woman through hell for seven months, has been jailed for three months. But his victim said today she wished the sentence had been three years. June Gillard, pictured, was bombarded with

  • West End traffic safety scheme

    A scheme to make Bradford's thriving West End area of the city safer is expected to be under way within the next few months. It will include the pedestrianisation of an area around the Alhambra Theatre and changes in systems to reduce the amount of traffic

  • Hospital reopens - for the cameras

    To the casual observer it looks like any other hospital ward. Hypodermic needles lay in rows under X-ray light boxes while ECG monitors and saline drips clutter the aisles. On the patients' bedside tables sit the usual visiting hour stashes of mouldy

  • City yobs for rent

    Football hooligans in Bradford are using "rent-a-thug" reinforcements to compete with rival mobs, it was revealed today. It is thought Bradford City's hooligan "firm" - known as the Ointment - stands at about 30-strong, but police believe they can double

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - The end of the John Leslie sex trial that never was reminds us of the axiom "innocent until proven guilty". I deeply sympathise with all (genuine) victims (male and female) of these terrible crimes, yet watching John Leslie outside the court on