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  • Former City hero is now Campion star

    After scoring seven last week against Halifax Irish, no one could have envisaged that Mumtaz Premier Division side Campion would a week later put nine past Huddersfield side Storthes Hall. Campion, with former City and Newcastle United player Des Hamilton

  • Missen brothers clip Eagles' wings

    Setting 1B alight with 16 goals in three games in the Sunday Alliance, Crown Wyke made their Bradford & District Cup debut - and won 2-0 at White Eagles. Jason Bains, Eagles' keeper-manager, did well to keep Wyke down to a Brett Missen first-half

  • Yorkshire draw clinches promotion

    Yorkshire picked up the four extra points they needed to clinch promotion yesterday but only after clinging on desperately for a draw at Derby in a match which brought one of the most extraordinary reversals in fortune they have ever experienced. At tea

  • I'll show Robson my class

    Ben Muirhead tonight comes face to face with the man who thought he wasn't good enough. City head to West Brom in the Carling Cup for a second-round reunion with former Bantams boss Bryan Robson. For Muirhead, it is the chance to prove a point after Robson

  • Man met girls in park, jury hears

    A 66-year-old man accused of grooming and sexually abusing two girls has gone on trial at Bradford Crown Court. Anthony Waterhouse, of Rosemount Flats, Breary Lane, Bramhope, is alleged to have befriended the girls in Peel Park in Undercliffe before indecently

  • Church speaking in many tongues

    A Bradford church hopes to reach people from all cultures by having bi-lingual services for Asian Christians. St Paul's Church, in Manningham, conducts services once a month in Urdu and Hindustani, with Punjabi and Gujarati elements. More than 50 people

  • Art exhibition will raise Cancer cash

    An art exhibition by a women who died from breast cancer is to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Sue Mims died aged 49 in January, but the legacy of her work is now being exhibited at the Yorkshire Craft Centre in Bradford and her family have agreed

  • Role models go back to school

    Successful role models from Bradford are being sent into the city's schools to inspire pupils to achieve their goals. The Inspirers project will see young adult volunteers working in secondary schools as mentors for 14 and 15-year-old pupils. It was launched

  • 'Attack by bullies led to Aimee death'

    A 15-year-old dancer collapsed and died after she and her friends were bullied by a gang of teenagers who had been drinking for five hours, a court heard. Aimee Wellock collapsed only 25 yards from her home after running away from the bullies at a Bradford

  • It's crisis time at injury-hit Avenue

    When Avenue manager Gary Brook looked from his dug-out into the Horsfall Stadium stands on Saturday, nine injured players were tantalisingly in his view. And those players were all potential first-team candidates! It's crisis time and Brook's phone is

  • Henderson backing Bulls to improve

    Ian Henderson's mood following Saturday night's comeback victory at St Helens says a lot about how far the Bulls have come in eight weeks. Henderson put in a lively display and narrowly trailed Paul Johnson in the man of the match voting as the Bulls

  • Green belt has to be preserved

    The prospect of 14,000 new homes being built in Bradford in the next ten years, as foreseen in the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) which goes before the Council executive today, is alarming enough for all those who are concerned at the way that will change

  • Web search firm is making headlines

    A fast growing Bradford multimedia company, which has become a key player in local internet searches, has signed up two national newspapers and their Sunday editions to be strategic partners. Infoserve, based at Leeds Bradford International Airport, said

  • Can you help with mystery?

    Police remain baffled about the identify of a woman whose body was found near a remote Dales mountain, exactly 12 months ago. Detectives have searched an area stretching two square miles from the body and cave divers searched the submerged passages of

  • 'Change rules for homeless'

    Workers at a Bradford homeless project are cycling to Downing Street to demand changes in housing benefits rules. The trip is expected to take the workers at the Bradford City Centre Project, five days. They will take with them a petition of several thousand

  • Brave mothers who fought sex grooming

    The actions of gangs who groomed young girls for sex have been disrupted because of tough action against them, it was claimed today. And an MP has praised the "brave and strong" women who helped in the fight against men grooming their daughters for sex

  • Have a wild time with sharp-shooter musical

    Based on the career of 19th century sharp-shooting showgirl Annie Oakley, Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun is the epitome of the American Wild West musical. The action-packed story of a feisty young gal who wins fame in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

  • 'Stolen cars seized in swoop on yard'

    A police raid on a breakers' yard in Bradford led to the seizure of six stolen cars and the recovery of parts from another 41 stolen vehicles, a jury heard yesterday. Officers from the stolen vehicle squad uncovered a so-called "chop shop" for cars when

  • Letters to the Editor

    Where Bob can get his cash from SIR - What gives Bob Geldof the right to act as an ambassador for Britain? He is not a statesman, an MP but just a foreigner. His own country is a neutral country which has never fought a war or had to pay for the cost

  • Behaving badly... and why not

    This week I've been thinking a lot about supermodels. It's okay for me to do that, you see, because I'm a columnist. If you do that it's because you're shallow and probably a little bit lecherous, and you should go and have a cold shower at once and then