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  • Staff shocked by 'grisly' discoveries

    Dead animal parts including legs, heads and even whole bodies, are being dumped next to a printing factory, giving staff a nasty shock when they come to work. Workers at Rollia Printers Limited were stunned to find the latest grisly discovery, a dead

  • Scourge of the 'townie' foxes

    A street in Bradford is being overrun by urban foxes who are making residents frightened to leave their homes. Pensioners on the road in Lidget Green, say their neighbourhood is swarming with urban foxes and some fear they be will attacked by them. Now

  • £100,000 gift will make church's dream a reality

    A vicar was celebrating today after a well-wisher stepped in with a £100,000 donation to help a church appeal. The anonymous benefactor has given the St Matthew Church at Wilsden the cash to build a children's centre. The Reverend James Scantlebury, told

  • Scandal of child-sex on Bradford streets

    Children as young as 11 are enslaved in a squalid life of prostitution in Bradford - and the law is failing to protect them, a shocking report reveals today. The children's charity Barnardo's has published the heartbreaking findings of its research in

  • My wife's misery with drug addicts

    New fears were voiced today over conditions in Bradford's psychiatric hospital in the wake of the suicide of a patient in the unit. Bradford West MP Marsha Singh and the patients' watchdog have backed calls for action at Lynfield Mount Hospital made by

  • 30 schools to get security guards

    Schools in Bradford will be using private security guards in a crime-busting initiative this summer. Thirty schools in the Eccleshill police division are stepping up school security. They have taken up an offer to allow private firm Reliance Security

  • Man shot in neck by cash row gang

    A Bradford man was shot at point blank range in his neck, chest and stomach in a row over money, a court heard. Three men allegedly carried out the attack armed with a specially modified air pistol, a claw hammer and a metal bar. One attacker allegedly

  • Wood's one-day best sees Yorkshire home

    Matthew Wood scooped the man-of-the-match award at Scarborough yesterday when his best one-day score of 66 sent Yorkshire on their way to victory over Tim Rice's XI in the Festival Bitter Trophy final. Yorkshire had just three balls to spare in a keenly

  • Bulls appeal on Dwyer ban

    Bradford Bulls are to appeal against Bernard Dwyer's one-match suspension. The hearing is tonight and Dwyer is hopeful that he will be available for the Super League On the Road clash against London Broncos in Edinburgh on Saturday. Second rower Dwyer

  • Ashley aims for a step-up

    Ashley Westwood is determined to make a big impact with Bradford City. And as he completed his transfer yesterday he admitted, the reason for his move. "Bradford is a bigger club with more ambitions than Crewe. "The greater potential is shown by the bigger

  • Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?

    I wish I knew then what I know now, when I was younger.... That's what that 52-year-old teenager Rod Stewart sings on one of the better tracks from his latest album. The lyric leaves something to be desired. But no doubt "I wish I'd known when I was younger

  • We'll fight you for the moor, you rotten varlet!

    A dispute between neighbours almost caused the people of Bradford and Leeds to go to war 280 years ago. Documents have been unearthed in Esholt which tell the story of a raging dispute over land which took place in 1719. The clash, between neighbours

  • It's wonderful to have you back home, son!

    Coma boy Graham Shillabeer had a tearful homecoming in Bradford after spending months critically ill in a French hospital. The 12-year-old, who was airlifted from France after his plight was highlighted in the T&A last month, was allowed home for

  • You're offside - by 5,500 miles!

    Secretary Haley Gott scored an amazing own goal when she booked a party of executives into a hotel for the World Cup final. For, despite the name, the Hotel St Denis wasn't in Paris. It wasn't even in France. In fact, it turned out to be on French-speaking

  • Yorkshire bosses on American trade missions

    Bosses from West Yorkshire are being given two chances to make deals in the USA, thanks to trade missions there later this year. The Mid-Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry is planning the double visit in October. A mission to Chicago from October

  • Chemicals firm in £23m US deal

    Bradford chemicals distributor Ellis & Everard has unveiled record profits and a £23 million acquisition in the USA. The group is buying Massachusetts company Performance Polymers (PP) for £8 million as well as taking on £15 million of debt. PP is

  • Farsley face struggle to win cup marathon

    Cricket: An unbroken seventh wicket stand of 37 between Stewart Smith and Richard Allinson has given Farsley a sporting chance of beating Pudsey Congs in the Sovereign Healthcare Priestley Cup semi-final when all seemed lost. When the match resumes tonight

  • City set for fee battle

    Bradford City look set to challenge the Football League's new transfer rules over the purchase of new signing Ashley Westwood and are prepared to take the case to the European courts if necessary.. The 21-year-old defender completed his medical yesterday

  • Boost for carers of tragic children

    Families undergoing the stress of caring for a terminally ill child at home will soon be offered practical help by a Bradford charity. And Airedale and Bradford Crossroads has been given a boost towards its work by the Halifax which has stepped in with

  • Courageous pupil wins new award

    A handicapped teenager who didn't sit any GCSEs has become the first person to receive an award for her remarkable academic progress. Lubna Manzoor, who has an artificial hand, missed out on the exams because of family problems caused by her mum's death

  • Police crack down on child boozers in park

    A crowd of 30 teenagers and children as young as 11 were found boozing in a park by police who mounted a special operation in Queensbury. Complaints from neighbours and dog-walkers about broken bottles, discarded cans and noise prompted the swoop in Russell