Archive

  • Mum's delight at sentence review

    A Bradford MP campaigning for tougher sentencing for paedophiles will meet Home Secretary Jack Straw to discuss the issue. Terry Rooney has arranged the meeting after taking up Bradford cases where convicted child abusers received lenient jail terms.

  • Radio veteran will get party swinging

    Legendary DJ John Peel is to visit Saltaire to help celebrate an historic church anniversary. The veteran radio star, one of the most important figures in popular music over the last 25 years, has accepted an invitation from St Peter's Church, Moorhead

  • Job sham of injured worker

    An unemployed builder, who tried to pretend he was still in work by running up bills on credit cards, has been jailed by a judge. Bradford Crown Court heard how 46-year-old Walter Wray could not face telling his common-law wife that he would no longer

  • Police hunt tricycle thieves

    Seven special tricycles have been stolen from a nursery where disabled and able-bodied toddlers play together - but three were later returned by an unknown youth who then ran off. Staff and children at the Wedgwood Nursery, in Holme Wood, arrived yesterday

  • Lotus beater!

    Is it a Ferrari? A Lotus, perhaps? In fact, it's a Genesis - a 130mph supercar built in Bradford. Tim Pell, the man who designed and built it at his workshop in Bowling, has only built three so far. But he's hoping production will pick up as quickly as

  • Residents claim victory!

    Hundreds of residents, some of them pictured, were celebrating today after winning their fight to stop a massive distribution depot being built on open fields near their home. Princes Soft Drinks has dropped its plans to build the complex in a new business

  • Unlucky break for newcomer Harden

    Yorkshire's new recruit Richard Harden broke a bone in his left hand at Headingley yesterday and is expected to be out of action for at least a month. The 33-year-old former Somer-set batsman was struck by a wicked delivery from Gloucester-shire paceman

  • Praise for firm with drive

    It is good to see that enterprise, initiative and engineering expertise live on in Bradford. The car-building ambitions of family motor-repair firm Pell Automotive follow a long and proud tradition in the district. Everyone has to start in a small way

  • Why the new Fonz can't believe his luck

    Craig Urbani stretches out on the couch, as if expecting someone to feed him grapes. Even though he professes to despise the techniques of method acting, he is working very hard indeed at being cool. He's had a good teacher. Henry Winkler, the actor who

  • Stop soft jail terms!

    A Bradford MP campaigning for tougher sentencing for paedophiles will meet Home Secretary Jack Straw to discuss the issue. Terry Rooney has arranged the meeting after taking up Bradford cases where convicted child abusers received lenient jail terms.

  • Passengers face disruption

    Passengers face months of disruption as services are moved out of Bradford Interchange while a massive refurbishment takes place. Transport chiefs have announced that almost all services will have to operate from stops in the surrounding area during the

  • Bulls get big boost

    Bradford Bulls had double cause for celebration today with derby success over Halifax being followed by the news that Kiwi hero Henry Paul, pictured, was on the mend after a major injury scare in Sydney. The 20-2 victory over the Blue Sox came after fears

  • Mike Priestley: Could you help solve the problems of others?

    We're a depressed lot in Britain - more than twice as depressed as we were five years ago, according to a jolly-sounding organisation called the National Depression Campaign. And one of the main triggers of this very real and debilitating illness is worry