David Wetherall has a message for City's critics: Keep on knocking us. The pre-season pundits are once again predicting a tough time for the Bantams, who have been named as short-priced relegation fodder. The doom and gloom theories mystify Wetherall
In 1376, the Pied Piper of Hamelin is supposed to have led rats out of the town. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead in Chicago, USA. In 1965, Till Death Us Do Part was first screened on BBC TV. From the Telegraph & Argus of July 22nd
An agricultural machinery manufacturer is hoping a revolutionary muck spreader will help transform its fortunes after being hit by the crisis in farming. Cleckheaton-based Hillam has designed and patented the world's first muck spreader which can deal
A group which encourages girls to steer clear of crime has been given a £90,000 grant to keep it going. Girlpower, set up by Signpost in Bingley, was handed the money by the Neighbourhood Support Fund to keep the project running for a further two-and-a-half
A Shipley mum has launched a fresh campaign for vital treatment for her brain-damaged daughter. Pearl Browne is raising £15,000 to send daughter Debbie to a special clinic in Germany after a mystery insulin overdose left her virtually paralysed. The family
Elderly members of the Asian community in Great Horton, Bradford, are being recruited as volunteers to help people improve their health and home safety. The volunteer scheme is part of a project called Community Empowerment, organised by the Council for
A nurse at Armley Jail described her shock at seeing a prison doctor kneeling in front of a naked inmate in his consultation room. Dr John Anthony Sykes, of Cleckheaton, is appearing in front of the General Medical Council's Professional Conduct Committee
The mother of a boy who suffered a 25,000-volts shock from overhead power cables has joined police and train bosses in urging children not to dice with death by playing near railway lines in the school summer holidays. British Transport Police and Arriva
Andy Curtis is on the look-out for an elephant. The project manager at hi-tech Bradford firm Simula has been handed one of his most unusual tasks to date by an American film company. It wants an image of an elephant knocking over a tree. And it reckoned
Angry parish and town councillors have joined forces to fight Bradford Council's proposals to sell off control of the district's civic buildings. In a David and Goliath-style battle they have written to deputy Prime Minister John Prescott asking him to
Mum Melanie Thompson was stunned when she opened a letter from her bank - and found a cheque for £8.3 million. The 31-year-old was due some money from the Halifax - whose slogan is "Get A Little Extra Help from the Halifax" - after buying her terraced
With the defeat of Pudsey Congs' first team on Saturday, every side in the Specialist Ducting Supplies Bradford League has now lost at least one match. Congs now join Undercliffe's first and second team, Bradford and Bingley's first team and Woodlands
Robbie Paul hasn't given up hope of playing again before the end of the season. The Bradford Bulls skipper suffered a fractured arm during the 35-0 home defeat against St Helens on June 27, but is pinning his comeback on a hyperbaric chamber. The 27-year-old
City's new-look squad are finding that it's good to talk - because there are no TVs at their Scottish base. The Bantams, who finish their two-game tour at Raith Rovers tonight, have been staying in university digs in Glasgow. And while City have been
The long school holiday is almost here, and with it comes the annual fear that some of the children with time on their hands for week after week will almost certainly get up to some dangerous activities. There is nothing new about this, of course. Children
Bradford supermarket giant Morrisons was today named as one of Europe's top 50 companies. The firm, number 47 in the Business Week Top 50, was one of 17 British companies named in the list. The magazine survey was drawn-up according to a series of criteria
Education bosses in Bradford have been accused of lacking commitment when it comes to supporting the skilled work of the district's stressed-out and under-staffed school psychologists. Yesterday the Telegraph & Argus revealed how the number of education
The chief suspect in a murder and shooting in East London is a man with links to the Bradford area, police said today. Metropolitan Police detectives are appealing for information from members of the public in Bradford about the man seen driving away
Pupils quit state-of-the-art classrooms at one of Bradfords most hi-tech schools to live as peasants in a tented camp on the playing field. The youngsters from Challenge College sportingly 'went native' during a 48-hour medieval encampment exercise. Joined
SIR - Some years ago you published a reader's letter under the headline "Mickey Mouse Airport" referring to Leeds-Bradford Airport. It referred to the inadequacies of the then newly-built extension. The now completed further extension follows the same
