Earlier this week Yorkshire Forward and the West Yorkshire Economic Partnership announced they had drawn up a plan to invest £80 million over the next five years in West Yorkshire's most important funding priorities. The Bradford cash will be directed
The Bradford Cricket League Umpires' Association are looking to Asians to boost their numbers. The association have struggled in the recent past to recruit new members, and this avenue was suggested at their monthly meeting at Cleckheaton Sports Club.
Your club needs you: That's the message from blockbusting winger Lesley Vainikolo ahead of tomorrow's clash with Warrington Wolves at Odsal. The vocal support of the fans played a massive part in lifting the players to their world club title victory over
The players, the management and the fans were buzzing as City kicked off their season in Coca-Cola League One today and skipper David Wetherall is as enthusiastic as ever. Full story appears later
Your club needs you: That's the message from blockbusting winger Lesley Vainikolo ahead of tomorrow's clash with Warrington Wolves at Odsal. Full story appears later
In 1556, the first recorded unidentified flying object was seen over Basle, Switzerland. In 1888, the revolving door was patented by Theophilus van Kannel. In 1913, in the first British aviation tragedy, American Samuel Cody died when his aircraft crashed
A teacher and his wife will be celebrating their first wedding anniversary together tomorrow after immigration officials threatened to keep them apart. For Jonathan Conyers and bride Popie, spending the special day together - or even in the same country
Campaigners fighting to preserve Lister Park after its £4 million revamp will stage a demonstration on Monday against traffic dangers. The Friends of Lister Park say traffic gets worse by the day at North Park Road, creating dangers for people trying
Julie and Ian Jolly did not think they would be able to have another child after the birth of their son Billy. When Julie surprisingly fell pregnant with identical twins little did they know what heartache they would face. But after months of torment
Angry customers at Bradford's under-threat city centre post office were today united in their message to bosses: "Don't close Bank Street". Post Office hierarchy have said that the Exchange Post Office is not profitable, despite frequent queues, as people
Two Bradford taxi drivers who were stripped of their licences because of poor driving records have lost their appeals. Full story appears later
Angry customers at Bradford's under-threat city centre post office were today united in their message to bosses: "Don't close Bank Street". Full story appears later
A major city-centre development might be taken over by another company which wants to buy the site. United Co-operatives is in talks with a property development company about the disposal of a major chunk of its prestigious £10 million Southgate scheme
We live in a country where strange contradictions in standards exist. The Home Office assures us, in response to apparent evidence of a new terrorist threat to the United States and the UK, that "we are taking every feasible precaution to protect British
Working towards park improvement SIR - You reported (T&A, July 28) the launch of Friends of Peel Park.I am pleased to be able to tell your readers that the meeting went very well with 35 five people attending and many expressing an interest in becoming
The players, the management and the fans were buzzing as City kicked off their season in Coca-Cola League One today and skipper David Wetherall is as enthusiastic as ever. "The start of a new season is an exciting time - the moment you don't get excited
The Bradford Cricket League Umpires' Association are looking to Asians to boost their numbers. Full story appears later
As was entirely predictable, there has been a huge chorus of protest over the proposal to close the post office in Bank Street. Bradford people don't want to lose what they consider to be an immensely useful amenity and be forced to patronise an alternative
Bradford College has teamed up with world club champions Bradford Bulls to form a Rugby League Academy. The project will offer budding sports stars who are studying at the college the chance to combine rugby training with their course. And the first to
A male driver died and two women were seriously injured when a car smashed into a lamppost at high speed in Wibsey early today. The blue Ford Sierra estate went out of control at the junction of St Enoch's Road and Southfield Lane at 2.36am. The driver
Bradford politicians have given a firm thumbs down to proposed new safeguards in postal voting recommended by a government committee. The Commons select committee which scrutinises the work of the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott suggests that voters
Two Bradford taxi drivers who were stripped of their licences because of poor driving records have lost their appeals. One of the drivers, 59-year-old Mohammed Ditta, had amassed eight speeding convictions since getting his Hackney Carriage licence in
A judge has criticised the probation service after a sex offender, who had been assessed as low risk, tried to rape a 12-year-old schoolgirl. Charles Wood, 23, who is 6ft 7ins tall and weighs about 15 stone, made the terrified girl strip naked on an isolated
