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  • County Amateur Round-up

    Campion's run of seven Premier Division games unbeaten was brought to an end by local rivals Tyersal. Campion, who had former Bantams and Newcastle United defender Des Hamilton making his County Amateur League debut, struggled to find the form that had

  • Peacock on confidence-building mission

    Belief and confidence are not the same thing. That might sound like splitting hairs but, for a winless Bulls side struggling near the foot of the Super League table, it is an important distinction. For a side that has contested the last four Grand Finals

  • Sunday Alliance Round-up

    Albion Sports cashed in on three second-half defensive errors to overcome local rivals Fairweather Green 4-2 in the quarter-final of the Bradford & District Sunday Senior Cup. Fairweather opened the scoring in the first half when Albion lost possession

  • Campion run ended

    Campion's run of seven Premier Division games unbeaten has been brought to an end by local rivals Tyersal. The full version of this story is in this evening's Telegraph & Argus, and will appear on the website later tonight.

  • Schu: I'll be Wether-beater

    Steve Schumacher has set himself a goal target - to out-score David Wetherall. The full version of this story is in this evening's Telegraph & Argus, and will appear on the web-site later tonight.

  • Chief predicts more B&B growth

    Despite flattening house prices there will be no crash in the property market, the chief executive of Bradford & Bingley said today. Reporting rising profits for last year, Steven Crawshaw said the specialist lender would continue to grow and drive

  • 'Our Jacob deserves an award'

    A six-year-old boy who was left unable to walk or talk after suffering a stroke has been nominated for an award for his courage. Little Jacob Jackson was struck down by a mystery stroke two weeks before his third birthday. It left him paralysed down his

  • Fears after three Netto robberies

    Police are to discuss security with top officials of a supermarket chain following three robberies at a Bradford store. Detectives are investigating after workers at the Netto store in Manningham Lane were tied up during a terrifying raid by two masked

  • Firms view for £400m schools contract

    Three companies have been shortlisted to work on a £400 million contract to rebuild or revamp all of Bradford's secondary schools. The Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme will see major work carried out at all 28 sites across the district. Seven

  • GPs' fears in cash crisis

    GPs fear some of their services could suffer and patients lose out because of the financial crisis at Bradford's hospitals. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital, is facing a year-end

  • School meals 'free from scare dye'

    Parents were today reassured that school dinners in Bradford would not contain the banned Sudan 1 dye. The head of the service which provides 45,000 meals a day across the district said strict rules on the foods used and regular checks had made sure the

  • Candy-coated grit beats snow

    Dozens of gritters were sent out on the district's roads last night after Bradford Council's Highways Department held an emergency meeting to consider weather forecasts. Council staff were today still monitoring the snow and ice situation as more snow

  • Fury as road plan dropped

    Bradford Council is under fire over a decision which left an MP embarrassed and residents complaining that their street is a deathtrap. The row erupted after it became clear the authority is preparing to backtrack on a decision to widen roads in Hanover

  • Pain at Carmel killing goes on

    A father whose daughter was killed by a banned drink-driver only days before her 21st birthday today spoke of his family's continuing anguish as her killer was locked up for five-and-a-half years. Talented photography student Carmel Hallam was on her

  • Letters to the Editor

    SIR - Could someone in charge of the buses please explain to me the pricing policy that makes an 11-year-old primary school pupil eligible to pay full fare on their buses? As it was half-term week I decided to take my two daughters and their three friends

  • Schu vows to be Wether-beater

    Steve Schumacher has set himself a goal target - to out-score David Wetherall. Schumacher aims to end a two-month drought at Blackpool tonight by netting his fourth of the season - and moving level with the skipper. Dean Windass is well clear in City's

  • Peacock: It's all gone wrong

    "Just about everything" has been going wrong, admitted skipper Jamie Peacock after the Bulls started the season with two defeats. The full version of this story is in this evening's Telegraph & Argus, and will appear on the website later tonight.

  • The past's lessons to young

    It might seem hard to say it, but the generation who last lived through a major war that cost millions of lives across the world are coming to the end of their time. The war they endured was the last to involve large-scale conscription which snatched

  • On this day

    In 1907, the first cabs with meters began operating. In 1935, aeroplanes were banned from flying over the White House. In 1991, Iraqi forces began setting fire to Kuwaiti oil fields. From the Telegraph & Argus of February 22, 1980... A rumour in Keighley

  • Show goes on says Penny, 16

    Teenage fairy godmother Penny Taylor has waved her magic wand and saved a village pantomime. Until this year, the annual community panto in Eldwick had been staged for a quarter of a century. But the New Eldwick Dramatic Society (NEDS) decided to bring

  • Lessons in VE Day history

    Children of the Second World War met present day youngsters to ensure their wartime experiences are remembered by future generations. Pupils asked two people who lived through the war in the district to recount their experiences. The initiative, for youngsters

  • Stamps mark Bronte death

    A new set of six postage stamps, to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, is being launched by Royal Mail. And getting a first view are staff at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, in Haworth, where Charlotte died on Saturday March 31,