The Bradford-based ethical call centre company àreté business services is teaming up with two environmental charities to encourage businesses to recycle. Based at the Carlisle Business Centre in Manningham, àreté aims to offer high-quality call centre
One of the biggest barriers to setting up your own business is set to be overcome thanks to a new funding system. The Property Fund, organised by Bradford Council's Be Enterprising team, is one of the first major expenditures of the £21.4 million
Grandparents who care for their grandchildren full-time due to their child's drug use are lobbying the Government to increase their entitlement to financial and practical support. Unlike foster parents, who receive financial and practical backup from
SIR - Audrey Hunt's December 15 letter about Mr Victor's banners was so unctuous and self-righteous that I fully expect to see a new star in the firmament in recognition of her stand on behalf of the Council. Bradford would be much duller without the
SIR - Regarding the mess Education Bradford have got themselves into, thankfully it does not apply to all our schools. It is nearly 30 years since the sacking of headmaster Ray Honeyford, right. Perhaps he was not wrong after all. If the people in charge
SIR - The bus stop that was at the bottom of St Enoch's Road with the junction of Haycliffe Lane has now moved for the second time in the last six months and is now higher up the hill. The service on this Red Line route is not good on the whole. Every
SIR - Can I please bring the attention of your readers to the wonderful, dedicated, avid volunteers and staff of Bradford Nightstop. It makes me proud to take on the role of chairperson for this Bradford charity. The dedication and professionalism of
SIR - I visited the garden of rest at Scholemoor to leave a wreath and was shocked by the uncared-for condition of it. Mounds of leaves, old papers and other rubbish were strewn around. I know it has been windy lately but this is no excuse. The people
SIR - Although the effect of fluoride on teeth might be a matter for "dental experts", those experts are totally "out of order" when advocating fluoridation of water supplies. We are not then talking about treating children's teeth, but treating the
SIR - That panto time of year has come again and I am so looking forward to the pantomime at the Alhambra, but the one next door at the Odeon will take some beating. It features a disappearing act. The "Izzy Wizzy, let's get busy!" brigade have turned
SIR - The global warming debate is certainly generating an abundance of "hot air" as the voices of authority clamber for public Brownie points in their quest for the Eco-Championship. We're constantly spoon-fed with advice to do our bit to save the planet
Council bosses are feeling flushed with the success of a water-saving device fitted to local authority lavatories - and are now extending the scheme to cover more municipal toilets. Flockton House in East Bowling, Bradford, the headquarters of the traffic
Two Bradford actors will star in a major new television drama on New Year's Day. Wibsey schoolboy Paul Wormwell plays the young son of Queensbury actress Rachel Lescovac in a black comedy called Dead Clever. The all-star cast includes former Coronation
Councillors and people with relatives buried in a Bradford cemetery have banded together in a bid to step up security. Following four attacks on graves in Bowling Cemetery, a pressure group has been established to help combat vandals. Earlier this month
Bradford Council is to write to everyone in the district registered for postal voting in a bid to tighten security at elections. New measures to help combat election fraud include requiring a database of signatures and date of births to be kept by local
The saucy antics of Buttershaw writer Andrea Dunbar's seedy characters in her slice-of-life play and movie Rita, Sue and Bob Too made the world suspect that Bradfordians were obsessed by sex. Now it appears to have been confirmed, as a survey names the
A 22-year-old man just seconds from death when he was dragged from his smoke-filled home was today making an early New Year's resolution - to pack in the cigarettes. Firefighters found Adam Kay in the nick of time after his discarded cigarette set a
Colin Todd believes crocked star Nathan Doyle has a Premiership future. The City boss is gutted to be losing the hot prospect, who damaged his knee ligaments in the Doncaster game on Boxing Day. But as Doyle faces up to a lengthy lay-off back at Derby
Terry Newton bids to put his Tri-Nations disappointment on the back-burner by scorching into the new Super League season. The Bulls hooker cut a dejected figure after Great Britain's disastrous failure Down Under but that is now behind him as he looks
Victims of domestic violence could soon have safe rooms' installed in their homes. SALLY CLIFFORD finds out more. Fleeing was once the only option. When a woman finally had the courage or opportunity to leave domestic abuse she found herself in a refuge
SIR - How much lower can this appallingly incompetent, discredited Government sink? The Prime Minister has been interviewed by police in the "cash-for-honours" probe, the first Prime Minister in history to be subjected to this humiliation. The enquiry
At this time of giving, the most precious gift that any person can bestow upon another is that of life. And that is what those who donate blood can offer. Telegraph & Argus reporter REBECCA WRIGHT took a look at the National Blood Service, its beneficiaries
In 1950, the Peak District became Britain's first designated National Park. In 1990, Diego Maradona headed the list of most hated people in an Italian newspaper, beating Madonna and Saddam Hussein. In 1999, it emerged that the first British couple to
From the patients' point of view, it has to be good news that Bradford's hospitals are getting through operations and treatments at a brisk pace. It means less time enduring the discomfort and sometimes downright misery of spending months on a waiting
Bradford's primary care trust is at financial risk because the district's hospitals are treating too many patients, it has emerged. And hospital bosses have been told they might find themselves "fined" if they carry out operations too quickly. Hospitals
What's the worst part of this job? Washing underpants." It's a predictable answer for any kit man and Bulls' Leigh Beattie is no different. He's been in the job for just over a year now following the retirement of long-serving Bradford legend Fred Robinson
A mystery blonde woman could hold the key to a hit-and-run tragedy which has claimed the life of a young man. The 23-year-old victim was dragged 80 metres along the road after being struck by a car which was then driven away from the scene. The pedestrian
Bradford College has launched a bold new image as part of plans to become one of the best further education institutions by 2010. After extensive consultation with staff, students and corporate partners, the college has launched its new logo - an oversized
The company spearheading Bradford's regeneration has hailed 2006 as a year of "success". Bradford Centre Regeneration (BCR) said investment opportunities in the city centre had risen from £1.5bn to more than £2bn in the year. Regeneration bosses pointed
A couple have raised an "outstanding" £85,519 for Cancer Research UK since forming their two-man fundraising committee 12 years ago. Wendy and Boyd Midgley, of Victoria Street, Clayton, Bradford, achieved the feat by organising an annual fun weekend
Yorkshire Academy and Second XI cricketer James Finch, from Guiseley, will be meeting up with the county club's South African-born fast bowler Deon Kruis much sooner than the remainder of his colleagues at Headingley. Kruis will join Yorkshire for his
England slumped to a humiliating innings and 99-run defeat inside three days in the fourth Ashes Test as Shane Warne narrowly missed out on another milestone in his final Melbourne Test. Having become the first cricketer in history to claim 700 Test
Jonathan Douglas's two-match ban could not have fallen better for Leeds. The midfielder, who picked up his tenth booking of the season in the fifth minute of added time at Sunderland on Boxing Day, starts his ban with the FA Cup tie at West Brom on January
