Bradford & District | Archive | 1998 | October
Winning contract carpet deals has helped a Bradford carpet sales and fitting firm expand into additional premises at a business park in the city. more...
The Late Payment Bill is coming into effect at the beginning of October, allowing businesses the statutory right to charge interest for late payment of commercial debts. more...
Bradford's biggest private employer is bidding to come to terms with the latest European directive on working hours. more...
The strength of the pound abroad, which is crippling exporters, has scuppered trade missions to China and Mexico organised by Bradford Chamber of Commerce. more...
Asian and black youngsters in land-locked Bradford are being encouraged to take to the high seas in a new recruitment drive by the Royal Navy. more...
Plans have been unveiled for a new rail link connecting the Bradford district with northern France via the Channel Tunnel. more...
Bradford Racial Equality Council has urged the public to speak out at a meeting of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry team in Bradford this month. more...
Detectives are still investigating an armed robbery at a Bradford supermarket for which a father-of-two was jailed for 14 years. more...
A teenager has told how he was left fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the back by a mystery knifeman. more...
Auditors are examining a bonus system operating in Bradford Council's crisis-hit housing section. more...
A Bradford man set on fire by muggers today told how he thought he was going to die when they doused him in petrol. more...
A massive scheme to tackle crime in the district is launched on Monday. more...
Train and bus services to parts of Bradford were badly disrupted last night after two suspect packages were discovered in Bradford Interchange. more...
Competition lover Yvonne Leach was pleased as punch when she was contacted by a holiday firm claiming she had won a European break. more...
It is right that the Royal Navy should be trying to improve on its recruitment record from the ethnic minorities. With only one per cent of the force made up of people from those groups, when they constitute seven per cent of the population, it is clearly unrepresentative of the country as a whole. more...
A teenage car thief was today behind bars after being arrested, charged and sentenced in less than 24 hours - and magistrates at Bradford Youth Court have won personal praise from Home Secretary Jack Straw for their speed in dealing with the case, thought to be a national record. more...
A landowner has defended his right to allow a controversial circus perform on his property. more...
Detectives were today quizzing a mother in connection with a blaze which left her and her three children trapped in a burning house. more...
Thousands of Kirklees Council employees are to be persuaded to leave their cars at home under a new two-year project. more...
A major review of car parking in Ilkley has been ordered over traders' concerns at a lack of short-stay facilities. more...
Police today urged women to carry personal alarms or whistles after a spate of late-night attacks. more...
Families in Keighley are uniting in the fight against drugs. And they are asking others who may be connected with those using or dealing in drugs to join the cause. more...
Britain's top women's rallying team has broken up following the disqualification from driving of navigator Rachael Simmonite. more...
A former pigeon fancier has won his two-year fight for compensation from the taxman after he faced demands for £25,000 in back tax. more...
The first rule of political statesmanship is not to choose as your associates men whose names are Mad Dog and Cow Pat Keegan. more...
When Neil Finn called his son Liam he had a mercurial midfielder in mind rather than a mouthy Mancunian. more...
David Behrens meets the former Alhambra manager who's now an impresario. more...
Sir Ian McKellen and Clare Higgins are now rehearsing a wonderful trilogy of plays for West Yorkshire Playhouse. Here, the Playhouse's artistic director Jude Kelly talks breathlessly between rehearsals to Jim Greenhalf. more...
Bulls skipper Graeme Bradley will call on his vast experience tonight in a bid to side-step the retirement trap door. more...
T&A Rugby League reporter Nigel Askham previews tonight's crucial Grand Final play-off clash between Bradford Bulls against St Helens at Knowsley Road. more...
Paul Jewell has pledged that his Bradford City side will not abandon their attacking instincts when they travel to leaders Sunderland tomorrow. more...
Rugby Union: There's no shortage of options tomorrow as far as league rugby is concerned, with Wagon Lane, Cross Green, Ovenden Park and Jenny Lane staging attractive games. more...
Your guide to what's on, where - for the week beginning October 3. more...
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