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Stories for 02 October 1998

Bradford Business

Wall-to-wall orders a winning formula

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...

Peter Meredith: Business Sense

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 News

Can Bradford's bosses cope with Euro rules on working hours?

Bradford's biggest private employer is bidding to come to terms with the latest European directive on working hours.  more...

Chamber ditches its trade missions

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...

All aboard for life on the high seas

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...

A £3bn French rail connection

Plans have been unveiled for a new rail link connecting the Bradford district with northern France via the Channel Tunnel.  more...

'Speak to Lawrence team' plea

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...

Father in store raid jailed for 14 years

Detectives are still investigating an armed robbery at a Bradford supermarket for which a father-of-two was jailed for 14 years.  more...

Teenage knife victim tells of fight for life

A teenager has told how he was left fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the back by a mystery knifeman.  more...

Now auditors probe council bonus system

Auditors are examining a bonus system operating in Bradford Council's crisis-hit housing section.  more...

Victim set alight in mugging horror

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...

Huge step forward in fight on crime

A massive scheme to tackle crime in the district is launched on Monday.  more...

Bomb scare hits station

Train and bus services to parts of Bradford were badly disrupted last night after two suspect packages were discovered in Bradford Interchange.  more...

Nick Oldham: Rights and Wrongs

Competition lover Yvonne Leach was pleased as punch when she was contacted by a holiday firm claiming she had won a European break.  more...

Fighting racism in the forces

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...

It's rush justice!

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...

Farmer: I say Fred is happy

A landowner has defended his right to allow a controversial circus perform on his property.  more...

Quiz for mum after blaze rescue drama

Detectives were today quizzing a mother in connection with a blaze which left her and her three children trapped in a burning house.  more...

Workers urged to leave cars at home

Thousands of Kirklees Council employees are to be persuaded to leave their cars at home under a new two-year project.  more...

Traders worried at lack of 'stop and shop'

A major review of car parking in Ilkley has been ordered over traders' concerns at a lack of short-stay facilities.  more...

Women warned of night prowlers

Police today urged women to carry personal alarms or whistles after a spate of late-night attacks.  more...

Let's fight drugs battle together, say families

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...

Rally star banned for drink driving

Britain's top women's rallying team has broken up following the disqualification from driving of navigator Rachael Simmonite.  more...

Fancy that! Dino wins his tax battle

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...

Film Review: Divorcing Jack

The first rule of political statesmanship is not to choose as your associates men whose names are Mad Dog and Cow Pat Keegan.  more...

Rock and Pop: Now it's Finn and son

When Neil Finn called his son Liam he had a mercurial midfielder in mind rather than a mouthy Mancunian.  more...

Theatre: The only was was up for Paul

David Behrens meets the former Alhambra manager who's now an impresario.  more...

Theatre: Jude's coup

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...

Bradford Sport

Bradley to lead the way

Bulls skipper Graeme Bradley will call on his vast experience tonight in a bid to side-step the retirement trap door.  more...

D-Day for Bulls

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...

Attack 'is best policy'

Paul Jewell has pledged that his Bradford City side will not abandon their attacking instincts when they travel to leaders Sunderland tomorrow.  more...

Kelt and Firth are doubts for Bees

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...

Sports Diary

Your guide to what's on, where - for the week beginning October 3.  more...

  
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