Bradford & District | Archive | 2000 | May
Schoolgirl Christine Jackson has swapped the muddy pitches of Bradford for the sandy beaches of the Caribbean to play in an international women's football tournament. more...
All this week adults have been encouraged to take up new skills through Adult Learning, and start a new direction in life. It has paid off for hundreds of people over the years, and continues to grow in realising the potential of those who may have missed out on education the first time around. William Stewart reports on National Learners' Week. more...
Community safety partners from across the country will converge on Bradford next month to hear how the district is cracking down on crime and disorder. more...
Train firms are being urged to narrow differences in fares from Bradford to London which can rise from £35 to as much as £118 for the same trip. more...
A man who bragged about being involved in quail fighting - and even showed investigators how to sharpen the birds' beaks using a razor - has narrowly escaped jail. more...
Workers bit off more than they could chew when candles on a birthday cake sparked a fire alert. more...
A Skipton school has 11 unfilled places for the new academic year but won't be offering them to local boys. more...
At least 14 of the district's playing fields could be swallowed up by developers, according to campaigners. more...
A Bradford hotel landlord has been found guilty of sexually abusing a young girl over a period of four years. more...
Two more intensive care beds are to be provided in Bradford in a million-pound boost for care of the most seriously ill patients. more...
Consumers are being warned to carry out their own checks on the suitability of products before buying them. more...
As a newspaper, we might be expected to be very fond of cliches, especially in headlines. In fact we do try hard to control these and keep their appearance in our columns to a level which informs rather than irritates readers. more...
Auditors checking Bradford Council's books have found it continued to pay tens of thousands of pounds in pensions to former employees after they died. more...
Campaigners claim they are being bribed with the offer of a new puffin crossing in return for a waste scheme in their village. more...
Robbers wielding a shotgun threatened staff at a shop in Baildon before fleeing with just a few packets of cigarettes late last night. more...
Supergran Gladys Kell will sit back in the lap of luxury on the last Concorde flight to take off from Leeds Bradford Airport...14 years after she flew on the first one. more...
When Scowen Mogg was rushed into Airedale General Hospital he was facing life-saving surgery. more...
A teenager's dream of walking down the aisle as a bridesmaid at her father's wedding will come true tomorrow just a month after she was knocked down by a double-decker bus. more...
A Keighley-born mother of four is facing armed kidnapping charges in a Florida prison after a bungled attempt to rescue her husband from Death Row. more...
Bradford University's Fellow in Music Antony Hall is to leaving after four years in post - but has made sure his last concert will be one to remember. more...
The biggest ever Bradford Festival kicks off tomorrow by playing its part in a national extravaganza of live music. more...
Curry wars are heading for the stage in West Yorkshire. Balti Kings, a new play set in Birmingham's Balti Land, tells the story of a battle between rival Asian restaurants. more...
West Yorkshire's newest rock night is launched next week with a band competition called the Survival Of The Fittest. more...
A freak double injury blow has forced Bradford Bulls' defensive rock Bernard Dwyer to call time on a 16-year career at the top of the British game. more...
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