Bradford & District | Archive | 2000 | August
Controversial plans to create a car park area and increase pupil numbers at a Cullingworth school have been approved. more...
Killjoy cinema staff have been blasted after a youngster with cerebral palsy was warned for laughing too loudly at a children's comedy film. more...
He's kept bears at bay with a song and survived robbers and salmonella food poisoning. Now, intrepid cyclist Trevor Lund is just glad to be home. more...
A traditional British meal was served to some of the district's oldest people as part of the Queen Mum's 100th birthday celebrations. more...
A police contact point is being set up in Bradford's largest hospital. more...
Controversial plans to create a car park area and increase pupil numbers at a Cullingworth school have been approved. more...
The father of a driver seriously injured in a two-car crash today condemned those at the wheel of a stolen Honda Accord involved. more...
A Bradford man could face extradition from Holland after being arrested in possession of more than £3 million of ecstasy and cannabis. more...
A landlord was left scratching his head in disbelief after a desperate motorist begged to use the toilets inside his evacuated pub as its basement kitchen went up in flames. more...
Mystery gremlins have left about 80 homes across Bradford without cable telephone or TV services. more...
Medical secretary Jodie Spurr had more than exam nerves to contend with when she sat her human biology A-level paper. more...
People power could soon rule Bradford with radical proposals for ten grass root `mini councils' to take over vital services. more...
Teaching union leaders have reacted angrily to the news that Bradford's education budget is on course to go £7.6 million into the red. more...
A church which grew after being formed in the cellar of Bradford house has secured a grant for a youth worker. more...
A budget hotel group is already poised to move into the first hotel premises in Little Germany, developers revealed today. more...
A family doctor has taken over as chief executive of a Bradford health care group which will spend £90 million a year caring for 147,000 patients. more...
0The mother of tragic teenager Stuart Lister today vowed to carry on fundraising in his memory by staging an annual charity event. more...
SIR - While watching the news on television the other night, I was treated to a statement from a spokesperson representing "Friends of the Earth". He said the reason for the exorbitant tax (75p in the pound) on petrol in this country was that it would cut down the use of vehicles, therefore eliminating the possibility of further pollution causing global warming. more...
Bradford City have agreed a club record £4 million fee for West Ham striker Paulo Wanchope. more...
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott reaches a proud landmark at the Shay on Sunday. more...
Martin Wood is on the verge of pledging his future to Keighley Cougars for another season. more...
Keighley coach Karl Harrison has welcomed plans for his team to take on Australian side South Sydney in a pre-season clash at Cougar Park. more...
Leaders Baildon travel to Hanging Heaton tomorrow on a double mission - revenge for two important cup defeats in the last month and a six-point win to make sure they stay top of the Bradford League First Division. more...
Top faces bottom in Division A of the Aire-Wharfe League tomorrow as Guiseley look to bolster their title bid at struggling Silsden. more...
Allerton are looking forward to the biggest day in their history when they meet Bingley Congs in their first ever Waddilove Trophy final in the Bradford Central League at Harden on Sunday. more...
Tickets for Bradford City's Premiership home matches will go on sale tomorrow. more...
Nick Jefferies has not decided yet whether he is entering the Manx Grand Prix, which starts on August 19, but he has more definite plans for the year 2007. more...
Bradford City have lined up a mouth-watering pre-season friendly against crack Italian side Fiorentina. more...
THE GAZETTE heartily endorses Councillor Martin Smith's crusade to get rid of the pigeons from Ilkley streets and public buildings. more...
County champion Lindsay Rawling is the sole host club survivor in the Girobank Open singles event at the Ilkley Open Tennis Tournament. more...
R & R, rest and relaxation. more...
RUGBY LEAGUE made itself the laughing stock of the sporting world this week -- by deferring Dewsbury's bid to join the sport's elite. more...
This is the picture of joy which new mum Jenny Harper feared she might never see. Last year she was severely beaten by the Lund Park attacker at her home in Hardwick Street, Keighley, just days after finding that she was pregnant. more...
A mother has spoken of her family's agony as time runs out to get her eight-year-old son the bone marrow transplant he needs to save his life. more...
Keighley sixth-formers will get the chance to be paid up to £30 a week from next month, simply for turning up at school. more...
Medical secretary Jodie Spurr had more than just exam nerves to contend with when she sat her human biology A-level paper. more...
They both have silver hair, twin set and pearls, are great -grandmothers . . . and are 100 years old. more...
Oakbank School's deputy head has hit out at claims that the school operates a policy of racism and snobbery. more...
Stars from the Keighley Cougars this week kick started the bid to raise £10,000 to send a group of Keighley special Olympians to the Cardiff championships next year. Jason Ramshaw and Nathan Antonik joined aspiring Olympic athletes to set the ball rolling as the Bradford Sport and Recreation Association for People with Disabilities prepares to send a 50 strong team to the Special Olympics National Games next July. more...
police are making tracks to stop children playing "chicken" with steam trains. more...
Two Keighley school sites which became vacant last month as a part of Bradford's change to a two-tier education system are to be put up for sale. more...
A Bracken Bank teenager denies that he is the mystery gunman who is allegedly shooting air rifles on the estate. more...
Keighley Scout Band has issued an SOS. The outfit, formed in 1998, is desperately seeking an instructor for the brass section. more...
Work on two major schemes to improve care levels for casualty and emergency patients at Airedale Hospital is due to start next week at a cost of £870,000. more...
Concerned residents in Long Lee are calling for measures to stop speeding drivers on a stretch of road which they say at times resembles a race track. more...
Some time this morning the postman will call at Clarence House, the Queen Mother's London residence to deliver a 100th birthday telegram - from the Queen. more...
Various activities are planned today by the army in this region to celebrate the Queen Mum's 100th birthday. more...
A Silsden couple who were invited to special celebration of the Queen Mother's birthday at Horse Guards Parade in London said this week they had a wonderful time. more...
Popularly known as "The Dump", the Royal Ordnance Factory started production early in 1941 and closed down in August 1945. more...
Thomas Ashton, from Oakworth, has very special memories of the Queen Mother. more...
RUGBY LEAGUE made itself the laughing stock of the sporting world this week -- by deferring Dewsbury's bid to join the sport's elite. more...
LONG LEE could find themselves back in the final of the Cowling Cup -- but will have to wait until after a league officials later this month. more...
FLY FISHING teams from across the north of England took part in the Masterline Club Challenge held at Raygill Fisheries, Lothersdale, last weekend. more...
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Hellewell of Steeton, was part of the victorious Yorkshire Girls Under-14 team in the Four Counties Challenge in Liverpool last weekend. more...
Mouthwatering semi-finals will bring the Keighley Cup 2000 to a superb climax. more...
FIREFIGHTER Lloyd Kellett struck gold on Sunday in the national firefighters and police road race championships. more...
CRICKETER Andrew Filkin brought up an incredible family treble when he broke a 40-year-old wicket-keeping record last weekend. more...
FAVOURITE Chris Slater (Devon) won the Skipton Merit competition at Lund Park last weekend. more...
SILSDEN will play local rivals Steeton in the final of the Upper Airedale Junior League's William Spencer Cup. more...
BOXERS from one of the best periods in the local sport returned to Keighley Boxing Club to present awards at the club's recent reunion night. more...
DALE TOWLER captured five wickets as the pace bowling brothers ran through Lightcliffe like a dose of salts last weekend. more...
MICHAEL SCARBOROUGH and Graham Rankin turned the screw on Embsay in the Division One crunch match. more...
STEETON gave themselves a glorious opportunity to retain their league title -- with a resounding victory over a struggling Burley team. more...
IF you ask the Rev Simon Hammond what people's response to the 28 day run of community radio station Guiseley FM has been, he'll say "disappointment." more...
Transplant surgery seems common place now. more...
THE GAZETTE heartily endorses Councillor Martin Smith's crusade to get rid of the pigeons from Ilkley streets and public buildings. more...
FOR one woman following the exploits of the Royal Family is more than flicking through her weekly copy of "Hello!" more...
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SIR - Are you proud of your town, and your council? more...
WHILST many have been enjoying the summer holidays away from books and exams, a unique group of children took the unusual step of going back to school. more...
A FEARLESS mother-of-two will take to the skies - not inside a plane but on top of it - to raise money for cancer research. more...
A STUDENT claims he was sacked from a company - for wearing the wrong trousers. more...
TELEVISION presenter Gilly Brookes marries film director Tim Harper at Settle Register Office today (Friday) followed by celebrations tomorrow in her home village, Giggleswick. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT people will be spending a nail-biting weekend waiting to find out if they have won a three-bedroom house. more...
TONY Blair's 10-year plan to radically improve the NHS has received a mixed reaction in Craven with dentists and elderly people feeling it has little to offer. more...
A THEATRE company, recently set up by a Threshfield writer, will be taking two plays to this year's Edinburgh Festival. more...
KETTLEWELL could be left with no public toilets if an agreement cannot be reached on which authority will pay to maintain them in the long term. more...
A SPECIALLY sculpted millennium bench has been dedicated to the founding father of the national park movement. more...
A SHOPLIFTER in Skipton met his match when he was chased around the town and apprehended by a 23-year-old ju-jitsu expert. more...
BRICKS, cement, action - a new era began at Settle's Victoria Hall on Monday as builders moved on to the music hall site. more...
A TEACHER with first-hand experience of coping with multiple sclerosis has developed a national initiative for helping families where a parent is seriously affected by the disease. more...
THE railway navvies and their families who lost their lives during the construction of the Settle-Carlisle line at Ribblehead are to be remembered more than 125 years after they died. more...
THE national park is to clamp down on parking and camping at historic Ribblehead in a bid to protect the acclaimed monument and surrounding landscape. more...
AN historic mill which has become an eyesore in a South Craven village is to be brought back to life in an ambitious project. more...
BARNOLDSWICK'S pioneering Council Shop could face the chop after its new landlord announced a 500 per cent non-negotiable rent increase. more...
WARM welcomes and wonderful blooms made Earby's inaugural Open Gardens Day a huge success on Saturday. more...
A LIFE on the ocean waves is just the ticket for Thornton-in-Craven man David Magee, currently taking part in a Millennium Round the World Yacht Race. more...
WHILST many have been enjoying the summer holidays away from books and exams, a unique group of children took the unusual step of going back to school. more...
SKIPTON start a short run of crucial matches on Saturdaywhich will probably decide whether they can hold onto their place in Division A of the Airedale & Wharfedale League. more...
CRAVEN League cricket officials will need the judgement of Solomon to unravel a quandary which has resulted in the Cowling Cup final between Barrowford and Pendle Forest being postponed. more...
BARNOLDWICK have collected 21 points from the last 28 to move into a mid-table position in the Ribblesdale League, but none of those points would be as prized as any they can get from their home game against arch-rivals Earby at Victory Park on Sunday. more...
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A 47-year-old postal worker who stole benefit books and cashed giro cheques totalling almost £5,000 has been committed to Bradford Crown Court for sentence. more...
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