Bradford & District | Archive | 2001 | March
Bingley's heroes from the Boer War will be honoured once more, thanks to a restoration project. more...
A call centre is ringing the bells of success after winning a health sector deal which will create 80 new jobs. more...
New figures show `unacceptably wide' regional differences in economic performance, according to the Government. more...
A Bradford based law firm is warning company directors they could face jail for failing to keep records. more...
SIR - I was shocked to discover that a farm in Queensbury is the first in West Yorkshire to fall to foot and mouth disease. Shock quickly turned to thoughts of how devastating this must be for Mr Sutcliffe, his family and the effect on Bobby Green farm for the foreseeable future. more...
A rogue firework spiralled into a father-of-two and exploded in a ball of flame setting him on fire, a court heard. more...
Police are hunting a sex attacker who indecently assaulted two nine-year-old girls near a Bradford park. more...
A sculptor has created a limestone lookalike which could help to save some of the most precious landscape in the country. more...
Test match fever could come to Bradford this summer when fans may have to go no further than Centenary Square to see England take on Australia for the Ashes. more...
Government veterinary officials are investigating prem-ises near the Queensbury farm forced to slaughter its herd in a bid to track down the route of the foot and mouth infection. more...
A former owner of a Bradford abattoir may face a prison sentence after a court heard how sheep were crammed into pens before they were slaughtered. more...
A leading councillor today complained that business had gone "underground" in Bradford Council. more...
Children in Bradford are suffering back pain because they do not take enough exercise and cram their bags too full. more...
sBradford alarm engineer Alan Davidson is still reeling after he was one of the privileged few to meet wacky pop star Michael Jackson at a celebrity wedding. more...
Bradford schoolchildren have been warned to behave on the buses or face their services being axed. more...
A 28-year-old man accused of carrying out a late-night knife attack has blamed a fellow drinker for the stabbing. more...
Former deputy headmistress Eileen Clare may be 82 but, at the age others put their feet up, she is spearheading an aid mission to the poverty-stricken Ukraine. more...
Access for disabled pupils will be improved in Bradford schools thanks to a £500,000 cash boost from the Government. more...
An organisation set up to help youngsters get a better start in life is to fund the cost of putting up fences around gardens. more...
A prison where seven inmates took their own lives between May 1999 and April 2000 is now doing a good job, according to an official report. more...
A disabled bride-to-be is set to celebrate her big day in style, thanks to generous Telegraph & Argus readers. more...
Given the importance which is attached to teaching children with special needs in mainstream schools, it is vital that those schools are made as "user friendly" as possible for them. In too many cases there are problems with access and movement within the buildings which make life difficult. more...
David Hopkin has completed a whirlwind £1.5m move from Bradford City to Crystal Palace. more...
Leon Pryce has begun contract talks with Bradford Bulls which he hopes will secure his long term future with his hometown club. more...
Leon Pryce starts his comeback tonight and has immediately set his sights on a Silk Cut Challenge Cup semi-final berth against Warrington next month. more...
Chris Melling's hopes of reaching snooker's main tour next season are still in the balance following the final stages of Event Three on the Challenge Tour. more...
SIR, - Craven District Council is soon to determine whether to renew planning consent for four wind turbines at Chelker Reservoir. The beautiful landscape between Draughton and Addingham is not the place for industrial structures 100ft high. more...
A SET of public toilets in Ilkley has been named as an "active" spot for outdoor gay more...
STAFF, parents, governors and pupils at Addingham Primary School are delighted that the disruption caused by Bradford's schools reorganisation has not upset the high standards. more...
ANGRY head teachers in Ilkley have hit back at suggestions that teachers were to blame for a massive rise in Bradford's Council Tax. more...
DOG-DIRT bins at Ilkley's Riverside Gardens are overflowing as bans on moor walking have forced pet-owners to find a new route. more...
DONNING wetsuits and flippers has made unlikely stars out of an Ilkley building society more...
Cancer patients' from Ilkley receive a `very good to excellent level of nursing more...
ONE of the objectors to Ilkley's more...
AN Ilkley resident is warning that a Bradford Council recycling scheme could lead to unwelcome visitors in the town's gardens. more...
CHARITY groups and organisations in the Ilkley area are celebrating after receiving a cash windfall. more...
DESPITE Government reassurances, the foot and mouth disease outbreak is not, by any stretch of the imagination, under control. Fresh outbreaks of the disease are happening in different regions every day with no sign of any end in sight. more...
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DESPITE Government reassurances, the foot and mouth disease outbreak is not, by any stretch of the imagination, under control. Fresh outbreaks of the disease are happening in different regions every day with no sign of any end in sight. more...
SIR, - As an Otley resident who lives on the fringes of the Cambridge estate, I was extremely alarmed to see Leeds City Council's proposals for the future development of Lisker Drive (All Saints Infants) School. more...
CALLS are being made for the immediate closure of Otley's weekend car boot sale. more...
AN assistant bank manager who suffered from depression committed suicide by hanging himself, an inquest heard yesterday. more...
AGRICULTURE chiefs have banned the movement of livestock from parts of Aireborough and Wharfedale - but have been slow to tell farmers. more...
A VERY rare plastic plate will take pride of place at an Otley church's fundraising auction. more...
A VILLAGE toilet block is being promoted on the Internet as a top site for gay sex - much to the annoyance of parish councillors. more...
TRANSPORT chiefs and councillors are looking into claims that a blind man fell from a train in Guiseley as he was unaware that it had stopped short of the platform. more...
A LEADING children's playground safety campaigner has hit out at the vandals who have damaged new play equipment in Otley's Wharfemeadows Park. more...
TOURISM in Ilkley has been hit hard by the foot and mouth crisis, with hotels and pubs reporting a slump in business. more...
`BAD things come in threes' according to an old saying - and for a Guiseley theatre company that has never been truer. more...
WHEELS have been put in motion for the closure of five Otley primary Schools - and their amalgamation as three new ones. more...
FITNESS trainer Simon Ward will need all his powers of endurance next month when he swaps the relative cold of his native Horsforth for the heat of the Sahara Desert in memory of his mother. more...
RESIDENTS have demanded action on the `horrendous' traffic problems which they claim will lead to someone being killed in their community. more...
RESIDENTS in Pool-in-Wharfedale will be able to see the schemes vying for a slice of the £80,000 allocated to the village for the first time when an exhibition opens next week. more...
A RESIDENTS' campaign to get a pharmacy at a new health centre in Horsforth reached a successful conclusion yesterday. more...
A FORMER drag artist stole flowers and wreaths from a cemetery to save poorer families money, a court was told. more...
HAREWOOD House has decided against opening this weekend - because of the foot and mouth disease crisis. more...
WRITER Kay Mellor will be dropping in to Yeadon this weekend to see a production of Oliver. more...
STREET names for a Burley-in-Wharfedale housing development are set to be mapped out at a meeting next month. more...
A WELSH voice coach has been drafted in to ensure the cast of a Dylan Thomas play get the lilting accent spot on. more...
A YOUNG mum is hoping to help lots of other working mothers have their cake - and eat it. more...
A HOSPITAL sports and social club is being forced to play the waiting game to find out if it has a future. more...
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In the last two weeks Rosie Whiting, a year 13 student at Ilkley Grammar School and a member of Bradford Esprit Diving Club, has been selected for both senior and junior diving internationals. more...
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Caroline Marler travelled to Bordeaux, France, for the European Veteran's Indoor Championships and won the women's 50-54 years 800 metres in 2-31.94. more...
OTLEY RUFC have taken a giant step forward by signing up their first ever Academy players. more...
A campaign to replace Saltaire's modern street signs with period ones has received a boost from an unlikely source - the Alpaca Society of America. more...
IMAGINE the days when 65 to 70 railway trains passed through Hellifield junction every eight hours. Imagine the days when farmers from Gargrave sending stock to Skipton would load them onto a train. more...
QUIET as the grave. That, I think, is the cliché for Beggarsdale this week: no walkers, very few day trippers, the whole Dale a-flutter with red and white tapes like the police use at crime scenes and lots of little yellow notices hanging on stiles and gates. more...
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SIR - I write in response to the fiasco of the refusal to grant planning permission to allow alterations to the Devonshire Hotel, Newmarket Street. more...
THIS year will herald a new era for the 95-year-old Gisburn Races when the event is moved to the outskirts of Skipton. more...
MORE than £2 million will be spent on repairing and maintaining council houses in Craven. more...
OWNERS of a popular Sutton bakery are celebrating after a Government inspector sanctioned their café plan. more...
IN the third week of the foot and mouth crisis, it is becoming clear that it is not only farmers who are suffering hardship. more...
MUTILATED frogs were left on the playground at Greatwood Community Primary School, Skipton. more...
A PUB landlord is offering a £1,000 reward for the return of jewellery stolen from his home. more...
THE key people faced with the task of getting Skipton's new tourist information centre (TIC) up and running have been announced. more...
A PARTNERSHIP has been set up to try to clear up the canal towpath after complaints about the amount of dog mess. more...
CLUES to The Folly's past have been discovered by builders working on the 17th century listed building in Settle. more...
WILDLIFE experts are urging people to be their eyes and ears after a spate of badger digging in South Craven. more...
DRAINAGE bosses are to carry out test drilling in a last ditch effort to repair pothole-ridden Cross Hills streets. more...
IT was undoubtedly with the very best of intentions that the council knocked over a number of gravestones in Ghyll cemetery. Among them was the last resting place of Paul Goodall - a true hero, murdered while carrying out a mercy mission to Bosnia. more...
An application to build 130 houses in Brighouse looks set to get the go-ahead at next week's planning meeting in Calderdale. more...
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