Bradford & District | Archive | 2001 | May
The chairman of the Bingley Town Centre Partnership has resigned after closing his motorbike clothing business. more...
Environmental business leaders around the region have hailed a latest survey of firms' `green' credentials a major success. more...
SIR - Regarding the sorry tale of the 680 buses, here is another chapter. more...
Hundreds of priceless works of art could be handed over to a Bradford school to help create a prestigious new art gallery. more...
The stone lions outside guard Victoria Hall, Saltaire, just as the Sphinx protects the ancient Egyptian Pyramids. more...
Education in Bradford will enter a new era in a matter of weeks when a partnership is sealed between Bradford Council and Serco-QAA. more...
North Yorkshire motorists were urged to keep off the roads today to avoid disruption because of the foot and mouth crisis. more...
A 59-year-old Manningham man was viciously attacked in Lumb Lane - just yards from where a man was shot dead last year. more...
A Bradford village's bid to create the largest blanket in the world has received support from celebrities. more...
The cost of Bradford's state-of-the-art John Street Market has risen by almost half a million pounds. more...
Bradford businesswoman Uzma Bashir Sheikh, pictured at work, is more used to business lunches than eating rats and maggots, but she swapped her high-flying lifestyle for life on a desert island in a bid to win £1million. more...
A teenager killed in a head-on smash had passed his driving test only three weeks earlier. more...
Women are being urged to start walking in a bid to boost their health. more...
A grandfather who started fundraising in memory of his grandson who was a victim of cot death is retiring after collecting more than £60,000. more...
A Cullingworth greengrocer has shut up shop after 15 years, blaming fierce competition from the supermarket giants. more...
A disturbing Bradford-based documentary following a heroin addict's battle through "cold turkey" was being screened on television tonight. more...
Farmers in North Yorkshire today spoke of their fears as the foot and mouth crisis took a stranglehold throughout the area. more...
An aspiring Bradford doctor met Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn as he visited Shipley, to ask for help in completing his medical studies. more...
In 1757, John Wesley preached at Bingley. more...
The closure of the greengrocery in Halifax Road, Cullingworth, is another nail in the coffin of village shopping around Bradford. Over the years the number of shops has shrunk steadily in most local centres. Greengrocers, butchers, bakers, post offices and general stores which have failed to compete successfully with the supermarkets have seen many of their customers drift away. more...
Stuart McCall is ready to commit himself again to Bradford City today with the plea: Don't let this team fall apart. more...
Bulls hooker James Lowes, pictured, will skipper York-shire in the new-look "Origin Game" with Lancashire at Headingley next month. more...
Coventry City 0, Bradford City 0 - Andy Myers spent all Friday night coughing and spluttering. Poor old Stuart McCall could hardly bend his knee. more...
The adverts above the toilets in the Highfield Road main stand were a few weeks behind the times. more...
Bradford and Bingley marched on in the Sovereign Health Care Priestley Cup second round with a ten-wicket win at Spen Victoria in yesterday's replay. more...
Mohammed Akram produced the outstanding bowling performance of the Bradford League season so far by taking ten wickets as he shattered Cleckheaton to enable Undercliffe to win by 111 runs at Intake Road. more...
Home hunters looking for a mix of 21st century interior design and Victorian architecture have been flocking to one of historic Saltaire's landmark buildings. more...
The Tories, still smarting from losing seats in the Bradford district in the last General Election, have made the constituencies, particularly Shipley, key electoral battlegrounds. Colin Mellors, professor of political science at the University of Bradford gives an expert view of the likely outcome when the country goes to the polls on June 7. In 1997, Labour made several local gains - Shipley, Leeds North West, Calder Valley, Pudsey, Batley and Spen, and Keighley - all now obvious Conservative targets. more...
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