Bradford & District | Archive | 2004 | May
Revellers can look forward to a magical line-up at one of the largest free music events in Yorkshire. more...
A group of Bingley women have pledged to help poverty-stricken people in one of Europe's poorest countries after travelling to find out about their plight. more...
Don't let apathy kill off our club more...
Turn up in force and support the most important match in Bradford City's 100-year history. more...
Revellers can look forward to a magical line-up at one of the largest free music events in Yorkshire. more...
A judge has jailed an illegal immigrant and her would-be husband after their plans for a bogus wedding in Bradford were foiled. more...
A judge has jailed an illegal immigrant and her would-be husband after their plans for a bogus wedding in Bradford were foiled. more...
This closed-circuit television image shows a young dad desperately trying to fend off blows as an attacker tries to stab him in the head with a kitchen knife. more...
Pupils at a Bradford school have been cooking up healthy snacks as part of a new get fit club. more...
The Bradford ballot paper botch-up could lead to a three- day delay in delivery for some voters. more...
A Yorkshire Air Ambulance patient now on the road to recovery has thanked the helicopter crew who came to his rescue and saved his life. more...
A new awards scheme has been set up to celebrate the good work of young people in the community. more...
Bank staff have scooped an award for helping more than 1,700 patients by giving blood. more...
As always, Bradford people have risen to a challenge. We kicked off the Save Our City appeal just two weeks ago in a bid to see the Bantams safely into the new season and enable them to impress the Football League that they would be able fulfil their fixtures. And you have entered into the spirit of things magnificently. more...
These days, anyone wanting to talk to Stuart Fielden after training will have a long wait on their hands. more...
Dean Richards has changed his holiday plans so he can support the Save Our City Appeal. more...
Karl Pratt made a successful return to action in the Bulls under-21 academy victory over Castleford last night. more...
Dean Richards has changed his holiday plans so he can support the Save Our City Appeal. more...
Bulls academy 40 more...
Lee Swaby can't say he wasn't warned. more...
Some players don't have to kiss the badge to show how much a club means to them. more...
Lancashire paceman John Wood has been appointed captain by Spen Victoria for the rest of the season and will lead the side for the first time in tomorrow's home match against champions Pudsey Congs. more...
Spirit of the Dance was originally regarded as the poor man's Riverdance but has now been seen by more than 30 million people. more...
Coming Around Again -- West Yorkshire Playhouse more...
Katie Melua, whose debut album has spent months near the top of the charts, headlines an outdoor jazz concert at Harewood House next Friday evening. more...
Wee Free Men -- Terry Pratchett more...
The decision by Channel 4 executives to shelve a documentary which included the awful story of girls as young as 12 being groomed for prostitution is at best a misreading of the situation. more...
SIR - After reading your piece in the readers letters page of the Keighley News, referring to Bradford council's tardiness in repainting the yellow zigzags outside Our Lady of Victories school, I was absolutely amazed by the comment from the school learning mentor Michelle Wilson that any attempt to talk to the parents involved was met with `obscenities'! more...
A nightclub owner is calling for a change in the law after he and his pregnant wife were left without heating for months. more...
A woman-hating parrot is on the loose after escaping from its cage. more...
A national charity, based in Keighley, will close this summer if it does not receive more funding. more...
A mother who was jailed after trying to sell her unborn baby to three desperate couples had already legitimately given birth as a surrogate mother, it has been revealed. more...
fans of the Brontës from all over the world are to converge on Haworth for the 110th annual meeting of the Brontë Society. more...
GARY MOORBY has called on his team to start piling up the points and lift the club clear of the lower places in National League One. more...
FRIENDS and shooting partners Martin Shellabear and Paul Gott have been selected to shoot for the North of England. more...
DAN FOX stormed to victory on two wheels in Sunday's Border Trophy race, held in Northumbria. more...
Michael Scarborough hit top form as he took Thorton's bowling apart. more...
RARELY can defeat have seemed more like a victory, but the young Cougar team's heroic performance against Leigh was a triumph for raw courage. more...
Villagers are furious that a developer has applied to build properties near their homes which they claim will destroy their quality of life. more...
THE price of a pint of Ram's Blood (ABV 5.5 per cent) went up by 10p at the Beggars' Arms last weekend and, as one might have guessed, this pleased no-one - not even the Innkeeper, who has spent all week explaining that it had nothing to do with him. It was the brewery what done it, guv. more...
100 years ago more...
SIR - It seems that never a week goes by without adverts for, or reference to, the Great Sounds Appeal (Giggleswick Church's bells appeal) in your paper. more...
FORMER Aireville School teacher Maggie Tookey was shot with a rubber bullet during a clash between gun-wielding soldiers and Arab youths at an Israeli checkpoint. more...
THREE weeks after a shocking attack on a disabled woman, Craven's police chief has been in to the area's schools trying to uncover fresh information. more...
A WELL-KNOWN Upper Wharfedale farmer has died in a tragic quad bike accident. more...
BOTH North Yorkshire County and Craven District councils will see their preferred options for the future shape of local government appear on ballot papers during the referendum on regional assemblies in October. more...
SKIPTON Magistrates' Court saw the first motorcyclist in North Yorkshire to be ordered off the road in a new crackdown on daredevil bikers. more...
A LONG-STANDING club in South Craven has won its fight to survive after securing £4,600 from the parish council. more...
A GARDENING expert's eyesight has been saved thanks to ground-breaking surgery. more...
AN elderly Barnoldswick woman died in a house blaze on Tuesday despite the heroic efforts of neighbours who attempted to save her. more...
THE future of local government in Craven remains uncertain. more...
THE Devonshire Carpets Craven League welcomed six new teams into the ranks; said farewell to three others; agonised about whether or not another was departing; confirmed that fines for non-compliance with administrative regulations had risen by £772 (132 per cent) to over £1,000; and heard another recitation of the annual tirade against foul language and a continuing deterioration in the attitude of players and officials to the declining band of referees who make play possible each week. more...
BANK Holiday weekend offers a traditionally business cricket programme, with both the Veka Ribblesdale League and the Airedale & Wharfedale League having `double-header' programmes. more...
CHATBURN'S Richard Shovelton led a quintet of J P Mewies Craven League century makers on Saturday when he amassed an impressive 124 in his side's defeat of Denholme in Division Two. more...
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