Bradford & District | Archive | 2006 | March
A Bradford company has announced a 41 per cent increase in its annual turnover after making two major acquisitions. more...
A Haworth company has won a £1 million contract to supply insignia to UK military forces over the next four years. more...
The multi-national firm which runs Bradford's schools and Council computing services made pre-tax profits of more than £91 million last year. more...
Our duty to keep the NHS public more...
A couple ensnared in a passionate sex triangle were today beginning life sentences for a chilling and brutal murder. more...
The employer and landlady of a convicted killer who raped a ten-year-old boy have attacked the probation service for failing to give them full details of his past history. more...
Bradford's council tax payers will see their bills rise by just over four per cent from April. more...
Councillors setting Bradford's annual budget refused to fund education chiefs' £675,000 shortfall. more...
Government Minister Hilary Benn commended the Telegraph & Argus and the people of Bradford yesterday for their swift and continuing response to the devastating earthquake in Kashmir and Pakistan. more...
A man who scrounged tens of thousands of pounds in benefits has pledged to sell his home to help repay the money. more...
A judge has sentenced a 38-year-old Bradford man to life imprisonment after he injured two friends with a camping axe. more...
All four primary care trusts in the Bradford and Airedale district will go smoke-free on National No Smoking Day next week. more...
Bradford University bosses have welcomed a cash boost of more than £2 million to open up access to students from poorer backgrounds. more...
A father of four has been found guilty of fly-tipping after dumping rubble, concrete and plastic bags into woods near Heaton, a court heard yesterday. more...
Two men who have lost loved ones to suicide are setting up a self-help group in Bradford to help others come to terms with their loss. more...
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will end the financial year £2.9 million in the red. more...
Bradford could get its first city living forum as more and more people choose to set up home a stone's throw away from their work and play. more...
Crack cocaine addict Lily is learning to be a mum again, thanks to the help of drugs workers. more...
From a "worst case" deficit forecast at one time of up to £22 million to an actual one of £2.9 million is no mean achievement for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It deserves praise for recouping such a large sum in just over a year. more...
Aaron Wilbraham has double the reason to be an instant hit at Valley Parade. more...
Catalans Dragons aren't going to be a ship without a Rudder, according to Andy Lynch. more...
Mark Hobson reckons he is an easier opponent for Enzo Maccarinelli than Johnny Nelson. more...
National League Three North leaders Bradford & Bingley are annoyed that their clash at home to third-placed Nuneaton a week tomorrow has been postponed. more...
Bradford Park Avenue go into tomorrow's home game against Gateshead determined to start the post-Gary Brook era with a fighting display. more...
Keighley Playhouse's latest production is described as a witty and fast-moving comedy verging on farce. more...
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OperatorSix, one of Keighley's brightest musical hopes, is playing down its links with the town. more...
The Ice Queen -- CADS more...
Regina Spektor -- Mary Ann meets the Gravediggers and other short stories more...
One of the saddest indictments of our times comes via comments from Gavin Anderson, manager of the Accident and Emergency unit at Airedale Hospital. more...
These employees of the West Lane Burling and Mending Company at Haworth have obviously used their Christmas trimmings to decorate their workplace in celebration of the Royal Jubilee of King George V in 1935. more...
SIR - Well, its that time of year again. Oh, no it isn't! Oh, yes it is! And once again the Oakworth Methodist pantomime (Red Riding Hood this year) was a joy to watch. more...
A mystery "saboteur" thought to have a grudge against a moorland pub has been revealed. more...
A Haworth company has won a £1 million contract to supply insignia to UK military forces over the next four years. more...
A haulier desperate to support its local gala can't because of insurance constraints. more...
Traffic experts will decide the fate of a project to develop a former factory site, which would help change the face of Keighley. more...
A hospital manager has hit out at the lack of respect shown today for nurses and doctors. more...
Cash-strapped Airedale Primary Care Trust may be forced pay a "reserve" of £3.7 million in the next financial year to the area's strategic health authority. more...
A campaign to clean up the district will start this weekend and Silsden and Steeton will be two of the first places targeted for "The Big Sweep". more...
Old and new haunts will feature in this summer's sequel to last year's Keighley Festival ghost walk. more...
Greenhead High School has fired a warning to parents and pupils after Government figures placed it on a list for having the most prolific truants. more...
A businessman fears he could lose thousands of pounds a month because another company is stopping heavy vehicles getting to his garage. more...
Actress Jenny Agutter is once again returning to the railway that helped catapult her to stardom 36 years ago. more...
An initiative to ensure people in the developing world get a decent chance to compete on the global market is being backed by a village. more...
COUGARS head to Rochdale, looking for revenge, this weekend with their confidence sky-high after a thrilling encounter at Oldham last week. more...
Oldham 25 Cougars 24- A STUNNING performance by the Cougars warmed travelling fans on a bitterly cold afternoon at Boundary Park. more...
THE district's biggest boxing fan finally met one of the game's all-time greats recently. more...
SUPER GRAN Veronica Kennedy has been crowned a rowing World Champion - at the age of 71. more...
KEIGHLEY crews enjoyed success in the Legend Fires North West Stages Rally last weekend. more...
Liam O'Reilly produced an explosive contest at the recent boxing dinner show organised by Keighley Amateur Boxing Club and Keighley Albion ARLFC. more...
Skelmersdale United 4, Silsden 1 - For the majority of the first half the Cobbydalers made a mockery of league standings with a brand of slick movement and sharp passing on a surface fit for a snooker final the mesmerised the league's top side. more...
Steeton 1 Littletown 2 - Steeton suffered yet another set back with this defeat, which sees the top two teams pulling away with games running out. more...
Northern Plant Hire Cup: Grassington 3 Oxenhope 2 (Extra time) Oxenhope's attempt to see the club's two teams reach five cup semi-finals failed in the mud at Grassington. more...
Premier Division Keighley Athletic 0 Stanbury 4 - Neither team was able to score in a finely balanced first half, but five minutes into the second period Stanbury began to stamp their authority on the game. more...
Wakefield 1 Keighley Ladies 5 - Keighley bounced back from defeat at Knaresborough with an impressive performance at Wakefield. more...
Cowling Under-10s beat Shipley Pumas 5-0 despite failing to click into top gear. Scorers for Cowling were Luke Allsop, Josh Wood, Liam Daffern, Jacob Hough and Oliver Williams. Josh Wood was man of the match. more...
Cougar Cubs Under 15's 16 Townville Tigers 10 - Cougars took the points in the battle of the big cats. more...
Keighley Town 16 Queensbury 10 - DAZ LYNHAM put Town on their way to victory with an impressive opening try against Queensbury. Coach Dave O'Connor added the goal to give his side an emphatic start to the game. more...
Keighley RFU Under-17s start their National Cup campaign on Sunday when they take on a powerful Wilmslow side. more...
They may be the bottom two teams in the Keighley & District Table Tennis League's First Division but the clash between Ukrainian `B' and visitors Embassy `B' served up some top class entertainment. more...
Mary Fuller, the 13-year-old England international and Oakbank Table Tennis Club member, put in one of her best performances at an open junior championships at Essex 4-Star in Harlow. more...
A 61-year-old grandmother described today how she fought a tug-of-war over her newsagent's shop takings with a masked robber as he hacked at her counter with a claw hammer. more...
100 Years Ago more...
SIR - There has been much public and media interest in the subject of subsidies for rural buses, some of it producing more heat than light. more...
A QUICK-thinking Skipton man saved the life of a fellow motorist in the early hours of Sunday morning. more...
STAFF working at Airedale Hospital have "major concerns" over the hospital's new £10 million mental health facility. more...
VILLAGERS in Embsay are hoping it will be third time lucky when they get their new elm tree. more...
NETWORK Rail is to accelerate its track renewal work on the Settle and Carlisle line, helping to secure the future of the route. more...
FORMER Steeton woman Penny Roberts is busy training for her next event. more...
USERS of the 581 bus from Ingleton to Horton-in-Ribblesdale are confident their service has been reprieved. more...
CRAVEN is bucking the trend by collecting almost every fine it imposes for environmental offences. more...
"WE'RE winning the war," says Steve Place, the councillor who might be called Craven's dog poo tsar. more...
A PROGRAMME to repair memorial headstones at local cemeteries is on target to be completed by May. more...
SKIPTON Building Society is one of the most profitable in the country, its chief executive said this week. more...
SKIPTON town councillors are going back to school next week - as part of a review of the play facilities it provides within the town. more...
RESIDENTS in Lothersdale say around 40 new telegraph poles being erected in the village are a blot on the landscape. more...
LOCAL headteacher Brian Beresford has turned his hand to a new skill - writing school musicals. more...
CRAVEN'S unique past is being dug up and recorded by a team of experts. more...
GRASSINGTON fire crew celebrated an historic day this week as the station's status was officially upgraded to retained. more...
HISTORY is in the making again at Dalehead, in the Forest of Bowland, as work to renovate the tiny church gets under way. more...
EARBY'S New Road Community Centre will not have a new manager for at least a month, prompting concerns that it will be "closed by stealth". more...
HE's cheaper to buy than a roadsweeper, gets in places where no brush can reach and will happily take nothing but Mars bars in payment. more...
THE county councillor with the responsibility for rural bus services writes a cogent and reasonable letter in this week's paper outlining the principles behind the council's attempts to cut its subsidies to rural bus services. more...
JOHN Lawn has sprung a surprise by elevating Oliver Renton ahead of David Lister in the second row for the trip to struggling Stourbridge tomorrow (writes Mike Crowther). more...
EARBY Cricket Club has been left searching for a new professional with just weeks to go to start of the new season. more...
AIREVILLE School pupil Melissa Greaves is continuing the tradition of cycling success in her family. more...
MATTHEW Watson finished Yorkshire's top runner in the senior men's race at the English National Cross-Country Championships last Saturday (writes Roger Ingham). more...
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