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Sweet sales' sour conclusion

Actor Don Crann telling the story of the Bradford sweet poisoning to children from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary and Newby Primary schools

8:26am Thursday 4th December 2008

The retelling of the story of the poisoning scandal that killed 20 children in Victorian Bradford

Hospital 'station' aims to cure troublemakers

Sister Louise Johnson, of the BRI accident and emergency department, chats with Police Sergeant Jane Slater on the first day of the new police ‘statio

9:33am Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Uniformed police officers will be a more common sight in the corridors of Bradford Royal Infirmary following yesterday’s opening of a mini-police station there.

Breaking the cycle of neglect

One of the harrowing images in the new Barnardo’s campaign to help children victims of abuse and neglect find a new role in life

12:24pm Monday 1st December 2008

Children’s charity Barnardo’s has produced a harrowing advertising campaign highlighting the damage that demonising or neglecting so-called problem children can have on their future development.

Life in the wake of the Ripper

Richard McCann delivering one of his motivational talks

8:50am Monday 1st December 2008

How son of first victim fought his demons

Park and crowds

The car park at Crossflatts station is full of commuters’ cars from early in the morning, but an application has been put in for a car park extension

10:39am Friday 28th November 2008

Parking charges could be introduced at rail stations across the district, it has been revealed.

Bradford gets the X Factor

J-Stylin with Xplosion, who added cartwheels to their dance routine

9:16am Wednesday 26th November 2008

Talented troupers face judges’ verdict

Business ambitions given big kickstart

Alliance Home Improvements’  Tariq Ahmed, Mohammed Yaqub Ismail and Sarfraz Ahmed set up their new business with help from Kickstart

11:19am Monday 24th November 2008

Bradford has one of the most successful Govern-ment-funded projects to give new entrepreneurs a leg up through training, funding and advice.

Tim focuses on the story of a people

Bradford photographer Tim Smith, whose book Coal, Frankincense & Myrrh tells the story of Yemenis in pictures and captions

8:57am Monday 24th November 2008

The photographer with some extraordinary stories of the ordinary

Neighbourhood programme reaps its just reward

The Bradford team at the awards ceremony in Harrogate

4:40am Thursday 20th November 2008

Bradford Council’s Streets Ahead programme, which aims to improve the quality of life for residents living in five areas of the district, has just won a regional award.

Keeping a weather eye out for poachers

Allan Pettit, gamekeeper at Bolton Abbey

10:38am Wednesday 19th November 2008

Landowners across the district say they are “alert” to a potential increase in poaching in the face of rising food prices and the reality of recession.


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