Stories for 23 July 2003

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Business

Provident celebrates profits rise

Bradford-based credit and insurance firm Provident Financial today announced half-yearly pre-tax profits had risen almost ten per cent to £82 million.  more...

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Letters to the Editor

SIR - For some 18 months Crossflatts has been a building site for a structure which, at this point, is beginning to resemble the Great Wall of China. In the process the community has lost many mature trees, an access road and a footpath across the bridge. The unity and character of our village has been adversely affected.  more...

Teresa can be left to die

Tragic mum Teresa Innes will be allowed to die after the hospital that left her in a permanent vegetative state was given permission to stop feeding her.  more...

Kim's right behind her mate Sally

Sally Dawson's biggest fan on her Fame Academy debut will be a girl who's already been there, seen it and sung it - none other than Kimberley Walsh.  more...

Businessman leads assembly plan opposition

A former Bradford businessman today revealed he is to lead the campaign against a Yorkshire Assembly.  more...

Mill blaze causes rush-hour chaos

A ferocious blaze ripped through an historic Bradford mill building leaving the city centre shrouded under a plume of thick black smoke.  more...

Anger as Council says yes to homes

Bradford Council is pressing ahead with plans for five new children's homes despite facing a barrage of protests from angry residents.  more...

Call for salute to unsung heroines

A memorial commemorating "unsung heroines" of chemotherapy development could be installed at St Luke's Hospital, Bradford.  more...

Charity con warning over man in drag

Police were today investigating claims that a man in drag may be conning people by raising money allegedly for a cancer charity.  more...

Mum: I rang the accused

A mother whose teenage daughter claimed she was raped by a pub manager told a jury of a tense phone call she had with the man.  more...

Richard longs for mother's gift of kidney

An apprentice joiner is hoping his mother can give him a vital gift - a kidney.  more...

Slimmers in tribute to tragic mum

Wendy Holmes was under the age of 40, was careful about her diet, did not smoke and took regular exercise.  more...

On This Day

In 1904, the first ice cream cone was seen at an exhibition in the USA, invented by Charles E. Menches.  more...

Important lesson for the Council

Residents of some of the areas chosen to be the locations for new children's homes in the Bradford district were last night accused of "bigotry and prejudice" by Councillor David Ward for their opposition to the proposal.   more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Sport

Shoulder surgery blow for Pratt

Karl Pratt has gone under the surgeon's knife to try and salvage his season.  more...

Evans is bright note on miserable Scottish tour

Paul Evans sees himself as one of City's band of new recruits.  more...

Sloppy city fail to worry Raith

Raith Rovers 2, Bradford City 0: It was half-an-hour after the final whistle and Dean Windass was still shaking his head.  more...

White's hot but Singh's off key

Craig White and Yuvraj Singh went into Yorkshire's championship match against Hampshire at Scarborough today with sharply contrasting batting fortunes.  more...

Ton-up for Hughes in mammoth total

Ilkley have plenty of ground to make up if they are to challenge Kirkstall, Rawdon and Burley in the chase for promotion to the top flight.   more...

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Council may quit market after rent rise clash

A row over rent could see Bradford Council give up its lease on Shipley Indoor Market Hall.  more...

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Jail doctor `performed sexual act'

An inmate at Armley Jail has described how a prison doctor performed an alleged sex act on him.  more...