Stories for 13 June 2005

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Business

Online travel firm is out to go Global

A Wyke-based internet travel company is pledging to quadruple in size after being bought out by the Global Travel Group in a multi-million pound deal.  more...

Restoring faith in legal aid business

A firm of Bradford solicitors is bucking the trend after a huge expansion into increasingly unpopular legal aid work.  more...

Shares Week

At its AGM last month, Morrisons said that its accounts department was too stretched trying to integrate Safeway to be able to provide any guidance for future profits or earnings.  more...

Landlord creates a haven for bikers

Drinkers with a passion for motorcycles and rock music have a new watering hole in Idle thanks to an entrepreneurial couple who decided to change careers and spend more time together.  more...

Couple vow to make their business grow

It's made from straw. It's environmentally friendly. And it's a niche product which is helping a Burley-in-Wharfedale couple successfully do business with global companies.  more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley News

Letters to the Editor

Council has shot itself in the foot  more...

You're banned from the tip!

A woman has hit out at Council bosses who banned her from using a household waste site - because she had made too many visits.  more...

Vicars take church onto the streets

Bradford vicars will be driving the church to the streets in a revolutionary move to attract a new breed of young worshippers.   more...

Residents fight on for 'their' £500,000

A Council-wide policy on the way profits from land sales are dished out to communities is to be discussed tomorrow in the wake of a row on one estate.  more...

Following in father's footsteps at church

It will be a case of "like father, like son" when the Rev Jimmy Hinton takes over his new church tomorrow.  more...

Devoted singer dies during performance

A devoted singer suffered a heart attack and died on stage as he was performing.  more...

City plan could net £100m in grants

Bradford Council has put together a bid for transport cash which aims to earn almost £100 million over five years in improvement grants for the district.  more...

'Help us build MS centre for sufferers'

Multiple Sclerosis sufferers are set to benefit from a pioneering specialist resource centre in Bradford.  more...

School is doing 'much better'

Staff and students at a Bradford primary school are delighted after being taken out of the "serious weaknesses" category by Government inspectors.  more...

Mark is proud to supply manpower

Mark Shelton is heading to Sri Lanka to build homes for families left devastated by the tsunami.  more...

Stars come out for charity ball

Actresses Denise Welch and Melanie Kilburn are among the celebrities attending a charity ball in aid of cancer sufferers in Bradford.  more...

It's snow joke for our village!

For years Queensbury folk have had to endure the old joke about the climate in their village being so extreme that "it snows up there in June".  more...

Transport cash vital to district

Bradford has a good case to make to the Department of Transport for substantial funding to help the district to bring its transport network up to date. Hopefully it will be nodded through by the Council's ruling executive at its meeting tomorrow and then be approved by the full Council later this month so it can be submitted to the Government by the end of July.  more...

Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Sport

Bulls take pain killer

Aussie recruit Ben Harris scored his first try as the Bulls overturned a four-point second-half deficit to maintain their unbeaten record against Huddersfield Giants with a 38-20 victory on Saturday night.  more...

Danny deal alive?

The Danny Cadamarteri deal may not be dead after all.  more...

Silverwood is happy to be with the champions

Chris Silverwood has reached another important landmark as he continues his recovery from injury.   more...

Old Lane rocked by seven of best from Stansfield

Brighouse are back on track for promotion after skipper James Stansfield ripped through Bowling Old Lane's fragile batting line-up.  more...

Pivotal Paul transforms Bulls into winners again

With the likes of Widnes, Wakefield, Warrington and St Helens already having notched landmark victories over the shaky Bulls this season, the Huddersfield Giants could have been forgiven for thinking Saturday would be their turn.  more...

Dawson's encore is no laughing matter

Yorkshire Phoenix ran out of steam in the closing overs of a tightly contested Totesport League game at Grace Road yesterday when they lost by seven wickets to Leicestershire Foxes with 17 balls still remaining.  more...

Keighley,Bronte Country Sport

Cougars unlucky as Mitchell boob proves so costly

The Cougars fought back valiantly but ultimately paid the price for a sluggish first half at Cougar Park yesterday.  more...