Archive news from the Bradford Telegraph and Argus

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Debt we owe our police

The murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky will have prompted many people to rethink their attitude towards the police. Certainly there's plenty to criticise about the service they're able to provide and the way they seem to organise their priorities. The

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Ricketts has the safest hands in England

Donovan Ricketts has plenty to shout about after letting in only one goal in ten hours of league football. On current form, City's keeper went into this afternoon's clash with Hartlepool as the best in the country. And boss Colin Todd reckons the Jamaican

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Let's hear it for the Kiwis

Bulls centre Shontayne Hape is hoping the club's fans will get behind him and his Kiwis side as they attempt to pull off a massive upset against the Kangaroos in the Gillette Tri-Nations final at Elland Road tonight. Great Britain's elimination at the

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Shameful double deception

The public are overwhelmingly opposed to non-food pubs being exempted from a smoking ban. That was the upshot of the Department of Health's own consultation into attitudes towards smoking in public places. It found that more than 90 per cent of those

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Smoking survey results 'hidden'

Health ministers suppressed the results of a study revealing overwhelming public opposition to exempting non-food pubs from a smoking ban, it has emerged. More than 90 per cent of respondents to the Department of Health's consultation demanded a total

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CCTV keeps watch for class bullying

A Bradford school has installed CCTV cameras into all of its classrooms to prevent bullying. Staff at Princeville Primary in Lidget Green believe they are the only school in the country to have cameras trained on every single classroom in the building

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Screening fears

Women in Shipley are failing to keep up appointments to have life-saving breast screening. Only 77 per cent of women aged between 50 and 70 are turning up at the Pennine Breast Screening mobile unit. Janette Griggs, of the screening service, said although

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'Stalker' has his sentence halved

A man in his 30s who harassed a Bradford schoolgirl for five years with persistent declarations of his love has had his jail term halved by top judges. James Hamilton Edmundson, 35, left unwanted letters and gifts, including tapes of him crooning lovesongs

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Bike crash to blame for hanging tragedy

A motorcyclist killed himself three years after being involved in a road accident which left him disabled, an inquest heard. David Baldwin hit a raised manhole cover on Cragg Road, Shipley, in August 2002 and suffered serious injuries which "changed his

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Charity set up in honour of tragic soldier

A children's charity has been set up in honour of a Bradford soldier killed in Iraq. Sergeant Christian Hickey was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra last month, a day before his tour of duty was due to end. Now members of his battalion at the Coldstream

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City falls silent in tribute to Sharon

As 17 year-old Waseem Taslem paid silent tribute to murdered Sharon Beshenivsky yesterday he was also considering his own future - as a police officer. In the week since PC Beshenivsky was gunned down and her colleague Teresa Milburn was injured, the

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Letters to the Editor

Decisions that were disastrous SIR - Your correspondent Mr A Shipman of Swinnow (T&A, November 14) has asked three questions relating to public transport, which I will try to answer. 1. If the initial Leeds Supertram scheme had been approved by the

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Villas draw tough test against Bilton

Bolton Villas have drawn the short straw in the Aire-Wharfe League's Waddilove Cup for 2006. They have been drawn at home to holders Bilton, who have won the league for the past three seasons, in the preliminary round on Sunday, April 23. North Leeds,

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Struggling church pair plan to merge

Two churches are planning to merge in a bid to modernise community facilities. Hall Royd Methodist Church and United Reformed Church, both on Bradford Road, Shipley are discarding doctrinal differences in a move to improve services for worshippers. This

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Business gets into spirit of Christmas

Bereaved children will be given special gifts at a hospice which cares for the dying. And hard-up families need not go into debt to pay for Christmas gifts for their children. They are among more than 30 groups which will benefit from this year's Bradford

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Club was too noisy admit licensees

A nightclub has admitted making too much noise despite having been ordered to keep quiet. The licensees of an Ilkley nightclub were sentenced yesterday after admitting to breaching noise abatement orders. Joint licensees of Il Travatore, Alfredo Ciesla

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Pair will live off £5 and Red Cross pack

The plight of destitute asylum seekers will be highlighted as two women try to live off £5 and a Red Cross food parcel each in one week. Judy Midgley, of Sandbeds, near Keighley, and Sister Mary Horan, of Bradford, will allow themselves to eat only the

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My agony over telling children - PC's husband

The husband of murdered PC Sharon Beshenivsky agonised for a week over how to tell their youngest children of her death. Paul Beshenivsky, 42, said he finally decided to break the news to seven-year-old Paul and four-year-old Lydia when they returned