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Ferocious Feroze
Martial arts star is top of the class
A taekwondo ace from Bradford, who only took up the sport two years ago, has been named...
Supplementary School recognised at Child Friendly Leeds award
Stars gather to celebrate Hamara’s success
Leeds City Varieties was packed to the rafters last week as the Child Friendly Leeds (CFL) Awards made...
Bradford charity group revisit refugee camps in Dunkirk and Calais
Keeping ‘in touch’ with the world’s neediest
Osman Gondal, founder and CEO of Bradford’s InTouch Foundation, has visited the migrant camps in Dunkirk and Calais,...
Bhangra in Huddersfield: Exhibition explores history of traditional Indian dance
Discover Bhangra in Huddersfield
A postmaster from Huddersfield has delivered his latest gift to the town of Huddersfield this past month with an exciting exhibition...
Arty heartache after Drummond Mill fire
Local artists lose everything as giant puppets burn
Five years’ worth of community artwork - including fantastical giant puppets and illuminating lanterns – have been...
REHMAN: Pakistani haute couture bridalwear
There are so many things that need to be perfect for a bride’s big day. The iconic wedding dress always tops the list for...
BLACKS SOLICITORS: A little help from my friends
Legal disputes between neighbours frequently arise out of long-standing rivalries, moved boundaries, overhanging trees or loud music at antisocial hours, and are notorious for...
Bag boy in Messi meet up
Afghan child who made a homemade football t-shirt to meet hero
Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi, who lives in the Afghan province of Ghazni, has had his...
Shayan serves up an ace at Muslim Awards
Table tennis teen is top sportsmen for 2016
A sporty teenager from Leeds has added another trophy to his growing collection this past week, this...
UN panel rules in Assange’s favour: WikiLeaks founder should be allowed to go free
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, 44, should be allowed to go free from his three-and-half year arbitrary detention at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and...
Tyson Fury may hang up his gloves
Boxer doesn’t want sport to become ‘about money’
World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is struggling to motivate himself and could quit boxing, the controversial fighter...
Tackling cross-border operations
‘Intended use’ policy welcomed by Bradford’s cabbies
Bradford Council has welcomed moves by a Lancashire local authority to put an end to the problem of...
Tanzanian student beaten and stripped in Bangalore
India’s Foreign Minister ‘deeply pained over shocking incident’
Five people have been arrested by police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore in connection with...
Mass exodus in Aleppo
Thousands of Syrians flee city after Russian airstrikes
Tens of thousands of Syrians are being forced out of the city of Aleppo towards the...
Controversial ‘bus gates’ cause traffic chaos
Huddersfield’s new scheme sees motorists flouting the rules
Huddersfield town centre has activated new ‘bus gates’, much to the dismay of motorists.
Many drivers have already...
Over 400,000 objects from the National Media Museum to be transferred to V&A
Bradford to lose big bounty of arty artefacts
A recently signed agreement, which will see more than 400,000 objects from Bradford’s National Media Museum...
Singing sensation from Bradford gets popstars’ chairs swinging
Wibsey warbler wows Will.i.am
Twenty-one-year-old Bradford-born singer, Faheem Ashraf, had the judges' chairs spinning around faster than a vinyl record player set to the rotational speed of...
Brum brum!!! Driverless cars for Brum!
Birmingham will see hi-tech shuttles arrive in the region next year
A £2.3 million funding package which will bring state-of-the-art driverless cars to Birmingham has...
Well built by well wishers
Students ensure late classmate from Bradford will be remembered
A water well is being built in Nepal in memory of a Bradford College student who...
Parents of Jihadi Jack arrested
Mum and dad sent money to Syria so that son could buy glasses
The parents of a British man, who purportedly travelled to Syria to...
