THE Lord Mayor of Bradford will be guest of honour at the unveiling of a new history book.

Bradford In 100 Dates, written by Civic Society chairman Alan Hall, highlights the events that made the district what it is.

They include October 18, 1858, the date of the Bradford Sweet Poisonings, when a sweet seller laced sugar and peppermint gum with arsenic, and March 18, 1649, when Mary Sykes was brought before the justice Henry Tempest at Bolling Hall and accused of witchcraft by several neighbours.

The book will be unveiled at the Midland Hotel, Bradford, at noon on Saturday, March 28.