January

New Year opens with five murders across the country and, abroad, more than 80 people murdered in Kenya and Baghdad.

Giant British company Imperial Chemical Industries sold for £8bn to Dutch company Azko Nobel.

International unrest leads to the price of oil rising to $100 a barrel for the first time.

Thirty hospital trusts close wards to new patients due to epidemic of the norovirus bug which causes vomiting and diarrhoea The Westfield site in Broadway is levelled in what the company say is preparatory work for the £340m development.

Top retailers such as M&S, Next, Debenhams and Woolworth report poor trading results over Christmas, leading to a ten per cent loss of the value of shares across the whole shopping sector.

The end of the month sees the closure of Clark’s, a shoe shop in Bradford for more than 100 years.

Empire Stores announces the closure of its Canal Road site by the end of the year, with the loss of 350 jobs.

EMI, the Beatles’ former record company, cuts up to 2,000 jobs as the sale of CDs plummets.

On two days in mid-month in response to financial setbacks in the United States, the FTSE 100 crashes 270 points; the value of shares loses more than £23bn.

Parts of Gloucestershire are flooded after prolonged and heavy rain.

Three Warrington teenagers convicted of kicking family man Gary Newlove to death outside his home.

Bradford-based news agency J W Crabtree and Son, founded in 1916, closes.

The fear of recession panics stock market traders and the FTSE100 crashes 323 points – its worst day since records began in 1935 – with more than £75bn wiped off the shares of British companies. US Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by three-quarters of a point; but the Bank of England resists following suit and shares continue to fall.

Morrisons supermarket group announces four million new customers over the Christmas period, with sales rising by 9.5 per cent.

Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain quits the Cabinet over allegations about the funding of his campaign for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party.

The Government decides to remove the symbol of Britannia from 50p coins, breaking with a tradition going back to Charles II.

A record-breaking 101,000 people pay around £1.33m to see the Alhambra pantomime Peter Pan.

Pace Micro Technology trebles pre-tax profits to more than £15m for 2007.

Yet another House of Commons scandal involving public money as Tory leader David Cameron suspends back-bencher Derek Conway over £260,000 of taxpayer funded payments to his wife and two sons.

February

The Home Office’s Forced Marriage Unit says that in 2007 250 teenage girls of Pakistani origin from Bradford may have been press-ganged into forced marriages. Bradford Council said only 33 had been on the out-of-school register for more than two months.

BP announce 5,000 job cuts as the FTSE100 slumps 158 points again. Bank of England cuts interest rates by .25 per cent, but share prices still plummet by another 153 points.

Bradford’s 14th International Film Festival is launched. Special guests include Barry Norman, Michael Palin, Kenneth Branagh and Julien Temple.

British Home Stores, which shut its Bradford store in 2005, announces that it is pulling out of the proposed Westfield development in Broadway.

The £3m refurbishment of parts of Shipley station starts.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Very Reverend Rowan Williams, causes uproar by saying that the adoption of some aspects of Islamic Sharia law in the UK is inevitable.

Chancellor Alistair Darling nationalises failed bank Northern Rock.

People of Pakistan vote for democratic parties in the general election, but President Musharraf says that doesn’t mean he will step down.

Cuba’s President Fidel Castro, 81, retires after more than 50 years in power. His brother Raul takes over.

Asda announces plans to build a new non-food store in Forster Square.

A secret European Parliament report reveals ‘criminal abuse’ of expenses by MEPs of at least £100m.

Suffolk strangler Steve Wright found guilty of murdering five women in and around Ipswich.

Tory Party leader David Cameron brings his Shadow Cabinet to Bradford and tells the T&A that the district should be run by an elected mayor and that forced marriages should be made illegal.

An earthquake in the vicinity of Market Rasen shakes houses as far west as Haworth and as far north as York.

Bradford’s council tax rise of 2.2 per cent the lowest in West Yorkshire, but Yorkshire Water announces a price hike of 7.5 per cent – among the highest in the country.

Prince Harry, it is revealed, has been on the front line in Afghanistan since December 14, serving with the Household Cavalry alongside a Gurkha regiment. After the news breaks Army chiefs end his tour.

March

Dmitry Medvedev voted in as Russia’s new President. Vladimir Putin becomes Prime Minister.

Black Dyke Mills Band wins the Yorkshire Brass band Championship by two points from Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Gerard Benson is Bradford Metropolitan District’s first Poet Laureate.

Government defeats Opposition and Labour rebels on the issue of a referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty – contrary to Labour Party policy.

Remploy, the job service for the disabled in Bradford, has to close after 30 years because of changes in Government funding policy.

World stock markets crash; £51 billion is wiped off the value of UK shares due to panic over stability of US banks. The FTSE100 falls to 5,414 points – its lowest for three years. US cuts interest rates by .75 per cent, stimulating a partial recovery.

Bingley’s £1m new market square opens on Good Friday.

Pakistan’s newly-elected Prime Minister is Yousaf Raza Gilani.

Bradford restaurant chain Aagrah to open a £3m business and banqueting centre in Thornbury.

English Heritage rejects the bid to give listed status to the Odeon building.

The state-of-the-art baggage system at Heathrow’s new £4.3bn Terminal 5 breaks down on its first day, causing hundreds of cancellations.

April

Bertie Ahern, the Irish Republic’s Taoiseach, resigns.

The general election in Zimbabwe results in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change winning more seats in the Parliament than Robert Mugabe’s Zanu party. But the old dictator refuses to concede defeat.

Protesters in London and Paris, demonstrating against China’s violence in Tibet, impede the parade of the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games.

An inquest jury decides that Diana, Princess of Wales, was not the victim of a conspiracy. She and Dodi Fayed were ‘unlawfully killed’ in 1997 by their drunk chauffeur’s driving and the pursuing photographers. Bill Lawrence, head of cinema at Bradford’s National Media Museum and the creator of three film festivals, leaves for a job in Sheffield.

Bradford International Market cancelled by Bradford Council due to lack of funding.

Bank of England cuts interest rates by a quarter of a point to five per cent as sterling plunges in value against the euro.

Fires gut Woolston House – site of a proposed property development – and destroy part of The Boat House pub, Saltaire.

Post Office planning to shut another 13 Bradford sub-post offices.

Silvio Berlusconi wins the Italian general election for a five-year term of office.

Amid continuing wintry spring weather and bad news about mortgages and food prices, unemployment figures show a national fall of 39,000 claiming benefit. But sports chain JJB, with more than 400 outlets, to close 72 of its stores, including the one at Five Lane Ends.

Bob Dylan becomes the first Rock star ever to receive a Pulitzer Prize, for his special contribution to American culture.

Proposed St George’s Day parade through inner-city Bradford involving thousands of school children cancelled on “health and safety” grounds by Bradford Council.

The Government loans banks more than £50bn to boost flagging mortgage lending and prevent a collapse of house prices.

Morrisons paid £100,000 in damages after false price-fixing allegations made by the Office of Fair Trading.

National Union of Teachers holds a day’s strike, the first for more than 20 years, over 2.5 per cent pay offer.

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, officially opens Bradford’s second City Academy at Teasdale Street, sponsored by the Diocese of Bradford and the charity TocH.

May

Bradford’s longest-serving councillor and former Lord Mayor, Conservative Stanley King, retires from City Hall and from West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority.

The Labour Party takes a hammering at the district Council elections throughout Britain, losing more than 300 seats. Boris Johnson defeats Ken Livingstone to become Mayor of London. In Bradford the outcome leaves the parties: Labour 36 seats, Tories 35, Liberal Democrat 14, Greens 3, BNP 2. Labour’s Ian Greenwood retains Group leadership with a new deputy leader, Councillor Imran Hussain. Councillor Kris Hopkins retains the Tory Group leadership.

Cyclone Nargis followed by a 12ft tidal wave in Burma kills an estimated 130,000 people and makes thousands more homeless.

Saltaire’s Roberts Park to be given £3.2m Heritage Lottery money for major facelift. Work to start next year.

Cannabis to be reclassified as a Class A drug, says Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, although under-18s caught in possession will only be prosecuted after three offences.

YouGov survey shows national support for Labour at an all-time low, just 23 per cent (of people surveyed) compared with 49 per cent for the Conservatives and 17 per cent for Liberal Democrats.

More than 70,000 people killed and thousands more injured in a 7.5-strong earthquake in Sichuan Province, western China. Five million made homeless.

Conservative councillor Andrew Mallinson sacked from his job as Bradford’s regeneration chief.

Chancellor Alistair Darling announces a £2.7bn tax rebate for low-to-middle earners in the week before the by-election at Crewe and Nantwich. Gordon Brown outlines new bills for Parliament including £100m to help first-time house buyers.

Bradford & Bingley shares plunge to record low after the mortgage bank announces a bid to raise emergency funds of £300m – contrary to an earlier denial.

The price of petrol continues to rise, passing £5 a gallon. Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, warns that inflation will rise and property prices fall, implying that recession could be a reality.

Councillor Howard Middleton installed as Bradford’s new Lord Mayor. His wife Mrs Colleen Middleton will be the Lady Mayoress.

MPs vote 336-176 to allow creation of human-animal embryos for 14 days only for medical research into possible cures for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. They also vote that children born of IVF treatment need only ‘supporting parenting’, scrapping the stipulation that such children need a father. The 24-week limit for abortion remains.

Office for National Statistics reports that since 1997 nearly two million Britons have emigrated. Another 1.59 foreign nationals resident here also left. But nearly four million immigrants arrived.

Councillor Kris Hopkins remains leader of Bradford Council for another 12 months after a deal between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.

The Conservatives overturn the 7,000 Labour majority to win the Crewe and Nantwich by-election by 8,000 votes.

Baroness Vadera, business minister and adviser to Gordon Brown, says Britain is facing its first economic crisis for a generation. Nevertheless, MEPs’ expenses permitted to go up to £300m a year.

Amy Winehouse wins her second Ivor Novello Award, this time for her song Love Is A Losing Game.

June

As Bradford & Bingley’s share value falls to just 55p, the bank’s chief executive Steve Crawshaw resigns. The explanation is a serious heart problem.

Sir Ian Gibson replaces Sir Ken Morrison as chairman of supermarket group Morrisons.

Hillary Clinton concedes Democratic candidacy to Barack Obama in the US Presidential primaries.

Sheena Wrigley leaves her Bradford Council job as head of theatres, arts and festivals, to join West Yorkshire Playhouse as general director and joint chief executive.

Shadow Home Secretary David Davies resigns his seat to fight by-election on the issue of 42 days’ detention for terrorist suspects, which scrapes through the Commons by nine votes. In July he wins comfortably.

Share values fall by hundreds of points on the FTSE100 to below 5,600.

Nine British soldiers are killed in a week in Afghanistan, taking the total to 109.

The opposition in Zimbabwe call off the presidential run-off election campaign following murderous attacks by Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF Party. Mugabe, who has held power for 29 years, said only an act of God will take it from him. Unsurprisingly he wins the subsequent election.

Six power company executives warn of big increases in gas and electricity charges by the winter.

On the 60th anniversary of the start of the National Health Service, the Government announces a change in approach from making everything target-centred to quality of patient care with rights about where to be treated.

July

MPs vote to keep current controversial expenses system for second homes and approve £6m package to improve constituency offices. Back-benchers also get a pay rise of £1,377 to take the annual salary to £62,558.

Bradford Council’s energy bill for heating and fuel rises by £5m to more than £19m.

Government figures reveal that 24,450 claimants across the Bradford Metro District are getting £47.96m in incapacity benefits a year.

The Myra Shay recreation centre in Bradford North, including five football pitches, opens at a cost of £2.5m.

Government admits that £14bn in tax credits has been either overpaid or lost through fraud since 2003.

Spanish bank Santander takes over the Alliance & Leicester.

House sales at their lowest since 1978, but family food bills rise by an estimated £1,100 in 12 months.

Official inflation put at 3.8 per cent. The Stock Market crashes by another 128 points (£30bn) with higher prices forecast and more unemployment.

Former Serbian leader and warlord Radovan Karadzic, posing as an alternative health-care guru, arrested in Belgrade.

Westfield announces it doesn’t have enough companies signed up to starting building the Broadway development.

High Street sales plunge by four per cent between May and June – biggest-ever fall since 1986. But this should reduce inflation.

Scottish National Party shock Labour by winning the Glasgow East by-election, overturning a majority of more than 13,000. Questions are asked about Gordon Brown’s future.

Bradford University sets up a state-of-the-art tissue bank to aid medical researchers against cancer, cystic fibrosis and other serious conditions.

Terrorist bombs in India, Turkey and Iraq kill more than 100 and injure scores.

The 104-year-old Grand Pier at Western-Super-Mare, Somerset, destroyed by fire.

British Gas imposes the biggest-ever single price rise of 35 per cent for the product, despite the falling cost of oil and a big increase in profits last year.

Within eight days in Bradford two men are murdered (one stabbed, another shot) and another is run over and injured in both legs with a shotgun.

August

Tesco proposal to rebuild its store in Canal Road, to make an all-purpose superstore, gets the go-ahead from Bradford Council.

Barry George finally cleared by an Old Bailey jury of the murder of BBCTV presenter Jill Dando in 1999.

Government loans Northern Rock another £3bn after poor half-yearly figure.

Russia bombs Georgia after the independent republic attacked the enclave of South Ossetia. Russia calls a halt and signs an agreement to withdraw troops from Georgia. Poland signs an agreement with the United States to have a US missile defence shield located in Poland.

Ilkley’s 40,000 sq ft Station Plaza complex bought by Edinburgh-based Hunter Property Fund Management for £10.2m.

Building work under way in central Keighley on a £20m Asda superstore and the new £35m Park Lane Keighley College campus.

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf resigns, after nine years in power.

A consultants’ report – the City Brand Barometer, based on 2,000 YouGov customers – makes Bradford the worst city of 72 European cities. Saltaire is judged to be the best tourist attraction in the country by Best Western Hotels judges.

Ten French soldiers killed and 21 injured by the Taliban in Afghanistan – the worst single loss of life by French forces since 2002.

Two Bradford Muslims, Aabid Khan and Sultan Mohammad, jailed for 12 and ten years respectively, convicted of terrorism charges.

Airliner crashes shortly after taking off from Madrid’s Barajas airport, killing 153 people; 19 survived.

Keighley and Ilkley MP Ann Cryer announces her retirement at the next General Election.

Russia recognises the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia – to the fury of the US and its allies.

Barack Obama makes history as the first Afro-American presidential candidate adopted by a major US party.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling describes the economic slump as probably the worst for 60 years.

US economy surprises doom-mongers by showing growth of 3.3 per cent from April to June, against an expectation of just two per cent.

August turns out to be the greyest, wettest on record.

September

Ilkley’s Nell Bank outdoor activities centre is awarded £260,000 from the National Lottery and is voted the UK’s most popular Lottery-funded venture.

Gordon Brown raises the Stamp Duty threshold for one year to £175,000 to try to stimulate the housing market. But the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns that the economy is heading for recession later in the year.

Torrential rain ends the first week of the month with flooding in Morpeth, Tewkesbury and Worcester. Six die and thousands are displaced.

The same week the FTSE100 falls by more than 300 points – its worst performance since 2002. It recovers after US Treasury nationalises troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fanni Mae.

Another gang of British-born Muslims – Abulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain, all from Waltham Forest in London – convicted of plotting a bombing campaign in Britain aimed at aircraft, power stations, oil refineries and airports, after a £20m operation by Scotland Yard.

Asquith Properties, one of Bradford’s biggest potential developers, goes into liquidation, blaming current economic conditions – people aren’t buying flats.

Another British travel company airline, XL, collapses, leaving thousands temporarily stranded.

Developers scrap plans to build a £30m technology park in Bingley that was central to the Airedale Master Plan. Later Marks & Spencer announces a hold on its proposed £67m distribution centre. Nevertheless Bradford Council decides to ask the Government for £25m to build a swimming pool and ice rink in the vicinity of Thornton Road.

Ruth Kelly quits the Cabinet during the Labour Party conference.

Bradford Conservative councillor Colin Gill resigns as education supremo.

Lehman Brothers, the fourth-biggest investment bank in the world, collapses, causing a huge fall in the value of global shares. The FTSE100 falls more than 500 points over three days. Stockbrokers and financial advisers Merrill Lynch agree to be taken over by the Bank of America in a 50bn dollar deal to avert another potential catastrophe. The US Government buys the American International Group (AIG) to prevent it going bankrupt, but shares on the Dow Index continue to fall. Here, Halifax Bank of Scotland agree a £12bn merger with Lloyds (if the EU approves). Thousands of banking jobs expected to go.

Woolworths to close 120 stores. Inflation rises to nearly five per cent and unemployment, at 1.7m, the highest for 16 years. The good news is that the price of oil continues to fall (below $90 a barrel).

The Financial Services Authority bans City traders from engineering share collapses and profiting from them, a practice known as ‘shorting’. On the 19th, the FTSE100 goes up by 431 points – a rise of 8.84 per cent, the biggest single-day surge since 1984. It falls again the next week in spite of the United States government’s plan to spend $700bn buying the assets of bankrupt banks for later re-sale.

The Bradford & Bingley is nationalised, with Spanish bank Santander buying customer deposits and nearly 1,300 branch offices. Up to 1,500 staff expected to lose their jobs.

Financial markets in US and UK plunge by hundreds of points after Congress rejects the buy-out plan. The month ends with stock markets in recovering some losses and the British Government assuring bank depositors they will be guaranteed against loss up to £50,000. The US Senate and Congress back a revised plan to bail out US banks from bad debt.

October

Sir Ian Blair resigns as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police after pressure from London’s Mayor Boris Johnson.

Gordon Brown brings back Peter Mandelsen as Industry Secretary.

Stock markets go into freefall again with the FTSE100 dropping 391 points as the bank crisis gets worse. Chancellor Alistair Darling announces a bail-out proposal amounting to £500 billion in loans over three years to help banks resume trading. The Bank of England cuts interest rates by half of one per cent – the biggest single cut since 2001.

The International Monetary Fund meets in Washington and offers $200bn in support for beleaguered governments.

British banks HBOS, RBS, and Lloyds TSB are bailed out with £37bn of taxpayers’ money in a partial nationalisation. Other governments endorse similar packages worth a total of £1.9 trillion to the one announced by Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown.

Government plans to extend detention without trial to 42 days is defeated in the House of Lords and is abandoned.

Harden’s UK Restaurant Guide for 2009 states that Yorkshire has more quality restaurants than anywhere else in the country. The Angel, Hetton, comes top, Betty’s in Harrogate, second, and Bradford’s Mumtaz Paan House sixth.

Key Stage 3 examinations for 14-year-olds are abolished. They will be replaced with school-based assessments.

Inflation rises to nearly six per cent and unemployment goes up by 164,000 for the quarter to August. But the lending rate between banks edges downwards and the price of oil and other commodities continues to fall.

The Taliban murder Christian Aid worker Gayle Williams in Kabul – the first such killing in the Afghan capital.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King tells businessmen in Leeds that the country is probably heading for recession.

The Yorkshire Building Society moves to take over the smaller Barnsley Building Society.

Radio 2 DJ Russell Brand resigns after public anger at salacious remarks about Andrew Sachs and his grand-daughter are broadcast. Jonathan Ross suspended without pay for 12 weeks for his part in the broadcast. BBC2 Controller Lesley Douglas resigns.

Bradford councillors demand to inspect the interior of the Odeon before considering a planning application to demolish the historic building.

Bradford multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy, who wants her husband to help her to die, fails to get the High Court to urge Parliament to review the 1961 Suicide Act.

November

Skipton Building Society announces the takeover of Scarborough Building Society.

Barack Obama makes history as the first mixed-race American to win the presidency of the United States in a convincing victory over Republican Senator John McCain.

Carlsberg announces the closure of the 186-year-old Tetley brewery in Leeds in 2011, with a loss of 170 jobs.

Bank of England slashes interest rates by 1.5 per cent to three per cent – the lowest figure for 53 years.

The International Monetary Fund’s warning that Britain is facing the worst recession of all developed countries sends the FTSE100 plunging by 258 points.

More than 15,000 jobs are lost in one week, the majority cut by BT. Then Citibank announces worldwide job cuts of 53,000 Twenty world leaders meet in Washington to agree a series of global plans to encourage economic activity. Japan and now the Eurozone, including Germany, are officially in recession.

The price of oil plunges to $55 dollars a barrel. The Government demands to know why energy companies have not slashed bills to consumers.

British doctors perform the world’s first transplant of an organ grown from stem cells, replacing the damaged windpipe of 30-year-old Claudia Castillo with one grown in a laboratory in Bristol in a process known as tissue engineering.

Developers Andrew Mason and Alec Newsham open £70m 449-apartments and shops complex in Victoria Mills, Shipley.

Foreign Secretary David Milliband spends half-a-day in Bradford meeting and talking to students and attending a mosque prayer meeting.

Prince Charles arrives on Budget day to open the £12m renovated Eastbrook Hall and the completed £4.5m Cottingley Cornerstone project.

Alistair Darling announces borrowing of £118 billion over the next two years to try to kick-start the economy. VAT cut to 15 per cent immediately and £3bn capital spending to go into school building, roads and energy efficiency. Extra help for workers made redundant, pensions increased by £6 for a single person and £9 for a couple.Tax goes up to 45 per cent for those on £150,000 a year from 2010. National Insurance contributions to rise by 0.5 per cent. Small businesses to be helped with £1 billion and deferment of 1p rise in Corporation Tax. FTSE100 rises by more than 370 points.

New law formally forbids forced marriages and intimidation. Anyone found guilty of offending against the Forced Marriage Protection Order faces two years in jail.

In the eighth attack within India this year, ten Pakistan-based terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, out to kill British and Americans in Mumbai (Bombay), murder 174 people and injure 294. Others are taken hostage. The England cricket team flies home. This attack follows the signal by Pakistan’s new president Asif Ali Zardari that he was ready to end the dispute over Kashmir. India’s Home Minister Shivraj Patil resigns.

Woolworths (815 stores) and MFI (100 stores) go into administration, putting 32,000 jobs at risk.

Shadow Cabinet spokesman Damian Green is arrested and detained by police, who also raid his parliamentary office, following leaks to the Conservatives by a Home Office official involved in immigration. The leaking and publication of classified information is a breach of the Official Secrets Act and is an accepted criminal offence.

December

The London Scottish Bank goes into liquidation, which puts 750 jobs in jeopardy, while the HSBC announces 500 job cuts. Credit Suisse is to cut 650 jobs. Aston Martin, makers of the James Bond car, to lay off 350, and Halfords is getting rid of 250 jobs. The announcement that the US has been in recession since last December sends stock markets crashing, again. Marks & Spencer, Tesco and the John Lewis Partnership show falls in sales.

Haringey’s head of children’s services, Sharon Shoesmith, is sacked following a damning report into the killing of 17-month-old Baby P by the lover of the child’s mother and her lodger. The leader of the council George Meehan and member for children Liz Santry both resign. This follows a damning inspectors’ report on Haringey’s child protection service.

The Queen’s Speech reveals that homeowners will be able to defer mortgage repayments for two years if they lose their jobs or lose income. A new Welfare Reform Bill to bring in tougher tests for people claiming invalidity benefit. Immigrants will have to learn English and show some commitment to integrate. Local councils will be obliged to promote democracy and listen to residents’ concerns. Walkers will be given access to the entire English coastline.

Bank of England cuts interest rates to two per cent – the lowest since 1951.

At Leeds Crown Court, Karen Matthews, mother of nine-year-old Dewsbury Moor youngster Shannon Matthews, convicted of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice, along with Michael Donovan. They claimed that Shannon had disappeared in the hope of claiming £50,000 reward money.

Three days of rioting and looting by students and others in Greek cities following police shooting of a teenager.

Japan’s Sony corporation to cut 16,000 jobs to reduce costs.

Bradford traders report booming Christmas sales.

Santander announces job cuts of 1,900 in its three British companies – Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley – to save £180m. The pound worth less than a euro for the first time.

Bradford Council denies that Westfield’s Broadway development has been put back until the end of 2010.

Feature writer Mike Priestley leaves the T&A after 40 years.