25 years ago: Police were called to control protesters inside City Hall as Bradford Council set the district's community charge, also known as the Poll Tax, at £276 per head, with about 500 on-strike teachers also present to rally against £2.3 million cuts to the education budget.

50 years ago: Trains ran up the Worth Valley for the first time since the line was closed in June, 1962, as the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society, which now boasted more than 450 members, moved its rolling stock from Keighley to Haworth.