25 years ago: Yorkshire is the one blackspot in a national survey, which today forecasts the first new year upturn in job prospects for four years. Unlike the rest of the country covered in the survey by Manpower Ltd, most employers in Yorkshire and Humberside expect to axe workers.

50 years ago: In Bradford’s second successive Saturday evening road fatality, a boy was killed in Little Horton Lane after being struck by a trolleybus.