25 years ago: The strike at Bradford’s Hindle Gears Ltd, eclipsed by the miners’ strike, was two years old.
50 years ago: The West Yorkshire bus garage in High Street, Yeadon, was to be closed and all 30 staff transferred to either Leeds or Bradford on April 4.
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1988: The Prince of Wales narrowly escaped death in an avalanche at Klosters in the Swiss Alps. His friend Hugh Lindsay was killed.
1994: Frederick West was charged with the murder of eight women after they were dug up in the garden of his Gloucester home.
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