25 years ago: Youngsters who attended a Bradford alternative school where Environmental Health officers did not check the food went down with stomach upsets.

50 years ago: Purchase and conversion of Oakroyd Hall, Birkenshaw, Bradford, as the new West Riding Fire Service HQ may eventually cost £104,000, said a report of the county fire service committee.

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2009: Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter beneath his family home for more than two decades and fathering seven children with her, pleaded guilty at the beginning of his trial.