MYW: Bradford’s Deadly Delicacies

MYW: Bradford’s Deadly Delicacies

A sweet stall in Bradford. A batch of humbugs. And a fatal mistake.

Iain transports us to 1858 Bradford – then the world's wool capital, where confectioner William Hardaker ("Humbug Billy") unknowingly sold arsenic-contaminated sweets that resulted in one of Britain's most devastating mass poisonings.

Plus your emails feature a burglar delivered to police by Batman, a theory about D.B. Cooper, and the street poet who challenged developers with a can of spray paint!

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