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Thursday, May 18, 2006
In 1903, the British High Commissioner in South Africa favoured letting educated and prosperous non-whites vote in local elections. In 1920, women professors were given equal status to their male colleagues at Oxford University. In 1938, the Nazis introduced
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Provident responds to Christian critics
Doorstep lender Provident Financial has defended itself from criticism by a Christian campaign group. The company faced allegations from Bradford-based Church Action on Poverty about the effect of its lending tactics on the less well-off. The group
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Council gets tough on long term sick
Bradford Council is set to get tough on the growing number of staff on long term sick leave. A total of 115,067 working days were lost because of employees' long term absences between April and December last year. A review now suggests the Council needs
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Bowlers finally make some progress
Yorkshire did better with the second new ball in the Roses match at Headingley but Lanca-shire still managed to tot up 417 for nine before declaring when bad light and then rain restricted the second day's play to 57.3 overs. Lancashire at lunch were
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City pair on mend after surgery
Bantams midfielders Ben Muirhead and Marc Bridge-Wilkinson have gone under the knife for post-season operations. Muirhead underwent hernia surgery on Tuesday and Bridge-Wilkinson has had a minor "clean-up" in his knee. It is the second time in three
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A 'magical' event
Hundreds of potential bone marrow donors attended a special clinic in a bid to find a match for a 12-year-old leukaemia sufferer. Mohammed Shahbaaz has a rare form of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia Philadelphia Positive Chromosome and his best chance
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BBC films series of Bronte classic
A new adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is to hit the small screen this autumn. But none of it has been filmed on the wild Yorkshire Moors around the former author's home at Haworth. Instead, the producers have chosen to make
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Link-up keeps out the troublemakers
Troublemakers are being shown the door as city centre licensees link up to make pubs and clubs safer. Three men have recently been banned from all licensed premises in the centre of Bradford as the Night Watch scheme starts to bite. The initiative,
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Deacon's staying at Odsal
Great Britain ace Paul Deacon today committed himself to the Bulls until the end of 2008. The goal-kicking scrum half was due to come out of contract after next season but has now extended that by another year. His signature is a massive boost for the
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Children given red card over street football
Families living in a quiet cul-de-sac say police have threatened to arrest them if they allow their children to play football outside their homes. Youngsters aged between seven and 14 have been donning their soccer strips and playing on a dirt track
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Centenary clubs are up for the cup
While golfing fans must wait until September to see if Europe can retain the Ryder Cup, three Bradford clubs will take part in their own version of the famous event next week. To celebrate their centenary years, South Bradford, Clayton and Bradford Moor
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The way forward
SIR - A new Council so please, let's have a few new ideas. A lake is a great thing for amusement and entertaining in a park, but a town or city centre is for business and commerce to make profit for its Council and people. It does not matter whether
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Fighting back
SIR - Readers of the T&A were repeatedly told by yourself, your columnists and the great and good that a vote for the BNP would be a retrograde step. Unfortunately for your credibility some 18,212 people ignored what you said. Welcome to the club! Now
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Time for inquiry
SIR - Tony Blair has announced he intends to sign the so-called 'People's Petition' - thus generating more publicity for the pro-vivisection cause. Despite the massive campaign against the opponents of vivisection, the latest Sky poll confirms that
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Charity help plea
SIR - As RNIB community fundraising manager I am looking for volunteers to join my existing team in Yorkshire. The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) helps to rebuild lives devastated by sight loss by providing more than 60 services for people
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Cruelty common
SIR - The shocking story (T&A, May 10) about dogs being set on to people's pet cats is sadly not an isolated case. Running a 'lost and found' for cats as well as a rehoming service in Bradford it's all too common to hear of this despicable act of cruelty
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Let them go free
SIR - Re Alec Suchi's letter (T&A, May 6). Why should it bother him so much about pensioners travelling for free on the buses? So they should! Bless 'em. Please be glad for them, it means they can get out and about. A bus journey may be the only
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Can we believe it?
SIR - Are we really expected to believe that Blair will change human rights legislation that would harm his wife's main source of income? Kenneth H Chappell, South Edge, Shipley
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Heavens above!
SIR - The gospel according to Eric Daynes (T&A, May 10) seems to suggest that the power and the glory of our oppressive government may extend even into the hereafter: the very gates of Heaven will bear a "No Smoking" sign. As a reward for virtue, the
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Just like a seaside resort!
SIR - What a fantastic picture of an artist's impression of the canal basin in the proposed Bradford Channel development (T&A, May 8). How anyone can object to such splendour is beyond one's comprehension, it makes Bradford look more like an ultramodern
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Just a PR exercise
SIR - For anyone thinking of visiting the 'exhibition' of the New Victoria/Odeon alternatives, my advice is don't bother. All you will see is a slick, enlarged version of the T&A's recent double page spread with, if anything, less information. I
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Parents should value our schools
SIR - Regarding the headlines about the number of school days missed by Bradford teachers suffering from stress (T&A, May 15). This is not a surprise. Education is in deep crisis in the city. Many teachers are getting out because they cannot cope with
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Game with a serious message
There are many responsibilities which come with citizenship, whatever age we are. Unfortunately there are some people, adults and children alike, who fail to embrace those responsibilities or even in many cases to understand what they are. As a result
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Fees threat to lives made richer by art
University lecturers and under-graduates in some universities may be at odds over pay increases demanded by the former, but in humbler further education institutions anxiety of a different kind is uniting students and their tutors. That is because
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Movie monster master visits the city
When Ray Harryhausen first began to sketch the fantastic creatures he would later bring to jerky stop-motion life as one of the pioneers of movie animation, he never dreamed that one day he would be sitting in the National Museum of Photography, Film
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Man loses his fingers in timber yard horror
A worker has suffered a horrific hand injury at a timber yard. The accident comes 15 months after a man was killed at the same yard owned by Ramsey Timber. Today the Health and Safety Executive confirmed it was investigating the latest incident at the
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Young engineers get in gear
The family who put Bradford on the automotive map have given scholarships to engineering students to help them drive their careers forward. Descendants of the famous Jowett family were at Bradford Industrial Museum to present Benjamin Jowett Memorial
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Pupils in 'respect' zones
A computer game aimed at turning teenagers into model citizens was launched by police yesterday. The website aims to encourage children to respect others and their environment. It was launched by West Yorkshire Police at Prince Henry's Grammar School
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NHS pledge to staff
Healthcare workers have been guaranteed a role until June next year in the wake of a shake-up which will see the number of primary care trusts in the district cut from four to one. Yesterday Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced that from October
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Construction firms make jobs pledge
Global companies involved in two of Bradford's biggest development projects have pledged to give sub-contracts to the district's firms wherever possible. Westfield, the company behind the Broadway scheme, and construction giants Costain, the preferred
