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Helen Mead: In My View
Everyone knows that pregnancy is responsible for some dramatic changes to a woman's body. Your scalp dries up, your feet itch - and sometimes swell up - and in the later stages your stomach enters a room minutes before you do. Bizarre things happen when
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Dad's the word in parenting project
Dads are to be targeted in Thornbury - in a drive to improve parenting. Everything from coping with naughty toddlers to the dangers of drug abuse will be tackled by an innovative scheme at St Margaret's Church which aims to support the area's parents.
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Mission to find 'Yeti'
An intrepid Pudsey explorer who named a rare breed of frog after his girlfriend is planning a new mission - to find the South African version of the Yeti. Martin Pickersgill says he is going to search for a demon monkey, known in folklore as a Tokoloshe
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Anger at lack of disabled access
Outraged wheelchair users have criticised Bradford Council after it revealed only five of its 330 public buildings have adequate disabled access. The shocking figures come three years into a ten-year plan to update every building with ramps and disabled
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Bailiffs put on hold after poll tax fury
Bradford Council has called off private bailiffs - drafted in to collect millions of pounds in unpaid poll tax - in the face of fury from hundreds of residents. Pandemonium broke out as the letters arrived telling families that Manchester-based bailiffs
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Michael Boyd: Business Law
Many companies create a World Wide Web site as a promotional tool or even as a method of achieving sales. The look and feel of sites is important and much time and money is spent creating a design that is attractive. However, they also raise a number
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Firm engineering a brighter future
Jobs are on the cards at an expanding Bradford engineering firm. More than ten jobs will be created at Osborn Steel Extrusions, in Brighouse Road, Low Moor - on the site of the former Low Moor Alloy Steelworks. The firm, part of Sheffield-based ANI Aurora
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Facelift plan at car thieves' dumping site
A Bradford green blighted by motorbikes and stolen cars is set to be developed after talks with local people. People living near the Myrashay in Barkerend are to be canvassed at a neighbourhood forum meeting next month - to find out what they want the
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Familie's cash worries prompt calls for help
A charity helping the poorest families to fight poverty is witnessing a rapid expansion to cope with growing demand for its services. Christians Against Poverty was founded by John Kirkby in 1996. He left his 17-year career in the consumer finance industry
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A Chinese cracker for brave Kyle
Businessmen and dignitaries will celebrate the Chinese New Year in style and help a youngster crippled by meningitis. Four-year-old Kyle Barton needed life-saving operations to amputate all his limbs after contracting meningitis on holiday in Tenerife
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How mediation can help you to 'love thy neighbour'
Noise is the biggest cause of dispute between neighbours. For the past two years Bradford Council's mediation service has tried to help. JIM GREENHALF reports Good fences may make good neighbours, but that little maxim was probably coined before the days
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MPs join fight against superstore proposals
Two MPs have joined the battle against a superstore planned on the site of a former school. Bradford Council education chiefs stand to earn millions of pounds for the authority from the sale of the land at Bierley if the development goes ahead. And the
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Education chiefs rapped over shake-up
Scores of language teachers have backed a campaign against Bradford education chiefs over planned school closures and cuts to vital services. More than 60 Section 11 teachers - who provide extra English tuition for Asian children in school - have signed
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Police demand: No more pubs
A licensees' group in Bingley has backed a call by the town's police chief to refuse permission for any new pubs or clubs. Inspector David Drucquer, newly in charge of Bingley police, says the town already has enough nightspots and any more could lead
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Hi-tech invention named in boy's memory
An invention designed by a Bradford firm to assist severely disabled children has been named in memory of a child who helped to spark the original idea. Bradford-based Multisensory Environments has developed the Cheungy Box - a hi-tech box incorporating
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Ripper's family demands jail transfer
The Yorkshire Ripper's family is to write to Home Secretary in a bid to move him to the North of England following an attempt on his life in Broadmoor. The move comes as Woolworths killer Ian Kay, 30, was ordered to be confined to Broadmoor special hospital
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Rugby League: Cougars free of cash 'strait-jacket'
Keighley Cougars have come out of Administration to end nearly 15 months of financial uncertainty. The board was handed back control yesterday by administrator Peter O'Hara at Leeds High Court after a settlement of £155,000 was made. O'Hara, who has been
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Confident City's right royal show
Anyone who doubts the role confidence plays in football should have watched Bradford City last night. The Bantams chalked up their biggest score in nearly two years as they demolished Reading to mark Paul Jewell's promotion to manager in style. But until
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Jewell gets flying start
Club captain Eddie Youds has revealed how Bradford City's players were 'desperate' to give Paul Jewell a winning start to his managerial career. The Bantams capped Jewell's first official day in charge with a season's best 4-1 home victory over Reading
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Spreading message of families in harmony
Bradford's Family Mediation Service is to spread its message among the city's Asian community following a £10,000 grant from Bradford Council. From April 1, the charity will use the cash to employ a development worker who will go out and visit the city's
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Numeracy counts in the classroom
Education reporter CHRIS HEWITT goes back to school and finds out that old methods are best. Calculators are out and times tables are back in as schools return to the tried and test, good old-fashioned methods of teaching simple arithmetic to children
