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999 staff join up in trauma training
Emergency workers are piloting a new initiative to help support staff following traumatic incidents. Experts in counselling and support skills at Bradford University are involved in the training of staff from West Yorkshire Police and the county's ambulance
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Parents take battle to Blunkett
Parents campaigning against new proposals to shut down their school under the controversial education shake-up are calling for a public inquiry. Eccleshill Upper School, Woodend Middle, Delph Hill Middle School, Shipley CE First and Undercliffe First
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Home sweet gnome as garden booty is found
A pair of green-fingered sisters have been re-united with their ornamental gnomes after thieves stripped their garden. Ivy and Mary Whiteley, who spend everyday tending to their garden, were heartbroken earlier this week when they woke to find pot plants
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Blown apart
Two pensioners were dragged to safety today after a gas blast destroyed their home. The explosion was heard at least two miles away and debris was scattered yards down the road. A fire brigade chief said the elderly women were lucky to be alive. Both
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China beckons to city's businesses
Bradford bosses are being given a chance to tap into a new export area by going on a trade mission to China. It is being organised by the Chambers' International Trade Department - part of Bradford-based Chamber Management Services - the organisation
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Why I'll never play for Leeds
In the third part of our serialisation of extracts from Stuart McCall's forthcoming autobiography he recalls the incident at Odsal Stadium in September 1986 which persuaded him to vow never to play for his favourite team Leeds United. City were playing
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Pressure piling on
Bulls coach Matthew Elliott depleted squad was stretched to the limits today as influential hooker James Lowes began a two match ban. Seven senior players are now on the sidelines and the resulting re-shuffle for Sunday's vital battle with struggling
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Evans! Chris on local radio
Britain's best-known DJ has signed up with a tiny Bradford radio station. Chris Evans has struck an exclusive deal to broadcast his breakfast show on Bradford Community Broadcasting (BCB). The ginger-haired media darling will be on air from Monday for
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Preserving our past for the future
Fascinating tales of Bradford's past are being rescued from oblivion by an enthusiast who has set up his own business. The Old Bradfordian Press, founded by Nafees Nazir, launches its first catalogue of reprinted books, magazines and old maps this weekend
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Cancer tragedy sparks children support plan
The aunt of a ten-year-old girl whose mother died of cancer hopes to set up a bereavement support group for children in her name. Haley Binns is helping to support her niece Zoe after her mother, Val Jennings, died earlier this month following a long
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£3.60 minimum wage tolerable, say leaders
Bradford business leaders have given a cautious welcome to the Government's announcement of a minimum wage. They said the level of £3.60 an hour from April 1999 was a "happy medium" for the city's industry. But union members said they believed the rate
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Centre bid is kicked into touch
Summer football training evenings are being inundated with soccer-mad youngsters who have been turning up in their hundreds to take part. But Queensbury Celtic's dream of an indoor training centre, so children can play in the village's notoriously bad
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Summer SOS to libraries
A new councillor has hit out at the summer closure of Bradford's smaller libraries. Several of the district's branch libraries usually shut for a week or a fortnight in July or August. But Councillor Clive Richardson (Con, Thornton) is campaigning to
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Clubbers 'give us no peace'
Families have gone into battle - saying they want peace and quiet in their streets. People living in Hollings Road, Girlington, say they have sleepless night because of the racket from clubbers leaving nearby premises. Now they are appealing to Bradford
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Washout puts gala in doubt
Bingley Gala's future is in doubt after torrential rain left takings severely down on previous years. Chairman Martin Hempel said this year's takings only amounted to between £300 and £400 set against a cost of around £2,000 to stage next year's gala.
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Countdown to corporate tax self-assessment
The imminent introduction of corporation tax self assessment on companies will mean a substantial increase in the compliance workload and costs of companies. Corporate self assessment was introduced in the recent Finance Bill and will affect large companies
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Vaughan shines in Yorkshire struggle
CRICKET: Michael Vaughan shaped a century right out of the Geoff Boycott mould to stop Yorkshire from crumbling in the championship match against Durham at Riverside yesterday. The opener never once lost his patience in compiling an unbeaten 118, first
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Ambitious skippers want the big time
CRICKET: Two of the leading Bradford League players of the past decade could hold the key to tomorrow's match of the day in the Second Division. Ambitious promotion rivals Brighouse and Cleckheaton do battle with captains David Jay and Chris Pickles set
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Trains will be hit, warn 400 strikers
Hundreds of Yorkshire railway workers started a four-day strike today and predicted their action would hit services across the district. Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union have voted for strike action over pay. Nationally 9,000 railway
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We won't stop fight to stop drinks plant plan
Families are planning to battle on in their bid to stop a giant soft drinks company from building its national distribution centre near their homes. Councillors hoped that a truce could be reached between the warring sides when Princes Soft Drinks agreed
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Sophie, 13, scoops lead in West End musical
Producers of a West End musical have picked out an Eccleshill teenager to play the lead role in their version of 'Annie'. Talented Sophie McShera, 13, learned she had landed the prestigious part after her parents received a phone call at their home in
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Open date set for £3.5m hotel
A new multi-million pound hotel complex is set to open in Shipley within six weeks, it was revealed today. And the canalside development - built on a former factory site which was derelict for 15 years - is being hailed as a huge boost for the area by
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The noise from the black stuff!
Musicians from far and wide will toast the launch of this year's Bradford Festival with a drop of the black stuff. A galaxy of stars from the Celtic music scene is lined up to play at the inaugural Guinness Festival Fling. The three-day open-air extravaganza
