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New one-way scheme will cut centre traffic
Work is set to start on a £315,000 scheme which will reduce traffic in Bradford city centre. The project, beginning on Monday, is the latest phase of a Bradford Council rolling programme which has included building Centenary Square and Centenary Park
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Disabled help group's SOS for new premises
Disabled students and their teachers at a Bradford training centre are pleading for help in a last ditch bid for new premises. People at DATA (Disabled Access to Technology Association), which offers free computer courses to disabled people, say they
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Auditors to probe training
Bradford Council's internal auditors have launched a full-scale inquiry into the troubled training scheme at Metrochange House. More than 40 former students have been told the National Vocational Qualifications they received at the end of the Council-run
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Learning from a bad start
A referral unit for youngsters expelled from the district's schools has been praised for its achievements by Government inspectors. Ofsted inspectors say pupils using the Schools Pre-Admission Unit at Fairweather Green, Bradford, are offered a positive
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£4m boost set to bring 1,500 jobs
More than 1,500 jobs are expected to be created in Bradford - thanks to a £4 million European cash boost. Thousands of tourists are also expected to flock to the district following an extra £2.3 million for tourism in the city. The money has come from
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Wheelchair sex offender moved
A sex offender was today due to be re-housed today after angry residents petitioned Bradford Council. Stephen Hall, 41, was given a two-year probation order by Bradford magistrates after he admitted carrying out acts of gross indecency on three young
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Drug runners aged eight
Children as young as eight are being used as drug runners for heroin dealers on Bradford's council estates. Drug workers say the youngsters have been lured into making doorstep deliveries - often using empty fizzy drink cans - in exchange for pocket money
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Awards for 'six of the best' Asian firms
Six Asian firms were last night named as the best in the area at a major business awards event. The firms, all from West Yorkshire, were winners in the Bradford Euro-Asian Resource Business of the Year Awards. The event, pictured left, which was supported
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Ben's out to make a big breakthrough
Golf: Ben Mallinson is determined to make a success of his first season as a professional, and came close to scoring his first major win on the Isle of Man. Last year's T&A Golfer of the Year led going into the final round of the Bradford and Bingley
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Caisley hits out in TV row
New doubts were cast over the revised £44million Sky television deal as First and Second Division clubs shifted the battleground in their long-running dispute with Super League. Representatives of all 31 professional clubs failed to reach agreement over
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Crooks blast for 'jealous' rivals
Coach Lee Crooks has blasted "narrow minded" and "jealous" First Division clubs after Keighley Cougars were threatened with a transfer embargo. The threat emerged at yesterday's Rugby League Council meeting after a question was posed about Keighley's
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Edwards return claims ruled out
Bulls coach Matthew Elliott has effectively closed the door to a possible return for Shaun Edwards. The scrum-half suggested in an interview on Sky Sports last night that he would go back to the Bulls if a transfer could not be sorted out. But Elliott
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Ahhh, those were the days
Lambrettas and Vespas, parkas adorned with badges, the music of The Who and the Small Faces, conversation and Coca Cola at the Continental . . . Our recent feature about the formation of a new scooter club in Shipley brought the memories flooding back
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'Futile' to preserve church
A senior member of Bingley Methodist Church has dismissed suggestions that Mornington Road Methodist Church could be spared. New treasurer Jeremy Burgess said it would be futile to try any longer to find alternative uses for the Grade II listed building
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Employers criticised on ethnic workforce
Firms in Bradford have defended their record of taking on workers from ethnic minorities after a suffering a broadside from the city's main race watchdog. In its annual report, Bradford Racial Equality Council criticised local employers, highlighting
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Countdown to a fun-filled festival
Celtic sights and sounds will give this year's Bradford Festival a colourful start. The 12th annual summer celebration will be launched in Centenary Square at lunchtime tomorrow. And after the ceremony, which will also see the famous photographs of the
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Crime goes out of the window!
A Bradford PC's crimebusting window design was today at the centre of international attention. PC Stephen Town worked with the Royds Community Association and Bradford Council to install security measures in homes on estates in Woodside, Buttershaw and
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Company sews the seeds of success
Five young Bradford women have designs on success with the launch of their new business venture making quality hand made clothing. They have formed a business co-operative call Sew Different based in the Carlisle business Centre in Manningham, Bradford
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Yorkshire pacemen seal rapid success
Yorkshire's young fast bowlers were much too hot for Devon to handle at Exmouth yesterday where the Minor Counties' side were sent packing for just 80 in 28.3 overs and Yorkshire charged through to the second round of the NatWest Trophy by nine wickets
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Keep your hair on!
Former Bradford City defender Gavin Oliver has some useful advice to England ahead of tomorrow's crunch World Cup clash with Columbia - keep Carlos Valderrama's hair out of your face! The 36-year-old, who is now the club's Football in the Community Officer
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Helen Mead: No chance of a fine romance
I shouldn't be here now I should be living in a New York loft conversion with a tall, dark, handsome man, whom I met as we queued for bagels at a corner delicatessen on a frosty winter morning. This wonderful chap would be tender and loving as well as
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Nowt wrong in being thrifty, tha' no's!
Bradford people have denied being tight-fisted when it comes to splashing out at weddings. A new survey claims that Yorkshire folk are the meanest in the country when it comes to buying presents and clothes for marriages. But Bradfordians say they're
