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Theatre: New life into an old classic
Jim Greenhalf talks to writer Toby Satterthwaite, whose drama The Odyssey, performed by his theatre company Local Space, tours Yorkshire from August 17 to October 3. Please do not run. It hurts our lips and tongues to speak the words of living men. We
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Sutcliffe rides again on the political roller-coaster
City Hall reporter Olwen Vasey talks to Bradford MP Gerry Sutcliffe about the highs and lows of parliamentary life. Bradford South MP Gerry Sutcliffe takes up his new job in the Treasury with few illusions about the toughness of political life in Westminster
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Villagers tackle traffic pollution
Community leaders in Sutton, Glusburn and Cross Hills are to meet later this month to discuss a wide-ranging plan which could bring a breath of fresh air to the traffic-choked villages. Congestion has been made worse by a series of changes including the
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Tourist office to go on the market
The Tourist Information Centre in Skipton looks set to become a private business if a suitable buyer can be found. Skipton Town Council, which has run and subsidised the service for 15 years, feels the time is right to put it out to tender. Members acknowledge
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No end in sight to flooding misery
A pensioner's 12-year fight to end flooding misery outside her home is still no nearer ending. Jessica Little says she has repeatedly asked Bradford Council to stop the flooding which turns her pavement and road into a mini "Windermere" for most of the
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Cheap bus running out of passengers
A community transport group offering cheap travel is urging people to make more use of its service or face losing it. The trustee committee of Otley Community Transport fears for the future of its £24,000 bus after numbers using it dropped drastically
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Drive-through dining scheme is ditched
Controversial plans to build a drive-through restaurant in Ilkley have been axed. The scheme for the former Ross Bros Ford dealership at the junction of Wheatley Lane and Leeds Road was heavily criticised by nearby residents because of the traffic and
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New anti-noise move 'would cost too much'
Kirklees councillors are being urged to reject new powers to curb noisy night-time parties because it would cost too much taxpayers' money to make it worthwhile. Parties held between 11pm and 7am are the most common source of annoyance and the 1996 Noise
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Pub in strip show rumpus
A 'Full Monty' row has broken out over plans to introduce strip shows at a Bradford fun pub. The licensee at the Drop Kick in Huddersfield Road, Low Moor, has asked Bradford Council to amend the pub's entertainment licence for a no contact striptease
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Paul Twiddy: Business Sense
With more and more people using the Internet as a business resource, the focus of activity is shifting from simple awareness raising and "how do I connect?" towards helping existing users exploit this vast resource effectively. It doesn't take very long
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£84m expansion will do for now!
Staff at Shipley-based telecommunications components manufacturer Filtronic are celebrating after an £84 million expansion in four days. The company has strengthened its hold on the market by acquiring Finnish company LK-Products from communications giant
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Skipper Dermot sets up victory
Jubilant skipper Dermot McGrath led the celebrations as East Bierley ended their run of three consecutive cup final defeats with an easier than expected eight-wicket victory over Pudsey Congs at sun-drenched Undercliffe. It was a double triumph for McGrath
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Battling Bulls survive a scare
Bradford Bulls 38, Hull Sharks 18: Match comment, by Nigel Askham. Same scoreline as last week but that was the only similarity as the Bulls went a long way towards restoring their pride. Again it wasn't the most fluent performance and there were real
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McCall is out of cup tie
Bradford City will be without new skipper Stuart McCall when they take on Lincoln City in the Worthington Cup first round, first leg at Valley Parade tomorrow. McCall, who re-joined City from Rangers on a free transfer during the summer, hurt his ankle
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Ace Gough is the hero!
Yorkshire's Darren Gough was the toast of England as they completed their first major series win on home soil for 13 years by wrapping up South Africa's innings in just half an hour amid emotional scenes at Headingley today. Resuming on 185 for eight
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Vive la masterpiece!
Review: Les Misrables, Bradford Alhambra. Cameron Mackintosh, the producer, said he wanted his Bradford audiences to leave the theatre feeling they'd seen the definitive performance of Les Miserables. Success, he said, depended upon the actors possessing
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Marti's so happy to make us laugh
Marti Webb stars with Gary Wilmot in The Goodbye Girl at the Leeds Grand. Jim Greenhalf reports. American playwright Neil Simon has a double-whammy in Leeds next week. His latest work, Proposals, ends its run at West Yorkshire Playhouse while one of his
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Don't worry if you've failed
With just over a week to go until the A-level results are released school-leavers up and down the country will be holding their collective breath. John Waller, head of student recruitment services at the University of Bradford, takes a look how students
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Les Mis star summoned to the Palace!
John Owen- Jones is currently starring as Jean Valjean in the hit musical Les Miserables at the Alhambra. But what does the future hold for him? Jim Greenhalf reports. By the time the curtain falls on the 93rd and final performance of Les Misrables at
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Mike Priestley - North of Watford
The latest report on drug abuse among middle-class youngsters, who are being targeted by heroin pushers, is certainly worrying. But it will hardly be news to most young people. A few years ago I was talking to some parents who had not liked the idea of
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Anila Baig: Admit it: It's nice to be nice!
The world is a terrifying place where danger lurks at every corner. Young people are taught to say no to drugs, say no to strangers offering sweets, lifts and a viewing of puppy dogs. Some children, bafflingly and much to their parents' disgust, have
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting
As a pioneering New Man a generation ago, I was well involved in the day-to-day routine when it came to looking after our children. But you become rusty, don't you? Sometimes, though, you have to shake off the rust - and fast. The emergency call came
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Jim Appleby: Past Times
The weird thing about getting older is that time passes quicker. It has nothing to do with Einstein and the speed of light - it just happens. Look at a period of six weeks. It's nothing, these days - a blink, a short gap between the first bill and the
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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
The latest report on drug abuse among middle-class youngsters, who are being targeted by heroin pushers, is certainly worrying. But it will hardly be news to most young people. A few years ago I was talking to some parents who had not liked the idea of
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Morrisons come out top of the tills
Bradford supermarket giant Morrisons took top place in a battle of the shopping baskets, researched by consumer specialist Which? magazine. And company chairman Ken Morrison pledged to stick to a tried and tested policy of cutting prices rather than offering
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Police to zoom in on gangs
A "video nasty" about a vandal-hit Bradford street is being made by West Yorkshire Police. Officers from Toller Lane are taking part in the filming to show the extent of damage caused by gangs of youths in Duckworth Lane, Heaton. Beat managers PCs Owen
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Muggers break leg of 88 year-old woman
An 88-year-old woman was left with a broken thigh after an attack as she walked to church in Bradford. The woman, who has not been identified, was set upon at about 10am yesterday in Bakes Street, Great Horton. A white, stockily built man about 6ft tall
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Racism claim in Council sacking
Bradford Council has been accused of racism over the sacking of a leading officer for alleged gross misconduct. And community groups throughout Bradford West are demanding an independent inquiry into the council's decision to fire Mohammed Masood from
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Don't give up the fight, battling mum urges
A mum-of-four who spent almost £13,000 on a legal struggle to buy her two boys a future has called on other parents to do the same. Sarah-Jane Burbidge, 47, waged a relentless two-year battle against Bradford's education authority to get the right care
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Speeding cars keep landing in our garden!
Residents in Heaton are calling for action because speeding cars keep crashing into their front gardens. Pam Nicholas, who has lived in Duchy Avenue for 24 years, said the vehicles demolished her fence and hedges and landed only feet away from her front
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It's another inconvenient wait
Long-awaited work to overhaul Otley's Farnley Lane toilets was starting at the weekend - but visitors will have to wait until October to use them. Leeds City Council has announced that, after a wait of more than a year, the £96,000 revamp of the brick-built
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Music: Can you hear US at the back?
Simon Ashberry speaks to Bradford's very own 'supergroup'. They may be an as yet unfamiliar name, but US are far from newcomers. In some ways, they are the nearest thing Bradford has ever had to a supergroup. Drummer Ricky Howard was formerly with Bradford
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Why I still stand by my jailed husband
Manjit Kaur refused to desert her husband Michael Singh after he was jailed for life for murder ten years ago. Since his conviction, she has played a major part in a campaign to clear his name and has funded his fight to get his case referred to the Court
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The price of migraine agony
Migraine attacks are associated mainly with severe headaches but for most of the estimated six million sufferers in the country it is much more than that. Visual disturbances and distorted sounds often accompany the sometimes frightening condition along
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Does the power to heal lie in our own hands?
Mumbo jumbo? Or something which can succeed where all else fails? When conventional medicine can't help and there seems to be no answer for a health problem, many turn to healers. Jan Winter reports. Barry West believes he was close to death on the rugby
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Just testing: A taste of university life
The move from school into higher education can be a daunting prospect, especially if you are not sure what to expect. T&A reporter Joanne Earp takes a look at a scheme which is helping to reduce that fear by giving children as young as 13 a first
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Pinch of Salt is a treat for Bryson
Jim Greenhalf catches up with the author who much prefers Saltaire to Bradford... Saltaire will feature in a major travel series which ITV are networking, starting on Sunday, November 15: six 30-minute programmes going out at the prime time of 6.30pm.
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Old fire station could become a restaurant
Bingley's former fire station is to be turned into a high class restaurant, at a cost of £150,000, if planners give the go-ahead. A formal planning application has yet to be submitted. But Kent property developers Boracay Ltd say diners could be tucking
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Hypnotism adds new spin to business
HYPNOSIS is helping dozens of high-pressured professionals thanks to a Skipton man's unique new business. Qualified clinical hypnotherapist Stewart Hood is teaching people self-hypnosis and other methods to help them succeed in high-pressure business
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City pay penalty and suffer defeat
Bradford City 1, Stockport County 2: Match Comment by Richard Sutcliffe. When Stockport's Tony Dinning converted his second penalty to seal victory with just three minutes remaining, it was most definitely not part of the script. City had started the
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Todd in penalty upset
Lee Todd believes referee Mike Dean cost Bradford City a point after he awarded a "dubious" late penalty against the left back late in Saturday's 2-1 home defeat by Stockport. The City new boy was judged to have bundled his former Stockport team-mate
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Macca's eyes on crown
Former Hull favourite Steve McNamara helped the Bulls gets back on track with victory over his old club, and then spoke of the determination to launch a strong defence of their Super League crown. Man of the match McNamara was in inspirational form with
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Problem must be solved
A Bradford Council spokesman, responding to a Heaton woman's complaints about a traffic hazard in her road, says: "We are looking into the accidents that have occurred...to see if there is a problem and what can be done." It should surely be blindingly
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Film Review: Paulie
The cinematic fantasy world of dumb beasts which turn out to have more humanity than human beings would fill a small-sized ark. Ever since Disney's 1957 weepie Old Yeller, audiences must have shed an ocean of sentimental tears over kindly killer whales
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'Too many cases for this court to handle'
Bradford's Crown Prosecution Service came in for a hammering last week from Judge Gerald Coles QC who accused it of incompetence and hampering efforts to clear a backlog of criminal cases at Bradford Crown Court. Reporter Catrina Dick investigates other
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Theatre: Michael's a cut above the rest
David Behrens finds out about life as part of the vast company behind the staging of Les Misrables. It couldn't have been more theatrical. Michael Cahill was cutting someone's hair when suddenly an impulse seized him. His future, he decided, lay not on
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Nick Oldham: Rights and Wrongs
Door-to-door gas company reps have received a broadside after persuading a 90-year-old deaf woman to sign on the dotted line. A canvasser called at her home in the Low Moor area of Bradford and persuaded her to change her gas supply from British Gas to
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Dr Tom Smith: Your Health
This summer has been the worst in living memory for bad weather - but it doesn't seem to have kept people indoors. We are seeing as many accidents and emergencies as in any other summer, most of them related to outside activities that we wouldn't consider
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David Behrens: Pick of the Week's TV
Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City, Saturday, 10pm, Channel 4 Back in the Sixties, they decided to make a batch of new Tom and Jerry cartoons. Trouble was, they didn't hire the original animators - so the result was that Tom and Jerry looked as
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Helen Mead: Why I'd win a knobbly toe competition!
At the weekend someone asked me a question I had trouble answering. I was chuntering on about Liverpool Football Club insuring star Michael Owen's legs for £60 million, when a friend asked: "Which bit of your body do you like best?" It would have been
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Transport of delight as Methodists reminisce
A century of regular public transport on Great Horton Road will be celebrated with prayers and fond memories. Horton Bank Methodists and friends are inviting enthusiasts to catch the 6.20pm 576 bus to Horton Bank Country Park on August 27. They aim to
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Fundraisers urged to join the club
Big-hearted donors are being urged to club together to boost the Bradford Millennium Scanner Appeal. Organisers of the £1 million campaign are looking to raise £50,000 in a new Millennium Club. Club members are being asked to pledge £16 a month over four
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No kidding - a Merry Christmas to villagers!
While most of us are packing up the suntan lotion and heading off for our summer holidays, in Cullingworth they are already preparing for Christmas. John Brigg has bought 20 artificial, three feet high trees at £1.50 apiece to brighten up the village.
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Mum gets action over playground
Jubilant families are celebrating victory in their battle over a 'forgotten' playground. The run-down play area off Park Road, Little Horton will now be the subject of a full survey and safety check after a campaign launched by mum Jill Mardon was backed
