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Tomorrow's world is nigh
The countdown has started. But what has Bradford got in store for the new Millennium? We look at how the city will be celebrating. Thoughts of the 21st Century leave most of us thinking of androids and space travel. But the reality is this: it is just
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'Simple ditch' call to avoid flood tragedy
A Skipton landowner wants to help eliminate risk of flooding by diverting water around his land into a small reservoir. An old access road to Steve Cuthbert's land above Whinny Gill Reservoir was completely washed away by the Skipton floods of 1982, which
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Family evacuated as thugs start fire
Tearaways as young as eight are suspected of starting a fire which gutted the terraced home of a pensioner. Police and fire service experts are investigating the blaze which ripped through the roof of the house in Kensington Street, Keighley. Luckily
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Healthcare shake-up plans under attack
Controversial proposals for a healthcare shake-up were coming under fire today from councillors in Otley. Last month the Telegraph & Argus reported how Bradford Health Authority was backing the creation of five primary care groups in Bradford under
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Judgement day for students!
Counselling services are set to swing into action tomorrow as A-level students finally discover if they have made the grade. Bradford and Ilkley Community College will for the first time be making offers of spare places on higher education courses directly
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Richard Wilson: Business Sense
By law, "squatters' right" allows a person to acquire land by occupying it without the consent of the true owner of the property if the owner fails within a certain period of time to remove or evict the squatter or trespasser from his land. If the owner
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Waste attacked on wider front
Keighley Business Forum is widening the scope of its award-winning Waste Minimisation Programme. The forum, headed by Iain Copping, is turning the project into a regional programme. The programme, with 80 companies already on its books, is using the £265,000
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Rawdon draw level at top with vital win
Aire-Wharfe League: Rawdon drew level on points with Adel at the top of the Division A but remain in second place because they have won one fewer game. Knaresborough clung on for a draw to restrict Adel to five points, allowing Rawdon to close the gap
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Calland worry in build-up to derby
Bradford Bulls centre Matt Calland could be facing another lay-off after a recurrence of a back problem. The former England three-quarter was troubled for much of the season with the same injury and was unable to train on Monday. "He was struggling again
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Lincoln v Bradford City: Match notes
2 Lawrence picks out Grant and after beating defender his low centre is put behind for a corner. 8 Finnigan centres a fine corner which Walsh pushes over the top for another flag-kick. 10 Corner from the left is met by Fortune-West, but his flick grazes
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Kick start for Jewell
Paul Jewell hopes last night's Worthington Cup victory over Lincoln City will help kick-start his Bradford City side's season. The Bantams travelled to Sincil Bank in danger of becoming the victim of a giant-killing act after they could only draw 1-1
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Shortage of cots is absurd
The shortfall in neonatal care at Bradford Royal Infirmary is not acceptable. It is appalling that large numbers of women in labour and babies in urgent need of specialist care are having to be transferred to other Yorkshire hospitals because there are
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?
The Government is right to be setting the pace in the drive to end jobs discrimination against older people. Whether its forthcoming Code of Good Practice will do any good remains to be seen. But it's a strong signal that Ministers aren't prepared to
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Joy as OAPs get an extra £12m aid
Thousands of hard-up pensioners in Bradford have claimed an extra £12 million between them in State benefits thanks to Council advice workers, new figures have revealed. The Welfare Rights Team at Bradford Council was set up five years ago this month
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I'll turn school into a Colditz, warns head
A Bradford headteacher has vowed to turn his school into "Colditz" in an effort to stem a tide of vandalism. Wibsey Middle School has been hit by vandals twice during the last two weekends. The grant-maintained school, in Northfield Road, has already
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Steve scales the heights of adventure for appeal
A Liversedge man has scaled new heights for the Bradford Millennium Scanner Appeal. Steve Womersley, 33, was part of a team of eight who tackled the 20,000-ft Island's Peak in Nepal. He battled with altitude sickness and freezing conditions to complete
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Peace talks in mail office row
Royal Mail management hopes to thrash out a peace deal with Bradford postal workers to avoid a damaging strike. Talks between managers and the Communication Workers' Union continued yesterday after union members voted for industrial action. The dispute
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Gee whiz! The service here is first class
Pensioner Kenneth Lambert would rather drive three miles to a post office in a nearby village than walk to one nearer his home in Silsden. He prefers the warm welcome and kind faces at Cross Hills post office in the village's Main Street. And his gratitude
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Systems expert's lifetime award
A former Skipton man has been presented with an international scientific award after a lifetime of research. Professor Geoffrey Coyle, a former pupil of Christ Church School and Ermysted's Grammar School, has been presented with a lifetime achievement
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Families' fury at factory scheme
Families in Cleckheaton are up in arms over plans to build a new factory in their street because of fears about increased traffic congestion and noise. Residents in Farfield Street say they already have to put up with a stream of ten-tonne articulated
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I do - 50 years later!
Lay preacher Maurice Atack is getting married to a spinster who doesn't like going to church - more than 50 years after they first met! Irene Firth, 70, of Wilsden, has admitted "being keen" on Maurice as a teenager but she still needed some persuading
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Baby ward cots crisis
Women in labour and new-born babies in urgent need of specialist care are being rushed from Bradford Royal Infirmary to hospitals across West Yorkshire because it cannot cope with the demand. And today doctors warned the crisis - caused by a shortage
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Newsquest's performance continues to impress
Telegraph & Argus owners, Newsquest Plc, today announced it had almost doubled its profits since it floated on the Stock Exchange nearly a year ago. The group, England's largest publisher of local and regional newspapers, revealed that its business
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City manager's comments
Paul Jewell writes: Because we have spent a few quid, people think we can pull up trees straight away - that doesn't happen in football. But the application against Lincoln was good. I thought this was a similar performance to the one we put in at Watford
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Rankin strikes to boost Bantams
Lincoln City 0, Bradford City1: Richard Sutcliffe at Sincil Bank It may not win a prize in any Goal of the Season competition, but it was a moment Isaiah Rankin will never forget. Bradford City's record £1.3 million signing had been suffering a frustrating
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£109,000 boost to Muslim centre
A community centre offering training and education services to Muslims living in Bradford's most deprived district is to expand after receiving a £109,000 windfall. The English Partnerships grant means work can now start on a project to build two extra
