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When nothing adds up
A long break from school is looking like a thing of the past for some pupils as the drive to improve standards means extra lessons to help them pull their mathematical socks up. Education reporter Lyn Barton looks at one scheme to give pupils a helping
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Smokey Joe's is Hannah's cup of tea
Jim Greenhalf talks to one of the stars of the musical Smokey Joe's Cafe, heading for the Alhambra next month. "THEY'RE a bit fruity in Bradford, aren't they!" exclaimed Hannah Waddingham, and laughed like Joanna Lumley in Absolutely Fabulous. The green-eyed
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Fast food giant hopes to be King
Burger King looks set to be the first fast-food chain with a branch in Skipton. If granted planning permission, the fast-food giant will be opening a combined burger bar/takeaway on the same site as the Travelodge and Little Chef on the outskirts of the
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Gardners tackle a prickly problem
Fed-up allotment holders in Heckmondwike are turning to nature in a bid to stop vandals causing havoc at their prized plots. The gardeners who rent the 40 Kirklees Council-owned sites in New North Road are to plant nettles and other prickly bushes such
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Paradise from 'a mess'
A vandal-hit nursery is set to be transformed into a children's paradise, thanks to an Inland Revenue worker. Culprits have regularly caused damage to the Keighley Community Nursery in Marlborough Street, causing misery to the youngsters. But Pamela Shute
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Ripper 'will not be moved north'
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe will stay in Broadmoor - in spite of a bid by relatives to get him a priority move to the north of England. Family members who asked Home Secretary Jack Straw in January to move the former Bradford lorry driver in the
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Paul Twiddy: Business Sense
The gas supply market is currently in a state of change. As a consumer I have been bombarded in the post, on TV, in the newspapers by offers to change my supplier and receive a range of benefits. For the consumer this is confusing but also something which
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Merger puts firm into growth mode
Expansion plans are being drawn up for a specialist Bradford firm which has been taken over. ISIS Products, which is located on the Listerhills Science Park, has been acquired from Datacolour International by a Norwegian company, Technor. ISIS, which
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Manager's comments
Paul Jewell writes: You have to be pleased with coming back from being a goal behind twice during a game. They are a quality side, as Sky kept reminding me during an interview after the game, and I thought we did all right. In the first 15 or 20 minutes
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Deadly duo start to pay dividends
Bradford City 2, Bolton Wanderers 2; Richard Sutcliffe at Valley Parade. Bradford City's £2.3 million investment in their new strike-force paid dividends to earn Paul Jewell's side their first point of the season in a hugely entertaining clash. Both Isaiah
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Turning the tide of litter
It is too easy to blame Bradford Council - as many people do - for the litter-strewn state of the district and demand that more be done to clean up the mess. But to be fair to the Cleansing Department, it does its job rather well, particularly in the
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Bees enjoy Revival triumph
Rugby Union: Bradford & Bingley 52, Edinburgh Academicals 5. Although the margin was surprisingly large, new Bradford & Bingley coach Colin Hay was not getting carried away by this victory which sealed the Revival Centenary Trophy. "It was good
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W.R. Mitchell, MBE: Letter from the Dales
Frazer Hines stood with one foot in the parish of Giggleswick and one foot in Settle. The well-remembered star of Emmerdale was half way across the bridge which spans the Ribble in several graceful arches. Filmsters were "shooting" a series of Dales walks
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Stick it in a bin!
Bradfordians are being urged to BinIt! in a battle to keep Bradford and its district litter free. And to drum the message home a week of educational activities and roadshows swept into action today with the start of Bradford Council's Litter Awareness
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Crime on the run at problem estate
A Bradford estate with a reputation for being a hotbed of crime saw only two homes burgled last month, figures released by police reveal today. The impressive statistics, which show a 96 per cent drop in burglaries in 10 months, highlight the effective
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Listers to be taken to task
Bradford Council is expected to take emergency enforcement action to save Manning-ham Mills. The historic landmark is being hit by vandalism, theft and disrepair. Parts have been empty for about ten years and the massive Victorian building has suffered
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Muslim girls' school 'ready by Millennium'
Britain's first Muslim state-funded school could be open in Bradford by the year 2000 after official consultations began on transferring private Feversham College into the public sector. If approved, the new institution will be on the site of Undercliffe
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Women's minibus service begins again
Safe Rider, the transport scheme used by 153 local women last year, begins again in September after its summer break. Thanks to £20,000 a year from Keighley Area Panel and £13,800 from Keighley Single Regeneration Budget, the company is now able to use
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Teachers toast 93pc pass rate
Teachers and pupils across Wharfedale and Aireborough have been toasting A-level success. Guiseley School students set a record with the highest number of top grade results in its history. More than 43 per cent of pupils were awarded grade A or B and
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Bride's body is recovered
Police were today continuing their search for a man who went missing on his honeymoon after they discovered his wife's body. The body was recovered from the River Wharfe at Addingham yesterday and identified last night as missing newlywed Lynne Collett
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Hospitals on line to beat the Millennium bug
Plans to neutralise the millennium bug, which threatens to bring chaos to computer systems at the turn of the century, are being drawn up by health bosses. The House of Commons public accounts committee has voiced concern that the NHS might not be able
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Overend frustrates Baildon's win hopes
LOCAL CRICKET: Farsley all-rounder Joss Overend frustrated Baildon after the Bradford League First Division leaders looked to be on course for a comfortable victory. Baildon seemed to be assured of six points when they reduced third placed Farsley to
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Gough in for night Tykes
England hero Darren Gough returns to Yorkshire action today in the day-night AXA League Roses clash under the Headingley floodlights which will be switched on for the start of the game at 5.05pm. This is Yorkshire's first experiment with floodlit league
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Brilliant Hamilton joins an elite band
Gavin Hamilton's gigantic all-round performance not only helped Yorkshire beat Glamorgan by 114 runs at Sophia Gardens on Saturday, but it also earned him a place among cricket's elite. Yorkshire wrapped things up at tea on the third day as Hamilton completed
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Coaches' comments
Matthew Elliott: I'm not happy. What it looked like to me was that the team wearing Bradford shirts tried harder in the second half than they did in the first. When the required amount of effort, coupled with the concentration that is required at Super
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Bulls' late revival is not enough
Halifax Blue Sox 25, Bradford Bulls 12; Nigel Askham at The New Shay. The Bulls are making life awfully tough for themselves in their quest to defy the odds and make a serious assault on the Grand Final. Their ninth defeat of the Super League campaign
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Matt feels Bulls heat
Bradford Bulls boss Matthew Elliott finally snapped last night after watching his fading champions slump to their ninth defeat of the Super League campaign. Elliott, who has still not signed a proposed two-year extension to his contract which runs out
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Steiner deal is off
Swedish striker Robert Steiner's £200,000 move to Norwegian First Division club Stabaek appears to have fallen through. The Bradford City player travelled to Norway for talks after the clubs had agreed a fee, but he was back at Valley Parade yesterday
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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
What a sad, sad week it has been. All those poor people killed or maimed by the monsters of Omagh. All those funerals. All those moving words of grief spoken by ordinary souls. All those hypocritical mouthings by politicians whose belief that they had
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Young homeless get new friends
Former homeless people will take homeless youngsters in Bradford under their wings under a befriending scheme. The Pisces Project, based at the City Centre Project in Little Horton Lane, wants volunteers. The aim is to help some of the city's most vulnerable
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'I'll be back', vows aid worker Geoff
Aid worker Geoff Robinson has vowed to return to war-torn Kosovo - despite being shocked at what he saw there. He and fellow volunteers have just arrived back in Britain after successfully completing their mission to deliver 220 boxes of badly-needed
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Exposed: Lawyer's tie to the king of fraud
When second-hand book-seller Clive Woods stumbled across a volume signed by a notorious turn-of-the-century fraudster he was determined to uncover the identity of the man the personal message inside was dedicated to. Mr Woods, proprietor of Saltaire's
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City bells to ring out Diana tribute
Bradford will commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on Bank Holiday Monday by unveiling a plaque in Centenary Square dedicated to her life and work. At exactly 11am, following a short memorial service, the bells of
