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Weaving set for take-off again
Looms in the old Moorside Mills could be back in business again - more than a quarter of a century after they stopped weaving. Production at the mills in Moorside Road stopped in 1970, a casualty of the city's declining textile industry and the building
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Struck-off nurses loses bid to work again
A nurse struck off for administering an enema to a patient at a Keighley nursing home and kicking him when he protested, yesterday lost her bid to be allowed back on to the register. Lillian Deakin, 42, told the professional conduct committee of the UK
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Public to have a say on hospital future
A major public consultation is about to start to discuss the long-term future of High Royds Hospital in Menston. And people thoughout Wharfedale and Aireborough are being urged to have their say and help determine any future development of the site and
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High noon for the cowboys
Police are investigating a gang of 'cowboys from the blackstuff' who have been posing as council contractors and offering to re-surface householders' drives with 'spare' materials. And Bradford Council is warning residents not to be taken in by the bogus
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Race goes on in memory of Gary
Fun-loving Gary Smith should have been at the heart of this year's fun day at a Cottingley pub. It was his idea to launch a wheelbarrow race two years ago as part of the event at the Sun Inn when he and two friends dressed up as the Cottingley Fairies
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We've won!
Parents of eight children with major learning difficulties have won a four-month legal battle to have their special educational needs reassessed by Bradford Council. The parents, who claim the Local Education Authority acted unlawfully in giving mainstream
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Economic crisis hits wool trade
The strong pound and the crisis in the South East Asian economies has crippled the marketing of wool from the Bradford-based British Wool Marketing Board, its chairman said today. Alun Evans, who heads the global organisation, said 60 per cent of the
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Elliott calls on Bulls to toughen up act
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott has called for his players to toughen up as the chase for a place in the Super League play-off reaches a critical stage. The Bulls' physical domination of the opposition was a cornerstone of their 1997 title success
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Cup draw's 'a smasher'
Paul Jewell believes his Bradford City have been handed a 'smashing draw' after being handed a West Yorkshire derby clash with Halifax Town in the second round of the Worthington Cup. The clash will be the two clubs first competitive meeting in 16 years
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?
What good news there was this week for people of the more mature tendency. We don't have to strive to be upbeat and optimistic in the belief that cheerfulness will keep us fit and young. We can be as miserable as we like and it will do us no harm. In
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Success at the double for twins
Teachers did a double take today when they opened the postbag to reveal pupils' GCSE results. For three sets of twins from the same school notched up an amazing 51 A and A star grades between them. Sian and David Wigley, Michelle and Joanna Lupton and
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Never again!
Tough new guidelines will be drawn up by Bradford Council to prevent a repeat of violence that erupted on the night of the May Council elections. More than 100 people were involved in a disturbance in the St George's Hall count which was later branded
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Car park plan is shelved
Restaurant owners have dumped plans to build a car park in a Bradford park - after mass opposition from residents. Owners of the Barrack Tavern pub in Killinghall Road have made a surprise retreat from plans to buy 1,500 square metres of Bradford Moor
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Travellers told to get moving
A court order to move gypsy caravans is being sought by Bradford Council following complaints about travellers. Around 30 caravans were parked on Knowles Lane recreation ground in Holme Wood after travellers drove on to the site as a travelling fair moved
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Parking charges backlash
Dozens of businesses will object to plans by Bradford Council to slap on parking charges in city centre streets. More than 43 city centre members of Bradford Chamber of Trade have filled in questionnaires and say they strongly oppose the charges. Chamber
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We were spurred into litter action
Tidy minded residents fed up with litter louts dirtying their streets are taking matters into their own hands . Spurred on by the Telegraph & Argus and Bradford Council's Litter Awareness Week a group of young people from Girlington carried out a
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MPs want first aid on buses
Bradford's three MPs were today pressing for first-aid training for bus drivers following the death of a youngster from an asthma attack. Matthew Douglas, 14, collapsed on a bus at Holme Wood, Bradford, on his way home. The bus radio was out of order
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'Get us out of the rut' plead drivers
Long suffering Aireborough residents are demanding action over the state of their pot-holed roads. And they are calling on Leeds City Council to make urgent and major repairs before there is a serious accident. Particularly bad sections of road include
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Trade guru's role is to revive valley
The long-awaited new area trade co-ordinator for the Spen Valley has been appointed with the task of revitalising the district. David Adams, who will be based in Cleckheaton, previously ran his own enterprise and management development consultancy in
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Personal finance by Alan Mills
When the first state "pension" was set up in the last years of Queen Victoria's reign, it was basically introduced to alleviate abject poverty in the last few remaining years of life. Indeed, a great many of the population never reached "retirement" and
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Future bright for Bradford youngsters
Bradford's impressive crop of youngsters played a vital part in the sensational comeback of the Inter-Union team against East Riding at Keighley. And team captain Tim Wade admitted: "I have no worries at all about the future of this team. We have some
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Jim Appleby: Past Times
Where's the fun in strawberries when you can have them all the year round? These days we've lost one of the pleasures of summer - the flavours. We also seem to have lost summer, but we'll let that lie. Once upon a time strawberries were a delicacy to
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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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Students told their NVQ's are worthless
Dozens more students face the shock of being told their examination qualifications are invalid. A further 30 awards have been overruled by one of the country's biggest examination boards. The awards go back to 1996. The latest bombshell brings the total
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Shrine to bike hero
Another of Bradford's forgotten engineering heroes has been remembered 75 years after his death. Alfred Scott, above, was the brains behind the Scott motorcycle, a two cylinder 500cc bike he developed from 1908 in his factory in Mornington Road off Manningham
