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Black Dyke's brass class
The world-famous Black Dyke Band is set to blow its own trumpet - with a centre of excellence for music. The Queensbury brass band wants to inspire the maestros of the future and put its Foster's Mill home on the music map. The band still practises in
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Sheltered homes bid hits red light
A plan to demolish an Ilkley garage and replace it with a £1.5 million sheltered housing complex has been rejected by Ilkley Parish Council. The Parish Council's planning committee has recommended that the plan to replace Station Garage with the four-storey
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Chapel to become hotel restaurant?
Plans to transform the former Upper Independent Chapel in Heckmondwike into a £2.5 million hotel, restaurant and banqueting suite have been unveiled. Property developer Margaret Wilson-Clarke said the hotel - to be called Wilson's Independent Hotel- would
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Great Scott is back
The classic Scott motorcycle will make its way back to the place which helped to create it when Shipley's first bikers' meeting takes place there next week. Thousands of riders from across the country are expected to make the journey to Shipley on Sunday
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Jonathan Oxley: Business Law
Recently the Government released its proposals to introduce fairness into the workplace. They are reforms which will doubtless be welcomed by em-ployees, but which will pose some problems to employers. There will be big changes to the law regarding unfair
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It's a new Storey as firm relocates
A growing packaging firm has invested £5 million in a move to Bradford from Leeds as it celebrates 100 years. Storey Evans was founded in Park Lane, Leeds, in 1898. It moved to Rawdon in 1911, where it grew under the guidance of chairman Mark Evans. The
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Now Fielden adds to Elliott's worries
Talented teenage forward Stuart Fielden has added to coach Matthew Elliott's mounting injury headache for Bradford Bulls' final Super League clash against Salford at Odsal on Sunday. Fielden, who has enjoyed a hugely encouraging first season, is one of
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Irvine to turn on veterans pressure
Athletics: The Yorkshire veterans championships are incorporated within Sunday's Horsforth 10km from the High School with an 11am start. This popular event has attracted a field of over 600 entries, with a further 200 expected on the day. Reigning Yorkshire
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Cats' charity may well be purr-fect
Animal lovers who rescue almost 200 cats a year are within a whisker of winning a competition to find the nation's most caring cat charity. Haworth Animal Welfare is the only cat rescue organisation in Yorkshire to have reached the final of the contest
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How youth crime took a holiday this summer
Summer schemes to reduce school burglary and divert youngsters from crime have proved a winner in the Toller Lane division of Bradford. Burglaries have been slashed by 63 per cent in the schools targeted in the schemes. And there has also been a 35 per
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Fears growing for teachers' safety
Teachers have been issued with walkie-talkies in a bid to increase security and combat attacks, it has been revealed. And as Bradford council unveiled a new action plan to protect its staff as the number of attacks has grown, one union boss said teachers
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'Just get on with your job'
A businessman today branded a Bradford Council stress-busting scheme a crazy waste of money. Michael Shepherd is raising the issue at tonight's meeting of the Bradford Federation of Small Businesses and he is calling for it to write to the authority about
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Council attacked over computerised helpline
A computerised helpline used by hundreds of thousands of people wanting to make complaints or get information on Council services has come under fire for being too impersonal. Bradford Council's Liberal Democrat Group leader Councillor Jeanette Sunderland
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Tearful brother's plea to stop grave attacks
A bereaved young man has made an emotional appeal for thieves to stop stealing decorations from his brother's grave. Well-liked Zahir Akhtar, a diabetic, died aged 29 in July 1997 from kidney failure and was buried in the Muslim section of Scholemoor
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National interest in Asian shops complex
Plans for a major Asian shopping complex in Bradford have already drawn interest from both local and national developers, according to officers. Bradford Council Regeneration Committee was told last night there was already considerable interest in the
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Michael is Knight of the Road
Parents scared for their children's safety because of a lack of a school crossing patrol have had a knight in shining protective clothing come to their rescue. When Michael Townend, 30, read in his Telegraph & Argus how children were running the gauntlet
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Police pledge action over 'siege' Co-op
Police have pledged to get tough on youths victimising staff and shoppers at a community supermarket. Workers from the Co-op Late Shop at the Top Shops parade in Holme Wood have been urged to contact police every time they suffer violence or harassment
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Manning wins a standing ovation
Controversial comedian Bernard Manning received a standing ovation when he returned to Bradford to perform at a charity night - despite earlier calls for him to stay out of town. And the organiser of the show at the Drop Kick pub at Low Moor, where he
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Eyesore could become play area
A dumping ground could be turned into a recreational haven on a housing estate - but it would be a no-go area for dogs and bikes. Craven Council is being urged to hand over the plot of land at Whinny Gill on the Greatwood estate in Skipton to the trustees
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Save our school call to minister
Campaigners battling to save a doomed middle school are to take their case to schools standards minister Estelle Morris. A Keighley Education Action Group delegation has been invited to meet the minister at Bradford City Hall on Saturday when they will
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Special birthday for plunge boy
Timmy Davison had extra special reason for celebrating his sixth birthday, yesterday, after cheating death in a 30ft-fall from a bedroom window. The youngster plunged from the top storey of his Otley home on to a stone patio, puncturing his bowel and
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Guard held at gunpoint in wage-snatch drama
A security guard was threatened at gunpoint in an armed robbery a Bradford company. The guard was making a wages delivery at Field Packaging in Lidget Green yesterday afternoon when the robber struck. Today police appealed for witnesses to the incident
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It's super caretaker!
Bradford's 29,000 council tenants are to be balloted on whether they will pay 95p each for new "super-caretakers". Under a new trail blazing scheme, the council caretakers would be drafted on to estates across the district in a bid to sort out a wide
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Personal Finance: Your Questions Answered
Q As costs for attending university are likely to rise in the future, I want to start planning now for our two children, aged five and seven. What sort of costs would be involved and how should we best save? A Forecasting future costs when things are
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Alan Mills: Your Personal Finance
Until a few years ago, people with private pension plans had a fairly straight forward choice when it came to taking their benefit. You took part of the money as a Tax Free cash sum and the remainder of the money was then used to buy a pension, or "annuity
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Council draw stumps over Durkar
The £39m plan to build Yorkshire new headquarters at Durkar has virtually been ditched by Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. They say the scheme has been delayed by prolonged talks between the county club and Headingley owner Paul Caddick over their
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Skipton have Gott new skipper
Skipper Chris Gott is leaving Pudsey St Lawrence in a surprise move to join Aire-Wharfe club Skipton. Gott has played with Pudsey for 12 years and has been captain for the last eight. He also led the Bradford League to five consecutive Yorkshire Leagues
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Richard Sutcliffe: City Talk
All of a sudden Bradford City fans are walking round with a smile on their faces. Three victories from the last four games and a point against Sheffield United - which should have been three - have transformed the Bantams' season. Even the fact that fierce
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Todd gets big boost
Bradford City defender Lee Todd has taken his first steps towards a return to the first team by playing a full game for the reserve side at Scarborough last night. The Bantams lost 3-2 to a deflected goal from Boro's Chris Tate just two minutes from time
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A private lesson for City Hall
Businessman Michael Shepherd today delivers a no-nonsense broadside to the Council's stressbuster plan for employees. Put simply, he believes they should "get on with the job" and stop moaning. Many in the private sector will agree with him. It's hazardous
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Cook and Curran win in overtime
Golf: It turned into a marathon day at Hawksworth, but Mark Cook and Karl Curran finally took the Bradford inter-club foursomes trophy back to Northcliffe. They repeated their 1996 success, but only after being taken to extra holes in both the semi-final
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Helen Mead: Going, going gone - my old woolly tights!
I'm thinking of auctioning off my wardrobe. Well, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell did it and made a packet for charity. And just weeks before she died, more than £2 million was raised when Princess Diana dug out her unwanted frocks and put them on sale
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Murder scene pub reopens its doors
A pub which was the scene of a bloody murder is set to reopen after a massive multi-thousand pound refit. In April 1995 two masked men burst into the Raggalds Inn, in the Mountain area of Queensbury, and at point-black range shot customer Michael Briggs
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Backing for £14m peace museum
Bradford Council has agreed to become a member of a new limited company to develop a £14million Peace Centre project and appoint one director to its board. The proposed centre would include a hotel and conference suite, as well as leisure facilities.
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Nurses scoop caring 'Oscars'
A nursing auxiliary has become one of three winners of special Oscar awards recognising outstanding achievements of hospital staff in Bradford - and it's all the more remarkable because he is deaf. Adrian Peacock, of Ward 14 at Bradford Royal Infirmary
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Dramatic rise in ambulance alerts
An Audit Commission has revealed a massive rise in 999 ambulance calls in West Yorkshire in recent years. The report shows that calls have risen by 20 per cent in the last five years - to more than 220,000 annually A West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance
