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Tasty slice of Vienna!
For the past 20 years Huddersfield's annual Contemporary Music Festival has built up a reputation which goes way beyond regional and even national boundaries. Last year The Observer waggishly summed up the town's improbable musical status by running the
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Music: Terrorvision's bizarre fruit
Terrorvision travelled through something of a time warp to record their new album. The Bradford four-piece enlisted the help of former Orange Juice singer Edwyn Collins to produce some of the tracks for the long-awaited new record, Shaving Peaches. And
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She was our golden girl
Rachel Barraclough was the loving daughter who brought joy to everyone who knew her. The family have spoken of the bright, lovable teenager who was always willing to help others, no matter who they were. Her distraught father Malcolm said: "Rachel was
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Phone mast would be a 'monstrosity'
An 80ft high mobile phone mast would be an obscene monstrosity towering above a small community, villagers have claimed. They are calling on Craven district council to refuse planning permission for the erection of a lattice tower next to a copse of trees
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35 back in jobs as firm is saved
Keighley company Trico, which went into receivership at the end of July with the loss of 59 jobs, is back in business under new ownership. The vitreous enamelling firm, which moved to new premises at Crossflatts only weeks before it went into receivership
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Gay vice raid on toilets
Ilkley police have shown they are not prepared to accept open displays of homosexuality in the town's public toilets. A number of arrests have been made following a recent swoop on the Riverside Gardens toilets. Inspector Alison Bennett said officers
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Home in time for his birthday
Villagers campaigning to 'bring home' a statue of Sir Titus Salt are hoping to have it put up in Saltaire in time for his 200th birthday. Shipley MP Chris Leslie, a member of the multi-agency Saltaire Project Team, said they had set 2003 - the bicentenary
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Leave her grave alone
The family of murdered Bradford teenager Rachel Barraclough today made a heartrending plea to thieves - "Please leave her grave alone." Rachel's killer Stephen Hughes, the father of her ex-boyfriend, Carl, was today beginning the first day of a life sentence
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Ace Mills is primed for derby contest
Bradford City's top scorer Lee Mills could be set for a return in tomorrow's Yorkshire derby with Barnsley. The Bantams striker missed his first game of the season in the midweek 3-1 victory over Halifax Town after being struck down by illness. However
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Abi goes for gold
Bradford Bulls star Abi Ekoku is to retire from rugby league in a bid to fulfil his ambition of winning an Olympic gold medal. The 32-year-old has told coach Matthew Elliott that this season will be his last and Sunday's clash with Salford Reds is set
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Nick Oldham: Rights and Wrongs
A woman stood up by her blind date is facing a restaurant bill for £60 - despite having nothing to eat. Di Cooke, pictured right, was flabbergasted when she received a demand for £60 from the Box Tree Restaurant in Ilkley after failing to ensure a table
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Facelift for historic building
A race is on to secure the future of an historic meeting house in Addingham, once home to the Quakers. Farfield Friends Meeting House has been given a £30,000 face lift by the London-based Historic Chapels Trust. But now the Trust wants local people to
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Families in crisis 'go Maori'
Methods used by New Zealand's Maori people will be brought in by Bradford social workers to help families in crisis. It is hoped family groups will solve their own problems, rather than be 'taken over' by professionals. The idea is based on traditional
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Store could face three-year delay
Shopping giant Morrisons may have to wait almost three years to start work on its multi-million pound superstore in Thornbury. The company has already been in months of talks with the Council since submitting its planning application last October over
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Crime-fight takes team approach
Specialist teams aimed at preventing youngsters who commit crimes from re-offending should be up and running in Bradford by next year. The ground-breaking groups, called Youths Offending Teams (YOTS), will consist of social workers, police officers, probation
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Heads in row over sex mix
A war of the sexes has broken out among a pair of Bradford grammar schools. 'Single sex schools are best' was the message parents and pupils at Bradford Girls Grammar School heard last night. Headteacher Lynda Warrinton told a 2,000-strong audience packed
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Fire chiefs try to quell 'risk' fears
Fire chiefs have tried to set the record straight about fears over the closure of Pudsey Fire Station. Critics claimed that lives would be at risk if Pudsey and Bramley stations merged as part of a radical shake-up of the service. But Councillor Lawrence
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Training boost for workers
Hundreds of Bradford workers will be given a chance to boost their skills thanks to a grant from Europe. Bradford & District Training & Enterprise Council has won £600,000 from the European Social Fund to train workers at firms throughout the
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Now withdraw the Rushie book, says Mosques leader
The president of Bradford's Council for Mosques has called for the withdrawal of Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses despite the Iranian government releasing its author from a death sentence. Mr Rushdie was condemned to death by edict or fatwa by
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Coming attraction: the classic posters
A unique collection of classic film posters was being launched in Bradford today. The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television has joined forces with the Bradford Film Office to build up a permanent collection of posters produced by Baildon-based
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Not much about Mary
David Behrens reviews There's Something About Mary. Much has been written and said these last few days about whether this new comedy from the makers of Dumb and Dumber is insulting to disabled people. For the record, it is - and that's the least of its
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Why Shane put on his dancing shoes
David Behrens meets the star of the Alhambra's musical , Boogie Nights. WASHING POWDER adverts aside, Shane Richie has not been much in evidence on our TV screens lately. It is, he insists, a deliberate policy. Two or three years ago, you could barely
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£143,000 will help with jobs for OAPs
Organisers of Otley's Action for Older People have launched a £143,000 scheme to help the elderly live at home. The Live at Home Neighbourhood Care project aims to help people with gardeners, painters and decorators, general handymen and vans to ferry
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'We've had our fill of takeaways'
Residents in Mirfield are on the warpath over a proposal to turn an empty video shop in to a hot-food takeaway. They are strongly opposed to the change of use for the premises on a parade of shops in Old Bank Road. The applicant is a businessman from
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Reservoir should be reserve, says MP
Campaigners fearful of a housing development on the site of an old reservoir are calling for the land to be preserved as an open space for local people. But Yorkshire Water, which owns the former Baildon Bank Lower Reservoir, looks set to sell the site
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Management buy-out for MCB University Press
Bradford-based MCB University Press has been bought for £55 million by its own management team. This is the second management buyout in three years for the company, which was bought out in 1995 for £40 million. The buyout has been made by Dr Barrie Pettman
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A tribute to firms that think Smart
Budding rock stars will be helped on their journey to fame with a bright idea from a Bradford firm which has won Government backing. Latronic, based at the Moorview Business Park in Thackley, will use its Smart award cash to develop an innovative sequencer
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Sports Diary
Your guide to what's on, when; week beginning September 26. Saturday BOXING WBC Heavyweight Championship: Lennox Lewis (Great Britain) v Zeljko Mavrovic (Croatia), Foxwoods, Ledyard, Connecticutt. WBO Heavyweight Championship: Herbie Hide (Great Britain
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Bees' revival gets its toughest test
Rugby Union: Bradford and Bingley's revival faces a stiff test tomorrow when they travel to North Division Two rivals West Park Bramhope. Joint table-topping Bees are without lock Mark Ramsbottom, centre Hugh Gumbs and injured back Danny Collins, but
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Respect illustrious figures
There has been talk for some years of re-siting the statue of Sir Titus Salt to Saltaire from its current place in Lister Park. Bradford doesn't have a particularly good record of looking after and honouring its historical figures. Salt's statue is tucked
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'£1.5m' to reduce class sizes
A major revamp of class sizes in North Yorkshire - to bring them to below 30 pupils - could cost £1.5 million. The money would be needed to pay for more teachers and extra classrooms and some refurbishment, a North Yorkshire County Council report has
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Residents set to get village voice
People in Pool-in-Wharfedale are joining forces to help shape the future of their village. A small steering group has been set up to head a survey which will establish the needs, assets and key concerns in Pool. And members are urging other residents
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Flight of fantasy is re-routed
Plans by three women to jet to New York and on to Ireland to raise money for charity have been grounded by air rules. Nicky Green, 34, a cook in Ilkley's Ardenlea Cancer Care Centre, and her friends Debbie Bentley, 32, and Tracey Waterman, 34, planned
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You're exploiting children, Cilla is told
Cilla Black's new prime-time show The Moment of Truth is to come under fire from a Bradford businessman on TV tomorrow. Carl Gresham will be appearing on Channel 4's Right to Reply to tell bosses the show exploits children. Mr Gresham, of The Carl Gresham
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Transfixed by experience of Transperience
A toy train-set proved small really is beautiful when Bradford's Transperience museum was consigned to the history books yesterday. But, as a mystery buyer paid £3,750 for the model Lincolnshire Light Railway set, a full size Gratz antique tram went for
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Festival bonanza!
Jubilant Bradford Festival bosses have announced plans for the event to become bigger and better. They say the event will forge ahead into the new Millennium thanks to a new £425,000 grant over four years from the European Regional Development Fund and
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Ex-lover's naked revenge
A jilted lover came up with a dirty way to get back at his girlfriend after she two-timed him. Two days after they split up, he popped a naked photo of her into an envelope and posted it to her parents. When the mother opened it, she was shocked and disgusted
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Arson probe into pub fire
Police are treating a fire at a trouble-hit pub as suspected arson after a blaze ripped through its cellar and destroyed its bar upstairs. Firefighters from Bradford and Odsal stations were called to the New Marshfield Pub, in Marsh Street, Bankfoot,
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Farmers unite for mass rally
Hundreds of farmers and their families from across the district will be turning out in force on Sunday to demonstrate a show of strength to the Government. Organisers at the Wharfedale and Craven groups of the National Union of Farmers say that masses
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Student's discovery in the war on cancer
A chance discovery by a student - today hailed as a major breakthrough in treating breast cancer - could earn Bradford University millions of pounds. An Oxford-based drug company has announced plans to develop a new process to produce the top-selling
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350 jobs in Grattan link-up with Tesco
Bradford mail-order giant Grattan is to create 350 jobs as it teams up with supermarket chain Tesco to develop a world-beating series of lifestyle catalogues. The firm, which already employs a total of 5,000 workers, is the first in the world to join
