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Kiki's eastern promise
Simon Ashberry talks to Bradford's Kiki Dee about her new album and tour aimed at putting her back in the musical spotlight Kiki Dee admits she's in danger of falling between two stools. At this stage in her career she's neither cutting edge enough to
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50 brave years of the fells rescuers
A group which has come to the rescue of scores of people on Yorkshire's dangerous Dales has launched a 50th anniversary book to raise funds. The sale of the book about the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association will raise money for valuable new equipment
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Exams crisis spreads
Examinations in some subjects have been suspended in Keighley training sessions after problems were found with NVQ qualifications. Now the Council's internal auditors and the Government's Qualifications and Curriculum authority are carrying out an investigation
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Banishing winter health discontent
Health chiefs have unveiled plans they claim put them in their best-ever position to deal with winter emergency pressures. Nearly £2million is being spent in Bradford and Airedale hospitals and the community to deal with the expected upsurge in emergency
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Arrest after fire station inquiry
Police called in to investigate allegations of misconduct at Ilkley Fire Station have arrested a man in connection with an alleged theft, it emerged today. The man, who has not been named, is 36 years old and from the Ben Rhydding area of Ilkley. Meanwhile
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Alarm bell leaves firemen blazing
Firefighters are calling for urgent action from Bradford Council to repair a leak which is repeatedly triggering the alarm system in a block of flats. The system is repeatedly being set off by a damp ceiling which is short-circuiting a smoke detector.
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'Free circus bear Fred'
People were today urged to boycott a circus which includes tricks by Britain's last performing bear. A councillor branded the show - which is set up on farm land near Bingley - upsetting and called for the bear, called Fred, to be handed over to an animal
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Offices in pioneer scheme
A landmark Bradford office block is being used to pilot a way of letting business space. The city is the first to set up a business condominium which gives firms a chance to own floor space in multi-storey buildings instead of renting. Multi-national
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Carry on sliding as Fields beaten again
County Amateurs: Fields, who won three of their first four games in the Mumtaz Premier Division slipped to their third defeat in four games, going down 3-2 at home to Halifax Irish. Striker Shaun Walsh put the visitors in front against the run of play
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Bitter Sharks blow top in Radford row
Bradford Bulls war of words with Hull over top junior prospect Lee Radford moved into overdrive today. Radford sparked a storm at the Boulevard recently when he agreed a three-year contract at Odsal and now the clubs are at loggerheads over the fee with
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A village vastly out of scale
News that a plan for a "Dales-style" village on land between Crossflatts and Micklethwaite has been revived will have alarmed locals. It is more than five years since the scheme was first mooted to a welter of protest. Residents presented a 1,000-signature
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Review: Paul Merton, St George's Hall
Paul Merton watched himself on Whose Line Is It Anyway? on a TV set in the corner of his psychiatric ward. It was several years ago, but it must have seemed like only yesterday as he relived the experience for last night's audience. He did it with such
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Avoid the risk of a crippled old age
A campaign, backed by National Lottery cash, reaches the Bradford area tonight to highlight the causes of a disease which every year leads to 15,000 premature deaths across the country. Leading experts from across the North will be at a free public meeting
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A little dose of animal magic!
Robert Redford is currently appearing on our cinema screens as The Horse Whisperer. Heather Bishop meets Bradford's own version, who claims to be able to cure horses with his healing hands. MIKE HOLLINGWORTH may not look anything like Robert Redford but
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Getting through the teens unscathed!
'Mum, I'm pregnant,' or 'I hate you - I'm leaving.' Words which the parents of every teenager dread to hear. Today's teenagers face pressures and opportunities unknown to their parents' generation. So how do four of Bradford's 17-year-olds view their
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W.R. Mitchell, MBE: Letter from the Dales
Big Bag Silage is everywhere in evidence. The bags are huge, made of black plastic, containing winter fodder for the stock. Forming heaps in the corners of fields, they resemble giant black puddings, their skin having silvery highlights from the thin
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Anila Baig: A touch of class from Madonna
Just when you thought Madonna, the pop diva famous for her raunchy videos and eye- popping on- stage appearances, revealing costumes and infamous tellings-off by the Pope for burning crosses, couldn't possibly get any more shocking, she confounds us all
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Rallying call over homes 'threat'
A councillor has called upon people in Wharfedale to fight what he claims is the threat of thousands of new homes in the district. The Telegraph & Argus yesterday revealed how a report by consultants Baker Associates had recommended 7,500 new homes
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Firm sues over stadium work
A Bradford construction company is taking legal action over a bills row following a massive revamp of the New Shay Stadium in Halifax. Blakedell, based in Birkenshaw, said it has issued a High Court writ against Engageblend, the firm behind the redevelopment
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Brother's heroin tragedy in verse
A grieving sister has written a poignant poem about her brother whose life was destroyed by heroin. And now 19-year-old Claire Wilson hopes that the death of her brother Matthew will serve as a graphic warning to others to steer clear of the killer drug
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Car smash baby's smile of courage
Little Nafisah Ali sits in a cot playing happily with toys just 48 hours after surviving a horrific road accident almost unscathed. The one-year-old was thrown through the windscreen of the car she was travelling in and catapulted 50ft to be found by
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Jailed mum tells of delight over conviction doubts
Jailed Bradford mother-of-three Zoora Shah today told of her surprise and delight after the jury foreman cast doubt on her conviction. Mrs Shah, 46, formerly of Legrams Lane, is currently in Durham prison, serving the sixth year of a 20-year sentence
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Motorists miss out in car park invasion
Motorists were left scrabbling for parking spaces today after a fleet of BT vans moved on to Bradford's Vicar Lane car park. Around a quarter of the car park was cordoned off for 150 engineering vans, and police lined roads into the car park with cones
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School tributes to bug victim Katie
Students and teachers at Rastrick High School are to pay tribute to a pupil who died of meningitis during the summer holidays. The school is to create a "peace garden'' in the grounds for pupils to enjoy in memory of Katie Paine, 16, of Long Fallas Crescent
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Revival of plan to build village on beauty spot
Multi-million-pound-plans to create a Dales-style village at a beauty spot on land between Crossflatts and Micklethwaite have been revived. It is well over five years since the Telegraph & Argus revealed the ambitious masterplan for the scheme spread
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Despair, then joy for Albion's Clarke
Bradford Sunday Alliance: Albion's Richard Clarke put through his own goal to give Bradford Moor a 2-0 lead in the Premier Division, but after Craig Bower's brace had levelled and Moor had gone ahead again, Clarke had the joy of scoring Albion's equaliser
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Wright is ruled out
Bradford City suffered more injury trouble today with the news that right back Stephen Wright will be out of action for several weeks. The former Rangers player who joined City during the summer had an exploratory operation on his right knee last night
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A view of Scott's life from street level
Scott Mahoney was exactly like thousands of other young men - going to a decent job every day and living in a flat with his girlfriend and baby son. But he was thrown into turmoil as his life disintegrated around him. Scott tells Jan Winter about life
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Your Pets, by our vet Simon Thomas
At six years old Marcus is still a young cat. If you saw him chasing the leaves in the sunshine today you would hardly think he had grown out of being a kitten, yet earlier this year it was a very different story. Back in February he started to cough
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Your Health, by Dr Tom Smith
If you haven't heard by now that two of the Spice Girls are pregnant, then you must have just dropped in from Mars. They are also said to be suffering from pregnancy cravings - or pica. Let's hope they are fairly easy ones to cope with. Not like toxic
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?
At the risk of sounding like one of the contributors to Hector Mildew's column, I have a major complaint to make. Why are the directions on jars and packets of baby food printed in such small type? Parents might be able to cope, with their young eyesight
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Dales 'at risk' if Euro funding is lost
The landscape of the Yorkshire Dales and the future of its farming community were under threat from the potential loss of European funding, a national park leader has warned. Councillor Robert Heseltine, chairman of the Yorkshire Dales National Park,
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Bulls star Reihana cleared of assault
Bradford Bulls star Tahi Reihana was today cleared of assault and affray charges after a court decided the evidence against him was unreliable. Ruling there was no case to answer, Bradford stipendiary magistrate Guy Hodgson said no clear picture had emerged
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Last-ditch bid fails to stop the meters
A last-ditch attempt by a trader to stop Bradford Council introducing controversial parking meters failed last night when councillors gave the go-ahead. Peter Blyth, owner of Minstrels Music Shop in Sunbridge Road, turned up at the transportation, planning
