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Canal-side revamp favours pedestrians
The canal waterfront in Skipton is set to become the town's main route for people on foot. A consultation exercise with residents and visitors has revealed that a main concern is that lighting should be installed along the length of the town-centre towpath
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Neighbours in fire rescue
Neighbours saved the life of a man trapped in a house fire after hearing a window explode in the blaze. Isobel Kellett and her son-in-law Freddy Fox were watching television when they heard breaking glass from across the street. When they opened the door
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In memory of 'Dougie'
Skateboard fans from across the region held an illegal contest in Brad-ford in memory of a tragic skateboarder who died from an asthma attack. The meeting, in the C&A car park in Charles Street yesterday, was held in memory of 14-year-old Matthew
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Call on centre for help in job search
Bradford's Call Centre Training Unit has proven a winner by finding 200 jobs for its trainees. Ann Taylor, 32, from West Bowling, is the 200th trainee to find a job after her five-week course at the training unit in Neale Street. The Call Centre Training
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Now Pryce gets GB call-up
Queensbury product Leon Pryce has capped a great start to his career with Bradford Bulls by gaining selection for the Great Britain Academy squad to face France Under-21s later this month. Pryce, 16, only arrived at Odsal midway through the season and
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Buzzing Bees go top of the table
Rugby Union: Bradford and Bingley 29, Vale of Lune 5. Bradford and Bingley's new coach Colin Hay is not an easy man to please. His side sit at the top of Thwaites North Division Two on points difference from also-unbeaten Driffield. And to get there the
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Manager's Comments
Paul Jewell writes: When you go to Sunderland, you know it is going to be difficult so to come away with a point is pleasing. There weren't that many chances in the game and that is a big compliment to our back four. I thought the move where Stuart McCall
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Sunny outlook for super City
Sunderland 0, Bradford City 0; Richard Sutcliffe at the Stadium of Light. When a rainbow pierced the gloom which had descended on the Stadium of Light as this keenly-fought goalless clash drew to a close, it seemed a fitting symbol of Bradford City's
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Elliott to build a new side
Matthew Elliott will quickly put his side's early play-off exit behind him and sign a new two-year contract with Bradford Bulls. The news comes as chairman Chris Caisley pledges to reward the fans for their superb backing in a difficult season by building
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Night of Terror in store for band's followers
Bradford rock band Terrorvision have never shied away from doing unusual concerts. In the past they have set the chandeliers shaking in the Grand Ballroom of the Pennington Midland Hotel and even played in a pub beer garden as a warm-up for the Reading
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Half-term date for wheel park debut
The official opening of the long-awaited Aireville Wheelpark has been scheduled for the half-term holidays. Chairman David Jaquin told the Wheelpark committee Annual General Meeting that phase one was nearing completion and would, hopefully, be ready
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How good life got even better for Penny
David Behrens interviews Penelope Keith, star of a new Keith Waterhouse play at the Bradford Alhambra. PENELEOPE KEITH grimaces as she recalls that first, tentative screen entrance. Summoning as much dignity as the circumstances will allow - much as the
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No room at hostel for sad teenagers
A charity which helps young homeless people says the number of teenagers seeking a roof over their head has rocketed by 50 per cent. Workers at the City Centre Project cannot accommodate everyone in the charity's eight bed hostel and last year had to
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'We'll fight plan for golf course'
A residents' group is to fight a proposed golf course at Guiseley. Two plans have been submitted to Leeds City Council by Hawksworth Estates to carry out alterations and extensions to listed farm buildings to form a golf clubhouse at Thorpe Farm, Thorpe
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Nitric acid fear as plant leaks fumes
An investigation is to be opened after a firm's nitric acid leak may have put families at risk. Spen Valley ward councillor Harry Fox called on Hays Chemical Distribution in Gomersal to look into the leak, which released vapour into the air and threatened
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£20,000 repair bill shock for churchgoers
The expertise of Victorian church builders has landed present-day worshippers with a bill that could top £20,000. Guttering installed inside Saltaire United Reformed Church - one of Bradford's biggest tourist attractions - has found to be rotting away
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Feast begins in Memory Lane!
A procession led by mounted police and the Queensbury Scouts Marching Brass Band passed through Barkerend to start the Lord Mayor's civic service yesterday. The Lord Mayor, Councillor Tony Miller, and the Lady Mayoress, Mrs Elsie Miller, were joined by
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Paul Twiddy: Business Sense
A hot topic at the moment, and one causing concern for both employers and employees is the impact of the new Working Time Regulations. These regulations implement in the UK the Working Time Directive which applies across the whole of the European Union
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Top six spot is Stu's aim
Stuart McCall believes resurgent Brad-ford City can force their way into the top six after earning a point at promotion favourites Sunderland. The Bantams produced one of their most impressive performances of the season to prevent the Wearsiders scoring
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Friends' tributes so moving
Young people are criticised for all sorts of different reasons: the way they dress and cut their hair, their attitude to life in general and their elders in particular, a lack of respect for the environment, appalling manners and surly behaviour. In many
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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
Digital television is coming. You can't have helped but notice. A less-than-subtle promotional campaign for it is already at work, softening us up for the prospect of either having to change our old television for a new one or buy a special box to sit
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School beats vandals with 8-ft security fence
A Spen Valley school is winning the war against vandals thanks to an eight-foot high security fence measuring 1,000ft across. It means St Mary's First School in Gomersal can now go ahead with long-awaited plans to improve the playground for the 180 pupils
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Three-way split 'is a wrong move'
Company bosses have been forced to split their workforce over three sites after failing to find a permanent new home. Some employees at the British Wool Marketing Board are unhappy about the move from the firm's current premises at Oak Mills in Station
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How the mighty are fallen
A vegetarian fired the detonator to demolish the chimney of a Bradford fat refinery. Eileen Broomhead, of the Home Start parents' support group in Shipley, pushed the button which toppled the 124-foot chimney - which was the last section of the now demolished
