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At the bottom of the class
It will be an uphill struggle to improve educational standards in Bradford, according to a major teaching union as the Government's league tables are published today. Although the district seemed to have improved slightly on last year, it will take more
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Help us stop the truants
The headteacher of a Bradford school with the second worst truancy record in England today hit out at some parents for failing to send their children to school. Mr Neil Donkin's school, Eccleshill Upper was one of nine of the district's schools revealed
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Pudsey & Bramley miss main prize
Athletics: Clayton-le-Moors runner Mark Horrocks maintained his rich vein of form by winning the Rivock Edge Hill race from Silsden Park. Shane Green lead the Pudsey and Bramley charge by holding off team-mate Gary Oldfield for second place, and with
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Beagrie in vital talks
In-form winger Peter Beagrie is hoping to agree a new contract with Bradford City when he sits down for talks later this week. The 33-year-old joined the Bantams for a bargain £50,000 from Manchester City in 1997 on a two year deal which runs out next
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Tackling the truancy problem
Once again there is little comfort for Bradford in the latest schools league tables. To have nine of the district's schools named as being among the worst in the country for truancy, and five named as being down at the bottom of the class as far as GCSE
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Like brother and sister
Alwyn Prior and Sylvia Grace were just 12-years old when they were chosen to spend three years in a children's village in Switzerland. On their return they went their separate ways - but now the pair have found each other again ALWYN PRIOR and Sylvia
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Meet the 86-year-old who's going to be Moonstruck
On August 11 next year, a swathe of ocean and continent from Cornwall to India will be plunged into darkness as day turns into night. Thousands of Britons are expected to flock south to witness this amazing light show - a rare total eclipse. Here in West
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The pain of a disease I'd never even heard of
Most people have never even heard of the disease which means Ann Marie Moore will almost certainly need a hysterectomy, ending her hopes of having children. Endometriosis is a common condition and can mean misery for women like Ann Marie, leaving them
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More women are using morning-after pill
More Keighley women are using emergency contraception to prevent pregnancy after having unprotected sex, say medical experts. And nine out of ten local women who have had abortions say they would have used it if they had known it was available. Now, with
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Campaign for a parish council launched
More than 2,500 leaflets will drop through letterboxes and 100 posters slapped in windows in the next few days, calling on people to say yes to setting up a new parish council. The campaign will urge people in the Haworth, Stanbury and Cross Roads areas
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Shops seek curb on youth gangs
Residents and traders told today how they were under siege by a large gang of youths they say are running wild at night. People who live and work in Bolton Junction are calling for the police and Bradford Council to intervene before the situation gets
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600 resit test after head's mistake
More than 600 children in year six at primary schools must resit part of their selection examination for Skipton's two grammar schools on Thursday. The error arose after a headteacher made a mistake over the times allowed for part of the test. The mistake
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Study to focus on station proposals
Councillors have agreed to raid their resources to help pay towards the cost of a study into building a new train station in Cross Hills. Railtrack bosses persuaded Craven Council to pay out £10,000 towards the £45,000 needed for the study into setting
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Residents demanding action over 'eyesore'
Fed-up Yeadon residents are demanding immediate action after claims that their luxury housing estate remains unfinished - more than two years after developers began work. Campaigners at Parkland View, off Henshaw Lane, say their estate is an "eyesore"
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Reunion deaths riddle: new tests
Further tests were being carried out today to establish the cause of death of a Rawdon woman who died after a suspected gas leak at a pub. Helen Margaret Marks, 31, of Carr Close, Rawdon, died with her 30-year-old friend, Kay Stenning, at a country pub
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Fawlty hotels are facing fade-out
Hotels with bad food, dirty sheets, showers with no hot water and managers like Basil Fawlty will soon be a thing of the past for tourists visiting Kirklees. Kirklees Council plans to introduce a new policy with stricter standards for hotels, bed and
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'Axe the shopping at midnight' plea
Shipley residents are calling on supermarket giants Asda to pull the plug on midnight opening hours. Store bosses have extended the hours of operation at the town's outlet in Well Croft from 10pm to midnight on Thursdays and Fridays as the busy rush to
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Outrage at houses in the fairies' dell
The magic of the Cottingley Fairies' birthplace could be overshadowed if a developer's plans to build 60 houses near the site gets the go-ahead. Bradford Council planners will meet this week to decide on the application which has been recommended for
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Chris Wonter-Smith: Business Sense
I know from my own experience that the family business is at the heart of Bradford's economy. Nationally, half of all employed people work in such businesses. A family business typically starts as a one-man (or woman) operation that provides a livelihood
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Skipton acquires marketing firm
Skipton Building Society today announced the completion of a deal to secure a controlling interest in a Bradford-based marketing firm. The unexpected move means the country's eighth largest building society is now the majority shareholder in EuroDirect
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Woodend hit 13 goals to make move
Grattan League: Premier Division champions Woodend Rangers displayed title form when they gave Nab Wood a 13-goal drubbing. Woodend, who showed no mercy to struggling Nab Wood, were 7-1 in front at the break and continued to pile on the pressure after
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It's all a question of taste
Choosing a good bottle of wine for a dinner out, a present or an evening in with a takeaway and a video can be a worrying and time-consuming process. Three-quarters of Britons now drink wine, compared to only four per cent 50 years ago, and the choice
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Your Pets, by our vet Simon Thomas
Anyone who has not had the pleasure of getting to know a rat personally could be forgiven for thinking that the aggressive disease-spreading reputation of wild rats bore some relation to how pet rats behave. In fact nothing could be further from the truth
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Your Health, by Dr Tom Smith
Last week I saw a person with chickenpox. That doesn't sound like news - but he was 35! Everyone assumes that chickenpox is a child's disease, and that by the time we are adults we have had it, and are immune to it. Not so. My patient had the full blown
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Anila Baig: Poor old Des? What about me?
It's going around," say people sympathetically when you explain to them that you are feeling under the weather and have a cold that won't go away. For two weeks now I have been battling with an irritating cough and a throat that feels like I've swallowed
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?
There are some people who can forgive their tormentors, even if they apologise only grudgingly and do nothing to make amends. Others, though, cannot. None of us can say which category we would fall into if we have never been in that position. Some commentators
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Helping hand from parents of Chantelle
The parents of a Bradford teenager who died a year ago today after sniffing gas lighter fuel are setting up a counselling service for bereaved families in her memory. Chantelle Bleau, of Little Horton, was 16 when she died after inhaling the fuel from
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Car firm bags Rolls dealership
Bradford businessman Jack Tordoff today added Rolls Royce and Bentley to his motoring empire. His JCT 600 company, which already sells a host of luxury marques including Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lotus and Mercedes-Benz, has acquired Leeds-based dealership
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Fury greets freedom bid by Rachel's killer
The mother of murdered Bradford teenager Rachel Barraclough today said she hopes her daughter's killer "rots in hell." Hilary Barraclough said her family was horrified when they heard that 47-year-old Stephen Hughes is planning to appeal against his conviction
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'Why we call our street The Lakes'
Residents are planning a petition in a bid to get Bradford Council to repair their street, which they have dubbed an eyesore. Householders in Barmby Street in Wyke call their pot-holed road "The Lakes" because many of the holes are filled with a sea of
