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Book now for Hogmanay
More than 100 people will be seeing in the New Year in traditional Scottish style at Otley Civic Centre this year. Otley and District Caledonian Society's Hogmanay celebrations will begin at 8pm and will include dancing to the Dale Country Show Band,
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Cemetery gets a new lease of life
Council workers have pulled out the stops to repair a trail of destruction left by vandals at an Ilkley cemetery. Parish councillor Lexa Robinson (Con, Ilkley North) has spent at least two years battling to bring the Leamington Terrace cemetery up to
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Sand-sational charity effort boosts hospice
A hospice is getting a massive boost thanks to a record-breaking walk organised by its Shipley-based support group. Last year's sponsored walk across Morecambe Bay sands raised almost £5,000 for Manorlands at Oxenhope. Members of the Shipley Support Group
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A leap of faith
A nativity play seen through the eyes of animals gets is first showing at Lady Lane Park School, Bingley, today. The Winter Journey tells of the donkey's mission to take Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem as he navigates obstacles helped by other animals. Stags
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Dougie is given BBC telly snub
This year had certainly brought some funny results at the top level of motor sport, with bungling officialdom producing a very unsatisfactory British Grand Prix result that was dominated by the Schumacher fiasco. And there was the yellow flag infringement
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Six-try Queensbury lose out in cup thriller
Queensbury matched Featherstone Lions' six try total, but still lost 34-26 in the first round of their away Silk Cut Challenge Cup tie. 'Bury, however, could only manage one conversion against the Lions' five, a factor which proved vital in a thrilling
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City ease kop fears
Chairman Geoffrey Richmond today hit back at critics of the club's arrangements to cater for supporters disrupted by work on the Kop. Building work on the £2.5 million all-seater stand at the Kop end of Valley Parade is underway, but while the stand is
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Difficult task for Council
Two years ago residents in the Bolton Road area of Bradford joined forces to oppose plans for a bail hostel, fearing that it would bring an undesirable element to the community. Their campaign proved to be successful and the hostel scheme never got off
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Rooster-booster Viagra alternative
Impotent men are being egged on to try a new sex-drive pill which is claimed to be better than Viagra. The natural remedy for impotence is produced from chicken eggs and taken in a capsule and also as a rub-on cream containing aphrodisiac herbs. The pill
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We may shut just as we're opening!
A women's group could close before it has had time to hold the official opening of its new £190,000 centre. Keighley Women's Centre is facing the axe after Bradford Council omitted to include it on the list of appeals for community grant aid. The group's
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Residents' fury at 'death trap' road
Residents claim "boy racers'' have turned their road into a death trap and are demanding urgent action to prevent someone being killed or seriously injured. Families in Woodend Road, Lower Hopton, Mirfeld, want speed humps installed along the road, most
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Carer 'beat woman' aged 80
An 80-year-old woman had toilet paper forced into her mouth and a scarf tied over her eyes by her carer, a court has heard. On other occasions, Jacqueline Wright, a carer with a Keighley agency, hit Cullingworth pensioner Betty Sunderland across the leg
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Profits on the up for escalator firm
A Keighley firm is growing thanks to a number of major orders - one with a little Xtra help. O&K Escalators has signed its first contract to supply escalators to the Halifax for a major branch amalgamation project in Canterbury. The multi-million
