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Spectacle marks 25 glorious years
The launch of a triple New Year celebration to mark the end of Ilkley Literature Festival's 25th year was announced today. A photographic exhibition, history of the festival and a specially-commissioned play are to be staged in Ilkley next month to celebrate
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Residents have a say on reservoir
Villagers at Hartshead Moor have been consulted about a landscaping scheme to screen a new reservoir. Yorkshire Water officials visited residents living close to the site in Halifax Road to ask them how they want it to look once the development is completed
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Police in hunt for armed mugger
Police have launched a hunt for an armed robber following a late night mugging in Baildon. The man detectives are looking for held what could have been a knife to a teenager's back as he walked home along Otley Road, Charlestown, demanded his money and
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Mike Peel: Business Sense
As 1999 arrives we are reaching the time when people plan their resolutions for the year ahead. Some of these business resolutions ought to be at the top of every businesses list. l Revisit your budgets. Budgets prepared against a more encouraging economic
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Firm lands major flooding contract
A growing civil engineering consultancy has won a major contract to help monitor the effects of flooding in the north. The two-year contract has been won by a Bingley businessman's firm which was started three years ago and uses advanced computer modelling
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Sheard shines with fourth Chevin Chase win on trot
Athletics: Boxing Day's Chevin Chase was won by Pudsey and Bramley international Paul Sheard for the fourth consecutive year. Despite tweaking a hamstring in training the week prior to the race, the 34-year-old had enough to hold off Altrincham's Dave
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Witter lands title eliminator
Bradford's Junior Witter, left, has landed himself a British light welterweight title eliminator early in the New Year. British No 6 Witter will meet Birmingham's Malcolm Melvin at the Grundy Park Leisure Centre, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire on Saturday, January
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Vaughan bids to grab his chance
Cricket: England may have managed to beat Australia at last, but the selectors will still be looking for improvements over the next few months. David Warner suggests they could do worse than look at Yorkshire's Michael Vaughan, who captains the England
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Shooting suspect on run from jail
A man being hunted by police in connection with a pub shooting in Bradford is on the run from prison, it was revealed today. Detectives want to question 39-year-old Stephen Flaherty in connection with the incident in which Deena Contreras was shot during
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'Hell since club opened all night'
A resident has described how her flat has been hell to live in since a nearby Bradford club became the first in the city to open through the night. The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, has spoken out as The Boilerhouse in School Street, off Manor
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Louise's right royal paparazzi tussle!
Photographer Louise Naylor has survived her first taste of life with the paparazzi. The 22-year-old found herself battling with a scrum of seasoned snappers when she was sent on a special assignment to capture the Queen. And although she was taken aback
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Winter battle
Flu is taking a major toll on hundreds of people in the district, putting huge emergency pressures on health services. Health reporter Mike Waites looks at the most detailed preparations ever made in Bradford by health chiefs to prevent a winter beds
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Doctor with gift to ease the pain
'Let Labour leader be chosen by us' Future Labour leaders of Bradford Council could face a district-wide poll of party members to win the top job. A move by Queensbury ward members to change the system follows the ousting of former Labour leader John
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'I've just stabbed woman in heart'
A 26-year-old woman admitted to her mother that she knifed one elderly woman through the heart and slashed another's throat, a court heard. Jane Cawley, 26, today appeared before Bradford magistrates, charged with the murder of 67-year-old Mary Robertson
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MP's probe call into tax blunders
A Parliamentary watchdog is set to investigate the Inland Revenue's handling of a Skipton man's tax affairs after it made a series of blunders. Dino Reardon, 66, spent two years fighting the Inland Revenue after it wrongly claimed he ran a business and
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Villagers to have a say on speed limit moves
Villagers are being consulted about proposals to impose a 20mph speed limit in Oxenhope. The idea is part of a strategy being considered by parish councillors who say residents want "people-friendly" solutions to their traffic problems. And they have
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Dear Scouts, please take this card to Texas
Hard-working parents and friends of Otley Parish Scout and Guide group are putting their feet up after delivering a record 11,792 Christmas cards across the town. They pounded the pavements with the biggest postbag ever. And by charging 10p a time, they
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Station parking getting on track
Commuters travelling by train are using their cars to reach the stations. But what about parking at the stations? Ian Lewis looks at how the spaces are being snapped up. EVERY DAY thousands of commuters let the train take the strain rather than battling
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'Don't push us out'
Two major private companies want to take over the site of Bradford's historic Rawson Market for shopping. But today stallholders, who have waited in a temporary hall nearby for two years for the old building to be refurbished, warned that a major retail
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Mac's delight at new deal
Valley Parade misfit John McGinlay has revealed his delight at bouncing back from a miserable spell at Bradford City by agreeing a new 18-month contract with Oldham. The former Scottish international, pictured left, became the Bantams' club record signing
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Cas target Bulls star
Bradford Bulls second-rower Sonny Nickle is a top target for Super League rivals Castleford Tigers. Nickle became a free agent recently after reaching a settlement on the final year of his Odsal contract and the Wheldon Road club's Aussie coach Stuart
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Hardly a healthy situation
The local health service was put severely to the test over the Christmas period. It did not stand up to it very well. In fact, as far as hundreds of people seeking advice and treatment outside their GPs' surgery hours were concerned, it failed badly.
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Lampkin set to show his Sheffield steel
Motor Sport: Dougie Lampkin will start Saturday's sell out International World Champion-ship Arena Trial at the Sheffield Arena as firm favourite for a clean sweep. But the Silsden rider, unbeaten at Sheffield, will face tough competition from Marc Colomer
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WR Mitchell, OBE: Letter from the Dales
A Dales friend has just returned from a full-dress rehearsal for Christmas. It was called "turkey and tinsel". A bus party was taken on a mystery ride to a distant hotel, where they re-enacted the Christmas festivities over three successive days. Tuesday
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Jim Appleby: Past Times
The piece a couple of weeks ago about the huge number of films on TV over Christmas and the New Year provoked a raspberry from an exiled Bradfordian. "There might be a thousand movies on the box," writes Stan Coxon, now living in Essex, "but there's hardly
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DJ John lifts lid on city's music
Veteran DJ John Peel will lift the lid on Bradford's musical melting pot in a new television series. The evergreen Radio One presenter meets half a dozen performers from the city in the new programme, John Peel's Sounds of the Suburbs, which will be screened
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We saved ewe!
Firefighters and police have performed one of their more unusual rescue operations - saving a sheep from the chilly River Wharfe. The animal was spotted in the river close to Otley police station yesterday. PC Simon Heathcote said: "We were having breakfast
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'Flu bug causes call-line collapse
An out-of-hours service used by scores of family doctors in Bradford has come under fire after it collapsed under demand over Christmas. Healthcall normally deals with 4,000 calls in a month from patients but in the five days from Christmas Eve received
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College bosses aim to be national pioneers
The Government is considering a bid to open Britain's first Muslim state school in Bradford after fee-paying Feversham College lodged a formal bid to transfer to the state sector. The final, official proposal has been signed, sealed and delivered to Education
