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Threat to award hopefuls
Young people taking the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme in Bradford are facing a major setback. The threat of closure now hangs over the scheme's only resource centre in the city unless it gets cash from Bradford Council. Treasurer Barry Parker says the
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Hospital keeps on top of flu crisis
New measures for dealing with emergency cases introduced at Airedale General Hospital have helped staff cope with the boom in admissions as the flu bug bites. Figures are not yet available but bosses say admissions to the Steeton hospital are substantially
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Mum battled on for one last Christmas
A mother who clung to life so she could see her six-year-old daughter open her presents on Christmas morning, has died aged 37. Correena Done, who went to Mexico in search of a life-saving treatment, kept up her fighting spirit to be with her daughter
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Is village set to almost double?
The inspector's draft report for Pool-in-Wharfedale under the Leeds Urban District Plan (UDP) could see the village increase in size by up to 40 per cent. Pool contains several key sites earmarked for development, including the controversial Swallow Drive
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Developers want residents' views
Residents living near a college site where houses are to be built will be consulted by the developers. Crest Homes (Northern) Ltd, which has won a contract to develop the Ilkley College land, had considered holding a public meeting to discuss the plans
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£1.6m for repairs to our roads
A 'rollercoaster' main road is expected to get top priority in a £1.6 million package to improve routes across the district. Engineers say the foundations of traffic-snarled Otley Road, Baildon have been washed away and urgent restructuring is necessary
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Hands Off!
The Bradford & Bingley Building Society today vowed to fight moves by carpetbaggers to convert to a bank. Any transition to a bank would trigger possible windfall payments of up to an estimated £2,000. The Society, which has its headquarters in Crossflatts
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Moving proves a family matter
The boss of a growing copier service made it a family affair when he moved the company to Bradford. For John Lees' mother, Marion Lees, officially opened ABS UK Ltd's headquarters on the Euroway Estate. And the building has been called Raymond House -
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Premier trio ease through in cup ties
Amateur RL: All three Bradford Premier sides had little difficulty in progressing into the third round of the Pennine Presidents Cup following comfortable victories against clubs from the lower ranks. Queensbury lacking four regulars accounted for Division
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Stuart can be City's Strachan - Jewell
Manager Paul Jewell believes Stuart McCall is doing the same job for Bradford City that his fellow Scottish international midfield player Gordon Strachan did for Leeds United in the early 1990s. Strachan inspired Leeds to their 1992 championship triumph
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No option for society
The board of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society is right to be opposing the organisation's conversion to a bank, after announcing yesterday that it will ask its members to vote on the matter. Chief executive Christopher Rodrigues has pointed
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Jim Appleby: Past Times
Most magicians and illusionists take their secrets to the grave with them - to the relief of their contemporaries. Not so Carlton, the Human Hairpin, who amazed Bradford audiences in the early years of this century. He was more forthcoming. Carlton, a
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Council gets rubbished over bin-bag mountain
Residents have rubbished Bradford Council after a mountain of bin bags was left outside their homes for three weeks. People living in Victoria Park View, Keighley, claimed the rotting mass of up to 40 bags was attracting mice and rats - but they say pleas
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Open-all-hours 'hospital' plan
A 'mini hospital' working round the clock is to open at a new £2 million Bradford health centre. A new 90-room centre in Tong Street will be the first in the district to treat the 'walking wounded', as well as providing a range of medical services for
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Now mum gets cash for shark treatment
A mum-of-two battling a rare form of cancer is set to undergo potentially life-saving treatment using an alternative therapy after a successful appeal for cash. Christine Bailey, 41, of Woodside, has been told by doctors that the cancer which has spread
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Top lawyer to help fight housing plan
A top London barrister and a highways engineering consultant are being hired to fight developers' plans to build a housing estate in Mirfield. Mirfield Town Council has set aside £10,000 to pay their fees at a planning appeal next month. Developers Bellway
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Pupils return after school scare over asbestos
Pupils at a school hit by an asbestos scare returned to classes today after safety assurances. A handful of parents at Ryshworth Middle in Crossflatts had kept their children at home in the run-up to Christmas after it was revealed experts were checking
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Lampkin makes it four at Sheffield
Motor Sport: World indoor and outdoor trials champion title holder Dougie Lampkin dominated the opening round of the world arena trials championship series for the fourth consecutive year at a packed Sheffield Arena. Some 8,600 screaming fans raised the
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Robbie back in charge
Bradford Bulls have restored Kiwi ace Robbie Paul as team captain for the 1999 Super League campaign. Paul was put in charge by former coach Brian Smith in 1995 at the age of only 19 and a year later became the youngest captain in a Wembley final when
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Casualty's closure 'added to pressure'
Health chiefs have admitted that the closure of Wharfedale Hospital's Accident and Emergency department last year may have contributed to the unprecedented numbers attending Leeds hospitals over the Christmas period. Now an appeal has been made for former
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Sculptor's work will socket to shoppers
A bright spark has turned a lonely corner of a retail park's car park into an extraordinary piece of art. A 10ft (3m)-high light bulb now stands like a beacon outside the second phase of the Forster Square Retail Park in Bradford. The £14,000 sculpture
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'Shop them' plea to stop teenage car
arson gangs Police are asking residents of a Bradford estate to shop gangs of teenagers who are stealing car and setting them on fire. Since the start of the year there have been four incidents where cars have been stolen and abandoned and set ablaze
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Hospitals aiming to beat the bug
Huge investment is being injected into hospital services in Bradford to prevent chaos from the Millennium computer bug. At Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital as much as £750,000 is expected to be spent checking and replacing computer systems
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'Let's know pay of Council boss'
Opposition members of Bradford Council today called for full details of the salary awarded to the new chief executive to be made public. The Liberal Democrat and Tory groups also called for national applicants in the final line-up and said they did not
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'We'll monitor sewage scheme'
Water chiefs today pledged to monitor a polluted site in Thornbury as contractors worked on a £3 million sewage scheme. The assurances from Yorkshire Water came as worried residents near the former GEC foundry site in Dick Lane said they feared for their
