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Anger over mix-up with certificate
A childcare worker has been left empty-handed after being led to believe she had passed an NVQ qualification by her Bradford training organisation. Dawn Langley only discovered she had not qualified when she contacted City and Guilds, in London, to find
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Minister warned of school route danger
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is to be asked to back calls to create a safer route for children travelling to Cowling School. Pupils who walk to school have to travel down a steep hill which has no pavement and parents, staff and governors fear
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Alarm at sandwich spread
An Ilkley resident has expressed concern about the number of sandwich boards on the town's streets. And a meeting of Ilkley Parish Council was told a balance had to be struck between public safety and allowing traders to thrive. They spoke out after Ilkley
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Firms get help to ease junction jam
Firms on a thriving business park in Birstall have won a partial victory in their fight to solve rush-hour mayhem on a traffic-choked road. Kirklees Council has agreed to carry out some of the improvements demanded by companies on the Norquest industrial
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Smugglers 'get free run''
Known drug smugglers are being allowed to walk unchallenged through Leeds-Bradford Airport because of an understaffing crisis in the Customs service, it was claimed today. The PCS union, which represents 75 per cent of Customs and Excise staff, today
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Antonik lifts Cougars
Rugby League: Barrow 21, Keighley 22. Nathan Antonik was the hero of the hour for the Cougars. His try two minutes from time saved them from a wretched Easter and was good enough to win any game. He darted past three defenders from 15 metres out to score
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City march on as Windass strikes
Bury 0, Bradford City 2; Match Report by Richard Sutcliffe. What a difference a year makes. Last Easter Monday, Bradford City had visited Gigg Lane and slipped to a 2-0 defeat with a display which was so poor that it left 1,500 loyal fans sarcastically
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Windass is a big hit!
Bradford City boss Paul Jewell saluted striker Dean Windass after his double strike secured victory over hapless Bury. The Bantams ran out comfortable 2-0 winners and with Bolton and Birmingham both losing unexpectedly at home yesterday, the race for
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Welcome news for residents
Those residents of Saltaire who recently expressed their dismay at the village's growing popularity among tourists will not be best pleased at the news that it is set to receive another shove in that direction. However, as far as Bradford as a whole is
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Importance of keeping Ernest fit
Most of us would love to be fitter, and although we plan to do something about it, more often than not, we don't actually do anything. Even those who do take the plunge and join a gym find they make use of it far less than they had intended. For some,
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Easing the pain of bereavement
The death of someone close is something we all face in our lives and it can leave you feeling shocked, depressed, angry and lonely. Bradford Bereavement Support is a group that provides counselling and help for people that are living with the death of
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Training vital in long run
Nick Anderton is beginning to wind down his tough training schedule as he prepares to pound London's streets in the annual marathon. He has been gradually building up his strength in longer and longer runs from his Idle home as part of months of training
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WR Mitchell, OBE: Letter from the Dales
Daffodils normally raise our spirits in April but this year, after a mild winter, many were in flower in March. "Daffs" bloom in their hundreds in woodland at Parcevall Hall, near Appletreewick, where the original bulbs were introduced in a curious way
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?
There have been moments, as the nightmare in Kosovo worsened, when being a grandparent hasn't seemed quite the unqualified joy it usually is. I half wish, when I see heartbreaking pictures like this of a little7 boy being comforted by another as he flees
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Shoppers furious at 'dead body' ad
Shoppers are calling for a ban on a poster campaign for a new Bradford menswear shop which features the image of a dead body. The posters for the upmarket To Die For store, which is due to open in Sunbridge Road, feature the outline of a corpse with the
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Stars in tribute to Bryan
Showbiz stars will pay tribute to Coronation Street legend Bryan Mosley at a special memorial service later this month, the Telegraph & Argus can reveal today. Soap fans will be rubbing shoulders with stars from the top-rating show when the service
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Church chimes could be saved by the bell
People power may have scored a victory for Silsden's parish church bells. Reverend John Cooper had agreed to sell the six bells to help pay for thousands of pounds of essential work to the church tower. But a group of townsfolk got together and attempted
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Cash for historic buildings at risk
Owners of historical buildings in Otley are being urged to snap up £150,000 restoration cash - or lose it for good. The Conservation Area Partnership (CAP) initiative was launched a year ago and offered owners and tenants of some of the town's historic
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Village is nearer to 'world' status
The chances of Saltaire becoming a world-renowned tourist spot received a huge boost today. The model village was among 25 UK sites which may receive World Heritage status on the grounds of their beauty or historical interest. The outstanding spots -
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Tories will press for a referendum on mayor
A campaign is being launched to force Bradford Council to hold a referendum on a planned shake-up of the way the local authority is run. Bradford South Conservative Association is starting a petition in June to collect 18,000 signatures to force the Council
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Mountains of deals on offer
Big deals in Austria are on offer for Bradford firms who attend a major export event. A half-day briefing has been set up on Tuesday, April 13 called Europartenariat Austria 1999. It is being hosted by West Yorkshire Euro Info Centre which is assisted
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Avenue and Guiseley take big Easter haul
Non-League: Bradford Park Avenue added to struggling Farsley Celtic's woes by taking all three points in their UniBond Division One derby at Throstle Nest with a 2-0 win. Avenue stormed into a two-goal lead in just over half an hour, and the match would
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Woeful Bulls hit by super Saints
St Helens 58, Bradford Bulls 14; Match Report, by Nigel Askham. The Bulls looked like a side with a hangover as they crashed to their heaviest ever Super League defeat. Two gruelling encounters against Leeds had left them battered and drained, but it
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Sad Bulls suffer power failure
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott, pictured right, was in philosophical mood after watching his side slump to their heaviest defeat in Super League since its launch in 1996. The Bulls' top-of-the-table crunch ended in a 58-14 roasting for Elliott's
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Your Pets, by our vet Simon Thomas
Stray animals are a fact of life and inevitably they arrive in our hospital from time to time. George the ginger cat, who now lives in the nurses' room at our hospital, was callously hit over the head during a robbery. Sooty the black cat's arrival was
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Your Health, by Dr Tom Smith
Three weeks ago a young man came to see us with what he thought was a trivial complaint. He hadn't lost his cough after a bad dose of the flu in January, but he thought that was just normal. Plenty of his friends had the same trouble, and the advice he
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Anila Baig: Sixty short minutes and so much confusion
It is the holidays and so you now have plenty of time to do the stuff that you have been putting on hold for the past few months - right? Wrong. It all boils down to organisation and time management, of course, and you are as about as orderly as a er,
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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
In a liberal, tolerant society like ours, it's traditionally frowned upon to criticise those whose lifestyle isn't like your own. But who cares? If the lifestyle of the minority who choose to be different affects no-one but themselves, fair enough. However
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Gas bottle blast as yard 'torched'
An explosion at a Bradford tyre yard, believed to have been started by children, has brought calls for its closure by neighbours. One side of Manchester Road was closed for two hours on Sunday night after a fire exploded two gas bottles, throwing burning
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Shop owner sees off gas attackers
A Bradford shopkeeper told how he hurled bottles of cider at would-be robbers who sprayed him in the face with a noxious substance. Robert Hambleton, 54, who runs Oakroyd Stores of Oakroyd Terrace, Manningham, said he threw the plastic bottles and anything
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Mum writes book on Clegg drama
The mother of paratrooper Lee Clegg is writing a book about the campaign to clear her son's name. Wynne Johnson, 55, of Lidget Green, who said she always believed her son was innocent of killing a Belfast teenager, also revealed that the soldier kept
