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'Refugees desperate for food and soap'
Kind-hearted Keighley people are being urged to help provide vital aid to thousands of Kosovan people who are fleeing their strife-torn country. Keith Bell, a member of the Cambridge-based Friendship Link, is calling for soap, tents, food and plastic
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Traffic calming measures put before public
Residents are being invited to have their say about plans for traffic calming in a road where 32 accidents have taken place in the past five years. It follows North Yorkshire County Council's announcement of public consultation over a similar scheme on
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Rate rises 'creating commercial desert'
Rate rises threaten to make a town a commercial desert, a councillor has warned. Tory Councillor Eric Dawson is backing Silsden shopkeepers who say high business rates and big out-of-town malls are crippling their trade. Peter Brook, who runs a menswear
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Takeover is good news for Grattan
Bradford mail order giant Grattan has been given a chance to offer a wider range of goods thanks to its parent company Otto Versand acquiring London home shopping firm Freeman. The Hamburg-based group has bought Freeman, which has a major warehouse and
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Ian's out to Waltz it
Athletics: The second Bunny Run over Harden Moor on Tuesday night went by the form book as Ian Holmes strode to victory over the three mile course in 17min 23sec, clipping 20 seconds of his winning mark of last week. He will be giving someone else a taste
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Pauls to miss derby clash with Blue Sox
Bradford Bulls will be lacking star Kiwi duo Robbie and Henry Paul for the testing derby clash with Halifax at Odsal later this month. The half-back pairing have been named in the New Zealand squad for the Anzac Day Test against Australia in Sydney on
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Helen Mead: Party poopers!
Hasn't anybody twigged yet? In a week when couples everywhere are having early nights and copulating frantically, there's all this talk of people trying to capitalise on lucrative sponsorship deals with a Millennium Baby. Posters have begun to appear,
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Muddle of Highway Code errors
A national motoring organisation has put pressure on the Government transport chiefs to clear up a muddle over mistakes in the Highway Code. The move by the Automobile Association came after Shipley driving test instructor Paul Stephenson found two errors
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We're getting there
Daily Mail columnist Lynda Lee-Potter branded Bradford a 'vile and nasty place'. But the city is fighting back and millions of pounds have been spent on sprucing up the streets and buildings. Reporters Olwen Vasey and Jan Winter look at the public perception
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Pop man's attack on civic men
A Council boss has hit back at claims it fails to support Bradford's music scene. Musician Dean Cavanagh fiercely criticised Bradford Council in a high-profile TV programme about the city. Dean, who fronts 'techno' band Glamorous Hooligan, spoke out during
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'Don't dump those old tyres!'
Illegal tyre dumping is a growing problem in Bradford - according to Bradford Council and The Environment Agency. Chairman of Bradford Council's waste management sub-committee Councillor Keith Thompson said the Council was increasingly left to clear up
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Shopping centre to aim at students
A major developer today announced £1.5 million plans for a shopping centre, pub and restaurant aimed at the city's students. The new courtyard development will be directly opposite the entrance to Bradford University in Great Horton Road. It will be the
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Police chief under fire over cars deal
West Yorkshire's Chief Constable came under fire last night for approving a controversial police vehicle sponsorship deal in the Bradford district. At its annual open meeting West Yorkshire Police Federation chairman Roger Benn said the Force had lost
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Hope of spy cameras from £150m handout
A major cash handout from the Government could pay for security cameras in Otley. The Home Office has announced it is to spend £150 million on the setting up of thousands of closed-circuit television schemes across the country. And now Otley's MP, Harold
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Top coaching hopes for young sport stars
Youngsters in Ilkley could soon take advantage of top sports coaching if a Shipley businessman has his way. Brendan Larkin wants to build a youth sports academy on land at Dansk Way near Leeds Road, Ilkley. If planning permission is granted the one-storey
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Cleanliness is the key to prosperity
A councillor is hoping to secure more funding to spruce up Heckmondwike as the current scheme comes to an end. Councillor Tim Crowther (Lab, Heckmondwike) said he would be lobbying hard to get more money from Kirklees Council this year to continue environmental
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Anniversary boost to plea for heritage site
Campaigners working to have Saltaire declared a World Heritage Site are launching a bid to get the honour bestowed on the 200th anniversary of its founder's birth. Yesterday the Telegraph & Argus revealed that the Victorian model mill village had
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Roof plunge youth dies
A teenager has died after plunging 50ft through a skylight at a Crossflatts factory when he went to retrieve a football. Gavin Baxter, 13, of Moorhead Crescent, Saltaire, had clambered on to the roof of the Magnet kitchen and joinery showroom in Keighley
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Boy, 3, in manhole plunge
Bradford Council today apologised to the family of a three-year-old boy who fell down a manhole which had been reported as dangerous. Thomas Simpson became wedged up to his neck in the three-foot deep manhole in the garden of his sister's Woodside home
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Bedford ready to knuckle down in Riley bid
Snooker: Simon Bedford is hoping a knuckle injury will not keep him out of the finals of the Riley's UK Tour Event Four in Stockport, which start on Monday. The 23-year-old from Fairweather Green contracted the injury after an incident at Leeds station
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Yellow peril
Manager Paul Jewell has warned his Bradford City side to avoid needless bookings in this weekend's clash at home to Portsmouth with six of his players just one yellow card away from a suspension. The Bantams have accrued the joint lowest tally of bookings
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Adoption figures so promising
Bradford Council has no cause to be ashamed of its mid-table rating as far as placing children in new adoptive homes is concerned. A five per cent adoption figure for children currently in care may not seem a lot, but it is a considerable improvement
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'Forever families' shortage
Only five per cent of Bradford children in care are successfully placed in new adoptive homes, new figures reveal. But social services workers stressed their commitment to adoption as the best option for many under-eight year olds and pledged to boost
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'Cot death' theory over tragic dad
The family of a former rugby league player who died in his sleep aged only 34 believe he may have been struck down by an adult form of cot death. Paul White, of Allerton, won many fans during a career spanning more than a decade and prided himself on
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Straw puts cash into beating the burglars
A crime-cutting initiative aimed at beating burglars in two areas of Bradford has won cash backing from the Home Office, it was announced today. The Great Horton and Scholemoor strategic development project is one of 30 pilot schemes selected to receive
