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Road plan 'will put children's lives at risk'
A mother of two has hit out at plans to drive a road through a Yeadon cul-de-sac which she says will put children's lives at risk. Janet Cartwright is one of many residents in Crofters Lea protesting against the road which will provide access to four
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Monster of a contract
They're heavily into monsters in Bingley, where unsuspecting visitors to the Valley Group might just encounter Godzilla or a tyrannosaurus rex round almost any corner. The company specialises in designing, printing and producing for innovative display
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Builders tot up a 35th deal
Bradford construction group Totty is celebrating winning its 35th deal with leisure group Whitbread bringing the total contract figure to £40 million. The latest contract is the rebuilding of the Beefeater Restaurant at Hockley Heath in Solihull, destroyed
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Holiday can wait for ambitious Stevens
Snooker: Welshman Matthew Stevens hopes to delay his end of season holiday by at least two weeks until the Embassy World Championship finishes in Sheffield. And Stevens, who opens his campaign against Peter Ebdon today, had better not make firm plans
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Win is perfect fillip before County final
Non League: Bradford Park Avenue 3, Eastwood Town 1. Avenue turned their final home game of the season into a celebration as they cruised to their third league double of the season, dumping sixth-placed Eastwood Town with an impressive first half display
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Lowes powers Bulls up table
Warrington Wolves 14, Bradford Bulls 22; Match Report by Nigel Askham, at Wilderspool. Jimmy Lowes turned back the clock to 1997 and took the Bull by the horns into second spot in Super League. The combative hooker took the Man of Steel award in the club's
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Manager's Comments
Paul Jewell writes: If I am to take something positive out of Saturday it is that we are now two goals better off than we were over Ipswich at the start of the day. But it is a setback. We started off very well but I have to say I can't believe the way
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Vaesen piles on agony for City
Bradford City 2, Huddersfield Town 3; Match Report, by Richard Sutcliffe at Valley Parade. If Bradford City do fail in their bid to seal automatic promotion to the Premiership, then the name Nico Vaesen will figure highly in a list of reasons why Paul
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We're still in the hunt
Winger Peter Beagrie remains adamant that Bradford City can still claim automatic promotion despite slipping to defeat in a thrilling derby clash with Huddersfield. The Bantams remained in second place despite the 3-2 defeat but wasted a glorious opportunity
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Breakfast a must for every child
It is disappointing that the popular breakfast club at Buttershaw First School is threatened with closure for want of the £2,000 a year it costs to run it. Perhaps the local community can rally round to raise the funds to enable this scheme to continue
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Cash plea by breakfast club on the breadline
A popular breakfast club for young children could be forced to close from September, unless it receives more funding. An average of 40 pupils at Buttershaw First School can enjoy a full breakfast for only 25 pence - setting them up well for the day ahead
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Patients feel at home with care
A round-the-clock service offering care at home to mentally-ill people in Bradford has been hailed a big success, prompting a significant drop in admissions to hospital. The specialist Bradford Home Treatment Service covering the Little Horton and Odsal
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Anger as gipsies surround shop
A Bradford businessman has told of his anger that the police seem unable to do anything about gipsies who have parked on land surrounding his shop. Saffee Amini runs the large Asian clothing store Damak Boutique in Westgate, Bradford. Gipsies arrived
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Neighbours' feud goes to inquiry
A long-running feud over alleged noise and fumes from a skip business will be thrashed out at a public inquiry. Silsden Mini-skips boss Chris Atkinson is due to attend the inquiry in Leeds tomorrow to answer claims that his business in Bradley Green,
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Keighley school in race to hit deadline
Villagers and governors have six weeks to thrash out the future of the district's smallest school which was spared the axe in the authority's education shake-up. Oldfield First School, near Keighley, has just 35 pupils. And Bradford Council, which is
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£3,000 donation boosts Green bid
An anonymous donation of £3,000 has boosted Burley-in-Wharfedale's Village Green extension fund. The sum accounts for around a third of the cost of the project, which is progressing steadily thanks to a dedicated band of volunteers. It is the largest
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Jobs scheme seen as weapon in crime war
Four hundred new jobs could be created in Kirklees for young people who live on estates with high crime rates who are at risk of becoming offenders. The move is one of the key aims of the three-year Crime and Reduction Strategy launched today by the Kirklees
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Firemen see red over tender loss
West Yorkshire fire chiefs look set to press ahead with proposals to scrap four emergency tenders - including one in Bradford - despite fierce opposition. At a meeting of the West Yorkshire Fire and Civil Defence Authority on Friday members will be asked
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'Don't bank on change,' say the cash critics
MPs have backed a Bradford & Bingley Building Society campaign to prevent it becoming a bank. Bradford's Parliamentary representatives are behind the drive to keep the society mutual - in the face of pressure from some of its members to convert it
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It's here at last!
The world's most advanced MRI scanner has arrived in Bradford. A painstaking operation took place at Bradford Royal Infirmary yesterday to crane a huge seven-ton magnet into place in another milestone in the Telegraph & Argus-backed £1 million Bradford
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Business Link: John Watson, OBE
The row over Linda Lee-Potter's description of Bradford as "vile and nasty" has died down, as rows do. But it will have left a number of memories. The accusation will have reached more people than the reply. Bradford people will feel insulted by another
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Sharewatch: John Craven, Director of BWD Rensburg
Shares of greeting card supplier Fine Art Developments took off this week as 700,000 shares, or one per cent of the company's capital, was purchased in two deals at around 120 pence - last week the price was below £1. In these days a bid may be suspected
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Take a bow!
The horse hair which makes violin bows used by Vanessa Mai and Nigel Kennedy is prepared to perfection on our doorstep. For horse hair dressed by the Sowden family in Drighlington is considered the world's finest and is used by violinists and in top orchestras
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Training scheme is alive and well
A new training operation has risen from the ashes of one which was closed by Bradford supermarket chain Morrisons. Havelock Training has been set up weeks after the Morrison Trust closed its Bradford division. Tony Holdich, who was involved in running
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Massive poll over B&B bid
More than 1.5 million Bradford & Bingley members have had their say on the crucial vote over whether the building society should become a bank. The figure makes the 60 per cent turnout - out of 2.5 million members - the highest for a building society
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Hotel ready to create suite for 1,200 diners
Bradford's Stakis says it will regain its title as the biggest hotel venue in Yorkshire after a £250,000 refurbishment is completed. The hotel could be rebranded a Hilton after the Stakis Group was taken over by Ladbrokes earlier this year. Work starts
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Hi-tech firm aims for fighter jet deal
A multi-million pound order is on the cards for Bradford firm Filtronic which is working on electronic warfare equipment for the Eurofighter jet. Filtronic Components, based in Charlestown, Baildon, also makes components for missiles due to be used with
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Blackwell makes immediate impact
Bradford League: Australian all-rounder Anthony Blackwell led his new club Farsley to victory on a rain-ruined first day of the season. Blackwell, from Melbourne, scored an unbeaten 52 as Farsley beat local rivals Pudsey St Lawrence by four wickets at
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Baildon have little gas left in big clash
Rugby Union: York RI 22, Baildon 5; by Bill Marshall. Having played virtually to their limit nine days ago in reaching the final of the Yorkshire Silver Trophy, Baildon had little left to give in this crucial clash. Only for a few minutes early in the
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'We need to improve before facing Halifax'
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott watched his side move into second spot in Super League and then insisted there is plenty of room for improvement. Their well-deserved 22-14 success at Wilderspool yesterday helped them leap-frog over Warrington and
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A new forum for firms to flourish
Bradford's Business Link is investing in a former training unit to turn it into a conference centre which will help firms to grow in the district. The former Business Training Partnership, based in Mercury House, Manchester Road, was originally set up
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Law staff put on path to good health
A stress-busting homeopath hired by a Bradford law firm has helped boost productivity and cut employee absences. Jane Brown is a familiar sight at the Piccadilly offices of Bridger and Co and has helped cure ailments from skin and back problems, to insomnia
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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
The news from the Balkans is almost too terrible to think about. How can it have come to this? How can ordinary, decent people with hopes and dreams, families and jobs, homes they have worked hard to buy and communities in which they believed they were
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Why stodgy grub has had its chips!
Gone are the days of lumpy gravy and tapioca for modern school dinners where the emphasis is on making mealtime a more haute-cuisine experience. These days, the second a pupil steps into the dining room, they are magically transformed from a common student
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Extra beat bobby fits the bill nicely
An extra beat bobby is to patrol the streets of Ravenscliffe in the latest measure to stamp out crime on the estate. From today PC Akki Ullah was joining colleague PC Debbie Hill with responsibilities to man the Ravenscliffe Police Box, walk the streets
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'Lock up bosses who flout rules'
Campaigners today called for tougher penalties for bosses who flout health and safety regulations after two brothers, who admitted employing schoolboys to strip asbestos at a Yeadon factory, walked free from court. They want Yorkshire MPs to help push
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Priest's rage over euthanasia call
A priest has criticised a top Airedale doctor's call for an extension of euthanasia, claiming it strikes at the heart of medicine. The Rev Dr John Berry, of West Lane, Keighley, claims the views of consultant neurologist Dr Jim Howe, who in a book out
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Fears of 'devastating' job losses in takeover
A union today feared "devastating" job losses if a takeover bid goes ahead between two engineering firms which employ about 500 people between them. The American parent company of Anderton International in Bingley is understood to be in takeover talks
