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Music: Prog rockers come out of the shadows
Prog rockers Parallel or 90 Degrees are not one of the most familiar names on Bradford's live music scene. But all that could soon change. The five-piece went down well at a recent - and rare - hometown gig at the New Beehive in Bradford, and are now
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Theatre: Q at the cutting edge of fiction
Those who thought that Q was something you did while waiting for a bus have obviously not hung out at a nightclub lately. It's the darkly-bespectacled bookworm lurking in the corner that's Q; the man pushing pamphlets into your hand when what you want
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Ancient woods given new life
Restoration of a centuries-old wood will be celebrated at a special ceremony on Sunday thanks to a £13,000 grant and many hours of toil by villagers. Many new trees have been planted at the 300-year-old Milking Hill Wood, at Embsay, near Skipton, including
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Potential buyers queue up for firm
A team of accountants was today bracing itself to deal with a queue of firms hoping to take over struggling Guiseley pram manufacturer Silver Cross. The team, led by joint administrators John Newall and Hunter Kelly, of Leeds firm Ernst & Young, expects
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Former teacher's railway campaign
Rail campaigner John Anderson is fighting to get better train services and move cars off the roads in traffic-choked Baildon. He is asking hundreds of commuters at the village station to sign an eight-point manifesto highlighting his campaign. The former
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Pianist John says: I won't scrap fence
International pianist John Briggs says he will defy an order to pull down a four-metre high fence around his East Morton home. Planners claim it is garish and out of character. And councillors on Keighley town and country planning sub-committee yesterday
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Spin king Fisher nets big chance
Left-arm spinner Ian Fisher today had a rare chance to secure a permanent place in Yorkshire's PPP Championship side by being included in the match against third-placed Middlesex at Headingley. Denholme-born Fisher, who plays for East Bierley, has so
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Watson's new deal
Bradford City striker Gordon Watson will continue his fightback from the horrific leg injury which threatened his career at Valley Parade after signing a new one year contract. The Premiership-bound Bantams have also offered a one year contract to defender
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New image is vital for our future
What a shame, in the euphoria following the Bantams' promotion to the Premiership, that yet again our blinkered cousins in the soft South can't see beyond their noses as far as the North of England is concerned. Bradford City chairman Geoffrey Richmond
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Newspaper 'family' that continues to thrive
Today we continue our series celebrating Local Newspaper Week by looking at the history of the Telegraph & Argus which spans over 100 years and the changes that new technology has brought. Mike Priestley reports. THE T&A has a long family tree
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Crash widow will run company
The future of a Bradford firm thrown in doubt with the death of its boss in a plane crash has been safeguarded. Businessman Gerry Davitt, 42, who ran the Side Curtain Centre at the Napoleon Business Park off Wakefield Road, Bradford, was one of four people
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Ah, Mrs Peel, I've found you at last!
Fans of the cult television series The Avengers are celebrating after a long-lost piece of film was found in Bradford. The unique piece of TV history has been discovered at the National Museum of Photography Film and Television where it has been in storage
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Fundraiser joy for young Ben
A charity event held in aid of a Rawdon boy who suffers from a rare genetic disorder has raised more than £15,000. Members of West Park Bramhope rugby union club staged the auction after a match in memory of Ben Draper's father, Lee. The 36-year-old,
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Festival boost for fans of literature
Bradford will host its first literature festival in the summer. The official Millennium poet Simon Armitage and Liverpool-based Brian Patten are among the writers who will be appearing at the two-week event. Bradford Central Library, Waterstone's bookshop
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Tributes as boss of travel firm dies
Tributes have been paid to Wyke grandmother and coach operator Pauline Shaw, organiser of annual trips for disabled people, who has died suddenly at the age of 57. Mrs Shaw, who ran Shaw's Travel in Towngate, with her husband Alan, died in Holland after
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A new dawn for first store
Work has started to transform Morrison's first supermarket into a multi-million pound retail complex. The Bradford-based supermarket giant opened the store, which was converted from an old cinema, at the Victoria shopping centre in Thornton Road, Girlington
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Boy, 7, bitten in face by dog
A seven-year-old boy was attacked and bitten in the face by a Japanese Akita dog which jumped a six foot fence. The youngster had been playing in the back garden when the animal pounced and mauled Arran Cawthra as he played with his brother in Bankfoot
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Festival radio goes on the air
Shipley Festival got off to an early start today with the first broadcast by its own radio station. Early risers tuned to 106.2FM could heard the station begin its inaugural broadcast from Shipley centre this morning with the town's double-act answer
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Cavemen who let their day go to pot
Cavemen got high on more than life, according to an researcher at Bradford University who says our prehistoric forefathers regularly smoked pot. David Cowland, a postgraduate student in the university's Department of Archaeology, is presenting a lecture
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'Women missing out on cash help'
Women - particularly those from the Asian community - are missing out on winning grants from a pot of cash set up to help fund organisations is Keighley, it has been claimed. And the manager of a community group has hit out at the way the community chest
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Historians' chapel hopes are dashed
A group's dream of breathing new life into a crumbling Ilkley chapel has been shattered by the prospect of a huge bill. The Wharfedale Family History Group had hoped to take on the lease of one of the twin chapels in the town's cemetery to use it as a
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We have so much success to shout about!
Bradford's Lord Mayor today threw down the gauntlet to London money men who gave the Bantams' stock market flotation plans a lukewarm welcome. As reported in later editions of the T&A yesterday, they told Bradford City chairman Geoffrey Richmond that
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Battle of the borders
A bitter battle of the boundaries erupted today over huge "Welcome to Leeds" signs surrounding east Bradford. Now Bradford Council is being urged to bite back at its neighbours over the eight green and blue boards dominating the streets on the spots where
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Kay targets top flight survival
Cricket: Simon Kay has one ambition for newly-promoted Bankfoot - to avoid relegation. The Bankfoot captain said: "After winning promotion last season a successful year this time would be to finish fourth from the bottom in the First Division. "We are
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Bulls chief Elliott hails Thunder's storming start
Coach Matthew Elliott will bid to put one over on an old rival when the Bulls visit Gateshead on Sunday. Thunder boss Shaun McRae was in charge at St Helens for almost three years during which time he endured some titanic struggles with Elliott's men,
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Now it's official - City are UP
It was the moment everyone had waited for. As a spectacular firework display kicked into life on the pitch and Tina Turner's hit 'Simply the Best' boomed all around Valley Parade, Bradford City captain Stuart McCall strode forward to collect the silver
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Bantams' goal feast
Richard Sutcliffe reports on the action from last night's trophy presentation match: Bradford City 9, John Hendrie XI 6. PETER BEAGRIE grabbed a 20-minute hat-trick to kick-start Bradford City's promotion celebrations on a night of spectacular goal action
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Why girl power is striking right note
The leader of the world-famous Black Dyke Band today vowed it would go from strength to strength with the benefit of 'girl power'. The brass band, based at Queensbury, admitted its first female member, Lesley Howie, in February. This week it emerged her
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Bank workers lose fight against ban on parking
Protests from hundreds of call centre workers have failed to stop highways chiefs imposing a new parking ban outside their office. The largely female workforce of the Midland Bank customer service centre on the Euroway industrial estate petitioned Bradford
