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New school threat to farmer's fields
Farmer Brian Lazenby fears a new £9 million secondary school planned for Bradford could force him off the land his family has worked for more than 40 years. The 59-year-old says he and his wife Pauline have been kept in the dark about proposals for the
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Hockney's heir?
He may be only four years old, but Sharuk Rahman is hoping to be the next David Hockney. The youngster, of Barkerend, Bradford, has just had two of his paintings accepted at the PJK Art and Poetry Gallery in Skipton. Entitled Mountains and Hills and Valleys
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Thank God He's alive!
A Bradford woman who feared her friend had been murdered in war-torn Kosovo was overjoyed today after discovering he is alive and well. The Telegraph & Argus broke the news to Joyce Wilkinson who had feared her close friend Fadil Himani, a Kosovar
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Wales call up is reward for Tom
Bradford Grammar School student Tom Newman has been chosen for the Welsh national junior rowing squad to compete in the Home Internationals in July. At 16, he will be the youngest member and he will be sculling in a junior quad. The week before that he
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Skipper Wasim sets his sights
Pakistan captain Wasim Akram today warned his side must improve on their display against Scotland if they are to beat Australia at Headingley tomorrow. Wasim's men made it two wins out of two in World Cup Group B with a 94-run defeat of the Scots on Thursday
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Robbie needs no battle cry
Nigel Askham talks to half-back Robbie Paul Robbie Paul admits there will be no need for any rousing speeches in the Odsal changing room tonight. The very presence of the reigning champions Wigan down the corridor will be motivation enough as the Bulls
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Monie warns Henry
Wigan boss John Monie will try to expose chinks in Henry Paul's armoury as the champions bid to extend their domination of the Bulls at Odsal tonight. Paul's idiosyncratic ways did not always endear him to Monie and the Warriors boss has has been homing
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Letter from the Dales
Much of the appeal of the dale-country for the thousands of tourists who are now wandering through the region is in the pattern of walls made without a dab of mortar. Walls divide up the land. They also accentuate the contours. They are both useful and
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Mike Priestley North of Watford
No family in the land is safe from the drugs menace. Even Prince Charles now has his worries about his sons, given that the young man said to be one of Prince William's role models, Tom Parker Bowles, is alleged to be a dabbler in cocaine. Prince Charles
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Life after soap for Walford's evacuee
It was not the most dramatic of entrances. In fact, Letitia Dean's TV debut was so unmemorable, even she's forgotten it. It wasn't in Albert Square but 200 miles up the M6, in Liverpool's Brookside Close, that the 15-year-old Miss Dean took her first
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Jobs loss 'likely' if Grattan merges
Jobs are almost certain to be lost with the proposed merger between Grattan and Manchester-based mail order firm Freeman, according to a retail analyst. Michael Godliman, of London-based Verdict Research, said: "There will be people in Bradford who will
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Old have their say on health
Elderly people in Keighley put their views to key decision makers in the health and social care field during a top-level conference in the town. They thrashed out a range of issues with professionals from Bradford Council, health agencies, voluntary organisations
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Hold-ups to hit road that's all washed out
Motorists are being warned of disruption this summer when work gets under way to stop one of the district's busiest roads collapsing. Thousands of motorists travel through Baildon on the bumpy A6038 Otley Road each day but Bradford Council says surveys
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Deaf couple learn language of love
A deaf couple have told how they are finally learning the language of love after years of searching for the perfect partner. Aftab Hussain, 30, of Lidget Green, spent two years in his and his family's quest to find him the perfect bride who was a committed
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Maths the way to do it, professor!
Bradford's brainy young mathematicians get their sums right thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between schools and industry which has been expanded. Shipley-based Filtronic plc is sponsoring sixth formers at nine schools to do tough maths courses
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'Junk heap' fury of householders
A 6ft-high pile of car parts, rubble and waste has turned a Girlington back street into a "junk heap", say residents. Householders who look out onto the yard of the house in Agar Terrace say their lives are being made a misery by the eyesore which also
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City plan to keep winning formula
Chairman Geoffrey Richmond says Bradford City will not dramatically alter either their playing staff or their style of play for the club's first tilt at the Premiership next season. The Bantams have already been cast among the favourites for relegation
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Gardening with Adam Green
Billed as 'the world's greatest living masterpiece', the Chelsea Flower Show comes into bloom again from May 25-28. The grand masters of garden design are putting the finishing touches to the final show of the century and this year the 21 show gardens
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Eating Out
I remember driving past what is now The Wharfedale just over a year ago when it was standing empty and looking rather forlorn. Then I heard it had been taken over and been refurbished and couldn't fail to be impressed with its new look when I drove past
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Trauma goes on for dog attack girl
A girl who was savaged by a dog is suffering from a stress disorder which usually affects soldiers returning from the battlefield. Ten-year-old Jolene Lamont has suffered terrible nightmares ever since she was mauled by a German Shepherd-Japanese Akita
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Keep one step ahead of that 'wild' animal
Walks columnist Mike Priestley leaves his boots off this week and dips into a selection of recent books for ramblers A kindly reader dropped me a line the other week to tell me that he thought I was "an utter wimp and quite pathetic where animals are
