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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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Mr Elphick and Mr Orton
From inside a peeling gin palace in London's Soho, two old soaks observed the leather-capped figure strolling outside. "His name's Orton. He's an up-and-coming playwright," muttered Jeffrey Bernard, the older of the soaks. His companion, Michael Elphick
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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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Skipton dad in fight for life after street attack
A 37-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after being assaulted in the street. The man, believed to be father-of-two Trevor Capstick, was punched in the face by his attacker and fell to the pavement in Skipton. He suffered a fractured skull
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Giving a hospital a helping hand
An army of volunteers is saving a local hospital trust £156,873 in its annual wages bill. The 379 people who give their services free to Airedale General Hospital at Steeton, put in more than 43,000 hours during the year. And 17 of the volunteers have
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Housing plan for Guiseley firm site
Planners have supported housing plans for part of the Silver Cross pram factory in Guiseley. Councillors agreed to help the ailing company, which just last week was saved from extinction by a group of investors, by agreeing in principle to development
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New bid to build centre for village
Volunteers in Gomersal are reviving a community centre plan hit by the discovery of contaminated land. Core members of Gomersal ACT (A Community Together) have joined forces again in an attempt to spend around £30,000 raised by local people and provided
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Shame on you!
Angry villagers have called for official tourist plaques promoting historic Saltaire to be scrapped because they are littered with errors. The signs, installed over the Bank Holiday weekend by Bradford Council, are full of embarrassing blunders - the
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Pacemen are the heroes as Phoenix win
Table-topping Yorkshire Phoenix soared to new heights in Division One of the CGU National League at Headingley yesterday when they crushed Hampshire Hawks by eight wickets. And assisting them in maintaining their 100 per cent record was Darren Gough who
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Dwyer set for Bulls run out
Tough tackling Bernard Dwyer is pencilled in for a Bulls return after missing the last six games following knee surgery. Dywer had the operation after being carried off during the Super League win at Warrington on April 18. But he is now ready for action
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Ed fits in with City
Bradford City have appointed their first fitness conditioner to help prepare them for their first season in the Premiership. Ed Barranowski will have the job of ensuring the Bantams are in prime condition for the big kick off on August 7. He will join
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Scanner the pride of the city
This is the day that all that fund-raising was aiming towards - the day the MRI scanner went into operation at Bradford Royal Infirmary. The patients being examined using the most up-to-date technology are the first of many thousands who will benefit
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Setback that put Jo on write track
Jo Verrent is a woman of substance. After being refused entry to drama school because she was deaf, she has since fought back to prove that having a disability is not a barrier to success. Recently awarded the Cosmopolitan Magazine Women of Achievement
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Now share the joy of cooking!
Americans are famous for dishing up large portions of food - so it seems appropriate that their favourite cookbook is a mighty tome. The Joy of Cooking is more than 1,000 pages long, contains over 4,000 recipes and weighs in at nearly 4lbs. It is intended
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Cosmetic questions you must face up to
Vegetarianism has never been so popular as more and more people become conscious of what they are eating, where it's come from, and how it will affect their health. But do people stop and ask themselves the same questions when it comes to what they are
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WR Mitchell, OBE: 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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Anila Baig: United's shining example!
People in Manchester are celebrating. Something to do with football, I think, or maybe it's the Eurovision Song Contest which has everyone's spirits up, or the Bank Holiday. Whatever it is, I'm not knocking it. When you're young you think that only your
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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
It's been one of those weeks when what's known as the "tabloid press" have done their worst and once again triggered a national debate over invasion of privacy. How far should newspapers go to give their readers what they believe they want to know rather
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Teenager wins battle with army
A teenager seeking compensation from the Ministry of Defence has been awarded a £3,000 interim payment. Maxwell Casson, 18, pictured, of Marsh Lane, Oxenhope, Keighley, claimed negligence and assault against the MoD after he suffered a double fracture
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Action call after boy hurt in playground
A father has branded a children's playground dangerous after a splinter from wood used as a safety surface became embedded in his young son's hand. Now Phillipe Osborne is campaigning for certain types of wood chips to be banned from similar playgrounds
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Nasty surprise in takeaway meal
A father-of-two was horrified when his young daughter took a bite of a chip - and lacerated her mouth on a shard of glass. Twelve-year-old Charlotte Robertshaw was left cut and bleeding after the incident, which happened while the family were tucking
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Prescott delays supermarket bid
Plans for a major supermarket on the site of a former school still hang in the balance - two years after the company began negotiations to buy the site. The controversial bid to build the new Asda store in Rooley Lane on the site of Gregory Middle School
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600 teachers are told of new jobs
More than 600 Bradford teachers have been allocated new jobs as part of the schools shake-up. But about a third of the 1,050 teachers whose schools are to shut still do not know where they will be teaching. And there are no guarantees that teachers will
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Better summer bus services for Wharfedale
An improved bus service from Ilkley to Grassington and Buckden has been launched. On Sundays, the Wharfedale Wanderer service is part of the Dalesbus network. It will run, approximately hourly, from Ilkley via Bolton Abbey to Grassington, Kettlewell and
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'No bus' blow as precinct gets a facelift
Bingley shoppers have been dealt a fresh blow after attempts fell through to provide alternative arrangements while Myrtle Walk precinct is refurbished. Originally, Bradford Council officers had insisted that developers Donaldsons provide a bus service
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Patient number one for scanner
History was made today as Bradford's £1 million state-of-the-art MRI Scanner swung into action for the first time. The machine, bought as a result of the Telegraph & Argus Millennium Scanner Appeal, took its first patients this morning. Computers
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Gould bounces back to lead Farsley home
Bradford League: Opener Richard Gould made a timely return to form as leaders Farsley trounced Spen Victoria by nine wickets in Division One of the Bradford League yesterday. Gould emerged from his barren spell to hit an unbeaten 90 as Farsley bounced
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Sun arise - and here's a warning
Fresh warnings are being made about the dangers of sunburn amid findings of a new survey which shows two-thirds of teenagers tried to get a tan last year. Experts from the Health Education Authority have expressed alarm about the discovery since 90 per
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The man who can't stop caring
Next week is National Carer's Week - a time when we honour the millions of unsung heroes who provide continuous care for their sick or disabled friends and relatives. Ernest Cowley's wife Norma has had multiple sclerosis for more than 40 years, and nine
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Your Health, by Dr Tom Smith
Sometimes it's very confusing to read the health press - especially about diets. Regular readers of this column will know that I never use the word diet. I write about healthy-eating habits, because the word "diet" conjures up ideas of ways of eating
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Mike Priestley: Who's Counting?
As all grandparents will know, there are plenty of times when you have to bite your lip and stay silent - times when you feel like offering advice (or "interfering", depending on your point of view) about the way your grandchild is being brought up, but
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Station plan is a 'white elephant'
A proposal to re-open Arthington Station as part of a 'greener' public transport strategy has run up against opposition. MP Harold Best (Labour, Leeds North West) is keen to explore the prospect of re-opening a station in the village to tackle problems
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Boy in bridge fall: I'll not be beaten
Brave John Walker has pledged to battle on after doctors told him he will never walk again. Fifteen-year-old John, of Westroyd Crescent, Shipley, suffered horrific injuries when he fell from a railway bridge on to a cable carrying 25,000 volts of electricity
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Stabbed priest picks up his life in temple
A priest who was injured in an attack where a member of his temple was stabbed to death has told how he is recovering from the ordeal. Gurmit Singh, 39, was in the Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara in Malvern Street, off Leeds Road, Bradford, last September
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Knife terror of robbed cabbies
Detectives are linking two late-night attacks in which taxi drivers were threatened at knifepoint by robbers posing as passengers. The first happened at midnight on Saturday when the driver of a Hackney carriage was flagged down in Duckworth Lane, Toller
