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Expansion for breast X-ray unit
Bradford's breast-screening unit is to expand, with more staff and new equipment, after receiving a regional award. The Pennine Breast Screening Unit had detected 133 early cancers last year, after recalling 1,582 women for further tests and sending 184
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Ramblers and riders to get right to roam
Ramblers, horse riders and cyclists are to be given further access to huge tracts of countryside. Yorkshire Water, which owns thousands of acres of land in Airedale, has launched a pilot project to identify land it can open up which has been barred to
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Yes to flats at stables
A plan to turn 18th Century stables in Otley into flats for elderly people has been approved. Following a visit to the site by members of the Leeds Development Control Panel (west), permission was given to convert the now derelict Grade II-listed Manor
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Town ready for another dose of May MADness
Townsfolk are being urged to do their bit to help Shipley go MAD in May. The Shipley MAD Festival 2000 - MAD stands for music, arts and dance - runs from May 12 to 21 with local people being asked to come up with their own ideas on how to make it go with
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Babies plucked from car fire
A community worker was today hailed a hero after he pulled two babies from a crashed car seconds before it turned into a fireball. Nazakat Al Jabber first helped the children's mothers Donna Hodgson, 20, and Lisa Hodgson, 18, out of their Renault car
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To win is Devine as Pudsey dominate
Pudsey & Bramley international Gary Devine ran out a clear winner of the Boulsworth Hill Fell Race near Colne, while Bingley Harriers' latest signing Helen Johnson took the women's title. Former British fell champion Devine found the rough six-and-a-half
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Backhouse fires winner in return to action
Bradford began their assault on the second half of the Yorkshire League season in confident mood after the winter break with a 2-1 home win over Doncaster 3rd XI. Both teams played good open hockey in the early exchanges, with Bradford looking the more
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Elliott's battle cry ahead of Bulls trip
Bradford Bulls coach Matthew Elliott headed off for the Canaries with his squad today insisting: "The battle for places begins here." A 30-plus party including players, coaching staff and club physio Gary Slade will spend a week at the Club La Santa training
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City hit by bids blow
Chairman Geoffrey Richmond has revealed that Bradford City have had "certain offers" turned down this week as the hunt for new players at Valley Parade is stepped up. Manager Paul Jewell reacted to last weekend's 2-0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday by saying
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Next year it's hang-gliding!
The hairdressing boss who rewarded his hardworking staff with a £3,000 Alpine skiing holiday plans to do the same next year - but next time the treat will be hang-gliding. Christian Hefti shut up shop for a week and whisked his workers away to the French
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'We're not the heroin capital'
Anti-drugs workers have hit out at a judge's suggestion that Bradford is the country's heroin capital. The comment was made by Bradford Crown Court Judge John Cockcroft yesterday as he sentenced a heroin dealer to eight years in jail. He said the 'evil
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Give us a tinkle if you see him
A cash reward has been offered for the return of a cheeky statue that has brightened up the yard of a Bradford builders' merchants for 25 years. The statue of a young boy answering the call of nature has stood in the pond of Manningham Concrete for a
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Mum pleads for pony 'snatched' by council
A mother-of-two says she cannot afford £350 to buy her five-year-old son's pony back after it was seized by Bradford Council. The three-year-old Shetland stallion called Nasty was rounded up by the Council's Animal Warden Service during a dawn swoop on
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Girl trickster poses as pupil in cash scam
Police want to hear from traders who may have been conned by a teenage girl posing as a school student seeking sponsorship. The girl, who has claimed to represent Queensbury Upper School and the Telegraph & Argus, has been active in the area for seven
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A club's ring of success
From 20 youngsters in a room over a baker's shop to a community centre with 350 members, the Sedbergh Club for Young People in Odsal, Bradford, is now preparing a National Lottery bid to help finance a £2.75 million rebuilding programme. Suzy Poole reports
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Killer Sams sues for lost paintings
A court hearing is to take place inside a maximum-security prison so that Keighley-born killer and kidnapper Michael Sams can sue the Prison Service over lost paintings. Sams, pictured, jailed in 1993 for the murder of Julie Dart and the abduction of
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Mystery donation tops off appeal
Ilkley will soon be a safer place to live, work and visit thanks to a generous mystery benefactor. Dr John Neasham, the chairman of Heartstart, has confirmed that the town will receive hi-tech medical equipment to back up volunteers in caring for heart
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Princes in move to develop warehouses
Soft drinks giant Princes is expected to stay in Bradford - despite losing its fight to build a new national distribution centre on fields off Cross Lane. Britain's third biggest soft drinks company now plans to develop warehouses in a former weaving
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Up to 14 to lose jobs at lighting firm
More than a dozen people are set to lose their jobs at Baildon-based lighting manufacturer SLI Lighting Ltd. The firm, which employs 450 people, has announced it is cutting two of its weekend shifts. Human resources manager Paul Mann said: "We're redeploying
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Armitage makes light of injury
Andy Armitage didn't let two damaged fingers on his bridge hand affect his form for Bradford's billiards team in the Yorkshire Inter-District League. In fact he had his best game to date against Leeds' No 1 Rodney Sims at Pudsey Conservative Club. Armitage
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Fisher on target as team finish fourth
Bradford Ladies came fourth in the Indoor National Hockey League. The competition's second and final series of matches was played at Bradford's Richard Dunn Centre with all nine teams playing each other. Bradford finished behind Old Loughtonians, Fyffes
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Pace is needed to lift Bantams
Football pundit Bobby Ham says City must inject some pace into their forward line if they are to escape relegation. The former Bantams star has watched all their home games this season as a commentator for Bantams Radio and he has welcomed the news that
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City Talk: Richard Sutcliffe
The defeat at Sheffield Wednesday was a crushing blow for Bradford City and the 4,500 supporters who made the trip to Hillsborough. It was not just the fact that Wednesday won 2-0 in such an important relegation clash which left fans, players and the
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Foster's injury stuns Cougars
Keighley Cougars centre Matt Foster suffered further damage to his ankle ligaments in his comeback game as the second string were hammered 60-20 by Widnes last night. Foster went down heavily in a tackle in the 12th minute and had to receive immediate
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Helen Mead: Everyday tasks only a genius can accomplish
To become a genius, you simply have to be able to think. Research has shown that geniuses channel their thoughts into their subject and "become" that subject. For example, a painter becomes the tree he is painting, a scientist becomes the atom he is studying
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Parents 'hog disabled parking bays'
Thoughtless parents are stopping disabled people from parking in Otley, it has been claimed. Pat Smith, who is partially disabled, said that parents waiting to collect their children from All Saints' Junior School are parking in the five disabled bays
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Challenge over school closures
A councillor is to ask the Local Government Ombudsmen to investigate a controversial decision to close two special schools in Bradford. And Councillor David Ward (Lib Dem, Idle) has called on education committee chairman Councillor Susanne Rooney to stand
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Doubts over siting of new city market
Plans for a major Asian shopping centre on the site of Rawson Market have sparked controversy, after a leading councillor said it might be the wrong site. Councillor Mohammed Ajeeb (Lab, University), Britain's first Asian Lord Mayor, said he believed
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Noise-row youth may now face jail
A teenager could today be ordered to behave or face jail as Bradford Council uses new powers to take him to court. The Council believes it is the first in Britain to ask magistrates to make an Anti-social Behaviour Order against a resident in a private
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Senoritas click in Woodside
A mother and daughter are on the road to success after completing a training course which combined the language of sunny Spain and the world of business. Eleven students have finished a 31-week course funded by the European Social Fund, which included
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£4.5m bid to recruit bobbies
Police are bidding for £4.5 million of Home Office cash to boost the number of bobbies on the beat in West Yorkshire. Home Secretary Jack Straw has set up a Crime Fighting Fund to recruit 5,000 front-line police officers nationally before 2003. West Yorkshire
