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Now a top probe on blunders
A catalogue of blunders by the tax man is being probed by one of the highest-ranking Government investigators in the country. Parliamentary Ombudsman Michael Buckley has launched an probe into the Inland Revenue's handling of former Skipton pigeon fancier
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'Let's call time on anti-women rules'
A battle has broken out at a social club where the ruling committee has been accused of bigotry. Women at Sunnybank Social Club in Silsden are fighting for the right to vote on club issues - but are meeting stubborn resistance from the club's leaders.
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Hospital's services to be unveiled next month
Medical services likely to be on offer at the new Wharfedale Hospital are to be revealed next month. And now, the fight is on to make the hospital far more than a glorified health centre. As part of the next stage of public consultation into the new hospital
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Jobs go as textile firm folds
A Shipley weaving company is close with the loss of 130 weaving jobs only 15 months after it was bought by textile group Worthington. The strength of the pound abroad and the slump in high street stores sales of clothing have been blamed on the job losses
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Children flee from care home
An urgent inquiry was under way by Bradford Social Services today after five boys aged seven to 11 went missing from a children's home. The boys vanished from Meadowlea children's home, Menston, when one of them activated the fire alarm after breakfast
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Depleted Avenue hope for the best
Bradford Park Avenue travel to Lancaster City tomorrow without four first team regulars for a UniBond League Challenge Cup quarter-final. Avenue manager Trevor Storton is disappointed that his Division One side again have a depleted squad to face a Premier
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Rugby Union: Bees plan 15-man game to stop Park
Bradford and Bingley hope to show their true colours at home to Winnington Park tomorrow in Thwaites North Division One. The Bees played an erratic match at the fourth-from-bottom club in November and only escaped with a 22-22 draw - a result that harmed
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City 'need six wins'
Influential skipper Stuart McCall believes Bradford City need six more victories this season to avoid relegation and must start with a win over Watford tomorrow. The Bantams know that victory is paramount against a side who will start the game four points
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Nick Oldham: Rights and Wrongs
A pensioner faced a £1,800 loss on a special bath he ordered after suffering a stroke - until Rights and Wrongs stepped in. Alan Gaunt, of Saltaire, said his 75-year-old stepfather ordered the £3,650 walk-in bath from Hampshire-based Aquability on October
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Millionaire does a Branson
A millionaire businessman has set up Bradford's answer to Richard Branson's Virgin record label. Brendan Larkin hopes the new company will emulate Virgin, which has grown from humble beginnings into one of the biggest names in the pop world. Skylark Records
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Peace breaks out among the rivals
Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat councillors agreed a peace settlement at the first meeting of Bradford Council's new-look standards committee. They told the chairman, the Bishop of Bradford, they wanted to "act as one." But will it last in the run-up
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Mabel - the city's first lady of cricket
When the late Mabel Gaunt was cremated today, with her were her prize possessions - her cricket bat, box of dominoes and pack of cards. A pioneer in women's cricket, Mrs Gaunt played for Bradford League and Yorkshire in the 1920s. She died of a heart
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Charity move for park carers
An environmental group which helps to care for a historic Shipley park has applied for registered charity status in a bid to further preserve its heritage. Friends of Northcliffe formed ten years ago to help protect the wildlife and woodland at Northcliffe
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'CCTV has cut fear of crime'
Shipley's spy-in-the-sky cameras have helped reduce people's fear of town centre crime. Figures show the number of shop break-ins, assaults and car thefts has fallen since the CCTV system was launched in June, 1998. But other forms of crime including
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Pair taking sunshine to children
The first members of a Bradford task force aiming to help street children in Jamaica will jet out to the Caribbean next week. Shakil Hussain, 23, and Mohammed Afzal Ashraf, 29, are the first successful applicants to the scheme. Most British visitors to
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A Wilde time for nostalgia fans
Stars of the 50s, 60s and 70s are lined up to play at a revitalised Bradford music venue. Evergreen rock 'n' roller Marty Wilde is among the big names who will be performing in the new season of concerts at Pennington's Variety Club in Manningham Lane
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Film Review: Bicentennial Man
Bicentennial Man stars Robin Williams as a robot who lives for 200 years. The pacing of the film is such that it sometimes feels as if he's doing it in real time. The story begins five years from now, when Sam Neill, the cardigan-wrapped head of a rich
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Singer who never got off the soul train
It took Sheila Ferguson only a minute to tell the Three Degrees she was quitting the act. It was another decade before she got over what she calls the pain of listening to their music. "They were toothpaste songs, weren't they?" she muses. "You had to
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Just how big is our drugs problem?
A Crown Court judge has said that Bradford could now be described as the "heroin capital of the country". Judge John Cockcroft says there are now so many dealers in the city the Class A drug is extensively available, causing huge associated problems.
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'It's enough to make me want to dance!'
A dance teacher did a jig of joy today after it emerged an ancient law banning Sunday dancing is set to be lifted. Last May the Telegraph & Argus revealed how Tommy Kean had been forced to axe his Sunday salsa classes after Bradford Council invoked
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Green Belt ruling 'could be a disaster for town'
Campaigners battling to prevent unwanted development on the site of Ilkley's former Middleton Hospital have suffered a blow. A long-awaited report from an environment inspector has recommended the site should remain as a major development site in the
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Have your say on future of health service
People living throughout the Bradford district are to be asked their views on new health care organisations for their areas. Primary Care Trusts will not only commission and buy hospital care for people living in the district but will also employ community
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Crucifixion - in 200 rusty nails from mill
A Bingley sculptor has depicted the crucifixion of Christ using 200 nails torn out of an old mill. Graham Carey, a member of St Wilfrid's Church, Gilstead, and former Open University lecturer in sculpture, spent hours turning the rusty nails into 15 original
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City v Watford: Conenctions
Fan power helped bring midfielder Craig Ramage to Notts County earlier this season. The former England Under-21 international had left City last summer after playing little part in the club's promotion success with just three appearances from the bench
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City v Watford: Richard Sutcliffe talks to midfielder Jamie Lawrence
Jamie Lawrence believes Bradford City must stand up and be counted for the rest of the season if they are to survive in the Premiership. The Bantams' defeat at bottom club Sheffield Wednesday last weekend has placed even more importance on tomorrow's
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City v Watford: Taylor is banking on his iceman Helguson
Watford's first £1million player Heidar Helguson made an immediate impact on his debut for the Hornets with a goal in last Saturday's 3-2 home defeat by Liverpool. The Icelandic international was signed from Lillestrom in Norway in a £1.5 million deal
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Step up the war on the drugs evil
Bradford might or might not be the "heroin capital of the country", as was claimed by Judge John Cockroft in the Crown Court. The title is irrelevant. Heroin is the stuff of nightmares, not of league tables. What is important is that Judge Cockroft was
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Court threat to noisy neighbours
A Council chief today warned troublemakers they would go to court - after 'draconian' punishment was meted out by magistrates to an offender. Amarpreet Singh, 18, of Sycamore Close, Bradford has been banned from harassing and distressing people by playing
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Officers trying to revive the Ball
Crime prevention officers are hoping to revive the Policeman's Ball which disappeared from Keighley twenty years ago. The Ball used to be one of the town's major annual events and now officers are hoping to restart it to raise funds. The idea was put
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'All our work could go down the drain'
Wildlife in a Bradford conservation area could be put at risk by a nearby housing development, according to worried residents. They claim a storm drain being built in Thorpe Edge could kill off fresh water life in nearby Haigh Beck, which has been transformed
