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Call to join show
Manufacturers across North Yorkshire are invited to exhibit their goods at this year's BBC Good Homes Show. A group exhibition, co-ordinated by Made in Yorkshire, has been planned to give manufacturers the chance to show their products to a world wide
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Brave fight inspires charity aid
A barmaid's brave battle against cancer has helped inspire her pub's latest charity donations. Staff and customers from The Branch in Shipley are to give £2,500 to Bradford Royal Infirmary's Ward 15 where Barbara Baldwin underwent treatment including
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Plane diverted due to winds
Gale-force winds forced a plane with 220 holiday-makers aboard to divert from landing at Leeds-Bradford Airport last night. Air-traffic controllers told the pilot of the Air 2000 flight from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to fly to Manchester instead after
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Jobs crisis for teachers
More than 200 teachers whose schools are shutting in the Bradford education shake-up still do not have jobs for the autumn. And teaching unions say the stress of uncertainty is harming their health, with some suffering nervous breakdowns. One union official
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End these 'sardine' runs
There have been plenty of calls in recent years for more carriages to be added to trains running locally, particularly at peak times. Usually those calls have come from commuters tired of impersonating sardines on their way to and from work. Now Shipley
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Stroll on to good health
Keighley people should ditch their cars and walk. That is the message of the Walking for Health project. The Keighley-based project, one of four in the country - others are in Leicester, Walsall and Eastbourne - has a unique set of aims. It hopes to improve
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Mum and girls flee fire
A woman and her two young daughters escaped unhurt from a blaze at their Guiseley home last night. Rawdon and Otley firefighters were called to the house in Eliot Grove at 8.20pm after the woman discovered fire in a bedroom. She took her children out
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Students plan for future
Town planning students from Sheffield will be helping to preserve Ilkley's heritage with a project to investigate the town's Conservation Area. The three students are part of a group of 12 from Sheffield Hallam University who are spending three months
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Challenge to speedy riders
Youngsters are being urged to sample the thrills of speedway - without the benefit of anything other than their own pedal power. Heckmondwike Cycle Speedway Club, which boasts its own purpose-built dirt track, is to launch a campaign urging youngsters
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Bantams' keeper blow
Bradford City's goalkeeping problems have worsened with the news that Gary Walsh has undergone a second knee operation. The 31-year-old player underwent exploratory surgery on the same knee which required an operation in November. Manager Paul Jewell
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Sterling battlers
Three more top businessmen have joined the ruling council of anti-euro campaign Business for Sterling The campaign group, which already has Bradford businesswoman Judith Donovan on board, has recruited Stuart Archbold, of Morley-based Archbold Freightage
