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Learn to play golf for nothing
The Shay Grange Golf Centre will be the focal point for next month's National Golf Week activities in the Bradford area. They will be offering free lessons to anyone who wants to take up golf or just get a first taste of the sport. Golf professionals
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Beeds deadly serious about reaching top
Bradford & Bingley last night unveiled their plans to become a Premier force in English rugby union. They told a meeting of businessmen at their Wagon Lane headquarters that they are "deadly serious" about their ambition to play alongside the likes
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A church that must not close
It is a poor state of affairs when the vicar of a world-famous church in a popular and busy beauty spot has to start thinking about installing closed-circuit television to protect visitors. Yet that is a serious option being considered by the Rector of
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Janet shows signs of recovery
A seriously-ill grandmother stranded thousands of miles from her Bradford home is finally showing signs of improvement, her relieved family said today. Last week Janet Rylance was fighting for her life in a Tokyo hospital after undergoing emergency surgery
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Over and out for old comrades
The last post has sounded for an Otley veterans group after more than half a century. The 279 (Otley and District) Squadron Air Training Corps' Old Comrades Association has been holding annual reunions since 1948. But, with an ageing membership, the numbers
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Enchanted forest casts its spell
Schoolchildren in Bradford will become foresters for the day when they complete an unusual Millennium project. Around 5,000 trees have been planted to create a Children's Forest at a Yorkshire Water sewage site in Esholt. More than 1,000 pupils took part
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Raiders strike at grave
A daughter has spoken of her anguish after thieves stole a bronze sculpture of her mother as she laid flowers at her graveside in a Bradford cemetery. Marilyn Devine and her 78-year-old father had driven to the city's Undercliffe Cemetery on Saturday
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Simple solution to the oil slicks
Bradford University scientists Dr Donald Eagland and Dr Nicholas Crowther, from Huddersfield and Bradford respectively, have invented what they believe is a wonder substance. It's a hydrogel with possible multiple applications, from cleaning up oil spills
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Homeless jam charity helpline
Desperate homeless people from Bradford have inundated a national charity's freephone helpline, campaigners said today. Shelter, which runs Shelterline, says the callers from Bradford were the ones most likely to be already homeless or imminently facing
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Millennium gala to get village dancing
The streets of Addingham will be alive with the sound of music this summer as the village's Gala 2000 swings into action. The Millennium event was in doubt until an appeal prompted villager Rebecca Carter to volunteer her help. Mrs Carter has been delighted
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Bronte church may get spy cameras
One of the most famous churches in the county could have closed-circuit TV installed inside after a knife-wielding man attempted to rob a woman there. Haworth Parish Church could be among the first in the area to use CCTV for security purposes, a spokesman
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Row mast measured in secret
Campaigners fighting to remove a telecommunications mast in Otley have carried out a cloak-and-dagger operation to covertly measure its length. They claim it could be in breach of planning regulations, and have called for its immediate demolition. The
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Action pledge over rat invasion
An environment chief today promised action on a tourist trap said to be plagued by rats. Pest control officers say Ilkley has become a hot spot as reports of the vermin rocket across the district. The rats have even been seen in the town centre at 8.30
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£100,000 gift in honour of little Ella
Bradford insurance workers have donated £10,000 to a children's hospice in honour of a dying baby girl. Staff at Abbey House raised £5,000 by holding 'dressing down' days - with that figure being doubled by the company they work for. And after reading
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Named: the property hotspots
A national house price survey has identified Ilkley and Baildon among the hottest spots for property price rises in the next year. As the national housing market slows down, prices in Ilkley could shoot up around 20 per cent, according to the survey which
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'Sorry we cut your trees down'
A roads boss has apologised for misleading Bingley residents over tree-felling along the proposed relief road. David Harvey, group leader of the Highways Agency, said he was sorry after complaints from Shipley Green Party that promises given to Bingley
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Battle over soccer academy
Bradford City's plans for a flagship £3 million football academy have taken a major step forward - and run into huge opposition from residents. Today families in Apperley Bridge said they would fight to the bitter end to stop the development on scenic
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Are you watching, Rodney Marsh?
Welcome to our brand new Bantams fanzine page - written entirely by City fans for City fans. We hope you'll enjoy the news, views and sheer fun every Thursday in your T&A. Our contributors - all Valley Parade season ticket holders - aim to give YOU
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Injury boosts Bulls!
Overseas stars Tevita Vaikona and Justin Brooker are on course for their first senior outings of the season in Sunday's Challenge Cup semi-final dress rehearsal with Warrington Wolves at Odsal. It's part of coach Matthew Elliott's plan to rotate his squad
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Holroyd strike sees Bradford to victory
Bradford moved into second place in National Ladies' English Hockey League Division One with just a single game left. They took all three points from their away fixture at Wimbledon with a 2-0 win. Old Loughtonians, in second place at the beginning of
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Clarke is big doubt
Matt Clarke remains a major doubt for the trip to Coventry this weekend with Bradford City boss Paul Jewell saying the goalkeeper's condition has improved only slightly. The 26-year-old has not played since suffering a knee ligament injury agai-nst Watford
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HELEN MEAD: Squeeze is on to look young again
Can I get away with those trousers? a friend asked as we window-shopped in town. "If you want the honest answer, no," I replied, knowing that if I was asking the question I'd want the truth. "Thought so," she said, frowning. "I just love them so much.
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Call for wind of change at tip
Angry villagers in Cullingworth are calling on a local tip operator to clean up its act. Residents say rubbish from the tip at Manywells landfill site has been blowing from the tip and onto neighbouring fields. They claim tip operator Wastepoint Ltd is
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Jobs bonanza as Morrisons expands
Bradford supermarket firm Morrisons today announced plans to create 5,000 new jobs as it delivered record-breaking results. And the firm's chairman, Sir Ken Morrison, pledged the company would keep its headquarters in Bradford as he announced a 17.2 increase
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Minister praises school scheme
A government education chief has praised a scheme to boost the performance of inner city schools in Bradford. Schools Standards Minister Estelle Morris said she was delighted with the good progress made in Bradford under the multi-million pound Excellence
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'My hotel rape ordeal'
A sales executive broke down in tears as she told a court how she was raped by a Bradford man she met on a course. She said Stephen Smith, 38, of Mossybank Close, Queensbury, forced her on to his hotel bed and then put her through a series of degrading
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My regret, by City chairman
Bradford City boss Geoffrey Richmond has spoken of his 'regret' at the failure of Zero Tolerance policing at Sunday's clash with Leeds United. Bradford City fans were furious when an estimated 500 Leeds United fans managed to get tickets for areas of
