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Boffins of the future battle for the glittering prizes
The eighth National Science Week looks like being one of the most inventive with more than 30 Bradford schools involved in one way or another. But what is the value of this annual event when engineering and science development is so poorly funded and
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School mounts a farewell exhibition
Former pupils and staff of St Mary's School at Riddlesden are being invited to a farewell exhibition. The school leaves its present site in St Mary's Road this summer under Bradford Council's education shake-up from a three to two-tier schools system.
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£90m down, but Sir Ken tops rich list
Supermarket chief Sir Ken Morrison is top of the district's rich list - despite being £90 million poorer than last year, according to a new survey. The Morrison Supermarket Group chairman has a family fortune valued at £810 million earning him 28th place
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Bus driver to face probe into pass row
An inquiry is under way by a bus company into a driver's conduct after a Baildon teenager with learning difficulties was reduced to tears when her bus pass was wrongly confiscated. Anita Birchall's daughter Sarah Birchall, 18, was travelling on the First
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'We'll fight village office block bid'
Controversial plans to build a £500,000 two-storey office block next to Harden Cricket Club have been given the thumbs down by villagers. About 60 residents attended a meeting of Harden Village Society to protest about the plans by the high-tech ICR group
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Tobacco shame of ice cream sellers
Rogue ice cream sellers are selling cigarettes to Bradford children from their mobile vans, it was revealed today. Trading Standards officers have received complaints that youngsters are being tempted with single cigarettes being sold at pocket-money
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Fuming over tax changes
Radical changes in company car taxation could leave many drivers fuming. This is because new taxes will be based on the volume of carbon dioxide vehicles emit. The change, due to take effect from April 2002, means there will no longer be a reduction for
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£27,000 award to find sludge solution
An environmental group searching for a green solution to sludge created by the wool industry has received a major cash boost. Biffaward, a multi-million pound environment fund set up by Biffa Waste Services, has awarded £27,451 to the Green Business Network
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Safe in their hands
A chance meeting between a window and door firm boss and a former detective has helped a Bradford company grow, thanks to the increased security it offers. The discussion on security between Keith Glennon, 56, managing director of Regency Windows &
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Employers are offered help package
Hundreds of firms are being given a chance to hear how a thriving regeneration programme can help them. Royds Community Association staff are currently putting together a help package for firms attending its next Employers' Club at the Guide Post Hotel
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Success is no fairytale
A bakery which is said to be the largest employer of Asian people in Bradford has become Britain's number one manufacturer of fairy cakes. Around 12 billion fairy cakes are made each year in the 35,000 square foot manufacturing plant at Bradford's Yorkshire
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Stars on cue for fun-filled contest
Steve Davis not only showed the other side of his personality, but the other side of the sport in Saturday's sixth T&A Regal Snooker Classic at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre. Some may have expected the six-times world champion to play second fiddle
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Pemberton the hero as Avenue saunter
Bradford Park Avenue 3, Netherfield Kendal 0; by Ian Whiting. A hat-trick from Martin Pemberton gave Avenue a comfortable win which maintained their season-long unbeaten run at Horsfall Stadium and saw them smash through the 60-point barrier. But with
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Clarke gives Albion their greatest day
The team who nearly didn't enter the FA Sunday Cup were propelled into the final by the man who shouldn't have been on the field yesterday. Albion Sports manager Kulwinder Singh revealed in his team's jubilant dressing room after the match that he was
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Wolves are slaughtered
Bradford Bulls 58, Warrington Wolves 4; by Nigel Askham at Odsal Psychological advantages don't come any bigger than this. Ahead of next week's Challenge Cup semi-final re-match at Headingley even Wolves boss Darryl van de Velde was forced to concede:
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City down but not out
Coventry City 4, Bradford City 0; by Richard Sutcliffe at Highfield Road Any City fan who watched this spineless excuse for a performance may well have travelled home convinced he or she will be watching Nationwide League football season. The renowned
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McCall issues apology to fans
Stuart McCall has warned that Bradford City cannot afford any more performances like the bitterly disappointing display at Coventry in their campaign for Premiership survival. The inspirational skipper was visibly upset after a game in which City not
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Stamp out ice-cream 'cowboys'
The chimes of an ice-cream van are one of the innocent sounds of summer. Unfortunately, that innocence has now been tainted by unscrupulous vendors who are touting something rather more sinister than ices and lollies to the children who patronise them
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Business Link helps food firm to expand
A Skipton firm which gives food safety advice has been helped to expand thanks to Business Link North Yorkshire. Verner Wheelock Associates, of Broughton Hall Business Park, has a list of clients which include food manufacturers, retailers and government
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WR Mitchell, OBE: Letter from the Dales
Have I told you about my membership of an exclusive walking club known as the Geriatric Blunderers? We were founded, with four members, some ten years ago. The membership remains at four, plus a president, Betty Wainwright, the widow of AW, of guide book
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'Help us get on the proper wavelength'
A hospital radio station has started an appeal to raise thousands of pounds to bring it into the 21st century. Radio Airedale has been serving the patients and staff at Airedale Hospital, Steeton, for the past 30 years since the hospital was built. But
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Truce called over Sikh march mix-up
Sikh leaders at two temples have called a truce over who will lead this year's Vaisakhi procession through the city's streets. Each year Bradford's Sikh population marks the birth of Khalsa with a march from one of the six Sikh temples in the city. The
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Extend school hours? Don't you dare, Mr B!
The Government has indicated it wants to lengthen the school day to raise educational standards. Education reporter Lyn Barton found a hostile reception for the plan here in Bradford. WORKING NINE to five might be a reality for millions of working parents
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Theatre: Jeffrey is back to the future
The one prediction no-one made back in 1975 was that the future would be almost the same as the present. No, there would be flying saucers, civilisations on other planets and aliens in silvery hoods. That, at any rate, was the way TV envisioned it. In
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Cancer patient left trapped by joyriders
A cancer victim has been left housebound after joyriders smashed into two family cars and buckled her wheelchair. Pauline Wood, 42, has just completed a three month course of radiotherapy in a bid to combat a brain tumour. She returned to her home in
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Chance to travel back in history
A museum is preparing an exhibition which will explore Craven's Celtic past. Life in the first century AD will be revealed in the exhibition at Craven Museum in High Street, Skipton, from April 14 to September 30. Craven District Museum's Officer, Siobhan
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American dream is only days away
A newlywed is preparing to jet off for a new life with his American wife after immigration red tape forced them to live apart for the first ten months of their marriage. David Scott, 30, of Yeadon, and his wife Paige, 32, who met on the Internet last
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O'Leary's eye for a winner
It was 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and David O'Leary was wearing a familiar frown. But for once, groin strains and offside traps couldn't be further from the mind of the Leeds United manager. Instead, his brow was furrowed as he pored over watercolours
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Sharewatch: John Craven
At last the stock market has called a halt to the progress of the "TMT" stocks - technology, media and telecommunications. So for once neither Pace Micro or Filtronic feature in our list of star performers, and in their place come three more traditional
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Why law firm will be rallying for Tom
Tom Moore is temporarily putting his legal papers to one side to take part in a national car rally challenge. The first stage of the Daihatsu Rally Challenge is taking place on the bike racing circuit of Olivers Mount in Scarborough. It will see a return
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Stepping on the gas for more safety
Workers at a Bradford gas centre are playing a major role in cutting down on industrial accidents in the north. BOC Bradford Gas and Gear Centre, in Duncombe Road, aims to improve safety this year through national firm BOC Gases Safety 2000 campaign.
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Magnet launch lifestyle stores
Growing kitchen to bathroom firm Magnet is developing a new approach to selling as it opens a new batch of stores. Gary Favell, managing director of the expanding Keighley firm, puts his finger on the new approach when he says: "People no longer just
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Stockton prove to be Real McCoys
Bradford & Bingley 24, Stockton 32; by Bill Marshall. The slender carrot of second place in Thwaites North Division One proved insufficient an incentive for Bradford and Bingley. They led 24-0 after 28 minutes, but were then overhauled by 32 straight
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Best yet to come!
Kiwi ace Henry Paul admits the Bulls would gladly swap their rampaging Super League rout of Warrington for victory in Saturday's Challenge Cup semi-final against the same opponents. The classy stand-off notched a personal haul of 18 points in yesterday's
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Nick Oldham: Rights and Wrongs
Customers who want work carried out are being warned to obtain written quotations in advance. West Yorkshire Trading Standards say many people are failing to protect themselves against future disputes which may arise when the work has been completed.
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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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Mike Priestley: North of Watford
It's been a high-profile week for the difficult relationship which exists between postmen and dogs - a rather one-sided relationship which leads to around 5,000 postmen being bitten every year. Not only has there been a court case against the Welsh postman
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How disabled firm became a success
An employment project for disabled people, which teetered on the brink of disaster three years ago, is due to expand. The troubled Isco 5 group - previously run by Bradford and Calderdale councils - was disbanded in 1997. It was relaunched by Bradford
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Keeping up with hi-tech children
Parents are going back to school to keep up with their children's computer skills. Heaton Primary School in Bradford is offering computer courses to mums and dads of the school's pupils, giving them the chance to catch up with their children's technical
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Armed raiders terrorise family
Masked burglars threatened a couple and their four children with kitchen knives in a late-night attack at their Bradford home. The two men burst into the house in Aberdeen Place, Lidget Green, Bradford, at midnight as the children's 42-year-old father
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Report is pledged on market hold-ups
A full report on Bradford's market fiasco has been pledged after claims by a Tory councillor that Council members had been kept in the dark over the problems. The Telegraph & Argus revealed last week that there were new delays over plans for the £3
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'Don't pick on us,' say language staff
Language support staff are demanding to know why they are the only teaching group to be excluded from Bradford Council's no compulsory redundancy guarantee. The specialist teachers in the city's closing middle schools are facing an uncertain future with
