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500,000 could see Dales newspaper
A newspaper which features things to do and see in the Yorkshire Dales is expected to be read by 500,000 people. Visitor 2000 is produced by the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is now available at national park centres throughout the park. The 32-page
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Neighbours step up fight against crime
Burley-in-Wharfedale could boost its battle against criminals by increasing the number of Neighbourhood Watch groups. About half the village is covered at present, but police and the community council believe that could be increased. Mike Harris, community
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Relief road start date confirmed
The earlier start date for Bingley relief road was confirmed today in a £280 million Government package for transport. As revealed in February, the £60 million scheme to build a congestion-busting dual carriageway around the town has been brought forward
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You'll have to make do
Bradford's pupils are to be taught in 155 temporary classrooms as part of the district's education shake-up. Detailed plans for what will happen to each school in the district for one year from September also reveal 22 schools will operate on split sites
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City v Man U: McCall revels in big occasion
When Stuart McCall joined Bradford City as a callow teenager, he never imagined that one day he would be facing Manchester United in a league fixture at Valley Parade. The Bantams were a Fourth Division side when McCall joined aged just 16 with the likes
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Elliott will demand highest standards
Bulls coach Matthew Elliott feels his side will have to surpass their superb performance last week to make sure they don't suffer more Challenge Cup heartbreak tomorrow. His side produced one of the best performances of his reign in the opening 40 minutes
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Bulls v Wolves: Forster wants revenge on Bulls
Evergreen Warrington winger Mark Forster, the second oldest player in Super League, has become a sporting pensioner. The veteran three-quarter, who has scored 188 tries in 450 first-team appearances for the club, has been able to draw a pension after
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Bulls v Wolves: Face-to-face with Brian McDermott
Bulls prop Brian McDermott is determined that it will be the Warrington players who feel under the weather at Headingley tomorrow night. Despite playing his part in Sunday's 58-4 Super League thumping over tomorrow's opponents the longest serving member
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Robbie deal is a cup tonic!
Bulls skipper Robbie Paul has handed the club a huge boost on the eve of the Challenge Cup semi-final by signing a three-year extension to his contract. It ends long-running speculation that he would leave Odsal at the end of the season for a lucrative
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Giving folk a sense of belonging
If people are to respect the place where they live, it's important for them to feel that they have a stake in it. Too often, particularly on Council estates, tenants can feel alienated. The estate is not somewhere they belong, simply somewhere they stay
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Davison's men face crucial clash
Guiseley's battle to retain their UniBond Premier Division status faces a stern test tomorrow when they face leaders Leigh RMI at Nethermoor. Despite a fourth consecutive draw in midweek Guiseley are still just four places off the bottom and five points
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Players pull out of Bees squad
Rugby Union: Bradford and Bingley could be calling on fourth teamers at Wigton tomorrow. The Bees, whose hopes of second place in Thwaites North Division One seem to have gone, have been decimated by injuries and unavailability. Coach Colin Hay says:
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Let's go gunning for United says Hutchings
Assistant manager Chris Hutchings is hoping that the triumph over Arsenal will act as an inspiration for Bradford City in their sternest home test of the season against Manchester United tomorrow. The 2-1 win against the Gunners six week ago shook the
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Survival Scene
Last weekend's results mean that barring an amazing run by the sides around them, the battle for Premiership survival is between City and Derby. And this weekend sees both clubs face very tough tests with City entertaining Manchester United while Derby
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Rghts and Wrongs: Nick Oldham
Householders are being warned to avoid paying large deposits for goods or services. Trading standards officers say there is no need to hand over anything more than a small amount to seal a legally binding contract. The warning comes after single parent
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Victims raise cash for security fencing
Residents who have been the victims of crime and vandalism have fought back by erecting a security fence behind their homes. Council tenants in West Lane, Keighley, acted after repeated attacks on their homes and sheds. Members of Lower West Lane Tenants
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Jenni's back in the city, live and direct
Woman's Hour and its presenter Jenni Murray came to Bradford yesterday, broadcasting live as part of the BBC's FutureWorld exhibition at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. But T&A writer Jim Greenhalf found that she is no stranger
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Label staff angry as firm looks to axe jobs
Angry workers claim they have been 'sold down the river' after a Keighley company announced redundancy plans - just weeks after trumpeting a £3 million investment in new technology. Market-leading woven labels manufacturer HH Calmon told 200 workers at
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Crisis-hit race council votes for dissolution
Bradford's crisis-hit Racial Equality Council will close after more than 20 years of work to improve race relations. The Council's 30 members voted by a two-thirds majority to dissolve the REC at a meeting called by its interim committee. They also agreed
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Now the local heroes will never be forgotten
Relatives of Bradford heroes who lost or risked their lives to save others will watch proudly as the brave men and women are honoured in a permanent gallery in City Hall on Monday. The gallery will feature the 13 heroes who were awarded the Victoria or
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Bun-loving criminals at work in the city!
Convicted criminals in Bradford are baking buns for charity as part of their work-based punishment programme. The offenders are all serving Community Service orders - the severest sentences dished out by judges and magistrates except for jail. The week-long
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Club steward jailed for three years
A compulsive gambler who stole more than £23,000 from a social club in Keighley has been jailed for three years. Father-of-three David Charnock, 45, pocketed the cash while working as a steward at the St Anne's Catholic Social Centre. A jury at Bradford
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Candy's gearing up for a marathon effort for charity
A 43-year-old long-distance swimmer is taking to the road in April in an effort to raise cash for charity. Candy Gable, of Fieldhead Road, Guiseley, is to make her debut in the London Marathon on April 16 to raise a cash for MacMillan Nurses and Guiseley
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Why house prices will rise by third
Home-owners in Bradford and Kirklees could see their homes increase in value by a third - according to a mortgage expert. But the predictions, for the next five years, have been shot-down by estate agents in both districts. According to magazine Your
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£10,000 facelift for park
Tens of thousands of pounds are to be spent on highway and environmental improvement schemes across the Shipley district. Projects include street lighting, traffic calming and parking improvements with one of the biggest projects being a £10,000 facelift
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City v Man U: Giggs runs into the best years of his career
Ryan Giggs wants to sign a new contract at Manchester United and commit his best years to the Treble winners. Giggs' current five-year deal, which is worth £25,000-a-week, does not expire until 2002. But the in-form winger is ready to sit down with the
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City v Man U: Connections
Gary Walsh was the only ever-present in the City side last season and played a huge part in the club winning promotion to the top flight for the first time in 77 years. The former Manchester United star proved to be an astute signing by Chris Kamara and
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Fearless Bantams can take a point
February's victory over Arsenal showed what can happen to the big guns when they visit Valley Parade. Richard Sutcliffe says City should not fear Manchester United tomorrow. JUST A short couple of years ago, the prospect of the likes of Manchester United
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Robbie out to make amends
Bulls skipper Robbie Paul admits he has given his two Challenge Cup medals away such are his bitter memories of the 1996 and 1997 Wembley finals. And ahead of tomorrow's semi-final he's more determined than ever to get his hands on the winning variety
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Jeepers keepers: What a season!
On the face of it, Bradford City and Manchester United do not have too much in common. City are desperately fighting to retain their Premiership status and can only dream of the riches which continue to flood into the Old Trafford coffers. Success to
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Big signing Myers sails to Pompey for rest of season
Left back Andy Myers, who joined Bradford City in an £800,000 deal from Chelsea last summer, has gone on loan to First Division strugglers Portsmouth until the end of the season. City have also loaned reserve striker Gareth Grant to First Division Bolton
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Rock: 'We still don't know what we're doing!'
You can't accuse Embrace of doing things in half measures. The Bradford band, newly expanded to a five-piece, threw everything bar the musical equivalent of the kitchen sink at their debut album. They brought in a full orchestra to give songs like All
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Theatre: A makeover for the Merry Wives
Imagine the Queen requesting Alan Bennett to write a comedy for the Christmas entertainment of the court at Balmoral. You can't? No more can I. But once upon a time the monarchs of England were well-versed in the arts. Henry VIII had a passion for dancing
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Phantom of the Opera is HERE!
Bradford's Alhambra Theatre has been invaded by technicians who are transforming it into the Paris Opera House for the record run of Phantom of the Opera which opens here next week. Simon Ashberry reports. IT'S ENOUGH to make theatre staff at the Alhambra
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Shotgun robbers in raid on burger bar
Masked robbers threatened staff and customers with a double-barrelled shotgun at a Bradford burger bar. Two men wearing balaclavas burst into the McDonald's restaurant on Rooley Lane, Bradford, shortly before 11pm yesterday. The pair demanded money from
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Mean machines!
Heavy duty violence erupted at the University of Bradford when rampaging school pupils waged war against each other. Their weapons included a hydraulic chisel and battering rams, and the damage they inflicted was serious. But it was all in the interest
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Students give blood in a first for school
For just one day, the main hall of Hanson School resembled a field hospital as pupils and staff lay on trolleys wired to machines and queued up for treatment. But the specialist technical school in Swain House was not in the grip of an epidemic. Instead
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Minister backs bid to restore proud mill
Regeneration Minister Beverley Hughes is backing the bid to breathe new life into historic Manningham Mills. She said the derelict South mill was a "sad reminder" of a once proud industrial area which had fallen into decline. The Minister spoke out as
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Dad escapes with fine
A father-of-one who continued to claim benefits despite receiving a £70,000 insurance pay-out after his wife's tragic death has escaped with a fine from magistrates. For 41 weeks Avtar Singh Bhatt received benefits to which he was not entitled and illegally
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Thank you for saving our baby
The parents of a baby born weighing little more than two pounds have praised Bradford ambulance staff for saving their son's life. When Mum Janet Wright unexpectedly went into labour ten weeks early at her Buttershaw home in the early hours of December
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Police appeal for help in tracing two sex attackers
Detectives today stepped up their hunt for two sex beasts who abducted a teenager as she walked home from a night out in Bradford city centre. The 19-year-old was dragged into a car and taken on a ten-mile terror ride before being subjected to a serious
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University anger over conference
Academics at Bradford University have accused both the British and Yugoslav governments of hampering efforts to hold a top international peace conference in the city this weekend. For the last three weeks, organisers of the three-day event on the Balkan
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Open house for tenants as City Hall signs deal
Tenants have become equal partners with Bradford Council in a historic agreement signed up in City Hall. The scheme means the housing books will be thrown open and tenants will see how their rent is spent. They have also been promised an equal say on
