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There's room for us and the birds
BY CLIVE WHITE The windswept moorland fringing Keighley and the Worth Valley is a frontier for farmers battling with the elements to make a living, and for birds and animal life struggling to survive. They are often in conflict, not least because farmers
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£9,000 award after cinema boss sacked
The former manager of a Shipley cinema has been awarded more than £9,000 for being unfairly sacked - just two days after the cinema shut down. Tens of thousands of pounds were sunk into Shipley Flicks - formerly the Unit 4 cinema - after it was bought
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'Elderly are scared to use our superloo'
By ROBERT SUTCLIFFE A campaigning resident claims Bingley's toilet facilities are going down the pan and need to freshen up fast if the town is not to lose valuable tourists. Margaret Thompson was so fed up with the state of the town's only public toilet
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Bull mastiff crushes skull of girl, five
BY CHARLES HESLETT A five-year-old girl was savaged by a giant Bull Mastiff and left with horrific bite wounds to her fractured skull after being attacked while she played with friends. Chelsea Serrant was due to go into surgery today to have deep tears
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Mill deal set to provide boost for small firms
By PAUL PARKER Small firms are being given a chance to expand and create more than 100 jobs in a mill which has just been bought by a property management firm. IMEX, a subsidiary of London-based Mentmore Abbey Plc, has paid £800,000 for Holroyd Mills
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Sharpe strike fails to inspire Bantams
BY RICHARD SUTCLIFFE Two goals in the final 15 minutes condemned City to defeat in a dour FA Premier Reserve League clash at Blackburn. Lee Sharpe had given the Bantams the lead midway through the second half with a superbly-taken goal slightly against
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'Silence of the Bulls!'
By ALAN BIRKINSHAW Bradford Bulls players have been banned from talking about next month's Challenge Cup final. Coach Matthew Elliott has imposed the gagging order in a bid to keep his team focused on their Super League programme. The Murrayfield showdown
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Fight goes on to beat charges
The announcement that banks and building societies are to scrap cash machine 'disloyalty' fees is welcome news for hundreds of thousands of people. And the Bradford-based Yorkshire Building Society must be applauded for its role in putting pressure on
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Teacher claims he was bullied by staff
By IAN MIDGLEY An Asian physics teacher has claimed he was the victim of bullying by other staff at the Keighley school where he worked. Mohammed Rahim Shojaee, 49, from Leeds, is claiming racial discrimination against Greenhead Grammar School, Keighley
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Whizzkids through the trapdoor
The year is 2003. But time on a small island off Alaska has gone back 100 years. A doctor and a team of researchers working on a project to investigate time travel suddenly find themselves back in the year 1903. This is the backdrop to a new computer
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Gardening blossoms for cancer patients
By IAN LEWIS Green-fingered cancer patients are benefiting from the therapeutic qualities of gardening after Lottery funding was used to sow the seeds of a special scheme. The money has enabled a horticultural therapy department to be set up at Ilkley's
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Estate to pilot 'first stop shop' scheme
BY IAN LEWIS Advice and support on everything from teenage pregnancy and drug abuse to housing and employment is set to be offered at a pioneering centre for young people. And if the proposed pilot project on the Windy Bank estate in Liversedge proves
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O'Brien rises above the taunts
By RICHARD SUTCLIFFE Andy O'Brien has vowed to continue ignoring the Premiership's big-name strikers who try to unsettle opponents with verbal abuse. The Bradford City defender has been one of the successes of the season after striking up a great understanding
