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Atghletics: Bunny run victory
IAN HOLMES lead the pack away from the start in 'Bunny Run 4' on Tuesday night. Hundreds of runners have taken part in the Bunny Run series from Pensitone Hill Country park above Haworth. Local runner, Holmes, won the fourth race, but the overall men's
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Campaign group to safeguard High Royds
FUTURE development of the soon to be sold off High Royds Hospital is to be guarded by a special campaign group. The newly formed Aireborough and Wharfedale Community Planning Forum aims to prepare a vision for the 195-acre site in Menston which it will
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Youths leave firm with huge damage bill
A SOUTH Craven businessman has hit out after a youth walked free from court when charges of criminal damage were dropped. The defendant, who is too young to be named for legal reasons, was alleged to have had a hand in causing damage estimated at £20,000
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Future of CCTV scheme rests with local businesses
THE gauntlet has been thrown down to local businesses to secure the future of closed circuit television in Skipton. The Craven Community Safety Partnership has secured Home Office funding of £128,000 towards the capital costs of setting up seven cameras
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Town's sports crisis in spotlight
OTLEY'S dire sporting facilities will be put under the spotlight tonight at Otley Civic Centre. All of the town's sports and youth clubs and organisations have been invited to a meeting to discuss falling membership numbers as well as the problem of recruiting
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Dream trip turns into seven mile nightmare
A MOTOR racing fan and a teenager with cystic fibrosis this week spoke about their nightmare journey to reach the British Grand Prix. Martin Phillips, of Otley, and Imran Afzal were looking forward to a dream day out last Sunday after Otley-based charity
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Athletics: Marathon tears of joy
Pain and tears have not deterred marathon runner Alison Wharvell from future races. The London marathon was the first big race for the 24-year-old who is an accountant at Bradford & Bingley Building Society at Crossflatts. Alison, of Spring Gardens
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Warriors strengthen French connection
FRENCH connections were renewed when the West Craven Warriors junior rugby league squad played a team from across the Channel on Good Friday. It is three years since the Warriors first played a junior team from Roanne, in central France, and some lasting
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Cougar boss saves historic ground
The boss of Keighley Cougars saved the club's ground from a major fire disaster after disturbing a group of young arsonists. Managing director Peter Rowe said Cougar Park's main stand could have burnt to the ground if he had not been working late at the
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OAP drivers want special treatment
A CALL has been made for special parking provisions to be introduced for elderly people over the age of 75 to make Skipton's town centre facilities more accessible. Edric Seal, of Pasture Close, Skipton, who is a tutor with the University of the Third
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Rugby Union: Danny ready for county battle
DANNY McGEE could help take Yorkshire a stage nearer the Under-20 County Championship title this weekend. Danny, who plays his club rugby with Keighley Crusaders, has played in every game of Yorkshire's successful Tetley Bitter Under-20 championship.
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Mark brings home gold from top meet
Swimmers from the City of Bradford club have had success in meets at Portsmouth and Leeds. A group of senior members travelled south for the Easter Swim Festival while younger competitors attended the Leeds Age Group Meet. It was the first time Bradford
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SBS delivers resounding blow to 'carpetbaggers'
MEMBERS of Skipton Building Society delivered a "resounding defeat for carpetbaggers" at their annual meeting this week. A record 168,000 members voted and more than 90 per cent cast their ballot in favour of the society's nominations for directors, including
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Marjorie heads for Honk Kong
DANCE and drama teacher and former Tiller Girl Marjorie Rhodes has retired from her school after 33 years. She will move out of Keighley but the dance part of the school will continue under her former assistant Lynn Baglio. The Far East beckons as Marjorie
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White Rose Squad
HALL Park's Robert Murphy will captain the Airedale and Wharfedale League's White Rose Trophy side in their first round match against the Quaid-e-Azam League at Guiseley Cricket Club on Sunday, May 14. His team will be - S Moore (Bilton) wk, S Alred (
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New clubs set to start in Aire-Wharfe League
WEATHER permitting - and at the time of writing it did not look too promising - the Airedale and Wharfedale Senior Cricket League season gets underway on Saturday. It is an exciting time for all concerned with the league as for the first time it will
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Hospital site indec ision
ONCE again we appear to have lost sight of a new hospital for Otley. Despite reassurances from health chiefs more than two years ago that building work on a new hospital would start in June this year, we are still months away from even getting planning
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Cougars: After the Lod mayor's show
York 2 Cougars 26 - THIS WAS definitely a case of 'After the Lord Mayor's Show.' Where Friday night's game was pure entertainment -- this was pure agony. The only good thing about the performance was the Cougars' defensive display. They never looked like
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Jobs boost as engineers flourish
Keighley is rebuilding its reputation as a leading engineering town. Job prospects for young engineers have never been so good for more than a decade. The positive claims were made by Nigel Simpson. business development manager at Keighley and District
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Bupa moves to buy up private hospital
The Yorkshire Clinic, the district's private hospital, looks set to be taken over by health care giant Bupa. Bupa today announced it had agreed to buy its rival Community Health Group (CHG) - which owns the Yorkshire Clinic in Cottingley - for around
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Education concern
IT IS almost compulsory for the hotheads to hijack the headlines at any union annual conference with ritual calls for a strike as the universal panacea to the perceived ills facing any occupation. The National Union of Teachers' conference in Harrogate
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Ilkley Golf Club
THE forecast was for heavy rain and winds but thankfully 'they got it wrong!' so the River Cup Qualifying Round at Ilkley Golf Club Ladies' Section was played in relatively benign conditions. A medal competition for both divisions, with the first and
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Selected teams
SOCCER - OXENHOPE 1ST: (v Gargrave home) meet ground 1.30pm. D Tetley, S Duffin, N Barnes, J Bailey, M Butterfield, S Potts, S Pearson, P Higgins, D Collier, P Sewell, D Whitaker, D Bairstow, J Fisher, D Bleasby. OXENHOPE 2ND: (v Grindleton away) meet
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Cougars: Easter parade
Cougars 24 Hunslet Hawkes 23 - If this game dosen't get the crowds flooding back to Cougar Park nothing will. For pure theatre and seat-of-the-pants excitement even the great showmen of the past could not have engineered a more stunning finish. Hunslet
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Dons try to retain their famous spirit
Tore Pedersen has urged Wimbledon fans to have faith in the club's Norwegian revolution - even though the Crazy Gang are flirting with relegation. The Norwegian international defender, out with a knee injury for most of the season, reckons owners Kjell
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Landscape artists go on show
Yorkshire Landscapes is a new exhibition at Cliffe Castle Museum showing more than 100 pictures from Bradford council's permanent collections. They include watercolours by well-known local artist J Pighills and much-loved large oil paintings of familiar
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Kidnap: Man seized in pub
A Bradford barmaid told today how she saw undercover police arrest a man in connection with the gunpoint kidnapping of a family by a bogus househunter. Emma Wilson, 22, said plain-clothes officers were waiting in The Inman pub, Lumb Lane, Manningham,
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Volunteer group wants to create one-stop shop
A ONE-stop shop resource centre for Skipton's charities and voluntary bodies is a step closer to becoming a reality. Craven Voluntary Action, currently on Coach Street, is planning to buy the derelict land behind the Craven Herald offices on Bay Horse
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Community centre to open
A massive community centre is ready to open in an historic town centre building following £100,000 of improvements. Keighley Muslim Association has spent five years refurbishing the 135-year-old former Albert Street Baptist Chapel. It will provide meeting
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Burley U-12s share title
Crossroads U-12s....1 Burley U-12 s......2 A pulsating game saw Burley Under-12s run out 2-1 winners at Crossroads and so claim a well-deserved share of the title. In difficult conditions both teams looked to attack with Burley having the better of the
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Town Reserves win Harrogate Senior Cup
OTLEY Town Res.........3 HARROGATE Railway Res....2 IN a great advertisement for Harrogate League football Otley Town Reserves won the Senior Cup Final in a game which went to extra-time at Boroughbridge. Town were the underdogs and they conceded an early
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Jordan's late winner keeps Town in hunt
LOWER HOPTON.......1 OTLEY TOWN............2 A LATE winner from Michael Jordan gave Otley Town maximum points as they continued their push for promotion from Division One of the Mumtaz West Riding County Amateur League. In pretty grim conditions it was
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Millet Evening
League The Millet Printers Evening Cricket League is due to start on Thursday, May 4 with each of the eight clubs playing each other on a home and away basis. Both semi-finals will be staged at Farsley Cricket Club's Red Lane ground on Sunday, August
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Soccer: Penalty shoot-out agony for Phoenix
PHOENIX missed out on a place in the Premier Division Cup final with an agonising 4-3 penalty shoot-out defeat on East Monday. Martin Ross missed a golden opportunity to secure victory in the last minute of extra time, and was distraught after seeing
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Albion at strength for day of destiny
Albion Sports should be at full strength for tomorrow's national FA Sunday Cup final at Nottingham Forest's City Ground. The match is the biggest in a century of non-league football in Bradford. With only captain Richard Clarke and young midfielder Amjad
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Civic Society honours building examples
The best of building design has been honoured in Ilkley. Last year the civic society reintroduced its annual Design Awards last year with presentations to Bettys, Booths and Lishmans the butcher. For this year it was proposed to limit the awards to one
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Eating Out
Tucked away in Keighley's East Parade is the aptly-named Curry House. Although I've visited most of Keighley's curry restaurants over the years, this one had always eluded me and I'd never got around to sampling its wares. Now was time to put that right
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'No epidemic over mad cow disease'
Britain is unlikely to suffer an epidemic of human mad cow disease, according to the consultant neurologist who treated CJD victim Andrew Carter. But Dr Jim Howe, based at Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, warned that other European countries were only
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Mike Priestley North of Watford
You could almost hear the sighs of relief around Bradford when the Council decided against the scheme put forward to replace Provincial House. The general view seems to be that whatever should be built on the site of this landmark, it wasn't that. So
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Honour for mosque as top adviser visits
Members of the Muslim community turned out in force to welcome one of the faith's most senior religious leaders at the opening of a Bradford mosque. Dr Abdullah bin Abdul Muhsin At-Turki, adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia, was the guest of honour
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Rugby Union: Colts tour success
Keighley Colts had a successful tour off the field when they travelled to the North East over the Easter weekend to play Percy Park and Morpeth. On the field was less successful with the lads losing their opening game 29-7 to a strong Percy Park team.
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In good voice
When you're used to acting the bad lad, it makes a change playing a loser instead. Nigel Pivaro is familiar to television viewers as Terry Duckworth, the wayward son of Jack and Vera in Coronation Street. But theatre audiences in West Yorkshire will be
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Joyce is a word wizard
ONLY politicians relish having the last word with as much gusto as Otley woman Joyce Cansfield. But it is not rounding off a good debate that puts a smile on her face - but using her language skills to beat off opponents in word games such as Scrabble
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Soccer: Craven League round-up
Bronte Wanderers have captured the first honours in the league -- clinching the Division Two title with style. They beat Cowling reserves 8-0 and have now piled up 42 points. There closest rivals, Barnoldwick United can only reach 41. Both teams have
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City must stay calm
Paul Jewell is urging his Bradford City side to use their heads as well as their hearts in tomorrow's crunch clash with Wimbledon. Victory for the Bantams will see Jewell's battlers leap above the Dons and out of the bottom three for the first time since
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Wharfedale pair win top honours
TWO Wharfedale players will receive honours at the Jewson National League awards ceremony Andy Hodgson was a clear winner of the player of the year - awarded by votes cast by the coaching teams of the 14 clubs in the division. It is the second successive
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Tarn proves water-tight
ILKLEY Tarn is being monitored by Bradford Council after work to prevent leaks was successfully carried out last year. Officers are keeping an eye on the tarn, at the top of Wells Road, and say it is not in danger of springing fresh leaks. Danny Jackson
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Motorcycle boys are back on the road
A motorcycle club, which in its heyday in the 1970s was the biggest in the country, is to be re-launched. Denholme and District Motorcycle Club was kick-started at the Guide Inn in Cullingworth, last night, following two successful re-unions. The launch
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Summer project gets lottery boost
Small World, a Haworth-based community arts group, has received lottery funding for its summer project. The initiative will kick-off next month with an informal weekend of arts activities at a residential centre on the Bront moors. Small World is inviting
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Millennium tree planted
The 1st Cullingworth Rainbows and Brownies have planted a millennium tree in their village. The silver birch was planted by Rainbow Kara Jacobs, seven, and Brownie Ellen Young, eight, with help from Brown Owl Michele Wilson, next to Cullingworth war memorial
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Rugby Union: Crusaders capture solid victory
Bradford Salem 8, Crusaders 12 - The Crusaders were disappointed with the margin of this win, as they knew they should have won by a much clearer margin than the final score reflected. There were a few changes in the team from the previous week. One of
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Hospital under attack over false fire calls
The chief of Keighley fire brigade has hit out at the number of false alarms caused by the automatic fire detection system at Airedale hospital. Assistant Divisional Officer John Davies says the main problem is false alarms from the hospital's staff accommodation
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Snacking is good for children
Children at eight of the Bradford district's secondary schools - including two schools in Keighley - are to be encouraged to snack all day instead of sticking to main meals. The move comes from catering company Sodexho which has won a £1.2m contract to
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CJD inquest due to re-open
The inquest into the death of a 24 year old Cross Roads man suspected to have died from the human form of mad cow disease is due to re-open in Bradford today. Andrew Carter, a bright university student, died on February 13, just over five months after
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Credit Union rejects shop proposal
THE prospect of a local credit union setting up shop in the former Barclays Bank in Earby has been quashed. It first emerged as a possibility when the bank - the last one in Earby - closed its doors for the last time on April 7. A small band of protestors
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Call for investigation into 'sordid kangaroo court'
A STANDARDS committee at Pendle Council has turned into nothing more than a "sordid kangaroo court" used by hypocrites to smear their political opponents, according to local Liberal Democrat chairman Tim Haigh. He is calling on the District Auditor -
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Hundreds turn out to see Passion Play
SEVERAL hundred people watched the sufferings and death of Christ acted out on the streets of Ingleton on Good Friday, writes Peter McCabe. They looked on as members of Ingleton Community Theatre Group, St Mary's and the Methodist Church depicted the
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Bizarre defeat for Trojans
BURLEY TROJANS..4 BORO'BRIDGE........7 BURLEY Trojans completed their home league programme with a bizarre match against high flying Boroughbridge Reserves. After more than matching their visitors and leading 3-1 at half time Trojans capitulated to concede
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Blue Peter star's steamy affair
Former Blue Peter presenter Simon Groom will be in Keighley tomorrow. Simon, (pictured) who co-presented the top BBC children's programme from 1978-86, is visiting the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. He will be signing copies of his video A Steamy
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Alan's brush with life in fast lane
Royalty have praised his talents and the greatest names in Grand Prix paid homage to his paintings. Alan Fearnley's evocative portraits of classic cars have been shown in galleries across Europe and England. For 11 years Mr Fearnley, from Ilkley, held
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Princess salutes bridleway campaigner
A bridle path which passes across Keighley Moor has been renamed the Mary Towneley Loop. This is in recognition of the campaigning work that Lady Mary Towneley has carried out in developing the bridleway network in the North of England. At a ceremony
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Villagers call for pollution survey
GLUSBURN and Cross Hills residents are calling for an urgent survey into pollution levels in the two villages. Parish councillors have become more concerned about the amount of traffic travelling on the busy A6068, especially large vehicles such as HGVs
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Boost for families on low incomes
SUTTON families on low incomes will soon be able to rent low-cost homes in the village thanks to a deal struck between locals and developers. Housing company Barratt is in the process of building more than 60 new homes on one of the village's former mill
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Fencing of bonfire site ignites anger
A ROW has broken out over an area of land which Eastby villagers claim has been used for years for the annual bonfire celebrations. Chris Booth, landlord of The Masons Arms at Eastby, said the land at the bottom of Eastby Brow, formerly used to stage
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Council may seek judicial review over hospital
FED up Otley town councillors could go to court over scaled down plans for a new Wharfedale hospital. The council feels cheated after original pledges for services planned for the new hospital made two years ago appear to have been drastically reduced
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Magistrate critical after car crash
AN Otley magistrate is fighting for his life after being cut from the wreckage of a car involved in a three-vehicle pile-up at a notorious blackspot last Thursday. Father of two David Tempest was one of two people freed by firefighters and taken to Leeds
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Rugby League: Keighley boys go to Town
Brighouse Rangers 8 Keighley Town 26 - Keighley Town travelled to Brighouse Rangers after their midweek 20-14 defeat at the hands of Guiseley Rangers. Town's points came with tries from Dale Barlow and Neil Kennedy with two conversions and a drop goal
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Margaret makes an Oscar splash
MARGARET Hunter has never wanted to make a big splash in life. Her last 30 years have been selflessly devoted to helping thousands of Wharfedale people aged between five and 85 to swim. But Mrs Hunter is now getting the recognition she deserves - as the
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Huge fire wrecks four-storey mill
Firefighters from across the Bradford district were called to tackle a ferocious blaze which gutted a derelict Keighley mill last night. As the blaze engulfed the four-storey mill, in Mill Lane, Oakworth, firefighters were forced to carry vital equipment
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Call to capture Keighley's history
PHOTOGRAPHERS are being invited to capture a piece of Keighley history. Every photograph tells a story and The History Channel wants to capture the moments in history that might otherwise be forgotten. To do this it has launched the second phase of its
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Rugby League: Albion's end of season blues
Albion's visitors for their last home Conference game of the season were Normanton Knights who were having a mini revival to win 24-0. Albion on the other hand were looking for two points to further consolidate their mid-table position. Work commitments
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Glusburn beat the rain
IT was the start of the local cricket season at the weekend - so cue the downpour which washed out the programme. Play did start in a few matches but the thunder and lightning put paid to further play in all but one game. Cononley v Glusburn in Division
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Unions vow to fight schools privatisation
THE largest teaching union in the country has vowed to fight proposals to bring in a private company to run schools in Bradford. Already facing the massive upheaval of the reorganisation from a three to a two-tier system of education and the shake-up
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£2 million Bronte holiday scheme
A businessman is bidding to create a hotel in the heart of Bronteland for those tired of heading for the sun. Hedley Rhodes, 57, who was brought up in Bingley, has already built up a substantial timeshare business in Tenerife's Playa de Las Americas,
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Girl gang doorstep gang cons woman
A householder has warned people to be on their guard after being persuaded to part with cash by a gang of children claiming to be fundraising for their school. Cynthia Trasi gave a group of young girls 50 pence after they knocked on her door in Shipley
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Cricket: Season gets off to damp start
The long awaited start to the new cricket season was decimated by the weather. Play did start in a few games, but the downpour at around 3.30pm put paid to further play in all but one game. Play was possible in only one game in the First Division. Newly
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Veteran Andy picked
for Yorkshire Heard the one about the 55 year-old making his debut for Yorkshire? Could well be one of the gags local comedian Andy Swallow uses on the circuit but in fact the story relates to Andy himself. The captain of Guiseley Cricket Club's third
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Yeadon CC looking to build on excellent start
AFTER their excellent start at Baildon on the opening day of the Bradford Cricket League season newly promoted Yeadon like virtually all the other clubs locally were thwarted by the weather last Saturday. They had a high profile game against Hanging Heaton
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Learn to play tennis
PLAY Tennis 2000, Britain's biggest-ever free tennis campaign, gets into full swing in Otley at Grove Hill Tennis Club on Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7. Everyone is welcome to come along at the following times: Saturday, May 6, at Grove Hill Tennis
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Dawn in winning team
THE English Schools' Badminton Association, which is celebrating 30 year's of play at Nottingham University, from 1971 to the year 2000, staged the Inter Counties Tournament. Yorkshire team players, including Guiseley's Dawn Johnson, once again took the
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Around the bowling greens
THE Aireborough and Wharfedale Bowling Association's Ronnie Collins Cup Competition gets underway on Friday, May 5 with 26 teams playing. The draw is - Greenbottom A v Farsley A at Rufford, Bramley Libs v Woodside B at Guiseley, Rufford B v Calverley
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Park Rangers lift Sunday Cup
Park Rangers.....8 Olicanians..........1 IN the final of the Wharfedale FA Airedale International Sunday Cup, Park Rangers of Yeadon had a resounding win over Olicanian Academicals at goals Guiseley AFC. Norman Jukes, a director of Guiseley AFC, had worked
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Only a win will give Guiseley hope
ONLY victory in their last game of the season at Bamber Bridge on Saturday will give Guiseley any hope of surviving in the Premier Division of the UniBond League. Even then they will be relying on Spennymoor losing their last three games. Guiseley squandered
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Simply Smith
GLASGOW Rangers are the soccer champions in Scotland (once again), Manchester United are the English champions (once again) and the Tory pary seems to be in continual terminal decline. Just as it is not healthy for the game of Association Football to
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Christian Viewpoint
By Canon P Delaney, Parish Priest at St Anne's Catholic Church - Most of us would subscribe to the view that certain laws are necessary to regulate the affairs of citizens and state. We can well imagine the chaos which would result if people were allowed
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Clarke has no divided loyalties
Goalkeeper Matt Clarke will have no qualms about his former club Sheffield Wednesday being relegated as the fight for Premiership survival reaches the closing rounds. The Bantams face what is being touted as the most important game in their history knowing
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Settle suffer as rain wrecks opening day
ONLY one match was played in the Ribblesdale Cricket League - and Settle will be wishing that it too had fallen victim to the torrential rain. Playing at Cherry Tree their season got off to a disappointing start when they were on the end of a remarkable
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Darwin scheme gets cash boost
THE trustees of Ilkley's Darwin Gardens project are celebrating after being pledged thousands of pounds in funding to complete the scheme. The trustees have accepted an offer from the Countryside Agency for the Darwin Gardens to become a Millennium Green
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Fight is on to stop housing scheme
Residents in Steeton are steeling themselves for a battle to stop a proposed housing development on marshy land beside the Aire Valley trunk road. An outline planning application has been submitted to build just two houses on land near Currer Walk, but
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Another victim of meningitis linked to Haj
Another case of meningitis has been identified in Bradford, linked with the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Last weekend, a Bradford pilgrim was found to be suffering from the rare W135 strain of the killer disease. That person's condition
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Fears over homes on farmland
AN Ilkley councillor fears that work on land next to Skipton Road is being carried out to prepare it for housing development. Coun Martin Smith has written to planners and enforcement officers in a bid to have the land restored to its former state. The
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Crime figures fall but it isn't all good news
CRIME figures in Craven have seen a slight fall over the past 12 months - but several problem areas have been highlighted. From the beginning of April 1999 to the end of March 2000, 2,755 crimes were reported in the five Craven local area polic-ing (LAP
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Hunt for Park attacker stepped down
The hunt for the masked attacker who assaulted three women in a Keighley park is being wound down. But detectives searching for the man who struck in a three-week period in December and early January in the Lund Park area of the town, have not closed
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Classic exaple of bureaucracy
It is a fact of life that new housing and other developments will cause a level of inconvenience to those living in its shadow. Most reasonable minded people will on balance accept the changes even though the quality of their lives may be affected for
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Skipton Bulldogs move in on soccer title
THE weather again took a hand as the persistent rain of the last week or so caused the cancellation of both Northern Plant Hire Trophy semi-finals between Skipton Bulldogs and Embsay and Oxenhope and Silsden. Whether or not the competition will be completed
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Valley Drive residents urged to have say on new homes
RESIDENTS surrounding the redundant International Wool Secretariat building in Valley Drive have been urged to inspect plans to develop the site into housing. The plans are on show at Ilkley Town Hall and most residents are expected to broadly welcome
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Last chapter ends for city book store
Part of an historic city centre building was shutting up shop today - just four years after a multi-million redevelopment scheme. And business and council chiefs said all the stops must be pulled out to get the main section of the former Brown Muff department
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An end to rail misery in sight
RAIL commuters were yesterday presented with a vision of the future as they arrived to work on the clapped-out, smelly old bone-shakers they have grown used to travelling on. Sitting on the lines at Leeds railway station ready for the official unveiling
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Classic 70's RAilway Children still the tops
Keighley's classic Railway Children movie has been signalled the best in a head-to-head Internet poll. Nearly 90 per cent of respondents so far have given the 1970 cinema masterpiece their vote over Carlton TV's small-screen remake. The on-line poll was
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Joint winners in Guiseley Gallop
Easter is traditionally a time when people head for the Mediterranean in search of the sun but the record field of 411 runners in Sunday's Fifth Guiseley Gallop were rewarded with blue skies and sufficient warmth to provide perfect racing conditions.
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Baildon Trinity win Junior Cup
Baildon TRINITY....2 Rawdon OB..............1 IN the final of the Wharfedale FA Skylark Leisure Junior Cup played on Good Friday evening, Baildon Trinity Athletic Juniors defeated Rawdon Old Boys Juniors 2-1 in a very good game on the ground of Otley
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Bracken Ghyll Golf Club
THIS is the time of year that the various Bradford League competitions get under way. This year sees the entry of a team from Addingham's Bracken Ghyll Golf Club in the scratch league and is their first venture into this category, marking a further step
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Ilkley Squash
champions ILKLEY Lawn Tennis and Squash Club staged its annual club squash championships which were kindly sponsored by Dunlop/Slazenger. Winners and runners-up were: A Grade winner Gareth Hutchinson; runner-up Andy Hutchinson. Ladies' Open winner Anne
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Cougars: Karl Harrison's view from the dugout
IT'S been a great Easter with the points just piling up -- although we left a bit late against the Hawkes on Good Friday. It wasn't one of our best displays but a win is what counts, particularly with the top of the table becoming very congested. We're
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Wharfedale pressed in Dales derby clash
Wharfedale 32 North Ribblesdale 7 there could not have been a better ending to Wharfedale's best-ever season than enjoying a game of long-standing friendly rivalry with neighbours from over the watershed writes Ian Douglass. Wharfedale were shorn of a
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Steam line gets passenger boost
Passenger figures just released by the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway show the first rise in Easter Bank Holiday visitors for almost a decade. The railway carried 4,635 people over the four days of the holiday weekend compared to 4,187 in the same
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Letter from the Dales
It was good to see Cedric Robinson again. The Queen's guide to Kent Sands, in Morecambe Bay, had that prime indicator of health - a good colour. I inquired about his father, William, and was told that he was about to celebrate his 96th birthday. Apart
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Ian earns his commission
AN Army officer cadet from Ilkley has been awarded the Queen's Commission after 11 months or arduous training. Ian Walker, 23, has become a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) after marching up the steps of the Old
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High speed trains on their way
New high-speed electric trains could be in use locally by the end of the year. The three-car trains, which will replace 35-year-old stock on the Airedale and Wharfedale lines, were unveiled this week by Northern Spirit. The new units have air conditioning
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Craven through the years
100 years ago THOMAS Hopwood, who had served for 20 years at Bell Busk Silk Mill, was heading for pastures new. He had been appointed Superintendent of the Mill of the Alliance Silk Manufacturing Company in Bombay, India. Mr Hopwood had sailed from London
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Ilkley Youth enjoy ten goal romp
Ilkley Youth.............10 Hellifield....................1 Having stuttered lately in the quest for promotion, the Guyson sponsored Ilkley Juniors Youth team blitzed an initially stubborn Hellifield side with eight second-half goals, including hat-tricks
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Cougars: Charge to the top
COUGARS are just two points behind top-of-the-table Doncaster Dragons after a blistering Easter weekend. A stunning injury-time try from Dean Hanger clinched victory against Hunslet Hawkes on Good Friday and sent 2,000-plus fans into raptures. The atmosphere
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Couple's TV garden is blooming great
An Otley couple are set to feature in a new TV gardening show after a makeover crew battled strong winds and heavy rain to transform their riverside plot. Yvette and Jim Wilks have lived in the council-owned former lodge house in Bridge Street for five
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Calling brass bands
A sheltered housing complex in Cullingworth is appealing for a band to help it recreate the good old days. Scarbrough Court is staging a Victorian day on Saturday, May 27, to celebrate Going on to Sheltered Housing Week, which runs from May 22-28. However
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Anger as canal towpath closes
A one-and-a-half mile section of the Leeds-Liverpool towpath has been closed as developers work on constructing a new footbridge. The path between Granby Lane at Keighley and Morton Lane at Crossflatts will be out of bounds for walkers, runners and cyclist
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Builders win education prize
Cross Hills firm PS Turner (Constructions) has school construction contracts worth more than £10 million currently on site in Bradford. Turners are carrying out extensive alterations and extensions for Bradford Council in a £5 million project at Belle
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Sycamore hits contract heights
Civil engineering consultants Sycamore Construction Ltd have made a great start to the new Millennium with major contracts worth over £350,000 secured already this year. The Keighley company, run by managing director Jerry Turner and his wife and company
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Power cut halts High Street business
BUSINESS on Skipton's High Street was brought to a standstill when staff returned from the Easter break to find seven premises without electricity. The Craven Herald was one of those hit, and staff worked by emergency lighting. The problem was reported
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Horse owner hits out after foal suffers cigarette burns
A SKIPTON woman has expressed her disgust after her six-month old foal sustained burns to its face from what appeared to be a cigarette. Leigh Winterburn, 21, who has kept horses for more than 10 years, told the Herald how she had discovered burns on
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Police crackdown on under-age drinking
POLICE are to crackdown on under-age drinking across Craven. Officers have announced that they are to use young people to make test purchases from licensed premises across the district. Licensing officer Sgt Kevin Wilson said: "We have highlighted a problem
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Residents angry at 'over the top' traffic calming
A TRAFFIC calming scheme under construction in Hellifield has angered residents who feel elements of the project are garish and over the top. Plastic reflective bollards and a large sign have led to complaints to the parish council from residents. There
