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Booking a head start!
Kirklees is one of five local authorities offering children in care and their carers better access to books. The Right to Read initiative is helping to set up starter libraries in nine local residential homes. Young people in care often do not have access
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - As a regular driver on Thornton Road in Bradford (the stretch that starts from Grattan up to the traffic lights where Morrisons is), I am annoyed at the amount of car users who think they are either a taxi or a bus. I sit there obeying the highway
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Atherton is city signing
Defender Peter Atherton will today become Bradford City's second close season signing from relegated Sheffield Wednesday. Wednesday's Northern Ireland international full back Ian Nolan became manager Chris Hutchings' first signing when he joined City
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Freak fall kills mum
A Bradford mother slipped and fell to her death on a picturesque Scottish island in a freak accident while trying to find a frisbee. Pam Pounds plunged more than 20ft down a ravine on the Isle of Arran while trying to spot the frisbee that she had thrown
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Needle bins to get go-ahead
Plans to introduce a unique pilot scheme to deal with used drug needles looks set to get the go-ahead in Shipley. Alison Richards, Bradford Drug and Alcohol Action Team co-ordinator, reassured residents at a neighbourhood forum meeting that the introduction
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Details of new tourist office
More details have been revealed about controversial plans to re-site Otley's tourist information office in the town's library. Martin Driver, from Leeds City Council's leisure services department, said the centre would offer the same services as others
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Councillors set to lose control of schools
Consultants today recommended that a private company take over the management and provision of education in Bradford. Pricewaterhouse Coopers, employed to find a way forward following the damning Ofsted report on the district's local education authority
