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Musical gala promises to hit just the right note...
ORGANISERS of the Addingham Gala on Saturday (July 8) said the event promised to be a great day out for everyone. Following the theme "Come Follow the Band!" there will be musical attractions throughout the afternoon with appeal for young and old alike
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City agree £2.5m deal for Hopkin
Bradford City have agreed a club record £2.5million transfer fee for Leeds United midfielder David Hopkin. The 29-year-old Scottish international now has to agree personal terms with the Valley Parade club. Premiership rivals Everton have also been chasing
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Pupils are partners in project
SEVEN groups of students from two schools have taken part in a prestigious event. The occasion was the final presentation of work from this year's Mathematics Project between St Mary's RC Comprehensive School at Menston and Ampleforth College at York.
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Mystery river rescue man comes forward
A FATHER-of-four has revealed that he was one of the rescuers who came to the aid of a drowning teenager in the River Wharfe. Thirteen-year-old Leeds boy Daniel Halliday was pulled from the river after getting into difficulties on Otley Carnival day.
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On This Day
In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed at the Tower of London. In 1915, a Municipal School for the Blind was opened at Odsal, Bradford. From the Telegraph & Argus of July 6, 1975... Around 1,000 people attended Bradford City's American style evening
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Housing scheme is no benefit
SIR, - How Pam Shaw (Your Comment, June 29) can suggest that Burley villagers should seriously consider the proposal to build 147 houses at Scalebor as 'a benefit to Burley' baffles the imagination. Earlier she admits astonishingly: 'Of course we are
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Kirkstall Educational are forging ahead
In Division C Kirkstall Educational lead the way after recording a five point draw against Pool. They made a more than useful 187-7 with Dave Wonfor opening with 43 and Shahid Bashir making 40. Pool replied with 115-9 struggling against the bowling of
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More help for needy families
Social services chiefs in Bradford have unveiled a new package of measures to try to ally some people's fears about their role. Families in distress are now being told that social workers are there to help and support - not snatch children away. And a
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It's all change on the buses!
The biggest bus shake up in Bradford for more than a century will hit the roads this month - modelled on the London Underground. Colour-coded underground-type maps will go out with new timetables and be displayed on the buses. But, unlike some of the
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'My trip to see lover became nightmare'
A Bradford grandmother has told how a trip to visit her overseas lover quickly became the "holiday from hell". Veronica Garcia said she was duped by two thieves after landing in Tunisia and had virtually all of her belongings stolen - including a supply
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Guards on patrol at the closing schools
A team of special security patrols has been drafted in to guard against vandalism at buildings closing under the Bradford schools shake-up. Known as "Close Watch", the squad of private security guards, paid for by Bradford Council, will make random visits
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Buses every ten miuntes
Buses on major routes in and out of Bradford will run every ten minutes under a radical revamp of district services. In the first scheme of its kind in England, bus chiefs today launched a 'revolutionary' shake-up of 36 routes across the district in a
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Renewal of appeal for postmaster
AN Ilkley postmaster has still not been found five months after dramatically going missing from his home. Police this week renewed their appeal for information about the whereabouts of David Todd, who went missing from the Leeds Road Post Office on February
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Appeal to let the scout hut for free
SIR, - I read with great interest the article in the June 29 issue of the Wharfedale Observer regarding the Burley-in-Wharfedale scout hut. I may be wrong, but I have always understood the site of the scout hut, formerly housing the drill hall, and adjoining
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Virgin band's chart target
Bradford pop group Visual Sounds Interactive are being tipped for the top after signing to Richard Branson's Virgin Records. The four-piece have agreed a deal with the label's dance music offshoot VC Recordings and expect to have their debut single out
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'Rubbish' Council helpline attacked
A Council helpline used by tens of thousands of people was today described as "rubbish" by a leading Labour councillor. Councillor Anne Hawkes-worth, executive member for environment, said today that an urgent review of the (01274) 751000 helpline was
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'That lot want me to sell for silly money'
Ambitious plans by a co-operative to take over a village shop and post office have reached stalemate. Farnhill and Kildwick Post Office and Village Shop Association was set up last August in a bid to buy the business after owner Michael Hilton announced
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'Classic squabble' of the garden centre family
A family feud was temporarily called to a halt when the father was pronounced too ill to attend a tribunal hearing. Stuart Harker, 31, was suing Tong Garden Centre which is run by his father Ron and brother Anthony for unfair dismissal and breach of contract
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Mystery death in Portugal
An Ilkley care worker has died soon after arriving on holiday in Portugal. Linda Hill, 50, of Kings Road, was taken ill during her holiday flight to Faro from Manchester Airport. Despite the pilot's offer to turn the plane back, she continued on to her
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Top US business chiefs in city
Trade minister Richard Caborn and a select group of US businessmen were today meeting key figures in Bradford's world of commerce to discuss ways of helping deprived areas. The group was to be treated to lunch at Action for Bradford Limited (ABL), managers
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From furniture to Ferraris!
From the cheapest of furniture to the fastest supercars. The towering building at Petergate that dominates Bradford's skyline has had a radical change of pace. For where furniture used to be its stock in trade, now the showroom is home to some of the
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Helping hand for young tennis stars
Youngsters from Ilkley All Saints School have been taking part in the Farnell Rover Garage sponsored junior development programme which has seen coaches go out into the schools and ultimately the schools being invited into the Ilkley Lawn Tennis Club
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Mast laws needed
THERE is very real and genuine concern about the number of telecommunications masts springing up across the country - and in Wharfedale and Aireborough we have had more than our fair share. People are rightly concerned about the possible health risks
