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Hendrie's goal is starting spot
Aston Villa midfielder Lee Hendrie is desperate to retain his place in the starting line up tomorrow. The England international was dropped to the bench at Liverpool, but returned to the side against Ipswich Town last weekend and scored Villa's first
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Ashley's patience getting rewards
Ashley Ward has had to ease his way into the Bradford City side following his £1.5 million transfer from Blackburn Rovers. However, after starting a match for the first time against Arsenal last Saturday the 29-year-old striker is determined to keep his
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Doidge has one eye on Yorkshire's fate
Skipper Matthew Doidge is hoping Yorkshire's match against Hampshire finishes early so all-rounder James Middlebrook can play in Pudsey Congs' Bradford League Division One title showdown against Bradford and Bingley tomorrow. Although he has not always
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Asian firms told to turn green
More than 60 Asian bosses have been urged to be greener in business. A seminar for Asian businesses was held at Swire Smith Hall in Keighley College, organised by QED in partnership with Keighley Asian Business Forum. Gerrard Morris, regional manager
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Agency broadens horizons
A Bradford recruitment firm launched three years ago now has offices across Yorkshire. Horizon Recruitment has its headquarters in Piccadilly, Bradford. The firm has opened offices in Leeds and Sheffield and has now created seven jobs at a new office
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Cancelled events
WHARFEDALE Rugby Club's National League One trip to Camberley has been postponed due to the petrol shortage. Players were facing severe problems securing petrol to arrive at a meeting place and a decision to call off the match. The East Lancashire Football
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Fuel crisis hits sports fixtures
WHARFEDALE Rugby Club's National League One trip to Camberley has been postponed due to the petrol shortage. Players were facing severe problems securing petrol to arrive at a meeting place and a decision to call off the match. The East Lancashire Football
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Tribute to Pal who survived Somme
A Bradford cricket club unveiled a special memorial today to one of the few Bradford Pals who survived the Battle of the Somme. Fred Rawnsley was one of only 227 members of the district's 2,000-strong Pals division to live through the first days of trench
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Schools put end to 'grammatical' error
Two secondary schools have decided to drop the word "grammar" from their titles. The move by the former Beckfoot and Nab Wood Grammar schools will put right a historical inaccuracy - they have never been proper grammar schools and were only given the
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Fuel Crisis: Fury of filling station boss
Anger erupted yesterday as Keighley's petrol stations remained in the dark over when fuel supplies would reach the town. One furious garage owner described the situation as "an absolute shambles" and he criticised the Government's handling of the crisis
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Council seeks own solution to bottleneck
Councillors believe a new roundabout on the Aire Valley trunk road, linked to a bridge over a railway, could be the answer to a traffic bottleneck near a level crossing. Craven District Council has recommended the radical plan to North Yorkshire County
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Sadie, the bad luck cat who gets in a flap
An accident-prone Bradford moggie has been named Britain's unluckiest cat. The eight-year-old feline, called Sadie, has suffered a catalogue of catastrophic accidents to earn herself the dubious honour. Among Sadie's many accidents are having her tail
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Asians sought for a Lloyd Webber show
Asians from Bradford have the chance to take part in a ground-breaking Andrew Lloyd Webber show. His company is on the look-out for actors and dancers of all ages to be in the cast of a new mystery Bollywood stage musical. The Really Useful Theatre Company
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I love you
A 25-year-old man who was in a coma for five days mouthed "I love you" to his girlfriend when he finally regained consciousness. Tears welled up in Julie Lee's eyes when she saw boyfriend Andy Burrows struggle to say his first sentence before the strain
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How a red Mercedes got fuel at 'dry'garage
A garage manager who turned away customers, claiming he had no petrol, allowed large plastic bottles to be filled and loaded into a waiting car. The giant bottles were placed in a rubbish bin while being filled up on his forecourt. The bin was then dragged
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Not many weeks seem to go by without someone raising the issue of wheelie bins in the K.N. I wonder if we were the only people to receive the leaflet explaining that if we could see any problems with the new bins to ring a helpline number. We could
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Derby match sure to beat fuel crisis
Guiseley's FA Cup tie against neighbours Farsley Celtic in the first qualifying round guarantees at least one top level non league fixture locally this weekend. The derby goes ahead at Nethermoor tonight and the sides are due to meet again on Tuesday
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Bulls give youth its chance
Teenagers Craig McDowell, Gareth Stanley and Chris Birchall are in line for senior debuts in Bradford Bulls' final scheduled Super League match at Hull on Sunday. Stanley and Birchall will form an all Alliance front-row with Gareth Handford who has made
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Hot return for Ben!
Benito Carbone seems assured of a hot reception when he returns to Villa Park tomorrow. The Bradford City striker could not agree terms with Aston Villa at the end of last season and goes back to his former club hoping to consolidate the Bantams' encouraging
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Soccer: Craven League
COWLING RESERVES completed an early season double over Barrowford United with a 4-1 midweek victory. The South Craven side's goals were scored by James Anson, Alasdar McEwan, Stevie Ben Allwood and an own goal. Bronte Wanderers Reserves drew 2-2 at Silsden
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On This Day
In 1789, novelist James Fenimore Cooper was born. In 1823, gas was first used in Bradford. In 1978, Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov died four days after being stabbed with a poison-tipped umbrella. From the Telegraph & Argus of September 15, 1975
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Alice, 82, fights to move show back
An 82-year-old woman leading a campaign to bring Bingley Show back to Myrtle Park has already gathered more than 100 signatures supporting the move. Alice Stocks, of River View, Bingley, is furious the show has been moved to the Bradford & Bingley
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Now for the good nudes!
There's nothing on at Cliffe Castle this autumn. And it's only the bare-faced cheek of museum bosses that lets them get away with it. Their latest exhibition doesn't have a stitch on -- it's a display of paintings, drawings and sculpture celebrating the
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Hospital site sale sparks traffic fears
Councillors have expressed concerns about the sale of a former psychiatric hospital in Rawdon. Fulford Grange, a BUPA-owned building in Micklefield Lane, has been put on the market for more than £900,000. But councillors fear the building may become an
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Down Memory lane
PHOTOGRAPHED about 1928, the Imperial Dance Orchestra was one of the many Keighley and district bands catering for a most popular social pastime of the period. A scan through the Keighley News for the first three months of that year reveals Charles Briggs
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'Appeals backlog is hitting pupils'
More than 100 pupils still do not know which school they will be attending - a week into the new term. The schools shake-up has led to the district's biggest ever scramble for places as three year groups all enter secondary school at the same time. Bradford
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Secret drug watch after road tragedy
A jury heard how police launched an undercover drugs operation after a teenager's tragic death in a road accident. Charleen Goodey, 18, died instantly when she was struck by a car on Halifax Road, Buttershaw, in April last year. Yesterday a jury at Bradford
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Bus strike adds to the misery
Commuters faced more misery today as bus drivers walked out in a row over pay - and warned more strikes could follow. As the district tried to get back to normal after the week-long fuel crisis, drivers with First Bradford voted overwhelmingly to stop
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Wharfedale call off match
WHARFEDALE Rugby Club's National League One trip to Camberley has been postponed due to the petrol shortage. Players were facing severe problems securing petrol to arrive at a meeting place and a decision to call off the match was made last night. The
