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Carbone is the readers' top player
Benito Carbone scooped the Telegraph & Argus/JCT600 Bradford City player of the year award and then declared: "I could still be here next season". The Italian pocketed the bulk of the trophies at the club's awards dinner at Pennington's Variety Bar
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Noble in call for fixtures rethink
Bradford Bulls coach Brian Noble today called on rugby league's fixture planners to be more sympathetic. His side will play their eighth game in 34 days on Friday at Leeds Rhinos, and it is too much says the former Great Britain hooker. "I just want to
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Noble praises massive effort
Bradford Bulls coach Brian Noble paid tribute to the character of his side after their victory over Castleford Tigers on Saturday. "We virtually had six internationals out in Daniel Gartner, Shane Rigon, Nathan McAvoy, Stuart Spruce, Scott Naylor and
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Breaking the cycle of abuse
It might come as a surprise to some people to learn that until now Bradford has not had a specialist police team dedicated to tackling prostitution. This is a city in which prostitution has had a high profile for many years. It was pushed into the national
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Don't let rivals use your ideas
Bradford businesses could be losing out to competitors - simply by not protecting their intellectual property rights. Intellectual property is classed as ideas, brand names or inventions, and a survey of Yorkshire businesses shows more than three-quarters
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Agency first to adopt 'halfway house' status
Otley-based marketing communications group Imagen has become the first agency in the UK to adopt Limited Liability Partnership status introduced last month by the Department of Trade and Industry. It offers business owners a compromise between partnership
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Healthy result
Medical staff agency Medacs has reported a 38 per cent increase in turnover to £45 million. The Skipton-based company holds more contracts within medical recruitment in the UK than any other company, and lists Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital
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Teenagers terrorise community groups
Community groups meeting at a Cottingley church are barricading themselves into the building after being intimidated by youths. Organisations which use the hall at St Michael and All Angels Church are locking the doors during meetings because they feel
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£3 million to give a better start in life
Young children across the Shipley district will benefit from a multi-million pound scheme aimed at giving them a better start in life. More than £3 million will be pumped into some of the district's most deprived areas over the next three years as part
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My worst nightmare
Shannon Poole's dreams were fulfilled when she gave birth to her daughter Natalie. She instantly fell in love with the perfect bundle with blue eyes and a halo of blonde curls. She had longed for a daughter and remembers the precious moment Natalie entered
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'Time we put mill's fate beyond doubt'
Fresh calls were made today for Government funding agency Yorkshire Forward to back a redevelopment plan for Manningham Mills following a serious fire at the weekend. About 60 firefighters spent ten hours tackling a blaze in a four-storey building in
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Police view CCTV in racial attacks probe
Police investigating two separate racial attacks are trawling through hours of CCTV footage in a bid to track down the thugs. In the first incident about 40 Middlesbrough football fans punched and kicked a group of Asian teenagers in Cornwall Road, Bradford
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Blaze rips through historic mill site
Scores of firefighters tackled a blaze which ripped through the centre section of Bradford's historic Lister's Mill last night. The fire started shortly after 7am in the roof of the mill complex in Manningham, Bradford, which is partly used for warehouse
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Prostitute clampdown
A new city centre vice squad has been set up to spearhead a crackdown on prostitution in Bradford. Vice squad officers are expected to move into their offices in the Tyrls police station next month when the £175,000-a-year operation swings into action
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Hat-trick hero Ryan has Albion stumped
Teenager Ryan Senior was the toast of his East Bowling Unity colleagues after hitting a hat-trick as they lifted the Senior League Cup in the Bradford Sunday Alliance at Eccleshill. But the man who stumped holders Albion Sports with his pace and finishing
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Yorkshire sneak into last eight after wait
Yorkshire beat Durham by 30 runs at Headingley yesterday but then had an agonising wait before discovering that they had scraped through to the quarter-finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup with their reward being a visit to Taunton to take on Somerset.
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TV saves the day
Castleford 22, Bradford Bulls 24: TV - thats the video referee, not Tevita Vaikona - played a crucial role in Bradford Bulls going back on top of Tetley's Super League after this Saturday night thriller. Former Sheffield Eagles coach John Kear, summarising
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No return for Mills
Jim Jefferies today laughed off reports of a plan to bring Lee Mills back to Bradford City as the rumour mill kicks into overdrive. Stories in the south claimed the Bantams have been watching the 30-year-old striker who they sold to Portsmouth for £1m
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Make the most of VAT system
Chartered accountants Grant Thornton has issued guidelines on paying VAT in light of changes made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Only firms with an annual taxable turnover of more than £54,000 are required to register for VAT, and business
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On This Day
In 1884, U.S. President Harry S. Truman was born. In 1909, foundation stones were laid for the Central Avenue Wesleyan Reform Church. In 1961, Russian spy George Blake was jailed for 41 years for espionage. From the Telegraph & Argus of May 8th, 1976
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Drive to improve health boosted by city research
A drive to improve the health of middle-aged women has been boosted by research in Bradford. Nearly 80 per cent of the women given health screening under a pilot study in the city had made positive changes to their lifestyle when they were visited later
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Plea to traders to give market a go
A Bradford businesswoman is appealing to traders to give a village market another go. Mandy Clark has been given the thumbs up by Bradford Council to hold 14 markets in Idle. But the first one was a flop when just three traders turned up. Now Mrs Clark
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New ideas cooking at millionaire's site
Millionaire Sharif Tariq wants to build Bradford's first Asian-Chinese restaurant near his Cannon Mills shopping complex. Mr Tariq says the cuisine is now hugely popular in Pakistan and he believes it will take off in Bradford and the rest of Britain.
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Chance for rising stars to enhance their skills
West Yorkshire Police do it. Grattan does it. Even the Church of England does it. They all send their rising stars on a nine-month-long course to get a better insight into the city and its movers and shakers. In return, the organisations get back a more
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Family fury as they wait months for a wheelie bin
A family claim they have waited five months for a replacement after their wheelie bin was run over and broken by a refuse wagon. Now company director Naasser Amini, who says he has made call after call to the council since then, has gone to the top in
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'City needs its own major pop festival'
Bradford could be the next big venue for music weekend festivals - like Glastonbury - if a leading city businessman has his way. Dean Loynes, chairman of Bradford Inner City Licensing Association and owner of city nightspots The Boilerhouse and The Courthouse
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Thousands enjoy fun in the sun at carnival
More than 20,000 people made their way to Ilkley yesterday for the town's annual carnival. Foot and mouth restrictions had already forced organisers to cancel Otley's gala and people were determined to make the most of what could be the only major community
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Sunshine boost for Bank Holiday trade
The Bank Holiday sunshine brought thousands of day trippers out to the countryside to give some respite to the district's beleagured tourist industry. Visitors flocked in their thousands to Ilkley and Skipton. More than 20,000 people are thought to have
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Chantelle follows in her aunt's footsteps
A talented Buttershaw High School pupil is following in the footsteps of her famous aunt. At 15, Chantelle Dunbar, pictured, is already directing fellow students on stage and has penned two gritty dramas, inspired by her aunt Andrea Dunbar of Rita, Sue
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Hockney's famous Dachshund dies
One of the Dachshund dogs owned by artist David Hockney and depicted in scores of his famous paintings and sketches has died. Stanley was a constant companion to the celebrated Bradford-born artist and is also famed for being used as the logo of Salts
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - On Wednesday, April 25, I and many other people attended St George's Hall to watch an amazing performing arts event - "Be Your Best - the Rock Challenge." One of the aims of Rock Challenge is "to challenge people to be the best they can without
