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Reserves ready to play at Avenue
Bradford City are ready to base their reserve team at Park Avenue next season. City have put forward Horsfall Stadium and Farsley Celtic's Throstle Nest as possible venues for second-string matches to protect the Valley Parade pitch. But they favour a
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Jim's money on Locke!
Gary Locke has been tipped to silence his Bradford City critics in the crowd - by winning a place in the Scotland team. City boss Jim Jefferies is so confident that Locke will reveal his true form in Division One, he has struck a bet with chairman Geoffrey
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On This Day
In 1946, Italy abolished its monarchy and became a republic. In 1953, HRH Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey. In 1990, actor Sir Rex Harrison died aged 82. From the Telegraph & Argus of June 2nd, 1976... The new bus lane operating
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Blair pledges fight for harmony in Bradford
Tony Blair has pledged to fight for peace and harmony in Bradford. The Prime Minister said he believed the vast majority of people want to live peacefully alongside one another - and claimed he will do all he can to ensure that becomes reality. Mr Blair
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Motorcyclist was clocked at 144mph
A biker was clocked by police doing more than 144mph on a road with a 60mph speed limit, a court heard. Jason Elton Thorpe, of Nelson, Lancashire, was one of six bikers whose case was dealt with by Skipton magistrates yesterday. Thorpe was clocked at
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Experts will judge city's architecture
Some of Bradford's newest buildings, refurbishments and landscape projects will compete for awards in a scheme launched today. But the categories are so wide that even a new shop front or house extension could finish up in the limelight. Bradford Council
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£8,000 bill to escape the pain
A grandmother was in tears today as she described running up a debt of £8,000 for a private operation because she was in so much pain. Ann Jennings, 63, needed a hip replacement because she could barely walk - but was told she faced a nine month wait
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Hague visits city to court Muslim voters
William Hague embraced cultural diversity in Bradford yesterday, with just six days to go before the General Election. Fenced in by TV crews, cameras and journalists, rows of specially invited local Muslim leaders listened attentively to the Conservative
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SMASH VICTIM IS LEFT FOR DEAD
An elderly man was fighting for his life today after being knocked down by a hit-and-run driver as he crossed a busy main road. Horrified eyewitnesses say the war veteran, who is 80, was thrown on to the bonnet of the car and carried more than 50 yards
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Whatever happened to sitcoms like the Likely Lads?
Among the many talents the British seem to have lost in recent years is the ability of our television companies to produce situation comedies that manage to make people laugh. This was something at which the BBC once used to excel. Its list of classic
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History made by captain's bold decision
David Byas was entitled to his wide grin for proving the Doubting Thomas's wrong as Yorkshire overwhelmed Glamorgan by 328 runs at Swansea yesterday to increase their lead at the top of Division One of the CricInfo Championship. It was the joint fourth-highest
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Okay, so we have had the apology from Mr Khan, which was very selectively highlighted by the T&A. But where is the apology for the "non-Asian" yobs? Or are there no regrets on their part? Surely we haven't forgotten there were two parties involved
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Movement of cattle restricted
Otley and Bingley have been hit by new restrictions on the movement of cattle because of the ongoing foot and mouth cases. Restrictions already exist in the Settle and Clitheroe areas and have now been extended to include the area between Wharfedale and
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Boss urges 'use or lose' historic tram
The boss of one of the last remaining cable tramways in the country has urged visitors to use the amenity or lose it. Mick Leak, who has been involved with Shipley Glen tramway for more than 20 years, says the tram is commercially not viable and figures
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Why Bradford shops are on the verge of bouncing back...
In its heyday Bradford was one of the major shopping centres of the North boasting high-class department stores which became a playground for the city's wealthiest residents. Brown Muff, in Market Street, and Busby's, on Manningham Lane, were to Bradford
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Trip abroad to see how Finns are done
Bradford has found an unlikely role model in Finland in its bid to become Capital of Culture. Bradford Council chief executive Ian Stewart visited Helsinki in Finland - which was one of eight cities chosen to be Capital of Culture for 2000 - to see at
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Contests...Gwen's mice little earners
Pensioner Gwen Rawling's home is a reflection of her life-long passions for collecting and entering competitions. She got the competition bug as a tot at junior school and over more than 70 years has won hundreds of prizes. And she has been collecting
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Barricade farmer 'was depressed'
A farmer depressed by his financial problems and the outbreak of foot and mouth barricaded a road with bales of hay before setting them alight. Harry Sutcliffe, 44, was involved in a four-hour stand-off with police and a fire crew after he set light to
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So did you own an 'unpleasant' print?
A picture of a Spanish dancer that graces the wall of Coronation Street's Vera Duckworth and the famous Athena poster of a tennis player scratching her bottom are two of the images in a wacky new art show in Bradford. Organisers of the event say the show
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Family angry at 'too lenient' sentence
Outraged relatives of a man stabbed to death after a game of pool in a Bradford pub are to challenge the sentence handed down to his killer. Father-of-two Gary Elwood, 41, was stabbed in the chest as he walked home from The Tempest pub in Holme Wood last
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On the track of bugs in the grass
She is the plant world's answer to crime-busting police scientist Quincy. And now "grass pathologist" Ruth Mann is starting a turf war against the growing number of diseases and bugs that blight sports pitches up and down the country. Dr Mann, who works
