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Keighley go top as weather strikes
Only four games were played in the Wharfedale Sunday League due to the weather. Royal and Keighley are now top, with Keighley ahead on goal difference. Silsden are now second, having not played, and Royal are third. Keighley out-played JPL Victoria in
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Ground share clash!
The Bulls will start negotiations with Bradford City today over when they can play their blockbusting fourth round Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Challenge Cup tie at home to Leeds Rhinos. The derby clash - a repeat of the 2000 final which the bulls won at Murrayfield
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Woman tackles teenage raiders
A woman tackled two burglars she found in her kitchen after returning home from a walk. The 52-year-old woman, who asked to remain anonymous, came home from walking her dogs to find the intruders in her home in Turnsteads Avenue, Cleckheaton. The youths
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It's back to school, dad and mum!
Parents are being coaxed back to school and into one of eight new classrooms being built this year by a regeneration scheme. The £757,000 investment means new extensions at eight primary schools in the Trident area, around Manchester Road in Bradford.
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I'm backing Gareth says Bill star Simon
Television star Simon Rouse has backed Gareth Gates to take hit show Pop Idol by storm. The Bradford-born actor, who plays Detective Chief Inspector Jack Meadows in The Bill, said the 17-year-old was "a natural". Gareth is down to the last three in the
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Culture bid to get a global TV boost
Bradford Bulls will bring the city's Capital of Culture bid to a worldwide TV audience at Friday's World Club Challenge match. Chief executive of the club, Abi Ekoku, said the match would be a major boost to the campaign, giving Bradford global exposure
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Death-crash driver 'had been speeding'
A jury heard how a 22-year-old man suffered fatal injuries when his Vauxhall Cavalier veered across a road and smashed into a pizza takeaway shop. Minutes earlier Raja Zaman had asked his cousin Akhtar Khan to take the wheel of the high-powered car and
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Man, 30, is killed in horror crash
A man was killed and a woman was critically injured in two separate crashes last night. Nicholas Michael Dawson, 30, of Grassington, died at the scene of a collision involving a blue Fiat and a Volvo lorry on the A65 bypass, near the Grassington roundabout
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - How typical of politicians! They don't like the findings of a report, so they rubbish it. If we look at all the "false dawn" initiatives in the last two years that have been replaced or superceded by others, with no accountability for the money
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Victory at last for Mailcoach in cup
The Grattan Premier Division's Mailcoach won their first match of the season in a 5-4 extra-time victory over the Buttershaw Bantams. Mailcoach took a two-goal lead in the Supplementary Cup game after Phil Lunn and Ian Brame both found the target. Buttershaw
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Mugs hopes for a clean break
Stand-in goalkeeper Carl Muggleton wants to pick up the perfect "going away" present - a rare clean sheet. Muggleton's month on loan with the Bantams runs out after the Preston game tonight. And he would love to sign off by blanking out David Moyes' visitors
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Bergman is target for class-act Hare
James Hare could be handed the chance to go one better than West Yorkshire rival Derek Roche. The unbeaten welterweight from Roberttown is being aimed towards Jan Bergman, the WBU champion who decked Leeds-based Roche six times in a big points win at
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You can be World Champs as well!
'I've been a world champion and you can be too'. That is the message for Bradford Bulls stars Robbie Paul and Brian McDermott from Wibsey cycling legend Yvonne McGregor, pictured, as the city prepares for the big World Club Championship final against
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A sensible cure for A&E logjam
For a long time there have been complaints that hospital accident and emergency departments are clogged up by people whose ailments could easily be dealt with by their GP during a routine appointment. There are several reasons why patients present themselves
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On This Day
In 1728, The Beggars Opera was first performed. In 1820, King George III died after reigning for 59 years. In 1862, Frederick Delius was born in Bradford. From the Telegraph & Argus of January 29th, 1977... Coffee bar owners in Bradford are going
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Skipton slide
Skipton Building Society is predicting a year of consolidation after posting a nine per cent drop in profits. The society's pre-tax profits fell from £58.5 million in 2000 to £53.2m in 2001, although its assets were up 6.25 per cent to £6.2 billion. The
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New town design unveiled
A new £1m design for Bingley town centre - which is likely to include a pedestrian shopping area - is to be unveiled tonight. More than 200 residents answered a questionnaire which revealed more walkways, along with public toilets, parking and the creation
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We're on the money!
A Shipley councillor has coined a great way for people in the town to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee. While other towns across the country are holding street parties to mark the special anniversary on July 9, Shipley will have its own unusual memento
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World war souvenir is gift to town
A memento of the Second World War has been returned to Silsden - and is said to be worth £500. The silver cigarette box was recently sent to the town council by John Stansell, now 81, of New Zealand. It was a memento from his days in service on a torpedo
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Pensioners protest at bus route switch
Angry pensioners have launched a petition against plans to re-route a bus service away from Shelf. They claim moving services on to Halifax Road and Hope Street from tomorrow will make it difficult for elderly people to get around. Almost 40-people have
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Posties hit back at afternoon deliveries
Bradford posties have delivered a hands-off warning to bosses who are considering radical plans to scrap morning rounds to homes. The Royal Mail needs to make savings of £1.26bn a year. Cost-cutting measures are being mooted with unions warned last October
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Family recipe for success
A Little Horton chef is a finalist in a competition to find this year's top Indian cook. Mohammed Fazil is one of eight competitors selected from around 5,000 catering experts to go forward to the final in Edinburgh next month. Each of the finalists will
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Costs soar for work to revamp market
Costs of refurbishing John Street Market have shot up by £160,000, a report to councillors has revealed. It means the Council's anticipated trading profit of £231,000 from the market - which it owns - has plummeted to £71,000. That could mean less being
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Conservatory conman jailed for swindles
A conservatory company boss who swindled home owners out of more than £58,000 has been jailed for two years. David Barry Richardson, of Direct Conservatories UK, took 44 orders in the space of a year to build extensions, but only one was ever constructed
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Police join forces
Police today appealed for help in stopping sneak-in thieves responsible for soaring car crime in the district. West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire Police have joined forces in a bid to boost awareness of criminals who break in to homes, steal car keys
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The queue busters!
A pioneering scheme involving GPs is being used to speed up patient waiting times at Bradford's accident and emergency department. A GPs clinic has been created within the A&E department at Bradford Royal Infirmary to ease pressure on what is one
