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Avenue hit the heights after third straight win
Park Avenue 2, Barrow 0 - Park Avenue reached a heady 13th in the UniBond Premier Division table with their third win on the bounce when they overcame former Football League rivals Barrow. Avenue are now all but safe. One more victory would make them
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Sugden's own goal seals Thackley fate
Pickering 2, Thackley 1 - Thackley failed to force their way back into the top eight of the Northern Counties East Premier Division when they gifted Pickering Town the points. Despite a penalty from former Bantams youth striker Ben Jones, they slipped
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Bulls get the boot
London Broncos 15, Bradford Bulls 14: Brentford FC is unique in the football league in that it has a pub at all four corners of the ground. But it was Fuller's London Pride that was being supped in abundance last night after the Broncos ended Bradford
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On This Day
In 1950, Russian ballet dancer Nijinsky died aged 60. In 1973, painter Pablo Picasso died, aged 91. In 1986, film star Clint Eastwood was elected Mayor of Carmel, California. From the Telegraph & Argus of April 8th, 1977... Teenagers leaving school
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Engineers welcome stress rule
Recent rulings on stress at work have been welcomed by the engineering and manufacturing industry in Yorkshire and Humberside. The Court of Appeal has laid out guidelines governing employers liability for work-related stress. Stress is seen as one of
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Railway station 'is now a boozing den'
A campaigner who fought for the opening of Brighouse railway station two years ago says it has been turned into a rubbish-filled boozing den, where young drinkers could cause a major accident. Peter Davies, chairman of the Yorkshire branch of Railfuture
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Demand for inquiry into road builder
A councillor is demanding a public inquiry into what he claims is "appalling behaviour" by the contractors building Bingley's new relief road. Councillor Phillip Thornton (Lab, Shipley East) is asking Bradford Council to investigate Amec's work on the
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Dance in memory of Ben
A barn dance in an ancient barn in Shipley is set to raise hundreds of pounds for a leukaemia charity. Adrian Netherwood, pictured, is organising the bash in memory of his late father Ben Netherwood, a trumpeter with The Wool City Jazz Men, who died aged
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Plea for police to tackle 'yob culture'
More police officers and better family support are needed to tackle increasingly violent schoolchildren, a Bradford teachers' leader and councillors claimed today. Their call follow a report today which claimed almost half the nation's youngsters, aged
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Marathon cash bid after family tragedies
A runner who lost her aunt and cousin to cancer within weeks of each other is set to raise thousands of pounds for research into the disease by taking part in the London marathon. Katherine Langebrink, 27, of Clover Hill, Skipton, was devastated last
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A good move for city centre
A national building society will open its first fully operational branch in Bradford in the old Bryars cloth warehouse. Six staff lost their jobs when the independent retailer closed its shop in the Wool Exchange last year after the company went into
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Tribute to the dead of 1916
The bravery of those killed when a massive explosion ripped through a Bradford chemical works in 1916 will be finally recognised this month. A memorial plaque commemorating the lives of 38 people who lost their lives in the blast at Low Moor Chemical
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Now star aims to beat Will's chart-topper
Gareth Gates has maintained his position at the top of the charts - and today vowed to battle to remain there. The East Bowling teenager said he was determined to beat rival Will Young's stay in the number one slot. Both have had their debut singles at
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Good luck to Bradford in its bid to become European Capital of Culture 2008! My closest friend lives in Brighton and I visit the town frequently. Brighton is a place we are competing with for the 2008 title. It is vibrant, lively, interesting and
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Manson destroys toothless Cougars
Keighley Cougars 8, Doncaster 52 - The Dragons only breathed fire for 40 minutes but it was enough to destroy the toothless Cougars. A devastating second-half display by Doncaster's Kiwi Paul Mansson ensured that Keighley's run in the Mickey Mouse Cup
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The boys Don good!
Wimbledon 1, Bradford City 2: Eoin Jess would love to press the rewind button and start this season all over again. City are threatening to finish the campaign nearly as well as they started it. But that's scant consolation for the club's leading marksman
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Furious Law was sent off at Dons
Nicky Law watched the second half of City's win at Wimbledon from the stand after being sent off by referee Rob Styles. The Bantams boss was banished from the dug-out after arguing with the Hampshire official at the half-time whistle. The incident is
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A bunch of pumpkins!
Brian Noble thought the panto season was over - until he saw Bradford Bulls lose their unbeaten record in Tetley's Super League VII yesterday. His team pulled back from 14-0 down to 14-14 against London Broncos at Brentford FC, only to lose the match
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A step in the right direction
It is good news for the centre of Bradford that the Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society is moving into the premises in the Wool Exchange which became vacant when Bryars home-furnishings shop closed last year. Even better news, of course, would
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Outlook good for MG
A Cleckheaton-based company hosted the launch of the new MG TF sports cars. The launch, which was held at Clemo MG Rover, was attended by Keighley born BBC Look North weather presenter Paul Hudson. Cleckheaton Holdings, which owns Clemo, is an established
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Business in the sun!
Businesses in Bradford are being urged to consider a Mediterranean island for trade expansion Firms are being asked by the Bradford Chamber of Commerce and Industry to consider developing their markets in Malta. The Chamber's Management Services is holding
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Challenge star John reunited with team
Brainy ex-student and University Challenge star John Watt has been reunited with his team mates - thanks to the Telegraph & Argus. But sadly the reunion did not come in time for Mr Watt to take part in University Challenge Reunited. The T&A reported
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I'm free at last, says dad Darran
Darran Flavell feels like a man who has been released from prison. The father-of-three has escaped the upstairs bedroom of his former home, where he was confined after an accident left him disabled, thanks to a new partnership scheme. Now the trained
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Search is on for Gareth lookalike
The hunt is on for a deadringer of Bradford's number one star. A city-based entertainment agency has been flooded with requests for a Gareth Gates lookalike. And Gareth himself has been asked to judge a competition to find his own double. Danielle Constantine
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Checks urged as postal votes soar
Bradford's politicians today demanded strict checks on a record 30,000 claims for postal votes for the May elections to prevent wide-scale fraud. Senior councillors fear the unprecedented demand for the right to vote by post may contain fake applications
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'Green' farewell is Kathryn's decision
A Bradford woman's dying wish is set to be carried out with a 'natural' green burial today. Kathryn Lumb, 48, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in January 2000. After surgery and radiotherapy, she was given the all-clear, but in December 2001 the cancer
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'Fridge eating' plant on way to city
Bradford is waging war on the UK's "fridge mountains" with a revolutionary new fridge-gobbling machine. The equipment, which "eats" old fridges and freezers, and recycles the materials they are made of, is a long-awaited solution to the widespread problem
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Despair at wreckers
Vandals have struck at a Bradford nursery destroying the hard work of parents and children to revamp their classrooms. Children and teachers were in tears as they arrived at the Great Horton nursery to find windows shattered, a sink smashed and walls
