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Bubbly Jess aims for corking finale
Eoin Jess aims to inject some fizz into City's finish to the season. The Scottish hitman takes over from the injured Ashley Ward up front as the Bantams sign off at Walsall tomorrow- scene of their dismal FA Cup exit in January. Jess, like his team-mates
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Bulls will turn on the style: Forshaw
After their defeat at London a fortnight ago, loose forward Mike Forshaw wants to give the Bulls fans something to shout about tonight at home to a depleted St Helens. The 31-year-old Great Britain international said today: "After the London game we have
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Solution needed to shortage
The latest recruiting drive for nurses in Bradford hospitals is an indication of the extent to which levels of service in the NHS are under threat. There are a staggering 1,200 nursing vacancies across West Yorkshire, and although Bradford itself has
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Bad reception for phone mast plan
Proposals for mobile phone dishes on an historic Bingley chimney have been branded as a blot on the town's skyline. Vodafone wants to put three antennae on the chimney at Stanley Mills in Whitley Street. But Councillor Colin Gill (Con, Bingley) said the
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Now everyone wants TV star's culture tie
Bradford-born television presenter Richard Whiteley has turned trendsetter, with his Capital of Culture tie. The blue silk tie, featuring the Bradford 2008 logo, was made for the star to promote the district's bid. He has pledged to wear it while presenting
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Mystery surrounds teenage tragedy
The devastated relatives of two teenagers who died in an apparent suicide pact may never know what led to the tragedy, an inquest heard. The Leeds inquest heard how 17-year-olds Graham Myers, of Westover Gardens, Pudsey, and Kevin Cleary, of Farfield
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Give us chance to explain new school plans!
A beleaguered school that occupies "probably the worst school buildings in the country" is facing a fight with residents over its move to a new site. Leaders of St Phillip's School in Girlington today begged local people to back their bid to build a new
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Losing was good for team - Paul
Robbie Paul is hoping that Bradford Bulls avoid a "bloody nose" tonight against St Helens. "We are not focusing at all on the fact Saints are playing in the Challenge Cup final next weekend," admitted the Bulls skipper. "We have had to address a few things
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Moorby eager to clip Eagles wings
On January 13 Sheffield Eagles destroyed a toothless Cougars 60-0. That was Gary Moorby's first game in charge, and he will desperate to show the world how far his boys have come since that dark day. Tomorrow's match may only be another round of the largely
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Jess shuts out gossip
Eoin Jess admits Alex Smith was his mentor in Scotland - but has played down speculation the pair could be linking up again at Dundee United. City's top-scorer Jess has been thrown into the equation in the move to tie on-loan keeper Alan Combe permanently
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On This Day
In 1883, impressionist painter Edouard Manet died following the amputation of a leg. In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Austria. In 1902, Pierre and Marie Curie isolated the radioactive element radium. From the Telegraph & Argus of April 20th, 1977
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Hospitals hunting doctors
Hospital managers are hunting for desperately-needed doctors on the continent. The NHS Northern and Yorkshire office is flying hospital managers to Germany to be the first ever to take part in an international recruitment fair. Trusts to be represented
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Life is Bliss for popular Holly
Talented teenager Holly Scourfield will miss the moment when the winner of her BAFTA-nominated film is announced because she will be under another stage spotlight. The pupil at Bradford's Stage 84 is starring in The Inland Sea in the East End of London
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12-year-old held over bus attacks
Police have questioned a 12-year-old boy in connection with a spate of bus attacks on a Bradford estate. The youngster was arrested after 14 buses were damaged in incidents along Saffron Drive, in Allerton, after being pelted with bricks by gangs of youths
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New vicar aiming to build bridges
A new Urdu-speaking vicar is hoping to act as a bridge between Bradford's different communities when he moves to the city. The Reverend John Bavington, 34, spent the first 17 years of his life in Karachi, Pakistan, and he hopes this experience along with
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Five years' jail for missile thrower
A rioter suffered a broken jaw when he was hit by one of thousands of missiles thrown during last summer's disturbances in Bradford. Mohammed Naem Raza threw at least a dozen stones at police that evening, but left the scene shortly after 11pm to seek
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Fire attack on home was 'final warning'
A family who fled their burning home after a suspected arson attack today told how they fear the incident was a "final warning" for them to quit the area. Susan Hoyle and her partner Kevin Aubrey revealed the incident, in which the porchway of their home
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Hospitals to seek Singapore nurses
Bradford hospitals are launching another overseas recruitment drive in a bid to fill nursing posts. Managers from the NHS Trust will visit Singapore over the summer to interview up to 100 nurses. Vacancies across West Yorkshire have now hit the staggering
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Mane and moody
A Bradford biochemist is heading to the plains of Kenya to study a bizarre link between baldness and man-eating lions. Dr Julie Thornton, pictured, a senior lecturer in biomedical sciences at Bradford University, is taking part in a two-week adventure
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We'll never forgive him
The grieving parents of a 17-year-old girl whose life was snatched away by a speeding drink-driver today said they would never forgive him. A-level student Lindsay Sykes died instantly when Lee Steven Cawley ploughed into the taxi in which she was travelling
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Letters the the Editor
SIR - My husband, James Gill, died on April 1, 2001. As he was not insured, I had to rely on the Social Security for payment for the funeral. I was allowed £922. I still had to pay £119.82 out of my own money. I understood his ashes would be scattered
