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Bulls suffer Test snub
David Waite has sensationally turned his back on the world club champions, naming just one Bradford Bulls player in the starting line-up for Friday's Test against Australia. Only Jamie Peacock will take to the field at Aussie Stadium for the crunch Test
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Holy effort to clean up city
A religious group has joined the fray to open a holy front in the war on litter. The Bradford Council of Mosques is behind a £70,000 scheme aimed at rallying members of the community to clean-up two of the city's dirtiest areas. Two litter monitors are
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Pupils get in the mood to swing
A gang of Bradford youngsters is taking the big band sound of the 1940s to swinging holidaymakers. The 11 children, aged nine to 12, are joining the famous Memphis Belle orchestra at the famous Tower Ballroom in Blackpool next month. The young dancers
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Drug-capital detectives to visit city
Police officers from one of the world's worst drug and murder capitals are heading to Bradford - to see what they can learn from the city's law enforcers. The officers from Colombia's second city of Medellin believe there is much they can learn from Bradford
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Tenders invited for work on stadium
Councillors have decided to advertise across Britain for tenders to carry out more than half a million pounds-worth of health and safety work at run-down Odsal Stadium. Bradford Council faces the £666,000 bill because it is legally obliged to provide
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Becks appeal?
Men in Bradford will have to start polishing up their act if they want to follow in the footsteps of footballing ace David Beckham. For the England captain, who once turned heads by wearing a sarong, has sparked a demand for nail varnish for men after
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Court told of au pair's alleged attacks on young brothers
A teenage boy has told a court how an au pair bit him on the shoulder, beat him with a belt and twice assaulted his three-year-old brother. And the youngster's tearful mother claimed that after being picked up by police, Hungarian Zsolt Vamos later sent
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Vaikona is out to crack union code
Walking out at the City of Manchester Stadium wearing only leaves and a broad smile, will be a dream come true for Tevita Vaikona. Super League's leading try-scorer is looking forward to the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, and a chance to
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Tykes set five-win survival target
County Champions Yorkshire went into today's game against Somerset at Scarborough knowing that they must win five of their last nine matches in order to avoid relegation. That is the target they have been set by coach Wayne Clark but it is a tall order
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Bantams fans to be kept waiting
City will open the new campaign on a Sunday after their TV clash with Wolves was put back 24 hours. Dave Jones's promotion favourites will now visit Valley Parade on Sunday, August 11 for a 4.30pm kick-off. The game was switched after consultation with
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Lesson there for all of us
Well done to Bradford's Cathedral Community College, which has chalked up vast improvements in English tests since recording with some of the worst results in the country last summer. The latest end-of-term report for the school puts 60 per cent of its
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On This Day
In 1776, King George III's statue was pulled down in New York City. In 1778, King Louis XVI of France declared war on England in support of the American rebels. In 1866, £20,000 worth of damage was caused at the Shearbridge Mills, Bradford, fire. From
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Conference sharpens up students for jobs
Entrepreneurs of the future created their own commercial and spoof web pages as part of a pioneering two-day conference to sharpen up skills for the workplace. More than 100 Asian students enjoyed The Pathways to Employment Event at Valley Parade which
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Website drive to clear up 'eyesore'
A businessman has set up a website urging people to call for the cleaning up of an eyesore. Donal O'Driscoll of Liversedge was so fed up of seeing the old Savoy Cinema site in Cleckheaton looking overgrown and ugly, that he contacted the landowners, Tesco
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Pupils are the Mars stars
Children at a Cottingley school have won a science competition by using a mixture of drinking straws, fruit pastilles and cocktail sticks. The budding scientists at Cottingley Primary were asked to use the three materials to make a structure that could
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Skip firm owner guilty
The owner of a skip firm has been sentenced to 90 hours of community punishment for waste-disposal offences. Gerald Hill, trading as Green Skips, of Belmont Avenue, Shipley, admitted one charge and was found guilty of six more under the Environmental
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Pay-offs for seven axed from Festival
Seven former organisers of the Bradford Festival - who lost their jobs when the event was contracted out to a new company - have received compensation pay-offs, it has emerged. The group lodged claims of unfair dismissal at an employment tribunal after
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Prize pride for family devastated by crisis
A family whose farm was devastated by the foot and mouth epidemic 12 months ago was today celebrating after scooping a top award at the Great Yorkshire Show. The Varley family lost their entire stock of cattle during last year's crisis, and contemplated
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I'm here to serve, says new Bishop
The new Bishop of Bradford has pledged to represent people from all communities in the city. The Right Reverend David James, pictured, takes over at Christmas from the Right Reverend David Smith, who retires at the end of this month after ten years. Bishop
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School's 'amazing' recovery in tests
Vast improvements in English tests have taken place at a Bradford school which had some of the worst results in the country last summer. Last year, Bradford Cathedral Community College managed to get only 14 per cent of its 14-year-old pupils to Level
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Danger warnings for historic sites
Britain's biggest conservation watchdog has put eight crumbling heritage jewels across the Bradford district on its register of listed buildings most at risk. Five buildings in Calderdale are also on the list of shame as historic treasures have fallen
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Has anyone noticed the draconian and totally inconsiderate changes made by our gallant Council to the policies and regulations governing the collection of domestic waste? Something extremely simple and straightforward, until March 31, 2002, has
