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Striker set for longer stay
City want to keep scoring sensation Michael Proctor for another three months. The Sunderland hitman began his loan spell with a bang by netting the winner at Ipswich on Monday night. It was a dream start for the 21-year-old and Nicky Law is keen to extend
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On This Day
In 1749, poet and dramatist Goethe was born. In 1850, Franz Liszt conducted the first performance of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin. In 1944, American Starsky and Hutch TV star David Soul, was born. From the Telegraph & Argus of August 28th, 1977... A
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Cayman Snappy happy in new home
A snappy new resident is settling into his new home in Heckmondwike - after being rescued from a telephone box at Heathrow Airport. The three-and-a-half foot long cayman called Snappy has been given to the Ponderosa Animal Sanctuary in Smithies Lane after
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'Paedophile smear made my life hell'
A photographer claimed today that his life has been made a living hell because of a five-year hate campaign. The trouble started when Ralph Lowe's neighbours in Bingley were all sent letters in 1997 warning them he was a "practising paedophile". Mr Lowe
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Safety net plea for runaway children
The Children's Society, which deals with nearly a thousand cases of runaways every year in Bradford, today pleaded for a local safety net for them. The charity wants to see the police, social services, health and education authorities join forces to offer
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Wrong map leads to sewer hold-up
Work on installing a sewer on a major Bradford road has been halted because water workers found their underground map was wrong. Yorkshire Water started three weeks ago to put in the sewer on the main road through Queensbury, the A647, with temporary
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We're staying, say defiant travellers
Travellers who have set up camp in a third city centre car park today sent the defiant message: "We are staying in Bradford." Bradford Council lawyers are now expected to go back to the county court to seek yet another re-possession order as the travellers
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Crooked cash could land lawyers in jail
Lawyers have been warned they face jail if they fail to report money laundering activities or clients they suspect are involved. Ram Saroop, the new president of Bradford Law Society, has pointed out that new legislation makes it a criminal offence not
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Railway fan sets out on new track
It's the end of the line for heritage railway volunteer Graham Mitchell, who had a cameo role in the classic movie The Railway Children starring Jenny Agutter. Mr Mitchell, a retired teacher, will hang up his Keighley & Worth Valley Railway guard's
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Children join plea to keep historic funfair open
The famous Victorian Shipley Glen tramway is heading for closure. And a funfair on land at the top of the hillside cable railway could be sold off for housing as a result. The tramway - highlighted as an important attraction in Bradford's Capital of Culture
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Ronald Firth, a former chairman of Bradford Northern who resigned in controversial circumstances, ha
Ronald Firth, a former chairman of Bradford Northern who resigned in controversial circumstances, has died at the age of 76. Mr Firth, of Wibsey, was chairman of the club between July 1981 and July 1982. He resigned in a blaze of publicity after he backed
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Lee leads Bowling to play-off success
A splendid feast of cricket saw Bowling Old Lane emerge triumphant in the Evening League play-offs held at Bolton Villas. The round-robin format had Oakworth playing Lightcliffe Motors in the first match. League prize-winner Jason Goodwin took four for
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Yorkshire star is a big doubt for final
Yorkshire were yesterday dealt a hammer blow ahead of Saturday's Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy final at Lord's when leading strike bowler Chris Silverwood broke down with the recurrence of an ankle injury. Silverwood, who is also Yorkshire's pinch-hitter
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Fielden positive Bulls will recover
Bradford Bulls' star prop Stuart Fielden believes his side have the character to recover from their maulings against St Helens and Castleford. The 22-year-old was in inspirational form in the two games despite the Bulls being drubbed 50-22 at home against
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Tramway's priceless legacy
If the closure of the Shipley Glen tramway this weekend turns out to be permanent, it will be a big blow to Bradford. Not only is it part of the Capital of Culture bid, but it is also an important link between several generations of local people. For
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Firms warned over contracts
A recruitment expert says firms in the district should prepare for regulations which ensure employees on fixed-term contracts are not treated less favourably than permanent staff. Steven Street, of Relay Recruitment, said: "For employers to establish
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Graffiti artists set to go 'street legal'
Bradford could be in line for its first legal graffiti wall - to encourage young people to draw creatively. The move follows a petition signed by 300 youngsters asking for a wall where they could express themselves through art. Currently graffiti is classed
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Halfway to world record blanket
Organisers of a record attempt to knit the world's largest blanket have reached the halfway point. The Idle Tide Blanket Appeal aims to create a blanket out of 200,000 12ins, individually-knitted squares. It was hoped it would be finished in time for
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DJ's spin cycles a gift for riders
A Bradford DJ who donated a bike to two boys after their own cycles were stolen by men claiming to have a gun has collected enough cash to hand over another. Anthony Rutter, 12, and his friend Robbie Moore, 14, were cycling at Chellow Dean, Daisy Hill
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Hockney brother plans family chronicle
Its a surname that is synonymous with Bradford. And now one of the Hockney brothers is hoping to delve into the past - and write a book about the family name. John Hockney, brother of Britain's greatest living artist David, is hoping to get memories of
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - As secretary of a local amateur sports club I was dumbfounded to read that Bradford Council were paying money to the Bradford Bulls to do up Odsal Stadium and then allowing them "peppercorn rent" (which means they pay £1 a year). At our club the
