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Lampkin close to being top of world
Barring a total disaster Dougie Lampkin will take the 2002 FIM world trials championship on Sunday at Twin Ring Montegi, Japan, bringing the Silsden international's tally to six world outdoor titles. Dougie only has to score six points to make it six
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Trust can show rest the way
Health Minister Lord Hunt's praise for the new health and social care organisation that covers Bradford, Airedale and Craven is a confidence boost for both the newly-formed care trust and the people it serves. The set-up of the flagship health trust is
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On This Day
In 1189, Richard ( the lionheart) was crowned King Richard I of England. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War in America. In 1920, famous Bradford long-distance walker Emma Sharp died From the Telegraph & Argus of September 3rd
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Firm is hit by £5m blow
Qualceram Shires plc, which has an acrylics plant and warehouse in Bradford, has seen a fall in profits of nearly £5 million. Operating profits for the first half of 2002 have dropped to £4.1 million from £6.4 million, while turnover has dropped 9.6 per
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Teenage robber is locked up
A 14-year-old boy has been made the subject of an 18-month detention and training order after he was caught on CCTV carrying out a mobile phone robbery. The teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, is already permanently excluded from school
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Paintball centre to take over mill site
A former mill which has stood empty for more than four years is to be transformed into an indoor paintballing centre. Paintballing firm Go Ballistic is moving its national headquarters to the mill as part of an expansion plan which will create around
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Your chance to win photo prizes
You've got just two weeks to show us your favourite building in Bradford. That is the challenge of an exciting photographic competition to highlight the district's most beautiful and imposing buildings. The architecture photography competition has been
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Keen boxer locked up over rioting
A talented amateur boxer and footballer has become the latest person to be locked up for his part in last summer's Bradford riots. The city's Crown Court heard that 18-year-old Nisar Hussain had boxed for the Bradford Police Boys' Club and represented
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Charity shop stock damaged in blast
Bradford's city centre Age Concern shop remained closed today as the rest of the city got back to normal after Provincial House was dramatically blown up. Age Concern officials said today about £4,000 worth of stock at the shop in Sunbridge Road had been
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War of sniffer dogs and search squads
There was a squeal of tyres and the sound of heavy boots on asphalt. "Get out. Get out of the car now," screamed one police officer at the driver of a white Vauxhall Cavalier. Within seconds the small car park was awash with blue uniforms as officers
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Brave Emma loses cancer fight
Brave Emma Kaminski, who desperately tried to beat leukaemia knowing a million-to-one bone marrow match had been found, has lost her fight for life. The 30-year-old died just two days after her eighth wedding anniversary as she desperately tried to get
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Great Scott helps Unity win Bull fight
Two of the three 100 per cent records in the Premier Division went on Sunday when Fairweather Green lost 2-1 at Queensbury and Albion Sports were held 2-2 at Oakenshaw. Playing their best football so far, Queensbury had an excellent debut from former
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Yorkshire suffer Lord's hangover
After a weekend of wild celebrations, Yorkshire played as if their heads had not quite cleared at Headingley yesterday when they lost by nine wickets to Glamorgan Dragons who re-established themselves at the top of Division One of the Norwich Union League
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Break is chance to scout for City
Nicky Law hopes to bring in at least one new face before City's next league game at Walsall. The Bantams have a free week after the home clash with Coventry scheduled for Saturday was called off because of international call-ups. But the coaching staff
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We've got to go global
Chris Caisley today called for a global club competition to save rugby league from becoming a minority sport. The Bulls chairman (pictured) cbelieves the formation of a World Super League is the only way forward, and will risk a breakaway from domestic
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After the party, the big clean-up
An army of Council staff are working round the clock cleaning up Bingley's Myrtle Park after one of the district's biggest open air music events took place there at the weekend. The clean-up, which is being carried out by Bradford Council's parks and
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Team take culture bid to Europe
A group of Bradford people have gone to the Continent to promote Bradford's bid to be the cultural capital of Europe. Twenty eight members of the Bradford Twin Town Association (BTTA) set off for the French town of Roubaix, near the Belgian border, for
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Police warn false robbery 'victims'
A leading Bradford detective today warned that people who 'cry wolf' over street robbery will be caught and punished. A number of false reports of robbery have been received by Bradford police in the last few months, mainly from people claiming against
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Prison for man in prostitute attack
A sex attacker who pounced on a Bradford prostitute got more than he bargained for when she bit back. The terrified 34-year-old woman was hit over the head with a beer bottle and grabbed around the throat after Matthew Smith launched his early morning
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'City's firefighters back strike action'
The chairman of the West Yorkshire branch of the Fire Brigades' Union said today it was inevitable that firefighters from the region would join a national strike. Steve Richards claimed there was enormous support for the industrial action in stations
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Minister praises city's health and social care
People living and working in Bradford have every reason to feel confident about health and social care in the district, Health Minister Lord Philip Hunt said yesterday. Addressing more than 300 guests at the formal launch of a new health and social care
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - On Saturday, August 24, I caught the 640 bus from town to the Mecca Bingo Hall. It is normally 15p but the driver asked for 20p. I did not argue and put my purse (as I thought) into my bag. Later I was in a panic as the purse was not there after
