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Just one point in it as Ilkley snatch the Tim Bucknall Trophy in thriller
Ilkley 26 Otley Tongans 25 The annual match between Ilkley and Otley is played for the Tim Bucknall trophy. The first few games, almost 20 years ago were contested by the first XVs. In this match Ilkley's senior team were up against Otley's third XV.
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£1.4m Lottery pair prefer the quiet life
Lottery millionaires David and Margaret Storey will be celebrating the new year with their usual - a pint of lager and a port and lemon. The jackpot winners, who hit the headlines in October 1998 when they scooped £1.4 million, said they will be having
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Terror of family in 'race gang attacks'
A Bosnian family fear someone will be killed before police stop racist thugs from attacking their home. Disabled Irfan Zenkovic, 47, and his son Admir, 16, pictured, claim to have suffered 37 racist incidents in the last four years at their home in Bowater
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Knitting mile could bring record smile
Children at a Bradford school are hoping to knit their way into the record books. Youngsters at Queensbury School have created a gigantic piece of finger knitting, or chain mail, which is 1,669 metres long - equivalent to 1.037 miles. And now they have
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Cultural command to be set up in city
A new organisation will be set up to keep culture top of the agenda in Bradford, despite the city's failure to be short-listed as Europe's capital of culture. The district's cultural consortium will monitor the progress of a major blueprint called Only
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Young people aim to raise 'The Roof'
A group of young people are reaching for the sky by climbing one of the world's highest mountains in aid of the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Can...Cancer Research Appeal. They are taking part in the To The Roof Of Africa challenge, which has been organised
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Centre to provide 1,400 operations
An extra 1,400 operations a year will be carried out when an innovative health care centre opens in Bradford. The diagnostic and treatment centre is one of 11 across the country which have been given Department of Health backing to work with overseas,
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Successful year for Ilkley students
Ilkley Karate Club's annual presentation night saw a total off 50 trophies and medals, over £600 worth, presented to the students young and old that had done well over the year. It had been one of the best years results wise since the club was formed
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Back to the old routine as Fisher storms home in Chevin Chase
OTLEY AC's Ian Fisher stormed home to win the annual Chevin Chase on Boxing Day in an event that had attracted 930 entries. Proving as popular as ever the race, organised by AireCentre Pacers, had to turn away 150 would be entrants. A total of 796 finished
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Pateley were a bridge too far for a dire Menston Rangers side
Menston Rangers 2 Pateley Bridge Res 5 Menston Rangers slipped to fourth in the league as they finished the year with a dire performance which gifted a win to the visitors from Nidderdale. Failure to do the basics defensively cost Menston as they found
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Just when we thought Britain couldn't get any dafter, it does. The latest piece of nonsense to be inflicted on us by our totally out-of-touch Lord Chief Justice really takes the biscuit. Burglars have, in effect, been given a licence to trash our
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Law prepared for ugly scrap
Nicky Law is not promising a new year's football feast at Grimsby. City chase a third holiday win against the side directly below them in the First Division relegation scrap. And Law does not anticipate a free-scoring extravaganza to see in the New Year
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Airline's decision 'a body blow'
THE shock withdrawal of a major airline from Leeds-Bradford International Airport will be a body blow to the region's economy, says a city councillor. Councillor Andrew Carter (Con, Pudsey North) believes the announcement by British Airways to withdraw
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Group paints bleak picture as rail dispute rumbles on
Train passengers in Wharfedale faced yet more disruption this week - a year into an industrial dispute over pay which is set to drag on well into 2003. And Derrick Joanes, Secretary of the Wharfedale Rail Users Group, said he could see little hope on
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Property prices will slow
THE high demand for housing across the region is expected to keep the property market buoyant in 2003. The prediction comes from the leading estate agents who believe that prices will buck the national trend and continue to grow - although the rises will
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Matthew's poster is a cash draw
A signed Harry Potter poster is one of the many items which a Menston school has raffled for charity. St Mary's School has been holding numerous events to raise money for its advent appeal, which will is aiming to benefit St Gemma's Hospice, CAFOD, Catholic
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Hundreds of homes earmarked for town
HUNDREDS of houses linked to an East of Otley relief road could be built in the next few years. Up to 550 houses and new industrial units are under consideration for land to the east and north of the Cambridge estate. As part of its revision of the area
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On This Day
In 1695, the government imposed the 'window tax' which resulted in many householders bricking up most of their windows. In 1921, a Bradford girl died after her fancy dress outfit made of cotton wool caught fire. In 1970, Paul McCartney began legal action
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Property prices will slow
THE high demand for housing across the region is expected to keep the property market buoyant in 2003. The prediction comes from the leading estate agents who believe that prices will buck the national trend and continue to grow - although the rises will
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Bishop in walk around town
THE NEW Bishop of Bradford is today visiting his flock in the Ilkley area as part of a three-day trek around his diocese. Bishop David James this week pulled on his walking boots for a three-day trek around the area, taking in Skipton, Bolton Abbey, Addingham
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It's double joy on Christmas Day
Two families from Ilkley were given the perfect Christmas Day present with the birth of a new baby. Claire Leavesley, of Gordon Street, Ilkley delivered her tiny son Jack just after 1pm on December 25, to the delight of her partner, Martin, and his three
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Back to the old routine as Fisher storms home in Chevin Chase
OTLEY AC's Ian Fisher stormed home to win the annual Chevin Chase on Boxing Day in an event that had attracted 930 entries. Proving as popular as ever the race, organised by AireCentre Pacers, had to turn away 150 would be entrants. A total of 796 finished
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Boxing Day battle has sting in tail
Farsley Celtic 2 Guiseley 2 A deflected equaliser in injury time denied Guiseley a memorable victory in a combative derby at Throstle Nest on Boxing Day, which finished with a man dismissed from either side writes Stephen Exley. On a dismal December day
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Unlikely allies
IT hardly seems like five minutes since local representatives fought a tough battle to prevent unwanted development in Ilkley and the surrounding villages at the last Unitary Development Plan (UDP) public inquiry. Yet on Tuesday it all begins again with
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Depleted Town fail to clear first hurdle
A Saturday lunch-time ground inspection by match referee Nigel Haycock declared the Silsden ground unfit for their West Riding County Amateur League Mumtaz Premier Division Cup first-round tie with Brighouse Town. A quick agreement was reached between
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I cannot wait to get my Claus into them
Claus Jorgensen is keeping his feet firmly on the ground as City look to extend their cracking Christmas form. After back-to-back wins over Stoke and Wolves, and a goal in each, it would be tempting for Jorgensen to savour the moment after a tough first
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Dying wish is honoured by loving aunt
A Horsforth woman is working to fulfil her 15-year-old nephew's dying wish by raising as much money as possible for cancer charities. After the death of her nephew Oliver in October last year Joanne Hanson pledged to continue his wish to fund research
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Christmas cheer dampened - but flood defences hold
Christmas cheer was dampened as continuous rainfall flooded some of the district's roads and put homeowners on high alert. But the residents on Castley Lane, near Pool-in-Wharfedale, are breathing a sigh of relief as the flood barrier fitted in December
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Richard runs into New Year's honours
Menston's former World Cup marathon champion Richard Nerurkar has been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List. His MBE was included in the Diplomatic and Overseas Service List and was awarded for his organisation of the TOTAL Great Ethiopian Run
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James is the latest teenage soccer hero
A HORSFORTH 16-year-old has become the latest teenage sensation to take football's the Premier League by storm. Just months after switching his school desk for the Elland Road turf, former Horsforth School pupil James Milner now has his name written in
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Police urge drivers to avoid their key errors
Car owners are still inviting thieves to steal their vehicles by leaving keys on view or in obvious places, according to the police. People are again being urged to take their car keys to be with them, or hide them in less obvious places to avoid burglars
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Calling International Rescue - Thunderbirds are go for Jamie
Thunderbirds are go for one Guiseley youngster who won a competition to create and write a comic strip. Jamie Grubb has won the regional heats in the junior school category of a nation-wide Thunderbirds comic strip competition. The eight-year-old answered
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Blow to Otley's retail scheme
AN INDUSTRIAL site in Otley is set to be redeveloped - but not as a mixture of shops and houses as first thought. Ashfield Works, off West-gate, home of Jefferies Trans-port and Lunds Carpets, was once earmarked for the building of a mixture of houses
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Plenty of reasons to look ahead
Once again, it has been an eventful year for the Bradford district. And, once again, it has been a year of dramatic highs and lows. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the highest and lowest points emanated from the same source - the district's bid to be voted
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Ilkley bars shun New Year 24-hour opening
REVELLERS wanting to take advantage of new licensing laws and drink round the clock on New Year's Eve were finding it impossible to find a watering hole in Ilkley. While police and medical experts were handing out dire warnings about the consequences
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A real bird's-eye view awaits Ilkley's Scandanavian visitors
THE GROVE afforded a birds-eye view of some rare Scandinavian visitors to Ilkley last week. Birdwatchers responded to an Internet alert to the presence of three waxwings feeding from fruit trees in a garden next to Cunliffe Road. The starling-sized birds
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Decision day looms on cash for radical toilets scheme
ILKLEY and Addingham Parish Councillors will next week decide whether to plough precept money into the town's public toilets to bring them up to scratch for visitors and locals. Cleansing bosses have produced radical plans to wash their hands of two of
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Christmas tree bid to boost skate appeal
RESIDENTS of Ilkley wanting to clear out their old Christmas trees are being asked to help a fundraising drive for a skate park. On Saturday and Sunday, teams of volunteers equipped with vans aim to rid the Ilkley area of its unwanted Christmas trees,
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Unusual allies set for battle on green belt
A NEW Year battle to save the Ilkley area from being swamped with new developments begins next week . The public inquiry into Bradford's Unitary Devel-opment Plan (UDP) begins at Victoria Hall in the village of Saltaire on Tuesday morning. From 10am,
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Hospital radio signs off for good
SIR, - Through your columns I would like to pay tribute and thank the many members, past and present, who have served the Voluntary Broadcasting Service at Wharfedale General Hospital over the years since its beginnings in 1962. Sadly, amidst all the
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MP backs new bill to control hedges
Spen MP Mike Wood is hopeful that measures to restrict the problems caused by high hedges will soon become law. Two bills are progressing through the Houses of Parliament and Mr Wood has welcomed the Government's decision to support a Private Member's
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Vicar gives up the pulpit for the pen
A vicar who was praised for his courage in conquering a devastating stroke is swapping the pulpit for the pen. The Reverend James Scantlebury, pictured, of the United Benefice of Harden and Wilsden - two amalgamated Church of England parishes - is retiring
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Otliensians' huge tackle count not was not enough
Stocksbridge 26 Otliensians 0 The scoreline of four tries and three conversions to nil did not truly reflect the effort this Otliensians side put into the match played on the moors above Stocksbridge. The pitch condition was the major factor being muddy
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A poetic injustice for Wordsworth
Guiseley 2 Leek Town 2 GUISELEY'S new central defender Jon Wordsworth was devastated when the referee and his assistant adjudged him to have intentionally handled the ball and awarded a penalty. As David McPherson sent Chris Hill the wrong way from the
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Books move would be just the ticket
Children's literature from Bradford's peace library may be moved to the Central Library in a drive to open up new reading experiences for young people. Staff from the Commonweal Collection - an independent specialist library devoted to issues of non-violent
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Becks pulls in the Japanese crowds
World Cup hero David Beckham is doing as much as the Bronte sisters to jack up the district's tourist figures by bringing in thousands of Japanese visitors. The World Cup star provoked Beckham Mania during his stay in Japan in the summer. According to
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Council faces a high-tech court battle
Bradford Council faces a High Court battle over alleged computer programme copyright infringement. Software specialists, Nucleus Information Systems, are suing the Council for more than £100,000 in a row over computer programmes used by the authority.
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Golden Steve is an OBE
Steve Backley was today awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List. And the javelin thrower, whose honour comes on the back of a season in which he struck gold at both the Commonwealth Games and European Championships, has set his sights on another elusive
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We are honoured!
A host of Bradford district's unsung heroes - from a nurse to a Meals-on-Wheels cook - have been recognised in the New Year Honours. Janet Wade, president of the Bradford Diocesan Mother's Union group, is one of three people from the district to receive
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Ilkley suffer defeat against title rivals
Pannal 3 Ilkley AFC 2 The crampons and ice-picks were out again on Saturday as the Booths sponsored Ilkley AFC set themselves another mountain to climb against championship rivals Pannal. Gifting the home side two goals after 20 minutes through elementary
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Just one point in it as Ilkley snatch the Tim Bucknall Trophy in thriller
Ilkley 26 Otley Tongans 25 The annual match between Ilkley and Otley is played for the Tim Bucknall Trophy. The first few games, almost 20 years ago were contested by the clubs' first XVs. In this game Ilkley's senior team were up against Otley's third
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House prices hit younger people
As a new year dawns, people are already talking about how house prices will change and whether they should move or stay put. Without a crystal ball, it is difficult to predict what the future will hold for house prices, especially in Wharfedale, Aireborough
