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Fairytale is over for Fairweather
Fairweather Green's great debut adventure in the FA Sunday Cup is over after the side failed to reach the last eight - going out 3-1 to visitors A3 from Liverpool. Playing a side with 20 years experience in the competition, Fairweather certainly weren't
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It's Miller time for Ward
City are set to unleash Ashley Ward on Rotherham again. The injury-hit striker was back in full training today and could be in line for a welcome return to action at the weekend. Danny Cadamarteri and Jamie Lawrence have also stepped up their running
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The way forward in harmony
Achieving community cohesion is the most vital challenge facing Bradford. Get the many and varied communities talking to each other and all pulling in the same direction, and the prosperous future that so many people are working towards will be much easier
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On This Day
In 1898, author 'Lewis Carroll' - Charles Dodgson - died aged 66. In 1954, Marilyn Monroe married US baseball hero Joe Dimaggio. In 1986, US spacecraft Voyager 2 passed within 50,000 miles of the planet Uranus. From the Telegraph & Argus of January
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It's all change for YE name
The Yorkshire Electricity brand name has been consigned to the scrap heap. Utility company npower, which acquired the business in April 2001, has decided to brand Yorkshire Electricity and Northern Electric and Gas under its own title. Following the acquisition
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Asda enters bidding war
Supermarket giant Asda entered the bidding war for Safeway today. Bradford-based Morrisons last week revealed it had agreed a £2.9 billion bid for the supermarket group, before Sainbury's entered the fray to declare it was also interested in the grocery
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Phoenix rises out of doomed theatre
A member of the Priestley Centre for the Arts is setting up a group of performers and technicians from the theatre so they can continue performing if it closes. Karl Dallas, pictured, is holding a meeting on Thursday for the Priestley's actors and technical
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Appeal just £100,000 short of its target
We're nearly there - but don't stop fundraising yet! That's the message as the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Can... Cancer Research Appeal nears its target. The appeal now stands at £900,000, with only £100,000 to go before it hits the magic £1 million
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3,500 seek asylum in Bradford homes
More than 3,500 asylum seekers have been sent to Bradford in just over two years - and about half were allowed to stay in Britain. Now their needs could be considered in Bradford Council's first major "peace plan" to bring the district together in harmony
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'They're a real shower!'
Council officers have stunned an 82-year-old disabled woman by suggesting she should move house to take a shower. The bizarre offer has been made to frail Margaret Harrison, pictured, because Bradford Council says it cannot afford to install a shower
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Chance to follow in footsteps of Afridi
Former Bradford League professional Numan Shabbir is urging local clubs and communities to support two open days aimed at catapulting young Asian cricketers towards a successful career in the sport. Shabbir, who starred for Eccleshill, Manningham Mills
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Bantams looking for a date
City are waiting for Football League confirmation on a new date for the Crystal Palace home game. They are hoping the authorities will agree to move the postponed clash to next Wednesday to generate much-needed income. Under league rules, clubs must fit
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Empire building on e-sales boom
A business set up in Bradford nearly two decades ago has bucked the national trend on sales by hooking into the dot.com revolution. Electrical retailing giant Empire-direct, which sells cut-price electrical goods over the internet, enjoyed massive demand
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Backing for Euro continues to grow
Support for early British entry to the euro has risen, according to a new poll by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC). Two years ago a similar survey found just 22 per cent of businesses wanted to join the euro, today the figure has risen to 35 per
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Computer game aims to promote IT careers
An e-learning business in Shipley is aiming to attract more youngsters into information communication technologies (ICT) through a computer game. BTL, which is based on Ashley Lane, has been commissioned by regeneration agency Yorkshire Forward to develop
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Fear as gun gang targets post office
Parish councillors are calling for more bobbies on the beat after masked raiders armed with a shotgun tried to rob a village post office. The gang fired the gun at the glass security screen of the post office in Halifax Road, Cullingworth, at 10am yesterday
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Boy recovers at home after rail shock
A 12-year-old boy who suffered a massive electric shock from railway power cables was today recovering at home. The youngster received a 25,000 volt shock in the incident at Shipley station on Saturday afternoon. It is thought his life was saved because
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We need detail,say watchdogs
A public-consultation document into scrapping and replacing a mental health unit, where patients have committed suicide, has been condemned by health watchdogs. Airedale Community Health Council (CHC) says there is insufficient detail in the Bradford
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Park rangers help to round up truants
Bradford's high-profile park rangers have helped to catch 400 truants, working with police in 16 operations in the past year. The rangers acted as the "eyes and the ears" but police detained the youngsters and education social workers interviewed them
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All eyes are on new specialist hospital
Waiting times for eye surgery could be slashed as the region's first specialist eye hospital opens its doors in Bradford. Although the Yorkshire Eye Hospital in Harrogate Road, Apperley Bridge, is an independent venture, privately funded by a team of
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They're just friends, says Sophie's mum
The mother of a 16-year-old schoolgirl linked with pop star Gareth Gates today insisted the pair were "just very good friends". Gareth, 18, was said to be smitten by Menston teenager Sophie Wellings, according to a national newspaper report. But today
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Damning report on school that moved
A village school that had to move two miles into Bradford under the schools shake-up has now been found by Ofsted to have "serious weaknesses". St James' Church Primary School, which moved to Allerton from Thornton, did not cope well with the enormous
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Frail gran Phyllis, 91, loses life savings in robbery
A frail pensioner today described her anger at being robbed of all her life savings by three men who conned their way into her home and attacked her. Brave Phyllis Bulcock, 91, pictured, harangued the men and fought them as best she could when she caught
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - In a recent story about the proposed new gun laws, I was surprised to read that Bradford MP Gerry Sutcliffe favoured a complete ban on firearms. I wonder what he hopes that would achieve. A hundred years ago there were virtually no gun laws at all
