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City lose five-goal thriller
Rotherham 3, City 2: Peter Atherton was sent off as City's first league game in 2003 ended in defeat in breathless fashion at Rotherham. City scored first and last through Claus Jorgensen and an Andy Gray penalty. But Martin McIntosh, Darren Garner and
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Bus lane warning to city
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is quite clear that those who use the guided-bus service on Manchester Road as well as those who justified the huge £12 million expenditure on this scheme believe it to be a good thing. However, motorists who have
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Brewery will fit the past - down to a T
A building society boss was today raising a glass to his new business venture - a micro-brewery. Steve Blizzard, responsible for creating Skipton Building Society's Homeloan Management business, has joined forces with Broughton Hall estate manager David
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£200,000 bonus for home seekers
A housing boss has grabbed almost £200,000 from builders wanting to put extra houses on the site of the former Ilkley College. Shabbir Mohammed will use the money to help prevent less well-off Ilkley residents having to leave the area because of the astronomical
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Two post offices to close
Two post office branches in Spen are to close next month to help safeguard the future of urban branches in Cleck-heaton. The Telegraph & Argus reported last year that Post Office Ltd intended to restructure and modernise its national network of more
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Jobs losses loom despite extra work
Job losses are looming in Bradford Council's beleaguered legal services department where income is falling despite increasing work levels. The saga over the redevelopment of Odsal Stadium and £4.7 million settlement made to Bradford Bulls in 1986 has
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My English lets me down, says Prescott
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott teased pupils about their devotion to Harry Potter and admitted his own deficiencies in English when he dropped in at a Bradford school. The cabinet heavyweight - looking trim in a navy suit - also paid warm tribute
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'11 second lapse ruined our family'
The widow of a man killed when an articulated lorry jumped traffic lights and ploughed into his car said today nine months jail for the driver was "lenient". Warehouseman Martin Chambers, 48, died four hours after the lorry smashed into his Nissan Micra
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Expose those child porn 'peeping toms'
What a mess Pete Townshend has got himself into! Photographs of him taken during this last week, since those first revelations that the rock star had been named in allegations about visits to child-porn websites, show a man who appears to be sickeningly
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Letters to the editor
A better way to tackle crime... SIR - So Councillor Tim Crowther believes that the best way to deal with crime is to bribe criminals into grassing on their mates ("I'll give cash to combat crime!", T&A January 13). This would seem to be a clever way
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Cougars ready for cup clash
The waiting is now over. Thirteen good men and true will take to the field at Cougar Park tomorrow with the expectation of a rugby-mad town on their shoulders. The off-season has been completed, the new signings are in place, the time for last season's
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On this day
In 1871, Wilhelm of Prussia became the German emperor. In 1911, in a sensational suicide, a patient jumped from a top-floor window at Bradford Infirmary. In 1919, 27 nations convened the Peace Conference in Paris. Germany was not allowed to attend. From
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Airport sets record
A record number of passengers flew from Leeds-Bradford International Airport in December. A total of 75,799 people flew on scheduled flights during the month, a rise of more than 39 per cent - 4,430 - than the previous highest figure for the period. The
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Community transport fleet is saved
Health chiefs have saved Keighley Community Trans-port by making up a funding shortfall. Airedale Primary Care Trust, which runs GP and community health services, is giving £10,000 to the much-used charity. The news came as Bradford Council presented
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Conqueror of the Horn!
Sailor Sarah Aynesworth has joined an elite sisterhood. She has sailed round Cape Horn, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world, on a three-mast wooden ship. It means the 26-year-old joins the privileged few sailors entitled to wear
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Panto fun for pupils
Youngsters at a Bingley school were treated to a pantomime version of the Hunchback of Notre Dame as part of their school's 15th anniversary. Pupils at Lady Lane Park School enjoyed the play, feasted on birthday cake and released balloons with the school's
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Special unit failing
A special unit for Bradford's excluded pupils has been placed in special measures after failing an Ofsted inspection. The Aireview Pupil Referral Unit in Saltaire was too costly to run as the average cost per pupil in 2001 was £24,723, the report found
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New bid for Odeon as plans collapse
Bradford's historic Odeon Cinema is the subject of a new bid from a national development company after being put back on the market. Agents Knight Frank would not give the amount of the offer but it is understood to be in excess of £2 million. The cinema
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Road safety chief in car drink shame
A former road safety chief has been fined £300 and hit with ten penalty points on his driving licence after admitting being in charge of a car with excess alcohol on his breath. Councillor Colin Stout (Ind, Brighouse) had pleaded not guilty to the charge
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Expert steps in as 'final' curtain falls
A regeneration expert has stepped in to try to save Bradford's Priestley Centre from going into voluntary liquidation. The Priestley Centre for the Arts Ltd ceases trading on Monday because of a financial crisis. Tonight the final curtain was due to fall
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Road delays worsening on bus route
Frustrated motorists still face major delays on congested Manchester Road - and it could get worse. Bradford Council has just agreed to a 12th pedestrian crossing for the multi-million-pound bus route on the major artery into the city. But the first detailed
