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What's it all about Alfie?
A slimming co-ordinator who has helped Keighley ladies to shed the pounds has managed to strike it Ritchie herself. Slimming World manager Deborah Stockhill, who co-ordinates classes in the Keighley area, enjoyed a little extra New Year cheer when she
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Obituary: Emily Atkinson - 101
An Oxenhope-born woman has died aged 101. Emily Atkinson died at Beanlands nursing home, in Cross Hills, on Saturday. Mrs Atkinson lived for 33 years with her late husband, Jonathan, a textile buyer, in Main Road, Denholme. Her grand-daughter Rachel Atkinson
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On This Day
In 41 AD, Roman emperor Caligula was murdered by one of his guards. In 1616, Dutch navigator Willem Schouten rounded the southern tip of the Americas naming it 'Cape Hoorn' after his birthplace. In 1935, canned beer was sold for the first time in the
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The secret is - no secrets
A diamond couple from Crossflatts celebrated sixty years together yesterday. Leslie and Mildred Martin, of Cedar Street, are both originally from Bradford and met at a dance on Manchester Road, Bradford, when they were just sixteen. They married three
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Wedding: Bown - Moorhouse
A couple who met while both were pupils at Holy Family School in Keighley have tied the knot. Nathan Paul Bown and Stephanie Ruth Moorhouse were married at the Mere Golf and Country Club, Knutsford. Nathan - an IT consultant - is the younger son of Les
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Delight at bus gift
Youngsters at St Andrew's Primary School are celebrating after their school was presented with a smart new set of wheels. The school, in Lustre Street, Keighley, has been given a brand new £29,000 minibus by the Variety Club of Great Britain. The keys
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Sian get support for African project
A former Holy Family School student is embarking on the trip of a lifetime to help provide a sound educational foundation for African children. Sian Pedder, from Keighley, is travelling to Africa next month to help build a school classroom in a village
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You are a financial disaster - Goodbye!
Brave Malcolm Guy is still smiling after taking on the formidable Anne Robinson on TV show The Weakest Link. The financial advisor from Bradley was more troubled by going out in the third round than by anything the sharp-tongued presenter could throw
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No worries over 'missing' £147,000 grants
Almost half the money given to Keighley projects through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund 12 months ago is "missing". But Bradford council paymasters say they are not worried about the £147,000 currently unaccounted for. They are confident they will soon
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Wizard birthday treat for Potter-mad girl
A young Harry Potter fan from Keighley had a wizard birthday thanks to a bit of magic from Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. India Grace Wadsworth celebrated her sixth birthday by boarding her very own Hogwarts Express for an afternoon of fun on Sunday
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Community to fight drug dealers
Parents are spearheading a fight-back against drug dealers in Keighley. The residents of Lawkholme are playing a leading role in a high-profile anti-drugs campaign running throughout next week. Organisers urge every person living in Lawkholme, Showfield
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Spanish Opera opens new season
The audience will find itself in sultry and sizzling Spain while visiting wet and windy Halifax next month. That's when Opera International returns to the Victoria Theatre to perform Bizet's masterpiece Carmen. Chisinau National Opera presents the story
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Cold comfort in Playhouse chiller
The Devil at Midnight, Keighley Playhouse The past comes back to haunt social services boss Jack Burns when a young woman arrives at his home. But is this past real, imaginary, manufactured, or something else entirely? And is the girl's motive theft,
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Too often I only read bad news in the press about the problems of the NHS. I am not suggesting everything is perfect, but I want to highlight the excellent quality of care provided at Airedale General Hospital for my 97-year-old mother. She attended
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Project work is on show at Hall
Work produced as part of an interactive arts project involving young people from Birstall will be unveiled at Oakwell Hall on Sunday. Among guests invited is the Mayor of Kirklees, Councillor Margaret Bates. The Routes to our Roots project involved people
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Gran is teaching write from wrong
A grandmother is fast becoming a household name with her books helping dyslexics to read and write. Keda Cowling, 76, a retired teacher, spent 25 years devising the system and her two manuals, Toe by Toe and Striding Ahead, are now taught in 27 countries
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Try the market for a change, say stallholders
Eighty per cent of shopping is now done in supermarkets, a new spending survey has revealed. And families spend an average of £42 a week on food and £9 a week on alcohol. A fifth of food spending goes on meat, 12 per cent on fresh fruit and vegetables
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Members urged to declare hospitality
Councillors are being warned to be cautious about accepting gifts and hospitality as rules are tightened up about what they declare. A draft protocol advising members of one of Britain's biggest councils on what they should accept or decline will be discussed
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New-look festival bigger and better
Bradford International Festival will be expanded and more local groups brought in to help improve events and stave off criticism. More bands will play in Centenary Square, children's events will be created for the famous Mela and the Lord Mayor's parade
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Quick fix for baby!
It was a fast delivery that even a Kwik-Fit fitter would have been proud of. Baby Connor Anthony Peter Marlow made a speedy entrance into the world when he was delivered by his dad and granddad. Dad Craig Marlow - a supervisor at Kwik-Fit in Thornbury
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Rugby League: Cats bounce back
Castleford Panthers 4 Keighley Albion Cats 36 - Keighley returned to action after an extended festive break with an easy victory over a weakened Castleford side. However, it took the Cats until almost half time to get into their stride and it was certainly
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Rugby Union: Crusaders' derby victory
KEIGHLEY 27 ILKLEY 20 Keighley's run of 12 consecutive league wins came perilously close to an end when they struggled to contain an energetic Ilkley side. Early in the second half they found themselves in unfamiliar territory when facing a seven point
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Soccer: Junior round-up
Silsden Under-14s pulled off a 4-1 win over Bingley to reach the quarter-final of the West Riding County Cup. Lee McGowan opened the scoring and Sam Dowgill volleyed the second from outside the box. Bingley pulled one back to set up a tense last 10 minutes
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Soccer: County Amateurs
SILSDEN and Steeton are sitting on top of their respective divisions in the County Amateur League as they second half of the season gets underway. The 'twin' clubs are aiming for a double league celebration with Silsden aiming for the league championship
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Soccer: Craven League
OXENHOPE RECREATION entertained Keighley Lifts in a tough top of the table battle. The home side powered into the attack from the opening whistle while Lifts looked rusty and struggled to win the ball. The Worth Valley side took the lead after a superb
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Cougars: Moorby's diary
WHAT a great way to start the season -- the lads were just fantastic! I must admit that after our encounters with Doncaster last season I struggled to hold back a little grin in the bar after we had clocked up Sunday's win. There were one or two ex-Cougar
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Cougars: Gary's men get a flying start
Cougars turned Dragon slayers as they started their new season with a bang -- with new signings Andy Robinson and Ricky Helliwell scoring debut tries. Doncaster had been expecting to stroll through their first Arriva Cup match, but there has been a lot
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Cougars: Rammy turns Dragon Slayer
JASON RAMSHAW returned to full fitness and turned in a 'Dragon slaying' performance as he led Cougars to an opening day victory in the Arriva Trains Cup. Rammy, who was out for most of last season following a serious shoulder injury, was passed fit to
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Bright new hope in drugs war
A bright ray is shining this weekend from the beacon of hope for the future of this area. For throughout next week parents in Lawkholme will be leading a fightback aginst drug dealers in Keighley. The importance of this inititaive should not be underestimated
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Little tyke to Yorkshire captain
Anthony McGrath is a dyed-in-the-wool Bradford lad who has climbed from the very first rung of junior cricket with his home club of Bankfoot right up to the giddy heights of captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. It is one of the most demanding and
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Pfannenstiel takes flight from Avenue
Lutz Pfannenstiel's Avenue adventure ends on Monday when he boards a plane bound for a player-manager's role in New Zealand. Bradford's German keeper closed the book on his brief but colourful second spell at Horsfall by conceding five goals against Ossett
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Result doesn't matter, says Noble
Brian Noble said something this week you have never heard before and you may never hear again. "I am not too bothered about the result," said the Bulls coach. "No, I'm really not. This is all about the performance. I am looking to see that we are putting
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'I will not Aid Town's struggle'
Aidan Davison is backing relegation Houdinis Grimsby to escape again. But the City keeper will give his old club no helping hand at Blundell Park tomorrow. The re-arranged clash is another key date in the struggle to beat the drop. The Bantams start three
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Things don't look that Grim says Law
Nicky Law has told City to forget about the rest of the relegation pack. The Bantams go to Grimsby tomorrow - a game Law (pictured) describes as their biggest of the season. City are currently three points above their hosts with a game in hand. A fourth
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Noble's new-look Bulls have six appeal
Six new faces will take their first-team bow in the Bulls' only warm-up game for their 2003 campaign. But the appearances of former junior Kiwi Shontayne Hape (pictured) and Great Britain international Karl Pratt will be the highlight for Bradford fans
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McGrath to captain Yorkshire
Bradford-born batsman Anthony McGrath was today being installed as Yorkshire's youngest captain for the past 70 years. The 27-year-old Bradford League product emerged last night as the choice of the county's four-man Management Board, who were today putting
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We're read in all the best places
Keeping up with events back home during a visit to Singapore is local parish councillor Peter Hill. Peter - chairman of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury parish council - was snapped in the lobby of the famous Raffles Hotel. He and wife Gillian visited
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Railway saviour retires
One of the rail preservation movement's most respected figures is retiring from the railway he helped save from oblivion 40 years ago. Ralph Povey, who was one of the founders of the society which runs the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, has retired
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Reaping the rewards of TV exposure
It is not unusual for places to be catapulted to stardom thanks to the medium of TV or cinema. Castle Howard still reaps the rewards of its Brideshead Revisited days, Salzburg is inextricably linked with The Sound of Music, and Sheffield cashed-in big
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Obituary: Eric Gardner - Keen agnler
A former club steward and keen angler, Eric Gardner has died aged 87. He was born in Mexborough, but moved to Keighley in early childhood. After a spell at Austwick as a farmhand, he returned to Keighley in his late teens and took up a job as a labourer
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Wedding: Beal - Butterfield
Married at Lyndhurst in Hampshire were Anthony John Beal and Sarah Elizabeth Butterfield. Anthony - national accounts manager with A&B Oil - is the only son of John and Vee Beal, of East Sussex. Sarah - a solicitor with Southampton City Council -
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Duo turn despair into hope
Tragedy has thrown teacher Nessa Chacksfield and hospital pharmacist Debbie Pascoe together. Both have lost loved ones to leukaemia. But out of their sadness, they have forged an organisation that in 12 months has raised £6,000 for leukaemia research.
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City is third in bankruptcy league table
Bradford has been placed third on a table which ranks the country's business failures. Bolton and Manchester hit the two top spots, while Bradford came in at third with 3.49 per cent of its firms going bust during 2001. The poll, which was conducted by
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The real cost of getting a degree
By Jenny Speak, a newspaper journalism student at the University of Central Lancashire, who spent a fortnight on work placement at the Keighley News Many students will have just returned to university after the Christmas holidays. For some, like myself
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Hand it to these students
Larger than life hands will be on display around South Craven School, Cross Hills, when year ten NVQ students show off their latest work. The giant hands -- measuring up to seven feet -- were created out of paper and cardboard, without a chicken wire
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Shining example of community care
Keighley youngsters have helped a community transport group to shine. A group of young people from the Lund Park Youth Development Network volunteered to spruce up minibuses belonging to Keighley Community Transport. The community-spirited teenagers spent
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Ted's bootiful idea
A couple from Cross Hills hope that their invention to speed the recovery of foot injuries will go into production over the next six months. Ted and Liz Whitlock have been working on the 'Ped-Well' - which they describe as 'fluid assisted exercise therapy
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Insurance blow to brave girl's holiday dream
A brave youngster from Cullingworth who has battled against cancer is well on the road to recovery. Jessica Bell is in remission after seven months of chemotherapy treatment and is back at school. However, her family's dream trip to Disney World in Florida
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Guides break the gender barriers
Think of traditional Guiding activities and the likes of bricklaying, wallpapering and car maintenance don't readily spring to mind. But that is exactly what Guides from across Keighley got stuck into during an interest day at Keighley College. And together
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Council backs mum's dog dirt plea
Bradford council is launching a crackdown on dog owners who allow their animals to foul Cliffe Castle grounds in Keighley. Owners caught failing to clean up the mess face court action, council officers have warned. And the news has not come soon enough
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Police launch car crime blitz
A blitz has been launched against Keighley's car criminals. A special police team has been set up to target offenders. And multi-agency partnerships have been formed in four areas of the local police division, including Keighley town centre and Haworth
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Search is on for lost regalia
A race against time has begun to find a historic presidential chain of office. The founder members of Keighley's new Chamber of Trade want to find the valuable Chamber regalia last seen about eight years ago. They are hoping to re-discover the silver
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Temperance Hall set to become a pub
Temperance Hall -- former home to Keighley's teetotallers group -- is set to become a pub. JD Wetherspoon, which has over 600 pubs nationally, is negotiating to buy the historic town-centre building. Its £1 million scheme would create around 30 full and
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Keighley Amateurs - Aladdin
The chairman of Keighley Amateurs will look backwards and forwards as she watches this year's panto production Aladdin. Louise Hindle, who took over at the helm of the society last year, has been with the Amateurs since joining as a teenager in 1962.
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Folk: Swarbrick is back
A legendary fiddler of the folk world returns to Haworth next month -- and is expected to pack the house again. Last year's concert in the village by Fairport Convention founder Dave Swarbrick was a swift sell-out. "Swarb" returns next Saturday to perform
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Villagers fight for farmland
Campaigners are fighting to save green belt near their homes from the hands of developers. Wilsden Village Society is supporting Bradford Council's Unitary Development Plan (UDP) to retain farmland off Bents Lane, Wilsden, as green space. Society chairman
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Supermarket set to open 24 hours
Shipley residents have vowed to fight an 'undemocratic' decision to open a supermarket around the clock. Lisa Clover, provisions manager at the Shipley Asda store, revealed at last night's neighbourhood forum meeting that the store will open 24 hours
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Down Memory Lane - with Ian Dewhirst
"Bridge Building Team. Keighley Gala, 1938," runs the title of this snap in a photograph album belonging to the late Albert Sunderland, founder of a Scout troop at Marlborough Street. At that time the Gala activities in Victoria Park included Scouts'
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Early Years staff 'excel'
"Some spectacularly successful" teaching takes place in Bradford for under-fives, a new report has found. A review of the Early Years education service was carried out by national expert Jim Rose. The former Chief Inspector of Primary Schools was commissioned
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Soap set art to go under the hammer
When local eye surgeons bought a building to transform into the region's only eye hospital, they found it empty except for one thing - a huge mural of Yorkshire's own soap, Emmerdale. Initially baffled, things became a little clearer when they discovered
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'I'll be a human shield for Iraqi people'
A campaigning pensioner will put his life on the line when he heads to Iraq as a "human shield" next month. Karl Dallas is volunteering in an 'international peace mission' to protect families and avert the threat of war. The 72-year-old former journalist
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Advice on keeping a healthy balance
The health and wealth of Manningham residents came under scrutiny at an event organised by Barclays Bank staff. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance was just one of the attractions at the 'Health and Wealth' event at the Carlisle Business Centre in Carlisle Road
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Problems for flagship school
A Church of England secondary school, declared a flagship when it opened two years ago, has been designated as having 'serious weaknesses' by Ofsted. Exclusions rocketed last year at Immanuel Church of England Community College in Thackley as leaders
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Court of Appeal to hear rioter cases
Appeals by some Bradford rioters over the lengths of their sentences will go ahead in London next week. Fifteen cases are listed over two days at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday and Thursday. Lord Justice Rose and two High Court judges will preside over
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Making photo history
History was made in Bradford last night with the official opening of one the world's most important photographic collections. The Unknown Pleasures exhibition, pictured, at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, is the first display
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I fear my Graham has been murdered
The former wife of a Bradford man who disappeared a decade ago said today she fears he has been murdered. Graham Whitton was believed to have built up huge gambling debts around the time he was last seen walking out of a city bar back in December 1992
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Table Tennis: Keighley & District League
Lothersdale 'B's David Galley took his tally to 12 from 24 in the Keighley & District Table Tennis League First Division with a full house at Nelson Nomads. His team earned a draw in a relegation battle. Martin Connolly and Peter Midgley assisted
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Rugby League: Junior round-up
Cougar Under-17s 8 East Hull 4 The Cougars went 13 game without defeat as they reached the quarter-final of the Yorkshire Cup. Two goals from Richard Hannah, on his home debut, gave the Keighley side a 4-0 lead at the break. Man of the match Toby Williams
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Rugby League: Albion A grab victory
Keighley Albion A 26 Moldgreen 8 Albion's second string had a rare home fixture when Moldgreen travelled from Huddersfield. Good defending from Richard Hollings, Dave Nixon, Darren Jackson and John Normington kept Moldgreen at bay in the early stages.
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Soccer: Keighley & Aire Alliance
A TOTAL of 45 goals were scored in five games as the Keighley and Aire Wharfe League sprang back to life following the New Year break and cancellations because of the weather. The game between the Variety Club and Three Horses saw the ball in the back
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Soccer: Wharfedale Sunday
Crossflatts ran riot over Old House at Home. After a tight opening 15 minutes Crossflatts opened the scoring and the flood gates opened as they ran in 15 more goals. The only good thing for Old house was Steve Buckingham got a hat-trick. A one-sided affair
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Rugby Union: South Craven success
SOUTH CRAVEN School are through to round five of the Daily Mail Under 18 Vase thanks to a 20-3 win at Keswick School. Coach Dave Royles has called on the experience of Wharfedale's first team coach Hedley Verity to help out with coaching, and it certainly
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Karate: Young stars make the grade
YOUNG 'karate kids' took their grading examinations last weekend as they took their first steps up the sport's ladder. Coach Kevin almond has launched Budokai Karate clubs at seven junior schools in the area and pupils from St Joseph's School, Oxenhope
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Crfoss Country: Sam called up for Yorkshire
OAKBANK runner Sam Clegg was crowned Bradford Schools cross country champion last weekend -- and has also been selected for Yorkshire. Sam (above), a sixth form pupil at Oakbank School, won the senior boys race at the Bradford Schools Championship which
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Motorsport: Dougie crashes out
Dougie Lampkin has gone to the top of the Indoor World Championship table - despite coming second in the latest round. As has been the case in three out of the four trials so far, Lampkin lost in the final race despite having taken the lead in the dual
