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Ambitious Woodlands build for the future
Ambitious Bradford League club Woodlands, who have strengthened their side for next season with three new signings, have also announced plans to extend their playing and social facilities. Woodlands have made a big impact since they joined the league
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Bulls off to a flying start
The Bulls set the tone for their homecoming season with an awesome display of attacking rugby at the Jungle. New boys Karl Pratt and Shontayne Hape made valuable contributions as Bradford ran eight tries past Castleford in an impressive first run out
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Firm weighs in with £3m move
PM Group plc has invested £3 million in new headquarters in Shipley which could see its staffing levels double. The business, which floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) last April, is set to move into its new Canal Road premises at the beginning
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Marathon racers race to challenge
Two best friends who set up a business in Bradford are set to run a half marathon in Prague in March - because of a bet. James Mason and Stephen Sullivan, who set up Stairs-Direct UK more than a year ago, are running the race to raise cash for the Leonard
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Taxi mast verdict angers residents
Protesters against a taxi firm's new radio mast have been frustrated in their attempt to have it taken down. The owner of Ilkley Taxis, at Unit 14 on the town's Drill Hall Business Park, decided to replace its radio mast. The new mast, while improving
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Key meeting deals with fate of theatre
Professional management and the employment of key staff could help save the crisis-torn Priestley Centre, according to arts and leisure chiefs. They say the option of the theatre being managed by a "commercially orientated organisation" would play an
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Tracking rail crime
Criminals who target passengers and property at the district's train stations are being targeted with a police crackdown on rail crime. British Transport Police has launched Operation Collide to try to stamp out crime and the fear of crime on the Airedale
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Police training for terror threat
Every police officer in Bradford is to receive special training in how to deal with terrorist suicide bombers. While senior officials would not release the precise details of the guidance for security reasons, it is believed officers will be warned not
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Help to put crime in focus, public urged
Bradford residents were today urged to join the fight against crime by naming hotspots where new portable security cameras should be deployed. The district is to benefit from 12 new rapid deployment cameras, which can be sent to problem areas in an effort
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Bid to solve riddle of the bones
Experts are to probe whether a dismembered skeleton discovered in a shallow moorland grave is the remains of a missing Bradford dad. Detectives investigating the disappearance of Graham Whitton ordered for DNA tests to be carried out on the bones which
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The priest, spies and a 50-year murder mystery
It was a mystery that rocked a community 50 years ago and saw MI5 brought to Bradford to hunt those responsible for the disappearance of a popular Polish priest. There were rumours of Cold War skulduggery, murder by Polish spies and even revenge by a
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Powerhouse Moore leads Tigers mauling
Castleford Tigers 16, Bradford Bulls 44. Somebody obviously forgot to tell Richard Moore it was only a friendly. Within minutes of his first-half entry into the game, the giant prop had already flattened three players, even leaving Tiger Andy Lynch needing
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McGrath targets return to top flight
The main aim of new Yorkshire captain Anthony McGrath is to lead his team straight back into the top flight of the County Championship. The 27-year-old Bradford-born batsman was yesterday unveiled as the man to take over the reins from Darren Lehmann
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Dundee United end Tod's limbo
Andy Tod is joining Dundee United until the end of the season. City have agreed a short-term deal with the Scottish side which will end Tod's limbo. Tod will start his loan spell at Tanadice on Monday - and he could be thrown straight in for a debut at
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Welcome news for rail users
Rail travellers in West Yorkshire have to cope with trains which can be late, cancelled, or overcrowded. The last thing they need as well is criminals who target them and their property. They want to be able to travel without needing to worry that they
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On this day
In 1878, the first torpedo used in war sank a Turkish vessel fired from a Russian boat. In 1916, Alderman J. Hill took his seat in Parliament. In 1934, bank robber John Dillinger was captured in Arizona. From the Telegraph & Argus of January 25th,
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Just the business
Tucked away in the heart of Bradford, there sits a glorious monument to Victorian architecture. Just a stone's throw from busy Keighley Road, the University of Bradford School of Management is an oasis of learning - passing on management and business
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Firm lends hand with quick start
A Skipton-based company has helped get a specialist mortgage lender up and running in rapid time. Homeloan Management Ltd (HML), which is a mortgage administration service provider, was taken on by Commercial First Mortgages Ltd to help get it off the
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£70,000 refurbishment at hospital
A hospital is set to close its main entrance doors for ten weeks while it carries out a £70,000 refurbishment scheme. The doors in main reception at Airedale General Hospital in Steeton will be shut as work begins to add extra doors in front of the current
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Hall change! From taboos to booze
It's enough to drive you to drink. Temperance Hall - former home to Keighley's teetotallers group - is set to become a pub. JD Wetherspoon, which has more than 600 pubs nationally, is negotiating to buy the historic town-centre building. Its £1 million
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Regulars join the cue to race Sue
Customers at a Shipley pub were treated to a display of expert pool skills when the UK's number one women's player challenged regulars to a game. The Half Way House in Otley Road played host to the world's fastest pool player, Sue Thompson, when she visited
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Rural towns pulling the home buyers
Rural towns around Bradford have proved the district's housing hotspots over the past 20 years, a new survey revealed today. Prices in Skipton have soared by 186 per cent, they are up 175 per cent in Otley and have risen 174 per cent in Pudsey. In Bradford
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Campaign launch to help offenders
Young offenders will improve their reading, writing and numeracy to help them get jobs after they leave custody. The scheme, spearheaded by the Bradford and District Youth Offending Team and the Learning and Skills Council for West Yorkshire, aims to
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Expert's praise for cardiac care work
Bradford's medical teams are fighting back in the battle against heart disease and helping to save lives. National heart 'tsar' Roger Boyle, on a visit to the city, praised the care heart patients are receiving in the district and said Bradford was the
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Meet Granghe Hill's Jonny Rotten!
A Pudsey teenager is proud of being a school bully. But he has a lot to live up to, because he follows a long line of bullies who have prowled the corridors of a famous London school. Jonny Dixon's devilish antics will be screened for the nation to see
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Letters to the editor
Clamp down on amber gamblers SIR - Your report on January 18 about the Bradford motorist who lost his life as a result of another road user failing to obey the rules of the road made poignant reading. His widow quite rightly described the sentence of
