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Lee-thal strike inspires U-save
U Save DIY got back to winning ways with a fine 3-1 victory against lowly Upper Croft in the T&A League. U Save started the better of the two sides and had several chances to take an early lead. But they had to wait until the 20th minute before Lee
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Aaron hits double top
Albion Sports went back to the top of the Premier Division with a 3-1 win against Crown. Bolton Woods' game against East Bowling Unity was called off due to a waterlogged pitch and Albion took full advantage to leapfrog over their rivals. Leading through
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Harvey: Danny deal was a one-off
The Danny Cadamarteri scenario will not be repeated. Managing director Shaun Harvey today confirmed that no other City player has a similar appearance clause in their contract. Cadamarteri's agent Colin Gordon will have further talks with the club this
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Hunslet demand respect - Lowes
Jimmy Lowes is expecting a tough tie when the Bulls head to his first club Hunslet in the Challenge Cup fifth round. The Hawks, who shocked the rugby world by slaying the Huddersfield Giants in the last round, are likely to want to switch the tie to a
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Honours for women in business
The search is on for Britain's top, self-made businesswomen. The Women Mean Business Awards, which are sponsored by T-Mobile, want female entrepreneurs in the district to shout about their success. Research found more than one million women are now running
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Waste watchers set to grow
PM Group plc has acquired 75 per cent of a Belgian business. The Bradford business, which designs and manufactures weighing systems for the bulk haulage and waste management industries, paid more than £200,000 in the deal for Waste Collection Systems
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Solicitors building on their success
A Bradford law firm which is advising supermarket giant Morrisons on its bid for grocery chain Safeway has completed £30 million worth of deals in the last three months. Gordons Cranswick, based on Piccadilly, is key adviser to Morrisons in one of the
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Vroom to grow was good news
A model car shop that started in the corner of a newsagent's has grown into a £2 million business. In 1975 Howard and Sue Cliff bought a newsagent's shop in Gay Lane, Otley, and two years later started selling aeroplane and boat kits as a sideline. By
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Atlantic turnover boost
Software developer Atlantic Global plc has reported a 29 per cent rise in turnover. The Peckover Street-based business, set up in 1993 by its managing director Eugene Blaine, saw turnover rise 67 per cent in its interim results last September. The business
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Birthday to remember for Sir Titus
Victorian beer, llamas and a colourful street market will be among the attractions at a huge festival in Bradford's World Heritage village. A two-week celebration will be held in Saltaire in September to mark 150 years of Salt's Mill, which opened on
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Tenants angry over 'war zone'
Tenants in Keighley flats are so fed up with living in a 'war zone' that they have set up an action group to sort out the problems. Residents at Bradford Council's Parkwood Rise met to discuss problems in the tower blocks. The group of 60 tenants identified
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Anger at plans to develop on green
Villagers in Wilsden fear plans to convert a derelict chapel into apartments will mean the loss of green space. Chapel owner Noel McGurgh plans to transform Main Street's Methodist chapel into 11 one- to three-bedroom apartments. But the long-awaited
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Warning to cricket fans
Cricket fans in Bradford are being warned by police they face the full force of the law if they flout road safety while celebrating match wins during the World Cup. A Bradford police chief said it was only good fortune that no one was killed during the
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Pub's £2,000 care boost
Staff at the Boltmakers Arms pub in Keighley have presented a £2,000 cheque to the Manorlands Cancer Care Centre. The Boltmakers, in East Parade, which has a long history of supporting the Oxenhope hospice, raised the cash through a variety of events
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Chance to star in glamorous show
Here comes the bride - and the cake, the photos and honeymoon. Cartwright Hall - one of Bradford's most magnificent venues for weddings - will soon be awash with all things matrimonial. Invitation cards, photographs, food, fashion, music - the trappings
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Tariq's team are really motoring
Eight young men from Manningham have become the first successful graduates of a ground-breaking training scheme. Three years ago the youngsters were trainees, with no qualifications - now they are qualified motor mechanics working at a range of local
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Hollywood star hope for city film festival
Hollywood heartthrob Colin Firth is set to spring into action to help launch the Bradford Film Festival. The Pride and Prejudice star's new film, called Hope Springs, will launch Bradford's ninth festival on March 14 when it receives its UK premiere at
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Police in blitz on kerb-crawlers
More than 250 kerb-crawlers have been quizzed by vice-squad officers in Bradford, it was revealed today. Their names have now been stored on a new database being used by police working to cut the rate of vice crimes in the city. Over the weekend Bradford
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Girl,14, arrested in drugs raid
A 14-year-old schoolgirl was among those arrested during a drugs raid in Bradford yesterday afternoon. Officers from the Bradford District Drugs Team searched a house on Chain Street as part of their Crackdown in Bradford: A Community Against Drugs operation
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Heroin and shotgun found in raid
A man whose Bradford home was used as a "drug dealers' kitchen" has been jailed for seven years. Leeds Crown Court heard how police officers raided Tariq Syed's house in Mayo Road, Odsal, Bradford, in January 2001 and found 1.9g of heroin in his garage
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Water work to hold up traffic
Traffic will be affected by work carried out as part of Yorkshire Water's £75 million investment across Bradford this week. The work, to renew and reline water and sewerage pipes, will continue for the next five years and is an overhaul of the clean and
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Children lift appeal to new heights
Theatrical youngsters at a Bradford school have boosted the Bradford Can... Appeal for cancer research by £502. Children at Denholme Primary School raised more than £400 through a performance of Wuthering Heights at Haworth Parish Church. The rest was
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Having read almost daily in the T&A letters page attacks on councillors and suggestions that we do nothing, the letter from J R Fieldhouse (February 6) was the final straw for me. He asked us what we are for. First of all we are here to champion
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Wibsey looking for cup surprise
Wibsey clinched a last-four place in the Mumtaz Premier Division Cup for the first time in their ten seasons in the top flight, with a 6-4 home victory over Bay Athletic. Jimmy Penn (2), Damian Melvin (2), Rob Sewell and Mark Bett scored for Wibsey, while
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Vics dish out a second helping
Regent Victoria from the Premier Division became the first side to beat Wharfedale League leaders Baildon twice this season. Victoria went a goal down in the first half when John Brear gave New Inn the lead. They held on until the second half and then
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Brilliant idea gets its reward
Too often we have to carry stories about young people whose lives have gone wrong for various reasons and who have gone on to become a problem to society. So it's a real pleasure today to be able to report the very opposite: the case of a group of young
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On this day
In 1914, marsh gas explosions occurred in the Lumb Lane district of Bradford. In 1917, the Empire theatre in Bradford opened as a cinema. In 1965, Beatle Ringo Starr married Maureen Cox. From the Telegraph & Argus of February 11th, 1978... Objections
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David lands top student award
Ciba Specialty Chemicals has announced the winner of its Student of the Year 2002 competition. The Low Moor firm has given first prize to David Shepherd, pictured, who has been with the firm for five years. Mr Shepherd has been a Student of the Year finalist
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Direct line to growth of an empire
A small business venture which began in Bradford in the early 1980s has grown to become a multi-million pound enterprise. Electrical retailing giant Empire EC Plc was set up in the city by Madan Showan who came to Bradford with his family in the 1960s
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Grieving family's charity cash gift
The family of a wheelchair-bound man who has died at the age of 25 is to raise money for a spina bifida charity. Lee Fletcher, pictured, suffered from spina bifida, a condition that damages the central nervous system. He died suddenly in Bradford Royal
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Dave takes the bus!
'Big Dave' Gauder, a former World's Strongest Man, hauls a double decker bus along to a session to help children overcome bullying. His message to a group of 300 ten and eleven-year-olds at Bingley was that bullying can be beaten. He was the star turn
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Winter steam event a success
The first-ever winter steam gala held on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway was a runaway success. More than 3,000 people made tracks at the weekend for the five-mile line. Railway spokesman Roger France said: "Our first winter steam gala was held
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Key lessons for pupils in top movies
Bradford youngsters will be able to see some of the hottest movies of the summer before they are released, thanks to a film charity. Film Education, which promotes the study of cinema in the national curriculum, has organised a number of screenings as
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Bin Laden quip led to job suspension
A top Bradford prosecutor was suspended after she "joked" about being a friend of Osama Bin Laden in the wake of September 11, a hearing was told. Halima Aziz, Crown Prosecutor and part of Bingley Youth Team, allegedly made a comment to a security guard
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Driver fights for life
A Bradford motorist was today battling for his life after a head-on car smash. James Glenn, 23, of Haworth Road, was taken to hospital suffering from serious head and chest injuries after the accident. Today doctors at Leeds General Infirmary, where his
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Dad still critical after attack
A 54-year-old father, who was viciously attacked in a Shipley back street, remained in a critical but stable condition in hospital today. Terence Capper, of Baildon suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries in the assault in Dale Street, Shipley
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£10,000 reward offer
A jeweller today offered a £10,000 reward for help in catching robbers who kidnapped his manager at gunpoint and looted their Bradford business. His appeal came after the "ruthless and professional" gang broke into his worker's house, viciously battered
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Dad and son on Tasawar murder charge
A father and son appeared in court today charged with the murder of Bradford gun hero Tasawar Hussain. Derek Elener, 64, and his son Barry, 41, are accused of shooting Mr Hussain dead as he chased them from the scene of an armed raid in Manningham last