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Moor the merrier for rampant Howland
Bolton Woods broke the Premier Division goal-scoring record with a 14-4 win over Bradford Moor. Andy Howland finished top scorer with four and there were also hat-tricks for Derek Rouse and Jimmy Spencer. Old rivals Albion Sports and Oakenshaw were involved
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Fixture pile-up angers Storton
Trevor Storton is furious that his side are being forced to play four games in seven days. With two abandonments and a postponement in the past ten days, Park Avenue have fallen behind in their fixtures and face an end of season pile-up to catch up. They
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Show me the money, says Gibb
Gordon Gibb today accused the Football Association of ignoring the cash crisis hitting the Nationwide League in their obsession to build a new Wembley. City are still waiting for their £500,000 share from the government-backed hardship fund set up following
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Medicine that's hard to swallow
Many people might have been surprised by the level of reaction to the plan to demolish large swathes of the Ravenscliffe estate and build new homes there in an area to be renamed Holywell Village. The estate has developed such a bad reputation in recent
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On This Day
In 1709, John Lister, who chronicled the Civil War siege of Bradford, died. In 1864, 200 people died after a reservoir near Sheffield burst its banks. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. From the Telegraph
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City marks Lent with faith talks
Some of Bradford's key figures will be chatting about various aspects of their faith and work during a series of discussions at Bradford Cathedral. Everyone is invited to the informal "Conversations" event, which will run every Wednesday throughout the
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Hospice trailblazer set to stand down
The woman who oversaw the opening of Bradford's £5.2 million Marie Curie Hospice is to retire at the end of the month. Meeting Prince Charles at the hospice's official opening in September 2001 will remain one of the career highlights for matron and centre
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New blitz on car key burglars
Detectives have launched a campaign to tackle burglars who target homes for car keys, then take the car. Launching Operation Key Safe at the Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley yesterday, Detective Chief Inspector Roger Gasson said the county-wide operation follows
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Just tikka look at the price of rice!
Rice prices are soaring because drought has blighted the Basmati crop. A lack of rain has ravaged the harvest across India and Pakistan. And the knock-on effect is that wholesale prices are up in Bradford. But restaurant owners in the district say the
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Club's splash and grab raid
City Bradford Esprit have won Britain's largest and most successful club diving team trophy. They lifted the Portman Building Society Armada Cup in Plymouth, beating previous winners City of Leeds to the top prize, with the host club finishing third and
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Injury crisis hits Bulls' Challenge for cup success
The Bulls could be without nearly a third of their squad for Saturday's Challenge Cup quarter-final trip to Widnes. Bradford could pay a heavy price for their 22-10 Odsal Homecoming victory over Wakefield Trinity Wildcats on Sunday with six players picking
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Undie-cover secret shows wool is cool
Woolen underwear and loft insulation were among innovative ideas showcased at a Bradford conference. About 200 delegates from more than 17 countries came to hear how wool is attempting to market itself as the fabric of the future. The conference, due
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Traffic police out in force
Traffic police caught and reported hundreds of drivers with no tax in Dewsbury division, including Spen Valley. Officers from the unit were out in force across the division working with the DVLA. Between Monday (March 3) and Friday (March 7) they clamped
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Arrests and all that Jazz
An award-winning Bingley policeman today paid tribute to a 'bobby's best friend'. Dog handler PC Steve Wilson scooped a top accolade after arresting dozens of criminals with the help of his four-legged partners springer spaniel Jazz, pictured, and alsatian
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'We were not used' says peace activist
A man who spent two weeks as a human shield in Iraq today rejected criticism that the peace activists were being used by Saddam Hussein. Adam Hasan Jamal, 57, was based at the Karada electricity plant during his stay in the capital Baghdad. Mr Jamal,
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I'm quitting city, says crisis boss
The company responsible for running crisis-hit Woolston House in Bradford is expected to go into voluntary liquidation. And Goitside Renaissance Ltd's former director David Scougall said he now planned to leave the city. He will leave behind dozens of
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We're living in fear, say besieged vicars
A vicar told today how police alarms are fitted to some inner city vicarages in Bradford to protect clergymen and their families. The Rev Stephen Treasure, 51, of All Saint's Church, Little Horton, said his church had suffered many thefts and acts of
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Estate residents in call to save homes
Hundreds of residents on the Ravenscliffe estate today pleaded: "Leave our homes alone." A petition bearing the names of 370 residents has been collected by campaigners opposing plans to revamp the estate. They claim their homes have all been well-maintained
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Schools service still off target - report
An end-of-term report on Bradford's privatised education service shows there are five times as many 'failing' secondary schools as there should be. It also reveals truancy levels to be above agreed levels and a growing number of excluded pupils. Education
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Drugs dealer 'killed in revenge'
A body-building drug dealer was killed by one of his 'customers' exactly three years after brutally "kneecapping" him over a debt, a court heard. Nicholas Hickson arranged to meet Philip Smith at an isolated lay-by in Tong Lane, Tong, Bradford, saying
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Why wasn't Bradford redeemed from the devastations of the riots by our own homegrown "human shield" instead of Baghdad? If they had got in between the two lines of confrontation when all hell was let loose, we could now have been a lot happier,
