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The fat lady starts to Singh for Moor
Albion Sports put another nail in Bradford Moor's Sunday Alliance Premier Division survival hopes as strikers Gary Shaw, Stefan Zoll and Taj Singh shared seven goals in an 8-1 win. Leaders Bolton Woods made it 18 goals in two games with a 4-1 win at Crown
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Vaikona faces one month on sidelines
Flying winger Tevita Vaikona has been ruled out for another month after failing to recover from his Achilles problem. The charismatic Tongan was a double try-scorer against Hunslet and featured in the Odsal Homecoming but his return will not be sustained
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New deal depends on Gough staying fit
Darren Gough, fighting to get fit again after serious knee problems, will be roaring in with Yorkshire for the first three months of the new season. And if he stays fully fit during that time, he will remain with the club under the terms of a new contract
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Bantams can break Owls jinx
David Wetherall is backing City to destroy a double hoodoo by beating Sheffield Wednesday tonight. Wetherall leads the Bantams into the home Yorkshire derby eager to continue their surge up the table. But to do that, City must set the record straight
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On This Day
In 1858, Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor was born. In 1891, the first telephone link between Paris and London was established. In 1978, a court in Lahore sentenced to death Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's former Prime Minister. From the Telegraph &
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Yule see a change when we reopen!
The owner of a Bingley caf which was gutted by fire is to mark her come-back by serving a Christmas dinner - on Mother's Day. Glenys Ratcliffe, who has run the popular Bunter's caf, in Myrtle Park, for almost 16 years, was distraught to see the building
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Tourism boost as people visit district attractions
Bradford district's tourist attractions are bracing themselves for a boom in visitors this season. And the likely conflict in the Gulf could have positive spin-offs for visitor numbers to honey-pots in the area, tourism bosses believe. Popular hot spots
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Human shield Karl 'stuck' in Iraq
Bradford's "human shield" Karl Dallas was today desperately trying to flee Iraq as US President George Bush gave Saddam Hussein a final ultimatum to leave Iraq within 48 hours or face war. The 72-year-old, pictured, has been in Baghdad protesting against
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Running up an account
'Keep fit and fight a killer disease' is the motto of a Bradford organisation this year. The district's branch of the Keep Fit Association has chosen the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Can...Cancer Res-earch Appeal as its nominated charity. For the next
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Education boss calls for closure of Temple Bank
The future seemed bleak today for Bradford's Temple Bank School for youngsters with sight problems as Council officers recommended its closure. Director of education Phil Green will advise the executive committee next week to agree to publishing notices
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City preview: Mark takes a Bow for his job on Italian
He was fab against Fabrizio now Mark Bower aims to outclass the Owls. City's locally-born centre-half is hoping to shackle Shefki Kuqi with another show of steel to match his polished performance at Pride Park. Bower and David Wetherall lapped up everything
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Guiseley gutted by injury-time defeat
Guiseley 0, Witton Albion 1: An injury-time goal robbed Guiseley of a share of the spoils in last night's UniBond Division One clash with Witton Albion at Nethermoor. The home side had matched their visitors in terms of possession and on chances created
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A sound footing is needed
All credit to West Yorkshire Ambulance Service (WYMAS) for moving into an area where intervention was required to tackle the growing problem of a shortage of nurses and doctors in the district's hospitals. The fact that it currently deals with 15,000
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'Food' delivery company swallows up freezer firm
A chilled food supply business has been snapped up by one of the industry's giants. Swithenbank Foods, based on the Euroway industrial estate just off the M606 motorway, has been acquired by food delivery giant 3663, described as a "delivered wholesaler
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Accused tells how he 'feared for life'
A drug dealer told a murder trial jury he feared he was going to die when his supplier beat him up after he lost the drugs he was keeping for him. Nicholas Hickson told how Philip Smith repeatedly hit his kneecaps with a baseball bat and picked up a gas
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Staff shortage hits child casualty unit
A pioneering children's casualty unit can rarely open because of a staff shortage caused by the sheer number of patients at the accident and emergency department at Bradford Royal Infirmary. The unit was built as part of £4 million development of A&
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Teenager's six years for bagging up drugs
Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday how Amin, who had rented the ground- floor flat a few weeks before in a false name, was found sitting on a bed with drugs and other equipment, including cling film squares and electronic scales, on a table in front
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Wayne passes his A(nother)-Level exam
The hallowed halls of Bradford Grammar School might not spring to mind as one of the hippest musical venues in town. But, perhaps, you should think again.... The school - better known for turning out a former Chancellor of the Exchequer (Lord Healey),
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'Badly run' NHS agency £10m in the red
Mismanagement of its NHS staff recruitment agency has plunged West Yorkshire Ambulance Service £10 million into debt. The claim comes in a damning report revealed today which shows that the Department of Health-backed agency, called NHS Professionals,
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Without consensus to make UN Resolution 1441 meaningful, perhaps the best approach for Messrs Bush and Blair is to blow the ghastly shambles that is the UN out of the water, not by going to war but by complying with 'world opinion' while making
