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Bury serve up a title warning
Queensbury gave visitors Lindley Swifts a real run-around to win 62-6 in a one-sided encounter at Hill Top. Bury opened up like a house on fire and the contest was well over when they led 22-0 in the opening quarter. Basil Richard's men had 40 points
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450 homes are in the pipeline
A new housing company has been launched with plans to build 450 new homes, worth £35 million across the region, including over 400 in Bradford. Arundale Homes is based in Birstall and is part of the NorthCountry Homes Group. The firm's commercial manager
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Cost-cutting firm is to sell city site
Bathroom group Qualceram Shires plc is to sell its site in Bradford as it tries to cut costs and save jobs. Last September the firm, which employs 150 at its acrylics plant and warehouse on Beckside Road, reported a fall in profits of nearly £5 million
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Casualty toll cut by new road cameras
Casualties at a Cottingley blackspot have been reduced with the introduction of six high-visibility speed cameras - even before they have been switched on. The six Gatso cameras have been put up along Cottingley Cliffe Road, between Cottingley Moor Road
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Fire crews to rescue... of a statue!
Firefighters have raised more than £25,000 to rescue a statue which honours their fallen colleagues. The ornate memorial was built at Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford, at the graves of six firefighters who died at a chemical explosion in Low Moor in 1916
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New a-spire-ation
A vicar is swapping the lofty spires of Cambridge for the moors and mill chimneys of Bradford. The Reverend Nick Jones, 44, is looking forward to a very different life as the new vicar of St John's in Great Horton. The father-of-four, pictured, has a
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Conflict may last months, warns professor
A Bradford peace expert today warned that coalition troops will be fighting in Iraq for months rather than days. Professor Paul Rogers, head of Peace Studies at Bradford University, is giving a twice-weekly analysis of events in the conflict. He believes
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Caisley drives home Academy message
Chris Caisley believes the Academy set-up is more important than ever before. The Bulls chairman praised the progress of young stars Jamie Langley and Stuart Reardon, who both performed well in Sunday's 40-point win over Halifax, and said the future of
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Match report: N-ice way to sign off
Bradford City 2, Burnley 0: Andy Gray headed off for Scotland today leaving behind him a job well done. Gray's 14th City goal of the season drew the line under their battle for First Division survival. Gray struck in the final minute at Turf Moor with
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City hoping to Branch out
City are hoping to sign Wolves' outcast striker Michael Branch. The Bantams plan to snap up the 24-year-old on a free when his Molineux contract runs out at the end of the season after failing to get him on loan. But there is an outside chance they could
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The leg up that's vital for children
The future of Bradford is in the hands of its children. What they are able to make of their chances in life will determine the sort of place this becomes. The better the start they get the better equipped they will be to meet the challenges that come
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On This Day
In 1780, The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor appeared as Britain's first Sunday newspaper. In 1804, Bradford's first worsted mill was destroyed by fire. In 1857, General Thompson and Mr Wickham were elected as MPs for Bradford. From the Telegraph &
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Medics to get smart with tag
Lives are being saved in the war with Iraq - thanks to a Bradford's company's innovation. TSG Associates has created a special triage tag which helps armed forces medics to quickly establish the most badly-injured servicemen. Called the Smart Tag, it
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Sunshine trips are reward for workers
Bradford businesses are looking to reward staff and big-spending clients by sending them off to the sun. Pudsey-based sports events agency The Events Office said firms across the district are making use of new flights to the sun from Leeds Bradford International
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£35m leisure complex welcomes tasty addition
A new restaurant chain is to move in to the £35 million Leisure Exchange in the heart of Bradford city centre. The £500,000 Nandos restaurant will join the Frankie & Benny's and Pizza Hut already operating in the centre on the Vicar Lane car park.
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Rapping on door of job opportunity
A rap artist helped to open a new £115,000 facility for job seekers in Manningham and Girlington yesterday. A special suite, which is kitted out with computers, meeting areas and career information, was opened at the Girlington Community Centre as part
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Lifeline to battle cocaine scourge
A drugs agency in Kirklees has been selected as one of only ten in the country to pilot new treatment programmes for crack and cocaine users. Staff from Lifeline Kirklees will receive intensive training from the government's National Treatment Agency,
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Taking the choke out of Oak Lane
A congested Bradford road was today named as one of seven in the UK which will benefit from a programme of traffic and environmental improvements. Oak Lane, in Manningham, is to be made more pedestrian-friendly under the plans announced by campaign group
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Family hope to see jailed truck driver
The family of a lorry driver jailed in Greece after being found guilty of trying to smuggle 19 Iraqi refugees across Europe were today hoping to fly out to visit him. David Wilson, of Wyke, was put on trial in Greece last Wednesday after police spot checks
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Sexy poster 'an affront' to Catholics
A raunchy nightclub fly-poster depicting a scantily-clad woman in a nun's head dress was today branded "offensive" and "very sad" by the Catholic Church. John Grady, spokesman for the Diocese of Leeds, condemned the image used on the flyer for the Sunday
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City gets £10.5m to develop children's centres
Bradford is to receive £10.5 million to build a new network of children's centres for disadvantaged youngsters, the Government has announced. More than 16,000 Bradford children, aged under five, will benefit from the new centres which will provide child
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From palace role to pauper for actor Chris
A young actor is swapping riches for rags as he takes on a new role. Christopher Town is only nine years old but is already proving his diversity on the stage. The youngster has just completed a run at the Alhambra in a professional production of The
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Huge plan unveiled to connect the city
Councillors have approved plans for a multi-million pound scheme to support the regeneration of Bradford city centre. Members of the Council's executive agreed to back the Connecting the City project which is designed to act as a catalyst for the proposed
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'Steven died doing good'
The widow of Sergeant Steven Roberts - the first British serviceman to die in combat in Iraq - has paid tribute to her "unique" husband. Samantha Roberts, of Shipley, described her 33-year-old husband as an "outgoing and sociable" man who was loved by
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - I believe that the people who support the war think it is only a few unfortunate Iraqi civilians who will suffer while they remain in the comfort of their UK and US homes. These individuals should realise their own families will suffer. There are
