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Gymnasts jumping for joy
SCHOOL SPORT: St Bede's Gymnastics Club have maintained their proud tradition - begun seven years ago when they were formed - of producing county champions. Martha Sangster has become overall Yorkshire under-11 novice champion, while Katie Gawthorp has
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Robbie promises: No slacking!
Robbie Paul has one key word for tomorrow's home game against Castleford Tigers: Vital. The versatile Bulls skipper is very conscious of the Tetley's Super League table, and said: "We need to win to keep the pressure on Leeds and to stay clear of the
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On This Day
In 1863, US Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson died after being shot by accident by his own troops. In 1933, 'UnGerman' books began to be burned by the Nazis in Germany. In 1940, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister to
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Water firm is top for satisfaction
Bradford-based Yorkshire Water has been ranked number one in a national customer satisfaction study. In the fourth Water Customer Satisfaction Survey commissioned by the Energy Information Centre, the water company was ranked joint first for water supply
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650 jobs go
Abbey National, which has its northern headquarters in Bradford, is to axe 650 jobs by closing its car finance business. Two thirds of the staff at First National Motor Finance, in Surrey, will lose their jobs by the end of the year. It said it would
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On the right lines with £10m dig
A piece of Bradford's transport history has been unearthed as workers dig in on a new £10 million improvement scheme. Work to transform the Mayo Avenue roundabout into a crossroads, complete with state-of-the-art computer-controlled traffic lights, started
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£10,000 boost for school
A Cleckheaton school's drive to raise £50,000 for a specialist college bid has been boosted by £10,000. Whitcliffe Mount School is aiming to become a Business and Enterprise College and needs the cash to submit its bid in October. The A M Fenton Trust
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Second chance in boundary shake-up
Families living in a tiny town were celebrating today after the Boundary Commission said it might make a U-turn over proposals to "move" them into another area. Denholme Town Council spearheaded a protest over Commission proposals to move it out of the
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Creative pupils love art contest
Bradford pupils are putting their hearts and souls into an exciting art competition being run by the Telegraph & Argus and Education Bradford. Children at Ley Top Primary School, Avenel Road, Allerton, have been working on their entries for the competition
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Official complaint about voting box
Bradford's election returning officer has received an official complaint about a broken seal on a box containing postal votes. Tory election agent Jam-shad Khan, who has submitted the complaint to Ian Stewart, Bradford Council's chief executive, claimed
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Dad walks to raise cash for Amber, 3
A Bradford-born man is hoping to raise £40,000 to pay for life-changing treatment for his three-year-old child. Colin McCrudden's daughter Amber has cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus and might never walk unaided. But he is determined to give her the best
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Vroom at the top for reluctant pupils
Students who could not settle in formal school lessons have proved themselves a roaring success at a top international classic motorcycle show. The teenagers on Keighley College's Transition to Training and Attendance Initiative programmes have won the
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Appeal as TV crew plan gala shoot
A BBC film crew plans to visit this year's Keighley Gala to shoot scenes for a documentary. It follows the discovery of discarded footage depicting various galas at the turn of the last century, including the Keighley event in 1904. Now the current gala
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Materi-ale girl gets it all into the groove
Madonna's penchant for real ale has led to Keighley brewery Timothy Taylor taking boatloads of the stuff down to the Capital. Since the star told chat show host Jonathan Ross of her love for the brewery's Landlord beer, interest in the drink has rocketed
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Second theft at mum's grave
A man branded thieves "scum of the earth" after they pilfered his mother's grave twice within two months of her death. David Riley told how 75-year-old Majorie was buried at Bradford's Bowling Cemetery in March following a battle against serious illness
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Men in claret and amber play a desert stormer
It was one battle Sergeant Martin Shackleton didn't mind losing. Resplendent in their Bradford City shirts, the British soldiers celebrated the toppling of Saddam Hussain's regime with a 3-1 defeat by their colleagues from the Kuwaiti army. And for Bantams
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Listening to the news recently, I was surprised to hear that smacking a disobedient child was illegal. What nonsense. In the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, insolence from a child called for a severe reprimand, or a smack on a bare leg. Spare the
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Knight time for Cougars
RUGBY LEAGUE: Beware the wounded Knight, was Keighley coach Gary Moorby's warning to his players ahead of tomorrow's National League Two home game with York at Cougar Park. "I have the greatest respect for Steve Ferres and Paul Broadbent at York, so I
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Withers feels bullish after op
Bradford Bulls full back Michael Withers, who feared he might be ruled out for the season after a stomach operation, is now hopeful of only missing two months. The Australian, who is 27 next Friday, had an operation on Wednesday and said: "It seemed to
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Sweet 16-ball spell from Sidebottom
CRICKET: Yorkshire would have been in a sorry mess yesterday without Ryan Sidebottom, who was a cut above the other bowlers on the first day of the Championship match against Derbyshire at Headingley. The left-arm paceman found his sharpest form of the
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Myers is Gillingham target
Andy Myers is being linked with Gillingham. Defender Myers, among a clutch of senior players that City have released, is understood to be keen on a return south. And the Kent club have revealed that he is on their list of possible summer targets. Gillingham
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A triumph for people power?
People power does work sometimes. The residents of Denholme have not yet gone as far as forcing a change of heart over plans to move the township out of Bingley Rural ward and into Bradford West along with Thornton, but they have at least persuaded the
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Under sail
Visitors to a Skipton restaurant will be shaded from the sun when they dine al fresco this summer - with the aid of a sail from a trans-Atlantic racing yacht. Ian Ackroyd, pictured, boss of Napiers Restaurant, has used the giant foresail, measuring 40ft
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£1,500 nurse wins £7,000 for unfair sacking
A nursing home worker sacked after a resident left her cash in his will has won her case for unfair dismissal. Nurse Anne Froggatt was awarded £7,000 by an employment tribunal in Leeds yesterday. The tribunal heard she was dismissed from her job at Fairmount
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Car park charges driven up
Bradford's Kirkgate Centre car park charges are going up by at least 10p an hour next month. From June 1 the cost for up to an hour's parking will increase from 50p to 60p, for between one and two hours from £1 to £1.20 and for two to three hours from
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Education firm criticised as director quits
The sudden resignation of a highly-respected schools chief prompted criticism today from a head teachers' leader. Tony Thornley, director of strategy at Education Bradford, quit his job with immediate effect. Education Bradford also announced that Ian
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Anger as gun couple walk free
A couple caught with a loaded automatic handgun in their Bradford pub have walked out of court with a £400 fine. But the sentence drew criticism from a police organisation which described it as "extremely lenient". Bradford Magistrates heard yesterday
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Accused surgeon 'has heart attack'
A surgeon accused of lying to Bradford hospitals bosses about his expertise and experience on his CV suffered a suspected heart attack while his case was being heard by the General Medical Council, according to his wife. Robert Phipps, 48, of Shipley,
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Poet returns to start book festival
Comic poet John Hegley returned to his old stamping ground last night to kick off the annual Bradford Book Festival. Funnyman John, pictured, who studied at Bradford University, read a selection of his work at Bradford Central Library to mark the beginning
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Rivalry 'led to car shooting' court told
A gunman known as "Killer" shot a rival in the leg as he sat in a friend's sports car after a two-day intimidation campaign, the Old Bailey heard yesterday. Mohammad Anwar, 24, who has the street name Big Adds, opened fire on cowering Sharaz Ahmed, 20
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Cot keeps sick tot in the pink
A Bradford scientist and a sunbed-maker have teamed up to design a life-saving cot for a toddler with liver failure. The special cot - the brain-child of chief radiation physicist at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Graham Hart - is now in use for
