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Robinson the ace in Brighouse pack
Big things were expected of Brighouse this season, but they almost hit a new low on Saturday. Hartshead Moor have only managed three one-pointers so far this centenary season in Division Two. But the basement club came so close to their first win at home
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Way ahead that could be a winner
There can be little doubt that Bradford's sport and leisure facilities are in a deteriorating state. The district's 21 venues will need more than £6 million spending on them in the next five years to bring them up to scratch and create access for disabled
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Ambition leads to future career
An unemployed Bradford man is building a new career as a gas engineer thanks to a pioneering scheme. Kevin Hodgson, of Langdale Road, Ravenscliffe, took part in the Ambition: Energy programme which provided training and a guaranteed job for 15 out of
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Breaking down the barriers
Deaf people have told an audience of employers about their experiences in work and education. The event organised by Bradford College's Deaf Liaison Project aims to break down barriers. The workshop took place last Friday at the Bradford University School
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Business Watch for traders
Traders in Bingley are being urged to join a new crime-busting scheme. Town centre manager David Dinsey and PC Martin Preston, of the Problem Orientated Policing team based at Bingley police station, have launched Business Watch. Revealed at the neighbourhood
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Woman is attacked by robbers
A widow was assaulted and threatened with a weapon by two robbers who tricked their way into her home. The incident happened at 10pm on Friday in sheltered accommodation in Carr Street, Birstall. The victim - a 74-year-old woman - was tricked into opening
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Top honour for volunteer Pat
A volunteer who has spent nearly ten years helping sick children at a Bradford hospital has been honoured with a prestigious award from a top charity. Pat Sheard, 72, has been visiting the paediatric wards at Bradford Royal Infirmary once a week for the
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Special conference to help cut obesity
Bradford's obesity problem is getting so large that health chiefs have organised a special conference to try to reduce the district's weight. Across the UK, one in five people are classed as clinically obese, and Bradford residents are getting fatter,
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Parade gets the party started
Children danced, bands played and Bradford enjoyed a colourful party as the Lord Mayor's Carnival Procession took to the streets of the city. After assembling in bright sunshine in Exchange Court, hundreds of people - young and old - formed a rhythmical
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Target is a million for tree planters
A Bradford tree-planting group is celebrating its fifth birthday - and aims to plant a million trees in the next 20 years. Forest of Bradford was set up in 1998 and since then has boosted the number of trees in the district by about 200,000. The group
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Crash baby and his rescuer are reunited
As baby Adam Barnes whizzed around the room in his walker he seemed oblivious to the shocking scars to his head and the big heavy pot on his leg. It was almost as if the life-threatening car crash had never happened just a week earlier. The tot seemed
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Bradford Council have bought Sowden House, subject to contract, to use as a children's home. No change of use is necessary. There has been little or no consultation with local residents. Requests for information from local councillors, particularly
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Nazir's on fire but Idle have last laugh
It was hard not to feel sorry for Undercliffe's Jaffer Nazir on Saturday night. He had taken season's best top-flight figures of eight for 54 in the Specialist Ducting Supplies Bradford League, but still his side could only manage a losing draw at home
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Smashing Tykes in mood to slay Foxes
Yorkshire's first venture into Twenty20 Cup cricket broke the drought on Saturday when their Phoenix side beat Derbyshire Scorpions by 45 runs in an entertaining match which attracted 5,342 fans, despite the 10.30am start. It was the Tykes' first win
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Super Smillie roars to British title glory
Donovan Smillie's expression lived up to his name as he clutched a rather special prize outside Pennington's in Manningham. "I'm not going to let this out of my sight," he beamed, proudly cradling the British Masters super-middleweight belt that he won
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Keighley are in seventh heaven after latest win
Keighley Cougars 52, Gateshead Thunder 6: The Cougars made it a magnificent seven out of seven start to their National League Division Two campaign. This was a comprehensive ten-try thrashing of a young Thunder side, but really it could have been more
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Naylor seals last-gasp win
Warrington 20, Bradford Bulls 24: If your team-mate performs a stupendous piece of brilliance to keep the ball in play, it is rare that you harangue a touch judge to persuade him it actually had gone out. But that was the rare sight on display at a sun-drenched
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Bantams event is a battle of Britain
City have confirmed the opposition for the four-team centenary tournament next month. The names of Swansea City and Coleraine have been added to Aberdeen to give the two-day competition a Home Internationals feel. Coleraine finished third in Northern
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By the skin of our teeth!
A relieved Brian Noble described Scott Naylor's last-gasp try as "freakish" and admitted the Bulls were lucky to leave Wilderspool with a victory. Bradford cemented their second-place in Super League with a 24-20 victory over Paul Cullen's Wolves courtesy
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On This Day
In 1880, female Salvation Army members wore bonnets for the first time as they marched through London. In 1929, Bentleys took the first four places in the Le Mans 24-hour race. In 1958, yellow no parking lines were first used in Britain. From the Telegraph
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It's all yours!
Standing side-by-side in the imposing glass foyer at the Yorkshire Building Society's Bradford headquarters, David Anderson and Iain Cornish casually discuss the future. And, as the two key figures at Britain's third biggest building society, they've
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More irons in the fire for hair company
A hair care company which has used a unique product to create a £30 million turnover in just 18 months is set to move into Silsden and create up to 25 new jobs. ghd, set up in January 2001 by three local entrepreneurs, has quickly outgrown its Ilkley
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Old-style profession attracting new blood
Bradford has been chosen to train a new generation of professionals - in pawnbroking. The Bradford office of pawnbroker Harvey and Thompson has been chosen as the base for a new training centre. And graduates from across the north and Scotland will be
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Hello, goodbye to taste of '60s
It was February 1968 and students were at their most revolting, growing their hair, staging sit-ins and sending The Beatles' psychedelic Hello, Goodbye to the top of the charts. In a Bradford street near the expanding university, a young Italian couple
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Far East plan for new city exporter
Fashion houses around the world will be looking to Bradford when designing their autumn and winter collections this year. A new company has been set up in the heart of one of the city's most famous former mill sites to export worsted cloth made in West
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Plan for children's home sparks anger
Angry residents are fighting proposals for a children's home in a Bingley district village. Bradford Council approved moves to look at a site in Carr Lane, East Morton, for one of its five new children's homes. But villagers have set up an opposing petition
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Piping hot day brings in crowds
A Highland piper, belly dancers, music and dance all played a part in making a Shipley gala a huge success. The warm weather brought scores of visitors to the Rae Gala in Northcliffe Woods yesterday. Many brought deckchairs and settled down with an ice
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CD 'saviour' for stroke-hit Dave
Dave O'Flaherty has loved music all his life. He taught himself to play the harmonica aged five and went on to play half a dozen instruments, performing as a folk singer/musician around the country. But seven strokes has forced Keighley-born Dave, pictured
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Cancer PC told: return to work
A police officer fighting cancer for two years has been ordered to return to work because regulations prohibit him retiring on medical grounds. David Sands, a Keighley police constable for 29 years, has been on full pay since he was diagnosed as having
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'Home rule would be backward step'
Bradford Council leader Margaret Eaton today warned that a Yorkshire parliament would be a retrograde step for Bradford. She said a Yorkshire and Humber Regional Assembly would take away big decision-making powers from the city - to the detriment of its
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'Private' cash to save our leisure?
Private companies could be brought in to run the district's crumbling swimming pools and leisure centres and inject desperately needed cash. Bradford Council believes private investment or a leisure trust may be the only way to guarantee a bright future
