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'I walked away from City with my head held high'
Geoffrey Richmond today prepared for his next football crusade, insisting: I'm still proud of what I achieved with Bradford City. Richmond has been appointed chief executive at Notts County and will take up his new job as soon as the Second Division club
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Great Scott saves his best until last
Scott Naylor is delighted to be a hero. The Bulls centre capped the 250th appearance of his career with the match-winning try as Bradford completed their comeback on a tough afternoon in Warrington on Sunday. Naylor touched down for a last-minute score
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Yuvraj stars but Yorkshire slump
A breathtaking innings of 71 from Indian Yuvraj Singh could not stop Yorkshire Phoenix from slumping to defeat by 16 runs against Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road yesterday in the Twenty20 Cup. Chasing a 175 target, Yorkshire appeared to be cantering
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Pakistan are all out for lunch
Pakistan's cricketers will be hoping a trip to a Bradford curry house will inspire them to 'tikka' some English wickets. The tourists spent the afternoon at Anams, on Great Horton Road, looking for some inspiration ahead of their Old Trafford international
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Odsal sets out to pull cracking crowds in double date
Odsal will come into its own over the next two weeks. That is the view of Bulls marketing director Mark Minton as the club expects to welcome more than 40,000 fans through the turnstiles. Third-placed Wigan and arch-rivals St Helens visit the stadium
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Nicky Law quizzed by FA chief
Nicky Law has been questioned in a Football Association investigation after returning from holiday. The City boss gave his side of the story yesterday over allegations that he pressured young players into signing up for agent Mark Curtis. Law was at Valley
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On This Day
In 1703, Methodist founder John Wesley was born. In 1950, the first kidney transplant took place in Chicago. In 1972, the offices of the Democratic Party headquarters were burgled at the Watergate building in Washington. From the Telegraph & Argus
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Brave duo held on to dangerous men
Police officers and brave civilians were rewarded at a ceremony at Bingley's Bankfield Hotel. Ken Baines, of Wilsden, and Craig Midgley, of Keighley, were honoured for their roles in holding dangerous criminals until police arrived on scene. Widow Christine
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'Victim of ambush stood no chance'
A security guard "did not have a chance" of surviving a well-organised ambush on the streets of Keighley, a court heard. A jury was told how Qadir Ahmed suffered 28 separate wounds from a selection of weapons after his car was rammed off the road by a
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New challenge for clergyman
A former hospital consultant who swapped bodies for souls has been appointed priest-in-charge of Denholme, Harden and Wilsden. The Reverend Dr Roger Brooks worked at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for 17 years and was a consultant anaesthetist in charge
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Friendly spooks in show of spirit
There were ghostly goings-on at the Alhambra Theatre - but they didn't spook Rosema Nawaz. The six-year-old from Keighley is one of the cast of The Ghost Lesson being performed for schoolchildren as part of Bradford Festival week. It is a story about
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Cricketer's death a tragic echo of dad
A gifted Bradford cricketer died suddenly during a match after scoring 98 runs, tragically echoing the death of his own father 18 years before. The family, friends and team-mates of Richard Smith, 29, were "devastated and shocked" at his death during
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Schools told to improve choices
Bradford must succeed in improving education choices for the district's teenagers - or the Government will step in. Schools are being told they must work together in "federations" or groups to increase the choice of courses for pupils aged 14 to 19. Head
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No Minister!
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was in the firing line today as the Government launched plans for a referendum in Bradford and across the region on a Yorkshire Parliament. Business leaders and politicians accused him of wasting millions of pounds
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Distraught parents' plea to runaways: Please come home
The heart-broken parents of teenage sweethearts who ran away on a trip to the cinema today pleaded: "Please come home". Mark Allwood, 16, and Kimberley Whitaker, 15, have not been seen since they left Mark's parents' home in Eldwick for the trip to the
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - Regarding the meeting of various groups to help asylum seekers. Notice the common denominator? None of the groups produce or create anything of genuine value. All live off your taxes. If the Bishop of Bradford is so concerned then let him ask his
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Assembled under false pretences
It will be some time before the dust settles on John Prescott's announcement that Yorkshire and the Humber will be one of three regions to hold a referendum next year on whether to establish directly-elected regional assemblies. However long it takes,
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Accountants show their faith in city
An accountancy firm has announced plans for further expansion after relocating to Bradford city centre. Carringtons, an accountancy and business advice firm, has moved into new offices at a former woollen mill in Mill Street. Today partner Keith Ratcliffe
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Support for families of drug users
Families of drug-users are to be offered much-needed help and support by a pioneering new service. The Kirklees Family Drugs Service is the first of its kind in the country and aims to help the estimated 4-5,000 people in the district who are affected
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Tributes to road crash victim
Tributes were today paid to a Shipley mother-of-one killed in a road accident near Scarborough. Gail Hartley, of West Royd Avenue, died when an articulated lorry hit the parked BMW she was travelling in on the A64 at the village of Ganton. She was pronounced
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Hero driver relives coach blaze drama
A coach driver has been hailed a hero after he evacuated 30 terrified teenagers from his burning vehicle just minutes before it exploded. Ray Roulstone, 65, pictured, ushered the youngsters to safety through a rear fire exit as toxic fumes filled the
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Gang drives man from wife's grave
A pensioner visiting his wife's grave had stones thrown at him by a gang terrorising a city cemetery. The group of ten Asian males, aged around 20, have been meeting in Undercliffe Cemetery for the last two weeks, pensioner Jack Woodend claimed today.
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Breakdown a blow for mountain team
A Bradford man led a mountain-walking team and raised at least £800 in memory of his brother - despite the effort suffering a major blow. John Carroll, along with colleagues including Darren Waterhouse, Dean Sharkey and Mark Sands, aimed to climb the
