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Double despair for Queensbury
An injury-ravaged Queensbury side crashed to a 20-0 defeat at Westgate Redoubt. Bury, lacking the key trio of Darren Brown, Carl Smith and Lee Charlton, were always second best against the Wakefield side that are making a strong challenge for Pennine
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Fans chief wants straight answer from Gibb
Chairman of Bradford City Supporters' Trust Chris Hawkridge has called on Gordon Gibb to come out and clarify the position of his under-fire manager. Fans have been bombarding City's internet site with angry e-mails about the team's recent performances
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On This Day
In 1957, Buddy Holly and the Crickets released "Oh Boy!" In 1985, jockey Lester Piggot ended his horse racing career. In 1991, a Belfast resident said: "It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me, it's the one that says 'to whom it may concern
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Kathleen's back on her feet again
Kathleen Burns says she used to be jealous of the pigeons walking about Shipley. For the 57-year-old, who suffers from osteoporosis and arthritis, could not walk unaided and was bent double in agony because her hips had virtually worn away. But now, after
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Stone theft victims in fight-back
Residents are hitting back at thieves who are targeting Bradford's world heritage site for its trademark Yorkshire stone. Campaigners in Saltaire are looking at ways to stop the sought-after stone disappearing. Over the past year there have been numerous
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'Shy' Daniel is doing a Full Monty
Daniel Harris has hundreds of women begging him to take his clothes off every night - with his girlfriend's blessing. The former Bradford gym instructor has swopped the world of fitness for the Full Monty after winning a televised search for a new strip
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£46,500... and it's just for starters, by George!
It has cost £46,500 so far - and that is just for the scaffolding. But theatre chiefs are convinced St George's Hall will emerge better than ever after its biggest ever repair works. On Monday contractors will move onto the 80ft scaffolding to start on
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Teacher 'touched pupil on his groin'
A Bradford teacher indecently touched a teenage pupil's groin during lessons, a jury heard. Andrew Jobbings, 52, singled out the boy for attention and deliberately touched him on a number of occasions when he was helping him with his work, it was alleged
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Campaigners protest at school-land homes plan
A campaign group is to hold a demonstration against the building of houses on school land. The Save Mirfield campaign has now been running for a number of years, since local residents first objected to plans to build a residential development on land
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - The other week, my partner placed two refuse sacks next to the wheelie bin ready for collection. The refuse collectors decided that as the sacks were not in the bin they would leave them and the local stray dogs soon rummaged through them, causing
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Below-par Farsley bow out of FA Cup
Gainsborough 3, Farsley Celtic 0: Farsley Celtic's FA Cup dream was ended in emphatic style last night when Gainsborough Trinity crushed their hopes of reaching the first round for only the second time ever. Having taken a lead midway through the first
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Avenue home in on FA Cup giant-killing
Bradford Park Avenue have been given the go-ahead to play their FA Cup tie against Second Division Bristol City at Horsfall Stadium on Sunday, November 9 - and now club officials are urging the city to get behind their bid for giant-killing glory. Avenue
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Work will be well worth it
The regular replacement of cracked paving stones and filling-in of potholes is one of the things your council tax buys you. It is part of a deal which many have increasingly felt is not being properly fulfilled. It is indeed a massive job. There are 1,000
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Abbey says 'we're back on right track'
Banking giant Abbey today claimed its ambitious relaunch was on track but admitted trading profit was running around 15 per cent down on the first half of 2003. The bank, which has its northern headquarters in Bradford, said the cost of the rebranding
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Campaigners protest at school-land homes plan
A campaign group is to hold a demonstration against the building of houses on school land. The Save Mirfield campaign has now been running for a number of years, since local residents first objected to plans to build a residential development on land
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Motorbikes 'would ruin woodland'
A beauty spot - a favourite haunt in his youth of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Healey of Riddlesden - could be ruined if a footpath is made an official route, the owner has warned. Sunnydale Glen, East Morton, which is used as a partridge shoot
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Use canal in city's revamp says firm
A property development partnership firm is asking the company which commissioned a radical city centre master plan to support its own proposals to breathe new life into Bradford. Anthony Mann and Graham Hall, who have set up an Eccleshill-based business
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'Star' prams go on display
The world's greatest museum of design and art is "pushing" the skills of Bingley pram makers Silver Cross into the limelight. From now until early December, visitors to the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood can see for themselves just why the
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TV features mosque's white girls
The experiences of a white family in the predominantly Asian area of Manningham will be explored tomorrow night in a television documentary. Channel 4's film The Last White Kids follows the experiences of the Gallagher children, Amie, ten, Jake, 11, and
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New team to crack pavement problems
A special team is being set up by Bradford Council to patrol the districts 1,000 miles of adopted roads and footpaths looking for broken paving stones, missing manhole covers, cracks, potholes and other defects which could put pedestrians and drivers
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Smart way to help homeless this year
From now until Christmas, if you dine at a Bradford restaurant, you can help the homeless by adding just £1 to your bill. But so far only six out of around 400 restaurants in the district have signed up for the charity scheme. Last night the owners of
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Teresa: Medics may go on trial
Doctors and nurses at Bradford Royal Infirmary could face manslaughter charges over the death of tragic coma mum Teresa Innes. Detectives have completed their investigation of how the 38-year-old died after being prescribed penicillin despite being acutely
