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Anderson comes on to lift Great Britain
Great Britain 52, New Zealand A 24: Bulls prop Paul Anderson came off the bench at half-time to inspire a vastly improved second-half Great Britain effort in last night's 52-24 pre-Ashes hit-out against New Zealand A at Headingley. Anderson scored with
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From good to Great for Reardon
The Bulls' Grand Final hero Stuart Reardon slipped out of Headingley last night with his first Great Britain jersey safely tucked away in his bag after putting in a solid debut in the Lions' 52-18 Ashes warm-up win over New Zealand A. "It was my first
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McCall is going nowhere, City warned
Sheffield United have issued a hands off warning to City over Stuart McCall. The Blades' football executive Terry Robinson says the club would fight to hang on to the influential midfielder, who is part of the club's coaching staff. With Bantams boss
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Onus on takeaway owners
The spread of fast-food outlets has unfortunately made a major contribution to the amount of litter dumped on our streets. That is not the fault of the takeaways. It's their customers who are to blame. Too many of them can't be bothered to take their
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Business plan gets go ahead
Campaigners have lost their fight against plans to build a business and industrial development in Birkenshaw. At Kirklees Planning and Highway Committee yesterday, members voted seven to five to approve the outline application. Blackshaw Group, of Shelf
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Village plans a better future
Results of a questionnaire which took 18 months to complete will be revealed at a half-day conference all about Cottingley next month. Organisers of the event at Bradford & Bingley Sports Club in Wagon Lane on Saturday, November 22 are hoping for
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Lollywood premiere held in city
A Lollywood film has received its premiere in Bradford, which was originally planned as the location for the movie. Larki Punjaban was screened at a special preview at The Odeon cinema in Thornbury. Problems with visas for the cast meant that instead
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Fast train plan could hit buffers
A new high-speed cross-Pennine rail service, due to pass through Brighouse, may not be able to stop at the town's station because its platforms are not long enough. Rail campaigners were thrilled with the news that Brighouse station would be getting another
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Students criticise their 'luxury' flats
New state-of-the-art student accommodation has been condemned by residents who claim they have been left without the amenities they paid for. Problems with no water, faulty telephone and Internet connections, loud noise and fire alarms going off are being
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Praise for the drug pioneers
Science Minister Lord Sainsbury hailed Bradford's new £6 million pharmaceutical institute as a model for others to follow as he performed the official opening. Lord Sainsbury was at the ground-breaking Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation (IPI) at the
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Plea for action to help drug addicts
The head of a Bradford drugs agency whose workload more than doubled last year today said more must be done for the city's addicts. Yvonne Oliver, director of the Buttershaw-based Ripple project, called for more psychotherapeutic treatment to be made
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Civic silver goes back to its owner
Bradford's most spectacular piece of civic silver has been returned to its owner - after being on loan to the city for several decades. The Ladies Cup, which graced the banqueting hall at Bradford City Hall, was presented back to its owner, Sir Christopher
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'PC threw first punch' in row
Two friends involved in a brawl with an off-duty police officer on a night out in Bradford today demanded action be taken against him. The pair, who admitted their part in the fracas, were both sentenced to carry out community punishment orders by Bradford
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Teresa medics are still working
Three medical staff questioned over the death of coma mum Teresa Innes are still working at Bradford hospitals, it has been revealed. Police yesterday said a case against the three, along with a fourth member of staff, had been referred to the Crown Prosecution
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'PC threw first punch' in row
Two friends involved in a brawl with an off-duty police officer are demanding action be taken against him. Adrian McNulty and Joanne Bryant pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against the officer,
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Master class!
Girls from Bronte House School - prep school to Woodhouse Grove - did not have to travel far to achieve a long-awaited victory in the annual Headmas-ters' Conference (HMC) under-11 tournament. The tournament, which is always hosted by Bronte House, was
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On This Day
In 1925, William Taynton was the first person to be televised by John Logie Baird. In 1978, director Mel Brooks declares: "Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die." In 1979, bouncing bomb inventor Sir Barnes Wallis
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Morrisons running a one-horse race
Bradford supermarket chain Morrisons received a huge boost in its battle to take over Safeway today when its only serious rival pulled out of the running. Retail entrepreneur Philip Green, the billionaire boss of Bhs, today announced he was no longer
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Homeless robber preyed on elderly
A homeless man who preyed on elderly women by robbing them in the street has been jailed for eight years. Bradford Crown Court heard how Mohammed Suleman pounced on his victims in the Shipley area earlier this summer. In the first attack in August, 73
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Painful blow for physios
A project which has taught 6,000 Bradford children how to prevent back pain is on hold because of a lack of funding. The Airedale Backcare for Children - or ABC - programme was started four years ago by three Keighley physiotherapists. David Cook, Jayne
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Yorkshire will be celebrated in song
Singers from Bradford are gathering to celebrate Yorkshire music at a charity concert in London. The Yorkshire Festival of Music 2003 takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research. The event is the charity's largest
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'Help us solve the mystery of Donna'
The mother of runaway teenager Donna Louise Healey today pleaded: "I need to know what has happened to my daughter". Lorraine Wilkinson faces a month's wait to discover whether a mummified body dumped in Leeds 12 years ago is the 18-year-old who walked
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Search for mill blaze heroine
The son of a firefighter injured in a huge mill fire nearly 70 years ago is trying to trace the heroine whose bravery led to his father's rescue from the blazing building. James Murray was the only casualty of the inferno which swept through mohair and
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Take it away to curb the rats
Fast food outlets are the target of a new drive to clean up Bradford. The crackdown will be carried out by a newly-formed Bradford Council enforcement team which will take to the streets before Christmas. The full version of this story appears in Thursday's
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Letters to the Editor
SIR - As I drive round Bradford I can't help but notice the efforts Yorkshire Water are making to improve their service. I do wonder if they have overstretched themselves because they are good at digging holes but less good at filling them in. Such a
