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We'll sink or swim by city masterplan
Maud Marshall, chief executive of Bradford Centre Regeneration, the private-public partnership set up to drive the redevelopment of central Bradford, has been here for just over eight months. What does she think of it so far? JIM GREENHALF reports
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Bees go the whole hog for Christmas
Tonga may be some 10,000 miles away, but Bradford and Bingley are aiming to make their overseas players feel at home this Christmas. The Bees are roasting a whole hog on the spit on Christmas Eve - when the Tongans celebrate their Christmas - outside
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Robson calls for improved second-half performance
Our season starts from here. That is the rallying call from Bryan Robson ahead of City's crunch Christmas schedule. The Bantams are eight points off safety at the midway point of the campaign - and ten adrift of Rotherham, the visitors on Saturday. But
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Children are central to £85,000 appeal
A clergyman is spearheading the campaign to raise £85,000 to boost community facilities. Canon Gordon Dey, vicar of Tong and Holme Wood parish, hopes to raise enough cash with his parishioners to modernise Tong Schoolroom and build a second floor in the
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Cleaners ready for tide of wrappings
Christmas celebrations are well underway across the district - and an army of street cleaners and refuse collectors are gearing up for one of the busiest times of the year. Round-the-clock shopping sprees and late-night partying means Bradford's streets
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£1,500 in a week - a great toy story
A fantastic £1,500 has been raised in just one week thanks to a Telegraph & Argus campaign to protect a vital toy library which helps special needs and disabled youngsters in Bradford. The Save Our Play Appeal is now well on the way to reaching its
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Surveillance plans for 900 city homes
A new £1.6 million closed-circuit television (CCTV) system is set to keep an eye on 900 homes in Bradford. More than 100 powerful digital cameras have been installed around Buchan Towers, Evans Towers and Douglas Towers in the Park Lane area off Manchester
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Surveillance plans for 900 city homes
A new £1.6 million closed-circuit television (CCTV) system is set to keep an eye on 900 homes in Bradford. More than 100 powerful digital cameras have been installed around Buchan Towers, Evans Towers and Douglas Towers in the Park Lane area off Manchester
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Macca's glad to be back
Steve McNamara, a Super League winner with the Bulls in 1997, is thrilled to be back at the club, this time as a coach. The 32-year-old former loose-forward has hung up his playing boots to join the Bulls' coaching staff as an assistant to Brian Noble
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Bradford is back on track
It might run counter to the perception of some Bradfordians, but the Council is actually doing a rather good job. The new Audit Commission report on the way the authority has been performing over the last 12 months shows an improvement on the previous
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On This Day
In 1919, aviation pioneer Sir John Alcock was killed in a flying accident. In 1946, the British government voted to nationalise the railways and ports. In 1975, Rod Stewart announced he was leaving The Faces to start a solo career. From the Telegraph
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Airport expansion 'is what city needs'
Low cost airline Jet2.com today said it would welcome plans to extend the runway at Leeds-Bradford Airport and claimed it would help bring economic prosperity to the region. Jet2.com chief executive Philip Meeson said the airline was pleased the Government
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City refuse men targeted in bid to spot illness early
Men working at a Bradford Council depot have been putting themselves in for an MOT with a difference - to check out their health. As part of a pilot project, workers at the Harris Street centre have been offered the free health check in a bid to get through
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City police winning phone crime fight
Police have launched a crackdown on street robbers who target people with mobile phones. The new National Mobile Phone Crime Unit aims to slash the 160 mobile phone robberies that happen in Britain every day, which account for half of all street crime
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'We'll get tenants for £8m complex'
Developers building a controversial £8 million leisure complex in the heart of Bradford today insisted tenants would be secured for all five units. Asda St James, the company behind the scheme on the former Provincial House site in Centenary Square, revealed
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Pupils pass the test for £140,400 bonus
Pupils' success in tests for 14-year-olds could earn Education Bradford a £140,400 bonus. The privatised education service, which is two and a half years into a ten-year contract to drive up standards in local classrooms, appears to have met targets in
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Hall restored to its former glory
An army of cleaners was today descending on the city's historic St George's Hall as a huge operation to fix it began to draw to an end. The Victorian hall will reopen in the New Year after repairs costing £264,000 and a full scale clean-up. The hall closed
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Don't let it happen here
Bradford's system for checking school staff must change following the Soham murder trial, head teachers demanded today. Although schools chiefs in Bradford said they had confidence in the staff checking system one union branded it a "lottery". David Hart
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Letters to the Editor
Rugby Union and its many secrets SIR - I was sickened to read Malcolm Wood's letter (T&A, (December 16) concerning the English "rugby" team. I and many others are not fooled by the hype of Rugby Union. No violence or thuggery? Not while the ref is
