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Bulls stars qualify for new career in teaching
Bradford's Great Britain stars Paul Anderson and Paul Deacon have taken their first steps towards a career in coaching. The Bradford duo were among a group of players that included Great Britain and Wigan Warriors skipper Andy Farrell and Lions vice captain
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New archive will be pole lot of fun
Otley could become home to the nation's only official Maypole dancing archive - if its "squire" gets her way. Jennie Hooper, who first got the town's Wayzgoose Wayfarers morris side moving ten years ago and is known as its squire, is taking steps to create
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Bath firm cleans up in Middle East
An award-winning Bradford manufacturer of luxury free-standing baths has scooped contracts worth £250,000 to supply some of the Middle East's leading hotels. Clearwater Collection, based in Blanche Street, Laisterdyke, is now exporting to 17 countries
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Let the good times roll!
Bingley's relief road is already paving the way for a boom in trade and attracting new businesses, according to the town's chamber of commerce. The £47.9 million route opened for traffic last week and within hours congestion in the town centre was beginning
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Scrapyard city
More than ten times as many cars are being dumped on Bradford's streets as there were five years ago. Bradford Council says the plague of car-dumpng has reached 'epidemic proportions' About 50 abandoned cars are reported in the city every week - costing
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Dean offers festive advice for addicts
Drug users and recovering addicts have been urged to start a new life by the man who was Britain's most famous class A drugs abuser. The torment at the hands of a heroin addiction suffered by Jimmy Corkhill was all for the television cameras but has given
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Our sad Christmas without Samantha
The devastated parents of a 27-year-old woman who died four days before Christmas told today of their heartache at opening the presents she left behind for them. Tragic Samantha Henshall arranged from her hospital bed for her younger sister Elizabeth
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£19 from Belfast... but £9 to be pushed from the terminal
An airline was condemned today for charging a passenger the equivalent of half his airfare to take him from the airport terminal to the plane in a wheelchair. Furious Craig Spence was handed a £9 bill when he asked to borrow a wheelchair for his 85-year-old
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Workers ballot on industrial action
Bradford Council staff will ballot next week on industrial action which could cripple services across the district by the end of January. Union officials are sending out voting forms to computer staff after management failed to come forward with further
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Fugitive caught taxi to city
A man wanted for the murder of an unarmed traffic policeman in Leeds was seen in Bradford city centre just hours after the shooting, police revealed today. American-born Nathan Wayne Coleman was dropped off in Bank Street by a taxi driver who had picked
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Letters to the Editor
Give young their innocence back SIR - If Graham Hoyle doesn't want religion imposed on the young (Letters, December 16), and if he wishes to protect children from improper advances that they are ill-equipped to resist, he would be better attacking the
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Young guns tipped for Super stardom
England Academy coach Stuart Wilkinson is picking Bulls young guns Brett Ferres Karl Pryce, Paul Clarke and Matthew Cook to make big strides in Super League and at international level. Following two years of wins over Australian opponents for British
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Wethers in sunny outlook
David Wetherall believes City's win over Coventry can act as a springboard for a revival in 2004. The Bantams head into the new year with spirits lifted by Sunday's victory - their first since the 3-2 comeback success against Millwall in Bryan Robson's
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Time for action on scrap cars
The good news for Bradford about illegally-dumped cars is that, thanks to co-operation between the police and the local authority, they are now being removed much more quickly from the streets. That means there is less chance of them being burned out
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On This Day
In 1865, novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling was born. In 1880, Paul Kruger became the first president of the newly declared republic of The Transvaal. In 1985, terrorists killed 12 and wounded around 100 people in attacks on El Al airline passengers in
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Mystery donor gives £1,000 to play appeal
A mystery Telegraph & Argus reader has brought the Save Our Play Appeal one step closer to its target with a massive £1,000 gift. The generous donation has been sent in response to our appeal for Bradford Toy Library, which helps thousands of special
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Faith leaders issue New Year vote plea
Faith leaders in Bradford today called on people to act responsibly and consider community harmony when they vote in June's Council elections. The Bishop of Bradford, the Right Reverend David James; Sher Azam from the Muslim community; Mohinder Singh
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Keighley produce a cup shock
Keighley overcame Premier Division AFC Preston 2-0 in the Yorkshire and Humberside League's Knock-out Cup to secure a place in the quarter-finals. It was tough going on Humberside for Keighley but they finally made the breakthrough in the 53rd minute
