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Swap your cigs for life
Smokers across Bradford are being encouraged to swap fags for fruit today and give up smoking for good. Today is the 22nd No Smoking Day and smokers across the district are being urged to take steps towards kicking the habit. Today advisors from
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Volley good show from Barraclough
In the Craven Aire & Wharfe League, Bingley Juniors under-15s stayed on course for the league title with an excellent win at Bolton Woods. They were lucky to survive an early scare, when a shot hit the post and ran along the line before being cleared
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Underdogs shock Underbank in cup
Bank Top Harriers upset all the odds to pull off a 16-4 success at favourites Underbank Rangers in the semi-final of the Andrew Bennett Memorial Trophy. Bank Top are unbeaten in Division Five but were regarded by many as mere cannon fodder against Holmfirth-based
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Farsley double pleases Sinnott
Bamber Bridge 1 Farsley Celtic 2 The Celts maintained their impressive away form with another win last night after completing a quick-fire double over Bamber Bridge to keep their hopes of promotion to the Conference North alive. They won by a smaller
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Battling Guiseley have it all to do again
Guiseley 2 Harrogate Town 2 (after extra time) Guiseley will have to replay their West Riding County Cup semi-final next Tuesday at Harrogate Town after 120 minutes of football failed to separate the two rivals last night. The UniBond men have surrendered
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Dorothy takes fight for drug to London
A cancer sufferer is telling drug commissioners today why they need to add a powerful treatment to the NHS list of anti-cancer drugs. Dorothy Gale, who is battling colon and liver cancer, has been invited to make her case to Nice - the National Institute
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'Who will pay to fix my kicked-in door?'
A mother-of-three says her children are getting ill because they have been forced to spend winter living without a front door which was destroyed by police. Samantha Spaven is demanding answers to why the door at her Allerton home has not been replaced
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Leader resigns over drug unit
The chairman of an organisation representing city centre traders has resigned after councillors unanimously approved a drug rehabilitation unit in the city centre. Jeweller Jeff Frankel, who has headed Bradford Retail Action Group for more than 20 years
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Sports village plan 'could be in by July'
Planning permission could be sought for the controversial Odsal Sports Village as early as July. Bradford Council's regeneration and economy improvement committee was told yesterday that work was now under way to see if the scheme was financially viable
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Leader resigns over drug unit
The chairman of an organisation representing city centre traders has resigned after councillors unanimously approved a drug rehabilitation unit in the city centre. Jeweller Jeff Frankel, who has headed Bradford Retail Action Group for more than 20 years
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Battling Guiseley have it all to do again
Guiseley will have to replay their West Riding County Cup semi-final next Tuesday at Harrogate Town after 120 minutes of football failed to separate the two rivals last night. The UniBond men have surrendered home advantage to the Conference North outfit
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Hudson career hangs in balance
Bulls off-season recruit Ryan Hudson will discover his fate tonight when he faces a Rugby Football League disciplinary panel in Leeds charged with taking the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. The maximum penalty for the offence is a two-year ban, which
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City get a win bonus
David Wetherall is hoping City are running into form at just the right time - for this season and next. The skipper believes the derby win over Huddersfield has done more than revive their play-off bid. He is also looking for a spin-off in the longer
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Solicitor plundered dead clients' cash
A solicitor has admitted plundering more than £700,000 from the estates of 19 dead clients over 26 years. John Ingham, 50, pleaded guilty to 19 counts of theft at Leeds Crown Court yesterday. Ingham was struck off by the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal
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Drugs firms must get message
The price of some drugs is often the deciding factor when it comes to their availability on the NHS. Some are ruled not to be cost-effective, which is the reason behind the National Institute of Clinical Excellence's controversial recent recommendation
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Bacteria-free cabinet helps fight MRSA bug
A Bradford company is at the forefront of moves to combat thousands of hospital deaths each year caused by virulent infections such as the MRSA superbug. Plastic moulding specialists Brimaid Ltd, based in Valley Road, has come up with a simple but innovative
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'She committed acts for attention'
A psychiatric patient may have died as part of a suicide pact with another patient, an inquest heard. Laurey Wigglesworth's death sparked a police investigation after staff at the Cygnet Hospital, Wyke, found her hanged in a bathroom in September last
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Demolition of library in regeneration plan
Consultants are to be taken on to push forward plans for a multi-million pound repla-cement for Bradford's outdated Central Library. They will be asked to investigate demolishing the 1960s building to make way for either a single building or different
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'Name and shame them'
Police are urging city centre retailers to close the door on known shoplifters by banning them from their premises. Inspector Steve Baker, pictured right, of the Bradford South force is planning to launch a crackdown on opportunistic criminals in the
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Sports village plan 'could be in by July'
Planning permission could be sought for the controversial Odsal Sports Village as early as July. Bradford Council's regeneration and economy improvement committee was told yesterday that work was now under way to see if the scheme was financially viable
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Trust bosses to blame, says Blair
Anger erupted today after Tony Blair pointedly blamed Bradford hospital bosses for the Trust's £11.3 million cash crisis. The Prime Minister refused to accept any fault lay in the decision to turn the Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's into Foundation
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Letters to the Editor
Gaumont name's many memories SIR - Readers who parted with pounds, shillings and pence to buy their tickets for pop concerts, ballroom dances or the cinema, will also recall that the former Odeon building spent a good part of its active life known as
