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It's easy on Sunday morning for Silsden
It has been success all the way for Silsden's Sunday outfit, now in their third season of Alliance football. Under the umbrella of the successful Saturday team, they enjoyed a run to the quarter-finals of the County Cup, are chasing a third consecutive
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Peacock: Vainikolo in class of his own
Bulls skipper Jamie Peacock is delighted Lesley Vainikolo has committed his long-term future to the club. A series of niggling injuries have prevented the massive Tongan-born match-winner from hitting top form this season and he was left out of the side
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A valuable tool in war on crime
The latest batch of closed-circuit TV cameras for Bradford closes up what is effectively a "ring of steel" around the city. These are the latest hi-tech cameras which can zoom in on individual car number plates and immediately allow officers to cross-reference
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Readers back Chris's appeal
A man who is planning to visit the coast of Thailand next month to help rebuild a crippled resort has raised £3,000. Chris Beaumont will use the cash to buy aid and supplies for the Khao Lak resort which was devastated by the Boxing Day tsunami. Generous
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'Catch this gang before they kill'
Staff at a working men's club today told how a gang of armed robbers assaulted them and made threats to kill in a terrifying raid. The masked men escaped with cash after breaking into Millsbridge Working Men's Club in Liversedge, wielding crowbars and
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Little Zak to lose his teeth - on birthday
A Bradford boy whose baffling medical condition means he can't swallow is to have all his teeth taken out - because he has never been able to brush them. Zak Simpson will have them taken out on April 27 - the date of his ninth birthday. The desperately
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Buddies to expand with cash help
An award-winning buddy support scheme for heart patients is set to help even more people in Bradford. Project Beat, which is run by Bradford City Teaching Primary Care Trust (tPCT), links up former heart patients with people who have recently experienced
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'Urban villages' to get big cash boost
Four more Bradford communities look set to be given greater powers to boost regeneration and improve their neighbourhoods. Next week's meeting of Bradford Council's executive will be asked to allow the urban village action plan to be expanded to cover
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Ballet brings out the passion
Romeo and Juliet is probably the most romantic story of all time. It conjures up all kinds of thoughts but ballet isn't always the first. When Kenneth MacMillan choreographed his version of the ballet, it was first performed in 1965 at Covent Garden with
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Teachers' funding warning
Schools in Bradford's most deprived areas could lose thousands of pounds of funding. Head teachers at 15 schools fear they could face massive reductions when their budgets are allocated. Their concerns have been prompted by a change in the way money is
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More CCTV cameras to make streets safer
Hi-tech closed-circuit television cameras being installed in Barkerend will extend a 'ring of steel' around Bradford city centre - helping protect it from criminals. The 14 cameras being put up in the Leeds Road area will be switched on by June. They
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Medley victory for City's golden girls
City of Bradford's swimmers were on top form in the Yorkshire Team Championships held at Sheffield Ponds Forge. The girls' nine/ten years medley team of Elise Johnson, Gemma Harlow, Emma Whitaker and Bagcat winner Sian Morgan led the way with an impressive
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Queensbury find leaders too strong
Queensbury's six-match winning run came to an abrupt end with a 34-6 defeat at Pennine League table-toppers Drighlington. Bury could not repeat the form they displayed when they knocked the Leeds side out of the Presidents Cup last December with persistent
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Forrest: I can take City forward
Danny Forrest has convinced Colin Todd that he has a role to play in City's future. The Keighley-born striker was handed only his fourth start of the season against Stockport. And he responded with an energetic performance to confirm the view that he
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'Satisfactory year, but we'll do better'
Software company Atlantic Global today blamed a year of heavy investment in its products and infrastructure for a slump in pre-tax profits. The Cleckheaton-based firm saw pre-tax profits fall 45.5 per cent to £369,000, despite turnover increasing 9.7
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Pioneer bid for cancer therapy to be launched
Cancer patients in the district could be among the first in the country to trial a pioneering treatment for a rare form of the disease. Nexus Biomed, which specialises in phase one and two cancer trials, is appealing to patients who suffer from a specific
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Water-skier vows to break lake law
A water-skier today vowed to pursue a campaign of civil disobedience by constantly breaking a new speed limit on Windermere. Company director Tony Kemp, 44, of Bingley, said teams of masked men wearing identical clothing would begin speeding on four lakes
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'Thieves are making my life in store hell''
A Bradford newsagent says that thieves are making his life a misery after suffering his second burglary in under six months. Until last November Mohammed Abassi, owner of Barkerend Road newsagency, had suffered just one break-in in nearly 20 years of
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Girl, 11, dies after crash
An 11-year-old girl has died after a horrific crash when the car she was in broke down on the way back from an Easter trip to the seaside. Natasha Barker died in hospital from the injuries she suffered when three vehicles ploughed into the car on a busy
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Letters to the Editor
Court sentencing policy explained SIR - Apparently the explanation provided at the foot of the Court column, as to how magistrates arrive at their sentencing decisions, did not satisfy Mr Lorriman (T&A, March 10). Magistrates throughout the country
