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Vision is in the spotlight again
NAZAR: Director: Soni Razdan India 2005 137 mins (15) in Hindi with English subtitles. Cast: Meera, Ashmit Patel, Koel Puri, Aly Khan, Rupak Mann Billed as the first joint production between Pakistan and India, Soni Razdan's Nazar (Vision)) has been
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Monopoly plans for Bradford
Monopoly players across the world will be able to "Buy it in Bradford" when an Asian version of the famous board game goes on shop shelves. The Monopoly Desi edition - Desi is a generic term for homeland - will feature world landmarks like the Taj
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Pivotal Paul transforms Bulls into winners again
With the likes of Widnes, Wakefield, Warrington and St Helens already having notched landmark victories over the shaky Bulls this season, the Huddersfield Giants could have been forgiven for thinking Saturday would be their turn. The Giants hadn't beaten
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Silverwood is happy to be with the champions
Chris Silverwood has reached another important landmark as he continues his recovery from injury. The 30-year-old Yorkshire pace bowler, who had a major ankle operation last October, is now coming in off his full run-up. Silverwood, who played for Pudsey
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Danny deal alive?
The Danny Cadamarteri deal may not be dead after all. Less than a week after City appeared to write off any chance of the striker coming back to the club, it appears that a move could be resurrected. Chairman Julian Rhodes, currently away in Jersey, had
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Couple vow to make their business grow
It's made from straw. It's environmentally friendly. And it's a niche product which is helping a Burley-in-Wharfedale couple successfully do business with global companies. Although their venture is still only in its infancy, Dr Geoff Whiteley and his
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Online travel firm is out to go Global
A Wyke-based internet travel company is pledging to quadruple in size after being bought out by the Global Travel Group in a multi-million pound deal. Sunmaster, which has grown from a small local telesales agent when it was formed in 1992 and now employs
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Stars come out for charity ball
Actresses Denise Welch and Melanie Kilburn are among the celebrities attending a charity ball in aid of cancer sufferers in Bradford. The Bradford Cancer Support Annual Midsummer Ball includes a grand auction - with lots ranging from a scroll used in
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School is doing 'much better'
Staff and students at a Bradford primary school are delighted after being taken out of the "serious weaknesses" category by Government inspectors. Wibsey Primary School has been praised by Ofsted inspectors for improving the standards of teaching and
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'Help us build MS centre for sufferers'
Multiple Sclerosis sufferers are set to benefit from a pioneering specialist resource centre in Bradford. The Bradford branch of the MS Society has an estimated £50,000 to spend on developing the centre which will be the only one of its kind in West Yorkshire
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City plan could net £100m in grants
Bradford Council has put together a bid for transport cash which aims to earn almost £100 million over five years in improvement grants for the district. The draft version of the West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan goes before the Council's ruling executive
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Devoted singer dies during performance
A devoted singer suffered a heart attack and died on stage as he was performing. Singing fanatic John Posnett, who had been a member of the Aire Valley Singers for 22 years, collapsed during the performance which friends described as one of his finest
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You're banned from the tip!
A woman has hit out at Council bosses who banned her from using a household waste site - because she had made too many visits. Jean Hayward, 58, of Thornton, was told on the last trip she made to the tip in Queensbury that she could no longer use the
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Cougars unlucky as Mitchell boob proves so costly
The Cougars fought back valiantly but ultimately paid the price for a sluggish first half at Cougar Park yesterday. Trailing 16-2 at the break after a Ryan Sheridan sucker punch on the stroke of half-time, the Cougars clawed their way back to within two
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Dawson's encore is no laughing matter
Yorkshire Phoenix ran out of steam in the closing overs of a tightly contested Totesport League game at Grace Road yesterday when they lost by seven wickets to Leicestershire Foxes with 17 balls still remaining. It was Yorkshire's second defeat in the
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Old Lane rocked by seven of best from Stansfield
Brighouse are back on track for promotion after skipper James Stansfield ripped through Bowling Old Lane's fragile batting line-up. Stansfield took seven for 48 off a marathon 18 overs as Old Lane tumbled to 50 for five - and then recovered to 155 all
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Bulls take pain killer
Aussie recruit Ben Harris scored his first try as the Bulls overturned a four-point second-half deficit to maintain their unbeaten record against Huddersfield Giants with a 38-20 victory on Saturday night. It was a far from vintage performance from coach
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Transport cash vital to district
Bradford has a good case to make to the Department of Transport for substantial funding to help the district to bring its transport network up to date. Hopefully it will be nodded through by the Council's ruling executive at its meeting tomorrow and then
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Landlord creates a haven for bikers
Drinkers with a passion for motorcycles and rock music have a new watering hole in Idle thanks to an entrepreneurial couple who decided to change careers and spend more time together. For two decades Steve and Linda Platt say they acted like "ships passing
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Shares Week
At its AGM last month, Morrisons said that its accounts department was too stretched trying to integrate Safeway to be able to provide any guidance for future profits or earnings. Having brought in help from accountants, KPMG, that guidance was given
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Restoring faith in legal aid business
A firm of Bradford solicitors is bucking the trend after a huge expansion into increasingly unpopular legal aid work. Switalskis, based in Bradford and Wakefield, has become one of the biggest legal aid practices in West Yorkshire. The 75-strong practice
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It's snow joke for our village!
For years Queensbury folk have had to endure the old joke about the climate in their village being so extreme that "it snows up there in June". Now, thanks to the vision of one local resident, that famous saying looks set to be turned to their advantage
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Mark is proud to supply manpower
Mark Shelton is heading to Sri Lanka to build homes for families left devastated by the tsunami. The 42-year-old driver from Clayton flew out on Saturday to join volunteers and charity workers on the massive mission. He will be based in Hikkaduwa in the
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Following in father's footsteps at church
It will be a case of "like father, like son" when the Rev Jimmy Hinton takes over his new church tomorrow. He has been appointed to the helm at St Stephen's in West Bowling, Bradford - the very same church where his late father David Hinton was curate
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Residents fight on for 'their' £500,000
A Council-wide policy on the way profits from land sales are dished out to communities is to be discussed tomorrow in the wake of a row on one estate. Bradford Council's executive committee will meet to discuss the way money derived from regeneration
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Vicars take church onto the streets
Bradford vicars will be driving the church to the streets in a revolutionary move to attract a new breed of young worshippers. Bradford Diocese has unveiled radical plans to spread the Christian message on foot through a flock of mobile vicars. The church
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Letters to the Editor
Council has shot itself in the foot SIR - The closure for even one day of the bridge across the river at Saltaire (T&A, June 8) is stupid. Once again Bradford Council shows its true colours of being short-sighted. The bridge is used by commuters from