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Rebirth is fired by Will-power
Bradford is about to follow on the heels of Birmingham and Manchester with its first citycentre design guide. Internationally-acclaimed urban design consultants Urbed looked at the city, with its legacy of streets and heritage buildings, and overlaid
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Showcase needed for young talent
Our columnist this week is a local student who wants to know what's being done to promote young bands in Bradford Imran Ali It isn't every day you discover a member of the leading rock and roll band in Britain is from your home town. It is even rarer
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Eaton is relishing Cougars position
Barry Eaton believes he can be a hit both on and off the field at Cougar Park. The former Dewsbury scrum half is loving his new job as player-coach at Keighley, which combines with a role working in the club's community development programme. At 32, Eaton
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Johnson happy with his utility role
Great Britain ace Paul Johnson has told Bulls boss Brian Noble: I'll play anywhere! The former Wigan ace became a cardinal part of the Bulls' make-up last season and hit some outstanding form in a variety of positions. Originally a centre, Johnson also
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Quality the only way forward
So now all those who felt that some aspects of the Will Alsop masterplan for the centre of Bradford were too fanciful can be reassured. It has done the job it set out to do: of stretching the public imagination, making people think "outside the box",
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Eco-friendly village gets the green light
A village of eco-friendly homes will be built on reclaimed land in Gomersal. Gomersal Green Homes have been given the final go ahead for their green scheme of 18 three or four bedroom houses they are to build on the site of an old textile mill in Cliffe
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New drug in fight to beat breast cancer
A new type of drug being trialled at Airedale Hospital could help women across the district survive advanced breast cancer . Doctors are already using aromatase inhibitors, similar to trial drug Femara, to treat women with breast cancer. And they are
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Survivors of quake stage New Year vigil
Survivors of the South Asian earthquake marked the New Year by clearing rubble from a school where 15 girls perished. Five hours before the chimes of Big Ben heralded 2006 in the UK, thousands of miles away in the quake-ravaged city of Muzaffarabad, people
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Anti-smoking message taken on to the road
Health workers in Bradford invited the public to 'come on board' a new Smoke Free bus and support a campaign for a district free of second-hand smoke. Staff from Bradford's Stop Smoking Service manned the newly-refurbished Smoke Free bus in Bank Street
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Properties to get £18 million boost
Social housing in Bradford is about to share in an £18 million cash injection. Yorkshire Housing Group, the largest Yorkshire-only housing provider, is teaming up with the Brunel and Family Housing Association, which has thousands of Bradford tenants,
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Saving a village's Bronte heritage
Volunteers working to preserve links between a Bradford village and the Bronte family are appealing for help. Their action group has spent almost four years restoring the grounds of the Old Bell Chapel, Thornton, where the Brontes lived before moving
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Pervert binman jailed for 15 years
A former Bradford Council binman who sexually assaulted 16 children over a period of 40 years has been jailed for 15 years. Barry Spencer fled to the Worth Valley village of Oxenhope in 2000 after carrying out dozens of sexual assaults on young girls
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Reach for the stars!
A far-reaching blueprint paving the way for "star" buildings in a new-look Bradford city centre is to be launched tomorrow. The city's first design guide will bring top architect Will Alsop's visionary master plan to life, setting out how key buildings
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Letters to the Editor
Caught on the hop by Christmas gifts! SIR - My mother lives in one of the 'ethnic minority' districts of Bradford and, fearing that she may give offence to her Muslim neighbours, decided not to send them Christmas cards. After all, the white middle-class
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Dabill now ready to take on world
James Dabill warmed up for his assault on the world indoor trial with a winning ride in Ilkley Motor Club's annual New Year competition at Dob Park where 73 riders contested the old established event in the Washburn Valley. It was a testing time for the
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County check on Crooks
Lee Crooks is wanted by Notts County. The League Two side have revealed their interest in signing the combative City midfielder, whose contract is up in the summer. Crooks is out of favour since being sent off after just six minutes at Kidderminster in
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Taylor returns to Boro
Middlesbrough today recalled Andrew Taylor from his City loan spell. Steve McClaren decided to bring back the highly-impressive full back because of an injury to Franck Queudrue, who could be out for up to eight weeks with a knee ligament injury. He could
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Increase in use of deadly weapons
Violent criminals are increasingly using deadly weapons to commit offences, new figures have revealed. Knives, firearms, clubs, glasses, bottles or stones were used in 24 per cent of violent incidents nationally in 2004-5 - a three per cent rise on the
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'We're leading the way in ear implants'
Bradford's top ear doctor says the city is leading the way in offering life-changing surgery to deaf babies. Chris Raine, clinical director at Bradford Royal Infirmary's Ear Implant Unit, said doctors throughout Yorkshire were referring deaf babies for
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'Hundreds of years of history to be lost'
A plan to move more than 1,000 graves from one of Bradford's oldest graveyards has sparked fears that hundreds of years of history will be lost. Great Horton Methodist Church plans to remove human remains, tombstones and monuments from the burial ground
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Train travel soars nearly 12 per cent
Rail travel in the Bradford district increased by nearly 12 per cent last year. Train journeys in West and North Yorkshire rose from 24.3 million in 2004 to 27.2 million in 2005. That's an 11.6 per cent rise - more than twice the national average for
