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Hockey memories flood back
SIR - With regard to your article about Myra Shay (T&A, August 29), it was very interesting to read, especially your comment about contaminated land. In the days when I was a pupil at Hanson Grammar School, Myra Shay was used as the school's sports ground
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No party for us
SIR - I am sure after a weekend of noise pollution, disruption, screaming hordes, rubbish and not being able to use Myrtle Park, there is more than myself who would like to know if Party in the Park could be held somewhere else. What about Manningham
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Here to help...
SIR - Have you been affected by cancer and struggling financially? Have you experienced problems paying mortgage or rent bills? Macmillan Cancer Support would like to hear from you. Macmillan is looking at how the additional costs of cancer and loss
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Show us the way!
SIR - The £200,000 the Council has received to tell us all about climate change and what we should do about it (T&A, September 7) is welcome. However, the Council itself has a remarkable opportunity to lead the way by example rather than just talking
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Discipline needed
SIR - Another day and another example of the incompetence and mismanagement of this Government. The knife amnesty has been shown to be so much useless waffle and spin, while knife crime has actually risen by 73 per cent. Surely anyone with half a brain
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Change for better
SIR - Usually Eric Firth's letters are to be applauded - he is sincere and fearless in his criticism of all and sundry. But in his letter "Ugly Britain" (T&A, August 31) he is very much wrong. I am not British (Southern Irish) and like many other people
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Stigma for parents
SIR - Tony Blair is proposing a confidential, safeguarded, children's index - a database to include all our children to protect them from abuse, check how they are doing at school, etc. However, the children of celebrities, whatever they are, but certain
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Appalling cruelty
SIR - I have never understood how any human being could mistreat or be cruel to another living creature, be it man, beast or bird. So to read the article "Chickens boiled to death in water tank" (T&A, August 31) made me feel sick and extremely angry.
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Time for limits on motorbikes
SIR - What are motorbikes all about? For 50 years until the 1960s, they offered the only affordable transport for the working man and, with a sidecar attached, for a small family too. But the world has moved on, while motorbikes remain noisy, dirty,
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School a beacon of excellence
The name of the University of Bradford School of Management wouldn't be an obvious choice for most people if you asked them to name the jewels in the district's crown. Yet tucked away in a fine building behind trees off Emm Lane it is beavering away
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Will my new blog leave you all agog?
It started all so innocently. "Wouldn't it be a good idea," I said out loud to myself, "if I had one of those new-fangled blog things?" The reason I thought it would, in actual fact, be a good idea to have a web-log, or online diary presence, is because
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Wish is granted as Billy 'comes home'
Panto-goers have something to celebrate this Christmas - Billy's back in town! Bradford's favourite funnyman Billy Pearce is returning to this year's Alhambra pantomime, Aladdin. It will be Billy's eighth panto at the theatre. And while he might be
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Award for an 'inspiration'
A registered deaf and blind woman has been given an award for her inspiration to others to keep fit. Mandy Schofield, 33, who is a regular at Bradford's Richard Dunn Sports Centre, competes in horse events across the country and spends over three hours
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Celebrations by the sea
Bridlington: A big celebration weekend is coming up in Bridlington courtesy of the Royal British Legion. It all takes place in the Leisureworld on Friday to Sunday, September 22 to 24. Friday night from 18.15 there will be a 1940s Themed dance with fancy
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Moldovan teacher plans return fixture
Ion Cebotari, a rugby union teacher on a two-week fact-finding visit to Bradford Grammar School, would like to return some day. In fact, he has made the first move in paving the way for staff at the school to go to his country of Moldova. Cebotari,
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Podcast safety plan for students
Thousands of new students arriving in Bradford are being targeted in a safety campaign which features podcasts for the first time. The Think Smart, Be Safe scheme gives the city's 6,500 freshers help and advice on how to avoid falling prey to criminals
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Results boost is 'down to fish oil'
Dramatic improvements in pupils' performance in reading, writing and arithmetic at a Bradford school is being credited on them being given fish oil. Scientists have become convinced that omega-3 fatty acids can improve mental ability and concentration
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'My dad died after hospital's neglect'
A pensioner died after suffering a catalogue of neglect in hospital, his daughter has claimed. Norma Scott has accused staff at Airedale Hospital of leaving her father John Farrow, 84, malnourished and without proper treatment. By the time the proper
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Teachers 'do not want to be heads'
Schools in Bradford could face a leadership crisis as workloads mount on head teachers across the district. Union leaders and heads have spoken out in the wake of a nationwide poll which claims only four per cent of teachers want to take on the top job
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Bowling crash at the first hurdle
Bradford Sunday Alliance Senior Cup holders West Bowling were dumped out of this season's competition in the first round by Albion Sports. Albion moved in front with a 25-yard free-kick by man of the match Jay Sobers. Two minutes later Gareth Carney
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First away win desoite early injuries
Gateshead 0 Guiseley 1 Guiseley boosted their placing in the UniBond Premier Division table with an excellent away victory at Gateshead last night despite two injuries in the opening quarter of the game. Nathan Hay limped off after just minutes with
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Todd's injury bonus
Dean Windass is set to hand Colin Todd a huge pre-match boost by declaring himself fit to face Carlisle at Valley Parade tonight. City's leading scorer is on course to make a speedy recovery from the kick on the calf he suffered at Swansea on Saturday
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City scent revenge after cup defeat
Steve Schumacher is ready to get stuck into Carlisle tonight with the warning: We owe you one. City need to clamber back on the wagon after successive away defeats at Brentford and Swansea. And the pain of last month's Carling Cup loss to the Cumbrians
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My dog attack terror
A woman attacked by a Rottweiler today said she feared the dog's owners would escape justice because of flaws in the Dangerous Dogs' Act. Sue Brown, 58, said she was terrified that the dog that savaged her in Heaton Woods, causing horrific injuries to
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End the danger dogs menace
A vicious dog attack in Bradford in 1991 left six-year-old Rukhsana Khan with appalling injuries which shocked the nation and pushed the Government into drawing up the Dangerous Dogs' Act. Fifteen years on, it has become increasingly clear that that
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed the Half Moon' into New York Harbour and up to Albany, where he discovered the Hudson River. In 1923, as the German mark collapsed, £1 was equal to 600 million marks. In 2004, Andy Murray became the first British winner
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Business school’s European honour
The district's flagship business school, the University of Bradford School of Management, has appeared in the Financial Times's top 20 of European Schools. The award-winning institution was beaten only by the London School of Economics and University
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Learning the language of friendship
The number of migrant workers in the UK has risen sharply since the country opened its labour market to Eastern Europeans from the new EU states. HELEN MEAD looks at how Bradford is supporting the newcomers as they settle in West Yorkshire. Kasha
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My dog attack terror
A woman attacked by a Rottweiler today said she feared the dog's owners would escape justice because of flaws in the Dangerous Dogs' Act. Sue Brown, 58, said she was terrified that the dog that savaged her in Heaton Woods, causing horrific injuries to
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Motorcyclist killed in collision
A 28-year-old man was killed yesterday after his motorcycle collided with a car. The collision between the red Fiat Punto and a red Suzuki motorcycle happened on Huddersfield Road at its junction with Whitehall Road in Wyke. A West Yorkshire police
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'Exciting' welcome for Valley blueprint
A major regeneration blueprint was greeted with "excitement" when it was officially launched to the public at a special exhibition yesterday. The latest detailed interpretation of Will Alsop's masterplan, covering a city centre zone known as the Valley
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Man died riding mini motorbike on road
A father-to-be died after he was flung from a child's off-road motorcycle when he was hit by a car as he illegally rode on the road, a court heard. Kamran Shah, 22, had only bought the machine a few days before the incident but he had already been warned
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Witter will 'smash rival to bits'
Nadeem Siddique reckons it is Junior Witter's destiny to be crowned world champion on Friday. Witter fights American DeMarcus Corley for the vacant WBC light-welterweight title at London's Alexandra Palace. And Siddique believes the outcome is already
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It's Bulls or rugby union in Pryce equation
Gloucester target Karl Pryce is facing the biggest decision of his life but won't leave the Bulls for a rival Super League club. The giant centre/winger is out of contract at Grattan Stadium in November and has a lucrative offer on the table from the
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Man held after woman's body found
A 26-year-old man has been arrested after the body of a young woman was found at a house in Bradford. Police were called to the house in Richardson Avenue, Odsal, at 6.46pm last night. The unnamed woman, who is believed to be 25, was found with serious
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Burglar threatened to give victim Aids
A householder was threatened with Aids when he tried to tackle a drug-addict burglar who disturbed him in bed. Mohammed Afzal Ismail was at his home in Heaton Road, Bradford, with his two teenage sons when Christopher Edwards got into the house at about
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Elderly lifeline 'set to close'
A lunch club which provides a lifeline for elderly people has warned it will close unless it can find more volunteers. The club offers elderly residents from the Bingley area hot meals every Thursday at Little House, Market Street, in Bingley. But Bingley
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Man didn't pull down 'too-big' conservatory
A man was convicted by magistrates for failing to pull down his garden conservatory because it was too big. Bradford Council planning officials wanted 46-year-old John Piotrowicz to pull down the conservatory they said should never have been built at
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Fears for day care centre in cuts plan
Day centre users fear planned Council cuts will leave three-quarters of them out in the cold. Skipton Road Day Centre in Keighley is a lifeline for those suffering from mental health problems. Regulars have been told that raising the eligibility threshold
