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Harewood
If the day looks like it's going to be hot, it's best to set off early. That had been the plan on the mid-July Sunday when we hoped to make a five-mile circuit of the Harewood estate. It didn't turn out quite like that, unfortunately, and it was 10.45am
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Why everyday life must go on
It hasn't been a good week for those of us of a pessimistic and fearful tendency. Living again through the horrors of September 11, 2001, has been bad enough, but confronting the present and future consequences of it through countless newspaper features
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Number you'd never forget
I'll bet the plan by the Co-op to bring back the "divi" has prompted many a nostalgic conversation up and down the land. It's a grand scheme that shifts the co-operative movement back towards its roots. You buy a £1 share and then every year you accumulate
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Extra-special evening with the Beatles
Carol Pelan's account of queuing for tickets to see the Beatles at the Gaumont (Past Times, September 2) revived a special memory for Julie Pearson, who was Julie Driver when she and her friend Dorren Hanson were taken to see the "Fab Four" at the Gaumont
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Double deaths in the tunnel depths
It was a tough and dangerous life building the railways that Victorian England needed. It was particularly dangerous for those whose job was to help to create the tunnels that linked the various industrial towns in the hilly West Riding. That was made
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
In 1955, play-doh went on sale for the first time. In 1968, a two-tier postal system came into force - with a first class letter costing 5d and a second class costing 4d. In 1991, the Magic Circle voted to admit female magicians for the first time.
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You'll hardly recognise the place
"Ten years from now Manningham will be a very different place with a very different reputation." A bold statement maybe, but few are better positioned to comment than Tim Whitfield, of Bradford Council's regeneration and housing department. As Mr Whitfield
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Green team set to tackle eyesore sites
No less than 16 environmental wardens are to be employed across the Bradford district in an unprecedented move designed to raise the tone of deprived communities. The community wardens, who will operate in pairs, will form a crucial part of the £4 million
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Daugther inspires Ricky for marathon
A dad, whose daughter was born with three holes in her heart, is to take on the Great North Run in aid of children battling similar illnesses. Ricky Millar's six-year-old daughter Kerrie-Anne was diagnosed with heart problems when she was six months
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Victim offers reward to catch vandals
A businessman is offering a £1,000 reward to catch whoever wrecked the windows of his excavator. Mark Geldard, who is running an infill operation at Braithwaite Quarry, off Blackhill Lane, Keighley, was furious when he arrived at work to find his machine
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Green land is under threat
Growing pressure to concrete over Bradford's countryside has been exposed by new figures showing a massive shortage of sites for new homes. The Government has identified 351 hectares of previously-developed "brownfield" land across the region which might
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Bill for external NHS advisers tops £1m
More than £1 million of taxpayers money has been forked out on management consultants for the NHS in the Bradford area in only 27 months. The Telegraph & Argus can reveal there has been a near 100 per cent increase in the cost for the external advisers
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Kebabeesh, New Line, Greengates
The Kebabeesh restaurant in Greengates has been serving traditional Lahori cuisine since 1979. And over the 27 years they have certainly perfected the art. The menu offers an imaginative and extensive selection of dishes from the Lahore region of Pakistan
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Murray hoping for final hurrah
Woodlands and Townville will be going into tomorrow's Black Sheep Yorkshire Champions' Trophy final at Hanging Heaton (12.30) on a massive high or an extreme low. Townville could clinch the Central Yorkshire League title today for a second successive
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I'm feeling Champion!
Junior Witter cradled the green WBC title belt and admitted: That feels so good. Witter became Bradford's first boxing world champion last night with a super-slick demolition of DeMarcus Corley at Alexandra Palace. The American, in his sixth world-title
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Todd has blown the whistle on fair play gesture
City have been told not to kick the ball out when a player is down injured. Colin Todd wants to cut through any confusion by ordering his side to play to the whistle and not automatically stop because somebody is on the floor. It has become traditional
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Vagana aims to be ace in the pack
Card shark Joe Vagana is looking to trump Robbie Paul for a second time this week. The Bulls giant faces his former team-mate when they tackle Huddersfield Giants at the Galpharm Stadium tomorrow. Bradford have beaten their derby rivals twice this
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Safe Project backs crackdown on dogs
A community has thrown its weight behind the Telegraph & Argus Curb The Danger Dogs Campaign. So far more than 800 signatures have been collected on a petition set up by the Safe (Safe Areas For Everyone) project. The names will now be added to the
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School bosses in travel u-turn
Brothers Michael and Richard Pittam are confused. The pair have been left reeling after being denied free travel to school - despite qualifying for bus passes for a combined total of five years. The pair, both pupils at St Bede's School in Heaton,
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Yorkshire are in pole position for victory
A business-like performance by Yorkshire put them in a good position against Nottinghamshire at Headingley yesterday and opened up the prospect of them winning the match and easing their relegation worries. They closed the day on 127 for two in their
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Angry passenger put train at risk
An enraged rail passenger put fellow travellers on a Bradford-bound service at risk by confronting the driver, a court heard. John Thompson became annoyed when the train's doors did not open after it stopped at the station where he planned to get off
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Sergeant 'died a hero in ambush'
Bradford soldier Christian Hickey died a hero in Iraq perhaps unwittingly saving the lives of his colleagues. The Sergeant was killed by a heat-activated bomb designed to take out the Army vehicle his patrol were travelling in. An inquest heard yesterday
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Drawing on a Bronte classic...
here can't be many people left who still subscribe to the old notion that comics are just for children. Perhaps those that do are put off by the very word "comics" - maybe they'd prefer the more grown-up "graphic novel" or even "sequential art". Whatever
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Jamie rides again after gift of trike
A disabled teenager, left in misery by thieves who stole her specialised tricycle, was overjoyed today after it was replaced by a wellwisher. Jamie Dee Lowbridge's plight touched the heart of Christine Bacon and she contacted the Telegraph & Argus to
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One small step for a columnist...
Previously: Following a mysterious tip-off, The Scribbler visited the Forster Square wasteland at dead of night and found it to be the scene of secret filming involving a space ship and an actor in a silver suit on the end of a long elastic band dangling
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A better Bradford for all of us
With the unveiling of the Manningham Masterplan comes yet another signpost that Bradford is committed to the future. As Tim Whitfield of Bradford Council's regeneration and housing department comments, though this might be the smallest of the many masterplans
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A crazy sentence
SIR - If anything can say everything about the stupidity of the British judiciary, it has to be the sentence handed to a blind man. He was caught driving a car, without insurance, MOT and driving licence. He was banned from driving for three years!
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Disgusting toilets
SIR - I hope none of the visitors to our city need to "spend a penny" at the toilets in the Interchange. I had to use them recently. Three of them had no toilet paper and the state of the toilets was really disgusting. So let the "powers-that-be" get
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Close them down
SIR - Re the letter Appalling cruelty' (T&A, September 12) I fully agree with Jenny Sampson's sentiments but would take it even more drastically. As this happened in a professional bird factory, the punishment must fit the crime and they must be prevented
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Glory-seeker Blair
SIR - I have read with interest Tony Blair's cringing attempts to cling on to power. Not for the good of the party, but for his own ego so he can beat Mrs Thatcher's record for length of time in office. The old saying holds good - power corrupts and
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Mink’s predators
SIR - Angler Michael Heylin is wrong when he states that fur farmers did not release the vast majority of mink now living in the wild (T&A Letters, September 6). There was a boom in fur farming in the 1940s, with many ex-servicemen using their demob
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Why is local voice not being heard?
SIR - One of the most extraordinary aspects of the row over who is responsible for dealing with the traffic chaos in Saltaire is the fact that local ward councillors have been excluded from discussions between the Highways Agency and Bradford Council.
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Boxer Witter is world champ!
Bradford today woke up to its first-ever boxing world champion. Junior Witter fulfilled his ultimate dream at London's Alexandra Palalce in the early hours of this morning as he brushed aside his American challenger to take the WBC world light-welterweight
