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Squirrel invaders terrorise family
A Bradford family are being terrorised by squirrels nesting in the eaves of their house. Angela Regan, and her three children, aged seven, six, and five, have had their house invaded by grey squirrels for the last two years. The squirrels, which normally
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'We can blow Wolves away'
On-song Shontayne Hape reckons the Bulls can make snarling Warrington Wolves go hungry tonight. The play-off rookies are sniffing another upset at the home of the Engage Super League champions, having already sent Leeds Rhinos packing. Sixth-placed
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On the road...
Previously...The male clientele of the Boilermaker's Arms, at the urging of pub owner Exeter Montgomery Cashew, are re-creating the little-known Jerome K Jerome novel "Three Men On the Bummel", a bummel' being a meandering bicycle ride. Now read on...
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A dim view of homes trend
Those people whose homes are surrounded by residential development used to be able to console themselves with the thought that things couldn't get any worse. While residents with glorious views of green fields and woodland might at some time in the future
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Where have all the bus passengers gone?
A new report has sparked fresh debate across the Bradford district about how to end the "vicious circle" of price hikes and falling passenger numbers on the buses. The report, commissioned by the Passenger Transport Executive Group (PTEG), of which West
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Papers take to the air
Back in the autumn of 1930 the Yorkshire Observer, sister paper of the Telegraph & Argus, was flying high. Or at least its name was, on the wings of a glider presented by the management of the newspapers to the newly-founded Bradford Gliding Club at its
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Pioneer doctor who helped save woolworkers' lives
German-born Dr Frederick William Eurich is the man widely credited with finding a way of eradicating anthrax, known also as the "Bradford disease" or the "woolsorter's disease". But it was a Bradford-born doctor who, decades earlier, did the pioneering
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Maths don’t add up
SIR - Truancy in school or pupils skipping lessons, what is the modern definition of children not being in school? The report on truancy (T&A, September 22) shows a confused picture. How can a child who is late but in school be considered as a truant
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Just deserts...
SIR - Unsurprisingly, Brian Holmans rebukes Mike Priestley for having dared to criticise Gordon Brown (T&A, September 25). I am sure hundreds of thousands of working class people, encouraged, if not coerced, into providing, either individually or through
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Bus questions
SIR - I refer to the article "Free trips put bus in jeopardy (T&A, September 22). Bradford & District Older People's Alliance is concerned at the number of areas without adequate bus services - there are some areas without any bus services at all and
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Recycling value
SIR - Compared to Morrisons, Tesco's efforts at encouraging recycling appear to be half-hearted. At the new store at Great Horton there is not a plastic recycling receptacle. I would have thought they would have installed one as plastic is definitely
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In-car behaviour defies all reason
SIR - All the hype about the new seat belt and seating laws for children seems to have fallen on deaf ears. What is wrong with some people? Don't they feel laws are there to follow and for the good of all? I was horrified to see three young children
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Money that could be well spent
There can be few more heartbreaking crimes than those which deliberately brutally rob children of their childhood and their innocence. The charity Barnardo's has been carrying out a series of research projects in West Yorkshire which reveals the shocking
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Tragic biker died five years after crash
The tragedy of a motorcyclist fatally brain-damaged in a high-speed smash highlights the need to cut death and injury on Bradford's roads, a safety expert said today. Simon Knowles spent five years needing round-the-clock nursing care after he was paralysed
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Three top jobs cost £350,000 in wages
Three vacant top jobs at Bradford Council will cost the authority more than £350,000 a year in wages. Councillors have agreed the pay scales for the posts of deputy chief executive, director of corporate services and director of adult services. They
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Cricket club's £3,000 makeover in just 24 hours
A one-day match with a Changing Rooms-style team of decorators has left a cricket club completely bowled over. Bowling Old Lane Cricket Club in Bradford was given the revamp after the Government-funded New Deal for East Manchester group approached Bradford
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Husband claims he only lit small fire
A forensic scientist has told a murder trial jury that there was no evidence lighter fuel was squirted through the letter box of a pub to start the fatal blaze that killed the licensee. Sarah Thrippleton Hall, 37, was asleep when Jason Hall lit the fire
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Pair critical after three-car pile-up
A woman is fighting for her life after her car embedded itself in an electricity sub station wall following a three-car pile-up. Firefighters spent an hour cutting the injured woman from the wreckage in a delicate rescue operation. A second driver is
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Rapist on the run is caught
A violent rapist who went on the run after disappearing from a Bradford hostel was behind bars today after being picked up by police. A nationwide manhunt was launched after Kelly James Edney, 26, absconded from the Box Tree Cottage residential home
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Care workers honoured at ceremony
Child carers in Bradford have been honoured for the way they have inspired and educated youngsters. Dozens of playworkers, childminders and early years staff won praise at an awards ceremony, hosted by Bradford Council's Early Years and Childcare Service
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Colour museum to filter out public
A museum is to close its doors on casual visitors because of dwindling numbers and instead turn to booked guided tours where it has proved successful. And the change in policy at Bradford's Colour Museum will also see it change its name to the Colour
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Reducing the risk of child sex abuse
Authorities and agencies around Britain are being urged to follow Bradford and pump more cash and resources into stamping out sexual exploitation of vulnerable young people. The call for more specific services to be set up to battle the abuse came at
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Champ Witter gets civic honour
Boxing world champion Junior Witter was honoured at a civic reception yesterday. Witter became Bradford's first boxing world champion when he brushed aside American challenger DeMarcus Corley to take the WBC world light-welterweight crown. Passing youngsters
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Tom’s casebook is the perfect tonic
y an amazing coincidence, when the new book by the T&A's resident doctor Tom Smith landed on my desk, it fell open on the entry "why do I keep gathering blue fluff in my navel?" Now this is a question that has been exercising mankind - well, me anyway
