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Flying high in travel world - 75 years on
It started off as little more than a hut in a field. But the former Yeadon Aerodrome is now a fully-fledged international airport, serving destinations across the globe. As the airport celebrates its 75th anniversary, MARK CASCI takes a look back at
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Pair ready for Andes adventure
A former restaurateur is preparing to saddle up for an adventurous trip to raise funds to help teenagers hit by cancer. Vikki Slee is joining other supporters of the Teenage Cancer Trust, including her friend Cherry Christopher, in a horse trek across
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Why less well-off have reason to fear Cameron
SIR - It used to be said that the Church of England was the Conservative Party on its knees. The link may be less strong nowadays but it can still provide inspiration for the likes of Philip Bird (T&A, September 30), who sees nothing wrong in demanding
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Queen’s English?
SIR - What a beauty! The NHS in Doncaster, footing a £300 bill for a smart glass notice pointing the direction to Nurse Treatment Room's' - obviously no shortage of pounds or 'postrophes 'ere! However, having just filled out a pension application form
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Look to the future
SIR - Andrew Fold of Baildon is so right when he says Come on Bradford Council, back the investors in Bradford' (T&A, September 25). Surely there can be a brighter future for a city with a significant past that is now boasting a growing population.
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Wacky spaces
SIR - An editorial (T&A, September 7) suggested that "few thinking people" seriously expected to see wetlands along Thornton Road and giant glass mushrooms scattered across the city centre. I would add: Princes Way and six-lane Hall Ings closed to traffic
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Economies needed
SIR - Coincidentally, the night before your front-page story about proposals to cut illumination of the Alhambra and other public buildings (T&A, September 25), I drove past the theatre late on Sunday night and wondered why it was ablaze with light in
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Keep options open
SIR - I would like to say how disgusted I am to hear First Bus is considering scrapping the 846 bus service. I used to use this service at one time but am now lucky enough to have my own transport, but for the people who do use the 846 it is a valuable
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Cut price of fares
SIR - On the subject of public transport, call me old-fashioned but what about cutting prices to increase demand? I know that when reasonable off-peak fares were introduced by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport executive in the late 1970s demand
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Don’t blame OAPs
SIR - The proposal to axe the well-used 846 bus service makes little sense and it is simply wrong to attribute the problems to pensioners now travelling free after 9.30am. Cheap travel by bus and train for pensioners was introduced to give operators
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Bring back hoppers
SIR - Here we go again! Pensioners get free limited bus travel and then we are told, due to this fact, that our local bus service is to be scrapped. Many local pensioners rely on this service, albeit a reduced one from the last cost-cutting fiasco.
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The ageism debate has to be extended
SIR - How fortunate to have another layer of legislative "political correctness" in the shape of ageism in the workplace. Apparently now everyone has the same birthday and are the same age. However, once retirement is reached, birthdays and age is resumed
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Pupils' chance to meet astronaut
From Neil Armstrong's first steps on to the moon, to the Mir Space station - space has been capturing the imagination of youngsters for decades. Now Bradford schoolchildren are to have the opportunity to meet a genuine astronaut. And all they have to
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Theatre company goes forth with Blackadder
As plans go, this is a cunning one. After displaying enough bravado to shame Lord Flashheart, a theatre company is going over the top with its take on a television comedy classic. Follow Spot Theatre Company went straight to the top when it hit on translating
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McNamara set for trip to Hull and back
Cautious Steve McNamara has been keeping a low profile around Hull this week. He senses there could be a little bother on the horizon - and not just the imminent traffic congestion as the city's famous fair rolls in. Being a born-and-bred Hull lad,
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Fresh start at home furnishing company
A new future beckons for a home furnishing company which has been bought out by its management team. Wilman Interiors, which specialises in designing and supplying home furnishing products, has broken away from its two sister companies to go it alone
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Cadamarteri loses appeal
Danny Cadamarteri has failed in a bid to clear his name over drug charges. The former City striker is currently serving a six-month ban after being charged under FA rule E25 concerning doping control. He was charged after traces of ephedrine was found
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Deano ready to play on past 40
Dean Windass is set to hit 40 as a City player. The veteran striker has been offered a year's extension to his current contract, which runs until the end of next season. That would take Windass, now 37, past his 40th birthday but chairman Julian Rhodes
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Witter on the attack over lack of facilities
Bradford's first boxing world champion today hit out at the lack of suitable venues in the city. Junior Witter would love to perform in front of his home fans after winning the WBC light-welterweight title. But there is nowhere locally which can host
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'Market' campaign boosted by petition
Traders campaigning to get Bradford's Oastler Shopping Centre known as a "market" again say they have been inundated with supporters backing their cause. More than 1,300 people have added their name to a petition which calls for the original name of
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Colbeck vows to rise to the big occasion
Joe Colbeck has vowed to fill Jermaine Johnson's boots by running Huddersfield ragged. The young winger will be handed his first start of the season in the tension-filled atmosphere of Saturday's local derby. With Johnson out, Colbeck is ready to take
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'How can we solve waste mountain?'
Councillors are to be asked to look again at building a giant incinerator as a long-term solution to Bradford's waste mountain. And everyone is being asked to give their views on how to get rid of the increasing volume of rubbish they produce. The amount
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Thursday, October 5, 2006
In 1914, the first air battle took place between French and German forces during World War One. In 1969, the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus was screened on British television. In 1989, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Scottish buyer pays £5m for hotel
The Chevin Country Park Hotel in Otley has been sold for more than £5 million. The three-star hotel, which last year was given planning permission to expand, has been sold by owners Anthony and Amanda Saint Claire to Scotland-based hotel chain Crerar
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What a difference a year makes for Burgess
Just 12 months ago Sam Burgess joined his schoolmates on the Odsal terraces to watch Bulls' 71-0 play-off thrashing of Hull. Now the wonderkid forward is gearing up to face the Black and Whites himself for a place in the Engage Super League Grand Final
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Mum angry at ill son's 'jacket' detention
A school is under fire after a pupil with cystic fibrosis was given a detention by a teacher for failing to take his coat off because he was cold. James Delaney, 12, a pupil at Thornton Grammar School, was given the punishment after he kept his coat
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Council chief becomes a gipsy for the day
Bradford Council's chief executive spent yesterday visiting gipsy sites in the district - both official and unofficial. Tony Reeves linked up with gipsy liaison manager Steve Knowles for an in-depth tour of the Council's two encampments at Laisterdyke
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The public have a right to know
It's understandable that there should be considerable concern after a violent sex offender absconded from the hostel in Bradford to which he had been sent after being released from prison on licence. He has now been recaptured and returned to prison
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Public backs T&A danger dogs petition
People in Bradford have bitten back by pledging their support to the Telegraph & Argus Curb the Danger Dogs campaign. The campaign was launched following a spate of attacks in the Bradford district that highlighted the need for the Dangerous Dogs Act
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Rebuilding shattered young lives
There is relief, joy and a little apprehension in Kerry Slater's voice as she talks of the long-awaited opening of the Mercy Ministries UK house. Cragg Royd, an elegant Edwardian property in Oxenhope, opened last month following an ambitious £480,000
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Sandwich win is no piece of cake
Gareth Evans and Simon Bell were in the Yorkshire squad which won their seventh English County Championships in ten years at the Prince's course in Sandwich, Kent. But it was not plain sailing for either of the Bradford pair - especially for Bell, who
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Delight as stolen war memorial plaques found
Police have recovered roll of honour plaques stolen from a war memorial after an appeal in the Telegraph & Argus. The four bronze tributes to Bradford soldiers killed in the First World War were sold to a scrapyard in Laisterdyke. Police were alerted
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Former policeman on firearm charges
A former policeman has been accused of trying to steal cash from a bingo hall by allegedly posing as an undercover officer on a covert operation. Matthew Brakewell, who served with the Greater Manchester police as well as the force on the Isle of Man
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MP demands: 'Why was rapist freed from jail?'
The Home Secretary has been dragged into the row over the escape of a dangerous, violent sex offender from a hostel in Bradford. Shipley MP Philip Davies has written to Dr John Reid demanding to know why Kelly James Edney was released from prison on
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Police to pilot new forensics weapon
Unsolved rapes and murders in West Yorkshire could be detected because of world-first advances in DNA technology. West Yorkshire Police is one of four forces piloting a new computer-based analysis system, DNAboost, which can unravel DNA samples which
