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Illuminate festival goes out with a bang
The centre of Bradford was a melting pot of sights and sounds as the year-long Illuminate Festival came to a dazzling close yesterday. City Hall was a blaze of multicoloured light from nightfall until midnight and hundreds of people braved the autumnal
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Vandals hit new £1.5m sports ground
Vandals have caused £20,000 of damage to a multi-million-pound sports ground which has been open for only a week. Damage has been occurring daily at the Myra Shay ground, off Barkerend Road, Bradford. A total of £1.5 million has so far been spent over
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You can't put a price on need
A debate due to take place at City Hall on Tuesday is one that should concern us all, whatever age we are and however fit and well we might be - at present. It's part of a wider, national rethink of the way the elderly and vulnerable will be cared for
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Editing role lifts Liam
Blind Liam Midwood is boosting his IQ by editing books for other youngsters with little or no sight. The 11-year-old has been awarded the task of children's editor by a national charity. He was diagnosed with an eye disorder at seven months and has
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Home care review could take 18 months
It could take 18 months to review home care for hundreds of vulnerable people expected to lose the service in a Bradford Council shake-up. The revelation follows last month's decision to raise the threshold for adult social care to cut costs. Those
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Italians who spent war in Bradford
Thanks for your responses to Eric Hinchcliffe's inquiry about whether Italian prisoners of war were ever billeted at Odsal. Mrs Mabel Briggs phoned to say that yes, they were - in what used to be Odsal Deaf School. "As children we used to watch them
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News you just could not escape
A tragedy which was to become a legend is recorded in this photograph, taken in 1912 at Brownbill's newsagents shop at 624 Manchester Road, Bradford, the day after the Titanic sank. Standing at the door is, presumably, the man who is listed in the Post
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Happy 60th to a very special agent
Sixty years ago today the radio serial Dick Barton - Special Agent was first broadcast. With its cliffhanger endings it soon became compulsive listening for children and adults alike and is still remembered with affection by many members of the older
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Young Reuben inspires clinic
A young boy with a rare blood disorder has inspired a life-saving appeal. Later this month, a bone marrow recruitment clinic will be held for Reuben Grainger-Mead, who has a form of pure red cell aplasia - a condition which means he cannot produce red
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Colleagues support tragic Paul's family
Police colleagues of a man who lost a battle against cancer set off on a charity run yesterday to raise cash for the young family he left behind. Paul Ellis, 40, of Bingley, was a popular member of staff at Bradford North Division where workers are now
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Museum should find new site
SIR - I read the article regarding the Colour Museum (T&A, September 30) with interest and noted what appears to me to be a retrograde step by the museum. I have long thought the Colour Museum is geographically wrongly situated in what is, effectively
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The special angels
SIR - Although they don't like words like angels' and dedicated' there just doesn't seem any other way to express the appreciation my mum and I feel towards the Bradford Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency team and the remarkable staff on Ward 20 during
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Watch this film
SIR - I would like to draw your readers' attention to the release of An Inconvenient Truth, a mind-blowing film narrated by Al Gore about the realities of climate change. Finally, here is a film that will convince the climate change sceptics, educate
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Sign our petition
SIR - On behalf of our constituents who rely on the threatened 846 bus service we would like to thank your newspaper for the excellent article "Fighting to save our lifeline" (T&A October 2). It is worth restating the huge impact that the removal of
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Question of class
SIR - Who is it that helps maintain the class system? None other than the likes of Eric Firth (T&A, October 2). He is always banging on about the working class, most of whom aspire to winning the lottery to jump a class and become the "nouveau riche"
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Credit to Jim
SIR - Thank you for your coverage of the news that Leeds Metropolitan University has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Awards in the Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community' category (T&A October 4) . One important correction is
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This man needs care not an ASBO
SIR - I read with disgust your article "Obsessed Aspergers man gets ASBO" (T&A September 26) This man should be getting one-to-one care in the community. Giving him an ASBO is not getting at the root of the cause. He cannot help himself as this is obsessional
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Right way to deal with bogus claim
Rape is a crime that destroys lives. Those who commit these heinous offences leave their victims emotionally scarred, often too terrified to go out alone or to trust in strangers ever again. Any man who is convicted of rape should be quite rightly vilified
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Saturday, October 7, 2006
In 1492, a false cry of "land ahoy!" caused Christopher Columbus to change course and miss Florida. In 1806, the first carbon paper was patented by Ralph Wedgewood. In 1946, Woman's Hour and Dick Barton, Special Agent began on BBC Radio. 25 Years Ago
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Trusts on target with cancer care
Nearly all cancer patients in Bradford are waiting no more than two months for treatment after seeing their GP, according to a new report. The NHS Cancer Plan, drawn up in 2000, said that by 2005 no patient would wait longer than 62 days from urgent
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Jade’s on song for poignant new role
At the age of just 21, actress Jade Williams has landed a role she's always dreamed of. Jade stars in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, the poignant and amusing tale of a painfully shy young woman with an uncanny ability to impersonate the 20th century's
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Me And My Girl steps up a pace!
There was a time when Faye Tozer was known for being one-fifth of smiley boy/girl band Steps, all primary colours and brilliant white teeth. Now Steps are just a distant memory and Faye is carving a reputation as one of the country's top leading ladies
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Don’t trail behind, follow local art...
Families have been enjoying a village-wide art gallery to admire work by local people. Adults, children, school and community groups are among those who submitted art work to South Square Art Gallery in Thornton, on the theme of wind power. The work
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Andrew presents poetry in Motion
Andrew Motion was in a rush. Just back from the United States, he was shortly off out and didn't expect to be home until midnight. Being Poet Laureate - a job he accepted after the death of Ted Hughes in 1998 - means, I suppose, that he is constantly
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Reaction to Straw's plea on veils
While bikini-clad babes peer out of billboards and the micro-mini makes a comeback many Muslim women are still choosing to cover themselves in hijabs, niqabs, chadors and jilbabs. Mr Straw, the MP for Blackburn and Leader of the Commons, has urged the
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Bogus rape claim woman, 19, locked up
A woman has been locked up for a bogus rape claim after having sex with a man behind her boyfriend's back. The false allegation by Danielle Walters, 19, led to the man being arrested and detained for more than ten hours, Bradford Crown Court was told
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Pensioner spared jail for wood attack
A pensioner who hit a man over the head with a piece of timber has narrowly escaped being locked up. Bradford Crown Court heard how Christopher Caveney, 59, suffered a fractured skull and a wound above his right eye when he was attacked by 72-year-old
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Local colour adds such depth to JB
publisher once declared that of all the books written by JB Priestley, seven should never be out of print. Such was Priestley's breadth and productivity during 54 years of publication that a casual skimmer such as myself is hard put to guess those magnificent
