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Group to receive £500,000
Bradford's Equity Partnership has received a huge boost after securing £500,000 from the Big Lottery Fund. The organisation, established two years ago, runs a lesbian, bisexual and gay community centre and undertakes community development and policy
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Sedge semi-final is off
Liversedge's Northern Counties East League President's Cup semi-final at Winterton Rangers was postponed tonight due to frost. "I'm not surprised it was off but I was just glad we got confirmation in time and didn't have to make the journey," said Sedge
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Stamer strike not enough for Celts
Farsley Celtic 1, Torquay United 2 Last term's Football League dropouts Torquay United kept up their hopes of an immediate return when a victory at Farsley Celtic tonight maintained their second place in the Blue Square Premier. The Celts remained
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Shock at arson attack on Guide hut
A community has been left "upset and baffled" after a Guide hut was gutted in an attack by arsonists. The hut in Guiseley, which has had thousands of pounds spent on it in recent years, cannot now be used for events which had been planned in the run-up
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Wibsey offered Central League reprieve
Rejected Halifax League hopefuls Wibsey Park Chapel have been offered a lifeline in their bid to join a cricket league for 2008. The decision to reinvite Wibsey Park Chapel to the Central League was prompted by the sudden demise of Laisterdyke last
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Charity jog funds roll in
A charity jog has raised more than £9,000 and is on track to beat its target of £12,000. The British Heart Foundation's (BHF) Bradford City Jog held in October raised thousands for the work of the nation's heart charity in the region - and money is still
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Hillam is top class
Gomersal expert John Hillam won his class in the Horsforth Championship motorcycle trial at Deer Park, Bingley. Otley's John Lydamore won the novice class, while runner-up overall on the hard course was Scholes youngster Chris Hunt. Martin Fairburn
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Skipton's super seven
Skipton Karate Centre members achieved seven top-three places in the Junior Grade Karate Championships at Aireborough Sports Centre in Guiseley. Abigail Spence, Sagar Sonanis and Shweta Sonanis came first in their disciplines. Results - Kumite, green
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Kandol gives Wise a dilemma
Dennis Wise is waiting to see if Mark de Vries or Leon Constantine are fit before naming his line-up for the visit to Walsall on Saturday. The Leeds boss must find a replacement for Tresor Kandol, who is suspended after being shown his fifth yellow
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Halifax swap Cougars for Aussie champs
The Cougars must re-arrange a Northern Rail Cup tie against Halifax as their opponents are instead taking on Australian champions Melbourne Storm. Keighley were due to meet their Yorkshire rivals at The Shay on Sunday, February 24. However, ecstatic
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Union official was ‘a pawn in plot’
The former union branch president has been branded an "unfortunate pawn" in an internal plot to replace his regional secretary, a tribunal heard. Andrew Irving, from Idle, took the GMB union to the tribunal claiming it had broken its own rules when it
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Bulls shirts find new home
Here's the picture that shows the Bulls' shirt amnesty was a big success. The club announced the scheme mid-season, encouraging fans to donate their old Bradford shirts from past campaigns with them all being sent to India. Hundreds of jersies were
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Meet up with Bulls duo
Semi Tadulala and Glenn Morrison will be in the Bulls club shop on Saturday to meet fans. The duo are around from 12.30pm until 2pm. Meanwhile, the ticket office will open as well from 9.30am until 2pm in order to allow supporters to renew their season
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Hanley set for comeback with Doncaster
Former Bradford Northern great Ellery Hanley looks set for a return to rugby league - with National League Two Doncaster. The ex-Great Britain captain, one of the finest players in the modern era, has been out of the game since a brief spell as coaching
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Richards has high hopes for new Bulls pair
Two Great Britain student internationals will try their luck with the Bulls Senior Academy next season. Danny Garside and Chris Clark have both been training with Basil Richards' squad. "Danny's a half-back who came through the Huddersfield Giants
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Sykes: I can't wait to face Rhinos
Paul Sykes is in no doubt what excites him most about being back in Bradford colours - facing Leeds Rhinos. With pre-season training well underway, the time is now fast approaching for the goal-kicking centre to once more pull on the Bulls jersey. It
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Airport 'corridor' regen debated
A decision to forge ahead with the regeneration of the Leeds-Bradford corridor will be made at Bradford Council's next executive meeting. Members will decide whether to take forward further joint working between Bradford Council and Leeds City Council
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Firm sells former HQ
Filtronic Plc, advised by DTZ, has completed the sale of their former headquarters, The Waterfront, for approximately £6 million. Lying adjacent to Salts Mill, a world heritage site, the property comprises a part let and part vacant office and industrial
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Man admits bank con to help girlfriend
A man was pressured by his girlfriend's drug dealers into attempting to defraud a bank in return for having his girlfriend's debts cleared, a court has heard. Christopher Beardshaw, 31, was acting under instructions when he tried to defraud Barclays
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Firm fined £13,000 over workman's fall
A development company has been fined £13,000 after a workman suffered spinal injuries when he fell from a ladder and landed on a concrete floor. Self-employed joiner David Joy, 53, broke a bone in his back after falling 2.7 metres inside the disused
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Pervert exposes himself to dog-walker
A man exposed himself near a South Craven beauty spot. The man targeted a woman walking her dog near Cowling Pinnacle at around 3pm yesterday. The victim ran from the scene and was very shaken but otherwise uninjured. The man is described as white,
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'Help us to stock our stall'
Prizes and items for sale are being sought for a charity market stall in Shipley. Members of the Baildon Jitsu Club and their parents will help run a stall in Shipley marketplace to raise money for the Lord Mayor's Appeal. This year the appeal is supporting
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Breakthrough for £11.6m health centre
Plans to build a new health care centre in Bingley have taken a major step forward. Planning chiefs have given the go-ahead to the £11.6m scheme at Kingsway and Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust's board has also just approved the business
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Station evacuated
Hundreds of people were evacuated from Bradford Interchange this morning after a fire alarm went off. The alarm sounded at 10.43am and people were out of the building by 10.49am. A spokesman for the British Transport Police Control said it had been
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Court hears of prostitute's terror
A terrified prostitute locked herself in a bathroom fearing three men who paid her for sex were about to attack and rape her, a court was told today. A jury heard a tape recording of her screams as she begged an emergency operator to send the police
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Slides close for maintenance
The water slides at Richard Dunn Sports Centre are to close on Saturday so essential maintenance work can take place. The slides will then be re-opened on Thursday, December 27. The pool is unaffected by this work and will be open as usual, as will
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Morrison: Deal me in for new contract
Player of the year Glenn Morrison is already in talks about extending his stay at the Bulls. The Australian's contract doesn't run out until the end of next season but following his fantastic first campaign, negotiations have quickly opened with the
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Ben's Atlantic bid hits hitch
A Yeadon man's Atlantic challenge has struck an unexpected obstacle after one of his team was injured. Ben Thackwray, 27, is part of a specially selected all-British team attempting to break the longest standing and most sought after record in ocean
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Penney sorry to see Joe go
Darlington admit they are gutted that Joe Colbeck has gone back to Valley Parade. The City winger was recalled last week by Stuart McCall because Alex Rhodes was still out with his hamstring injury. And he was thrown in at Chesterfield on Saturday for
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Bridge plan is a lottery winner!
A new bridge for Bradford is part of a winning bid that has scooped £50 million in a lottery contest voted for by the public. The Manchester Road bridge scheme is one of 79 projects which make up sustainable transport charity Sustrans' Connect2 programme
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Man may face trial for lying
A 20-year-old man accused of lying to a jury while on trial for dangerous driving may face a new charge, a judge warned today. Judge Roger Scott told Faisel Yaqoob, of Toller Lane, Bradford, he may be charged with attempting to pervert the course of
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Charity boost for appeal
A retro-themed night at Bradford's East Ward Labour Club raised £621 for the Bradford Cancer Supp-ort £1.1 million Daisy Appeal. Linda Enderby, the charity's fundraising co-ordinator, said the 60s and 70s night was great fun. "Alan and Paul from the
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Bradford slump to repeat defeat
It was a disastrous night on Saturday in the Yorkshire Inter District League for Division One leaders Bradford No 1. They lost 5-1 at Castleford - the scene of their last defeat some 14 matches ago, coincidentally by the same score. Sajid Khan looked
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Step into Christmas...
The delightfully-named Christmas House in the village of Little Gomersal is one that you can't just walk by; you have to stop and look, because there is something about it that makes you pause. I've walked past this house - or tried to - on a number
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Brian's life through a lens!
Brian Harte was destined for a career looking through a lens - the 29-year-old intended to become an optometrist before pursuing his flair for technical, design and creative skills as a photographer. Birmingham-born Brian came to Bradford to study optometry
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Builders say thanks with a party
Residents of a housing association were full of festive cheer when they were invited to a Christmas party. Bullock Construction hosted a Christmas party for Bradford Community Housing Trust tenants in Manningham yesterday at the Marlboro Function Hall
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Service to remember lost children
Bereaved parents are invited to light a candle in memory of their children at a Cathedral service. An informal service of songs, readings and poems is being held by the Bereaved Parents Group at Bradford Cathedral in Stott Hill, Bradford, on Saturday
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Woman hurt in collision
A female pedestrian was taken to hospital after she was in collision with a car today. The accident involved a grey Volkswagen Passat being driven along Keighley Road, in Frizinghall, Bradford, just after 8.45am. Police and paramedics were called to
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Season of struggle for Embassy
It has been a difficult season so far for the three Embassy teams in the Bradford League. Embassy A are bottom of Division One, having lost all of their nine matches, while the B team have managed just one win in Division Two and they are also in bottom
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Great Horton: conversion of existing house of multiple occupation into five self contained flats, extension to rear, replacement dormer and replace existing skylight with dormer
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Hatton v Witter blog
Bradford fight fans should not be too downcast at Ricky Hatton's defeat by the phenomenal Floyd Mayweather Jnr. For one thing, the Hitman held his own for the first half of the contest, and was actually ahead on the scorecard of American pay-per-view
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
In 1913, the Mona Lisa was recovered after being stolen from the Louvre in 1911. In 1967, Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones had a nine-month sentence overturned on appeal. In 1988, 35 people died and 100 were injured after three trains collided just
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Scooter set on fire
Firefighters tackled a scooter on fire in the Allerton area of Bradford today.The 50cc vehicle was left abandoned and set on fire at the side of a house in Sonning Road, and the flames spread to a nearby bush and fencing. A crew from Fairweather Green
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Carbon survey
Firms employing fewer than 250 people account for a fifth of Britain's carbon emissions, according to the Government, but a survey by the Carbon Trust found that nearly 70 per cent of small and medium-sized companies have done something about reducing
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Banana-rama!
Banana skins are not just a fantastic addition to you compost bin, they are a great fertiliser if you bury them just under the soil on top of the roots of your rose bushes. They are great for cleaning the leaves of your houseplants too. Just rub the soft
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The species standing tall to do its duty
Trees are probably the best-behaved species on the planet, and that includes human beings, who come well down the list. It's difficult to find anything negative to say about trees. They are directly solar powered to take in CO2 to make their food and
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T&A boost for Forest of Bradford
As early Christmas presents go, staff at Forest of Bradford could not have had a better one. News that the project - which brings great benefits to both the district and the planet - has secured a grant sufficiently large to enable them to plant 20,000
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Why we need a new motto
Our Prime Minister recently announced a few new ideas to drum up a bit of national pride, after he got wind that us Brits don't hold our heads as high as we used to. It's been a funny old year really, what with farming diseases, rubbish football, terrorism
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No threat from the hubble bubble!
SIR - It's sad that shisha lounges are falling foul of the smoking ban. I have relaxed in shisha lounges in Baghdad, Marrakesh and Nablus, as well as Bradford, and as a lifelong non-smoker, I have never felt threatened by their hubble-bubbling. Certainly
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Big ambitions
SIR - Events have proved Sid Brown wrong. (T&A, November 3). Chris Leslie is not after Prescott's seat nor, as also suggested, Tony Blair's. The seat he really wants is Harriet Harman's. Why else would he have introduced her to a "dodgy donor"? John
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A healthy move
SIR - Regarding the story Trade drying up pubs' (T&A, December 4), it may interest Mr Cobb, licensee of the The Old Bank, that at a birthday party of six people in a Shipley pub recently - all of us non-smokers - not one left the premises in more than
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Penalty on record
SIR - The T&A reported in its Court File column that a young man had been fined £20 for driving without a licence and received an endorsement. Terry Tordoff asked how can one endorse a licence that doesn't exist? (T&A, December 3). The simple answer
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Good taste needed
SIR - I have never written to a newspaper before, but the proposed new shopping centre building for Bingley so appals me, I had to protest. Bingley is basically an old town with some gracious and beautiful old buildings; marred at present by the shoddy
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Car park solution
SIR - What's all the fuss about a city centre lake? We have one already. It's called the Crown Court car park adjacent to St George's Hall! Attending the concert there on December 6, we foolishly omitted to bring our wellies and snorkels and were reduced
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Take a look around
SIR - The announcement that Bradford's spending of £5 million on advertising is the fourth-highest in the country gave me pause for thought On one hand I congratulate the Council on having one of the best corporate identities of any local authority.
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All the same...
SIR - Brian Holmans (T&A, December 6) says: "Should David Cameron ever come to form a government he will have been elected in no small part because of his party's hatred of all things European". This explains, presumably, why three successive Conservative
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Room to rev up
SIR - With Westfield's ongoing failure to restore the city centre, it may be many more months, or even years, before any progress is made. So, ahead of that, why not put tarmac on an acre of the site to provide Bradford's frustrated car-cruisers' somewhere
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Show your support
SIR - May I endorse Steve Arloff's letter (T&A, December 7) in support of The Priestley. The Bradford Stage and Theatre School has been at The Priestley since the mantle of acting and stage education was passed on to them some years ago. Children and
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Help sink the loan sharks!
The sure way to avoid the misery of debt, as Mr Micawber pointed out to David Copperfield, is not to allow your expenditure to exceed your income. Unfortunately there are many people who are unable or unwilling to follow that maxim and end up borrowing
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Round of applause for the police!
SIR - I write in order to express both my thanks and support for the work of the Neighbourhood Policing Team in Baildon ward. One has to go back only two or three years to recall a time when the police dreaded attending neighbourhood forums in Baildon
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New bid to beat loansharks
Specialist teams have been brought into the district to track down loan sharks who prey on vulnerable people in the run-up to Christmas. Illegal money-lenders are to be targeted in the far-reaching crackdown by West Yorkshire Trading Standards and Bradford
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Broadway prep work to start
The company behind Bradford's long-awaited Broadway shopping centre has for the first time released details of on-site preparatory work which it says will begin before Christmas. Westfield has instructed its contractors to start site preparation works
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Refugee family hopes for reunion
A refugee family who have not seen their daughter for seven years have been given fresh hope of an emotional reunion. Ben Mussanzi, 54, who has been a vocal campaigner for asylum seekers' rights while battling for his own family to stay in Bradford,
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Centre throws open its doors
A scheme which provides housing for vulnerable young people is having an open day this week. Purbeck Court in Holme Wood, Bradford, which hopes to be full by Christmas, will welcome councillors, people who have donated money and anyone who has supported
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Teacher nominated for award
An art teacher has been nominated for an award created to reward excellence in further education. Susan Ross, of Addingham, runs fitness and art classes in the village and Bradford, as well as producing her own work for exhibitions. She had been nominated
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Grange school goes from worst to best!
An inner-city school once ranked the worst in Bradford has been labelled "outstanding" by inspectors. Grange Technology College is only the second secondary in the district to achieve the accolade from Government body Ofsted. Head teacher Paul Burluraux
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Businesses hit back at crime survey
Business leaders in Bradford have hit back at a study which showed the city to be bottom of the business crime league table. A study by insurance group AXA claimed Bradford made the highest proportion of crime-related insurance claims in the country.
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College celebrates success
Bradford College celebrated student success and marked the successful completion of a wide range of courses during its annual Festival of Achievement. The festival, which started in November, came to a close in the Sir Henry Mitchell Hall in Great Horton
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Fake kidnap plotters jailed
A Bradford man involved in a fake kidnap plot to extort £300,000 was today starting a six-and-a-half year jail term. Liaqat Khan, 28, of Highgate, Heaton, was one of three people who attempted to blackmail a businessman by claiming that his girlfriend
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Park at Heart to be debated
Bradford Council's executive will make a decision next week on the best way to deliver a Park at the Heart in the city centre. Senior councillors will meet on Tuesday to consider the options for taking the scheme forward after a bid to the Big Lottery
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£300,000 in drugs seized in police raids
The Drugs Squad in Bradford has carried out raids in the last two days netting substantial quantities of cannabis and crack cocaine. Police seized two cannabis factories with a street value of £300,000 in planned raids yesterday in Little Lane Girlington
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160 up for youth award
Nominations have been flooding in to recognise the achievements of unsung young heroes across the district. Around 160 young people have been put forward for the Bradford Young Citizen Awards which recognise the efforts made by children and young people
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Council set to pack in bags
Plastic bags could become a thing of the past in Bradford, after a pledge from the Council last night to support schemes that will reduce their use in the district. A motion from the Green Party, those councillors behind a bid to "ban the bag" in Saltaire
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Three new schools planned for inner city
Plans for three new schools are in the pipeline as part of a bid to address the rising birth rate and influx of new families in parts of the district. Next Tuesday, the Council's Executive will consider proposals to approve a consultation period for
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Artist in gallery visit
A Colombian artist will make a special visit to Bradford as part of a new exhibition of photography and video work by six contemporary artists. Artist Juan Pablo Echeverri will be at the Impressions Gallery in Centenary Square on Thursday, December 13
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Quiz star Joan is strongest link
A 72-year-old woman has shown wisdom most definitely comes with age, scooping the jackpot prize in TV show the Weakest Link. Self-confessed quiz addict Joan Bell, of Low Moor, Bradford, won £2,620 when she beat the other contestants to become the strongest