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Town to hold debut beer festival
The first ever beer festival in Ilkley is to be held over two days at the Kings Hall in Station Road on Saturday and Sunday, February 8/9. There will be 50 UK and foreign beers, ciders and perrys and tickets are already on sale. The event is organised
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Reasons to be cheerful for Eaton
Bees 5 Cougars 40 Trialist James Hutchinson did his chances of a permanent move to the Cougars the power of good with an impressive performance in today's cross-code clash with the Bees. The Wharfedale rugby union winger, who has been training with
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Deacs seeks quick fix
The Bulls are after a flying start to the new season, so last year's painful play-off exit can finally be laid to rest. The saying goes you are only as good as your last game but with Bradford's being that horror against Wigan back in September, they
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It's make or break time, says McCall
Stuart McCall reckons City's destiny this season will be shaped by the next two results. The Bantams boss made it clear to the players that Boxing Day's performance was not good enough, even though they pinched the win over Lincoln at the death. He
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Club 'Racs' up some fine results
Skyrac's youth team has been flourishing at cross-country and gaining experience on indoor tracks. Under-17s heptathlete Laura Griggs competed recently at the English Institute of Sport Centre in Sheffield. Running indoors for the first time on the
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T&A's knockout competition prize!
The 2008 Telegraph & Argus Snooker Classic at The Richard Dunn Sports Centre has now been confirmed for Saturday, February 23, with two former world champions in the form of John Parrott and Mark Williams competing against each other. The event has
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Man arrested on suspicion of drug possession
Police have arrested a 33-year-old man after searching him for drugs in the Braithwaite area of Keighley. The man was stopped and searched in North Dean Road at 10.15am on Thursday, December 27. An amount of Class A drugs was seized along with cash
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Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Bradford leaders have paid tribute to former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who died today after a suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the Pakistan city of Rawalpindi. Ms Bhutto was shot moments after leaving a rally of her opposition
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Conlon hoping goals start flying in
Barry Conlon hopes his Lincoln winner will provide a timely reminder for boss Stuart McCall. The Irishman has started only one of the last nine games for City but, after coming off the bench to prod the decisive goal on Boxing Day, Conlon is looking
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Riders don fancy dress for good cause
Generous riders from across Yorkshire and beyond helped Bradford Olympic Cycling Club raise more than £700 for charity at their annual Christmas fancy dress cyclo-cross race. A different charity is selected each year and the 2007 entry fees and raffle
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Teenager in crash dies
A teenager airlifted to hospital after her car flipped over on a country road has died. The 18-year-old woman, of Horsforth, who has not yet been named, was driving a black Ford Ka which left the B6161 Pennypot Lane near Beckwithshaw, Harrogate, on Saturday
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Bowling and Hill aim to cash in away
West Bowling and Bradford Dudley Hill are on their National Conference League travels on Saturday as hostilities resume following the Christmas break. Bowling journey to play a Castleford Panthers outfit who are under probation after being warned that
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United get best build-up to Welsh test
Leeds will take to the air in the hope of flying high against League One leaders Swansea City on Saturday. United have booked a flight to Bristol airport before driving into South Wales for the six-pointer against their promotion rivals. Manager Dennis
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Avenue must rise to new challenge
Bradford Park Avenue go into this weekend's trip to Wakefield needing a win to kick-start their holiday period - despite being on a run of a dozen games unbeaten. A surprise home draw against UniBond Division One North basement outfit Radcliffe Borough
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Matthews on a roll for Thackley
Thackley will be looking forward to their trip to Lincoln Moorlands Railway on Saturday after taking six points from their two NCE League games so far over the holiday period. They went into Christmas week with the best possible tonic after hitting Lincoln
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New year can bring change of fortune
Mark Bower column It's traditional at this time of the year to look back on the past 12 months and they have certainly been very eventful for the club. It goes without saying that suffering relegation at the end of last season came as a massive blow
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Bhutto killed in bomb attack
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto has has died after a suicide bomb attack at an election rally in the Pakistan city of Rawalpindi. Ms Bhutto had just left a park when the explosion took place.
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‘Please help to repair my smelly drain’
A concerned councillor is kicking up a stink after being plagued by "vile-smelling" drains for three months. David Gray has had to endure smelly drains outside his home in Highfield Road, Eccleshill, Bradford, every time members of his family use the
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Deacey hoping to build on victory
A victory over nearest neighbours Halifax Town on Boxing Day provided a much-needed boost for everyone at Throstle Nest and Farsley will be looking to build on that on Saturday. Crawley Town are the visitors in what will be the second of three home games
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Workers step in with paint job
Volunteers at Birstall-based finance company Cattles gave up their time to provide a lick of paint to the Gingerbread Housing Project in Bradford, which provides accommodation for homeless families. Gingerbread Housing has ten self contained family units
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Firm in river work bid
A Horsforth-based company has been confirmed as one of five shortlisted architects as part of a national design competition for a new 30 metre high observation platform above the River Mersey. Farrell & Clark were chosen from more than 90 entrants to
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Kittrick keen to get first notch on belt
New Guiseley manager Steve Kittrick is still looking for a first victory six fixtures into his reign, although the first three of those following his appointment were all postponed. Just two of the three defeats have been in the UniBond Premier Division
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Man safe after bridge drama
Police officers coaxed to safety a young man who threatened to jump from a bridge over a busy Bradford road. The man, thought to be in his 20s, was found straddling the Usher Street road bridge, 30 feet above Wakefield Road at Bowling this morning.
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Plea as boy hurt
Police are appealing for witnesses to an accident involving a car and a three-year-old boy. The child is in a comfortable condition in Leeds General Infirmary following the accident involving a Toyota Hiace Minibus which happened in North Dean Avenue
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Campion face another tough test
Campion will be hoping for an upturn in fortunes on Saturday as the West Riding County Amateur League season reaches the halfway stage. The Bradford side dropped two places to sixth in the PREMIER DIVISION after last week's home defeat to Brighouse Town
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A lot to live up to
SIR - Your feature on the new St Trinian's film (T&A, December 18) was very much in the spirit of the pantomime season and those of us who so enjoyed the originals in the 1950s and 1960s might have a sense of deja vu. Without prejudicing, the new cast
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Woman hurt in collision
Police are appealing for witnesses after a collision today. A Nissan Sunny travelling towards Bradford was in collision with a Renault Scenic going towards Rawdon in Apperley Lane, Apperley Bridge, just after 3am. The passenger in the Nissan,
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Pool passes for all
SIR - The generosity of our City Fathers never ceases to amaze me! Here was I thinking that children were going to get free swimming passes, full stop. Then my dreaming came to a full stop when I realised it was for Christmas period only. Children
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Nearer to the truth
SIR - It was refreshing to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, finally get closer to honesty when he referred to the Nativity Story as "a legend". According to my dictionary, a legend is defined as: "a myth, a popular but unfounded belief
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Is Blair working on a very grand plan?
SIR - When Tony Blair was PM he championed women becoming MPs at Westminster. Now he joins the Roman Catholic Church which fully disbars females from attaining the office of ordained clergy. When PM he promoted family values, children and education.
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Taking the biscuit
SIR - I have been following the "moggy" letters with interest and astounded that no-one has thought to mention that Moggy is the cake and Parkin is the biscuit. Can I be the only one to realize that in the home of both - Yorkshire? Phil Boase, Elizabeth
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Endless memories
SIR - I keep reading all the letters from people praising Busby's. I worked there in the Sixties on the switchboard. I loved working there; it was such a lovely store, very posh. I could never afford to buy anything, as I didn't make enough money. I
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Get a grip!
SIR - Does Councillor Andrew Mallinson know the meaning of democracy and freedom of speech? Judging by his comments following the criticism by the Bishop of Bradford and two well-known Bradford businessmen about the debacle of Forster Square and developer
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Where’s the spirit?
SIR - Having read through the City Centre Winter Guide printed by Bradford Council, which I picked up from my local library, I noticed a double page feature on religious festivals. Diwali and Eid are explained, along with the relevant religious symbols
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Choice of weapons is frightening
SIR - Recently, I have been looking round shops in Bradford at various weapons for sale. It is frightening the array of weapons that can be purchased, with no questions asked. There are crossbows, so powerful that they can kill just as efficiently as
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Around the restaurants
Bradford is fortunate to have within the district a vast number of restaurants serving food from across the world. If, every time you ate out, you opted for food from a different nation, it would take a year or more to exhaust all the possibilities.
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
In 1831, Charles Darwin set sail in The Beagle' on his voyage of scientific discovery. In 1871, the world's first cat show took place at Crystal Palace. In 2002, Clonaid, a company formed by the Raelian sect, claimed that the first cloned child had
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Greece is the word for playwright Louise
Plays and movies with a geographical name as a title may or may not stimulate curiosity. They are more of them than you may think: Casablanca, Copenhagen, Gallipoli, Berlin: Sym-phony of a Great City, Shanghai Express, Oklahoma! Tobruk, Chicago, Raid
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Hamlet gets on a war footing
They set A Midsummer Night's Dream on a 1940s sleeper train. They had the Capulets and the Montagues sparring in cat and bird-themed costumes in Romeo and Juliet. And now Northern Ballet Theatre is turning its attention once more to Shakespeare - with
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A seasonal delight
Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band,St George's Hall Legendary folk singer Maddy Prior's haunting voice fitted in perfectly with the Renaissance instruments played by the Carnival Band. The musicians, led by the versatile Andy Watts, who played bagpipes
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Six faces of Dylan tell a legend’s tale
Bradford cinema-goers have much to look forward to in January with a series of ground-breaking films scheduled. Todd Haynes's Bob Dylan film, I'm Not There, is scheduled for ten showings; there are a dozen screenings of Brad Pitt's film The Assassination
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Pinocchio a song-and-dance delight
Pinocchio, The Priestley It's heartening to know that, in an age when children's entertainment usually comes via a hand-held computer screen, the simple tale of a little wooden boy can still delight a young audience. The children sitting around me
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Why Captain Hook’s on cruise control...
or the past few years Peter Blake has spent every Christmas being booed at by children. It's water off a duck's back for the actor, better known as Captain Hook in the Alhambra pantomime, Peter Pan. "I'd rather be a villain than a good guy - the Devil
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English speakers 'in minority in third of schools'
Pupils who speak English as their first language are now in a minority in nearly a third of Bradford schools. Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show 67 of the district's schools must teach the majority of their pupils basic language
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Nursery for council staff is set to close
Bradford Council's only workplace nursery dedicated to caring for staff's young children is set to close down next year. Cavell House in Manningham caters for up to 78 children under five and has been running for 17 years. Until March it attracted a
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Warning over candles danger
Firefighters are warning people not to light candles too close to Christmas cards. Crew manager at Idle station Ian McKelvie said: "At this time of year people like to have candles on the mantlepiece but it could be dangerous if they're too close to
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Go green with Christmas leftovers
This Christmas Bradford Council is encouraging residents to go green by home composting everything from paper hats to vegetable peelings, fallen pine needles and wood ash from the fire. Christmas can be an incredibly wasteful time of year, with even
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Keep in trim
Avoid the gym this January by beating the Christmas bulge before it appears - that's the message from NHS Yorkshire and the Humber's top public health doctor. Dr Paul Johnstone, regional director of public health for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, is
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Bradford star gets back to the future again
If you thought sales shopping was a nightmare, get a load of these sneak preview pictures from the brand new series of dinosaur series Primeval, starring Bradford actor Andrew Lee Potts. The second series of the hit show, opens with an episode set in
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Party marks end of era
Scores of people attended a party at Wrose Community Centre to mark the end of an era spanning 20 years. The centre has been forced to close after running at a loss of £1,000 every week, leaving the committee with a legacy of insurmountable problems.
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Musicals legend Pat dies aged 86
Actress Pat Kirkwood, the last survivor from the golden age of pre-war British musicals, has died in Ilkley aged 86. Kirkwood, pictured, died on Christmas Day at Kitwood House nursing home, said author and royal biographer Michael Thornton, a family
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Traffic calming plea
Residents living in the historic Saltaire World Heritage site want to see their streets transformed into a belt of residential bliss - and drive out the rat-runners who use it as a short cut. Families living in Caroline Street say they are worried their
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Water works will start in new year
Contractors will be back in a village early in the new year to complete a £1.3m upgrade of the water mains. The work follows extensive disruption in Main Street, Cross Hills, near Keighley, in late 2006 and early this year when new gas mains were fitted
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Raising a glass to green scheme
A major recycling campaign to encourage licensees across Bradford to reduce the amount of glass being sent to landfill has been hailed a success. The Have You Got The Bottle? campaign was launched earlier this year by regional support agency Recycling
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Water works will start in new year
Contractors will be back in a village early in the new year to complete a £1.3m upgrade of the water mains. The work follows extensive disruption in Main Street, Cross Hills, near Keighley, in late 2006 and early this year when new gas mains were fitted
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Offenders work to right their wrongs
Offenders in Bradford have carried out thousands of hours of compulsory unpaid community service work this year, according to the Ministry of Justice. Making the announcement today Justice Minister David Hanson said that nationally more than six million
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Jobs may be saved in store deal
The jobs of workers at 33 Ponden Mills stores look to be secure after a deal was struck for the stores to pass into new hands. Ponden Mills went into administration earlier this month, blaming difficult trading conditions, a downturn in consumer spending
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Far from trivial pursuits
Intrepid young people who took part in a range of outdoor pursuits have had their achievements recognised. Organised by Bradford Council's Youth Service, a total of 531 young people from across the district took part in the packed Outdoor Education Programme
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Pilgrims asked for photos
Holy Family Catholic School in Keighley is looking for help to assemble a permanent display to mark an annual pilgrimage which has taken place for the past 40 years. Since the late 1960s the school has run the annual trips to Lourdes, France. On each
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Time to turn over a few leaves!
With 636,127 books to choose from, libraries across the Bradford district are encouraging avid readers to make borrowing a book their new year resolution. And Bradford Council leader Kris Hopkins got behind the drive by spending time at the city's Central
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Council staff's nursery to close
Bradford Council's only workplace nursery dedicated to caring for staff's young children is set to close down next year. Cavell House in Manningham caters for up to 78 children under five and has been running for 17 years. Until March it attracted a
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'Keep gadgets safe' say police
Police are urging young people to keep their latest gadgets safe. Officers in the Bradford South Division fear iPods and mobile phones given as Christmas gifts could make their owners victims - if flaunted. Detective Inspector Simon Bottomley of Bradford