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Club invites members
Games mornings, speakers and lunch trips will form part of a new coffee club being launched at the Keighley Salvation Army base in High Street. From tomorrow the club will be run at the Salvation Army HQ each Tuesday from 10am-noon. For a £1 charge
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Traffic is on forum agenda
Traffic in Eccleshill will be the focus of the area's next neighbourhood forum. Bradford North Co-ordinators Office, in partnership with the Highways Traffic Section, will host a special single meeting on Wednesday, January 30, at the Eccleshill Mechanics
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Welders in heat of battle
Sparks are set to fly for welding students at Park Lane College Keighley. They are preparing for the regional final of the Skill Weld 2008 competition next month. Open to contestants across the UK, the competition is intended for welders aged 16 and
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Mill girls to hold a reunion
A Maltese woman who migrated to work in a Glusburn mill in the 1960s is seeking her former work colleagues for a reunion. Grace Batey, along with other Maltese girls, travelled to work in Hayfield Mill. Mrs Batey said: "We all lived in a hostel in Sunny
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Health centre bid rejected
Plans to create an alternative health centre in a Dales hamlet have been rejected by a national park committee. Applicants Mr S Chohan and Dr NS Chohan will have to undo the work they have already carried out at the former telephone exchange at Hazelwood
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Hospice speakers available
Community groups are being invited to learn all about caring for people with terminal illness. Staff at Manorlands, the Sue Ryder Home at Oxenhope, are available to visit local organisations to talk about any aspect of the hospice's work. Fundraiser
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Rotary Club acts as Santa
The Rotary Club of Shipley's Christmas Tree Appeal supplied more than 260 presents for needy children. In conjunction with Asda at Shipley, members of the club manned' a Christmas tree in the store's foyer, where labels bearing children's names were
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Three in court on murder charge
Two Bradford men and a man from Todmorden have appeared in court charged with the murder of teenager Alex Holroyd. The 19-year-old, who was from Todmorden, died of a stab wound to the chest at Rochdale Hospital following an attack in Brook Street in
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‘They told me to set my cat on the mice’
A single mum fears for her baby daughter's health after fighting a losing battle against the mice infesting her flat. But Leanne Dobson says her complaints have fallen on deaf ears after claiming she was told: "let your cat catch them." For weeks, Miss
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Students ready to raise hush money
It will be strangely quiet in Bradford schools on Friday. Students will be giving their teachers a welcome bit of hush as they take part in Macmillan Cancer Support's annual fundraising event for schools - The Big Hush, a sponsored silence. Young people
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Weather hits football and rugby league
Bradford City's game at Rochdale this afternoon has been called off, and amateur rugby league has also been hit by the bad weather. The Spotland pitch has been left waterlogged after the heavy rain in recent days. Rochdale groundstaff had worked through
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City match abandoned
Bradford City's league two match at Rochdale, scheduled to take place this afternoon, has been cancelled due to a waterlogged pitch. The match at the Spotland Stadium was due to kick off at 3pm but, following a pitch inspection, referee Nigel Miller
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Rhodes rejects Colbeck offer
City have turned down a bid for Joe Colbeck. Joint-chairman Julian Rhodes confirmed he had knocked back an offer for the winger, who is one of a host of players out of contract at the end of the season. City would not reveal the identity of the mystery
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The pipes are calling!
The City of Bradford Pipe Band has recently seen a surge in interest following an appeal for new members - the like of which has not been seen by its participants for some time. Originally formed in 1914 as a drum and bugle band, called the Sports Battalion
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Boss fined £50,000 for pollution
A Bradford businessman has been fined £50,000 for his part in one of the worst environmental disasters in West Yorkshire for 15 years. A devastating chemical spill from a premises owned by Adam Khan, 43, of Sandford Road, Barkerend, entered the River
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Hospital bosses may relax phone rules
Hospital bosses in Bradford are proposing to relax tight restrictions on the use of mobile phones in Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is carrying out a consultation on its mobile phone
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Mariyam B Ajaib, aged 26, of Henna Close, Great Horton; driving without insurance, £150 fine, £15 compensation, £40 costs, licence endorsed; driving without a licence, £75 fine. Rizwan Azad
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Family's agony as crash victim dies
A woman has spoken of her heartbreak after her dad lost his three-day battle for life after a collision with a motorbike. Neil Slater, 64, died after suffering multiple injuries in the collision in Bradford Road, Shipley, just minutes after he had left
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Pledge on post office closures
The Post Office will "carefully consider" the concerns of people in Shipley over post office closures, the Government has said. In a response to a petition from Shipley MP Philip Davies over concerns branches were going to close in the cull of about
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‘Euphoria’ over plans verdict for old mill site
A council faces a possible £1 million bill after losing a long-running dispute over a prime development site in Brighouse. A lengthy public inquiry was held over the Sugden Mill site, which Calderdale Council wants Elland company CDP to redevelop creating
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Major roadworks to start
Work to repair a traffic grid-locked village road starts on Sunday. A three-quarter mile stretch from Cottingley Moor Road in Cottingley up to Florida Road in Sandy Lane will be closed from 7am to 7pm on Sunday and will close from 9am to 7pm on Monday
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Stars line up to celebrate the Bronte family
Five-times Booker Prize nominee Dame Beryl Bainbridge is to headline a season of arts programmes looking at how the Bronte sisters continue to influence people. She is one of a series of leading writers and artists who have agreed to contribute to
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Charity in aid plea
Wheelchairs in all conditions are urgently being sought by a charity to help disabled people in Romania. Jubilee Outreach Yorkshire (JOY), which has a warehouse in Windhill, Shipley, and shops in Shipley and Bingley, is desperate to send out wheelchair
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Charity praises festive gifts
Generous people in Bradford helped feed 6,000 needy families around the world over Christmas. A spokesman for the Bradford-based Human Relief said it managed to distribute 17,000 kilograms of meat to the poor and hungry because of well-wishers. The
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New vicar makes plans
The new vicar of Thorpe Edge, Bradford, used to be a town planner. The Reverend Stuart Darlinson gave up town planning for a change of career when he was 40 and became ordained. He is coming from near RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire to take up his new
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Charity needs alcohol!
A cancer charity is helping people abstain by asking them to hand over alcohol. Bradford's Marie Curie Hospice wants as many bottles as possible to raffle at its Diamond & Daffodil Ball on Saturday, March 1, at the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford. Community
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Regeneration chief warns on ‘super-city’
Bradford Council's regeneration supremo has accused civic leaders in Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester of jumping the gun with a plan for a "super city" to rival London. Councillor Andrew Mallinson, executive member for regeneration, said such a scheme
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House prices jump by a fifth in Ilkley
Ilkley is Yorkshire's most expensive town in which to buy a home with prices rising by 20 per cent over the past 12 months to an average of £353,557. The town on the edge of Ilkley Moor maintained its exclusivity by recording the biggest rise in house
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Church offers Friday musicals
Friday night is entertainment night at a church. St Paul's at Shipley has put together a series of five concerts all on Fridays - with a licensed bar included. The first, billed as a light-hearted concert by serious musicians, is next Friday, January
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Silent treatment for students
It will be strangely quiet in Bradford schools on Friday. Students will be giving their teachers a welcome bit of hush as they take part in Macmillan Cancer Support's annual fundraising event for schools - The Big Hush, a sponsored silence. Young people