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Trees given away
Free fruit trees are being given away to residents on a Bradford housing estate. More than 250 households on the Canterbury estate can choose to have a small apple, cherry or flowering fruit tree for their garden under the green scheme by Bradford Community
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Council set to go it alone
Ilkley town leaders have turned down an offer of banding together with other parish and town councils in a bid to put more pressure on larger bodies. Keighley Town Council has asked all parish and town councils in the Keighley constituency if they wanted
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Mum mugged for phone
Police are hunting a robber who attacked a mum in front of her two young children - to steal her mobile phone. The woman was walking with a pushchair down an alley off Parkside Road, West Bowling, when she was approached by the man. He demanded she
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Michalik and Sheehan sign for Leeds
Leeds United have signed Bolton's Slovakian international central defender Lubo Michalik on a permanent transfer for an undisclosed fee. Michalik, 24, impressed in his eight appearances while on loan to Leeds last season before being recalled early by
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Cleaner is jailed for £76,000 fraud scam
A 61-year-old council cleaner has been jailed after she confessed to cheating the benefits system of more than £76,000 over six years. Karen Henry pleaded guilty to 12 counts of falsely obtaining benefits and was sentenced by a judge at Bradford Crown
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Tyersal target another top scalp
Only six points separate the top six sides in the Premier Division of the West Riding County Amateur Football League. Leaders Meltham Athletic are involved in the quarter-final of the West Riding County FA Challenge Cup and second-placed Brighouse Town
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Gun crime high in county
The rate of gun crime in West Yorkshire remains double that of the average of the rest of the country outside London, despite a fall in the number of offences by more than ten per cent last year, Home Office figures have revealed. West Yorkshire experienced
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University welcomes 'new' A-level
Bradford University has backed a new alternative to the traditional A-level. A survey of leading research universities says that 38 per cent of admissions tutors are "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to accept 14-19 diplomas - due to start in secondary schools
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Angling lines
The latest news from the local angling scene. LISTERHILLS AA For Sunday's members' match at Pilley's Dam the gate will be open at 8.30am with the draw at 8.45am. For the first time all of the specimen awards have gone to fish caught at Pilley's Dam.
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Driver convicted of causing girls’ deaths
There were tears and applause in court yesterday as a young driver was told he faces a substantial prison sentence for his part in the deaths of three teenage girls. The trio of friends were all back-seat passengers in a Ford Fiesta which crashed into
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Mugger snatches woman’s handbag
A woman was dragged to the ground when a teenage mugger snatched her handbag as she walked in Manchester Road, Odsal, Bradford, early today. She was walking towards Runswick Street, near to Friar Tucks fish restaurant, when the male robber approached
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MP in Parliament abuse row
An MP who stormed out of a Commons debate after verbally abusing a minister could be forced to apologise. Otley MP Greg Mulholland let rip when he was angered by the refusal of health minister Ivan Lewis to let him intervene in a debate on hospice funding
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Man locked up over hostage blackmail
A family man was locked up today after he admitted blackmailing a man whose brother was being held hostage in Pakistan. Rehmat Awan, 55, of Toller Grove, Heaton, Bradford, pleaded guilty at Bradford Crown Court to conspiracy to commit blackmail. It
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Loach will fight hard to stay between sticks
Scott Loach is set to retain the keeper's jersey at Macclesfield on Saturday despite the surprise return of Donovan Ricketts. On-loan Loach impressed against Shrewsbury on Tuesday, having joined from Watford until the end of the season. The youngster
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Macca vows to plug leaky defence
Steve McNamara has promised a tighter ship at Grattan Stadium this season. The Bulls were one of the most attacking sides in Super League last year, scoring on average nearly 29 points per match. That was more than eventual champions Leeds and second
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Weather woods warning
Visitors to Ogden Water are being urged to heed warning signs after high winds forced closure of the woods due to falling trees and branches today. Calderdale Council's Countryside Service have issued the warning after witnessing people climbing over
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DJ Spoons out advice
A popular radio presenter and disc jockey visited Bradford to speak to 250 teenagers about the tough issues facing young people today. DJ Spoony talked about racism, bullying, drugs, gangs and weapons during the Bradford Youth Summit at Valley Parade
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Asbo given to hospital harasser
A woman carried out a campaign of intimidation against staff and patients at two Bradford hospitals, a court was told. On one occasion Alex Kaye, 39, a former mental health patient, smothered tomato ketchup over herself - apparently to represent blood
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New guys can help us extend run
It's been a busy time with the transfer deadline and, like a lot of clubs, we've done a bit of business this week. It's the time of year when clubs look to make a push and hopefully our signings can help us do that. There's a few new faces and they've
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Fitness to play big role in new regime
Gary McAllister, Leeds United's new manager, can expect a tumultuous Elland Road welcome for his first game in charge, against Tranmere Rovers on Saturday. The fans' reaction to the appointment of former midfield hero McAllister this week has been overwhelmingly
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New date for Barnet game
City's postponed game at home to Barnet has been rearranged for Tuesday, April 8 (7.45pm kick-off). The game was originally due to be played last Saturday but Barnet were still involved in the FA Cup. City's reserve game at home to Stoke has been put
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Drink-driving dad jailed
A drink-driving dad injured his teenage son and his friend when he crashed his car after going through a red light and speeding at up to 100mph. Makhan Aujla, 49, who had bought the Renault Laguna the same day, by his own admission drove like a maniac
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'Missing' woman may be in London
A missing young Slovakian woman who came to Bradford to make a fresh start could now be in London. Fears about 20-year-old Zlatica Badzova's safety were sparked when she vanished less than two days after arriving in Bradford. Zlatica, who barely speaks
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Third time lucky for Clayton?
Clayton hope that their ill-fated second-round Pennine President's Cup clash can finally get under way at Lidget Green on Saturday. Groundsman Dave Pickthall has once again been working hammer and tongs to get the pitch fit and is confident the game
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Lockett's return to Hill is big attraction
Bradford Dudley Hill coach Paul Baxter is relishing the opportunity to clash swords with his former mentor Kelvin Lockett, who returns to Parry Lane in charge of Dewsbury Celtic in the opening round of the Carnegie Challenge Cup on Saturday. Baxter,
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Wibsey get that sinking feeling
Wibsey's problem on Saturday is not just one of waterlogging or snow. They already know that their Yorkshire Division Five match at home to Marist won't be going ahead at Northfield Road as Bradford Council will not have their replacement posts ready
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Planes hit by weather today
Strong winds caused delays for passengers at Leeds-Bradford Airport today. The gusts resulted in some flights being up to three and a half hours late. Passengers going to Chambery in France took off at 9.47am instead of 6.10am and a Salzburg flight
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Wharfedale's chance to see daylight
Having won a crucial match against second-from-bottom Nuneaton last weekend, Wharfedale have a further opportunity to put some daylight between themselves and the bottom three in National League Two on Saturday. The Dalesmen are at home to Westcombe
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Bees still targeting top-four spot
Hit by some serious injuries and narrow defeats largely caused by indiscipline, Bradford & Bingley are still targeting a top-four finish in National League Three North. "Tynedale are the only side this season to have shown they can notch a string of
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Event highlights the homeless
People are recounting their personal experiences of poverty and homelessness at an awareness event taking place in Bradford tomorrow. Bradford has two of the worst wards in the country for child poverty and a significant "hidden" homelessness problem
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Rana is confirmed as Yorkshire's overseas player
Former Bradford League player Rana Naved-ul-Hasan will be Yorkshire's main overseas player for this season. The experienced Pakistani was given until the end of January to show he was well on the mend after a shoulder injury sustained at Durham during
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Man faces jail for car crash death
A 25-year-old driver has been remanded in custody to await his sentence after a jury found him guilty this morning of causing the deaths of three teenage girls in an horrific crash. In September, 2006, Adam Anguige was racing another driver 27-year-old
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Ainge joins Halifax
City defender Simon Ainge has joined Conference outfit Halifax Town on loan until the end of the season. The centre half, 19, has played just four games this season, not featuring since the 1-1 draw at Chesterfield on December 8.
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Thackley's incentive
Thackley are out of the West Riding Cup after Wednesday's 3-1 loss at Harrogate Railway Athletic and they are also going through a lean spell in the league but will be hoping to make the most of home advantage on Saturday. They host lower mid-table rivals
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Eagles out to stop the rot
Eccleshill United are looking to turn around a disastrous run of results when they journey to mid-table rivals Parkgate on Saturday. Manager Mick Watson insists they will be in good spirits following a decent display at Bradford Park Avenue on Monday
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Newton eyes return to winning ways
Liversedge remain unbeaten in 2008 and aim to stretch their run to eight games as the third-placed side travel to Mickleover Sports on Saturday. Sedge boss Steve Newton will be hoping they can put their recent inconsistency behind them. They have had
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Schofield fears no one
Silsden will be aiming to leapfrog Vodkat Division One rivals Maine Road ton Saturday and regain a top six place while maintaining their two games in hand on the Manchester club. The Cobbydalers are currently seventh but have a top-four placing in their
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Phillips excited by visit of '66 heroes
The appearance of two of the players from England's only World Cup-winning team at Horsfall Stadium on Saturday will surely leave Avenue's meeting with Bridlington Town playing second fiddle. Sir Geoff Hurst, the man who netted a hat-trick in the 4-2
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Guiseley eye three of a kind
Guiseley are looking for their third straight Premier Division victory on Saturday when they journey to basement outfit Lincoln United, despite having lost in midweek. Their opponents on Tuesday were Blue Square North outfit Harrogate Town, who won the
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Ashley Cole blog
Who'd be a celebrity in this day and age? You can keep your money, fame and the adoration of star-struck fans, give me the quiet life any day.
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Air hostess did 90mph in her Mini
An air hostess on her way home to Addingham from Scotland was clocked doing 90mph in her Mini Cooper, a court heard. Janine Heptonstall, 41, had just taken over the driving from her husband, a consultant, on October 28 when she accelerated to overtake
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Should Cole's private life be public property?
Who’d be a celebrity in this day and age? You can keep your money, fame and the adoration of star-struck fans, give me the quiet life any day. Today’s unscrupulous media treat famous people like public property, delighting in ruining reputations with
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Measure for measure - a good idea
Some people might contend that it's not part of the Government's role to decide what size of measures pubs should serve us our wine in. That, though, is what a West Yorkshire MP wants it to do. Greg Mulholland is calling for the return of the 125ml measure
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Compromise is needed on ban
SIR - As a life long non-smoker, I am one of Mr and Mrs Kelly's "sympathisers" (T&A, January 28) who think that the smoking ban is unfair and that a compromise is needed. I think this is especially true in hospitals. People in hospitals already have
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A simple solution to binge drinking
SIR - A couple of the worst social problems of today seem to me to have very simple solutions, or at least, alleviations. The problems I am thinking about are binge drinking and the compensation culture. Since being drinking is mainly a problem of youth
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Treaty’s not for us
SIR - Jason Smith of UKIP (T&A, January 25) insists that the European Gendarmerie Treaty could put foreign police on the streets of Britain even though Britain is not signed up to it. He claims David Miliband admitted as much when he said in response
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Give us our say
SIR - On January 21, MP Gerry Sutcliffe voted in favour of initial ratification on the EU "Reform Treaty" despite being elected on the manifesto promise of a referendum. The EU has changed fundamentally since the British people had their say in the 1970s
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Justice USA way
SIR - David Rhodes's letter (T&A, January 26) made me smile when he was precise to the second onthe time it had taken him to write his letter on the sentence handed out to an offender, recently. It reminded me of a time when I had to attend a court in
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A very real threat
SIR - I was pleased to see that Peter Rushforth reads the T&A's Planet pages and that he is thinking about the way our behaviour produces carbon dioxide and the choices open to us (T&A, January 29). Unfortunately, he could not be more wrong when he states
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Tell them straight
SIR - In reply to Mr Chapman (T&A, January 7) about the incompetence surrounding plans for Bradford, it must have escaped his notice that prior to their idiot "knock-down" plans, we had a quite successful Broadway shopping centre. OK, so maybe one or
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Stick up for us
SIR - So council tax is set to rise four per cent. Does anybody, councillors or MPs, stop to study how people on low incomes or senior citizens, find this increase? On TV recently a Government minister said there was no need for councils to put up council
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End to car trouble
SIR - The front page headlines (T&A, January 28) made me smile. The "six out of ten uninsured cars" subject reported that a survey confirmed what I suspect many of our citizens already believed. Further to my previous thoughts about the above, and also
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Action is needed
SIR - In reply to your story regarding insurance, or lack of (T&A, January 28) would it not be of more interest to the honest motorist if PC Plod spent more time engaged in random checks on all vehicles for the purpose of identifying these miscreants
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No public benefit for private schools
SIR - I think you could not have produced a more misleading headline than "Private schools are run for the public good" over some special pleading by the head teachers of our local private schools as they try to derail a threat by the Charities Commission
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The Full Monty is shaping up to be a big hit
Stampede Theatre Company's production of The Full Monty is a family affair for two cast members. Laura Judge stars in the show based on the hit movie by Keighley writer Simon Beaufoy, and her son Bradley is also in the production. The story of a group
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Catch the Technicolor infection
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Leeds Grand Theatre The producers of the bible story that's been given the Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway treatment are on to a winner. Take three BBC talent show contestants, send them on the road with
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Andy Parsons hits the road and goes it alone
BBC2 Mock the Week and QI comic Andy Parsons is swapping the small screen for the country's stages. Andy is like Bill Bailey but without the hair front and back and like Bill, he is very droll. It will be his eighth solo tour since 1998, but his first
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Rock on the Bill
Bill Wyman and his Rhythm Kings are making their way to York. Rock 'n' roll icon, author, restaurateur and all-round legend, the former Rolling Stones bassist's latest musical rebirth is as the driving force behind the Rhythm Kings. The virtuoso musicians
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Buttershaw: Installation of advertisement signs, Tesco Stores Limited, Halifax Road. City Centre: Installation of rooftop plant, 27-29 Sunbridge Road. City Centre: Internally
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Michael Mallinson is a ‘storyteller’
When Michael Mallinson was given an electric guitar for his 14th birthday, his life started to change. He began practising with a passion, gradually developing his skills and exploring the music he loved, by artists as varied as Ray Charles and Oasis
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
In 1606, Guy Fawkes and his associates were hung, drawn and quartered. In 1965, Jock Stein was appointed manager of Celtic Football Club. In 2001, one million tonnes of the White Cliffs of Dover fell into the Channel after heavy rain. 25 years ago
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Jealous wife guilty of murder bid
A jealous wife who plunged a kitchen knife into the chest of her husband, wept as she was warned she faced a substantial prison sentence. A jury found Catherine Melngalvis, 41, guilty of attempting to murder husband Robin after they rowed over a text
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Laura ticks the boxes for success
After a whirlwind two years, a teenage performer from Shipley with the voice of an angel has matured into a confident young lady with endearing charm. There is an excitement in Laura Groves, below, now 20, as she sips on a cuppa at Bradford's Love Apple
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Julian bemoans the poor deal for classics
How often does it happen that two brothers are world famous in the same field? The England 1966 World Cup winners Jack and Bobby Charlton immediately spring to mind, of course; pioneering US pilots Wilbur and Orville Wright; popular American singers
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Couple thank medics over daughter
A couple whose daughter was born with a rare breathing defect and then was found to be blind in one eye have praised medics for their support. James and Liz Toal have said a big thank you by raising cash and presenting a pram to Airedale Hospital's special-care
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Children dig this dinosaur show!
Youngsters learned about prehistoric life close-up when they got their hands on fossils at the National Media Museum. Children from Bradford primary schools met dinosaur expert Dr Joe Botting from the Leeds Museums and Galleries service, who gave a presentation
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Harris outcome could bust Bulls
Peter Hood has admitted Leeds Rhinos could actually bankrupt the Bulls if they are successful in their High Court action. The Bradford chairman told a fans forum their arch-rivals are suing them for an astonishing £3.2million in the long-running Iestyn
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Concern at state of school loos
Toilets in some secondary schools throughout the district remain a no-go area for pupils, a union official has revealed. Ann Nash, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers' (ATL) health and safety officer for the Bradford area, made her assertion in
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Children are tap happy!
It will be a case of Anything Goes when the youngsters at Debut Theatre School stage their next show. Young performers, aged from seven to 18, are putting on the popular tap-dancing musical at Bingley Arts Centre from Tuesday, February 5, until Friday
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Plea as man sprayed with gas
Police are appealing for information after a man was sprayed with CS gas when he answered the door of his home. The middle-aged man and his wife were in their house in Burnside Road, Shelf, at 11.30pm when there was a knock at the door. After opening
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World Cup heroes turn out at Avenue
Two England football legends who lifted the Jules Rimet trophy in 1966 are appearing at the home of a reviving Bradford football club. Bradford Park Avenue AFC is on a mission to reclaim the Football League status it was deprived of 38 years ago. As
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Gadget centre for pupils is a wonder
Schoolchildren can now get their hands-on cutting-edge technology - thanks to a £300,000 link-up. Bradford College and regeneration agency Yorkshire Forward have joined forces to launch the World of Wonder (Wow). The project aims to give secondary school
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Society leads fight over charity money
Pressure from leading building societies, including the Skipton, could enable them to use cash from dormant savings accounts for local good causes rather than putting it into a national charitable pot. The Government is proposing large banks and building
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Foreign-born mums push up birth rate
Mothers not born in the UK account for ten per cent of the 14.3 per cent rise in the birth rate in Bradford and Airedale over the past decade, figures reveal. The number of births in the district rose to 8,200 a year in 2006 and out of the extra 14.3
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‘Missing pupils claim is wrong’
Claims that hundreds of young girls have been taken off school registers in Bradford because they have gone missing while on trips abroad have been dismissed. MPs were told 250 girls aged 13 to 16 were taken off school rolls in Bradford in 2006 because
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Parking shake-up ahead
A disabled parking area could be replaced by two extra spaces in an adjoining car park. Several spaces will be lost due to building work on the car park next to Town Hall Square, Keighle, so two new bays could be provided in nearby Cooke Street. The
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Tributes to church leader
Members of a Bradford church are mourning the death of their world leader. President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, aged 97. He was the 15th president in the