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Defoe breaks Leeds' resolve in another cup thriller
Leeds 1 Tottenham 3 Jermain Defoe struck a hat-trick to end Leeds United’s FA Cup adventure in a supercharged FA Cup fourth-round replay at Elland Road. Luciano Becchio ended his goal famine with a first-half equaliser, goalkeeper Casper
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Watkins and Woodley are Northern stars
Airienteers travelled to the Peak District for the Northern Orienteering Championships. The event was held on the moorland edge near Baslow overlooking the Chatsworth Estate, which combined the technical challenges of boulder-strewn, wooded
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Club is on the rise, says Bulls reporter Connor Murphy
The wait is over and the players are primed, as fresh snowfall signals the return of summer rugby. We could probably do without the Arctic weather – although it offers a welcome reminder of years gone by and epic battles in mudbaths – but let
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Heaton house rich in Victorian character
People move for all sorts of reasons – to get a bigger or smaller house, a larger garden or to be in a better area, to name but a few. But more than two decades ago, the owners of Glenroyd had an altogether different reason – one of their cars was stolen
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Stylish Renault Clio is ‘tres bon’!
Welcome to the Renault Clio, arguably the most successful upmarket supermini on the road. Only the MINI oozes more class and style than this perfectly-formed French number, and the MINI costs quite a few thousand pounds more. The Clio always was a good
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Kopczak still a doubt for Giants clash
Danny Sculthorpe and Michael Platt are the only first-team players ruled out of Bradford's squad to face Huddersfield Giants on Friday night. Prop Sculthorpe is denied a swift return to the Galpharm Stadium, where he finished last season on
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Spen Valley firebugs hunted
Businesses in the Spen Valley are being urged to report arson attacks as detectives hunt firebugs responsible for a string of incidents. Numerous fires have been started deliberately in doorways, wheelie bins and refuse containers at business
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Driver injured as lorry overturns on M606 slip road
Police have closed part of the M62 after an articulated lorry overturned on the slip road on to the M606 travelling from the Chain Bar roundabout. Lane one from the M62 east to the M606 north was shut to allow an air ambulance following the
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Silsden play park hits equipment hitch
The official opening of a £76,000 play park in Silsden has been postponed after the wrong equipment was installed. After months of grant applications and fundraising for the 7 Up Activity Area, Silsden Youth Council handed over the cash and design specification
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Pair climb Mount Kilimanjaro in honour of colleague
This time next year Tracey Spilsbury and Rachel Brockhouse will have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. But first they have a mountain to climb to raise £4,300 each to take part in the trip. The colleagues
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Mcloud makes immediate impact
Eastburn Jai Freestyle Martial Arts and Fitness Academy member Neil Mcloud made a sensational Muay Thai debut in Sheffield. Under K-1 (full contact) rules, he knocked his opponent cold in the first minute of the first round. K-1 allows punches, kicks
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Moore will be big loss to his club
Pudsey St Lawrence stalwart Tony Moore, a winner of the Sir Leonard Hutton Trophy for services to the JCT600 Bradford League, has died after a long fight against cancer. He was a tireless worker for his club, and was club secretary for many years, and
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Search for family Heritage!
Bev Anderson asks: I am looking for Mary Elizabeth Heritage’s family from Shelf. She is the sister of my great-great-grandmother. Her husband was Joseph Heritage and they had the following 5 children all born in Shelf in the late 1800’s.
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Wins all round for Bees
Bingley Bees completed a full-house of victories as the men and both ladies teams all edged narrow verdicts. A cold and late start did not agree with the Bees men but they shrugged off conceding an opening goal to Leeds sixths to win 2-1. It took Bingley
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Determination seals maximum points
Bradford’s second team continued their strong run of results with a 4-2 home win over Sheffield that lifted them top of the table. The hosts had a strong side out and looked excellent going forward but conceded an early goal after being caught cold.
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Back in action
Horsforth finally staged a competition after a six-week break due to snow and a waterlogged course and 119 players took part. Conditions for the January stableford event were still difficult due to icy winds but results were excellent, with only three
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Wilks through to U19s finale
Right on Cue Damian Wilks and clubmate Anthony Green had mixed fortunes in the ENGLISH UNDER-19 CHAMPIONSHIP qualifying tournament at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds. Yorkshire under-19 champion Wilks made it through to the last 16, due to be played
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My election hope
SIR – As the date is getting nearer and nearer to election time, there is growing speculation that the country could be heading for a ‘hung parliament’. Great, smashing, super’, let’s hang the lot of ’em and start to get the country back on its feet.
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Insult to the fans
SIR – It’s good to see that the British judicial system is still as good as ever. Footballer Ashley Cole, who never turns up at court, is fined £1,000 for driving at 104mph and then, via his lawyer, Katherine Hodson, asks and gets three weeks to pay
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Wrong way round
SIR – Re dog poo, maybe owners would be more responsible if they could read the no fouling signs on lamp-posts. They should all be turned the other way so you can read them as you are walking towards them instead of them facing down people’s drives and
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Letting the side down
SIR – After recently spending a great week in a holiday cottage in Haworth, I felt compelled to write about the condition of the pavements in and around the village with regard to dog poo. I am quite amenable to our four-legged friends, in fact I was
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Which do you want?
SIR – Re the comment from “brad4all” (Postings From Our Website, T&A, January 29) in which he asks why Lib-Dems don’t leave the coalition (we) have been part of for “nearly ten long years”. This ludicrous claim is in response to Lib-Dem Councillor
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Population problem
SIR – In his letter (T&A, January 30) Keith Thomson had obviously misread my, what he called, courageous letter in respect of over-population. I had not said that it contributed to climate change, but that it was even more important than it. Whereas
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First-class care that deserves support
SIR – We all think it will never happen to us. However, the reality is that one in three of us will be affected by some form of cancer during our lives. The result can be devastating, as I discovered when my number came up in December of last year.
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Moncur joins Spireites
Former City loanee TJ Moncur has joined Chesterfield on a non-contract basis for the rest of the season. The 22-year-old defender has been without a club since leaving Wycombe three months ago. Moncur had two loan spells at Valley Parade
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Where’s Wayne?
Oldham Athletic are trying to track down Bradford-born former player Wayne Heseltine for a club reunion to mark the 20th anniversary of their Wembley appearance in the Littlewoods Cup final. Left back Heseltine is the only member of the 1990 side beaten
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Enter Wibsey’s open pairs event
Wibsey Bowling Club will kick off their packed centenary year with a £520 open pairs competition. Qualifying dates are Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21, starting at noon. The final eight pairs will then compete for the title the following Sunday
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Commuters hit by traffic nightmare
Gridlocked traffic brought a nightmare for those struggling to cope with the morning commute around the Bradford district today. Some travellers reported journey times of an hour and 40 minutes to drive the seven miles from Bingley to Bradford
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City swimmers make positive impression
City of Bradford opened their 2010 long-course account with some fine performances during the prestigious Burns Meet held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. A small squad of experienced swimmers travelled to compete against the likes of Olympians
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Pupils get picky on the streets
Pupils at Lidget Green Primary School are gearing up for a litter pick as they become junior wardens for the day. Neighbourhood wardens and police community support officers are to work with children from the school on local issues. They will be given
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'Patients at risk of after-hours faults'
Patients are being put at risk by an out-of-hours-service which does not meet national standards, a report said today. A review of systems used by West Yorkshire Urgent Care, which is funded by NHS Bradford and Airedale, among others, found patients
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Fakes warning on hair straighteners
Watchdogs are urging people to beware buying fake hair straighteners The warning follows a West Yorkshire Trading Standards probe into fraudulent ‘ghd’ products being sold on a scam website. Officers have been working closed with Jemella Ltd, the company
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Pressing issues for students
Children used Victorian printing presses to create a newspaper linking Bradford’s past to its present. Students at Challenge College and Titus Salt School used old printers on display at Bradford’s Industrial Museum for the project, aimed at documenting
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Tributes paid to former barrister
Tributes have been paid to a respected former barrister and judge who has died in a fire at his home. Gerald Lumley, 60, was found by firefighters in his flat in Burley, Leeds, last Friday evening, and was pronounced dead at hospital. Police say there
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Joanne hits the jackpot
Just when Joanne Abrahams thought her birthday celebrations were over for another year, she scooped a £51,000 jackpot playing on-line bingo. The 44-year-old mother-of-three, of Tyersal, Bradford, had put the Wink Bingo game on auto-play while sorting
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Nurse says she was wrong over dying girl's behaviour
A staff nurse at Bradford Royal Infirmary has admitted she was ‘very wrong’ when she told a distraught father his dying daughter was “only acting”. Mavia Mahmood collapsed on a children’s ward after not wanting to take her vital medicine, a Bradford
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
25 years ago: Bradford churches started a drive, one of the first of its kind in the country, to fight poverty and reach out to help more of the city’s population. 50 years ago: A TV factory in Brighouse closed down. Ambassador Radio and TV
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Shutting up shop to deter criminals
More than 60 businesses across Bradford are set to receive Government grants to beef up security. Home Office Minister Alan Campbell said 63 individual businesses across the district had successfully bid for grants totalling £151,000. The cash is part
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Rate rise to keep Sutton streets tidy
A small increase in Sutton Parish Council’s precept will be used to fund a new village lengthman and new equipment at Sutton Park. The council has decided to raise the 2010/11 precept by one per cent and has set its budget at £78,780, an increase of
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Closure will bring new opportunity
The closure of Tito’s nightclub, in Ivegate, Bradford, could hardly be described as unexpected – overdue, perhaps, but not unexpected. The only surprising element is that the final nail in its coffin was the sale of alcohol to an under-age youth rather
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: City centre: conversion and upper-storey extension of an existing building to provide offices and apartments with on site car parking, 21 Paradise Street. City centre: internal
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Plea for witnesses to crash between Otley and Burley
Police are appealing for witnesses following a road accident in which a woman was seriously injured. A Volkswagen Passat and a Peugeot 106 were involved in the crash on the A660 Ilkley Road, between Otley and Burley-in-Wharfedale. The Peugeot was heading
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Hands-up help for Haiti
Sunglasses would have come in useful at Wilsden Primary School yesterday. Children and staff paid at least £1 to go to school in brightly-coloured clothes as part of a fundraising rainbow day. Donations totalled about £650 for charities who are providing
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Keighley schools aiming to work together
Parents and schools in Keighley are being asked for their views on a plan to federate two of the town’s primary schools. It is proposed that Ingrow Primary School and Long Lee Primary School work in partnership as a federation. Strong links already
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Banned Birkenshaw driver caught on the road
Only six weeks after Balraj Singh was banned from driving for six months, he was behind the wheel again driving through a red light, magistrates in Bingley were told yesterday. Singh, of Cross Lane, Birkenshaw, Bradford, was driving home
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‘Our district has a lot to show the world’
While the financial sector of the British economy has taken a bashing, the manufacturing and service sectors have reportedly been holding up. Welcome To Yorkshire, the re-branded tourist board launched last April, endorses the latter claim, pointing
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Plea for witnesses to Cross Hills fight
Police yesterday appealed for witnesses to a fight between two men in Cross Hills, Keighley. Officers say the incident involved a 17-year-old Asian youth and a 40-year-old white male. It started with an argument at the junction of Station
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Sameer Ali, 26, of Abbeydale Drive, Rhodesway; original offence of failure to deliver up licence re-opened, £120 fine, £35.84 vehicle excise back duty, £60 costs. Stacey Brown, 32, of Perth
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Praise for new Pudsey school building
A Pudsey school has received an award for its state-of-the-art new building. Pudsey Grangefield school triumphed in the new building category at the Leeds Award for Architecture 2009. The building, which was constructed as part of the Leeds Building
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Fitting farewell to ‘brilliant musician’
If there were a few wobbly notes at Norman Shaw’s funeral, his bandmates in West Yorkshire Brass were forgiven. For the band turned out at Rawdon Crematorium yesterday to play a final fitting tribute to one of their stalwarts. Mr Shaw
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Love story is daring to be different
After it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake took the dance world by storm, turning the traditions of classical ballet upside-down. Blending dance, humour and spectacle with extravagant designs
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Richard moves up to MD role
Richard Carr has been promoted to managing director of independent insurance brokers JM Glendinning Life and Pensions Ltd. Mr Carr, who joined the firm five years ago was previously sales director. Since taking over as head of the financial services
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Hospital focuses on future with new owners
The new owners of a specialist private eye hospital in Bradford has pledged initial investment of more than £1m to continue its expansion. Yorkshire Eye Hospital at Apperley Bridge, the region’s only specialist eye hospital, has been acquired by Surrey-based
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Former Morrisons chief's 'golden hello'
Former Morrisons boss Marc Bolland will take over as chief executive of Marks & Spencer on May 1 with a basic salary of £975,000 and a “golden hello” worth £3.9m in shares. Mr Bolland, 50, who joined the Bradford-based supermarket from
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Tory councillor Arshad Hussain quits for Labour
A Bradford councillor has switched to Labour after quitting the Tories following a race row over the selection of the next Lord Mayor. Arshad Hussain (Toller) resigned from the Conservative group more than a week ago after he failed in his
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McCall: Daley in brilliant condition
Stuart McCall has praised Omar Daley for coming back stronger than ever from his injury hell. The Jamaican has now played two full games to go with four substitute outings since snapping his cruciate a year ago. And McCall points to Daley’s influence
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We can't afford any Giant mistakes, warns Lynch
Andy Lynch has warned his team-mates they can afford no slip-ups when they kick off Super League XV at Huddersfield Giants on Friday. After finishing third last season, the Giants have only strengthened during the winter, making them an even
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Troubled city nightclub is closed down
A notorious city centre nightclub has been closed down. The owners of Tito’s have surrendered their licence following a series of high-profile problems that included fights spilling out on to the street. The club, in Ivegate, was already
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Weather defeats Thackley
Eccleshill United’s Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Division One home game against Grimsby Borough last night, and Thackley’s home friendly with UniBond outfit Ossett Town both fell foul of the weather.
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Ormsby's son knocks Celts out of County Cup
Garforth Town 1, Farsley Celtic 0 Farsley Celtic were beaten by lower ranking opposition in the West Riding County Cup last night that saw three of the local sides exit knockout competitions. The bad weather once again played its part as snow, sleet
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Sedge lose out in goalfest
Wakefield 6, Liversedge 3 Bucking the trend last night, there were a plethora of chances at Wakefield but it was Liversedge who exited the West Riding County Cup quarter-finals as their hosts ran out 6-3 victors. The UniBond side racked up a 3-0
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Tamworth substitute ends Guiseley's Trophy run
Guiseley 0, Tamworth 1 Guiseley were knocked out of the FA Trophy by Blue Square Premier outfit Tamworth last night in a game that boasted a minimal amount of goal-mouth action. The Midlands outfit were due at Nethermoor at the weekend but a frozen
