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Harlequins 35 Bulls 18
Bradford suffered their eight straight defeat after falling 35-18 at Harlequins. They could barely have made a worse start, a string of errors handing the effervescent hosts all the early initiative. Good work from Luke Gale created tries for both Luke
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Friendly marred by injury to Dean
Eccleshill 0 City 2 Peter Taylor had warned City’s non-league opponents not to “play the superstar” over the coming weeks with any over-the-top tackles. Unfortunately, for youngster Luke Dean, his manager’s words fell on deaf ears.
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Yorkshire 'need to win last three games' to qualify
Yorkshire’s hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Friends Provident Twenty20 are hanging by a thread after losing their seventh North Division match against Lancashire at Old Trafford tonight. The White Rose county failed to make the most
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Road closed after two-car collision in Ilkley
One of Ilkley’s busiest roads was closed off at rush hour following a crash. The collision, involving two cars, happened on Springs Lane at around 4.40pm today. Police closed off a section of Springs Lane, between the entrance to the
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Only victory over Holmfirth is enough for Bingley now
Last Sunday's penultimate round of the Northern Track & Field League involved tight finishes for local clubs, leaving promotion hanging in the balance. In Division Two, where only the winners make the play-offs for promotion, Bingley must now
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Busquets: We'll keep Sneijder quiet
Sergio Busquets believes Spain are more than capable of dealing with the threat of Wesley Sneijder when they take on Holland in Sunday's World Cup final in Johannesburg. The Holland playmaker has been one of the stars in South Africa so far, with his
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New help for Kirklees Housing tenants
Kirklees Council is offering a new kind of help to local people living in unsuitable homes. Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing and housing association tenants who are overcrowded or living in homes that are too big for their needs can now get help
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Pure torture for cyclists but a real pleasure to watch
Chapeaux off to the chaps who came up with such a sadistic first week of the Tour de France. The route through Belgium and their infamous cobblestones has been an inspired choice. The early stages have retraced the route of the famous Paris-Roubaix
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Mr Gullit and I through an orange haze
Watching Holland’s World Cup euphoria brings back fond – and hazy – memories of 1988. It was the year they won the European Championship and I was lucky enough to celebrate the moment in the heart of Amsterdam. Having confidently booked a fortnight’
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Robben happy to win ugly
Arjen Robben would be delighted to win ugly in the World Cup final on Sunday. The present Dutch squad is generally regarded as the least attractive of the three that have reached the game's greatest stage. "I would much prefer to win a very ugly
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Council says sorry after memorial removed
A widow will receive an apology from Bradford Council after they removed a plaque dedicated to her husband without her knowledge. Jane Aldridge spent a “heartbreaking” weekend in the belief the memorial to her late husband, Mick, had been stolen from
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Volunteer honoured for his work
A man struck down by a brain tumour as he worked towards a career with the police, has received an award for his charity work. Luke Gaunt, who is unable to work after being left partially-sighted by the tumour has been volunteering at the Mind
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Bicycle reward for 100% pupils
All the fun of the fair came to Copthorne Primary School, Little Horton, Bradford. Three 11-year-old pupils, who are leaving this summer and boast full attendance during their seven years at the school, were rewarded with mountain bikes. Ismail
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Scudamore delighted with Webb news
Howard Webb has been praised after being given the honour of refereeing the World Cup final. Webb achieved a lifetime's dream after being named as the first English referee of a World Cup final for 36 years. The 38-year-old from Rotherham
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Airedale train delays caused by man on track
Delays to trains between Skipton and Bradford were caused early today after police received reports of a man trespassing on the tracks. British Transport Police and West Yorkshire Police officers were called to the line near the Eastburn level
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Hainsworth reassures Avenue fans over club's financial solvency
Bradford Park Avenue director Kevin Hainsworth spoke of his ‘embarrassment’ over the closure threat that sent the club’s fans into panic mode ahead of their opening pre-season friendly. Avenue and their new management team of Simon Collins and his assistant
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Guiseley happy with Boro friendly
Nethermoor WILL host a pre-season friendly next week but instead of it being a derby against Bradford City on Tuesday, the Lions will now face Middlesbrough the following evening. The newly-promoted Conference North outfit should have been hosting the
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VIDEO: 'Help bring justice to our angels'
Murder squad detectives are hoping a brave and emotional public appeal by the aunt of two young children, killed in an arson attack on their home will produce new information. Nadia Naqui bravely faced the media and wept as she urged anyone
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Water main burst causes road closures in Bradford
A burst water main in Bradford has caused traffic problems after roads had to be closed by Bradford Council’s emergency management team today. Yorkshire Water has said it also has staff at the site of the burst in Smith Lane, Heaton, to investigate the
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Head pays tribute to tragic children
A moving tribute has been paid to two “kind and helpful” children who died in a fire at their home in Bradford. Alina and Aman Shah lost their lives when the blaze ripped through their family home, in Hendford Drive, Pollard Park earlier this week.
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Smillie's comeback fight postponed until August
Donovan Smillie’s comeback fight tomorrow night in Salford has been postponed until August 28. Popular 34-year-old super-middleweight Smillie said: “I don’t know if the opposition camp’s reason for the postponement is medical or because of
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Is it over and Dunn for BB's Nathan?
Bingley’s Big Brother contestant Nathan Dunn will face a vote for the first time tonight. The 25-year-old trainee joiner has been put up for tonight’s eviction by fellow house mate Caoimhe Guilfoyle, who was originally nominated by the rest of the house
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Ben goes 'hard yards' for charity
A Bradford man is taking on the Harden Hard’Un tomorrow to raise money for Bradford Cancer Support. Ben Firth, 34, of Thornton, has pledged to raise £1,000 for the charity after they helped his late grandmother in 2006. The Harden Hard’Un is a Long
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'Fleeing half-naked women raced to our car'
A married couple told a murder trial how three half-naked women jumped into their car as they waited at a junction. The women said they had jumped from a third-floor window to escape gunmen breaking into their home in Harrow, north west London. It
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Knight is calling it a day
A special party is being held to mark the end of Stephen Knight’s 43-year involvement with Crag Road United in the West Riding County Amateur League. Knight, known affectionately as “Skimbo” in local football circles, has been connected with the Apperley
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Farm to host charity proms night
Silsden’s seventh annual Proms on the Farm charity concert takes place on Saturday, July 17, at Sycamore Farm, Brunthwaite. The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Peter Hill, will open the proceedings at 7pm. Three bands will play a range of music including
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More pupils taking healthy lunch option
Uptake of school dinners is better in Bradford than nationally and is rising at a quicker pace. A two per cent rise was recorded at the district’s primary schools year on year, from 53 to 55 per cent, and a three per cent hike in children sitting down
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Isobel's bloom with a view
The sweet smell of success could be lurking in Addingham as the Yorkshire in Bloom judges made their summer visit to the village. The judges, who awarded the village a silver gilt award following their first visit of the year to Addingham in the spring
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Friday, July 9, 2010
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Burley Woodhead: construction of stone-clad first-floor extension above the approved extended living room to the south-east elevation, York View Farm, Green Lane. Chevin Road
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Arena reaches final hurdle
A pioneering learning-by-doing area at a primary school in Bradford could be up and running by September if a bid passes the final stage. Plans for a kinaesthetic learning park on part of a sports field at Lower Fields Primary School, East
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Chance to go batty on walk
Cross Hills Naturalists’ Society is holding a bat walk around Kildwick, near Keighley, on Saturday, July 17. The event will be led by Chloe Bellamy and Chris Scott, from the faculty of biological sciences at Leeds University, who have been studying bats
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Glasses let Ryan achieve his goal
Football-mad Yeadon teenager Ryan Oliver has a special pair of glasses to thank for being able to continue playing the sport he loves. Now Ryan can see properly on the pitch, he is warning his friends to beware. The 13-year-old had always
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Views are wanted on housing plans
Residents of the Yorkshire Dales National Park who want to comment on its draft housing development plan must make their views known by Monday, August 2. The plan is out for consultation and is the subject of a series of public meetings, including one
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Fun run could be a magic event
Skipton Rugby Club has invited local groups and charities to enter participants for the first Witches, Wizards and Little Monsters Fun Run later this year. Once registered, entrants will be asked to raise as much money as possible in sponsorship for
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Sky's the limit for cycle fans
World and Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton has backed a mass cycling event in Bradford to be held next month. The city has been chosen as the only one in Yorkshire to host the family-oriented Sky Ride, which will take in Bradford
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Friday, July 9, 2010
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Anthony James Brown, aged 18, of Cloudsdale Avenue, West Bowling; failure to comply with requirements of community order, order revoked and dealt with for the original offence; original offence
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Livanda bow-wows the judges
A Pekingese owned by a Long Lee couple has become a finalist in a national dog competition. Livanda Maluda won the toy dog group in the Petplan Junior Stakes qualifiers at the recent Blackpool Dogs Show. The 16-month-old male dog is
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Blackpool Tower organist to play at Victoria Hall, Saltaire
The sound of Blackpool’s famous Tower Ballroom comes to Saltaire this month with a performance from the tower’s resident organist. Phil Kelsall will play ballroom and sequence dancing music on Saltaire’s Wurlitzer organ at Victoria Hall on July 24.
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East Morton man earns honour for Lions role
A man who has been with Keighley Lions since it was founded 55 years ago has won recognition for his decades of service. Keith Hardwick Trott was presented with a certificate of appreciation at a conference in Harrogate. The certificate is signed by
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Gordons is moving Forward!
A leading Bradford law firm has made a significant investment in refurbished offices 100 yards from its long-standing city centre base. Gordons has left its historic base on Piccadilly and moved just up the street to the fully-refurbished former offices
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Bands in bid for festival opening slots
Bands from across West Yorkshire will battle it out to become the opening acts in front of 15,000 revellers at this year’s Bingley Music Live. More than 100 bands entered Bradford Theatres’ BD1 LiVE battle-of-the-bands competition with 32 making the
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We do not fear Spain - Van Marwijk
Holland boss Bert van Marwijk admits Spain play a more attractive brand of football than his team - but insists the Dutch do not fear them. The two European countries will both be bidding for their first World Cup success when they meet in the final
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£2m 'wasted' on schools plan
Almost £2 million in taxpayers’ money has been “wasted” in preparation for the aborted third phase of the district’s secondary school rebuilding programme. Councillor Jeanette Sunderland, leader and education spokesman for the Council’s Liberal
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Friday, July 9, 2010
25 years ago: A row broke out between two Bradford MPs on the Government’s plans to tighten up the immigration rules. 50 years ago: One of the eight RAF men killed when two aircraft collided, near Cambridge, was from Shipley, and an old boy
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Alonso hails Spain quality
Former Liverpool star Xabi Alonso regards himself as a lucky man to get the chance to play alongside a team full of stars with Spain. Alonso will line-up with brilliant Barcelona duo Xavi and Andres Iniesta on Sunday when his country look to win the
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Would-be donors must act
Most readers will be staggered to learn that the rate for major organ donations at Bradford Teaching Hospitals averages little more than one per year. While there are many factors that can influence such figures, it is hard not to see only seven such
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‘We will be launching appeal on shares plan'
Bradford & Bingley shareholders will appeal against a valuers’ decision not to pay them compensation following the bank’s nationalisation during the financial crisis. A pressure group representing nearly 1,000 former B&B investors said it
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Taylor urges friendly rivals to keep it clean
Peter Taylor has reminded City’s pre-season opponents to play in the right spirit as they kick off the warm-up programme tonight. A bumper crowd is on the cards at Eccleshill United for the first of eight friendlies facing Taylor’s men in the
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Brothel man ‘was stabbed in heart’
A brothel-keeper died after a knife was thrust upwards into his chest, a murder trial jury heard. Thai national Tinakorn Tuekpia was pronounced dead less than half an hour after he was attacked when a gang of masked men broke into his home. Mr Tuekpia
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Making housing dangers a thing of the past
Anyone who has rented a property for a number of years will have tales to tell about landlords. Most memorable are the Rachmans and Rigsbys of this world, who won’t spend a penny on the property even after complaints from their tenants.
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For the record
SIR – The version you printed of my letter “State isn’t Fascist” (July 7) altered (even made nonsense of) my meaning. I wrote “Israel...is one of the few democracies in the region, with Lebanon and Turkey, and with Iraq moving in that direction”, not
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Why are resurfaced roads not the same?
SIR – May I congratulate the residents of St George’s Place, Neal Street and Elizabeth Street, in Great Horton, for refusing to have their roads resurfaced with tar and chippings (T&A, July 1). They did the same thing here in Lower Grange and the results
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Squabbling must end
SIR – Your usually excellent correspondence page has rarely offered fare less edifying than the schoolgirlish invective of the (regrettably) ongoing A Michael Murphy/Karl Dallas saga. The bickering duo should lay down their handbags, gird up their seemingly
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Unfounded definition
SIR – It’s not clear where Mr A Michael Murphy found his definition of fascism (Letters, July 7), since he quotes no source, but according to him, even Oswald Mosley’s pre-war British Union of Fascists was not fascist since it did not constitute a “system
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Futile solar pursuit
SIR – It’s interesting to hear that President Obama intends to spend billions of tax dollars on solar energy development. Spain and Germany have given up on this hopeless quest. Can Europe and the USA really learn nothing from each other? Godfrey Bloom
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Pensioners’ penalty
SIR – Incoming governments have blamed their predecessors. We loaned the banks £130 billion (which hasn’t been repaid), the debt is £156 billion, leaving £26 billion, way under our usual borrowing. What’s changed? The G20 meeting on June 5 decided to
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Clearing up fall-out
SIR – I am still a member of Friends of Lister Park (FLiP) after resigning from the committee. Councillor Qasim Khan states (T&A, July 3) the three committee members who resigned “stormed out”. We did not storm out, but felt forced to resign due to
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The future looks bright on paper
Yesterday I went along to Wilsden Village Hall at the invitation of the Thursday afternoon group who meet there. I admit to being a bit daunted when I walked in and saw the assembly (much larger than I expected). But then I had to ask myself, why be worried
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‘Wicked’ thief stole from elderly woman
A prolific burglar who stole from a 67-year-old woman has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. David Moyles, 48, had a record of burglary and theft dating back more than 30 years, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday. Prosecutor Susanna
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Mother’s anger as doors ‘sizzle’ in the heat
An angry mum is criticising a housing association for ‘ignoring’ residents’ worries about doors which become dangerously hot in the sun. Mother-of-two George Parkinson says she and others living in Royal Gardens, off Haworth Road, have been complaining
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Business not pleasure for Worrincy
Mike Worrincy is ready to repair wounded pride on his return to his old stamping ground tonight. The Bulls second-rower heads back to Harlequins determined to put nostalgia to one side in a bid to help get his side back on track. Stuck in a seven-game
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Plea for help as only seven organs donated in five years
Doctors today made an urgent appeal for people to join the organ donor register after it was revealed that only seven donations of major organs have been made at Bradford hospitals since 2005. In the same period there were only six donations
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Warnings issued over bad landlords
The number of prosecutions carried out over buildings housing multiple families has risen dramatically in Bradford. Last year saw the number rise fivefold from the previous year, from two to ten, and already this year there have been 11 cases
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Man shared explicit texts
A 59-year-old grandfather “exposed and degraded” a vulnerable 14-year-old Keighley boy he contacted on a sex chat line, a court heard. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, ran up a bill for £700 on the premium telephone line used by adults
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Parish’s plan to become a town
Ilkley could have a mayor under proposals to change the parish council’s status. A report by the council chairman Brian Mann, suggests the authority should be renamed as a town council instead, like the surrounding towns of Otley, Keighley
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Pharmacy worker jailed for £625,000 theft
A pharmacy worker, who stole £625,000 of human growth hormone drugs from his employers, has been jailed for more than five years. Naheem Malik, 26, was convicted last month of theft and fraud from the Lloyd’s Pharmacy in Leeds Road, Bradford
