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Bradford life portrayed in mural
Members of an art club have created a mural representing life in Bradford at a pop-up arts space in the city centre. The Phoenix Art Club, which meets at Eccleshill Community Centre on Mondays, offers 30 tutored classes a year. Members have created
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Fire calls centre U-turn welcomed
Controversial plans to route all West Yorkshire 999 fire calls to a regional centre have been dropped by the Government – despite more than £200 million already being spent on the scheme nationwide. Call centres at Birkenshaw, Bradford,
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Keighley friendly put back until new year
Keighley Cougars have rearranged their friendly with the Keighley ARL select XIII for January 16. The club had hoped to stage the match tomorrow night after it had been postponed on Sunday but the continued winter weather means there is no chance.
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Hollyoaks star Jennifer puts her career on ice
Bradford actress Jennifer Metcalfe will be turning up the heat in the new series of Dancing on Ice. Jennifer – Mercedes McQueen in Hollyoaks – is training for the hit skating show which starts next month. The line-up also includes Kerry
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Players warned they face big fines
Ann Coe, secretary of the Mewies Solicitors Craven League, hopes that harsher punishments will deter players from misbehaving next season. In her report to the annual meeting, she said: “I sit at the disciplinary meetings and can’t understand what happens
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Police target drink drivers
Police in the district have increased efforts to catch and deter drink drivers in the run-up to Christmas. Dozens of motorists have been given random breath tests in a bid to stop boozed-up motorists driving. Wibsey and Queensbury are
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Soova still on the ball with Oakbank
Oakbank Table Tennis Club have plenty of reasons to celebrate this Christmas. Hans Soova, who founded the club 13 years ago, is in his 45th year as a coach and has helped 24 players to represent England in the sport. Those players have
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Over rates a concern for league
The Aire-Wharfe League’s management committee are looking into ways to quicken up over rates and are also trying to ensure that teams field 11 players. In his first annual report, league secretary Dave Alred said: “It is noted that over rates do not
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Bolton Woods top of Christmas pile
A third successive wipeout of the Bradford Sunday Alliance League programme has left clubs facing plenty of catching up approaching the second half of the season. Former champions Buttershaw White Star have played just six of their 20 scheduled Premier
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Town delighted by civic honour
Brighouse Town are a team on the up and their on-going achievements have now received official recognition. Mark Brier’s fledgling team won promotion in last season’s first campaign on the football pyramid and they have followed up by rising to fifth
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Sign up for six-a-side league
Footballers in Bradford will have the perfect chance to run off the excesses of Christmas and New Year as a brand new six-a-side league is set to kick off early in 2011. All teams who sign up before the competition, which is run by Leisure Leagues, starts
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Anger at sentence on sex attacker, aged 12
A father from the Bradford district is considering bringing a private prosecution against a 12-year-old boy who escaped punishment despite admitting sexually assaulting his son on a school trip. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted
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Festive Saltaire fair's artistic flair
Homemade Christmas crafts and artwork brought visitors to Saltaire’s Victoria Hall as people stocked up on final gifts and supplies. The event on Saturday was a chance for local craftspeople to showcase and make a profit from all sorts of wares, including
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Ramblers' grouse with gun parties
Walkers say they are being denied access to parts of Ilkley Moor by shooting parties. The Friends of Ilkley Moor (FOIM) say they have received “credible” reports of confrontations during the grouse season, from August to December. But the head of the
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Bandstand work to begin in New Year
Work to build a new park bandstand is set to get under way in the new year, it has been revealed. The structure, in Haworth Park, would replace the original bandstand that was dismantled in the late 1960s. The campaign for a replacement bandstand has
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Monday, December 20, 2010
The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: The following have been dealt with for not having a TV licence: Zara Akhtar, aged 36, of Devonshire Street, Keighley; Aysha Ali, aged 30, of Hazelcroft, Undercliffe; Mohammed Ashraf, aged
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Monday, December 20, 2010
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Addingham: construction of detached garage in rear garden with access from Southfield Road, 11 St Johns Avenue. Addingham: conversion of garage into living space and store, small
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Bradford restaurant tastes success in States
A Bradford Indian restaurant is playing a leading role in introducing the city to millions of American television viewers. Family-run vegetarian restaurant Prashad was runner-up in Channel 4 series Ramsay’s Best Restaurants, which is now being broadcast
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Bradford City defender Rehman heads for Far East
Zesh Rehman is leaving City to join Thailand champions Muangthong United. The defender, whose contract at Valley Parade was up at the end of the season, was on his way out after being disciplined by Peter Taylor. Rehman was stripped
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Councillor in call for travel costs review
A Green party councillor has called for a review into Bradford Council members’ travel allowances. Shipley Councillor Kevin Warnes said the local authority should change its travel policies after he discovered that £15,843 had been spent on travel allowances
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Tyre-slash vandals attack club’s bus
A children’s club on a Bradford estate has been left out of pocket after vandals slashed the tyres on its minibus. Dawn and Gary Hodgson, who run Playsafe for youngsters aged five to eight in Ravenscliffe, said the vehicle had been targeted while it
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Pupils are pass masters in Sats tables
Craven’s primary school children are all receiving a good grounding in reading, writing and arithmetic, according to league tables published this week. Every school in Craven had at least 63 per cent of pupils pass both exams, with more than 70 per cent
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VIDEO: Traditions are alive and well
Mike Harding’s Christmas in Yorkshire by Mike Harding Beautiful North, £11.99 In 1812 American novelist and travel writer Washington Irving declared: “Nowhere is Christmas celebrated with such splendour as in Yorkshire.” With those words
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Pupils' Wizard performance at Knowleswood Primary School
About 100 schoolchildren have been dressing up to give an end-of-term production of movie classic The Wizard of Oz. Parents were invited to attend one of two shows this week at Knowleswood Primary School, in Holme Wood, Bradford. Linda Norton, the school
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Disney's brand of Christmas magic
Falling snow, a parade of princesses and a lollipop the size of a dinner plate – my three-year-old thought her Christmas had come early at Disneyland Paris, and perhaps it had. The giant resort stretches out the festive period from the first
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Potter star back to hand over awards
A decade ago he landed a role in one of the world’s biggest movies, as a ten-year-old pupil at the Scala Kids Performing Arts School. Now Matthew Lewis, who plays Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, has returned to Scala as guest of honour
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A ghostly orb? Or a speck of dust?
Is this really a ghostly orb in Bolling Hall’s kitchen or just an illuminated fleck of dust? Amateur photographer Chris Bristow, from West Bowling, would like to know. The strange apparition was caught on one of his snaps taken on a
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Panto fun all the way
Christmas is around the corner, and that means it’s panto time. Over the next couple of months, soap stars, reality TV celebs and local radio DJs will be in theatres around the country trying on glass slippers, climbing beanstalks, throwing custard
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Corrie’s coming to the Bradford Alhambra
Dramatic moments from Coronation Street’s half-century are to be re-lived on Bradford’s Alhambra stage. Characters from the nation’s favourite soap will be treading the cobbles in Corrie!, a comedy written by Coronation Street scriptwriter
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Plaque tribute to town’s old chapel
A former chapel and the home of Ilkley’s first museum will be decorated with a blue plaque from the town’s civic society. The old Wesleyan Chapel at the junction of Skipton Road and Bolton Bridge Road has been a commercial garage since 1914
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Utilities group cleans up with national honours
A Bradford-based utilities group has scooped three national industry awards. Yorkshire Water and its sister companies Loop Customer Management and Kelda Water Services, succeeded at the utility industry achievement awards. Yorkshire Water’s IT team
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Fund helps scure gateway to more deals
Finance Yorkshire has opened the gates to funding for a growing Bradford business. ABI Alert Security Systems Limited, based on Knowles Street, Bradford, manufactures and supplies electric gates and security systems to both the commercial and private
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Bradford school sports bid is set for approval
A sports academy is planned as part of proposals to extend playing fields at a Bradford secondary school. National sports teams and the city’s professional clubs would be welcome to train at Tong High School and pupils would be encouraged to pursue their
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The top festive films for stocking fillers
Gremlins (Cert 12, 106 mins, Warner Home Video). Starring Zach Galligan Joe Dante’s delicious black comedy is newly reissued on Blu-ray, promising laughs and a few shocks as a young boy fails to take proper care of his Christmas present, a Mogwai called
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Reader Jury
John Stack – Captain Of Rome (HarperCollins, £7.99) **** The Aquila, powered by galley slaves, is a flagship in the formidable Roman navy. Atticus is the young captain in a battle that is a dismal failure, the casualty list only lowered because he
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‘We must revive stagnating gem of Little Germany’
The district’s regeneration chief has criticised more than a decade of stagnation in plans to revive Bradford’s historic wool merchants’ quarter. Councillor Dave Green, Bradford Council’s executive member for regeneration, claimed proposals
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Reader Jury
Russell Watson – The Platinum Collection (Decca Records) *** Russell Watson undoubtedly has an amazing voice and this CD is packed full of crowd pleasers. Even people like me who are not fans of opera will find themselves humming along to the likes
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Traditions are alive and well
Mike Harding’s Christmas in Yorkshire by Mike Harding (Beautiful North, £11.99) In 1812, American novelist and travel writer Washington Irving declared: “Nowhere is Christmas celebrated with such splendour as in Yorkshire.” With those words ringing
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'Wicked role is a dream come true'
When the curtain rises on the opening night of the Alhambra pantomime tonight, Wicked Queen Sian Reeves will enjoy a moment of personal triumph. Not long ago she was bed-ridden and in constant pain, fearing she may never work again. Three years ago
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Time to get scheme on the move
Little Germany is one of the jewels in central Bradford’s crown, rightly highlighted more than a decade ago as full of potential by no lesser an architectural commentator than Prince Charles. And while recent years have seen some revitalisation
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Picking up on hints is a real gift
“Why don’t you just say that you’d like a cup of tea?” my husband says to me after I’ve picked up my mug several times and swung it about on my finger, drawing attention to its emptiness. As hints go, it’s not very subtle. But with men you can’t make
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Monday, December 20, 2010
25 years ago: Yorkshire Biscuits, of Haworth, closed after almost 20 years’ trading. Most of the 93 workers were given the day off and only skeleton staff remained. 50 years ago: The number of unemployed workers in Bradford – 1,048 – was
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Shirts off for a fun night out
Ladies, prepare to swoon. The Chippendales are on their way to Bradford. The beefcake boys are coming to town with their new production, Most Wanted!, featuring live music, audience interaction, dancing and fantasy that will “excite your senses and leave
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MP’s action plea over hospital food
More patients are leaving hospital malnourished than those admitted for the problem, according to figures unearthed by one of the district’s MPs. Nine patients were admitted with a primary or secondary diagnosis of malnutrition to Airedale
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Education issues
SIR – The fourth paragraph of the letter by Jean Conteh and Dr James Simpson (T&A, December 14) starts off by saying, “It seems to be true…” The word “seems” is a grey area. What are the facts? It continues, “…as the success of children
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Volunteering cohesion
SIR – Last month, thousands of people from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Jewish communities took part in a day of volunteering and social action. It was a demonstration that Big Society is not just a political statement, but something that can work
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Bishop a boost for the diocese
The appointment of the Right Reverend Nick Baines to be the Bishop of Bradford is one that will hopefully reap positive rewards. The Church of England could be said to have been in the doldrums recently, and what is certainly needed is an injection
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Name and shame call
SIR – A brute of a man broke the thigh and two vertebrae of his seven-month-old son and was sentenced to 27 months in jail. But, alas, no name or address was given to ‘protect his son’s identity’ we are told. Protect from what? The only one being protected
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Be kind this Christmas
SIR – As the Christmas season approaches and readers begin planning their festive food, veggie group Viva! is here to say catering for a vegetarian or vegan guest has never been easier! With over 32 million people in the UK reducing their intake of
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Peer pressure
SIR – Any notion that this country is in a period of ‘austerity’, seems to have slipped the Prime Minister’s mind where the House of Lords is concerned. In just six months from the last General Election, David Cameron has ennobled 111 people – more than
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Remembering Barney
SIR – On Friday, December 10, I attended the funeral of a really remarkable and special man, Barney Stack. It has been my privilege to have worked the adjacent plot on the allotment site to Barney’s for a number of years and to have had the help and
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What a Nativity twist!
SIR – Your recent headline, “Theft of lead puts nativity in doubt”, immediately set me thinking that some dishonourable toerag had stolen the baby Jesus, clearly the lead character in that popular seasonal myth. Only later did I realise that, in this
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School is only as good as its pupils
SIR – Why is it that our education bureaucrats can turn one of the best schools in Bradford for decades and put them into special measures (T&A, December 16)? Hanson, sadly, has been hard done by in one respect by changing the catchment area for this
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Affairs of the heart
SIR – We would like your readers to help us beat heart disease, one laugh at a time. According to our survey, 62 per cent of UK women believe it that breast cancer is the biggest killer of UK women. But the reality is that heart disease kills three times
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Fees must be lifted
SIR – There are many indisputable facts as to why tuition fees have to be lifted: 1. With debts of £77,000 for every person in the UK, we cannot carry on spending money we don’t have. 2. Labour encouraged youth to go to university by dumbing down A-level
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Shame on the no-show binmen
SIR – The recent bad weather has brought about our usual Queensbury phenomenon, the disappearing binman. It is amazing that as soon as we get a bit of snow in Queensbury, the binmen cannot come up the streets around these lofty parts. They have failed
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Keep up good work
SIR – Many thanks to the binmen who collected two weeks’ rubbish from Park Hill Drive at 2.30pm on Saturday afternoon. Amid the hoo-hah over student fees, who are the most important right now? These stalwarts and the crew driving the grit lorries. R
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Five is still the magic number
We have been brought up with a belief in the importance of eating our greens. An intake of five portions of fruit and vegetables a day is said to improve our health and help in the fight against conditions such as heart disease and cancer. But is it
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Billiards results
BRADFORD & DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL BILLIARDS LEAGUE – Eastbrook C 2, Bradford Deaf Centre 5; Great Horton 3, Princeville A 4; Pudsey 3, Eastbrook A 4. Breaks: P Devitt (Eastbrook A) 60, 31; R Bowes (Pudsey) 51, 35; M Cockcroft (Eastbrook A) 41, 33; C
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Bulls new boy Herbert inspired by exploits of former team-mate Dobson
Marc Herbert hopes to follow a well-trodden path to Super League success. Seen as a potential answer to the Bulls’ scrum-half shortage, the 23-year-old has settled well since arriving from Canberra last month. But if he had any doubt how to take the
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Danger in skies as 'mindless' idiots target jet pilots with laser pens
The safety of hundreds of passengers flying in and out of Leeds-Bradford Airport has been put at risk by a staggering rise in the number of dangerous laser pen attacks on planes. A Freedom of Information request by the Telegraph & Argus has
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VIDEO: Police launch inquiry into food factory fire
Inquiries were today continuing into a suspected arson blaze that wrecked a Bradford food processing factory. Detectives from Bradford South CID are investigating the fire, at Parkam Foods, in Haycliffe Lane, Wibsey. A police spokesman said
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Bradford City boosted by news of Ramsden's return
Simon Ramsden is poised to make a new start in the new year. Peter Taylor reckons City’s skipper is in line to return to training once the holiday period is over. And he predicts that will give the Bantams a huge boost for the games
