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It's party time with Jools Holland and co at St George's
Jools Holland St George’s Hall A regular viewer of his television shows, I’d never seen Jools Holland perform live before. I’ve been missing a treat. Jools (sadly no relation) and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra had ’em dancing and rocking
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ALDERSHOT 1 CITY 0
City slumped to a third loss on the bounce and suffered another injury at Aldershot. With Tommy Doherty already facing an ankle operation, Peter Taylor saw fellow central midfielder Lee Bullock hobble off in the first half. A miserable
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Bradford academy tailored to pupils’ needs
Creative pupils have been taken under the wing of London’s first female tailor. Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College, in Bradford, welcomed back former pupil Imtaz Khaliq, formerly of Little Horton, who has gone on to become an award-winning bespoke
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City team news
There were three changes again for City - including one in goal. Jon McLaughlin was recalled for his first game since October after Lenny Pidgeley was left out suffering from a migraine. Lloyd Saxton was the back-up keeper on the bench.
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Jet2 cancels all flights from Leeds-Bradford Airport to Tunisia
Jet2 has cancelled its scheduled summer flights to Tunisia after the violence in the north African country. The company said in a statement it would not run any of its planned flights from Leeds-Bradford Airport due to start in April after
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Baildon Runners shine in West Yorkshire Winter League
Baildon Runners have jumped to fourth in the West Yorkshire Winter League with a fine team performance on the usual tough course at Stainland. Quentin Lewis (third) and Chris Burke (eighth), ahead of Steve Watkins and Dean Williams (11th) all
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West Bowling next for Queensbury in National Cup
West Bowling and Queensbury have been drawn together at the Bankfoot Oval on Saturday, January 29 in the next round of the ACE Insurance BARLA National Cup following their commanding first-round victories. Bowling won 22-0 at National Conference
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Queensbury next for Bowling in National Cup
West Bowling and Queensbury have been drawn together at the Bankfoot Oval on Saturday, January 29 in the next round of the ACE Insurance BARLA National Cup following their commanding first-round victories. Bowling won 22-0 at National Conference League
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Health chiefs discuss alcohol strategy
Considerable progress has been made implementing a plan to tackle the district’s problem with alcohol abuse but significant challenges remain, a report before a council committee reveals. Bradford Council’s Safer and Stronger Communities Overview and
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Brother sent away to mental hospital after killing Jack, 9
Mental health workers, monitoring a paranoid schizophrenic, decided they had no need to take immediate action – only five hours before he killed his nine-year-old brother in a brutal and sustained stabbing. Jack Taylor suffered very severe
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Airedale Hospital staff 'missed chance to save tortured baby'
The tragic death of a helpless baby boy – murdered during a campaign of torture by his mother’s violent partner – might have been avoided if his background had been fully explored during an earlier visit to Airedale General Hospital, a serious case review
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Bradford Tigers in generous mood against Menston
Bradford Tigers tested the nerves of their supporters and coaching staff before securing a 3-2 Craven, Aire & Wharfe League Under-14 C Division victory at Menston Rovers. Gage Faulkner, Tigers’ man of the match for the second successive game, scored
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Probe into Fagley barn blaze
Firefighters spent more than three hours at the scene of a barn blaze in Fagley Road, Fagley, last night. Crews from Bradford and Idle were called out to the scene following reports of the barn fire at 6.30pm. The barn was badly damaged in the fire.
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Focus is on children
Pupils have been taking part in a living art exhibition. The Living Gallery, created by Shipley Focus’d, featured 22 pupils of Shipley C of E Primary School. It was the culmination of a project which started with the children having their photographs
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VIDEO: Man shot in Manningham street
Police are investigating the shooting of a man on a Bradford street early today. The victim was driven to Bradford Royal Infirmary for treatment after the incident, just before 2am, in St Mary’s Road, off Oak Lane, Manningham. He was
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Concert raises £4,000 for Bingley cancer support group
A concert featuring the world-famous Black Dyke Band raised £4,000 for the Bingley committee of Yorkshire Cancer Research. The proceeds of the annual event, held at Bradford Grammar School and organised by the Rotary Club of Bingley Airedale, were presented
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Ilkley zebra crossings are a 'lottery' claim
A woman has called for a change to “dangerous” zebra crossings in Ilkley after suffering a couple of near misses. Dorothy Ray said getting across Brook Street had become a “lottery” and said she was concerned it was only a matter of time before someone
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Sajid Manir, 30, of Staveley Road, Keighley; theft, failure to surrender to custody, six months conditional discharge, £129 compensation, £85 costs; failure to comply with community order, order
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Civic reception for Horton, Bradford, restaurant owners
A Bradford Indian vegetarian restaurant named as one of the best in Britain by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was honoured with a civic reception at City Hall. Prashad, in Horton Grange Road, starred in the final of the Channel 4 show, Ramsay’s Best Restaurant
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Building bridges in the community
Royal Engineers working along with US Army Engineers have replaced a bridge on a key route in Helmand province which was destroyed by an insurgent bomb. The bomb partially destroyed the bridge on Highway 1 and also injured some ISAF troops. Damage to
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Generation Game for Bulls stars
Bulls stars past and present will have their fingers on the buzzer for a night hosted by supporters’ trust BullBuilder. Three teams of current and former players will take part in the Generation Game Show event, which will take place next Tuesday
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Friends fear for future of Ilkley museum
Friends of a well-known museum are looking forward to celebrating its half-century despite its future being far from clear. The Manor House Museum, in Ilkley, is believed to be on a shortlist of buildings considered for sale amid austerity
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Health plans are welcomed by Bradford GPs
GPs across Bradford are set to make decisions about the way health services are delivered and paid for in their area as part of a massive Government overhaul of the NHS. They have signed up to the health reforms that critics claim will lead
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VIDEO: Two bodies found in Bradford house
Police have sealed off a house in Manningham, Bradford, after the discovery of two bodies. A man, believed to be Eastern European and to have lived in an upper flat in the multi-occupancy house in Hallfield Road, was found at about 10pm.
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RAC men are ready to use their experience
Three former RAC mechanics have launched a new garage business in Yeadon and aim to use their combined 85 years of experience to provide a value-for-money service. Moorfield Garage, on Moorfield industrial estate, in Yeadon, has been formed by directors
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Energy company set for expansion
Strong trading in 2010 will enable a energy consultancy founded in Bradford to open to more offices. Orchard Energy will open two UK offices in 2011 after seeing profits soar by 107 per cent and turnover rise by 58 per cent to £1.8 million in the year
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Bradford Council leader calls for bishop to be retained
The leader of Bradford Council spoke out today against plans to scrap the Diocese of Bradford and merge it with Wakefield, claiming the move would undermine “the prominence, status and influence” of the office of the city’s bishop. Councillor
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Allerton's Kidz Klub’s delight at ‘winning’ the Lotto!
A community project in Bradford was today celebrating a £484,096 lottery grant to help it grow. The news has come as a pat on the back for those who have been running the Kidz Klub in Allerton for the past eight years. Club co-ordinator Kate Sulc, whose
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Bradford City goalkeeper's jersey up for grabs after Pidgeley error
Lenny Pidgeley’s 100 per cent run in City’s goal could be under threat tonight. Pidgeley has played all 12 games since joining the club at the end of October when he took over from Jon McLaughlin. But his reign as the number one has been brought into
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Cartoon hero will come to life on stage for festival
Pontypandy is holding its first-ever music festival. If that means anything to you, chances are you have young children who are fans of Fireman Sam. And no doubt you’ll be excited to hear that Sam is bringing his new live show to Bradford
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An extra surprise for acting debut
While Bradford can’t exactly claim credit for Colin Firth’s triumph at the Golden Globes, we can allow ourselves a sense of ownership of The King’s Speech. A major scene in the film – set to be a serious contender at the Oscars – was shot at Odsal stadium
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Screening chance
SIR – Bowel cancer screening is available free to over-60s in England, but currently only around half of those eligible are taking part. As part of its Be Loud Be Clear Awareness Week (January 24-30), Beating Bowel Cancer is launching the 1,2,3 Campaign
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Coalition fiasco
SIR – Councillor John Hall (Letters, January 6) still goes on about the unfairness of the first-past-the-post election system. What is fair about two parties of equal strength with a combined 90 per cent vote being held to ransom by parties sharing
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Making mischief
SIR – When the European Court of Auditors publishes its annual audit, Eurosceptics jump up and down saying that EU spending is riddled with fraud and corruption and cannot sign-off its own accounts. The reality is different. The Court of Auditors stated
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Let’s use the facts
SIR – It seems some correspondents believe I am “negative” about wind-power, but that’s not the case: I simply use facts and logic, something often missing in this debate. For example, no matter how many wind-turbines are erected, it will never cause
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I’m left puzzled...
SIR – Julian Jackson’s inference (Letters, January 7) is that all development proposals in accordance with the replacement Unitary Development Plan of 2005 are sacrosanct, and six years later the Council still has a legal responsibility to implement
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Accused ‘made destroy threat’ in texts
The man who admits starting a fire that killed a mother and her two children threatened to “destroy” the youngsters’ father only weeks before the fatal blaze, a jury heard. In a series of text messages, Asjid Mahmood suggested ways of getting
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From home to Rome...on foot
This year will bring a mammoth challenge for Bob Clarke. And every step of the 1,300-mile walk he is planning, from his Bradford home to Rome in May, the 64-year-old will be thinking about the ten-month-old grandson he lost seven years ago, on January
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Birds left deprived
SIR – Being regular walkers on the Greenway overlooking Victoria Park in Oakenshaw, my wife and I recently decided to place and maintain a small number of wild bird seed feeders in and among the trees and bushes beside the path. These have been filled
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Our diocese should be celebrated
Bradford Council leader Ian Greenwood is quite correct when he criticises suggestions that the Church of England diocese for Bradford should be subsumed into a larger “super-diocese”. As the fourth-largest metropolitan district in the country
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Quick fix does our roads no good at all
SIR – The potholes in our roads caused by the recent weather, come as no surprise. The resurfacing of our roads is now done much quicker and cheaper than used to be the case. The reason roads never broke up in the past is because all new road surfaces
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
25 years ago: The commercial future of Bradford Wool Exchange was to be studied by a select committee of councillors. 50 years ago: A local government inquiry was told at Ilkley that no longer did anybody go there to “take the waters” – nor could the
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Kimberley’s video bid for latest hit
Bradford pop star Kimberley Walsh has launched a fresh assault on the charts… Kimberley, 29, of Sandy Lane, has teamed up with I’m A Celebrity… star, rapper Aggro Santos, for the single Like U Like. As well as providing vocals for
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Fight to protect their innocence
Children as young as ten are being sexually exploited by organised gangs of men in cities across the UK, says the charity Barnardo’s. It is pressing for a specific minister to be given formal responsibility to implement a national plan to tackle the
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Deal signed with leading skin firm
Global skin care giant Beiersdorf AG has turned to Bradford boffins to help improve its products, which include Nivea, Elastoplast and La Prairie. Scientists at medical research group Syntopix, who are working on a cure for acne, have signed
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Bradford City midfielder Doherty faces six weeks on sidelines
City must do without Tommy Doherty until March as the injury jinx continues to bite into their season. The midfield playmaker has missed the last four games and will go under the knife on Thursday to correct floating bone in his ankle. Doherty, who
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Gauntlet laid down to Shipley MP
Two of the district’s politicians are set to go head-to-head in a public debate on prison reform. Baildon’s Liberal Democrat councillor John Cole has challenged Shipley MP Philip Davies after the Conservative politician said he wanted to
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Take the DNA of the kerb crawlers, says Bradford police chief
Plans to build a DNA database of prostitute clients in Bradford have received a mixed response from MPs. Chief superintendent Alison Rose said she wanted to see DNA taken from men charged with offences such as kerb crawling and kept if they
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Council to debate future of former Odeon building
The future of the dilapidated Odeon building in the centre of Bradford is set to be discussed at a meeting in City Hall next month. Bradford Council has informed Bradford Odeon Rescue Group (BORG) that the issue will be on the agenda of the
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Leeds United defender Parker bidding to make amends for that shirt tug
No-one will be striving harder than former Bradford City left back Ben Parker to help Leeds United complete the job they started at the Emirates by knocking Arsenal out of the FA Cup in tomorrow night’s Elland Road replay. The 23-year-old left back from
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Bradford Bulls players making hay while the sun shines
La Santa has provided an ideal post-Christmas present for Bulls boss Mick Potter. Already pleased with pre-season progress, Potter’s disposition has become even sunnier following five days of warm-weather training at the Lanzarote resort.
