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Cougars 46 Bulls 12
Keighley Cougars completed their pre-season campaign with a comfortable 46-12 win against the Bulls' second string. The hosts were in control from the start as James Hutchinson and Will Cartledge both scored within the first 20 minutes, Danny
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Coach helps Fastbats to flourish
Fastbats Table Tennis Club is quickly rising in popularity thanks to the hard work of coach Noel Chipman. His involvement with the club has seen it expand throughout the Bradford area, introducing many local children to the sport. Chipman
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Massey in the lino fire!
The press list at Gresty Road made for impressive reading. All the national newspapers were represented and many recognisable names from the football reporting world. It was a glittering cast for a bog-standard midweek game in
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When men and women stand side by side
Just a footnote on the women and football debate. My wife was a season-ticket holder of long standing at the local club before I inconvenienced her Saturday afternoons by moving the family 200 odd miles north. But it’s fair to say Mrs
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New date for Leeds United's TV game with Forest
Leeds United’s home game against Nottingham Forest will be screened live by BBC1 on Saturday April 2 (12.45pm). The game was originally brought forward a day for televising by BBC1, who later announced the slot was not available after all. Ticket
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Cup road trips for Park and Prince
Three local clubs are in West Riding County Sunday Cup fourth round action, with two of them on the road. Westwood Park visit Ferrybridge Progressive and Prince FC are at Travellers Rest. The only home tie is at Yeadon where Ventus United, from Sunday
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Blaby siblings as good as gold for Bradford
Brother and sister James and Emma Blaby struck gold for the City of Bradford Swimming Club recently at the Leeds B Grade meet at the John Charles Centre for Sport. Emma won the ten-year-old butterfly race, as well as going home with bronze in the 100m
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Deacey aiming to finalise Bradford Park Avenue squad
Avenue boss John Deacey has been cool and calculating in his transfer dealings as he shapes the squad at Horsfall. Two debutants played against FC Halifax Town on Monday night and two more are expected to arrive in time for tomorrow’s game. Others have
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Schools to get more asthma help
Asthma attack cards will be distributed to schools across Bradford in February as part of a regional strategy to reduce the number of avoidable hospital admissions for children with asthma. The pocket-sized guides, developed by Asthma UK, are designed
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Kittrick backs Forrest to shine at Guiseley
Guiseley manager Steve Kittrick is hoping his squad of players can stay free of injury and suspensions in what will be a hectic run-in to the season. The Lions have done so well in the current campaign to lie second in the Blue Square Bet North. It is
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Holmes run ended by Steele
Bingley Harrier Ian Holmes just missed out in his bid to make it 16 straight wins in the gruelling Stanbury Splash Fell Race. From the pell-mell start in the quarry at Penistone Hill near Haworth, a record total of 410 runners tackled seven soggy miles
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Farsley facing battle at summit
Farsley go into this weekend back on top of the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division but still facing a monumental battle to stay in front. They are in a superb position but it could have been so much better had they not lost form
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Friday, January 28, 2011
The following planning applications have been lodged with Kirklees Council: Batley: erection of 41 affordable homes and laying out of public open space, former sports ground, Healey Lane. Cleckheaton: erection of first-floor extension above ground
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More jails may get hospital video link
The Government is set to look at technology devised by a Shipley firm which allows prisoners to be cared for by doctors via video link. Shipley MP Philip Davies told ministers about Red Embedded, a hi-tech company based in Saltaire, providing
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Father and daughter double act is just magic
When it comes to entertaining audiences, father and daughter double act Steve and Deanna Gore have one or two tricks up their sleeve. Even at the tender age of five, Deanna is an accomplished illusionist. She started performing magic
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Your views sought on public transport
Residents across the Bradford district have been invited to give their opinions on a draft plan that will set out the county’s transport priorities for the next three years. Following last year’s consultation on the full 15-year West Yorkshire Local
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Could you be the next apprentice?
Apprentice of the year Lisa Kaye is encouraging young people with the ‘A’ factor to follow her example. Lisa, who won the Incommunities’ title last year, is now in her final year of training with the social landlord organisation as a joiner. She is
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Wilsden nurse Carol Gill is runner-up in national competition
A district nurse has come second in an X Factor-style vote in a national nursing award. Carol Gill, who is based at Wilsden Health Centre and works for Bradford and Airedale Community Health Services, made the final to find the UK’s best nurse-led innovation
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Smoking, drinking and over-eating costing district £80m a year
Smoking, drinking and obesity are now causing a massive £80 million a year drain on health services in the Bradford district. The cost of treating smoking-related conditions alone could be as high as £50m from hard-pressed NHS budgets.
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Small is beautiful, but which is best?
Entries are continuing to pour in to our Bradford Means Business Awards 2011. The Telegraph & Argus has joined forces with the Bradford Chamber and Bradford Council to stage the awards, which honour businesses of all sizes from across the district.
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Man is jailed for abusing two girls
A man who committed “monstrous” sex crimes against two young girls when he was an isolated teenager growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness in Bradford has been jailed for two and a half years. Justin Leleux, 27, sexually abused the children when
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Friday, January 28, 2011
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Juliana Carter, aged 40, of Little Horton Lane, Little Horton; two counts of possession with intent to supply cannabis, community order made with 60 hours unpaid work. Steven Casey, aged 32,
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Ilkley to make Race for Life debut
A charity is hoping 1,800 women will sign up for the first Ilkley Race for Life to raise £125,000 to help fight cancer. On Sunday, May 29, Cancer Research UK and Tesco are bringing the country’s largest women-only fund-raising event to East Holmes Field
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Victims and survivors of Holocaust remembered
Victims and survivors of the holocaust and other genocides were remembered yesterday in a moving ceremony at Victoria Hall, Saltaire. Representatives of Bradford’s Jewish, Eastern European and Gypsy communities joined civic leaders in lighting candles
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Keeper aims to make most of return to Bradford City side
Jon McLaughlin learned plenty in his exile from City’s goal – without playing a single game. The popular goalkeeper is back between the sticks again after Lenny Pidgeley took to his bed with a virus. After a solid return at Aldershot, he pulled off
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Firms recruit staff to cope with growth
Amid growing concern about a skills gap in the engineering and manufacturing sector, two expanding Keighley firms have recruited staff, including trainees. Autoclaves Group, which manufactures and refurbishes autoclaves and ovens, has launched
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Buttershaw driver who injured pals locked up
A teenager who seriously injured three friends in a high-speed late-night crash has been locked up for 18 months. A judge told Aaron Gaffey: “It would be viewed as an outrage if I did not send you to custody.” Gaffey, 19, lost control
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Pet dog found with throat slashed
A dog was discovered in Wilsden with her throat slashed and suspected stab wounds under her front legs only days after being re-homed, the RSPCA said. Officers have started an investigation into how the Doberman called Kenya suffered the “shocking
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Man cleared of Bradford robbery faces warrant
An international arrest warrant is outstanding for a Polish man released from custody after he was cleared of armed robbery. Mariusz Wolkowicz is wanted in his home country for “a serious offence”, Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday.
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Man, 20, charged with burglary at Bradford care home
A 20-year-old man has been charged in connection with an aggravated burglary at a care home in Shakespeare Close, Barkerend, Bradford, which left a 94-year-old woman in hospital with severe head injuries. The man, who was due to appear before
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Repair that has me in hot water
You know it’s cold in the house when the Nutella completely solidifies in the kitchen cupboard. Yes, it was that cold. The boiler had, you see, decided that enough was enough. It had been dropping rather heavy hints all over Christmas – depressurising
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Bradford City boss gets a welcome hug
Peter Taylor today thanked his football pals for “giving him a cuddle” during City’s turbulent times. The Bantams boss is facing up to another crucial afternoon tomorrow at runaway leaders Chesterfield. With four losses on the bounce
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More should be done
SIR – David Haigh comments (T&A, January 20) that part of the solution to alcohol misuse may come from separate checkouts in supermarkets. Unfortunately, we know this would have the opposite effect. Morrisons has 12 stores where alcohol is sold from
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Cheapest option?
SIR – So, Labour’s Ian Greenwood, the current leader of Bradford Council, is against Government instructions, delaying publication of all bills over £500 “to protect the interests of (local) businesses” (T&A, January 24). According to him, this is so
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Blame lies elsewhere
SIR – Baroness Warsi claimed in a speech at Leicester University last week that Islamophobia was now so widespread it had become the norm in many parts of Britain (T&A, January 21). Although Warsi said Muslims must do more to integrate and become more
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Unhealthy habits have a high price
Around £80 million of public money is spent tackling the impact of smoking, drinking and over-eating in the Bradford area every year. The staggering figure has been revealed by public health chiefs as they try to reduce the impact of the three
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Friday, January 28, 2011
25 years ago: A Sinn Fein member was to speak at Bradford University. Councillor Francie Molloy, who represented Dungannon, was to be joined by a member of the Broadwater Farm Defence Committee, set up after the Tottenham riots. 50 years
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System is not fairer
SIR – You regularly publish letters from Lib Dem councillors explaining why the Alternative Vote is a fairer way of choosing our Members of Parliament on the grounds that the eventual winner will have the support of the majority of electors. I see this
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Terror order changes 'don't go far enough'
Nothing has tested the balance of national security and civil liberties more than the threat of terrorism since the September 11 terrorist attacks in America and the July 7 London bombings. And the debate over whether personal freedoms should be curtailed
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MPs ‘hypocrisy’ claim
SIR – I think Councillor Ian Greenwood is quite right to describe Kris Hopkins as “hypocritical” (T&A, January 19) when he was quite happy to become Leader of Bradford Council – the fourth-largest Metropolitan Authority in the country – before winning
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Owners of library will have to be responsible
SIR – Further to my colleagues’ letters in reply to that of R Halliday (Letters, January 14) on the state of Windhill’s empty Carnegie Library. Local Councillors Greenwood and Watmough have indeed tried to get the building and environs tidied up.
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‘Scapegoat’ sympathy
SIR – I may be in a minority, but can feel some sympathy for the former MP’s or Peers who have either pleaded or been found guilty of wrong doing over past expenses claims. For they were obviously drawn into a long standing culture of dishonesty which
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VIDEO: Our hero son followed his grandad into Army
The mother of a Bradford paratrooper, hailed a hero after he was killed helping a wounded friend, said she was sure his courageous comrades would have done the same for him. Private Martin Bell, 24, was fatally wounded by a bomb blast from
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Healthcare firm getting ready to expand
An industry-leading healthcare products and services company has opened a new service and training centre for the North West. It is the first of a national roll out of new developments planned by Birkenshaw-based Park House Healthcare for 2011. As part
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Bradford Bulls youngsters playing catch-up to win places
Bulls boss Mick Potter has a simple message for his young guns: the fight is on. Bradford’s next generation of Super League stars head to Keighley tonight with some catching up to do in the race for a first-team spot. Experience could dominate early-season
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US colonel backs battle over Cullingworth house
A retired US Army colonel has criticised plans to develop a Georgian mill owner’s house which she described as “almost as old” as her country. Col Joan Muddy, of Maryland, is one of more than 60 objectors opposing the proposals to extend Woodfield
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Council party leaders don’t rule out library cuts
Bradford’s political leaders are refusing to rule out cuts to the district’s “underused” library services. More than 400 libraries face being axed across the UK as councils react to the Government’s public spending cuts, according to some reports. Budget
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‘Rid Bradford city centre of pavement clutter’, say groups
A policy to keep the district’s pavements clutter-free needs to be properly enforced to protect residents with mobility difficulties, say councillors. Disabilities and mobility groups have been lobbying Bradford Council to get tough on businesses
