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Walshaw denied penalty shout as Guiseley slip up
GUISELEY slipped out of the Blue Square Bet North play-off places with a disappointing 1-1 home draw against mid-table Gloucester City – but it may not be too damaging. The Lions lost fifth position to Eastwood Town, who won away on the night but lost
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CITY 1 BURTON 1
Substitute Jake Speight fired a precious equaliser to rescue a point for City against fellow relegation-battling Burton at Valley Parade tonight. Peter Jackson had made five changes from the Southend defeat and the City line-up had a more solid appearance
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Aire-Wharfe Plate joy for West Leeds
West Leeds lifted the Aire-Wharfe Plate on home soil tonight, defeating Roundhegians 18-12 at Bluehill Lane. West Leeds, who led 5-0 at half-time, managed tries by winger Keir Breakwell and centre Kurt Eckhart, full back Dale Breakwell adding a conversion
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City team news
Omar Daley was back in City colours as Peter Jackson made five changes for the Burton game. The Jamaican, recalled from his Rotherham loan spell at the weekend, came straight into a side which looked much stronger than Friday night. The biggest surprise
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Calmly does it for Yorkshire youngster Root
Joe Root is determined to relax as he aims to make a name for himself in county cricket with Yorkshire. The 20-year-old batsman has been given the nod at the top of the order in the LV= County Championship side ahead of Joe Sayers. And Root, formerly
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Crash closes Halifax Road, Denholme
Police have closed Halifax Road, Denholme, in both directions following a crash involving a motorcycle and a car at about 4.30pm today. It is not yet known whether anyone was seriously injured in the incident, which occurred at the junction of Whalley
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VIDEO: Police teach youngsters archery
Police are aiming to hit their target of diverting youngsters from anti-social behaviour by teaching them skills including fishing and archery. Officers were trained as archery instructors before helping youngsters learn the new skill today
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Wibsey are in cup wonderland
Wibsey Warriors A made it a memorable day for the club with a 46-20 Supplementary Cup semi-final success against Slaithwaite Saracens A. Ryan Isaac posted a hat-trick and Cam Bishop (2), Ash Wood, Paul Jennings, Matt Cumberworth and Dave Sykes
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Runners turn up the heat in capital
Baking conditions welcomed the London Marathon on Sunday. A troop of Eccleshill Road Runners went down armed with months of training. Andrew Dyson, Sophie Withnall, Dawn Hogan, Gill Jones, Susan Birbeck and Hazel Maddocks all finished. Withnall knocked
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Dudley Hill show they are up for a scrap
Bradford Dudley Hill proved they are still determined to fight the dreaded drop from the National Conference Premier Division by giving table-toppers Thatto Heath a battle royal before falling 40-24 on their travels. Hill made the hosts battle hard
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Thackley new boys Morgan and Jain are up and running
New signing Adam Morgan was the star of the show as Thackley kicked off the new Aire-Wharfe League campaign with an impressive win over one of last season’s Division One title contenders Otley. The 20-year-old Leeds University student hit
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Bradford teacher issues academies warning
The majority of secondary schools will be forced to become academies to avoid becoming the “dumping ground for the problems of other schools”, a Bradford teacher has warned. Speaking at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) annual conference
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Carroll on song for Buttershaw
Buttershaw St Pauls missed out on promotion from the Central Yorkshire League First Division last season but they got their new campaign off to a flying start with a 77-run win at home to newly-promoted Oulton. Skipper Paul Carroll hit a top-scoring
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Spragg back with a bang for Oakworth
Last season’s Craven League Division One runners-up Bradley were very much under the cosh at Oakworth, going down by nine wickets. The visitors went first and were dismissed for 81, with Casper Bean making 30 as Jack Davison claimed 3-5
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Zahid ton gets Kashmir off to winning start
Kashmir made a cracking start to the new West Riding Sunday Cricket Council season as Muhammed Zahid hit the season’s first century in Kashmir’s winning total of 314-5. Euro Windows put down a marker too, Ehsan Khan scoring 84 of their 229 all out reply
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Motor racing results
East Keswick’s Ben Hemingway collected a brand new Beta 300 for the Scottish Six-Day Trial next month and rode the machine for the first time on Sunday at the Wetherby club’s Tetley Trophy Trial at Fellbeck. He beat brother Dan, cousin James, and Gas
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Key Bradford Bulls duo in contention for derby
Both Michael Platt and Patrick Ah Van have been included in the Bulls' 19-man squad for Thursday's clash with Leeds Rhinos. Platt returns after three weeks out with a hernia problem, while Ah Van missed last week's defeat at Salford with a
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Pupils fly the flag for church
Pupils at Burley and Woodhead Primary School created a colourful reel of bunting to raise funds for their church spire. Pupils paid £2 to decorate triangles of cloth which have been strung together and will be used in celebrations for years to come.
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Cowling youngster wins support slot to top musicians
A 12-year-old boy is to warm up for a world-renowned musician during a concert in Cross Hills, near Keighley. Alex Coward, of Cowling, will play the treble recorder in advance of the Saturday, May 14, performance at Malsis School by baroque quartet Red
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Balloon goes up for action group
Hundreds of balloons will be released over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal by campaigners fighting a development of 400 homes in Bingley. Greenhill Action Group (GAG) will hold the balloon race from 1pm on Easter Sunday as part of its fundraising drive for
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The following have been dealt with by Bradford Magistrates: Josephine Price, aged 24, of Dudley Street, Tyersal; driving without insurance, £610 fine, £100 costs, licence endorsed; driving without MOT, driving while using a hand-held mobile phone, failure
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The following planning applications have been submitted to Bradford Council: Keighley: change of use of first floor from light industry to assembly and leisure (indoor cricket nets and lounge with pool tables area), Unit 2C Worth Bridge Industrial Estate
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Probe into Fagley house fire
Police and fire officers are investigating the cause of a blaze which badly damaged a house in Fagley, Bradford. Firefighters spent two hours tackling the fire at Ravenscliffe Farm, in Fagley Road, Lower Fagley, on Sunday evening, after they were alerted
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Heroes of St Nazaire honoured
Royal Navy Type 22 frigate HMS Campbeltown has marked the 69th anniversary of a World War Two battle. At the end of last month the ship sailed from Falmouth to St Nazaire, in western France, scene of the first Campbeltown's main battle honour. Also present
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Profits record for car dealer group
Motors group JCT 600 lived up to its name in 2010 by boosting turnover to more than £600 million for the first time and shattering its previous record. The Bradford-based group, which has 48 dealerships in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire
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‘Fuel Britannia’ as store offers deal
Bradford-based supermarket Morrisons has adopted a patriotic approach to cutting petrol and diesel prices over Easter and the Royal Wedding Bank Holidays. The UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain which has 296 petrol stations. has dubbed its cut-price
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Notts double-header will provide early gauge of Yorkshire's title chances
Martyn Moxon believes the back-to-back LV= County Championship matches against Nottinghamshire could be the making or breaking of his Yorkshire side this summer. The White Rose county’s director of professional cricket has seen his troops win
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VIDEO: Historic Bibles go on display
Three historic English Bibles are on public display at Bradford Cathedral from today. The exhibition of Bibles published in 1605, 1611 and 1616 is accompanied by illustrated posters from Sheffield University explaining the history of Bible
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Arsonists strike at former dyeworks in Liversedge
Firefighters spent more than five hours tackling a large blaze, believed to have been started deliberately, at a derelict building in Liversedge last night. Flames were licking the outside of the former dye works in Miry Lane when crews arrived shortly
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Bradford City bin awards night after rubbish season
City have ditched this year’s annual awards ceremony after deciding there was nothing worth celebrating. The club traditionally hand out trophies to the best-performing players at a glitzy event in the final weeks of the season. But they have pulled
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Search for models is on
The hunt is on for future kings and queens of the catwalk as the Bradford Modelsearch celebrates its tenth year spotting talent in the city. The Kirkgate Centre competition, supported by the Telegraph & Argus, is offering budding models the
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Thieves pedal off with bikes
A community cycling scheme is counting the cost after being targeted by thieves for the second time in a month. Six bikes belonging to a project run by national cycling organisation CTC were stolen from a container at Salts Sports Association
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Father who never gave up quest to solve mystery of how daughter died
For more than 30 years, Ron Smith led a one-man crusade to prove his daughter was murdered. In a remorseless campaign, which cost him any semblance of a normal life to his dying day, the former policeman, of Guiseley, believed his daughter, Helen, was
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Fears over restaurant's 3am plans
The owner of a restaurant has hit back at residents’ claims it will attract gangs of drunken revellers, litter and noise if it is allowed to open until 3am. Quaisar Aziz’s Bradford-based company Hanq Investments is set to open a steak house
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Couple stage ball in honour of Evan
A couple are holding a charity ball for the second year running in memory of their baby son Evan, who died aged nine months. Emma and Justin Hargrave, of Ashlar Grove, Queensbury, held their first charity night a year ago and it was such as
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Medical reminder for bank holidays
With a double bank holiday approaching people across the Bradford district are being advised to stock up on prescriptions and medicines. NHS Bradford and Airedale is reminding people that routine health services will take a break over the Easter
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Bradford University sets fees at £9,000
Student leaders have threatened to take action after bosses at the University of Bradford revealed it will charge the maximum possible tuition fees from 2012. Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Cleary yesterday announced fees would rise to £9,000
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Sex offender, 77, is jailed
A 77-year-old man jailed for sexually abusing two boys almost half a century ago was told by a judge: “The law has a long memory and a long reach.” Lawrence Eyles would spend his final days alone having to face up to what he did five decades ago, Bradford
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It’s time to get real
SIR – Although the Labour Party has no obvious alternative ideas to deal with the serious Budget deficit its incompetence created, the result of the carefully-orchestrated anti-cuts demonstration in London is clear for all to see. Instead of just peaceful
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Picking and choosing
SIR – I am writing in response to Councillor John Cole’s letter where he attacks the Labour Party and supports his Lib Dem colleague’s campaign to keep Wrose Library open (T&A, April 7). I can fully appreciate why he is ‘sticking up’ for his colleague
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Withering on the vine
SIR – Coun John Cole (Letters, March 31) must have been really rattled at UKIP’s candidate in Barnsley upstaging the Lib Dems to have a jibe at our success. UKIP has been pushing other parties down the ladder, too, in recent times. John Stuart Mills,
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Abuse of position
SIR – As leading parish councillors, we are concerned at the recent decision by Bradford Council to transfer on to parish councils some of the costs it would unavoidably incur in running its own elections. The parish councils had proposed previously
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Graffiti vandal caught after leaving 'tag' in 30 attacks
A prolific teenage graffiti artist carried out a two-year rampage daubing his ‘tag’ in parts of Bradford. But that proved Thomas Toczek’s undoing as examples of his sign ‘NOK’ were later found at his home by police. And the 18-year-old
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Cuts for everyone
SIR – Have we no backbone in this country any longer? The Prime Minister tells us that his financial cuts will affect everyone. We all know that this is not true, but certain individuals could, and should, make sure the PM also feels the effects. The
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Future is difficult for many couples
SIR – Emma Clayton asks (T&A, April 12), “what is dimming our enthusiasm for the big day?” Has Emma forgotten that just as Kate and William were announcing their plans to get married, Lord Young was sacked from the Government for saying, “We have never
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Scouting for girls a non-starter
I have something in common with Kate Moss, Carol Vorderman, Davina McCall and Cherie Blair. As girls we all wore a blue shirt, a neckerchief and a cabin crew-style cap. We cooked sausages on open fires, learned how to resuscitate a plastic dummy, tied
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
25 years ago: Experts predicted £10 million was needed to be spent on a backlog of repairs and modernisation of 170 Victorian schools in the district. 50 years ago: A Cottingley site of two-and-a-half acres stated to be originally scheduled
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It's great to be back, now to get back in the runs
Anthony McGrath column: Although it was disappointing to lose against Durham, on a personal level I was delighted to finally be back playing. It has been a while since my operation and to get back out there was really pleasing. I must
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Funny man Paul’s PC pledge...
Rising stand-up comedian Paul Chowdhry has embarked on his debut UK tour and is coming to Bradford. The critically-acclaimed comic’s show, Not PC, looks at “the funny side of miscommunication, generation gaps, everyday racism and ignorance”. Paul challenges
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Working towards a jobs solution
Adam came to the UK last year from his native Poland. The 25-year-old found work in Bradford, but, after losing his job, he found that the language barrier, coupled with the recession and competition for jobs, prevented him from finding employment.
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Artless yobs should be put to work
Internationally-renowned graffiti artist “Banksy” has done a great disservice to communities across the country by, to some extent, legitimising a form of anti-social behaviour. That’s not to say that his work is without a good deal of merit:
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Passover celebrated at synagogue
Members of Bradford’s Jewish community gathered last night to celebrate the Passover festival. A service was held, with singing and reading from the Haggadah text, and a meal was served at the Bradford Reform Synagogue, in Bowland Street, Manningham
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Pub plan to create up to 35 new jobs
Work began yesterday on a £660,000 project to create a new pub and up to 35 jobs. The Lister’s Arms will open in Ilkley in June after JD Wetherspoon agreed a deal to take over the former JJ’s pub and cafe bar in the Moors Centre, on the
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‘I stopped further killings’ trial is told
A man who has confessed to attacking and robbing three Bradford University students told a jury he prevented his co-accused from killing all of them. Reaben Kareem said Jwanru Osman wanted to murder pharmacy student Sally Ho and her law student
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Flynn: Bradford City fans deserve so much better
Michael Flynn is demanding City pay back their debt to the fans at Valley Parade tonight and insisted: There are no excuses. With tickets slashed to £1 again, a bumper crowd is expected for the crucial clash with third-from-bottom Burton.
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Bradford Bulls boss Potter seeks quick fix against Rhinos
Derby day is dominating the Bulls’ thoughts but Mick Potter won’t allow his players to forget their Salford debacle. The pain of a 56-16 defeat remains fresh, even as the players prepare for Thursday’s clash with Leeds, and the Bradford boss
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My instinct always told me I would be back, says Bradford City winger Daley
Omar Daley has told City fans that he had no say in being shipped out to Rotherham. Daley plays his first game for the Bantams since February 1 tonight after returning from his loan. The Jamaican, who started only twice for the Millers, admitted that
