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Makaafi extends deal at Doncaster
Former Wharfedale and Bradford & Bingley flanker Latu Makaaafi has signed a one-year extension to his contract at Championship side Doncaster Knights. The hard-hitting Tongan has delighted the crowds with his old-fashioned, no-nonsense running style
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Pearce edges out Adams in superb Jack Bloor finale
The 26th Jack Bloor Race at Ilkley provided a tough five-mile work out on Tuesday. The race took in 1,150 feet of climbing on moorland paths and point-to-point cross-country routes, via landmarks including the Swastika Stone and Cowpers Cross, before
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Nap hand of winners for Airienteers
Airienteers were out in force last weekend in the Urban Orienteering event at Filey – a spectator-friendly format which is becoming increasingly popular, requiring accurate navigating at speed. Airienteers had no fewer than five winners on
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Birkenshaw hoping to spike Wibsey's cup dream
Wibsey Warriors start favourites when they meet Birkenshaw in the Jack Senior Memorial Bradford Cup final at the Grattan Stadium on Sunday (3.30pm). The Warriors have dominated the local scene this term, having won the Pennine League Championship and
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Women arrested as police identify bodies dumped in lane near Tong
Two women have been arrested by police probing the death of two men found dumped in a country lane near Bradford. The women, aged 26 and 63, were arrested on suspicion of murder. They were arrested at an address in the Leeds Road area
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Cork backs Shahzad for England recall
Test veteran Dominic Cork has described Yorkshire star Ajmal Shahzad as 'just what England need'. The 39-year-old Hampshire all-rounder played 39 Tests for his country, and is in the perfect position to assess the credentials of England's current
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The table doesn't lie, admits Bradford Bulls assistant coach Cummins
Francis Cummins admits the Bulls deserve to be languishing in the lower reaches of Super League. Bradford sit 11th ahead of Sunday's trip to Hull KR after failing to win any of their past five games in the competition. A Challenge Cup
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Hutchinson to miss Isle of Man TT
'Bingley Bullet' Ian Hutchinson has been forced to admit defeat in his brave battle to be fit for the 2011 Isle of Man TT Races. The Yamaha rider, who won a historic five TT eaces in 2010, has not yet fully recovered from the injuries sustained during
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Care selected in Aviva Premiership Dream Team
Former Prince Henry’s Grammar School pupil Danny Care has been chosen in the ESPN Dream Team for the 2010-11 season. The Harlequins and former Leeds scrum half was named in the select 15 at the Aviva Premiership awards in London.
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Keighley Cougars coach happy to stay under the radar
Cougars chief Jason Demetriou is more than happy for Swinton to steal the spotlight. The big-spending Lions have become the most talked-about club in Championship One after an unbeaten start to the league campaign. A shock win against
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Strong defence is all in the mind
Defence has been the word on everyone’s lips this week. To be honest, we talk about our defence every week but, after the performance at Halifax, we know we need to improve urgently. It wasn’t a great performance, that was obvious for
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Guiseley well prepared for their biggest day
Guiseley are potentially a mere 90 minutes away from earning a place in the full Conference League so Sunday's game must be the biggest in the club’s history, even eclipsing their two trips to Wembley in the 1990s. The Lions have a very proud history
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FA intervention hindered Eccleshill United's campaign
Mid-table respectability in a division on the bottom step of the non-league pyramid system is not where Eccleshill United want to be but they will certainly take that from the season just ended. Following two seasons of decline, the club has worked hard
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Room for improvement after seismic season at Sedge
Liversedge were pleased to settle for fourth from bottom of the Kool Sport Northern Counties East League Premier Division at the end of a season that saw more tidal shifts than a lunar cycle. Sedge were looking in one direction only last May, and that
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Calling Grange Boys Grammar School old boys
John Smithies writes: My name is John Smithies and I have lived in South Africa since 1980. I would like to contact any lads who were at Grange Boys Grammar School between 1958 and 1963. I can be contacted at 75 Heyns Street, Worcester, Western Cape
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Search for old school friends
Veronica Cocchiaraley writes: I was born in Bradford and went to St. Mary's School, left in 1957. My name is Veronica Salmon (now Cocchiaraley). I have been living in New York for the last 40 years. I will be coming to Bradford in July for a family
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Rain ruining things for Yorkshire
Rain has forced an early tea at Headingley with Yorkshire’s LV= County Championship match against Hampshire finely poised during the third day. Yorkshire have moved to 56-3 after 17 overs of their second innings, leading the visitors by 179 runs with
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Good morning for Yorkshire's Shahzad
Ajmal Shahzad claimed only his second five-wicket haul in LV= County Championship cricket during the third morning against Hampshire at Headingley. The ex-Windhill star helped to bowl the visitors out for 232 in reply to Yorkshire’s 355, returning 5-
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Mobile visit to explain the libraries
Mobile library services are due to tour the sites of the five Bradford libraries listed for closure under Bradford Council spending cuts. The Council could not give precise dates but said the services would be visiting Denholme, Wrose, Heaton, Addingham
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Revamp of Tong church bells celebrated
A celebration evening took place last night to herald the funding of historic church bells in Tong, Bradford. St James’s Church received a £45,900 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to remove, restore and then return the six bells, which have remained
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Gas firm helps pupils to stay safe
Pupils at a Bradford primary school have been urged to play safely while gas engineers work nearby. Northern Gas Networks is working with Fagley Primary pupils to encourage them to steer clear of gas mains upgrade road works. The £327,000 project involves
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Friday, May 13, 2011
The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Allerton: telecommunications upgrade, Melrose Textile Co Limited, Allerton Mills, Allerton Road. Allerton: single and two storey rear extension, 112 Dale Croft Rise. Allerton
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Memories of May Day at Cross Hills
Memories of May Day dances were brought to life when staff at a Cross Hills care home organised for a maypole in the grounds. Residents at Anchor’s Townend Close were also treated to a display of maypole dancing by staff. Manager Sharon Mackie said:
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Wilsden to hold first beer festival
Villagers are raising a glass to Wilsden’s first beer festival. Funds from the event on Saturday, June 4, will go towards refurbishing the village hall’s main room and buying a fold-away stage. Village Hall manager Julie Petty said: “It’s a first for
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Bradford judge hits out at sentence for driver
A judge has hit out at what he called the “scandalously” lenient maximum sentence for dangerous driving while locking up a Bradford man with the worst record for motoring offences he said he had ever seen. Steven Garner was flouting a ten-year
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Cold callers face major crackdown
Cold callers will get the cold shoulder in part of Bradford. West Yorkshire Police, West Yorkshire Trading Standards and Bradford Council have joined forces to create a second Cold Calling Control Zone in Great Horton. The first one
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Two held in burned-body murder hunt
Detectives have arrested two men on suspicion of murder following the discovery of a badly burned body near the Holme Wood estate in Bradford. The men, aged 39 and 32, are in police custody after officers raided an address in Eggleston Drive
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Keighley respite centre is hosting a reunion
A reunion day is being held tomorrow for young people and their families who have attended the Clockhouse Respite Centre in Keighley. Former staff are also invited to the centre, in Oakworth Road, which provides short respite breaks for people with
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Friday, May 13, 2011
The following have been dealt with by Bradford magistrates: Bilal Hussain, aged 20, of Gurney Close, Chapel Green; failure to comply with community order, dealt with for the original offence of possession of offensive weapon, order revoked, community
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Tell us a story and we will do the rest
As Local Newspaper Week draws to an end, we have been showing you how important a role a newspaper such as the Telegraph & Argus plays in the local community. We are the eyes and ears of our readers but we also rely on the people within the community
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Waste firm's site bid a step nearer
A waste carrying company which was last year allowed to double the number of lorries travelling in and out of its rendering plant near Bradford has cleared a major hurdle in getting planning permission for a new building at the site. Members
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Search is on for a winning venture
Ambitious social entrepreneurs in Bradford could win thousands of pounds in funding for their ventures as part of a competition aimed at making positive changes to communities. The Big Venture Challenge, run by UnLtd, the Foundation for Social
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Children's Down's unit needs help to survive
A charity which gives children with Down’s syndrome a brighter and more inclusive future has started a fundraising appeal in a bid to raise £100,000. The money would pay the running costs for a year for The Down Syndrome Training and Support Service,
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MP to vote against 'shadow mayors'
A Bradford Liberal Democrat MP says he will support moves to block Government plans for the creation of shadow district mayors. Labour MPs have tabled amendments to the Coalition’s Localism Bill, which includes proposals for referendums on elected mayors
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Hire and higher for growing events firm
A Bradford events business which looked after some of the Press covering the royal wedding has clinched a top national award for the second year running. Event Hire, which opened its Bradford base in 2009, has again been named hire company
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Shipley firm looking to gain second UK award
A Shipley-based electronics company is in the running for its second major award this year after reaching the last four bidding for the UK’s top engineering innovation prize. Ten judges, including eminent engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs, visited
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MP in plea over school Academy cash
A Liberal Democrat MP is demanding assurances from his own ministers that not a single penny will be taken from students at local authority run schools as the Government pushes ahead with its Academies agenda. Bradford East MP David Ward said he had
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Fears grow over support shake-up
Nearly 28,000 people with disabilities across the Bradford district receive between £20 and £125 a week to help with things like paying for help and getting out of the house. But under a Government shake-up, more than 5,500 of them could be stripped
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Chance to make a real difference
It takes a special kind of person to foster a child. Bringing up your own child as a parent is difficult enough, although the rewards far outweigh the problems. But to take on a child, often an older child, for a short term, and to deal
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Funds rethink is vital
SIR – The recently-published research by Carers UK and the University of Leeds has highlighted not only the immense contribution made by carers, but the worrying lack of support available to these crucial members of our society. As outlined by the report
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Duke of Kent sees prowess of Bradford engineering
The Duke of Kent visited the Bradford district to help promote engineering in the UK. The Queen’s cousin was greeted by 120 first year pupils at Bradford Grammar School yesterday, where a high proportion of students go on to study engineering at university
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Thanks for getting Bel home, say campaigners
A nine-year-old girl left paralysed after falling from a climbing frame has finally returned home more than a year after the accident. Bel Young, a former pupil at Moorfield School in Ilkley, has spent months in hospital as a result of the accident
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Homes raided after third murder victim found
A series of raids were carried out on a Bradford housing estate last night as detectives investigated a third murder in 36 hours in the area. A badly-burned body was found off Holme Lane, near the Holme Wood estate,
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Friday, May 13, 2011
25 years ago: The office of Lord Mayor of Bradford was scrapped – the city’s new ruling Labour group took the decision to end the 140-year-old tradition at a meeting. 50 years ago: Polling was taking place for urban and rural district councils in the
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Pensioner airlifted after van collision
A 90-year-old woman has been airlifted to hospital after a collision with a van. It happened just outside The Box Tree restaurant in Church Street today shortly before 4pm. The pensioner was believed to have been crossing the road when
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Can you foster a child?
Vulnerable older children in Bradford are having to be looked after outside the district because of a lack of foster carers, Council chiefs have revealed. Almost 450 children aged over ten are in the care of Bradford Council, 259 of whom are
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Walker’s time at Bradford Bulls could be running out
Chev Walker fears his Bulls career may be ended by a fresh injury setback. The experienced centre has been plagued by problems over the past two years and now faces a further three months out following an ankle operation. It is the second
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Family-run firm killed off by rising fuel cost
Surging fuel prices have been blamed for the closure of a family-run Bradford haulage business. R W Feather & Son, based at the Morley Carr Business Centre, has been wound up after the directors decided to call it a day rather than let their debts go
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Equipment concerns
SIR – Your correspondent Jim James (Letters, May 7) had me really worried as he listed all the safety equipment that a Council employee was wearing to litter pick in a fenced-off area. I frequently litter-pick where I live, and the only equipment I
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Still need peer reform
SIR – Successive Prime Ministers have dished out a life peerage to so many officials of powerful organisations (117 last year) that the Upper House of our bicameral Parliament is still filled to capacity during important debates, despite having undergone
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Lib Dems’ dark days
SIR – Another election over, bringing more dark days for the Lib Dems punished by the voter. “Why punish the Lib Dems?” one may ask. For a simple answer to that question, let’s take a trip back in time to May 11, 2010. Nick Clegg decided to give new
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More cancer care
SIR – The artist’s impression of the new ward blocks at Bradford Royal Infirmary which will have children’s services looks very impressive. I lived in a Housing Association flat in Welbury Drive, Manningham, with a view of the former Bradford Children
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Cuppas cover costs
SIR – In response to David Rhodes’s letter ‘Profits are greedy’ (T&A, May 10), it would seem that Mr Rhodes had little knowledge of running a business. I also charge £1.10 for a regular size cup of tea in my coffee shop, and that is a fair price in today
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The future is looking bright for city centre
SIR – It was a pleasant surprise to see that Stead and Simpson have returned to Bradford, within the next Shoe Zone shop in the Kirkgate Centre. The Commercial Inn on James Street has been spruced up, however the same cannot be said for the Boy & Barrel
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Retirement wrangle
SIR – Sex discrimination is illegal and I am pretty sure Linda Arnold (Letters, May 9) would not have it otherwise. The age of retirement should be the same for both men and women, so why is she concerned about 500,000 women and not their male counterparts
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So will it be three for sorrow?
I appear to have developed something of a minor obsession with magpies. I can pretty much pinpoint the moment this happened, which would have been sometime in the early Nineties when I was in a car with several mates on our way to a holiday cottage in
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Fury at ‘sick’ Bradford City fire comments
Bradford City supporters have condemned “sick individuals” who posted Facebook taunts about the Bradford City fire in the week of the 26th anniversary of the disaster. As civic dignitaries gathered to remember 56 people killed in the blaze, “jokes” and
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Wootton Bassett’s tribute to Graham
The town of Wootton Bassett paid its respects yesterday as the body of a Cleckheaton soldier who died while on UN peacekeeping duties in Cyprus was repatriated. Warrant Officer Class 2 Graham Bean died on Tuesday, May 3 after being taken
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Hot-shot Hannah tipped to make grade at Bradford City
Peter Jackson insists City’s latest delve into non-league is a gamble well worth taking after snapping up his first signing. Prolific striker Ross Hannah joined from part-timers Matlock on an initial year’s basis, although the club have an
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Awards in fashion for Bradford College students
Bradford College students whose hard work has stood out were rewarded for their efforts at an awards evening with a fashion twist. Seventeen students taking hairdressing and beauty therapy courses, and another 14 studying travel and tourism and hospitality
