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Bones found by Girlington allotment holders
Police were last night investigating reports a bag of bones had been found at a Bradford allotment site. Officers were called at 5.40pm to the site, off Fairbank Road, Girlington, where a pitch-holder found the bag as he dug up the land. Police said
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Eagles on a high as they bid for seven straight wins
Eccleshill United are in knockout action tomorrow night but they have been drawn away and must travel to Teversal for a Northern Counties East League Cup second-round tie. The Eagles will take some stopping as they have swept all before
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Kamara set to return for Farsley
Farsley have the chance to exact some swift revenge tomorrow night but even if they are successful it will not aid their league position. Neil Parsley’s men lost at struggling Clitheroe in Evo-Stik Division One North at the weekend, which was
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Deacey bidding to add guile to Avenue's midfield
Bradford Park Avenue boss John Deacey is hoping to have some of his more experienced players available tomorrow night as the club looks to bounce back from a disappointing result at the weekend. Avenue could have regained top spot in the Evo-Stik Premier
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Fleece show Steel against Bangle
Steel Bangle's impressive start to the season in Bradford Sunday Alliance League Division 3A continued with a hard-fought victory against Fleece Clayton yesterday. The hosts, who have scored an amazing 41 goals in their last four games,
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Jagger's brace decisive for champions West Bowling in top clash
The Bradford Sunday Alliance League had a rest from cup football yesterday, and there was little to choose in the Premier Division’s top clash between Westwood Park and champions West Bowling. Chris Wood gave Bowling the lead in the first half, only
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Bradford derbies in prospect for women
Bradford Clayton Thunderbirds and Dudley Hill Diamonds are confirmed starters for the 2012 Women’s Rugby League competition. The season will run from march to October, including a summer break, and they will be joined in the 17-strong competition by
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Ferrazzano fails to make the cut
Keighley rugby union centre Marco Ferrazzano has not been selected for Italy’s 30-man squad for their European Zone World Rugby League Cup qualifiers next month against Lebanon, Russia and Serbia. Ferrazzano, who played for the Azzurri
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VIDEO: Man arrested following fracas in Bradford city centre
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a bladed article after a gang of men were involved in a disturbance in the centre of Bradford this morning. Up to 20 people were involved in the trouble, outside an independent insurance brokers
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Madley is guest of Bradford referees
Bobby Madley, the West Riding County FA’s head of referee recruitment, is the chief guest at Thursday’s monthly meeting of the Bradford & District Referees’ Association at the Central Division Club on Manchester Road (7.30). He will talk about the FA
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Armitstead rueing her misfortune
Lizzie Armitstead is cursing her bad luck after finishing seventh in the elite women’s road race at the World Championships in Copenhagen. The Otley ace had been lined up by her Great Britain colleagues for a sprint towards a podium finish when she
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Scott leads Dragons fightback
New recruit Denis Scott led a Bradford Dragons’ recovery as they won 74-67 at Medway Park Crusaders in the National Trophy. It was the Dragons’ first-ever game in the competition, which is exclusively for clubs in Division One of the English Basketball
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Cougars star Duffy now an All-Star
Cougars wing Gavin Duffy, who scored in his side’s Grand Final eliminator victory over Rochdale on Sunday, has been rewarded for his impressive form by being named in the Co-operative Championship One All-Star team.
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Top refs backing County FA initiative
The West Riding County FA will drive the FA’s Respect programme this season in a bid to halt the alarming numbers of officials quitting the game. The Football Association currently lose around 7,000 referees each year, largely due to the abuse
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Hamed and Arshad double up for leaders
BD3 United are now the only PREMIER DIVISION team with a 100 per cent record after three rounds of the Spen Valley League. Their latest victory was 6-1 at home to Mount Athletic, with Kabir Hamed and Toseef Arshad scoring twice each backed up by Mohammed
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Wibsey off mark at eighth attempt
Basement side Wibsey ended a run of seven consecutive PREMIER DIVISION defeats with a 5-2 home victory over Littletown to break their West Riding County Amateur League duck. Phil Brogan and match-day signing Mark Shute netted twice apiece, with James
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Rescue operation mounted as car is dumped in canal at Shipley
Emergency services from across West Yorkshire were called to recover a car from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Shipley early today. Shipley firefighters were called Dockfield Road at about 1am and found the car in the water. Crews from Idle, Bingley
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VIDEO: Michael's living in a Madonna world!
Michael Blair is simply mad on Madonna. The 36-year-old, of Bradford, believes he has the largest collection of Queen of Pop memorabilia in the UK – and he’s vowed to keep on collecting. At the last count the rare vinyls, box sets, CDs, posters and
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It's even cheaper to go cruising
Cruise prices for winter and next year are falling towards £50-£70 per day, as the superliners cross the Atlantic and move to European markets in their search for passengers. Mike Hall, at Cruise & Maritime Voyages, says: “There has probably
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First-class travel to railway history
Anyone who has said a tearful goodbye on a platform, or waited anxiously for a train to pull in, will know that there is something timelessly romantic about railway stations. Think of Celia Johnson dashing on to the platform at the end of Brief Encounter
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True story of a bid for freedom
Escape From Germany by Neil Hanson Doubleday, £16.99 Ilkley-based writer Neil Hanson specialises in narrative histories, especially those involving the First World War. For example, in 2005, The Unknown Soldier was published – a story
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Reader Jury
Various Artists – Downton Abbey (Decca) **** This album is released as the new series of the period drama Downton Abbey returns to our screens. It features the original orchestral soundtrack from the series, plus a vocal reworking of the Downton theme
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Rainforest mysteries are enthralling
James Rollins – Amazonia (Orion, £6.99) ***** A man staggers out of the Amazonian jungle and without a word is dead in hours. He was part of a scientific expedition that went missing four years ago. Amazingly, he had only one arm when he set off, but
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Stage set for show auditions
The Bradford Players had a good response to an item on this column about auditions for 42nd Street. Because of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, the show has been put back a week and will now run from June 12 to 16, 2012. If you missed the auditions
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Tribute to the musicals
Idle and Thackley Theatre Group is delving into the history of musicals for its new show. The group is paying tribute to musicals such as Blood Brothers, Rent, Hello Dolly, Oklahoma and The Producers in Through The Years. The show runs from October
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Players raising the roof for production
The villagers of Anatevka will be singing their hearts out this autumn in Bradford Catholic Players’ production of Fiddler On The Roof. The musical, which is ultimately very moving but has a warm, earthy humour, features the songs If I Were A Rich Man
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Numbers add up for children’s entertainment
For the first time, children’s TV’s favourite Numberjacks comes to the stage at St George’s Hall. Join the TV superheroes as they leave the sofa and embark on their first live adventure. The Numberjacks TV series won the Royal Television Society Award
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Number of empty homes is falling
The number of long-term empty homes in the Bradford district is falling but still stands in excess of 6,000 at a time when Council chiefs are deciding where to build 45,500 new homes. In April last year Bradford Council pledged to tackle the
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A garden for all day, every day
Ditch your old traditional wood furniture, trusty barbecue and bowling green lawn to make way for carpets of blue, crystal rocking chairs and state-of-the-art cookers in your outside space of the future, which once used to be lovingly called a garden.
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Sophie McShera has got it maid as Daisy in Downton Abbey
With the dark shadows of the First World War looming over Downton Abbey, life upstairs and downstairs will never be the same again. For scullery maid Daisy Robinson, the war has brought a surprise marriage proposal. Hit ITV period drama Downton Abbey
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
25 years ago: A double-your-money pay deal was offered to dinnerladies in a bid to end lunchtime chaos in Bradford’s schools. 50 years ago: The principal cornettist of the Black Dyke Mills Band was injured in an accident in Bradford Road, Shipley.
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Street where we lived
The last time I visited York Castle Museum was on a school trip. I was probably only a few years older than my daughter Katy, five, yet re-tracing my steps along the cobbled Victorian street, Kirkgate, where a life-like horse poses with its carriage
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Decision a victory for democracy
The decision by planning councillors to refuse permission for a development of up to 440 houses at Sty Lane, Micklethwaite, can only be applauded as a victory for people power. Six of the seven councillors on the Shipley Area Planning Panel decided to
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A sad departure
SIR – I was sorry to learn that the Reverend Councillor Paul Flowers has resigned from Bradford Council for personal reasons. A man not afraid to express his views and opinions, exemplified by his many contributions to the Telegraph & Argus’s Letters
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How we are all one
SIR – From the top of Baildon Moor, particularly on a fine day, you have a wonderful 360 degree view taking in two cities and beyond to sights such as Ferrybridge and Drax power stations and Emley Moor mast, Bradford being the much nearer city, of course
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Putting record straight
SIR – Further to the letter from Mr Martin Palliser under the title Service Is Failing City (T&A, September 22). First has not announced any such changes to its bus services and networks in Bradford. The content of the published letter is wholly inaccurate
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Stop this cruel sport
SIR – Public support for Aintree’s Grand National race has declined significantly over the last eight years, according to the results of a new NOP opinion poll, commissioned by Animal Aid. Most people who expressed a clear opinion said that the race
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Excellent solution
SIR – What a good idea from our ward councillors, to hopefully oversee the completion of what has become an absolute debacle, the proposed club house for Queensbury ARLFC Sports Club (T&A, September 16). More than £560,000 of taxpayers’ money has already
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Expensive shopping
SIR – Regarding Clear Out for Charity (T&A, Saturday 17). My wife and I have often taken items to the local charity shops and sometimes bought things ourselves, such as books. But we find the British Heart Foundation so expensive compared to the other
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Monday, September 26, 2011
25 years ago: Bradford was to get a high-speed inter-city postal service, Royal Mail chiefs announced. 50 years ago: Improvement plans announced for Church House, Bradford, included the brightening of the entrance, which the Archbishop of York, Dr Donald
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The joys of reading
SIR – It’s Read for RNIB Day on Friday, October 14, and I am appealing to your readers to help the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) celebrate the joy of reading, and raise money for reading services such as braille and Talking Books for
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Blinkered planning
SIR – It is interesting to compare two different local stories. It is reported that Bradford urgently needs a number of extra schools to cope with the “soaring numbers of pupils entering the overstretched education system.” A few days ago it was reported
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Time to stop the rail fare-dodgers
SIR – It was stated in the T&A (September 20) that ticket barriers at Bradford Interchange have been a major success in cutting fare-dodging. What a pity, therefore, that Northern Rail seems unable to do anything about the totally unsatisfactory situation
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A case of snobbery?
SIR – Keith Infield (Letters, September 22) is correct concerning actress Emelia Fox’s great-great-grandfather. I noticed the Bowling on his birth certificate and actually thought it was a bit of snobbery, saying he was born in Leeds and not Bradford
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Quest for leads on city’s Pink Floyd link
SIR – The recent Pink Floyd Night on BBC4 was a reminder of an anecdote I heard on Desert Island Discs, featuring founder member Roger Waters. He spoke lovingly of his mother and recalled the time when she was doing teacher training. She became politically
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Act of faith may save Bradford Playhouse
The news that troubled Bradford Playhouse has been handed a reprieve, for the foreseeable future at least, must have come as a relief to organisations that have bookings there over coming months. Last week the Little Germany theatre went into liquidation
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The need to demonstrate tolerance
The story of young mum Tracy Shah who is regularly hit by a barrage of abuse because of her religion is one that should disgust any right-thinking person. Mrs Shah, of her own volition, has chosen to follow a particular creed and that decision is no-one
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Shipley charity faces closure over van thefts
A community project which has provided low-cost furniture to people on benefits for two decades could be forced to fold because of repeated thefts of van parts. Kath Quinn, one of the organisers of the Windhill Community Furniture Project in Crag Road
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Time for a blast of Terror
Bradford rockers Terrorvision will be back on home turf this week. The band are playing at Victoria Hall in Keighley on Friday following a national tour showcasing new album Super Delux. Original members Tony Wright, Mark Yates and Leigh Marklew are
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Sorry state of affairs in our house
Commenting on the fact that British people say ‘sorry’ 2,290 times a year, a woman at my weekly tennis session said: “We must say it more times than that in an hour.” It is definitely the most uttered word on the courts in our village, surpassing even
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Bradford school overcrowding ‘at crisis point’
Increasing class sizes in Bradford’s primary schools are reaching crisis point, a teaching union has warned, with the problem set to get worse. Some schools are ‘packed to the limit’ with 700 pupils herded into classes and temporary buildings tacked
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VIDEO: Holme Wood family of 12 still living in 'hellish' cramped house
A charity has urged Council chiefs to end the “hellish” conditions endured by a Bradford family of 12 who are crammed into a three-bedroom house. Donna Harrison, 35, and Fabian Bland, 43, of Draycott Walk, Holme Wood, have spent years trying
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New kids on the block are more than a match for Bradford City's collection of 'big-name' players
Bradford City 1 AFC Wimbledon 2 When Phil Parkinson handed over the City teamsheet, there was only one outcome in his head. With names like Andrew Davies, Matt Duke, Jamie Devitt and Craig Fagan – solid higher-division names – on his list, he had every
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Billiards results
BRADFORD & DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL LEAGUE – Eastbrook C 1 Eastbrook A 6; Great Horton 3, Bradford Deaf Centre 4; Princeville B 5, Pudsey 2. Breaks: P Devitt (Eastbrook A) 54, 34; S Wilman (Great Horton) 44, 34; C Jarvis (Eastbrook C) 35; P Hammond (Great
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Bradford Bulls: Potter vows to come back stronger
Mick Potter admits Bradford’s failure to make the play-offs has simply made him more determined to succeed next season. The Bulls have now gone three years without making the play-offs and Potter found life tough during his maiden campaign at Odsal.
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Oxenhope launch for historic carriage after 18-year project
An historic railway carriage, which had spent time being used as a cricket pavilion after it was taken out of service, has been brought back to life on the rails following a £50,000 restoration project. The LYR (Lancashire Yorkshire Railway) 47 Blackpool
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Parkinson worried as 'mentally weak' Bantams surrender more points
Phil Parkinson has told his players to get their heads round City’s situation after accusing them of accepting defeat too easily. AFC Wimbledon came from behind to inflict a third successive loss on Parkinson’s team and they now sit only two points
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Shipley mum who became Muslim ‘is abused’
A mum who converted to Islam says she is being subjected to abuse each day as she walks her children home from school by pupils who jeer at her from a passing bus. Tracy Shah, 31, of Shipley, who wears a headscarf, claims she has been spat
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Woman's terror in raid by axe gang on home
Masked raiders threatened a 46-year-old woman with an axe and a stun gun then tied her up during a robbery at her home. A substantial amount of cash was stolen from the house in Burnwells, off Thackley Road, Thackley, during the daylight raid. Police
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'Why isn't Adrian Moorhouse on Bradford's phone book?'
BT has been criticised for ignoring the gold winning feats of Bingley-born swimmer Adrian Moorhouse for the front cover of its new Bradford phone book. The telecommunication giant has chosen 15 sporting greats representing different regions to appear
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Son pays tribute to 'happy go lucky' Rexford
The son of a pensioner killed as he crossed a road has spoken of his family’s devastation at losing their ‘happy-go-lucky‘ father. Father-of-five Rexford Barnett, 73, was walking to the bookmakers to watch horse racing when he was in a collision with
