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VIDEO: Police seal off shops after Whetley Hill kidnapping
Detectives are investigating after a man was attacked and kidnapped at a Bradford business tonight. Police were called to the junction of Whetley Lane and Whetley Hill, Girlington, to reports that the man had been seriously assaulted at about
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Clayton confident ahead of tough Drighlington test
Clayton can move up the Pennine League Premier Division if they can make home advantage count and defeat Drighlington on Saturday. Coach Scott Pendlebury will be expecting a tough game as the visitors sit in second and have one of the meanest defences
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Keighley Cougar Coleman keen as mustard for final fling
Jy-mel Coleman admits he is desperate to be involved when the Cougars bid for Grand Final glory against Workington on Sunday. The rookie half-back was instrumental last weekend as Jason Demetriou’s men overpowered Rochdale 38-23 at Cougar Park to move
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Guiseley out to end blip at familiar foes
Guiseley were handed a tough tie in the FA Cup second qualifying round when it was made almost a fortnight ago and their recent form has not made their task any easier. The Lions visit Blue Square Bet North Division rivals Stalybridge Celtic on Saturday
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Bradford Park Avenue eye cup lift after league dip
Bradford Park Avenue’s main priority this season might be the league but Saturday’s FA Cup tie at home to Warrington Town provides the ideal opportunity to return to winning ways. A loss and a draw in the space of four days has seen them stutter
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Come and join us, say Horsforth firm's staff
Clinical software firm TPP, which has twice been named as one of the best companies to work for, is continuing a recruitment drive for the fourth consecutive year. The Horsforth-based business, a major supplier to the NHS, is looking to take on eight
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Farsley bid to reach 20-point landmark
Farsley go in search of the three point maximum that would take their season total in the Evo-Stik Division One North to 20 this weekend. Neil Parsley’s men will have to be on top of their game in the roses clash at home to Salford City but will be buoyant
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All is not lost for Liversedge
Liversedge may have only won one of their last seven fixtures but they host Bridlington Town on Saturday knowing they could leapfrog them in the Baris Northern Counties East League Premier Division. Sedge are eighth while Brid, who have one game in hand
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Leeds United must cut out errors to be contenders
Leeds midfielder Adam Clayton believes his side can be promotion contenders – if they cut out the errors. United were 2-0 up at Brighton last time out but needed a last-gasp Ross McCormack goal to rescue a Championship point after going 3-2 down. Some
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Bradford City winger Rowe joins Barrow on loan
Teenage City winger Dominic Rowe has joined Barrow on a month's loan. The 18-year-old played a prominent part in the Bantams' pre-season games but has yet to feature in the league campaign. He made his debut at Southend last season and gained his first
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Sheffield hails Keighley clean sweep ahead of trip to leaders
Keighley might be missing a few players here and there but good things are happening at Rose Cottage. Director of rugby Graeme Sheffield said: “We put four teams out on Saturday and all won. That must be the first time that has happened for an extremely
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It doesn’t matter who Bradford City captain is
Michael Flynn column It’s an honour to be given the skipper’s armband but that made it even more frustrating to lose again. Being named captain, scoring the goal and getting a win against Wimbledon would have been the perfect day. But nothing is perfect
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Thomas wings in for Bradford Salem
Bradford Salem have signed former Bradford Dudley Hill star Danny Thomas from Dewsbury Celtic. He goes straight onto the wing for the SSE Yorkshire Division Two match at Leodiensian on Saturday, and they also welcome back Tony Williams in the
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Sergeants take their place with the Pipers at Cleckheaton
Mark Sergeant has been rewarded for a fine performance off the bench for Cleckheaton last week with a place in the back row for their SSE North One East clash at home to Durham City on Saturday. Ryan Piercy moves up from the back row into
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Angling lines
KL TACKLE: The open match series on the River Aire is due to start on Sunday. This will be a series of ten matches at Kildwick. There is a £50 prize for the biggest barbel caught during the series and a golden peg. The draw is at Kildwick Bridge
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Cavalry starting to come over the hill for Walker
Otley are in need of a decent home win in SSE National League Two North. They face Kendal in what is a very congested lower to mid-table, with only three points separating nine clubs from sixth downwards. The home side, who are missing several experienced
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Bees need win in Litt's last game
Bradford & Bingley have had a stiff introduction to their SSE National League Three North season. After an opening 21-6 win at Lymm, the Bees have lost to Chester, Darlington Mowden Park and Birkenhead Park, who currently occupy the top three places
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Reardon signs for French club
Former Bulls star Stuart Reardon has joined French outfit AS Carcassonne. The 29-year-old full back, who had two spells at his home-town club, heads across the Channel from cash-strapped Welsh side Crusaders.
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Tyersal in spotlight for cup tie
The first Saturday in October every season signals the start of the West Riding County FA Challenge Cup and Challenge Trophy. And with West Riding County Amateur League teams having won the senior competition seven times in the last ten campaigns, there
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Baildon are back on the Junior Vase trail
Baildon are back on the Twickenham trail. Beaten Junior Vase semi-finalists in 2007, when they lost 19-14 at Billericay, the Jenny Laners have been invited back into what is now a much truncated competition – but still with the carrot of a final at HQ
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Wharfedale will not be pushing Tincknell
It is a case of good news, bad news for Wharfedale this week. James Tincknell has rejoined the Greens on loan from Leeds Carnegie but full back Adam Whaites could be out for the season with a knee injury. It is particularly bad luck on Whaites as he
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Bradford City sign Sunderland midfielder on loan
City today signed Sunderland midfielder Adam Reed on a one-month youth loan. The 20-year-old, who was on loan at Brentford last season, goes straight into the squad for this weekend’s game at Burton.
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You’ve still got time to sign up for Bradford City Run
With three days to go to the Bradford City Run, people have been reminded there is still time to sign up. More than 1,500 competitors are expected to take part in the road race on Sunday, organisers have revealed. Postal and online entries closed on
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Riddlesden cross-dresser spared jail over indecent pictures
A man who lives as a woman has been spared jail after admitting possessing indecent images of children, in a case described by a judge as “unique”. Michaela Hammersley, 58, formerly known as Richard Michael Hammersley, had previously pleaded
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Lucky escape for Ella in Cowling car crash
Young Ella Varley is lucky to be alive. The 11-year-old escaped with just cuts and bruises after a car ploughed into her as she tucked into sausage and chips outside Cowling Chippy on Keighley Road, Cowling, on Saturday. She was trapped underneath the
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Smile! MG is back and ready for action!
The MG has had something of a chequered past in recent years. A once-proud British brand, it evokes more misty eyes than most from car fans of a certain age. But in the last decade or so the brand all but vanished, a victim of an ever-changing industry
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School in poor light
SIR – With regard to Catholic pupils from St Bede’s School taunting Tracy Shah, of Shipley, the mother of three young children and a Muslim convert, shows their school in a very poor light. It certainly isn’t Christian. Iain Morris, Caroline Street,
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Ringside memories
SIR – I really enjoyed David Barnett’s column (T&A, September 23) regarding his family visit to the circus, which brought back memories. In about 1970, we took our three young children to see Sir Robert Fosset’s circus in Peel Park. There were only about
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Cycle lanes ignored
SIR – Earlier this year, Bradford was voted the least bike-friendly city in the country. The tragic fatal accident of a 23-year-old cyclist in Canal Road on September 16 highlights the risks cyclists face on Bradford roads. It is self-evident why
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Historic hall merits better treatment
SIR – I went to Bolling Hall last Sunday and had a most enjoyable afternoon. The actors were excellent and very knowledgeable and passionate about the times. Inside Bolling Hall is always worth seeing, but the museum grounds are looking very tired and
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September 29
25 years ago: Bradford rates pressure group I-Rate pledged to take its fight to the polls. 50 years ago: Two bogus television and radio “repairers”, operating throughout the West Riding, struck again in Pudsey, where a housewife allowed the two tricksters
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Mobile phones' fatal attraction
Nearly three out of ten motorists text while driving, according to a national survey this week. Road safety charity Brake, which carried out the survey with insurers Direct Line, claims texting makes drivers 23 times more likely to cause a crash. The
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100 Bradford soldiers head out to duty tour in Afghanistan
Up to 100 Bradford soldiers, including two brothers, are heading for a tour of duty in war-torn Afghanistan. Members of the 1st Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, will spend six months working with the Afghan National Army, preparing them to eventually
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Parking upset caused
SIR – In response to your readers’ letters regarding ‘car parking chaos’ due to ongoing construction works at Grange Technology College. While I fully appreciate that this work must be an advantage to the school, what about the disruption and upset to
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How we got here...
SIR – Millions of fans have been watching their team in the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. England, with a flood of tries. Ireland’s O’Gara the top kicker. Scotland with the tallest player. Wales beating the twice world-beaters. But the favourites
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The men to blame
SIR – Hurrah! Wonderful to hear the money-mongers have arrived at a three-pronged ‘solution’ for the Greek economy. The plan is that 50 per cemt of the debt will be ‘written off’ and the IMF will collect a multi-billion ‘donation’ from all EC member countries
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Positively a proud day for district
The biggest single contingent of Bradford men and women to be despatched to Afghanistan is announced today, which will raise mixed feelings in those closest to them. On the one hand, we would all prefer that there was no need for our Armed Forces to
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VIDEO: Officers examine Heaton home of dead boy
Scenes-of-crime officers were yesterday carrying out intensive forensic work at a Bradford house where the badly-decomposed body of a young boy was found. Teams of investigators moved into the boarded-up mid-terrace house in Crofton Road, Heaton
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Chef stabbed his teenage girlfriend to death before turning knife on himself, court hears
A chef stabbed his teenage girlfriend to death with a kitchen knife then turned the weapon on himself because “if they could not live together, they would die together”, a jury heard. Til Bahadur Rana, 34, and Beena Bhatt, 18, were found together in
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Fixture perfect! Five matches Parkinson hopes will snap Bantams out of poor run
Phil Parkinson is targeting an October-fest of points to pull City clear of League Two’s basement. Parkinson believes the next five matches offer the chance to gain some momentum after a troubled start to the season. The Bantams boss
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Bradford Bulls coach Potter: Best of British being ignored
Bulls boss Mick Potter believes that homegrown coaches are being overlooked when vacancies arise at Super League clubs. Earlier this year, former Bradford boss Brian Noble accused clubs and the game’s administrators of turning their back on
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Ravenscliffe fraudster Patrick Doran due back in court today after he collapses in dock
A conman who tricked a solicitor to swindle £5,000 from an elderly woman was due to be sentenced today after a judge said he had “tried the patience of the court long enough”. The hearing was adjourned yesterday after Patrick Doran collapsed in the dock
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Council boss apologises over Menston homes 'oversight'
A senior council officer last night apologised for an “oversight” which caused a major meeting to discuss plans for 300 new homes in a village to be cancelled. Barra Mac Ruairi, Bradford Council’s strategic director for regeneration and culture
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Pupil Danielle meets One Direction heart-throbs
An ‘inspirational’ schoolgirl has become the envy of millions – by having boy-band hearthrobs One Direction present her with a national award. Danielle Bailey met the chart-topping group, which includes Bradford teenager Zayn Malik, when he and the band
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Matthew launches website for IBD sufferers
A patient who suffers from a debilitating disease has joined forces with Bradford Teaching Hospitals to set up a website. Matthew Hodgson, 22, of Wibsey, Bradford, was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Brett Kearney senses bright future for Bradford Bulls
Brett Kearney will attend four weddings in Australia and New Zealand in the next month. Who needs a funeral after the season the Bulls endured in 2011? Kearney, who turned 28 today, freely admits that another year of failure at Odsal next season would
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Talent pool offers advice to businesses
An online regional talent pool of business advisors, including a Shipley consultancy, has been launched across the region. Consult Yorkshire will help organisations to find the right advisor for a problem or project through its website. Founding members
