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£300,000 appeal bid for Brontë document
An appeal has been launched to help fund the purchase of a rare Charlotte Brontë manuscript. The Brontë Parsonage Museum is appealing for financial support from the public and funding bodies. It needs to raise up to £300,000 to cover the expected cost
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Bradford Park Avenue seek cure for cup woe
Bradford Park Avenue have an early chance to get their FA Cup hiding out of their system tomorrow night. The Horsfall outfit visit Stocksbridge Park Steels in the third round of a lesser-known knockout competition – the Doodson Sports Cup. Bradford
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Bradford Dragons unable to top weekend off with second victory
Bradford Dragons recorded an emphatic 97-70 victory over Brixton Topcats in English Basketball League Division One on Saturday before slipping to an 82-76 defeat against Leicester Warriors the following day. Raimond Pabrieza sank a triple
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Drive launched to increase number of volunteers
Organisers of the Bradford district’s first Volunteering Strategy hope to increase the number of volunteering inquiries by almost 3,000 over the next three years. The strategy, which will be unveiled tonight at the Bradford Volunteer Centre
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Taylor hat-trick fires up Thornton
Division One leaders Thornton United caused one of the shocks of the Bradford Sunday Alliance League season as they hammered Premier opponents Baildon Trinity Athletic 5-1 in the SENIOR CUP. Thornton had run defending champions West Bowling
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Campion stunned on day of home discomfort
Campion suffered a shock 3-1 home defeat to PREMIER DIVISION strugglers Hall Green United as all five West Riding County Amateur League top-flight fixtures produced away wins. Thomas Howard actually fired the Bradford hosts in front but the
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Team Fulinkazan's awesome foursome
Four students from Team Fulinkazan martial arts academy in Bradford competed in cage fighting events in Preston and Pudsey at the weekend. Ady Platt faced off against Mark O’Neil from Preston. He showed excellent kickboxing skills and improved grappling
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Special guest for league centenary
The Huddersfield Sunday School Billiards League celebrate their centenary this year and have a visit from David Causier, finalist in the recent World Billiards Championship, on Friday, December 2. Tickets cost £4, including supper, and can be obtained
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Whetley Lane fume after spot of bother
Two contentious penalty decisions robbed Whetley Lane of at least a point in their latest FA Umbro Vets Cup group game. Lane trailed defending champions Burnley 3-0 at the interval but drew level and then had a strong penalty appeal waved away, before
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Slip by Jardy Boys allows BD3 to close in at top
Girlington became only the second team to take Spen Valley League points off PREMIER DIVISION leaders Jardy Boys as they earned a 4-4 draw. Sohil Fiaz and Ahsan Farooq netted twice apiece for the mid-table hosts, with Jardy having Lee Speight, Judd Ledgard
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Bett on Buttershaw to move clear of pack
A Mark Bett hat-trick was the highlight of PREMIER DIVISION leaders Buttershaw White Star’s 4-1 victory at Dudley Hill Rangers in the Bradford Sunday Alliance League. Bett opened the scoring with a free-kick from just outside the box before
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Double delight for Bingley Harriers
Bingley Harriers secured their best result in the National Cross-Country Relays in Mansfield. The senior women’s A team of debutant Emma Raven, Victoria Wilkinson and Mary Wilkinson finished fifth over a muddy 3km course that was tricky in places. The
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Bradford City get calendar removed
A Bradford City calendar mistakenly featuring Hull striker Dele Adebola on the cover has been withdrawn at the club’s request. The calendar was designed by Just Sport Pro Club, who have the licence to run all Nike shops including the City one
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Police concern for missing Bradford man
Police are growing concerned for the welfare of a man who has gone missing from his Bradford home. Myles Nesbitt, 40, was last seen at 4pm yesterday at his home in Woolcombers Way, Laisterdyke. He suffers from health problems and requires
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Temptations around every corner
Robyn Sisman – The Perfect Couple (Orion, £7.99) Kate is feeling neglected, and her marriage to Rikki seems a little stale. Up-and-coming barristers, they understand the pressures of work until they find themselves on opposing sides in the high-profile
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Soap spin-off is a lot of laughs
Paddy And Marlon’s Big Night In ITV Studios Home Entertainment, £19.99 I'm not generally a fan of soap spin-offs, mainly because they tend to be watered-down, cheapish-looking and painfully corny. Paddy And Marlon’s Big Night In is the second Emmerdale
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Waging war against our invaders
Help! We’ve been hit by a plague. Not THE plague – our house may be a tip, but we haven’t got flea-infested rats in it just yet. It’s a plague of moths – and the little pests are driving us mad. Not that I’ve actually seen any, but if moths haven’t
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Ade Edmondson tucks into the best of British
Although commonly finding himself stuck in the mud while filming his latest TV series, Ade Edmondson has no such issues with his career. “People get very nervous if you shuffle about, but I’ve always shuffled about,” says the Bradford-born actor, comic
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Duncan is back on a Yorkshire stage
Earlier this year, he was at the Alhambra playing fair-minded lawyer Atticus Finch in the stage version of To Kill A Mockingbird. Now Bradford-born actor Duncan Preston takes on the role of Daddy Warbucks in a revival of Broadway musical Annie. Though
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Living with an alcoholic mum
While many children rely on their parents to launder their clothes and bring home the weekly shop, for some youngsters it is the other way around. For a variety of reasons they are, at an early age, taking on adult responsibilities. Rebecca Stewart
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Magistrates’ court must be moved
It is imperative that Bradford Council does not give up on seeking funding to allow the city’s magistrates’ court to move from its current location as part of the ongoing development of the area around City Hall. The original scheme for the City Park
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Saturday, November 21, 2011
25 years ago: A plan that Bradford Health Authority phase out its aid to the Sue Ryder Home at Oxenhope, was rejected by the authority. 50 years ago: A call to younger men to come inside the British Legion movement and help their fellow men was made
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Monday, November 14, 2011
25 years ago: The Bradford Bounces Back campaign went public when Bonnie Langford switches on the city’s Christmas lights at City Hall. 50 years ago: Leeds City Police evacuated 100 children from a school after a cow which had escaped from Leeds Abattoir
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Sailors get in touch
SIR – The Royal Navy is looking for any reader who has served in the electrical, radio, radar, weapons, warfare or control branches of the Royal Navy and who can assist in a small way in training tomorrow’s sailors in the skills and way of life they learned
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Gun statistics shock
SIR – I am at a loss to understand why more than 30 children aged under ten in England and Wales were issued with shotgun licences in the last three years (T&A, November 1). When I was that age, I thought only cowboys had guns. David Rhodes, Croscombe
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Bradford chef competes for Britain's best dish title
A restaurant which helped secure Bradford’s title as curry capital of Britain will be in the national spotlight again when its chef appears on a top television food challenge. Prashad, in Horton Grange Road, will be represented alongside professional
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Sorry state is unfair
SIR – On Page 3 of the T&A (Wednesday, November 9), the headline read: “Five drivers caught with no insurance each day”. On the opposite page: “Charity vehicles wrecked in fires” – and thus we have the sad and sorry scene for the law-abiding citizens
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Flights frustration
SIR – Its good to see new routes being introduced at Leeds Bradford International Airport, but could Tony Hallwood explain why the Saturday flights to Innsbruck have been discontinued? We have been using these flights every year since their inception
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Bradford Hospital volunteer is a 'shining example'
A dedicated volunteer who has helped patients, staff and visitors at a Bradford hospital for three decades has been honoured with an award. Doreen Varley, who turns 90 on December 9, started volunteering following her retirement from Grattan in 1981
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Show would be a hit
SIR – Council leader Ian Greenwood (pictured) is “sick to death” because another television programme is to be shown featuring Bradford. So are most of us – we were hoping for a ‘reality’ show about Bradford Council. That would make good TV. At least
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Folk star to perform in Bradford
Folk icon Martin Carthy is performing in Bradford as a curtain-raiser to the city’s political song festival, Raise Your Banners. The veteran singer, one of the most influential figures in British traditional folk music, will be at the Topic
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Rant was amusing
SIR – While not going as far as to call David Barnett an idiot, I confess to rarely finishing reading any of his weekly observations on life. But thanks to an irate reader’s ranting to David Barnett, his column on Friday, November 4, was highly amusing
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Centre was buzzing
SIR – I have just returned from a visit to the new centre opposite Jury’s Hotel on Thornton Road. The name of this facility is Culture Fusion, established by various funding opportunities, site availability and political support. This centre is mainly
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‘Rebel’ with a cause
SIR – I share B Murray’s disgust (Letters, October 27) at David Cameron’s about-turn on his promise of a referendum on the EU and the attitude of the three main political parties to the vote on it. However, his comment that “it looks as though we have
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Cup hero Wells ready to put Bradford City before Bermuda
Nahki Wells will play in Bermuda’s final World Cup qualifier tonight before putting his international career on the back-burner to focus on City. Saturday’s FA Cup match winner had no time to celebrate the wonder goal that sunk Rochdale – and earned
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Land mustn’t be sold
SIR – Re article in T&A (November 7) – Council to sell off land at the Greengates cross roads. This land was compulsory-purchased and shops demolished to make way for long-awaited improvements to this dangerous and slow-moving artery to Leeds, Bradford
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Where does blame lie?
SIR – Over the years, I have read letters on this page slating our inept Council, highlighting their incompetence and wishing curse after curse upon them. Almost every night, there are letters condemning them to fry in hell for eternity, or words to
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Festival was a delight
SIR – At last, after three years, the Festival of Remembrance is back to its joyful self. A very pleasant and entertaining evening it was. The Bradford Brass Band (I did not know that we had one) was a pleasure to listen to. A brilliant conductor, thank
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There’s no incentive to invest in practice
SIR – As a patient of Thornton Medical Centre I was appalled to learn that the Primary Care Trust had terminated their service agreement with my GP who leads the provision of local services. They tell me that it was because another GP at the practice
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Faith should be focus
SIR – Did anyone else watch the toe-curlingly inept interview by the BBC of the Bishop of Willesden recently? The appalling debacle caused by the usual Church of England trendy clergy at St Paul’s Cathedral was all about how worthy the spoilt young middle
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Our voices not heard
SIR – What a peculiar organisation English Heritage is, being critical as well as offering no support for the preservation of the Odeon, while at the same time waxing lyrical and wanting to preserve what can only be described as tatty, decrepit old buildings
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Volunteers digging in is a delight
SIR – On Thursday, November 3, a group of employees from Hanover Housing donated a day to work in Wibsey Park. Alongside them were three young people from Gambia and a young man from Barcelona, who are doing volunteer work. BCEP oversaw the project
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Scrap metal thefts just sickening
The depths to which thieves will plummet for even the smallest amount of scrap metal cash continues to shock and sicken. In the latest incident, reported today, crooks ripped away copper piping that fed the gas supply into a 90-year-old woman’s house
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Church campaign to help people in debt in Bradford
As some families start tightening their belts in the run-up to Christmas, a Bradford debt counselling charity is offering extra help with money management. Members of The Light Church, Bradford, have been trained by Bradford-based Christians
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Mouth cancer warning to smokers
The risk smoking causes to people’s health will be in sharp focus during Mouth Cancer Awareness Week. Mouth cancer kills one person every three hours in the UK because of late detection and, during the awareness week which starts today, people
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Plans to move Bradford Magistrates' Court are shelved
Plans to move Bradford Magistrates’ Court to make way for a new business district have been put on hold due to a lack of funds, Bradford Council’s regeneration boss has revealed. Instead the Council will plough £4.9m into creating new cells
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Care home sacks two staff over 'humiliating' image on Facebook
Two care home workers have been sacked after allegations they posted “humiliating” pictures of a resident online. The workers were dismissed hours after the Telegraph & Argus revealed an inquiry was under way at Currergate Nursing Home, in Skipton Road
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Volunteers take over running of Wrose Library
A closure-threatened library has been spared the axe after a community group stepped in to run it for the next three years. Wrose library was earmarked for closure by Bradford Council to make savings of £70,000. But now community groups have agreed
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Bradford Bulls new boy has backing of Kiwis coach
Mick Potter has revealed how a glowing reference from New Zealand coach Stephen Kearney persuaded him to bring Manase Manuokafoa to Bradford. The powerhouse prop, who stands 6ft 5in and weighs over 17st, has been recruited from Parramatta following spells
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Pantomime dame Andrew is back in Bradford. Oh, yes, he is!
Bradford-born pantomime dame Andrew Ryan is taking the show on the road ahead of his appearance at the Alhambra Theatre in this year’s production of Robin Hood. The Panto Roadshows are aimed at children aged seven to 11 with a view to enhancing
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Special goal gives Bradford City fans something to talk about
City 1, Rochdale 0 Nahki Wells was scared to switch on his mobile after the game because of the “million” messages he was expecting from back home in Bermuda. It seems the whole island wanted to bask in the glow of a strike that has surely already
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Bradford Council blunder could put hundreds of new homes in doubt
The future of key housing sites across the district has been thrown into doubt after a blunder effectively left Bradford Council without any land earmarked to meet housing needs. Fears are growing that the technicality could lead to an influx
