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Beautiful bold ballet an Alhambra treat
Rambert Dance Company The Alhambra The Rambert Dance Company has long been known for its bold and creative performances – and in its 85th year the London-based contemporary dance troupe is certainly showing no signs of growing weary. Marking the
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Show of Hands a folk night to remember
They might not have quite filled St George’s Hall to bursting point like they have the Royal Albert before but Show of Hands still got a rousing “aye” from the floor last night. Widely acknowledged as England’s finest acoustic roots duo Steve Knightly
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Boss Quinn helps out on the pitch
Recently-appointed Brighouse Town boss Paul Quinn made his debut for the club as they played out a creditable goalless draw at promotion hopefuls Staveley MW in the Baris Northern Counties East League Premier Division. Town had a blank weekend
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Police target scrap metal thieves in Bradford operation
Police targeted scrap metal thieves in a major cross-boundary crackdown between Bradford and Calderdale. Officers from Bradford South Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) joined their colleagues in Calderdale division in searching vehicles for stolen metal
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Hermits B thwarted by Rastrick
Rastrick dug deep to deny Hermits B a first Bradford Table Tennis League win of the season as the bottom two teams in Division Three drew 5-5. A win for Hermits would have lifted them above their second-bottom opponents, who have just one win to date
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Green defence gets off to a flier
Defending champion Gareth Green (Lifeline Leisure) came through his Bradford Snooker Championship first-round match unscathed, with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Laisterdyke Cricket Club’s Lee Atkinson. Green, together with brother Anthony, followed
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Home comforts for Watson
Local knowledge proved key for Bingley’s Rob Watson (Paul Milnes-Bradford Olympic RT) when he won the seventh round of the Yorkshire Points Series. The 20-year-old, who lives about a mile from the Myrtle Park course, took a solo victory after escaping
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Pupils rush to join progressive club
Undercliffe Celtic Juniors have helped add football to the curriculum of Fagley Primary School pupils. The club have established what they hope will be one of many links with local schools, with the aim of attracting more children to join them. Undercliffe
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Ventus dethrone champions Otley
Holders Otley Town crashed out of the Wharfedale & District FA Challenge Cup at the quarter-final stage. They opened up a two-goal lead at Dam Lane against Ventus Yeadon Celtic but, playing downhill in the second half, the home side turned the game around
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Jim's a cut above at Cleckheaton
Jim Whitton, territory manager for Ransomes Jacobson, is guest speaker at the next meeting of the West Yorkshire-Leeds branch of the Institute of Groundsmanship at Cleckheaton Sports Club on Wednesday, December 7 (7.30pm). Whitton will speak
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A game for grappling hookers?
If England’s women’s international against world champions New Zealand turns into an arm wrestle at Twickenham on Saturday (5pm), it should suit the hosts. England’s squad, which includes Bradford’s Georgina Roberts (Darlington Mowden Park
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Abigail leads City of Bradford's gold rush
The Watermeadows Swimming Complex Mansfield was the venue for the Major Oak Open Meet, hosted by Mansfield Swimming Club. A team of City of Bradford members made the journey down the M1 and were rewarded with a plethora of medals and personal-best times
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Bradford Olympic Wrestling Club heading for top junior ranking
Bradford Olympic Wrestling Club sent a skilled team to the Aspull International Open at Wigan, and they performed well. Tommy Hawthorn got gold in the junior 69kg and sister Katie Hawthorn won the junior 48kg. Leo Hawthorn took silver
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Depleted Bingley Ladies crash to leaders
Bingley Bees Ladies’ first team faced their stiffest test of the season so far, hosting Yorkshire Women's Premier Division leaders Leeds-1 at home. Although they had won the previous week, Bingley went into the fixture with a depleted squad after unexpected
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I owe so much to Gillespie - England hero Bresnan
Tim Bresnan has hailed Yorkshire’s new first-team coach Jason Gillespie as one of the driving forces behind his success at international level. Since making his England one-day debut against Sri Lanka in 2006, the all-rounder has played a further
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Guiseley building for the future
Blue Square Bet North high-fliers Guiseley are looking to the future as they launch a Football Academy side as part of their Community Football activities. They have joined forces with a specialist sports college and will be offering youngsters
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Teacher who slapped and kicked children in Keighley mosque is jailed
A religious teacher who was caught on a secret camera kicking and slapping children in a mosque has today been jailed for ten weeks. Sabir Hussain, 60, admitted four charges of assaulting boys at the Markazi Jamia Mosque, in. Keighley, as they
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Star-filled theatre season sounds heavenly!
Comic legend Billy Connolly, local hero Gareth Gates, veteran singer Gilbert O’Sullivan and a landmark production of JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls are all part of a winter wonderland of entertainment in Bradford. The new season gets underway next
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Hospice shows off patients’ art
A calendar and greeting cards showcasing the work of talented art students at Bradford’s Marie Curie Hospice has gone on sale. The calendar has the theme of Bradford and the work of ten day therapy patients has been put together showing some of the district
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A meeting with the Dalai Lama
Teacher Steve Smyth has been to India to meet the Dalai Lama and see how his school back home in Pudsey is helping destitute youngsters in Dharamsala get an education. Mr Smyth, pictured fourth to the left of the Dalai Lama, travelled 4,000 miles from
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Street sealed off after reports of shooting near school - LATEST
Police were guarding a sealed off Bradford street today following reports of a shooting from a car near a primary school. Officers were called to Girlington Road, Girlington, at 10.28pm yesterday, and recovered shotgun cartridges following
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Man 'consented to sex act in camper van' says accused
A gay man denies sexually assaulting another younger man while he was asleep in a camper van on a remote moor overlooking Bradford. Peter Macmillan-Collins, 52, admitted performing a sex act on the 23-year-old after spending the night together drinking
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Armitstead 'well ahead' of Cooke in race for Great Britain No 1 spot
British Cycling are confident of resolving the leadership battle between Olympic champion Nicole Cooke and Lizzie Armitstead which threatens to undermine Great Britain’s women in their London 2012 road race campaign. While world champion Mark Cavendish
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Fatal crash driver 'failed to see biker'
A driver involved in a fatal crash with a motorcyclist he failed to see on Saltaire Roundabout believed the impact noise was a missile being thrown at his car, a jury was told. Stephen Rawlinson said he thought children had thrown a stone at his Ford
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Premier Inn invests £10m in Bradford hotel
Bradford’s newest hotel, which has taken on 42 mainly unemployed people, is gearing up to open its doors after investing more than £10 million converting a former office block into a 118-bedroom venue. The new Bradford Central Premier Inn on Vicar Lane
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Rugby stars rally for injured Keighley Crusaders Nathan
A devastated mum has praised the “phenomenal” support her son has received from around the world after breaking his neck playing rugby. Susan Cubitt, from Silsden, says her 16-year-old son Nathan still has no feeling in most of his body after he suffered
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Drugs burglary ended in death
A householder, who stabbed to death a burglar trying to break into his cannabis factory, told an inquest he did not mean to harm anybody. Barry Day said he remembered grabbing a kitchen knife as the door to his house, in Beckside Road, Lidget Green,
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Bradford duo’s 2,200-mile mission of hope
Children in hospitals across the UK will get an early festive treat next week as a Bradford charity founder embarks on a 2,200-mile toy-drop tour. Colin Nesbitt set up the Little Heroes charity after youngster Reece Randle, who he cares for, was diagnosed
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Wrong chapter
SIR – As usual I read the Letters page, and although the Bible story is correct, the reference is incorrect (‘What Jesus Would Do’, T&A letters, November 7). It is not chapter 11 St John’s Gospel, but chapter two, where it relates Jesus turning water
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Moving to privatisation
SIR – Just last week the Government announced that it’s handing over one of our NHS hospitals – Hichingbrook, in Cambridgeshire – to be run by a private company. Cameron and co claim to be on the side of patients, but how can they be when their vision
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Alive and kicking
SIR – I read with interest D L Smith’s letter (T&A, November 17) suggesting a replacement to the Bradford Playhouse. However, your readers will be pleased to note the Playhouse is in no need of replacement; a new company has continued to operate the
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Number of fatal road accidents in district has fallen
A new online map pinpoints the date and location of more than 240 road deaths in the district in the last ten years, allowing residents to find hotspots and the areas where most fatal accidents occur. But a principal highways engineer for
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A formula for piling up the CO2
Normally I try to ensure that everything I write about environmental matters is reasonably well-informed and balanced, though there is a consistent message that we must find a way of living our lives without producing CO2. Occasionally, however, I enjoy
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Recipe for congestion
SIR – Bradford Council is to be commended on its foresight. Someone has done their homework on this project. They have realised that when the improvements to Saltaire roundabout are complete, a great deal of traffic will attempt to bypass the new lights
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Man, 19, quizzed over sex attack on schoolgirl at bus stop
A man was being quizzed by detectives last night after an alleged serious sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl near a bus stop in Bradford. Police cordoned off the bus turning circle at the far end of Wyke Lane, Wyke, and a small triangular
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Residents’ fears over drug menace
Police have vowed to step up patrols after rising reports of drug dealing on a Keighley estate. Officers have upped patrols in the Wood House and Parkwood areas after more than 40 residents reported drugs being sold outside their homes at a community
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A local hero gone
SIR – Yet another local hero died recently – Sir Jimmy Savile, aged 84. He will be best remembered for his radio show and TV shows like Top Of The Pops and Jim’ll Fix It, and the charity work and runs he did too. I remember him doing a run from Sainsbury
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Bank not so ‘caring’
SIR – The Queensbury branch of the NatWest Bank is going to close on November 28, having been in the village since 1936. I have been banking there for the last 16 years as a personal and business customer. I have to say most of the time there is always
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Message to boost the city’s morale
SIR – Congratulations to those who organised the recent District Regeneration Summit, Wealthy Bradford – Working In Collaboration For Success. The conference was truly a morale-booster as speaker after speaker gave evidence from their own experience of
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November 23
25 years ago: Bradford Council sent notice to South Africa it was stepping up its battle against apartheid. Labour leader Councillor Phil Beeley said a petition against the Pretoria regime had been launched and copies would be circulating around the city
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Voters go to polls in Great Horton to fill Bradford Council seat
Voters in the Great Horton ward go to the polls tomorrow with a choice of five candidates to fill the vacant seat on Bradford Council. The electorate of 12,569 will be able to choose between Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Green and
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‘Cruel’ man who taunted beggar in Keighley street is jailed after knife attack
A thug who slashed a Good Samaritan across the chest when he tried to stop him taunting a street beggar has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. Paul Ricketts, 41, of North Dene Road, Silsden, lashed out when passer-by John Loughran intervened after
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Digging deep to go with the flow
Normally, in December, Yorkshire Water receives around 600 reports of burst pipes. Last year, during the coldest winter in Britain for 31 years, that figure shot up to more than 2,200. The record low temperatures wreaked havoc with supply pipes, in particular
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We all need to help cut death toll
It is a sobering statistic that 240 people died on the district’s roads over a ten-year period. We often talk of such tragedies as “road accidents”, but the fact is that many of them are due to factors that could be avoided – speeding motorists, pedestrians
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Bulls earn their wings after successful mission at RAF base
Bulls coach Mick Potter believes last week’s military training camp has brought his squad closer together. Potter’s men spent two days at RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, where they undertook a series of team-building exercises over 36 hours.
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Bradford City joint-chairman Rhodes finds it pays to be on the ball
City have included loan fee clauses in all deals with young starlets following their Tom Cleverley windfall. The Bantams are guaranteed a pay-out if the likes of Everton’s George Green sign elsewhere, whether it’s permanent or not. The club received
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Back to the drawing board for Guiseley
Guiseley played out their fourth successive draw in the Blue Square Bet North last night, drawing 1-1 at home to Nuneaton. They went behind to a Lee Moore goal in the fourth minute. Despite continued pressure from the home side they could not get back
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Jones and Grant run the show for Farsley
There was late penalty drama as Farsley won 4-1 at lowly Ossett Albion. The home side took the lead on the stroke of half-time through Dale Kelly and Farsley had to wait until the final 15 minutes before mounting their comeback. Ben Jones netted the
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Silsden shocked by basement boys
Silsden’s resurgence in the North West Counties Premier Division stalled as they were beaten 1-0 at basement outfit Atherton LR last night. The only goal of the game came in the penultimate minute when a long ball was headed in by Gary Grant.
