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Keighley firefighters condemn New Year blaze hoax
A malicious caller hoaxed firefighters in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Crews were called to reports of people trapped in a flat fire in Church Street, Keighley, at around 1.17am. But when they got there, the firefighters realised it was
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Marriott return is big boost for Queensbury
Queensbury playmaker Gregg Marriott is set to make a welcome return for the visit of Eastmoor Dragons in the Pennine League Championship encounter at Hill Top on Saturday. The long-serving scrum half has been badly missed on the attacking front
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Keighley rivals in County crunch clash
Bragging rights are at stake on Saturday when Steeton host Keighley rivals Oxenhope Recreation in the West Riding County FA Challenge Cup last 16 (1pm). The Chevrons are the only team of the four remaining West Riding County Amateur League clubs
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Baildon car theft family overwhelmed by Bradford people’s support
A mother left devastated after thieves stole her car and essential equipment needed for her seriously-ill daughter has been overwhelmed by the number of people wanting to help the family. Yesterday, the Telegraph & Argus exclusively reported
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That’ll do four me, says Farsley boss Parsley
Farsley boss Neil Parsley declared he was happy with his club’s points haul over the holiday period ahead of their testing trip to Cammell Laird on Saturday. Parsley’s men took four points from two games after their journey to Ramsbottom on Saturday
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Ravenscliffe men accused of knifepoint robbery appear in court
Two men accused of being part of a knifepoint robbery on a cab driver in Bradford today made their first appearance at the city’s Crown Court. Timothy Jackson, 25, of Falkland Road, Ravenscliffe, and Anthony Bakes, 20, of Thackeray Road, Ravenscliffe
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Offshoot of Onna Ju-Jitsu Club is thriving
A satellite club, which is linked to the well-established Onna Ju-Jitsu Club, has been set up at Bradford’s Zara Sports Centre. Formed in November, the new club is the first to be funded by West Yorkshire Sport as part of Sport England
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Firefighters in Bradford to hold a further strike tomorrow
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has urged people to take extra care during a strike by the Fire Brigades Union between 6.30am and 8.30am tomorrow. Deputy Chief Fire Officer Steve Beckley said: “This will be the ninth period of strike action
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Mudlarks Bees are at strength for vital relegation clash
Bradford & Bingley’s forwards won’t be lacking in set-piece drills as they prepare for their vital SSE National League Three North relegation clash at Penrith on Saturday. “We hope to do 60 scrums and 50 line-outs at
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Angling Lines
BRADFORD & DISTRICT SEA AC Our first general meeting of the new year will be on Tuesday, January 21 at the New Inn, East Bierley (8pm). Potential new members will be made most welcome – at £10 per year it is good value for money. All members can
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Odsal raiders steal woman's possessions
A Bradford woman has been left distraught after burglars broke into her home and stole possessions, including a laptop containing irreplaceable family pictures. Jan Greenwood, of Rooley Lane, Odsal, said the theft occured on Monday, between 5.10pm
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'Get a gas safety check' plea
People in Bradford have been urged to make a New Year’s resolution that could save their lives and sign up for a free gas safety check. The Gas Safe Register made the call, saying that one in six British homes have been found to have unsafe gas
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Otley hoping to start another upward curve
As Otley go into the new year in 12th place in SSE National League Two North, their season so far has split into two distinct phases. The first was a run of five victories in the opening seven matches up to and including the 40-16 home win over
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CCTV image: Police in appeal over Wibsey burglary
Police have released this image of a man suspected of a burglary in Bradford in which a laptop and sentimental jewellery were stolen. A Bradford South Neighbourhood Policing Team spokesman said the suspect, shown in the picture riding a mountain
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Brighouse Police contact point hours change
The contact point at Brighouse Police Station will have new opening hours from Monday. It will only be open on Mondays and Wednesdays between 1pm and 4pm. The contact point is for people to call in and discuss local issues or leave messages
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Cruel luck for Solomi as injury ends his season
The injury jinx which dogged Dan Solomi for much of 2013 has struck again and brought his season to a premature end. The popular Wharfedale flanker had to undergo surgery on Christmas Eve after tearing a bicep in his team’s 36-26 home defeat by
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Yorkshire's Sayers quits first-class game
Yorkshire batsman Joe Sayers has announced his retirement from first-class cricket. The left-handed opener, from Otley, only turned 30 in November, but he has endured a frustrating last two seasons, scoring only 222 runs from ten LV= County Championship
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Police fears for missing Bradford woman
Police are growing increasingly concerned for Edyta Kisiel who has been missing in Bradford since New Year’s Eve. Edyta is 5ft 7ins tall, slim, and has light brown hair. She has an Eastern European accent. She has a number of friends in the city
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Remnants of historic Guiseley inn 'at risk in shops plan'
A remnant of a pub’s likely history as a coaching inn is in danger of being lost if alterations are allowed, councillors will be told. Leeds planners are being urged by planning officers to refuse an application to turn the historic Regent pub
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Cottages development plan for derelict pub in Thornton
A derelict Bradford pub is set to be restored to its former Victorian glory after a redevelopment project was given the go-ahead by Council planning officers. The Duke of York Inn in Dean Lane, Thornton, which closed its doors in late 2012, will
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We can all do our bit to cut Co2
As we crawl out of bed to face the first day of another year, we have an opportunity to decide what we are going to do about our Co2 emissions over the next 365 days. A reasonable ambition would be to work out how we can produce less in 2014 than we
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Lieutenant Harry's tales of heroism on the battlefield
JIM GREENHALF on the Bradford soldier who rose through the ranks to lead his battalion to battle success in the First World War One of the many Bradford young men who joined up in 1914 – Britain had a volunteer army then, conscription was introduced
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Europe under ‘dark cloud’ at New Year as tension builds
On Thursday, January 1, 1914, the front page of the Yorkshire Observer morning newspaper, devoted to church notices and public announcements, carried a message from Bradford’s Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. Alderman and Mrs John Arnold wished the
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Help us tell tales of district at war
2014 is a momentous year for historians, marking as it does the centenary since the beginning of the First World War. Throughout this year we will be commemorating the Great War every Wednesday in the Remember When? section – but we need your help
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Frustration is allowed
SIR – Max Hey (Letters, December 26) may find widespread disenchantment with politicians of all parties and with Westminster when visiting Leeds and North Yorkshire. Although he will not be the only one appalled by the announced pay increase for
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Smacking ban absurd
SIR – Could someone tell me how you reason with a two or three-year-old child who runs into the road or goes too near an open fire? I pose the question because if the children’s tsar gets her way, parents will be banned from smacking them under
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Rewriting history
SIR – Roz Hall in her letter (T&A, December 20) makes some excellent points. Politics has always had a darker side where sometimes ‘the big lie’ (or distortion of the facts) is used to smear a political opponent. The idea is, if it is repeated
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Failure not an option
SIR – I’m not sure what point Alan Holdsworth is trying to make in his letter, (T&A, December 30). He mentions Margaret Thatcher’s “misguided” deregulation of the banks. That woman was in power over 20 years ago. Labour were in power more recently
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Electors’ questions
SIR – There is no doubt that Councillor Val Townend is right in her assertion that further housing and economic development in Baildon, like that over the last 50 years, will lead to more severe traffic congestion, if corresponding improvements to
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Hat-trick of poor policy
SIR – Just as we thought Labour’s evil legacy was limited to the double whammy of mass immigration – the problems of which are all too obvious – and 24-hour alcohol sales, which has cost taxpayers millions in extra policing with the mayhem on our streets
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Danger as phones get all the attention
SIR – It’s ironic we’re not allowed to use mobiles while driving but can use them while walking across roads. A young woman crossed the road in front of me, without looking first, making me brake hard, sounding the horn. She turned and gave me
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Ready for PR push
SIR – You may have noticed a recent T&A report saying that “Keighley could benefit from £1m of European funding”. Over the next six months, up to the EU Elections on May 22, there will be an increasing drip-feed of deliberately EU-positive
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Good among thieves
SIR – Hardly a week goes by when you have little choice but to populate your newspaper front page with individuals who commit crime, and appear quite content to add a degree of violence totally out of context with the meagre haul they may escape with
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Winners and losers
SIR – Tory MP Esther McVey, Iain Duncan Smith’s deputy, rather ‘let the cat out of the bag’ when she insisted it was “right” that half a million Britons be dependent on food banks in “tough times”. This illustrates perfectly the Conservative vision
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City is important
SIR – Why should a city the size of Bradford important in its own right opt to be part of a Leeds City Region, which seems only about the grandiosity of Leeds and nothing more. Surely we should put our own city first, it is big enough. Iain Morris
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Who is new tsar?
SIR – Who is this children’s tsar who wants parents to be banned from smacking children? Who recruited her? For what? Who pays her? This is just the sort of appointment which is the despair of middle England. Godfrey Bloom, MEP for Yorkshire and
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Appeal after man harassed woman in Skipton street
Police are hunting a man who followed a woman along Otley Street in Skipton. “The man was clearly harassing her and giving her unwanted attention,” said a police spokesman. “Several members of the public came to the female’s aid and she came
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Help the T&A Crocus Cancer Appeal fund grow in 2014
If your New Year’s resolution is to do more for charity, there are plenty of ways to get involved with the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal in 2014. We started our £1 million fundraising quest to develop new cancer treatments
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New academy school in Bradford could create 100 jobs
A new secondary academy school in Bradford could create up to 100 jobs and provide new sporting facilities for the surrounding community. Bradford Council has submitted a planning application for an academy for 1,050 11 to 16-year-olds to be built
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Merely propaganda
SIR – It’s interesting that of all the howls of protest over the alleged cost-of-living crisis, none are directed by Labour MPs against the planned two per cent rise in council tax next year by some West Yorkshire local authorities, even though it
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Bradford homeless shelter get New Year's day food provided by restaurant chefs
Restaurant manager Azhar Mahmood and his team of chefs have served up a New Year’s Day feast at a day shelter for the homeless in Bradford. They cooked up enough food to feed more than 200 people at the Edmund Street shelter that has an open-door
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‘We’re fed up of eyesore’ in Wrose
A deadline for repair work on a rundown bungalow has been missed. Neighbours and passers-by complain the neglected property in Kings Road, Wrose, is still an eyesore – even though the Bradford councillor who bought it pledged it would be brought
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Friends of St Luke's raise £13,000 for Bradford hospital
Hospital volunteers have handed over £13,000 to help patients suffering painful joint damage. The Friends of St Luke’s raised the cash through their work in running the hospital’s public tea bars. The money has bought 14 reclining chairs and
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Don’t sideline areas
SIR – In response to David Shaw’s letter (T&A, December 20) about the Labour Council’s proposals to create a three-tier system for children’s centres in the Bradford district, it seems inequitable to sideline the outlying areas of the district,
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Are traffic problems ahead with scheme?
SIR – While jobs are welcome in Shipley, has our Council thought of the impact the new supermarket development will have on traffic flow? Consider over 300 car parking spaces. Have you ever driven down Carr Lane on a good day? Have you driven down
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Is Bradford all set for a rebirth?
You have to be brave, foolhardy, or both, to talk about a ‘Bradford renaissance’ on the back of the good news about Westfield starting construction work on January 6 and the Skelworth Group announcing it’s ready to start on the much-delayed Citygate
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Know your rights for real bargains
For most people this is the time of year to bag a bargain. End-of-year sales attract thousands of people to the shops, looking to buy goods at a fraction of their pre-Christmas prices. But this shopping bonanza can bring problems, as people
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Such a fine example to others
Gary Staniforth really is a shining example of how a person can not only turn their life around, but can rise from the bottom to help others. Not so very long ago, Mr Staniforth found himself living on the streets. Now he has secured a huge grant
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Time for a little thought for others
For some people, last year finished on what could rather charitably be called a somewhat selfish note. A look through some pages of today’s Telegraph & Argus sadly reveals several examples of the worst of human nature, most notably the thieves
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Bradford Bulls: Carvell one of best props in the world, says Manuokafoa
Manase Manuokafoa believes the Bulls have recruited one of the “best props in the world” in Garreth Carvell. Francis Cummins enjoyed a profitable recruitment drive during the off-season which harvested the acquisition of Lee Gaskell, Luke George
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Beaten Bantams in a New Year's daze as Parkinson grapples with dilemma of how to improve form with Wells exit looming
Notts County 3 Bradford City 0 If this was a taster for life without Nahki Wells, it was terribly hard to swallow. City signed off a horrible holiday period with the worst result of the lot. Happy New Year? Not from this side of the Trent.
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Investigation into robbery attempt on woman in Bradford street
Police are continuing to appeal for information on an attempted robbery in Bradford. A 57-year-old woman was sitting in her car in Lemon Street, at 6.15pm on Sunday, December 22, when she was approached by a man who demanded money. There was a
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Pioneering fitness classes for the deaf launched in Shipley
Pioneering fitness classes for deaf people have started in Shipley. Fitness enthusiasts who are deaf or hearing-impaired can now take part in fully-signed exercise sessions at a new healthy lifestyle centre. And the scheme – which is thought
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Incommunities leads way in providing training opportunities
“An ordinary programme that does extraordinary things” – that is how Delroy Beverley, chief executive for building and construction at social housing group Incommunities, describes the organisation’s apprenticeship scheme. And after winning a prestigious
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Sam joins stars for role in Victoria Wood TV musical
A teenage boy has landed a role in a new television musical written and directed by Victoria Wood. Sam Burles, a pupil at Stagecoach in Keighley, will play a young chorister in Tubby And Enid, starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton. The
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I don’t want to play waiting game over Wells in transfer window, says Bradford City boss
Phil Parkinson wants a deadline imposed on the future of Nahki Wells so he has time to rebuild City without him. The Bantams missed their injured top scorer in yesterday’s depressing 3-0 loss at Notts County – a defeat which meant they collected
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£220,000 for man who once slept on Bradford's streets
A man whose life plummeted to rock bottom when he was living on the streets of Bradford has now received £220,000 of Lottery cash to help the city’s vulnerable and homeless also turn their lives around. Thanks to the Big Lottery’s Reaching Communities
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Busy night as fire crews stage strike in West Yorkshire
New Year’s Eve was a busy night for back-up fire crews during a six-hour firefighters’ strike. There were 18 call-outs across West Yorkshire during the walk-out, which included rescuing a casualty from a car crash in Leeds Road, Bradford, and visiting
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Andrew is awarded Silsden station’s firefighter of the year title
Former Royal Marine Andrew Burden is Silsden’s Firefighter of the Year. He won the accolade following a vote among the retained station’s 12-strong crew. The award was presented at a special event held in Silsden’s Sunnybank Social Club, which
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‘Bradford cells full during hectic New Year’
Police cells in Bradford were full to bursting early yesterday as officers dealt with double the usual number of calls during the New Year celebrations. The Bradford South division received 286 calls in the 24-hour period from 7am on New Year’s
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Family in new plea over savage torture murder of grandad
The family of a grandad with “a heart of gold,” who was brutally murdered in his Bradford home, is urging anyone who knows his killer to “clear their conscience” at the start of a new year. Relatives of Clement ‘Butch’ Desmier, who would have been
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Simplified energy pricing rules are welcomed in Bradford
Campaigners in Bradford have welcomed changes introduced today, forcing energy companies to simplify their tariffs so it is easier for customers to find their best deal. Ofgem has banned power suppliers from offering complex tariffs – telling them
