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West Yorkshire Police boss cheers slavery Bill details
A modern-day slavery Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech today has been welcomed by the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire. The bill aims to strengthen powers to punish perpetrators while offering more protection to those held in
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Potter is given patrons' role
BullBuilder have unveiled former Bulls coach Mick Potter and his wife Megan as patrons of the supporters trust. Potter coached the club for two seasons and was named Super League Coach of the Year in 2012 after being made redundant and then returning
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Appeal Panel request further information from Bradford Bulls
The Bulls have been asked to provide “further supportive information” to back their appeal against the six-point penalty for entering administration. An independent Sporting Sanctions Appeal Panel today heard the club’s case as put forward by owner
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Dowgill debut victory helps lift Yorkshire
Yorkshire followed up their 458-403 win over Wales with an even more emphatic 466-358 victory over Lancashire in the British Crown Green County Championship. In the home match at Spen Victoria, Yorkshire managed eight winners – including 21-9 efforts
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Shock quarter-final defeat for Adams
Olympic champion Nicola Adams suffered her first defeat in almost two years as she crashed out of the European Women's Championships at the under-51kg quarter-final stage in Bucharest today. Former Bradford College student Adams was made to pay
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In-form Lyth is putting golf to good use
Adam Lyth has attributed some of his stunning early-season form to hours spent on the putting green with Yorkshire’s sports psychologist. The White Rose opening batsman is the country’s leading first-class run-scorer with 784 runs from eight matches
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Ascough seals plate final victory for Clayton Rugby Club A
Clayton Rugby Club A won the E Rosse Hopkinson Plate final at the expense of East Ward at Undercliffe Cricket Club. With the teams playing off level handicaps, Clayton edged ahead at the interval by 58 points. Dan Hale got the better of East
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Masked gang armed with baseball bats fracture man's skull in street attack
Distressed members of the public looked on as a man was left with a fractured skull after he was set upon in the street by a masked armed gang of ten. The victim was attacked by the men wearing balaclavas and wielding weapons, including baseball
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Strawberry tea
St Peter’s Church Bowling Club are holding their annual strawberry tea on Saturday, June 28. Entry to the event, held at Fern Hill Road, Shipley between 2pm and 4pm, is £3. There will be stalls featuring bric-a-brac, books and tombola.
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Bake-off is draw at Bradford Volunteer Centre
There is a chance to get a taste for volunteering at a cake bake-off tomorrow. Hosted by Bradford Volunteer Centre, the event is aimed at bringing together people who want to give their time to a good cause with organisations that need their support
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Host a tea party
A charity is looking for people to host tea parties for a group of elderly residents and volunteers once a month. Contact the Elderly has run a group in Menston for more than ten years. A spokesman for the charity said: “We aim to tackle loneliness
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VIDEO: Warm welcome for Prince William as he arrives in Bradford
The Duke of Cambridge was received a warm welcome to Bradford from staff and users of a homeless charity on his visit to the city this afternoon. Picture gallery HRH Prince William was greeted enthusiastically on his arrival at Centrepoint,
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Online recruiters Blue Octopus move to new place in Otley
An expanding online recruitment business has moved into new offices in the centre of Otley. Blue Octopus, which was launched by brothers Chris and Liam Coleman five years ago, has recently won new clients, including Everest, Cats Protection and
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New deals means busy year for Bradford law firm
Bradford and Leeds law firm Gordons has made a strong start to the year after completing more than 15 deals and also has a healthy pipeline of work. The completed deals included advising Bradford Chamber of Commerce on the merger with Leeds, York
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New look as Yorkshire Building Society celebrates 150th anniversary
A Bradford-based financial business has used its 150th anniversary year to launch a new identity. Yorkshire Building Society Group has unveiled the new identity across its brands, including the Yorkshire, Barnsley, Chelsea and Norwich & Peterborough
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Plea for volunteers
St John Ambulance is using National Volunteers’ Week as a springboard to encourage more people to give up a few hours a week to support the charity’s work. The first-aid organisation, which operates across the Yorkshire region, has an urgent need
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Centre shirts
Staff at Ilkley's Clarke Foley community centre are wearing and selling special Tour de France logo polo shirts. The shirts, featuring an embroidered cycle cog, and stylised bicycle on the back, are being sold for £15, to raise money for new automated
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Slimmers donate cast-offs to Shipley shop
Slimmers have tipped the scales in favour of a cancer charity. Slimming World members and consultants from groups in the Bradford district have trimmed down so much they have cast off their clothes and donated them to help fund cancer research.
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6,000 living with a heart timebomb
A ground-breaking project leading to fewer strokes is being rolled out by more than 60 GP practices across Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven. As National Heart Rhythm Week 2014 gets under way, GPs are continuing to target patients with
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Heartbroken parents want a colourful send-off for the son who inspired them
Campaigning parents Maralyn and Alvin Adey, whose disabled son was their inspiration, say they will celebrate his life, not mourn his death. Mrs Adey said although they were heartbroken at losing 30-year-old Kristian, who had Down’s Syndrome as
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School mela will support Syria charity
An annual mela featuring music artists from around the world will be combined with a football tournament and school open day to suppor a Syria emergency appeal and orphan sponsorship scheme. On Saturday, June 14, students from Grange Technology
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Brewers make ‘Le Pour de France’ with new Grand Depart beer
A new beer has been created to celebrate the arrival of Le Tour de France to Yorkshire. Saltaire Brewery and Dark Star Brewing Company, based in Sussex, have joined forces for the second time this year with a collaboration brew. Le IPA has
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Washout vintage show faces a loss
A charity fundraising extravaganza that over the years has raised more than £300,000 is facing a loss for the first time. The annual Bronte Vintage Gathering (BVG), which supports Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice Manorlands, was washed out last month
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Fundraising store’s £570 for the Lions
Support from a store has boosted Otley Lions’ funds by £577. The money was raised by staff and customers of The Original Factory Shop in Crossgate, Otley. The outlet, which chose the Lions as its charity of the year for 2013 to 2014, organised
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Timing of prayer week is switched
The group that co-ordinates the work of churches in Ilkley and Ben Rhydding is changing the timing of when it celebrates the unity of the churches. Traditionally, across Britain this takes place in January but bad weather and dark evenings mean
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The Rolls-Royce of engineering is fighting back in Keighley
It has been far from plain sailing for one of Keighley’s best-known and once-largest companies, renowned lathe manufacturer Dean, Smith and Grace. The ravages of economic cycles and migration of machine tool (and much other) manufacturing to the
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Bradford employees of Leeds Building Society run for £2,400
Staff from Leeds Building Society in Bradford helped raise £2,600 for charity. They were among 40 society employees – with others from Morley, Kendal and Dewsbury – who ran the Leeds Half-Marathon in aid of St Gemma’s Hospice, Martin House Children
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Chance to get a free check-up
Women and children are being offered a free health check-up without the need to wait for a GP appointment. The charity Womenzone is offering the free checks at its community centre in Bradford for one day next week. On the day, women and children
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Bank acts to cut mortgage threat
The bank behind failed lenders Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock is to focus on contacting borrowers who could be vulnerable to interest-rate hikes in a bid to keep mortgage arrears down. Crossflatts-based UK Asset Resolution, which has
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Development is approved in Cononley
Residents have responded angrily to the approval of plans for 15 homes in Cononley, near Skipton. Several turned up to Craven District Council's planning committee in a bid to urge councillors to either defer the application off Meadow Lane for
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Mill’s key link with capital of fashion
Fabrics made by woollen manufacturer Hainsworth, which produced the cloth for British uniforms at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, are increasingly being used by top international fashion designers. The Pudsey-based family firm dating back to 1783
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Firemen bid to conquer the peaks
Three fire officers from the West Yorkshire brigade headquarters in Birkenshaw are taking part in the National Three Peaks Challenge to raise funds for Cancer Research UK. Ian Dunkley, Richard Mawson and Steve Fealy all work at Birkenshaw and will
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Bradford planning file
The following planning applications have been submitted to Bradford Council for approval. Ilkley: construction of a summerhouse, 9 Constable Road. Ilkley: construction of carport, 9 Hollingwood Rise. Ilkley: construction of extension over existing
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Latham hits heights in European Canoeing Championship final
Cononley’s Beth Latham finished seventh in her first senior championship final. The 21-year-old Bradford & Bingley Canoe Club member was third in the women’s K1 European Championship semi-finals in Vienna, qualifying her for the final.
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Event will mark centenary of the Great War’s catalyst
On Saturday, June 28, Bradford World War 1 Group’s first official event within its Heritage Lottery-funded centenary commemoration programme takes place at the Mechanics’ Institute Library on Kirkgate. The date is significant, for it will be exactly
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Relatives’ poignant pilgrimage
This centenary year will see thousands of people travelling to the First World War cemeteries and memorials of France and Belgium to remember family members dead and the missing. Eddy Robinson, his wife Bea, their grandson and cousins from the
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Volunteer drive
SIR – This week is Volunteer’s Week and Barnardo’s in Yorkshire is keen to hear from people who would like to help the charity turn children’s lives around. Here at Barnardo’s we’re launching our new volunteer recruitment drive in Yorkshire and
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Lib-Dem sympathy
SIR – I am a socialist and yet I am feeling sorry for my Liberal Democrat friends including my East Bradford hard-working MP and his fully-supportive team at his surgery. What David Ward and Nick Clegg need to realise is they were punished not
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Walks are wonderful
SIR – As a Bradford born lad who enjoys the countryside, I bought as new the 1989 (second) edition of the Bradford Ringways booklet. This comprised an excellent guide to two circular walks around the outskirts of Bradford, on footpaths and tracks,
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Election highs and lows
SIR – Graham Hoyle is wrong to suggest that all the major political parties received a drubbing in the recent elections. Labour increased its vote in the European elections by 9.67 per cent and gained an extra seven MEPs. And gained more than 300
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Where’s the money?
SIR – I have read with interest your article of May 31 on the Odeon building, but once again there is no proper information as to how these ideas are to be paid for. Bradford Live says they would use “a mixture of public and private money similar
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Body found in hunt for missing backpacker Gareth Huntley
A body has been found by police searching for British backpacker Gareth Huntley who went missing in the Malaysian jungle. The body was found today in a pond a few yards from a kayak storage unit near the Juara Turtle Project where the 34-year-old
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Unfounded care home concerns over traffic
SIR – I am surprised by the protest regarding the former Neville Grange Resource Centre site (T&A, June 2). There have been various consultation events at Neville Grange Resource Centre and at Saltaire Methodist Church by Bradford Council before
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Respect is key to take on obesity
Barely a week goes by without startling revelations about obesity levels in this country. Yesterday, the National Obesity Forum called for more to be done to tackle the rising numbers of so-called “sumo babies”. Experts say the number of larger-than-average
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
25 years ago: An internal Bradford Council survey revealed that more than one in three teachers across the district wanted to quit their jobs, citing stress, disruptive pupils and lack of time for marking. 50 years ago: Two men were killed and
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Two in hospital after car hits lampost and church gates
Two men were taken to hospital after crashing into a street light outside an Oakenshaw pub this morning. Fire crews from Odsal and Cleckheaton removed the roof of the car after the driver “lost control” on Bradford Road at around 12.48am. The
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Shipley MP Philip Davies wins a debate on Menston planning decisions
Controversial planning decisions on Menston housing developments are expected to be debated in Parliament tomorrow. Shipley MP Philip Davies, whose constituency includes Menston and Burley-in-Wharfedale, has secured a debate in the House of Commons
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Friends of Harden's St Ives Estate call for loos to be saved
A campaign has started to save threatened public loos at a popular beauty spot. The toilet block at Harden’s St Ives Estate is facing closure by cash-strapped Bradford Council. Opponents fear the move would have a massive impact on the site
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Teenager who dealt drugs is locked up
A teenager who breached a youth rehabilitation order imposed for drug dealing has been locked up. Phillip Badwal, 18, was sentenced to nine months’ youth custody by Judge Peter Benson at Bradford Crown Court yesterday. Prosecutor Ken Green
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Plea to dig out spare clothing for Salvation Army
A charity shop is asking people to open their hearts and wardrobes to support its latest campaign. The Salvation Army Trading Company in Wibsey starts its new project on Monday with an appeal for people to donate unwanted clothes, shoes and accessories
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A monster who should stay in jail
It is sometimes easy to react in a knee-jerk manner and call for stronger prison sentences without truly considering the full story. However, in the case of Anwar Rosser, the petition launched to ensure he stays in jail for the rest of his life
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Exclusive aisles plan is child’s play
Recently I heard about “fast lane, slow lane” walkways introduced in a Yorkshire shopping mall, allowing briskly-paced shoppers to steam ahead and leaving more casual browsers to wander at their leisure. Sounds like a sensible idea. If you’re in
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Family received dreaded notices about their sons
Three brothers, born in Huddersfield in the last decade of the 19th century, came to Bradford with their family (eight in all) some time before 1911. Archie, Lorrice and Hector Hill all joined up to fight in First World War. Archie came back badly
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Barkerend sheltered housing residents ‘could be moved for weeks’
It could be weeks before residents are able to return to a sheltered housing complex in Bradford that was hit by fire. Hanover Housing said all the people who live at Dove Court in Barkerend had been found suitable accommodation in the meantime
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CCTV of Bradford theft suspect is issued
Police want to speak to this man after a red jacket was stolen from a shop in Bradford. The offence happened at Forster Square retail park last Saturday at about 2pm. Anyone who recognises the man is asked to ring police on 101.
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Cleckheaton and Batley sneak-in thefts increase warning
Police in the Spen Valley have warned homeowners about an increase in sneak-in burglaries in the area. Officers acted after four reported incidents in the area in seven days between May 21 and 28. The thieves entered the properties through
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Stephen launches his own business to help restore the traditional buildings of the North
A 24-year-old West Yorkshire carpenter has launched a business aimed at keeping traditional building methods alive. Stephen Jefferson, from Pool-in-Wharfedale, will specialise in heritage work, restoring a wide range of historic and listed buildings
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University climbs national rankings
New university league tables show that the University of Bradford has risen by seven places in the national rankings in the past year. It rose from 90th to 83rd in the Guardian University Guide, which ranks institutions based on teaching scores
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Appeal after windscreen of Bradford to Ilkley train is shattered at Frizinghall
Police are appealing for information after the windscreen of a train was shattered by an object hurled from a bridge in Bradford. The incident happened at about 9.40pm on Tuesday, May 27, as the 9.38pm service from Bradford Forster Square to Ilkley
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VIDEO: Axe threat is lifted on Wibsey man's allotment plot
A long-term allotment holder accused of neglecting his Bradford Council plot has successfully appealed against being turfed off it. Robert Stone, who has tended his plot at the Speeton Avenue allotments in Wibsey for the past eight years, received
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‘Let your voice be heard on health'
A patient network set up to give people a voice about health services celebrates its first birthday this month and is hoping more people will join it. NHS Bradford Districts Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is inviting members of its patient
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Richard Dunn Sports Centre stages first triathlon
Bradford’s biggest sports centre will host its first triathlon later this month. The event, at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre (pictured) on June 29, will be aimed at first-timers and serious athletes alike. Triathlons can vary in distance,
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Day of reckoning for Bradford Bulls as points appeal heard
The Bulls will today go into battle with the RFL as they bid to win back the six points they had docked on February 25. The club have launched an unprecedented appeal against their punishment for entering administration and an independent sporting
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Size matters in Bradford City player pursuit
David Baldwin insists the Valley Parade faithful have retained their pulling power as City topped 12,000 in advanced ticket sales for next season. Director of operations Baldwin believes the size and noise of the home crowds remain a magnet for
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Area is named as one of most congested regions in the UK
The Bradford and Leeds area has been named as the seventh most congestedarea in the UK, down on the previous year, a study has revealed. The congestion level for in 2013 was 29 per cent longer than they would be in free-flowing traffic, a three
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Cacti of all shapes and sizes set to go on display at library
Giant prickles, weird lobes, wondrous cacti and succulents of all shapes and sizes will be on show at Shipley library this Saturday. The Bradford branch of the British Cactus and Succulent Society holds its annual show on June 7 between 10.30am
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Plans begun to plug Bradford hospitals funding black hole
Hospital chiefs have started work on a five-year plan which will lead to major changes in the way health services are provided in Bradford as demand rises ahead of expected income. It was revealed in yesterday’s Telegraph & Argus that the city
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Man bled to death trying to climb in charity bin to sleep
A man bled to death after getting his arm trapped in the hatch of a charity clothing bin where his family believe he was trying to get inside to sleep. Brendan McBride, 19, was found hanging by his arm in a yard used to store bins belonging to
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Cup holders next up after Bradford Dudley Hill dump out Saddleworth Rangers
Wingman Neil Wall had the first and final say as Dudley Hill pulled off a shock 20-18 first-round win in the Conference Challenge Trophy at Saddleworth Rangers. The burly Wall sent a clear message of Hill's intent when he crossed for the opener
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Organisers issue rallying call for Keighley people to support event for the town
A final rallying call has been issued to townspeople ahead of Keighley Gala. The 138th annual charity extravaganza takes place on Sunday, with a host of attractions lined up. Now organisers are appealing for the public to turn out in numbers
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Minister attacked on empty homes criticism of Bradford
Labour-run Bradford Council has railed against a Government edict to do more to battle the blight of abandoned houses. Communities Minister Stephen Williams has written to Bradford Council saying it should work harder to tackle the high number
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Bradford Community College scheme to turn lives around
A college in Bradford city centre is taking part in a programme to make sure young people struggling to find a job don’t “fall through the cracks” into long-term unemployment. Forster Community College hopes to help 80 people aged between 18 and
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JCT600 breathe new life into classic Porsche to mark 911’s anniversary
Bodyshop experts in Bradford will play a key part in restoring a neglected 33-year-old classic Porsche 911 turbo sports car in a national competition to mark the 40th anniversary of the first turbo engined Porsche production car. They will work
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Magician Dynamo films inside the Odeon
Top magician Dynamo was back in his home city of Bradford yesterday as he filmed tricks for the fourth series of his hit TV show. The 31-year-old vmade a nostalgic visit to the former Odeon cinema as part of filming for Dynamo: Magician Impossible
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5,000 people sign petition to keep Riley's killer in jail for rest of his life
An online petition to keep child killer Anwar Rosser in jail for the rest of his days has been started by the family of the four-year-old boy he savagely murdered. They have joined forces with anti-crime group Stop the Thieves in Keighley to create
