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Stories for 13 September 2003

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Printer reaches final deadline after 50 years

A Harden printer has hung up his overalls for the last time after working at the same company for 50 years.  more...

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Letters to the Editor

SIR - K J Trocki is wrong to suggest Education Bradford has failed to improve the results of Bradford children (Letters, September 8).  more...

'Easy' drink fuels bar violence

Police and pub bosses are working together to find ways of stopping drunken violent crime in the city centre which is stretching police resources to the limit.  more...

Pi is squared for a one-off show!

A theatre director has won exclusive rights to produce a stage version of last year's Booker Prize winning novel, Life of Pi, in Bradford.  more...

Report lays blame for holding up progress

A new report from Education Bradford on this summer's exam performance appears to blame poor people, Pakistani pupils and failing schools for disappointing results.  more...

Prisoner may be deported

A Jamaican national arrested during a police raid on a Bradford pub will face deportation after serving a three-year jail sentence.  more...

A weekend on the tiles for visitors

A mural depicting Saltaire's past, present and future will be created by crowds celebrating the bicentenary of Sir Titus Salt's birth this weekend.   more...

New blow for brave young Zak

The Bradford boy with a mystery illness which means he cannot swallow is ill in hospital after trying to drink a liquid meal.  more...

£65,000 aid to help farm business grow

A £65,000 Government grant is helping business grow down on a farm in Esholt.  more...

Hundreds mourn little Saba

Hundreds of mourners gathered to say their final goodbyes to tragic Bradford toddler Saba Amjad.  more...

Protest against children's home is stepped up

Campaigns against four new children's homes hotted up today with thousands of leaflets distributed in the city - and vandalism on a site where work has already started.  more...

Airline flying high - just six months on

A budget airline has announced business at Leeds Bradford Airport is booming - just as a rival firm sharing the same tarmac revealed it is cutting its routes.  more...

Commissions were `lost in fog of war'

The Army is trying to unite Bradford veterans with commissions signed by the King which they never received - because they had already left the country for active service in the Second War War.  more...

£430,000 plan for town flats

A £430,000 scheme is offering new homes to 20 young people in Otley.  more...

Park named in Jane's honour

Residents of West Bowling have renamed their local park to honour the memory of a former resident.  more...

On This Day

In 1898, one Hannibal Williston Goodwin patented celluloid film, used to make moving pictures.  more...

Airport's void must be filled

The world of budget air travel is a highly-competitive, perilous one. Planet Air has discovered that, having decided to cancel three out of four of the major routes it operates out of Leeds-Bradford International Airport (LBIA) and blaming the decision on a glut of cheap airlines and tour operators selling low-cost flights.  more...

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Bulls out to impress

Paul Anderson heads into tomorrow's clash against his home-town club claiming: "We are playing for semi-final places now."  more...

Returning Combe is playing for keeps

Alan Combe has no intention of giving up City's number one slot.  more...

We won't ease off, vows Noble

Brian Noble is confident that motivation and results will continue in tandem, despite the next two matches being essentially meaningless for the Bulls.  more...

Grand final within our reach, says Moorby

Tomorrow's play-off game at home to Hunslet is Keighley Cougars' most important match of the last few years.  more...

Tykes struggle as Smith hits century

Yorkshire axed Darren Gough and then put Worcestershire in to bat at New Road yesterday, two decisions which they were left to ponder as the championship's Second Division leaders rattled up 309 for five on a good pitch.  more...

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Confused parents find school shut

Children at a Shipley primary school returned to school yesterday after they found the doors closed on the day they were supposed to go back.  more...

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Man, 30, jailed for sex with girl, 15

A 30-year-old man who admitted unlawful sex with an under-aged girl has been jailed.  more...