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Keighley prepares for 'Week of Prayer'
Services are being held at churches across Keighley to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year's event is on the theme "Pray without Ceasing". The Week of Prayer tradition, which was started by American minister Paul Wattson, is celebrating
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Tourist attractions feel pinch with fewer visitors
Haworth tourist attractions have seen a drop in visitor numbers in the past year. The Brontë Parsonage Museum experienced a 3 per cent fall - 75,673 people visited in 2007, compared with 77,984 the previous year. A spokeswoman said she understood the
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Housing hotline to combat problems
Housing trust tenants in the Keighley area have been given a hotline to report threats and anti-social behaviour. They can call 24 hours a day about verbal abuse, drug dealing, racial harassment and offensive drunkenness. The hotline serves thousands
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Air crash down to inexperience
A pilot escaped unhurt when his light aircraft crash-landed at Oxenhope airstrip. An official report just published into last September's incident reveals that the 66-year-old pilot blamed his own inexperience of the plane - a Technam Echo - for the
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Chip shop gutted in blaze
An electrical fault sparked a blaze that gutted a village chip shop this morning. The interior of Eastburn Fish and Chips - a one-storey building in Main Road - was badly damaged in the blaze, which broke out at about 9.20am. No one was hurt in the incident
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Happy birthday for Steeton singers
Steeton Male Voice Choir will celebrate its hundredth birthday with a clutch of special concerts. The men will travel to Ireland, perform for a duchess and sing in the floodlit ruins of an abbey. They will begin the year's programme with a massed choir
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Fab time for jazz queen Clare
Get Happy is the perfect title for jazz queen Clare Teal's latest album. The former Kildwick woman said that recording the disc was was terrific fun and a fabulous experience. Clare returns to her first love, jazz, for her first album with Universal