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Excellence awards for safety team
A Keighley-based forum has received coveted awards. Bradford Area Occupational Health and Safety Forum has been presented with two Alan Butler awards for excellence. The accolades were handed over at a House of Lords ceremony to forum chairman Carol
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Family pride as painting is sold
A painting by a man who knew he would never see it hung has been sold to raise cash to help people with terminal illness. The watercolour of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal by Mark Swift, who died of cancer aged 44, was on show at the Mall Galleries in London
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Cash will pay to search for funding
Services at a hair salon and Internet café in Bracken Bank, Keighley, could be expanded. College bosses hope to attract long-term funding and increase the number of customers. They will ask residents what other activities could be housed in the former
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DVD: M.I. High -- Sinister Prime Minister
Spooks strives for realism but Kudos's other spy series, this time for kids, is more like the over-the-top James Bond adventures of old. It's a hugely entertaining blend of comedy and thrills, school grammar and spy romp, up-to-the-minute while recalling
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Clare gets happy on live tour
Jazz queen Clare Teal will perform in the region alongside the release of forthcoming album Get Happy. The multi award-winning Kildwick-born diva is also touring to promote her new single All For Love. Clare will perform jazz standards and her own material
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Heritage line reaches 40th
The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is to launch its 40th-anniversary celebrations in style - with help from other heritage lines. It is staging its February steam gala next weekend and two visiting locomotives will join the K&WVR's resident fleet.
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Keep the Brontes in Haworth!
The idea of filming the tale of the Brontes - Yorkshire's greatest literary family - in the Welsh valleys or on the Canadian prairie would seem blasphemous, but that could happen if local funding isn't found fast. The film was expected to be shot at
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Emily — this is your life
An exhibition exploring the short life of the author of one of the most famous books in the English language has been opened at the Brontë shrine, in Haworth. It is the first time the Brontë Parsonage Museum has assembled a display of every item it owns
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Tributes paid to ‘model’ worker
Tributes have been paid to a committed church member and long serving law firm secretary who has died. Margaret Waddington, who lived at Long Lee, died in Airedale Hospital last Thursday. She was 82. She had begun her career at Keighley Laboratories
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Jamil is selected by the Tories
A 54-year-old businessman has been chosen to contest Keighley Central Ward for the Conservatives in the May council elections. Jamil Malik, pictured, who has lived in the town for 40 years and has worked as a Victim Support volunteer, is married with