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Rosie scare leads to tube being re-fitted
A toddler with a rare defect of the throat has had a setback in her battle to breathe and speak unaided. Two-year-old Rosie Toal, who just five months ago had a breathing tube removed — it was fitted shortly after her birth — has had it replaced following
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Higgs back in style as Keighley shine
Keighley Amateur Boxing Club had a champion weekend, with three boxers winning at Halifax Irish Centre and heavyweight comeback kid Craig Higgs taking the Yorkshire Senior Novice title in his first bout in seven years. Jaleel Khalid took a majority decision
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Inman: Forget form for 'priceless' Skipton derby
Keighley director of rugby Jeff Inman believes the form book will go out of the window in Saturday’s derby clash with Skipton. Despite winning five of their last seven league games, his side are taking nothing for granted as they welcome their rivals
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New store’s map bungle
Keighley’s Asda store was put firmly on the map — but in the wrong place! The supermarket giant’s own website showed the outlet to be around the Scott Street car park. It was only when the Keighley News contacted the company that the problem was rectified
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Missed chances mean more cup woe for Keighley
Leodiensians 17 Keighley 12 Keighley fell at the first hurdle of the Yorkshire Shield at Leeds-based Leodiensians, thereby maintaining a familiar lack of success in trophy competitions in recent years. The game against their opponents from a league
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Tribute paid to well-known theatre man who died, aged 93
Peter Riley, a well-known former member of Keighley’s theatre world, has died, aged 93. He ran Burns Theatre Club for 30 years, organising coach trips to theatres for Keighley people. He also ran Burns Music Shop, in East Parade, for several years and
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Bands and dancers will be entertaining
The Bradford Marching Pipe Band will be the highlight of two days of entertainment in Haworth this weekend. The annual Pipes, Bows and Bells festivities kick off in Main Street late Saturday morning. There will be children’s rides and a fairground
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Another year, another title for VQ's
All-conquering VQ’s Sports pool team celebrate their 18th consecutive Premier Division title and their sixth treble at the Keighley & District League’s presentation night tomorrow. Captain Lee Vause’s side continued their dominance of the
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Cougars back in training as Royston gets to work
Cougars got back to the hard graft on Tuesday night as Barry Eaton’s side returned for the start of pre-season training. The squad, bolstered by their five off-season recruits, were put through their paces by new strength and conditioning coach Paul
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GAME: iCarly
A pleasant surprise this, an enjoyable Nintendo DS game based on an American TV show that many British kids won't have seen. On TV young Carly hosts a fictional internet show from her cellar, like a cut-price Ant and Dec mixing wacky games with teen
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GAME: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky
Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum are brilliant, each hooking players of all ages for many hours, but this spin-off series is disappointing. The latest Explorers, Sky, may have more features than last year's Time and Darkness, but it's still a poor
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GAME: Women's Murder Club -- Games of Passion
James Patterson's novels are slick and superficial but engrossing -- and this Nintendo DS spin-off is rather similar. The gameplay of this whodunnit - mixing CSI-style sleuthing with mini-games -- is smooth and simplistic but strangely addictive.
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Wacky ideas in annual appeal
Schools, businesses and groups across Keighley district did their bit for Children in Need. They came up with all kinds of wacky ideas to raise funds for the annual charity appeal. Nationally, last Friday’s extravaganza coined in over £20 million.
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Pupils in plea for festive costumes
There’s lots of room at the inn for a Sutton school – but no costumes. Children can only stage their annual nativity play if they receive help from villagers and businesses. Sutton Community Primary School also needs to replace items normally used at
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Billy's year goes from bad to best
Keighley’s Billy Foster has declared this year his best ever as a caddy – after starting it off by getting sacked! The 43-year-old capped a fine campaign last weekend, carrying Lee Westwood’s bag as he marched to a stunning victory in the Dubai World
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Chicago -- Grand Theatre
This explosive show blew in, appropriately enough from the Windy City, for a week's run. Set in a women's prison, the 24-strong cast strutted their stuff with split-second position, a vocal and dance tour de force. In particular, Twinnie-Lee
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£1.7 million is handed out for play facilities
Two schools will be showing off their new play facilities to a VIP visitor next Friday. Holy Family, in Keighley, and Hothfield Primary, Silsden, each shared in a district-wide £9 million lottery pot. And Vanessa White, head of region for the Big Lottery
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Pantos, puppets and West End songs
Pantos, puppets and West End songs make up a packed first week of December. Sutton Amateurs perform their annual pantomime while Pinnacle Productions stage their second. Glusburn Institute hosts a concert of West End and folk songs following
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Bronte characters mix it up!
There's a Bronte mash-up in Haworth next month as famous characters escape from the novels. Mr Lockwood's Confusing Christmas will see them let loose in the Bronte Parsonage Museum. Mayhem is promised on December 12 with characters from Wuthering Heights
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Pioneering lessons are hailed a great success at Holycroft
Schoolchildren who had fallen behind in their class work have been demonstrating how they have progressed, thanks to pioneering lessons. The youngsters at Holycroft Primary School, Keighley, impressed Jean Gross, director of the Every Child a Chance
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MUSIC from November 26
Hall of Fame, Cougar Park: Keighley Blues Club with Little Stevie and the Business (tomorrow). Email bbj21@btinternet. Cricketers Arms, Coney Lane, Keighley: Below Zero (tomorrow); Road Kill (Saturday); Daybreakers (Tuesday); Last Orders (December 4
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Spike Island back in Keighley
Spike Island, Ten Thousand Pieces, Mockingbirds and The Lumaries play the Snooty Fox, Oakworth, on December 12. The 6-11.30pm gig is organised by N3M Northern Music which is led by Keighley man Mickey Reilly and Goose Eye partners Liz Jenkins and Dave
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Keighley singers perform Marie Curie concert
Steeton Male Voice Choir teams up with Keighley Amateurs Junior Singing Club for a charity concert on December 10. They perform the Marie Curie Lights to Remember Christmas Concert with the Yorkshire Co-op Brass Band at 7pm. For Singing Club leader
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Comedy club double headliners
There are two headliners at the next ticket-only Cricketers Arms comedy night on December 17. Toby Hadoke is clever, cutting and a cornerstone of Manchester comedy, while Des Sharples is amiable, naturally funny and talks about his life experiences
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High-tech firm sets up site for countrywide link
A Keighley company which provides websites for the education sector has gone to the aid of a Durham school. WebAnywhere, based at the Aire Valley Business Centre, has supplied Coxhoe Primary with a free site so that it can continue to share online learning
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Kicking Christmas for Keighley Playhouse
A Kick in the Baubles is a comedy play bringing seasonal cheer to Keighley Playhouse on December 7-12. The play begins with another peaceful Christmas in the Bauble household. But chestnuts aren't roasting on an open fire, and although a Silent Night
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A Christmas Carol means chaos in Bingley!
A Christmas Carol is given a comic twist by Bingley Little Theatre in its December 7-12 production. This version comes from the fictional Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society. There'll be bickering cast members, novel audience
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WHAT'S ON from November 26
Sutton Village Hall: Sutton Amateurs in pantomime Mother Hubbard (Wednesday-December 5). Tickets from Londis Stores, Sutton, or phone 01535 632289. Glusburn Institute: children's puppet show Who's Been Sitting in My Chair? (Wednesday 4pm); popular group
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Youth arts workshops at Smallworld
Keighley arts group Smallworld is running new open sessions for teenagers in various artforms. They include printmaking, graffiti, mosaic making, ceramics, street/break dance, jewellery/beading, creative textiles and Christmas art. The sessions, open
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Keighley step into Narnia
Two local children have a won parts in a stage version of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Edward Denby and Lucy Ward are among 24 youngsters appearing in the children's classic in Halifax. Edward, from Oxenhope, will play Edmund, one of the four
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Wild arts at Keighley gallery
A wild day for Keighley families is being organised by the town's contemporary art gallery. Keighley Arts Factory is hosting a family learning day based on children's book Where the Wild Things Are. Children can build a boat for Max, one of the book's
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Do you have a Bronte treasure in the attic?
Artefacts unearthed during a “Bronteana surgery” could go on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. New displays early next year are likely to feature items brought forward by people living in the Haworth area. The museum recently issued an invitation
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Toy workshop at Cliffe Castle
Toys and games is the title of a free family workshop at Cliffe Castle Museum on December 22. Children can explore toys old and new and make their own toy during the 11am-3pm session.
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‘Wicked’ rapists of young girl jailed
A “dangerous” man, serving an 18-year jail sentence for trying to murder a suspected paedophile, was on Friday locked up for life for raping a little girl. Alan Morrison, 48, was branded a “very serious risk to the public” by a judge, who said he would
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Coal history on screen
The history of the coal industry will be highlighted in a special screening at Keighley Picture House. King Coal brings together 15 short films about the coal industry on December 9 at 7.45pm. The films begin in 1901 and progress through the decades
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Art gallery offers Christmas present workshops
A Keighley art gallery is offering local people a chance to make Christmas cards and presents. Keighley Arts Factory is offering evening workshops in silk painting and decorative batik paper designs. People can design and paint their own silk Christmas
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Buffaloes to be bought
Eastburn Junior School has raised enough money to purchase two buffaloes. Pupils sold food produce to parents after their harvest assembly and took home envelopes to collect donations for the animals. Their efforts were to raise money to buy the farming
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Tipping the Velvet writer in Haworth
One of the UK's leading novelists will appear at a Brontë Parsonage Museum event this Saturday. Sarah Waters headlines a day of creative writing events organised by women's writing magazine Mslexia. She will talk about her work from 6pm at the nearby
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Silsden dance school walks in air!
Pupils of a Silsden dance school will be walking in the air during their annual show. The Snowman is one of the themes of this year's production from the Elizabeth Phillips School of Dance. The show, performed on November 27 and 28 at Glusburn Institute
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Supermarket presents lots of sports equipment to youngsters
Much-needed multi-coloured javelins, balls and cricket bats are now in the hands of gleeful Braithwaite School children thanks to a donation. Sainsbury’s supermarket, in Keighley, handed over the sports equipment, which had been on display in the store
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Driver fined following collision with bus
Yasser Hussain collided with a single-decker bus as he drove out of a junction next to a narrow bridge over the River Worth. The collision in Coney Lane, Keighley, on May 19, caused minor injury to himself, the bus driver and a passenger, magistrates
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Christmas gifts go to 160 needy children
More than 100 seriously impoverished children around the world will be receiving toys, toothbrushes and educational equipment thanks to Cullingworth Primary School pupils. The schoolchildren have collected around 160 boxes for the Samaritan’s Purse Children
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Man punched police officer after row over mother and girlfriend
A row relating to David Hutchinson’s mother and girlfriend developed into a battle with police officers, magistrates in Bingley were told. Hutchinson, of Holker Street, Keighley, punched a police officer in the face, challenged him to a one-on-one fight
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Lord Mayor's Christmas message - to clamping humbug - your views
Offer friendship to the lonely It is a great pleasure to wish each and every one of you a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year. My wife and I are Christians — this is a very special time when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ over
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X Factor has pupils hooked
Pupils at St Andrew’s CE Primary School, in Keighley, are hooked on learning thanks to the X Factor. Teachers used the TV talent show to inspire year five students to study right up to Christmas. Classes adopt a themed topic for each half term bringing
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Bulls help staff to healthy lives
A Bradford Bulls star has put staff at Damart’s Steeton warehouse through their paces to help the company achieve a bronze award in a healthy heart campaign. Player Jamie Langer turned up with coach Stuart Barrow to teach staff 10-minute exercises in
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Two hit the jackpot to develop projects
Two local primary schools have been awarded almost £10,000 each from the Big Lottery Fund. Cash has gone to Our Lady of Victories School, in Keighley, and Sutton Community Primary School. The grants are part of a £474,000 Awards For All share-out among
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Children’s weighty problems
Keighley Central has been identified as a child obesity hotspot. Almost a quarter of 10 and 11-year-olds living in the area — which includes Highfield, Lawkholme and Knowle Park — are obese or overweight, it has been revealed. The shocking figure —
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Emphasise the cost-free way to help beat obesity
Probably the most accurate picture yet of the level of child obesity in this area has been painted. The statistics have come to light as letters are sent out to the parents of around 7,000 youngsters telling them which weight category their child falls
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Don’t wear depression but a crown of honour
Karen Robinson of St Mark’s Utley writesAre you going through or have you been through a difficult situation? Are you constantly depressed as a result? David in Psalm 3, verse 3, makes a very strong declaration of faith in the middle of a difficult
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General made an exceedingly good shot at bowls
This was the crowded scene in Old Main Street, at Bingley, in June of 1905, when Major General Sir H M Leslie Rundle came to unveil Boer War memorials in Bingley Town Hall and Parish Church. Local members of the Volunteer Battalion of the Duke of Wellington
