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  It will be a sad day if two long-standing Bradford district animal charities are forced to close.
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           <title>Documents have to be understood</title>
           
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  There’s a lot of talk these days about dumbing down, and how things have to be explained in the simplest possible terms and appeal to the lowest common denominator for them to be successful.
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           <title>Trauma that should not be repeated</title>
           
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  The injuries reportedly suffered by an 80-year-old man during a stay in Airedale General Hospital will raise alarm bells for all families of elderly and vulnerable people.
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           <title>Scheme is worth giving  a chance</title>
           
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  The idea of allowing victims of crime to meet those who committed the offence to both allow the perpetrator to apologise and give those who have suffered some kind of closure is, inherently, a sound one.
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           <title>A welcome step in battle on grooming</title>
           
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  The formation of the Community Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation in Bradford yesterday marks another step forward in the ongoing fight to tackle the issue of grooming in the district.
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  It is a matter of grave concern that an estimated 18,000 pensioners are living in hardship in the Bradford district because they are struggling to meet everyday living costs.
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  The BBC programme City of Dreams, to be aired tonight, promises a much more considered and balanced view of Bradford and its people than the controversial Channel 4 programme of just over a year ago.
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  The BBC programme City of Dreams, to be aired tonight, promises a much more considered and balanced view of Bradford and its people than the controversial Channel 4 programme of just over a year ago.
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           <title>Questions over validity of testing</title>
           
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  The revelation that almost 2,500 people claiming sickness benefits have been found fit to work under a new testing regime would on the face of it seem to confirm the view held by many that too many claimants are shirkers.
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           <title>Support is there for fostering</title>
           
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  As the Telegraph &amp; Argus has reported in the past, there is a great need for foster parents to come forward to help give children who have had problems or unsettled upbringings some sense of normality and routine.
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           <title>Penalties send strong message</title>
           
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  The severe penalty imposed on a businessman who operated an illegal indoor market in Bradford for months, despite being refused permission, will hopefully send out a strong message to anyone else who might be tempted to brazenly ignore planning rules.
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           <title>Let’s all pull together for this vision</title>
           
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  Everybody has plenty to say when the question is asked about what are the problems facing Bradford and what needs to be changed or put right.
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           <title>Making our city centre much safer</title>
           
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  If we are to have the city centre that we want and deserve – a place where people can work, socialise, spend leisure time and shop – then we must have a safe city centre.
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           <title>Appeal well worth your support</title>
           
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  There are no quick fixes in the battle against cancer. It is estimated that one in three of us will suffer an attack from this most pernicious of enemies at some stage in our lives.
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  It is encouraging to see that NHS England is to look into the issue of GP surgeries using potentially expensive 0844 numbers following this paper’s recent story reporting on practices still using them in the Bradford district.
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           <title>Vulnerable must be protected</title>
           
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  Local authorities face increasingly difficult choices when it comes to allocating funding as budgets are cut and central funding reduced.
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           <title>Considerate parking is essential</title>
           
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  The issue of parking near schools at drop off and pick up time is a thorny one that continues to cause problems.
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           <title>More speed less haste at roundabout</title>
           
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  Everyone recognises something needs to be done to improve Saltaire roundabout.
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           <title>No need to be having nightmares</title>
           
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  The new study which pinpoints Bradford as one of the “least peaceful” areas in the region makes for, on the face of it, somewhat depressing and unwelcome news.
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           <title>Disgraceful crime of a charity cheat</title>
           
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  There can be no excuses for anyone who decides to steal from the coffers of a charity.
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           <title>Tuesday, April 23, 2013</title>
           
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  25 years ago: A 12-year-old green Renault perched on top of a 60ft former foundry chimney proved to be a novel way of advertising a new car spares firm.
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           <title>Building a future for students</title>
           
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  The work to transform Bradford College through a major building project has been a welcome sight since work started last year, both as a potential herald of the upturn in fortunes of the city as a whole and as a heartening success story given the project nearly hit the funding buffers two years ago.
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           <title>Sadness if St George's parade ends</title>
           
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  Of all the casualties of bureaucracy and belt-tightening, the potential scrapping of the Scouting movement’s annual St George’s Day parade in Bradford seems a particularly sad one.
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           <title>Bully boys must not beat justice</title>
           
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  Individuals who stick their necks above the parapet in order to highlight an injustice or right a wrong are, really, the lifeblood of our communities. Without brave people to speak out against problems when they see them, life would be a lot worse for a lot of people.
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           <title>Growing issue of city allotments</title>
           
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  There is little doubt that something needs to be done to solve the growing issues affecting Bradford’s allotments.
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  For too long, anti-social yobs tearing around on quad bikes have caused issues around the Bradford district.
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  The number of empty and boarded-up retail properties is one of the biggest causes for gloom in Bradford city centre, being a very real and concrete reminder of the recession and the fact that Bradford’s regeneration has not been as forward-moving as we would like.
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           <title>Phone bills are bitter pills to take</title>
           
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  When a patient calls their doctor, they have no reason to expect the call to be at a higher rate than any other call they make, so the revelation that a number of surgeries in the district use 0844 numbers, which can charge up to 41p a minute, will come as something of a shock to many people.
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           <title>No time to cut leisure discounts</title>
           
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  These are testing times for local authorities, with stringent government austerity measures putting a squeeze on public spending such as has not been seen for many years.
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  Improving literacy is one of the most important targets that can be aimed for in the education of our young people.
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  By anyone’s estimation, a potential haul of £2.3 million in fines from people caught speeding in the roadworks that seem to have become a permanent fixture of the M62 near Bradford is a lot of money.
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           <title>Accolades in film richly deserved</title>
           
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  Bradford’s appellation as the first UNESCO City of Film was, when it was first announced four years ago, something that raised a few eyebrows.
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  Those of a certain age will remember when children went to their nearest school and very often walked there and back.
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  Which is the greater deterrent to speeding on the motorway, knowing that a number of people have been prosecuted for doing so on a particular section of roadworks – or wondering whether or not a speed camera is switched on at a particular location?
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  Bees are an essential cog in the cycle of natural life – some would say THE essential cog, as their role as cross-pollinators is crucial to many of the food plants we take for granted.
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  After the disappointing revelation, exclusively revealed on our front page last week, that just 32 people had been convicted following 684 burglaries in Bradford city centre last year, we are especially pleased today to be able to report a very different picture regarding house break-ins.
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  So the seemingly inexorable decline of the public service provided by the Post Office and Royal Mail goes on.
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