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April 2009
  • A charity which gives troubled children a second chance to succeed in education is running regular sports sessions – thanks to a grant from Bradford-based Yorkshire Building Society.
  • Former Great Britain skipper and St Helens loose forward Paul Sculthorpe helped unveil two major Keighley Cougar community programmes at Cougar Park.
  • Pupils were given a taste of some old-fashioned discipline when they recreated a Victorian school day.
  • Scarecrows will be dotted around Cononley this weekend – as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the village institute.
  • Glamour queen with brains and beauty Rebecca Geldard is to compete for the Miss Great Britain title.
  • Playing bingo on her 102nd birthday was always on the cards for Anne Webster.
  • Belle Vue Girls' School at Heaton has been rated as 'outstanding' by Ofsted inspectors.
  • Bradford-born Arctic explorer Ann Daniels has revealed how her ‘hoodie’ is her most prized luxury on the ice.
  • Staff and students at Whetley Primary School are celebrating, after it was rated “good” overall by Ofsted inspectors.
  • Tourist village Esholt already attracts coachloads of visitors thanks to its Emmerdale connections but now a new tour is about to go on offer – round its sewage works.
  • Bonny baby Jack Moor has been crowned the T&A's Happy Tot 2009.
  • Gospel singers and martial arts performers were among the young hopefuls taking part in Bradford’s Yorkshire’s Got Talent competition.
  • Robert Nesbitt, who is just 11 years of age, has become the youngest player ever at Skipton Golf Club to score a hole-in-one in a bona fide club competition.
  • Football met literacy at Thornton Grammar School when a children’s author dropped in.
  • A village pub has put itself at the heart of the community with its own library, coffee mornings and even knitting lessons.
  • Young competition winners at a Bradford primary school have got telescopic vision as a reward for their research skills.
  • Ten years after they first bared all, six of the original Calendar Girls have stripped off again.
  • A 20-year-old model is sweeping all before her as she pursues a life of glamour.
  • Oakwell Hall in Birstall was the setting as the Royal Mail unveiled the second series of its Kings and Queens stamps celebrating the royal houses of England.
  • Thousands of children are to help reveal the reasons behind the country’s spiralling rate of allergies as part of ground-breaking health research project Born in Bradford (BiB).
  • A Bradford charity is offering to take a family with a disabled member on holiday, after receiving funds from a city centre collection.
  • Parents fighting the closure of a family centre in Bradford which gives deaf children a chance of making it in mainstream schools have told of the impact the charity has had on their children.
  • More than 200 Scouts marched through the streets of Bradford during their annual St George’s Day parade.
  • A grandfather with driving ambition is living proof that you are never too old to learn.

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April 2009

A selection of some of the best pictures from the T&A this month.

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