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January 2010
  • A Bradford crisp business boss went back to the classroom to help children complete an enterprise project this week. John Tague, managing director of Seabrook Crisps, based in Duncombe Street, Bradford, spoke to pupils at Lidget Green Primary School.
  • Tiny tots are supporting their local rugby team with a new sponsorship deal. Abacus Nursery, on Parish Ghyll Drive, Ilkley, has bought shirts for the Ilkley Colts team of 17-year-olds, which has recently been re-formed.
  • Homeless people are to benefit from forgetful customers at a dry cleaners in Saltaire. The Bradford Soup Run provides free hot meals, clothes and blankets to the homeless and has been boosted with a donation from County Cleaners, in Bingley Road.
  • Air cadets claim they are “hidden victims” in the collapse of a charity which they supported with cash. They are out of pocket by over £1,000 after a minibus, which they shared, was sold to help meet the debts of the now-defunct Craven Voluntary Ac
  • Skipton-based Drama Plus has celebrated its 25th anniversary. The group was started by Roland and Wendy Coombs as The Speech and Drama Studio. Weekly classes run in Skipton, Addingham and Long Preston, with a new class at Bradley School.
  • Celebrations were low key when heart transplant child Gabrysia Filarowski reached the six-month milestone. Gabrysia had been doing well since her operation last year, but was struck down by a virus over Christmas and was still poorly on the anniversary.
  • Two young musicians are helping beat the shortage of church organists, and raising money for an Ilkley church. Anthony Gray, 13, and Henry Websdale, 12, are among recruits learning to play the instrument in a Bradford Organists Association scheme.
  • The bells could soon be ringing out again in Tong church. Villager Louise Connacher, who instigated a fundraising campaign to restore the bells at St James’s following a 30-year silence, says they are now a quarter of a way to their target.
  • Danielle Skilbeck, 11, of Otley, who won a Children of Courage award in 2004 after contracting meningitis, is back from a Dreamflight charity holiday, where she fulfilled her ambition of swimming with dolphins in Orlando, Florida.
  • Snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures did not stop guests travelling from all corners of the UK, including north-west Ireland, Glasgow and Guildford in Surrey for one very white Shipley wedding.
  • A Bradford City fan says he will not let a broken wrist stop him from walking to every home game with his twin brother for the rest of the season to raise funds for the Bradford Burns Unit.
  • A baby born prematurely as her mother lay critically-ill with swine flu has finally been allowed home. Miley Amber Brewin was due on January 24 but arrived on November 4 as her mum Jodie Brewin, 20, fought for her life in Bradford Royal Infirmary.
  • A family are off on an adventure that will take them to all corners of the earth – and the children out of school. Simon Robinson and his wife Louise Farnell and their children Alfie and Sian are embarking on a 15-month tour around the world.

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January 2010

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