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October 2009

  • Illness has forced hairdresser Christine Sharp to give up the “best job in the world”. 
The 66-year-old has been struck down with osteoporosis – a disease of the bones – and is having to say a sad farewell to customers who she calls “my friends
  • A cast of 300 youngsters from Stage 84 is treading the boards at the Alhambra this week, celebrating a special anniversary.
  • A community centre is opening its doors to celebrate its new look after a major refurbishment.
  • Inspirational stories by 20 Muslim women from Bradford were brought to life in a project to give a voice to marginalised communities.
  • An award-winning butcher’s shop is hoping to make the record books with sausages.Eleven staff at Bentley’s, Pudsey, want to make the longest unbroken chain of sausage links in the world, while raising money for Martin House children's hospice.
  • This was the scene in Bradford city centre yesterday morning as two giant cranes hoisted the mid-section of the landmark Hall Ings footbridge.
  • Amateur filmmakers have portrayed harrowing scenes of a stabbing to warn their peers of gang culture. Pupils at Nab Wood School, Cottingley, and Beckfoot School, Bingley, collaborated with professional film producers to make their own rap music.
  • Between them, they have a combined age of 309, and as far as they’re concerned, you still can’t beat a good meal of fish and chips.
  • Three unsung heroes of Bradford’s health service stepped in to the spotlight to be crowned winners of the Hospital Oscars.

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