Articles about Keighley (0-13 of 13)

  • Growing Up As The Youngest Bronte
    By: Sean Spurr | - Anne was born after her two more well-known siblings, Emily and Charlotte, and therefore became the youngest member in the Bronte household upon being born on 17th January 1820. When she was born her father, Patrick Bronte, was the curate of Thornton village near Bradford, where Anne was baptised on the 25th March.

    The next month the whole household moved into the Haworth Parsonage which would become famous as their lifelong residence as a result of Patrick gaining a lifetime curacy ...

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  • Excellent Services From International Couriers Help Make Leeds A Leading Uk City
    By: Cole Rees | - With its excellent array of new shops and attractions such as the Royal Armouries, in recent years Leeds has made a big push to become one of the UKs leading cities. The wood industry was responsible for Leeds birth, and it was once an important trading town, to which farmers from wide areas of Yorkshire came to sell their livestock and other goods.

    In 1770, Leeds was the point of departure for a sixth of the total exports from the UK, and the development of the citys cana ...

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  • News Of Thieving Postie Encourages More People To Use Reliable Couriers Instead
    By: Kevin Longworth | - It doesnt happen often but it seems that the worrying thought that a rogue postal worker hoarding all our parcels for themselves has made more UK parcel senders opt for the security and comfort of using a reliable parcel courier instead.

    The most recent news story is that of a postal worker in Keighley, Yorkshire who was found to have stashed over 10,000 envelopes and parcels in his home, garage and even garden shed. The news is likely to make some people very concerned about p ...

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  • Plastic Shot Glasses
    By: Robert Daniel | - The days of the dusty saloon are done. The clinking of heavy glass shot glasses has gone the way of the tumbleweed. Plastic shot glasses have come into their own. Once believed to only be suitable for disposable glass, Polycarbonate and Polystyrene shot glasses have had a massive impact on the bar supplies industry as of late.

    Previously, Plastic Shot Glasses have been weak and easily broken vessels, too fragile to replace more traditional glassware in pubs, bars and other venues. ...

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  • Seen To Be Greener?
    By: Robert Daniel | - Lots of companies all over the world are now offering for sale green products, in our business the most commonplace are the PLA (poly-lactic acid) coated Paper Coffee Cups the likes of Tim Hortons and the other major coffee shops are employing in their desire to be seen to be as environmentally acceptable and sympathetic as possible.

    Lots are now offering reusable mugs to drink in store, or that you can purchase and then return to receive a rebate.

    Hundreds of websites ...

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  • Green Festivals
    By: Robert Daniel | -
    As we are now enjoying the very best the English Summer has to offer, it can only mean that the festival season is well and truly underway. Recent festivals have included the Isle of Wight Festival as well as the ever popular Glastonbury Festival. For the first time in years neither of these festivals has managed to sell out all their tickets, however the relatively recent (by comparison) Lattitude festival has proved to be more popular that ever. For the first time in it's history this f ...

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  • Pint Glasses Of The Future
    By: Robert Daniel | - A new safety pint tumbler is being developed by designers in an effort to crack the problem of "glassings". On behalf of the Design and Technology Alliance Against Crime, the Design Council has tasked a team of specialist designers to draw up an alternative pint glass to reduce the number of injuries from the 87,000 incidents involving glassings each year, which costs an estimated 100 Million Pounds in NHS, police and court costs year on year.

    The designers, Design Bridge, will prod ...

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  • Green Taxation?
    By: Robert Daniel | - Our government is saving us from the threat of "dangerous" disposable merchandise - with taxes!

    Recently a law in France was passed to tax plastic tableware to try to encourage customers to buy more eco-friendly products, and Paris is planning to expand the measure to include several other items, the environment minister announced last Monday.

    There are similar taxes on disposable items in Malta and closer to home in Ireland; the plastic carrier bag tax of 15 Eurocents ...

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  • Eco Footprints Stamping On Good Intentions
    By: Robert Daniel | - Firms all over the world are advising us about how green they are and how many trees, birds and babies they are saving buy flogging their new "eco" merchandise to us. Whole companies have sprung up dedicated solely to selling us with green merchandise, advising us on how to behave, and coincidently selling the eco merchandise we need in order to stave off Armageddon.

    It is truly amazing just how many companies are singly handedly saving us from ourselves and our nasty consumeri ...

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  • Train Tickets Bradford To London
    By: Tarun Jaswani | - Travel tickets can be singles (SGL), the outward portion of a return (OUT) or the return portion of a return (RTN). Some tickets issued for special trains and charters were single-portion returns showing OUT and RTN, although ordinary tickets for scheduled services were never issued in this format. In the illustrated example, this is the journey back to Bradford-on-Avon. The distinction between the two portions of a return ticket is required because certain ticket types have different restrictio ...
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  • Keighley, West Yorkshire - Where I Live
    By: Patricia A Jones | - The dark satanic mill town of Keighley I have never forgotten that headline from a national newspaper in the late 60s. The article was about the Keighley rugby league team who are now called Keighley Cougars.

    Back then wherever you looked on the horizon you could see mill chimneys towering over the rest of the town. The mill chimneys were gradually demolished and now as Keighley sits in a valley you can see fields and trees in the distance from almost any viewpoint.
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  • Cheap Hotels In Leeds Uk
    By: Leeds Hotels | - www.Cheap-hotels-leeds.com - It is Suitated in The Heart of Leeds. Comfort Inn Leeds is The Ideal Choice For Business and Leisure Travellers. All Conferences can be Catered with for with a Range of Facilities and Equipment. Resorts, Lodges and Inns, as well as Guest Houses Which Feature all of the Facilities and Services a Traveller Would Expect of a Hotel. We offer You the Best-Value nice Hotel and lowest discount Rates Available in Leeds WestYorkshire UK. Find Hotels in Leeds, Check Availabili ...
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