One operates a luxury touring-bus company, while another runs a growing, franchised moving and junk-removal business.

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Respect's Yvonne Ridley, a former Fleet Street journalist and now anti-war campaigner, has been touring the town in an open-topped bus with the indefatigable Bradford West MP George Galloway at her side.

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