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Set an example
CONGRATULATIONS on your Millennium Bridge supplement (October 3). I was pleased to read that the Cyclists' Touring Club welcomed the project. I hope they will set a good example for us all to follow by their careful use of the approaches and by sticking
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THE REAL COST OF THE FLOODS
A RYEDALE pensioner told today how his wife has never recovered from the trauma of seeing their home wrecked by flooding. Peter Mooring revealed that his wife, Phyllis, suffered a stroke shortly after their home in Welham Road, Norton, was inundated in
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Switch hitch closes pool
YEARSLEY swimming pool in York was closed today for work to be carried out, but is due to reopen tomorrow morning. The pool was closed yesterday afternoon, and people arriving for swimming sessions and members of the Jorvik Life Saving Club were turned
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Bed fire victim 'safe by seconds'
A WOMAN was lucky to be alive today after waking to find a bedside candle had set her quilt ablaze. The fire gutted a bedroom and caused severe smoke damage to the rest of the first floor of the terraced house in Darnborough Street, Clementhorpe, York
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Fuss at the Foss
In 1973 Sir Charles Dalton the High Sheriff of Yorkshire wrote "much remains to be done to improve the...convenience of the riverside footpaths". He was talking about the Foss, the river on today's walk. Nearly 30 years, on his words are still pertinent
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Making his mark
GOLFERS will be turning out in force on Thursday to honour one of North Yorkshire longest-serving greenkeepers. Mark Mennell, 41, joined Fulford Golf Club's greens staff straight from leaving school and since then has worked his way up to become head
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Patrick's plea
TEENAGER Patrick Corker enjoys the same things most 19-year-olds take for granted. He likes to meet friends, visit the cinema, go for a drink. The difference between him and the thousands of people his age in York is the lifestyle he has a right to could
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Dave's hat in England ring
THE England manager's job seems to be a poisoned chalice that many top bosses have turned their backs on, but one York-based football critic is more than willing to take up the post. And his credentials are pretty impressive. He has not suffered a single
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Mooring hits top form as Punch floor Turpin
JOHN Mooring included a maximum 180 for 16 darts as Punch Bowl demolished Dick Turpin in York Maxiprint League division one. A new-look Punch got their campaign off to an excellent start with a brilliant all round team performance. Martyn Turner (19),
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Doubts dispelled
WHAT a difference three points can make. City's performance last Friday against Mansfield saw a welcome return of optimism to Bootham Crescent after four successive defeats. The League table still makes sorry reading and one win doesn't make a summer,
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Pensioner jailed over computer child porn
A PENSIONER from North Yorkshire has been jailed for downloading hardcore child porn from the Internet. Frank Hopkinson, 66, has already served a jail sentence for sexually and physically abusing a 14-year-old boy after police found his home-made videos
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Dicing with death - Craig
FOOTBALL is taking its first terrifying step towards the gallows, York City chairman Douglas Craig has warned. With the European Commission expecting soccer's top brass to present an alternative to football's current transfer system by the end of this
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Paltry pension
A GREAT many people now are enjoying a higher standard of living than their forefathers. Many have warm comfortable accommodation, their own transport, a good clothes and eat plenty of healthy food. But these things are only possible with a reasonable
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Remember locals
DAN Rutstein quite rightly points out that the Rose and Crown, Lawrence Street, has become a haunt for York University students ('Welcome mat out as York Students return', October 9). He should have added "to the detriment of the locals". Ever since this
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Theatre of sound
I USED to regard the York Theatre Royal as a cultural haven. No longer. On a visit to its restaurant on a recent afternoon, I was assailed and insulted, almost to the point of breakdown, by tapes of the pathetic squawks of four Liverpudlians. It was a
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Thanks for locking me up, addict tells judge
A heroin addict thanked a York judge for "doing him a favour" by jailing him for nine months for drug dealing and other offences. An undercover detective caught Paul Michael Nicholson, 33, with £573 in drug profits, scales and wraps of heroin in Colliergate
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Forget this dead end idea
IT is hardly surprising that City of York Council would consider permanently closing Lendal Bridge to all but pedestrians, cycles and public transport to be a good thing for reducing congestion (October 12). After all, most council buildings are situated
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The jewel in the Crown
SHE can dance, she can act, she can model... and she can even pull a great pint of Tetley's. York-born Kelly Leavitt, 30, strutted her stuff with other beauties in the world-famous chorus line at the Moulin Rouge in Paris for two years and now she is
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New Year blues
Following the debacle of high prices and over-hype associated with the eve of the Millennium, York's publicans are beginning to wonder what will happen during the forthcoming festive season. With empty pubs and private parties the theme last year, the
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York's life history
YOUNG people from across York will see months of drama, dance and music work come to fruition on Wednesday with the Our Town Story for York performance at the Theatre Royal. The evening's line-up includes three productions about the city of York, devised
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Trio add names to growing league
THE Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale Cricket League is going from strength to strength. Three more clubs have applied to join the league's ranks next summer, secretary Shane Hargrave revealed at the league's annual dinner at York Racecourse last night
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Pot of gold for Rainbows
BUDDING Brownies at a York youngsters group scored a hat-trick when they took part in a national recruitment drive for new leaders. Members of the 18th St Andrew's York Rainbows, in Huntington, held an open evening as part of countrywide campaign by the
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Floods leave a painful legacy
BUSINESS leaders in Stamford Bridge have spelt out the devastating impact on their premises when the River Derwent bursts it banks. They spoke out as the Environment Agency revealed that a feasibility study into the provision of a village flood prevention
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Holiday firm victim is refunded
A YORK victim of the Global Vacations nightmare has got back the £3,145 he forked out to the holiday firm. The Acomb customer, who does not want to be identified, has had his account credited with the full amount by his credit card company. And he has
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Simply the greatest
NORTH Yorkshire's seven-times sidecar world champion Steve Webster is one race away from a place in the record books as the greatest sidecar racer of all time. He is in action tomorrow at Brands Hatch for the 11th and final round of the 2000 FIM Sidecar
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Plain sailing at yacht club
IT'S old hands on deck - as well as young - at a York sailing club. Plain sailing all the way, these hardy members of the Yorkshire Ouse Sailing Club at Naburn enjoy nothing more than splashing about on the water. The club's youngest sailor, seven-year-old
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Major milestones
1913: Kingaby v Aston Villa FC. Player Herbert Kingaby claimed Villa had imposed an excessive transfer fee on him but lost his claim. Transfer system held to be justified 1955: Aldershot FC v Banks Reg Banks had received and accepted an approach by Weymouth
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Cash given to crime-fighters
A mediation service which brings young offenders face-to-face with those they have preyed on is one of more than two dozen projects to benefit from a York crime-fighting fund. The Safer York Partnership's £360,000 project budget for the year, aimed at
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Countdown to football showdown
THE HISTORY THE European Commission insist football's current transfer system is illegal because it breaches employment law set out in the Treaty of Rome. The Commission believe that a player should be able to terminate a contract prior to its expiration
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Transfer market chaos looming
YORK City chairman Douglas Craig admits he is a worried man over the transfer saga that is haunting football. "I have always been an optimistic person but if the commission's views hold sway then I'm afraid I am quite despondent about the future," he
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Lesley dials into trouble
WHEN estate agent Lesley Beattie got the "golden number" she wanted for her new business she little realised she would become a part-time answering service for one of York's busiest switchboards - at the city's district hospital. The number in question
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Leave transfer system alone
RULE-bound European officials insist that football's transfer system must go. Either they have no idea what is at stake, or they place pettifogging bureaucracy above all else. At the stroke of a pen they could wipe out smaller, poorer clubs such as York
