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Bogus vodka trader fined
A SHOPKEEPER near Selby has been fined £5,000 with £2,600 costs after being convicted of selling counterfeit vodka. Today trading standards chiefs said the sentence should act as a deterrent to other small businessmen tempted to buy in illegal stock.
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Minster daubs prove stubborn
STAFF at York Minster today admitted they are finding it "difficult" to remove the graffiti daubed on the building last month. Brigadier Peter Lyddon, Chapter Steward at the Minster, said he and his colleagues were running out of options. He said: "The
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Tykes pushed to brink
Former Yorkshire all-rounder Gareth Batty has pushed his native county to the brink of relegation to Division Two of the Norwich Union League. He coolly hit a career-best 83 not out for Surrey Lions under The Oval floodlights last night. Now Phoenix must
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Railtrack in threat to quit HQ
HUNDREDS of York jobs are under threat as Railtrack considers moving its regional headquarters away from the city, the Evening Press can reveal today. A leaked internal memo informs staff that the London North Eastern zone, based at Station Rise, York
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All points north
Christa Ackroyd was a Calendar girl before she decided to Look North. MAXINE GORDON meets the new face of BBC local news. TRAFFIC jams on the A64 were keeping Christa Ackroyd from our lunchtime appointment in the heart of York. Christa was bound for the
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One more week to get your entry in
JUST one week to go before deadline, so hurry and stake your claim to the title of Evening Press Business of the Year. The pace is quickening as more and more firms enter the Evening Press Business Awards 2001 - all of them making a good, hard-headed
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Bosses warned over pensions
TIME is running out for too many employers in North and East Yorkshire who think they can leave organising a stakeholder pension scheme for their employees to the last minute. They risk being stung by huge fines. That's the warning from Jonathan Beckerlegge
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Offices going up fast for rail job
PORTAKABIN of York is building offices which will accommodate 900 people in less than six months flat. The contract, worth nearly £5 million for a four-storey structure next door to the new domestic and international gateway at St Pancras station will
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Failures soar by 137 pc
BUSINESS failures in Yorkshire soared by 137 per cent last month, reversing the downward trend of the previous three months, according to the latest statistics published by professional services firm Deloitte & Touche. The total number of receiverships
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Akroyd quits Yorkshire seat
Philip Akroyd, one of the longest serving members on Yorkshire's general committee, has resigned his seat as a West District representative as tensions continue to surface over cuts to the playing staff. Akroyd, a member of the club's cricket sub committee
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Shame of charity to let 'gem' Barbara go at 60
I was so sorry to read that Barbara Sharp is finishing as home manager at the York Cats Protection Shelter because she is 60 ('Cat lover out in the cold after ten years', Evening Press, September 1). I could understand it if Barbara were 70 plus or in
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Rail plan delays
Five Year Plans were standard in the old Soviet Russia, not that they seemed to do much for Soviet citizens nor ultimately the communist regime. Notwithstanding that New Labour has a ten-year multi-billion pound transport plan, the new franchise arrangements
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Go with the glow
I WAS interested to read Chris Titley's account of the busking antics of the Yellow Man (Evening Press, August 29), particularly of his ability to sit motionless for periods of 40 minutes. I wondered about the occasion when he managed to remain in static
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Church's special welcome for new minister
EXTRA chairs had to be brought on to the gallery at Holgate Methodist Church to accommodate the congregation when the York South Circuit held a special service to welcome a new minister. Penny Worth who was born in Birmingham and worked as a doctor in
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Prize brings driver Ian a truckload of joy
TRUCKING on to national success is Ian Shaw, who scooped a prize in lorry driving's biggest event. The 44-year-old Wigginton man won a national finals class award in the Lorry Driver of the Year competition. Ian, a trucker for 23 years, narrowly failed
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Inquest opens on A169 victim
AN INQUEST into the death of a young woman in a Ryedale car accident has been opened and adjourned. Alix Potter, 19, of Shaw Drive, Kirkbymoorside, a full-time hotel worker, died when her car was involved in a collision on the A169 between Pickering and
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Major delays due to work on A64
MOTORISTS in York can expect major delays when work starts on £4.1 million safety improvements on the A64 at Top Lane, Copmanthorpe. Contractors are set to begin work on the main A64 carriageway, which includes the removal of traffic lights at Copmanthorpe
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Tragedy is caught on camera
A NORTH YORKSHIRE traffic camera recorded the last movements of a driver who fell from the top of his car transporter and later died, an inquest was told. Patrick Kick, 59, received serious head injuries while delivering cars to Barker Smith car garage
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All change in college's expansion
NEW buildings, more students and yet another name change are all on the cards as the College of Ripon and York St John prepares for the next academic year. The college's Ripon campus closed in the summer, paving the way for a boost in the number of students
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Child refugee's emotional return
MORE than 60 years after Nazis forced him from his homeland, York's first child refugee has made an emotional trip back to the city. And Harry Baum, now 73, was reunited with the two men he said had become his "brothers". Mr Baum was 11 when he and his
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Burns victim found in York street
A MAJOR police investigation has been launched after a woman was found slumped in a chair in a York street, suffering from what police described as serious burns. The woman was discovered early today in Foxwood Lane. Police said she had been assaulted
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Stepping into the firing line
OLYMPIC clay pigeon shooting silver medallist Ian Peel is hoping his appearance at Rufforth, near York, will trigger major interest in the sport. Over 100 people turned up at the North of England Clay Target Centre to try their hand at the sport. The
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Railtrack HQ is vital to York
YORK is a proud railway city with deep connections to the industry. The East Coast Mainline doesn't just run through York - it runs through the heart of York. So any news that railway jobs are under threat is a serious blow to York's economy and to its
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A drastic diet
KATE Winslet seemed to have the most buoyant of marriages but now it has sunk like the Titanic itself. Her short marriage to North Yorkshire man James Threapleton is over by mutual consent. Just yesterday in this newspaper, Winslet paraded her newly-won
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City extend Proctor deal
YORK City were today boosted by the capture of Sunderland striker Michael Proctor on a new loan deal. The 20-year-old marksman, who is fast becoming a favourite with the Bootham Crescent faithful, was due to see his loan spell from Premiership Sunderland
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Childhood was good grounding
AS the sighted child of blind parents Gareth Owens has always regarded the task of translating complexities into simple language as his birthright. Even while studying physics he discovered he could communicate scientific research into simple language
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Capital mission
YORK Wasps today beefed up their capital bid to take over ailing Super League club London Broncos and bring the pinnacle of the game back to York. Even as SL clubs voted en masse to block any re-location of the cash-troubled Broncos out of London to a
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Honesty is set Fair for Knavesmire win
No sooner has the excitement died down after Sunday's Evening Press race day at York than the famous Knavesmire Course swings back into action. Tomorrow's meeting features a cracking good sprint in the shape of the £25,000 Peterhouse Group Rating Handicap
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PR firm finds that size isn't everything
SIZE isn't everything, as York-based Simon Mountford Communications is proving. Not that this PR company set up seven years ago by Simon, a former Evening Press journalist, is tiny, but with just seven employees it is succeeding beyond the dreams of many
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Firm moves into York and wins big contract
AN e-commerce firm has set up a new home in York - and simultaneously announced a massive order for its business management software from a major US brokerage. MS2M, otherwise known as Management Services 2000 Ltd, today moved out of smaller premises
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Y we're proud to be Yorkshire
STEPHEN LEWIS looks at what's in a number plate FOR die-hard Yorkshire folk, the new car number plates that came into force on Saturday are a bit of a godsend. No more need of those little 'I love Yorkshire' stickers in the rear window - or even that
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Can you believe it?
I AM writing to inform readers of the perils of recycling their tin cans at Foss Islands Depot. If you leave bags of tin cans on the ground at Foss Islands Depot, they will promptly be lobbed into a landfill skip. I went recently and the solitary tin-can
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Show time at Fulford
SORRY to hear that R Sugden and party missed the Great Yorkshire Air Show because of transport difficulties (Letters, August 31). Maybe they could have made it to the Fulford Show instead, where we saw several flypasts of the Red Arrows while playing
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Pot charity place
Places are still available in the Woodlands Charity Snooker Championship to be staged this Sunday in York. With £50 going to the winner, £30 to the runner-up and £20 to third-place, places are limited to just 20 players with each competitor guaranteed
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Selby keep in contention
DESPITE conceding six tries to two at Darlington, Selby were always in contention in the final game before the start of next week's Yorkshire One season. Selby went down 38-14 but Sam Longthorpe, Rich Topping and Mark Crowther returning to competitive
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York go West for victory
YORK RUFC, anxious to get their season off to a good start after last season's relegation nightmare, opened with a 28-25 club victory at West Leeds. Skipper Jeremy Clutton failed a late fitness test on an injured knee and the unavailability of three first
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Red Kites are flying high
A RARE bird of prey that was once extinct from most of the UK is thriving once again in Yorkshire. The Red Kite is an all-too-rare success story. But tonight in York bird lovers will be able to hear for themselves just how well the birds - released into
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Home start for Pickering
PICKERING Town play their first home game of the season tonight when they entertain Glasshoughton Welfare in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division (7.30pm). Manager Jimmy Reid will be hoping to make it a hat-trick of wins following the Pikes
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Ray guns to crown
RAY McInally produced the perfect solution to win the York John Smith's Men's League Individual title. The Poacher player was one down in the best-of-five final due to a determined 103 finish for 18 darts from Green Tree's Gary Wensley. But McInally calmly
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Much-loved figure behind One Voice
A MUCH-LOVED Benedictine monk who was one of the key figures behind the successful ten-day One Voice ecumenical mission to the York area in 1992 has died. Father Cyril Brooks was found dead in a chair in his room at Ampleforth Abbey yesterday, ten days
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Eight's simply great to Sutton
THE final matches in division eight of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League resolved the final promotion and relegation issues with Sutton on Derwent taking the title on games difference from Civil Service after they defeated Cawood 78-30. Sutton were led
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Hot-stuff York beat Heaton
York Tennis Club had one of their best results for years when they defeated Heaton, who included county players Richard Oades and Gary Henderson, 8-1 in a Yorkshire League division one match at Bradford. York, who had never previously beaten Heaton, have
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Saturday's right fervour
THE 12th IT Sports Ladies doubles tournament starts with players battling for the Ian Tooms Trophy at eight different centres around the York area on Saturday. Holders Louise Lister and Wendy Stirke have been drawn at New Earswick, while other top seeds
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Hoax letters 'stir up racial division'
HOAX letters informing people that they have been chosen to house an Asian family of five may have been in circulation in North Yorkshire for more than two years. But their persistent use is reinforcing racial stereotypes and causing division, according
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Courting sparks
YORK Tennis Club are set to launch the biggest junior programme initiative in the club's history later this month at Clifton Park. York have had many leading players in the area since it was formed in 1965, initially at Water Lane following the amalgamation
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Baby Sian's the bell of the ball
SIAN Ducker is a real baby belle after her christening this week. The four-month-old shunned the font - and was christened in a ship's bell instead. Dad Terry Ducker is a Falklands veteran who served aboard HMS Ardent, which was bombed on May 21 1982
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Akroyd quits Yorkshire seat
Philip Akroyd, one of the longest serving members on Yorkshire's general committee, has resigned his seat as a West District representative as tensions continue to surface over cuts to the playing staff. Akroyd, a member of the club's cricket sub committee
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Star Kate in split shock
ACTRESS Kate Winslet is separating from her North Yorkshire husband Jim Threapleton - after less than three years of marriage. The split is understood to be the culmination of weeks of argument between the couple, although Winslet's spokesman, Robert
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Tykes pushed to brink
Former Yorkshire all-rounder Gareth Batty has pushed his native county to the brink of relegation to Division Two of the Norwich Union League. He coolly hit a career-best 83 not out for Surrey Lions under The Oval floodlights last night. Now Phoenix must
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Flood victims celebrate homecoming with street party
THESE residents at Barlby turned out in force to celebrate their homecoming after last November's floods. Almost 200 people joined in a street party, which started at 3pm and went on into the early hours of the morning. It was a double celebration with
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Landlord's fury at races parking
A PUB licensee says motorists travelling to York Races are trying to "blag" parking permits from residents in order to leave their car without paying. But with a race day coming up tomorrow, and another meeting due next month, council chiefs have warned
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Raider's vicious attack on trader
A SHOP owner told today how she was punched repeatedly in the face by a teenage raider after she refused to hand over money from her till. Gina Varley, 28, was standing behind the counter of Stop Gap convenience store in Gale Lane, Acomb, when the man
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Bushell to tackle Scarboro'
FORMER York City midfield dynamo Steve Bushell is poised for a return to north Yorkshire. Bushell, who left City for Blackpool three years ago, has now shipped up with Stalybridge Celtic, who are tonight's Conference League visitors to Scarborough. The
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Defender Stamp back on City duty
YORK City defender Neville Stamp is being lined-up for a return to action tomorrow night as the Minstermen's injury woes take a turn for the better. The young left-back returned to training yesterday having missed the start of the season with a groin
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Capital mission
YORK Wasps today beefed up their capital bid to take over ailing Super League club London Broncos and bring the pinnacle of the game back to York. Even as SL clubs voted en masse to block any re-location of the cash-troubled Broncos out of London to a
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City extend Proctor deal
YORK City were today boosted by the capture of Sunderland striker Michael Proctor on a new loan deal. The 20-year-old marksman, who is fast becoming a favourite with the Bootham Crescent faithful, was due to see his loan spell from Premiership Sunderland
