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Way we were
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 100 years ago: Tribute was paid to the North Country factory girl in Chamber's Journal, which a columnist quoted for the benefit of those girls in York whom it referred to. "It is no doubt true that even today factory workers
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Top marks
NEW Earswick Primary School has a proud York history, having been built to serve the Rowntree "garden village". Headteacher Carole Farrar is clearly proud of her school's roots, but even she has to admit the buildings are past their best. So she is elated
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York's red Leicester day of joy
Jacob Gore fired in a hat-trick as York Schoolboy under-11s footballers outfoxed Leicester 8-1. Man of the match Sam Byram marshalled the outstanding display which saw Alex Needham put York into an early lead with two goals set up by Sam Fowler and Gore
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Final win for Acorn
YORK Acorn triumphed in the York and District ARL Under-14s Cup final by beating New Earswick All Blacks 14-8. The match, which saw six York City Knights scholars on show - three on each team - was a great advert for junior rugby. It began with two tries
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Old York woos New York writer
ONE of New York's finest journalists and travel writers zoomed into old York this week and was "blown away" by all that the city had to offer. Now Professor Barry Goldsmith, who is massively influential in US travel thinking, plans to return with a camera
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Christmas booked
Stuck for a Christmas present? Why not go all old-fashioned and buy a good book. STEPHEN LEWIS and other reviewers suggest presents for bookworms. Fiction The Apologist, Jay Rayner (Atlantic Books, £10) Restaurant critic Marc Basset is in a sorry state
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Kids go baking mad
TOP chefs from around York have been going back to school to help teach kids the importance of healthy eating. The chefs are teaming up with local schools in a scheme run by York Hospitality Association, working with North Yorkshire Business And Education
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Yorkshire spread ethnic message
Yorkshire County Cricket Club will attend a major cricket conference which Bradford Council are planning to hold in the city on a date to be arranged in the New Year. The county club's involvement followed yesterday's visit to Headingley by a delegation
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Hoon is letting down the Army
AS an old soldier, and the father of a young one, I have watched the news about the restructuring of the infantry with sadness. But it was the article by Ian Drury (Regiments must 'bite the bullet', November 27) which has angered me most. In the article
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Taxing times
BEING a fellow pensioner, I agree with Charles Rushworth's sentiments particularly when he refers to York's "temporary rulers" (Here's a choice, no tax rise at all, Readers' Letters, November 29). Because many of us were beguiled by the Lib Dems' national
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Missing the bus
WITH regard to several recent letters, I too am curious why Peter Edwards (First York) and Terry Walker (public transport planner, City of York Council) have taken it upon themselves to remove without warning the 16A and 25 buses from Beckfield Lane,
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Barbaric foxes
IN reply to Mr and Mrs M Taylor, hunting is not "a barbaric pursuit with no reasonable justification" (Letters, November 23). People seem to forget that a fox kills. No just to eat but for the sake of killing. One lambing season, we lost more than 30
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Hardly humane
DON'T you love it when the hunt people claim that fox hunting is humane and not cruel? Would they say the same if it was a loved one in place of the fox, being chased to exhaustion and then torn to bits by hounds? I somehow doubt it. I said this to a
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Missing the trees
MR MOORE has reminded the Fulford community of the loss of the two copper beech trees. We hardly need reminding of this sad and unnecessary loss. The mounds of bare earth where the magnificent trees once stood now lie like freshly-filled graves. Of course
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A road for us all
I AM baffled by the insistence that everything must have a name. I refer to the description rat run. Since when has using a public highway without stopping once been an offence? If your vehicle is fully legal and you are driving responsibly and correctly
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Taking the rise
I FULLY endorse Mrs Marwood (Letters, November 20) regarding the misguided proposal to place a rising bollard at Straylands Grove. All this will do is create greater problems for people on Malton Road and elsewhere. We all pay road tax and council tax
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Putting a train wash here makes sense
GIL Nimmo (Letters, November 26) is right to assert that railway operations adjacent to residential areas should keep noise and disturbance to a minimum, and I would hope that the least obtrusive location possible may be chosen for the proposed train
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Nick zooms in with £2,000
A BUDDING North Yorkshire film-maker has donated a £2,000 prize - won in a TV competition - to charities helping the homeless. Nick Fletcher, from Malton, entered a competition run by the Community Channel on Freeview TV, the UK's only not-for-profit
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College honour for Archbishop of York
THE Archbishop of York has been paid a fitting tribute by a college in the city, which has named a building after him. Dr David Hope visited York St John College where the religious education (RE) centre has been renamed in his honour. The David Hope
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Clamped while collecting a visitor pass
A STUDENT has been left fuming after having to pay out £100 to release her car, which was clamped in a private residents' car park while she left it to collect a visitor's pass. Julia Greenan, 24, of Naburn, said she left her vehicle in a visitor's space
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Lonely funeral for man who drowned in Ouse
A MYSTERY man whose body was found in the River Ouse last year is likely to have a lonely funeral. The man's decomposing body was pulled out of the river at Naburn Lock on September 12 last year. Despite a major publicity campaign to identify him, including
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Kick-boxing kudos for Fulford bros
THEY might not be as famous or sinister as the East End's Ronnie and Reggie, or even Phil and Grant, but York's Brown brothers were feared by all their rivals on their way to winning national kick-boxing titles. Richard and Gareth hail from Fulford, rather
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Yorkshire spread ethnic message
Yorkshire County Cricket Club will attend a major cricket conference which Bradford Council are planning to hold in the city on a date to be arranged in the New Year. The county club's involvement followed yesterday's visit to Headingley by a delegation
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It's frame on
A BID might be made to bring the World Snooker Championship to York's new Barbican Centre. This possibility has emerged because snooker's governing body is putting the event up for grabs, with Sheffield's Crucible Theatre not certain to keep the tournament
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How can it pop off like that?
FLOUNCE off upstairs, pop-pickers. Slam your bedroom doors and weep over your Dansettes, because Top Of The Pops will soon be no more. Yes, the show that was once the lynchpin of our week is to be relegated to the badlands of BBC2, marooned somewhere
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York cues up for big prize
YORK likes snooker and snooker likes York. This happy relationship has been illustrated by the success of the UK Snooker Championship, which has had four tremendous years at the York Barbican Centre. All the leading players are said to enjoy visiting
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We seem to have lost the lot
YOU would be amazed at what people leave on a bus. Peter Edwards, commercial director at First, has been divulging the contents of the firm's bulging lost property office to the Diary. "We've got staff who have never had to buy an umbrella," he quipped
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Roughley justice as family firm rules in cup encounter
Highest individual scorer of the day in the York FA Saturday Junior Cup was Jason Roughley. He netted five goals in Riccall United's 6-3 conquest of Fulford United. And to keep it all in the family, Riccall's other goal came from Jason's brother, 16-year-old
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It's a Dale and hearty display
ROSEDALE moved up into second place of the Beckett League first division after beating Heslerton 3-1 at home. Heslerton took the lead after four minutes when Curtis Drummond scored. Two minutes later Rosedale equalised but it was Heslerton's Mark Featherstone
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Grant me a longer stay - Lee
ON-LOAN defender Lee Grant would like to prolong his temporary stay at York City. Aston Villa have agreed to let the Minstermen use Grant until January 4, but the 18-year-old centre back is hoping that agreement can be extended by a third month at least
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League place sparks row
A row has erupted over a new index announced today, which puts York at only 89th out of 200 UK towns which are the best places to relocate or start a business. Harrogate, on the other hand is fifth. Bournemouth is top. The UK Top Towns survey was undertaken
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World stage for York venture
ONE of the biggest crowd-pullers since the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) opened in a blaze of publicity last Friday has been a 21st century interactive exhibition there designed by a York firm. The Continuum Group, in Margaret Street, York, designed and
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New website to promote entertainers
An artist management company based in York has launched a new website. Hotelier Craig Hume, who operates Meantime Artist Management (MAM) and counts among his clients top names in jazz and blues nationally and locally, hopes that the website will attract
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Too many die on our roads
The new Road Safety Bill is aimed at reducing the shocking number of people killed every year in road accidents. But will its measures work or is it just another attack on the motorist? STEPHEN LEWIS reports. EVERY week, says Transport Secretary Alistair
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£800k joy for York school
IT was third time lucky for a York school celebrating a "phenomenal" £800,000 cash windfall. Staff and pupils at New Earswick Primary School were jumping for joy today after their application for Government funding got the green light. Jubilant head teacher
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York's red Leicester day of joy
Jacob Gore fired in a hat-trick as York Schoolboy under-11s footballers outfoxed Leicester 8-1. Man of the match Sam Byram marshalled the outstanding display which saw Alex Needham put York into an early lead with two goals set up by Sam Fowler and Gore
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Stormy time for market - 01/12/04
Stormy Lord, who came to grief on his return to action last month, can get back on top at Market Rasen tomorrow. Trained near Sedgefield by John Wade, the eight-year-old goes for the Oerlemans Novices' Handicap Chase with Brian Harding in the saddle.
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Losing the oasis
RE Mr Alwyn Taylor's letter, I too think it would be a great shame to demolish Poppleton Gate House, even though I don't live in the area anymore. When there was no Manor School, no The Paddocks, no Paddock Way and Millgates there was Poppleton Gate back
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Loving trees?
WHAT exactly is John Moore, President of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution, trying to tell us (Letters, November 22 )? He states: 1 That he loves trees 2 That he has bought 20 trees for each of his grandchildren at birth 3 That 30 years ago he
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Not a rat-run
LIKE many local residents, I use Straylands Grove to access Malton Road. There is no such thing as a rat-run. Straylands Grove was built for use by all, not just for members of the "not in my back garden brigade". During the many years I have used this
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Scores of crooks on fast track list
NEARLY 100 of North Yorkshire's most prolific offenders will be swept off the streets if they are caught in the act again. They have been placed on a hit list, which will see them singled out and speeded through the courts when arrested. The list has
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Traders fear traffic chaos
TRADERS along a busy York shopping street are preparing for traffic mayhem this weekend during major roadworks. City of York Council is warning drivers to stay away from Gillygate while part of the street is dug up for emergency repair work. There are
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£800k joy for York school
IT was third time lucky for a York school celebrating a "phenomenal" £800,000 cash windfall. Staff and pupils at New Earswick Primary School were jumping for joy today after their application for Government funding got the green light. Jubilant head teacher
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Jim's skim to top prize
The odd skimmer made all the difference in the opening round of the York and District Winter League, backed once again by Acomb Tackle. There were also plenty of roach to be caught despite the far from ideal blustery conditions and team weights were very
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Death-crash 'was accident waiting to happen'
A YORK Royal Marine Commando was nearly three times the drink-drive limit when the car he was driving left the road and ploughed into a tree, an inquest heard. Tony Clarke, 23, of Osbaldwick, had survived a 13-week posting to Iraq and was enjoying a long
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Grant me a longer stay - Lee
ON-LOAN defender Lee Grant would like to prolong his temporary stay at York City. Aston Villa have agreed to let the Minstermen use Grant until January 4, but the 18-year-old centre back is hoping that agreement can be extended by a third month at least
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Families' second night in the cold
HUNDREDS of York residents are set to receive compensation after enduring another night of freezing conditions in their homes. As reported in later editions of last night's Evening Press, about 300 properties in eight streets in the Leeman Road area have
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End of the road
A YORK cabbie is quitting working the city centre at night because he is sick of booze-fuelled passengers behaving like "animals". Andrew Taylor is selling his seven-seat taxi after three years in the firing line. He has witnessed yobs vomiting and urinating
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Clamped while collecting a visitor pass
A STUDENT has been left fuming after having to pay out £100 to release her car, which was clamped in a private residents' car park while she left it to collect a visitor's pass. Julia Greenan, 24, of Naburn, said she left her vehicle in a visitor's space
