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Village fight over rat run gathers pace
A CAMPAIGN to steer motorists away from a North Yorkshire "rat run" is picking up speed. Driven by concerns over safety, more than 100 residents in East Lane, Shipton-by-Beningbrough, have signed a petition asking North Yorkshire County Council to ban
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Kidney unit date set
YORK's new £900,000 kidney unit is set to open on New Year's Day next year. It will mean up to 75 local patients with chronic kidney failure no longer have to travel to St James's Hospital in Leeds several times a week for dialysis. York District Hospital
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A bridge not too far
IT'S NOT just Mr Mandelson's Dome that's making good progress towards the Millennium. Planning applications for York's Millennium Bridge come before the city council next month, and project chiefs are confident the bridge will be complete by midsummer
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Increase in deaths leads to delays at crematorium
GRIEVING families face delays in arranging funeral services because of a sudden, unexplained increase in deaths in the York area. Peak-time appointments at York Crematorium are booked up a week in advance, forcing families to wait two or three days more
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Pour me another
ESCAPOLOGY jokes were bound to come thick and fast as opening band Houdini unchained their melodies in the third heat of the Evening Press/Fibbers Battle of the Bands. And yet, despite their daredevil openings, the floppy-fringed three piece were the
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Last bid to rescue sports centre
A FINAL attempt will be made next week to rescue plans for a multi-million pound sports centre and swimming pool at Malton. The long-running saga of the proposed new leisure facility for central Ryedale looked to be reaching a close last month when councillors
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York staff may lose out in merger jobs boom
MORE jobs will come to York as a result of the announced merger of General Accident and Commercial Union - but they won't necessarily be for the locals and some staff may lose out to Londoners. The mixed blessing was relayed to the Evening Press today
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TV crime series could be Inspector Morse for York
YORK is set to feature as the backdrop in a new TV series which has been described as the "Morse for the Millennium". Independent production company Tempest Films has bought the television rights to Poet In The Gutter, York author John Baker's crime novel
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Student's 'instructions from the Devil'
STUDENT Daniel Cooke suffered from schizophrenic delusions in which he believed he was being told by the Devil to stop breathing, an inquest heard. Consultant psychiatrist Dr James Isherwood said Daniel, 26, from Back Lane, Easingwold, had repeatedly
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Coo! Minster gets hawkish over pigeons
PIGEONS roosting at York Minster are in for a rude awakening. The feathered fiends, who are damaging one of the world's finest cathedrals with their droppings, face a hostile visit by their arch-enemy - the hawk. A bird of prey is the latest plan hatched
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Academics aid student
YORK University has intervened to save the career of a foreign student whose homeland is split by civil war. Academics have secured funding from the Foreign Office to allow economics graduate Raymond Swaray, from Sierra Leone, to continue his studies.
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Move to find exporters
A SPECIAL drive to find exporters in the Harrogate area is being made by York and North Yorkshire Export Club. It is in response to the hopes of Alan Sandy, the business support officer in Harrogate's economic development unit, that enough exporters attend
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Car wreckers threat to guesthouses
GUESTHOUSE owners in Bootham claim car vandalism will drive away tourists if the problem goes unchecked. Their outburst follows damage to a line of parked cars early last Saturday morning. Neil Ducker, of the Abingdon Guest House, Bootham Crescent, said
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Small firms want to have their say
SMALL firms in North Yorkshire must be represented on the board of the new Yorkshire Development Agency. That is the plea from Philip Allot, chairman of the North Yorkshire region of the Federation of Small Businesses. He demands representation for his
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Acorn search for a Moor cure
A FIRST National Conference League victory over hosts Dewsbury Moor can re-fire a flagging second division season for York Acorn. The Blue and Golds were defeated both home and away by Moor in last season's debut campaign and are eager to establish a
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Campaign trail could prove path to victory
MICKY Hammond, who caused an upset in the final race at Sedgefield yesterday when he saddled 8-1 shot Meltemison to beat Martin Pipe's 8-1-on favourite Bahamian Knight, can carry on his good run at Haydock tomorrow. The Middleham trainer looks to have
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Wasp's await Rhino's charge
A RUMBLE with the Rhinos awaits York Rugby League Club. The Wasps are hoping to entertain a side from Super Leaguers Leeds at Huntington Stadium on Friday, March 20, (7.30pm). The fixture has been agreed in principle between Leeds chief executive Gary
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'Scandalous injustice' of asbestos-claim law reform
A LAW reform which could prevent victims of York's asbestos timebomb suing for damages has been branded a "scandalous injustice". York MP Hugh Bayley spoke out after the Evening Press reported that people may be barred from pursuing civil action for personal
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Spotlight on rural issues
AGRICULTURE Minister Dr Jack Cunningham today insisted the Government was addressing the fundamental problems of rural areas in a comprehensive way. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The problems of rural areas and the countryside are profound.
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More kid's gambling and on drugs
YORKSHIRE youngsters are taking more drugs than ever and many are addicted to gambling, alarming figures reveal today. Six out of 10 young people in the Yorkshire and Humberside region have used cannabis and one in 10 have used the class A drug heroin
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New homes and updates to cost £5.7m
MILLIONS of pounds are to be spent building new homes and modernising old council houses in York. City of York Council has announced proposals for a £5.7 million building programme to combat a "desperate" shortage of homes in the city. About £1.4 million
