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Labour pours scorn on bid to scrap bridge
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT attempts to scrap York's Millennium Bridge project were scorned when the full City of York Council met to ratify its budget. The Labour-dominated council has voted to accept the proposed budget which will mean that residents' council
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Carers are needed
A CHARITY that provides accommodation and support for people with learning disabilities has opened an office in Selby and is aiming to recruit more carers. Adult Placement Services, which already has offices in Harrogate and York, now has an outlet in
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Malton resident dies, aged 105
THE woman believed to have been Malton's oldest resident has died at the age of 105. Nora Barrow passed away peacefully on Wednesday at Autumn Lodge in York Road, her home for the last 14 years. A parson's daughter, Mrs Barrow spent her early years in
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Tykes pay too much tax
NEARLY three million people in the Yorkshire region - three out of four - will this year pay the Government more than £583 million in unnecessary tax, an investigation reveals today. Financial inertia or lack of understanding of the country's taxation
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Parents tell of agony of son's illness
WHEN Daniel Cooke left home in 1990 to study electronic engineering at Hull University, his future seemed bright. He was not only fit and well, but also an intelligent, sensitive and artistic young man, who played the guitar and wrote hundreds of songs
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Senior brings touch of experience to RI
SENIOR service has come to the aid of West Yorkshire League premier division side York RI. Former York City defender Steve Senior has joined the club for the rest of the season starting with a League debut at Whitkirk Wanderers tomorrow. He appeared for
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Big score to settle at Bridge
LONDON'S yearning will blaze fiercely in the west end of the capital's Premiership candle tomorrow. At Stamford Bridge Luca-led Chelsea can re-establish their credentials as the metropolis' top team and also as potential title challengers if they can
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Warren piece
ONE of the first tasks manager Mickey Adams embarked upon on his cross-capital switch from commanding Fulham to Brentford was to seek midfield muscle. That arrived in the bulky form of Warren Aspinall, lured from fellow Second Division strugglers Carlisle
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Student to face school journey
A student is set to rejoin her classmates after a battle with education chiefs which kept her off school for more than four months. David and Lynda Richmond have kept their daughter, Annabel, 13, at home in Langton ever since the council agreed to pay
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Inquest told of 'Devil's orders'
THE grieving parents of schizophrenic Daniel Cooke, who died after being restrained at a York psychiatric unit, called today for more money to be spent on combating the illness. An inquest jury yesterday returned an open verdict into the death of the
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Hotel declares war on roving tricksters
HOTELIERS, sick of being fleeced by roving confidence tricksters, are fighting back with a tough new scheme. More than 40 hotels in the tourist haunts of Ryedale have signed up for Hotel Watch to tackle plausible fraudsters who move from hotel to hotel
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Tories open club for women
ONE of York's bastions of tradition has finally succumbed to the changing times and is to allow women to join its previously all-male membership. Fulford Conservative Club has managed to do what the Marylebone Cricket Club could not. It has turned its
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Flaming anger
THE night skies above North Yorkshire were ablaze last night as rural campaigners lit beacons of protest at what hundreds see as the threat to their way of life. Flames from more than 50 beacons prompted dozens of calls to emergency services as protesters
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York father returns home
A YORK father was overjoyed to be back home with his family today after a jury acquitted him of repeatedly attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl. Steven Sellars, of Chapelfields, had hardly seen his new-born baby daughter Shauna since he was remanded
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Wedding at town hall could set you back £244
SELBY'S new town hall could soon be the venue for civil weddings - but at a price for the happy couple. Councillors are considering obtaining a special licence for the building in Gowthorpe, which has been restored to its former glory at a cost of £370,000
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Thinking the unthinkable is teacher's master plan
HAVING acknowledged my arrival at Huntington School by signing the book at reception, I was issued with a visitor's badge, complete with a plan of the school on the back. Thus, within moments, I was incorporated into the school disaster plan. If there
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Grandad in a stink over garden sewage
A WORRIED grandfather has spoken of his outrage at regularly seeing human excrement deposited at the bottom of his garden. Trevor Ward, who lives on the river bank in Helmsley, said he encountered the problem every summer when the river dried up. "You
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Benefits of a joint venture
I AM an unbalanced, crooked, twisted human being. The official news of this was broken to me matter-of-factly on my first visit to a York chiropractor. I offered myself to the Ch'ien Clinic, in Tadcaster Road, York, with little more serious than a slightly
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Ex-City men provide the winning Punch
PUNCH BOWL NESTLE took the opportunity to pull back three points on York John Smith's Sunday Football League division one leaders Osbaldwick Herald as they beat Middleton Celtic 2-0. While Herald were on cup duty, their lead at the top was trimmed by
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Champion can coax best from Challenger
CHAMPION jockey Tony McCoy, who travelled to Haydock this afternoon needing only one winner to chalk-up the fastest double-century in jumping history, faces one of the most demanding rides of his sparkling career at Kempton tomorrow. He teams-up with
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Extreme measures are just capital
FROM one extreme to the other is the destination desperately desired by York City. Not only do City switch their attention from tackling the top Division Two sides to anchor club Brentford tomorrow, they also want to lurch from goal famine to banquet
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Thirsk trainers romp in libel case
from PA News RACEHORSE trainer Lynda Ramsden and her husband Jack were returning victorious to Sandhutton, near Thirsk, today after being awarded £195,000 with top jockey Keiren Fallon in a libel action against the Sporting Life. The trio had sued publishers
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Rethink urged over A64 junction safety
HIGHWAYS chiefs are being urged to think again about improving the safety record of a notorious stretch of the A64 between York and Tadcaster. John Pearcy, who farmed at Steeton Hall, Colton, before retiring to Bishopthorpe, believes an oval roundabout
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Another heroin dealer is jailed
A SECOND Selby heroin dealer has been given a hefty prison sentence as the crackdown continues on the town's growing drugs problem. John Hurd, 43, of Barlby Road, Selby, was today starting a five-year jail sentence after admitting at York Crown Court
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City police in double blitz on lawless motorists
THE deadly double act of speeding and driving without a seatbelt is being attacked by police in York. A month-long blitz on perpetrators is being launched by the division's traffic unit on Sunday March 1 after a short sample operation revealed a high
