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Shoppers vote by the trolley-load
SHOPPERS at Tesco in York got behind the Government's Charter Mark scheme by making their nominations for the region's top public servants. Staff from two of last year's Charter Mark winners - Benefits Agency North Yorkshire and Royal Mail North East
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York hang on to gain rare win
York 17 Lincoln 15 YORK Rugby Union Club first team had to defend doggedly at the end to beat visitors Lincoln 17-15 and score their first victory since November. Neither side was able to gain the upper hand long enough to dominate and the result was
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Slack defending lets down Wasps
Barrow Border Raiders 28York Wasps 8 Restructuring York made a strong Barrow side sweat blood for victory at windswept Craven Park. Ably led by the prompting, probing skipper Allan Pallister the Wasps played never-say-die rugby and threw the ball around
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Little snaps up Tommo
YORK City today landed former Scarborough defender Neil Thompson on a month's loan. The 34-year-old left-back, who has been recruited from FA Carling Premiership Barnsley, will go straight into the City side, for tomorrow night's trip to Wycombe Wanderers
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Homes work get started
A SOGGY clump of earth wrenched from waste ground at Clifton was today the first physical step towards solving York's housing crisis. Work to build 147 affordable new homes at the site, off Water Lane, was begun at a wet and blustery ceremony this afternoon
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Horses have the power to pull in Selby visitors
THE BIGGEST horse- ploughing match to take place in Selby area for 25 years attracted nearly 500 spectators. Yesterday's plough-in, off the A1041 near Camblesforth, was such a big success that organisers Brendan and Ann Glavin, of Abbot's Road, Selby,
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£1000 sounds good for Selby noise row scouts
A SCOUT group at the centre of a noise row has received a £1,000 boost from members of Selby Rotary Club. Brayton Scouts and Guides last year launched a £10,000 appeal to fund soundproofing work at its Doncaster Road base and meet legal costs after losing
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Theme park banks on big ride to recruit 100
ABOUT 100 extra jobs are likely to be created at a North Yorkshire theme park by the arrival of one of the latest white-knuckle rides. Bosses at Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo, near Malton, are keeping their fingers crossed that Ryedale councillors
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Shooters surrender handguns
MOST of North Yorkshire's gun owners handed in their weapons weeks before handguns became illegal at midnight on Saturday. The ban on handguns was brought in by the Government after the shootings at Dunblane and makes it illegal to keep weapons of .22
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Future of Army HQ in balance
by Mike LaycockMINISTERS will consider expanding - instead of closing - a regional army HQ at York's Imphal Barracks. And a trade union representative claimed today that a study had just been completed into the possibility of closing the entire barracks
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New calls for A64 gaps to be closed
THE Evening Press campaign to Close The Gaps on the A64 was gathering momentum today. Garage owner Lon Fila, who says he has lost count of the number of friends and customers he has lost in crashes on the road, is backing the campaign even though he knows
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Now Blair urged to rethink policy on countryside
THE Government was urged today to re-think its attitude to the countryside after rural North Yorkshire took its anger to the heart of the capital. Ryedale MP John Greenway spoke out after joining 10,000 protesters from the county in yesterday's Countryside
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Battling Michelle claims top scalps
YORK'S Michelle Mooring took the scalps of two international stars to reach the semi-finals of the Women's All England Indoor Bowls Under-31 singles championship at Potters Stadium, near Great Yarmouth, at the weekend. There was more success for York
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Tourism leaders focus on York
The profits and perils of public and private tourism partnerships will be revealed at a seminar at St William's College, opposite York Minster, on Wednesday. The event has been organised by the Tourism Society so many of its membership of 1,300 tourism
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Marco makes difference as City gain double
Brentford 1 York City 2 On the streets of Brentford red lines serve as park at your peril warnings. But like the song, York City would not be moved. After stationing themselves at Griffin Park tenacious City clamped themselves around the red and white
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Family's cars are write-off in bizarre York smash
REMOVAL man Tom Hynes lost both his family cars in a bizarre crash after he left them parked outside his York home. Shoppers watched aghast as a car flew into the air after hitting a road hump in a residential area of Acomb and smashed into three parked
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Countryside makes big impression on London
EAT British Lamb - 50,000 foxes can't be wrong. So said one of the placards paraded past a bemused Admiral Nelson, as the landmarks of London echoed to the unusual sound of the hunting horn rather than the taxi horn. Another quoted GK Chesterton's famous
