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No friends and family calls from here
It's good to talk ... but folk in rural North Yorkshire are people of few words.STEPHANIE BUSARI investigates ONLY one caller pops in to use it in an average week. Even then their conversation is likely to be drowned out by barking dogs and roaring tractors
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York lets local transport bandwagon pass by
by Maxine GordonTODAY is Local Transport Day - but environmental campaigners in North Yorkshire were not climbing aboard the bandwagon. Across Britain, transport and environmental groups were hosting a range of activities to highlight the problem of traffic
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Under-age smokes 'stings' to go on
by Mike LaycockYORK'S tough line against shopkeepers who sell cigarettes to under-age children is set to continue for another year. Trading standards officers from City of York Council have mounted controversial enforcement campaigns in recent years,
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Boost for York darts
by Dave FotheringhamYORK is to get a new men's darts League. While the ever-increasing need to find sponsorship for sport gets harder, York-based company, the Exhibition Hotel Group, is bucking the trend and backing the league. It is not their first venture
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Miles magic gives Dunnington cup
by Albert PattisonPAUL Miles hit a splendid unbeaten half century to steer Dunnington to victory in the final of the Costcutter Indoor Cricket League's Knock Out competition victory over Wilberfoss coming in the 11th over. For Wilberfoss, John Myers made
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Flop of the pops
HARMONY is again top of the pops at York Rugby League Club after the banishing of the blues. The board have banned the playing of the song 'There May Be Trouble Ahead' at matches at the Huntington Stadium. Irked fans were getting no satisfaction from
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A shame if we don't have Lowry in York
A WOMAN who once played in a York park depicted in the "lost" LS Lowry painting today backed moves to bring it back to the city. The race is on to raise funds to buy the Lowry painting, which shows a view of York from a bridge in Melrosegate complete
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Chips with everything
by Vicky Spavin"Just wait till I show my husband these in the morning." Pulling her top half way down her chest Jenny, of York, proudly revealed two names scrawled across the top of her breasts in black felt tip: Michael Rapp and Imad Khalil. But Jenny
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Judge sums up in 'sex ordeal' case
A JURY heard for the second time how an ex-RAF nurse allegedly whipped a prostitute with rosebushes in his North Yorkshire home. Judge Peter Fox QC, summing up the case of Christopher Dearman reminded jurors how the 54-year-old also allegedly caned his
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MALTON'S cinema has hit a financial iceberg and gone under... days before it was due to screen Titanic. A message on the Palace Cinema's answering machine informs customers that it closed on Thursday. The cinema above The Lanes shopping mall, off Yorkersgate
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Ram-raiders target
bakery RAM-RAIDERS who attempted to smash their way into a York bakery left a trail of destruction as they fled from police. Officers were called to Badger Hill Bakery in Yarburgh Way shortly after midnight when youths were seen driving a car into the
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Floods warning
Flooding is likely tomorrow morning in North Yorkshire, the Environment Agency warned today. Issuing an Amber Alert - the second highest warning level - it said some minor roads and isolated properties would become waterlogged. The River Ouse at King's
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Bogus callers fleece OAPs
POLICE are urging householders to be on their guard after an elderly York woman was duped out of £200 by bogus workmen. The incident happened as a spate of other bogus callers were reported from across the city. The woman parted with cash when two men
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Fresh hopes for A64 closures
by Kevin SmithHIGHWAYS chiefs have given hope to safety campaigners fighting for the closure of gaps in the central reservation of the A64 between York and Tadcaster. At a meeting at Tadcaster last night, Highways Agency officers told Selby MP, John Grogan
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'Drunk' boy 12 saved in alley
by Dennis TowleA LEISURE centre worker was hailed a hero today for saving the life of a 12-year-old boy found "drunk" in a back alley, near Selby. Scott Mattison, 23, was on duty as an assistant at Barlby Leisure Centre last night when he went outside
