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£30,000 a year inmate named
The prisoner earning more than the officers at a Yorkshire jail was exposed today as a York businessman who conspired to defraud Barclays Bank out of £400,000. Graham Etson, formerly of Wigginton Road, is getting more than £600 a week working on day release
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Getting in a flap over car's missing mudflaps
Pensioner Marion Riley was all in a flap about mudflaps on her new Nissan Micra which she had just bought from Nissan (York) at Clifton Moor. The car didn't have any and she wanted some. Because of that, she says, she is now unnecessarily £100 out of
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Upland shake-up move
A bid to boost jobs and protect the environment in upland areas has been unveiled by the Government. Agriculture Minister Dr Jack Cunningham will target Bodmin Moor in Cornwall and Bowland in north-west England as pilots for a shake-up in the Common Agricultural
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School sport
Netball All Saints Under 14s travel to Ipswich on Friday to compete in the All England Netball finals along with Joseph Rowntree Under 14 and Under 19s. The girls who carry hopes of North Yorkshire on their shoulders are: All Saints U14s: Katie Teasdale
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Strange - but true
Rugby league is a labour of love for York's newest recruit John Strange. The Wasps have Cupid's arrow to thank for their capture of the 23-year-old Australian, who was a regular in the first division with Featherstone Rovers last season. Strange told
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Business Link
EUROLINK If you are interested in any of the following contracts, contact the Business Link Information Centre at Business Link North Yorkshire Ltd, Arabesque House, Monks Cross Drive, Huntington, York YO3 9GZ, Tel: 01904 686000. Netherlands-The Hague
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It's Richard the Lionheart
Bristol Rovers 1, York City 2 At first floodlight it looked like the 'Great Escape', but by game end it was a heady 'Escape to Victory'. And there wasn't even a monosyllabic Sly Stallone in earshot, or mercifully, in sight having to complete an improbable
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Supershare '98
You can't keep a good Supershare winner down. Just when everyone thought that the moment of glory had come and gone for Graham Chapman, of Old Dykelands, Haxby, he's back to earn himself another daily £50 prize for having the best money-spinning portfolio
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Ex-smoker warns youngsters of dangers
A former 50 cigarettes a day man has vowed he will never smoke again after suffering a severe heart attack at the age of 53. Ken Richardson, of Main Street, Escrick, was completely hooked and spending £100 a week on his favourite Embassy Regal.But the
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York chosen to pioneer help for OAPs
York has been chosen to pioneer a £15m national scheme to help pensioners who are not getting the benefits they are entitled to. Social Security secretary Harriet Harman today announced that the city will be one of nine areas where the scheme will be
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Closure of bridge has Selby fuming
A unilateral decision to close Selby swing bridge for a whole weekend was today greeted with fury and disbelief by councillors and shopkeepers. District councillors said they had not been consulted about the closure of Selby's main entrance, and claimed
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£30,000 a year inmate named
The prisoner earning more than the officers at a Yorkshire jail was exposed today as a York businessman who conspired to defraud Barclays Bank out of £400,000. Graham Etson, formerly of Wigginton Road, is getting more than £600 a week working on day release
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MP fears N Yorks pain in Budget
Anne McIntosh, MP for the Vale of York, has fired a Budget warning shot across the bows of Chancellor Gordon Brown. The Tory MP, addressing a meeting of businessmen attending her Yorkshire First Business Club at Rudding House, Knaresborough, expressed
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Brief encounter at dry dock
Actor John Thaw has been filming an episode of Kavanagh QC at Parkol Marine Engineering in Eskside Wharf, Whitby. It was apt that he should give the place star treatment because Parkol Marine Engineering has just used £30,000 of a North Yorkshire County
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Milestone win for Little revives City play-off hopes
Ton-Up manager Alan Little celebrated two milestones, which, could yet propel York City to their third promotion scramble in five seasons. Besides the conquest of Bristol Rovers enabling City to amass 50 points, the triumph was also the 100th of Little's
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New-style talks set to filter Drax's problems
Environment Agency chiefs are to adopt a new-style "consult the people" approach to deal with Drax Power Station's controversial request to almost treble its sulphur dioxide emission levels. The Agency said today it was treating the request as a "substantial
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Double delight at 103
Queen Victoria was still on the throne and Great Britain still had its empire when Ivy Clack and Ethel Robinson were born. The pair are now celebrating their 103rd birthdays. Ivy, of Acomb, and Ethel, who lives at the Grimston Court Residential Home,
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A64 roadworks vital for superhighway link
Roadworks on the A64 look set to play a vital role in linking market towns in North and East Yorkshire to the information superhighway. Work is under way to lay a fibre-optic link between York and the East Coast, bringing cable television and telephone
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Council frozen over turkeys
In a historic move, members of the parish council of a North Yorkshire village have been disqualified after a row over turkeys paralysed local democracy. All five members of Moor Monkton Parish Council have been forced out of office after a row over a
