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Wasps reaching for the stars
Star-gazing York Rugby League Club players begin the scramble for second division places with a test against the international might of Leeds Rhinos. Wasps coach Dean Robinson has named all the club's fit players for tonight's friendly with the Super
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Supershare '98
Picture: Business Edictor, Ron Godfrey snowed under by entries for Supershare '98. Just when you thought they were out of it, gone, finished, over, kaput - the Fennings are back with a vengeance. Sonja Fenning, the overall Supershare champion in 1992,
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Stevo: I'd no future with City
Dismayed winger Paul Stephenson hit back at claims he wanted away from York City after sealing a move to Third Division Hartlepool United. Stephenson's near three-season patrol at City ended when he agreed a two-year contract taking him into the Millennium
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Staff oppose York college merger plan
Staff at York Sixth Form College claim educational standards will suffer if the proposed merger with York College of Further and Higher Education goes ahead. They fear the merger will be more of a takeover, with the smaller sixth-form college being swallowed
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Equine dentist pulls off Wolds racing feat
An equine dentist, aged 66, rode in his ninth victory in what is reputed to be the oldest flat race in England, the 479th Kiplingcotes Derby. Ken Holme and his 15-year-old chestnut mount, Snowfine Chap, were the oldest pair in the four-and-a-half mile
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Drax bid sparks health fears
People with chest problems could suffer if limits on pollution levels at Drax Power Station are relaxed this year, a York councillor has warned. Coun Martin Brumby has urged the Environment Agency to warn sufferers of asthma and emphysema if increased
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One last sigh for bridge of tears
It has meant 26 months of queues and frustration for motorists on York's Inner Ring Road, but today it was finally coming to an end. The £4.8 million scheme to build a new Layerthorpe Bridge in York was set to finish this afternoon, providing an easier
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Plenty to play for - Little
Secret moves for pared-down York City have been worked out to advance the downfall of moneybags Fulham. The Minstermen are down to their last 15 fit players, but they nevertheless aim to put enough flesh on the bare bones to keep their season alive. Defiant
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Great egg-pectations for York pupils
What, you may wonder, is this strange contraption for? For Morris's Marvels, a team of girls from Huntington School, York, it was the ingenious design which brought them victory in the school's third Great Egg Race contest. Pictured with their winning
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A welcome that's on the right lines
With Ecofin destined to put York on the global map, one local company is pulling out all the stops to make sure foreign visitors know how to get here. With so many journalists and visitors from abroad travelling via Manchester Airport, train operator
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Protest fury
Campaigners today promised to fight on against the controversial Northern Gateway Park and Ride scheme after it got the go-ahead from a council committee. Amid jeers and heckles from protesters packed into a stormy meeting, the City of York Council's
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Brown's Ecofin boost
Ecofin arrived at last today, and Chancellor Gordon Brown declared: "Thanks to the people of York, it is going to be a success." In an exclusive message to the Evening Press, the Chancellor praised York's enthusiasm and thanked the city council and local
