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Tough tour begins marathon season
YORKSHIRE stood on the threshold of six months of non-stop highly competitive cricket today as they left Headingley on their three-week tour of South Africa. The party of 14 players arrive back home on Easter Sunday and the following Friday they open
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Vandal-hit travellers' site to get a facelift
AN OFFICIAL travellers' site in Ryedale which has been repeatedly targeted by vandals and squatters is to be given a face-lift to make it fit to live on again. Over the last 14 months, the damage caused at Travellers Garth in Malton has been put at £5,300
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York caf could face demolition
by Mike LaycockA LISTED building could be demolished as part of the £60 million scheme to extend York's Coppergate Centre. The Grade II listed building, in Castlegat,e has been home to Caf Andros for more than a decade. But it once housed the offices
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Couple Thai the knot
by Maxine GordonROMANTIC Neil Wilson turned an oriental holiday into a trip to remember when he asked his girlfriend Susan to Thai the knot in a surprise wedding. Luckily, Susan accepted, and weeks of secret planning paid off when the York couple wed
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Late try denies brilliant Wasps
by Stuart MartelGREAT Britain international Iestyn Harris conjured a 79th minute try to deny York Rugby League Club a share of the spoils from their run in with the Super League Rhinos. Leeds coach Graham Murray was forced to throw on star substitutes
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Miller out to Master challenge
YORK'S top golfer Jamie Miller takes the first step in his new career as a professional next week when he competes in the pre-qualifying competition of the British Master Card Tour at Wynyard Hall, near Middlesbrough. Miller, the 25-year-old York Amateur
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Net-minder surfs for City snippets
BREAKFAST and football don't usually mix. But when you're on the other side of the world to Bootham Crescent, cornflakes and coffee are a good companion as you wait for York City's latest result to trickle through. My midweek game is Bristol Rovers away
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Convert Thomas has no doubts
by Stuart MartelTHE new head of amateur rugby league in York today outlined his aim to enhance the sport's proud tradition in the city. Eurig Thomas, president of New Earswick All Blacks, succeeds Jim Race as the president of the York and District Amateur
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Supershare winner
NEVER mind that a volatile stock market flip-flopped ending with more flop than flip on the day. Nothing was going to shift the Supershare ice pack, and certainly nothing was going to topple Sonja Fenning, that 1992 Supershare supreme champion, from top
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Friends in need... but where have all the Yorkies gone?
AS Ecofin got into full swing, German student Sonja Jtte, who is studying politics and economics at York University, went in search of a genuine Yorkie to see whether the city's welcome to its foreign guests was all that had been promised Finding out
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Little Sarah is the perfect present
by Ron GodfreyTINY Sarah Grace Morley has given her mum Alison the perfect Mother's Day present. Little Sarah has been fighting for her life at the special care baby unit in York where she was born three months premature on February 15. The little girl
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Discoloured water earns £20,000 fine
YORKSHIRE WATER has been fined £20,000 for supplying water which one customer described as looking like "Coca-Cola without the fizz." The firm admitted three charges of supplying discoloured water and said the outbreak was partly triggered by the "inexplicable
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Beef sold as lamb at curry houses
THREE Indian restaurants in York served up beef in spicy sauces telling customers it was lamb, magistrates have heard. The owners of Lal Quila Indian Restaurant, The Garden of India Tandoori and Eastern Promise landed in the dock after a routine survey
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Traffic police anger over patrol car cuts
by Mike LaycockTRAFFIC cops are fuming after the number of marked patrol cars in York was almost halved. An officer told the Evening Press he feared police would lose ground in the battle against dangerous drivers and travelling criminals, after the number
