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Back to the city
A city centre return can restore the foundations for long-term success at York Rugby League Club. That is the overwhelming view of supporters who responded to an Evening Press appeal about the decline of the club's average attendance from 2,500 in 1989
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State of the art Henry
Re-born in the USA - that was the heartening beat rapped out by Henry Wharton across the Atlantic to his York homeland. The 30-year-old's move on up to debut light-heavyweight duties in his American professional baptism bore instant dividends. The York
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Hockney's brush with the Wolds
At the bottom of this page are views of the East Yorkshire village of Sledmere and of the Wolds countryside as you have never seen them before. The two extraordinary and almost hallucinatory paintings, painted in blazing reds and vivid greens, are far
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Wedding belles on parade
Brides getting married this summer were today looking forward to their special day with a host of new ideas and advice after the Evening Press Spring Wedding Fair. Held in York's Grand Assembly Rooms, the fair offered visitors the chance to find out more
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Police pressing for rethink over parade
Police pressure is forcing councillors to think again about the route of this year's Lord Mayor's Parade because of concerns over road safety and traffic congestion. The parade, on Sunday May 24, is in the middle of the spring Bank Holiday weekend, which
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Boy gets 4 years for sex attacks
A 15-year-old North Yorkshire schoolboy, who raped a five-year-old boy and attempted to rape his six-year-old brother, was today locked up for four years and put on the sex offenders' register for an indefinite period. York Crown Court was told that the
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Cash blow for troubled estate
Hopes of a £3 million Government cash boost for York's troubled Kingsway North were dashed today with the news that the City of York Council failed in its bid to secure the money. Trade and Industry Minister John Battle announced the 14 winning projects
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Darley on course to do the trick
Kevin Darley, who received a two-day ban for careless riding on third-placed Right Wing in Saturday's Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster, before winning a Listed race on Monaassib, can strike top form at Newcastle tomorrow. The Sheriff Hutton-based jockey
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Cresswell's late leveller steals stand-in's glory
Jeepers 'keepers. York City's trio of collisions with Blackpool this season have revolved around net losses for custodians. However, a looming hat-trick of Minstermen misfortune was only avoided by a stoppage-time execution of exemplary skill by substitute
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Boy loses long battle against tumours
Schoolboy Stephen Glasby died in his father's arms after a tenacious fight against a series of brain tumours. The 11-year-old Millthorpe School pupil's family moved last year to Bishopthorpe from Thorpe Street, York, so there would be a garden for his
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Hospice tribute to MP's memory
Friends and neighbours of the outspoken former Labour MP, Joan Maynard, today spoke of their plans to build a hospice in her memory. Miss Maynard, former MP for Sheffield Brightside, died at her home in Sowerby, near Thirsk, after losing a long battle
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Blair's bug busters welcomed by York firms
Prime Minister Tony Blair's new initiative to tackle the Millennium Bug was today welcomed by technologists representing small businesses in North Yorkshire - but one described it as "a drop in the ocean." The premier announced today a raft of new proposals
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James back on the ball after horrific injuries
The son of former York City soccer hero Gordon Staniforth has the ball at his feet again only ten months after breaking his back in an horrific fall in the United States. Sports-mad teenager James, from Copmanthorpe, near York, has returned to football
