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Lurpak butter firm launches cow care policy
Growing interest by supermarkets and consumers in the area of animal welfare is being addressed by dairy giant MD Foods plc with a Farm Assurance Code of Practice governing all farmers who supply milk directly to the company's dairies in the UK. The code
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York shoe retailer steps out
Pavers, the York-based family-run shoe chain, has just opened three concessions in Lewis's department stores in Manchester, Liverpool and Hanley... and expect more in this, its 30th year. Also expect good things for Pavers from the Innovative Retailer
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Supershare '98
She's done it! Barbara Gray is Supershare champion, the best of 21,000 entries, winner of the top £2,000 prize... "and I think I must be dreaming," she said on being told of her victory. Three times she'd been at second place and now three times she's
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Come on down to back Corgi
A decade of loyal York Rugby League Club service by former player and coach Stewart Horton was today hailed by chairman Trevor Cox. The Wasps chairman paid tribute to a "loyal, hard working" servant and declared Horton richly deserved tonight's testimonial
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Porters hot under collar over T-shirts
Porters at York District Hospital are seeing red over management moves to swap their uniforms for a flaming-coloured T-shirt. The 33-strong portering squad are presenting a united front to bosses against proposals to get them to wear a red polo shirt.
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Ex-grammar school pupils to stage reunion
Former pupils of Malton Grammar School are being invited to relive their classroom days and catch up with old friends at a reunion in the town. The school, which ceased to exist in 1971, is now Malton Secondary School. Nonetheless for ex-pupil Colin Gaden
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Princess to spend a day in prison!
The Princess Royal was in York today to attend a conference on child health at York University... before spending time in jail. Princess Anne, patron of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was addressing their annual spring meeting, one
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The luckiest man alive
A man who calmly walked into a police station with a live hand grenade was today described as the "luckiest man alive". Bomb disposal experts were called in after the man handed in the Second World War grenade - minus its safety pin - at Pickering Police
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Press tipster goes on a National Quest
Evening Press tipster Tom O'Ryan hopes he is on a winner for the charity Scope. He is staking a free £50 bet, courtesy of Ladbrokes bookmakers, on his Nap selection for Saturday's Martell Grand National - Rough Quest. With the odds at 8-1 when he placed
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War is declared on late payers
New proposals for a European directive to combat late payments have been welcomed by small business leaders in North Yorkshire, but they warn: "Watch for the small print in private contracts." The European proposal goes beyond the UK government's plans
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One Man to repeat heavyweight victory
by Tom O'Ryan One man and Strong Promise, two of steeplechasing's heavyweights, clash for the second time this season at Aintree tomorrow in what promises to be another thrilling spectacle and a fight to the finish. The £80,000 Mumm Melling Chase is the
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Eurolink
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Sports club hits back in rent row
Osbaldwick Sports Club have responded to an announcement by Osbaldwick Parish Council that they are to seek arbitration in a bid to resolve a dispute over rent. The sports club owe more than £700 on a rental agreement on land on which the clubhouse stands
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Young defenders vie for debut spot
Two of York City's newest professionals are poised to vie for League debuts in answer to a mounting defensive crisis. Intermediate and reserves' team-mates, York-born Andrew Dawson and Northallerton's Graham Rennison, both to get pro' contracts next season
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We're all child friendly!
York's positive approach to its younger visitors has been recognised with almost 50 organisations winning child friendly awards from the National Childbirth Trust. The awards, which are organised through the City of York Council and independently monitored
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Let trains take the strain
Company bosses in North Yorkshire were today urged strongly to use the rail network rather than sending their goods by road. Manufacturers, industrialists and quarry operators from across the county met in York today to hear about the growth of the rail
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BSE expert reveals 'lonely quest'
Former York microbiologist Stephen Dealler has spoken of his lonely quest for the truth about BSE in the face of hostility from officialdom. Dr Dealler, who warned in the Evening Press in 1994 that hundreds of thousands of people were potentially at risk
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Sensational new twist in Winnie murder case
A Yorkshire murder mystery took a sensational twist today when the brutal killing of a grandmother was linked to a man's death nearly 12 years ago. Detectives investigating last summer's rape and murder of 59-year-old Winnie Deighton at Bridlington say
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Dad gets jail over rail boy's lone trip
A father was behind bars today for sending his five-year-old son on a 50-mile train journey by himself. James Heron was put on the TransPennine train in York by 33-year-old Robert Heron after a weekend visit, arriving in Darlington to find nobody waiting
