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Champ Bartle faces Bramham test
AN Oscar-winning performance is what North Yorkshire star equestrian Christopher Bartle hopes to produce at the Bramham International Three Day Event at Bramham near Wetherby, starting on Thursday, June 11. Bartle, the Badminton Horse Trials champion
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Record ride by Clifton veteran
KEITH Richardson has set a Clifton Cycling Club veterans' record. The 63-year-old covered the fifty miles in Holme Valley Wheelers' event on the A1 at Dishforth last Sunday in 1hr 59min 09sec, an 11 second improvement on John Lewis's record set in 1973
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Mitchell hat-trick sweeps Ox to victory
A HAT-TRICK of tries by Alan Mitchell swept Castle Howard Ox to a 17-11 win over York Police Panthers in the Arthur Rhodes Haulage York Interworks Rugby League Plate final at Clifton Park, York, last night. Michell opened the scoring with a try which
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Byas best baa none
STRAIGHT-TALKING Yorkshire captain David Byas is just the sort who WOULD say boo to a goose, but he was still looking more than a little sheepish at Headingley this week. A member of a family of hard-working farmers at Kilham, near Driffield, when not
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Museum is chuffed with £m legacy
STAFF at York's National Railway Museum were celebrating today after an eccentric train buff left it £500,000 in his will. The money was part of ex-public schoolboy Charles Shorto's £5 million fortune in a bequest to ten charities. The former railway
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Missing woman: Police still quiz man
DETECTIVES investigating the mystery disappearance of North Yorkshire mother-of-two Marsha Wray have been granted extra time to continue questioning a man they arrested. Officers also confirmed they have been digging up parts of the garden at the Harrogate
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Police in new sex storm
NORTH Yorkshire Police faces another embarrassing sex discrimination case, this time brought by its once most senior female officer. Lyn Smith, 46, who was Acting Superintendent at Selby police station, is taking the force to an industrial tribunal alleging
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Wasps go down with a whimper
by Stuart MartelTOP billing was relinquished with a whimper at Headingley. York Rugby League Club slipped from the peak of a five-game winning run to a second best trough against new Second Division leaders Bramley. A hint of complacency appeared to have
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Pride in place for Pudsey paceman Hutch
PUDSEY is known throughout the cricketing world as the place in Yorkshire where Len Hutton and Herbert Sutcliffe were shaped into becoming among the finest batsmen the game has ever produced, writes David Warner. But it is Pudsey bowlers who have been
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Tykes enjoy White stuff
A CAREER-BEST eight for 55, a maiden hat-trick and 23 wickets from four championship matches at a cost of only 7.71 runs apiece all bear testimony to the fact that Craig White is at the peak of his form with the ball. Before the current round of first-class
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Movies are magic for Yorkshire economy
It's not only the camera that rolls when film makers shout: Lights, Camera, Action! Cash - millions of pounds of it - also rolls into the pockets of local communities when the movie business comes to town. In the past four years, the film industry has
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Raider attacks York shop owner
POLICE were today hunting a robber who smashed a bottle over the head of a shop owner before escaping with cash from the till. The incident occurred only hours after a raid on a city centre travel agency by robbers armed with a knife. Detectives hunting
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Charlie is the doctors'darling
by Dennis TowleMIRACLE baby Charlie Issatt has joined his sister with a place in the medical history books. Big sister, Leanne, who became Europe's youngest liver transplant patient when she was only 15 days old, celebrated her fifth birthday this month
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Tadcaster brewery men in jobs fight
SOME of the men who were found to have been unfairly dismissed from Tadcaster's Sam Smith's brewery after being caught drinking at work, want their jobs back their solicitor said today. Philip Chapman, of Mitchells Solicitors in York, said that after
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'Freak death' of PM's York-born driver
PREMIER Tony Blair's personal driver who died in a freak accident when riding her red Ducati 900cc at low speed, had a love of motorcycles, an inquest heard. "She lived and breathed motorbikes. She even took her grandson Jack to Brands Hatch to see the
