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Looking for the ball in a different net
Not so long ago the only net football fans were interested in was the one they hoped their strikers would put the ball into. But now fans across the globe are surfing the information superhighway to get the latest up-to-date World Cup news on the other
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Crypt venue for TV games
Football-crazy teenagers are being lured into a church for big-screen world cup viewing ... in the crypt. The Rev Derek Wooldridge, Rector of St Paul's, Holgate Road, York, said the football evenings were a good way of spreading the Christian message
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Boys from Brazil to start
Scotland will get a chance to avenge their 2-1 defeat at the hands of Brazil in the Evening Press World Cup for youngsters. The tournament is being staged at the University of York on Saturday mornings throughout the duration of France 98. There are two
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Splat Action hero to thrill at Double
Racing from Tom O'Ryan Double Action, who loves soft ground, will be in his element on rain-soaked Knavesmire tomorrow as he bids to open his winning account for the season in the £15,000 Marketing Week 20th Anniversary Rated Handicap over six furlongs
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Nestl staff flip at work ruling
Dozens of Nestl workers in York walked out today in a dramatic bust-up with their own union. About 170 staff on the assortments production line marched out of the factory in the latest twist in the row over the chocolate-covered pretzel snack, Flipz.
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Stadium pub
A York pub was transformed into a football stadium, as the atmosphere flowed for yesterday's clash between Scotland and Brazil. The Brewers Arms in Tanner Row, like hundreds of pubs around North Yorkshire, showed the first of the World Cup matches. And
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Soccer gets museum show
Although the eyes of virtually every football fan in the world are being trained on France for the next four weeks, the real home of football has established itself in a York museum. The Yorkshire Museum is playing host to the Homes Of Football, an exhibition
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Football can cause days of euphoria
As half the nation tuned in to watch the opening World Cup match, with the braveheart Scots taking on the mighty Brazilians, I was ... sad to say ... working. Don't get me wrong, I don't resent working the late shift at the Evening Press while the rest
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Trouble for Tykes in triplicate
Yorkshire Cricket from David Warner Yorkshire were missing three of their top players in the championship match against Hampshire at Headingley today when they were forced to go into the game without Australian Darren Lehmann, Craig White and Darren Gough
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Derby mementoes under hammer
Two prize items from last Saturday's Epsom Derby will be offered for sale in York tomorrow night. French star Olivier Peslier, who rode High-Rise to glory on Epsom Downs last weekend, is donating his whip and boots from the big race to the Macmillan Cancer
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Bypass town fights to get more visitors
Traders at Easingwold are backing new attempts to draw in more visitors to the North Yorkshire market town. Easingwold and its attractions are now on the Internet, thanks to Hambleton District Council which is taking over the running of the town's Tourist
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Dreaming of those early gates!
The York Early Music Foundation today unveiled its plans to establish a National Early Music Centre in the grounds of the redundant church of St Margaret's in Walmgate, York. The foundation, which was recently awarded a grant of just over £1.5 million
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Wood fuel plant to cut emissions
Europe's first commercial wood-fuelled power station near Selby is set to play a vital role in reducing pollution and global warming, says Yorkshire Water boss Dr Kevin Bond. He said the revolutionary plant at Eggborough - work on which will start next
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Victory for villagers in gipsy site campaign
Residents fighting plans to put a temporary gipsy site in their village were celebrating today after the City of York Council announced it had found an alternative site. Villagers were up in arms when they found out about plans to put a site for 12 families
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Mystery arises from ashes at York church
A true medieval mystery has arisen from the ashes of a fire which ravaged an ancient York church. Paintings hanging in All Saints', in North Street, were damaged in the £100,000 blaze in February last year. Two were destroyed, three were blistered and
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Killer Magee 'to stay in jail'
Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam has suggested that gunman Paul Magee, who murdered North Yorkshire Special Constable Glenn Goodman, would not qualify for early release under the Good Friday agreement. In a Commons debate on accelerated prisoner release
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'Call-out to brain bug tot refused'
by Caroline Radford. A mother whose 15-week-old son is in hospital recovering from the killer bug meningitis says the emergency doctor refused to come to her home when her baby fell ill. Ann Thomas, of Geldof Road, Huntington, who spent ten days in hospital
