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Gough on course to be fit for Test
Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner Darren Gough is making good progress with his hand injury and hopes to be able to tell the England selectors he is fit for the third Test against South Africa which begins at Old Trafford next Thursday. Gough had a further
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It's Des, as smooth as the icing on a World Cup cake
Football fans hungry for a flavour of the World Cup need look no further than a York shop. For a city cake outlet has made TV sports presenter Des Lynam - always the 'housewives' favourite' - good enough to eat. Cake decorator Anthony Springall has made
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Impressed by loyalty of readers
Evening Press staffers have been most im-PRESS-ed at finding out just how many loyal and long-standing readers we have. Phone calls have been pouring in response to our quest to find out who has been reading the Evening Press the longest. Tilly Slater
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£819,000 for IRA bomb victim
A former solider awarded £819,000 after losing both legs in an IRA bomb blast nine years ago said today he had been badly let down by Army solicitors. Andy Mudd, 42,who was a bodyguard with the Royal Military Police and now lives at Cawood, near Selby
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County ambulance service to merge
North Yorkshire ambulance service announced today it intends to merge with the Humberside and Cleveland services. A dramatic statement was issued at today's public board meeting by North Yorkshire Trust chairman John Nelson. He stressed the merger would
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50 jobs thrown out with wash
Fifty staff at York's hospital laundry are to lose their jobs after health chiefs awarded the contract to a Derby firm. York NHS Trust announced today it had decided to close down the laundry at Clifton, and issue redundancy notices to about 50 people
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Sun and sangria - but nothing to celebrate
The prayers of Alphonso in the Casa Franco bar in the Costa del Sol went unheeded. In a nation of more Saints' days and fiestas that you can shake an incense stick at, Spain's soccer crazy legion joined Alphonso in a state of purgatory today. Last night
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Dean should make no mistake this time
Racing by Tom O'Ryan The talented Dean Mernagh who is apprenticed to Warthill trainer Mel Brittain, can register the biggest success of his career at Newcastle tomorrow evening - after picking up a seven-day suspension in bizarre circumstances at Carlisle
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Keep hope alive
Ambitious York Rugby League Club today warned against the dangers of turning Super League into a closed shop. Wasps chief executive Phil Elliott declared that First and Second Division clubs are right to guard against Super League becoming a "private
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Tom's Star Trek
A North Yorkshire man who climbed Everest last month could now become the first handicapped person in space, it was reported today. Outdoor pursuits instructor Tom Whittaker, who wears an artificial leg below his right knee, has been asked by NASA if
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Three lions on our shirts, a flag on our car and faces
A group of football fanatics from York today set off on a 10-hour journey to France to watch "England thrash Colombia". And in true World Cup spirit, the group of four former students have transformed their car into a moving St George's flag, bought a
