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Young to face their victims
YOUNG criminals could come face to face with their victims under a new scheme to reduce youth offending. The City of York Council wants to run a pilot project which brings together young offenders and their victims, with the opportunity for criminals
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Alex forces out Fata
YOUNG gun Alex Godfrey is winging his way into York Rugby League Club's Second Division revival in place of Fata Sini. The vastly experienced Sini will be 18th man at Doncaster Dragons tomorrow night with teenager Godfrey starting in his right wing berth
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Howzat for openers?
WHAT a marvellous month or so it has been for Michael Vaughan who has found the best batting form of his career during June and has today been given the job of leading Yorkshire in the three-day match against Cambridge University at Headingley. David
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TV ruling 'not cricket' says MP
SELBY MP John Grogan has lashed out at the Government's decision to allow cricket to be shown on cable and satellite TV. The decision was released in a written statement on Thursday after consideration of the Gordon Committee Report which allows cable
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Next stop York for rail buffs' boutique
A UNIQUE railway memorabilia shop which has moved from London to York is to be officially opened next week. The Lord Mayor of York, together with the Sheriff, who is a former train driver, and Sir William McAlpine - who once owned The Flying Scotsman
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Blaze rips through York pizza restaurant
A FIRE damaged a York pizza restaurant today forcing tenants in flats above to flee to safety. The Monk Bar end of historic Goodramgate was cordoned off as more than 20 firefighters fought to control the blaze at the Little Italy restaurant, just yards
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Scout Ted
Former York City striker Ted MacDougall has been appointed chief scout at First Division Portsmouth. The ex-Scottish international, who scored 40 goals in 90 City appearances in the late 1960s, is returning from Canada to join Pompey as a talent spotter
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Memories of Yorkshire pair
TWO familiar faces will sadly be no longer on the Yorkshire cricket scene following their deaths over the past few days. A minute's silence was observed before Yorkshire's match at Durham last Sunday following the death earlier in the day of Yorkshire
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Byas and Blakey join Yorkshire's Sunday best
UNTIL last weekend, Martyn Moxon held the distinction of being Yorkshire's third heaviest scorer in Sunday League cricket with a total of 4,128 runs at the respectable average of 30.57. But after the match at Durham he found himself unceremoniously dumped
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Fury over road works
SELBY motorists travelling to work in York have reacted with fury and disbelief to delays in work on the Naburn Lane route to York. Contractors admitted this week work on the B1222 could be delayed for up to a week after contractors laying a storm water
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It's 'jam tomorrow' for Selby miners
SELBY'S 3,500 miners have put the champagne on ice despite predictions from Trade President Margaret Beckett and the town's MP John Grogan that coal has a secure future. National Union of Mineworkers' leaders in the Selby complex today gave the Government's
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Hague misses show after op
TORY leader William Hague, who was due to open today's North Yorkshire County Show at Otterington Hall, near Northallerton, is instead recovering from an operation to drain blocked sinuses. The Richmond MP was admitted to Darlington Memorial Hospital
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£2m bid to curb moors traffic
NEARLY £2 million is due to be spent on helping to combat the growing problem of speeding cars and traffic in the North York Moors National Park. In a report to the park authority David Arnold-Forster, the Park Officer, says the money will be spent on
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Fox cubs inquiry
LEADERS of the Sinnington Hunt will be questioned by a committee of inquiry on Monday following the discovery of two fox cubs in an artificial den. Hunt chairman James Holt and joint masters Adam Waugh, Andrew Osborne and John Shaw are due to appear at
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Troubled estate to get police station
A mini police station looks set to be opened in the heart of a troubled York housing estate in the latest bid to reduce crime. If councillors approve the scheme next week it will be based in a house in the Kingsway North area and be used by police officers
