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Curious coverage from the cable guys
Satellite saturation is the name of the game on Eurosport. The channel, broadcast throughout the continent, is covering all games, showing 388 hours, give or take a bit of extra time, and 33 live games. In its bid to serve so many of our Euro-neighbours
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Gough bonus in big mix-up
Yorkshire Cricket by David Warner Confusion reigned for most of the day at Headingley yesterday when the sprinkling of spectators were generally at a loss to understand what on earth was going on as Yorkshire's game with Cambridge University meandered
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Foxes probe a sham claims animal group
Hunting's governing body says it has found "no evidence" to support claims the Sinnington Hunt kept two fox cubs in captivity. But animal rights campaigners who filmed the three-month-old foxes in a man-made earth in a copse at Muscoates Whin, near Kirkbymoorside
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Arsonists set fire to bins beneath Selby flats
An elderly woman was woken by the smell of burning plastic when arsonists set alight a wheelie bin underneath her archway flat.The fire brigade said the fire in Ebor Court, Selby, had been started deliberately. A pool of melted plastic is all that remains
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Mybotye due a win
Racing by Tom O'Ryan Mybotye, long overdue a win, can find opportunity knocking at Redcar tomorrow. Robin Bastiman's five-year-old bids for the Levy Board Handicap over seven furlongs and is napped to open his seasonal account over a course and distance
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Reading table record £750,000 bid for Murty
Coveted winger Graeme Murty is being head-hunted in a club record York City deal. Relegated big-spenders Reading have tabled a bid in the region of £750,000 for the 23-year-old wideman, who was one of the successes of City's campaign last season. City
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Family reunited after 35 years
The York telephone directory has brought a family back together after 35 years and put a son in touch with his mother, who he feared was long dead. Peter Riley, 69, who was born at Overton Cottages, near Skelton, lost touch with his four brothers and
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Sixteenth century manual may fetch £20,000
A first edition York manual, dated 1509, the only one of six recorded copies remaining in private hands and one of the first English books printed with music, is set to fetch up to £20,000 at auction. The copy - a handbook for the parish priest in the
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School to rise from ashes
Fire-ravaged Park Grove Primary School in York has begun its rise from the ashes. About 16 months after the inferno which ripped through the Dudley Street-based primary school, the long-awaited £2.1 million pound refit got under way yesterday. Demolition
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Family feud youth slashed victim's face with knife
A young man has been jailed for four-and-a-half years after he slashed his cousin's boyfriend in a feud between two travelling families. Three members of John Connor's family held his 17-year-old victim from the rival family down while he cut his face
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England expects!
England will go football mad again tonight as Glenn Hoddle's team take on Argentina in the World Cup. Streets will be deserted and millions of people will be glued to their televisions as the match kicks off in St Etienne at 8pm. More than 28 million