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Details delight City historian
Author Dave Windross has been overwhelmed by the response to his book on York City. Hundreds of copies of Citizens and Minstermen - A Who's Who of York City FC - have been sold since the book came out towards the end of last year. But what has amazed
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York City Football Club 1998-99
Back, from left: Martin Reed, Neil Woods, Neil Tolson, Andy Warrington, Tony Barras, Mark Tinkler, Richard Cresswell.Middle, from left: Derek Bell (1st team coach), Andy McMillan, Graham Rennison, Andrew Dawson, John Sharples, Alan Pouton, Neil Thompson
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Wharton on the warpath
York's battling brave Henry Wharton is in line for a pow-wow summit meeting in the heart of Indian territory. The former undefeated European super-middleweight champion may take his next step up in the light-heavyweight class back to America on the Red
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Hi, we've come all the way from York
The Lord Mayor of York brought out his best silver to honour the visit of a party of Americans from the city's namesake in South Carolina. Mr William Senn and four relatives travelled thousands of miles to visit York, and after contacting Coun Derek Smallwood
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Schools merger plan is kicked out
Education Secretary David Blunkett today confirmed that the Government has formally rejected York plans to merge Queen Anne School and Canon Lee School. The announcement follows an appeal by education chiefs at the City of York Council against the Government's
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40,000 expected at York race meeting
More than 40,000 people are expected to descend on York Knavesmire today and tomorrow for the July race meeting. The two-day event - known as the John Smith's Cup race meeting - is home to Britain's longest-established sponsored race on the flat with
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Teacher in sex change shock
A woman drama teacher at a large comprehensive school will return to the classroom in September as Mr instead of Miss following a summer holiday sex change. Lisa Garside will be back among the 1,500 pupils at King James's School, Knaresborough, as Michael
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Emerald Heights strikes for the top
Racing by Tom O'Ryan Emerald Heights can reach the pinnacle of his career at York tomorrow by landing the 39th John Smith's Cup, the longest-sponsored handicap in Britain, which boasts prize money in excess of £100,000 for the first time. Trained at Newmarket
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Little casts eye over Carlos
Flying Dutch winger Carlos Floyd-Hasselbaink, elder brother of Leeds and Holland international Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink, is interested in a York City link. City manager Alan Little confirmed today that the 29-year-old elder brother of the Leeds United
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Petrol station gets a licence to sell booze
The managing director of a York petrol station which has been given permission to sell alcohol says it is the only way to compete with city supermarkets. According to Graham Kennedy, who has been granted a liquor licence for the Boroughbridge Road Inner
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Crash hero is found - 'I was dashing home'
A good Samaritan, who slipped away after dragging a woman and her two children from a car wreck and ripping his shirt to tend the woman's wounds, has stepped forward after an appeal in the Evening Press. But Nestl worker Bob Duncan says he is not a shrinking
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Mum raps GPs' call-out service
An emergency doctor told a mother to ask neighbours for taxi money to reach medical help for her sick baby, it was claimed today. Leanne Daniels' 10-month-old daughter, Shannon, spent eight days in hospital recovering from meningitis after a doctor finally
