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Fred to put his best feet forward
Racing by Tom O'Ryan Fast Forward Fred does not exactly live up to his name, being a stayer rather than an sprinter, but this progressive gelding is napped all the same to show his rivals the way home at Bath tomorrow. The seven-year-old, trained by Les
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Wasps facing player crisis
Super League partners Castleford Tigers have suspended their player exchange deal with York Rugby League Club. The Super League side have recalled hooker Gareth Dobson and forward Spencer Hargrave until the Wasps issue an official statement on their current
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Tykes panic and slump to soggy defeat
David Warner on Yorkshire Cricket Yorkshire committed suicide in a rain-hit AXA League match at Scarborough yesterday, Nottinghamshire winning by four runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method when Richard Stemp failed to hit the last ball of the game for
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Agnew spurs City revival to avoid taking wooden spoon
Sparks but no sparkle as two sent off YORK CITY 0, AIRDRIE 1 Snooze control to black and blue out of control yanked a nondescript Anglo-Scottish clash out of York City's reach. Both sides were stumbling along in a non-event of a first-half when a penalty
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Get fell in... for 'classless' mess
The unbelievable is about to happen in the modern, cost-conscious British Army. Officers, warrant officers and sergeants are to share the same building in the Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Strensall, near York, in a tradition-busting, cost-cutting experiment
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Cash boost for York nursery
A grant of thousands of pounds has made a splash with local children at a nursery soon to get extra carers. The youngsters of St Dymphna's Nursery, in Holgate, have been given the cash from the Lloyds TSB Foundation, one of the largest grant-giving organisations
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By-law will halt farm children helping out
A new by-law looks set to prevent North Yorkshire farmers employing their own children for occasional work until they become teenagers. The county council is preparing to replace a 1980 by-law that permits children aged 10 and over to do light agricultural
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Head of college to quit his post
Professor Robin Butlin, principal of the University College of Ripon & York St John, is leaving his post. Prof Butlin will be returning to academic research in the University of Leeds, three years after taking up the position of principal at the split-site
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Youngsters are taken ill with meningitis
Three children have been admitted to York District Hospital with meningitis in as many weeks, North Yorkshire Health Authority said today. All three youngsters are said to be recovering from their illnesses, in each case caused by meningococcal meningitis
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It's war on cars
by Mike Laycock and David Stanford The Government was today declaring war on the car - and the school run and company car parks were first in the firing line. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was publishing his long-awaited blueprint to cut traffic
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Agnew to miss start of season after sending off
Midfield newcomer Steve Agnew will sit out the start of his first season for York City. Agnew faces a ban, consigned to a watching brief from the sidelines once the new Division Two show opens at Preston in under three weeks' time, after he was sent off
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City shares shut-out
Would-be investors in York City have been 'advised' to stay clear by club chairman Douglas Craig. The City supremo declared that any potential backer seeking to contact the club as candidates willing to snap up the shares to be off-loaded by retiring
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Stuffed pub bird drops on Darren
Julie and Darren Crosby have a grouse with a York pub after a stuffed pheasant dive-bombed their romantic night out. The Crosbys, from Strensall, went out to celebrate Julie's 38th birthday, but instead of ending up either side of a restaurant table for
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Chloe loses cancer fight
Four-year-old Chloe Condren has lost her brave battle against cancer. The youngster whose plight prompted a fund-raising campaign to send her to Disneyland died peacefully at her home off Leeman Road, York, with parents Rebecca and Billy by her side.
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Anne stays married to sex-change Danielle
Civilian police worker Anne Nichol is sharing a house with her sex change husband. She and ex-hubby Dave continue to live in the marital home even though he is now Danielle and just 12 months away from his final sex change operation. The couple, who once
