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Advice team beefed up
Business Link North Yorkshire, the one-stop shop for corporate help, has appointed five new advisers to cope with the growing demand for its services. They are Martin Bradley, Ron Cosens, Mike Pulman, Ian Rhodes and Barry Upson. Michele Cusack, senior
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Silverwood makes early breakthrough
David Warner on Yorkshire Cricket Chris Silverwood got Yorkshire off to a great start at Lord's today by taking a wicket with his fourth ball after Middlesex had won the toss and batted first in the championship match. Opener David Goodchild, in only
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Queen to lift crown
Racing by Tom O'Ryan Fairy Queen, who made a fairytale start to her career at Doncaster last month, can confirm herself as an above-average juvenile at Sandown tomorrow. The David Loder-trained filly bids for the £13,500 Milcar Star Stakes and promises
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YORK RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB IN TURMOIL
'We will honour our fixtures' - Elliott York Rugby League Club's chief executive Phil Elliott today declared the show must go on despite a walk-out by the club's entire first team squad. Elliott told the Evening Press that the Wasps are confident of recruiting
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Advice team beefed up
Business Link North Yorkshire, the one-stop shop for corporate help, has appointed five new advisers to cope with the growing demand for its services. They are Martin Bradley, Ron Cosens, Mike Pulman, Ian Rhodes and Barry Upson. Michele Cusack, senior
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YORK RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB IN TURMOIL
RFL launch rescue bid The Rugby Football League today stepped into the crisis engulfing York Rugby League Club. An official from the game's governing body was visiting the club today in a bid to resolve the dispute between players and the board. Chief
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YORK RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB IN TURMOIL
Wasps woe by Stuart Martel Cash-starved York Rugby League Club were today plunged into turmoil after the entire first team squad vowed to boycott a vital match - and pledged not to play in the Wasps colours again. The Rugby Football League's Chief Executive
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Parents fight to retain schools link-up
Parents are calling for a York primary school to keep its traditional links with Fulford School during the shake-up of the secondary admissions system. Parents of pupils at Fishergate Primary are angry at council plans to link the school instead with
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Campaign to co-coax out choc fiends
The hunt is on to find the nation's biggest chocolate lover. And the prize for the winning chocoholic? A dream day out in York, the city of chocolate itself - with as much of the stuff as you can eat. The nationwide search has been launched to tie in
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In a hole lot of trouble
Villagers dug a trench in which to place a memorial bench for Diana, Princess of Wales - and returned after a tea break to find council workers had filled it in. The diggers, members of Dalton Parish Council, near Thirsk, spent hours digging a shallow
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Bid for York road tolls
Researchers are targeting York for a pioneering pay-as-you-drive trial scheme. The Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing think tank, wants to introduce a 9p-a-mile road toll on an experimental basis in several British cities, including York. At the same
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Young cricketers making their mark
School Sport York student Nick Kay has ended the cricket season on a high. He has become the first St Peter's School pupil to score 1,000 runs in a school season. He totalled 1,076 runs, averaging 59.77 - statistics which helped earn him a place in Leicestershire
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York pair searching for the golden touch
FOOT BIDS FOR MEDAL REPEAT York's Caroline Foot will be entering unchartered waters when she swims for England in this year's Commonwealth Games. Despite all her years of experience, the 33-year-old has never competed in Malaysia and admits to knowing
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Legal eagles
Three new partners and three new associates have been announced by Langleys Solicitors' practice which has bases in York and Lincoln. The appointments come in the wake of another record year for Langleys which saw it placed in the top two per cent of
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Ryedale farm in line for award
Langton Farms, near Malton, is one of four farms that have won through to the national final of the prestigious 1998 Broadoak Farming Silver Lapwing Award. Now celebrating its 20th year, this is the United Kingdom's pre-eminent award for farm conservation
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Brewery adds TV's 'Old Rogue' to beer portfolio
There seems only to be an upside for Daleside, the little Harrogate brewery that grows bigger every day. Visitors to the Great Yorkshire Show last week literally had a taste of that success when Daleside launched Greengrass Old Rogue, the eighth ale in
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YORK RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB IN TURMOIL
Robinson taking legal advice over his future Coach Dean Robinson is to seek legal advice over his position at York Rugby League Club. The Wasps boss admitted he now has "no players to coach" following last night's meeting but revealed he has no intention
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Bid to highlight the shame of late payers
Small businesses in York and North Yorkshire today defended their "league table of shame" to pinpoint bad payers. The Federation of Small Businesses and business information group Dun & Bradstreet have announced their agreement to publish an annual
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Yorkshire born and bread at superstore
By gum! You don't get owt for nowt in Yorkshire. With Yorkshire Day on August 1 fast approaching, non-Yorkshiremen living in and visiting the county may be feeling a bit left out. But now, for those not born and bred in God's own county, a leading supermarket
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Museum bid for lottery cash bites the dust
York's hopes of a massive lottery boost to the Castle Museum have finally bitten the dust. Ambitious plans for a £12.9 million revamp of the museum, which would have brought crowds streaming back in during the 21st century, were turned down last year.
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New jobs hope for ex-ABB site
New jobs could be created on the former ABB site within 12 months, following the completion today of a major restoration scheme. Developers flying the flag to mark the finish of the nine-month programme said the land is now ready for builders to move
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Catch my brother's killer - plea to police
The brother of murdered York man Geoffrey Leeming has made a heartfelt plea to the police to find his killer. Tony Leeming, of Taunton, Somerset, urged detectives to re-examine all the evidence in the mystery surrounding the Haxby man's brutal killing
