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Leslie Bryan
Never laugh at sneezing teeth, I don't LIFE, as they say, comes full circle. It goes past pretty quickly, too. So, if you're a forty-something it's probably better to switch off now. Unless, that is, you want to share the misery. Where to begin? Well,
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Fill gaps for posterity
DURING a half-century writing and lecturing on music, my husband, the late Ernest Bradbury, also wrote numerous programme notes for concerts, including those which formed part of the York Festival from the 1950s-1980s. I am in the process of collating
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'Scaremongering' report on animal protesters
ON Thursday I attended the peace vigil for Barry Horne outside York District Hospital. I have the article Hunger Strike Violence Alert (Evening Press, November 26) and I write to complain that you have taken the situation out of context and are subsequently
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Champion siblings
School Sportcomplied by Peter Wilmott BROTHER and sister Richard and Hannah Booth have become national tennis champions a year after having been runners-up in the same competition. Brother and sister Richard and Hannah Booth with the trophies their trophies
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Cockertoo has great chance to fly home
THE COCKERTOO, runner-up in both his races since scoring at Southwell in October, is napped to bounce back to winning form at Wincanton tomorrow. The Robert Alner-trained gelding, a former point-to-pointer, bids for the Sunley Bay Conditional Jockeys'
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Bad taste at tower
WHILE this newspaper has given its full support to the campaign to light up York for Christmas, we must express reservations about the Clifford's Tower light show. Earlier this year the picture of Anne Frank was beamed onto the tower. It was a poignant
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Bill blasts the monster pylons
BEST selling author Bill Bryson abandoned his famously droll prose when asked about the Vale of York power line. His anger was such that he chose more direct language. National Grid's plan to construct a line of giant pylons across the North Yorkshire
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As injury crisis mounts Little warns 'hands off Cresswell'
WOBBLING York City will resist any big-cash bid for Richard Cresswell as they face 'losing' almost an entire team. Injury-hit City have issued as 'hands off' warning to clubs prior to Saturday's FA Cup second round tie at Wrexham Signs are growing that
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Jingle bells alarm Santa
FATHER Christmas came down the chimney but was promptly ushered out the front door when a fire alarm was set off during a Selby Christmas fair. Coun Steve Shaw-Wright, dressed as Santa, was forced to grab his elves and run when the jingle bells rang at
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'Shanty town' flats must be demolished
YORK landlord George Douglas has been given six months to demolish "shanty town" flats in the garden of a listed house in Heworth Green. Councillors condemned the ramshackle construction of three flats under plastic roofing as a "shanty town" when they
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Deadly asbestos is dumped at roadside
DEADLY blue asbestos has been found dumped beside a country road in the Yorkshire Wolds, east of Malton. The discovery of seven bin bags containing fibrous asbestos lagging was the third incident of its kind this year within a few yards of the Wintringham
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£312,000 lottery grant restores station's glory
STAFF and volunteers at a crowd-pulling North Yorkshire steam railway are feeling chuffed today after being awarded a £312,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. Ken Kitching at Pickering Station, which is to be restored with the help of National Lottery funding
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The Avengers
MILITANT animal rights protesters today issued a chilling list of targets for assassination if York hunger striker Barry Horne dies. The shock announcement by a group called the Animal Rights Militia claims it has drawn up a list of ten people to kill
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Don't waste energy
THE centre page spread of Business Press, (November 24), extolled the virtues of a company that insisted they be employed to light up buildings or even whole cities. Then on page ten there was a small report about conserving energy. The importance of
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What time's the bus?
I AM all for encouraging the use of public transport (Businfo Hotline, Evening Press, November 26). Earlier this year, the evening bus service to Fulford was re-instated. However, it has been beyond the council's power to have timetable information displayed
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Millennium fame for former Wasps heroes
TWO former York Rugby League Club stars have been immortalised on Leeds Rhinos new Millennium shirt. And a former Wasps director has also earned a place on the specially designed home jersey which will be worn by the Headingley outfit next season. Jeff
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Tykes to vote for two divisions
YORKSHIRE are to vote in favour of a two-divisional county championship at the First Class Forum of the England and Wales Cricket Board which is being held at Lord's today and tomorrow. And if the resolution succeeds, as appears likely, then the new system
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Wasps to head off taxman in court
BUSINESS as usual was the steadying cry of York Rugby League Club chief executive Jim Race to a reported swoop by the Inland Revenue. Race dismissed reports that the club faced a winding-up order by the Inland Revenue over an alleged bill of £82,000.
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Late bus puts job on line
Telephonist Charlotte Bullock fears she could face disciplinary action because late buses regularly make her late for work. The 22-year-old, of Lesley Avenue, Fulford, York, has received several verbal and written warnings from her employment agency,
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Fall in York's crime rate
YORK'S latest crime figures show it is well on the way to being one of Britain's safest cities, according to the city's police chief. Announcing the totals for the period from April to October at a meeting of the city's community and police groups, Superintendent
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Teenager badly burned in prank
A TEENAGER suffered severe burns after his trousers caught fire during a prank that went wrong at a York garage. Police are investigating the incident, which happened at the D.C Cook Toyota garage off Lawrence Street earlier this month. Officers say the
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Author attacks pylons 'disgrace'
TRAVEL writer Bill Bryson has launched a blistering attack on the march of electricity pylons across his beloved North Yorkshire. Returning to his favourite part of the world for a charity event, the American author pulled no punches when he heard how
