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Support small firms
SHOCK, horror! Enterprising York businessman dares to employ 22 people. "It is so quiet and secretive we did not know it was there" say our planning commissars. (Evening Press, Monday, December 7). I read with amazement the Evening Press's typically sensationalist
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Tragedy of the foxes
WE are now well into the 1998 foxhunting season. During the coming months about 20,000 foxes will be chased to the point of total exhaustion before being torn to pieces by packs of hounds in the name of 'sport'. Hounds not up to the job will receive a
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Hunger strike bomber left behind trauma trail
WHY put such an offensive heading in the Evening Press of December 2 - Priest Compares Hunger Striker With Christ on your front page? How could anyone make this odious comparison? Barry Horne is a convicted arsonist. He has left a trail of damage and
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Tim's big race hope to be Simply the best
SIMPLY DASHING, a fast-finishing runner-up to Cyfor Malta at Cheltenham last month, returns to Prestbury Park tomorrow with excellent prospects of going one better in the feature race. Tim Easterby's high-class performer bids to hit the jackpot in the
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Crane to give Wasps a big lift
MICK Crane, who played a major part in the Wasps' promotion campaign in the second of two loan spells from Hull Kingston Rovers, is tonight expected to sign a one-year deal with York Rugby League Club. The scrum half, who can also play at stand-off, has
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Coppergate II calls for style
RARELY has there been such a public response to a local issue as the outcry against proposals to develop the Coppergate Phase II shopping complex. Aspects of the scheme, particularly the scale of the development which threatened to swamp the historic
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Under the knife
YORK City player-coach Neil Thompson is to have an operation on his troublesome Achilles next week. Neil Thompson It is hoped the exploratory surgery will finally provide a solution to the problem which has kept him out of action for almost two months
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Cabbies fear a dressing down over appearances
CABBIES fear another row may be looming over their appearance, a year after bosses at York railway station tried to smarten them up. The annual renewal of permits is coming up in January, and some Hackney Carriage drivers believe they may be used to put
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Fears at loss of traffic patrols
TRAFFIC police fear dozens of posts could be shed during a major shake-up in the York area. Almost 140 officers currently deal with everything from pile-ups to speeding and drink-driving on the county's 6,000 miles of road. A greater proportion of the
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People power scuppers Coppergate scheme
PEOPLE power has saved Clifford's Tower from a controversial new neighbour - but councillors still hope something can be salvaged from the £60 million scheme to extend York's Coppergate Centre. City of York Council's planning committee voted yesterday
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Barry Horne back in jail
ANIMAL rights hunger striker Barry Horne was back in Full Sutton jail today after 18 controversial days at York District Hospital. Protesters carry on their vigil at Full Sutton jail today Doctors and managers at York Health Trust said they decided on
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Oil blights Ouse
YOUR report about the oil slick on the River Ouse. (Evening Press, November 21) prompts this letter. I regularly fish the river below York and it is a pleasure to see the resident swan with its young, plus an abundance of ducks and kingfishers. While
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Nativity shocker
Being an anglophile who has spent many great times in York, including six weeks this summer, I am shocked to learn there are no Nativity scenes in the city. Can this be true? Christmas is about Christ's birth. Marti & Jack Brutcher Portland, Oregon
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Hospital peace
COMMON sense has finally prevailed with the decision to send hunger striker Barry Horne back to prison. Today he is back in Full Sutton prison where he is serving 18 years for firebombing. For 18 days the animal rights activist has taken up a much-needed
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Move to Cherries bears fruit
STEVE Robinson's time in the top flight with Tottenham Hotspur was over in a blink of an eye. Three seasons at White Hart Lane saw the attacking midfielder chalk-up just two appearances for the north London giants. In the 1994-95 season he was shipped
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Berwick Kaler : The Millennium Dame
I WON'T conform with the fashion of today. All that body piercing the lads and lasses seem to go in for - must be torture. Mind you, I'm used to pain - I've been married twice! But I digress; so there I was in the Museum Gardens dressed to the nines in
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MANY of you looked into Uri's eyes as part of our paranormal experiment a week a
The image sent to our offices by Uri, and the one he was trying to communicate to readers telepathically, was the star. Readers responded with pictures including a desert island with palm trees, and a castle. One reader connected, however, and sent in
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A royal taste for toffee
THE Queen made a personal request to visit to a North Yorkshire toffee factory after she received a tin of its sweets at her Buckingham Palace home. The Queen meets the cast of Aladdin at during rehearsals at Harrogate Theatre Staff at Farrah's Toffee
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School closure was only option say councillors
A HARD-FOUGHT battle by parents and pupils at a York school was drawing to a close today after councillors backed its closure. Education Secretary David Blunkett will now be asked to approve the closure of Queen Anne School, which seems likely to shut
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Selby fights drug dealers
SELBY residents were praised by the town's police chief today for their invaluable help and courage in "shopping" drug dealers. The vote of thanks came after heroin dealer Andrew Reader, 30, of Bridge Court, Barlby, was sentenced at York Crown Court to
