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Eye for a bargain
Around this time of the year I tend to buy all the major items for the next 12 months. I don't shop - I buy. I know exactly what I want and have a pretty good idea of the price I'm going to pay. Two hours maximum and the job is done. This year, however
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Slow down and save lives
The 1998 Crime and Disorder Act requires each local authority and police service to report the main problems in their area and proposals to deal with them. I believe that speeding, drunk and careless driving are problems in York. For instance, monitoring
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Crisp Shirt seals victory
Derwent Table Tennis Club second team came from behind to beat Darlington III 5-3 which could move them up to second or third place in division two North of the British League. Andrew Nicholls suffered a shock defeat to Steve Cooper in the opening game
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Maureen makes Cresent suffer
Maureen Tindall included 135 then 160 for an outstanding 18 darts as Institute outpaced Crescent 6-3 in the York White Rose Ladies League Pauline Rodi polished off a fine 7-2 victory for Victoria Vaults against Deramore with 19 darts, while the division
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Scott's senior service
MIDFIELDER Scott Jordan is now an established York City senior player. So declared manager Alan Little of the Newcastle-born playmaker, who first made his City debut as a 17-year-old back in 1992. Since then Jordan's progress has been stalled by a series
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New leads in hunt for runaway family
POLICE are following up new leads in the search for the missing foster family whose car was found in a York street. The discovery of the vehicle was the first breakthrough for officers trying to trace Jeffrey and Jennifer Bramley and their foster children
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Party time thanks
THE Yorkshire branch of Reach - a charity for children with hand or arm deficiencies, recently held its Christmas party in York. I wish to express my sincere thanks to those companies who made the day a great success. On behalf of everyone who came to
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Plight of the POWs
I AM researching a Channel Four documentary into the plight of prisoners of war during the First World War. I urgently wish to contact any surviving British prisoners of war from the 1914-18 period. Were you captured on the Western Front during the war
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Unhealthy plan for our doctors
THE plan to launch a network of private family doctors must be resisted. If it is allowed to go ahead, the National Health Service will be seriously undermined. Health insurers PPP are behind the scheme. Bosses insist that GPs who joined up would remain
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High fives
AN injury-free campaign could fire York Rugby League Club to the heady heights of a top five play-off place in the first division next season. That's the verdict of coach Dean Robinson as he prepares his troops for the big kick off next month. It will
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Miracle recovery by hand-of-mercy man
MIRACLE man Andrew Van Den Berg has amazed doctors by making an extraordinary recovery from an horrific car crash. The father-of-five's dramatic rescue from the clutches of death was captured in a breathtaking Evening Press photograph showing an emergency
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Police probe train graffiti
TRAINS standing in stations over the Christmas holiday have been targeted by vandals who have sprayed graffiti all over the carriages. Detective Constable Gary Heseltine, of the British Transport Police, said there had been a spate of attacks across Yorkshire
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Health plan 'thin end of wedge'
A YORK GP warned today plans to launch a network of private family doctors could be the 'thin end of the wedge'. Dr Tony Sweeney said the plans by private health insurers PPP could lead to GPs deserting the NHS the way dentists have done - making it more
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33 to face court for being caught short
A POLICE crackdown on revellers who urinate in a York street has led to 33 people being charged. And following a change in local by-laws they could all face hefty fines. They will appear before city magistrates on January 27 following a three-day police
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Chase charges
A YORK man was today appearing before city magistrates charged with a string of driving offences after "horrified" police discovered a toddler in a car they had been pursuing at high-speed through the city centre. Officers found the two-year-old child
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Back home
THE little girl who almost died in a shocking accident on a York pelican crossing has thrilled her family by finally coming home.Rachel Pickard suffered terrible internal injuries when she - and four other youngsters, including her brother and sister
