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Peter will be missed
We were all very shocked to learn of Peter Boscher's death in the Evening Press. Peter loved animals and, with the help of friends, organised several innovative and highly successful events in Goodramgate to raise funds for York RSPCA Animals Home. We
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Cancel these debts
I was interested to read your Comment where you highlighted record levels of debt after the Christmas spending spree (January 9). More York people are becoming aware of the wider problems of international debt. The plight of some of the poorest countries
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Blame it on the Run
I have every sympathy for my neighbour, Bill Hanbury (Letters Page, January 9) who regularly has drunks urinating on his car and the wall in front of his house. But he is unfair in blaming the council on the grounds that it does not provide enough public
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Pay our nurses a decent wage for better NHS
As the sad state of the NHS goes from bad to worse, can someone please tell me why it costs this country £200 million a year for agency nurses? Why doesn't the Government realise that if they paid our hardworking, over stressed, underpaid nurses a decent
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Heworth homing in on the Rangers
Heworth entertain Saddleworth Rangers in the first of back-to-back home fixtures knowing that they must be due a change in fortunes. Key man: Simon Cornish, who came through his return to action safely. The Villagers have lost their last three games by
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Warm words on the House
The carpets have been specially designed to match the moulding on the ceiling and a chip of the original paintwork was used to recreate the striking green which now adorns the walls of the state room. Retired joiner Walter Derbyshire casts an experienced
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'Give yourselves up' plea to runaway pair
Police in North Yorkshire today urged missing Jeff and Jennifer Bramley to give themselves up - for the sake of the two little girls they say they love. As the search for the missing family intensified, Det Sgt Bryan Redshaw, of York police, said if the
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Eyesores 'put city to shame'
Shoppers and office workers today branded two boarded-up stores and a seedy city car park "eyesores in York's street of shame". More than a year after City of York Council indicated it would tidy up Tanner Row Car Park off George Hudson Street, both lifts
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Julian Cole
Vitriol is in short supply these days A correspondent makes jocular mock of this column in a letter which was printed on this page. The writer, who has previously thrown rotten fruit in this direction, wonders if a national shortage of vitriol might explain
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All the write reasons
Your splendid annual columnist, Graeme Robertson, does me wrong in supposing that I write letters to the Evening Press only under the stimulus of pending General Elections. Newspapers have been publishing my letters for the past 42 years and, in all that
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Super Smith is Leeds' saviour
Teenager striker Alan Smith polished off minnows Rushden & Diamonds to book Leeds United an FA Cup fourth round tie at Portsmouth. The ambitious Conference side stunned a near 40,000 Elland Road crowd by taking an early replay lead, but two class
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Star partnership to win with Oscail
Middleham trainer Ferdy Murphy and his crack amateur rider John McNamara, who joined forces to complete a four-timer at Musselburgh last month, return to the course tomorrow with excellent prospects of adding to their score. Racecourse officials this
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Home and away
Congratulations to Yorkon on winning a £2.25 million contract to supply factory-produced, multi-storey housing for the local authority in Hackney, East London. The York firm has broken new ground with the design. All the homes will be delivered complete
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Judge returns to York
Former York Wasps forward Chris Judge is returning to the club for his second spell at Huntington Stadium. Chris Judge in the thick of the action during his first spell in York colours The 26-year-old last has put pen to paper on a one-year deal and goes
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Allaying fears of meningitis
It is the disease which strikes fear into the heart of every parent: meningitis. At this time of year the bug is at its most rampant; the latest victim is a Rotherham woman, the third to die of meningitis in the town in a matter of days. The most virulent
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Tigers devour ring rusty reserves
Rust ensnared York City reserves as they careered to their first defeat in the Pontin's League Cup. The City ranks were blown well of course by a spirited Hull City visitors, who deservedly won 2-0 at gale-lashed Bootham Crescent. But while conceding
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No turning back
Fan-power will not entice born-again Henry Wharton back into the boxing ring. Since announcing his decision to quit professional boxing his home has been inundated with calls from a flood of fans unable to believe his gloves have been stowed away for
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Road ban for bus driver
York magistrates have ordered a bus driver off the road for 12 months - leaving him facing a wrecked career and the loss of his job. A routine documents' check by police proved the downfall of father-of-three Gary Brian Milligan, magistrates heard. When
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Driver's anger after crash on icy road
An 18-year-old York man was devastated when he ploughed into a neighbour's wall on an icy street - only three weeks after taking possession of his new car. Slip sliding away: Nicholas Barrett surveys the damage to his car after he skidded on ice and crashed
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Mystery of Sooty - the cat with two lives
A little girl whose black cat keeps going missing for days at a time is worried someone else is trying to adopt her beloved pet. Mystery: Daniella Sandeman with her cat, Sooty, who keeps disappearing Sooty the cat has disappeared three times in the last
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York builders pioneer ready-to-use flats
A York construction company is to be the first in the country to build a ready-made five-storey block of flats within its factory walls. Yorkon, a subsidiary of the Shepherd building company, was picked for the pioneering £2.25 million scheme by a housing
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Parents worried over deadly bug
A York man is in hospital today after being struck down by a strain of the killer bug meningitis. His illness has raised concerns from parents at Westfield School in Acomb, where his sister is a pupil. Family and workmates of the man, thought to be in
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Drugs pupils thrown out of school
Two pupils have been expelled from a North Yorkshire school for possessing drugs. A third boy was given a fixed-term suspension from Malton School after a search of their bags revealed one of them was carrying a piece of cannabis resin. Officers at Malton
