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Healthy cycle path
IF letters have really been "streaming in" to the Evening Press to object to the cycle path across Walmgate Stray, I am sure this will be part of a river of support for the path. You report concerns for the quiet, safety and cleanliness of the stray.
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Three to one is fine
I STRONGLY resent the suggestion (Sophie Rhys-Jones picture caption, January 6) that a double-barrelled surname indicates aristocratic pretensions. Double-barrelledness originated in a proper pride shown by women in the past - long before feminism reared
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Transport is all about services
IT was interesting to read your article on the plans to get people out of their cars and onto public transport (Package To Get More People On Buses, January 18). I have to say that I am a bit puzzled by the "improvements" that have been proposed and how
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Changes ahead for York tennis
A 70-year-old tradition will be broken this year when the York Municipal Tennis Championships are played on the courts of two private clubs for the first time. Ever since the tournament was first held in 1928 it has been played on public courts - Rowntree
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Vets hit hot form in Malta
Nestle Rowntree AC Veterans Maria and Bob Williams won five titles in the Marsa Veterans' Open Championships in Malta. In the 50+ age group, Maria won the 100m in 15.8sec, the 200m in 32.3sec, the high jump with 1.25m equalling her championship best,
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Clifton on course to take title
CLIFTON Alliance are now favourites to win the Costcutter York and District Senior Indoor Cricket League title for the first time and so break Acomb's four year stranglehold. Clifton have won all their four games since the league resumed after the Christmas
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Mum brave to shop drugs son
OF COURSE it was a shock for the mother of a teenage Strensall drug-dealer when she saw her son jailed for a year - especially as it was she who shopped him. Clearly, for Barbara Medd, mother of 18-year-old Mark, the decision must have been agonising,
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York GPs ready to revolt on Viagra
MANY family doctors in the York area could revolt against Government restrictions on prescribing Viagra - at least until it is made illegal for them to do so. York GP and spokesman for the British Medical Association, Dr Tony Sweeney, said many doctors
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Soap stars in club war
RIVAL nightclubs today declared war with a bevy of soap stars to make personal appearances when York's newest venue opens. The city's twin-scene club ikon and Diva on Clifton Moor fired the opening salvo with the announcement that Patsy Palmer and Sid
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Mother shops her drug dealing son
A judge and police paid tribute to a mother who turned her young drug dealer son in, knowing he would be jailed. Mark Richard Medd, aged 18, was today starting a 12-month jail sentence after he "went into business" as a wholesale cannabis dealer. He had
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£1m art raid
PORTS across Britain were on alert this afternoon after armed robbers tied up staff at York City Art Gallery and stole paintings worth about £1 million. Twenty works, including a Turner painting of Rievaulx Abbey and two 14th century religious panels,
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Be fair on schooling
WHY is it that the parents of Dunnington feel that their children deserve preferential treatment in the allocation of secondary school places? More importantly, why does your paper consider their 'campaign' so newsworthy? Recently, parents of children
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A spring in his sidestep
RISING rugby union star Andrew Springgay earned the distinction of representing his country this week, writes Lorne Hayhurst. Second rower Springgay, 17, a pupil at St Peter's School, York played for England 'A' Under-18 schools in a 9-3 defeat against
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Winging in
WING wonder Iefata Sini is today jetting his way back to England in a major boost for York Wasps. With just eight days to go before Wasps take on amateurs Egremont in the Challenge Cup, the club have finally resolved a delay over the renewal of a work
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Anti-hunt posters fury
A SERIES of posters poking fun at a North Yorkshire hunt whose hounds killed a cat has been branded tasteless by the hunt chairman. Three different posters have appeared in and around Kirkbymoorside since the incident on Boxing Day, in which a pack of
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Iona wanna work on the big screen
EAGLE-EYED viewers of Tyke TV may remember catching a double dose of aspiring actress Iona Walters on their screens this week. Iona, 24, of Flatts Lane, Wombleton, near Kirkbymoorside, appeared briefly as a bride in Sunday's Heartbeat - in her first speaking
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Brave mum-to-be tackles shop thief
COURAGEOUS shop owner Rebecca Cameron refused to let a thief get away with a car stereo from her store - even though she is five months pregnant. The plucky mum-to-be chased the burly 6ft thief down the street, caught him and demanded the stereo back.
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Funeral for John Potts, 73
MOURNERS gathered at a York church today to pay their last respects to award-winning journalist and distinguished amateur theatrical personality John Potts. Family and friends were joined by people from the newspaper industry as well as those from the
