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Odd request
You printed my letter asking for readers' experiences of the paranormal or supernatural. I received many responses for which I thank everyone who took the time to contact me. I still need more information to help me with my research, in particular, anyone
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John Potts: A pro in two worlds
John Potts: A true professional as a journalist and distinguished in the field of amateur dramatics Award-winning journalist and distinguished amateur theatrical personality John Potts has died at his home in York, aged 73. His death, only hours after
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Student is saddled-up for success
York student Philip Dixon is winging his way to Slovakia to represent Great Britain at the World Cyclo-Cross Championships this weekend. In the fast lane: York student Philip Dixon is heading for Slovakia to represent Great Britain in the World Cyclo-Cross
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The fine is right
Thirty-one people will be feeling embarrassed and significantly poorer this week after being convicted and fined for urinating in a York street. It is quite right that they have been named, shamed and forced to pay a proper price for such unpleasant behaviour
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Sponsorship cash needed to boost squad
Ambitious York Wasps are calling on the city's business community to boost their bid for first division success. Chairman: Trevor Cox The club have admitted that unless they can raise a further £60,000 in sponsorship to bolster the squad, they could struggle
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This delay is a danger to us all
It is hugely disappointing to learn that vital safety improvements to the A64 are set to be delayed by at least a year. It had been hoped that work to switch off the notorious Copmanthorpe traffic lights and build an under-pass for local traffic could
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Replay for Wembley wizards
Calling those Wembley wonders. Wembley line up: Andy McMillan, second from right, next to manager Alan Little, line up before their Wembley battle The men of York City who triumphed on that dazzling day in May 1993 are to be re-united in the city, where
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Blunkett steps into school cutbacks row
Education Secretary David Blunkett today stepped in to the escalating row over proposed education spending cuts in North Yorkshire. Mr Blunkett has written to the county council's chairman, David Ashton, saying he expects the authority to spend the Government's
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Climbing fortunes for county play areas
Play areas in York and North Yorkshire have been given a £10,000 boost by the Lloyds TSB Foundation. Simon Sedcole, business banking manager of York's Lloyds branch, with Fiona Hinchley and Laura Franks, both ten, at the climbing walls at Askham Bryan
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Leave them alone
I thought we all agreed to leave the sons of Diana alone after she so tragically died? If this was an agreement why are people criticising Charles, William and Harry for going hunting and shooting? Thousands of people each year are involved in country
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Julian Cole
Do you take this car and flat to be...? Imagine if you will a new television game show. We shall call this programme From Here To Paternity. Or if that's too wordy a title, we could agree on Yes, I'm Your Dad. The thrust of this programme will be to introduce
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Missing relatives
I am trying to trace relatives of Charles and Annie Graham. I think Charles originally came from Tyne and Wear. He died in 1896. They had five children: Edward, Alfred, John William (my grandad) Harry and Charles Edwin and they lived in Drake Street,
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For cat read rabbit
I write regarding to the letter Year of the Cat (January 11). It is not the Chinese Year of the Cat this year - although, the Year of the Tiger hasn't ended yet, so cats still rule. It is the year of the rabbit. In the Chinese story, the Jade Emperor
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Sword and butler
I was delighted to open the 'Press' (Monday, January 18) to find the photograph of the Lord Mayor and Civic Party standing on the steps of the Mansion House. The article by Chris Titley was very interesting too, more so to myself than most perhaps, because
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Time we kicked our addiction to pesticides
John Greenway MP, asserts (Evening Press, January 25) that the introduction of a "green" tax on pesticides would be "deeply damaging to our agriculture industry". This may or may not be true, but some answer to our present addiction to, and abuse of,
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Terriers eyeing Hawks and the weather
Cup fever comes to town for York's amateur clubs as well as its professionals this weekend. While the Wasps hit the Challenge Cup trail against Egremont on Sunday, two of the city's clubs are in action in the BNFL National Cup on Saturday. Yorkshire League
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Mick quits Boro
Scarborough manager Mick Wadsworth today dropped a bombshell quitting the basement strugglers to be crowned Colchester United's new boss. The shock switch was confirmed today by Wadsworth and Boro chairman John Russell. And the new U's boss will be in
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£30,000 gift a piece of cake for caterer
A charity which helps sufferers from the degenerative disease multiple sclerosis is celebrating after staff at Bettys and Taylors in North Yorkshire gave them a massive £30,000 boost. Staff at the North Yorkshire firm, which has branches in York, Harrogate
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£1.3m new lease of life at waterside landmark
Waterfront House, a £1.3 million refurbishment of one of York's historic commercial buildings, is nearing completion. The way it was: Waterfront House pictured in 1903. The building, owned by the Equitable Industrial Society, (the forerunner of the Co-op
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Call-out doctors get new car fleet
North Yorkshire's emergency doctor service is to get a fleet of state-of-the-art new call-out cars in an effort to improve services for patients. The seven new VW Passat estates, worth nearly £20,000 each, will be equipped with on-board computers, mobile
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House number idea is not up their street
What's in a name? Plenty it seems if you live in West Street, Swinton, near Malton. The parish council has decided that all 50 houses in the street should be numbered. At the moment about half the homes have numbers, the rest having only names. But the
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Blair heralds jobs revolution for York's youth
EXCLUSIVE by Nicholas Cecil Tony Blair today heralded a "quiet youth revolution" with long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds in the York area falling by 59 per cent. The Prime Minister stressed that since coming to power, Labour had launched
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Don't hound me
A former huntswoman who has now devoted her life to saving animals told today of her distress when foxhounds swarmed across her wildlife haven. Stay away: Annabel Holt confronts a local hunt as it passes near her smallholding at Stearsby Hagg Farm. Annabel
