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No tiers for fears
THE proposal for a Yorkshire Assembly need not, as Ron Godfrey suggests, "end in tiers." Properly organised, it may eliminate some bureaucracy, rather than add to it. The proposed Assembly would replace the Regional Assembly for Yorkshire and Humberside
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Wild about Harry's sums on Knavesmire cyclists
Harry Atherton has written expressing concern about the number of cyclists that will attend the CTC York Rally in 2000 with some remarkable calculations about the space needed (Evening Press, March 18). I don't know where Harry has been but he has obviously
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Sweetest smell
THE thorny issue of the missing bush has knotted many a Yorkshire brow. But now we can stem those anxieties with the announcement that the White Rose of Yorkshire is being reinstated. The original plant has been removed from the Merchant Adventurers'
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Robinson searches for key to half back problem
DEAN Robinson will this week go in search of the winning combination to get York Wasps' Premiership play-off charge back on track. The Wasps boss was forced to admit that he is yet to find a successful half-back pairing following Sunday's poor 26-14 defeat
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Follow the letter of the law
BEING a teenager can be difficult; being the parent of a teenager is harder still. The youngsters are struggling to leave childhood behind and assert their independence. Recognising this, parents allow them more freedom. Then the worries begin. The teenagers
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Hammer-blow for cup kids
HISTORY-SEEKING York City juniors have been dealt a severe blow before tonight's FA Youth Cup capital mission. LEG WOUND: Lee Bullock Key midfielder Lee Bullock, the only one of City's ranks with senior experience, is rated highly doubtful for the fifth
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Tommo sweats on Cresswell
YORK City fingers are being crossed that England's call to arms for Richard Cresswell will not rebound on the survival tussle. The Minstermen are locked in six days of intensive training heading into Sunday's grave showdown with fellow relegation threatened
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Police want to quiz supermarket pair
POLICE are hoping Evening Press readers will help them discover the identity of two men who have been involved in two separate incidents. Police would like to speak to this man seen in the Spar supermarket, in Gale Lane, Acomb Police want to question
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259 charity shop jobs to be axed
JOB losses look set to hit North and East Yorkshire after a charity announced it would be making hundreds of part-time staff redundant. Staff at Help The Aged shops have received letters informing them of a revised scheme to lay-off 259 part-time workers
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Family escapes arson attack
A York family were lucky to escape with their lives when a burning newspaper was stuffed through their letter-box while they were sleeping. Michelle Murphy, and her four-year-old son, Louis, who survived an arson attack on their home Michelle Murphy,
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York & County Press buys the Advertiser
YORK & County Press, publishers of the Evening Press, have bought the York and Wetherby Advertiser. The deal will add the free weekly paper to the company's portfolio, which already includes the York and Selby Star series and the paid-for Ryedale-based
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Parents warned on drug dealers
POLICE have written to the parents of up to 20 teenagers in a North Yorkshire community to warn them: your child is mixing with drug dealers. Sgt Tim Bright, of North Yorkshire police, said the teenagers were deemed at risk of being targeted by pushers
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On yer bike!
JUST like P A Patterson of Copmanthorpe (Letters, March 18), I am also a York motorist who pays for the privilege to drive on the city's roads. But unlike him (or her), most days I choose to cycle to work rather than contributing to York's traffic problems
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Action on activities
EDDIE Benson of the Haxby & Wigginton Youth and Community Association, wrote (Letters, March 13) about provision for young people in his area and about the possible use of the city's financial reserves. Spending £6 million - half of the reserves -
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Clubs toast double swimming successes
YORK CITY Baths Club swimmers increased their total number of Yorkshire County Championship medals to 19 during the recent Group of Championships at Leeds International Pool. WATER BABIES: Here are some of the youngsters who took part in New Earswick
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Survivor has the air of quality to triumph
QUALITAIR Survivor, who made an encouraging start to his career when finishing second at Musselburgh last month, can fulfil that promise at Ludlow tomorrow. The Tim Etherington-trained gelding will again be partnered by Lorcan Wyer as he bids for the
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From supermarket to parish church
A CHURCH which held its first service in the aisles of a Heworth supermarket has celebrated being made a parish church. The Rev Terence McDonough with the Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, during the weekend consecration of the Parish Church of Heworth
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Green-fingered pupils do their school proud
THE Proud To Be York 1999 campaign got off to a flying start today with its first entry from environmentally-conscious pupils at Tang Hall Primary School. Tang Hall Primary School pupils, from left, Kerrie Yates, Danielle Bellwood and Vanessa Fordington
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Call to end export of sows
PIG farmers and exporters are being urged to stop selling sows to the Continent to be reared under conditions which are banned in Britain. The call has come from the pressure group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), which today issued a film expos to
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For rumours of the death of the White Rose of Yorkshire have been greatly exaggerated.
Alarm bells started ringing across the broad acres after a white rose bush - its fragrant blooms symbolising the greatest county God ever created - was uprooted from the gardens at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall in York. The bush was removed during a