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U16s are unbeaten in netball triumph
Netball York/Selby area under-16 netball squad won the inter-area tournament held at Ashville College, Harrogate. York/Selby won all their three matches. They started by beating Scarborough 25-7 then Harrogate/Craven 16-8 and finally Hambleton/Richmond
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Bon voyage, Peter
The Blue Peter ship is an icon of our age. Designed by Tony Hart, the galleon has sailed a steady course through the ever-changing waters of children's television for 40 years. Now it has fallen to a North Yorkshire landlubber to relaunch the famous vessel
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Time to rid the NHS of dumps
As a Yorkshireman speaking to a Yorkshire audience, Frank Dobson did not mince his words. Many National Health Service hospitals are dumps, he told a meeting at Easingwold. They are "a bloody disgrace". If that assessment had been made by an NHS worker
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The only way is up
Crestfallen Neil Thompson picked himself up to issue an upbeat verdict as another game spilled from York City's clutches. NEW FACE: Matthew Hocking, during his full debut for City at Luton last night City were within touching distance of a precious point
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Temporary measures for school
Pupils at fire-hit Fulford School will return to eight temporary classrooms in four portable buildings when school resumes after the Easter break on Monday. Four classrooms in the schools Craft, Design & Technology (CDT) block of the York secondary
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Dobson slams hospital 'dumps'
Health Secretary Frank Dobson has condemned the condition of many NHS hospitals - calling them "dumps". In a talk to an open meeting in Easingwold, he gave a candid description of the state of some of the worst medical centres, saying a lot of work was
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Police count the cost of gun and plane hoaxes
Stupid young hoaxers brought panic to York streets and sparked an emergency search of the skies above North Yorkshire in two separate false alarms on the same day. Police condemned three youths who prompted one of the wild goose chases, an armed police
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Janet Eldred
I need my fix of pleasure in the Street PSST! Come over here. A bit closer; that's it. Can anyone see us? Keep your voice down! Now, I have a question for you: What's the news from Weatherfield? Regular readers of this column will recall that I recently
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Superior drivers
With reference to your article (Evening Press, March 31) on the advanced driver who has been banned from driving, I wish to point out that this man is not a member of the York Group of Advanced Motorists. But if he were, he would be subject to expulsion
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Balancing up justice
So after ten years the Lockerbie suspects have been handed over, thank goodness. How long, I wonder, will it be now before the USA hands over its personnel suspected of shooting down an unarmed Iranian passenger plane in 1987? And what about US citizens
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Cooker hire scandal
One can hardly believe that the charge the city council imposes on its tenants for hire of cookers could become a public scandal, but the harsh reality of it was well revealed by Brian Rowan (Letters, March 24). He represents over one third of the council's
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Rat wrong on Goldfish
As a holidaying American citizen, I would like to congratulate the three local bands that contested the York Battle of the Bands semi-final last Wednesday. However, I must take your correspondent 'The Rat' to task for his negative remarks about the winning
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Never forget what the Serbs have done
When the Kosovan crisis is over, whichever way matters are resolved, remember what the Serbian people and their leaders have done. Remember it when they want you to go on holiday there, or to buy their goods, or to invest in their industry. Remember that
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Dobbin can triumph with Ballistic victory
Tony Dobbin, who wrenched his stomach in a heavy fall at Carlisle on Monday, returns to action at Aintree tomorrow and can hit the heights in the feature race. The Cumbrian-based jockey renews his association with Go Ballistic in the £65,000 Martell Cup
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Super-fit Ingle ready to rumble
Paul Ingle's trainer Steve Pollard says his man will be "the fittest man on the planet" when he gets into the ring to face Naseem Hamed on Saturday night. Scarborough man Ingle, who challenges for Hamed's WBO featherweight crown, has been completing preparations
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Last-gasp choker for City
Luton Town 2, York City 1 On the day when Independent Savings Accounts came of age, York City remain in urgent need of a strong-box without a pickable lock. SPRING IS HERE: City midfielder Scott Jordan tangles with Matthew Spring, who scored Luton Town's
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A blooming good idea
A multi-sensory garden for people with learning disabilities is being planned to lift the spirits of visitors to a day care centre in York. Customers and helpers from the Hebden Rise Day Centre for people with disabilities, in Acomb, York, which has been
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Flood victims turn tide
A month has passed since the worst floods in living memory were at their height in Ryedale. The sun beats down in a baking early spring and provides a sharp contrast to the devastating scene that greeted people living and working beside the River Derwent
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Making music at city's £2m centre
York's Early Music Foundation was today starting to take shape as work began on the £2m transformation of St Margaret's Church, Walmgate. HIGH NOTE: Tim Bayley, of York Waits, welcomes the start of work on the National Centre for Early Music with Simpson
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Mining damage to house
An elderly couple's peaceful retirement has turned into a nightmare after their home was hit by what is thought to be Selby area's worst case of mining subsidence. John Lockwood outside his house in Whitley Bridge, which has been shored up following subsidence
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Residents' joy as plan for flats is kicked out
An ecstatic group of York residents were today celebrating the demise of a scheme for a six-storey block of flats on their doorstep. More than 70 people had objected to the development on Acomb Road, which would have involved the demolition of the Victorian
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Aid pours in for refugees
Yorkshire was today throwing itself behind efforts to help the desperate Kosovan refugees. DOUBLE HELPING: Rebecca Husband and Phil O'Connell, who hope to take an aid convoy to the refugees A lorry was set to leave a Beverley warehouse laden with 40 tonnes
