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Protest ends in victory
I write regarding the six-storey Acomb Road development which was turned down last week. Those of us living close by the site thank the Evening Press for its fair reporting; York councillors for their wisdom and the 70-plus people who wrote in for objecting
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Why we must fight these evil dictators
Your columnist Julian Cole is a humane and articulate man. I rarely disagree with a word he says which, as I have said before, ought to give him pause for thought. His 'anti war' article (April 8) agonises with the question which haunts all humanitarian
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Doctors' alarm over health shops
Busy patients whose lifestyles don't fit in with their GP surgery's hours could soon be able to walk into a High Street 'health shop' to see a doctor. Prime Minister Tony Blair and York-born health secretary Frank Dobson announced the £30 million initiative
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Thick red line denies Leeds' record hopes
Liverpool's thick red safety blanket smothered any hopes Leeds United had of chalking up their eighth successive Premiership victory. Although Leeds had the bulk of possession they could not break the Elland Road stalemate last night as Liverpool defended
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Elderly deserve better than this
Vision is arguably our most important sense. Most of us take sight for granted for most of our lives. But many pensioners each year endure a sudden deterioration in eyesight, due to cataracts. The impact on sufferers' quality of life is marked. Their
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Green light for Naseem
Prince Naseem Hamed is on course for his golden path to a £50m fortune. Flipping heck: everyone stops and watches as Naseem Hamed makes his trademark entrance to the ring at Manchester. Picture by Nigel Holland The Sheffield superstar was given the all-clear
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Six-pointer at Sixfields
Caretaker boss Neil Thompson has issued a rip-roaring rallying call to his battling troops ahead of tonight's crunch trip to Northampton Town: "Show no fear". Thompson went from zero to hero after first seeing his penalty saved and then grabbing a late
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No strings on Pinocchio
Puppet master: Giovanni Del Rio with his Pinocchio dolls. Picture by Garry Atkinson Diners at a York restaurant should make sure their dinner table conversations are honest and truthful. For a lifesize Pinocchio has turned up at Del Rio's Restaurant near
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Dick Turpin rides again
Well, who else d'you expect? An aptly-named construction company is carrying out work at York Cemetery. Mourners at the graveyard have been raising their eyebrows at signs announcing the contractors on site are Graves Construction. Cemetery warden Bill
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April showers turn to snow
Winter returned with a vengeance today as snow began falling in the streets of York. A man and girl battle against the snow today in Shambles. Picture: Mike Tipping Forecasters said the unsettled weather would continue at least until Friday and possibly
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Company used boys to remove asbestos
Two businessmen have admitted employing three teenage schoolboys to remove asbestos from a factory. Andrew Medley, 36, and Neil Medley, 37, who are brothers, also pleaded guilty to exposing other employees to asbestos at Howsham Hall School at Malton
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Operation queue woman sees red
Pensioner Jean Heaven found out the hard way that trying to help yourself doesn't always pay. Facing a wait: Jean Heaven, of Haxby, who had a private operation on her left eye and now finds herself at the back of the queue for an operation on the other
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Liar and cheat
Jackie Leeming and her son, Stephen, today faced jail after admitting they are liars and swindlers. The pair, cleared last year of conspiring to murder husband and father Geoffrey Leeming, will learn their fate on Friday after each pleaded guilty to their
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I'll miss you, Janet
Last Wednesday, was not a good day for me: I awoke with headache; the car had broken down and your columnist Janet Eldred had decided to call it a day. I found her reflections on English life amusing and interesting. With her eye for seeing the unusual
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Ease print burden
Regarding the free bus timetables from City of York Council, I was under the impression that bus services were now privately-run companies. Surely with the high level of fares they should be able to print their own timetables? Our council taxes should
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Computer crackers
I read with amusement your article on April 1 about the City Council's proposal to cover the city with a dome, being alert for April Fool spoofs on that day. Imagine my surprise to find the spoof stories continuing into the following week with your article
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More arrests in city fraud probe
Two more contractors have been arrested by fraud squad detectives investigating City of York Council's Tenants' Choice home modernisation scheme. A total of six people - four contractors and two former council managers - have now been arrested and released
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Granite assault runs into trouble
The North Yorkshire challenge in the second round of the Mintex National Rally Series fizzled out when both Warren Philliskirk and Martyn Harrison were forced to retire from the Scottish leg. Philliskirk, of Green Hammerton, saw his chances of strengthening
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A snowy wicket
Was it only last week that we were basking in warm spring sunshine? Now we are enduring rain, wind, snow, hail and frost. Those searching for an explanation might be baffled by the fact that this miserable weather has arrived a full week after the Bank
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Streak of Haami too tasty for foes
John Dunlop and Richard Hills, who will be represented in Thursday's Craven Stakes by Mujahid, the 2,000 Guineas favourite, can get in the winning mood at Newmarket tomorrow. The trainer and jockey will field Haami in the £35,000 Weatherbys Earl Of Sefton
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York families get £3m extra child benefit
York families will gain an extra £3 million in the coming year from a Child Benefit boost which comes into force this week, according to the city's MP. Junior Social Security Minister Hugh Bayley has used Government statistics to calculate the effect
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Master of all that she surveys
A York woman has fulfilled her ambition and broken over a century of railway tradition by becoming the city's first female station master. All aboard: Catherine Stimpson, who has been appointed the first-ever woman station manager at York Station. Picture
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£750,000 damages hope
The parents of a North Yorkshire soldier killed in a minibus crash in America look set to receive £750,000 compensation following a ruling by the US Court of Appeal in Georgia. British Army lieutenant Michael Whitley, 26, was part of a touring Duke of
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Three hurt in gap crash
Three people have been injured in yet another accident at a gap on the A64 between York and Tadcaster. A Ford Escort trying to cross through the gap in the central reservation near the Aagrah restaurant was in collision with a BMW travelling along the
