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Horrible to horses
I'M sure every caring person was horrified at the treatment meted out by Mary Chipperfield on a chimp and a sick elephant in her care. She should not be allowed to keep animals ever again. However, on Saturday in the name of sport, horses in the Grand
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The big idea
WHAT a gloriously angry letter you published from Robert Holmes about The Big Breakfast TV programme (April 12). It would be an under-statement to say that he doesn't like it! But, hasn't he somewhat missed the point? He labels it as mindless, giggling
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Ballet suits Fallon
KIEREN FALLON, who stole the show at Newmarket yesterday when completing a 395-1 treble, can again make his presence felt tomorrow on the final day of the Craven meeting. The champion jockey teams-up with Ballet Master in the £20,000 Fielden Stakes, and
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School orienteers start off in new league
THE new section of the York and District Schools' Athletic Association - the Orienteering League - starts next Wednesday, April 21, with an event on Knavesmire. Parking is at the York Sixth Form College, Sim Balk Lane. The grid reference is 584485. Starts
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Solid City get to grips with survival struggle
WHAT a difference a week makes. City defender Chris Fairclough gets the better of Northampton's Steve Howard Precisely seven days after York City resistance collapsed like a souffl at Luton, get-tough York City eked out a solid share of the booty at fellow
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First class delivert by Jordan
FREE-KICK ace Scott Jordan, who revealed he does not rehearse the art, declared York City areup for the challenge of beating the drop. City's Marc Williams (right) is embraced by co-striker Rodney Rowe after putting City into the lead at Northampton last
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New guide lists access for disabled
ACCESS difficulties for York's disabled are highlighted by a guide showing city attractions and facilities designed to make life easy for wheelchair users. The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Derek Smallwood with Linda McElroy, chairwoman of the Access Fund,
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York graduate freezes to death in lake
A YORK University graduate who left the city just last year has frozen to death in the icy waters of a Rocky Mountain lake. Julia Cassidy, 22, who studied history and politics, died when a boat she and her companion used to go stargazing overturned, dumping
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Finance adviser 'plotted fortune'
FINANCIAL adviser Peter Barlow plotted to make his fortune by stealing nearly £100,000 from a farming family who trusted him with their money, a court heard. Peter Barlow: "trusted with family's money" The cash was part of about £500,000 he stole from
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A few hard facts
RICHARD O Whiting (Letters, April 9) accuses me of myths not facts. Here are just a few facts: Our attempt at joining the ERM cost us billions plus bankruptcies and unemployment. Our interest and mortgage rates will be set in Frankfurt. Both Italy and
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Unfair charges
KEN Beavan is right to be indignant at City of York Council's extortionate charges for cookers (Readers Letters, April 7). Yet he should not let that mask an even more swingeing increase in fees - 25 per cent no less - for garages in the city centre.
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Drivers are to blame for accidents on A64
THE action of a soldier in the rescue of the road traffic accident victims of the incident in front of the Bilbrough Top development was certainly commendable (Evening Press, April 9). However, closing the gap at Bilbrough Lane End would have done nothing
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Chris Titley
They're all loaded. Rich, isn't it? Britain's richest 1,000 people have just been named. And a greater parade of undeserving, overvalued, morally bankrupt, socially deficient, creepy scheming pip-squeaks has rarely been seen. Now some might suggest that
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Sports Mail
I WOULD just like to thank all the staff and players at York RL for their efforts over the last two seasons. These players played for nothing for weeks on end last year. They now want to play for York, they want to win for York. I have stood on the terraces
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Plenty in pocket
YORKSHIRE children need big pockets. They are among the best off in the country, thanks to the generous allowance of local parents. The latest pocket money survey by ice cream maker Wall's confounds the mean Yorkshire stereotype. Youngsters here have
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It just had to end this way
MARRY in haste, repent at leisure. Never has there been a more public reaffirmation of the old proverb. Greg Cordell and Carla Germaine have announced their decision to split up less than three months after they wed. The disintegration of their marriage
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Big-spending kids never out of pocket
CHILDREN in our region are said to be among the wealthiest in the country according to a pocket money survey just published. Charles, Caitlin and Ailsa McHardy Barbara Harper and her niece, Amy Brooks Elizabeth and Benjamin Arundel Mum Judith Ness with
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Green light hope for ABB site offices plan
A NEW office building on the former York carriageworks site - set to generate 750 new jobs - looks likely to win the go-ahead. City of York Councillors are being urged to approve a 60,000 square feet, traditional red brick, three-storey operations centre
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Gladiator Hunter quits York
YORK Gladiator Hunter bids a fond farewell to York as he helps removal men shift the last of his belongings out of town. Gladiator Hunter: bids farewell to city The TV star - real name James Crossley - has left his roots in Poppleton for a two-bedroom
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Temperatures dip to minus 5C
THE big chill has come to North Yorkshire, with temperatures dropping below minus five in the Vale of York. A car passes snow-covered daffodils at Brandsby But the senior forecaster at the PA Weather Centre, Martin Airey, said he did not think last night's
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£350-a-head trip on steam legend
THE world's most famous locomotive will steam back into York on a £350-a-head trip this summer after a break of over 30 years. The Flying Scotsman will be back in mainline business after having had a three-year, £1 million restoration. The 160-ton legend
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Concern over Barry Horne
HUNGER striker Barry Horne's deteriorating health has become a "cause for concern", the Prison Service said today. Horne is now in his 15th day without food at Full Sutton Prison, near York, as his mystery fast continues. His supporters claim he is refusing
