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Mobiles for safety
HAVING read Bryan Marlowe's column (Evening Press, April 20) I suggest he tries to get on the same wave length as some of our young people instead of always criticising them. Suggesting as he did, that mobile phones were the 'in thing' - a status symbol
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My pet hate on TV
LIKE your previous correspondents I agree that 'yoof' television is pretty dire. My pet hate on television is documentaries where the commentary is almost drowned out by unnecessary and irrelevant background music. Lately I have taken to putting the subtitles
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Hanging on the telephone
"THANK you for calling GrotDirect. My name is Mandy; how may I help you?" At this point, do not put down the phone. It has probably taken around 15 minutes to get Mandy's undivided attention, 15 minutes during which you have dutifully pressed the star
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York pair step up the pace
YORK riders Paul Watson (Velo Club York) and John Clarke (Knaresborough RT) both won events last weekend. Watson, 21-year-old son of former York international John Watson who rode for Clifton CC for several years, followed up his victory in the YLCA 15
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Harden Injury blow for Tykes
Yorkshire new recruit Richard Harden broke a bone in his left hand at Headingley yesterday and is expected to be out of action for at least a month. The 33-year-old ex-Somerset batsman was struck by a wicked delivery from Gloucestershire paceman Jon Lewis
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Magical Mike's amazing albatross
AN astonishing ace put a stunning and historic albatross on the card of Kirkbymoorside Golf Club player Mike Shields. Mike Shields celebrates his historic albatross at Kirkbymoorside Golf Club Shields, a 10 handicapper, let rip with his driver from the
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Proud to be... North Yorkshire
WE'VE known forever that North Yorkshire is a great place to be. Quite apart from it being England's biggest county, it is full of warmhearted, often quirky, Yorkshire folk. Dales, vales, moors and coast - whether it's the brash resorts or the quaint
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Making history - Wasps to take part in emotional Wembley farewell
PROUD York Wasps will play their part in the 'last' Challenge Cup final to be held at Wembley Stadium next week. Every club which has played under the Twin Towers has been asked to send five representatives to take part in a parade around the famous turf
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Looking up
A RETURN to the top five beckons as York Wasps aim to complete the second part of a glorious Spotland treble tomorrow. The Wasps return to the scene of their Challenge Cup extra-time heroics to take on Oldham, just three days before heading back to the
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School chief quits over "death threats"
A SCHOOL governor claims he received death threats after he criticised a North Yorkshire school. Dave Parratt, who has quit as a parent governor at Pannal County Primary School in Harrogate, said he received a threatening phone call from someone saying
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Readers rally round appeals
WARMHEARTED Evening Press readers surpassed themselves with their generosity today. With weeks to go before its May deadline, our Hospice 2000 appeal is within an ace of the £500,000 mark - a quarter of the way to its £2 million target. And you have also
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Parking overdue
ON BEHALF of our members and disabled people generally let me express our joy to see common sense prevail in that York NHS Trust is applying for planning permission for a two-storey car park. It has been needed for years. I regularly fetch patients to
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Road safety is mutual
I AM surprised your correspondent Sara Robin seems to advise cyclists to ignore cycle routes (Evening Press, April 10). City of York Council has gone out of its way, in some cases working with Sustrans, to provide for cyclists heading into and out of
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York hosts rally against euro
BUSINESSMEN in Yorkshire were today giving sterling support to a drive to keep the pound. Businessman Paul Sykes The Democracy Movement joined together with business and political pressure groups in the Rally for the Pound campaign at York's Tempest Anderson
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Girl, eight, rescues toddler who fell in water
AN EIGHT-year-old girl was hailed a lifesaver today after plucking a young playmate from a water-filled hole. Vicky Lowson with three-year-old Liam at the hole filled with water. Liam was rescued from the hole by neighbour Amy Bell, eight York mother
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Wake up Alex, it's time for your first real meal
MEET Alex, the baby looking forward to the first decent meal of his life. Alex recovers in hospital with dad Les Rafton and mum Kay Thomas The ten-month-old from York was today recovering from a gruelling six-hour operation to transfer his stomach to
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Living Proof - York hospital tests show 80 per cent cut in deaths
MEDICS at York District Hospital are claiming a lifesaving breakthrough in the treatment of patients who need major surgery. The doctors believe they could reduce deaths following serious operations by more than 80 per cent. Ian Woods: surgery study Consultant
