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Served in style
Having read Turpin's column (Evening Press, April 24) I decided to iron out my wrinkled stockings and head to Asda, Monks Cross to sample their 'new style of operations' (service to your table in the restaurant). May I congratulate them on their new approach
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Gateway grumble
With reference to the Northern Gateway article (Evening Press, April 26), I would like to put the following matters straight. Being a founder member of the Friends of Rawcliffe Meadows (FORM), and the person who confronted the then city council director
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Get the basics right
Despite the fact that our council taxes are going up way beyond inflation and the average for all councils - we are still languishing at the bottom of the heap. North Yorkshire 31 out of 35... Selby District 259 out of 260. Is Selby District's ambition
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Save the institute
After reading your Railtrack supplement (April 21) I would ask: Do Railtrack know what they really want? They admit to owning land to the rear of the station which they could use for their proposed new office in which to concentrate their 500 workers,
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Chris Titley
Why no one should listen to Sean Sean Connery is used to facing long odds. As James Bond he regularly saved the world without putting a hair out of place. Now he is bald, and faces the toughest task of all: single-handedly winning the Scottish election
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Malton teenager gets birthday debut treat
Having gained permission to take a day off from Norton College, Nicky Tinkler celebrates his 16th birthday tomorrow by making his debut as an amateur rider at Musselburgh. Son of former trainer and top jumps-jockey Colin Tinkler, Nicky will team-up with
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All eyes on Sixfields
Battling York City's keenest gaze will be on Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium tonight. Visitors to the tidy arena are none other than in-form Wigan Athletic, who could ease City's relegation fears even further should they prevail. Anything less than
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Fitzgerald puts the skids under the Wasps
Rochdale Hornets 18, York Wasps 10 What a difference a week makes, so the saying goes. In the case of York Wasps, it didn't even take that long. Just four days ago they left Spotland, scene of their memorable extra-time Challenge Cup win over Rochdale
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Wasps lick their wounds
Shattered York Wasps will use their well deserved rest to regroup, analyse what went wrong and bounce straight back to the kind of form which deserted them in last night's disappointing defeat by Rochdale Hornets. Wasps coach Dean Robinson refused to
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Students byte into cannibal computers
Redundant computer equipment belonging to the Evening Press is being recycled for the benefit of York schoolchildren. The equipment has been overtaken by advances in technology but is still in good working order and will now be cannibalised by York computer
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A brush with childhood
Childhood memories of North Yorkshire MPs have been laid bare after they swapped the ballot box for a paint box. It remains to be seen what armchair psychologists read into Labour MP John Grogan's fuzzy, nondescript landscape or Tory MP John Greenway's
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Man injured saving car from garage fire
Two vehicles and a large quantity of welding equipment are thought to have been destroyed when fire swept through a garage in a York village. Garage owner Allan Busby: suffered burns to head Among the equipment and tools stored in the double garage in
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York-Paris link faces derailment
Dreams of a York to Paris express looked to be finally heading for the buffers today after Eurostar bosses admitted they had offered voluntary redundancy to 30 train drivers. Eurostar spokesman Roger Harrison denied the offer to the drivers, who would
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Aid team back with grim tales
Aid workers Clive Phoenix and Trevor Sutcliffe have returned to York after completing their first mercy mission to Kosovar refugees. Mercy mission: Trevor Sutcliffe, left, and Clive Phoenix who are bound for Kosovo The pair, who work for the charity WATCH
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Owner's death shocks racing world
Rydale's racing fraternity was in shock today following the sudden death of Edward Shouler. Edward Shouler: 'grand fellow' The popular local racehorse owner collapsed last night while attending a race meeting at Kelso, just over the Scottish border. Mr
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Julian Cole
On being a walking, talking wallet Here is a question for fathers. Do you consider yourself to be a walking wallet? This description surfaced in one of the Sunday newspapers this week, and it set me thinking. It may be that your wallet, like that owned
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Finding a place for Tom
With regard to your headline School Allocations Leave Tom And Kelly All Alone (Evening Press, April 26), my sympathy is very much with Tom Shaw and Kelly Lumley and their parents. More than 30 years ago my late husband and myself were involved in a similar
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Blewett aiming to make amends
Greg Blewett can make up for a poor start to his Yorkshire career by turning on the style in the PPP Championship match against Somerset which was beginning at Taunton today. It was on the same ground two years' ago that Blewett's South Australian team-mate
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Great for all bands
The final, conclusive skirmish in our Battle of the Bands 1999 took place at Fibbers last night. Five finalists gave their all in a bid to win the coveted crown, but only one could win. Congratulations to Vacant Goldfish. Their victory marked the climax
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Eurostar casts aside the north
It is scandalous that Eurostar is abandoning its commitment to provide a direct service from the North of England and Scotland to Paris. The company today confirmed that it has offered redundancy to the 30 drivers who would have operated the regional
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'No Beds' tragedy of baby Matthew
A York mother's premature baby died in a Teesside hospital after she had to be transferred from York District Hospital for an emergency Caesarean birth. Alison Conner was taken by ambulance more than 50 miles to Stockton on Tees when she developed severe
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Four die in plane plunge fireball
Four people were killed when a light aircraft crashed in flames in North Yorkshire today. CRASH SCENE: A police walks towards part of the wreckage of the aircraft in which four people died today It is feared that one of the victims is Naburn businessman
