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Waste of resources
I read my Evening Press this evening, and then I must have dozed off (May 17). Pupils of Joseph Rowntree School are going on a trip to Flamingo Land as a reward for not taking part in anti-social behaviour at the end of term. They are to be joined on
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Alarming noise ordeal
For three and a half hours I and my fellow shopkeepers in Fossgate had to endure a car alarm going off every few seconds, for 210 minutes. The police told me they could do nothing because the car was not parked illegally. If I park my car on a single
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Barry's not so bad
I am tired of hearing about the costs of hospital treatment for Barry Horne. Among others being treated at York District Hospital will be - murderers, child-abusers, muggers, wife-beaters, drug-users and abusers, suicide attempts and nightmare neighbours
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Jury trials are vital
I fear most law-abiding people will not be alarmed by proposals to remove trial by jury for some offences. But 12 minds in judgement are better than one which may be overtired or in ill-health. For many people just a single mistaken conviction can spell
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Worthy Awards
Tourism awards like television and film Oscars are a pat on the back by the industry for the industry. But they are a genuine reward for excellence, helping to improve standards and boosting morale among all those who work hard to keep tourists and visitors
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Take heed of food warnings
Fragile public confidence in genetically modified food is weakened further today by two developments. A leading scientist and a rare butterfly are the latest witnesses in the trial of what has become known as Frankenstein food. The scientist is Sir Robert
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Sports Mail
City need to put on a fresh face for the future. Let us all hope that York City's sad relegation will be the launchpad for a wind of change for the club - from top to bottom. The harsh reality is that League football is not sustainable on the pathetic
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Cricket: Tykes strike at the double
Chris Silverwood struck quickly to separate the Essex openers at Chelmsford today after Yorkshire had been bowled out for 311, their last three wickets today adding only seven runs. It was a slightly disappointing total after they had stood on 203 for
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Jury told of money man's four houses
The family of financial adviser Peter Barlow owned four houses and four performance cars during the period he allegedly stole £400,000 from a rich client, a jury has heard. Barlow also took foreign holidays, paid school fees for his two younger sons at
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Beef export ban 'to be lifted'
North Yorkshire's beef farmers could be exporting to the Continent again within six weeks, farmers' leader Ben Gill predicted today. Ministers are expecting European Commission inspectors to pave the way within hours for the beef export ban - imposed
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Life in the terrace
I have lived in a terraced house for 36 years. There are advantages and disadvantages. Living cheek-to-cheek is often romanticised. Neighbours popping round for a cup of treacle, etc. There was more of that 50 years ago. These days busy people often keep
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Julian Cole
Bombing the Serbs is so wrong, Tony Here is a quote from Prime Minister Tony Blair: "It is not rhetorical to say we are witnessing scenes in Kosovo which we have not seen in Europe since the Second World War, and which we never expected to see repeated
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Thanks for my sight
Further to your article in the Press (May 8) about cataract operations in York District Hospital. I was there for that operation on May 4 and I can tell you first hand it is exactly as you report. The staff on Ward 27, where I went for my assessment,
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Horse racing: Bigwig to bounce back from beating
Young Bigwig, beaten by his stablemate Redoubtable at Thirsk last Saturday, is napped to go one better at Ayr tomorrow. Trained at Stillington near Easingwold by David Chapman, whose horses are in splendid form at present, Young Bigwig bids for the St
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Bombers' nose-jobs may come to museum
Rare wartime artwork painted on the noses of bombers by Canadian aircrews could be among relics soon winging their way to a York museum. Jack Kilvington, of the Yorkshire Air Museum, hangs the maple leaf flag over the wing of a Canadian plane to mark
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Coming second is no yolk says pub
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? PECKING ORDER: Maltings landlord Shaun Collinge with one of the hen-shaped fried eggs on sale at the Tanners Moat pub Picture: Mike Tipping That was the question staff at the Maltings pub began to ask themselves
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Balloon injury man receives damages
It was meant to have been a wonderful treat for his wife - a flight up, up and away over York in a hot air balloon. But David Button's romantic Christmas gift for Lorna Button went badly wrong after he suffered a hand injury while helping to unload the
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Man accused of £1.7 gallery art robbery worked as criminologist
A man accused of robbery at York City Art Gallery works as a criminologist, it has emerged. Craig William Townend, aged 28, of Middle Avenue, Rawmarsh, Rotherham, appeared before York magistrates yesterday charged with robbing staff members RJ Fisher,
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London-Selby trains bid by York director
A York entrepreneur is behind exciting plans to introduce an HOURLY Selby-to-London train service, it was revealed today. Renaissance Trains Ltd, headed by John Nelson and fellow director Mike Jones, are now waiting to hear from the rail regulator if
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Car park plunge student 'pushed'
The Shocked grandmother of a North Yorkshire student told today how he broke his skull in a 35ft fall - and told his rescuers he had been pushed. Andrew Hardisty, 19, a Newcastle University student from Aldwark, near Easingwold, fell from the first level
