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Stop ugly Helena
I SEE the statue of St Helena is rearing her ugly head again. After the furore she raised in February, when plans to plant her in front of the Mansion House were first discussed in public, things have been strangely quiet. Then in Tuesday's Evening Press
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Old pictures tells a Storey
UNEARTHED by former player Edward Storey is this photograph of the way football was way before the Second World War. Pictured are the York Railway Institute FC team of 1933 which won the Minor League Cup and then graduated to senior football to lift the
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Keeping up with the Joneses is hard
compiled by Tony Kelly IT was a case of keeping it in the family after Judy Jones won the St Leonard's Hospice annual golf tournament at Fulford on a record-breaking golf financial day for the charity. Last year husband Peter won the trophy with 47 stableford
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New faces add fresh impetus to Wasps' season
A WARM welcome to the Wasps' two new 'signings' this week, who have brought the feelgood factor back to Huntington Stadium. Coach Dean Robinson has finally landed Leeds Tykes' centre or winger Diccon Edwards who will go some way to compensating for the
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Ancient and modern in tune
THE DILEMMA is stark: adapt to modern times or die. The answer is simple: adapt in character and survive. More and more of York's historic buildings are being adapted to uses their architects could never have dreamed of one, two or even three centuries
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DESIGNER GOES BUST
INTERNATIONAL fashion designer and home-grown talent Ally Capellino has vowed to forge ahead with her career despite going bust. Ally, 43, real name Alison Lloyd, hails from humble roots in Tadcaster, where her mother, Betty, still lives. Over the past
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Man's counterfeit hoard
A FORMER second-hand car trader caught with fake designer goods was trying to support his family after being invalided out of work, a court heard. Peter Dougherty, 42, of Fifth Avenue, York, admitted 16 specimen charges of possessing counterfeit clothing
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Money adviser guilty of eight theft charges
YORK financial adviser Peter Barlow was today awaiting a possible prison sentence after being found guilty of eight theft charges. Leeds Crown Court heard how he had plundered the inheritance left by his farmer client.But Barlow has been cleared of stealing
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Cell hanging boy poorly
THE York teenager who tried to hang himself in his cell at a young offenders institution was today very poorly in Harrogate District Hospital. The 17-year-old has been in intensive care since he made the suicide attempt on Wednesday after being sent to
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Gnome-aphobia
GNOMES receive more derision than respect but I liked his happy face and so did my two young sons. Recently a gang of eight youths thought it would be cool to steal Oswald the gnome. I was out of my chair like a hound after a hare and was gaining when
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'Island' of beauty
A LITTLE bit of grass and a few trees may not seem to most property developers an important issue, but I really do believe the city needs congratulating on the work they have just carried out on Foss Islands Road, York. From a wide Tarmac pavement that
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Celebrate learning
EXACTLY ten years ago today the new York University of the Third Age was launched in King's Manor, with some aplomb. Over the decade there has been a steady growth of activity and purpose by U3A - a university in the original sense of the word; a learning
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Centre of excitement
PICTURE four senior citizens riding a bicycle for eight - one of only two in the world. This was the exciting finale to our visit to the Earth Centre at Conisbrough, near Doncaster. We expected our visit to be interesting but were completely unprepared
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Webb's power-play to master Monza monster
AFTER racing sidecars at World Championship level for 16 seasons at 121 Grand Prix races in 16 different countries, most would have thought that Steve Webster had been pretty much everywhere by now. But not so. And with the revitalised sidecar World Championship
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Yorkshire close to easy victory
CRAIG White produced his best bowling burst of the season to have Durham on the rack at Headingley yesterday. Yorkshire were probably robbed of an emphatic victory inside two days by bad light which allowed only 2.3 overs out of the last 23 to be bowled
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Wasps warned to beware of backlash
YORK Wasps have been put on red alert under threat of a Featherstone Rovers backlash at Huntington Stadium tomorrow. Coach Dean Robinson called the players in for an extra training session today to ensure their mental and physical preparation is just
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Eva dies, aged 106
SHE was born in the last century, lived through two world wars and the coronation of six monarchs, but as preparations are made for the coming of the new Millennium 106-year-old Eva Hudson has died peacefully at a rest home near Malton. Mrs Hudson, a
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Blind killer is freed to hostel
BLIND York killer Tony O'Connell has been freed from custody by a judge to give him the chance to prove that he can live in the community without problems. Mr Justice Hooper released blind epileptic and disabled O'Connell on bail, on condition that he
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New train services is boost for York tourism
TOURISM in York looks set for a boost following the announcement of new train services to the city. From tomorrow, rail firm Midland Mainline will be running a weekend service from London St Pancras through the East Midlands to York. The service comes
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Marjories shows her metal
A RARE 17th century silver-gilt badge discovered near York by a metal detector enthusiast has gone on show at the Yorkshire Museum in York. The piece of jewellery was unearthed in a field near York by Marjorie Dandy, of Thornton-le-Clay, and after an
