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Wrong on GM crops
Readers' letters Your leader ('GM crops are just not wanted', March 24) sacrifices integrity for the popularist view. In its day did you denounce the steam engine, the car and the computer and mobile phone? I think not! GM science has many potential benefits
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£27m extra for Health Service
Health services in York and North Yorkshire today received a £27 million cash boost. But local health chiefs were warned some of this extra money depends on them meeting tough performance targets. Health Secretary Alan Milburn detailed how £660 million
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Lake rescue firefighter to get Queen's award
A former Selby firefighter who weighed himself down with a boulder to rescue a young girl trapped at the bottom of a water-filled quarry is to receive a Queen's Commendation for Bravery. Andrew Weatherill, 35, risked his own life when he dived underwater
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Derek nets a world market
If ever there was a perfect example of the power for imports and exports on the Internet you will find it in an office called Ashdown Printing Machinery on the Rawcliffe Industrial estate. It is a power that allows Derek Ashdown and a lone assistant literally
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People on the move
John Kirby has been appointed projects manager of York-based building firm Guildford Construction. Mr Kirby returns to his native Yorkshire from Birmingham where he was with national contractors Balfour Beatty. While working in the Midlands he was in
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Friendly aid for school
Sixty youngsters, aged four and five, have just moved into new, well-equipped, classrooms in Harrogate with the help of Homeowners Friendly Society. The organisation donated £500 to Oatlands County Infant School to help fund the building of two new classrooms
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York school side to grace Old Trafford
Excited footballers at Clifton Without Junior School, York, are to play at Old Trafford, home of Treble winners Manchester United. CHAMPIONS: Clifton Without Under-11s football team, who are set to play at Old Trafford. Back (from left) Liam Spencer,
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Proud to be ginger
Evening Press leader The Woods of Tadcaster deserve support in their stance against prejudice. They are part of a minority who are routinely discriminated against not for the colour of their skin but the colour of their hair. Gingerism remains rife. Every
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Time to end the great car rip-off
Evening Press leader Buying a car is an expensive business at the best of times. For most people it is their single biggest purchase after property. So motorists are keen to seek out the best deals on wheels. But that is not as easy as it should be. British
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Conlon hopes for a change of luck
York City striker Barry Conlon is hoping for a case of fourth and last time lucky. Saturday's trip to Southend United, his former club, cannot come soon enough for the Minstermen's top scorer. Conlon, the £100,000 buy from Roots Hall at the beginning
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Sound of success for Ian
Sound plays a big part in near-blind Ian Wood's life. Now it's his business. Ian, 21, of Acomb, who suffers from optic atrophy, has just formed Sonik Disco, his own DJ outfit with the help of a £3,000 grant from the Prince's Trust. And thanks to a growing
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Commitment key to award
Commer Inns, the Tadcaster-based pub operating company has named brewing giant Carlsberg-Tetley its Supplier of the Year in recognition of its excellent service throughout 1999. Each year, Commer Inns presents the award - thought to be the only one of
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Conveyancing by Internet?
An anonymous major law firm is putting out feelers to set up an online conveyancing operation in York. It could mean hundreds of new jobs. But are the city's conventional law firms happy about this potential high tech newcomer on their patch? Emma Harrison
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Couples hunted after taxi row
Police are searching for two couples after a taxi window was smashed because of a row over the price of the ride. One of the male passengers smashed the window as he left the vehicle and the four made off but they were caught here on CCTV camera. At around
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City hailed as excellent venue for conferences
York is being pushed as one of the main conference centres in Britain in a new Heritage Cities brochure aimed at the European business market. York is highlighted alongside Bath, Chester and Stratford-upon-Avon as one of the best and most prestigious
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Don't be Luddites over GM food urges farmer
Farmers who allow their land to be used for genetically-modified crop trials should be applauded, not hounded, says a North Yorkshire farmer. Peter Knaggs, who farms 200 acres at Church Fenton, near Tadcaster, today sprang to the defence of neighbouring
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Collection bursting out of current home
York Art Gallery could be one of the "foremost provincial galleries in the country" if space were provided for it to expand, it has been claimed. And the expansion could create extra jobs in the city's ever-growing tourist industry. The annual general
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Pair set up grants scam to defraud small businesses
Two fraudsters who set up a million pound scam designed to rip off small businesses across the North of England were being sentenced by a court today. The prosecution is the result of a year-long investigation headed by North Yorkshire County Council's
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March 28th, 2000
McCarthyism, control freakism and football Chairman of York City Douglas Craig responds in detail to the Lord Mayor Coun Peter Vaughan's plea for the club to join a national anti-racism campaign, first reported in later editions of the Evening Press yesterday
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Lord Mayor racism plea to York City
Lord Mayor of York, Peter Vaughan, has implored York City Football Club to join a fight against racism. Peter Vaughan: letter The city's first citizen has written to York City chairman Douglas Craig begging him to end the club's standing as the only one
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Mystery over York art gifts given by wealthy American
Special gifts presented to York city art gallery and the Mansion House in the 1920s by a wealthy American have become damaged or lost. Mary Collings at the Mansion House, in York, where the tapestry given to the city by her relative was thought to have
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Flood victims seek urgent remedies
Victims of the Derwent floods said today a £4 million scheme to prevent a repeat of the disaster must go ahead as quickly as possible. Just over a year after dozens of householders and businesses were forced to flee their flooded homes and premises in
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McCarthyism, control freakism and football
Reader's letter All my life I have believed that I live in a free and democratic society. Alas, it appears I am mistaken. I really live in a country where McCarthyism, control freakism and moral blackmail are rampant. If you do not conform there is something
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March 28th, 2000
York City FC: Conlon hopes for a change of luck York City striker Barry Conlon is hoping for a case of fourth and last time lucky. Hockey: City's Jones answers the white rose call Gareth Jones celebrated his call-up to the Yorkshire under-21 squad with
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March 28th, 2000
£27m extra for Health Service Health services in York and North Yorkshire today received a £27 million cash boost. But local health chiefs were warned some of this extra money depends on them meeting tough performance targets. Cannabis factory weeded
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March 28th, 2000
We're still on track insists Thrall chief Thrall Europa of York is braced to pitch for a massive order for rail freight wagons from Railtrack "in the near future". But the track owners are puzzled, saying tenders are not imminent. Thrall aim off-centre
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Don't let this potential go untapped
At the North Yorkshire TEC, we have been looking at ways of making it easier for people with a whole range of disabilities to work for us. Before I go on, I wonder what image is conjured up by the word "disabled"? I'm prepared to bet that many people
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Sharon sees red over hair remark
An angry North Yorkshire mum has hit out at Health Secretary Frank Dobson's "stupid remark" about redheads. Sharon Wood and daughter Rhiannon: seeing red over "stupid remark" Red-haired Sharon Wood, 38, said she had suffered for 30 years listening to
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Moving out before the technology bubble bursts
Moving out before the technology bubble bursts So what did RICH decide at its latest meeting? Well, members were concerned about the bubble possibly bursting on high-tec stocks. It was exactly the fear that the snort had gone out of the techno bull market
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Bollin Nellie to open Easterby's account
Tim Easterby, warming up for what promises to be another first-rate Flat campaign on turf, can open his winning account at Catterick tomorrow. The Great Habton trainer saddles Bollin Nellie in the Yarm Handicap and this promising three-year-old can hit
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Sharing secrets of success
From now on we will let you into the secrets of the RICH. RICH stands for the Ridings Investment Club Holdings, a group of a dozen managers or retired managers from Nestl Rowntree, York, who have been playing the shares market regularly - and winning.
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Thrall aim off-centre?
Business Editor Ron Godfrey takes a look at the latest developments at York's former Carriageworks site Are the doom-merchants really misreading all the signs about the future of Thrall Europa in York? On the face of it there is plenty of grist for the
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Bold Barry checks out with a bullseye
Barry Noble used bullseye to finish off a tremendous 13-dart York John Smith's Mixed League game. Noble's colleague Mick Coupland checked out on 137, but their side, Dringhouses, failed to master Beeswing whose 5-4 win included a fine 109 finish for 21
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Take the bus on a journey of discovery
All aboard the high-tec tour bus - destination: North Yorkshire computerland. North Yorkshire Training and Enterprise Council has hired a computer-festooned single decker to bring the message to both businesses and individuals that computers can be fun
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City's Jones answers the white rose call
Gareth Jones celebrated his call-up to the Yorkshire under-21 squad with a fine performance for City of York. ACOUNTY CALL: City of York's Gareth Jones, left, has been selected in the Yorkshire under-21s squad for the Northern Region tournament to be
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We're still on track insists Thrall chief
Thrall Europa of York is braced to pitch for a massive order for rail freight wagons from Railtrack "in the near future". But the track owners are puzzled, saying tenders are not imminent. Thrall, which has the capacity to double its wagon-making on its
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Is this Internet hype a threat to homeworkers?
Dire warnings on becoming 'too wired' in the past few weeks have come from no less authorities than the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS) in the US, and our very own George Carey (you may know him better as www.archbishopofcanterbury.org
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Merger of old firms and new technology
Two of York's oldest established law firms, Ware & Peters and Newbald & Kay will merge on April 1 - and herald a huge investment in Internet technology. The new company, called Ware & Kay - spearheaded by Jonathan Leach of Ware & Peters
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Can you afford to live anywhere but Yorkshire?
Homebuyers in the Yorkshire region are spending 22.7 per cent of their take-home pay on their mortgage - compared with the 48.8 per cent that was spent at the peak of the last housing boom in 1989. After Wales (22.4 per cent) that makes Yorkshire's affordability
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Yorkshire on a plate
Good enough to eat! Yorkshire Tourist Board took a 'nouvelle' approach to the launch of its Group Operators Guide 2000/2001 at the British Travel Trade Fair. The guide was served up by direct mail to 5000 travel trade delegates with the help of Steve
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A couple of livewires
Business editor RONGODFREY meets two young men heading for the stars... FILM-makers Reza Ghadiri and Daniel Mendelle know officially why overnight they have become North Yorkshire's top "Livewires" sharing first prize of £750. The two graduate pals from
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Cannabis factory weeded out
Three men and a woman have been arrested after National Crime Squad officers discovered a large-scale illicit 'skunk' cannabis factory near Selby. Det Insp Martin Fenwick, of the National Crime Squad, among cannabis plants growing at the old hangar at