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Great Samaritans
I should like to express my appreciation to the kind couple who helped my mum on Saturday, April 15, when she fell badly on Tedder Road. The woman's reassuring presence and comforting words were so helpful during my mum's distress. Also a big thank you
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Bus information
The City of York Council aims to make it easier to get information about bus services. Over the last 18 months we have introduced a telephone helpline Businfo 551400, an Internet journey planner, and earlier this month opened a Businfo Centre at 20 George
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Naked truth about a good laugh
Was your theatre critic, Charles Hutchinson, at the same performance of Naked Flame that I attended on Monday? The audience of about 1,000 laughed more loudly than anything I have heard in 20 years of theatre-going. It was so sustained that the actors
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April 22nd, 2000
The trials of being English The sports commentator Dickie Davies once said: "The English were beaten only in the sense that they lost." Well, he must have known what he meant. Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may
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Chris Titley
How to get filthy rich Now Dot Com and her cronies have had their digits singed on the Stock Market, the Internet's reputation as an instant money-maker is up the virtual spout. Undaunted, Channel 4 is persisting with the idea that you can conjure up
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Paul keeps off the greens
Forest Park club's greenkeeper, Paul Stirk, has found a new way of saving himself a job. Forest Park club's greenkeeper, Paul Stirk, has found a new way of saving himself a job. To avoid wear and tear on the putting surfaces Stirk has taken to popping
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Get out and about
At holiday time families come together to have fun - and to squabble over what to watch on television. Dad wants 24-hour sport, mum wants The Railway Children and the kids want some brain-numbing cartoon. If they are over-ruled, they simply storm up to
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On stage at Theatre of Dreams
Fantastic footballers from Clifton Without Primary School in York may well have paved the way for Real Madrid's famous victory at Old Trafford on Wednesday. ON THE FAMOUS TURF: The Clifton Without team on the hallowed Manchester United pitch, from left
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Wasps in crisis
If York Wasps stand-in coach Dean Thomas thought he had problems before the Good Friday clash with Doncaster, he now knows that was nothing. While the 70-8 reversal at Belle Vue was humbling, what will cause Thomas, covering for coach Garry Atkins who
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Keeping an eye on the highway toad
GOOD SIGN: Grace Murkett, four, and her brother Giles, with the sign warning of toads on the road at Gillamoor Picture: Paul Baker Heard the one about the toad wanting to cross the road? If not, then you soon will. A science teacher from Farndale is urging
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£410,000 revamp for Methodist church
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE: Stanley Bleazard, treasurer of Pocklington Methodist Church, with Maurice Nicholls, property development secretary, outside the chapel which is being redeveloped Picture: Steven Bradshaw A Chapel which has stood in an East Yorkshire
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Tony's selfish treats
Red carpet, lush lunches - Prime Minister Blair has a lot to answer for. Fancy trying to sort out Russia's problems when he can't organise the many groups of people here in his own country! He shows an appalling lack of humanity towards the poorer families
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April 22nd, 2000
Wasps in crisis If York Wasps stand-in coach Dean Thomas thought he had problems before the Good Friday clash with Doncaster, he now knows that was nothing. Festival side are seven up Pocklington RUFC enjoyed another bumper John Smith's Good Friday Sevens
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April 22nd, 2000
House siege blaze threat Police with riot shields were called to a York street early today after a man threatened to set himself ablaze in an eight-hour siege. Oliver in driving seat Oliver Lemm's wish come true when he caught the 8.37am Liverpool train
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April 18th, 2000
Mulberry Hall goes online to sell wares Mulberry Hall, the top-class glass, china and crystal shop in medieval Stonegate, York, today officially launched a website described by its owners as "the world's most comprehensive on-line facility of its kind
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Out but not down
Lung-Busting midfielder Kevin Hulme has set his in-form team-mates a brand new goal - overtake the club who let him go. The 32-year-old dynamo was sitting out this afternoon's match with Brighton at Bootham Crescent - out for the rest of the season after
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Fairclough within touching distance
The race for the Unique Pub Co/ Evening Press player of the year award is almost up with season-long front runner Chris Fairclough within touching distance of the crown. Despite the consistent efforts of Barry Jones and young Christian Fox, Fairclough's
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Nixon cannot be stopped
A Powerful display of darts earned Mick Nixon the York Brewery League individual competition crown. Nixon began his awesome assault on the title with 14, 21 darts against Paul Brandon (Punch Bowl). He then took out Chris Thompson (15) and he culminated
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February 29th, 2000
Online advice will prove Net benefit for traders Step into an Internet booth for business advice wherever you are in York and North Yorkshire. Complaints about mobile phones rank in the top ten Complaints about mobile phones now rank alongside dodgy car
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The trials of being English
The sports commentator Dickie Davies once said: "The English were beaten only in the sense that they lost." Well, he must have known what he meant. Yet Davies - a Welshman, no less - may have accidentally hit on the truth as he mangled his words. For
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Festival side are seven up
PINCER MOVEMENT: Two Selby players close in to tackle a John Smith's, Tadcaster, runner in the first round of the Good Friday Pocklington Sevens. Pocklington RUFC enjoyed another bumper John Smith's Good Friday Sevens when a record bank holiday crowd
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By George they've got it
Yorkshire folk have been urged to remember Britain's least popular saint tomorrow - the patron saint of England, St George. A new survey says that ten times more Englishmen celebrate St Patrick's Day than St George's Day on April 23. It also found that
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Having a cheque and eating it
Andrew Jones, head chef at the Rose and Crown, Sutton-on-the-Forest, and Mavis Williamson, who attends the day centre at St Leonard's Hospice, cut the £2,000 cheque cake It certainly looks good enough to eat, and it's the latest donation to our Hospice
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Lord Mayor toasts cancer funds effort
The Lord Mayor of York, Coun Peter Vaughan, and the Lady Mayoress, Coun June Vaughan, present the cheque to York District Hospital staff, from left, breast unit manager Sue Sims, senior radiographers Joanne Berry-Smith and Kathleen Sowden and consultant
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April 22nd, 2000
Naked truth about a good laugh Was your theatre critic, Charles Hutchinson, at the same performance of Naked Flame that I attended on Monday? Bus information The City of York Council aims to make it easier to get information about bus services. Tony's
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Residents turn screw over DIY rat run
Worried residents say they are considering selling up because their quiet leafy suburb has turned into an escape route for commercial traffic and commuters. And one resident of Osbaldwick is so concerned she has spent the past month doing her own traffic
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M&S puts £100,000 into organic farm
Marks & Spencer is investing £100,000 to create a "centre of excellence" for organic farming in North Yorkshire. The retailing giant is teaming up with the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS) to develop an organic demonstration farm
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Oliver in driving seat
ALL ABOARD: Oliver Lemm, aged seven, in the cab of the Northern Spirit Transpennine locomotive for his trip to Liverpool Picture: Mike Tipping Oliver Lemm's wish come true when he caught the 8.37am Liverpool train at York railway station. Oliver, aged
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House siege blaze threat
Police with riot shields were called to a York street early today after a man threatened to set himself ablaze in an eight-hour siege. FLASHPOINT: The house in Barkston Close, Chapelfields, where police with riot shields brought the siege to a close York
