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Yobs get swift county justice
YOUNG troublemakers are punished faster in North Yorkshire than anywhere else in England and Wales, new government statistics reveal. Police, prosecutors, courts and the county's youth offending team are combining forces in a high-speed approach to persistent
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Dunkirk spirit - York's old soldiers need YOU
A PROUD group of war veterans will brave the elements this week to keep alive the memory of sacrifices made in Dunkirk. The remaining eight members of York's branch of the Dunkirk Veterans' Association, most aged in their 80s, will stand in a York shopping
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Don't be a wimp, protest over petrol prices
I AM concerned that our country has become a nation of wimps. Let's face it our petrol prices are the most expensive in the world and everyone moans but nobody is doing anything about it. If we all stick together and demand petrol prices be cut dramatically
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Fourth year running
YORK-BASED Shepherd Engineering Services has scooped a top safety award for the fourth year in a row. The building services firm, part of Shepherd Building Group, won the British Safety Council award for its below-average accident rate, its safety policies
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Another award for Yorkon
MASTER of modular building, Yorkon, has won a major industry accolade for its part in a pioneering housing project - the first multi-storey residential scheme in the UK to be pre-built in a factory. The Duke of Kent presented the firm, part of the Portakabin
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Landlord's challenge to real ale drinkers
A VILLAGE landlord has stopped selling real ale - and is blaming the new A1/M1 link road. The historic village of Towton is no longer signposted from the motorway, which Geoff Wilson, landlord at the Rockingham Arms, feels has cost him a lot of passing
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We're wild about Harry
HARRY Potter author JK Rowling will be arriving in York on her Hogwarts Express book tour on Sunday. The fourth Harry Potter book is out on Saturday and JK Rowling is stopping at just six cities on her steam train journey around the country this weekend
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Cyclists' fears over river crossing
NORTH Yorkshire cyclists have criticised the planned removal of a cycle crossing over the River Foss under revised proposals for redevelopment in the Coppergate area of York. County members of the Cyclists' Touring Club - Britain's lobbying organisation
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York pioneers high-speed web links
YORK is to be one of the first cities in Britain to benefit from the next wave of the Internet revolution. This Is York can reveal today that new technology giving super-fast access to the Net will become available in the York area later this month, before
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50 in court after rail crossing blitz
MORE than 50 people are to appear in court following a blitz on motorists misusing level crossings in North Yorkshire. And drivers spotted crossing railway lines while talking on mobile phones even when there was no train approaching are among those to
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City's hard talking
YORK City boss Terry Dolan was hoping to settle the Bootham Crescent futures of Alan Fettis and Darren Edmondson today. The City chief is awaiting the duo's response to contract offers made at the end of last season and is hopeful the situation will be
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Wasps advertise for new coach
YORK Wasps are unlikely to name a new coach within the next fortnight after deciding to advertise the post. Chief executive Ann Garvey said they already had eight serious contenders but wanted to see who else was in the market. York had been hoping to
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Academy award
RISING rugby league star Nick Caldwell is on the verge of signing for Super League giants Hull FC. The Acorn and York Academy prop forward has been training with Hull Academy under the guidance of their former York coach Steve Crooks. And Crooks has been
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My lottery cash dreams
My faith in the occasional grand display of man's generosity to his fellows, was reinforced by the riches from Wraggs story of former York worker Ray Wragg who won £7.6 million in the National Lottery and gave away £5 million to relatives, friends and
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Faster justice
FAR too often the law seems to be a slow process. The long gap between a crime and the consequent punishment can seem like an age. One effect of such tardy justice is that the victims of crime are made to feel that justice isn't being done. As the victims
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Wise up to EU aims
AFTER President Chirac's speech to the Reichstag in Berlin, in which he couldn't have made it clearer that Germany and France intend to create a country called Europe, can Blair and Hague now pretend to have any doubt as to what the real EU agenda is?
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Policeman accused of drug possession
PC ARTHUR Swaine, York police's licensing officer, is to be prosecuted by his own force for possession of cannabis, the Evening Press learned today. PC Swaine, who was arrested earlier this year in connection with an armed robbery, was served with a summons
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Fretting over words
I AM surprised to learn there is no English equivalent of the Acadmie Franaise (Letters, June 27). I have always assumed that somewhere there must be some decayed, archaic seat of cob-webbed pedantry, dedicated to the preservation of obsolescent grammar
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New website
A NEW website packed with information, expertise and comment on retailing issues has been launched by the British Retail Consortium. The site, www.brc.org.uk, gives details on the BRC itself and includes sections on policies and issues, news and shopping
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Paul's firm offers complete solution
Firms across York and North and East Yorkshire have already started lining up to pit their success stories and innovative ideas against each other in our biggest and most glamorous Evening Press Business Awards ever. DAN RUSTSTEIN profiles one of the
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York investment gets 'super Internet' boost
YORK'S drive to attract inward investment has been given a massive boost by today's double e-announcement by BT. The city will be one of the first in Britain to benefit from broadband ADSL (assymetric digital subscriber line) technology - basically turbo-charged
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Church forced to tighten purse strings
THE ARCHBISHOP of York, Dr David Hope, says he has been forced to tighten his purse strings. The Archbishop is keeping costs down after the publication of the latest annual accounts of the Church Commissioners revealed the Church of England was spending
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RAF base in link with squadron Down Under
AN airbase in North Yorkshire has established connections Down Under thanks to an Aussie airman whose parents live in York. Steve Martyn, from the No 25 (City of Perth) Squadron Royal Australian Air Force Reserve, visited his parents in the city and thought
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We're meerly the best of friends
A PAIR of cuddly creatures at Flamingo Land have bridged the species gap to become best friends. The animals, a meerkat and a guinea pig, cannot bear to be apart from each other and whine uncontrollably when they are parted. Melanie Wood, of the theme
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That's the Spirit - train times to be cut
TRAIN journey times from York across the Pennines will be slashed if York-based operator Northern Spirit wins a multi-million pound bidding war, its managing director was promising today. Nigel Patterson was outlining plans to cut times on the York to
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Over at last - and not before time
The nightmare finally ended for for York Wasps last Friday when they brought the curtain down on the 2000 season. DIANNE HILLABY looks back at the traumatic events of the last six months. York Wasps' Millennium season must go down as one of the most horrific
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Derby battles early doors
DERBY day is coming early for York amateur rugby league clubs Acorn and New Earswick All Blacks next season. The teams will meet at Acorn's Thanet Road ground on Saturday, September 2 - the second week of the new National Conference second division campaign
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Councils not cleaning up on litter fines
LITTER laws are not being used to clean up Yorkshire despite more than 3,000 public complaints about rubbish every year, campaigners have claimed. Councils have the power to give on-the-spot fines to anyone caught dropping litter. But research by the
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Missing children are found
POLICE mounted a full-scale search in York after two young children went missing from home. The pair, aged three and four, were found safe and well after the area around their homes in Melrosegate was scoured for an anxious two hours. The children were
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Garage to shut in petrol price protest
A FILLING station near York will close down in protest against high fuel duties on August 1 - Dump the Pump Day. And the proprietors are urging other garages in North Yorkshire to consider taking the same action. Under the "Dump the Pump" protests against
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Tykes can't find room for Lord's ace Hoggard
HAVING been a part of England's triumph in the Lord's Test last week, Matthew Hoggard will come down to earth with a bump if Yorkshire can find no place for him in their NatWest Trophy fourth round match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road tomorrow
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Dovebrace can get back to winning ways
DOVEBRACE, who has rediscovered his old form, should not be overlooked at Catterick tomorrow. The Alan Bailey-trained gelding lines up for the Darlington Handicap and is taken to clinch the honours in the hands of John Bramhill. Dovebrace, in the wilderness
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Soap on a hope
Emmerdale fan Robert Beaumont wills his favourite soap to rise to the challenge of going five nights a week. IT seems only yesterday that dear old Annie Sugden was dispensing words of wisdom by the cosy hearth at Emmerdale Farm. Amos Brearley was taking
