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I agree on archives
I HAVE continued to read your recent reports regarding the York city archives and would like to thank you for your coverage of this matter. I felt that Stephen Lewis's article on August 1 was an excellent, considered appraisal. I was interested to read
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Unruly pupils 'need mentors'
DISRUPTIVE pupils should be given individual mentors to improve their behaviour to avoid expulsion, Phil Willis MP is urging. The Harrogate and Knaresborough MP and Liberal Democrat education spokesman today unveiled his party's new policy on dealing
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Proms move to Ripley
TO save further confusion following numerous calls to our offices, I should like to set the record straight about the Midland Symphony Orchestra's Last Night At The Proms concert this year. My name is John Reid and for the last nine years, up to and including
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Pay our councillors
I HAVE read with interest the discussion concerning pay for executive members of the council. Having attended many meetings with them in recent years, all of which take place during their own time, I can only advise that they are entirely deserving of
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Chaos after chicken truck smash
NORTH Yorkshire's main roads were thrown into turmoil today, after a truck carrying thousands of live chickens overturned on the A64 at Rillington. The lorry blocked off a crucial junction, forcing drivers to use other routes to get to Malton, Scarborough
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Holiday displays show you can bank on Watson
YORK racer Paul Watson underlined his position as one of Britain's leading all-rounders with two excellent performances over the August Bank Holiday period. On Saturday he competed in round six of the RTTC National Circuit TT Series, a 27 mile event promoted
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Bream on menu
It is often said that the elusive Ouse bream are more likely to make a rare appearance when there is an extra tinge of colour to the water. If this is the case this weekend's Dispensary Cup could produce one of the highlights to an otherwise lack lustre
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York aiming for cup glory
York's cricketers recovered from their disappointing defeat by Hull last Monday with a gentle kick around at soccer immediately after the game - and they will aim to be relaxed for this weekend's league and cup trials. The defeat cost them fourth place
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FA Cup minnows hit the road to Cardiff
THE long road to Cardiff's Millennium Stadium - rather than Wembley - begins tomorrow for a number of non-league clubs in the region. Preliminary rounds of the AXA-sponsored FA Cup take place, with a number of UniBond League and Northern Counties East
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RI strengthen squad with new faces
NEW York RI coaches Steve Fawcett and Ian Hassall have brought in seven new faces as they go in search of Yorkshire Three glory. Harrogate have provided RI with three players. Experienced prop Iain Andrews has done the rounds with London Scottish and
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Museum parades honour the Few
THE 60th anniversary of the defining air battle of the Second World War will see people gathering across North and East Yorkshire to remember the Few. Battle of Britain memorial events will be held across the area to honour all those who helped to fend
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Brothers lead 'Trees
BROTHERS in arms will hold the key to lifting Nestl-Rowntree out of the bottom division after a disappointing campaign last season. Rowntrees will again be captained by stalwart Dave Sowray who leads the team for the seventh season. Working alongside
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Selby handed Cup honour
SELBY RUFC will be entering uncharted waters this season when they compete in the Tetley Bitter Cup for the first time in its history. It's a major achievement for the club who were nominated to take part in rugby union's equivalent of the FA Cup by the
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Youth is the key
AUSTRALIAN Chris Creber will be hoping to reap the benefit of a vibrant youth policy at Malton and Norton RUFC. The fly-half, in his second full season with the club, has been appointed skipper after the retirement of Phil Ryan. Creber, a teacher at Terrington
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Roman centurions to march around York
ROMAN centurions are to join the Lord Mayor of York for the opening of one of the city's major Millennium projects - the 23-mile Millennium Way. The footpath - a circular walk which links the strays of York - will be opened at a ceremony on Monday at
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York coach unfazed by new-look league
It's all change on the rugby union front this season. The RFU has restructured the Northern Divisions to reduce the amount of travelling clubs have faced in the last few campaigns. Here's how sides in the York area are shaping up for the new season. YORK
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Video film reunion for York graduates
HOPES, dreams and expectations from ten years ago will be coming back to haunt a group of former York students this weekend. A one-hour documentary film was made of the College of Ripon and York St John scholars during their final year at college which
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Race on to name new beer
YOU can take a horse to beer - but can you make him drink? Two of North Yorkshire's greatest passions - ale and horseracing - are set to combine at this year's stables open day in Malton and Norton. As part of the festivities, Malton Brewery and Suddaby
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Back from the brink
A year ago, Etty Avenue was being described by its besieged residents as "hell on earth". Now it is a different story. A crackdown by police and City of York Council has yielded dramatic results as Crime Reporter DAVID WILES disocovered. IT WAS branded
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Duffield wants to make Darlo quake
SHARP-SHOOTER Peter Duffield returns to his former club tomorrow hoping to fire York City into the play-off frame. Despite the Minstermen's indifferent start to the season, Monday's last-gasp victory over Barnet catapulted them up the table and only three
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Big boost for first Sunday
RACING fans looking forward to York Racecourse's inaugural Sunday meeting have been boosted by the addition of an eighth race on what was already a bumper card. Racecourse chiefs had framed the meeting to attract plenty of runners and thus provide a cracking
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Now learn to CommuniGate
FROM Monday, This is York will be offering free web sites to any community-focused group, from Sunday League Football clubs to the local church. And there really are no strings attached. All you need to be is a non-profit making organisation. We will
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Wasps singing a new tune
YORK Wasps will be playing to a different tune next season. The club ran a competition for supporters to come up with a new club song and the first prize has gone to Lewes Barker. He suggested new lyrics to sing to the tune of The Eton Boating Song. The
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Pipalong can win big prize
Pipalong, a gallant third in last week's Nunthorpe Stakes at York, can clinch prestigious Group 1 glory on the other side of the Pennines tomorrow. Tim Easterby's admirable filly travels to Haydock to contest the £150,000 Stanley Leisure Sprint Cup and
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Tracking down Eric Bloodaxe
Stephen Lewis goes in search of York's last Viking king. THEY were a bloodthirsty lot, those Vikings. When Danish marauders first attacked York in 866, storming the remains of the Roman city walls, there was, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, 'great
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Ramp for skateboards
IT saddens me to read of the "delay for skateboard plans" in York (Evening Press, August 17). But I hear of a new alternative site which would eventually eliminate the associated noise and nuisance problems. It has been suggested - admittedly by a member
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Appalling designs
THE caption over your illustration of the proposed extension to the library at the University of York (August 18) would surely be more apt if it read 1920s revisited. While this pathetic reworking of 1920s styling maintains the university's deplorable
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York tourism Oscars are launched
YORK is to stage a glittering ceremony to award Oscars for achievement in the city's biggest industry. For the second year running, York will present its own tourism awards - and they will be bigger and better. The awards, launched last year, are to recognise
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Prison for woman who helped mug York doctor
A woman who helped her boyfriend mug a York doctor as he sat reading a book by the River Ouse has been jailed for 19 months. Paul Roy Edward Barnett, 27, held Dr Philip Kellett by the throat and mouth and threatened to injure him unless he handed over
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So many happy memories of our city's parks
THE feature on York's parks by Stephen Lewis with pictures by Paul Baker and Steven Bradshaw August 26) is of special interest to me, because parks have played such a major role in my life. My first recollection is of feeding ducks in Hull Road Park and
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Pledge on jobs at York DIY store
WORKERS at the York branch of DIY chain Wickes were reassured today that a proposed takeover by rival Focus Do It All will not affect their jobs. Wickes' head office in London today agreed to be bought by Focus Do It All in a £289.3 million deal, only
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Angelic antics
ASK Brian Higginson to describe his new play for this summer's York Theatre Royal Young People's production, and he says it is a wild and wacky comedy with a year 2000 theme, set in York at the time of the second coming. Oh, and it features songs by Sixties
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Bernie's 'guide' to Whitfield
THE David Whitfield Commemorative Association presents an evening of family variety entertainment in aid of the David Whitfield Guide Dogs for the Blind Fund on Sunday at the Grand Opera House, York. Topping the 7.30pm bill will be Bernie Clifton, the
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Pure magic of Kipper's spots
Some things stick in my mind, even years later. I can remember this one so clearly because it happened one momentous day. Well it really wasn't that momentous a day. The weather was bleak. My wife had been gone for more than 24 hours and wouldn't be returning
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Duffield wants to make Darlo quake
SHARP-SHOOTER Peter Duffield returns to his former club tomorrow hoping to fire York City into the play-off frame. Despite the Minstermen's indifferent start to the season, Monday's last-gasp victory over Barnet catapulted them up the table and only three
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Art on a plate at Adze Gallery
ADZE Gallery, in Goodramgate, York, is to hold a series of exhibitions to tie in with the York Festival of Food And Drink. On view from this weekend to September 23 will be Tickle Your Palette, paintings by Ken Jones and Lesley Coates-Jones, plus Travels
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Snatch
JUST as Quentin Tarantino trumped his Reservoir Dogs debut with Pulp Fiction, so British director Guy Ritchie confidently follows up his surprise first hit Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels with a more mature sequel. Indeed, he is not so much displaying
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Smales confirms superiority
Harrogate policeman Steve Smales (Peter Read Racing) confirmed his superiority in the season long Sports City Online cycle racing league with yet another win in the latest round of the 2000 series. He covered the ten mile course on the Old Great North
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Emmerson doubles up in the finals
THE finals of the Ideal Standard/Persimmon Homes York Bowling Association took place on Clarence Gardens and John Emmerson (Poppleton Road WMC) took two of the titles. Emmerson defeated Tex Stevens 21-9 in the singles and then joined Mick Birkley in the
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Boro facing tough test
Scarborough will have to contend with a former England Under-21 international when they entertain Conference League newcomers Dagenham and Redbridge tomorrow (3pm). Midfielder Mark Brennan played more than 400 League and Cup games for Ipswich, Middlesbrough
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All the fun of the fair
JOINING the nation's flourishing flock of fair-haired females has seen Tracey Rea, from York, scoop a top prize. But gentlemen, who are said to prefer blondes, should take care as sports coach Tracey is also a part-time bouncer. The 21-year-old staved
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Students on course for cash discounts
MATURE students are being offered cash discounts on courses at two colleges in York. Adults who have not walked into a classroom since they left school may find they can get on degree courses and earn funding of up to £1,000. And students could also get
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Offers of help to Gang Show
ORGANISERS of York's stricken Scout and Guide Gang Show have been inundated with offers of secure premises, paint and equipment after a series of vandalism attacks. The attacks, which have taken place at the gang show's workshop in offices in Osbaldwick
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Clayton handed wing spot
HARROGATE coach Ralph Zoing has rung the changes at Claro Road with no less than ten new signings. The most recent is former Leeds Tykes winger Paul Clayton who has spent the last two seasons with Orrell. He relegates last season's top try scorer Mark
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Spinning is top!
Spin Jam, published by Empire for PlayStation. Spin Jam is no ordinary puzzler - it is the cutest and most colourful game anywhere. Spin Jam is a lot like Bust-a-Move. You fire a stream of coloured balls from a fixed catapult, and have to get three of
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Anderson takes over as Pocklington skipper
LONG-SERVING Sammy Anderson will be hoping to lead Pocklington to more glory this season. The Percy Road outfit had a season to remember last term winning the North East Two title and being named World Rugby magazine's Team of the Year 2000. Second row
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Mr Martini left high and dry in York
WHILE Smiths and Joneses were happily quaffing their fill off free booze at a drinks promotion in York, one of the product's thirsty namesakes couldn't get even a sniff. For the Martini promotion, which saw free samples of the drink dished out from a
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Wasps singing a new tune
YORK Wasps will be playing to a different tune next season. The club ran a competition for supporters to come up with a new club song and the first prize has gone to Lewes Barker. He suggested new lyrics to sing to the tune of The Eton Boating Song. The
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Glider pilot Miles on a high after solo flight
WHILE others his age were probably dreaming of their first moped, 16-year-old birthday boy Miles Bailey was taking to the skies on his first solo flight. The aviation addict from Elvington could not wait to get airborne on his own, and the day of his
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Members quit over church row vote
MEMBERS of the parochial church council in charge of a church divided by a row over its popular choirmaster have decided to resign. The move follows a vote of no confidence in their leadership. The decision was made at a private meeting of the church
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Tykes hit over poor pitch
Yorkshire have been docked eight points by the ECB pitches panel for producing a pitch for the match against Surrey at Scarborough which the panel describe as "having undue seam movement and uneven bounce on the first day." Pitch liaison officer Alan
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A fairly busy week for us
No new revelations for This is York this week. We're still reeling from winning the Web Site Of The Year award (Newsquest Editorial Awards) and from all the frenetic activity surrounding our launch at the Evening Press' Computer And Internet Fair last
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Root out the estate yobs
EXACTLY a year ago today, former soldier Glenn Stephenson told the Evening Press about the misery of living in Etty Avenue. He had seen active service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and the Gulf and knew exactly what he was talking about when he described
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Pride of York
THE York Tourism Awards are back, bigger and better. Last year the event was launched with impressive support from the business community. It was a genuine success, fulfilling its aim of celebrating achievement in this crucial economic sector. Now the
