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Heart tsar's partner found hanging
A woman was found hanging from the banisters of the home she shared with the "heart tsar", York surgeon Dr Roger Boyle, an inquest heard today. Opening an inquest on 45-year-old Annette Aston, who was found dead in her home in Main Street, Copmanthorpe
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Warning to all parents
If the Government were really serious about installing warning labels in appropriate locations, they would immediately insist that all adults stick one up above their beds saying: 'Warning: Having children can seriously affect your mental health.' And
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A sporting chance
Sydney 2000, published by Eidos for PC, PlayStation, Dreamcast Don't want to watch the Olympic Games on television? Why not train up and enter the finals yourself? You won't even need to get off the couch! Eidos has produced the obligatory Olympic tie-in
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Harrogate gun 'was plastic toy'
A man has been warned about his conduct by Harrogate Detectives after he questioned over a suspected firearms incident in the town. On Tuesday, Harrogate police received a number of calls from concerned members of the public who had spotted a man in the
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Quest to find war hero's family
Defence chiefs are trying to trace the family of a York soldier killed in action during the Second World War. Sergeant Alfred Emmerson, of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, died in Italy on May 22, 1944, aged only 20. He is one of 24 British soldiers
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£15,000 boost for appeal
Our Hospice 2000 Appeal has hit the £1.4 million mark - helped by an unexpected legacy of £15,000. Father Tom Mylod, of English Martyrs' Roman Catholic Church, in Dalton Terrace, who heads the chaplaincy team at St Leonard's Hospice, celebrated by making
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York enjoys £254m tourism bonanza
Tourists spent more than £254 million in York last year. The huge figure shows an increase of 24 per cent in only six years. Assessment of last year's impact of York's biggest industry also showed it was responsible for 8,857 jobs last year, up 5.4 per
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Spa town bottling scheme backed
Councillors in Harrogate have voted to go ahead with plans to bottle the town's spa water - despite massive local opposition. The fate of the plant, which at full capacity would pump 20 million litres of water a year from an underground source near to
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City workers go green
Staff at York company CPP got on their bikes today for the launch of a new campaign to keep traffic off the roads. The company's campaign, called Helping York Go Green, aims to raise awareness of environmental issues and employees were also hoping to
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Driver dies in lorry crash
A lorry driver died in North Yorkshire today after apparently having been taken ill at the wheel and careering off the road on the outskirts of York. The middle-aged driver of a flatbed lorry with the Jewson's company name on it was pronounced dead at
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Big Brother's watching you
Last Friday Craig Phillips became the nation's number one working class hero in a moment so emotionally charged as to put The Full Monty or Brassed Off to shame. With Big Brother Channel 4 finally shook its Eccentric Uncle image and established itself
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Quarter to thrive
SINCE its regeneration, the area around Swinegate and Grape Lane in York has failed to attract enough customers. Now businesses in what has been renamed The Quarter have joined together to put it firmly on the city map. This weekend city shoppers will
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Traffic problem still nags at city
IN case you had not noticed, it is European Car Free Day today. Eight hundred continental town centres have been closed to traffic in an attempt to raise awareness of alternative transport methods. Here in Britain, however, this is another European initiative
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Fox aiming for brush with Shrews
THE York City Fox is targeting a Shrews return in 12 days' time. And teenage Minstermen midfielder Christian Fox is out to prove he is no one-season wonder. The 19-year-old top prospect has suffered a frustrating campaign so far, starting City's first
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Hocking raring to go
A NEW and improved Matt Hocking is itching for his York City second coming tomorrow having proved patience is a virtue. The one-time victim of the City boo-boys is in the reckoning to start his first League game since March with high-flying Brighton and
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So rude at the pumps
CONGRATULATIONS to Graham Kennedy in winning the petrol retailer of the year award (September 14). What a shame some of his expertise did not rub off on certain members of his staff at the Boroughbridge Road site. During the recent crisis their manner
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Death of a hero
WHEN inquiring about a birthday card featuring an aeroplane in Browns of York another customer, a woman, overheard and handed one to me. It showed a Second World War Mosquito. During the conversation that ensued she mentioned Wing Commander Starr who
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Move the university
INSTEAD of moving the city archives out to the university campus, it would be a much better idea if the university moved themselves out of the King's Manor on to campus. This would release King's Manor back to the city council and allow the archives to
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Children play in harmony
Young musicians at Howsham Hall School, near Malton, are celebrating after 11 of them passed top examinations with flying colours. It was the highest number ever entered by the 60-pupil school in the Associated Board examinations, said spokesman Martin
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Gathering support for epilepsy sufferers
A mother and daughter with first-hand experience of coping with epilepsy are inviting sufferers and carers to attend a support group they have set up. Karen Snowball, 36, of Pocklington, had her first seizure when she was ten months old and wants to show
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Police signal end of villains' scanners
Eavesdropping criminals who use scanners to monitor North Yorkshire police will be foiled by the force's new digital radio system. Villains are currently able to keep tabs on police movements using equipment available from high street shops for just £70
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Tate suspended
SCARBOROUGH boss Neil Thompson will be without Chris Tate for tomorrow's long trip to Dover Athletic after the striker's red card against Hayes a fortnight ago. Tate was sent off for violent conduct in the last minute of Boro's 1-0 win at Church Road
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Flavour of things to come
The sounds of sunny Spain filled the autumnal air today at the launch of York's fourth annual Festival Of Food And Drink. El Coro Rociero de Cajar de Granada, a choir from southern Spain, brought a little Latin light to the city streets as they joined
