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Potter heads large entry
FOLLOWING midweek flooding, the Ouse below York had dropped to around two feet above normal for the Bill Noakes Cup. After recent poor ticket sales that have led to several match cancellations, the entry of 45 was, surprisingly, up on last year. With
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Be a real brick and help hospice
Today we launch the latest phase of our drive for the £2 million we need to create a "new look", enhanced St Leonard's Hospice. Much has already been done, with £1.4 million brought in, though two Lottery bids have failed. Now the Evening Press asks you
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City move in for striker Mathie
YORK City chief Terry Dolan was today lining up an audacious cross-border raid to land striker Alex Mathie just hours after he was released from Scottish Premier League outfit Dundee United. The City manager was remaining tight-lipped this morning, but
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Oh, the horror...
ESCRICK might reasonably be described as an ancient, well-heeled commuter village. Few would see it as the perfect setting for a horror story, however. But that is the vision of film-makers Blind Productions. Its low budget feature Crickwood Bed is being
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Rumble Fish, then and now
Rumble Fish at York Theatre Royal has its roots in a cult American novel written by a teenager. CHARLES HUTCHINSON meets the woman behind the initials. READ The Outsiders or Rumble Fish, classic American novels from the Voice of Youth of the Seventies
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Bricks lay foundations for appeal's final effort
HELP us to complete the picture and give us the means to make our St Leonard's dream a reality. Using our artist's impression of how the enhanced and extended hospice will appear, we will bring you regular updates on the progress of the final stages of
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Surprise legacy takes
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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Delia starts a revolution
THE mood of anarchy is catching. And it is infecting the least likely revolutionaries. It began with the hauliers, those mild-mannered knights of the road who would no more dream of driving aggressively than of cancelling their subscription to New Internationalist
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Cash or we close, so please make it SNAPPY
SPECIAL Needs Activities And Play Provision York is quite a mouthful and perhaps some readers are wondering what it is. However, I suspect a lot more of you have heard of SNAPPY, especially if you are the parent or carer of a child or young person with
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Close Arc centre
WHEN the York Arc Light Project on Leeman Road first opened I wrote to the Evening Press about my grave concerns stating that all this does for the city is give a big come to York signal to the country's down-and-outs. Since then nothing has happened
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Can readers help?
I AM trying to trace the group of girls who started Queen Anne Grammar School for girls in 1976, aged 11 in classes 1T, 1G and 1B and finished their fifth year in 1981. June 2001 will mark 20 years since we all took our O levels and myself, Helen Stabler
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Three hospitals come clean
Three North Yorkshire hospitals have been given a "clean bill of health" by outside experts. Both York District Hospital, Bootham Park, York, and St Monica's in Easingwold, have been given an overall category three for cleanliness following surprise NHS
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Cattle bags brace
Tadcaster Ladies hockey club collected a welcome win as they beat Bradford Ladies 3-1. Bradford made the early running but two goals just before half-time put Tadcaster in control.The first strike came from Sarah Pedder from a short corner and Rebecca
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Campaigners target York offices
Protesters gathered in York to highlight what they claim is the cruel mistreatment of animals in slaughterhouses. Members of Vegetarians International Voice for Animals - Viva - claim that tens of millions of animals suffer before they die because they
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Referee required
A York football team are looking for someone to blow the whistle on their junior league matches. Nestle Rowntree Under-11s are seeking a referee to officiate in their home matches in the Ryedale Junior League. Their home games are played at Mille Crux
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Bid to recruit cancer surgeon
Managers want to hire a second breast surgeon for York District Hospital in a drive to strengthen services to patients. And they want to open a new breast screening clinic in a former city shop to further boost their work. The developments come three
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TABLE TENNIS: Derwent make a strong start
Derwent's first team started their bid to return to the National Table Tennis League's premier division with a 5-3 victory over hosts Grantham. Mark Short pipped new signing Mark Smith for the player of the match, both players winning two for their team
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LACROSSE: Queen Margaret's win through
Eleven girls from Queen Margaret's School came through a trial match to win places in the Yorkshire junior county lacrosse team. More than 60 girls from all over the county attended the trials at Harrogate Ladies College. Queen Margaret's were well represented
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Manor's magnificent seven triumph
MANOR won the boys section in Acomb Hockey Club's fourth annual Schools Seven-a-side Tournament. Their 0-0 draw in the final game saw them win the section by three points. The girls and mixed sections were contested by seven schools, so a play-off scheme
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Hotel donates bucketfuls of cash
BUCKETS of cash have flowed in to help our Hospice 2000 Appeal. The Holgate Hall Hotel in York has raised a total of £2,394 for the St Leonard's Hospice Millennium Appeal, with £205 from bucket donations and weekly staff collections. It rained buckets
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Appeal gets a welcome boost at awards
STARS of the hospitality industry in York were recognised at an awards ceremony which raised £1,500 for the Hospice 2000 appeal. The Oscar-style awards night, Awards for Excellence 2000, was organised by York and District Hospitality Association and was
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Step up, m'lord
I WRITE to tell you how to nominate people as non-party political members of the House Of Lords. Today we also invite the public to let us have their nominations. In May, the Prime Minister set up the Appointments Commission as part of transitional arrangements
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Shot man 'was retreating'
Claims that former mercenary Kirk Davies was walking away from armed officers when he was shot dead are to be investigated by police. Mr Davies, of Selby, who had walked into the town's police station brandishing an air rifle camouflaged with webbing,
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Selby church repairs appeal snubbed
Selby's Roman Catholic priest has reacted with anger and dismay after a £250,000 church restoration appeal was snubbed by English Heritage. Father John Aveyard said the decision would put St Mary's Church, in Gowthorpe, in the red - and possibly delay
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On track for live link
Young visitors to York's National Railway Museum can take part in a live link-up with Australia next week - but there won't be an Olympic athlete in sight. More than 130 pupils from St Wilfrid's RC School in York will take part in a special jubilee lecture
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Ringmaster gets hump over camel claim
A circus ringmaster has hit back at animal rights protesters who claim his performing camels are in poor health. The protesters are attempting to dissuade people from visiting the Great British Circus, in Wigginton Road, York, by holding up banners at
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'Back from dead' woman wins payout
A woman who "came back to life" after being wrongly pronounced dead, has accepted an out-of-court compensation settlement of nearly £40,000. Maureen Jones, 65, was lying face down in her bedroom when Dr Marion Meeson was called to her home in Thwing,
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York off to a flyer
York RUFC's under-8s team started their new season in the same winning style as they finished the last at under-7s level. Against a competent Bradford and Bingley side, York defended well and with their extra pace and speed of passing, came out with a
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Nestle boss to retire
Peter Blackburn will retire as chairman and chief executive of Nestle UK in July next year, sparking a giant management reshuffle, it was announced today. He will be succeeded by Alastair Sykes, aged 47, who only recently became managing director of Nestl
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Selby battle to the end
Selby Rugby Union Club's Under-16s produced what is likely to be one of their best performances of the season despite going down 37-12 to their Yarnbury counterparts. Selby began the game with 12 players to Yarnbury's 15 but stayed in touch in the first
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Flag's out for Duke's visit
The Duke of York was today visiting Helmsley Town Hall - a hundred years after his great-grandfather, the then Duke of York, later George V, laid the hall's foundation stone. Prince Andrew was meeting local people who have been involved in a £180,000
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We need help - SNAPPY
A race against time was this afternoon under way to save a vital service for young York people with learning difficulties. Special Needs Activities and Play Provision York (Snappy) must raise thousands of pounds or it will be forced to abandon its projects
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Ryedale pig firm facing closure
A leading pig-breeding firm in Ryedale has gone into liquidation. Newsham Hybrid Pigs Ltd, based at Amotherby, near Malton, employs more than 40 people and breeds up to 40,000 sows a year. The news was today branded a "disaster" by Ryedale MP John Greenway
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A policeman's life on the line
CHRIS TITLEY meets a Yorkshire policeman who has been on the right side of the tracks for 30 years. KEITH Groves has witnessed one murder, and was almost the victim of two more. He has escorted everything from bullion to royalty on the railways, and once
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Minardi set to speed to Newmarket success
Aidan O'Brien, on the mark with Mozart in a valuable race at Newmarket yesterday, can make further music at the headquarters of British racing tomorrow by winning the major event of the day. The formidable Tipperary trainer saddles Minardi in the £130,000
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Fahey filly can strike again in North East
Perpetuo, who got off the mark at Beverley a fortnight ago, can complete a quick double on a bumper programme at Newcastle tomorrow. The Richard Fahey-trained filly goes for the betsmart.co.uk Handicap over two miles and will again be partnered by apprentice
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Pushing on for St Leonard's
WHAT you have achieved so far is nothing short of remarkable. In two years, you have raised £1.4 million for our Hospice 2000 Appeal. Every penny of this splendid total has come from our family of readers, through legacies and fund-raising events. Your
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How satire had its day
That Was Satire That Was by Humphrey Carpenter (Gollancz, £20) THERE'S a line in the Lovin' Spoonful's song Do You Believe In Magic? which goes: It's like trying to tell a stranger about rock 'n' roll. The meaning is simple: if you haven't heard rock
