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Speaking up for trains
What a way to run a railroad! Talk about too many cooks spoiling the broth, what we've got is too many profit-hungry companies competing to make a complete hash of the country's rail network. Delays and cancellations are commonplace, extortionate fares
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Bells were swell
THE symphony of bells was a splendid musical idea. Great fun. The city looking wonderful. A sense of occasion. Shame about the traffic, though: intrusive, noisy, dangerous, and most of it quite unnecessary. Let's do it every October, but make it the one
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Proud moment
IT WAS a wonderful though rather long launch day for the Millennium Bridge; Whitby Bird & Partners are very proud to have shared the celebration with so many people, on both banks of the river! However your excellent reporting was incorrect in just
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Student made woman's life miserable
When Leo McNeil spotted dancer Susannah Welch across a crowded room at the college where both were students, it was love at first sight, a court heard. But when his love was not reciprocated McNeil, aged 22, turned from admirer to stalker, Harrogate magistrates
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Helmet tops off display
An ancient helmet discovered below Coppergate in York will take pride of place in a new exhibition launched next month. The Jorvik Story, an alternative to the Jorvik Viking Centre, which will be closed while a £4.8 million refurbishment is carried out
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Lizzie's family search for answers
Just nine months ago, York parents Dave and Rose Gilmour were watching their talented, teenage daughter head for a bright future. Only weeks before that, they had glowed with pride as they saw Lizzie, 15, - the "baby" of the family - take another step
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Anger over treatment of archivist
AN angry councillor has demanded that senior City of York Council officers be reprimanded for disciplining city archivist Rita Freedman. Mrs Freedman received a written warning for insubordination after she wrote to alert councillors of proposals to move
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Whitby cliff face collapse
Thousands of tons of boulder clay crashed off the cliffs near Whitby's ancient Abbey - just four days after a previous landslide. Fortunately the collapse happened at night - in daylight, the fall could have killed a team of council engineers working
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Vaults shock Brigadier
Victoria Vaults shocked last season's York John Smith's Ladies League division one champions Brigadier with a well-deserved 5-4 win. Jackie Coverdale hit big scores to level with Brigadier after their captain Sue Lowery had shot out on a two dart 85.
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Leading golf figure dies
Bill Duston, a well-known figure in York golf, has died at the age of 69. Mr Duston was closely connected with Fulford Golf Club, being a past captain, former club champion and former chairman of the greens committee. He was greens committee chairman
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Council hit with £18,000 blunder bill
Councillors in York, who ignored the advice of their own experts to block a solicitor's bid for planning permission, have cost the authority £18,000. A lengthy planning wrangle over the height of solicitor Simon Morgan's luxury home in Upper Poppleton
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Pikes to face Marske in Vase
Pickering Town have been drawn away to Marske United in the second round of the FA Carlsberg Vase. Selby Town will travel to Crook Town if they overcome Rossendale United in their replay in Lancashire tonight (7.45pm). The Selby side will be relatively
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City housing scheme to get go-ahead
A proposed blueprint for a massive housing scheme in York is set to get the go-ahead from planners. The draft development brief for the Germany Beck site, in Fulford, which is earmarked for hundreds of homes, is set to be approved when it goes before
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Police want this man
This man is wanted by York police in connection with an alleged abduction attempt. A 16-year-old girl was grabbed and told to get into a car by a man near York College on October 3. She managed to struggle free and later helped police compile this likeness
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Crooks to launch World Cup
York Wasps coach Lee Crooks is to don his playing gear again tomorrow to help launch the Lincoln Financial Group Rugby League World Cup. The former international prop forward has been named in a team of Great Britain legends to take on an overseas team
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Sertori in hunt for points
Uncompromising defender Mark Sertori goes back to his old hunting ground tonight determined to help York City get back on the winning track. The Minstermen travel to Halifax Town without yet having enjoyed an away victory this season, but face a side
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Brother celebrates gift of new life
A Selby leukaemia victim who was given the gift of life by his sister has held a celebration party after being told by doctors he is in remission. After learning the news that he was on the road to recovery, Simon White dashed to his sister's home and
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Crooks to launch World Cup
York Wasps coach Lee Crooks is to don his playing gear again tomorrow to help launch the Lincoln Financial Group Rugby League World Cup. The former international prop forward has been named in a team of Great Britain legends to take on an overseas team
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It's all over now
Divorce and separation are facts of life. To mark National Parents Week, Stephen Lewis talks to two parents about how mediation helped them cope with their marriage break-up WHEN we make that 'for better, for worse' pledge at the altar, most of us really
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Experts needed in the front line
THE ambulance service which serves North and East Yorkshire is looking to recruit a first aid army. Volunteers from rural areas are being sought to learn how to use life-saving defibrillators. This is the latest scheme to try to ensure country residents
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Millennium Bridge is victory for people power
THE Millennium Bridge itself was a project that arose from a community campaign, the design was shown to the local people for discussion and the particular design voted on. It is not surprising that the project has very widespread support. In contrast
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History talk raises cash
A talk about the past has ensured a better future for two charitable causes. Easingwold residents packed into the Galtres Leisure Hall earlier this month to hear Valerie Taylor tell the story of the town's history. Every year for the last 12 she has given
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Art gem reprint on show
A reprint of a multi-million pound drawing by Michelangelo found at York's Castle Howard has gone on public display. Mourning Woman, which was discovered by Sotherby's expert Julian Stock, is expected to fetch anything between £6 million and £8 million
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£2.5m price tag on York 's most des res
With a price tag of £2.5 million, what is very likely to be the most expensive home in York has come on to the property market. On the edge of the city sits historic Middlethorpe Manor, which was once home to Sir Francis Terry, one of the city's famous
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County ponder signing paceman
Concern that Yorkshire could be even harder hit by ECB central contracts next season may lead to the cricket committee making a fresh attempt to sign the Huddersfield League's Caribbean-born paceman Lesroy Weekes. The 29-year-old Thongsbridge fast bowler
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York stick to task for point
City of York Ladies pulled back a two-goal deficit to come away with a 2-2 draw in their rearranged North League division one match at Timperley. It was a familiar story for York who enjoyed territorial advantage but failed to gain reward from many penalty
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Rising bollard claims second victim
A flashing warning sign is to highlight York's rising bollard after the second car in a week smashed into it. A man was taken to York District Hospital after the electronic bollard on Stonebow, designed to stop unauthorised traffic using the road to access
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Living doll meets fans
Barbie, that well-loved vision in pink, stopped off in York to meet young fans in a tour of shops across the north of England. The walking, talking, living doll was at the Coney Street branch of Woolworth's to meet junior consumers eyeing up the stock
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Tycoons' York link revealed
The City of York has produced some of the region's wealthiest working tycoons, a new survey has revealed. The list, which has been compiled by Yorkshire Business Insider magazine, reveals a number of the region's richest people have a York connection.
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Card fraudsters target county
Highly-organised credit card fraudsters are targeting North Yorkshire on a massive scale, according to the county police's fraud squad. The use of counterfeit and stolen cards is escalating, with conmen drawn to the rich pickings of York's out-of-town
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Tycoons' York link revealed
The City of York has produced some of the region's wealthiest working tycoons, a new survey has revealed. The list, which has been compiled by Yorkshire Business Insider magazine, reveals a number of the region's richest people have a York connection.
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Stressed rail staff offered help
Counselling has been offered to all York-based Railtrack staff following the Hatfield rail crash which left four passengers dead. The city office is in charge of the East Coast mainline on which last week's derailment happened. Some staff members were
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Civilians to aid heart attack victims
Civilians could be called to the frontline of emergency care for heart attack patients under new plans being discussed by the county's ambulance service. Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance Service is to target 23 areas across the county for training
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Cost of climbing property ladder
With York's top properties now commanding outrageous price tags, CHRIS TITLEY looks at the winners and losers of the property lottery CALLING it a dream house would be an understatement. For most of us, Middlethorpe Manor is beyond our wildest dreams.
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Witchy woman
MAXINE GORDON meets a York woman who makes her living from things that go bump in the night DRESSED in a long, black coat and pushing a pram with a toy monkey inside, Gwyneth Williams expects to turn heads as she goes walkabout in York. You'd be forgiven
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We are sale-ing
DON'T it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone...Joni Mitchell sang these words about a parking lot, but it could equally be applied to shoppers at C&A. It seems that since the chain store announced it is to close down
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Stars in their hair
MAXINE GORDON meets a York hairdresser with stars in his eyes DIANA Ross, Whitney Houston and Pamela Anderson are just three of the big names who have been turning heads at the S.O.T.A salon in Micklegate, York. Ricky Tomlinson, Cherie Blair and Richard
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Safety first
THE stealth bollard has been active for a matter of days and already it has injured two drivers and damaged two cars. Not bad for a road safety measure. City of York Council highway chiefs say the bollard, which rises from Stonebow to block unauthorised
