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It's clone-ly rock'n'roll
The clash of the Sixties titans hits York tomorrow as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones' tribute bands come to town. The Other Beatles play the Grand Opera House while The Rollin' Clones head to Fibbers. Steve Mellin, the Other John Lennon, says there
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Phoenix rewinds its old hits
Phoenix Dance Company is reviving excerpts from old shows and combining them with three new commissions inspired by past work for their new touring production. From Thursday to next Saturday, at York Theatre Royal, the Leeds company celebrates the diversity
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Stancliffe's secret of success
York City are, in many fans' eyes, a small club. The majority of the 1990s may have been spent in the more loftier climbs of Division Two, but few die-hards would really disagree. Yet for a so-called minnow City have an unrivalled big reputation and it
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The Golden Bowl
These days the thought of another Merchant-Ivory costume drama prompts a reaction along the lines of - nice frocks and pretty scenery but can't they move a bit faster? A Room With A View, Howards End and all the others are well crafted, intelligent dramas
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Coppergate stunner
I am shocked to see that English Heritage and the cyclists organisation, and to some extent Prof Nuttgens, are reported to be backing the city shops planned at Coppergate II. Have English Heritage taken into account the effect on the city as a whole before
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Ryedale venue's cash hope
The future of one of Ryedale's premier entertainment venues could be secured with Government funding, it has been revealed. The Milton Rooms management committee launched a bid for Lottery funding earlier this year but now it is looking at different sources
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York face difficult game
York will have an almighty task on their hands if they are to pick up their first points of the North Two East season at third placed Redcar tomorrow. After losing to lowly West Park Bramhope last Saturday, they face an even stiffer test against the team
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City theme bar backed
York is to get another new watering hole in the form of a Mediterranean theme bar - but councillors warned they are to get tough on noise from such premises. The owners of Oscar's Wine Bar, in Little Stonegate, have been granted their application to transform
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Thorpe extend unbeaten run
The John Smith's Sunday Morning League programme was decimated by flooding but a handful of brave clubs managed to fulfil their fixtures. Derwent United Reserves travelled from flood-hit Malton to Thorpe United who won 6-4 to maintain their 100% record
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Tough test for Pikes
It's crunch time for Pickering Town according to manager Jimmy Reid, despite the Pikes celebrating a six-match winning streak. Pickering, currently third in the Northern Counties East League division one table, take on Premiership outfit Garforth Town
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Jones joins exodus
Midfielder Marcus Jones has become the latest player to join the Scarborough exodus. Jones has joined third division Cheltenham Town, with Steve Cotterill's club taking over his contract until the end of the season. Boro entertain Stevenage tomorrow with
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Winning start for Earswick
New Earswick Indoor Bowls Club, beaten finalists last year, began their Hebden Trophy new campaign with a 101-65 win against Metrodome. New Earswick won three rinks to one and took 12 points from the match. Ken Carter, Alf Lewis, Tommy Haldon and John
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Sideways to victory
A North Yorkshire student will represent Great Britain at one of the world's most prestigious rally car competitions. Oliver Marshall, 19, will compete in the F2 class of the two-day Dubai International Rally next week. It is the first opportunity for
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Stranded fish returned to Ouse
How ironic that after three weeks of major match cancellations the weekend that the Ouse becomes fishable for the first time coincides with the smallest match calendar of the year. I still await news as to the fate of the three twice-postponed Ouse Championship
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City chip in with seaside training
Life was a beach for York City as manager Terry Dolan took his troops on a day trip to the seaside. Not that the City squad were taking things easy ahead of Sunday's FA Cup first round tie against Radcliffe Borough. Met by an icy breeze coming in off
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Minister promises quick action
Countryside Minister Elliot Morley has praised the City of York for its heroic efforts in dealing with the recent floods. He also confirmed that urban river flood defence schemes are to be given greater priority, and that Malton's defence improvements
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ET comes to the aid of BT
As BT take another step toward unmetered Internet access with its new Surftime package, digital media manager HOWARD DAVIS looks at what the future may hold for Net access. ET phone home, and soon - ET has unmetered Internet access. Despite the obvious
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Crooks ponders options
Lee Crooks will experiment with positional changes as York Wasps' pre-season build-up gathers momentum at Featherstone Rovers tonight. Gareth Lloyd switches from centre to second row, Michael Smith from second row to prop and new signing Paul Butterfield
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Stop this cruelty
Stop the cruelty THE flood appeal is not the only good cause inviting our attention today. Children In Need, the BBC campaign started in 1927, has raised £273 million down the years to help under-privileged children. On the same day, York's Hollywood
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Art in the right place
THE St Leonard's Hospice 2000 Appeal has had another enormous boost thanks to a grant awarded by the Yorkshire Arts Board. Over the next few months, arts, crafts and music will feature high on the agenda for residents and out-patients at the hospice.
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City chip in with seaside training
Life was a beach for York City as manager Terry Dolan took his troops on a day trip to the seaside. Not that the City squad were taking things easy ahead of Sunday's FA Cup first round tie against Radcliffe Borough. Met by an icy breeze coming in off
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See the light
Thanks to the magic of the Internet, finding a local restaurant has never been easier. It was through surfing the net that we came across the Lamplight Restaurant at the Heworth Court Hotel, on Heworth Green, York - the one with the large Viking ship
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The Way of the Gun
Christopher McQuarrie won an Oscar for his black-humoured script for The Usual Suspects, a dense character study and thriller with a plot as labyrinthine as a plate of spaghetti. Now he adds the directing badge to his writing credit, and the result is
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Dad and mates were flood heroes too
It is nice to hear about the Army heroes helping out in the York floods. Without the Army's help the flood defences would not be in place so quickly. But please give City of York Council workers some credit too. My dad works in the Highways Department
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We put latest football games to gruelling test
FIFA 2001, published by Electronic Arts for PC, PlayStation, PS2 and GameBoy Colour UEFA Champions League Season 2000-2001, published by Take 2 Interactive for PlayStation, PC This Is Football 2, published by Sony for PlayStation SO who's the biggest
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Award for hotel
Middlethorpe Hall, in York, is one of seven North Yorkshire hotels to have scooped a top accolade in this year's RAC Hospitality Awards.The country house hotel has retained its RAC Gold Ribbon. Other outstanding residences include The Grange in York,
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Complaints system in spotlight
Councillors are taking to the streets of York in a ground-breaking examination of City of York Council's complaints procedures. The council's newly-formed scrutiny management committee has agreed to put the council's complaints procedures in the spotlight
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Home-blaze husband jailed
A North Yorkshire husband who set fire to the family's Harrogate home so his wife got nothing from a divorce settlement would have gone on to murder her had he not been "shopped", a judge said. Gordon Irving, aged 45, was jailed for a total of seven years
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City hosts rail debate
The future of Yorkshire's railways was debated at a conference held in York. The Regional Rail 2000 Conference, organised by the Yorkshire-based Transport Research and Information Network at the National Railway Museum, heard that the main thing passengers
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City skate park gets go-ahead
Skate-boarders all over York were rejoicing today at the news that an application to build the city's only skate park has been approved. The long-running battle to build the facility in the Foss Bank multi-storey car park was won last night despite residents
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Crooks ponders options
Lee Crooks will experiment with positional changes as York Wasps' pre-season build-up gathers momentum at Featherstone Rovers tonight. Gareth Lloyd switches from centre to second row, Michael Smith from second row to prop and new signing Paul Butterfield
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Full Monty star launches campaign
Flintstones star Mark Addy was walking with dinosaurs today as he launched a new leaflet as part of the NSPCC's Full Stop campaign. Mark, who lives on the outskirts of York, was helping the charity send child cruelty back into the Jurassic age by promoting
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Stancliffe's secret of success
York City are, in many fans' eyes, a small club. The majority of the 1990s may have been spent in the more loftier climbs of Division Two, but few die-hards would really disagree. Yet for a so-called minnow City have an unrivalled big reputation and it
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Flood victims vent anger
Rawcliffe flood victims packed the hall of Canon Lee School and angrily accused the City of York Council council and emergency services of abandoning them in their hour of need. Hundreds of residents attended the heated two-and-a-half hour meeting where
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All you Need is love...
A piano-playing marathon, belly-dancing in the streets and town centre line-dancing are all part of BBC Children in Need in York this year. Vanessa Simmons, aged 25, is tackling a 12-hour stint on the piano in Walkers Bar in Micklegate. Having already
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York's back in business
A four-pronged attack is being launched to secure the recovery of York business following the floods. A top-level meeting of retail, council and business chiefs was held at the Evening Press and thisisyork offices yesterday to thrash out the plan. Under
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TV Jimmy leads flood fix-it
Veteran disc jockey and TV personality Sir Jimmy Savile today offered to 'fix it' for flood victims across Yorkshire. Yorkshireman Sir Jimmy offered a £1,000 donation to kick-start a fund to help victims of the flooding which ravaged York and North and
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All's square in love and law
All that nonsense about establishing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is as outdated in TV-land, it seems, as poor old Rumpole of the Bailey. If you're not smart, cynical, streetwise and sassy you can't get anywhere these days: and
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Master Wood can win star prize
Former top northern jockey Chris Grant, who finished second in the Grand National three times, can go some way to setting the record straight at Aintree tomorrow. Now training in County Durham, Grant saddles Master Wood in the Tote Becher Chase - run
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New-look Wasps enter Lions' den
LEE Crooks will experiment with positional changes as York Wasps' pre-season build-up gathers momentum at Featherstone Rovers tonight (7.30pm). Gareth Lloyd switches from centre to second row, Michael Smith from second row to prop and new signing Paul
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Fighting back after the floods
The floodwaters have gone, and the national media have gone with them. Those television crews who raced here for the natural spectacular moved on long before the mop up began. They did not stay to record the scale of the mess, revealed by the receding
