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Toast of television
STEADY, ladies. Pogo and Meatloaf, the George Clooney and Russell Crowe of the beer drinking world, are back on the box next week. After their triumph on The Girlie Show in 1997, the York real ale connoisseurs are set for a multi-media blitz next week
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Counting our luck
Banks Caf, Lendal, York WE are indebted to hairdresser Paul for telling us that we could enjoy a classic snack in more ways than one. Accompanied by Classic FM and ensconced in a comfortable settee we surveyed the menu. It was limited but attractive and
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Counting our luck
WE are indebted to hairdresser Paul for telling us that we could enjoy a classic snack in more ways than one. Accompanied by Classic FM and ensconced in a comfortable settee we surveyed the menu. It was limited but attractive and competed on our table
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Meet Beverley
I'M ashamed to admit I'd never been to Beverley. I have lived in York for three years and been full of good intentions to check out what the tourism bosses call 'the mini York'. Please don't think I've got anything against our eastern neighbours. I have
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Time to fight the next floods
A RECENT informative Evening Press piece, "The Great Floods of 2000", used excellent graphics to detail the works and large amounts of money spent on flood protection schemes for York, since those "once in a hundred year" floods of 1982. So far, the main
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Club youngsters knit together
CHILDREN at Wigginton after-school club have been knitting to raise money for their newly-improved premises. The club is based in a building next to Wigginton Primary School and is celebrating a £700 grant from Transco's Community Aid Foundation. Bev
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Pupils get back to their roots
YORK youngsters have been doing their bit for the environment as part of National Tree Week. Pupils from Year Three to Year Six at St Aelred's RC Primary School in the city have been restoring their nature area. The last tree planting took place six years
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Team to target York estate yobs
A TEAM of troubleshooters has been called into a York estate where nuisance youths have forced the community centre to shut up shop at night. Evening meetings and activities at the social hall, in Roche Avenue, Bell Farm, have been postponed after a gang
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Holly and Ivy prepare for festive fun
THESE two little Christmas crackers, Holly and Ivy, have dressed up in true festive style to promote the RSPCA's winter fair in York. Puppy Holly, a Rottweiler Pointer cross, and Ivy the kitten, are residents of the RSPCA animal home in Landing Lane,
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King and I
Iwas six in August 1977 when the news that Elvis Presley was dead sent fans and non-fans of the King reeling. "Have you heard the news? Elvis is dead," the woman on the bus announced with tearful reverence to my grandmother, who retorted "Big deal!" with
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Backstreet joys
NEVER in the field of human eating, has such great food, been eaten so gratefully, by so few. I hope a lot of people read this review - because if they don't, the fantastic food in one York caf-bar will continue to go untried. Alley Cats was deserted
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Crayke up call
TODAY 'The Crayke Estate Walk 2000', just ten miles north of York, a nice amble where the southern skirt of the Howardian Hills eases down to the flat lands. The walk is made possible by the ever more popular Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS), whereby
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No manners
I WONDER if other people have experienced problems with motorists when walking in York. Courtesy and even general road safety seems to have been abandoned as the motorists line-up 'lemming-like' in traffic queues throughout the city. Pedestrian crossings
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Healthy outlook for new medical centre
FINAL preparations are being made for the grand opening of a new £1 million medical centre in York - providing a "one-stop-shop" incorporating a doctor, dentist and optician. For the three partners of the GPs' surgery, currently based in High Petergate
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Battle stations for rail franchise fight
THE future of rail travel on the East Coast Main Line will be decided by the end of year, the Evening Press has learned. The result of the head-to-head battle between Virgin Rail Group and GNER for the 20-year franchise to run trains between London and
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Musical with a Twist
PUPILS from the junior and senior departments of Dalton Terrace, York, were tonight performing their version of the hit musical Oliver! The performance begins at 7.30pm. Pictured taking part are Asabel Smales, front, as Oliver, with, from left, back row
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Conservation groups back public parkland
SIX conservation groups have blasted York's Coppergate Riverside proposals - and thrown their weight behind the alternative scheme for public parkland. The York Natural Environment Panel says it has decided there is "no contest" between Land Securities
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Clever boxing for Christmas by pupils
CHILDREN and their families at two schools in the York area have been parcelling up Christmas boxes which will soon be on their way to Eastern Europe. Both Woodthorpe Primary School and St Mary's CE Primary School, at Askham Richard, have produced about
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Bug-busting team on patrol in York hospital
INFECTIONS acquired by patients while in hospital are being tackled in York after a report claimed it led to 5,000 deaths nationally every year. As reported in the Evening Press on Thursday, the House of Commons public accounts committee demanded that
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Heaven saint
Book: Scots Cooking by Sue Lawrence (Headline £18.99) Chef's CV: Sue Lawrence is a former BBC Masterchef, who used this success to launch a new career as a food writer. She has published eight cookery books - and this new one is a collection of favourite
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YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD
YOU'RE never too old to find love, as George Bye, 77, and Ida Brown, 84, can testify. The York couple were resigned to single lives after their partners died years ago, but when fate threw them together on a coach trip to Morecambe, Cupid's arrow struck
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When Ian met Robbie
THAT Robbie Williams is going to dine out on this story for years. "You'll never guess who I met on holiday," you can imagine him telling Kylie and Britney at the next music awards ceremony. "Only Barnitts' boss Ian Thompson!" Ian, managing director of
