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Listen carefully...
ASunday newspaper reports that Britain's intelligence services want the right to listen to every phone call made by every person living in this country. And they'd like to read every email sent as well. Good luck to the devious snoops, I'd say. This is
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Floods tax hike shock
Council taxes look set to rise to help to meet the costs of improved flood defences after the Environment Agency revealed that the total bill in Yorkshire could come to a staggering £161 million. North Yorkshire County Council is being asked to contribute
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City may name tax dodgers
Tax dodgers in York would be named and shamed under no-nonsense proposals being considered today. The plan follows a loss of nearly £450,000 in unpaid taxes which City of York Council was forced to write-off earlier this year. Suggestions include employing
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Flood Watch issued for Ryedale
The prospect of yet more flooding in Ryedale has reared its ugly head after Environment Agency chiefs put the North York Moors and Vale of York on Flood Watch. The warnings came after the River Rye at Howe Bridge, between Malton and Pickering, had broken
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Behrajan to complete hat-trick of victories
Behrajan, two from two over fences, can complete a hat-trick of wins at Cheltenham tomorrow to further advertise his burgeoning prowess as a highly-talented young chaser, writes Tom O'Ryan. The French recruit, a leading staying hurdler during the last
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Dolan lashes Hogg 'move' tale
Furious York City chief Terry Dolan today lambasted reports suggesting the Minstermen are willing to let young starlet Chris Hogg move to Manchester United without a fight. The 16-year-old City junior and England Under-15 international's trial spell at
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Trust is wrong - Travelodge is just brilliant
DOES York Civic Trust (Evening Press, December 5) not realise that had the new Travelodge hotel not been built, and in my view built in keeping with its environment, then the next thing that anyone entering York from Fishergate would have seen, would
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Foreboding on buses
MR Ibbott wonders about First York's plans, and so do I (Letters, December 4). There's a reply-paid card on the booklet - but with an insultingly minute space for comment. An information caravan - but with timings that exclude anyone who uses the bus
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Dumped waste causes a stink
A right stink has been caused at a Ryedale waste depot after an unscrupulous trader illegally dumped a bag of fish waste. The dumping, at the public amenity on Showfield Lane Industrial Estate, Malton, has meant that four of the skips at the site have
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Light up a life over Christmas
A big switch-on in Malton saw 2000 Christmas lights illuminated - each one representing someone special. The lights form the decoration of a 25ft high Christmas tree outside local construction firm Harrison, who have donated the tree. Part of the Light
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TV show on WWI coastal attack
A TV documentary to be screened tonight about the bombardment of the Yorkshire coast during the First World War proves that the British government knew about the attack a day and a half before it happened. BBC North's Bombardment programme, to be shown
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Malton traffic plan
Residents in Malton are to be consulted over plans to install a traffic calming scheme along a main road. Residents of Highfield Road and Pasture Lane are being sent questionnaires by highways chiefs at North Yorkshire County Council asking whether or
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Bitter disappointment for brewer
A brewer's Christmas ale will hardly be supped in his home city as many York pubs cannot stock it. Andrew Whalley, head brewer at York Brewery, Toft Green, is disappointed the seasonal 4.8 per cent ABV brew Stocking Filler will be available at so few
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Thorne in Boro's side
Stoke City's Peter Thorne proved his striking prowess with two super goals to knock Scarborough out of the LDV Vans Trophy. But Scarborough had their moments in the 3-1 defeat, playing some neat football and Birkir Kristinsson saved well from Cherif Diallo
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Top-form York move on up
York were in devastating form with all four teams winning their latest Yorkshire Chess League matches. York 'A' had an exceptionally strong team but initially struggled against a weak Wakefield team. Early on most of York's players were making heavy weather
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Neighbour from Heaven
Pensioner Margaret Hoyle is truly a Neighbour from Heaven. For more than 30 years she has been a fantastic neighbour to the woman next door - and now she has been rewarded for all her selfless acts of friendship. Margaret, aged 70, of Brandsby Grove,
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York karate king aims for world stage
Karate king Liam O'Grady is aiming to make the step up on to the world stage after taking Europe by storm. The 19-year-old York fighter was a member of the three-man England team that returned from the recent European Junior Championships in Switzerland
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Box relishes cup clash
Heworth coach Harold Box will be relishing next week's Silk Cut Challenge Cup second round clash, as his side have been drawn to face his former club, Featherstone Lions. Box left the Lions to take up his post at Elmpark Way in the close season, having
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Class act reaps rewards
Pupils at Hemingbrough Primary School, near Selby, are celebrating their school's success in the primary school performance tables published today. The tables show that all the pupils at Hemingbrough who took national tests in English, maths and science
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Youngsters make the grade
Pupils at Nawton Primary School, near Helmsley, are celebrating their success in the primary school performance tables published today. The tables show that all the pupils at Nawton who took national tests in English, maths and science in the summer reached
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Dolan lashes Hogg 'move' tale
Furious York City chief Terry Dolan today lambasted reports suggesting the Minstermen are willing to let young starlet Chris Hogg move to Manchester United without a fight. The 16-year-old City junior and England Under-15 international's trial spell at
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Pupils' sweet smiles of success
Celebrating their school's success in primary school performance tables published today are pupils at English Martyrs' RC Primary School in York. All the pupils at English Martyrs who took national tests in maths and science in the summer reached the
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Parents vow to fight school closures
Parents today vowed to continue the campaign to keep their children's school in Haxby open. Oaken Grove Primary School in Haxby and Shipton Street Infant School, off Burton Stone Lane, York, are a step nearer to closure with the release of City of York
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Euro legal move to stop mining
Villagers who fear mining beneath Naburn could leave their homes even more vulnerable to flooding than they already are may invoke human rights legislation in an effort to get it stopped. They believe if mining does go ahead and causes subsidence, leading
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Conlon to stay at Colchester
YORK City striker Barry Conlon is staying with Second Division Colchester United on a long-term loan, it was confirmed this afternoon. City chief Terry Dolan said he had agreed to let the 22-year-old extend his initial one-month Layer Road loan deal until
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Time to get off their high horse
HUNTING with hounds ignites the sort of passionate debate rarely witnessed in Britain. Now MPs have the chance to ban it - so we can expect a period of intense political campaigning. Britain has already witnessed the remarkable ability of the pro-hunt
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Wasps' star hangs up boots
Loyal York Wasps' servant Chris Hopcutt today finally admitted defeat in his bid to battle back from injury. Hopcutt, who turned 31 yesterday, harboured hopes of returning to the game ever since smashing his left knee 19 months ago. But now he has accepted
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Books for all
Books editor CHRIS TITLEY finds there is a book for everyone this Christmas. For the fiction fan WE might as well start at the top, which means Booker Prize-winner The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury, £16.99). Described by our reviewer as
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NFU ponders sugar beet and floods
TIM Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in Malton last week to address the local group AGM at the Green Man. He gave an overview of the current major issues the union is working on, on behalf of its members, and commented that
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Turn dreams to reality
This column is supplied by Derek Knight (01430) 861988 and Julie Cartner (01904) 491478 who are consultants for ADAS in East and North Yorkshire. I AM not usually at a loss for words, but this month there seems little change. Conditions remain very wet
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Prices at the stock markets
DRIFFIELD Forward on November 30 were eight sheep; 311 pigs (including 51 sows/boars). Sheep: ewes to £12/head (£10.67). Pigs: gilts to 75kg to 94p/kg (93p), 76-85kg to 96p (88.9p); boars to 75kg to 87p (85.5p), 76-85kg to 87p (86.2p), others to 95p (
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Conlon to stay at Colchester
YORK City striker Barry Conlon is staying with Second Division Colchester United on a long-term loan, it was confirmed this afternoon. City chief Terry Dolan said he had agreed to let the 22-year-old extend his initial one-month Layer Road loan deal until
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City youth team aims for big guns
York City's youth team were preparing for tonight's FA Youth Cup third round tie with Huddersfield Town at Bootham Crescent buoyed by incentives aplenty. Victory will earn the City youngsters a fourth round clash at either Stoke City or Wolves, guaranteeing
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Superficial Labour
LABOUR, the self-proclaimed party of the family, has so far abolished the married couples' tax allowance; lowered the age of consent for homosexuals; planned to introduce no-fault quickie divorces and removed the ban on promoting homosexuality in schools
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We need a playground
YOUR article "Safety Fears Over Play Area" (December 1) is misleading when it infers that York Police have expressed an opinion against the scheme. One man in his role as a member of the Safer York Partnership Committee, who happens to be a police officer
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Backing education
RUTH Potter is wrong to say in her letter (December 1) that Liberal Democrats are opposed to greater investment in education. Just the opposite: in fact, we have consistently campaigned for a 1p increase in income tax (ring-fenced) to fund improvements
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New Earswick beat champions
New Easwick beat 1999 champions Thornaby 83-69 in the Yorkshire League. Anthony Scruton's rink of Ralph Tiplady, Ron Walker and Bill Waldie came from 7-5 down after eight ends to beat the rink skipped by Scruton's Yorkshire team colleague Alan Jones 31
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Cross country times
York Schools Cross County Championships on Knavesmire next Tuesday, December 10, starts at 10am for boys and 1.130am for girls. There will be a training session on the course this Sunday at 11.15am, meeting at Hamilton Panthers football pavilion on Knavesmire
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Cliff jacket for auction
A Jacket worn by the Peter Pan of pop is going under the hammer to raise money for a York theatre company. Cliff Richard has donated a red jacket, worn during a live performance, to Riding Lights Theatre Company, based in Lower Friargate, York, to be
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Vintage display
Peter Skelton and Kay Thornham won Fulford Golf Club's annual wines and spirits competition with 42 stableford points, edging home on the back nine from Jamie Miller and David Falgate.
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Pensioners' festive fun
Pensioners enjoyed themsleves at the annual Christmas party in York. More than 400 of York's elderly joined the Lord Mayor of York, Coun Shan Braund, yesterday, along with Sheriff Barrie Ferguson and the Sheriff's, Lady Linda Ferguson, for carols, celebrations
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1,500 census jobs on offer
An event which happens just once every ten years will create 1,500 jobs in North Yorkshire next year. April 29, 2001 is Census Day, the once-in-a-decade count of the entire population. The team which is organising the census operation in the county is
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Santa wings his way to playgroup
IS it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Santa Claus! Swapping his reindeers for a light aircraft, Father Christmas landed at RAF Church Fenton to deliver toys to 20 disabled children from the Peter Pan Playgroup, Sherburn-in-Elmet, who were enjoying their
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City youth team aims for big guns
York City's youth team were preparing for tonight's FA Youth Cup third round tie with Huddersfield Town at Bootham Crescent buoyed by incentives aplenty. Victory will earn the City youngsters a fourth round clash at either Stoke City or Wolves, guaranteeing
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Wasps' star hangs up boots
Loyal York Wasps' servant Chris Hopcutt today finally admitted defeat in his bid to battle back from injury. Hopcutt, who turned 31 yesterday, harboured hopes of returning to the game ever since smashing his left knee 19 months ago. But now he has accepted
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Foxhunters 'will defy law'
Ryedale hunting enthusiasts say they are prepared to break the law if blood sports are made illegal. The Government has announced it is pressing ahead with legislation to outlaw foxhunting. Its Bill on the matter will get its first reading in Parliament
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Tackling the yobs
STEPHEN LEWIS assesses the impact of new measures to crack down on 'yob culture' THE shocking murder of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor on the stairwell of a block of flats in south east London has thrown a sharp light on the problem of young people and
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At the market: Christmas parade of champions
WE haven't much to thank our Weather Gods for this season - perhaps we should be sacrificing a few fatted French calves on the cliffs of Dover to appease their wrath - but, mercifully, the rain held off for the whole of Tuesday morning at the Christmas
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She's heaven sent
WE hear so much about the "neighbours from hell" these days that the Evening Press decided to even things up. That was the idea behind our Neighbours From Heaven initiative. We were delighted to uncover any number of inspirational stories of neighbourliness
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Beware of the credit trap
AS consumers and retailers gear up to the busiest spending time of the year, City of York Trading Standards is warning shoppers to be careful not to be stung by misleading credit deals. Many of the goods traditionally bought as presents at this time of
