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Why pick on Mandy?
I HAVE looked at this Mandy affair from all sides now, with glasses on and glasses off, one eye shut and one eye open, both eyes shut. But whatever the ocular arrangement, nothing looks right. Dizzying amounts of words have been written about the resignation
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Tomorrow's Nap selection
Tom O'Ryan's nap selection for tomorrow's meetings: Catterick: Red Imp - 1:50 Updated: 12:16 Thursday, February 01, 2001
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Jaw-jaw appeal
YORK City supporters have called for another fans' forum to enable them to air their views. It is understood the City Supporters' Club proposal will be discussed by the City directors at a board meeting on Thursday. Raymond Wynn, secretary of the fans
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Home raid woman is left hurt
AN elderly woman was injured when she tried to tackle a burglar at her York home. The man, who claimed to be from the water board, tricked his way into the woman's house in Allen Close yesterday afternoon. After distracting her, he searched the property
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Residents First Weekend is towering success
AS a very new York resident - I moved here at Christmas to take up my new post as head of The Mount School - I express my warmest thanks to City of York Council and all the organisations who so generously participated in the Residents First Weekend. I
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Fascinating ritual
I READ with interest and some fascination the article about the 17-step pre-match good luck ritual of Leeds FC fan Laura Clark (Evening Press, January 23). Surely by now she must have realised that they have no effect on the outcome of games, assuming
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Keep fighting, Jade
Thank you for Tuesday's article on nine-year-old Jade Cumberland, who, after trusting the National Health Service and having her legs amputated, learned that the NHS did not honour its pledge to provide her with the prosthetic legs appropriate for her
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Blair and hunt vote
ACCORDING to Mr L W Graham (January 26), Tony Blair fled to America to avoid the Commons vote on hunting and so he could deny responsibility for the outcome. The notion that the Prime Minister fled the country to avoid the vote is fanciful in the extreme
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Dazzling form eclipses Cave opposition
YORK Ladies beat North Cave 103-70 in the Yorkshire League, winning three of four rinks. At home Sue Tomlinson, Sheila Turpin, Norma Reed and Maureen Robinson led from the start and won easily 29-10. Also at home Mary Wreglesworth, Betty Richardson, Joyce
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Rampant York's county conquest
YORK had a massive 116-59 win against Harrogate in the County League. Hosts David Stroughair, Mal Harrison, Geoff Walker and Graham Instone won with ease on their way to 35-16 victory. In the other rink Mick Parker, Dave Hewick, Barry Walker and Phil
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Winter lunches cooking up hospice cash
YOU can treat yourself and help our Hospice 2000 Appeal at the same time, thanks to the efforts of a York hotel. The Grange Hotel, in Bootham, is organising its winter lunch promotion for the second year running in aid of the St Leonard's Millennium Appeal
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York ranks to deliver solid knockout rap
AS one cup door closes, another opens for two of York's amateur rugby league teams. Heworth and New Earswick All Blacks, both knocked out of the Silk Cut Challenge Cup by professional opposition last week, will bid to bounce back with wins in the League
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Councils are set to block planned hike in floods levy
YORKSHIRE councils look set tomorrow to block a proposed big hike in their contributions towards flood defences. The Environment Agency is asking the Yorkshire Regional Flood Defence Committee for a 37 per cent increase in local authority levies to pay
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38 staff lose their jobs at York car dealership
HOPES have been dashed for all 38 employees of the ill-fated car dealership DC Cook with the announcement that they are being made redundant. The news, given to them yesterday by the official receivers, removed any hope that the Lawrence Street branch
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Jaw-jaw appeal
YORK City supporters have called for another fans' forum to enable them to air their views. It is understood the City Supporters' Club proposal will be discussed by the City directors at a board meeting on Thursday. Raymond Wynn, secretary of the fans
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Nine arrested at wedding party
POLICE were called to a York pub when a wedding party descended into a fracas. Officers had to draw their batons as they attempted to deal with the fight, believed to be between two families, in an upstairs room at the Brewer's Arms in Tanner Row at around
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Fog and ice leaves several hurt
FREEZING fog, mist and ice in the region today made for miserable journeys. A teenage motorcyclist was seriously injured after a crash near Ripon. The rider, from Bishop Thornton, was taken to hospital with head injuries after being in collision with
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Every farmer pays £1,400 for countryside care
NOW there's a revelation for you - in an Exeter University report, partially funded by MAFF, researchers estimate that around £250m are spent in a year on activities which maintain the landscape but add nothing to a farm's output or revenue. Taking an
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Loyalty? Don't bank on it
LOYALTY may be one of the great virtues, but it certainly doesn't always get its own reward. Not, at least, if you're a loyal customer with some of the UK's best-known High Street banks and building societies. Despite changes in the Banking Code designed
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Organisations happy to be at your service
Are you unhappy with the service you are receiving from gas, electric, water, postal or other similar businesses? If so, you should take up the matter with the company itself in the first instance. Most have official complaints procedures and they should
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Family tradition continues
IT was in the mid-19th century that Waind and Son, butchers and farmers, was established in Kirkbymoorside and today twin brothers Richard and Jeremy continue the tradition. There are two separate businesses. Richard and his mother operate the butchers
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Ongoers scheme opens
MORE than 2,500 applications have been sent out in the Outgoers portion of the Pig Industry Restructuring scheme since it opened on December 4. The other element of the scheme, Ongoers, is now open for applications. Both schemes offer assistance to the
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Local agronomist wins trade award
A LOCAL agronomist has been named as one of five regional winners in the agrochemical category of the Agricultural Trade Awards. He is Chris Rigley, senior agronomist and regional technical advisor for United Agri Products. Based in Welburn, the firm
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Conseravation awards
RYEDALE farmers are being urged to enter a prestigious farming and conservation competition. Run by the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and Farmscare, the Silver Lapwing Award is awarded to farms which show the best environmental improvements. Philip
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Young Farmers Clubs
AMOTHERBY WE are well into our winter programme, with weekly meetings being held on Monday evenings in the club rooms, behind the village hall at Hovingham, at 7.30pm. On January 15, members met at the studio of Minster FM and were treated to a tour of
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Jobs on a whim and a prayer
THE remaining Yorkshire miners will be all too familiar with the plight of Welsh steelworkers today. The miners will recognise and respect the work ethic that made British steelworks among the most productive in the world. And they know about the difference
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Sharing 'n' caring
A MORE enlightened approach to employee relations is demonstrated today by Tesco. Thanks to its Save As You Earn share scheme, every Tesco worker had the chance to benefit from the success story they helped create. The Corus workers gave their all and
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Gulf War ruined my life, says veteran
A YOUNG father said today his life had been ruined by what he believes is Gulf War syndrome. Former Army medical technician Wayne Harman, 33, said he faced a bleak future as his health continues to deteriorate. The nightmare started in 1991 after he returned
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Crescent's cream of Continent coup
FOOTBALL is coming home again with the future stars of European football heading for Bootham Crescent, writes Dave Stanford. The Football Association has confirmed York City's ground has been chosen as one of the venues for this spring's UEFA European
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Lawyer strike to halt York courts
ANGRY advocates in York will tomorrow become the first in the country to strike in protest against what they call Government "bully-boy" tactics. The action means that no lawyers will be turning up at the city's magistrates court to represent the accused
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Council tax to rise by 7% in York
RESIDENTS in York are facing a seven per cent hike in council tax which would pump up the average yearly bill by almost £50. The recommended rise comes in the report for City of York Council's £137m 2001/2002 budget, which will go before the authority's
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No action on autism
RECENT Evening Press articles about autism and respite care have led me to ask what effect the newspaper's previous campaigns, notably Rain Man, from February 1989, have had on the provision of services for people with this condition in York and North
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No logic over mobiles
AFTER reading about the objections to the mast in the church at Shipton-by-Beningborough, I cannot understand the logic of parents today. They go out in droves and buy mobile phones for their children, even after all the hype over brain damage, and then
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Missing bus misery
WHILE waiting at the bus stop I watched the sun rise over the roof-tops and I swear the snowdrops and crocuses in the gardens blossomed before my very eyes! I waited so long for a bus I almost saw the sun set! Yes, the 8.07am 22 bus from West Nooks to
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Moss is the boss
AN EPIC four-and-a-half-hour game took place in the national ladies sub-zone final between York's Madge Zimnoch, Jeanette Coulson, June Clayton and Sue Tomlinson and New Earswick's Margaret Moss, Gill Clarke, Carol Beavers, and Pat Walker. Trailing 18
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RAF ace with 38 kills dies,aged 85
Britain's most successful fighter ace of the Second World War, Air Vice-Marshal Johnnie Johnson, has died at the age of 85. Johnson notched up a record 38 confirmed "kills" on his way to becoming the RAF's "Top Gun" in the war. But he overcame an inauspicious
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Fears for estate jobs
A LEADING North Yorkshire landowner has warned of the dangers to the region's economy and employment figures if threatened cutbacks to local tourism services are approved. Simon Howard, chairman of the Castle Howard Estate, has urged a rethink over the
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Crooks tracks Heworth battlers
YORK Wasps' coach Lee Crooks is still keen to speak to Heworth duo Jason Gatus and Dan Briggs about a possible move to Huntington Stadium. Although Crooks now has an "adequate number" of players in the ranks, he remains eager to strengthen his squad and
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"Living in sin" choirmaster to take Church to court
A CHOIRMASTER is to accuse the Church of England of breaching his human rights by unfairly dismissing him for living in sin. Stephen Hartley, from York, is taking the Church to an Employment Tribunal next month in what could be a human rights test case
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Crescent's cream of Continent coup
FOOTBALL is coming home again with the future stars of European football heading for Bootham Crescent, writes Dave Stanford. The Football Association has confirmed York City's ground has been chosen as one of the venues for this spring's UEFA European
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Text message recovers phone
THE text message - the main communication means of choice for many in the 21st Century - has been employed in the fight against crime by a York man. After his mobile phone was stolen from his Charlton Street home during a break-in, the man sent a text
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Weekend road works raise city traffic fears
AN important road junction in the centre of York is to be closed during this weekend for essential resurfacing work, leading to major diversions. City of York Council is to shut the junction of Bootham and Gillygate, and is urging motorists to avoid the
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"I'm no ogre" says home blaze husband
A YORK man whose disabled wife set fire to their marital home told today told of his distress at being "painted as an ogre" in the resulting court case. Graham Spaven spoke of his love and support for wife Dawn, who was given a two-year suspended sentence
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Councillors approve sex shop plan
Councillors in York tonight approved an application for a controversial adult shop to become a fully-fledged sex shop. The application for a sex shop licence for The Adult Shop in Gillygate, York, was overwhelmingly approved despite opposition from the
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Crooks tracks Heworth battlers
YORK Wasps' coach Lee Crooks is still keen to speak to Heworth duo Jason Gatus and Dan Briggs about a possible move to Huntington Stadium. Although Crooks now has an "adequate number" of players in the ranks, he remains eager to strengthen his squad and
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Prices at the markets
DRIFFIELD Forward on January 25 were 14 sheep (including 12 ewes); 252 pigs (including 21 sows). Sheep: prime hoggs, super heavy to £49/head or 92.4p/kg; ewes, others to £43.50 (£27.70). Pigs: gilts to 75kgs to 74p (71.8p), 76-85kgs to 75.5p (71.8p);
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New EU rules on welfare for pigs
ELLIOT Morley has welcomed proposals from the EU Commission to revise the existing EU pig welfare rules. The Commission presented its paper to a meeting of EU experts in Brussels. Mr Morley said: "I am pleased that our pressure on the Commission to produce
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March date
FARMERS Weekly is sending out the rallying call to its readers, urging them to sign up for the Countryside March, scheduled for March 18. It has joined forces with Horse and Hound, Country Life and Shooting Times to promote the event, which it says is
