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John razors a laugh
JOHN Raw has a liking for comic roles, and it is easy to see why on making his acquaintance. Plonking down a can of shaving foam after subjecting himself to the demands of a photo session with the Evening Press photographer at York Theatre Royal, he rubs
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Bye, bye Birdie...
THE American comic musical Bye Bye Birdie was originally directed by Fred Astaire no less. Now the duty falls to Robert Readman, whose production for Shipton Theatre Club runs at Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, from February 20 to 24 at 7.30pm nightly.
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Dolan's Iron determination
York City chief Terry Dolan is hoping absence has made the hearts of his misfiring Minstermen grow fonder. Dolan was a notable absence from the training ground earlier this week while he conducted secret scouting missions in the south. With first team
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Hello Musicals
YORK Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society's first show of 2001 will be Mad About Musicals on March 25, not as usual at Joseph Rowntree Theatre but at the Grand Opera House instead. Explaining the move, chairman Jim Welsman says: "The society has decided
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Fillip for 'keeper Howarth
York City received another international fillip today with Russ Howarth named in the latest England Under-18 squad. Goalkeeper Howarth has been included in the England squad selected for a friendly international with Holland, to be staged at Stevenage
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Victory for flood campaigners
Stamford Bridge has won its battle for a prompt start on a vital new flood defence scheme. The Yorkshire Regional Flood Defence Committee agreed this afternoon to prioritise the protection of communities along the River Derwent - Stamford Bridge and Malton
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Let's have vision to restore Rowntree theatre
WITH concern I read about Nestl's proposed withdrawal from managing the Joseph Rowntree Theatre (February 2). While I know that Nestl does put something back into the local community from which it gains so much, it seems unfortunate that they are not
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More Tory deception
COUN Stone is right to point out the anomalies between William Hague's pre-election promises of tax cuts and the behaviour of the Tory councillors in his neighbourhood (February 7). While the North Yorkshire County Council proposes to increase the council
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WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role, published by THQ for PlayStation
WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role, published by THQ for PlayStation THIS game is an absolute must for all fans of the WWF wrestling phenomenon. Smackdown 2 has it all, with dozens of WWF superstars, managers and grappling options - from Royal Rumbles to
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Disney's 102 Dalmatians, published by Activision for Gameboy
Disney's 102 Dalmatians, published by Activision for Gameboy CRUELLA'S toy factory is a major flop! She has no staff and no one wants to buy her horrible toys. She is definitely on the brink of financial ruin, so her idea is to pet-nap all the Dalmatian
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Valiant Olympia reach heights
The York John Smith's Sunday Morning league programme was decimated by the weather with only nine games out of a possible 30 surviving the appalling conditions. No games were possible in the top two divisions. However, in the third Selby Olympia moved
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Town have score to settle
Harrogate Town and boss Mick Hennigan have a major score to settle tomorrow when UniBond League division one leaders Vauxhall Motors visit Wetherby Road. The Cheshiremen hammered Town 8-1 when the sides met in October, handing Hennigan his heaviest managerial
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Staff Club teaches students lesson
Rachel Adamson and Sue Scott clinched a 5-4 win for University Staff Club against the Students in ladies division one of York Badminton League when they scored a three and eight win over Jo Ladds and Helen Wardman. Sue Cooper and Ros Ellis scored three
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Quiz to raise cash for appeal
Residents of a North Yorkshire village will be put to the test next week in an effort to raise cash for the St Leonard's Hospice Appeal 2000. The Hare and Hounds, at Riccall, near Selby, is holding another of its charity quiz nights on Thursday, February
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Gates open at Tigers' gorund
Administrators acting for crisis-stricken Hull have finally been able to open the gates to Boothferry Park. The court-appointed administrators managed to negotiate with landlord David Lloyd and the keys to the ground were handed over. Lloyd had instructed
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Wasps' Blind Date evening
There should be a lorra lorra laughs at York Wasps Valentine's Dinner next Wednesday. A mystery York player has volunteered to take part in the Wasps very own version of Blind Date during the evening. Females are now being sought to make up the three
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Unions fight to save Pickering jobs
Union chiefs today vowed to save some of the 150 jobs threatened with the axe at a North Yorkshire factory. Bosses at McKechnie Vehicle Components, in Pickering, announced that the jobs were to go because of the loss of a major contract with car manufacturers
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Concern for missing woman
Concern is mounting for missing York woman Caroline Barry who is known to be depressed and is believed to have consumed alcohol and taken sleeping tablets with her. Caroline, 27, known as Carly, suffers from ME and had been particularly depressed before
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Berry hoping for sweet debut
Scunthorpe United are poised to hand a debut to new signing Trevor Berry for tomorrow's visit of York City. Berry has arrived at Glanford Park on a month's loan from Second Division Rotherham United. The 26-year-old right winger, a former England youth
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Loan striker looks for parting shot
Loan ranger Chris Iwelumo is looking to sign-off his York City tenure with a telling parting shot. The striker will return to Stoke City after tomorrow's Division Three clash at Scunthorpe United that brings the curtain down on his three month Bootham
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Fillip for 'keeper Howarth
York City received another international fillip today with Russ Howarth named in the latest England Under-18 squad. Goalkeeper Howarth has been included in the England squad selected for a friendly international with Holland, to be staged at Stevenage
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Narrow escape from floodwaters
A frustrated landlord breathed a sigh of relief as his "night of flood hell" passed without incident. The swollen Ouse reached the steps of the Ship Inn, at Acaster Malbis, threatening to delay the pub's re-opening - three months after it was hit by appalling
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Don't pander to US paranoia
THE United States military establishment is firmly behind the so-called Son Of Star Wars project. It will increase the generals' budgets by many billions of dollars and give them some mighty fine new hardware to play with. But their justification for
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Two great girls
TWO very different forms of courage were recognised today at the child of achievement awards. Selby five-year-old Zoe Smith's enthusiasm and cheer remain constant despite the daily struggle of coping with a serious heart problem. Hannah Timms, from Harrogate
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Newbury goes ahead but Catterick card off
Newbury's prestigious Tote Gold Trophy meeting tomorrow is on, but Catterick's card has been abandoned. Heavy rain had already wiped out today's fixture at the Newbury course and there were fears that tomorrow's card would follow suit. However, clerk
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Loan striker looks for parting shot
Loan ranger Chris Iwelumo is looking to sign-off his York City tenure with a telling parting shot. The striker will return to Stoke City after tomorrow's Division Three clash at Scunthorpe United that brings the curtain down on his three month Bootham
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Fleeing rats plague residents
A North Yorkshire housing estate has been invaded by an army of rats seeking shelter from the floods. Residents on the Woodlands Estate and nearby Willow Rise in Tadcaster have reported seeing dozens of rats in their gardens and kitchens since November
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Almost Famous (15, 126 minutes)
Almost Famous (15, 126 minutes) ALL the attention has fallen on starlet Kate Hudson, goldilocks daughter of Seventies icon Goldie Hawn, for her Oscar-tipped role as groupie Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical tale of rock'n'roll excess
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Remember The Titans (PG, 113 minutes)
Remember The Titans (PG, 113 minutes) A TRUE story is given a Walt Disney overhaul as American Football becomes a force for healing in Virginia in 1971. This was the year when black and white were united, their segregated education system brought to an
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Defence of the realm
ALL responsible states want to protect their citizens from possible external threats. The new US administration believes 'rogue states' pose Americans such a threat and is keen to counter with a Son Of Star Wars missile defence system. However, to protect
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New hope for wildlife
DURING the past few years many local people have signed petitions, sent postcards or written to their MP calling for new laws to better protect Britian's best wildlife sites and endangered species. The Evening Press has also featured many articles about
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Crack down on bikes
I MUST agree with A P Cox (February 6) that cyclists can and do cause accidents. The problem is that they get away with it regularly and live in a world run by a two-wheel-friendly council which doesn't care about pedestrians. If the council's new army
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Oni, published by Take 2 Interactive for PC and PlayStation 2
Oni, published by Take 2 Interactive for PC and PlayStation 2 SPECS: Pentium 350, 64MB RAM, 8xCD-ROM, 3d accelerated graphics card STEP back Lara, there's a new girl in town. Konoko's the name and the game is a whole new breed. Rather than just following
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Kessen, published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2
Kessen, published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 2 IF you like strategy games, this will keep you entertained for hours. The graphics are excellent and the details show the full extent of the PS2's capabilities. An impressive range of music keeps
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Burstrick, published by JVC for PlayStation
Burstrick, published by JVC for PlayStation NICE idea, shame about the game. Burstrick sidles on to the PlayStation market and shuffles up to the likes of Tony Hawk's and Cool Boarders as if to ask if it can join the party, but really it fails the dress
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Caution over angling match
A rapid fall in the level of the River Ouse will be needed if the fourth leg of the Acomb Tackle York Winter League is to take place on Sunday. I would advise the 120 competitors to make alternative plans. There are flood warnings in force on all the
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Keen traffic wardens 'hamper trade'
Over-zealous parking wardens are making business difficult, a York caterer has claimed, after receiving a parking ticket. Diana Naish, managing director of Bishopthorpe-based caterers At Home, claims unclear parking restrictions are making it hard to
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Bulls rush in to new set-up
East Yorkshire has gained its first foothold in the Rugby League Conference with the admittance of Bridlington Bulls to this season's competition. The summer development league, one of the sport's biggest success stories in recent years, has until now
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York woman denies brothel charge
A woman accused of running a York brothel wanted to run the city's first grooming salon exclusively for men, a court heard. Pamela Dawson, aged 45, who has denied the offence, told York Magistrates Court she had no idea her premises in Fishergate were
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Major award for brave youngsters
Two North Yorkshire youngsters who have proved an inspiration to others are to be presented with special awards by former Prime Minister John Major. Zoe Smith, from Selby, and Harrogate's Hannah Timmis, are among 150 UK winners of this year's Child Of
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Expert warns of threat to Fylingdales
North Yorkshire will become a high priority nuclear target if America upgrades RAF Fylingdales as a defence base, a senior US expert on defence has said. And retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, who has spent a lifetime working in defence, said yesterday
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Dolan's Iron determination
York City chief Terry Dolan is hoping absence has made the hearts of his misfiring Minstermen grow fonder. Dolan was a notable absence from the training ground earlier this week while he conducted secret scouting missions in the south. With first team
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Arrow attack kills goose
A goose has died in York after being hit by an arrow in an attack that a senior RSPCA officer has branded as "pure cruelty". The injured greylag goose was seen by schoolchildren in York at around 8am today as it stood in shallow water of the city's flooded
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Flood villagers ferried out by fire crews
Grateful villagers praised the service provided by a firefighters' "taxi service" in flood hit Naburn. A team of four arrived in the afternoon to ferry residents in and out of the village, as the swollen River Ouse closed York Road to normal vehicles
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Sensible, suave and oh so smooth
In the first of a new series of personality profiles CHARLES HUTCHINSON the king of cool DESCRIBE Leslie Phillips OBE in six words. Hello. Ding Dong. Moustache. English bounder. He is forever associated with playing an upper-class filly-chaser, and yet
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Plenty of sites for sore eyes
HOWARD DAVIS takes a look at some of the more interesting sites on the net It has been a rather dull week for news on the Internet. The Internet babies saga rumbles on with Oprah playing God. Hackers obtained information on 27,000 of the world's most
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Wasps' Blind Date evening
There should be a lorra lorra laughs at York Wasps Valentine's Dinner next Wednesday. A mystery York player has volunteered to take part in the Wasps very own version of Blind Date during the evening. Females are now being sought to make up the three
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Couple'shope for a special wedding present
IT WAS hardly the stuff of a Mills and Boon novel. Their eyes met, not across a crowded room or a smoky bar, but across an elderly man on a trolley at a Nottingham hospital. But despite the unconventional start, love has blossomed for Nicola Carrier and