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Movie is set to be a double thriller
MOVIE MAN, who played a starring role at Catterick last month, can do the same again at Sedgefield tomorrow. Peter Beaumont's nine-year-old lines up for the novices' chase over three miles and three furlongs and is fancied to gallop his rivals into submission
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Only way is up, says City star
Crestfallen Darren Patterson issued a heartfelt rallying call to the Bootham Crescent faithful in the aftermath of York City's 4-0 drubbing at Scunthorpe United. "We have to apologise to the fans again because they were magnificent again, they came in
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Donor crisis threatens 'gift of life'
Transplant services in Yorkshire are in crisis in the wake of the Alder Hey Children's Hospital scandal. Organs have been taken from only two donors in the whole of the region in the last month. Normally, transplant teams could have hoped to have organs
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York hammered by Iron
The York City record player is stuck and needs an almighty shove to get the Minstermen dancing to a different tune. It must be hoped new striker Lee Nogan can provide that spark for it was an all too familiar pattern at Glanford Park on Saturday. As has
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Bus pass cynicism
I NOTE that, following a Government initiative, City of York Council is to introduce free bus passes for pensioners giving an entitlement to half fares after 9am, or travel tokens in lieu (February 3). This initiative was to be national minimum. In London
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What teachers need
I READ with trepidation and a sense of deja vu the offer of a 3.7 per cent pay rise to teachers. Of course, it won't be enough to recruit and retain more teachers - it never is. Bribery will only go so far to bring about desired changes, it can never
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Malton narrow gap
Despite the terrible conditions Malton were able to play some of their best rugby of the season to beat Yorkshire Three title rivals Heath 27-8 at the Gannock. Heath took an early lead in the driving rain with a penalty when Malton were caught offside
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Cave rescuers find bodies
Cave rescuers have found the bodies of two potholers in a Dales cavern. A search for Ray Lea, 58, of Darlington, and Julian Carroll, 29, of Tynemouth, was started after their families reported they had not returned home. Their cars were discovered at
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Acorn skittle Scorpions
York Acorn booked their place in the fourth round of the League Express National Cup with a workmanlike 30-8 victory at home to Blackpool Scorpions. The game was effectively won in the opening quarter when Acorn put their North West Counties challengers
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600-home scheme flood worries
Flooding fears are likely to be raised by residents at a public meeting tomorrow to discuss the proposed 600-home Germany Beck housing development at Fulford, York. The special meeting, being held at Fulford School at 7pm, will be attended by officers
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Hargrave quits Wasps
Spencer Hargrave is to quit York Wasps after suffering his second major injury blow of the season Just two weeks after returning from a broken thumb, the 22-year-old sustained severe bruising to the same right hand during yesterday's 22-8 Silk Cut Challenge
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Peak Practice star filming in York
Medical drama Peak Practice is leaving its Derbyshire home for a journey to York. Character Dr Alex Redman, played by Maggie O'Neill, runs away to the city in an episode due to be filmed today and tomorrow. The cameras were expected to roll at sites including
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Police purge solves crimes
Stolen property worth more than £160,000 has been seized by North Yorkshire police during a three-month crackdown on burglars, car thieves and drug dealers, it was announced today. A press conference at York's Fulford Road police station heard that more
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Ask the Experts: Am I too old for aerobics?
Q. I set off with good intentions this year and started going to exercise classes. I began with a legs, bums and tums class but felt I should try something harder. So for the past two weeks I've been to aerobics. But these classes seem to exhaust me and
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Give gift of life
THE Alder Hey organs scandal shocked Britain. But we must not let one horror story prompt another. Hundreds of people in Yorkshire are desperately waiting for an organ transplant. But organs have been taken from only two donors in the region since the
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Hopes rest with new boy Nogan
Sidelined York City striker Peter Duffield is banking on new signing Lee Nogan to provide the Minstermen's missing link. City manager Terry Dolan has secured the services of the Welsh international until the end of the season. Nogan was due to train with
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Letter bomb sent to county firm
Army experts were called in when a letter bomb was sent to an address in Thirsk today. North Yorkshire Police said the bomb was sent to a business trading in the agricultural industry and was being linked to ten other similar incidents. The bomb was made
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Internet child porn voyeur jailed
A child porn offender from Selby was today starting a four-month prison sentence. Martin Shergold was jailed at Hull Crown Court after Judge Peter Mettyear said that abusers drew encouragement from people like Shergold who logged on to pornographic internet
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Siege man facing life in jail
A man who held a woman against her will through a 12-hour armed police siege today faces a life sentence. Shaun Francis Hudson, 44, pleaded guilty to falsely imprisoning a woman and possessing an imitation hand grenade with intent to resist arrest. He
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More Coppergate letters may clinch inquiry
IT is good news the Department of the Environment, Transport and Regions (DETR) in Leeds wishes to take more time to consider the arguments about the Coppergate Riverside scheme before deciding whether or not to call for a public inquiry. This is undoubtedly
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How to ease parking
I DROVE my husband to an outpatient clinic recently and as I circled the area around York's District Hospital, trying to find a parking space within limping distance, it occurred to me: has anyone ever thought of including the hospital on one of the Park
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Arthritis group works to ease pain
A Ryedale arthritis group set up last October for young sufferers with the condition is proving a major success with membership on the increase. But organisers of Young Arthritis Care say many people are not joining because they are either too embarrassed
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Selby swamp Pocklington
Selby revelled in the muddy conditions to record a convincing 39-5 Yorkshire One victory at Pocklington. They got off to a flying start to go 13 points up inside the first 10 minutes. Former England international Ray Adamson kicked an early penalty before
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Exhibition focuses on childhood
A controversial view of childhood has opened at York City Art Gallery. The exhibition, called Petty Crimes, includes photographs of home-made children's weapons, 18 bikes customised to look like the popular '70s bicycle the Chopper, and pictures of schoolchildren
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Archbishop names new Canons
The Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, has named eleven new canons. The seven members of the clergy and four lay people are from churches in the York Diocese. The new canons must "seek to contribute to the corporate life of the cathedral and to promote
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York revival in vain
Goole ran riot in the first half to swamp York in North East Two on a drenched Westfield pitch. Remarkably it finished 45-7 after Goole had scored all their points in the first half. The pitch became increasingly heavy as the game proceeded and Goole
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York spectres at feast as Banquet tucks in
York Wasps were left to rue what might have been as their Challenge Cup dreams were washed away in the driving rain at Huntington Stadium. Had they overcome Villeneuve Leopards yesterday, they would have been facing a trip to Rochdale or Hunslet in the
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RI hit buffers after thrashing
York RI are even more in the relegation mire following a thrashing in a vital six-pointer. RI, rock bottom of the West Yorkshire League premier division, entertained third-bottom Nostell Miners Welfare, but were hammered 7-1, a result which leaves them
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York hammered by Iron
The York City record player is stuck and needs an almighty shove to get the Minstermen dancing to a different tune. It must be hoped new striker Lee Nogan can provide that spark for it was an all too familiar pattern at Glanford Park on Saturday. As has
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Hopes rest with new boy Nogan
Sidelined York City striker Peter Duffield is banking on new signing Lee Nogan to provide the Minstermen's missing link. City manager Terry Dolan has secured the services of the Welsh international until the end of the season. Nogan was due to train with
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Only way is up, says City star
Crestfallen Darren Patterson issued a heartfelt rallying call to the Bootham Crescent faithful in the aftermath of York City's 4-0 drubbing at Scunthorpe United. "We have to apologise to the fans again because they were magnificent again, they came in
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Councillors to cut expenses
Tough budget decisions have forced York's councillors to consider taking an expenses cut. An increase due for special responsibility allowances is expected to be halved by City of York Council on Thursday. It would save the authority £25,000. Last year
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York safe to visit
Tourism and business chiefs in York today hit back at national media coverage which seized on recent high river levels to once again paint the city as a flooded no-go zone. Worried visitors have been calling tourist information centres and hotels to ask
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Give life after death
The Alder Hey scandal has fuelled growing distrust of the medical profession - and desperately sick patients waiting for life-saving transplants are among those suffering as a result. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on a growing problem TRAGEDY so often strikes
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Ask the Experts: How can I teach fitness?
Q. I would love to be an exercise teacher. Could you tell me how I should go about it? A. This is a question I am often asked. The accepted qualification for an exercise to music teacher is the RSA certificate. Your aerobics teacher should have this qualification
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It's time I turned sexy
I'VE decided I'd like to look sexy. So how do I go about it? I could always lose a few stone, stick on a blonde wig, have plastic surgery, pop on the sun bed for a year, slip on a skimpy peasant-style purple top with rips and tears in a few rather intimate
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Pitiful poverty shamed York
WRETCHED housing, starvation wages and an indefatigable sense of community: a description of the existence of thousands of York citizens at the turn of the 20th century. For generations, their plight, and that of the rest of Britain's poor, had been ignored
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Hargrave quits Wasps
Spencer Hargrave is to quit York Wasps after suffering his second major injury blow of the season Just two weeks after returning from a broken thumb, the 22-year-old sustained severe bruising to the same right hand during yesterday's 22-8 Silk Cut Challenge
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York spectres at feast as Banquet tucks in
York Wasps were left to rue what might have been as their Challenge Cup dreams were washed away in the driving rain at Huntington Stadium. Had they overcome Villeneuve Leopards yesterday, they would have been facing a trip to Rochdale or Hunslet in the
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Get tourists flooding in
TO an outsider's eyes, it must look like the lost city of Atlantis has been found north of Leeds. The national media, eager to break another disaster story, have been carrying images that make York appear marooned to all except yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur