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Never too old for love
AT THE age of 73 and 79 respectively, William Gover and Ann Walton, were today walking down the aisle again, living proof that you really are never too old to find love. The couple, who are both natives of York, were getting married at the city's register
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Faulty brake caused tractor death
A FARMER died at work when a tractor with a faulty handbrake ran over him, an inquest heard. Brian Megginson, 67, died in September while working in a field at his farm in Thixendale in the Yorkshire Wolds. Alec Danby, of Malton, who had worked for Mr
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PARTY PUB'S LAST CHANCE
THE landlady of a North Yorkshire country pub where alcohol was served to children as young as 14 at a school Christmas party was allowed to carry on serving - "by a millimetre". A judge at York Crown Court allowed Carole Brown's appeal against the revoking
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Leroy still on board
Winger wants to stay with Wasps WING wonder Leroy McKenzie has definitely not turned his back on York Wasps, according to chief executive Ann Garvey. McKenzie has been unable to get to training over recent weeks due to work commitments and has been turning
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Trials of this feisty, courageous young girl
JUDITH Dawson wrote regarding Jade Cumberland's false limb problem (February 7). Knowing the family personally, I have watched Jade trying desperately to adapt herself to these false legs, so much so that I once witnessed her walk to Layerthorpe and home
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Tories should have done this years ago
I FIND it both incredible and ironic that, after 35 years of a failed comprehensive system, it has taken a Labour Government to finally admit that the experiment must end, hopefully to give children and parents a truly better start to their educational
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What poor defences
THE November floods highlighted many shortcomings in the existing flood defences of our region. Indeed the Environment Agency has said that we now have the worst flood defences of any region in the country. Many hundreds of homes were affected - many
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In black and white
I SEE that the York Citizen may be revived. Is it possible for the city council to use ordinary plain, white paper, and plain, black ink to tell its citizens what it wishes to say? As a publisher, I know what it costs for artwork, glossy paper and multiple
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Keeping tax low
I REFER to the comments made by the parliamentary spokesman for the Vale of York Liberal Democrats (February 7). Conservative-controlled North Yorkshire County Council has one of the lowest council tax precepts of any of the shire counties (31st out of
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Christie's sell off Hulme's treasure
TREASURED medals and international caps awarded to former York City player Joe Hulme are expected to raise thousands of pounds when they go under the autioneer's hammer next month. Hulme played for City in their Midland League days before they moved from
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Noble achievement
ST Peter's School youngster Ben Noble has proved to be one of the stars of the North of England Indoor Rowing Championships. Noble raced to victory in the Men's Junior 14 event, completing 2000metres in a personal best time of just 7mins 33.7secs on the
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Castle pair hit by knockout Punch
PUNCH Bowl's Pete Leake and Karen Richardson won the York John Smith's Mixed League Pairs championship in a thrilling finish to the competition. Bumper Castle's Dave O'Hara and Jane Evans took out the reigning title holders Rich Plummer and Tracey Farmeary
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Oil rig man brings back gift for appeal
RARELY has a charity donation been so comprehensively "rigged" as when this hard-hatted bringer of good news came to St Leonard's Hospice, York. For Bryan Nelson was bringing a cheque for £1,140 for our Hospice 2000 Appeal from further afield than usual
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Blitz on bombers
An unknown activist or group has been sending potentially lethal bombs to addresses around the United Kingdom for two months. Evening Press crime reporter DAVID WILES speaks to the senior North Yorkshire police officer leading the investigation THE terror
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Railway back on track
THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway is back on track after closing for repairs and maintenance following recent landslides. The steam railway service will be operating daily from today until February 25. The tea rooms and shops at the stations will be open
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Toasting
IN Britain we like to use our loaf every day. Indeed we are the world champions of toast, chomping our way through 700 million slices a week. Gimmick or not, spread the word that next Friday is National Toast Day when the nation is invited to raise a
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Ready, steady, go for Kwik tilt
NORTH Yorkshire's leading drivers will be among the national line-up of stars battling for honours in tomorrow's Kall Kwik national rally. Mintex national champion, Steve Petch, of Northallerton, driving his Ford Escort world rally car, is first away
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Gareth adds to Wasps woe
FORMER Super League star Gareth Stephens has dealt York Wasps another blow by leaving the club after playing just four games. Like Spencer Hargrave, scrum-half Stephens believes he can no longer afford to play for the Wasps under the new payment plan
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Groom service
As the hunt begins to find Britain's best groomed man, MAXINE GORDON offers blokes some tips on looking the business SUAVE and sophisticated are not the first words which spring to mind when you think about the modern British male. Images of clean-cut
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City's own Red Army cheer Minstermen
YORK City were having the backing of a real Red Army in today's crunch relegation clash with Exeter City. Eleven military officers from the former Soviet Union were attending the match at Bootham Crescent - their first taste of English football. The party
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Mick delivers his message
YOU must have seen the posters on York's buses: Four homes in Etty Avenue do not have TV licences. Well, it so incensed fair-minded, 42-year-old Mick Thomas, of rickshaw and delivery trike fame, that he decided to get his own back by displaying a poster
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Malton drunk jailed for assault on police
RYEDALE drunkard David Freer - whose bad behaviour has made life a misery for his twin brother - was today starting a jail sentence for assaulting two policemen. Magistrates at Pickering heard how Freer, 39, assaulted one officer after refusing to leave
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Long ships return
THE Vikings once again ruled York today as the city's biggest-ever Yorvik Viking Festival was launched. The River Ouse hosted the annual boat ceremony at the start of Jolablot 2001 - the 16th annual festival. Scores of modern-day Vikings from all over
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Bye, bye Barbara
BAR Talk perched on the corner barstool at the Fulford Arms, opened a notebook and prepared to take down Barbara Brigham's life story. Then the banter started. Bar Talk has never been in a war zone, but can now relate to the phrase, "being caught in the
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Hail the piazza
TOM Adams' proposals for the Coppergate development are realistic and offer a solution which would be of the greatest benefit to York (February 7). An Italian-type piazza with an arcade in front of the shops would keep window shoppers dry, and also present
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Dining in style
SIMON RITCHIE checks in for dinner at a York hotel I'VE eaten in some unusual places in my time, but never before in an old tuberculosis sanatorium. This is one of the many former guises of the Jarvis International Hotel, on the A19 at Skelton, near York
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Acomb no match for leaders
HEWORTH 'A' consolidated their position as leaders of the York Conservative Clubs' Carlsberg-Tetley Snooker League with a resounding 6-1 victory over bottom placed Acomb 'B'. Richie Burdett, Steve Burdett, Keith Lawrence, Jason Milner, Clive Whyte and
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Are you the one that we want?
STAGESTRUCK Sian Davies is 'hopelessly devoted' to ... who? Organisers of a Grease extravaganza to mark the climax of the Pocklington film festival have been desperately seeking a John Travolta to be Danny to Sian's Sandy. But did they get very far? Unfortunately
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Splash-happy four seize golden plunder
FOUR of the area's swimmers struck gold as county champions in the Yorkshire championships at the international pool in Leeds. The quartet were New Earswick Swimming Club's Alice Lawrenson, Peter Webster of Tadcaster Swim Squad, and York City of Baths
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Hill and Hopwood to meet in repeat final
CHAMPION Nathan Hill and second seed Jamie Hopwood will meet tonight in the York Open's Squash Championships' men's final - a repeat of last year's showdown. Hopwood beat Matthew Inglis 6-9 9-2 9-3 5-9 9-4 in a 66-minute semi-final at Clifton Park, York
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Driver saw RAF man turn back on express train
AN RAF sergeant killed himself by standing in front of a main line train on the track near Raskelf, an inquest heard. John Robert Moodie, 40, who was stationed at RAF Leeming, lost his life when he was hit by the Newcastle to London Kings Cross train
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Clubs fear for their future after rates verdict
THE future survival of voluntary sports clubs throughout Great Britain has been dealt a huge blow following a tribunal in York. That is the warning from York Cricket and Rugby Union Club, whose appeal to reduce to zero the cost of rates levied on its
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Bid to end York nightclub fiasco
Council to sell young people's night tickets ONE of York's leading nightclubs is to overhaul the sale of tickets to its young people's night - to end the risk of youngsters being turned away from the door. City of York Council is to take charge of ticket
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Count me out, says Radebe
LUCAS RADEBE has told South Africa to count him out of their next two World Cup qualifying ties, including a vital game with group leaders and main rivals Guinea. Radebe last month reached a compromise in the long-standing tug of war between club and
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Racing's Helen of joy
A TEENAGER from Long Marston near York is quickly proving to be a princess in the sport of kings. In her first-ever race under Rules, 17-year-old Helen Smith - who only won her jockey's licence last month - rode her mount to a superb victory on the all-weather
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We can Nick it
Richardson confident City can beat relegation BOOTHAM Crescent already holds happy memories for York City's new signing Nick Richardson - and now he wants many more. The 30-year-old midfielder notched his first-ever Football League goal at City's ground
