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Tornado to storm home at Thirsk
It might be Guineas day at Newmarket tomorrow, but it is also the day when racing's roadshow moves back to Thirsk. Last month's two-day meeting at the North Yorkshire course fell foul of the foot and mouth restrictions, but it's back to business tomorrow
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Farmers cautious over disease claim
Farming leaders have urged caution over Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that the worst of the foot and mouth crisis is over. Mr Blair claimed yesterday that the Government was winning the battle against the disease with the number of new cases falling
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Couple plan Brideshead wedding
Simon Howard presented his bride-to-be, Marks and Spencers heiress Rebecca Sieff, to the world today - and revealed they are set to wed in the grounds of Castle Howard. North Yorkshire's wedding party of the year will take place on Saturday, June 9, at
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Torben looks on the dark side
FROM marriage to death, adultery to divorce, plenty can happen in 12 months, especially when Torben Betts displays his gift for writing Greek tragedies for modern audiences in his new play Clockwatching. "I like that Greek comparison," says Betts, who
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Enter the warrior
GERALDINE Connor admits her Carnival Messiah will be a hard act to follow but she is confident Yaa Asantewaa - Warrior Queen fits the bill at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. "This show is quite different from Carnival Messiah in 1999 in terms of
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Grease is still the word
GREASE is the hot ticket in town next week. Only Wednesday matinee tickets and the most restricted of restricted-view seats for evening shows remain available for the West End hit's visit to the Grand Opera House, York, from May 7 to 12. No wonder former
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Heat is on to hit fund target
St Leonard's Hospice staff believe they are only a few months away from reaching the £2 million Hospice 2000 target. The latest figure for the appeal stands at £1,857,450.26 - meaning there is less than £150,000 to find ! And the staff at the York hospice
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (15, 129 minutes)
BOOKS are both a boon and a bane to Hollywood. On the one hand, Tinseltown loves raiding the book shelf; on the other, fans of a novel often bemoan that the resulting film is not fit to lace the book's spine. That is missing the point. What matters is
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Everything's in Black and White
Black and White, published by Electronic Arts for PC SPECS: Pentium 350, 64MB RAM, 8MB graphics card, 4xCD-ROM, 600MB hard drive space STAND back, ladies and gentlemen, and make way for the game of the year. 2001 may not have reached the halfway mark
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Bridge players up to their old tricks
Bridge is booming - the card game, that is. STEPHEN LEWIS went along to find out why. I MUST have frittered away a good part of my student years on bridge. Not that I ever learned to play properly - I just happened to share a house with three friends,
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Councillor stumped by sign
Yorkshire has long been a cosmopolitan county, but someone is taking things a little further by displaying a road sign in Spanish. The sign has appeared on the A169 Malton to Pickering road near to the entrance to Golden Square Farm. It reads "La proxima
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Stars ready for kick off
TV celebrities will pit their footballing wits against the mighty Pocklington Pandas police football team on Sunday. The Pandas are inviting soccer fans to support them in the charity match, being held against The Liverpool Veterans, which includes England
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Coffee thief escaped on bike
A shopkeeper gave chase when a thief stole £30 worth of coffee from a New Earswick store. The thief cleared the shelf at the Happy Shopper in the village before riding off on his bicycle yesterday. Shop owner Geoff Howard jumped in his van and pursued
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Outlook brighter for anglers
Maybe, just maybe, spring arrived this week. Better late than never I hear you cry. This week's rise in temperatures across the region should be just what the stillwater circuit has been crying out for, with warming water kick-starting the season. A combination
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Farmers cautious over disease claim
Farming leaders have urged caution over Prime Minister Tony Blair's claim that the worst of the foot and mouth crisis is over. Mr Blair claimed yesterday that the Government was winning the battle against the disease with the number of new cases falling
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Tykes throw away good work
Michael Vaughan turned in two five-star performances at Grace Road yesterday but Yorkshire still managed to commit suicide and crash to a shock defeat by 14 runs against Leicestershire in the Benson and Hedges Cup. Yorkshire appeared to have victory in
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We're on a winner
The Evening Press is to sponsor the Sunday meeting at York Racecourse again this year. A huge crowd of 22,500 watched last year's first-ever Sunday spectacular and this season's Evening Press Raceday on September 2 promises to be even better. There will
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Champs hounded into waiting game
Gallant Yorkshire Herald now have to play a game of patience before discovering if they have retained their John Smith's York Sunday Morning League first division crown. A single-goal win over Volunteers - James Backhouse remaining ice-cool to drill in
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Villagers push for bypass cash
Villagers were today meeting county council highways chiefs to put their case for a bypass to be built around their community. Residents of Thormanby, near Easingwold, remain determined to keep a controversial coffin sign which stands by the side of the
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Pikes put pressure on
Northern Counties East League division one leaders Pickering Town upped the pressure on title rivals Borrowash Victoria by trouncing Gedling 3-0 last night. The win - thanks to goals by Simon Sturdy, Mark Wood and a Stefan Zoll special - puts the Pikes
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Anger over cash for town
Plans to spend half a million pounds on extra council offices in Selby have come under fire from Tadcaster's Tory councillors. They say the plans are a "diabolical waste" of ratepayers' money - and are further alienating the "forgotten" residents of Tadcaster
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Kids-erminster
Kidderminster boss Jan Molby is poised to give youth its fling tomorrow as the Harriers bring the curtain down on their first season in the Football League. Last season's Conference champions have made a fair fist of their debut season in Division Three
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Craig 'forecast' points decision
York City chairman Douglas Craig believes Chesterfield have got away scot-free after the Football League board finally ratified the nine-point deduction imposed on the Spireites for financial irregularities. Last week the board refused to ratify the recommendation
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The past is in your grasp
Even if you haven't filled in your census return yet, the chances are that your ancestors did. This means that if you are researching your family tree, there is a wealth of information out there, but how can you be sure you haven't missed something? JON
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Wasps at key NFP meeting
York Wasps were among the clubs being represented at a meeting today to discuss the desperate state of the Northern Ford Premiership. Sir Rodney Walker, chairman of the Rugby Football League, was being told that many of the sport's oldest clubs were on
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City to increase prices
York City have announced an increase in admission prices for next season at Bootham Crescent. Entry to all areas of the ground will go up by £1, apart from the Family Stand where junior prices will increase by 50p. It is the first time in three years
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We need protecting from rogue state America
I REFER to Tory MEP Robert Goodwill's comments on President Bush's plans for Fylingdales: "What people are worried about, the world over, is attacks from rogue states" (May 2). By rogue states does Mr Goodwill mean, for example, ones that tear up international
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Jolly good show
I HAD the privilege of seeing Andrea Ferrebee School of Dancing's Showtime. It was a wonderful, colourful and spectacular show enjoyed as much by those on stage as those in the audience, judging by the appreciation shown. Manor School gave us another
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Workers stunned by closure
Plaxtons workers today reacted with dismay. Kevin Warters could not have received the news at a worse time. He, his wife Kezban and their three-year-old daughter, Yasemin, had to move out of their smoke-damaged home in Wilton Rise, Holgate, as a result
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700 jobs go as plant closes
Bus and coach builder Plaxtons of Scarborough is to close with the loss of 700 jobs, leaving the whole region devastated. The foot and mouth crisis was partially blamed for the shock news that the troubled 94-year-old firm will close with phased redundancies
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Ben Elton role for EastEnders star
IN her first theatre role since leaving EastEnders, Claire Wilkie will star in the stage premiere of Ben Elton's novel Inconceivable at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, from May 25 to June 16. Wilkie, who played Beppe di Marco's estranged wife Sandra
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When the clock strikes thirteen...
WITH pleasing symmetry, Unicorn Theatre for Children follows up its touring show for the under-eights with a play for eight year olds and upwards. Last year Unicorn visited York Theatre Royal with Tony Graham's production of Beatrix Potter stories, Jemima
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Howzat for a team effort
One of cricket's best-known figures is looking forward to the final declaration in our Hospice 2000 Appeal. Former Test umpire Dickie Bird will be bowling delegates over when he gives the closing address at the National Association of Hospice Fundraisers
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York minus Senneck
There are plenty of Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier Cricket League derby matches this Spring Bank Holiday weekend thanks to the astute homework by the league's fixture secretary, Dave Young, of Castleford. He has pitched York against Castleford
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A64 garage shut down
A garage on the A64 near York was due to close today. The Rix Garage, next to the former Hazelbush Caf, was shutting down due to restructuring of the Hull-based Rix company. It will be the only garage in the York area to be affected, according to company
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Wasps at key NFP meeting
York Wasps were among the clubs being represented at a meeting today to discuss the desperate state of the Northern Ford Premiership. Sir Rodney Walker, chairman of the Rugby Football League, was being told that many of the sport's oldest clubs were on
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Boro visit former boss
Scarborough have a big injury list as they prepare to face former boss Colin Addison and his downbeat Yeovil Town side. The Glovers blew their promotion hopes when they lost in midweek to Hereford and Addison - who took over at the Huish earlier in the
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Snell leads way for SH Bridge
Duncan Snell starred for Sheriff Hutton Bridge in their 50 run win over Stamford Bridge in York and District Junior Cricket Association's NatWest Under-15 League. He scored 94 not out in 18 overs as Sheriff Hutton Bridge made 126 for three. With 20 extras
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Biker 'could not avoid U-turn car'
A motorcyclist who died after smashing into a car making a U-turn on a busy York road could not have avoided the vehicle, York coroner David Coverdale said. Ian Brooks, a 42-year-old father-of-two from Stamford Bridge, died in August last year after being
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York minus Senneck
There are plenty of Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier Cricket League derby matches this Spring Bank Holiday weekend thanks to the astute homework by the league's fixture secretary, Dave Young, of Castleford. He has pitched York against Castleford
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Attacker sent to psychiatric unit
A youth who received one of York's first antisocial behaviour orders may spend the rest of his life in psychiatric hospital after a judge heard about his mental state. Recorder Jonathan Gibson ordered that paranoid schizophrenic Gary Dunn, 17, formerly
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Fiesta of football
Football fever will descend on Wigginton over the next two weekends when the Grasshoppers host their annual six-a-side football tournament for the 17th successive year. More than 2,500 players representing more than 70 clubs from Yorkshire, County Durham
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Residents' fears over asbestos site
The owners of York's former Monroe factory were urged today to hold a public meeting to address residents' worries about asbestos. Rawcliffe councillor Mark Waudby called for Tenneco Automotive UK to talk to people living near the factory in Manor Lane
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Rail horror victim 'still suffering'
Two months after the Selby rail crash, the mental scars are yet to heal for one young survivor. Janine Edwards went to see her doctor recently after her hair began to fall out and although she escaped physical injury in the crash, she is still suffering
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Good thing in small package
A postman who started his career being known as the "midget messenger" hangs up his mail sack today after half a century. Brian Gibson, of Garburn Grove, Rawcliffe, turns 65 next week . He became well-known around York in the early 1950s as the smallest
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Rail men survive 22,000 volt shock
Three railway workers were lucky to escape with burns after they suffered shocks from a 22,000-volt overhead power cable. The men were working on the East Coast Main Line just off the A19 at Tollerton when a crane on top of their van hit the cable. Ambulances
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Tykes throw away good work
Michael Vaughan turned in two five-star performances at Grace Road yesterday but Yorkshire still managed to commit suicide and crash to a shock defeat by 14 runs against Leicestershire in the Benson and Hedges Cup. Yorkshire appeared to have victory in
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Dolan's plan for big finish
Minstermen manager Terry Dolan is anxious York City finish the season with a bang rather than a whimper when Kidderminster Harriers visit Bootham Crescent tomorrow. The City chief has underlined his desire for a finishing flurry to the season by indicating
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Alan secures trophy
York City number one Alan Fettis picked up his first of a probable stack of end of season awards then declared: "I hope I don't win any next season." The goalkeeper lifted the Evening Press/Unique Pub Co player of the year gong after topping our season-long
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Duke to view York's new bridge
The Duke of York will give York's Millennium Bridge the royal seal of approval when he visits later this month, City of York Council revealed today. The Duke has accepted the council's invitation to visit the £4.2m bridge project during a trip to York
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Cynical way to stop the buses
TRANSBUS International's blunt announcement that it is to close Plaxton in Scarborough demonstrates a contempt for the workforce, for the town and for nearly a century of coach building tradition. When Plaxton was swallowed up into TransBus International
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On a winner
LAST year's historic first Sunday race meeting at York was a tremendous success. That is why the Evening Press is delighted to sponsor the event again this year. The Sunday race day was a little different to other meetings. It boasted the same high-calibre
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Dolan's plan for big finish
Minstermen manager Terry Dolan is anxious York City finish the season with a bang rather than a whimper when Kidderminster Harriers visit Bootham Crescent tomorrow. The City chief has underlined his desire for a finishing flurry to the season by indicating
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Craig 'forecast' points decision
York City chairman Douglas Craig believes Chesterfield have got away scot-free after the Football League board finally ratified the nine-point deduction imposed on the Spireites for financial irregularities. Last week the board refused to ratify the recommendation
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Kids-erminster
Kidderminster boss Jan Molby is poised to give youth its fling tomorrow as the Harriers bring the curtain down on their first season in the Football League. Last season's Conference champions have made a fair fist of their debut season in Division Three
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Busy time for RSPCA
I THINK it may be useful to outline some of the main work RSPCA inspectors have been doing around the country since the foot and mouth outbreak. The RSPCA was the first agency to begin making a real difference to animal welfare problems when it became
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Bilbrough Top area (April 19).
Bridge the safety gap I WELCOME J C Potter's views on the need for pedestrian footbridges in the Recent hotel, restaurant and garage developments along this section of the A64 have been to serve motorists, but they also require staffing. Some employees
