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The Tapas Tree Restaurant, Walmgate, York
STEPHEN LEWIS is disappointed by Walmgate's latest attempt to capture the taste of Spain. TAPAS, says a copy of the printed menu pasted up inside the window of the recently-opened Tapas Tree restaurant in Walmgate, originated in Spain. It evolved from
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New rage has us lost for words
WE have had air rage, road rage, trolley rage and now... lost property rage. Staff at York's Holgate Hill Hotel recently had to cope with the phenomenon when a guest claimed a piece of jewellery - a family heirloom - had gone missing from the bedroom.
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Join the queue for York homes
EAGER homebuyers queued through the night to secure an exclusive York address. Desperate to secure some of the plush new riverside flats in the city's Westgate development, the group spent the whole night outside the Bridge Street offices of Bryant Homes
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Just desserts
HE won the National Lottery, and now lucky Kenny Southwell's numbers have come up again - as his new pub gets the Bar Talk thumbs up. His venture, the Woodman, in beautiful Bishopthorpe, upset locals with its gaudy yellow exterior. But good-humoured Kenny
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Roman around
George Wilkinson discovers a walk full of interest through Roman remains at Malton. Today we have a super little easy wander, chock-a-block with interest, straight out from the market town of Malton. Derventio, a Roman fort site, makes a good start. Once
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Big thanks to readers
FOR the past two-and-a-half years, the people of York and the surrounding area have been fundraising for our St Leonard's Hospice 2000 Appeal to build a new in-patient annexe, re-develop the present buildings and to extend our services. Now that we have
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Tweaking at plans
BARRATT York Ltd has recently submitted another planning application to develop the tennis courts and adjacent land at the rear of Clifton Preparatory School, 13 The Avenue, York. Alas for the residents of Clifton, the plans are remarkably similar to
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The Tapas Tree Restaurant, Walmgate, York
TAPAS, says a copy of the printed menu pasted up inside the window of the recently-opened Tapas Tree restaurant in Walmgate, originated in Spain. It evolved from "very simple dishes offered by a bar's patron to sustain his drinkers. The more the patron
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Vaughan's Test doubt
MICHAEL Vaughan may still not have recovered sufficiently from his knee operation to return to the England squad for the fifth and final Test against Australia at The Oval next week. Although Vaughan has batted superbly for Yorkshire at Leicester, making
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Yorkshire left on tenterhooks
YORKSHIRE'S decision to bat on into the afternoon and set Leicestershire an almost impossible 539 for victory backfired yesterday as they left themselves with insufficient time to bowl out their opponents. A defiant unbeaten century from skipper Vince
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Nineties nostalgia
CHRIS TITLEY looks back - but not too far back - to the era of Britpop and alcopops REMEMBER the Nineties? I should flaming well hope so. They only finished 19 months ago. Toddlers have an excuse for not recalling anything from a decade that delivered
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Minister enters grouse debate
A GOVERNMENT Minister has weighed into the controversy over alleged breaches of foot and mouth rules at a North Yorkshire grouse shoot. Trading standards officers had to move staff away from vital tasks in the county's Thirsk-centred bio-security zone
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Community spirit
In a little more than 18 months, residents on a new housing estate in York have built the firm foundations of a neighbourhood with real community spirit. Reporter Tony Tierney visited their latest landmark development "MAKING our estate into a community
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Stuart in no danger
NATIONAL 25 mile champion racing cyclist Stuart Dangerfield won the fifth national round of the Road Time Trials Council Rudy Project Time Trial Series which was held on the Milby circuit north east of Boroughbridge The Rudy Project series is a nationwide
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Vaughan's Test doubt
MICHAEL Vaughan may still not have recovered sufficiently from his knee operation to return to the England squad for the fifth and final Test against Australia at The Oval next week. Although Vaughan has batted superbly for Yorkshire at Leicester, making
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Kerr proves 13 is lucky for Golden Slipper
ROZ Kerr showed outstanding York John Smith's Mixed League form as Golden Slipper 'A' overturned Huntington 'A' 5-4, writes Dave Fotheringham Kerr threw 140, 100, 129, 92 then double top for a fantastic 13 dart game and deliver a serious blow to Huntington's
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11 bids for city leisure centre
LEISURE chiefs are considering 11 bids for York Barbican Centre. But it will be more than two months before they can whittle them down to the most appealing offers. The centre, and surrounding land currently used as a car park, was put on sale last month
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Bucking the trend
NORTH Yorkshire athlete Richard Buck is following in his mum's spike-marks. The Yorkshire Under-15 runner from Pickering has had a tremendous season and will be representing the county in the Northern Inter Counties meeting at Scunthorpe on Saturday.
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Steve is well up to scratch
STEVE Robinson's return to form after a serious back injury continued in fine style for him to lift aloft the York Open Scratch Championship crown. The Malton and Norton professional headed a field of the top players across North Yorkshire defying heavy
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Stabbing man jailed for seven years
A MAN was today starting a seven-year jail sentence for stabbing a man he wrongly believed to be the new lover of his former wife. York Crown Court heard Sean Finnegan was "gobsmacked" when ex-wife Jane told him she had had a "one-night stand" with someone
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York tie up Aussie
YORK RUFC have beaten a number of other clubs to the signature of Australian centre Damon Smith. Smith, currently playing cricket for Easingwold in the York Senior League, signed for York this week. Smith, 24, represented New South Wales at schoolboy
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Hold that page - we're in love!
A COUPLE who found love through the pages of the Evening Press are to marry next month. Joan Townsend, 60, and Eric Green, 68, from Acaster Malbis, near York, were both widowed and had resigned themselves to spending the rest of their lives alone. But
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Yorkie taking the plunge
YORK Acorn ARL Club are to stage a world record attempt at their Thanet Road ground - for the furthest free-fall by a lion. The feat will be attempted on Bank Holiday Monday and all in aid of a worthy cause. Furthermore, it will not be any old lion but
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Big Ben Strikes
A RUGBY league superkid from York is in line to smash a British try-scoring record set by Wigan Warriors star Simon Haughton. Pocket rocket Ben Johnson, who plays for York Acorn juniors, will join the likes of Haughton and Great Britain legend Joe Lydon
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Parkes to stroll in
Summerhill Parkes, unbeaten in both her races this season, can complete a hat-trick in the feature race at Pontefract tomorrow. The Michael Jarvis-trained three-year-old is napped to lift the £30,000 Slatch Farm Stud Flying Fillies' Stakes over six furlongs
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Firm favourite returns
ANOTHER bumper crowd is expected at Knavesmire when York racecourse stages its second Sunday meeting. And once again the Evening Press will be on hand to make sure racing fans and families have a wonderful day out. Last year 22,500 people attended the
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Pedestrian killed
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian died following a collision with a white van. The man, who has not been named, was taken to York District Hospital following the accident in Clifton Moorgate, close to its junction with Water Lane,
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Langlands Nursery, Shiptonthorpe, near Market Weighton
HOW this nursery has grown and improved over time. Only this year has a surprisingly large caf been added. Seating about 80 inside what can best be described as a conservatory, there are further tables outside on the decking. Tables and chairs are modern
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Sleigh were the days
FOLLOWING on from your recent article about the development of the former Co-op/Victoria House site (August 13), I cannot be the only one who wonders whatever happened to the wonderful Santa's Sleigh which was so much a part of York during the run up
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It's our money!
MY colleague Diana Wallace is of course right in pointing out that the European Union is meeting much of the compensation costs incurred during the current foot and mouth crisis. However, Ms Wallace omits to mention that three-quarters of the money that
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Power solution
AFTER reading countless articles concerning incredibly late arrivals and delays on the electrified East Coast Main Line over recent months, it seems that a large proportion are caused by power line problems. Although it is now too late to retrieve the
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Whisky galore
RICHARD FOSTER is enchanted with the Isle of Islay and Scotland's west coast NO appointment, royal or otherwise, was necessary when Princess Anne called in at the Islay Woollen Mill to order tweed. The York-born owner, Gordon Covell, 59, was not there
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Animal magic
Mike Laycock splashed through disinfectant to visit an animal farm They are cuddly and cute, and I knew my daughter would love seeing them. But I had thought there was no chance this year of visiting the chicks, sheep, horses, cattle, pigs and geese of
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Begin with a bang
NO more half-measures were the orders being barked by York City terrier Richard Cooper ahead of the Minstermen's long haul south this weekend. The 21-year-old was handed a starting berth for this afternoon's Torquay clash after sitting out last Saturday's
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Future looking brighter for Gray
IS Gray all set to become another shade of White in the Yorkshire line-up over the next few years? Certainly captain David Byas thinks so because he believes that Australian Andy Gray has the potential to develop many of the outstanding all-round qualities
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Match of the Spray
by A NEWLYWED couple have turned the tables on tradition to keep a family name and part of hairdressing humour alive. For when driver Kevin Durrant, 23, and hairdresser Helen Spray, 25, got married at picturesque Burnby Hall Gardens, in Pocklington, they
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Tributes to Mystery Plays supremo
TRIBUTES have been paid to the impresario who revived York's Mystery Plays. Keith Thomson has died, aged 88, after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for four years. He became artistic director of the York Festival in 1949, and went on to ensure the city
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House of the rising sunflower
THIS giant sunflower reaches past the bedroom of the little girl owner who has proudly grown the plant from a 20p seed. Ten-year-old Robyn Smith began growing her massive sunflower in a competition run by her school, Lakeside Primary, in Clifton Moor,
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Divorty offers tips from the top
RUGBY League youngsters in York are being put through their paces in the summer holidays. New Earswick All Blacks ARL have held training and coaching sessions for eight to 11-year-olds at Ralph Butterfield School, Haxby. About 40 youngsters took part
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Tears as blind Mike breaks speed record
IT MUST be something in the Yorkshire air. Two record attempts in two days, and both have been successful. BBC Record Breakers saw a new freefall parachute record set at Elvington Airfield, on Thursday. And a day later, the TV cameras were on hand at
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999 cyclist off to Whitby
YORK'S pedalling paramedic is set for an early start on Monday - when he heads off to help out at the Whitby Regatta at 5am. It will be the first time that Mark Inman, who provides the Life Cycle service in York city centre, has been called into action
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Grandera favouring Juddmonte
JAMES Fanshawe is likely to run his useful Grandera in the big Juddmonte Inter-national Stakes at York on Tuesday. The Newmarket handler has also left the colt in the Great Voltigeur Stakes the same day but, after scanning the acceptors, is tilting towards
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Pensioner's £5,000 hi-tech bingo win
THE lucky numbers came up for Huntington pensioner Paddy O'Donnell when he entered a hi-tech bingo game at his local working men's club. Paddy, aged 62, scooped the £5,000 jackpot playing the National Flyer Link game at Huntington Working Men's Club,
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Joan cooks up air show competition victory
THE Great Yorkshire Air Show is now only days away, and a lucky Evening Press reader is going there as a VIP - and for free. In June, we challenged readers to come up with interesting or amusing story about life at Elvington airfield, where the Evening
