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Keep your eyes on the skies
SOME events are so big that they unite both real enthusiasts and families who are simply looking for a good day out. This year's Evening Press-sponsored Great Yorkshire Air Show at Elvington, near York, fits into that category. More exhibitors than ever
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TV pundit in bust-up at races
TV RACING tipster John McCririck has been questioned by police at York Racecourse after a female security guard complained he had assaulted her. Jan Cole made the allegation to police yesterday, claiming she had been pushed through a fire door in the
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We are the champions
YORKSHIRE this afternoon won their first County Championship cricket crown for 33 years. They beat Glamorgan by an innings and 112 runs to bag the maximum points they needed to take the title. Pace bowler Steven Kirby snapped up two early wickets as Glamorgan
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Godspell, Joseph Rowntree Theatre August 23-25
GOOD theatre should always seek to challenge. And York Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society's youth production of Godspell next week will certainly be doing that. The central character in this production of the Seventies rock musical won't be Jesus,
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Parking points
PATRICIA Taylor's letter ('Parking poser', August 21) invites clarification. Firstly, I am pleased that Mrs Taylor and her husband were able to see the city parking attendants doing their job at this time of the day because before October last year traffic
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Such good givers
I thank the people of York for their generosity on Saturday, August 18. The collection made on behalf of Animal Aid raised £137. This money will be used towards Animal Aid's urgent work to stop animal suffering. Ajaye Curry, Fewster Way, Fishergate, York
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Josie And The Pussycats (PG, 100 minutes)
THE name but thankfully not much else is taken from an animated 1970s series. The story of an all-girl pop band being shamelessly marketed to the top is an American twist on SpiceWorld. The cynicism rivals Malcolm McLaren's plotting of the rise of petulant
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Lucky Break (12, 108 minutes)
DIRECTOR Peter Cattaneo has given himself four years to follow up the unexpected rise and rise of The Full Monty. It was never going to be easy but he has taken the soft, complacent option: a variation on the Monty theme of lads bonding in adversity through
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Lord of the farms
STEPHEN LEWIS speaks to the East Yorkshire man charged with bringing recovery to the foot and mouth ravaged countryside. READ some of what he's supposed to have said in the national press and you could be forgiven for thinking that Lord Haskins, the man
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Architect hits back on flats design
THE architect of a controversial block of flats in York has hit back at a barrage of criticism from fellow designers - saying that the city must "keep progressing". Nick Midgley runs design firm NMDA, and is the man behind Mawson's Court, a five-storey
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New man at Jarvis
YORK-based construction company Jarvis has announced the former chief executive of Newcastle City Council is to join them in a "senior position." Kevin Lavery, who became the youngest chief executive of a major local authority when he got the job, aged
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Pick Trophy draw
YORK Union of Golf Clubs' Pick Trophy is being staged at Boothferry GC on Wednesday, August 29. Tee-times: 9.03 A Wilson (BF), K Lambert (O), T Hutchinson (FP); 9.12 F Warrener (BF), J Walsh (FP), J C Cambell (H); 9.21 T Nutman (MN), N Rigg (PH), B Hornsby
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Police name road victim
POLICE have named the cyclist who was killed, and another who was seriously injured, in a hit-and-run incident on a North Yorkshire road. The dead man has been named as Stefan Vaughan Howard Forge, age 47. Police said he is from "the Hookstone Avenue
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York man on sex charges
A YORK man has appeared in court to face sex assault charges involving two young girls. David Paul Vetters, 53, of Coggan Close, South Bank, faces a total of six charges relating to the girls, who are now aged 15 and 12. It is alleged that he attempted
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Rail group wants to see benefits for passengers
THE Strategic Rail Authority has vowed to ensure tangible benefits for passengers before it allows GNER an extension of its franchise for the East Coast line. According to a statement from the watchdog organisation the Rail Passengers Committee, such
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Newton's score of gravity
YORK angler Michael Newton gave himself a fine birthday present when he won a prestigious angling tournament in the same week he turned 50. Newton, from Tadcaster Road, became the first non-Scot for 30 years to lift the Scottish Trout and Salmon Casting
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Hockey action
CITY of York Hockey Club's Men's section kick off the new season with a festival at York University tomorrow and Sunday. Players who have not been contacted by Luke Griggs, organiser of the City of York squad, but would like a game should phone him on
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Call of the Orient
IF you think you're a good runner and map-reader, now is your chance to prove it. Eborienteers are holding an orienteering event around the snickleways of York and along the river bank finishing at Rawcliffe Bar Country Park on Sunday, September 2. Great
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Council says sorry over flattened gravestones
TADCASTER Town Council publicly apologised today after officials laid down cemetery gravestones without telling relatives. Several mourners were left shocked and upset after arriving at Tadcaster Cemetery to discover their loved ones' headstones had been
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York players on the boards
The British Chess Championships at Scarborough featured a range of events in a ddition to the main event. These events allowed everyone to enter a competition with an opportunity to win. Several York players took part. Tim Turner was joint winner of Week
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Family to donate mercy flight cash
THE family of a man who suffered horrific burns on holiday in Portugal is to donate some of the cash raised by kind-hearted Evening Press readers to charity. Bernard Earnshaw, who is recovering in Wakefield's Pinderfields Hospital, was stranded in a Lisbon
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Duffield hopes for Christmas bonus
HEARTBROKEN Peter Duffield admitted he feared another season-long spell on the sidelines after learning he had fractured his leg for a second time in a year. As first revealed in the Evening Press, the York City hit man sustained a hairline fracture of
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Eminem stars at Leeds festival
CONTROVERSIAL US stars Eminem and Marilyn Manson will be the main attractions at this weekend's Reading and Leeds music festivals, which kick off today. The two-centred musical spectacular takes place over three days in the two cities, with some of the
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KitKat workers' £8,000 pay rise
HUNDREDS of York KitKat workers are set for a massive basic pay increase as they move into working regular weekend shifts for the first time. The change in pay and shift patterns comes in order to meet booming demand for the snack bar. Nestle Rowntree
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Lee hits bullseye
GOAL ace Lee Bullock admits York City are riding a new wave of confidence as the Minstermen get ready to welcome Leyton Orient to Bootham Crescent. And the midfielder, who is looking to make it three goals in three games, is urging his team mates to repeat
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We are the champions
YORKSHIRE this afternoon won their first County Championship cricket crown for 33 years. They beat Glamorgan by an innings and 112 runs to bag the maximum points they needed to take the title. Pace bowler Steven Kirby snapped up two early wickets as Glamorgan
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Puzzle on a plate
SINCE the earliest days of motoring, vehicles have carried number plates. The annual issue of a new registration letter became a ritual that inspired a million car sales and countless childhood games of plate-spotting. The first car to be registered in
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Lee hits bullseye
GOAL ace Lee Bullock admits York City are riding a new wave of confidence as the Minstermen get ready to welcome Leyton Orient to Bootham Crescent. And the midfielder, who is looking to make it three goals in three games, is urging his team mates to repeat
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No Excuse Needed to celebrate repeat win
Sir Michael Stoute and Kieren Fallon, who combined to land a double on Knavesmire yesterday, can capture the big race at Goodwood tomorrow. The Newmarket duo will be represented by No Excuse Needed, who holds all the aces in the £80,000 Celebration Mile
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I'm champing at the bit and raring to go
Hello, folks. Evening Press here. Yeehah, or some such outburst hollered by those silly-looking blokes you see on the box carrying guns and wearing those darned awful spiky spurs. At least I know why they yell such a phrase. It sums up the state I am
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Megaman X5, published by Capcom for Playstation
A massive space colony is on a collision course with Earth, and the future of the planet is entrusted to two superheroes. Superman and Batman perhaps? Well, er, no... Megaman and Zero actually! This is the latest offering from the Megaman series and,
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch, published by Simon and Schuster for Playstation
TV witch Sabrina has come to the Playstation in a game of puzzles and exploration. Aimed at the younger market, the game has plenty to enjoy, as you move around gathering pieces of a clock and dodging dragons and monsters. It was easy to move Sabrina
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Council gives go-ahead for £20m stand at racecourse
PLANS for the £20 million new County Stand at York's Racecourse have been given the green light by councillors. The entire project, which is being referred to the Government for final approval, is expected to be completed in time for the 2003 racing season
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Rebecca wows 'em
EYE-CATCHING Rebecca Elcock wowed punters and judges alike at York racecourse and won her own Ladies Day race - as the best dressed woman at Knavesmire. Rebecca, 33, who works at Fenwick department store, York, romped home in yesterday's fashion stakes
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Happy Jack, Live Bed Show and Disco Pigs will be in repertoire from September 5 to November 3 at The
TIM Welton feels at home in The Studio at York Theatre Royal, happy to be given the honour of directing the first series of repertory shows in this new space. "I have to be honest, it may sound arrogant, but it feels the most natural thing I've ever done
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RolePlay, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in repertoire from August 30 to September 8.
BILL Champion could be forgiven a feeling of deja vu this summer at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. From August 30, he will be appearing in his third play on exactly the same set design by Roger Glossop, and all three shows have been written
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Dogs and paths
I AGREE with everything David Quarrie wrote about the foot and mouth crisis (Letters, August 21) except for one thing. He states that dogs are allowed to roam free from farm to farm. Most public footpaths that have been reopened either do not allow dogs
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Be a detective in York's new sensory garden
A SENSORY garden has been built in a York churchyard to help visitors interpret past buildings in the city. York Archaeological Trust has developed the £35,000 garden, named Sensory Detective, in St Saviourgate's churchyard, off Walmgate. The garden has
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Academy may hold key to title chase
YORKSHIRE Academy could do Harrogate and Scarborough a favour if they can put the brakes on Sheffield Collegiate's bid to retain their Yorkshire ECB County Premier League title at Headingley tomorrow, writes Peter Vine. The county youngsters take on the
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Tang men miss taste of success
TANG Hall Match Group, York's sole representatives in the National Federation of Anglers, came desperately close to promotion from division five, writes Darren Starkey. The decision to allow anglers double pegs was justified with a great contest on the
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Early derby duel fuelled by Robins' revenge task
IT'S derby day already in the Northern Counties East League premier division as Selby Town face Goole at Flaxley Road in what promises to be a special occasion. Tomorrow's match marks the 50th anniversary of the Robins' move to their current home and
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Boy, 3, in cat attack horror
A DISTRESSED mother is urging families to beware after her three-year-old child was mauled by a cat. Belinda Taylor said her son Lewis would be "scarred for life" after being scratched and bitten on the face and arm when he went to stroke the cat. Lewis
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'£25m is needed to halt decline'
IT WILL cost £25 million to halt the decline of York's public buildings, a councillor revealed today. But Liberal Democrat member Peter Vaughan accused City of York Council of ignoring the problem. The shadow spokesman for resources said the council had
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Coach firm gets £5m boost in 10-year deal
A NORTH Yorkshire bus building firm's future has been secured for the next decade with a multi-million pound deal to supply one of the UK's largest bus dealers. TransBus Plaxton, which was threatening to close its Scarborough plant earlier this year,
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York funeral of soccer player
THE funeral of Sheffield Wednesday player Thomas Staniforth was taking place in York this afternoon, with the cause of his death still unknown. Wednesday manager Peter Shreeves and members of his squad were expected to attend the service at 2pm at York
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Benchmarks for Tait and Hadland
FORMER York City and Scarborough striker Chris Tate may have to settle for a cameo performance when Leyton Orient arrive at Bootham Crescent tomorrow. The former City junior scored for Orient in their play-off final defeat to Blackpool at the Millennium
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Let's discuss city's skyline
MIND-blowingly awful, or visually stunning? It depends on your perspective. Mawson's Court, the block of flats being built behind the former pet supplies shop in Walmgate, York, is causing controversy. Architect Tom Adams, who has spent decades designing
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Benchmarks for Tait and Hadland
FORMER York City and Scarborough striker Chris Tate may have to settle for a cameo performance when Leyton Orient arrive at Bootham Crescent tomorrow. The former City junior scored for Orient in their play-off final defeat to Blackpool at the Millennium
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Duffield hopes for Christmas bonus
HEARTBROKEN Peter Duffield admitted he feared another season-long spell on the sidelines after learning he had fractured his leg for a second time in a year. As first revealed in the Evening Press, the York City hit man sustained a hairline fracture of
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I've plenty of reasons to be cheerful at the moment
IT'S been a good news week. Not only were Yorkshire poised to win the County Championship today for the first time in 33 years but my back injury should only be a short term problem. England arranged for me to have the scan which I had at Leeds yesterday
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Lusty Lindy revs up to thrill crowds
AUGUST Bank Holiday will be a proud weekend for Andre Tempest when he shows off his beloved Lusty Lindy at the Great Yorkshire Air Show. But when Andre parades his lovely lady in front of the crowds at the show, which is sponsored by the Evening Press
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Startopia, published by Eidos Interactive for PC
Startopia puts you in the hot seat of running a space station. Sounds easy? No it ain't. Building, buying and selling goods, hiring staff and trying to keep the many races of beings happy gives you but a small view of your tasks ahead. The game cracks
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Jurassic Park III: Danger Zone, for PC or Mac
Jurassic Park III brings dinosaurs to yet another generation of kids and this game joins the band wagon. Jurassic Park has been hit by a violent earthquake destroying nearly all of InGen's dinosaur DNA. With the scene set, it is your challenge to replace
