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Destiny date
THE fight to save York City Football Club took its first significant stride forward today. A public meeting giving fans a chance to have their say on the future of the club has been arranged for Monday, January 7, 2002. It will be held in Tempest Anderson
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Med to measure
DAVID MARTIN visits The Rock and discovers it offers more than a bit of Britain by the Med DON'T jump red lights in Gibraltar - at least not near the airstrip, anyway. The runway, you see, crosses the main road to the Spanish border, so you might end
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Heading West
CHRIS TITLEY discovered that a trip to France's west coast translates into a fantastic family holiday 'BON jewer," said Jack, showing off his newly acquired multi-lingual skills to the little French girl. She giggled and toddled closer, arms outstretched
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The season of goodwill
WHEN estate agents Hunters of York, Harrogate, Wetherby and Leeds, organised their first charity ball in October, they set themselves a target of £4,000. But it was such a success that they raised nearly £7,000, which has now been shared between St Leonard's
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Thanks for the memories
MEMORIES of life as York's first citizen have come flooding back for Councillor Derek Smallwood. The Evening Press made him a special presentation of photographs taken throughout his term as the city's Lord Mayor. He said it has brought back a wonderful
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Three share £76,000 festive prize money
A FESTIVE windfall will fulfil a lifetime ambition for York club steward and cricket fan Dave Breslin. As a member of The Groves Working Men's Club Lottery syndicate he has a share of a £76,000 prize with two other members - and he plans to use it to
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Train strike action
UNOFFICIAL strike action is still expected to cripple train services on New Year's Eve. The Evening Press reported last week that Arriva conductors were planning to call in sick in protest against salary levels. It would effectively halt services between
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Jukebox fury
A FURIOUS York landlord has strung protest banners outside his pub to "shame" council officers who left him facing fines of up to £20,000 if dancing breaks out on his premises. Ray Leadley-Yoward says the dispute erupted after pensioner Mavis Brogden
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Football that we can afford
I SHARE the frustration of the "Dolan Out!" faction at York City, but I doubt that he will go - and even if he did, it wouldn't make much difference in the long run. We long suffering and loyal supporters at Bootham Crescent get the kind of football club
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Pricey panto
MY daughter, three-and-a-half-year-old granddaughter and I went to the Grand Opera House pantomime for the Saturday matinee. It was my granddaughter's first pantomime and the cost was more than £30. I haven't been to a panto for some years but surely
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Peace in Europe
I SEE Mr Smith has come up once again with his usual right-wing drivel ('Where's your pride?', Letters, December 17), as he sits polishing his medals and thinking about past glories. Perhaps he should think if the European Parliament and Common Market
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Great service
ON Boxing Day I needed to attend the NHS Walk-in Centre, Monkgate, York. The service given was praiseworthy. My thanks to all those willing to give their time and energy to such a worthy institution. Mrs E Birch, Coombs Close, Sutton-on-the-Forest, York
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Work on walk
YOUR correspondent Mr Dave Taylor (December 22) is right to criticise the poor state of New Walk. It was a condition of the Millennium Commission's grant to the Bridge Project that the city council properly maintain the New Walk after the project had
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City of Pork
BET you all thought no Dick this Saturday, what with the Christmas hols and all. No chance... Dick's always on the job... Someone on the New Pork Times is taking the pig out of us Yorkies. In a question-and-answer guide to the Spoken History Of Porkshire
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Holding on
THE reverberations from last week's shock announcement that York City Football Club is up for sale are still being felt. The dust is taking time to settle and at this moment there still seem to be more questions than answers. Through the haze and amid
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City limits
Kuala Lumpur offers all the excitement of a big city...with jungle on the doorstep, discovers Adam Nichols HIGH above Kuala Lumpur, simmering in the heat of the city 450 metres below, looms the world's tallest building. But the Petronas Twin Towers' crown
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Something wild
ADAM NICHOLS heads for Borneo and discovers one of the last untamed places on earth I'M told there's a man living deep in the Borneo jungle. Years ago he was separated from a school party and his body never found. The tale goes that the spirits of the
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All things spice
Emma Harrison visits Morocco and sizes up what it means to visit a Muslim country in the wake of September 11 COLOURFUL is an inadequate word to describe Marrakech - every way you turn you encounter a rich aroma of culture. The markets fill the air with
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Winter enthusiasts cooled by call-offs
THE prime movers behind the switch to a summer season would have been allowed a wry smile this week. The decision to return the Northern Ford Premiership to the warmer months has never won the full backing of the traditionalists. But Boxing Day's several
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Metal detectors boost hospice funds
THE Martin House Hospice for children has found itself £500 better off thanks to a cheque handed over by the York and District Metal Detecting Club. Don Boldison, a member of the club, handed over the cheque, a percentage of the finds the club has made
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Stalwart John's lifetime honour
YORK Railway Institute Badminton Club stalwart John Bellerby picked up a surprise award when he watched the England v China international in Sheffield. Bellerby, who has been a member of York RI since the 1950s and is still the club secretary after more
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Thompson motors to success
PICKERING'S moto-cross racer Ben Thompson is preparing for an assault on the East Yorkshire Championship in the new year. With foot-and-mouth wiping out last season's championship in the area, 17-year-old Thompson was forced to compete on the County Durham
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Sharpe's easy run
FORMER Yorkshire and England batsman Phil Sharpe, who represents York members on the Yorkshire committee, looks certain to be returned unopposed as a North District representative at the club's annual meeting in March. Nominations officially close at
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Council man's transport shift
A SHIFT of freight from North Yorkshire's roads to rail and water is being co-ordinated by a newcomer to the county council. Allan McVeigh has taken the reins of leading the region to more sustainable transport by taking up the newly-created post of freight
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Frost fails to freeze friendships at Pocklington Old Boys' reunion
THERE was disappointment all round when Pocklington's Boxing Day encounter with Old Pocklingtonians was called off due to a frozen pitch. But while there was no action on the field of play, the day maintained its standing as an annual reunion that attracts
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RAF bomber hero dies, 77
A WELL-KNOWN York man who defied all the odds on bomber missions during the war, and again when he was struck down by a stroke two years ago, has died at the age of 77. The family of London-born Tom Smith, who made his home in Heworth and worked for 44
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On centre stage
HARROGATE centres Jamie Barker and Matt Duncombe were denied the opportunity to pit their talents against rugby league legend Gary Connelly on Saturday. Great Britain and Wigan Warriors RL centre Connolly had been named in the Orrell to face Harrogate
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It's a drag race to appeal target
THESE beautifully-dressed lovely ladies joined in the fundraising for Jamie's Have a Heart Appeal, collecting more than £1,000 from fellow colleagues. The cross-dressing employees joined in the appeal by donning frocks, wigs and lipstick, and then going
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Wasps' Bennett deal goes through
SPEED-MERCHANT Neil Bennett has joined the York Wasps revolution. The Evening Press previously reported that the pacy winger was rumoured to be moving to Huntington Stadium, but the club refused to comment on the speculation. However - as revealed on
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Store ban for city shoplifter
SAINSBURY'S has banned a York woman from all its stores after she was caught stealing a bottle of vodka just before Christmas, a court heard. Maxine Cosgrove, 52, could not afford the £14.88 bottle and was feeling depressed as the festive season approached
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Arrest after threats
POLICE had to force their way into a York home after a wanted man trapped himself inside. Officers attended the address at Hewley Avenue, Tang Hall, at about 7.40pm yesterday, to arrest a man suspected of making threats to kill an officer on Boxing Day
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Destiny date
THE fight to save York City Football Club took its first significant stride forward today. A public meeting giving fans a chance to have their say on the future of the club has been arranged for Monday, January 7, 2002. It will be held in Tempest Anderson
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Wasps' Bennett deal goes through
SPEED-MERCHANT Neil Bennett has joined the York Wasps revolution. The Evening Press previously reported that the pacy winger was rumoured to be moving to Huntington Stadium, but the club refused to comment on the speculation. However - as revealed on
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Get folk back on the buses
FIRST York cites driver shortages and bad behaviour by pupils as reasons for cancelling buses serving some of the city's schools. As a parent of one of the children affected by this action, I would like evidence from First York that the pupils from my
