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Arriva censured on advert claim
BELEAGUERED train operator Arriva was today censured by advertising watchdogs. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that a recruitment advertisement by Arriva Trains Northern, which stated that the firm was "providing efficient passenger rail
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Hidden perks we all pay for
IMAGINE this. A commuter, about to board a Park and Ride bus into York, finds he has no money. So he appeals to his fellow passengers, who dig into their own pockets and pay for his ticket. They are happy to help out. But the following day he and some
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You'll be amazed
WILL York's maize maze become an amazing craze or just a passing phase? Certainly the city's tourist chiefs think it is a winner. Farmer Tom Pearcy's imaginative proposal to create a huge puzzle from a field of maize is due before planners next month.
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Young Tykes for Grenada
SEVERAL of Yorkshire's most promising youngsters have been included in the county's squad of 14 for the pre-season tour of Grenada beginning on March 20. They include opening batsman, Chris Taylor, who celebrates his 21st birthday tomorrow, all-rounders
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Bobby provides winning brew on his debut
BOBBY Brewer made a stunning debut for Kirkbymoorside Reserves. He scored after only 45 seconds in the RJF Homes Beckett League division one match away to Old Malton thirds. And with the score 2-2 he got the winner three minutes from the end. Brewer signed
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Warm feeling about spring
RACHEL Underwood, assistant administrator at Castle Howard, admires the snowdrops in the gardens of the stately home, near Malton. Spring already seems to have sprung in York - but the warm weather has been cut short by winter winds. The 30-day period
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Eerie silence fills the farm that still has no animals
Seven months after foot and mouth struck his farm, Trevor Bosomworth is still counting the cost, as Mike Laycock reports THERE'S an eerie silence down on Trevor Bosom-worth's farm near Thirsk. Before last July, there was the constant noise of squealing
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Display focuses on Egyptian way of death
VISITORS will soon be able to stare death in the face at a North Yorkshire museum, where the ancient Egyptian's take on the Grim Reaper is set to go on display. The unique 2,500-year-old mask of the jackal-headed god Anubis will be the centrepiece of
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Young Tykes for Grenada
SEVERAL of Yorkshire's most promising youngsters have been included in the county's squad of 14 for the pre-season tour of Grenada beginning on March 20. They include opening batsman, Chris Taylor, who celebrates his 21st birthday tomorrow, all-rounders
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Campaigner loses trespass case
ANTI-Star Wars campaigner Lindis Percy has been found guilty of aggravated trespassing at RAF Fylingdales on the North York Moors. Pickering magistrates heard yesterday that Mrs Percy was arrested last year after refusing to move away from an access road
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City savouring success
MANAGER Terry Dolan is refusing to rest on his laurels after York City's 2-1 win at Leyton Orient boosted the Minstermen's survival hopes and ended a season-long hoodoo. The Brisbane Road triumph, courtesy of goals from Peter Duffield and Alex Mathie,
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Talks held over new all-seater stadium
ONE of York City FC's potential new owners has met council chiefs to discuss plans for a new 15,000-capacity, all-seater stadium. But John Batchelor said he had yet to hold detailed discussions on potential stadium sites. Instead, he said last night's
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Schoolgirl hurt in ski trip accident
A HUNTINGTON schoolgirl had to be airlifted to hospital after a skiing accident on a school trip to Austria. Claire Wells, 14, suffered a broken leg during the ski trip last week to St Johannes, Austria. She had to be airlifted to the nearest hospital
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We've got $500,000 to give to your good causes
IT ISN'T every day that we can say we've got half a million dollars to give away. But today the Evening Press can invite groups from our region to apply for a share of a massive 500,000 dollars set aside for good causes. The cash has been earmarked by
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Puss master in cat speak
EVER wondered why your pet puss scratches the hell out of your favourite chair? Or why they lick their face when it's not dirty? Or why they cry to be let out, then immediately cry to be let in again? Well, animal behaviour expert Desmond Morris claims
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Talks held over new all-seater stadium
ONE of York City FC's potential new owners has met council chiefs to discuss plans for a new 15,000-capacity, all-seater stadium. But John Batchelor said he had yet to hold detailed discussions on potential stadium sites. Instead, he said last night's
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Leyton Orient 1, York City 2
LUCK, it is said, evens itself out over the course of a season. And true enough, York City are at last starting to reap the benefits of a pre-Christmas dearth of good fortune. There can be little doubt City's improved run of form of late - they have now
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Council tax bills to rise by £102
AN inflation-busting increase for Selby district's 32,000 council taxpayers will finance a "dream budget", say Labour councillors. The 8.8 per cent hike - almost four times the rate of inflation - was agreed at last night's monthly council meeting. Labour
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Council staff get free park and ride
COUNCIL taxpayers in York could be forking out up to £150,000 a year for local authority staff to get free bus rides into work. The Evening Press has learned that City of York Council provides about 500 of its workers with free passes on Park & Ride
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Gough grabs record
Yorkshire and England superstar Darren Gough has smashed his county's record by netting £250,000 in his benefit season last year. Geoff Boycott raised £148,000 during his testimonial season with Yorkshire in 1984 which marked his 20 years' as a capped
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City savouring success
MANAGER Terry Dolan is refusing to rest on his laurels after York City's 2-1 win at Leyton Orient boosted the Minstermen's survival hopes and ended a season-long hoodoo. The Brisbane Road triumph, courtesy of goals from Peter Duffield and Alex Mathie,
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Today's youths lack the proper discipline
WITH regards to W. Barker's letter (February 15), the problem with nuisance youths is that there is no discipline any more. They have no respect for authority or people's property, and when you take them to task all you get is abuse. There is no longer
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An English anthem
I read the report "Our national anthem is under attack" by Louise Gray (February 15) with great interest. The problem is that God Save The Queen is actually a Royal Anthem and as such should only be sung when the Queen is present. We also seem to have
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Metric menace
WIDESPREAD indignation has followed the latest developments as five traders fight for the right to sell goods in measures that their customers both want and understand. The Magna Carta Society has conducted detailed correspondence with the Parliamentary
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Bus station posers
Mr MACHEN has a valid point with reference to a bus station in York (Letters, February 18) and he rightly points out that a good site has been lost for ever on the old Foxton's Garage. But not a stone's throw away is another more central site! Last year
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Firm to pioneer Pay As You Drive insurance
NORWICH UNION is set to revolutionise motor insurance with a new Pay As You Drive scheme. The insurance giant, which has a major base in York, will be able to collect vehicle data using a "black box" device installed in customers' vehicles. The box measures
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Nomadic leads way at Duncombe Park
GO NOMADIC scored his second win in six days when triumphing in the Land Rover men's open race at Sinnington Hunt point-to-point meeting at Duncombe Park. It was the first point-to-point racing in Ryedale for a year, the foot and mouth crisis having brought
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Park 'like dumping ground for litter'
LITTER levels at a park in York are to be investigated after a local resident complained that it looked like a dumping ground. Bottles, wrappers, cans and even planks of wood have built up by the side of Osbaldwick Beck, which runs through Hull Road Park
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Morris drives off with plunder
The penultimate round of the Acomb Tackle York WL saw 115 anglers contest a difficult match on the Ouse below York. After threatening to flood the city centre a few days previously the river had fallen dramatically but still held an additional yard of
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Scientific adviser's point of view
The Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor David King, was charged with finding a swift resolution to the crisis. A year after he first tackled the problem, he spoke to NICK HALLISSEY How do you reflect on the crisis, a year on? It was a totally
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Double act provides sugar and spice
A YORK junior football team are still going strong thanks to the efforts of two women. British Sugar Under-15s won promotion to division one of their age group in York British Sugar Minor League at the end of last season but were suddenly in danger of
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'There's no way we could survive another year like that'
George Andrews was all set for a good summer at his small Moors hotel. And then foot and mouth struck, reports Stephen Lewis GEORGE Andrews and his partner Ros Hawksby had had high hopes for the summer. Bookings were looking good, and it seemed their
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Manning ponders which road to take
DARREN Manning is considering his options after news he could be without a drive for the Formula 3000 season. The 26-year-old Knaresborough-born racer has spent the past two years with Arden International, but after a torrid time with the Russian-backed
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One year on
It is a year today since Ministry of Agriculture officials announced they had found evidence of foot and mouth at an abattoir in Essex. STEPHEN LEWIS recounts how the disaster unfolded Outbreak... The headlines in the Evening Press on Tuesday, February
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York trio pocket win
YORK beat Wakefield 4-2 in their Yorkshire Inter City Snooker League division three match at the Cue Ball Club in York. Kevin Gall won his first frame against Wakefield opponent Brian Woodcock by the seat of his pants. After a gritty frame Woodcock needed
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Drinker sat on friend to steal £75
A DRINKER stole £75 from a disabled friend by sitting on him, York magistrates heard. David Garnett, prosecuting, said Lewis Anthony Oakland asked Thomas Morris to lend him some money. After the victim refused, Oakland grabbed his wallet from his hand
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Gough grabs record
Yorkshire and England superstar Darren Gough has smashed his county's record by netting £250,000 in his benefit season last year. Geoff Boycott raised £148,000 during his testimonial season with Yorkshire in 1984 which marked his 20 years' as a capped
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Spin star's York session
FORMER Australian Test spin bowler Terry Jenner is to weave his craft in York. Jenner, who made nine Test appearances for the Aussies, will coach eight of the northern region's most promising wrist-spinners at three sessions held at St Peter's School
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Maze out of maize idea goes to council
A YORK farmer's ambitious plans for a mammoth "maize maze" on the city's outskirts are set to go before planners. Tom Pearcy, of Ox-Close Farm in Heslington, hopes to install a giant crop of maize in his field near the Grimston Bar park and ride site
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Cast from the past
MONTHS of detective work have ended in a reunion between a blind man and a statue he crafted before he lost his sight. Gordon Williams, of Margaret Philipson Court, Aldwark, York, and the bronze sculpture of a boy were reunited at York company 210 Communications
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Report proves tonic for York NHS
PATIENTS who undergo urgent surgery at York Health Service NHS Trust hospital have a "significantly better than average" chance of surviving the crucial 30-day post-operative stage. Figures published by the Department of Health today reveal a death rate
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Trader calls for action on begging
A LEADING York retailer has called for action over what he says is the city's spiralling problem with beggars. Simon Williams, chairman of Retailers Against Crime in York, has revealed he is receiving growing numbers of complaints from retailers who say
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Emma enjoys the high life
HARROGATE diver Emma Teather hopes to plunge headlong into a place in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The 17-year-old Harrogate Ladies College student has been selected for the eight-strong Great Britain Under-18 springboard diving team for a Six
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Pipe can take the top prize with Copeland
CHAMPION National Hunt trainer Martin Pipe is the man to follow at Wincanton races tomorrow. Pipe, who has several fancied runners on the card, looks set to win the afternoon's feature race, the £35,000 Axminster Carpets Hurdle, with Copeland. The seven-year-old
