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Business urged to back campaign
YORK businesses are being urged to take the environmental destiny of the planet into their own hands by tackling energy waste head-on - and saving money at the same time Laura Collins, campaign manager for PlanetYork - a year-long drive to make York the
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At the double
New Earswick All Blacks Rugby League Club Under-14s completed a league double over Batley Boys but were made to fight all the way for their 24-18 success. All Blacks paid for some slack marking and a lack of willingness in the forwards, but benefited
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York pair reach the last eight
York and District Indoor Bowls Club's Shirley Stacey and Iain Boyle beat England players Ann Harrison and Gordon Charlton before losing in the quarter-finals of the Golden Charter National Mixed Pairs Bowls Championship at Bedford Stacey and Boyle lost
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Titles up for grabs in end-of-season finale
TONIGHT'S matches, the last of the York White Rose Ladies League season, will decide all three divisional titles. The chips are down for Fulfordgate and Sun, who play each other for the division one championship. To retain the title Fulfordgate must win
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Roads chiefs in call to upgrade A64 to four lanes
THE A64 York to Malton road should be upgraded in a bid to save lives, say council highways chiefs. There are renewed calls to make the route dual carriageway along the entire 20-mile stretch north-east of York. But the Highways Agency has unveiled a
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Hate campaign victim ready to move
THE victim of a hate campaign fears he could be killed unless he moves following another brick attack on his York home. The 46-year-old man has suffered at the hands of thugs for the past 18 months, in what he believes is a revenge campaign after he confronted
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Five-hour battle with Moors blaze
FIREFIGHTERS spent more than five hours tackling a blaze on the North York Moors. Gorse and scrubland were well alight when fire crews arrived at the scene at Fenmoor, near Lockton, north of Pickering, at around 3.30pm yesterday. Fire spokesman Terry
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Jailed arms dealer's conspiracy claim
CONVICTED arms dealer Peter Bleach has claimed that a conspiracy to keep him in an Indian prison is being run through the country's newspapers. In a letter to the British Deputy High Commission, Bleach claims that reports of sightings of a man accused
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Police quiz man after gun scare
A MAN who was arrested carrying a pistol shortly after a man was seen indecently exposing himself in York was being questioned by police today. The 33-year-old man was arrested on a footpath near to Scarborough Bridge on the River Ouse just after 7.30pm
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More human bones found at York tip
MORE human bones have been unearthed at a rubbish dump near York where human remains were found last week, police revealed today. A digger operator made the original grim discovery of a variety of human bones on Thursday while carrying out drainage work
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Prayers for a national treasure
THE deafening roar of guns echoed across York as crowds flocked to pay tribute to the late Queen Mother. The 41-gun salute - the first since the death of her husband, King George VI, 50 years ago - took place in the daffodil-filled Museum Gardens at noon
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Ace duo to battle it out at Ripon
Kieren Fallon and Kevin Darley, two of the main protagonists in the race for the jockeys' championship, are in action at Ripon's first meeting of the season tomorrow - and both look likely to be among the winners. Fallon teams up with sprint specialist
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Word against the vandals
York is one of the most attractive cities in Britain and probably in Western Europe. I have spent a few days in the centre during the Easter Weekend. Parliament Street is not one of the areas of the city that immediately comes to mind when thinking of
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Lord Mayor pays her respects
THE Lord Mayor of York, Coun Irene Waudby, signs a book of condolence in York on the same day as the Queen Mother's coffin was being brought to London in preparation for her funeral. The book, which is in the reception area at the Guildhall, is just one
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Back to basics
Teachers have descended on North Yorkshire in their thousands this week as the annual union conference season gets into full swing. Education reporter JANET HEWISON assesses the mood... IT was when teachers' fan David Puttnam came to York two years ago
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The thing is: Who will replace the Queen Mother as our favourite royal?
SHE was fondly referred to as 'the nation's favourite grandmother' but for many people the Queen Mother was more than that: she was their favourite royal. A life dedicated to country and family, in which she rarely put a foot wrong, earned her the utmost
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Lesson for teachers
WE are used to hearing about grants for failing schools. So it is wonderful to celebrate a big investment in an educational success story. Fulford School in York has established itself as one of the top state schools in Britain, and so is over-subscribed
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Join the race
Today we launch our coverage of this year's Race For Life. Few charity events bring together so many people to support such a good cause. Organisers are hoping 4,000 women will take part in York this year to raise money for cancer research. You do not
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Musical highs
I HAD to smile when I read Allan Denney's letter 'Music Memories' (March 19). Allan says: "Rachmaninov didn't survive 45 years and now there are a lot of crumpled separate pages in his music cupboard as page-turning was never his strong point". I have
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AA turns to Yorks telecoms company
ALL Automobile Association vehicles will soon be guided to your stricken car by satellite - thanks to a Pocklington public company. Convergent Telecom, which employs 150 people at Blenheim House near the Pocklington Industrial Estate, has been awarded
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York City 1, Oxford United 0
AS the genial Jimmy Greaves so succinctly once said: "Football? It's a funny old game." Confirmation, if it were ever needed, came at Bootham Crescent yesterday. On the very day City would have surrendered their membership of the Football League had no
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£3m for cramped Fulford School
A MULTI-million pound Easter gift for York's most oversubscribed school was announced today, prompting the go-ahead for major building work. Schools Minister Stephen Timms visited Fulford School to announce its success in securing more than £3 million
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Let's spare our kids from playing the fame game
We used to shove children up chimneys; now we shove them in front of a TV camera. Both are cruel and both can be damaging to a youngster's health, but at least when you bunged them up a chimney you could be pretty sure that when they came back down they
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Blair's 'betrayal' calls for new Labour leader
ABOUT three weeks ago the geography textbooks had to be rewritten, as the huge Larsen B ice shelf collapsed releasing 500 billion tonnes of ice into the Southern oceans. If the rest of Antarctica thaws as rapidly, York and other UK towns are soon going
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Shopping sense
WALKING round York this Easter it occurs to me that the owners of our stores and shops know little of the Christian faith and not much more about business opportunities. For, by and large, they open on Good Friday, a day of sorrow and anguish when they
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Search for answers
MESSRS Taylor and Barnes's pretence of scientific knowledge in support of creationism is comical (Letters, March 19). It is the second law of thermodynamics and not the third, as he says, that covers entropy and this is applicable only to closed systems
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Historic fraud
DR Alf Peacock fails to admit that he deliberately tried to mislead historians by reviewing (and praising) his own books on George Hudson under a bogus name (Letters, March 19). Cheap shots at my credentials as a historian (I studied the subject at Oxford
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Firm puts York back on track as UK's rail capital
ANOTHER major rail services firm has been lured to York, this time bringing 40 new jobs to the city and confirming its resurgence as a railway capital. JacksonEve Infrastructure Services announced today that it has set up headquarters in West Offices
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College's constructive relationship
STANDING at the doorway to a new future are Dianne Willcocks, principal of York St John College, and Kevin Donegan, Yorkshire regional director of construction company Balfour Beatty. Now that York St John College has formally bought the Clarence Street
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Future's Rosie for education expert
EARLY years education guru Rosie Pressland of Pocklington is causing a stir all over the world. The principal of Pocklington Montessori School, which scooped the Evening Press Business of the Year Award 2000, is jetting off for New Zealand tomorrow to
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Potter provides City safety net
MATCHWINNER Graham Potter helped safeguard York City's Football League status for a second successive season but insisted the Minstermen's campaign is far from over. Potter's 73rd minute goal, his first of 2002, was enough to banish City's fear of relegation
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Dolan lashes 'negative' fans
FRUSTRATED York City chief Terry Dolan has pleaded for positive vibes after admitting a negative element is "destroying" the confidence of his players. The City manager was left bewildered as sections of the home support chose to barrack the Minstermen
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Business urged to back campaign
YORK businesses are being urged to take the environmental destiny of the planet into their own hands by tackling energy waste head-on - and saving money at the same time Laura Collins, campaign manager for PlanetYork - a year-long drive to make York the
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Goal deluge sinks Selby
A FRANTIC final 15 minutes cost Selby Town dear as they went down 3-2 to Armthorpe at Flaxley Road in the Northern Counties East League premier division. The game seemed to be heading for a stalemate until a thundering 25-yard drive from Selby's Ryan
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James' dramatic opener
YORK racer James Thompson went from zero to hero after a dramatic opening to the Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch. A mechanical problem at the start of the Easter weekend saw the Vauxhall Motorsport driver forced to start
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Reds' quiz time
York City Reds have their final club night of the season in the family room at Bootham Crescent tomorrow, from 6pm to 8pm. A number of City players are expected to be in attendance giving youngsters a chance to grill their heroes in a question and answer
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Potter provides City safety net
MATCHWINNER Graham Potter helped safeguard York City's Football League status for a second successive season but insisted the Minstermen's campaign is far from over. Potter's 73rd minute goal, his first of 2002, was enough to banish City's fear of relegation
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Holiday crashes toll rises to three
THE Easter weekend death toll on Selby area roads rose to three when a woman died early today in York District Hospital. The woman was the latest victim in a weekend of carnage which saw two young men from Thorpe Willoughby also killed in a road accident
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Dolan lashes 'negative' fans
FRUSTRATED York City chief Terry Dolan has pleaded for positive vibes after admitting a negative element is "destroying" the confidence of his players. The City manager was left bewildered as sections of the home support chose to barrack the Minstermen
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Popular York club closes doors
THE last pint has been pulled, final dart thrown and snooker ball potted at York's oldest club. Saddened members reminisced over their last drink together yesterday at the Irish National League Club (INL), in Speculation Street, off Walmgate. Its closure
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Animal protesters target fun park
ANIMAL rights activists spent a day picketing outside Flamingo Land to protest about the theme park's zoo. Demonstrators from the Society for the Total Abolition of Vivisection and Exploitation (STAVE), based themselves outside the main entrance with
