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County to fore in ageism fight
IF there are lessons to be learned by the nation about how to tackle ageism in the workplace, they will be found right here in York and North Yorkshire. Nowhere else has there been such a stunning start to a campaign inspired by the business development
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In safe hands
Eurosafe UK Ltd., the Clifton Moor construction health and safety consultancy, revealed today that it has secured £134,000 worth of contracts over the past two months. The biggest contract involves undertaking the role of safety adviser, including site
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Society's future lies in York
A York healthcare organisation, whose patron was the Queen Mother, has abandoned plans to move out of the city - and instead is buying its own purpose-built headquarters a few hundred yards away. Piling rigs have now moved on to the Holgate Park frontage
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Split decision
DETAILS emerged today of a breakaway of the huge York-based systems and technology arm of facilities management giant Jarvis into a separate company called Agilisys. Economic chiefs in York are predicting that the new organisation could rapidly become
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Help us make Chapelfields a better place
In response to the Evening Press front page report on Saturday ('Street of shame'), I wish to comment on the situation in Chapelfields. On the whole this is a good area, where there is a sense of community for many including private home-owners and council
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Chill out, sad cyclist
ON a recent early-morning car journey through York, I experienced an interesting liaison between another motorist and a cyclist at the traffic lights outside the Theatre Royal. In a particularly eloquent manner a cyclist occupying pole position in the
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Delving into the diary of the Queen of Faff
There are three things you need to be to successfully work from home: disciplined, organised and self-motivated. Unfortunately I am none of the above, which probably explains why my work life is so chaotic. While other home-workers plan their weeks, their
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Let's get drugs in perspective
Let's get drugs HEROIN is one of the greatest threats to society, so it is gratifying to report two different campaigns against the drug and its dealers. One of those dealers, Carl Anson, is beginning his six-and-a-half year prison sentence. He was responsible
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ITV Digital fiasco to force up City prices
TICKET prices are set to rise at York City as the ITV Digital fiasco rumbles on. The Minstermen are in danger of losing around £200,000 if the Football League fails in its legal action to recoup the £178.5 million owed by ITV Digital from its owners Carlton
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Stadium rent boost for Wasps
THE working party trying to get York Wasps readmitted to the Rugby Football League have negotiated a new rent for Huntington Stadium to help them finance the rebirth of the club. Talks have taken place between the Wasps' working party and management from
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Master of the board game
YORK-based estate agent Hunters is top of the "board count" in the city, according to an independent survey by Market Share Analysis. The count indicates that Hunters is the market leader in York when it comes to the number of For Sale and Sold boards
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Law firm keen to save ailing clubs
A DEAL brokered by York solicitors firm Denison Till which last week saw York City Football Club officially change hands, may now be regarded as a blueprint for similar solutions at troubled clubs throughout Britain. The law firm has written to Alan Crozier
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Heworth finish with a flourish
Heworth saved their best until last as they trounced Stillington 9-0 in Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve C. Kevin Ingliby (3), Ian Wilkinson (2), Carl Turpin (2) Tim Rye and Tom Keirnan enjoyed the goal spree. Goals from Kevin Sayce (3), Simon
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Activity project for youngsters to end
A SCHEME to prevent youngsters in York turning to crime has become the victim of red tape. The community policeman in Tang Hall, PC Greg Morgan, has decided to make this year's East Side Activity Project his last because he cannot take the risk of being
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Julie's too Scattergood for Sun Inn ally
Julie Scattergood took centre stage at the York White Rose Ladies League finals by winning the individual competition title. Her opponent was Sun Inn colleague Heather Beadnell who found Scattergood's steady scoring too much to handle, especially the
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Dahl play was just peachy
CHILDREN from a school in York have put in a peach of a performance in a stage version of a classic Roald Dahl book. The ten children are all pupils of Archbishop of York School, in Bishopthorpe. They have been playing a group of New York children in
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Dorman closes swim chapter
NEW Earswick Swimming Club have marked the long service of their leading official with a special presentation. David Dorman has stepped aside after 17 years helping to run the club, first as treasurer and then as chairman for the past two and a half years
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Jubilee music lined
ALL we need is music!Players took to York's streets for what has been billed as the city's biggest-ever celebration of music, and will form part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations and BBC Music Live. York Live Music Festival will incorporate local
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Champions to resume normal winning service
PRACTICE will hopefully make perfect for an upwardly mobile trend to continue for the York Tennis Club men's doubles team. The side enjoyed a 2001 summer success story when they lifted Yorkshire League division four title. Now they are already back in
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York's big task
YORK Rugby Union Club tackle 'Mission Impossible' at Clifton Park tonight. The Yorkshire One side entertain Wharfedale in the second round of the Yorkshire Cup. Wharfedale finished sixth in National Two and will be the best side York have faced all season
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Stadium rent boost for Wasps
THE working party trying to get York Wasps readmitted to the Rugby Football League have negotiated a new rent for Huntington Stadium to help them finance the rebirth of the club. Talks have taken place between the Wasps' working party and management from
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PC tells how he faced gunman
A POLICEMAN from North Yorkshire told an inquest that the moment a former solider threatened him with a gun was "the most fearful, life-threatening experience" he had ever had. PC John Hart, a former Royal Marine who served 11 years in the Army, said
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Princess Royal to aid appeal
THE Princess Royal was expected in York tonight to help support an Evening Press-backed lifesaving appeal. The Princess Royal, who is Commandant-in-Chief of the Ambulance and Nursing Cadets, will launch the St John Ambulance Bricks And Wheels Appeal to
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Minster mourns death of songman
YORK Minster is mourning the tragic death of a member of its choir. Songman Roderick Neal, 42, was found hanging in his home in High Petergate last week. Police have said there are no suspicious circumstances. Minster spokesman Peter Lyddon told the Evening
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York spy case man back in Greek resort
YORK plane spotter Andy Jenkins was today back in the Greek town where he will face a court on spying charges. Air enthusiast Andy, 32, was among the 12 Britons who flew back to Greece yesterday to face a trial for accessing state secrets. The group arrived
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Women gearing up to raise charity cash
WOMEN who have always wanted to get behind the wheel of a truck, fire engine or police car are being given the chance in a charity drive to aid cancer research. The trio of vehicles are among those which can be driven at RAF Linton-on-Ouse to help Marie
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Tykes' pace ace wide of mark
YORKSHIRE are keeping fingers tightly crossed that there is a big improvement in their fast bowling when they open their defence of the County Championship against favourites Surrey at Headingley tomorrow. New skipper Darren Lehmann is the only addition
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End is nigh in country shops
NEWS of more closures of post offices in rural areas is another sign of the pace of change in everyone's life. Village post offices are one of the mainstays of the life of villages. The other major ones, traditionally, were the church, the school and
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Games without frontiers...
HERE'S a bit of philosophy that is worth tens of millions of pounds.... Life is but a game. It is the maxim which amid crashes and boings, jaunty jingles and fusillades of machine gun bullets has powered two philosophy graduates from the University of
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Why B&Q has 'oldies' in the queue
AMONG the major backers of the new York initiative is B & Q, whose policy of employing older staff has paid off at its big stores like its branches in Hull Road, York, and on Clifton Moor shopping park. Why does it want to spearhead what it calls
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Franchise 'apathy'
A ROW has broken out after York was criticised for a lack of entrepreneurs preventing a healthcare employment agency creating more than 150 jobs in North Yorkshire. The charge has been levelled by Nigel Fielding, managing director of Abacus Care who accuses
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New appointments
PERSIMMON, the UK's leading housebuilder has appointed Steve Acaster as group health and safety director based at the group's York HQ . Mr Acaster, 40, who joined the organisation in 1998, will report directly to the group's main board and will head up
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Barratt York homing in on new staff
CONTINUING demand for new homes has led to house builder Barratt York appointing five more sales staff at its developments across North and East Yorkshire. The quintet are Belinda Revely, who lives in Boroughbridge, Janet Harrison, from Harome, near Helmsley
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Top York heroin dealer is caged
A DRUG dealer responsible for York Police's biggest ever heroin seizure has been jailed for six-and-a-half years. Carl Russell Anson, 44, hid a kilo of heroin in undergrowth, fields and gardens as he made at least 30 trips to York city, prosecutor Khadim
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Wrapped in love
TEARFUL mourners today attempted to come to terms with the death of murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle. Hundreds of family and friends left All Saints' Church in Huntington, to the lyrics of the Beatles' Let It Be - reflecting her parents' determination
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Turpin gets a pasting
I refer to Turpin's column in the Evening Press of March 30. I realise that what he wrote was probably intended as a "send up" but there are two barbed comments which cannot be supported by facts. How can he justify from the fairly mild tone of my letter
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Late bus fury
FIRST York introduced the Metro service last year. Our service of three buses an hour to and from York became the beige line, number 17 - one bus an hour and many times non-existent. On April 20 I, and about 25 others, waited in Exhibition Square for
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Lunch price hike
I REFER to a letter form B J Calpin who wrote about charges at Best Western Hotels (April 5). I must tell you my experiences relative to the Monk Bar Hotel. Up to December, 2001 I frequently dined at Sunday lunchtimes when the price of a three course
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Flag up fair play
GEORGE, the dragon-slaying patron saint of England, did not slay dragons and was not English. But he is the only patron saint we have got, so it is good to see his day being celebrated, although not yet on the scale of the feast of St Patrick. A St George's
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City scoff at reports of Howarth bid
YORK City have laughed off suggestions England Under-20s keeper Russ Howarth is set to join Leeds United for £500,000. Howarth, who only made his first League start of the season on Saturday, had been linked with a big summer move to Elland Road in reports
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City fans angry at heavy-handed police
YORK City fans have accused Humberside Police of "hugely heavy-handed" behaviour during and after the last game of the season. City played Scunthorpe at the Lincolnshire club's Glanford Park ground last Saturday. Rival fans clashed in the town centre
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Darren is in the clear
Yorkshire completed victory over Bradford-Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence by an innings and 61 runs at Headingley yesterday but the big win was not as satisfactory as a first glance at the scorebook might suggest. Although there was never any
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Tykes' pace ace wide of mark
YORKSHIRE are keeping fingers tightly crossed that there is a big improvement in their fast bowling when they open their defence of the County Championship against favourites Surrey at Headingley tomorrow. New skipper Darren Lehmann is the only addition
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Honours fall to star turn Fellows
Yorkshire completed victory over Bradford-Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence by an innings and 61 runs at Headingley yesterday but the big win was not as satisfactory as a first glance at the scorebook might suggest. Although there was never any
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Internet company up for major award
A NORTH Yorkshire computer systems company has been shortlisted out of more than 700 companies to go into the last 16 in the Framlington Innovative Growth Awards (FIGIT). Cyberes, based in Harrogate was selected for its development of an Internet enabled
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Busy on Western front
A LEADING hotel group based in York has demonstrated its confidence in an upturn in the fortunes of UK tourism by commissioning a huge extension to its headquarters. Best Western - the largest hotel brand in Britain - has given the go-ahead for a major
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Shops sold in £12.4m deal
OAKGATE Group Plc, the development company with growing interests in North Yorkshire, has sold a retail portfolio to Cheval Properties Limited in a £12.4 million deal. The money will help to fuel Oakgate's active property- buying campaign this year -
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Firms urged to polish skills of their trainees
WITH the altruistic motive shaped by the maxim that the future of a country is in its youth, some York firms are making special efforts to train and develop young members of staff. It is part of a new initiative for 18 to 21-year-olds, led by the Learning
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Work starts on £60m complex
Construction has started on new offices for Norwich Union Life Services marking the first phase in the £60 million development of a major new business park on 40 acres of land at Monks Cross. Landowner and property developer, the Monks Cross Partnership
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Farmers hope for rain after dry spell
ARABLE farmers who feared their crops would be washed away by continual downpours this time last year are now hoping for rain. The continued dry weather could put crops at risk, say North Yorkshire farmers. But just a drop of rain in coming weeks could
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By George, they've got it!
ST GEORGE and the dragon helped celebrate a special day and a special year for a York primary school today. St George's RC Primary School in Fishergate celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and marked St George's Day today by holding a special Mass
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Ex-home boss denies molesting youngsters
ACCUSED former care home boss James Bernard Littlewood has denied molesting any youngsters in his charge at a North Yorkshire home. Littlewood, aged 58, of Brigg Road, Wrawby, is standing trial at Grimsby Crown Court accused of 15 counts of child cruelty
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Darren is in the clear
Yorkshire completed victory over Bradford-Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence by an innings and 61 runs at Headingley yesterday but the big win was not as satisfactory as a first glance at the scorebook might suggest. Although there was never any
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Honours fall to star turn Fellows
Yorkshire completed victory over Bradford-Leeds Universities' Centre of Excellence by an innings and 61 runs at Headingley yesterday but the big win was not as satisfactory as a first glance at the scorebook might suggest. Although there was never any
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City fans angry at heavy-handed police
YORK City fans have accused Humberside Police of "hugely heavy-handed" behaviour during and after the last game of the season. City played Scunthorpe at the Lincolnshire club's Glanford Park ground last Saturday. Rival fans clashed in the town centre
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BUPA closing York home for elderly
HEALTH giant BUPA is on the defensive today after it told 34 elderly people in York they must find a new place to live. Families of residents at Burton Croft Residential Home, in Burton Stone Lane, are said to be furious after BUPA announced it is to
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Cricket club police probe
YORKSHIRE County Cricket Club have called in the police to investigate a substantial financial shortfall on their shop operations at Headingley. It is believed that up £50,000 in either cash or merchandise or both could be unaccounted for - and there
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Santa could have gift of victory in the bag
Cyber Santa, who was just touched-off at Pontefract on his latest outing, can go one better at Catterick tomorrow. The James Hetherton-trained gelding goes for the SIS Digital Number One For Course Data Handicap and will again be partnered by tiny apprentice
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City scoff at reports of Howarth bid
YORK City have laughed off suggestions England Under-20s keeper Russ Howarth is set to join Leeds United for £500,000. Howarth, who only made his first League start of the season on Saturday, had been linked with a big summer move to Elland Road in reports
