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Stewardship scheme
MORE than £2m could be pumped into the farming economy of North Yorkshire as a result of DEFRA's Countryside Stewardship Scheme. The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) in the county reports that 39 applications were submitted on behalf of farmers
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A wheel opportunity
ONE of the many courses at a Pickering college gives agricultural students practical experience of using farm machinery. Agricultural and other courses will be explained at Askham Bryan College in Swainsea Lane, Pickering on Friday, June 28, at an open
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Mother and child missing
POLICE say they are concerned for the safety of a woman and her four-year-old daughter, who went missing in York two days ago. Kirsty Hodgkinson, who is 23 and from Tang Hall, was last seen at 2pm on Tuesday. Kirsty and daughter Chloe are believed to
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Deal to signal a new era for rail
RAILTRACK in York was today moving towards a new era following the announcement of a deal for shareholders offering them 245p to 255p a share. The deal involves not-for-profit company Network Rail, which is buying Railtrack plc out of administration for
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Snowball's Trust honour
FORMER company director Richard Snowball has been appointed chairman of the York City Supporters' Trust. The new Trust Board appointed the lifelong City fan, who is now semi-retired and was involved in the Save City Campaign from the early stages, at
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Way to go on roads
BEATING road congestion is a major target for the UK freight industry. The delays and unreliability caused by the problem costs UK industry, and thus the consumer, around £20 billion a year. An astonishing sum. From 2006 all goods vehicles will be operating
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Shame on vandals
ANOTHER grave has been destroyed by vandals in a York cemetery (June 24). It is coming to something when they can't leave other people's property alone. It's a disgrace and a shame. I feel so sorry for that poor old man and his family. G O'Rourke, Chapel
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Darley set to salute sprint star Salviati
ALL signs point to Newcastle this weekend, with the £140,000 Northumberland Plate - the 'Pitmen's Derby' - taking pride of place on Saturday, and the Northern Rock Gosforth Park Cup forming the feature of tomorrow evening's curtain-raising programme.
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Ovington stay cool as the title race hots up
The first division championship race in the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale League is hotting up but Ovington maintained their lead after beating Stamford Bridge. Ovington were indebted to Bridge old boy Andy Holmes (76no), who saw them to 197-7 at
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Pupils urged to dig deep to learn history of York
CHILDREN from York and North Yorkshire schools are invited to help dig for hidden treasures at a medieval hospital site. Summer workshops are being held at the site, the former St Leonard's Hospital, in the Museum Gardens, York, for children aged six
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Buyer found for firm to save York food jobs
YORK jobs with the chilled food business Albert Fisher Group plc and Fisher Foods Ltd, have been saved. About 280 positions at Fisher Foods, which has a huge factory at Skelton, were safeguarded after receivers announced that the collapsed company has
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Reunion heartbreak for York war refugee
JOY has turned to heartbreak for a Latvian World War Two refugee living in York who traced his long-lost sister. Charlie Udris's sister Berta died of cancer before they could be re-united. As previously reported in the Evening Press, Charles, of Acomb
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Sheriff firing the shots at half-way mark
Sheriff Hutton Bridge lead Sessay by one point at the top of the Pilmoor Evening League table at the half-way stage of the season. These two are well clear of the rest, while Huby and Alne occupy the bottom two places with Thirsk just above them. Newburgh
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Police awarded £5,774 air show costs
ORGANISERS of North Yorkshire's biggest air show have been ordered to pay more than £5,000 after failing to cover essential policing costs. North Yorkshire Police took Elvington Leisure Ltd to York County Court in an effort to claim payment for its cover
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Tykes on back foot
Yorkshire did not make a breakthrough until Sussex openers Richard Montgomerie and Murray Goodwin had put on 85 on the second day of the Championship match at Arundel today. Goodwin then fell to Craig White but Montgomerie went on to complete his half-century
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Wish you were here, Mr Chirac
THE Malton Show was back today, with hundreds of visitors expected to support the event. Today is the first time the show has taken place since the summer 2000. It was cancelled last year because of the foot and mouth crisis. Malton Mayor Anne Hopkinson
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Snowball's Trust honour
FORMER company director Richard Snowball has been appointed chairman of the York City Supporters' Trust. The new Trust Board appointed the lifelong City fan, who is now semi-retired and was involved in the Save City Campaign from the early stages, at
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Your lovely Jubilee!
WHAT a Golden Jubilee weekend you had. When the celebrations were at their height earlier this month, we went out and captured events across North and East Yorkshire on camera. But there were far more street parties and other events than we could get
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All clear in latest FMD scare
THE farming industry breathed a sigh of relief this week with news of the all-clear on the latest foot and mouth scare. The good news came on the heels of a report that said the foot and mouth crisis cost the British economy £8 billion. All tests carried
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Crisis cost £8 billion
LAST year's foot and mouth outbreak cost the nation's economy more than £8 billion, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). The bill to the taxpayer came to more than £3 billion; the cost to the private sector, mostly tourism, was more than £5 billion
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News in brief
MAJOR retailers are calling for more organic eggs, a gathering of British free range egg producers was recently told. The advice came from David Trick, the former chairman of the Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREA). He said that two major retailers
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Tykes on back foot
Yorkshire did not make a breakthrough until Sussex openers Richard Montgomerie and Murray Goodwin had put on 85 on the second day of the Championship match at Arundel today. Goodwin then fell to Craig White but Montgomerie went on to complete his half-century
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Caring Tykes restore faith
IF anyone ever questions the generosity of Yorkshire folk, present them with a copy of today's paper. Our readers have again demonstrated that the miserly Tyke is a creature of myth. There is a sort of alchemy at work here: two bad news stories have been
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Show lifts gloom
IT is wonderful to carry a report and picture from Malton Show today. What is always an enjoyable event has taken on special meaning this year. As the first of the season of major agricultural shows, Malton officially declares our countryside to be back
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Half of truants found with their parents
ALMOST half the number of schoolchildren found truanting from school in York in the last year were with their parents, new figures revealed today. City of York Council Truancy Watch, which runs patrols in and around the city centre to target pupils taking
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Cloud cover
George Wilkinson goes in and out of cloud as he walks on Thimbleby Moor above Osmotherley WE sat in the car on Thimbleby Moor above Osmotherley as the rain lashed the windscreen. Cloud at one thousand foot smeared out the top of Black Hambleton, the nearest
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They really can turn muck into brass...
STEPHEN LEWIS checks out ways that you can "buy recycled" YORK is finally getting its act together on recycling. In addition to the bottle, paper and can banks scattered around the city, a kerbside recycling scheme, in which re-usable rubbish will be
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Check before you hit the autoroute!
Many of us will be travelling abroad this year and will be taking our cars with us. Doing so gives us the freedom and convenience to go where we like and at least we are familiar with the car we are driving if not the roads we will be travelling on. If
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City council does take dog fouling seriously
YOUR correspondent Lynne J Lea complains about the lack of council action over one incident of dog fouling (June 18). I assure your readers and Lynne J Lea that City of York Council does take this issue seriously - we provide bins, carry out patrols,
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God's on whose side?
I WISH to comment on your paper's response to one of your Quotes Of The Week (June 22). The quote was from the Prayer For The Quarter Final. Leaving aside my own strong feelings that petitioning the ultimate force in the universe for victory in a supposedly
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Help me find Edna
DO any readers know the whereabouts of Mrs Edna Blakeborough? I read an article in a national newspaper and watched the BBC2 programme Homeground on June 13, about the bombing of York in 1942. I want to write to her personally, because Major Larcombe
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Rail strikes misery
AS a frequent passenger on Arriva Trains, I am sick and tired of these strikes. I travel from Ulleskelf, which at present only has a few stopping trains, and have a monthly ticket. I am fed up with having to pay out to get to work, when it is Arriva who
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Just Jimi the money
TRYING to spot what on earth adverts are selling helps fill the gaps between television programmes. If an advert is wilfully obscure or teasingly takes its time, it'll probably be for a car. Either that or a bank. An advert doing the rounds now is a fine
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Heworth Cons on brink of crown
DEFEAT for Pocklington-based Stewart at home to Scarcroft has left unbeaten Heworth Cons virtually certain of taking the division three title in the York Persimmon Homes/Ideal Standard Bowls League. Holgate, the league'sother undefeated side, look an
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Fury at A64 flyover decision
A LANDOWNER says the Government's go-ahead for a flyover on the A64 at Bilbrough Top signals the death-knell for his wife's horse-breeding business. District councillor Brian Percival says the chosen design will involve the compulsory purchase of 60 per
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Ovington stay cool as the title race hots up
The first division championship race in the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale League is hotting up but Ovington maintained their lead after beating Stamford Bridge. Ovington were indebted to Bridge old boy Andy Holmes (76no), who saw them to 197-7 at
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Vale tester
Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale Cricket League will host the Yorkshire Womens' Under-15 fixture on Saturday against Cheshire at Askham Bryan College (2pm start). The public are welcome to attend and there is ample car parking at the College. Yorkshire
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Readers help York family go on holiday
A YOUNG blind boy whose family holiday money was stolen can now go on the trip of his dreams thanks to the huge generosity of the people of York. The eight-strong McLeod family, of New Earswick, York, including seven-year-old Reece, who is blind, had
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Robbo to be the one
Beverley-born Paul Robinson is set to oust Nigel Martyn as Leeds' first-choice goalkeeper next season. And that could see Martyn on his way out of Elland Road after six seasons. Robinson was one of the stars of England's Under-21 European Championship
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Readers respond after thieves strip grave
A YORK man whose wife's grave was stripped of flowers by callous thieves says his faith in mankind has been restored after being inundated with flowers and cards from members of the public. Edward Allsopp, 89, from Hambleton Way, Huntington, was devastated
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Walker's new Boro patrol
SCARBOROUGH boss Russell Slade has again dipped into the transfer market to bolster his squad ahead of the new Nationwide Conference campaign with the capture of goalkeeper Leigh Walker. The 21-year-old has agreed a deal for next season at the McCain
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York busker enquiries continue
A MAN was this afternoon still being questioned by police "in connection with the circumstances surrounding the death" of York busker Tony Grayson. The 36-year-old was arrested yesterday and has been in custody since then. A 34-year-old woman, arrested
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Tragic baby's struggle for survival
A MOTHER today told of the love and pride she felt for her baby son, who died in his parents' arms aged just 11 weeks. Jane Reed, 35, of Clementhorpe, York, said that in his short life, Stephen James had brought love and courage to the whole family. Stephen
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Early sheep sale given green light
THE good ladies of DEFRA who look after our market have given the go-ahead for the early sheep sale, which is now set for Friday August 2. This is good news, and we are going to hold it on the market premises which will mean that the restrictions are
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Fury at A64 flyover decision
A LANDOWNER says the Government's go-ahead for a flyover on the A64 at Bilbrough Top signals the death-knell for his wife's horse-breeding business. District councillor Brian Percival says the chosen design will involve the compulsory purchase of 60 per
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Keeping track of the truants
JO HAYWOOD joins the York Truancy Watch team to find how they get children off the streets and back to school Sarah is 12 years old but looks seven. She is slightly built and very pretty, with baby blue eyes and a wide, cheeky grin. She is also filthy