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Trust Katie!
BEMUSED drinkers are being kept informed of every grimace and wince of a satellite TV reality game show at The Winning Post because a member of staff stands to win £10,000. Bar worker and drama student Katie Booth, 20, is among the final six contestants
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Ramada Encore Coffee Bar, Micklegate, York
WHEN a new place opens it is always difficult to decide how soon after we should visit. Encore has been in existence about two months, however from the outside you would be excused if you thought that the encompassing hotel was still being fitted out.
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Spread the word
AS the race to kick-start York RL hots up, the Evening Press has underlined its support for the new professional club by posting its plea to the city. The award-winning newspaper - which has led the official "Kick-start York RL campaign" - has designed
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Late, late glow
The garden is taking on its autumn hues and late-flowering plants dominate while early bloomers fade. Japanese anemones are favourites for the middle or back of the border where their tall stemmed open flowers, filled with yellow stamens bloom for several
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Dedicated Dawn's sterling service
STAR employee Dawn Moore might modestly claim that it was just "business as usual". But her colleagues were determined to celebrate when she notched up 25 years at the same York store. Dawn, 41, has served behind the counter and in the aisles of Jacksons
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Return of the prodigals
DAVID MARTIN reports on the opening night of the North's biggest rock festival, the Leeds Carling Weekend, at Temple Newsam, which continues tonight and tomorrow. Last night saw the Prodigy and Guns N'Roses return to action. YES, they did turn up. Eventually
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Holiday traffic gets quick getaway
THE start of the Bank Holiday weekend brought few traffic problems to North and East Yorkshire. Some roads and motorways were said to have "heavy and slow-moving traffic" in parts last night, but there were no serious delays. A spokeswoman for AA Roadwatch
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Pointed return
FORMER York City boss Neil Thompson returns to Bootham Crescent for the first time on Monday declaring that he has nothing to prove to the Minstermen. Thompson left City 'by mutual consent' in February 2000 after an unsuccessful year as player-manager
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£3m train crash payout
A £3 MILLION payout has been made by the insurers of Gary Hart, the motorist who caused the Selby rail disaster, York-based rail company GNER confirmed today. GNER, which has its headquarters in Station Rise, said the £3 million has been paid to the insurers
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Spread the word
AS the race to kick-start York RL hots up, the Evening Press has underlined its support for the new professional club by posting its plea to the city. The award-winning newspaper - which has led the official "Kick-start York RL campaign" - has designed
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Callers back death penalty
AN EVENING Press phone poll has shown overwhelming support for the York family of a murdered schoolgirl, who have launched a campaign to bring back the death penalty for child sex killers. Yesterday, the Evening Press exclusively reported that the York
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£115,000 for B&Q fall man
A LABOURER who lost the use of his left hand after falling in a York DIY store has been awarded £115,611 in damages. Anthony Wayne Barker, 44, tripped over a crate which had been left in an aisle at the B&Q superstore at Clifton Moor in May 2000.
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THREE...is the magic number
SO dark has the gloom been surrounding York City in recent seasons that it is difficult not to get too carried away by the Minstermen's promising start to the campaign. Seven points from nine, second in the table and goals galore - anyone offering that
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Fur comment
JO HAYWOOD gets under the skin of one of next season's standout styles and asks if real women should wear fake fur. Is beauty only skin deep? If the abundance of leather, suede, sheepskin and fur heading for our high street fashion stores is anything
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Village plea
I AM all for new developments and the accompanying jobs and boost to the local economy, but it seems to me that the local people in Rawcliffe are quite right about the problems that are going to come with the proposed new village (August 19). In the United
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Heather and yon
THE landscape backdrop to today's walk is purple heather. The political backdrop is a huge and hugely successful public access arrangement. The land at Bolton Abbey is owned by the Duke of Devonshire who this year publicly apologised for the treatment
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Bear necessities
Martin Jarred has an encounter with a bear in a luxury hotel bedroom and lives to tell the tale. OUR room was already occupied. There, sprawled on the four-poster bed, was Trevor. He was bare naked and didn't bat an eyelid as we entered. But our surprise
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Pointed return
FORMER York City boss Neil Thompson returns to Bootham Crescent for the first time on Monday declaring that he has nothing to prove to the Minstermen. Thompson left City 'by mutual consent' in February 2000 after an unsuccessful year as player-manager
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Fun for all the kids
I CAN'T say I have ever been a fan of Emmerdale. Yorkshire's very own soap has always seemed the poor relation of its Lancashire and London equivalents. Certainly not a patch on Corrie for humour, apart from the memorable time a plane crashed on the village
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Eden haven
WALKING into the Eden Project is like passing into another world. A cross between a vision from a futuristic science fiction film and a colourful tropical paradise, Eden nestles in a valley near St Austell in Cornwall. Once I arrived at the project, having
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Open and shut case for Rebel - 24/08/02
BEVERLEY will be the place to be tomorrow afternoon as the course joins forces with the Malton Racing Association Stables Open Day, which is expected to attract hordes of enthusiasts to the North Yorkshire racing town throughout the morning. Twenty stables
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Kirby is so mad for it
Steven Kirby, by his own admission, is 'as mad as a hatter' but - as he also points out - that does not mean to say he has nothing between his ears. Many a batsman has already paid the penalty for believing that Kirby's glares and stares were mere buffoonery
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Fibbers opens early
BOSSES at reborn York rock venue Fibbers have announced it is to reopen a day early. Fibbers, in The Stonebow, was last week bought by the entertainments company Channelfly and had been initially expected to reopen on Monday. But it will now start its
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Whole world in our hands
PEOPLE strolling in York city centre were asked to do their bit to save the world today. Campaigners from York and Ryedale Friends of the Earth set out their stall in Exhibition Square this morning, and its centrepiece was an inflatable Earth, decorated
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City artist canvasses support for hospice
A YORK artist who became the first national winner of Channel 4's Watercolour Challenge is holding an exhibition this week - and raising vital funds for the city's St Leonard's Hospice. Steve Richards, who has a studio in York Street, Dunnington, has
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Hospital patient's bracelet anger
A YORK woman is claiming she was left in pain after staff at York District Hospital (YDH) lost vital information about medical needs during a recent stay. Cheryl Smith, 21, from Garrowby Way, suffers from a rare condition called reflex sympathetic distrophy
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It's all good, clean fun
LOVELY bubbly! Youngsters from across the country have been taking part in good, clean fun at a University of York science camp this week. Square bubbles, bubbles as large as a hula-hoop and even dry ice carbon dioxide bubbles have been helping to bring
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Race drunks 'cause chaos'
A YORK hotel boss has spoken out about the mess and chaos caused by drunken racegoers during the Ebor meeting. Philip Down, owner of the Quality Hotel, in Piccadilly, said half a dozen of his 100 rooms were left in a mess, despite tight security measures
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Classic for Ryder aces
Former Ryder Cup captains Bernard Gallacher and Tony Jacklin head a distinguished cast for the De Vere Hotels Seniors Classic at the magnificent De Vere Slaley Hall in Northumberland from August 30-September 1. Gallacher captained Europe in The Ryder
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York spur for sex drive
THE drive is on at Strensall for more of the fairer sex hitting the fairways of York Golf Club. Over the past few years the junior section at the Strensall-based club has flourished to unparalleled levels. The boys' team, which is pictured above ahead
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Homes plan for 'eyesore'
PLANS to tear down the derelict centre of a York estate and build affordable housing in its place will be put on show next month. Residents living around Bramham Road, in Chapelfields, York, will see designs for 12 homes on the Sanderson House site -
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Apache whirls into York for big show
YOU wouldn't want to get into a fight with one of these. This is the mighty Apache attack helicopter, one of the most powerful military aircraft in history. The Apache is one of the star attractions at this year's Yorkshire Air Show, taking place at Elvington
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Mount Royale Hotel - Sous le Mont Restaurant,York - Reviewed 24/08/02
AFTER every popular race day in York you can see hundreds of people wandering the streets of the city. Many duck in and out of takeaways, pubs and restaurants that line the main routes from the Knavesmire to the city centre. So it was no surprise on Wednesday
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Puss Boots up
STAN Lucas head-butted the printer of his new computer in sheer frustration. The landlord of the Waggon and Horses in York's Lawrence Street just couldn't understand why the thing wouldn't print A4 notices about what sporting events were to be televised
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Champagne bubbles burst pomposity
I THOUGHT for one 'orrible moment, when gorgeous Judi Dench was about to launch a ship recently, that she was going to do a "royal" and become the "Queen Mum of luvvies". Thank goodness when the champagne splashed all over her the familiar giggle and
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The Oxbridge blues...
I READ with interest Chris Titley's column, "Snobs amid the spires" (August 21), and as a very recent graduate from Oxford (I completed my degree in French this summer), I am moved to comment on it. The first opinion which puzzled me was that Oxford dons
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Caring youth
MY husband and I took our youngest grandson to the Homestead at Clifton, York, on a beautiful morning. Our joy was not just to be with Elliot and see him and other children having fun in such a lovely place, but to see a group of young people with SNAPPY