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Pupils get holiday extension
PUPILS at Manor CE School in York will get an extra two days' holiday after a delay in building work at the school. The start of the new term has been delayed by two days due to an over-run in building work. The secondary school, which has about 650 pupils
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We're there
ROLL out the barrel. York Rugby League Club have reached their cash deadline with just hours to spare - thanks to John Smith's Brewery. The Tadcaster-based brewers came up with the final £5,000 in a deal brokered by the Evening Press to enable the York
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Limbo plight stuns Russ
YORK City goalkeeper Russ Howarth admits he is stuck in a rut after seeing dream moves to Tottenham and Wolves collapse. The City shot-stopper's future has been thrown into turmoil after Spurs decided against following up their interest in the England
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Sophie swims to silver
SOPHIE Calpin was York City Baths Club' s top performer at the National Ages Group Championships at Sheffield. She won took the silver medal in the girls 11 years 100m breaststroke in a personal best time and just missed out on a medal in the 200m breastroke
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Paul's baize battle
PICKERING snooker professional Paul Davison starts a tough campaign of competitions next week boosted by victory over a player who reached the last 16 in the Embassy World Championship earlier this year. Davison beat Anthony Davies 5-3 in the quarter-finals
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York divers strike gold on dry land
A GROUP of York divers are celebrating finding treasure - though they didn't have to plunge into any uncharted waters to find it. The Excalibur Sub Aqua Club, which is based in the city, has gained a £2,500 grant from the National Lottery's Awards for
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Cycle path plan is rejected
PLANS for a cycle path across York's new tennis centre site in Hull Road have been turned down by city councillors. The application was put in by Next Generation Clubs and York St John College because they were told to install a cycle route at the site
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New Earswick's roll play
YOU would hardly guess this immaculate, unsullied building used to be an old warehouse for the Rowntree factory down the road. But that's what New Earswick Indoor Bowling Club rose from. And we are not just talking about the massive playing surface which
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Good sports
A COMMUNITY sports programme set up to occupy bored York youngsters is now a registered charity that has enjoyed a hugely-successful summer. The Clifton Association for Recreation and Sport started in 1998 after regular complaints about "nuisance youths
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Seventh heaven for Oaks aces
JUNIOR golf was to the fore at the Aughton-based The Oaks GC, where its seventh annual junior academy was staged. The course was planned, organised and supervised by club captain Steve Forsey with the help of his wife, Carmel, son James, the Oaks' lady
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Rail row for TUC
UNION bosses will highlight their fight with Arriva Trains Northern (ATN) at the forthcoming TUC Conference. The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) is to table an emergency resolution about the dispute at the Blackpool conference. A contingent of
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Girl power thrills M&N
A MILLENNIUM push for golfing girl-power has yielded exceptional dividends for Malton and Norton Golf Club. This column last week highlighted the plight of York GC, where girl membership of an otherwise thriving junior section comprised just two players
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Village plea for drink ban
RESTRICTIONS on consuming alcohol in public could be enforced in the East Yorkshire village where a 12-year-old boy died after drinking cider. East Riding of Yorkshire Council will consider next week whether to ban drinking in an area of Holme-on-Spalding
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Tykes feel Somerset lash
Yorkshire paceman Chris Silverwood came through a late fitness test on his injured ankle at Lord's today and was was soon opening the bowling with Matthew Hoggard in the final of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy, writes David Warner. Somerset decided
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Limbo plight stuns Russ
YORK City goalkeeper Russ Howarth admits he is stuck in a rut after seeing dream moves to Tottenham and Wolves collapse. The City shot-stopper's future has been thrown into turmoil after Spurs decided against following up their interest in the England
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Pupils get holiday extension
PUPILS at Manor CE School in York will get an extra two days' holiday after a delay in building work at the school. The start of the new term has been delayed by two days due to an over-run in building work. The secondary school, which has about 650 pupils
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Roman hands
A RANDY Roman ghost is sending shivers down the spine of a mum-of-three in her "haunted" home. Linda Morris is convinced the strange goings on in her North Yorkshire home are the work of a saucy spectre. Now she and her husband, Darren, want the ghoul
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Yorkie sweats it out
TWO into one will go... but it can be a bit sweaty. One of my two sources - HP, not Heinz - tells me that York City Soccer Club, not good old fashioned football club as in days of yore and mine, are riding high in Division Three after almost going bust
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Slippery loo steps
LAST Friday I needed to use a loo and visited the "Splash Palace" in Parliament Street, York. Going down the slippery steps I kept a grip of the handrail. Halfway down the steps I receive a blow on the back of the legs which, had I not been holding on
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Seeking Lilly Booth
COULD anyone help in my quest to find a woman called Lilly Booth? She would be 78 years old now and born, I think, on October 5, 1923. She lived at the bottom of Charlton Street or St Ann Street, Bishopthorpe, York. She worked in Terry's factory before
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Golden harvest
We came into Huggate on York Lane and left a landscape burnished in the harvest time heat for the cool of the Wolds Inn at noon. Thereby "mad dogs and Englishmen" were delayed a while, and it was hot, more than 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Huggate is a low
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He's magic
SUNDAY visitors to the Lendal Cellars are being given a sprinkling of magic dust with their roast lunches thanks to multi-talented town crier John Redpath. John has been staging a magic show at the basement bar for some months now. What started with a
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Boddy's of Bar Street, Scarborough
"YOU must sample Boddy's," we were entreated by neighbours, so being in Scarborough for the theatre, we were happy to oblige. Outside tables and doors thrown open to make the most of the sunshine gave the place a continental air. This is a self service
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Prefab sprouts
Almost 60 years after it came to an end, the Second World War still proves an endless source of fascination to generations of Brits. And Eden Camp taps into this interest by giving visitors a glimpse of what the conflict was like for servicemen, prisoners-of-war
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Summer's end
THE end of August and once again time has flown, leaving the garden hinting of autumn. Returning from a two-week holiday, we found our garden overflowing; the weather had, apparently, been a mixture of hot sun and downpours, ideal growing conditions for
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Smashing Sachin's total recall
A great player from Yorkshire's past who made a marvellous impression at the opening of the East Stand was Sachin Tendulkar, who became the county's first overseas player when he joined them in 1992. Tendulkar even broke off from India's practice session
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York's middle men
YORK Cricket Club will be hoping to move up the table by teaching the county's top youngsters at lesson tomorrow. Nigel Durham's team travel to the New Rover ground, near Adel to take on the Yorkshire Academy, who have been well led this season by former
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Garage site in line for scheme
A FORMER garage in the centre of York could be turned into shops, offices, a takeaway and a doctor's or dentist's surgery, under new proposals. Developers Evans have submitted plans for the conversion of the former Henley's garage site, off Stonebow,
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Play boost
GOLF England has launched its new Associate member scheme in Yorkshire designed to promote golf to a wider audience. The Associate Membership Scheme continues the work started by the English Golf Union (EGU) that already has more than 7,000 members. It
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New car park plan for York
PLANS have been unveiled for a new car park in the heart of York. London-based car park company Euro Car Parks has applied for planning permission to build the 200-space short to medium stay car park in Palmer Lane, near Stonebow. It would be on land
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Knife attacker jailed for 5 years
A KNIFEMAN who tried to mug a man in a York street is today starting a five-and-a half-year jail sentence. The Honorary Recorder of York, Judge Paul Hoffman said Guy David Osguthorpe, 31, had repeatedly swung a four or five-inch blade towards his victim
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Mansur's a mole model
IF you've seen a person dressed as a mole walking the streets of York over the past month you may have wondered who was inside. Well you probably didn't guess that it was a multi-lingual mechanical engineering student from Kazakhstan, who has studied
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We're there
ROLL out the barrel. York Rugby League Club have reached their cash deadline with just hours to spare - thanks to John Smith's Brewery. The Tadcaster-based brewers came up with the final £5,000 in a deal brokered by the Evening Press to enable the York
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The King's Head Hotel, Kirkbymoorside - Reviewed 31/08/02
'FEELING merry, are you? Not that I know what that's like, of course, sir." He's a legend in his own lunchtime, is Tom, the teenage waiter at the King's Head Hotel, in Kirkbymoorside. Tom is quite possibly the funniest waiter you'll meet. He's a fresh-faced
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Open says City...it's simply magic
TOMORROW'S open day at Bootham Crescent marks a significant development in terms of the relationship between the club, fans and the wider community. John Batchelor's ideas for York City may not be to everyone's taste but trying to make the faithful and
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May our colours never fade
I READ with interest a letter from Mrs Graham (August 22). There are several inaccuracies that need correcting. Colourscape has now appeared in the Museum Gardens for six years and each year it runs a nine-day festival. Contrary to Mrs Graham's belief
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£1,240 raised
WE thank all the helpers and supporters who attended our open garden event, which has raised more than £1,240 for the fabric fund at St John the Baptist Church, Wilberfoss. The event exceeded all our expectations and, thankfully, we had a weekend of wonderful
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Farewell to quiz
SO there is a sad day in the annals of the Evening Press. The demise of the Tuesday Quiz. Very sorry to see it go, but many thanks are due to the compiler who set the questions for giving so much pleasure over the years, and, no doubt, the contestants