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Can you help us to cross the road safely?
PARENTS of children at a York school are making a desperate plea for a lollipop lady - or man - to help their children over a busy road. The previous school crossing warden at Hob Moor Primary School, in Acomb, was forced to leave in June this year because
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Snakes and ladders show routes
CHILDREN from Rawcliffe Infants School in York learned about staying safe on the streets with a game of snakes and ladders. The game was donated by Dixon Motors and is based on the traditional version but with zebra crossings and subways to move up and
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Colleges aim higher to target students
A PROJECT which will link York's four providers of higher education will be launched in the city tomorrow. Higher York aims to link up York College, University of York, York St John College and Askham Bryan College to benefit those hoping to study in
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Booty Knights
YORK City Knights are primed to benefit from a hand-out payment from Super League, the Evening Press can reveal. It is believed the Rugby Football League are to waive a ruling which states only full members of the league are allowed share-outs of league
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Sort out this A-level fiasco
So now, it seems, A-levels - the 'gold standard' of our education system for so many years - could be scrapped altogether. I suppose it is one way of trying to sweep the unseemly row over grade-fixing under the carpet. Whether it's actually the best thing
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Law targets Swiss role
YORK City's youth team defender Graeme Law was hoping to earn his first international cap tonight when Scotland Under-19s take on Switzerland. Law is part of a 16-man Scottish squad that will tackle the Swiss at Dumbarton's Strachlyde Homes Stadium, kick-off
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Bypass plan unveiled
THE favoured route of a new £2 million Selby scheme to bypass a notorious accident blackspot has been unveiled. Highways Agency chiefs have announced the preferred path of the mile-long mini-bypass at Osgodby, which is aimed at cutting the number of road
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Shopkeepers secure shutters
FOUR close-knit York businesses are today celebrating securing thousands of pounds of ward committee cash to kit out their shopfronts with security shutters. The popular parade of shops, at Intake Avenue, Clifton, which includes a fish and chip shop,
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No excuses for Tykes' tale of relegation woe
YORKSHIRE began the season as kings of county cricket but by mid-June the champions had lost five of their first six matches and were firmly embedded to the bottom of the table for the remainder of the summer. It was a shock to the system for players
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Bar's midnight licence hope
MUSIC fans in York could soon be celebrating being able to buy booze after bands finish if premier live venue Fibbers is granted a late licence. Fibbers boss Tim Hornsby recently made the application to serve until midnight from Monday to Saturday. The
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CB pay penalty for net loss
FINDING the net is the aim of most football sides, but it has taken on a more literal meaning for one Sunday team from York. Acomb-based CB United, who play in the York Sunday Afternoon League division two, have had three sets of goal-nets stolen in three
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Law targets Swiss role
YORK City's youth team defender Graeme Law was hoping to earn his first international cap tonight when Scotland Under-19s take on Switzerland. Law is part of a 16-man Scottish squad that will tackle the Swiss at Dumbarton's Strachlyde Homes Stadium, kick-off
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Abandoned car is to be removed
COUNCIL staff have pledged this abandoned car will be moved from outside York District Hospital by the end of today. The wrecked Fiat Panda has been dumped at the pelican crossing in Wigginton Road, opposite the hospital, for eight days. Concerned residents
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Luther backs wages of thin
YORK City coach Luther Blissett has urged players at his former club, Watford, to take a pay-cut to help save the Hornets from bankruptcy. Bosses at Vicarage Road are asking players to take a 12 per cent pay cut as part of a £9.5million cost-cutting exercise
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Desperate mum's school place fight
A YORK mother battling against a debilitating disease is facing a further battle - to get her daughter into a school near her home. Angela Green, 32, from North Moor Estate, Huntington, is six months pregnant and contracted carpal tunnel syndrome in June
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Floods supremo Carmel lands top detective job
THE woman who masterminded the defence of Selby during the floods of 2000 has become the new head of North Yorkshire Police CID. Superintendent Carmel Napier has been promoted to the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent and will become the Head Of Specialist
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Motorcyclist aged 71 dies in country road crash
AN ELDERLY North Yorkshire motorcyclist has been killed in an accident on a rural road in the county. The 71-year-old man, from Selby, died after his 800cc Honda Pacific Coast motorcycle was in collision with a car near Malton at about 6.15pm yesterday
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Giving a voice to the young people of York
MIDDLE-age is when your broad mind and narrow waist change places, the old joke goes. Certainly if you are ever going to be really radical, it is more likely to be when you are young. Which is why it is important young people's voices should be heard.
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Day we took off
Today is the 150th anniversary of Sir George Cayley's definitive paper for the first manned aircraft, published in the Mechanics' Magazine of the same day in 1852. This aircraft was flown "sometime after June" in 1853, probably by his coachman, at Brompton-by-Sawdon
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Easy does it
IN my letter about Browns refurbished caf (September 19), I said I am in a wheelchair and find it just as easy (not 'difficult' as printed) to move about in Brown's Caf now as I did before. Please put the record straight because I felt your first reader's
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Amy has got to go to school
SOME arguments are deeply intractable and the row between a York mother and City Of York Council over which primary school her daughter should attend would seem to fall into that category. Angela Green is a woman facing a difficult time in her life. She
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What a dump
RESIDENTS have complained about a car which has been abandoned outside York District Hospital. This is an all-too-common sight these days, as stolen or dumped cars are left to have their insides ransacked and the windscreen glass scattered over the pavement
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Bells for St Nicholas
CHILDREN from a York school helped with a project to transform one of the city's nature parks by planting 10,000 bulbs. More than 20 Year Five pupils from Tang Hall Primary School took part in the bluebell bulb planting at St Nicholas Fields. The children
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A new world awaits in the sixth form
MANY students who have been less than enthusiastic about school find a more agreeable world waiting for them in the sixth form. A good sixth-form education is quite different from the first five years of secondary schooling: it provides a bridge between
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Kayleigh found
A TEENAGER missing from her North Yorkshire home since Monday night was today found safe and well by police officers. Kayleigh Wadsworth, 13, was found in Selby town centre just before 11.30am. A police spokesman said that Kayleigh would be returned home
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No excuses for Tykes' tale of relegation woe
YORKSHIRE began the season as kings of county cricket but by mid-June the champions had lost five of their first six matches and were firmly embedded to the bottom of the table for the remainder of the summer. It was a shock to the system for players
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December date vital for Tykes
Yorkshire are looking to December 7 as the probable date for another extraordinary general meeting at which members will be asked to take the club another step closer to the abolition of the committee, writes David Warner. The 'Gang of Four', who took
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Luther backs wages of thin
YORK City coach Luther Blissett has urged players at his former club, Watford, to take a pay-cut to help save the Hornets from bankruptcy. Bosses at Vicarage Road are asking players to take a 12 per cent pay cut as part of a £9.5million cost-cutting exercise
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York hospital plans new £2m centre
PATIENTS at York District Hospital could soon be treated in a department entirely constructed in a factory. York Health Services NHS Trust is hoping to take advantage of the latest modular construction techniques - seen in the city for the first time
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December date vital for Tykes
Yorkshire are looking to December 7 as the probable date for another extraordinary general meeting at which members will be asked to take the club another step closer to the abolition of the committee, writes David Warner. The 'Gang of Four', who took
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Pylons battle enters fresh phase
THE campaign against a line of pylons across the Vale of York reaches a pivotal moment this week. The campaign group Revolt holds its annual general meeting on Friday night, just three days after the pylons controversy burst back into the headlines with
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York centre may have to close
THE co-ordinator of a hugely popular parents and toddlers group today led calls for more volunteers to help save the threatened York community centre where the group is based. Jenny Fitton, who runs the Livewire under-fives group at Clifton Moor Community
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Booty Knights
YORK City Knights are primed to benefit from a hand-out payment from Super League, the Evening Press can reveal. It is believed the Rugby Football League are to waive a ruling which states only full members of the league are allowed share-outs of league
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Ryedale School pupils net double success
RYEDALE School's Year Nine netball team are the district's Under-14 champions. The youngsters travelled to Scalby School in Scarborough to compete with eight other schools from the region in a round-robin format. After some hard-fought battles and convincing
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Nominate your golden olders
AS Patron of the Not Old Just Older awards (nojos) for Help the Aged, I ask your readers to nominate that special someone. These awards particularly interest me because they prove that experience, wisdom and age are invaluable in today's society. This
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Save our country first
On September 22, hundreds of thousands marched through London in protest at the destruction of our agricultural industries. Demonstrating against the Government will achieve nothing because it is only the messenger. The Countryside Alliance is simply
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Duped by the Euro
DEREK Charlton (Letters, September 12), is right to state that we were deceived when we were asked to join the Common Market. Ted Heath was the original culprit, but successive governments are also culpable. President Blair will take us further into this
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Coping with humps
WHEN I returned to York 12 years ago, I discovered Bootham Crescent, which I remembered from my youth as empty save for the occasional double-deck bus and the Saturday football crowds, had become a rat-run. At that time movement was somewhat restricted
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Grammar is a comp
I HAVE often commented on the 'misleading' title of Tadcaster Grammar School, when in fact, as everyone should now know, the school is really a comprehensive. From time to time various reasons have been trotted out for this strange and anachronistic name
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Praise for police
THERE is so much criticism of the police I thought they deserved a bouquet. I rang on Saturday evening and two officers from Acomb Police Station arrived within ten minutes. They went to a great deal of time and trouble to resolve a difficult situation
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Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman (Headline, £18.99)
THIS is the latest episode in the life of Jewish cop Peter Decker. Our hero receives a call from his half-brother in New York after a family member is murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel and his 15-year-old niece goes missing. Decker flies from Los Angeles