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Punters cash in on Wilko surprise
YORK punters were on to a good thing when it came to picking the next Sunderland manager, bookie William Hill revealed today. Its shops in the city took a string of bets on former Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson to take over the hot seat at the Black Cats
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90mph L-driver killed friend
A TEENAGER with practically no driving experience killed his best friend by overtaking at speed on the A19 in North Yorkshire, York Crown Court heard. Motorist Peter Jones cried: "Look at that!" as Matthew Paul Lee hurtled past him on the A19 near Riccall
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York busker death: man released
A MAN being questioned in connection with the death of York busker Tony Grayson was this afternoon released without charge. The 22-year-old local man was arrested late on Thursday night after he surrendered himself into custody at York police station.
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Showstoppers
The biggest British International Motor Show ever is previewed by Motoring Editor MALCOLM BAYLIS The British International Motor Show opens its doors in a couple of weeks to more than half a million visitors, and the line up is set to be the biggest and
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John O'Groats to win sprint trophy - 11/10/02
Michael Dods, who gained the biggest success of his training career when John O'Groats won the Ayr Silver Cup last month, can scale even loftier heights with the same horse at York tomorrow on the final day of the Knavesmire season. Darlington-based Dods
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The end of my career is neigh
HELLO folks. Evening Press here -- possibly for the last time. I think my racing days could be at an end after I ran out of puff again at Catterick this week. I just can't put my hoof on where I'm going wrong. On the gallops I can fly like the wind, but
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Cycle tragedy was an accident, inquest rules
A SELBY cyclist killed when he was struck from behind by a van had the bike's rear light in his jacket pocket, an inquest heard. Mark Garland, 36, of St Leonard's Avenue, Osgodby, was cycling home from work last October at about 6.15am when the accident
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Pensioner fights bus service cut
A PENSIONER whose bus link to York District Hospital is set to be severed has organised a petition urging councillors to intervene. Pauline Rooke, 72, of Alma Grove, off Fulford Road, York, has had a pacemaker fitted, suffers from angina and has had deep
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Season starts with huge wins
THE new York and District Table Tennis Association season started with whitewashes for Strensall 'A' over Coneysthorpe 'A' and Bootham CC 'A' over Nestl Rowntree 'A''. York RI also recorded a 10-0 win over Poppleton 'A' who were without star player Richard
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Corner leads Horse recovery
CYGNET startled Bay Horse by going 2-0 up in York Open League division one. But 18 darters from Rich Corner and Andy Lawson got Bay back into contention and Dave O'Hara and Corner combined to get a 5-4 win. Tap raced to a 4-2 lead which included a maximum
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Red-hot Gibbons shines as Cygnet sink Leeman
DAVE Gibbons recorded 180 in a fine 15 dart game as Cygnet 'A' beat Leeman 'A' 7-2 in York John Smith's Mixed League Division One. Golden Slipper 'B' registered a 116-finish for 18 darts from Paul Partridge and 21 by Barry Noble but Cue Ball, with Pete
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Residents fight plans for new petrol station
FEARS about noise from a 24-hour petrol station planned for the centre of York has forced planning officers to attempt to block it. The station, planned to replace an existing one in Fulford Road, would see jet washers in use round the clock. Neighbours
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Protest rally for jailed charity worker
SUPPORTERS of deaf charity worker Ian Stillman are being urged to take part in a mass rally demanding his freedom. Campaigner David Buxton, of Christian Deaf Link, is organising a protest outside the Indian High Commission. He is hoping at least 150 people
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Roach key to Tower Trophy
THE main attraction of the weekend is the Tower Trophy which will be fished on the Ouse below the City on Sunday. The lack of rainfall during September sees the Ouse running low and clear, ideal conditions for a roach-dominated contest. Last weekend's
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York hope to harvest Wheatley Hills points
YORK are looking to continue their unbeaten start to the season when they take on Wheatley Hills at Clifton Park tomorrow (3pm). Wheatley Hills are in mid-table having lost to Huddersfield YMCA at home last week, the team York beat in their last home
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Calendar turns back pages to yesteryear
A SCENE from York's past was recreated in the city as St Leonard's Hospice launched its new fundraising calendar. Each month on the 2003 calendar shows an old picture of York from the Evening Press archives. One shows soldiers in 1937 marching into the
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Police and public praised for bravery
BRAVE police officers and members of the public who averted tragedy with their quick-thinking actions were today being commended by Chief Constable David Kenworthy. On his last working day with the North Yorkshire Police force, Chief Constable Kenworthy
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Dyson in good health
REVIVED with new clubs North Yorkshire's Simon Dyson was back in the birdie-grabbing groove to post a healthy opening day in the Lancome Trophy. The 24-year-old Dyson, who performed admirably in last week's Dunhill Links tournament with borrowed clubs
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Orange pylons give 'em the pip!
THE future looks orange for the Vale of York after painters got to work on the controversial new pylons which now dot the landscape just north of York. But National Grid assured residents and conservationists today that the yellow-orange paint on pylons
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Yalcin heading to Egypt
YORK City youth team striker Levent Yalcin has received another international call to arms. Yalcin, who will be looking to shoot City's juniors into the second round of the FA Youth Cup tomorrow, has been selected for the Turkish Under-19 squad to face
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Please come home, Georgina
THE family of a missing York schoolgirl have appealed for her to come home - or at least let them know she is safe. The distraught aunt of 15-year-old Georgina North said that "life has come to a standstill" since the Huntington School pupil disappeared
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Standing firm
MILESTONE man Gary Hobson reckons York City's defensive rocks are ready to roll to keep the Minstermen in seventh heaven. With ninth-placed Southend United tomorrow's opponents at Roots Hall, Hobson admits City need to keep picking up points on their
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Painful memories
THE mother of murdered York backpacker Caroline Stuttle has told how the dramatic developments in the Peter Falconio murder hunt have brought painful memories flooding back. Speaking exactly six months after Caroline was killed while travelling in Australia
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Backpacker in Oz death riddle
THE parents of a backpacker killed in Australia plan to fly to Sydney next month to try to find out exactly how he died. It is now seven months since Andrew Baxter, 23, of Tadcaster, was killed while walking on a motorway, near Sydney. A verdict of accidental
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When peacemongers cost millions of lives
IN the late Twenties and early Thirties most people wanted peace and governments were hamstrung in their attempts to re-arm. Peace Pledge Union members would not have resisted an invader at any price and the Oxford Union passed by a large majority a motion
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Lollipop thanks
I THANK all the children and parents of Osbaldwick School for the wonderful surprise of being voted York's best lollipop lady in the Asda competition. The hamper was 'humongous' and full of wonderful things. I look forward to being here for a few more
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Bugsy Malone, Grand Opera House, York. October 17 to 19
ALL guns will be blazing in YAODS Youth's Bugsy Malone next week at the Grand Opera House, York. The youth section of the York Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society is joining in the society's centenary celebrations with a production big on budget and
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Stagecoach Youth Theatre autumn season
SUE Townsend's Bazaar And Rummage will be the first production of a typically busy autumn season for Stagecoach Youth Theatre York. The production will run from October 24 to 26 at 8pm at Stagecoach's headquarters in Trinity Hall, Monkgate, and the cast
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York cannabis pupils expelled
FOUR boarding school pupils who bought cannabis, stored it in school and smoked it in public places have been expelled. The St Peter's School pupils were found out when one, a 15-year-old girl, was discovered with a cigarette lighter, cigarette papers
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£1m to bolster flood defences
FLOOD defence chiefs have approved urgent repairs costing more than £1 million to three damaged defences in Yorkshire. The decision came as the Environment Agency revealed that walls, embankments, pumping stations and other protective measures prevented
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Susan Christopher-Coulson exhibition, Beningbrough Hall, until November 3
Botanical artist Susan Christopher-Coulson is exhibiting at Beningbrough Hall and gardens, near York, a year later than first planned. "The exhibition is an accumulation of more than two years' work and had to be postponed for a year due to the closure
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Standing firm
MILESTONE man Gary Hobson reckons York City's defensive rocks are ready to roll to keep the Minstermen in seventh heaven. With ninth-placed Southend United tomorrow's opponents at Roots Hall, Hobson admits City need to keep picking up points on their
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Yalcin heading to Egypt
YORK City youth team striker Levent Yalcin has received another international call to arms. Yalcin, who will be looking to shoot City's juniors into the second round of the FA Youth Cup tomorrow, has been selected for the Turkish Under-19 squad to face
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Lawrence Of Arabia - 70mm
City Screen, York, goes big on David Lean's Oscar-winning epic at the start of a season of 70mm cinema, reports CHARLES HUTCHINSON THE big film of the week, in every way, is Lawrence Of Arabia at City Screen, York, on Sunday afternoon. The 2pm screening
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Tories' image is in a pickle
TORY modernisers tried desperately hard in Bournemouth to widen the party's appeal. They were - all at once - caring, compassionate, interested in single mothers and the homeless and gleamingly modern. Yet, somehow, they ended up in a pickle on the seafront
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Sweet Sixteen (18, 106 minutes)
ANOTHER year, another Ken Loach film, and Mike Leigh can't be far behind (All Or Nothing starts a fortnight run at City Screen next Friday). Yet this is not just another latterday Ken Loach film, heavy on the polemic, dry and didactic, earnest as John
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The sky's the limit for York Races
CONCORDE flew into Knavesmire today as York Racecourse celebrated "landing" a major sponsorship deal. British Airways Travel Shop is sponsoring today's racing at York, bringing another prestigious brand to the city, said marketing manager James Brennan
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£1m to bolster flood defences
FLOOD defence chiefs have approved urgent repairs costing more than £1 million to three damaged defences in Yorkshire. The decision came as the Environment Agency revealed that walls, embankments, pumping stations and other protective measures prevented
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Residents' anger at hotel phone mast
COUNCIL chiefs today pledged to give angry residents more time after scores complained they had not been consulted over plans for a new phone mast. Mobile phone giant Orange has put forward a new application to build a mast at a York hotel. City of York
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Mnster trip for York civic party
York's Lord Mayor has been enjoying a visit to the city's German twin. ELLEN BULTMANN, a reporter from the Westfalische Nachrichten newspaper, who has been working on the Evening Press, found out more THE Lord Mayor of York, David Horton, got a bumpier
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North Yorks breast cancer tests detect 95% of cases
BREAST cancer screening services have detected 95 per cent of cases in North Yorkshire - making the York-based service one of the most effective in the country. The unit, which has been based at York District Hospital since 1989, routinely screens women
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New Earswick ace Heather tops table
NEW Earswick swimmer Heather Welsh finished on top of the combined points table for 15-year-olds after the completion of the Yorkshire ASA graded meetings in York, Harrogate and Leeds. Swimmers competed in all four strokes over the 50metres, 100m and
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Time for a change
THE headlines have focused on the proposals to close half a dozen York churches, and the sometimes hostile reaction to those plans. But Canon Glyn Webster says there is much more to the Shreeve report on the future of pastoral provision in York than the
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Upbeat Slade
SCARBOROUGH will look to build on the win over Morecambe in midweek when Northwich Victoria visit the McCain Stadium on Sunday (kick-off 3pm). Manager Russ Slade will not hear talk of the injury crisis at the club, because he thinks that can breed negativity
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Railway strive for the full works
MAKING history - and not cash - will be the prime motivational force behind Harrogate Railway's approach to their FA Cup showdown with Workington Town. The Rail entertain their UniBond League first division foes tomorrow in the third qualifying round
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Rookies resurrect tradition
YORK City's youngsters will be looking to maintain the club's proud record in the FA Youth Cup tomorrow when they travel to Macclesfield Town in the first round. In the 1998-99 season, City - featuring the likes of Lee Bullock and Christian Fox - reached
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Learning how to be a good citizen
STEPHEN LEWIS goes back to school to see how our young people are being taught to be model citizens of the future 'I HAVE won the lottery, and bought a Ferrari," says John Molyneux. "Where could I park it in York without having to watch it all the time
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Come to the meeting
AT its next meeting, on Wednesday, October 16, Huntington parish council will make plans to hold a further public meeting about the many traffic and Green Belt issues affecting our area. Details about this public meeting, to be held in December in Huntington
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Head teachers must decide
EXPULSION is every school's punishment of last resort. No headteacher wants to disbar a pupil. But if that pupil's behaviour deteriorates to the point where it threatens school discipline and morale, then he or she must go. It should be as simple as that
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Wilko? You bet!
"I CAN'T remember the last time I've felt as excited." So said former Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson on being appointed as boss of Sunderland. The fans seem less thrilled, however. Some booed the club's chairman, others called for sacked manager
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Dyson in good health
REVIVED with new clubs North Yorkshire's Simon Dyson was back in the birdie-grabbing groove to post a healthy opening day in the Lancome Trophy. The 24-year-old Dyson, who performed admirably in last week's Dunhill Links tournament with borrowed clubs
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Beautiful People, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, until November 9
GINA Bellman reckons to be a victim of the actor's syndrome known as The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side. "Whatever I'm doing, I want to be doing something else, doing TV when I want to be doing theatre and vice versa," she says. The remedy