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Craig reveals hopes for deal
FORMER York City chairman Douglas Craig has revealed that a deal that would keep the club playing at Bootham Crescent for the foreseeable future has already been agreed in principle. Mr Craig, chairman of Bootham Crescent Holdings, which owns the football
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Rich clubs should help says Jack, 90
YORK City's oldest surviving player called today for giant clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United to bail out the struggling Minstermen. Jack Pinder, 90, declared: "You would think Arsenal and Chelsea and Manchester United could give them £1 million
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York old and new to club together
BOLD York against New York - that's the trans-Atlantic challenge poised to swing on to Fulford Golf Club's competitive calendar. Between 1976 and 1987 such a challenge existed with competitors from both cities vying for top-golfing status. Now after an
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Magic and ice
GEORGE WILKINSON takes a walk in the Wolds where frost and sunshine create a winter wonderland NORTH Grimston was blessed with snow on the fields, frost on the hedges and, through the mist, a soft sunlight that glowed on the golden dial of St Nicholas
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Death car splits
A YOUNG man died and another was seriously injured when their car crashed and split in half on the A64 near York. Two other young men also suffered less serious injuries when their car veered off the road at the Little Chef slip road, Bilbrough. All four
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Time to put your faith in the Trust
NOW, more than ever, your football club and your Trust needs you. The nerve-jangling events of this week have once again seen the fans' body, on behalf of their fellow supporters, playing a leading role in the fight to save the club from extinction. It
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Eight beats to the Bars cup victory
FRESH from their historic first league win, the Yorkie Bars, the City Internet supporters' team, moved into the second round of the IFA Cup with an 8-1 win over Dumbarton. Will Thornton fired the Bars ahead from the penalty spot after Jimmy Fox was upended
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Nice to meat you, to meat you nice!
WHEN Britain's pig industry hit hard times, pig farmers were told to diversify. Geoff and Margaret Sykes did so by opening The Farmers Cart - and now the farm shop and tearoom has been nominated by several readers for our Eat Local competition. The Farmers
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The Three Cups, Stamford Bridge. Review - 18/01/03
Janet Hewison enjoys Sunday lunch in Stamford Bridge THERE was something strangely familiar about The Three Cups when we arrived for lunch at the Stamford Bridge pub on Sunday. It was something about the lettering on the signs outside, the real fires
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Popular landlord dies aged 96
YORK landlord Bill White, who ran the Half Moon Inn at Strensall for 25 years, has died at the age of 96. Mr White, who ran the pub in The Village with his late wife Gladys, died in Mulberry Court Nursing Home, in York. A funeral service was held at York
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Friends pay tribute to York restaurateur
FRIENDS and colleagues have paid tribute to a restaurateur described as "one of York's great characters". Lew Speight, who owned Lew's Place, on King's Staith, and The Grange Restaurant at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, died in a road accident in Spain. Former
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Builders show their true grit!
A GROUP of builders and contractors have shown some bare-faced cheek - for a naked charity calendar. Employees at Fulford Builders, at Clifton Moor, have joined forces with Hunters estate agent and a group of sub-contractors to raise money for a cancer
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Yorkshire munch bunch
A TASTY dessert dreamt up by gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh was served at a York hotel to launch a new charity recipe book. Billy Foster, head chef at Ramada Jarvis Hotel, prepared Alan's delicious cheesecake which is contained in the British Polio Fellowship
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Traffic lights back on at York junction
INTRICATE repair work has taken place to tackle persistent problems at a troublesome set of York traffic lights. The lights, at the Clifton Green crossroads, triggered numerous complaints from motorists after breaking down several times. They failed to
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Vandals wreck Green
VANDALS have wrecked the recently-completed Millennium Green in the west of York. Volunteers, who took more than four years to transform the rundown open space in Leeman Road into a green oasis, said they were "shocked and upset". The culprits skidded
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Baths Club's team do well
COMPETING in the event for the first time York City Baths Club's team finished in third place in the final round of the Speedo League North Eastern First Division meet held at Harrogate Hydro swimming pool. The Baths Club team was supported by Yorwaste
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Big hit at six
AT the tender age of six Charlie Elliott is proving a big hit at York Cricket Club nets. The youngster has astounded coaches at the nets with his ability with both bat and ball during the sessions which have attracted scores of youngsters to the nets
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Cleaner loos plan
PUBLIC toilets in York could benefit from one more clean every day to help improve their appearance and combat vandalism. But there is some doubt if the additional cleaning schedule, which would come at a cost of £15,000 per year, will have any positive
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Eagle high Si
NORTH Yorkshire's king of swing Simon Dyson was poised to make a major impact in the second half of the Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg today. Dyson entered today's critical third round on six under-par after he fired a steady two-under 70 yesterday
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Griffon target
PLANS are well advanced to open yet another golf course in the York area. Work on Griffon Forest Golf and Country Club, near Flaxton, just off the A64 York to Scarborough road is due to start in March with a projected opening date of 2005. The 18-hole
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Drive to free beds at York Hospital
DELAYED discharges at York Hospital are set to be tackled at every stage of the health care process in and around the city. A meeting of the Health and Social Care Partnership Board - made up of representatives from City of York Council, Selby and York
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Feud erupted into violence in street
A SELBY family feud erupted into street violence when a pedestrian threw a brick at an approaching car, York Crown Court heard. Ian Skelt, prosecuting, said that Richard Hastings acted after a car driven by Jeffrey Lowe, 51, with his son Steven Jeffrey
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Boy, 11, has 'lucky escape'
ONE youngster had a lucky escape and another suffered a broken leg when they were knocked down by cars in separate incidents in York. Police said a ten-year-old girl was injured when she ran from behind an ice cream van into the path of a car near Pickering
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Wigginton high five
Unbeaten IT Sports Wigginton kept on course for the Yorkshire premier squash league title after defeating Huddersfield 5-0. Previous champions of the league only three seasons ago, Huddersfield now find themselves fighting possible relegation from the
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Death crash appeal
POLICE have asked the driver of a yellow Transit-type vehicle who may have witnessed a fatal road accident on the York ring road to come forward. The van was seen travelling from the direction of the Haxby roundabout towards the Wigginton roundabout on
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Divorce case loan 'a sham' claim
A TURKEY farming millionaire called in a "loan" of £150,000 so that a former York businessman could avoid giving his wife half of the proceeds from their home, York Crown Court heard. Frank Cosgrove, of Grove Turkey Farm, County Monaghan, Ireland, said
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Slade shocks Scarborough
JUST when it looked as though Scarborough were sailing into calmer waters after the High Court agreed that the club could go into administration on Tuesday, manager Russ Slade announced he would sensationally quit after today's game at Dagenham. On Thursday
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Parker on patrol
HULL KR's new star signing Paul Parker is set to make his debut for the Robins away to York City Knights tomorrow. Parker - a team-mate of Knights' hooker Lee Jackson at Hull FC last season - made the switch across Hull last week, after turning down an
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Hit-and-run victim takes cash to ward
HIT-AND-RUN victim Katie Scales returned to York Hospital - to present a £300 cheque to help other patients on the children's ward. The money was donated by Evening Press readers after the 11-year-old Haxby schoolgirl was badly injured in an accident
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Seven in court, one jailed, after 'Wild West' violence in York pub
ONE man was jailed and six more narrowly escaped prison for Bank Holiday weekend pub violence that was "like a fight in a Wild West saloon". Furniture flew and 30 glasses were broken after landlady Wendy Hall told the seven "loutish" friends to leave,
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Mark thrilled by Knights' fervour
FIRST Knight Mark Cain will be looking to put old friends to the sword tomorrow as the big kick-off finally arrives for York's new professional rugby league team. The 26-year-old welcomes his former team-mates to Huntington Stadium as York City Knights
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Nursery clash
PLANS to tackle the lack of childcare facilities in Selby have been dashed. Nick and Anthea Porter want to open a nursery on the former Longwood Hospital site at Selby Common after problems finding nursery places for their own two children. But Selby
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Fireworks expected
WELL, the day is nearly upon us. After ten months without any action, York's rugby fans will at last get the chance to see the city's team take to the field. York City Knights - as everybody must now know - take on Hull KR in their first-ever encounter
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Sponsors ride on in
THERE was more good news for York this week when it revealed that all sponsorship packages for the Knights' opening match tomorrow had sold out. Browns of York, the department store, has the privilege of being the first match sponsors for the Knights,
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Mark thrilled by Knights' fervour
FIRST Knight Mark Cain will be looking to put old friends to the sword tomorrow as the big kick-off finally arrives for York's new professional rugby league team. The 26-year-old welcomes his former team-mates to Huntington Stadium as York City Knights
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City's Knight watch
YORK City Knights player-coach Paul Broadbent has declared the search for more players goes on as he looks to boost his squad further. The former Great Britain prop wants the Knights to sign two more players before the season gets too old, but insists
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Good news on MS
I WAS delighted to read that the drug Beta-Interferon will be available for MS patients in the area (January 11). This is long overdue. The cost per patient, per year should not have even entered the equation. People who suffer from multiple sclerosis
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On your scooter
I WAS surprised to see a photograph in the Evening Press, showing traffic laws being blatantly broken, particularly since the national press had reported a police crackdown on the use of motorised scooters received as Christmas presents. You show a "motor
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Maths for leisure
CHRIS Houseman has got muddled on the subject of the council's leisure budget (January 14). The real cost to the taxpayer of our sports facilities is as follows: the Barbican, Edmund Wilson and Yearsley together cost around £380,000 per year, whilst Oaklands
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Farming hardship
THE farm income figure of £17,000 (January 13) is an average and is less than the firemen are receiving for many fewer hours' work. The farmer has to live on that income and reinvest in his farm. Even the average is not sufficient to do this, so many
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BCH move is unjust on club
Where does Douglas Craig get his nerve from? We don't know how he can show his face in the city of York. How he has the cheek to say 'it is not in my hands' when he has effectively single-handedly damaged York City is beyond us. He relinquished the title
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Third party
A THIRD mystery party emerged today in the race to save York City, the Evening Press can reveal. Despite Thursday's noon deadline for bidders to come forward having long since passed, administrators admitted they are still willing to accept offers for
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School 'basics' should stay, claim
PLANS for 14-year-olds to drop academic subjects to learn work-based skills have come under fire from the York-based Campaign for Real Education. Campaign chairman Nick Seaton has warned that children will lose out if they have the chance to opt out of
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Eagle high Si
NORTH Yorkshire's king of swing Simon Dyson was poised to make a major impact in the second half of the Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg today. Dyson entered today's critical third round on six under-par after he fired a steady two-under 70 yesterday
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Anyone for tennis, football, cricket?
THIS is the layout of the massive new £7 million sports complex proposed for the outskirts of York. If approved, it would be a major boost to hundreds of sportsmen and women who feared they would be left with nowhere to play when the Boroughbridge Road-based
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£7m sport deal
A £7 MILLION sports complex is being planned to replace a doomed York club site, the Evening Press can reveal. The Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC) has teamed up with Malton-based Harrison Developments to come up with the ambitious scheme for land
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The palest ale
PRAISE be! The York CAMRA beer festival is back after a notable one year absence from the city drinking scene. The Evening Press has teamed up with the Campaign for Real Ale to help bring the ale extravaganza back with a bang. The CAMRA crew have been
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Forest freedom
SIMON RITCHIE and family head for a holiday in the woods where the only surprises are nice ones If Robin Hood and his band of merry men were around today they'd be impressed with what has happened to their old stomping ground. We certainly were. As Center
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Bonnie Borders
JOHN WHEATCROFT nips over the border to Scotland and takes a peep at the pretty town of Peebles BRITAIN is a very bottom-heavy sort of a place. The bulk of our population is squeezed into the island's lower half. One pleasure of a trip to Scotland is
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Sow it goes...
Gina Parkinson looks at jobs that can be done in the January garden THERE is still time to send orders to seed catalogues this month, although it is a good idea to specify a second choice in case popular lines have sold out. When the seeds arrive store
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James keen to stay involved
IT was sad to hear this week that City's communications manager, James Richardson, is leaving Bootham Crescent after today's game with Swansea City. Lifelong fan Richardson has been with City for almost eight years but amid all the uncertainty surrounding
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Fresh date for cup-tie
CITY'S North Riding Senior Cup tie at Whitby Town has been rescheduled for Monday, January 27 (7.45pm). The match was set to go ahead earlier this month but was called off because of a waterlogged pitch at Whitby's Turnbull Ground. The quarter-final tie
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Friends united
PRESSURE group the Friends of Bootham Crescent have hailed the bidding war that could come to the rescue of York City. The news that at least two bidders are in the frame to rescue the minstermen from possible extinction has been warmly welcomed by the
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First things
STEPHEN LEWIS goes in search of a traditional Yorkshire breakfast to mark Farmhouse Breakfast Week RIGHTLY or wrongly, we British may not be renowned for the quality of our cooking. But while our continental neighbours may grimace at the stereotype of
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First things
STEPHEN LEWIS goes in search of a traditional Yorkshire breakfast to mark Farmhouse Breakfast Week RIGHTLY or wrongly, we British may not be renowned for the quality of our cooking. But while our continental neighbours may grimace at the stereotype of
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Nestl hits back over baby feed
Nestl has hit back after a report accused it of breaking an internationally agreed code on the promotion of baby bottle-feeding in the Third World. Researchers who conducted a survey in Togo and Burkina Faso, in West Africa, claim that free samples of
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Guide will lead to a better life
A NEW "highway design guide" aimed at promoting safe living and sustainable transport for all York residents is close to going out to city-wide consultation. The design guide has been developed specifically for York's needs, and would provide visual and
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Fears that pits may close early
MINING union leaders have warned that the Selby pit complex could close this December - three months earlier than the planned closure date. One union official told the Evening Press that a plan had been put forward at Wistow Mine which would mean accessing
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Nice to meat you, to meat you nice!
WHEN Britain's pig industry hit hard times, pig farmers were told to diversify. Geoff and Margaret Sykes did so by opening The Farmers Cart - and now the farm shop and tearoom has been nominated by several readers for our Eat Local competition. The Farmers
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Door opens on love
A MAN who met his wife after opening a door on her best friend's face was celebrating 60 years of marriage today. Bill and Joy Pearson, both 81, from Bishopthorpe, York, were in the air force and stationed at Skegness 60 years ago. They met at an air
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School 'basics' should stay, claim
PLANS for 14-year-olds to drop academic subjects to learn work-based skills have come under fire from the York-based Campaign for Real Education. Campaign chairman Nick Seaton has warned that children will lose out if they have the chance to opt out of
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Milk vehicle is hi-jacked
A WOMAN delivering milk in York early today was robbed of her float. The victim had returned to the vehicle in Grayshon Drive, Acomb, when a man lurking nearby grabbed the keys out of her hand, pushed her out of the way and drove off towards Boroughbridge
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School knife incident
A SELBY schoolboy is to be disciplined after stealing a knife from a classroom. The Year 10 pupil took the kitchen knife from a home economics classroom at Brayton College during the lunch break on Thursday. Head teacher John Kesterton said the pupil
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Museums sign up to 'flying showcase' scheme
AN INNOVATIVE scheme is set to bring museum artefacts into unusual venues in North Yorkshire. Six museums across Hambleton and Richmondshire have signed up to the "flying showcase". It will see museum objects on temporary display in local community facilities
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Let the train take the strain
YORK youngsters have shared their ideas about the future of rail travel in Britain. Children from Park Grove Primary School boarded the Train Of Thought to take their imaginative ideas to London. Pupils travelled to the capital from York Station to join
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Judge criticises burglar's 'lenient' sentence
A JUDGE has criticised York youth justices for "bringing the system into disrepute" by their leniency towards a burglar. York Crown Court heard that the 16-year-old raider searched a 76-year-old woman's bedroom drawers while she was asleep and was caught
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York old and new to club together
BOLD York against New York - that's the trans-Atlantic challenge poised to swing on to Fulford Golf Club's competitive calendar. Between 1976 and 1987 such a challenge existed with competitors from both cities vying for top-golfing status. Now after an
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Broadbent's big buzz
IT has been a long journey, but all the hard work will finally come to fruition when the York City Knights tackle Hull KR tomorrow and head coach Paul Broadbent can't wait. While Steve Ferres and his band of helpers have laid the foundations from which
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City's Knight watch
YORK City Knights player-coach Paul Broadbent has declared the search for more players goes on as he looks to boost his squad further. The former Great Britain prop wants the Knights to sign two more players before the season gets too old, but insists
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Concern over bogus callers
SCARBOROUGH Borough Council has reassured local people following reports of door-to-door callers claiming to be from the authority, but who have no formal identification. Shaun Tymon, head of financial services, said it did have people canvassing about
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Worker breaks his leg
AN EMPLOYEE suffered a suspected fractured leg in an accident at PandB Fabrication at the Marston Moor Industrial Estate at Tockwith. An ambulance spokeswoman said the Yorkshire Air Ambulance was called out following reports that a large lump of metal
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Tug of love mum home
YORK tug-of-love mum Allison Williams flew home to Britain clutching the son she feared she might never see again. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Press, Allison, 40, thanked readers for making her dream come true after they helped to fund
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Third party
A THIRD mystery party emerged today in the race to save York City, the Evening Press can reveal. Despite Thursday's noon deadline for bidders to come forward having long since passed, administrators admitted they are still willing to accept offers for
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Rich clubs should help says Jack, 90
YORK City's oldest surviving player called today for giant clubs like Chelsea and Manchester United to bail out the struggling Minstermen. Jack Pinder, 90, declared: "You would think Arsenal and Chelsea and Manchester United could give them £1 million
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Craig reveals hopes for deal
FORMER York City chairman Douglas Craig has revealed that a deal that would keep the club playing at Bootham Crescent for the foreseeable future has already been agreed in principle. Mr Craig, chairman of Bootham Crescent Holdings, which owns the football
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No trains today, Ray
THE man standing on the deserted platform of Northallerton station couldn't understand why there were no trains to York. But Ray Price should have known... he is the managing director of Arriva Northern trains! And last Saturday morning was train-less
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First to support with free bus trips
YORK City Knights chairman Roger Dixon has hailed bus company First York after they agreed to run a free pilot scheme to transport local fans to Huntington Stadium for tomorrow's opener against Hull KR. First York will be running 48-seater buses from
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Cruise ships out of Hull
FORMER Selby coach Steve Cruise has parted company with Hull Ionians, less than nine months after guiding them into the National Leagues. Cruise, a formidable front-rower in his time at Sandhill Lane, had helped mastermind Ionians climb into National
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Broadbent's big buzz
IT has been a long journey, but all the hard work will finally come to fruition when the York City Knights tackle Hull KR tomorrow and head coach Paul Broadbent can't wait. While Steve Ferres and his band of helpers have laid the foundations from which
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Young deserve our praise
HOW pleasing it was to read of the Duke of Edinburgh awards recorded in the Evening Press (January 13). Congratulations are due to all those young people who put their leisure time to good use in their desire to improve their lives. So much for all this
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Think of the future
HMMM, interesting little ditty by Helen Mead (January 13) who seems to think that "being environmentally friendly takes up too much energy", but does a little bit just to salve her conscience, it would appear. I am sure Ms Mead is a caring wife and mother
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Lights are on 'go'
STEPHEN Higgins suggests that we have been dragging our feet over repairs to the traffic lights at Clifton Green (January 14) but nothing could be further from the truth. This was a complicated fault which failed to respond to emergency repairs and which
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Trust to get share payment
I own one share in Bootham Crescent Holdings and I am also a life member of York City Supporters' Trust. I am very disappointed that the City of York Council will not proceed with a compulsory purchase order. I am disgusted that the greed of four men
