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The thing is... Are public sector workers workshy?
THE average public sector worker took more than three weeks off sick last year - creating what business leaders describe as a 'national scandal'. According to the Work Foundation, the number of days lost per employee in the public sector in 2002 stood
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New? I've had it ages
DO you and yours play the family shopping game, Deception? The rules are easy, just buy something new, try to sneak it into the house and claim you have had it forever. It's a game usually for two married players, but females are best at it. There are
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Search for customers
Finding new customers is the topic of a one-day course hosted by Business Link York and North Yorkshire in York on Thursday. The course, to be held at Business Link's headquarters at Arabesque House, Monks Cross, Huntington, from 10am to 4pm, is aimed
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Bid to lure more firms to York Business Park
A new venture will open on the York Business Park to provide more fully-serviced office space to small-medium businesses. The plan to open Westminster Business Centre - a new office block split into eight suites on the Great North Way - has been welcomed
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Shopping forecast
Work has begun by York-based Shepherd Construction on a £4.5 million project to build 20 new shops at the Yorkshire Outlet Village just outside Doncaster. The extension to the retail complex by about 5,000 sq metres is expected to be finished next autumn
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Floods money is slashed
VITAL work to keep North Yorkshire roads and properties free from flooding has been placed in doubt after plans emerged to slash county council funding for the work of the environment department. Environment chiefs at North Yorkshire County Council are
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Nap selection - 28/1/03
Tom O'Ryan's nap selection for Wednesday's meetings: Leicester - 2.40 Noisetine Updated: 11:30 Tuesday, January 28, 2003
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Moving out, moving up
Business Press farming commentator Rob Simpson writes his last column for us next month. The 29-year-old Yorkshire and North East regional press officer for the National Farmers' Union (NFU) is to become corporate press officer for Siemens UK, the electronics
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Marketing firms unite
The North's major role as a centre of the direct marketing industry has been recognised at last. A new northern regional council of the national Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has been launched. It is made up of leading players drawn from all sectors
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Time to put the kettledrum on
Here's something to bang on about... A new set of kettledrums donated by a York firm gets its first bashing at a City of York Guildhall Orchestra concert next month. The instruments were given to York musician Francesca Rochester, who for more than 20
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Empty shops threat to traders claim
A RISING number of empty small shops in York is a threat to local shopkeepers and the unique character of the city centre, says the York branch of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). A total of 150 small retail premises now stand empty in the city
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Showing the way...
Communications group Convergent Telecom, one of Pocklington's biggest employers, is set to install modern route guidance systems across the entire fleet of collection lorries run by the UK's largest waste glass collection and processing company. Following
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It's just what the doctor ordered
YORKON, the York-based modular building specialist and Portakabin subsidiary, has won a £1.7 million contract to provide a new emergency medicine centre, extending the accident and emergency department at Whipps Cross University Hospital, in East London
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Sorting out the skills shortage
The message from DAVID HARBOURNE, director of the Learning and Skills Council in North Yorkshire, to Chancellor Gordon Brown: Here is the solution to your plumbing problems... CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and I have something in common. During
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Don't fight the call up!
BOSSES be warned. Don't stop your employees from answering the call-up call if they are members of the reserve forces because you will be committing a criminal offence. That is the warning from specialist employment lawyer Ed Duffield, of York law firm
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A chance to back a winner
Ron Godfrey looks at two examples of how the renowned horse sense of business people in York and Ryedale is being relied on ONE of Britain's most promising young showjumpers, who lives near York, is searching for a local business sponsor while setting
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Why we deserve a better rail network
SIR GRAHAM HALL, chief executive of Yorkshire Forward, lashes out at the Strategic Rail Authority for "not putting money where the pain is" Two weeks ago our organisation was honoured by Britain's leading railway company when GNER named one of its White
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Still waiting for light at end of the tunnel
A year ago today, nearly 800 conductors with rail firm Arriva staged their first 24-hour strike. Today the pay dispute still seems no nearer to being resolved. STEVE CARROLL reports It was not the best way to spend New Year. But for Jack and Mildred Fowler
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Clair loses 4st
chocoholic Clair Wills, of Selby, who works in a chocolate shop, has shed four stones in weight - despite continuing to treat herself to occasional chocolates. Clair, who has now become a Slimming World consultant at Wigginton Recreation Hall near York
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A game with high steaks!
THE "steaks" are high this season for York Knights rugby player Darren Callaghan. As an added incentive, his sponsor, Dringhouses butcher Ged Bell, will give him a giant sirloin steak every time the team wins. "It's just a bit of fun to show Darren how
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Johnny 'v good' say music schools
A sixth form student is on the road to stardom after being offered places at three of the country's top music colleges. Bootham School pupil, Johnny Herbert, from Poppleton, York, has received offers from the Royal College of Music, in London, the Guildhall
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Awards for rail rescuers
RESCUERS who helped save lives in the aftermath of the Selby Rail Crash are to be rewarded for their efforts. Many civilians, emergency workers and villagers who took part in the rescue operation at Great Heck have been nominated for awards. The British
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Internet caf opens to help job hunters
WEB surfers, jobseekers and Internet "junkies" have all received a boost from the opening of a York estate's first ever cyber-caf. The free caf, in the Burton Stone Community Centre, at Clifton, is backed by learning and work advice service Future Prospects
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Thieves won't drive me out of post job
A VILLAGE postmaster whose business was targeted by thieves armed with safe-breaking equipment has today insisted he will stay at the job. Lee Stott has been at Marton-cum-Grafton post office, near Boroughbridge, for 29 years. On Friday evening, intruders
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A DV-ious trade
THE UK film industry lost £400 million last year through piracy. Experts say the sale of bootlegged DVD movie blockbusters, many of which are yet to be screened at cinemas, has become a "massive problem". And York is no exception. In an Evening Press
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MP greets ID scheme
SELBY MP John Grogan has welcomed a scheme to improve ID cards. Mr Grogan has campaigned for three years for a system which will make it easier for retailers to spot fake proof of age cards. Home Office Minister Bob Ainsworth and Department for Education
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Tankard full to the brim in ton deluge
RUFFORTH'S Tankard 'A' increased their Marston Moor Villages Doubles-Board League lead to three points by beating Alice Hawthorn 'B' 7-2. Alan Whitehead and Steve Green each threw tons and the latter gamed on 76. Second-placed Royal Oak, Tadcaster, beat
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Inquiry begins into waiting list changes
AN investigation into allegations of "deliberate misreporting" of waiting lists is under way at Scarborough NHS Trust. District auditor Lynne Snowball found evidence that waiting lists had been tampered with, either by removing patients from lists altogether
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Downing of Owls
After a run of poor form in division two of the Yorkshire League, City of York women's II had a welcome 3-1 home win against Leeds Owls II. With juniors Lucy Butcher and Rosie Evans playing well, York scored all their goals in the first-half through Helen
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Road rage putting off lollipop patrol staff
DRIVERS in York whose bad road manners put lives in peril are deterring people from becoming lollipop men and women. City of York Council, which employs staff for 46 school crossing sites across the city, has had problems recruiting lollipop staff over
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Dairy farmers view Dakota invitation as a bum steer
THEY may be disillusioned, but North Yorkshire dairy farmers seem to be unwilling to start a new life in South Dakota. The region's farmers have scoffed at the idea of upping sticks and moving to the United States, despite the chance of a new start. British
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Goal glut braces hosts for double
GOALS flowed as City of York Hockey Club ran riot against Warrington. The under-strength Lancashire team were no match for York who cantered to an 8-0 Northern League premier division victory. Warrington packed their defence from the start in a damage
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Paul's big test
Pickering snooker professional faces a crucial match tonight in his bid to keep his place on the sport's Main Tour circuit. He plays Dave Brown Gilbert, of Derbyshire, at the Norbreck Castle Hotel, Blackpool, in the second qualifying round for this year's
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Triple shock for woman
A SELBY woman was in deep shock today after being struck by three tragedies within a month. Hilda Keenan, 49, still recovering from a breast cancer operation and the death of her mother, was told by police on Sunday that her husband, David, had collapsed
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Tyson clinches Amotherby's second win of season
BOTTOM club Amotherby and Swinton chalked up their second RJF Homes Beckett Football League win of the season by beating Rosedale 2-1. Johnny Dunning fired Amotherby and Swinton ahead but, after both sides hit the woodwork, Rosedale equalised through
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Move to lure Moxon foiled
Yorkshire County Cricket Club have entered into discussions with former captain and director of coaching Martyn Moxon aimed at bringing him back to Headingley in place of Australian Wayne Clark. But the move was scotched when Durham CCC made sure they
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Floods money is slashed
VITAL work to keep North Yorkshire roads and properties free from flooding has been placed in doubt after plans emerged to slash county council funding for the work of the environment department. Environment chiefs at North Yorkshire County Council are
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Knights' cup quest to quell Dragons' fire
YORK City Knights' reward for their first ever victory will be a tasty home tie against Doncaster Dragons in the fourth round of the Powergen Challenge Cup. The Knights beat Skirlaugh 20-8 in only their second game since rising from the ashes of the defunct
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Work begins on new look for York estate
RESIDENTS breathed a collective sigh of relief today as work finally started to transform their troubled York estate. Demolition workers descended on Tedder Road and Slessor Road, in Foxwood, to start the £15million redevelopment of council and Ministry
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Have your say on Hungate plans
PEOPLE keen to have their say on York's proposed £100 million Hungate development are being given a final chance to debate the outline plans. York Open Planning Forum is holding a discussion on the plans at The Guildhall next Tuesday. Visitors will be
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Firefighters go ahead with 48-hour strike
FIREMEN and women across the country today walked out at 9am after hopes of resolving the bitter pay dispute collapsed. Firefighters are on strike for 48 hours and again on Saturday and Sunday because of deadlock over their 40 per cent pay claim. Talks
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Busker death: man arrested
DETECTIVES investigating the death of York busker Anthony Grayson have arrested a 22-year-old man. The man, arrested yesterday evening, is being questioned at York's Fulford Road police station in connection with the death. Mr Grayson, 38, died on June
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A game with high steaks!
THE "steaks" are high this season for York Knights rugby player Darren Callaghan. As an added incentive, his sponsor, Dringhouses butcher Ged Bell, will give him a giant sirloin steak every time the team wins. "It's just a bit of fun to show Darren how
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Beat the cowboys
ONE foolproof way to avoid cowboy builders (Consumer Matters, January 25), is to look for one who is not afraid to display his name on the side of his van, or have his name on a board where he is working. He is someone proud of his work and his reputation
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High hopes in bloom
I READ with interest about the man who has daffodils already flowering in his garden (January 27). On Saturday I had three creamy/white flowers on a Camelia bush in my garden, which appeared in the spring-like sunshine. We are surely heading for a record
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Look who's talking
TOP level talks surrounding the future of York City FC were due to be held in the city today. The Evening Press has been led to believe the mystery Oxfordshire-based millionaire, who has already submitted a bid for the Minstermen which would keep John
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City suffer sorry exit
YORK City suffered the ignominy of crashing out of the North Riding Senior Cup last night following their 3-0 defeat by UniBond League premier division outfit Whitby Town. Despite fielding a side packed full of first-team experience - with nine players
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In top gear
JO HAYWOOD talks to two North Yorkshire women who prefer the hat race to the rat race Beryl and Jane are a two-woman talking tag team. One starts a sentence, the other finishes it; one has an idea, the other runs with it; and, more often than not, they
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Here's looking at you, doc!
It is a sad fact of life that not all doctors look like George Clooney. Not all of them have his big brown eyes, his wide, boyish smile, his unbeatable bedside manner... sorry, drifted off there for a moment. The fact remains that most hard-working medics
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Conservation can be a little earner
ROB SIMPSON, regional spokesman for the National Farmers' Union, meets two North Yorkshire farmers who are "harvesting sunlight" FARMERS look after the vast majority of the British countryside, so when it comes to drawing up new environmental strategies
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Cut-price telecoms deal for chamber
A MAJOR cut-price telecoms package with substantial benefits, including up to 50 per cent savings on call charges and 15 per cent on-line rental, has been negotiated for the 600 members of York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. The telecoms package
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Shopcreator signs up coalfield task force
Shopcreator, fast-growing e-business and portals provider, which recently moved from Tadcaster to Leeds, has won a major order from Yorkshire Forward for the Selby Coalfield Task Force - the organisation formed to reduce the impact of the Selby Coalfield
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Extra room for hotel group
BEST Western Hotels, Britain's largest independently-owned hotels group, has moved into the major office extension at its headquarters at Clifton Moor. The £500,000 two-storey extension, designed and built by Thirsk-based Severfield Reeve Projects - will
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Coroner 'may have overcharged'
A SOLICITOR and coroner charged with ten counts of theft yesterday admitted he may have overcharged some of his clients. Jeremy Cave, 53, who denies the theft charges, said that "with hindsight" some of the charges may have been too high. But Mr Cave,
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Loan deals on the net
FINANCE brokerage, Acorn Commercial Finance, based in Clifton Moor, York, claims to be leading the way for wannabe owners in the private sector to find the most advantageous and fully comprehensive guide to financing a property on the Internet. From its
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Waiting list cut hope for hospital patients
PATIENTS forced to endure an agonising 12-month wait for hip or knee surgery in York could soon see their wait dramatically reduced. York Health Services NHS Trust is hoping to recruit two orthopaedic consultants - over and above the six currently employed
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Toeing the party line
Development in York and North Yorkshire is moving apace, but are the area's business people aware of the possible effects on their premises? Here, chartered surveyor DAVID BROWN answers questions about how the laws on party walls affect you What is the
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Market swoop on pirate films
BOOTLEGGERS are flooding York with pirate DVDs of film blockbusters only just released at cinemas, the Evening Press can reveal today. Our reporters were able to buy illegal, poor quality DVD copies of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets from the
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Move to lure Moxon foiled
Yorkshire County Cricket Club have entered into discussions with former captain and director of coaching Martyn Moxon aimed at bringing him back to Headingley in place of Australian Wayne Clark. But the move was scotched when Durham CCC made sure they
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Skills crisis looms
HUGE skills shortages in the construction industry are threatening to hamper future major projects in and around York, it was disclosed. Schemes planned for the York Central acres known as "the teardrop" behind York railway station as well as office schemes
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Inventors close to deal over lighting device
A YORK firm which has developed a groundbreaking device that revolutionises the maintenance of street lighting as well as emergency lighting was in talks with a potential manufacturer. Qwality Monitoring Ltd, of the Raylor Centre in James Street, has
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Games empire set to expand
THERE is no stopping Gamestation, the Clifton Moor-based national video and computer games retailer which scooped the 2002 Evening Press Business of the Year title. The £60 million turnover firm today announced plans to open between 70 and 100 stores
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Licence to print money
Yorkshire's leading printing companies together generate more than £700 million for the region's economy, according to a new survey from chartered accountants RSM Robson Rhodes. The annual survey, compiled with printing trade magazine Printweek, concludes
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Bootleg CDs are a crime
IF Robbie Williams is your role model, you might not see anything wrong with the York trade in bootleg DVDs. Earlier this month, the singer declared music piracy a "great" idea. He was expressing a widely-held belief that this is a victimless crime. Not
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Tanks for that
THE Government promised free, year-round access to our national museums. And York's National Railway Museum did just that - with one unhappy exception. When the TV and movie star Thomas the Tank Engine appeared, the NRM had to charge a fee to cover its
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Victim hits out at dog walkers
A pensioner who was knocked down and attacked by a dog has called for more powers to keep pets under control. The man, from Rillington, near Malton, who is in his 80s, but asked to remain anonymous, was walking along the A64 through the village when the
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Thomas back on track for half-term
THOMAS the Tank Engine is steaming back into York's National Rail Museum - only months after museum bosses feared he may not return. The hugely popular children's character will stop at the York museum for two weeks of half-term family fun next month.
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Selby wife's triple tragedy shock
A SELBY woman was in deep shock today after being struck by three tragedies within a month. Hilda Keenan, 49, still recovering from a breast cancer operation and the death of her mother, was told by police on Sunday that her husband, David, had collapsed
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Man accused of women's murder
A MAN was appearing in court today charged with the murder of two Bridlington women. Peter Allan Foster, 46, of Albion Terrace, Bridlington, was due at the town's magistrates court accused of murdering Linda Wardill and Linda Grimm. Miss Wardill, 58,
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Six-pack bonus comes off Factory production line
MALTON Bacon Factory moved into second place in the Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve 'A' after a 6-2 derby win at Old Malton. The home side went two up through Richard Hudson and Jamie Shepherd before the Factory men got going. But by half-time
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Health trust facing £1.3m shortfall
COST-cutting measures have been implemented at a second York-based health trust in a bid to balance its budget by the end of the financial year. Last month The Evening Press reported that York Health Services NHS Trust was facing a £3.5 million budget
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Indoor heroics
City of York Under-18s were one of the six top teams in the country to take part in the National Indoor Finals at Kidderminster. With all but one of their players eligible for the same competition next year, City of York fielded the youngest side of the
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Chill wind to reach 90mph
PARTS of North and East Yorkshire were being battered by gale force winds today. Wind speeds were expected to reach 39mph, with gusts of 66mph, in places such as Flamborough Head, near Bridlington. In York, forecasters warned of heavy showers but slower
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Valiant veterans
CITY of York moved into the last 16 of the English Hockey League's Veteran competition with a 2-0 triumph over Bournemouth. The breakthrough came when Graham Cook swept the ball into the net after Roz Ramli's initial strike rebounded of the 'keeper's
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Gym fixes it for Karen
KEEP fit fans couldn't believe that Karen Scott had never been to a gym 17 months ago. The svelte nine-stone property manager is a regular at her York gym - and has dropped a staggering seven dress sizes since she joined. Karen began her fitness regime
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Lorry driver was in a spin reading map
A LORRY driver got himself into a spin when he turned off the A1 at the wrong junction, York Crown Court heard. Martin William Gratton drove an articulated lorry five times round the roundabout at the A168-A6055-A1 junction, near Boroughbridge, as he
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All Blacks made to battle for place in last eight
NEW Earswick All Blacks Amateur Rugby League Club went through to the last eight of the White Rose Trophy with a 15-12 win but they were made to battle all the way by a spirited Crofton side. It looked as though it was going to be an easy fixture at the
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Crash man in critical condition
A STAMFORD Bridge man today remained in a critical condition in York Hospital following a three-car pile-up at an East Yorkshire accident blackspot. The 23-year-old man, who has not been named, suffered serious injuries when his silver Vauxhall Corsa
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City suffer sorry exit
YORK City suffered the ignominy of crashing out of the North Riding Senior Cup last night following their 3-0 defeat by UniBond League premier division outfit Whitby Town. Despite fielding a side packed full of first-team experience - with nine players
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Vandals ransack charity's offices
VANDALS have trashed the office of a York special needs charity - forcing it to shut down for a week. Youths are believed to have broken into the SNAPPY office in Burton Stone Community Centre and ransacked it, yesterday afternoon. SNAPPY chiefs said
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Look who's talking
TOP level talks surrounding the future of York City FC were due to be held in the city today. The Evening Press has been led to believe the mystery Oxfordshire-based millionaire, who has already submitted a bid for the Minstermen which would keep John
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Milestone for hostel
YORK Arc Light centre for the homeless reached a unique double milestone - by opening its doors 24 hours on the same day it clocked up 40,000 "bed nights." The centre, which opened in December 1999, was once staffed on a night-by-night basis. But the
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M T bid for men of York
Dear Mr Administrator, I am writing to you about the possibility of me saving York City. The football club's plight has touched me deeply. I feel desperately sad at the current situation that the grand bold men of York find themselves in. It's no use
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Knights' cup quest to quell Dragons' fire
YORK City Knights' reward for their first ever victory will be a tasty home tie against Doncaster Dragons in the fourth round of the Powergen Challenge Cup. The Knights beat Skirlaugh 20-8 in only their second game since rising from the ashes of the defunct
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Central Library is moving with the times
KEITH Daggett wrote about the idea of opening a caf in the Central Library (January 16). We are at the early stages of working out what we can best do to make the most of the limited space in the library and to offer the kind of welcoming environment
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Pathetic analysis
I READ with dismay the old excuses used in Neil Dobson's arguments (January 23) about why we shouldn't be anti-American. History can be used to justify anything and I would no more thank an American for our 'liberation' than I would blame a German for
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Shotgun nonsense
DURING his weekly ramble down Rural View, Grant Burton tells us about the awful problems of keeping a shotgun for game shooting (January 14). One must fill in a large form, pay a fairly large fee and then the police have to inspect it - presumably the
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Helping hands
I THANK everyone who helped my grandmother, Mrs Kathleen Carry, after she fell in York on January 17. I would especially like to thank the City of York Council workers who helped her to her feet, the staff of Lunn Poly in Parliament Street who took her
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My farming fears grow
Farmhouse Breakfast Week has just finished. It is an annual initiative organised by the Home Grown Cereals Authority to help promote cereals, either directly, by people eating them for breakfast, or indirectly, by using them for animal feed. Such promotions
