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Fallon to lead Stoute charge - 04/07/03
Islington, who twice played a starring role at York last year, can dominate centre-stage in tomorrow's showpiece event, the £350,000 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. Sir Michael Stoute's filly, the mount of Kieren Fallon, is fancied to have the edge over
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Oh, Tim...
THE grass can grow again on Henman Hill, unsquashed by patriotic bottoms. Traders, after a quick Wimbledon buck, have quietly swapped Union flag hats for pricey strawberry punnets. Centre court will no longer echo to the raucous scream, "Come on, Tim!
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Focus Zooms In
FORD's all-new Focus C-MAX could well change customer expectations of what a family car can be when it is launched later this year. It is certainly an interesting addition to the Ford stable: it is its first mid-range multi-activity vehicle, providing
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (12A, 107 minutes)
THE stunts are bigger, the clothes skimpier, the plot twice as daft, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is even more of an Angel delight in the crime-busting, bust-thrusting company of Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Drew Barrymore. Where The Matrix series
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Trust running out for Tony
FEW, if any, Parliamentary occasions are more enjoyable than a visit from the hunt lobby. Unlike the serious protesters - peace, democracy, etc - they are very colourful. A ray of all-singing, all-cheering sunshine. And damn polite, too. So it proved
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Stiff test facing York
HAVING consolidated their position at the top of the Yorkshire ECB Premier League with a convincing win over Rotherham last week, York face a much sterner task when they entertain Castleford on Saturday. The West Yorkshire club have two matches in hand
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York hails Roman history
THE eerie tale of a York man who encountered a ghost troop of soldiers in a cellar will be retold at the city's first Roman festival. It is 50 years since Harry Martindale had an extraordinary encounter with a troop of Roman soldiers in the cellar under
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Brownies pack in the songs
PATIENTS at St Leonard's Hospice in York were entertained with campfire songs when one of the city's Brownie packs paid them a visit. The 5th York (Our Lady's) Brownie Pack are regular visitors to the hospice in Tadcaster Road where one of their leaders
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Ian is in focus
A YORK photographer has received a major accolade from experts within his profession. Ian Taylor, who specialises in portraits and weddings and has trained with Huntington-based Bailey-Cooper Photography, has been awarded a Licentiate qualification from
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Flight fantastic
SIR Richard Branson may ditch his signature hot air balloon for a flight of a different kind at a tribute to the founder of aviation this weekend. The Virgin tycoon, more known for his close shaves across the world in a balloon, could pilot a full working
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Changes after waiting lists scandal
TWO of the three directors suspended after allegations of deliberate misreporting of waiting list figures will not return to work at the Scarborough NHS Trust. An independent report, unveiled yesterday, revealed that misreporting had taken place at the
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Warning about fake tenners
YORK police have warned residents to beware of counterfeit £10 notes after a series of reports of two men trying to pass on fake notes in the city. Four incidents were reported yesterday of two men, aged in the late 30s or early 40s, attempting to use
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Orphan Annie is looking for new home
RESCUED orphan Annie is just one of many kittens hoping to find a new home at an open day to be run by York Cats Protection. Three-month-old Annie was found, covered in spaghetti bolognese, after being dumped in a wheelie bin. Shelter manager James Hodgkinson
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Museum scheme blow for astrologer
ASTROLOGER Jonathan Cainer and paranormalist Uri Geller have suffered a setback in their plans to open a museum in York. City of York Councillors last night refused to allow Mr Cainer to install outside air-conditioning units on the second floor balcony
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Police plea after assault on 'vulnerable' man
British Transport Police have appealed for witnesses after a deaf and mute man was assaulted at York Railway Station. The man, who also has learning difficulties, was shoved and threatened by another man at the front of the station, close to the bus stop
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Andy strides to victory
York Acorn's Andy Hilton took advantage of the absence of series leader Campbell Brooks (Knavesmire) to win the fourth race in the Sweatshop York and District Road Race League. He finished 15 seconds ahead of team-mate Hywel Care with Knavesmire's Ian
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Roddick, Grosjean favourites for Wimbledon final
The injury-ravaged, big-serving Australian, Mark Philippoussis plays Sebastien Grosjean, who vanquished Tim Henman yesterday, in the first of the men's semi-final at Wimbledon today. Philippoussis has suffered a string of serious knee injuries, and says
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Rewards aplenty as comp returns
THE five Embassy/NFA National Championships will prove more lucrative than ever this year for the top two points performers in each team, plus the section winners from the Ladies' and Veterans' events. This is because the NFA has decided to bring back
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Young Ryan goes for golden double
SELBY'S newly crowned Junior Sports Person 2003 is hoping to bring back a gold medal to the district when he competes in the national championship next week. Eight-year-old Ryan Simms, of Lordship Lane, Wistow, will be competing in the British Taekwondo
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Dixon praises fan-tastic following
YORK City Knights chairman Roger Dixon has joined the queue of people lauding the support received by the club in their first season. Dixon, himself a dedicated York RL fan of many years' standing, has been overwhelmed by the backing the new club has
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Tributes honour 'people man'
ON THE day of the funeral of a much respected Ryedale councillor known as "Mr Sheriff Hutton", his widow and son paid tribute to their loved one. Jean Farnaby, widow of Councillor Alan Farnaby, and the couple's son, Richard, said Mr Farnaby was "a caring
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Woman, 21, dies in crash horror
DRIVERS are being urged to show caution at a road accident blackspot after a young woman died in a collision with an articulated lorry. Nadine Tate, 21, was travelling westward along the A163 Barlby to Market Weighton road when her white Fiat Punto collided
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'Tired' squatters ready to move
SQUATTERS at the former Gimcrack pub say they want to quit York, buy a bus and tour Europe now that the owners have served legal papers to evict them. Seven protesters left at the Fulford Road building say they face homelessness within days after PD Smith
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Boss Chris to give youth its fling
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass is urging the club's fresh faces to change the complexion of Bootham Crescent after handing senior duties to a hat-trick of young starlets. The youngest manager in the Football League has thrown down the gauntlet to
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Dixon praises fan-tastic following
YORK City Knights chairman Roger Dixon has joined the queue of people lauding the support received by the club in their first season. Dixon, himself a dedicated York RL fan of many years' standing, has been overwhelmed by the backing the new club has
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Minister's money pledge to schools
MORE money will be made available for struggling schools next year, a Government minister told the Evening Press today. Schools minister David Miliband, who was visiting a York school, pledged to work with head teachers to improve the finances available
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Equal rights for all
IT is good that homosexual couples will now have equal rights with married couples. However, it is also time that unmarried heterosexual couples had those rights. Instead we have to listen to that sanctimonious, patronising woman MP practically blackmailing
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Final five plug in their guitars
INTO the grand final of the Fibbers/ Evening Press Battle of the Bands charge The Xenith Sound, High Sound, Soberskin, The Hair and Fado Rock next Wednesday in York. In the unofficial Fibbers betting, the first semi-final winner, The Xenith Sound, and
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It's all perfectly viol
BRITAIN'S foremost celebration of early music, York Early Music Festival, is celebrating 600 years of the musical traditions of England and York from today until July 13. Festival administrative director Delma Tomlin says: "Inevitably, we shall be focusing
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Don't fall for the big con
KNOW your customer. It is the mantra of every salesman. And this same lesson has been learned by the con artists who fleece money from a nave public. Householders who respond to one "get rich quick" scheme soon become targeted for many more. The reason
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In celebration of the art of yards
IN Our Own Backyards brings the backyard to the forefront tomorrow. Run by The Stables Project from March to June, this community arts workshop project is culminating in an open backyard trail from Nunnery Lane to South Bank, in York, tomorrow, 10.30am
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Drive without prejudice
KIA has a very small problem - its three letters long, a few inches high and very often its set in a small, red, oval disc. It's the KIA logo. Whip that off its latest vehicle - the Sorento 4x4 - and stick on a green nine-letter logo and the car would
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Previewing the Previa
COSMETIC surgery has not been needed to give Toyota's Previa a fresh new appearance. Just a few gentle styling changes have been made to re-groom the versatile MPV. Its standard specification has been given a boost to improve levels of safety and convenience
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Parking fees unchanged
CAR park charges have been almost completely frozen in Ripon, Knaresborough, Harrogate and Pateley Bridge. Coun Julian Sturdy, Harrogate District Council's public works chief, has agreed that present charges will remain for the current financial year.
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York's bendy-bus fleet to expand
TRANSPORT bosses are to increase York's bendy-bus fleet by a third in a bid to ensure easy access to Park&Ride over the summer school holidays. Peter Edwards, commercial manager at First, has confirmed that another three of the buses will be brought
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Store in video sale 'sting' fined £500
CHAIN-STORE Peacocks has been fined after Trading Standards officers caught a former manager of the Selby store selling 18-certificate videos to a 13-year-old girl. Magistrates ordered that the company pay a £500 fine after the teenager purchased three
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Waving flag for festival
SIX hundred years of English music were being celebrated today as the York Early Music Festival was launched in the city. Organisers of the festival were waving the flag for England and brandishing English roses in celebration of the launch. The festival
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£700,000 windfall for care at home services
HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds is set to be pumped into improving home-based care services for York's older residents. City of York Council social services chiefs will on Thursday discuss how to spend a total of £700,000 Government cash. Proposals they
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Veteran air gunners share war memories
VETERAN air gunners from all over the country held their annual reunion in York. The airmen from the Second World War met at the Yorkshire Air Museum, at Elvington, yesterday for a service of remembrance and parade of veterans. It began in style with
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Phones repair unit goes Active
FONE Logistics, which last week saved 54 jobs by buying out the field engineering and repairs division of Convergent Communication, the doomed telecoms group, in Pocklington, will trade in the town under the new name Active Technology. Ian Gillespie,
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Was Wimbledon wet and disappointing?
As Wimbledon 2003 draws to a dramatic close this weekend, three subjects are being discussed in the capital: Was Greg Rusedski punished enough for his outburst in the first week? Will Tim Henman ever win? Why can't England produce winning tennis players
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Stiff test facing York
HAVING consolidated their position at the top of the Yorkshire ECB Premier League with a convincing win over Rotherham last week, York face a much sterner task when they entertain Castleford on Saturday. The West Yorkshire club have two matches in hand
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Sanjay stars
Acomb CC enjoyed an overwhelming victory in a Myers and Burnell Cup quarter final at Clifton Park. The margin was 50 runs and Sri Lankan star Sanjay Rodrigo was the key player with 79 runs in Acomb's total of 147-3. He then took 5-19 with only Aussie
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Great Scott effort is in vain
SCOTT Dowsett hit a splendid 17-darter in York Unique-Phoenix League division one. But this was Rose & Crown's only point, as Sun Inn romped to a 6-1 win with Dave Gibbons (20) and Tony Cooper (21) shining, while Chris Thompson included a maximum.
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Trouble at the Minster
The Evening Press has received numerous calls, letters and emails over the past fortnight, in the wake of the furore over now-abandoned plans to close the Minster library and also the introduction of admission charges to the cathedral. People have made
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Fuel 'poverty' in York
AT LEAST 6,000 York households spend more than ten per cent of their income on keeping warm, an energy efficiency conference was being told today. The Local Authority Support Programme Conference, held at the Hilton Hotel, York, was based around energy
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Ryedale in top three of health league
RYEDALE residents have reacted to the unexpected news that they live in the third healthiest place in England. Lack of pollution, beautiful surroundings, friendly communities and "strong Yorkshire breeding" have been put forward as reasons why the district
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Warm welcome for Duke
THE Duke of York was given a warm welcome in York today as he presented awards to those who have demonstrated outstanding community spirit. Prince Andrew attended a ceremony at York St John College to commend organisations and individuals from Yorkshire
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Fox recaptured
CHRISTIAN Fox has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by new York City chief Chris Brass after agreeing to a Bootham Crescent return. Fox, cut free at the end of last season when his contract expired, has put pen to paper on a new one-year deal and becomes
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Fox recaptured
CHRISTIAN Fox has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by new York City chief Chris Brass after agreeing to a Bootham Crescent return. Fox, cut free at the end of last season when his contract expired, has put pen to paper on a new one-year deal and becomes
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Boss Chris to give youth its fling
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass is urging the club's fresh faces to change the complexion of Bootham Crescent after handing senior duties to a hat-trick of young starlets. The youngest manager in the Football League has thrown down the gauntlet to
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Backroom staff have key role to play, says Brass
YORK City chief Chris Brass has hailed the club's familiar faces as a major boon in his preparation for his first season as player-manager. The youthful winds of change may be blowing through the corridors of Bootham Crescent in the wake of the club's
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Playing to raise funds
FANS of York City are to stage a fund-raising six-a-side tournament later this month and are appealing for teams to take part. The tournament will be staged on Saturday, July 19, on the all-weather pitches at Huntington School. So far organisers have
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Back to her roots - Carmen, Theatre Royal
Patricia Casement tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON why she is happy to reprise the role of Carmen. YORK Opera's main production of 2003 is Bizet's Carmen, to be performed in English next week at York Theatre Royal. This is only the second time the company has
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Cabaret, Trinity Hall, Monkgate - July 8 to 12
Stagecoach Youth Theatre York puts its skills and reputation for challenging theatre on the line next week when presenting the Kander-Ebb musical Cabaret. In contrast to York Musical Theatre Company's production in May at the Theatre Royal, the Stagecoach
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Telling the stories of who we all are
REDHEAD Theatre Company, from York, is travelling north to the Edinburgh Fringe next month. The University of York student company will stage This Is Us at the Bedlam Theatre from August 11 to 23 at 3.30pm daily, except August 17. First performed on campus
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Cast of 23 start work on Amadeus
REHEARSALS are into week two for York Theatre Royal's summer repertory production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus. At the helm is director Tim Luscombe, directing in York for the first time after working for the National Theatre, Leeds Playhouse and Aldwych
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Giving a young twist to Shakespeare
WANTED. Plays with big casts and stories that appeal to young performers. Not easy, as Jill Adamson, youth theatre education director, and Damian Cruden, artistic director, contemplated when picking this year's work for York Youth Theatre at York Theatre
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Introducing the Italian mystery
RIDING Lights continue their summer studies of hypocrisy with the second show of the season, the comic mysteries of Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo, at Friargate Theatre, York, next week. Following in the wake of Sir Henry Howarth Bashford's Augustus Carp Esq
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Parents of truants face jail
EDUCATION chiefs in York and North Yorkshire will be told to introduce a scheme to cut truancy by threatening parents with jail by the end of this year. Government trials found that more than half of parents facing a possible prison sentence ensured their
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Will police officers retire at 70 as well?
W ELLIOTT of Hartlepool states that we need to pay more tax to get a better police service (July 2). In York, our council tax bills clearly state on the bill that we have to pay an increase of 76.09 per cent for North Yorkshire Police Authority. So we
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Cross over crossing
IT is only since the council installed the raised zebra crossing outside Canon Lee School that water escaping from the beck has caused regular problems on Water Lane ("Downpour brings flooding to streets", July 1). The speed table design of the crossing
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Stamp of approval
CONGRATULATIONS to the villagers of Stillington who worked together to save their post office (June 30). This proves that community spirit still flourishes. There is hope for us all. J and C Crawshaw, Hempland Avenue, Heworth, York. Updated: 11:30 Friday
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Folk diva June Tabor lined up for Swan special
SEPTEMBER sees the Black Swan Folk Club launching a further season of formal concerts at the National Centre for Early Music on Walmgate in York. First up in the new concert series is Scotland's all-women folk band The Poozies on Wednesday, September
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Endgunn top Bak 2 Skool bill
BAK 2 Skool returns on Sunday with Reloaded, the second gig to be put together by York College Music & Media. Organised and promoted by music technology students, this sequel showcases the talents of Endgunn, Loki, Covert Operatives and DJ Fraz Tone
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Birthday blues
THE Deep Blues Club may have moved home three times in five years in York, and the blues may be the EastEnders of music, but you will not find a happier club. Formed in July 1998 out of the long cold ashes of the Acme Blues Company night at the now-deceased
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Snack attack has fat chance
Our favourite snacks are at risk of being slimmed down so we do the same. CHRIS TITLEY reports on the expanding problem of obesity. YORK'S world famous Chocolate Orange might soon be a few segments short of a whole fruit. The spherical treat, much beloved
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Derby reeling to pace attack
Yorkshire seamers Steve Kirby and Ryan Sidebottom ran riot at Derby yesterday to leave Derbyshire reeling on 80-8 and still 215 runs away from avoiding the follow-on. The Kirby bandwagon, which started rolling at Taunton with 13 wickets, gathered momentum
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Sorry, number engaged
SWITCHBOARD operators are calling up memories today as Yesterday Once More takes a look at York's telephone exchange heritage. Last year's closure of the Stonebow centre ended an era which had started in 1886 with 11 subscribers using the National Telephone
