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Too hot, too cold, too bad
AS we were saying only yesterday, the English weather never pleases all the people all the time. Ultimately, it's a matter of perspective. Some like it hot, some don't. To those lucky enough to have this week off work, the soaring temperatures will mostly
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Bunker down
A COLD War bunker sounds just the place to sit out a heatwave. The shelter in Acomb Road, York, is to be turned into the city's newest museum. It was built in the 1906s to withstand a nuclear explosion and allow survivors to monitor conditions after an
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The trouble with friends
WE'RE not that far into the holiday season, yet despatches from the resorts are reporting some right holiday horrors. It's nothing to do with hotels that are really building sites in disguise, or flight delays that see you reaching retirement before you
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Students do the business at awards
SCHEMES to help people who are missing out on benefits and to bring locally-produced food closer to the consumer have gained top awards for business-minded York students. Teams from the city's university took both the £10,000 top prize and a £1,000 runners-up
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Boss moves to calm Life job loss fears
THE boss of Norwich Union Life has praised the company's 3,000 employees in York - and spoken of his confidence in their future. Chief executive Gary Withers was speaking after parent company Aviva last week announced better-than-expected half-year results
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Anonymity would protect the innocent
THE coincidence of the death of Rod Hills and the decision to drop charges against John Leslie highlights the question of when an "innocent" man is proved guilty. Whatever the facts, none of which are known to me, both these men have been exposed to public
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Mobile people-eater
DOES the bus-eating monster (Letters, July 19 and 28), also consume passengers? By the time the No 6 reaches Osbaldwick, if there are three passengers that constitutes a crowd. The munching monster seems to strike fear into the buses, so much so that
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Don't forget trust
I WAS interested to read Chris Titley's excellent feature in last Monday's Evening Press about Dr J B Morrell. I was, however, surprised that there was no mention about York Conservation Trust Ltd, another of JBM's creations originally started in 1945
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It's York for us
My wife Elizabeth and I have always taken our holidays in places such as Malta, Sicily, Italy, Menorca and, most recently, Zimbabwe, but none of these match up to our first visit to York. We feel our time in your most beautiful city has been the best-ever
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York stamping ground for new mail issue
A YORK landlord is helping to launch the Royal Mail's latest stamp collection - based on the great tradition of pub signs. Mike Dobson, who runs the historic Black Swan Pub, in Peasholme Green, has his pub's name featured on the mail giant's new collection
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Service station closure anger
COUNCILLORS and residents have slammed plans to shut another of York's service stations. Fulford Service Station, on Main Street, Fulford, is the latest of York's remaining service stations to be threatened with closure. A planning application has been
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Pikes nibble at City confidence
THE old saying 'never judge a book by its cover' could always apply to pre-season friendlies. The dullest novel in the world could have a really jazzy frontage, while the best read of the year might appear plain on the outside. The same is often said
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Wheldrake crowned in style
WHELDRAKE have won the division three title in the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League after beating promotion rivals Castlegarth. Dave Parrish and Lynette Duggleby won 25 games, matched by Dave McDermott and Helen Roe, with solid support from Mark Bland and
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Cygnet pair's brilliant finishing
CYGNET 'A' pair Sarah Jackson (174 and 140) and Dave Gibbons (125 and 100) closed in a brilliant 19-dart 701 in their top-of-the-table York John Smith's Mixed League clash against Cueball. Daz Bailey was Cueball's best performer with a fine 19-dart debut
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Testing time for police phone calls
CLOGGED-UP police phone lines could be a thing of the past in North Yorkshire if long-term tests of a new non-emergency number prove a success. North Yorkshire Police has volunteered to spearhead trials of the non-emergency number, set up in response
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Safety expert makes appeal to businesses
STILL more people have come forward to back our campaign to save York's Mystery Plays. One offer of assistance has been made by John Bielby, a senior partner in a health and safety consultancy and president of the York Society of Engineers. He spoke out
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Vaughan and McGrath back for Yorkshire
DARREN Gough contacted Yorkshire yesterday and asked if he could be rested from Wednesday's day-night match against Warwickshire Bears at Headingley. That was the first indication that Gough was contemplating his future. England's new captain Michael
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Cooling power
THE scorching heatwave has brought tens of thousands of trippers flocking to the Yorkshire Coast. York hoteliers and guest house owners have also been clocking up excellent business, with tourism bosses having to work hard to find accommodation for everyone
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Stand up and be counted - coach
YORK City Knights boss Paul Broadbent has warned his troops that their big test is yet to come. The Knights have hammered basement boys London Skolars and lowly Gateshead in the last three weeks but in between times lost at home to new leaders Sheffield
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Police get names in hunt for thugs
YORK Police were today checking leads, including the names of possible suspects, after the Evening Press highlighted a brutal assault which left two young men "lucky to be alive". As reported in later editions of yesterday's paper, Daniel Sweeney, 19,
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Faith in the future
IT'S almost here - the start of nine months of fret, thud and hopefully more than just a few cheers. Hear the clatter of the studs, catch the welcome waft of fried onions from a battalion of burger kiosks, feel the sheen of this season's latest colours
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Stand up and be counted - coach
YORK City Knights boss Paul Broadbent has warned his troops that their big test is yet to come. The Knights have hammered basement boys London Skolars and lowly Gateshead in the last three weeks but in between times lost at home to new leaders Sheffield
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Does city need speed humps?
As a new £4 million ambulance fleet is mothballed because the vehicles can't cope with York's sleeping policemen, we ask: Does York need speed humps? YES says Coun Ann Reid, executive member for planning and transport on City of York Council: No one likes
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It's time Tony delivered
Tony Blair has now become the longest serving Labour Party Prime Minister. His administration has outlasted the immediately post-war Government, led by Clement Attlee. We are so used to the Labour Party being either in Government or opposition, that we
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Vaughan and McGrath back for Yorkshire
DARREN Gough contacted Yorkshire yesterday and asked if he could be rested from Wednesday's day-night match against Warwickshire Bears at Headingley. That was the first indication that Gough was contemplating his future. England's new captain Michael
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Changing groom
Male grooming is booming in Yorkshire - but do men actually know their scrubs from their balms and their gels from their serums? JO HAYWOOD finds out. SOMETHING strange is happening in bathroom cabinets across Yorkshire. Moisturiser is mysteriously disappearing
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Pickering Town 2, York City 2
THE old saying 'never judge a book by its cover' could always apply to pre-season friendlies. The dullest novel in the world could have a really jazzy frontage, while the best read of the year might appear plain on the outside. The same is often said
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Mapping out the hot spots
NEW cutting-edge business intelligence technology developed in York will enable supermarkets, conference centres, museums and other venues to find out more about their customers. The hi-tech 3dCRM (Customer Relationship Management) product which monitors
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Help kick off City season
IF BUSINESS booms, York City Football Club blooms. That is the idea behind York City Business Network (YCBN) being started up by a loyal Minsterman. Pete Brandon, a director of WPS Media of James Street, York, is organising the business network club for
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Brass gives no starting clues
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass said the line-up used in City's final pre-season friendly last night was no indication of the side he will put out when their Division Three campaign kicks off at Carlisle on Saturday. Brass, who played Darren Edmondson
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Hungry rabbits cause crematorium havoc
A PLAGUE of long-eared pests is causing headaches for staff at York Crematorium. They say rabbits are demolishing floral wreaths and leaving decorative flower beds bare. Crematorium bosses blame an invasion of rabbits for the lack of flowers at the Bishopthorpe
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Tributes to leading Roman Catholic
A PROUD Yorkshireman, war hero and farmer, has died in York at the age of 80. Lord Martin Fitzalan Howard, of Brockfield Hall, near Warthill, brother of the 17th Duke of Norfolk, died on Friday. One of eight children, Lord Martin, son of Lady Beaumont
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Work to start on nuclear bunker museum
WORK to transform a Cold War bunker into York's newest museum will start next month. The shelter, at the back of Shelley House, in Acomb Road, was built in the 1960s to withstand a nuclear explosion and act as a centre for monitoring conditions after
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Warning over holiday scam
POLICE have warned of a possible scam which has brought holiday heartbreak to families who thought they had booked a break in North Yorkshire. Three families in the Humberside Police region appear to have been conned out of hundreds of pounds of holiday
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Visitors speak out on Minster charges
MANY visitors to York say they are staying away from the Minster following the introduction of admission charges. In the wake of the launch of charges of £4.50 for visitors to go inside the Minster, the Evening Press took to the streets to find out people's
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Drax on the brink
CASH-STRAPPED Drax Power Station is on the brink of liquidation, the Evening Press can reveal. American owners AES are set to abandon the debt-laden plant on Wednesday, leaving it in the hands of its creditors. AES bought the station in 1999 for £1.87
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Brass gives no starting clues
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass said the line-up used in City's final pre-season friendly last night was no indication of the side he will put out when their Division Three campaign kicks off at Carlisle on Saturday. Brass, who played Darren Edmondson
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Cash flow crash threatens F1 firm
A WORLD-RENOWNED and award-winning engineering firm in York has gone into administrative receivership - with 43 jobs hanging in the balance. Pocklington Coachworks, of Osbaldwick, which builds luxurious trailers and transport vehicles for top Formula
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It takes a brave woman to exercise outdoors
IT'S difficult to look glamorous when you are bouncing up and down like an epileptic jelly, your boobs alternately acting as ear muffs and knee pads depending on whether you are in an upward or downward motion. To be honest, I have difficulty with glamour
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Safety expert makes appeal to businesses
STILL more people have come forward to back our campaign to save York's Mystery Plays. One offer of assistance has been made by John Bielby, a senior partner in a health and safety consultancy and president of the York Society of Engineers. He spoke out
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'Lone female' wins a girlie day out
Evening Press reader Julia Plowman won a day with a personal shopper who gave her a new, glamorous look. MAXINE GORDON reports "I've just turned 40, feel like I'm 20 and want to look 30 - help!" THAT was the plea from Julia Plowman, a part-time secretary
