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Deal with the hard drugs
SOME politicians and commentators talk about "the scourge of drugs" as if this were a single, definable problem. That is a foolish, potentially harmful generalisation. The point is illustrated by two stories from opposite ends of the narcotics spectrum
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St Leger battle is true for Brian Boru - 12/09/03
Brian Boru, beaten a whisker in the Great Voltigeur Stakes at York last month, can take Classic glory at Doncaster on Saturday. The £400,000 Seabiscuit St Leger, which this year carries the name of the iconic American racehorse of the 1930's, whose incredible
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Back in front
BY car back-window advertising tradition "The car in front is a Toyota". But, sadly it is an advert that has not always rung true. Take the first Avensis built in 1997, a mid-range saloon/liftback/estate line-up which was too easy to criticise as noisy
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Hidden agendas
WHETHER one considers the Government's "evidence" on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to have been sexed-up or over-egged there is no doubt that coalition forces in Iraq are now over-stretched. This could equally apply to the Government's case
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Use our waterways
I WROTE to the Transport Minister to ask if the Government would consider using the waterways as an alternative instead of the increase of haulage by road. Why spend more on roads when we have a fantastic network of rivers, canals and waterways that could
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Night to remember
CALLING all Lidgett Grove Methodist Church youth club members from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. We are having a reunion on October 18 in the Galtres Room at the Huntington Stadium and we would like to meet up again because this year is our church's
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Blackball (15)
As spectator sports go, few can compare with football, rugby and golf. But lawn bowls? Blackball is a British comedy inspired by the story of Griff Sanders, a self-styled John McEnroe the bowling green who received a nationwide ban from the game for excessive
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Tears of the Sun (15)
Post September 11, Hollywood has found its conscience and taken stock of the gung-ho way in which it travels the planet righting wrongs (as it sees them) and converting the world to the western way. Maybe it's one of the ways America has been forced to
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BIll Nelson night for Honeytone Cody
NELSONICA 03, A Celebration of The Music of Bill Nelson, will be held at the Duke of Cumberland, North Ferriby, near Hull, on September 19 and 20. Why the Duke of Cumberland? The pub is becoming the spiritual home to fans of the Yorkshire musician, who
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Jazz notes
THE big Cleethorpes Beachcomber Jazz Weekend begins on September 12 and features the Humphrey Lyttelton Band, Don Weller, Clark Tracey and the Andy Panayi/Mark Nightingale Quartet. On September 13, the Jamil Sheriff Octet brings together the best of our
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Max Bygraves Birthday Show with The Beverley Sisters, Grand Opera House, York, September 19
THE Queen has never forgotten her first Royal Command Performance. So much so that HMQ asked for a repeat show 50 years later, featuring Max Bygraves and The Beverley Sisters, as part of her Golden Jubilee Celebrations. Max and the singing sisters so
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York seek to crown brilliant campaign
OPPORTUNITY knocks on Saturday for York Cricket Club to complete a nap hand of success for its four teams if its senior XI can win the Yorkshire ECB Premier League Championship. York have been in top spot since mid-June, but only enjoy a slender two-point
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Jigsaw puzzle
YORK City boss Chris Brass has selection dilemmas aplenty ahead of the Minstermen's first trip to Yeovil Town. City had hoped to be heading to Huish Park with a glut of returning faces, most notably Jon Parkin and Darren Edmondson, as they look to avoid
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Hospital parking plan wins backing
STALLED plans to increase car parking at York Hospital have been put in motion again, after a new temporary staff car parking scheme was submitted to City of York Council. Even local residents who objected to the original application have said they would
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Doctor hits out over delay for A64 flyover
A DOCTOR who has attended several accidents at the notorious Bilbrough Top claimed today that any further delay in taming the junction would be an insult to the victims. Dr Andrew Inglis, who lives in Bilbrough village, near the A64 accident blackspot
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New Mini stars on silver screen
MINI fans flocked to the cinema to catch their favourite car on the big screen in a special charity preview of The Italian Job. A convoy of Minis arrived at the Warner Village Cinema in Clifton Moor, York, last night. The owners of the cars had been invited
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York start playing catch up
YORK RUFC belatedly get their season underway on Saturday with several new faces in their line-up. Three recruits are expected to make their debut at home to Horden - hooker James Nuttall and wingers Chris McDonald and Nick Taylor - with other newcomers
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Sausage role for weatherman
HOME-GROWN produce took centre stage today at the opening of the York Festival of Food & Drink, with ingredients from regional farmers dominating the menu. BBC Weatherman Paul Hudson raised the curtain on the ten-day celebration by trying his hand
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Hoggard quickly makes his mark
MATTHEW Hoggard celebrated his call-up on England's forthcoming tours by grabbing an early wicket in Yorkshire's crucial Championship match against Second Division leaders Worcestershire at New Road today before batsmen took the upper hand. Opener Stephen
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Jury directed on Selby verdict
THE coroner in the Selby rail crash inquest has directed the jury to return verdicts of unlawful killing today at the end of the week-long hearing. Deputy North Yorkshire coroner David Hinchliffe told the 11 men and women they could not contradict the
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Knights relief over brawl decision
YORK City Knights today heaved a sigh of relief ahead of Sunday's National League Two elimination play-off after league chiefs decided to take no further action over the fisticuffs that marred Friday's win over Hunslet. That means only winger Rob Kama
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Hammer killer walks free
A SEVERELY depressed pensioner subjected her frail husband to a deadly hammer attack when his demanding behaviour became too much for her to take, a court heard. Retired nurse Mary Milbank Swinburn, in bloodstained nightclothes and still carrying the
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Northern Ballet Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until September
THE train now pulling out of the Quarry Theatre platform is the Midsummer Night's sleeper from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, calling at Fairyland. For its first production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Northern Ballet Theatre has transported
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Crack makes my son an animal
A YORK mother told today how her son's crack cocaine addiction was destroying her life. She claimed the young man's desperate need for money to buy the drug led him at one stage to point a gun in her baby daughter's face to intimidate her. "He said afterwards
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Unlawful killing
THE victims of the Selby rail crash were unlawfully killed, the jury at the inquest into the disaster decided unanimously today. After four days of hearing at times harrowing evidence, the five men and six women at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, took
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York start playing catch up
YORK RUFC belatedly get their season underway on Saturday with several new faces in their line-up. Three recruits are expected to make their debut at home to Horden - hooker James Nuttall and wingers Chris McDonald and Nick Taylor - with other newcomers
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Knights relief over brawl decision
YORK City Knights today heaved a sigh of relief ahead of Sunday's National League Two elimination play-off after league chiefs decided to take no further action over the fisticuffs that marred Friday's win over Hunslet. That means only winger Rob Kama
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Burton Salmon leap to third division title
BURTON SALMON prevailed in the battle for the Howarth Pulleyn Heselton York Vale Cricket League division three title. They overcame a weakened York University Staff side with Steve Warner hammering a century as the visiting village side posted 233-5.
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TV spotlight on Mystery Plays
THE battle to save York's Mystery Plays is set to be featured on BBC's Look North this evening. The programme has interviewed key figures involved in the Evening Press campaign to ensure the Plays are staged again in the Museum Gardens, if possible in
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Yorkshire to see less of Vaughan
YORKSHIRE have seen precious little of Michael Vaughan on the county scene this summer and expect much the same in 2004. England face an even more gruelling home schedule next summer with the announcement that three lots of back-to-back Tests are on the
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We had a ball
RECENTLY we exhibited for your viewing pleasure selections of photographs from the 1951 York Festival. This was our city's contribution to the post-war celebration of nationhood, the Festival of Britain. That inspired a flurry of letters, and a phone
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A festival feast
BBC weatherman Paul Hudson opened the seventh York Festival of Food and Drink today. And in culinary terms, the local outlook is rosy. Judging by another impressive festival programme, over the next ten days we can expect regular outbreaks of satisfied
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Kay and Wright provide victory platform
THE Hunters York and District Senior League completed a hat-trick of victories in the Leeds Area Cricket Council Knockout Cup by beating the Leeds West Riding League by 36 runs at Driffield. York openers Paul Wright (Carlton Towers) and Andy Kay (York
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What now for York's Coppergate II site?
CONGRATULATIONS and thanks are due to all those who opposed the Coppergate shopping development. Surely the lengthy and detailed public inquiry must demonstrate to those councillors and officers at York council who supported the scheme so vigorously and
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The Lizzie McGuire Movie (U)
Based on a US TV series, this Disney charm-fest serves up the comic foibles of lovable Lizzie McGuire and her pals Gordo, Kate, and Ethan. Following a disastrous graduation ceremony, during which Lizzie accidentally destroys the presentation stage, she
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Calendar Girls (12A, 108 minutes)
WE know the nudie WI calendar story so very well, there is none of the element of surprise of The Full Monty, and the publicity feels like it has dragged on for more than a calendar year. Nothing, however, can stop Calendar Girls, and those good North
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Ocean Colour Scene, York Barbican Centre, September 12
OCEAN Colour Scene have joined the fifth label of their 14-year career, a move marked by this summer's release of their seventh studio album. One chapter may have closed with the Universal/Island retrospective Anthology, but another is starting with the
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Curtain rises on first theatre shows at music centre
AFTER classical music, folk, world music, show songs, digital arts and jazz, the National Centre for Early Music is adding another string to its bow this autumn. For the first time, the converted St Margaret Church, in Walmgate, York, will welcome a series
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Time running out for Hoon
DOOMED Geoff Hoon had the look of a haunted, hunted man as Parliament returned to business. But the self-defence secretary was not the only person left vulnerable. MPs' wives should not sleep too easily in their beds, either. This week their spouses were
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Hitting the road to Cardiff
THE famous 'road to Cardiff' begins again for three of the region's non-League clubs on Saturday and all will be big underdogs in the first qualifying round of the FA Cup. Both Harrogate Railway and Selby Town face difficult trips over the Pennines to
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Olympia stun champs
BOTH clubs promoted to division one of the John Smith's Sunday League celebrated their new status with opening day victories. The highlight was Selby Olympia WMC's 2-0 win over champions Nestl Rowntree. In a game of few chances the deadlock was finally
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Newcomers blow hot and cold
YORK City will be hoping for a chill on their first ever visit to Yeovil Town on Saturday. The Conference champions have made a decent start to life in the Football League with three wins and three defeats from their opening six outings. Not surprisingly
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Tower green space hope
A LEADING York environmental campaigner is hoping to set up a charity which will raise funds to preserve land near Clifford's Tower as a "green and open space." Gordon Campbell Thomas, project manager of the York Environment Centre and an experienced
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What now for York's Coppergate II site?
CONGRATULATIONS and thanks are due to all those who opposed the Coppergate shopping development. Surely the lengthy and detailed public inquiry must demonstrate to those councillors and officers at York council who supported the scheme so vigorously and
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Former head dies, 94
A FORMER York headmaster and one-time leader of the local teachers' union has died, aged 94. Norman Henderson was born in Bridge Street on November 2, 1908, and lived in the city for his entire life. His grandfather, William, was a tollmaster at Skeldergate
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TV spotlight on Mystery Plays
THE battle to save York's Mystery Plays is set to be featured on BBC's Look North this evening. The programme has interviewed key figures involved in the Evening Press campaign to ensure the Plays are staged again in the Museum Gardens, if possible in
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Tower green space hope
A LEADING York environmental campaigner is hoping to set up a charity which will raise funds to preserve land near Clifford's Tower as a "green and open space." Gordon Campbell Thomas, project manager of the York Environment Centre and an experienced
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Shoppers on Marks for new city food outlet
FOOD shoppers in York are holding a double celebration after news that a new Marks & Spencer store is opening next week - and that prices promise to be cheaper than similar stores in London. The Simply Food store - described as "a new small format
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York seek to crown brilliant campaign
OPPORTUNITY knocks on Saturday for York Cricket Club to complete a nap hand of success for its four teams if its senior XI can win the Yorkshire ECB Premier League Championship. York have been in top spot since mid-June, but only enjoy a slender two-point
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Milky Bars on us, says Nestl
THE Milky Bar kid is coming to York bringing 100 jobs with him. Nestl is proposing to switch production of its white chocolate products to York from a factory in Hayes, Middlesex. While that will mean the loss of 159 jobs in Hayes, it will also lead to
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Jigsaw puzzle
YORK City boss Chris Brass has selection dilemmas aplenty ahead of the Minstermen's first trip to Yeovil Town. City had hoped to be heading to Huish Park with a glut of returning faces, most notably Jon Parkin and Darren Edmondson, as they look to avoid
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Bouncers, Grand Opera House, York, September 15 to 17
JOHN Altman has swapped one tuxedo for another. No sooner has he finished playing attorney Billy Flynn in the national tour of Chicago than John is doing the rounds in his monkey suit in John Godber's nightclub comedy Bouncers. "Yeah, I'm tuxedo'd up
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Wife freed after killing husband
A SEVERELY depressed pensioner subjected her frail husband to a fatal hammer attack when his demanding behaviour became too much for her to take, a court heard. Retired nurse Mary Milbank Swinburn, in bloodstained nightclothes and still carrying the hammer
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Single Spies, York Theatre Royal, September 19 to October 11
IS another production of Alan Bennett's Singles Spies necessary? After all, they have come not as single spies but as battalions over the past 20 years. Then again, look at the timing of York Theatre Royal's repertory production, coming as it does in
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Players looking for panto performers
Rowntree Players are holding pantomime auditions for Dick Whittington on Sunday, September 14 at Joseph Rowntree School, Haxby Road, York. Junior chorus auditions for nine year olds and upwards start at 2pm; auditions for character parts and senior chorus
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Gannock derby battle
AFTER just one week of the new season, the fixtures have already thrown up a mouth-watering North Yorkshire rugby union derby. Malton and Norton entertain Selby at The Gannock in Yorkshire One tomorrow in the first-ever league encounter between the clubs
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Tollerton are the tops
DIVISION Two champions Tollerton Outlaws took maximum points at Copmanthorpe where Tony Raper missed his ton by two runs as Tollerton scored 178-3. John Hughes held Copmanthorpe together with 69 but Pete Clark, Bill Chambers and Raper all took three wickets
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Dangerous liaisons
STEPHEN LEWIS talks to the man behind the Yorkshire Honey Trap. EVERYBODY flirts occasionally. It's a normal, healthy, harmless part of human social interaction that rarely goes beyond a shared joke and a moment of eye contact over a drink after work.
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Hoggard quickly makes his mark
MATTHEW Hoggard celebrated his call-up on England's forthcoming tours by grabbing an early wicket in Yorkshire's crucial Championship match against Second Division leaders Worcestershire at New Road today before batsmen took the upper hand. Opener Stephen
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Doctor hits out over delay for A64 flyover
A DOCTOR who has attended several accidents at the notorious Bilbrough Top claimed today that any further delay in taming the junction would be an insult to the victims. Dr Andrew Inglis, who lives in Bilbrough village, near the A64 accident blackspot
