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Smith's pair set to score - 01/11/03
Sue Smith, who sent out two winners at Wetherby yesterday, has good prospects of achieving an encore at Carlisle tomorrow. The Bingley trainer, who works in tandem with her husband Harvey, the former top showjumper, has her horses in flying form, and
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Boozy time at Blue Bell
BEER festivals don't come much more perfectly formed than the one at the Blue Bell in York. The Fossgate boozer will be stopping the traffic as the inside-out jamboree takes to the streets for the third time next weekend. Fossgate itself will be closed
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Red record on the cards
JON Parkin's sending off at Scunthorpe last week means City have now been shown four red cards since the start of this season. It is a figure unprecedented in the club's history before the end of October and just one short of City's record for a season
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Bobby on beat
IT was another Bobby-dazzler that graced the York Union of Golf Clubs' Pike Hills Cup played at Aldwark Manor. Winners of the foursomes event, where each partner takes alternate shots, were Fulford GC's Bobby Elliott and Martin Pickles, whose 77 score
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Monks sent to Coventry
THREE "monks" are going on a pilgrimage from their East Yorkshire home to a West Midlands cathedral. But the trio are not flesh and blood monks. The 134-mile journey from Pocklington to Coventry is being completed by the clay creations of a local sculptor
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Drive for efficiency
Cash-strapped police officers face losing their motorcycles, driving smaller cars and paying for damage to force vehicles out of their own area budgets, as bosses strive to cut costs. Government inspectors have told senior North Yorkshire Police officers
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Visitors' slump hits Barbican
THE uncertainty over the future of York's Barbican Centre is hitting visitor numbers and the situation is "worsening", the Evening Press can reveal. Chiefs at the leisure and concert venue have admitted that membership numbers and fitness suite users
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A haunting we will go...
GHOULISH apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction. English Heritage is investigating reports from staff and visitors to Clifford's Tower about strange sightings, presences and ghostly footsteps last
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Knights target highly-rated NL1 duo
YORK City Knights are hoping to conclude deals for two more players early next week - if they can persuade them to step down to National League Two. Knights chief executive Steve Ferres has confirmed he has been in talks with a back-rower and a centre
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Last gig for Shed Seven
THE last gig by Shed Seven will be played in their home city of York. The band, who last week said they would split after their coming tour, will play York Barbican Centre on December 20. The announcement will spark a scramble for tickets among the Sheds
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Poll position
SEVEN candidates will be standing for the four positions up for election on the York City Supporters' Trust board. Club director Sophie McGill, Paul Rawnsley, Ian Hey and Peter Rookes are all hoping to be re-elected to the board but the Trust's Election
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Thousands sign to defy ban on hunts
ABOUT 3,000 hunt supporters from across North and East Yorkshire gathered in Ryedale to declare their intention to continue the pursuit - even if it is banned. The mass meet at Birdsall, near Malton, was one of 12 taking place throughout England and Wales
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No surrender
ABOUT 3,000 hunt supporters from across North and East Yorkshire were gathering in Ryedale today to declare their intention to continue the pursuit - even if it is banned. The mass meet at Birdsall, near Malton, was one of 12 taking place throughout England
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Our trial hell
THE family of Ethan Wharton said they had been to "hell and back" as he stood trial for the murder of Tony Grayson. But they said their sympathy lay with the York busker's grieving family, who now may never know who killed him. Wharton's mother, Yazmin
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Mason's Bistro Bar, 13 Fossgate, York.
STEPHEN LEWIS is impressed with a new Fossgate bistro. CALL me ignorant, but I'd never heard of rouille and aioli before. Neither, it seemed, had our waitress. She was very friendly and attentive, but when we asked her what these mysterious accompaniments
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Gervase's own country
STEPHEN LEWIS takes a trip through Gervase Phinn's pictorial journey around Yorkshire. EACH person's Yorkshire is different. That's because we all have our own unique memories of the places we love, which shape the way we see them. So Fred Trueman's Yorkshire
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Rat run fear
VILLAGERS fear an upsurge in rat-running along narrow country roads, once work starts on building the new A64 flyover at Bilbrough Top. Residents of Colton are calling for measures to ease the dangers caused by traffic passing at speed through their community
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Failing to get grip on reality
IN Europe unable to cut the mustard on the football pitch, Leeds United have proved themselves in a league of their own when it comes to finance. Their place, depending on how you look at it, at the top or bottom of the finance league, is due to management
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Crime stalks the city
IS your headline about the BNP's recruitment drive (October 28) a sign of our times? A chilling reminder perhaps that if the police, judges and so called do-gooders don't get their act together and tackle crime, then civil unrest stalks around the corner
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Mystery cats exposed
I CAN'T believe it. In response to the story about the Ryedale woman who spotted two big cats (October 30), I actually saw and photographed the two monsters pictured left recently! Maybe I should really send this picture to the Sun or the Mirror, but
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Instil discipline
IN response to your report about the furious Selby mother (October 27), if anyone takes a toy or replica firearm capable of discharging a missile that can chip a tooth, it follows that it could, and probably would, do serious harm to someone's sight.
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Home initiatives
LET'S get the record straight about Labour's position on the "living above the shop" initiative referred to by Coun Sunderland (Letters, October 24). During the time of the Labour council work was undertaken to encourage private owners and landlords of
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Rock on...
GEORGE WILKINSON samples the delights of Brimham Rocks. Brimham Rocks have been a popular source of amazement since the railways came to Nidderdale in Victorian times. We arrived, chatted to Steve Pilkington, the National Trust's car park attendant, and
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Going Dutch
On a trip to Rotterdam CATHERINE BRUCE discovers there is more to Holland than tulips and Amsterdam. Forget the traditional images of Holland - windmills, tulips and little Dutch girls in milk-maid hats and clogs. Holland's second largest city, Rotterdam
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Wetherby Whaler, York Business Park, Nether Poppleton, York
RETURNING to York from a short break, the thought of preparing a meal was too much. And as we were passing the Whaler, why not call in? Fish and chips twice within a month is something of a record for us, so what would we find this time? Since our last
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Time for a tidy up
The summer's gone and the winter's coming. Now's the time to prepare your garden for the tough times ahead, writes GINA PARKINSON. NOVEMBER is a good time to tidy up the garden for winter as well as plant hardy perennials and hardy deciduous shrubs, climbers
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Poll position
SEVEN candidates will be standing for the four positions up for election on the York City Supporters' Trust board. Club director Sophie McGill, Paul Rawnsley, Ian Hey and Peter Rookes are all hoping to be re-elected to the board but the Trust's Election
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Look north
MATTHEW WOODCOCK enjoyed a packed day trip to the Scottish capital. ADVICE to anyone planning a day trip to Edinburgh from York: bag a window seat on the train. The two-and-a-half-hour journey is a joy in itself, with spectacular views of Durham Cathedral
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The real magic
NEXT weekend brings the first round proper of the FA Cup and surely that stage of the competition and the third round in January now represent the most important dates in the famous trophy's calendar. They will certainly capture the imagination more than
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Ricky in charge
ONE-TIME York City defensive rock Ricky Sbragia was thrust into the glare of extra-terrestrial television this week. The two-match touchline ban imposed on Sir Alex Ferguson consigned the Manchester United boss to a seat in the stands at Elland Road for
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City's tribute to Robert Mills
THIS column was particularly distressed to hear of the death this week of esteemed sports reporter Robert Mills and it is fitting that the club paid tribute to a man whose sporting affections lay with Yorkshire and York in particular. Former Evening Press
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Forest fervour
SOMETHING is stirring down at the Forest of Galtres Golf Club, where the women's game is undergoing a major upswing. In the last two or three years the strength of the club's ladies' section has more than doubled and only recently membership topped the
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Mum's anger over measles warning
THE York mother of an autistic girl has reacted angrily to warnings of a measles epidemic due to declining uptake of the controversial MMR vaccine, calling it "political rubbish". The warning was made in a letter to The Lancet journal by Simon Murch -
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Rat run fear
VILLAGERS fear an upsurge in rat-running along narrow country roads, once work starts on building the new A64 flyover at Bilbrough Top. Residents of Colton are calling for measures to ease the dangers caused by traffic passing at speed through their community
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Bruise brothers
BLOOD ties are forging an ace alliance that promises to bring more boxing glory to York George Robshaw, cousin of one-time emperor of clout Henry Wharton, has moved up the British rankings less than a year after linking up with his more illustrious relative
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Gang man Davis eyes up champ
TOP players are ganging up to knock snooker's star man Mark Williams off his perch when he comes to York later this month to defend the UK title. Williams, winner of the last four televised tournaments, has been constantly reminding his main rivals how
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Blaine culture
DRINKERS in York were treated to some Hallowe'en magic with their very own magician in a box. Inspired by oddball American David Blaine, who spent 44 days in a box above the Thames, the deputy manager of York's Pitcher & Piano decided to spend his
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Champ twists again to title
WIGGINGTON'S Sam Matthew-man is feeling on top of the world after driving his rivals round the bend to become the 2003 Auto66 National Hill Climb and Twisty Sprint champion. Matthewman, 32, triumphed against more than 200 contenders for the title by winning
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War dead honoured
A MOVING ceremony saw Britain's war dead remembered in York. The annual ceremony at the South Africa War Memorial, Duncombe Place, is held to dedicate the Memorial Garden and start the poppy appeal. It also raises the curtain on tomorrow's Festival of
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Bag thief preyed on female drivers
A HEROIN addict who preyed on lone female motorists by jumping in their cars and snatching handbags was jailed for three years. A judge told Jason Coleman his crimes in York city centre were "little short of robbery" and plunged vulnerable women drivers
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Knights target highly-rated NL1 duo
YORK City Knights are hoping to conclude deals for two more players early next week - if they can persuade them to step down to National League Two. Knights chief executive Steve Ferres has confirmed he has been in talks with a back-rower and a centre
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Unfair at the bottom
It is a great pity that the lower divisions of football do not have the same TV coverage as the Premier Division where cameras seem to record every incident from every angle. These are sometimes used by managers to reduce or cancel any punishment given
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Residents pay again
SURPRISE, surprise, the tourist-orientated council wants more money so York residents have got to cough up again with an increase in council tax. But, what does the council do for residents? Our city is still without a bus dropping-off zone. An ideal
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Disgusting treatment
I WAS saddened by the news that the Lord Mayor, Councillor Charles Hall, has refused to back the Rod Hills Memorial Fund because of recent allegations made by a former prostitute (October 22). Maybe there would not be doubt in his mind if these allegations
