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Bully deal in balance
CARDIFF City boss Lennie Lawrence was keeping his cards close to his chest last night after Lee Bullock's three-day trial at Ninian Park. Lawrence admitted that he was impressed by the City midfielder but appears undecided whether he would like to pursue
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Messages from the top
YORK City chairman Steve Beck and director Jason McGill will address supporters at Bootham Row before tomorrow's celebration march to the Mansfield match. Beck and McGill, the man mainly responsible for the delivery of Project Gold to secure a long-term
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Fans' walk of pride
YORK City boss Chris Brass has admitted that he would have loved to have joined the club's supporters on their celebratory march to Bootham Crescent on Saturday. March organisers are hoping thousands of Minstermen fans will walk to the home match against
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Lev's revved up
YORK City boss Chris Brass is ready to give Lev Yalcin his first start of his senior career against Mansfield Town tomorrow. Brass has deliberately restricted Yalcin's appearances to late substitute outings since his return from 18 months of injury problems
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Royal Mail meeting businessmen
ROYAL MAIL officials were today squaring up to business leaders in York over the issue of late postal deliveries. The gathering, including many organisations representing hundreds of firms, such as the 750-member York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce
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Skills gap alert
MORE than a fifth of all jobs vacancies in York and North Yorkshire remain unfilled because of a lack of skilled applicants. The shocking skills gap in 21.3 per cent of vacancies is revealed today as a result of the biggest employer survey in the region
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York food shop hails national recognition
Henshelwoods Delicatessen in Newgate, York, has scooped the coveted runner-up award for Best Independent Food Retailer in the shopping category of The Observer Food Monthly Awards. The prestigious win, which singled out Henshelwoods from independent retailers
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MPs may gang up over cocklers
EXACTLY one week ago today, MPs debated a Bill which could have finally ended the fox hunting row. It died an anonymous death, "talked out" by the handful of members who took the time to attend. The Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) Bill wasn't a
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Black Swan Folk Club's new season
IT is no fluke that Flook will lead off the Black Swan Folk Club's season of concerts at the National Centre of Early Music, York. "Two years ago Flook delighted a full house at the NCEM, just as they have done at countless other festivals and concert
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Screaming Blue Murder, Grand Opera House, York, February 16 to 19
JOHN Godber's first thriller got murdered by the critics on its autumn debut. Such is the gamble when caught between a rock and hard place. The Hull Truck playwright answered demands to do something new by doing exactly that with Screaming Blue Murder
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York aim to drag rivals into scrap
REVIVED York RUFC head north into make-or-break territory in the battle to avoid the drop from North Two East. Buoyed by a brace of wins, albeit the latter being a club friendly over Goole, the Clifton Parkers resume league action tomorrow with a game
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Ain't Misbehavin', Harrogate Theatre, until March 6
THE power of positive thinking is taking Hannah Chissick a long way in her first year as Harrogate Theatre's youngest ever artistic director. Tonight, she opens her most ambitious show so far: Ain't Misbehavin, a musical celebration of Fats Waller to
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The word on the street sounds good...
A NETWORK of talking signs aimed at helping blind and partially-sighted people find their way around York will go online this weekend. The Lord Mayor of York, Councillor Charles Hall, will switch on the system of 17 signs, which are activated by a special
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Paradise lost
A NORTH Yorkshire couple claim their experiences abroad have brought new meaning to the term "holiday from hell". Sue and Tony Hall, who run the Black Bull pub at Escrick, near York, say they were driven to the brink by a startling series of mishaps that
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Hunt on after man flees
POLICE have released a picture of a psychiatric patient who escaped from a medium-security hospital near York. Officers are warning the public not to approach Gabrielle Moses, 30, an Afro-Caribbean man who fled over a security fence at Stockton Hall Hospital
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Messages from the top
YORK City chairman Steve Beck and director Jason McGill will address supporters at Bootham Row before tomorrow's celebration march to the Mansfield match. Beck and McGill, the man mainly responsible for the delivery of Project Gold to secure a long-term
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Fans' walk of pride
YORK City boss Chris Brass has admitted that he would have loved to have joined the club's supporters on their celebratory march to Bootham Crescent on Saturday. March organisers are hoping thousands of Minstermen fans will walk to the home match against
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Lev's revved up
YORK City boss Chris Brass is ready to give Lev Yalcin his first start of his senior career against Mansfield Town tomorrow. Brass has deliberately restricted Yalcin's appearances to late substitute outings since his return from 18 months of injury problems
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Drunk knocked out my teeth
A NURSE was subjected to a terrifying assault as she treated a patient at a York health centre. Jackie Jeffery, 38, was pushed against a wall by drunken Noel James Corr at the York NHS Walk-In Centre in Monkgate. Corr subjected the nurse to a barrage
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Holders 'Trees chopped down
Challenge Trophy holders Nestl Rowntree have been bundled out of the competition by visiting second division leaders Blacksmiths Arms in one of the shocks of the season. Steve Haddon gave the underdogs a dream start in the first minute and they then took
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Wood's good for leaders Severus
Severus SC increased the gap at the top of division one of the York John Smith's Sunday League to five points with a hard earned 1-0 win over Acomb WMC courtesy of the boot of Woodward. Pocklington drove another nail into beleaguered New Earswick's hopes
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Town plan for wide open space
Harrogate Town are looking to bounce back from their first defeat since November with a win at lowly Frickley Athletic. Third-placed Town are still pushing for the UniBond League title and with it a place in Nationwide Conference One, but they have to
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Join the party
TOMORROW York City enter a new era. The game against Mansfield is the first to be played at Bootham Crescent since the club's future at the ground was secured. It is all set to be a football carnival, with a celebration march, free chocolate and an on-pitch
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Korea options
KIA is not what you would call a major car producer for the European market- not yet, that is. Give the Korean manufacturer a couple of years and it expects to see its present coverage of 35 per cent of European market to shoot up to 85 per cent. In fact
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Della's phone folly
NOW I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! has finished, I'm watching She's A Chief Constable... Get Her Out Of Here! Ever since Della Cannings arrived she has continued to make the North Yorkshire Police force a laughing stock. Many people are now saying
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Axing the tree in the Eye Of York would make the place look desolate
JR STONE says the tree in the middle of the Eye Of York should be cut down (February 5). What a dreadful idea! In fact, its almost as nonsensical as the city's council's decision not to look into, let alone carry through, the proposal to create a park
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Factor this
Alex Lloyd finds some funky tunes to relax to. IF life is getting you down and you want to make the weekend come along that bit quicker, a Thursday night trip to Judges Bar should do the trick. What you will find there is Factor, a night of funky tunes
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Fly with care
MR Ward is entitled to his opinion about aircraft noise over Tollerton, (February 4). We, too, have been in a position to compare aircraft noise associated with RAF Linton-on-Ouse having lived on the edge of the airfield since its construction in 1938
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Tom to capitalise on weight boost - 13/02/04
Tom Paddington can take advantage of the massive weight concession he receives from reigning champion Rooster Booster in tomorrow's £125,000 Tote Gold Trophy Hurdle, the highlight of a top-class card at Newbury. The mount of Timmy Murphy, Tom Paddington
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Ragging along
Robbie Dale introduces the high spirits of RAG Week at the university. WHEN the average person is asked to think about students, they usually have a couple of views. The first is of the lazy individual wallowing in the stains of day-old curry and lamenting
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Curle gives Stags the runaround
MANSFIELD Town boss Keith Curle is set to ring the changes for tomorrow's Third Division clash at Bootham Crescent after his side crashed 3-0 at Rochdale in their last outing, writes Dave Flett. Colin Larkin, Wayne Corden, Luke Dimech and Junior Mendes
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Abbott joins Terriers
YORK-BORN striker Pawel Abbott has joined the Minstermen's Third Division rivals Huddersfield Town on a month's loan from Preston. Abbott, 22, started his career at Huddersfield before signing for the Deepdale club in a £125,000 deal. His first-team opportunities
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City face second bonuses case
YORK City bosses were today facing another expensive employment tribunal, as it emerged that former coach Adie Shaw had joined ex-boss Terry Dolan in fighting a bonus wrangle. Mr Shaw is seeking to be paid the same incentives that saw Mr Dolan awarded
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The Haunted Mansion (PG)
Nathaniel Parker burst into hysterics the first time he saw Eddie Murphy on the set of The Haunted Mansion. The English actor just couldn't help himself, reports Charles Hutchinson. NATHANIEL Parker has made his first Hollywood film for seven years, and
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Dogville, Running time: 178 mins Certificate: 15
LARS Von Trier is the Danish director who believes in simplifying cinema, filming with hand-held cameras, going for the grain of documentary truth. Truth was, the Dogme movement he co-founded was no more real or fake than any cinematic conceit. He just
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Tourism awards appeal
DEDICATED workers are being sought for this year's tourism Oscars in York. Nominations are needed for the city's Awards For Excellence, which reward staff's effort and hard work within the tourism industry. The winners will receive their awards at a glitzy
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Jethro Tull, York Barbican Centre, February 18
A folk rock institution or 'folk prog oddities'? However you label Jethro Tull, they are true survivors. Ian Anderson talks to Charles Hutchinson about keeping going after 36 years. IAN Anderson's radio can be heard in the background, tuned to Classic
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Battle of the Bands
BLIND Spot have hit the spot in Round One Heat Two of the Fibbers/Evening Press Battle of the Bands 2004, securing victory over second-placed Eyesore on Tuesday in York. Side A and Losing Streak took part too. Next week, Heat Three sends This Way Up into
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Fieldwork, Black Swan Folk Club, February 19
FIELDWORK, the Nottingham acoustic roots band, return to York on Thursday after a hiatus of more than a decade to play the Black Swan Folk Club. The new-look Fieldwork have been playing gigs around the East Midlands and beyond - even Brittany - since
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Jazz notes
THE latest to join the growing number of young jazz singers is Gwyneth Herbert, with partner Will Rutter on guitar. As Gwyn and Will they have a new album, First Songs, produced by Ian Shaw and featuring special guests Jamie Cullum and Guy Barker and
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Diana Ross, Sheffield Hallam FM Arena, March 16
DIANA Ross is to play her first British tour dates for seven years next month. In the news this week after being sentenced to two days' imprisonment for a drink-driving offence in Tucson, Arizona, the former Supremes singer will be back on the road in
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Pilot Theatre Company's Bloodtide, York Theatre Royal until February 21
PILOT Theatre Company likes to break boundaries with its educational theatre. Author Melvin Burgess takes his sword of a pen to the heart of teenage morals. Perhaps it was inevitable their paths would collide one day, and that day has arrived with Pilot's
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Northern Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake, Leeds Grand Theatre, February 14-21
NORTHERN Ballet Theatre launches the world premiere of David Dixon's adaptation of Swan Lake at Leeds Grand Theatre. Artistic director Dixon sets his new version in New England at the start of the 20th century. In this time of long, lazy summers and old
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Investing in Bull market
YORK City Knights have boosted their pack power by bringing a young Bull to Huntington Stadium. The Knights have been on the trail of Bradford Academy star Tom Andrews for some time and finally got their man yesterday as he put pen to paper on a two-year
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Bayley urges control as grand bill looms
YORK'S Labour MP Hugh Bayley has weighed in to the debate over the city's council tax rise by warning "costs are running out of control". Mr Bayley spoke out after senior members of the Liberal Democrat-controlled City of York Council proposed a 9.33
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MP's praise for city homes plan
THE controversial proposals for a new homes development at Derwenthorpe in York have been praised by MP Hugh Bayley as an imaginative attempt to meet local housing demand. He said he also understood and sympathised with local people concerned about traffic
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Barbican traffic chaos 'looming'
RESIDENTS fear traffic chaos is looming around York's Barbican Centre on concert nights, if it is redeveloped according to current plans. The number of parking spaces available in the vicinity of the centre is set to be reduced from more than 500 to 270
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BNP accused of hijacking York meeting
LEADERS of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) claim their public meeting in York was hijacked by members of the far-right British National Party (BNP). UKIP leader Roger Knapman says he was duped into being photographed shaking hands with a man he fears
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Leeds boost for Kilgallon
YORK-BORN Matthew Kilgallon has been assured he has a bright future at Leeds United despite being left out of the last two matches. The defender, nicknamed 'Killer' by his Leeds team-mates, is highly rated by caretaker-manager Eddie Gray who included
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City face second bonuses case
YORK City bosses were today facing another expensive employment tribunal, as it emerged that former coach Adie Shaw had joined ex-boss Terry Dolan in fighting a bonus wrangle. Mr Shaw is seeking to be paid the same incentives that saw Mr Dolan awarded
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Arrest drama at York station
POLICE rescued a terrified woman from the clutches of a kidnapper in a dramatic late night swoop on York Station. Astonished passengers watched as officers pounced on a train they had halted at the station last night, and arrested a man holding a woman
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Investing in Bull market
YORK City Knights have boosted their pack power by bringing a young Bull to Huntington Stadium. The Knights have been on the trail of Bradford Academy star Tom Andrews for some time and finally got their man yesterday as he put pen to paper on a two-year
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Police free kidnap woman at station
POLICE rescued a terrified woman from the clutches of a kidnapper in a dramatic late night swoop on York Station. Astonished passengers watched as officers pounced on a train they had halted at the station last night, and arrested a man holding a woman
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Rotting school buildings to be replaced
A LONG-running campaign to replace 30-year-old dilapidated classrooms with a £4.9 million development at one of York's biggest schools has finally succeeded. Huntington School has secured £2.6 million in Government funding to replace rotting classrooms
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Refuge from the storm of abuse
The Women's Aid refuge provides a lifeline for families fleeing domestic abuse. MAXINE GORDON reports on plans for a new refuge which will help even more women and children. REGULAR beatings, mental torture and near starvation were part of everyday life
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Cottage industry
YEARSLEY were not just blown hard by the wind but found York and District Sunday Afternoon League division two leaders Cottage Inn in storming form. Cottage Inn, playing away, won 15-3 to stay top of the division by four points. Second-placed Forest FC
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Double pressure point
THE high-flying Robins are looking to extend their lead at the top of the Northern Counties East League premier division in two crucial ties over the next few days. Selby Town face Eastwood at home tomorrow and need to avoid complacency to maintain their
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Protect our nurses
NURSES are the bedrock of our health service. Without their commitment and skill the NHS would collapse. People such as York nurse Jackie Jeffrey train hard to work long, anti-social hours. They are motivated not by money, but by the chance to help others
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Verso versus Colt
TWO family cars to watch for in coming months are the Toyota Corolla Verso, a compact multi purpose vehicle, and the Mitsubishi Colt. First up is the larger of the two, the seven-seater Verso, out in May, which makes its public debut at the Geneva Motor
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Clogged with cars
ANY motorist who does not see the many warning signs for Stonebow's rising bollard should not be driving, where it fails is that cars just go down St Saviourgate then into Coppergate. I have lost count of how many cars do this while I am at the taxi rank
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Vote-catching ploy?
WHEN nationalised business such as the railways were sold off to private companies people were told, "competition equals more choice, better services and lower prices". It would appear not ('Cheap rail fares rapped', February 5). Are these words only
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Let there be light
IN the Business Press, Sir Graham Hall states York must become a 24-hour city to stop the decline in tourist numbers. I agree that lighting up is a priority, the bridge arches are crying out for floodlighting. When I was much younger the city's bridges
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Berwick is going to be in an ugly mood
DAME Berwick Kaler will go back to the very start for his 26th Theatre Royal pantomime. Fresh from Mother Goose's Silver Jubilee drawing a record attendance of 51,261, Berwick has announced that Cinderella will be his next pantomime, just as it was when
