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Bully to be offered new deal
FIRST Division transfer target Lee Bullock will be offered a new contract at York City. Bullock has attracted recent interest from Cardiff City but player-boss Chris Brass is still hoping to persuade the 22-year-old midfielder to stay at Bootham Crescent
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Taxing postal times remain
A whole new area of greater York is now getting one post per day instead of two - and business protestors want to monitor times of mail delivery. The delivery system which triggered outrage from the business community in the centre of the city, including
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Under The Whaleback, Hull Truck Theatre Company, Hull Truck Theatre, Hull, until March 20
WELL known Beans? There have been Baked Beans and Mr Bean, but Richard Bean is not a household name even in his home city of Hull. All that could change with Hull Truck's regional premiere of Under The Whaleback, his play set among the nets and trawlers
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Credit in Plate defeat
York Acorn Ladies put in a creditable performance in their Challenge Plate semi-final against Castleford, and the 34-0 reverse did not reflect their efforts. Sasha Hilton, Yvette Shephard, Bev Langan, Helen Stead and player of the match Toyah Palmer took
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Smith to see specialist
CROCKED York City Knights flier Chris Smith was today lining up a meeting with the specialist to confirm details of his latest knee injury. Smith was optimistic of returning to action within a fortnight, dispelling fears he had suffered yet more severe
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Hospital to get new cancer suite
A CANCER haven at York Hospital is celebrating its fifth birthday - with news that a new chemotherapy suite will open next year. York Hospital's Cancer Care Centre first opened its doors in February 1998, after a fundraising appeal by the Evening Press
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Tribute to car rally victim
HUNDREDS of mourners attending the funeral of Ryedale mother who died in a rally car accident were told that she had a love for them that could "never die". It was standing room only at the moving ceremony in East Riding Crematorium, Octon, to celebrate
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MP urges compromise to keep Odeon open
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today called on planners to come to a compromise with the owners of York Odeon in order to secure its long-term future. Mr Bayley spoke out after meeting the chain's regional manager, Ian McDonald, together with Coun Keith Orrell,
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First defeat as leaders outshone by Cygnet
CYGNET 'A' inflicted the first defeat of the season on York John Smith's Ladies Darts League division one leaders Cueball 'B'. Despite a superior tons tally of 11-2 the snooker club were humbled by Wendy and Angela Smith. Cueball 'C' were snookered by
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Unfilled seats could close schools
MORE than 30 schools in North Yorkshire and 12 in York could be axed for having too many spare places, it emerged today. The Government is urging education bosses to consider closing or merging schools which have more than a quarter of classroom seats
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Title and top total for Acomb
ACOMB clinched a third successive championship in the Hunters York Senior Indoor Cricket League in fine style when they created a new record for the highest total without losing a wicket. They made 172-0 against Dringhouses, who succumbed by 96 runs.
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Agar's tough challenge
YORK City Knights coach Richard Agar believes his team face a tough test after being drawn at his former club Featherstone Rovers in the last 16 of the Challenge Cup. But Agar also believes that progress to the quarter-finals is not beyond the Knights
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Unfilled seats could close schools
MORE than 30 schools in North Yorkshire and 12 in York could be axed for having too many spare places, it emerged today. The Government is urging education bosses to consider closing or merging schools which have more than a quarter of classroom seats
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Oxford blues
YORK City are set to travel to home specialists Oxford United without key trio Richard Hope, Darren Edmondson and Darren Dunning. Hope has joined Edmondson on the injured listwhile Dunning will start a two-match suspension at the Kassam Stadium tomorrow
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Stabbed in the street
SHOCKED onlookers watched in horror as a man was stabbed in the face after fighting broke out in a York street. The victim, believed to be in his early 20s, was caught up in a scuffle with a group of men in Goodramgate, when he suddenly collapsed in the
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Let's not flog it off
IS this the council's scheme to "save" the Barbican: a 2am liquor licence to go with the casino and fast-food outlets, all on the same site as the "lucky" families in the social housing. What do Absolute Leisure want with a 2am alcohol licence? I bet
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Gun owners being penalised by Home Office
SATURDAY'S Evening Press draws attention to the ban on low-powered air guns that use the self-contained gas cartridges (Gun law targets owners, February 28). A number of these were purpose-made from zinc alloy and some were firearms converted to fire
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Stop ranting, Ben
HOW much longer do we have to put up with the biased one-sided immature Marxist rantings of Ben Drake (Letters, February 28)? People are sick and tired of this self-appointed left-wing moral guardian and his band of rag-tag followers. Voting is a matter
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They're all as bad
THE political views of TJ Ryder, Jeremy D Fox and GA Ware (Letters February 27) describe the achievements of this and the previous government very well indeed. There is not an iota of difference between them; both are devious, corrupt and unprincipled
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Looking for Lydia
I AM interested in finding out about my husband's ancestors from York. His grandmother was born in 1893, Lydia Ann Gill, and his grandfather was born in 1883, Alfred Ernest Ward. We are wondering if there are any relatives living there still who could
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MP urges compromise to keep Odeon open
YORK MP Hugh Bayley today called on planners to come to a compromise with the owners of York Odeon in order to secure its long-term future. Mr Bayley spoke out after meeting the chain's regional manager, Ian McDonald, together with Coun Keith Orrell,
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Cheats who don't pay
CHEATS, swindlers, dodgers. Call them what you like, motorists who drive without road tax are taking a free ride at the expense of the law-abiding. The DVLA estimates that 28,000 people in North Yorkshire are evading vehicle excise duty. That is an astonishing
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Fixing the roof
EVERY new cub makes a solemn vow: "I promise to do my best." It may be years since the directors of Rawcliffe firm Roofs Above left the scouts, but they are still doing their best for the next generation. The Wheldrake cub scout pack has been under siege
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Wetherby hopes looking brighter - 02/03/04
HOPES are high that improving weather will ease the icy conditions enough for tomorrow's Wetherby race meeting to go ahead. Tim Betteridge, Wetherby Racecourse chief executive, said that the signs were good. Warmer weather yesterday took Sunday night's
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Counting on a day that adds up nicely
YOU don't get many days like today. It is March 2, 2004, or 2/3/4. The last time we had a date like a drummer counting into a rock song was a thousand years ago. So it must be special. Isn't it? York psychic and expert in all things mystical James Christie
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Oxford blues
YORK City are set to travel to home specialists Oxford United without key trio Richard Hope, Darren Edmondson and Darren Dunning. Hope has joined Edmondson on the injured listwhile Dunning will start a two-match suspension at the Kassam Stadium tomorrow
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Ploughing a path to double success
TWO leading Yorkshire farm businesses have made it through to the national final of the National Farmers' Union Farming Excellence Awards 2004. Judy Bell, of Shepherd's Purse Cheeses, in Thirsk, and Guy Poskitt, who grows, packs and sells carrots at his
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New hospital starts to take shape
HOORAY and up she rises - a £20.5 million project for a new hospital in York takes shape. Work is rapidly progressing on the building of a new Nuffield Hospital on the site of the former Nestl Rowntree canteen in Haxby Road. The site team from York-based
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Agar's tough challenge
YORK City Knights coach Richard Agar believes his team face a tough test after being drawn at his former club Featherstone Rovers in the last 16 of the Challenge Cup. But Agar also believes that progress to the quarter-finals is not beyond the Knights
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I'm shooting my mouth off again
BEFORE I get beaten to death with rolled up copies of the Evening Press, I want to make a last stand. It's not a topic for the squeamish. It is a topic that has people apoplectic with rage either for or against. And after a most frightful row with colleagues
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Council focus on parking system changes
HUNDREDS of letters of objection to controversial new parking restrictions for York city centre was being considered today by elected leaders. Proposals to rake in hundreds of thousands of pounds in extra cash have been met with a chorus of disapproval
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Lecturers refusing to mark work
YORK lecturers today refused to mark students' work indefinitely as industrial action over pay and modernisation proposals escalated. The move by the Association of University Teachers (AUT) follows two days of strike action by members at the University
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Warning over rink demands
CUSTOMERS have been warned not to pay incorrect and "heavy-handed" demands from liquidators representing the firm who launched a York ice skating rink. Promoter Mark Brayshaw said some people who had already paid for rink time at the Eye of York or used
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York again forget shooting sticks
CITY of York I came a cropper at Wigan, who gained revenge for a defeat earlier in the Northern Hockey League premier division. York began well and looked capable of causing Wigan all kinds of problems but again failed to find their scoring touch up front
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Lecturers refusing to mark work
YORK lecturers today refused to mark students' work indefinitely as industrial action over pay and modernisation proposals escalated. The move by the Association of University Teachers (AUT) follows two days of strike action by members at the University
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Third-highest rise in tax facing York
TAXPAYERS in York face one of the biggest overall council tax increases in the country, according to latest figures. The final bill, including demands by fire and police, will be £1,078.48 for an average home - up £90.16. The 9.1 per cent hike is the
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Jobless Susan gets hate mail over 'laziest woman' tag
UNEMPLOYED Susan Moore, who was branded "Britain's laziest woman" by a national newspaper after admitting she had never had a job, has received a volley of hate mail. Susan Moore, of Burythorpe, near Malton, was put in the national media spotlight after
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How a big tip went back to nature
STEPHEN LEWIS welcomes the creation of York's third local nature reserve, an area which has been transformed from a former brickworks turned tip. THIN winter sunlight filters through the branches of young ash, alder and hawthorn trees. A carpet of green
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Is Fergie's arrogance his ignorance?
ARSENE Wenger might be keeping tight-lipped about the possibility after he ended up with enough egg on his face last season to please the most sadistic custard pie thrower - but the prospect of Arsenal becoming the first club to finish a Premiership season
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BBC is a bargain
COLIN Clarke cannot seriously compare public service broadcasting in Australia with that in Britain (Letters February 27). In my opinion the BBC provides the best public service broadcasting in the world. For a licence fee of less than £2.25 per week
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How to survive
REGARDING survival, we refer Evening Press 'gamekeeper' Bill Hearld (February 24) to the excellent and very grown-up Ray Mears of BBC2 fame. Mind you, a Mr Sainsbury from our corner shop made this year's pancakes. John & Margaret Lawson, Aldborough
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Race for life just won't be same in the evening
WITH regard to the article 'Race for life runners under starter's orders', (February 23), why are we now having an evening event on Wednesday July 14? It would have been my fifth race after having breast cancer. My family and friends and colleagues from
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Superstar status
HAVING seen Jesus Christ Superstar many times before, and all by professional companies, I went to see the York Light Opera Company present this demanding rock musical at York Theatre Royal. It was with some trepidation that we went. What sort of a production
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Disgraceful figures
I NEARLY choked on my tea when I read that council tax for Hambleton District is to rise by 9.75 per cent (February 26). A little later I nearly brought it back up when I read elsewhere that figures obtained by Conservative MPs in Parliament stated that
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Swapping roles on the gender agenda
IT made interesting reading, the story of a man who had a sex swap and then changed back again. Before he became a woman, he believes he - unknowingly - took his wife for granted. "Women need constant reassurance. Women need to communicate. I'd go home
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Pots going on
To mark the start of International Women's Week on Saturday, JO HAYWOOD previews the events taking place in York. STARTING a new business can drive you potty. But when your business is pots, you have to be prepared to live your life in a bit of a glaze
