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Snacks and adders
George Wilkinson gets a surprise during a picnic stop on the moors. Commondale is a village settled in almost the most northerly dip of the North York Moors. We wanted to explore Skelderskew Moor further to the north, so we angled out through a pretty
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Bygone errors
YORK City's footballers are aiming to avoid making two pieces of history this week. The lack of a victory during a crucial three matches in seven days against Cheltenham, Yeovil and championship-chasing Doncaster would make Chris Brass' boys likely candidates
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Tesco, Askham Bar, York
WHEN a venue is refurbished or is newly opened we like to give it time to settle down before making a visit. After months of inconvenience to both customers and staff, the Tesco caf has re-opened on a new upper floor. Accessed either by a moving ramp
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Happy Bank Holiday bikers made my day
MOTORBIKES have been in the news lately so it's nice when something good is said about them. I went to Stamford Bridge for my Sunday paper and had to get in line with a stream of cars that were heading to the coast. It took 20 minutes to get to the traffic
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Great skating report but what about Arts Centre?
IT was good to read about the opening of the new skate park at Selby's Abbey Leisure Centre (April 13) and even more gratifying that you chose to give the project some publicity. It is a shame, however, that equal publicity has not been given to another
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Reasons to worry
EVEN though I like all my grandchildren, the eldest being 20 and independent, I worry constantly about them. You have to these days. Is it any wonder when you get the likes of a bus driver who could refuse Gemma Kelly to be safely taken home after her
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Laugh at the BNP
RECENT letters have missed the point. If we are used to thinking of the Vikings and Normans as part of "us" - even though "they" invaded - how much more should we recognise that among "us" are those from Asia and the Caribbean, whom some others invited
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Irresistible orchid
GINA PARKINSON develops a taste for the exotic as she gets to grips with a moth orchid more used to the jungles of Malaysia. LAST month, I ventured into a new area of plant life and bought my first orchid. Beguiled by the sprays of waxy white flowers
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King Richard's Knights crusade
YORK City Knights have boosted their forward power by snapping up Richard Wilson from Hull Kingston Rovers. The 29-year-old front-rower signed just in time to be available for tomorrow's home clash against Hunslet Hawks at Huntington Stadium, and coach
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Smith's big lift for York
STAR winger Chris Smith is in the running for a York City Knights return against Hunslet on Sunday but must first overcome a late fitness test on his troublesome knee. The 28-year-old, who missed the second half of last season with knee ligament damage
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All Blacks clash over team name
NEW Earswick's amateur rugby league team are bracing themselves to tackle the mighty New Zealand - not on the pitch, but over their nickname of the All Blacks. The York club has been contacted by a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union's (NZRU) legal
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Chalk and please
STEPHEN LEWIS enjoys hidden valleys and chalk hills on a stretch of the Yorkshire Wolds Way. THEY may not be as spectacular as the Dales, or as bleak, brooding and atmospheric as the Moors: but the Yorkshire Wolds have a quiet peace and beauty all their
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What a caper!
This month York chef JAMES LOWE, owner of Villa Italia, tells us what comes under C and D in his alphabet of food and cooking. First up this month are capers. A lot of people seem to confuse capers with anchovies. Capers have nothing to do with seafood
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Together for tea
A GROUP of schoolfriends from York were reunited after more than 40 years apart - thanks to the Evening Press. Sue Kelly, who now lives in Australia, got in contact with her old friends Peter White and his sister, Jennifer Heckles, through our website
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Single mum's tax anger
YORK bus driver and mother-of-two Julie Acaster fears she may have to quit the job she loves after a catalogue of errors left her without vital tax credits. Single mum Julie, 27, of Saxon Vale, Shipton-by-Beningbrough, says she has reached the end of
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Vicar stands at gates to States
THE North Yorkshire vicar who wrote the hugely successful Shadowmancer novel has signed a multi-book deal with publishers in the United States. The Rev Graham Taylor, from Cloughton near Scarborough, has been snapped up by Penguin Young Readers Group
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Shops deluged by burst pipe
A BURST water main caused chaos in a busy York shopping street today, flooding a supermarket and leaving a caf knee-deep in water. Staff at Safeway, in Front Street, Acomb, turned up to work today to find the shop floor covered in water. The shop was
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Didn't they do well?
Green-fingered York charity fundraisers proved that wishes can come true when they raised nearly £4,000 for Macmillan Cancer Relief. Staff and customers alike pulled out all the stops at Deans Garden Centre, at Stockton-on-the-Forest, after voting to
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Judge fury over addict
A JUDGE has called for an inquiry into why a York heroin addict was repeatedly bailed and allowed to continue a mini-crime spree, in which he drove a car at a supermarket manager and punched another shop worker. Judge Paul Hoffman said he was "appalled
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Aussie pair to lift Tykes
YORKSHIRE have welcomed back an old Aussie friend in Darren Lehmann and also greeted a new one in versatile all-rounder Ian Harvey who has arrived at Headingley after five successful seasons with Gloucestershire. Slate grey skies and pouring rain meant
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Second arrest over death crash bus
A SECOND man has been arrested after a bus carrying clubbers into York crashed, leaving one man dead. The bus was travelling from the Ikon and Diva nightclub at about 1.50am yesterday morning when it crashed into the parapet of a railway bridge in Bootham
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Bully backing City's fight
LEE Bullock is backing York City to call on past experiences and pull clear of the Third Division drop zone. The 22-year-old midfielder, currently on loan at Cardiff City, was a member of the City squads that flirted with relegation from the Football
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All Blacks clash over team name
NEW Earswick's amateur rugby league team are bracing themselves to tackle the mighty New Zealand - not on the pitch, but over their nickname of the All Blacks. The York club has been contacted by a member of the New Zealand Rugby Union's (NZRU) legal
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Aussie pair to lift Tykes
YORKSHIRE have welcomed back an old Aussie friend in Darren Lehmann and also greeted a new one in versatile all-rounder Ian Harvey who has arrived at Headingley after five successful seasons with Gloucestershire. Slate grey skies and pouring rain meant
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Bully backing City's fight
LEE Bullock is backing York City to call on past experiences and pull clear of the Third Division drop zone. The 22-year-old midfielder, currently on loan at Cardiff City, was a member of the City squads that flirted with relegation from the Football
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Batt back in the honours
JIM Batt, an ever-present for Heworth, who this year won the East Riding Alliance team championship for the first time in the 43-year history of the competition, was the leading amateur in the 36-hole East Riding Alliance Championship at Pike Hills. The
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Home ace Richards - 17/04/04
AFTER a whole host of Classic trials this week, it's back to bread-and-butter fare tomorrow with Flat racing conspicuous by its absence, and the daily diet confined to three jumping fixtures. Nicky Richards is always a man to have on your side at his
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Give him a chance
I WOULD suggest that Terry Dolan is 'laughing his head off' at the state of the club. If he is so good a manager why has no one snapped him up since he left City? Will people stop pointing the finger at Chris Brass and give him a chance. Criticise by
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Calm needed
I AGREE with Sophie McGill that it's a time for unity and calm heads. All teams have dips in confidence. Chris Brass has had to contend with limited resources but he must make them believe again and play more as a team. Nick Fletcher, Langton Road, Norton
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Tables turned
IT is ironic that former York City players are now the ones scoring against us. Conference football is not going to attract decent gates - certainly not me and others. M Wollens, Gale Lane, Acomb. Updated: 11:32 Saturday, April 17, 2004
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Alex on a wing and up there
WING STAR Alex Godfrey has given coach Richard Agar credit for helping him storm to the top of the league's try-scoring table. The 25-year-old flier sprinted in for 13 tries in 11 games during the Arriva Trains Cup period of the season and those lucky
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By George, free beer!
DOING anything for St George's day? You are now. The Olde Starre Inne in Stonegate, York, is giving St George the recognition that has eluded him in the past by hosting a day-long celebration of saintly dragon-slaying antics. On George's big day - next
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Way we were
Saturday, April 17, 2004 100 years ago: The comments on young men not starting families sparked more correspondence, this time from "A Working Man's Wife". She agreed with the original letter, but didn't agree with columnist TT's comments that bad housekeeping
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More City fans in the spotlight
CITY supporters' big game, of course, is the Fans' Match at Bootham Crescent arranged for Sunday, May 9, and, continuing our look at the players who will be on show, this week we profile two more players in the home side's line-up. Richard Groves (shirt
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Fine wine at the deli
MIKE TIPPING discovers a treasure trove of Italian wine in the heart of historic York. Bruni Morellino Di Scansanso DOC 2002 £8.70 at La Bottega delle Langhe, High Petergate, York **** A wonderful NOT Chianti Sandwiched, or should that be paninied, between
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Haxby will suffer
IN their latest issue of Focus for Haxby and Wigginton, the Lib Dems give unequivocal support to the re-opening of Haxby Station by 2006. However, it is very likely that the latest plan could have a serious negative impact on the eastern approach to the
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Knights favourites to clip Hawks' wings
THE two favourites for the National League Two title go head to head at Huntington Stadium on Sunday with York City Knights looking to lay down an important early marker to the rest of the division. The Knights, the bookmakers' choice for the sole automatic
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Gearing up for new cycle path
A NEW cycle route linking south and west York is to be unveiled next week. Part of the lottery-funded National Cycle Network, the route will connect existing cycle ways between Acomb and Kingsway West and the university, via the Millennium Bridge. On
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We're part of the Union
IT LASTED less than 15 minutes, included a short blast of the National Anthem, and ended with a very English cup of tea. York's first citizenship ceremony left Daniel Smit and Violeta Cooper beaming with red, white and blue pride. Mr Smit, who hails from
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York's Mr Sport
SPORT all-rounder Dennis Woodcock has been rewarded for more than half a century of dedication to York sport with a Service to Sport award. The 71-year-old Huntington man has spent years coaching, playing, organising and fund-raising for a range of sports
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In good shape
AN international calling-card could well be posted by North Yorkshire women's ace Emma Duggleby next week. The Malton and Norton GC star this weekend opened her competitive calendar at the links course at Formby on the Merseyside coast where she was playing
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Ex-JP is cleared of sex charges
A RETIRED senior magistrate from North Yorkshire has been cleared of repeatedly sexually abusing a young girl more than 20 years ago. Barry Sampson, 74, a former chairman of the Tadcaster and Selby benches, was accused of forcing the girl to perform sex
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King Richard's Knights crusade
YORK City Knights have boosted their forward power by snapping up Richard Wilson from Hull Kingston Rovers. The 29-year-old front-rower signed just in time to be available for tomorrow's home clash against Hunslet Hawks at Huntington Stadium, and coach
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In good shape
AN international calling-card could well be posted by North Yorkshire women's ace Emma Duggleby next week. The Malton and Norton GC star this weekend opened her competitive calendar at the links course at Formby on the Merseyside coast where she was playing
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Winterburn's daunting task
IN a new monthly column, Forest Park golf professional Mark Winterburn teaches STEVE CARROLL a lesson. GOLF pros face a few challenges in their careers. Be it the ten-foot putt to win a regional championship, or the person who swings and misses after
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Kingfisher Seafood Brasserie and Public House, Oxmoor Lane, Biggin
Will Charlotte Percival and friends be hooked by a seafood restaurant near Selby? BIGGIN is hardly renowned for its seafood. Although I've lived in the Selby area for most of my life, I've never seen crowds of fisherman hauling nets of clams, mussels
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Show support
TIME and time again we read letters about Douglas Craig, York City directors past and present, player-managers, coaches etc, etc. All City need is the supporters to turn up and help keep them in Division Three. The people who say, "I'm not spending £50
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Disgraceful
I WAS amazed to read one of City's new directors is saying life in the Conference would not be the disaster fans fear. To diehard supporters it will be a catastrophe and a disgrace to the many past greats who wore the shirt with pride. The present team
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Calla dazzles in player of year poll
IT has been a happy Easter for Darren Callaghan where the Evening Press/Collier Plant Hire player of the year rankings are concerned. The 27-year-old utility star (pictured) picked up both man of the match awards over the Bank Holiday weekend, starting
