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Choc visitor centre would keep York link
TOURISM bosses have welcomed suggestions that a chocolate visitor centre should be opened at Terry's if the factory closes down. Evening Press reader Elaine Morgan contacted the paper to say a Cadbury World-style centre on part of the site would be a
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Readers' letters - Kraft is disloyal
DESPITE living on the South Coast I am shocked to read Terry's chocolate firm is dumping York and its workforce and skipping out to Poland or thereabouts. How disloyal can a company get? I am all for British goods and local produce and have always bought
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I sealed litter bins
I WAS amused by the plight of Kevin Horner in his fruitless search for an unsealed litter bin in which to deposit his tasteless chewing gum (Letters, April 24). To enlighten Mr Horner, and no doubt countless others, I was the person responsible for getting
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Is it worth voting?
THE European elections are almost here. Many former Labour supporters will be wondering whether it is worth turning out to vote because they feel betrayed by Labour over the war in Iraq, public sector pay and the erosion of civil liberties - to name only
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Ganging up on Tony
THREE cheers for the former diplomats who have at last said what so many of the British public have been saying and thinking ever since the alliance with Bush was formed: that Blair is wrong to tamely follow President Bush's lead on Iraq. Will Tony Blair
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Heartfelt praise
AS I begin to see my 14-year-old daughter slowly returning to health after many months of illness and anxiety, I thank the team of health care workers at York Hospital - doctors, nurses, health care assistants, radiographers, to name a few - who have
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Dangerous advert
I AM alarmed that a well known brand of tea is being advertised on television in such an irresponsible manner which could, if copied by a small child, cause serious injury or even death to a baby. I refer to the pouring of water (or, inadvertently, any
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Shuttle service best
IN response to F T Smith's letter "Haxby will suffer" (April 17). I was under the impression that a shuttle train serving Strensall, Haxby and York Station would be good for our village which is already having difficulty coping with traffic at peak times
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On board the broadband wagon
A HUGE spurt in the broadband programme for North Yorkshire was announced today by BT, which plans to offer the high-speed internet facility to virtually every business and householder in the county by summer 2005. It means that the old broadband registration
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Store adds some spice to the city
A NEW shop designed to spice up the retail market in York has opened in Goodramgate. Rafi's Spice Box, which for 15 years has supplied the community in Sudbury, Suffolk with authentic Indian produce, will now also supply York with the likes of curry leaves
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Knights' speed can down Eagles pack
Size does matter according to York City Knights second rower Damian Ball in the run up to the return to National League 2 duty against Sheffield Eagles. Sheffield are renowned for packing a few extra pounds in the scrum and it could create problems for
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Young Pikes pass the test
Pickering Town reserve team coach Richard Rose was praised last night for his work with the under-19s after eight players aged under 20 finished a valiant 0-0 draw in the Pikes' Northern Counties East League premier division match at Buxton. Five key
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The Art Of Deception, Ridley Pearson (Orion, £6.99)
PEARSON has more than six million copies in print, apparently. Well, this American crime writer is new to me, but a welcome discovery. Forensic psychologist Daphne Matthews is drawn into a dark, bloody and dangerous place after she is called to the scene
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The Third Child, Marge Piercy (Piatkus, £10.99)
MELISSA Dickinson is the neglected, overlooked and insecure daughter of an ambitious Republican senator. College offers her an escape from the scrutiny of her controlling parents and the chance to step out of the shadow cast by her over-achieving siblings
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Elizabeth & Mary, Jane Dunn (Harper Perennial, £8.99)
YET another tome about the lives of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Subtitled 'Cousins, rivals, queens', this 500-plus page history concentrates on the relationship between the two female monarchs and their attitudes towards each other. They
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The Mughal Throne, Abraham Eraly (Phoenix, £10.99)
THE Mughals were a Muslim dynasty from the early 16th century to the middle of the 19th. At their height they ruled most of India. A beautifully written work, the key to the author's approach is revealed in a somewhat quirky preface when he says that
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Journey To The Holy Mountain, Meditations on Mount Athos, Christopher Merrill (Harper Collins, £17.
SAY the words "Holy Greek Mountain" and most people will say Mount Olympus. But there is another, which is Christian rather than pagan - Mount Athos at the northern edge of the Aegean Sea. It is home to 20 monasteries, all part of the Orthodox Church.
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Students cashing in
MORE than 2,000 students in York and North Yorkshire will be in line for the Government's £30 allowance for staying on at school. The Education Maintenance Allowance for Year 11 pupils is aimed at reducing the number of students who drop out of school
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Scent-imental journey
YOUNG adventurers volunteered to work at York Cemetery to raise cash for an expedition to Morocco. The six teenagers from St Peter's School, York, spent a day restoring the scented walk on the 24-acre site, which is designed for the visually impaired.
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Gay way to make men out of slobs
A Yorkshire farmer and his best mate getting a gay makeover? STEPHEN LEWIS roots out the facts. TAKE two outrageously gay fashion experts, tell them to help two unreconstructed Yorkshire blokes get in touch with their feminine side, and what have you
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'Barbican will be better' pledge
THE developer behind the controversial Barbican Centre scheme has claimed it will bring about the biggest improvement to York's landscape for many years. And he has accused opposition ringleaders of running a mischief-making campaign, and attacked the
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Duran Duran, Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield
Last night we were 15 years old. For one night only, it was the mid-1980s and we were there to scream at our first crushes. Duran Duran were back. Coming on stage to a screaming ovation, they stood and lapped it up. Who can blame them? Disappointingly
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Former Rowntree chief dies, 88
ALBERT Norton, former deputy chairman of the Rowntree Group, has died, aged 88. He was born at Ackworth, near Pontefract, and read chemistry at University College, Oxford. In 1938 Mr Norton joined Rowntree in the research and development laboratories
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Police will not let match guard drop
A WARNING has gone out to football hooligans: Do not think York will be a soft touch when the city's football club drops out of the league. Paul Maloney, York police football liaison officer, said there would be no let-up in the campaign to stamp out
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Top form duo put IT Sports in control
Phil Dyson and Paul Blackett led the way as IT Sports won 8-1 at home to Riverside in men's division one of York Badminton League Dyson and Blackett had an aces total of 94-50 in scoring three wins in straight sets. Geoff Oxley and John Fowler won for
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Knights' speed can down Eagles pack
Size does matter according to York City Knights second rower Damian Ball in the run up to the return to National League 2 duty against Sheffield Eagles. Sheffield are renowned for packing a few extra pounds in the scrum and it could create problems for
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Holidaymaker died from her injuries after camel ride fall
A NORTH Yorkshire woman sustained massive head injuries after falling backwards off a camel while on holiday in Egypt, an inquest heard. Garden designer Valerie Hewitt, 61, of Wiganthorpe, near Malton, died 11 days after the freak accident, which happened
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Neighbour from hell gets her last chance to behave
A NUISANCE neighbour who faced being booted out of her council house today won a dramatic reprieve. Young mum Nicola Brown, 19, was accused of nearly 100 allegations relating to noisy and unruly behaviour in her York house. City of York Council went to
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It's all yours for £32,500 a week
FANCY renting a luxury stately pad for Royal Ascot in York ? Got a spare £32,500 lying around the house? In the unlikely event the answer to both these questions is yes, a North Yorkshire stately home could be yours for a whole seven days. The owners
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Ascot fever
WE still have more than a year to wait. Yet York is already approaching fever pitch over Royal Ascot. It seems anyone living within a 20-mile radius of Knavesmire is preparing to rent out their home at exorbitant rates to loaded southern racegoers. Considering
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Striker goes to extremes
LOAN signing Jon Newby has left relegated York City to rejoin Huddersfield Town's fight for promotion. Newby, 25, completed his one-month stay after Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Doncaster condemned the Minstermen to Conference football. But the ex-Liverpool
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And it came to pass for Jesus
THE year is 2013; the scene is Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park. A tall, charismatic, bearded man is attracting an interested crowd. Unfortunately for him, he has also drawn the notice of a Blunkie, one of the Government's crack squad of civilian identity
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Way we were
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 100 years ago: "Though much of Charles Dickens' characterisation smacks of the south country," wrote columnist TT, "we in the north are very closely bound to him, not only by reason of his Nicholas Nickleby, but by the fact that
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Kraft is disloyal
DESPITE living on the South Coast I am shocked to read Terry's chocolate firm is dumping York and its workforce and skipping out to Poland or thereabouts. How disloyal can a company get? I am all for British goods and local produce and have always bought
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That's way to do it
I AM sure enough has been said about City of York Council's excessive greed in respect of car parking charges, especially when payment has been extended to 9pm. Just how much change do they think we carry around? Soon they will have to find a way to pay
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Fly the flag and put on a show
IT was nice seeing the St George's Day parade on Sunday. It was also very impressive that the senior bandsmen were taking it so seriously, leading by example hoping it would rub off on the children. The whole of York should get together and put the flags
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Invisible ink?
WHEN I was a schoolboy we used to have lots of fun writing secret notes to one another using invisible ink which we bought in small bottles. To make it appear all you had to do was warm it in front of the fire and the writing would be revealed. Well,
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Missing the point....
I TOOK this photograph in the Sainsbury's car park at Monks Cross, York on Sunday, April 18. If there is to be a "blitz" on litter-dropping point in York, it would appear that we need some bigger and better litterbins and an education programme to inform
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Mixed feelings over booking the Beckhams
DIARY exclusive: we have located two places to stay in York which have definitely not been booked by the Beckhams. We first reported in March that the city was flooded again, this time with rumours that Posh and her man had arranged to stay here for Royal
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NT Shell Connections, A Celebration Of Youth Theatre, The Studio, York Theatre Royal, until May 8
THERE is never anything for young people to do, is there? Youth theatre is a chance for expression, bonding, acquiring confidence and learning respect and self respect. Old-fashioned principles maybe, but it also happens to be good fun, and you won't
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Duran Duran, Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield
Last night we were 15 years old. For one night only, it was the mid-1980s and we were there to scream at our first crushes. Duran Duran were back. Coming on stage to a screaming ovation, they stood and lapped it up. Who can blame them? Disappointingly
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Opening Super League door to French side would be welcomed
THE decision to postpone a decision on letting French team UTC join the Super League has disappointed me this week. I spent five days at the Perpignon club in the build-up to our match against Villeneuve and I think accepting them into Super League would
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Final game ends with late defeat
YORK and District Under 15s ended four seasons together with defeat after conceding a last minute winner in the trophy final to Rotherham. Good first half defending for York was consolidated with a Mike Warriner strike and they went into half time with
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Children's round-up
Soul Stealer, Martin Booth (Puffin, £4.99) TWO worlds, the real and the magical, collide in a tale worthy of Alan Garner. Twins Pip and Tim have started at a new school, Bourne End Comprehen-sive. To their horror, they discover their new chemistry teacher
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Seven Earth Odes, Paul Sutherland (ENDpapers, £9.95)
STEPHEN LEWIS savours a volume of poetry by Dreamcatcher editor Paul Sutherland that has been 30 years in the making. PAUL Sutherland is known in York for editing the literary magazine Dreamcatcher. A slim new volume of poetry produced by York publishing
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Governor Jane is an inspiration
AN inspirational school governor has been given an award for helping to transform the grounds of her York school. Jane Phythian, who uses a wheelchair, was presented with a Big Difference Award for her work at Hempland Primary School. The awards, for
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Jump to it!
ENERGETIC youngsters from Tang Hall Primary School in York skipped and ran to raise cash for children with cancer. The school held a day of activities based on the number 26 - to link with the 26-mile London Marathon, to raise cash for children with Leukaemia
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Choc visitor centre would keep York link
TOURISM bosses have welcomed suggestions that a chocolate visitor centre should be opened at Terry's if the factory closes down. Evening Press reader Elaine Morgan contacted the paper to say a Cadbury World-style centre on part of the site would be a
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Family farewell to bus victim
FAMILY and friends of the man killed in the Bootham bus crash in York have been invited to say farewell to him this weekend. A York hotel will host an informal get-together on Sunday night for people to remember the life of Mohamed Mahmoud Hussein Eltahtawy
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Women pile up the points for Rowntree
NESTLE Rowntree Athletic Club got the track and field season under way at Cleckheaton in the Pennine Division of the National Junior League. The club's Under 20 and U17 athletes found themselves up against strong teams from Leeds City, Bingley, Rotherham
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Celebrity backs museums
BROADCASTER, foodie and pasta supremo Loyd Grossman spiced up the launch of Museums and Galleries Month in York today. The former BBC presenter, who is known for his distinctive accent and critical style, was visiting the National Railway Museum in his
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Electricity fault delays trains in York
HUNDREDS of rail travellers were stranded in York when an overhead electricity fault forced operators to turn the power off part of the East Coast Main Line in North Yorkshire. Engineers from Network Rail were today investigating what caused the damage
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Heavy match hauls at Langwith Lakes
THE recently opened Langwith Lakes at Heslington have already hit top form and last weekend produced two more great matches. The Saturday match on Kevin's Lake saw young Oliver Hewitt continue his good run on the local commercial circuit with 65lbs 5ozs
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Now memorial can finally go ahead
VICTORY was today being celebrated in a campaign led from York and Selby to provide a national memorial to the women of the Second World War. The National Heritage Memorial Fund has awarded almost £1 million to the scheme to build the memorial, near the
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'Help or hindrance' clash on private security patrols
PRIVATE security teams who patrol York and Selby neighbourhoods on the look out for nuisance behaviour and street crime can increase the police's workload and confuse residents, according to a report published today. Researchers for the York-based Joseph
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Striker goes to extremes
LOAN signing Jon Newby has left relegated York City to rejoin Huddersfield Town's fight for promotion. Newby, 25, completed his one-month stay after Saturday's 3-1 defeat at Doncaster condemned the Minstermen to Conference football. But the ex-Liverpool
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Memorial to true Brits
IT began with a letter. "When one of the girls from Canada wrote to me and said 'Did you realise there appears to be no national monument to the servicewomen who made a contribution to the Second World War?', I was shocked," Major David Robertson told
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Tykes honed to Bridge gap
Yorkshire were at Trent Bridge today for their first Championship encounter with Nottinghamshire since 1999 making it the longest gap between matches for all county opponents except Middlesex who Yorkshire last played six years' ago. Since the Championship
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Tony can do the trick for veteran - 28/04/04
North Yorkshire jockey Tony Culhane can complete a hat-trick for his old boss, Reg Hollinshead, at Southwell on Thursday. Culhane gets the leg-up aboard Gilded Cove in the Bet In Running @betdirect.co.uk Handicap and looks poised to enjoy a good ride
