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1,000 sign up to keep Terry's in chocolate city
MORE than 1,000 people have already backed our campaign to save Terry's - just over a week after the shock news broke that the chocolate factory is set to close. Signatures are continuing to come in for our petition, which calls for a Terry's chocolate
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Health and safety claims alert
Regular readers of this column will know of the type of money-making schemes doing the rounds. Following City of York Council's Trading Standards warnings to local businesses to be wary of approaches by companies requesting payment for registration under
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Way we were
Thursday, April 29, 2004 100 years ago: At York Police Court, a man described as a baker, but of no fixed abode, was charged with being found in enclosed premises, the front garden of Pinehurst, The Mount, York, for an unlawful purpose. A police officer
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Breaking point
OF course York's traffic has reached "breaking point" (April 27). The city council has closed off half the roads. In particular, it has closed off those roads which include houses occupied by councillors, with the result that the residents of Bishophill
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Not so Green
AS the leading Yorkshire Green Party candidate for the European elections, I was interested to read Conservative MEP Robert Goodwill came bottom in a survey of MEPs' environmental voting records (April 19). I recently sat on a panel with Mr Goodwill.
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Who cares if Becks comes to York for Ascot?
According to rumours, a "well-placed source" and Evening Press reporter Matthew Woodcock, Mr and Mrs Beckham are gracing York with their presence during the Ascot meeting next year. Gosh! How fantastic! Does anyone care? This rumour seems to be remarkably
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I'm Maximus not Minimus, and no joking!
ROMAN soldier Keith Mulhearn is in touch, asking to put the record straight. He fears his reputation has been decimated by an Evening Press picture caption on Monday which suggested his stage name is Minimus Peniculus. In fact, he says, it is Maximus
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New appointments
EXPANDING Mercedes-Benz in York has made six new appointments at its £3.2 million centre at Clifton Moor. Tony Wright, previously a sales executive at the company for the Smart range, has been promoted to brand manager. Assisting him with Smart is sales
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Who wants to use dead words?
A MEMO came round the office the other day pointing out the distinction between "different from" and "different to". One is preferable to the other and if only I could find the note, I could tell you which is which. Never mind, I'm sure it is "different
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Double dream fires All-Blacks
BUBBLING New Earswick All Blacks are seeking to round off a fine season with a knockout double. Already winners of the Accident Cup in which they prevailed over York Groves, the All Blacks now tackle Acorn in the York and District Cup final to be played
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Down the pub with Elvis
ELVIS impersonators battled it out in a York pub last night to claim the title of the city's top "hound dog". The Tap & Spile, in Monkgate, played host to the first stage of the Elvis Academy, which is raising money for National Cancer Research and
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'A'-team's ace finish
YORK'S 'A' team won the inaugural Brian Fernley Trophy played between the top two teams in the first and second divisions of the Yorkshire Over 55s League. All the games were played at Scarborough on a "round-robin" basis with York 'A' beating York 'B
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I declare this new reception aria open!
A SURPRISE invasion by a trio of opera singers marked the opening of York Hospital's new retail and reception area. Senior health chiefs were stunned when two "porters" wheeling a trolley through the crowd during the ceremony suddenly unveiled a glamorous
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Double dream fires All-Blacks
BUBBLING New Earswick All Blacks are seeking to round off a fine season with a knockout double. Already winners of the Accident Cup in which they prevailed over York Groves, the All Blacks now tackle Acorn in the York and District Cup final to be played
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Toll road call to York villagers
RESIDENTS of a York suburb are being urged to make their voices heard about radical plans to curb traffic at a meeting on Thursday night. Fulford Parish Council chairman Steve Kenwright is calling on residents of the York village to turn out to its annual
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Time called on yob neighbours
A COUNCIL chief today called time on nuisance neighbours who blight York communities with antisocial behaviour. Housing officer Neil McFarlane spoke out in the wake of the authority's court victory against persistent nuisance neighbour Nicola Brown. He
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Computer expert is jailed over porn
A YORK computer consultant has been jailed for viewing internet child porn. Paul Martin Fenton's details were among those forwarded to British police by American detectives under the Operation Ore crackdown on people using child porn websites, York magistrates
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Fire alarm leaves York clubbers in the cold
HUNDREDS of clubbers were left standing in the pouring rain early today when the million pound relaunch of a York club was interrupted - by a fire alarm. More than 700 revellers, including 300 VIP guests, were evacuated from The Gallery, in Clifford Street
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On your way
CAPTAIN Darren Edmondson, goalkeeper Mark Ovendale and defender Chris Smith are among seven York City players that have been told they will be released at the end of this season. Mitch Ward, Christian Fox, Stephen Brackstone and Stephen Downes are the
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This will not do nicely
YOU can buy a lot of chocolate buttons with a gold card. And if all those Tweenies toys seem a little pricey, don't worry. American Express? That'll do nicely. It is absurd, and not a little disturbing, that two-year-old Chloe Wheldrick was sent a credit
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Cloud cover darkens Tykes
Yorkshire's depression was as deep as the weather at Trent Bridge where rain prevented any play on the opening day of their Frizzell Championship match with Nottinghamshire. Although they enjoyed the sun on their backs at Headingley last week, Yorkshire
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On your way
CAPTAIN Darren Edmondson, goalkeeper Mark Ovendale and defender Chris Smith are among seven York City players that have been told they will be released at the end of this season. Mitch Ward, Christian Fox, Stephen Brackstone and Stephen Downes are the
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Wildly exciting
Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale League division one newcomers Fulfordgate were unhinged by a really Wild show. North Duffield's Lee Wild proved the scourge of Fulfordgate, removing six batsmen for 24 runs in an all-out total of 58. That blitz enabled
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Slack Drax on the rack
Guy Mitchell Cup holders Drax perished at British Sugar in their division one opener. The hosts took first knock and dribbled along to 72 all out - Richard Ounsley 3-12 and Paul Smith 3-13 doing the damage. Unfortunately the Drax reply faltered alarmingly
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Re-living City's nightmare
I BELIEVE the only appropriate use of my column this week is to serve as a chronicle of what has happened at the club since the final whistle blew at Doncaster on Saturday. I did not realise we had got relegated when I came off the field and was just
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Adem, Homesongs (Domino Records) ****; Drew, Songs From The Devil's Chimney (Source Records) ****
THE exceptional singer-songwriting talents of Drew and Adem could easily replace two Panadol and an Alka Seltzer as effective hangover cures. Their soothing acoustic melodies provide welcome relief from the noise and clatter of the current crop of bands
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St Thomas, Let's Grow Together, The Comeback of St Thomas, (Track & Field) ***
THOMAS Hansen is something of a happy paradox. Here's another low-key, lo-fi singer who has slipped out of America's backdoor, dragging along his guitar to perform simple songs with the dust of country on them. Only Hansen - or St Thomas, as he prefers
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Semple to keep up winning form - 29/04/04
Lanarkshire trainer Ian Semple, sending out winners with almost monotonous regularity at the moment, can maintain his purple patch at Musselburgh on Friday. The Carluke handler can land the edmonds.co.uk Classified Stakes with my Nap selection Sarraaf
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York needs more family doctors
A YORK doctors' leader says more GPs are needed in the city to cope with rising patient numbers. New figures reveal GPs in York and North Yorkshire have an average of 1,538 patients on their books. But Dr Tony Sweeney, chairman of the British Medical
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BBC fears of ex-boss Greg Dyke
THE former Director General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, launched a scathing attack on the Murdoch media empire, describing it as "the leader of vultures circling the BBC", at a top business event in York. He told more than 500 applauding guests, at the York
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Bogus charity organiser sent to jail for 9 months
A BOGUS charity organiser whose collectors took money from people on the streets of York has been jailed for nine months. Restaurant owner Mark Phillips, helped by his wife, Philippa Vanessa Phillips, organised several collectors with tins and laminated
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Wildly exciting
Horwath Pulleyn-Heselton York Vale League division one newcomers Fulfordgate were unhinged by a really Wild show. North Duffield's Lee Wild proved the scourge of Fulfordgate, removing six batsmen for 24 runs in an all-out total of 58. That blitz enabled
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England's cream to rise at the Crescent
Despondent York City fans can put thoughts of the Conference behind them tonight when some of England's brightest young talents run out at Bootham Crescent against Sweden in an U18 international friendly. Players attached to Premiership clubs including
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Would you credit it?
CHLOE WHELDRICK has received her first credit card offer - even though she is only TWO years old. Mum Dawn Wheldrick was amazed when she looked through a pile of junk mail and found the credit card application for her little girl. Chloe had been invited
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New peaks
GREG Dyke was in robust form at the National Railway Museum last night, attacking the "vulture" of Rupert Murdoch, circling the BBC. The corporation's former Director General said he will not be going back, but will continue to fight for its independence
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Patti Smith, Trampin' (Columbia) ***
PUNK poet and protest singer Patti Smith, along with contemporaries Lou Reed and Television, embodied that arty, leather-jacketed attitude of bohemian 1970s New York, whose style, if not substance, has recently been resurrected as the epitome of cool
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Nic Armstrong, The Greatest White Liar (One Little Indian) **; Daniel Wylie, Ramshackle Beauty (Meas
NIC Armstrong is a 24-year-old displaced Geordie who went to Nottingham to study Fine Art. Instead he mastered the not-so-fine art of mimicking the first wave of British Sixties pop. You could call him the Tom Keating of the retro wave of singer-songwriters
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Cass McCombs, A, (4AD) **
FOLLOWING last year's critically acclaimed EP Not The Way, Cass McCombs' first full-length record is not an A but more a C-minus. McCombs clearly fancies himself as the new millennium's Bob Dylan, with simple guitar backed by drawling, swooping vocals
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Josh Ritter, Hello Starling (Setanta) *****
THERE'S something of a buzz about Josh Ritter. Seriously, if you had to design a songsmith from scratch who'd be palatable to the mainstream, you couldn't do a better job. Looking like a hero from a H G Wells novel, this US troubadour's music sounds like
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Ben Kweller, On My Way (RCA) **
Lacking the beguiling, subtle charms of Beck and falling short of the dustbowl Americana of Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller's laid-back Brooklyn swagger looks like falling on deaf ears. Mostly recorded live with the aim of producing a Sixties-style garage sound
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York is in bloom
HOW wonderful it is to see York looking so lovely, full of colour with spring flowers and trees in full blossom. The streets and squares are tidy and litter- free. What a treat for those visitors coming to York, some for the first time. They will find
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Be specific, Steve
COUNCIL Leader Steve Galloway's allegations that those opposed to the Barbican redevelopment used tactics of disinformation and misrepresentation would sound slightly less hollow had he quoted some examples (April 24). It's easy to be critical in general
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She does not know
THE report by Dan Jones about Strensall and Towthorpe Parish Council (April 21) made very informative reading, except for the comments made by Mrs Thorpe as the so-called spokesperson for the five councillors who resigned. The electorate of Strensall
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Consider others
WHILE I understand and even sympathise with the concerns raised by the residents of Meadlands and Osbaldwick about the proposed Derwenthorpe development, there are larger concerns at stake than increased traffic volumes, noise, etc. To many disabled people
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Harwood works wonders
DUNNINGTON retained the President's Challenge Trophy when they defeated Acomb by five wickets in an absorbing game to claim the trophy for the fourth successive year. After Andy Tute was smartly stumped by Paul Miles, Richard Sykes and Sanjay Rodrigo
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Minister stresses value of tourism
THE tourist industry has a stronger voice at Whitehall than ever before. This claim was made by Richard Caborn, Minister for Sport and Tourism, in a keynote speech at the Yorkshire Tourist Board's Yorkshire Tourism Conference held at York Racecourse yesterday
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Accountants negotiate fifth deal of year
YET another major takeover has been negotiated by Selby accountancy firm J W Pickles & Company - the latest of five deals with a combined value of more than £15 million since the beginning of the year. This time the firm advised asbestos abatement
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The Tempest, Stagecoach Youth Theatre York, Trinity Hall, York, until May 1
ON Tuesday, the NT Shell Connections festival of youth theatre at York Theatre Royal opened with Discontented Winter/House Remix, a neo-Shakespearean play that playwright Bryony Lavery had made "deliberately difficult to stage". Away from the festival
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Bishopthorpe escape drop
Bishopthorpe's dramatic 2-1 Leeper Hare York and District Football League Premier Division home against Rufforth last night means they have escaped relegation at the expense of Nestl Rowntree. The Bishops needed at least a draw but were trailing to a
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Birth rights
Too posh to push, or simply exercising their right to choose? STEPHEN LEWIS examines the merits of caesarean birth. KAREN Sanderson has two words for the kind of modern woman who feel it is their right to 'book a birth'. "They are bonkers," she says robustly
