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Robbie Dale finds something comical in the way we are
IT'S interesting being British, don't you think? The British seem to have so much identity, so many things that characterise us. Take the weather. This past week it has lived up to the 'four seasons in one day' adage and has seen those classic scenes
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Terry's bosses meet unions
MANAGEMENT from Terry's have come face-to-face with union leaders to explain their decision to close the site. Commercially-sensitive information was offered to representatives from the GMB and Amicus unions to explain why the decision to close the site
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How to beat gridlock
DURING the last few weeks articles and letters have appeared in the Evening Press stating that York is nearing gridlock at certain times of the day and the air quality is poor in some streets. One solution could be to make the inner ring road one way.
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Hands off our 'village green', we love it
YOUR article on the future of Victoria Park underestimates the number of people who consider this land to be a village green (May 1). Hundreds of us enjoy the use of this green, open land and have done so for years. We need to protect our green open spaces
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Listen and respond
WE appreciate the comment that the university, in its expansion plans, "must listen and respond" to the worries of Heslington villagers (April 30). Heslington is a conservation village surrounded by countryside. Its best protection is to refuse any massive
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I miss Mohamed
MOHAMED Mahmoud Hussein Eltahtawy, who died in the Bootham bus crash, was my friend. He was a regular at KFC, where I used to work, and almost every night he would come in after a night partying, dressed smartly, with a big smile. "David!" he would boom
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Free man Peter Bleach spills the beans
PETER Bleach is well on the way to telling his side of the story. He has secured a publisher and is already 30,000 words into his memoirs. The former schoolboy at St Peter's in York, jailed for life in India after an illegal arms drop, was freed in February
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Big babies throwing tantrums
PARLIAMENT is in "purdah" at present. According to Google, which knows most things, the literal translation is a "curtain concealing some Indian women of high birth from public gaze". Google also reveals that it was later used to describe a state of solitude
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All in the mind
Derren Brown launched himself with a spot of suicidal attention seeking on TV. But what he really likes is the chance to carry off his illusions live on stage, as he tells Charles Hutchinson. DERREN Brown may be a mind controller but he does not want
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York Comedy Festival from June 5
REMEMBER the name Omid Djalili? In a case of dj vu from last year, the comic with film credits in The Calcium Kid, Gladiator and The Mummy has agreed to open this summer's York Comedy Festival. However, the organisers will be hoping for a different outcome
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York RUFC youngsters get set for Twickenham
TWO junior York RUFC teams will run out at Twickenham next month after qualifying for the finals of a national competition. Five teams took part in the festival day at Nottingham University and the Under-11s and U9s both won a place at the finals after
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Causing stir in sugar industry
CRUCIAL evidence which could affect about 2,000 jobs in and around York dependent on a home-grown sugar industry was being given to the government this week. Newton-on-Ouse sugar grower Mike Blacker, who is chairman of the national sugar board for the
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First cut for York £500K business centre
TURF was being cut by Lord Mayor Coun Charles Hall today on construction of a new £500,000 business centre in Clifton Moor designed to meet the needs of small and budding ventures. The Evans Business Centre, built by national group Evans Easyspace, will
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Jazz Notes
YORK was in carnival mood last Saturday and Sunday. Thanks to City Of York Council and the many local partners involved, York Live music festival (running until May 31) got off to a rousing start. World music was the theme on Saturday and on Sunday the
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Switch kicked to touch
SPECULATION that York City Knights star Simon Friend is set to join Salford City Reds has been dismissed as rumours - and the Aussie is in the Knights squad for Sunday's trip to Barrow. Friend, who turned 27 yesterday, was alleged to have been in talks
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Tagging on to new tournament
TEAMS and individual players are welcome to enter an all-new adult tag rugby tournament to be staged at Oaklands School on Wednesday May 19, starting at 7pm. The seven-a-side competition is for squads of between seven and ten players, men and women of
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Ace play-off brace at double
Copmanthorpe and Bishopthorpe White Rose were among the teams celebrating at the end of the York Mitchell Sports Mini Football League. Both clubs took two wins in the end of season play-offs after qualifying through their last scheduled league results
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Shambolic
THE Barbican Centre is to stay open until the autumn. Except for the pool. And there will be no more concerts in the auditorium. A famous York word best sums up the situation: shambles. The May 31 deadline always seemed over ambitious, and so it has proved
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Discount homes are just 'too dear'
AFFORDABLE housing is still beyond the reach of many of York's poorest residents, according to a new report. Attempts to encourage sales of discounted sale and shared ownership homes are being thwarted because most of the 4,500 people on City of York
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'Improved' postal service slammed
A YORK resident today slammed the Royal Mail for delivering her post seven hours later than it used to. Jennifer Wallace, of Markham Crescent, said her mail is consistently delivered after midday, despite assurances from the Royal Mail that all post across
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Quick Silver routs Dorset
YORKSHIRE got their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy match against Dorset at Bournemouth done and dusted in quick order on Thursday. They wanted to avoid further complications with the weather and a fiery blast with the new ball from Chris Silverwood
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Brilliant throwing by Botterill
PAUL Botterill gamed in a stunning 14 darts for Volunteer in their York Phoenix Open League division one match at Pack. Volunteer took the match within the singles. Mike Harris added a 22 darter as Pack salvaged the last two pairs games. Rich Corner (
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I'm a bad neighbour - get me out of here
A FORMER body builder with a string of convictions for handling stolen property has left his York council home after admitting that he is a nuisance neighbour. Paul Ibbotson has become the fourth person to leave a council property in the Walmgate area
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Switch kicked to touch
SPECULATION that York City Knights star Simon Friend is set to join Salford City Reds has been dismissed as rumours - and the Aussie is in the Knights squad for Sunday's trip to Barrow. Friend, who turned 27 yesterday, was alleged to have been in talks
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Anger at delay in Barbican closure
LEISURE bosses were under fire today after revealing that part of York's Barbican Centre may now stay open until the end of October - but not the swimming pools. City of York Council's executive is being asked to approve a delay in handing over the centre
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Quick Silver routs Dorset
YORKSHIRE got their Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy match against Dorset at Bournemouth done and dusted in quick order on Thursday. They wanted to avoid further complications with the weather and a fiery blast with the new ball from Chris Silverwood
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Golf club teed off as plan rejected
A GOLF club's bid to provide facilities to further cement its reputation as a centre of excellence for juniors in North Yorkshire has been rejected because of light pollution fears. Steve Robinson, one of the country's leading national coaches, has honed
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Pirate ready to snatch treasure - 07/05/04
The latest round of Classic Trials take place at Lingfield tomorrow, while Yorkshire racecourses stage a double-header of meetings at Beverley in the afternoon and Thirsk in the evening. Channel 4 cameras will be at Beverley to show four races, most notably
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A touch of glass
IMAGINE if Nissan put a 350Z into the mix and added rear seats, five doors, a higher body and four-wheel drive. Well, it has. The result is called the Murano, after the famous, sculptured glass from Italy and is sure to be one of the smash hits of the
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Way we were
Friday, May 7, 2004 100 years ago: An amusing story was told, with all seriousness as a new recruiting drive started, of a recruit with a North Yorkshire Volunteer Battalion. His company was out for field training one evening with the local lieutenant
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The cello lesson, The Studio, York Theatre Royal from May 14 to June 5
Introducing... The Cello & The Nightingale, the actress, the director & the world premiere at York Theatre Royal. The world premiere of Patricia Cleveland Peck's biographical account of the eventful life of cellist Beatrice Harrison, the Jacqueline
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Just whistle - Grand Opera House, York from May 10 to 15
Just A Quickie with... Richard Swerrun, who has swapped Joseph for another Lloyd Webber musical, Whistle Down The Wind, at the Grand Opera House, York, next week. Richard, how come you have been sporting Joseph's amazing Technicolor dreamcoat again. Didn't
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Beds fit for a king
A North Yorkshire firm can now boast that it sells beds which are literally fit for a king. To Catch A Dream, the bed, bedding and bedroom furniture specialist in the Montpelier Quarter in Harrogate, has been appointed as the exclusive Yorkshire stockists
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£3 million armchair shopping boost for executives
REVOLUTIONARY new website technology is being used to market the £3 million Rudgate Business Park at Thorp Arch, near Wetherby. The system is said to allow busy executives the opportunity to do "armchair shopping" when it comes to buying commercial property
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Battling on
New Legends lived up to the bravado of that name by winning Round Two, Heat Two of the Fibbers/Evening Press Battle of the Bands this week. Pre-tournament co-favourites Sixty 6 return to the battle front on Tuesday in Heat Three when Filthy Sanchez and
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Just the Yards
THE Yards' debut album will be released in July. "We've finished the recording sessions, which we did at Alan Leach's Studio Seven, with bits and bobs at my house," says Chris Helme, lead singer of the York five-piece. "We've produced the album ourselves
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Windies' wildcard
THE organisers of the York International 9s have revealed the six teams who will head up the pools of this year's event -- and in a shock move, West Indies have been given a wildcard sixth seeded place. The four semi-finalists from last year have been
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You saxy thing
Musician Raphael Ravenscroft has played with the likes of Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin, so what's he doing teaching at York College? MAXINE GORDON finds out. CALL it serendipity. Or fate. But some things are just meant to be. York College
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Pay as you go
TRANSPORT bosses secretly investigated imposing tolls on bridges over the River Ouse in York to cut congestion and improve air quality, the Evening Press can reveal today. Council officers also looked at the impact of closing Gillygate - one of the worst
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Harmonise music rules
YORK may be a little quieter after today. Small businesses across the city will be reaching for the hi-fi 'off' switch after reading our court report tonight. It was the licensees of the Burton Stone Inn who were caught playing music without a licence
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York MP joins guns fight
THE global trade in weapons - which has allowed brutal regimes to kill thousands of innocents - should be stopped with a new law, according to York MP Hugh Bayley. He is helping to pilot a Bill through Parliament calling for an international treaty on
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AA men all geared up for charity trek
A TEAM of AA men from North Yorkshire have embarked on a charity challenge to take a former clapped-out car on a 3,000 mile trek across Europe. The "busman's holiday" will see the group pass through nine countries in three days, travelling as far as northern
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Terry's bosses meet unions
MANAGEMENT from Terry's have come face-to-face with union leaders to explain their decision to close the site. Commercially-sensitive information was offered to representatives from the GMB and Amicus unions to explain why the decision to close the site
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Baton run for hospices
HOSPICE fundraiser and keen biker Malcolm Dowson is a man with a mission. Sitting astride his beloved Harley Davidson, the auctioneer took over a special hospice baton at his North Yorkshire home today - as part of its journey to the Olympic Games, in
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Law marshalls youthful forces
Young player of the year Graeme Law says the hunger in the youth ranks will help drive York City back into the Football League at the first possible opportunity. The 19-year-old right-back was one of three teenagers making their first start for the Minstermen
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Staley bridges gap as City exit
MICHAEL Staley will become the fourth-youngest player in York City's history if he his handed his Football League debut at Swansea on Saturday. Highly-rated defender Staley is set to be named as a substitute at Vetch Field for a second successive game
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Pay up or switch off the music court rules
A TOP JUDGE has called time on music at a York pub - even though the licensees did not know they were due in court. But Katherine Short, of the Burton Stone Inn in Clifton, said there would still be music at the pub tonight, and that she did not believe
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Staley bridges gap as City exit
MICHAEL Staley will become the fourth-youngest player in York City's history if he his handed his Football League debut at Swansea on Saturday. Highly-rated defender Staley is set to be named as a substitute at Vetch Field for a second successive game
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Law marshalls youthful forces
Young player of the year Graeme Law says the hunger in the youth ranks will help drive York City back into the Football League at the first possible opportunity. The 19-year-old right-back was one of three teenagers making their first start for the Minstermen
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Reserve reprieve suits Brass
YORK City boss Chris Brass hailed the club board's decision not to scrap the reserve team for next season. Said a relieved Brass: "Keeping the reserves is definitely the way forward. We will have to make cost-cutting exercises on it but it will be beneficial
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Swansong echo of Hope and fury
LEE Trundle and Richard Hope will renew acquaintances at Swansea tomorrow after being red-carded during a tempestuous clash at Bootham Crescent in November. Hope will return from a two-match ban to take on Swansea hot-shot Trundle, who still has an outside
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Tykes lifted by Jaques high
YORKSHIRE have signed New South Wales left-hander Phil Jaques as temporary replacement for Darren Lehmann, and the free-scoring batsman will arrive at Headingley on Monday. Jaques, 25 last Monday, made a sensational debut to county cricket last summer
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Celebrating the art of May - until May 22
ADZE Contemporary Art celebrates the joys of May with the exhibition Spring: New Works, New Directions at the gallery in Gillygate, York. This selling show of paintings, prints, ceramics and sculpture showcases work by Alan Flood, Ken Jones, Michael Thacker
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Listen to this painting - until July 5
ABSTRACT oil paintings by York artist Mary Greene go on show tomorrow at Pyramid Gallery, Stonegate, York. Mary is following up her November exhibition, this time presenting new paintings, mixed media, work and collagraphs, and she will be attending tomorrow's
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living it up
LADIES - strap on your best Manolos. It's here. The answer to your Sex And The City fantasies. No, not Mr Big. It's The Living Room, the most chic venue to hit York since, well, ever. The brand has a top notch reputation, with David Beckham's autobiography
