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Our house, in the middle of the Guildhall
Property prices in York have led to developments being proposed in some unlikely places. However, readers may be shocked to learn that the latest idea is for a house and pub in the Guildhall! However, residents worried about potential damage to one of
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Raw talent on top
KAYLE Stannard was the hat-trick hero as Rawcliffe under-13s triumphed in the Nestl Rowntree Seven-A-Side tournament. Rawcliffe beat the challenge of 17 other sides to lift the trophy and 'keeper Scott Pallister did not concede a single goal during the
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Youngsters need positive solutions
Young York film-maker Kevin Curran takes to the city's estates to ask young people about drugs, alcohol and crime. It's a gorgeous May afternoon, blue sky with wisps of cloud. Broken glass from a smashed car window glimmers in the sun. On the other side
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Stamp out NHS aggro
THE banning of a York man from all NHS establishments in the country has been widely welcomed within the health service. It is easy to see why. People who work on the frontline in the NHS are following a vocation. They do the job because they want to
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Stirring times
TWO hundred years on and the railways can still cause a stir. While we may not always be happy with modern trains, we do love an old train. RailFest at the National Railway Museum has been going down a storm all week. How fitting it is that the great
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Railway King's home to sell for millions
A YORK period home owned by the city's "Railway King" is up for sale - but anyone looking to get their hands on a piece of local history could have to pay millions for it. The listed building in Monkgate, one of York's biggest city centre blocks of property
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Parking cash will be spent on transport
CITY of York Council has pledged that any extra money raised by new and higher on-street parking charges will be ploughed back into transport-related projects. The authority was denying suggestions that the doubling of its ResPark charges for residents
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Pulling power of steam
THE National Railway Museum in York saw some of its biggest crowds ever at a single event as more than thousands of people crowded to RailFest. The 8,000 visitors enjoyed steam rides and saw nearly 50 locomotives, engines and vehicles, at yesterday's
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Tributes to death crash teenager
THE devastated family and teenage fiance of a North Yorkshire man who was killed in a road accident have paid tribute to a fun-loving and caring son, brother and uncle. Christopher James George Barlow, 19, from Beech Crescent, Broughton, near Malton,
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Police officers to get bravery awards
SEVEN police officers who put their lives on the line to protect each other and the public are to receive Chief Constable's Commendations. The bravery awards will be presented to the Selby-based "Magnificent Seven" at a special ceremony on Friday. Sergeant
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Traffic bollard scheme wins support
A RISING bollard looks set to be introduced to deal with congestion in a York village. Councillors agreed last night to let officers investigate introducing an "intelligent bollard" to manage traffic in the Heslington area. The bollard, aimed at closing
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Elston blow for Knights
HOOKER Jimmy Elston could require surgery to fix his knee problem - but he may only be missing for a few weeks. The super sub, who has six tries off the bench this season, was left with suspected cartilage damage after twisting a knee in a pothole during
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Traffic ban will stop scenes like these
TRAFFIC chiefs are pressing ahead with plans to close one of York's busiest junctions. Historic Walmgate Bar will be closed to all vehicles except bicycles in an attempt to preserve the well-known monument. Members of City of York Council's transport
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Fans' fund-raising drive
A NEWLY-FORMED team of York City fans has set a fund-raising target of £30,000 during the next year. The group was set up after a recent meeting of Supporters' Trust board and club board members and aims to hold one major fund-raising event each month
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Nurses greet ban on pervert
A YORK nurses' leader today welcomed a pioneering court order banning a pervert from all NHS premises across the country - but called for the courts to do more to protect staff. Magistrates in the city made the ground-breaking interim antisocial behaviour
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Danish slices through Tykes after Jaques ton
DARREN Gough hogged the spotlight with a wicket from the third ball of the day at Chelmsford yesterday but after that he was reduced to playing a secondary role. Yorkshire hit back with a century from Phil Jaques before Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria
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Sturdy bat sees top edge bottom
Askham Bryan YPO, runaway leaders of HPH York Vale Cricket League division one, had to fight all the way against basement boys Fulfordgate. Keith Pepper (52) and Paul Fairburn (58) put on 93 for the first wicket and, at 120-1 after 20 overs, 'Gate looked
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Ade was not nearly enough
Thixendale skipper Ade Brader scored 72 of his side's 126 all out against Stillingfleet in the preliminary round of the Mitchell Cup. But Jake Drummond responded with an undefeated 50 and Rich Beilby 48 as 'Fleet, for whom Chris Woodfine and Chris Walker
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Lenny Kravitz, Baptism (Virgin) ***, Alanis Morissette, So-Called Chaos (Maverick) ***
"I'm the minister for rock'n'roll," shrieks Lenny Kravitz in the Black Sabbath-esque opener to this, his seventh studio album. It is 15 years since his critically-acclaimed debut, Let Love Rule, and Kravitz has headed straight for the comfort zone with
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Cowboy Junkies, One Soul Now (Latent/Cooking Vinyl) ***
"THE moon is set, the sun comes up," murmurs Margo Timmins... and another album arrives in the unchanging world of Toronto's sepia-tinted country rock dignitaries. This is their ninth studio set, and 16 languid winters have passed since the sepulchral
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W.A.S.P. , The Neon God: Part 1 - The Rise (Sanctuary) ****
Given the calibre of the last W.A.S.P. album I heard, the heart sinks at it being "Part 1" of this conceptual rock opera, on the grounds that there would be more to follow. However, that was before discovering that Blackie is back on form. This has the
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Gabrielle, Play To Win (Universal) ***
While the Beckhams and Robbie Williams have tried in vain to become British stars in America, Gabrielle in her own quiet, unassuming way has become a major selling artist over there. Her brand of gentle, observational ballads makes pleasant non-confrontational
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Peter Gabriel, Still Growing Up Tour, Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
PETER Gabriel was always an innovator, a multi-media magician as much as a musician. First there were the costumed theatrics of Genesis and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Then came the ground-breaking videos and film soundtracks, his embracing of electronic
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Seal fate of BNP
I was pleased to see a letter in the Evening Press (May 28) from the leaders of all the main parties urging people to use their vote to keep the BNP out. This helped offset the deep sense of apprehension I felt when the BNP's election leaflet came through
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Nanny knew best
I AM very concerned at the growing number of obese people in this country, and particularly so for children who are exposed to junk food almost from birth. What chance do they stand of growing up with a taste for wholesome, nourishing food when their
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Kitted out to watch England
As Euro 2004 fever grows, STEPHEN LEWIS goes in search of a good deal on England strips. WHO says the English aren't optimists? Despite the lacklustre display against Japan this week, football fans are set to spend nearly £1 billion supporting England
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Records crash in run fest
THERE was a sensational tied game at Easingwold where the home side retained a 22-point lead in a record breaking tie against second placed Dunnington. The premier division clash a York and District Senior League set a record aggregate of 602 runs scored
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Passengers get glimpse of the new Desiro
PASSENGERS were given a sneak preview of things to come when a new train was unveiled at the York RailFest celebrations. TransPennine Express, run by FirstGroup and Keolis SA, gave visitors to the National Railway Museum a look at its new Desiro train
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Sparkling rise of ex-York schoolboy
THE man charged with revitalising food and clothing giant Marks & Spencer is a former York schoolboy, it emerged today. Ex-Bootham School pupil Stuart Rose, the former head of clothes store group Arcadia, has returned to M&S - where he began his
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Hat-trick of new appointments at Shepherds
A WOMAN has joined the executive board of York-based Shepherd Construction Ltd for the first time. She is Sharon Copland-Jones, 38, the company's personnel director, who will represent the company's "people function" on the board. She is one of three
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CAP reform in hand for farmers
A SERIES of free half-day workshops is being planned from now to September to highlight the big opportunities open to North and East Yorkshire farmers in the wake of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. The workshops, run by National Farmers' Union
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Postal voting is not so social
MY voting papers have arrived for next Thursday's elections to the European Parliament, so that is lucky. The papers landed a few days ago. The next problem is to find them. Things do wander so. We have a number of correspondence corners where letters
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Elston blow for Knights
HOOKER Jimmy Elston could require surgery to fix his knee problem - but he may only be missing for a few weeks. The super sub, who has six tries off the bench this season, was left with suspected cartilage damage after twisting a knee in a pothole during
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Pulling power of steam
THE National Railway Museum in York saw some of its biggest crowds ever at a single event as more than thousands of people crowded to RailFest. The 8,000 visitors enjoyed steam rides and saw nearly 50 locomotives, engines and vehicles, at yesterday's
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Horsing around
RENOWNED eventer Chris Bartle has opened a £700,000 equestrian centre at Askham Bryan College near York. Chris, a former coach to the British Olympic team, who runs the Yorkshire Riding Centre near Ripon and now trains the German three-day event team,
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Sturdy bat sees top edge bottom
Askham Bryan YPO, runaway leaders of HPH York Vale Cricket League division one, had to fight all the way against basement boys Fulfordgate. Keith Pepper (52) and Paul Fairburn (58) put on 93 for the first wicket and, at 120-1 after 20 overs, 'Gate looked
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Danish slices through Tykes after Jaques ton
DARREN Gough hogged the spotlight with a wicket from the third ball of the day at Chelmsford yesterday but after that he was reduced to playing a secondary role. Yorkshire hit back with a century from Phil Jaques before Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria
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Attack victim to get £400 compensation
A TEENAGE girl is to get £400 compensation from an "antisocial" youth who assaulted her in a York street. Prosecutor David Tucker told York magistrates that the 15-year-old girl was walking along Bishopthorpe Road, York, at 9.15pm, on May 19, when Danny
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Rural road crash claims car driver's life
ANOTHER life was claimed in a crash on a North Yorkshire road today. Two cars were involved in the crash near Westler Foods factory on the B1257 between Amotherby and Swinton, near Malton, at 5.30am. Police said the cars were travelling in opposite directions
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Davis targets success
YORK City's new signing Steve Davis is hoping to celebrate promotion at Bootham Crescent for the second time in his career next summer. Davis was part of Burnley's Division Four championship-winning side which secured the title with a 2-1 win at York
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Fallon to stop Dettori's bid - 03/06/04
Kieren Fallon can scupper Frankie Dettori's hopes of winning the Vodafone Oaks by taking the fillies' Classic at Epsom tomorrow on Ouija Board. The Ed Dunlop-trained three-year-old is one of only seven runners in this £350,000 showpiece race, the joint
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Davis targets success
YORK City's new signing Steve Davis is hoping to celebrate promotion at Bootham Crescent for the second time in his career next summer. Davis was part of Burnley's Division Four championship-winning side which secured the title with a 2-1 win at York
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Fans' fund-raising drive
A NEWLY-FORMED team of York City fans has set a fund-raising target of £30,000 during the next year. The group was set up after a recent meeting of Supporters' Trust board and club board members and aims to hold one major fund-raising event each month
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The Datsuns, Outta Sight/Outta Mind (V2) ***'
The Datsuns are clever enough to know that rock'n'roll isn't about being clever - they're just here to rock. Why the usually style-obsessed music press chose to champion this band of sweat-and-denim-clad 1970s rock revivalists from New Zealand, who sound
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Avril Lavigne, Under My Skin (Arista) ****
THE 2002 debut of Avril Lavigne was a revelation - the perfect artist at the perfect moment. The anti-Britney boasted credibility, and within two months, it seemed every teenage girl was sporting the regulation skater clothes and overheavy eye make-up
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Ron Sexsmith, Retriever (Nettwerk America/Parlophone) ****
VARIOUS approaches have been made to recording Ron Sexsmith, the low-key Canadian singer-songwriter. Often, the simple, unadorned way has been best; an outing with the estimable Steve Earle on production duties didn't work at all, which was a puzzle.
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Birthday presence fails to give Drax victory
Birthday boy James Brook hit 70no but his side, Drax, only posted 146-5 as they came unstuck against Woodhouse Grange in division three of the HPH York Vale Cricket League. Their score at one stage looked good enough as Woodhouse needed 50 from the last
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Adam and The Ants, The Very Best Of Adam and The Ants (Sony) ****
WOMEN swooned and grown men wore make-up when Adam and The Ants burst on to the Eighties' music scene. Two decades on, it is great to revisit Ant music which sounds as fresh as ever. The best track, Prince Charming, will have you reaching for your white
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The Magnetic Fields, i (Nonesuch) ****
I SHOULD tell you every song title starts with the letter 'i', hence the album title. Introspective it is not. Instead, Stephin Merritt - he even has an 'i' in his first name and surname, where others would pop an 'e' - is a barbed barometer of love in
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The Charlatans, Up At The Lake (Island) ****
The words 'resilient' and 'survivors' always pop up whenever The Charlatans release an album, and it is no different this time. However, it takes more than endurance for a British guitar band to survive 15 years, eight studio albums and many infamous
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D-Day heroes would be saddened by the way Britain is today
I WAS 13 on June 6, 1944, D-Day and I can remember it as if it was yesterday. I was at boarding school, The Mount, in York, not far from my home. My father was in the Air Raid Precautions unit and my mother in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, my eldest
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Come clean, Steve
IN response to Coun Steve Galloway's comments about Labour's call for an inquiry ("Barbican inquiry call 'threat to city pools'", May 26) I should like to clarify our position on development at the Barbican site. The Labour group favours development of
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Choral raptures
HOW lovely to hear choral evensong coming from York Minster (May 26). It is a service I regularly attend when visiting the beautiful city of York. The sense of peace and beauty during the worship is wonderful to behold. C Jones, Beaumont Road, St Judes
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Keep hooligans out
BRITISH football hooligans are to be prevented from leaving England for Euro 2004 in Portugal in June (May 28). What a mistake... We should let them all go - but stop them coming back in. David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York. Updated: 10:11 Thursday
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Time to pull our troops out of Iraq
COUNTY Councillor Murray Naylor thinks calling for the withdrawal of British armed forces from Iraq is wrong (Letters, May 27). He feels that by withdrawing troops we would "fail the Iraqis as well as our servicemen and women, and Britain would look ridiculous
