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Way we were
Saturday, June 5, 2004 100 years ago: A conspicuous object for miles around, and one which scarcely ever fails to attract the attention of the travelling public, is the White Horse of Kilburn, near Thirsk. Recently a paragraph appeared in the paper columns
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Calling up Napoleon
PUZZLED drinkers may have thought their night was taking a turn for the worse when four Napoleonic soldiers rolled up on a horse-drawn carriage in York city centre. But thankfully the battle-weary group were not the latest reinforcements for harassed
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Portuguese wines to go the football
IT'S a shame we can't all be in Lisbon a week tomorrow to cheer on Goldenballs and the lads. The Euro 2004 clash between England and France should be a cracker. Like most of us, I'll be watching on TV. But why not add a bit of Portuguese ambience to your
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Lovely in Lisbon
With Euro 2004 about to kick off, Dave Flett follows the sporting trail and also discovers Portugal has more to offer than football. EURO 2004 will undoubtedly be the biggest attraction for the 500,000 extra tourists who are expected to converge on Portugal
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How the Evening Press reported the D-Day news
STEVE CARROLL looks at how the Evening Press covered the D-Day landings. "INVASION going according to plan," was how the Yorkshire Evening Press broke the news of D-Day to an expectant public on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. The Press was among the first sources
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I suppose I was scared, but you didn't really think about it at the time
York veteran Tom Buck was among the first ashore at Sword beach on D-Day. He tells STEVE CARROLL his story. IT'S probably fair to say that if there was one place you didn't want to be on D-Day, it was inside a floating tank approaching the shore. "They
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Going for Gold
Hundreds of soldiers from York and North and East Yorkshire were among those who stormed the Normandy shores on D-Day. STEVE CARROLL talks to two veterans about their experiences on Gold Beach. THEY landed on Gold Beach within ten minutes of each other
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Power to the flowers of summer
THE garden is filling with flowers as we leave spring behind and go into early summer. Here, clematis viticella etoile violette has been in bloom for the past couple of weeks, which is unusual as it was originally chosen for its late flowers - usually
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A driving force on York estate
"THE Face Of Foxwood" is the latest nominee in the York Community Pride campaign. James Gumley, 68, of Foxwood Lane, has been put forward in the Volunteer Of The Year category by community development worker Cindy Beaton. Since he came to live in Foxwood
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Royal arrival
ROYALTY has made the National Railway Museum its home after rail chiefs handed over a special locomotive for the York collection. The freight train operator English, Welsh and Scottish Railways (EWS), which runs the Royal Train, has given one of its former
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Church warns of 'ghost city'
CHURCHES and businesses have joined together to call for the new parking charges in York to be scrapped. A petition has been launched asking City of York Council to reconsider the charges imposed in the Micklegate area of York. Parking in Micklegate used
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Kids' club set to lose base
A CHILDREN'S club in a village near York is set to become homeless and could face closure. Kiddies Corner Kids Club, which provides care for up to 26 children after school and in the holidays, is being evicted from the Old School building in Wilberfoss
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Caravan danger alert to owners
CARAVAN owners have been warned that a recent police survey of vehicles revealed many were dangerously overloaded and unfit for the road. Traffic officers who stopped dozens of caravans in a lay-by on the A64 near York discovered that many were too heavy
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Dis-Orienteer
GETTING lost in York is easily done. Well, it is if you are me. I once came within 30 seconds of making an SOS phone call to the office after my navigation-by-Pizza Hut tactics collapsed one lunch time, not realising there was more than one. But when
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Top York coaches honoured
THREE of York's most dedicated sports coaches have had their hard work recognised by North Yorkshire Sport. Awards were presented to eight outstanding coaches from the region at the association's third annual club and coach conference at York St John
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Dad's fury on inquest delay
AN ANGUISHED father has hit out after failing to receive an explanation for the 51-month wait for an inquest into his York daughter's death. Matthew Longhorn's comments came after an inquest jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure on 28-year-old
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Fax-ination
YORK City Knights go into tomorrow's Arriva Trains Cup quarter-final adamant that the National League Two campaign remains their priority - but that doesn't mean they'll be letting up. That was the verdict of Aussie centre Aaron Wood on the eve of the
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Where is the justice?
NOBODY will be punished for last autumn's telephone box explosions in and around York, the Evening Press has learned. Seven boxes across the city exploded after hooligans, believed to be teenagers, threw fireworks into them in the run-up to Bonfire Night
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City to launch third home kit in three years
YORK City will kick off next season in a new home kit. The design will follow club tradition and be predominantly red and will continue to be manufactured by sportswear giants, Nike. City's new strip will be in place for the next two seasons and the blue
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Pride is at stake
YORKSHIRE are anticipating a ding-dong battle against Roses rivals Lancashire in the quarter-finals of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy at Old Trafford on Wednesday, June 16. Not only would a Yorkshire victory take them one step nearer Lord's but
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Council snub to Legion is a disgrace
AS chairman of the Fulford and District Branch of the Royal British Legion I must protest at the decision not to allow our York branch to hold its Annual Festival of Remembrance in the Barbican this year ('War veterans are snookered', June 1). This raises
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Alarm over votes
Kevin Horner's assertion (Letters, June 3) that political parties are told who has voted for them is alarming. I have always assumed the registration numbers on our supposedly- secret voting forms were for the convenience of the security services; this
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Catch our litter louts
Measures introduced by the City of York Council to gain extra revenue from on the spot fines for parking offences and littering the streets are implemented by paid officers. Here in the rural villages outside the ring road there is the opportunity for
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Rethink wheelie bins
IN the Evening Press of June 2, Councillor Steve Galloway expressed disappointment that York householders are generating "ever-increasing amounts of rubbish". Is this any surprise after the previous administration foisted upon the city the enormous and
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Sha'kin all over
YORK City Knights fans are expected to turn out in force again tomorrow as their heroes go in search of Arriva Trains Cup glory. The Supporters' Club alone are taking three coaches to The Shay for the quarter-final tie against Halifax and hundreds more
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Reeth encounter
George Wilkinson has a happy meeting with summer when he visits Reeth in the Dales. REETH was basking in the northern sunshine, lovely. We left the lawnmowers cutting the greens for the Swaledale Festival, took alleyways of sweet cicely, and crossed Arkle
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The Caf, Mouseman Visitor Centre, Kilburn
THERE seems to be no end to our discoveries in North Yorkshire villages. Kilburn, nestling under the Hambleton Hills, is well known for its White Horse. It is also the home of Mouseman Thompson, one of the country's most respected craft companies. Realising
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I suppose I was scared, but you didn't really think about it at the time
York veteran Tom Buck was among the first ashore at Sword beach on D-Day. He tells STEVE CARROLL his story. IT'S probably fair to say that if there was one place you didn't want to be on D-Day, it was inside a floating tank approaching the shore. "They
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Deliverence
Can one day really change the course of history? Andrew Hitchon examines how June 6, 1944, helped to shape modern Europe. IT WAS the mightiest invasion fleet ever assembled, and the course of history rested on its success or failure. A great armada, protected
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Fax-ination
YORK City Knights go into tomorrow's Arriva Trains Cup quarter-final adamant that the National League Two campaign remains their priority - but that doesn't mean they'll be letting up. That was the verdict of Aussie centre Aaron Wood on the eve of the
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Hall sorts going on
RICHARD FOSTER spends a pleasant afternoon at a manor house deep in rural Yorkshire where he is confronted by big game trophies and celebrities of the Swinging Sixties. ENTERING Nunnington Hall is like stepping back to the heyday of the British Empire
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Lost Roman legion finds new comrades
ROMAN soldiers who vanished from York more than 1,500 years ago have returned to mark the twinning of their Legion with another from Chester. The disappearance of the Roman IX Legion remains a mystery after Harry Martindale saw their ghostly forms in
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It's a real costume drama
JO HAYWOOD delves into the dressing up box of York Theatre Royal's wardrobe department. IT'S not every day you see a trio of giggling 18th century ladies, complete with bonnets and ringlets, buying pencils in a gift shop. But then these were not every
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Thida Thai,16 George Hudson Street, York.
MAXINE GORDON visits York's newest Thai restaurant and is left with mixed feelings. A LITTLE piece of Thailand is the last thing you expect to uncover on a night out in York's lively drinking and dancing quarter at the junction of George Hudson Street
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Firefighter 'forced' to leave job
A YORK firefighter claimed today he had been forced to resign after buying a nightclub. Ian Wright, the new boss of Club seVen, in Ousegate, Selby, said his hand had been forced by North Yorkshire fire chiefs. Mr Wright, 36, who is based at York Fire
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Royal arrival
ROYALTY has made the National Railway Museum its home after rail chiefs handed over a special locomotive for the York collection. The freight train operator English, Welsh and Scottish Railways (EWS), which runs the Royal Train, has given one of its former
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Counting cost of permit blunder
TWO angry businesswomen are planning to sue City of York Council over a parking permit blunder. Jacky Featherstone and Barbara Stephenson believe they have been misled by the council, after it stopped them parking outside their business premises. They
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Why does it always rain on me?
UNUSUAL artists delighted shoppers on the streets of York as part of the preparation for the city's comedy festival. Former York St John College students Matt Charnock, Taco Michaels and Peter Marshall form The Man Who street theatre company. The trio
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York drivers fuelled for success
YORK Autograss racers motored to a fistful of winners at round one of the British Autograss Series at Green Hammerton over the Bank Holiday weekend. The host club took four first places over the two days, with three in the ladies classes. Louise Bradley
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York welcomes new dean to city
THE new Dean of York was being welcomed into the city today. The Very Rev Keith Jones was being installed as the Dean of York this afternoon by the Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, in York Minster. Dean Jones moved to his first Cathedral post as Priest's
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City to launch third home kit in three years
YORK City will kick off next season in a new home kit. The design will follow club tradition and be predominantly red and will continue to be manufactured by sportswear giants, Nike. City's new strip will be in place for the next two seasons and the blue
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Victory could be in Transit - 05/06/04
After today's Derby meeting at Epsom, Perth takes over the mantle of providing the principal racing action tomorrow. Perth stages the richest of the day's three meetings, a fact not lost on Norton trainer Brian Ellison, who I fancy to have two winners
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Ful' to the brim and ready to go
THE drive to mark Fulford Golf Club's centenary next year could not be in better hands than those of new general manager Linda Gurnell. For in her previous posting she was in charge of the Mid-Yorkshire GC at Darrington, near Pontefract, which is owned
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Win an open day at Flaxby
HERE'S the chance to win a free round of golf at North Yorkshire's newest club - the Flaxby Park Golf and Country Club. The David Hemstock-designed course, for which membership has already been closed such has been the demand, is to be officially opened
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Pike presidents
PIKE Hills Golf Club is celebrating its centenary with a brace of elections. John Taylor, 79, is this year's president of the York Union of Golf Clubs, while Bruce Wakeman has been elected as president of the East Yorkshire Alliance. Taylor, known as
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Cut speed on A64
I write in response to your article 'Woman killed in A64 horror crash' (June 2) which speculated that the recent accident would prompt fresh calls for the A64 to be dualed. An effective and vastly cheaper alternative exists to dualing the A64 between
