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Pensioners caught out by tax increase
The pound in a pensioner's pocket or purse has become the latest point of contention for politicians. CHARLOTTE PERCIVAL and JAMES SLACK look into claims that older people have lost out in the cash stakes. WITH a general election not far off, and the
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Cyclists are not all a-flutter over the footie
WHO are more patriotic, cyclists or motorists? The Diary has the definitive answer. In this case, four wheels are certainly better than two. While half the cars shuffling around York sport a St George's flag or two, cyclists have nothing fluttering except
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Crap Dad, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until June 12
NORTHERN Exposure, the festival of new plays at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, granted three-week runs to Ugljesa Sajtinac's drama Huddersfield and Andrew G Marshall's Coming Around Again, but only four days to Mark Catley's Crap Dad. Crap decision, if
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America is sweet on horse fodder
Speedi-Beet, the fast acting sugar beet feed for horses produced by a North Yorkshire firm, is set to make its second appearance in the US market this week. Masham Micronized Feeds' director Will I'Anson and business development manager Simon Parker will
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They gave their lives for our peace
CAN one generation cast envious glances back at another? The historian Tristram Hunt, writing about D-Day in one of the Sunday papers, referred in passing to this phenomenon. Deep in a lengthy dispatch, he wrote: "Some have spoken fatuously of 'generational
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Knights fit for battle
YORK City Knights are ready to lock horns with Deswbury Rams on Sunday despite today's bombshell news of Alex Godfrey's two-year suspension for failing a random drugs test. While the winger has launched an appeal against the ban, which is reported on
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Euro 2004 - yippee or yawn?
Does football excite or leave you bored; is a glorious game or an excuse for hooliganism? As Euro 2004 prepares to kick off, we ask two writers: is football good for us? :: Euro yippee Hooray for Euro 2004, says KIRSTEN GILLIES, York City supporter and
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York is still on the map
THIS is a difficult time for Norwich Union workers. For the 150 staff who are to lose their jobs, there is the trauma of redundancy. For the hundreds who remain at the York offices, there is uncertainty. A Norwich Union spokesman said today it has no
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Modest heroes
OVER the last few days we have been saluting astonishing acts of bravery in France 60 years ago. Today, we herald heroics which happened more recently and closer to home. Steven Hughes demonstrated astonishing selflessness by forcing his way into elderly
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Critics put council in picture on litter
CRITICS have responded to a "put up or shut up" challenge over York Pride. Liberal Democrat leader Steve Galloway recently blasted Labour snipers who complained some streets were not being cleaned, despite repeated calls to the council. He told them to
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Anger at rubbish tip move proposal
A LABOUR councillor has spoken out against possible plans to move a York tip that has been targeted by young vandals. Coun Brian Watson demanded answers from Coun Andrew Waller, executive member for sustainability and the environment, on the future of
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Fuel price cut 'a gimmick'
YORK'S biggest independent petrol retailer has branded the decision by supermarket chain Asda to cut petrol prices by about 2p a litre as a "gimmick". The company is introducing a nationwide price of 79.9p per litre for both unleaded and diesel at its
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Norwich Union pledge on jobs
NORWICH Union Life says it has no plans in the pipeline for any more significant job losses in York, following yesterday's announcement that 150 posts are being axed. But a spokesman has stressed that the company must remain efficient in a competitive
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Sex games force car park closure
A CAR park leading to a North Yorkshire beauty spot has been fenced off and padlocked to stop illicit sex games. The main car park at the 900-acre Bishop Wood, near Selby, is now out of bounds to motorists after being identified as a prime location for
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Brass' Euro 2004 training tips
YORK City player-boss Chris Brass will combine his holiday in Portugal with a spying mission this month. Brass intends to visit both the English and Spanish training camps during his summer break and will be on the look out for any innovative coaching
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York star fails drugs test
A YORK City Knights rugby league star has been suspended from the game after failing a drugs test. The Evening Press learned today that winger Alex Godfrey, who lives in York, tested positive for an element of a banned substance. The Rugby Football League
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Knights fit for battle
YORK City Knights are ready to lock horns with Deswbury Rams on Sunday despite today's bombshell news of Alex Godfrey's two-year suspension for failing a random drugs test. While the winger has launched an appeal against the ban, which is reported on
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It could be hard to catch the Cat - 10/06/04
Ryedale trainer John Wainwright, whose Mis Chicaf, a recent runaway winner at York, has been installed the 7-1 favourite for Saturday's £75,000 William Hill Trophy on Knavesmire, is aiming to have an early celebration on his local course on Friday. Wainwright
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Brass' Euro 2004 training tips
YORK City player-boss Chris Brass will combine his holiday in Portugal with a spying mission this month. Brass intends to visit both the English and Spanish training camps during his summer break and will be on the look out for any innovative coaching
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Rodney Crowell, Fate's Right Hand (Sony) ****
WHILE so much music seeks out the darkness, Crowell's is the sound of that most rare creation, a contented middle-aged man. "Life's been good I guess" goes the opening track, and he can make even the line "every day that passes, I'm in the need of thicker
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The Corrs, Borrowed Heaven (Atlantic) ***
Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer wrote the Golden Globe-nominated Time Enough For Tears (from the movie In America), Ladysmith Black Mambaza perform on Borrowed Heaven, and Summer Sunshine owes more than a nod of recognition to The Stones' Ruby Tuesday
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Are bollards needed?
IN response to the Heslington Lane bollard proposal, 54 per cent of residents are in favour, according to a recent consultation organised by City Of York Council (May 24). Why did the council only consult 50 per cent of Fulford? After 9am, the road is
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Here we go, here we go...
WHAT a marvellous idea and so simple: the flags of St George flying from certain car windows and "bunny ears" on the helmets of some motor bikers. They are blissfully unaware they can be seen coming and it gives the rest of us a sporting chance, we're
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Growth forces firm to move
Garbutt & Elliott, one of North Yorkshire's biggest firm of business advisers and chartered accountants, is moving out of its historic York base in Monkgate and into modern premises on the outskirts of the city next month. About 80 staff will transfer
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Derelict cart house purr-fect for gallery
A North Yorkshire woman has transformed a disused, run-down outbuilding into an unusual shop and gallery. Jan Bradshaw spent £30,000 converting and preparing an old cart house at Nunnington, near Helmsley, into a stylish shop. The business, Agnus &
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Calling all hi-tech ventures
TOP businesses in York and North Yorkshire are being urged to repeat the region's success in the prestigious 2004 Deloitte Northern Technology Fast 50 Programme. Last year 14 Yorkshire companies ranked among technology ventures playing a vital role in
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York star fails drugs test
A YORK City Knights rugby league star has been suspended from the game after failing a drugs test. The Evening Press learned today that winger Alex Godfrey, who lives in York, tested positive for an element of a banned substance. The Rugby Football League
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150 jobs axed
NORWICH Union Life is axing at least 150 jobs in York. The company announced today that work in its Life business services division will be transferred to IT outsourcing companies, operating globally in locations including India, Europe and America. The
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Tits living with danger
THE little box on the wall was intended for the cigarette ends which people discard before entering the manor - but nobody told the birds. A pair of blue tits decided it would do very nicely as a nesting box and set up home inside. That was fine until
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Misuse of car park fines mooted
PLANS to impose stinging fines on motorists misusing the new Monks Cross Park&Ride site look set to be watered down. Council officers have recommended that a £30 fine be levied on motorists in the Park&Ride car park who do not use the bus or take
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Row over pile of stinking rubbish
AN ANGRY York woman who has had stinking rubbish left lying near her home for two weeks today called on the council to shift it. Vicky Power, of Eldon Terrace, claims bin men will not collect the waste because it is not in a wheeled bin. But she says
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Police chief's tough challenges
NORTH Yorkshire Chief Constable Della Cannings says the force's biggest challenge for the next six months is sustaining the successes it has already achieved. But in an interview with the Evening Press she admitted that the York and Selby district faces
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Wild end to last unbeaten record
THINGS are tight at the top of HPH York Vale Cricket League division one after the only undefeated record sank at North Duffield. In a game of four quarters, North openers Lee Wild (70) and Dave Beilby (46) gorged themselves on a feast of Askham Bryan
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Honours for city life-saving heroes
A HERO who smashed his way into a burning house to rescue his elderly neighbour has been commended by the fire service. Brave Steven Hughes, 34, of Bad Bargain Lane, York, pulled his neighbour, Ted Striker, from his burning house in the early hours of
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Boro step up bid for Viduka
MIDDLESBROUGH officials will fly to Croatia to try to push through a £4 million deal for Mark Viduka. The Teesside club tried to sign the Aussie in January but Viduka chose to stay at Elland Road and lead the club's fight to avoid relegation. That bid
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Euro vote turnout at 40 per cent
COUNCIL officers were busy processing ballot papers for the Euro election today, as voting numbers reached nearly 40 per cent. Elizabeth Ellis, the council's electoral and civic services manager, said the numbers of voters who had filled in their ballot
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York duo net pro contracts
FORMER Joseph Rowntree pupils Michael Vickers and Carsten Armstrong have signed their first professional football contracts. The Premier Soccer School graduates have both left Barnsley's academy team to join First Division clubs. Free-scoring Vickers,
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PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her (Island) ***
A FEW years ago, uncompromising West Country art-rock icon Polly Harvey looked set to win over the mainstream, after years of cult success stretching back to her precocious early 1990s debut Dry. Her award-winning Stories From The City, Stories From The
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Supergrass, Supergrass Is Ten (Parlophone) ****
CAN it really be ten years since these cheeky, side-burned rapscallions won us over with the Britpop classic Alright? The oddly-faced Oxford trio, Gaz Coombes, Mickey Quinn and Danny Goffey, have released four albums in that time and this 21-track compilation
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Omara Portuondo, Flor De Amor (World Circuit) ***
THIS is the second solo album from Omara, the veteran Cuban singer with the Buena Vista Social Club. As on previous outings, to listen is to be enchanted; the only trouble lies in how much enchantment a person can take in one music-listening lifetime.
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The Watersons, Mighty River Of Song (Topic) *****
ONE day, all box sets will be made this way. Four CDs from 40 years of English folk song are complemented by the road-documentary DVD Travelling For A Living, a 52-page history booklet with running commentary and a family-tree wall chart of the discography
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Waterson: Carthy, Fishes And Fine Yellow Sand (Topic) ***
THE fifth album from the Waterson: Carthy folk franchise presents an eclectic selection of material from a formidable range of sources. Songs of the sea and singing fishes, an English song that celebrates Napoleon Bonaparte and another English song (Green
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Wild end to last unbeaten record
THINGS are tight at the top of HPH York Vale Cricket League division one after the only undefeated record sank at North Duffield. In a game of four quarters, North openers Lee Wild (70) and Dave Beilby (46) gorged themselves on a feast of Askham Bryan
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Skipper supreme
CAPTAIN marvel Neil Atkinson was the hero for Kelfield with an undefeated match-winning century in the HPH York Vale league division two derby at home to Stillingfleet. The run-laden clash saw Stillingfleet thrash 230-5, the once retired Andy Atkinson
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England and France are the main contenders
THERE are two teams that stand out for me as potential winners of Euro 2004. One, being the patriot I am, is England as long as they keep everyone fit, and the other is France. In England, we are fortunate to have several youngsters coming through at
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Gardens show our lasting respect
IN response to Major Jessop's letter (June 5), it was expected that the Barbican would be undergoing a major modernisation later this year and for that reason the Royal British Legion were advised to book one of the other halls that they have used in
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Gliding: the facts
I READ Mr Stephenson's letter with interest (June 4). I have almost completed the 'war diary' of Full Sutton airfield and I am afraid there is no record of gliders either operating or being tested from this airfield; in fact the first operation was not
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Hope for rail link
WE do not share your correspondent's pessimism that politicians in Government will forever resist public demand for popular rail revival schemes - especially with oil prices going through the roof (Letters, May 19). Environment department figures indicate
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Taking it slowly
ON several occasions recently I have been driving slowly and carefully over speed humps when I have been overtaken. This happens regularly when I am driving down Gale Lane in Acomb and one day occurred twice, once in Gale Lane and once in Heslington Road
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Fairness for all
I AM writing to ask readers to support the Mobilise campaign which is fighting to end the injustice of age discrimination in disability benefits. The Mobilise campaign has the backing of organisations including Help the Aged, Disability Alliance, Royal
