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Preparation is key for festival fun
SUMMER, the season for music festivals and other outdoor events, has arrived. However, before leaving for weekends of entertainment make sure you are well equipped and know your rights in case things go wrong. If you're travelling to an organised event
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Way we were
Thursday, June 24, 2004 100 years ago: The North-Eastern Railway Company decided that it would "have nothing to do with" the proposed scheme for a deep sea harbour for Scarborough. Columnist TT thought that it was a disappointment, but as the decision
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Hotel Vacancies
City Centre Hotel Group. Due to expansion we currently have the following vacancies, available for immediate start: Assistant Handyperson, Breakfast Chef, Nightporter, Chamberperson/Waiting Staff and Evening Duty Manager. Above positions are available
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Sales Assistant
Sales Assistants required full and part tim, relevant sales experience an advantage but not essential. Please apply in writing in the first instance to: J Y Cooke, General Manager, Barnitts Ltd, 24-26 Colliergate, York YO18 8BN. Fax. 01904 624975. email
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Catering Vacancies
Riverside Farm require the following staff. Full time Bar/Restaurant person, experience preferred but full training will be given. 18years+. Full time Commis Chef, experienced working in a busy kitchen an advantage. Morning cleaner Wed-Sat, 4 mornings
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Dental Nurse
Full Time Dental Nurse required to join busy caring practice, to gain National Certificate for Dental Nurses. No experience necessary as full trianing will be given. Applicants must be enthusiastic, caring and willing to work as part of a team. Reply
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Chef/Cook
The Wentworth Arms require Chef/Cook. 35hours+ per week to include weekends. £6.50 per hour depending on experience. Contact Nicola or Louise 01653 692618. Updated: 15:13 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Plumbing Supervisor
Experienced Plumbing Supervisor required for busy plumbing and heating contractors specialising in housing projects. Package includes company car, BUPA, pension scheme etc. Apply in writing to K Sowry, John N Dunn (Leeds) Ltd, 3 Manor Court, Manor Hill
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Purchase Ledger and Sales Clerk
Full time Purchase Ledger and Sales Clerk. 35 hours per week. Full time Sales/General Office Clerk. 40 hours per week. Must be computer literate with good telephone skills. both posts Mon-Fri in busy sales office with Malton company. Application forms
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Sales and Customer Services
Sales and Customer Service. York based gear4music.com is looking for enthusiastic sales and customer service staff to help drive the company's expansion program. The successful applicant should be computer literate, have excellent communication skills
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Who pays for Ascot?
YORK awaits next year's Royal Ascot with fevered anticipation. It promises to be a great event and will give the city the sort of promotion and exposure of which tourism bosses can normally only dream. For five days, the eyes of the world will be on York
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Bricklayers
Bricklayers reuqired for small works, also labourers. Permanent positions, wages negotiable. Tel 07951 461690 (m) or 01759 380161. Updated: 14:59 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Police in talks on York bill for Ascot
POLICE chiefs are locked in top-level talks to prevent local council taxpayers picking up the multimillion-pound bill for policing Royal Ascot at York. Officers say the meeting at York Racecourse will be the largest pre-planned event that the force has
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Food Production Operatives
Food Production Operatives required. Full days and shift work available. Long term work. £7.34 per hour plus shift pay. Required for packing goods and line work. Please call PMP Recruitment Ltd, Sarah on 01904 602125. Updated: 14:58 Thursday, June 24,
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Landscape Operatives/Labourers
Landscape Operatives/Labourers urgently required for a variety of sites in and around York. Duties to include turfing, tree planting and grass cutting. Telephone Judi on 01904 481004. Updated: 14:56 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Taylors sells tea to China in export drive
A NORTH Yorkshire company has achieved the near impossible - selling tea to China. Taylors of Harrogate has cracked what could be considered one of the world's most difficult markets, selling tea to the Chinese. The specialist tea and coffee merchant
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Matt pressed up to the 9s
New Earswick All Blacks winger Matt Godfrey will make his international debut this weekend when he plays for the West Indies Wahoos at the York International 9s. The York 9s will be played at Heworth ARLFC's Elm Park Way ground this Saturday and Sunday
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Clifton get the FA boot
CLIFTON FC have been booted out of the York FA Sunday Afternoon League Cup for the next two seasons. The ban, coupled with a hefty fine, has been imposed by football chiefs after police were called to last season's final against St John's College after
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In like Finn
AS England prepares for its vital Euro 2004 match against Portugal, fans all over the country are nervously awaiting kick-off. One supporter is smaller than the rest and, we can confidently predict, the tiniest England fan around, Baby Finn Morgan, born
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Unions to stage parking protest
TRADES unionists are pressing ahead with a mass lobby of York councillors against controversial parking charges and restrictions. They are seeking the backing of ordinary motorists, residents and businesses, who they say have all been badly hit by the
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Homes dilemma for city families
HUNDREDS of people are waiting for housing with no realistic chance of being able to afford a property, a York council survey reveals. Figures from City of York Council show that 3,600 applicants are on the city's housing list. While demand is mainly
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City is now 'hotbed of cycle crime'
YORK cyclists are more likely to have their bicycle stolen than those in any other part of the North Yorkshire Police area as thieves made off with an average of more than five every day last year. New police figures reveal that the number of bicycle
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Chance to feast in old York shop
DINERS could feast among a century of memories of one of York's most famous shops if plans for Foss Bridge House get the go-ahead. The owners of the former F R Stubbs hardware store in Fossway are applying for permission to convert it into a food retail
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York cheated of £6.5m in tax
TAXDODGERS cheated York out of £6.5 million last year, shocking new figures reveal. City of York Council should have collected £57 million in Council Tax from households during 2003-04. But it only raked in £53.3 million - a shortfall of £3.7 million,
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Far from rosy for Tykes
Yorkshire endured the grimmest of midsummer days at the Rose Bowl on Wednesday when a combination of a wet ground, blustery showers and bad light limited play to 10.4 overs in three sessions on the first day of their Championship match with Hampshire.
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Norwich have no retort to Askham
ASKHAM Bryan YPO were in rampant form to demolish Norwich Union in the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale League top of division one duel. Batting first, Norwich Union found Glynn Botterill and Mike Hamshere in devastating form. Hamshere took 7-21 from
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Home fire to scorch hosts
YORK City boss Chris Brass believes home advantage could count against Portugal in tonight's mouth-watering quarter-final clash with England. Brass will be among the sell-out crowd this evening at the Estadio Da Luz and thinks the hosts could feel the
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Cheaper bus fares call for York teenagers
TEENAGERS could get cheaper bus fares under proposals to improve life for young people in York. A city council group has worked for a year with young people and others to tackle issues facing the city's youth. It warns that many young people feel threatened
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Five youths arrested after gang trouble
FIVE teenagers have been arrested in connection with a wave of antisocial behaviour blamed on a gang of youths who "terrorise" a York suburb. Officers today revealed that they had already stepped up operations in the Green Lane area of Acomb following
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Oz back to help crocked Knights
YORK City Knights appear to have only 16 fit and available players for Sunday's showdown with Hull KR - and that includes the one-off return of boomerang boy Mark Stewart. The Aussie utility star played his last game for the Knights in the home game against
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York man accused of double murder
An unemployed 42-year-old man this afternoon appeared before York magistrates accused of a double murder. John Paul Marshall, of no fixed address, is alleged to have killed York men Kevin Mulgrew, 38, and Daniel Wall, 27, between November 30 and December
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City call the Shots on open day
YORK City will travel to last season's Conference play-off finalists Aldershot on the opening day of the new campaign. The fixture could also mean a reunion with former Minstermen defender Ray Warburton, who starred for the Shots last season. The Hampshire
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Far from rosy for Tykes
Yorkshire endured the grimmest of midsummer days at the Rose Bowl on Wednesday when a combination of a wet ground, blustery showers and bad light limited play to 10.4 overs in three sessions on the first day of their Championship match with Hampshire.
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Praise for police
I AM the shopkeeper who was confronted by an armed robber last Thursday. I would like to praise and thank all the members of the police force I came into contact with on Thursday night and the following day. Every one of them I met from uniformed officers
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Stage rage
HAVING been to see a recent production in the Joseph Rowntree Theatre I turned with interest to the review by Charles Hutchinson to see what he thought ("Fame beckons for hotbed of young talent," June 17). I did not expect to find it beginning with derogatory
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On the wrong track
I AM at a loss to understand the decision by Rail Regulator Tom Windsor to decline permission for Grand Central Railway's proposed new Transpennine rail service. Yes this would have paralleled other train operators on some sections of its intended route
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Tired of Tony
SO, Mr Blair has done it once again, taken no notice of what the people of this country care or think. Ignoring what the majority of the electorate said in the recent European elections, he still goes ahead and agrees on the EU Constitution. You reported
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Dental Nurse/Receptionist
Dental Nurse/Receptionist position available in friendly practice. Full time or part time, must have dental experience. Salary negotiable. For further details contact Julie Betts on 01904 422918. Updated: 14:53 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Driver/Packer
Driver/Packer nights required, 6 nights £280.31 per week (3, 4 or 5 nights possible pro rata). Full driving licence, no experience necessary as full trianing will be given. Duties involve packing and delivering newspapers in the York area. Will involve
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Doctor, doctor, please get to the root of tree problem
TREES have always been among my best friends.This affinity prompts concern for one in Blossom Street; yes, Blossom Street, York, near the Odeon Cinema. Ironically, it seems either seriously retarded - or simply dead when compared with the vigorously leafy
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Food Production Operatives
Food Production Operatives required. Part time am and part time evening shifts. Long term work. £7.34 per hour. Required for packing goods and line work. Please call Sarah on 01904 602125. Updated: 14:48 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Beastie Boys, To The 5 Boroughs (Capitol) ****
WHO'D have thought that a band who began their career as the white-trash novelty rap brats of Fight For Your Right To Party - setting the 1980s tabloids in a flap and causing an international epidemic of stolen VW car badges - would wind up 20 years later
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Recruitment Consultant/Recruiter
PMP Recruitment require Experienced Recruitment Consultant/Recruiter. Must be flexible, be able to work under own initiative to tight deadlines. Must be able to work as part of a small team. Interpersonal and communication skills are essential. £20,000
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Sales Assistants
Shell Petrol Station, Hull Road require Sales Assistants to cover various shifts over a 24 hour day, 7 days a week. These positions are permanent and are either part time or full time. Please contact Sean in Staxton on 01944 712900 for an application
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Ian McLagan and The Bump Band, Rise And Shine (When) *
Sadly this 11-track album by former Small Faces man Ian 'Mac' McLagan neither rises nor shines. Apart from Your Secret, a honky-tonk upbeat number, there is nothing even approaching outstanding. Unlike former Small Faces heroes such as Steve Marriott,
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Carers
Experienced Carers to work with young paraplegic male with slight special needs. City centre. 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri. 10pm-8pm, 6 days flexible. Tel. 01904 655422. Updated: 14:30 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Pink Grease, This Is For Real (Mute) ****
Sheffield sextet Pink Grease deliver a fine slice of inspired glam punk rock with debut album This Is For Real. A strange combination of Roxy Music with the Rocky Horror Show, it packs a raucous punch. Think oodles of sax, weird electronic noises and
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Velvet Revolver, Contraband (RCA) **
One boozy night on Portsmouth's South Parade Pier, my friend John tried a bit of self-piercing with a carving fork as a tribute to the group that shaped our youth. That was almost 15 years ago. Parents of today should have no fear that this new vehicle
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The Calling, Two (BMG) *
I HATE bands like The Calling. This is rock music. It's supposed to take the rules and smash them over one knee. Rock should defy the ordinary, not be this lily-livered line of mid-Eighties, mid-tempo, middle-of-the-road humdrum. Last Saturday, young
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The Killers, Hot Fuss (Lizard King) *****
IF any more confirmation was needed that the Eighties is casting a large shadow over today's music, it's this album. The Las Vegas foursome have clearly been listening to their U2 back catalogue - hardly surprising since Alan Moulder mixed two-thirds
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Youssou N'Dour, Egypt (Nonesuch) ****
THE great Senegalese singer takes a different, and mostly welcome, new direction. While recent albums have flirted with Western music, and sometimes included cringe-worthy mainstream guests, Egypt betrays a return to his roots. N'Dour has always been
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Norwich have no retort to Askham
ASKHAM Bryan YPO were in rampant form to demolish Norwich Union in the Horwath Pulleyn Heselton York Vale League top of division one duel. Batting first, Norwich Union found Glynn Botterill and Mike Hamshere in devastating form. Hamshere took 7-21 from
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If not Euro, then watch England for the World Cup
BACK-TO-BACK victories have raised England's expectations of success here in Portugal but I believe, without getting carried away, that this team has the potential to win the competition. Furthermore, the players will probably still be together in two
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Wagons Ho! Mystery Plays to go ahead in 2006
THE Guilds of York have confirmed that the York Mystery Plays will be staged again in 2006 - on the back of pageant wagons. They say the Plays are to be performed at various locations around the city, in line with medieval custom, on July 9 and 16. The
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Nii Tettey Tetteh and the Kusun Ensemble, Agoo!, Grand Opera House, York.
NII TETTEY TETTEH and the Kusun Ensemble of drummers and dancers are in York for June and July, both performing and instructing in the art of traditional Ghanaian music and dance. York is already twinned with Dijon in France and Munster in Germany, and
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Dental Nurse
Full time Dental Nurse required to join busy caring practice, to gain National Certificate for Dental Nurses. No experience necessary as full training will be given. Applicants must be enthusiastic , caring and willing to work as part of a team. Reply
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Painter and Decorator
Painter and Decorator required. Time served trades person, on the books or CIS card. Blackburn & Chapman 07730 770952 (m) or 07762 188081 (m). Updated: 15:17 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Catering Assistant
Catering Assistant, 26 hours per week over 4 days, Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm. £5.10 per hour. Weekend Catering Assistants, 14.5 hours per weekend. £5.00 per hour. Eurest Catering - Sainsburys - Fossbank. Call 07764 446058 (m) for details. Updated: 15:12 Thursday
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Customer Care Assistant
Full time Cusotmer Care Assistant required for busy customer care department, dealing with telephone and email enquiries. Must have good telephone manner and be computer literate. Apply in writing to Helen Lawson, YDL, Yorkshire House, Barton Hill, Whitwell
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Learning Support Assistant
Huntington School, Huntington Road, York YO32 9WT. 11 t0 18 comprehensive school with Technology College status, 1500 pupils on roll, 275 in the sixth form. £10,668-£13,863 (pro rata, term time only). 20-25 hours per week. We wish to appoint a Learning
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League placings for council allowances
IT is always fun to find out how much people are paid, and the Diary has been poring over the latest set of York councillors' allowances, just published. The figures cover payments for the last financial year, ending in March. As you might expect, the
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Chef returns to tickle taste-buds
A FORMER York restaurant owner has made a comeback on the city's culinary scene. David Rose, former proprietor and head chef of the Blue Bicycle, in Fossgate, has joined York restaurant Sous le Mont, in The Mount, York, as its chef-director, which means
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£9m health unit hailed
A YORK firm has completed a groundbreaking £9 million construction project at a hospital in the region. Modular construction company Yorkon has designed and built a three-storey healthcare facility for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. It is believed
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Union backing to find local heroes
A MAJOR finance company has thrown its weight behind our York Community Pride awards. Norwich Union, which employs about 3,000 people in York, has agreed to sponsor the whole of our campaign to find the city's true community heroes. The finance giant
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Are new homes the slums of tomorrow?
A HEADLINE in one of the big Sunday newspapers catches the eye. "Designer bemoans 'rotten' new homes," it reads. That's interesting. I've been bemoaning them for ages. The designer in question is Wayne Hemingway, who is shown in a picture sporting a designer
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Oz back to help crocked Knights
YORK City Knights appear to have only 16 fit and available players for Sunday's showdown with Hull KR - and that includes the one-off return of boomerang boy Mark Stewart. The Aussie utility star played his last game for the Knights in the home game against
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Course helps to turn boys into dads
JO HAYWOOD talks to two York teenagers on a course where you don't get a certificate at the end of it - you get a baby. WHEN England kicked off against Croatia in Euro 2004, Cameron kicked off in his mum. He's not due to make his debut into the world
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Who pays for Ascot?
YORK awaits next year's Royal Ascot with fevered anticipation. It promises to be a great event and will give the city the sort of promotion and exposure of which tourism bosses can normally only dream. For five days, the eyes of the world will be on York
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Dismay after inquiry blocked
A YORK conservation watchdog has spoken of its "bitter disappointment" at the Government's decision not to call a public inquiry into the redevelopment of the Barbican Centre. The Evening Press reported in later editions yesterday how the proposals, which
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Wagons Ho! Mystery Plays to go ahead in 2006
THE Guilds of York have confirmed that the York Mystery Plays will be staged again in 2006 - on the back of pageant wagons. They say the Plays are to be performed at various locations around the city, in line with medieval custom, on July 9 and 16. The
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Coral can sprint to cup triumph - 24/06/04
Trainer John Quinn's decision to bypass last week's Royal Ascot meeting with Caribbean Coral to keep him for Newcastle is expected to pay handsome dividends tomorrow evening. The £30,000 Northern Rock Gosforth Park Cup is the target for the Ryedale sprinter
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Little Finn ready to leave hospital
HE was born 14 weeks prematurely weighing the same as a bag of sugar - but today baby Finn Morgan is ready to leave hospital. Finn's parents Gill and Nick Morgan were 276 miles from home when Gill went into labour at York Hospital, only 26 weeks into
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City call the Shots on open day
YORK City will travel to last season's Conference play-off finalists Aldershot on the opening day of the new campaign. The fixture could also mean a reunion with former Minstermen defender Ray Warburton, who starred for the Shots last season. The Hampshire
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Police in talks on York bill for Ascot
POLICE chiefs are locked in top-level talks to prevent local council taxpayers picking up the multimillion-pound bill for policing Royal Ascot at York. Officers say the meeting at York Racecourse will be the largest pre-planned event that the force has
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A neighbour's view
IN response to the letters from Mr T M Cullen and Mr A Morris regarding Jeffrey Ward, I have been a close neighbour of Jeffrey Ward during his stay in Clementhorpe and I informed those gentlemen that it was the neighbours who received the harsh punishment
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No protection
COUNCIL leader Steve Galloway promises Badger Hill residents that their estate will not become a student "ghetto" protected by planning guidelines (June 18). I'm afraid not. The guidelines encourage so called "family units" of six or more residents living
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Kill the pigeons
I AGREE 100 per cent with Jason Rayner (Letters, June 18). Fines should be imposed on people who throw food to the wretched sky rats (pigeons) and there should be notices displayed at strategic points deterring people from doing so. I've never seen anyone
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Driver
Driver required for Friday and Saturday nights, 11pm-7am, 16 hours per week. Full driving licence required, no experience necessary as full training will be given. Duties involve packing and delivering newspapers in the York area. Will involve liftin
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Teeth in trouble
I WRITE on behalf of a significant number of older people in York who have come to us for help in finding a National Health Service dentist to treat them. Despite the promises made by Mr Blair that everyone should have access to a NHS dentist by 2001,
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Badly Drawn Boy, One Plus One Is One (Twisted Nerve/XL Recordings) *** ; Devendra Banhart, Rejoicing
Beneath that trademark tea cosy, the woolly thinking about fame and celebrity has gone. After his head-turning Los Angeles experiences making the About A Boy soundtrack and over-stretched Have You Fed The Fish? in quick succession, Badly Drawn Boy's Damon
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Stoneworkers/Bricklayers
Stoneworkers/Bricklayers required for work in Ryedale. Long term contract. Apply Scothern Construction Ltd 01653 698382. Updated: 14:32 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Bob Dylan, The Essential Bob Dylan (Columbia) ***
Bob Dylan has written two masterpieces (Blonde On Blonde and Blood On The Tracks), four classics (Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, John Wesley Harding and Desire) and, at a conservative estimate, six other albums liberally sprinkled with
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Maintenance/Painter
Part time Maintenance/Painter required for local hotel. Tel. 01904 612494. Updated: 14:29 Thursday, June 24, 2004
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Faithless, No Roots (BMG Music) ***
FAITHLESS deserve admiration - even if they do say so themselves. In the cringeworthy sleevenotes, principal songwriter Rollo Armstrong, a former University of York student and brother of Dido, says: "Whatever happens I think we can be hugely proud of
