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Egton Bridge in glorious Eskdale
George Wilkinson takes a soothing summer saunter around Egton Bridge in glorious Eskdale. We got to Sleights a little bit early for our train so we bowled round an antique shop, a cake shop and a butcher's deli, then avoided watching paint dry on the
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Wykeham Tearooms, near Scarborough
IT was late afternoon when we pulled into the car park. There were signs that perhaps the place was about to close. When we entered one of the proprietors said: "Sit right at the end" while the other said: "Sit anywhere". Before I looked at the menu I
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We will bin you
THE furious owner of one of York's top restaurants - Rish, in Fossgate - is planning to hit City of York Council in the pocket over its controversial parking policies. Maria Abu Rish has warned that if she does not succeed in forcing a change of mind,
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Hail Dale
CHRIS Langley has welcomed the arrival of another central attraction to York City Knights, believing it to be a huge boost in the club's promotion push. Langley was a team-mate of fellow centre Dale Cardoza at Super League outfit Huddersfield, and the
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60 Below, The Minster Hotel, 60 Bootham, York
STEPHEN LEWIS gets the lowdown on a hotel dining room that's going public. SO what's the restaurant called now? I asked the girl at the other end of the telephone as I booked a table at the Minster Hotel's re-named dining room. "60 Below," she said. "
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Paddle power
Hundreds of people are gearing up to take part in the second Great York Dragon Boat Challenge tomorrow week, but, as HAYDN LEWIS reports, there is more to it than just mucking about on the river. PEOPLE from all walks of life are taking part in The Great
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Giving it away
As a new play about a bogus charity scam opens in York, STEPHEN LEWIS talks to charity fundraisers about why we give. PEOPLE can be incredibly generous - as actors from York Theatre Royal discovered.They were out and about in the city for a photocall
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Cyclist injured in city crash calamity
A CYCLIST needed hospital treatment after two bikes collided - then one hit the back of a van. The three-way crash happened yesterday at Carr Lane, Acomb. York Police said a cyclist was in collision with another cycle, which then went into the back of
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Demolition plans spark legal check
LEGAL experts are to be consulted about plans to demolish a York working men's club and replace it with flats. Members of City of York Council want to investigate whether they can object to the proposals for the Promenade WMC, in St Benedicts Road, on
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Dancer's got great chance - 03/07/04
The powerful Godolphin stable send a two-year-old runner to Redcar tomorrow in the shape of Northern Splendour, but it might be a horse trained closer to home that proves his undoing. There is no comparison in the quantity and quality in Saeed Bin Suroor's
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Good riddance, June
GOODBYE June and good riddance. Clouds surely "busted" out all over. But let us acknowledge the elements' blessings on York. On its first and last evenings, June endowed awesome squashed-orange sunsets over Acomb, with free viewing for those with the
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Riot of floral colour
A BIG thank you to whoever is responsible for the very beautiful floral arrangements in the city just now. Those tall pillars of mingled lilac, mauve, purple and white flowers rising above square planters are spectacular, as are the matching hanging baskets
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Man cut out of crash wreckage
A MAN was taken to hospital with suspected head and spine injuries following a car accident at a York junction. The 61-year-old had to be cut free from a blue Ford Focus by firefighters, who removed the top of the vehicle and put the patient on a spine
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Labour slams housing policy
A DOUBLE-PRONGED attack has been launched on council housing policy in York. Labour housing chief Ruth Potter claims residents' associations across the city are up in arms over changes to estate improvement budgets. Coun Potter said the budgets had been
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Animal home bans visitors
YORK RSPCA officials have banned the public from looking round its kennels area without an appointment, it was revealed today. They say they were forced to take the drastic measure at the animal home in Landing Lane, because of regular abuse to staff
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Nurses to run minor injury clinic
A NEW minor injuries service aimed at slashing the time patients have to wait be treated for relatively minor injuries and illnesses is to be launched at York Hospital. The £250,000 initiative will help York Hospitals NHS Trust meet Government targets
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Club boldly fights for its future
YORK amateur boxing is poised to leap up from the canvas again - but it needs support of the city's sporting public. The club which initially nurtured the talent of former undefeated European, Commonwealth and British super-middleweight champion Henry
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Hail Dale
CHRIS Langley has welcomed the arrival of another central attraction to York City Knights, believing it to be a huge boost in the club's promotion push. Langley was a team-mate of fellow centre Dale Cardoza at Super League outfit Huddersfield, and the
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We will bin you
THE furious owner of one of York's top restaurants - Rish, in Fossgate - is planning to hit City of York Council in the pocket over its controversial parking policies. Maria Abu Rish has warned that if she does not succeed in forcing a change of mind,
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Cracker Jaques
The end of June marked the half-way stage of the season for Yorkshire in the Championship and the totesport League and after a shaky start in both competitions they are now on track for a double promotion. In addition, they have made it through to the
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Way we were
Saturday, July 3, 2004 100 years ago: The Durham and New-castle Volunteer Engineers were in their annual camp at Strensall. It was sug-gested they might put in a useful week running a light railway line up to the common from the station, as there were
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Pints with a past
YORK should be blessed with a hundred or more truly historic pubs. But due to the careless and cavalier attitudes of various pub owners down the years, the list has been whittled down to 13. That is the number of city venues in the just published third
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Kennedy's boss faces the 'chop'
Hmmm...long-haired Kennedy's boss John "Ginola" Mooney may have offered up his locks for charity but by the look of these pictures it was more of a trim than a scalping. On the bright side, staff at the Little Stonegate bar sound relieved that his just-got-out-of-bed
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Feeling the need to indulge
What's 15 kilometres long, cigar shaped and a thinly veiled excuse to write about Australian wine? That'll be the Coonawarra wine-growing region in Oz. It's South Australia's southernmost wine region and benefits, taking a wine grower's perspective, from
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Blooming summer
IT is July and gardens are filled with flowers. Summer perennials are in full bloom, while bedding and tender perennials are bursting into life now they are safe from frost. The plants in our extended border are doing well and the empty spaces are gradually
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Club crosses Pennine barrier
Amateur rugby league club New Earswick All Blacks have joined the Pennine League, it has been confirmed. The White Rose Avenue outfit's membership application was accepted at the Pennine League annual meeting so their switch from the Yorkshire League
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A world of chocolate
Mike Laycock visits chocolate heaven, otherwise known as Cadbury World. IT was like one of those sponsored challenges: how many bars of chocolate can you eat at one go? It started as we were entering the exhibition and were each handed a couple of bars
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I made a monster
STEPHEN LEWIS speaks to the former York schoolboy who helped bring the loveable green ogre Shrek to life. THE problem with Shrek, says animator Anthony Hodgson, is that the loveable green ogre is such a funny shape. He is not trying to be fattist or anything
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Henmania is really a big delusion
WIMBLEDON, for long associated with strawberries and cream, has in recent years become just as linked with "Henmania" which many consider as "Henmadness". This condition involves the worst affected sufferers marching up a hill known as Henman Hill and
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Maths destruction
THE Diary mentioned that during his schooldays, Peter Bleach used a German uniform in military exercises (June 25). This is not surprising. He would only have been copying the schoolmasters. At that time they were renowned for the storage, preservation
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Hall day opening
THE annual fete for Brawby Village Hall funds raised £400 despite the horrible weather which forced us inside. There were cake stalls, bric-a-brac and plant stalls, ice cream, tombola, darts, bowling and a photographic competition, a raffle and face-painting
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Sore pint
IN these days of drink-driving awareness it is odd that the Highwayman pub at Sherrif Hutton charges £2 for a glass of Pepsi when the beer is a mere £1.85 a pint. Keith Elsworth, Barley Rise, Strensall, York. Updated: 09:46 Saturday, July 03, 2004
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City's crime fight
THE growing menace of drug and drink-related crime in York will be thrust into the spotlight by a team of councillors. Members will work across the political divide to probe the causes and impact of offences blighting the city centre. They plan to study
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York Brewery's £m pub plan
YORK BREWERY bosses are celebrating after planners gave the green light to a new flagship pub in the city's historic Stonegate. The company plans to invest £250,000 to transform a delicatessen into a trademark "no-nonsense" pub, with a shop selling merchandise
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Fabulous Fawcett
VETERAN Knavesmire Harrier Malcolm Fawcett is a rowing world record holder despite never having paddled an oar in water. Fawcett, 63, has made his metaphoric splash in the sport of indoor rowing and has just finished the season as the world's highest-ranked
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And now - racing from pork
THEY'RE pink, they've got trotters and they are under starter's orders for a race with a difference this weekend in York. The going is good to firm at The Farmer's Cart, near Strensall, where four prize pigs will be battling it out for first place over
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Hoggard is last ball hero as Phoenix win
Yorkshire Phoenix overcame grim conditions and a spiced up pitch to beat Derbyshire Scorpions by one wicket off the last ball of the game in their opening Twenty20 Cup match at Derby last night. Chasing a revised target of 108 in 15 overs under the Duckworth-Lewis
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Ticket rise thrills the Minstermen
YORK City's season-ticket sales have rocketed despite the club's relegation to the Conference, writes Dave Flett. An unexpected surge saw 895 sold by the June 30 discount deadline and the above-average figure has delighted the Minstermen's directors.
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Nestl staff may walk out over pay
TEMPORARY staff at York's Nestl Rowntree factory are threatening a walkout in protest over what they say is "unfair" overtime pay. Up to 200 seasonal agency workers at the Wigginton Road plant have clashed with bosses because they claim to be now paid
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Learning to lose
OUR nation's sporting hopes were dashed over the past week or so with a string of disappointing defeats; the football, rugby, cricket and now the tennis, as Tim crashed out of Wimbledon. We've heard all the usual excuses and the media has presented us
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Ticket rise thrills the Minstermen
YORK City's season-ticket sales have rocketed despite the club's relegation to the Conference, writes Dave Flett. An unexpected surge saw 895 sold by the June 30 discount deadline and the above-average figure has delighted the Minstermen's directors.
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Hoggard is last ball hero as Phoenix win
Yorkshire Phoenix overcame grim conditions and a spiced up pitch to beat Derbyshire Scorpions by one wicket off the last ball of the game in their opening Twenty20 Cup match at Derby last night. Chasing a revised target of 108 in 15 overs under the Duckworth-Lewis
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Plax-tons of ace delight
FOR any golfer a three-figure total is a nightmare - unless you are Jonathan Plaxton. The former England amateur international is currently consumed at the double by a century. First he has been appointed chairman of the Fulford Golf Club centenary committee
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Don't write me off
JO HAYWOOD talks to Gillian Firth of Selby who was written off ten years ago after a catastrophic car accident, but has since written herself back to life. Gillian Firth fizzles with energy when she talks about her work. Her words may occasionally be
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Knights discard travel sickness
York City Knights begin a month on their travels this weekend with no home comforts in between - but coach Richard Agar reckons it won't be a problem. The Knights face the long trek to Workington today for tomorrow's National League Two match and then
