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King Collis makes another Dunn ton
EASINGWOLD continued to blaze the trail towards the premier division title when they overwhelmed Sheriff Hutton Bridge by nine wickets to increase their lead to 48 points at the halfway stage in the season. After losing their top order cheaply, the Bridge
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Grange win shocks Percy
DIVISION three leaders Bolton Percy suffered their first defeat of the season despite dismissing home side Woodhouse Grange for 98 as the bottom club's first win of the season produced the shock of the day. Grange's meagre total owed much to 17-year-old
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Selby hold on at the top despite Huby draw
DIVISION four leaders Selby had by far the worst of a draw when they entertained a Huby side whose fortunes fluctuate on a weekly basis. Dave Patmore hit 50 for Huby, who were able to post a total of 164-8 despite handy bowling by Richard Sherwood 3-47
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Spin kings rule
BOWLERS were in total command at Malton and Old Malton in division one where the home side gained a two wicket victory to stretch their lead to 70 points. Goole Town batted first but only Anthony Gibbins, with 30, was able to make any impression against
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Tad topple Towers
WITH leaders Dunnington inactive, Tadcaster Magnet took the chance to reduce the lead to 15 points in division five, albeit in a none too impressive manner. Magnet's Colin Wilkinson, who took 3-18, appeared to have set his side a simple task as bottom
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Brawl man attacked with samurai sword
A YORK man may need plastic surgery for facial and arm injuries after being attacked with a samurai sword during a street brawl in York. The man, named locally as Steve Johnson, 37, of Kingsway West, Acomb, was taken to York Hospital following a disturbance
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Council boss Steve is on the ball
SAD that Euro 2004 is over, but at least footie fans everywhere can finally emerge from their TV screens. Among them is York council leader Steve Galloway. Flicking through a copy of Who's Who In Yorkshire, published in 1999, we stumbled on Coun Galloway's
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Vicious circle
THE owner of a York art gallery and shop claims parking charges are penalising the shoppers and tourists who bring wealth and prosperity to the city. He warns that if the city goes into a vicious circle of decline as a result, the council could eventually
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A good place for business
YORK businesses are the most buoyant in Yorkshire and Humberside, according to the results of a new survey announced today which have left business leaders in the city jubilant. Fewer firms go under in York than in any other urban area in the region -
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Companies give £1,000 to York theatre
A COMMUNITY theatre's fundraising campaign has been given a kick-start by two York companies. Shepherd Construction and Nuffield Hospitals have joined forces to donate £1,000 to the Joseph Rowntree Theatre. The money will help it on its way to purchasing
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Malcolm's snap happy
A YORK photographer has snapped up the accolades at a prestigious Yorkshire awards ceremony. Malcolm Rouse, 55, of Rawcliffe, won an award of excellence for his portrayal of radio star Don Mclean opening a business in Hull, at the Yorkshire region of
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Special York 'doesn't need shops complex'
CAMPAIGNERS against the prospect of a large-scale shopping complex in an historic quarter of York today received a boost from experts hailing the economic prospects of "unique" cities. Opponents of the failed Coppergate II project claim this suggests
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Booze busters
"WHERE are your children tonight?" That's the question members of York Police are asking parents right across the city in a bid to tackle the growing problem of nuisance on the streets. Senior officers believe that antisocial behaviour involving youths
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Paras say thanks
ON Saturday June 5, members and friends of the York Branch of the Parachute Regimental Association made a street collection in the city centre. We realised that we had chosen an appropriate day to collect on behalf of a Service Charity, but we were overwhelmed
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Whose right to life?
MR Quarrie attempts to justify abortion on the grounds of poverty, overpopulation and inconvenience (Letters, July 2). Procured abortion is the deliberate and direct killing, by whatever means it is carried out, of a human being in the initial phase of
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Why the West backed Saddam
NOW that Saddam Hussein is heading for trial, it appears that critics of the war in Iraq are hoping Britain and the United States will be embarrassed by the world being reminded that it was they who armed Saddam in the first place. The allies did support
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Mystery Play goes on stage in city
THE only Mystery Plays production in York this summer hits the stage tonight. Friends of York Mystery Plays are presenting The Last Supper, a sequence of plays that tells the story of the period leading to Christ's betrayal. The production gives audiences
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Rape victims feel let down by system
TWO out of three people who appear in North Yorkshire courts charged with rape are never convicted, according to Government figures released this week. Only 21 of the 62 defendants (34 per cent) who appeared before magistrates in the county charged with
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Crash widow 'disgusted' at Hart book plan
THE widow of a man killed in the Selby Rail Crash has hit out at the driver responsible for her husband's death - after it was reported he had boasted about life behind bars and plans to write a book. Margitta Needham blasted claims that Gary Hart, the
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Special York 'doesn't need shops complex'
CAMPAIGNERS against the prospect of a large-scale shopping complex in an historic quarter of York today received a boost from experts hailing the economic prospects of "unique" cities. Opponents of the failed Coppergate II project claim this suggests
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Mark tackles the bad boys
A YORK TV baddie is back on the nation's screens this week - and this time he's got some equally bad boys to contend with. Cheery sports science lecturer Mark Sullivan is reviving his role as a 1950s-style sergeant for ITV's Bad Lads' Army. Mark, 46,
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Bereavement group counts cost of parking rules
A CARE group that helps people come to terms with bereavements today backed our campaign to axe York's new parking charges. Cruse Bereavement Care says evening fees are stopping people attending special sessions in the city dealing with suicides. The
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Scott's twist
Slick thinking by Sutton-on-Forest Superbike rider Scott Smart allowed him to take his second win of the season at Knockhill yesterday. The 29-year-old Hawk Kawasaki man gambled on a drying track with most opting for a wet and intermediate combination
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Webster finds himself just tyred out
Severe rainstorms blighted the Eastern Airways British Sidecar Championship at Knockhill at the weekend but a second and fourth place meant that Team Castrol Suzuki pair Steve Webster and Paul Woodhead returned home with their 44-point championship lead
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Sheila thanks team who saved her life
A YORK pensioner who nearly died when she suffered a massive heart attack in her doctor's waiting room has praised the medical team who saved her life. Sheila Harding, of Nunnery Lane, remembers feeling unwell as she waited to see her doctor at the East
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Worked over
HEAD coach Richard Agar slammed defensive ineptitude after seeing his York City Knights side crash to the club's heaviest-ever league defeat. The Knights were walloped 44-20 away to Workington Town yesterday, a loss which eclipsed their previous worst
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Caught out
STREET drinking is a "way of life" for many young teenagers who terrorise neighbourhoods in York. The astonishing scale of the drinking culture among youngsters in the city is revealed today in an Evening Press investigation. In two hours we saw more
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Hogg injury leaves Phoenix high and dry
YORKSHIRE Phoenix lost top place in the totesport League Division Two table to Middlesex Crusaders who beat them by 29 runs in an entertaining match reduced by rain to 24-overs-a-side at Headingley yesterday. Although Middlesex thrashed the ball around
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Mystery Play goes on stage in city
THE only Mystery Plays production in York this summer hits the stage tonight. Friends of York Mystery Plays are presenting The Last Supper, a sequence of plays that tells the story of the period leading to Christ's betrayal. The production gives audiences
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Way we were
Monday, July 5, 2004 100 years ago: At Scarborough police court a young girl from Leeds, who claimed to be seventeen years old but who looked to be only twelve or thirteen, was charged with being drunk. It ap-peared that the girl was found on the south
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York prevail - and How
YORK Cricket Club stepped up into second position in the Yorkshire ECB Premier League when they defeated hitherto second-placed Sheffield Collegiate by 38 runs at Clifton Park. When York lost the toss and had to bat first on a pitch that only emerged
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Houses are stuck down in second at half way
DRINGHOUSES missed the opportunity to top division six at the halfway stage when they suffered a six wicket defeat at the hands of Civil Service, for whom Mark Bradley took 3-43 and made 26no. Page 30 and Holgate 29 contributed to Dringhouses' 135-8 but
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Bridging the gap
SEWERBY'S lead in division two has been reduced to five points following their abandoned game at Scarborough. Stamford Bridge took the opportunity to move into second place with a big draw at the expense of Harrogate, who continue to languish at the foot
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Bereavement group counts cost of parking rules
A CARE group that helps people come to terms with bereavements today backed our campaign to axe York's new parking charges. Cruse Bereavement Care says evening fees are stopping people attending special sessions in the city dealing with suicides. The
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Scorecards
July 3-4 Premier Division Beverley Town (18) drew with Thirsk (11). Beverley Town 159-8 (O Grantham 66, G Taylor 26, B D Petty 4-38) Thirsk 147-6 (N Bell 47, M Christon 47no, B Sayer 4-58). Clifton Alliance (20) drew with Heworth (7). Clifton Alliance
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Art, Chapterhouse Theatre Company, Fountains Abbey, near Ripon.
THE open-air theatre season tends to bring the strawberries and cream of Shakespeare, Chaucer and Jane Austen's repertoire. A little art to accompany your al fresco supper beneath a darkening sky. How refreshing that Chapterhouse Theatre Company, from
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You can't park that here
CHANGE the amount of money involved, and the report could have been published in today's Evening Press. "The visitor was so very, very enthusiastic about York," it began. "He had been, he said, all over the world and had never found a city to compare
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Property group to sponsor convention
The Helmsley Group, the York- based property investment firm which was a sponsor of last month's Yorkshire International Business Convention in Harrogate, has signed up to back next year's event. The firm, which has a property portfolio of about £35 million
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Worked over
HEAD coach Richard Agar slammed defensive ineptitude after seeing his York City Knights side crash to the club's heaviest-ever league defeat. The Knights were walloped 44-20 away to Workington Town yesterday, a loss which eclipsed their previous worst
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Protests against base police post
OBJECTORS have protested over plans to build a permanent police post at RAF Fylingdales because they believe military expansion would degrade the National Park. The North York Moors National Park Authority planning committee has received ten letters and
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Too young to be drinking
WE have all done it. Drinking a pint or two of sweet cider in the belief that it is the elixir of adulthood is a rite of passage every teenager undergoes. But what we found taking place on the streets of York is very different. Previous generations would
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Shocking stuff
WHAT these youngsters need is a short, sharp shock - or so many will argue. Soon after will come the cry: bring back National Service! Compulsory square bashing looks unlikely to make a quick return. We may have found an interim solution however: Sergeant
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Workington 44, Knights 20
DERWENT Park was the venue for York Wasps' last-ever game, two seasons ago. They were hammered 60-4, a sorry ending to a sorry final few years. The turnaround in York RL since then has been startling, and could be summed up in the car park before yesterday's
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Vicious circle
THE owner of a York art gallery and shop claims parking charges are penalising the shoppers and tourists who bring wealth and prosperity to the city. He warns that if the city goes into a vicious circle of decline as a result, the council could eventually
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Blunkett should go
I AGREE wholeheartedly with Janet Kitchen regarding the attitude of David Blunkett towards the Chief Constable of Humberside (Letters, July 1). The Data Protection Act is confusing enough but it is quite clear about information pertaining to "allegations
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Lay off our nappies
NORTH Yorkshire County Council should come round to my house and examine the contents of my two-year-old's nappy before making wild claims (Disposable nappies cost county £230k, July 1). I doubt very much that these figures are factual. And how do they
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Police assurance
I REFER to the letter from K Chapman (June 29) raising concerns about the service provided by North Yorkshire Police. The statistics recently released by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary were collated in the autumn of 2003 and, as such, their
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In a flap over pests
MY Evening Press is full of it these days! "Kill 'em - Don't kill 'em"! "Cull 'em - Don't cull 'em"! "Leave them alone, they might go away". Those strutting little pests on the city pavements and in the streets. But they sometimes leave their mark on
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North Yorks star to shine - 05/07/04
Attraction, the pride of North Yorkshire, heads to Newmarket tomorrow in a bid to extend her extraordinary winning sequence. Unbeaten in eight career starts, this remarkable filly, trained at Middleham by Mark Johnston, aims to make it nine in the £200,000
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Protests against base police post
OBJECTORS have protested over plans to build a permanent police post at RAF Fylingdales because they believe military expansion would degrade the National Park. The North York Moors National Park Authority planning committee has received ten letters and
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Tourists teach Yorks a lesson
AFTER going ten games without defeat in any competition, Yorkshire took their foot off the pedal in their one-day friendly with Sri Lanka 'A' at Headingley on Saturday and were beaten by seven wickets. It was a thoroughly deserved win by their enthusiastic
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Buck's speedy debut
Upcoming North Yorkshire athletics star Richard Buck capped his debut appearance for Great Britain Under-20s in impressive style at the City of Manchester stadium. The 17-year-old Buck was third in the 400metres in 47.31 seconds, four-tenths of a second
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Tourists teach Yorks a lesson
AFTER going ten games without defeat in any competition, Yorkshire took their foot off the pedal in their one-day friendly with Sri Lanka 'A' at Headingley on Saturday and were beaten by seven wickets. It was a thoroughly deserved win by their enthusiastic
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Off your trolley at the check-out
You see some strange things in supermarket queues. I once saw a student eat a whole baguette. Not in one mouthful, like a trainee sword-swallower, but one big, dry chunk at a time. No butter, no marg, not even a smear of Marmite; it made me thirsty just
