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Traffic-buster for York races
HIGHWAYS bosses today unveiled radical plans to beat race-day congestion at all future race meetings in York. City of York Council said the prospect of Royal Ascot at York next year had provided the catalyst for reviewing route arrangements. The new arrangements
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York parking income up £2.9m in 5 years
NEW figures revealed today that York's income from parking charges and fines almost doubled in only five years - increasing faster than any other local authority in Yorkshire. The rise - from £3.7 million in 1997/98 to £6.6 million in 2002/03 - covers
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Firm is poised to create more jobs
A NEW regime at award-winning Claro Precision Engineering, of Knaresborough, today claimed that that the company was poised to strengthen its market position and create more jobs. A combined management buy-in/buy-out was announced at the 26-year-old precision
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All Blacks on the Highway
New Earswick All Blacks have announced another new sponsor for the 2004-05 amateur rugby league season. The Highwayman Cafe on the A64 has joined Hague & Dixon Solicitors as shorts sponsors, becoming the club's third new sponsor this season after
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Family Au Pair Agency & Services
WHEN Karin von Bismarck arrived in York, the city where her husband, Michael, had come to work for Nestl, she looked for an au pair agency and couldn't find one. So she started her own. There were few more qualified. She had been a former au pair herself
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Rethink the parking fees
ANGER is mounting at York's parking taxes. Every day brings new protests. Councillors cannot dismiss their critics as "the usual suspects": they are not serial complainers but charity volunteers, Morris Dancers, and social secretaries. Meanwhile many
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All for Donny
DIANE Mountford's home hides a special secret: the Donny Room. This turns out not to be a shrine to the industrial town of Doncaster, but a tribute to Donny Osmond who is altogether younger and better preserved. Diane has been a fan of the American singer
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Shoe-shop.com
THERE'S one dotcom that will never grow too big for its boots. It's Shoe-shop.com, now Europe's largest shoe store, offering more footwear than any other online or offline retailer from one location - and it's based in York. Now its creator, Stuart Paver
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Stop killing the city
I HAVE lived in York all my life, that is more than 50 years, and I have not seen a council treat city businesses with such contempt. Have councillors, especially Ann Reid, forgotten that we elect them and pay their allowances? All those businesses featured
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Encourage helpers
IT was gratifying to read Richard Dixon's letter about the work PACY are doing cleaning the city's footpaths of gum (June 30). Having worked at Carecent for several years supporting the homeless, I have always believed that most of the clients would willingly
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Get on with drivers
OH no! The car drivers and cyclists are at loggerheads again judging from the recent letters printed from Messrs Usherwood and Hepworth. We must credit the readers of the Evening Press with a bit of commonsense, because they must now (like myself) realise
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Moved to silence by memorable Last Supper Mystery Play
THE review of The Last Supper (Charles Hutchinson, July 6) did justice to the powerful story and acting of Ray Alexander's production, as well as raising sharp points about the continuing tradition of performing the Mystery Plays in York. We were very
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Questions raised on pensions jobs
YORK MP Hugh Bayley will ask a Government minister to explain why millions of pounds were invested in a Pensions Agency base in York only for it to be closed down three years later. He hopes that an emergency debate to be held at the House of Commons
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Council 'facing £10,000 court bill'
COUNCILLORS are preparing to back a planning scheme that could have already cost them nearly £10,000 in a High Court case. For the second time, they are defying planning officers' advice to refuse the Green Belt plan to convert stables at Stud Farm, Middlethorpe
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Phoenix endure Mark-ed brutality
Yorkshire Phoenix had victory snatched from their grasp by a brutal innings of 91 from former England all-rounder Mark Ealham as Nottinghamshire Outlaws raced to their 208 target with one ball to spare at Trent Bridge last night. Samit Patel's winning
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They called it puppy love
EVER since Donny Osmond had his first British chart hit in 1972, one York woman has been obsessed by the man and his music. Now, 32 years on, 44-year-old community carer Diane Mountford has redecorated the spare room at her New Earswick home and turned
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Rob's world goes in a spin
YORK'S judo warrior Rob Thomas is at a competitive crossroads. The man, who is just over a week away from his 40th birthday, has been left in a quandary after his latest assault on the World Masters championships in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Just
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Bid for urgent review blocked
LIBERAL Democrats have blocked a bid for an urgent review of the impact of the controversial new parking fees. It could now be next January before members of City of York Council debate evening and on-street charges. Peter Evely, head of network management
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Batchelor ploy
Former York City chairman John Batchelor has revealed he made a substantial cash offer of help 12 weeks ago in exchange for a seat on the board - but was turned down. As reported in yesterday's Evening Press, Batchelor has refused to hand over £42,500
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Sky game off
York City's Conference debut on Sky has been cancelled because of a scheduling error. The York City v Hereford match had been moved from Saturday, August 21 to Monday, August 23 but a scheduling mix-up by the broadcasting giants has forced the tie from
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Jolie Holland, Escondida (Anti) ****
ESCONDIDA is Spanish for "hidden", but never mind the blurred album-sleeve portrait or the elusive path of Jolie Holland's career, there is no hiding her down-home charms. This one-time Smiths fan from Texas discovered the joys of Harry Smith's Anthology
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Susana Baca, Lo Major De Susana Baca (Luaka Bop/V2 Records) ****
BLACK Peruvian music may sound like one of those strange backwaters in world music, the sort of musical land into which only the more adventurous traveller ventures. Yet Baca's music is accessible, lively and, at times, quite wonderful, combining shimmering
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Bebel Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto, Eastwest/Crammed Discs ***
LISTENING to Bebel Gilberto's soft, honeyed voice on a summer's evening, you may be forgiven for thinking you were on a warm beach sipping a pina colada, instead of wrapped up indoors during a miserable British July. The Brazilian singer everyone is calling
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Tina Dico, Far (Finest Gramophone) ***
A welcome Danish export, Dico contributed to stand-out track Home on Zero 7's long-awaited second album, When It Falls, earlier this year. While Home sounded like a long-lost Joni Mitchell recording, Dico managed to play homage to the great Canadian chanteuse
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Beth Nielson Chapman, Look (Sanctuary) ***
LIKE a glass of red wine, Beth Chapman Nielson's gentle and stately music leaves a warm glow. In philosophical mood after beating breast cancer, her music has a knowing sweep of styles - the sound of a woman intent on making a serious statement. The material
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Elaine Paige, Centre Stage (Universal) ****; Barbara Dickson, The Platinum Collection (Sony) **
THEIR duet I Know Him So Well was such a huge hit that Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson will forever be linked in people's minds. Both Centre Stage and The Platinum Collection are basically greatest hits packages, with new material, so of course both
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Javine, Surrender (Innocent Records) **
Superslick production, a dollop of high-energy disco, some achingly heartfelt R&B ballads and a debut LP image straight from the windswept, half-dressed Atomic Kitten/Liberty X photoshoot textbook. Yes, it's another Popstars/Idol star dropping off
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Way we were
Thursday, July 8, 2004 100 years ago: Pleasant weather has prevailed at Scarborough for some days past, and the number of visitors was increasing steadily. The newly-established electric trams last week carried 10,000 more passengers than in the preceding
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Arram walk
George Wilkinson turns floodplain drifter as he walks among the roses and cruises by golden barley where warplanes once roared. Arram is at the end of a road that fades out on to the floodplains near Beverley. The roses bloomed, swallows skimmed low and
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Getaway plan
SUMMER holidays may be generally more expensive when school's out - but, if you're still on the lookout for that bargain holiday in the sun, it doesn't mean you can't get a good deal. Pat Emsley, travel manager with the Wallace Arnold Travel Shop in York
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The lowdown on credit unions
Welcome to York & District Citizen's Advice Bureau's monthly advice column. Each month we will attempt to answer questions on topical or interesting subjects. As there is now a York Credit Union Study Group, this month we explain about credit unions
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Will York's royal date end traffic headache?
As a new traffic masterplan is unveiled for York race days, STEVE CARROLL and MIKE LAYCOCK look at what the proposals mean and what residents think of them. RESIDENTS have given a cautious welcome to radical plans to tackle York's race day traffic nightmare
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Play council name game... it's so dreary
AS you would no doubt agree, the one thing York desperately needs is a Person Centred Planning Co-ordinator. Mercifully, City of York Council has seen sense and is about to employ... a Person Centred Planning Co-ordinator. Even the official opposition
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Stop killing the city
I HAVE lived in York all my life, that is more than 50 years, and I have not seen a council treat city businesses with such contempt. Have councillors, especially Ann Reid, forgotten that we elect them and pay their allowances? All those businesses featured
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Rethink the parking fees
ANGER is mounting at York's parking taxes. Every day brings new protests. Councillors cannot dismiss their critics as "the usual suspects": they are not serial complainers but charity volunteers, Morris Dancers, and social secretaries. Meanwhile many
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Clamp city
CLAMPERS are set to move on to the streets of York to deal with drivers who persistently flout parking regulations. Motorists could now face paying out £75 to get their car back if they leave it illegally parked more than three times in six months. The
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Bid for urgent review blocked
LIBERAL Democrats have blocked a bid for an urgent review of the impact of the controversial new parking fees. It could now be next January before members of City of York Council debate evening and on-street charges. Peter Evely, head of network management
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Parking fees fury
A MUSEUM boss has spoken out about the "bizarre" introduction of evening parking charges - not long after a campaign was launched to boost York's evening economy. Dr Gill Page, manager of the Barley Hall Museum, off Stonegate, said that in her opinion
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Rose Consort of Viols, National Centre for Early Music
THE Rose Consort of Viols opened their Chansons et Fantasies programme, one using a 16th century York Minster Library manuscript as a concert blueprint, with Crecquillon's Ung Gay Bergier. One was immediately struck by the gentle, civilised sound world
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Technology will be skin deep
THE smacking debate returns just as Microsoft announces that it has won the patent to "transmit power and data using the human skin". While smacking, for good or bad, is familiar to everyone, what Microsoft proposes is less so. Indeed, so alien is the
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It's such a burning issue
For years we have been warned that too much sun can cause skin cancer. Now a new report claims sunlight is good for you. So who do we believe? Stephen Lewis reports. SUN-starved Britons who flock to exotic beaches every summer in search of a tan are used
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Firm is poised to create more jobs
A NEW regime at award-winning Claro Precision Engineering, of Knaresborough, today claimed that that the company was poised to strengthen its market position and create more jobs. A combined management buy-in/buy-out was announced at the 26-year-old precision
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Unfair to youngsters
WHILE I don't doubt that street drinking is of considerable concern to the police and residents of York ("Caught out", July 5), it is unfair and misleading to make such broad generalisations about the behaviour of young people. Most young people in York
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Help us help blind
I HAVE been appointed as Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) community fundraising manager and I am looking for volunteers to join my existing team in Yorkshire and Humberside. Every day over 100 people begin to lose their sight. The RNIB helps
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Flexible politics
WHO would credit it? Pro-Iraq war letter-writer Stephen Dalby not only admits it was the Western powers who backed and armed Saddam, but even argues it was the right thing to do so that he could start a war with Iran (July 5). Can this be one of the same
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Where are my pals?
I AM trying to find two old school mates who went to York's Park Grove School in the late Forties. They are Peter Robertson who lived on Huntington Road and Donald Crawford who lived somewhere in Heworth. Can anyone help? Please email me at trevor_007
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York plan to set up dementia home
PLANS to convert a care home into York's first specialist facility for elderly people with mental health problems have been hailed by a senior city councillor. Coun Sue Galloway welcomed the proposals for Morrell House, in Burton Stone Lane, which were
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Tim's Nun to grab glory - 08/07/04
Golden Nun has adopted the winning habit this season and Tim Easterby's tough-as-teak mare is taken to gain her third success of the campaign in the feature race at York tomorrow. The £50,000 Group 3 Cuisine de France Summer Stakes is the target for the
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Farmer leaves dogs - and farm - to his engineer
A FARMER who lived a simple life with his two sheepdogs ensured that the animals would have a good home when he died - by leaving them and his 18th century farmhouse to an agricultural engineer. In his will Bernard Holmes left Snowy and Blackie and the
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Crime addict gets community service
A SELF-CONFESSED crime addict has been spared jail after admitting burgling a York church hall. Magistrates - who warned Daniel Holmes at an earlier hearing that he could go to prison - decided instead to make him do 40 hours of unpaid community work.
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York 'park and rail' scheme call
RESIDENTS have called for York to have an innovative Park and Rail scheme to help deal with the city's congestion problems. Fourteen neighbours have presented City of York Council with a petition against two proposed sites for a new Park and Ride site
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Tollerton crushed by slick Askham
HPH York Vale League division one leaders Askham Bryan YPO tightened their grip at the top by crushing nearest rivals Tollerton Outlaws by 68 runs. Tollerton started well with Tony Raper (4-53) and Bill Chambers (4-48) restricting Askham to 132-9, Queenslander
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Police pledge blitz on drunken violence
A CRACKDOWN has been launched on booze-fuelled yobs in North Yorkshire. Police and trading standards officers will tackle alcohol-related violence which blights town centres in North Yorkshire Police's eastern division, which covers Scarborough and Ryedale
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Shipton edge into final
RI AMATEURS' visit to Shipton in the first round of the York Bowling Association's Williamson Cup provided a nail-biting finish. The game was all square as the last end started. After Shipton removed two good lead woods to lay shot the RI skip was unfortunate
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Police commander makes promise of premium service
VICTIMS of violence, robbery and burglary should receive a premium service under an improving package of police work, according to the York and Selby area commander. Chief Superintendent Tim Madgwick told the Evening Press he was determined to foster
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Clamp city
CLAMPERS are set to move on to the streets of York to deal with drivers who persistently flout parking regulations. Motorists could now face paying out £75 to get their car back if they leave it illegally parked more than three times in six months. The
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Batchelor ploy
Former York City chairman John Batchelor has revealed he made a substantial cash offer of help 12 weeks ago in exchange for a seat on the board - but was turned down. As reported in yesterday's Evening Press, Batchelor has refused to hand over £42,500
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Phoenix endure Mark-ed brutality
Yorkshire Phoenix had victory snatched from their grasp by a brutal innings of 91 from former England all-rounder Mark Ealham as Nottinghamshire Outlaws raced to their 208 target with one ball to spare at Trent Bridge last night. Samit Patel's winning
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Celine Dion, A New Day... Live In Las Vegas (Columbia CD & DVD) ***
Celine's show truly does look spectacular. Even the most casual of observers would be impressed by the sheer vastness and lavishness of her Las Vegas production. Indeed, the incredible Colosseum at Caesar's Palace was built especially to house the show
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Christine McVie, In The Meantime, (Sanctuary/Adventure) ****
After 20 years of solo silence... viva McVie, Christine is back in the charts. The woman who gave Fleetwood Mac, and the world, hits such as Don't Stop, You Make Loving Fun, Everywhere and Little Lies, Christine chimes in with this 'sing-and tell' album
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Patti Scialfa, 23rd Street Lullaby (Sony) ****
IF there were an award for the most drawn-out solo career in music, Patti Scialfa would be a winner hands-down. It took nine years for Patti to release her debut album, Rumble Doll, in 1993. Roll on another 11 years and here's album number two. Of course
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Tollerton crushed by slick Askham
HPH York Vale League division one leaders Askham Bryan YPO tightened their grip at the top by crushing nearest rivals Tollerton Outlaws by 68 runs. Tollerton started well with Tony Raper (4-53) and Bill Chambers (4-48) restricting Askham to 132-9, Queenslander
