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IT Support Officer
Business Link York & North Yorkshire is a dynamic organisation providing advice and support to local businesses. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a high calibre person to join our IT Team. IT Support Officer, £20k per annum. The IT Team is responsible
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Charges put choir's future in jeopardy
A YORK choir is warning that it will no longer give concerts in the city centre because of evening parking charges - and might even have to close down altogether. The York Rose Singers is also appealing for new premises away from the centre, where members
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True to form, firefighters pop at the police
LAST week we promised more firefighting fun, courtesy of retired York fireman Phil Wade. Phil, who rose through the ranks to become area commander for Selby and Tadcaster, has been followed into the brigade by his son Paul, who now works from Acomb fire
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Distributor looks to hire 100 for new HQ
AT LEAST 100 new jobs are likely to be generated - 30 of them over the next year - by the move of JA Magson into a massive new warehouse on Clifton Moor, York. The long-term figures were revealed as the wholesale distributor of stationery, toys, greeting
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Hotel celebrates 50-year relationship
DIFFERENT generations of one of Yorkshire's most historic hotels met up to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The owners and past and present staff and guests held a party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Monk Fryston Hall Hotel becoming part of Rutland
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What On Earth!?, Konflux Theatre-in-Education, Tang Hall Community Centre, York
KONFLUX, the theatre-in-education company from St Thomas's Parish Rooms in York, have been on the road since April with What On Earth!?, a play with the message that we should reuse, recycle and reduce waste. Slim Parry's specially-commissioned educational
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City clash loses cash
LIFE inside England's lowest league was always hard going for York City. But life outside it is proving tougher still. A month before the Minstermen taste the humbler fare of Conference football for the first time events seem to be conspiring against
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Back to roots
THE sun is shining, The series of crises which have battered farmers for more than a decade are in the past. Last year the Great Yorkshire Show proved to be the most popular in a generation: everything is set for this year's show to be even bigger and
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Misery for drivers
I WAS delighted to hear of plans to convert Morrell House into a specialist care home for those with mental heath problems (July 8). Perhaps the first attendees could be those councillors responsible for ruining our city with their parking policies. They
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Carry on campus
JEAN Lawn's letter ("Use the Terry's site", July 9) is another attempt by a small campaigning group to thwart the University of York's plans to expand on the most suitable site from the point of view of the city and the university. I have not heard of
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Lying women
Sandra Howland (Letters, July 10) could not have better expressed the abysmal failure of the law in dealing effectively with women who bring false rape claims. I am sick and tired of reading about how few rape cases end in conviction. Everyone seems hellbent
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Spare the workers
I AM furious about the threatened closure of the works and pensions offices at Monks Cross. The building has only been up about two years and the Government is threatening to close it. I know most of the people who work there and they are good, hard-working
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End of an era for House-hold name
ONE of York city centre's last electrical goods shops - House & Son in Blake Street - is to close with the loss of up to 18 jobs. Director William House says a wide range of electrical goods has been sold or rented from the store for 80 years, supported
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Charges put choir's future in jeopardy
A YORK choir is warning that it will no longer give concerts in the city centre because of evening parking charges - and might even have to close down altogether. The York Rose Singers is also appealing for new premises away from the centre, where members
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Acorn's runners-up
YORK Acorn Running Club produced another battling performance in the Cleveland Way Relay despite being beaten by a strong Loftus team who retained their title for the 14th successive year. Loftus recorded the third-fastest ever time of 12 hours 54 minutes
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Arsonists attack museum again
A TOP historical tourist attraction near York today suffered another devastating arson attack. The Celtic settlement at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming, Murton Park, was targeted by vandals who torched a 10-metre long wooden replica roundhouse, causing
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Earswick move up
NEW Earswick have captured the top spot in division six of the IT Sports Mixed Tennis League after wins at Appleton Roebuck and against promotion rivals Cawood. Daz Sheriston and Sue Wilson were unbeaten at Appleton Roebuck with Keith Pearson and Sandra
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York man made abusive phone calls
A YORK man has been found guilty of being threatening and abusive to a woman police telephone operator and harassing a council worker. Sean Schofield, 40, from The Groves, made an abusive phone call to North Yorkshire Police switchboard operator Carole
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York front-runner for 250 new jobs
THE prospect of 250 civil service jobs for York came a step closer with Gordon Brown's Government spending announcement. Mr Brown's confirmation that 250 civil service jobs would shift from London to Yorkshire was today hailed as "positive news" by city
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In safe hands
PAUL Crichton has helped groom a future England goalkeeper and could now become responsible for the careers of Bootham Crescent's young shot stoppers. The Minstermen trialist has spent the last three seasons as the elder rival for the Norwich City goalkeeper
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In safe hands
PAUL Crichton has helped groom a future England goalkeeper and could now become responsible for the careers of Bootham Crescent's young shot stoppers. The Minstermen trialist has spent the last three seasons as the elder rival for the Norwich City goalkeeper
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Brass monkey bars for Chris
YORK City player-manager Chris Brass will be hoping the obstacles between his side and Conference glory next season are less demanding than those his players had to negotiate yesterday. The Minstermen completed a tough assault course twice at Imphal Barracks
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Putting the Americans in their element
THE final sign that summer is soon to fade is here. After Wimbledon's fortnight of frenzy and froth frittered into another foreign conquest, and Royal Ascot has high-stepped in and high-heeled away, the last summer sporting fling is represented by The
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Three piece sweet for Dyson
SIMON Dyson's third crack at The Open has pitched him into one of the most exciting threesomes at Royal Troon. The Malton and Norton ace, who posted a course record 65 on the first day of heading the qualifying at the tough Glasgow Gailes course, has
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Don't be a disaster
As the top ten fashion blunders of all time are announced, JO HAYWOOD wonders what sartorial stinkers are lurking in our wardrobes today. SHELL suits were designed by the devil. That is the only plausible explanation why so many millions of people started
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City needs a new visionary
Viscount Esher, who died at the weekend, set out his blueprint for the conservation of York in the Sixties. JO HAYWOOD asks how his controversial 250-page report helped shape the city in which we live today. As welcomes go, it was hardly the warmest.
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West's hypocrisy
It is grotesque and almost incomprehensible that Saddam Hussein can be tried for war crimes by the same "criminals" who armed him and subsequently caused the deaths of more than one million Iraqis in supposedly disarming him. If Iraq used chemical weapons
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Formula One cars could be racing around London
I hope the Lord Mayor of London made the drivers of those racing cars pay the congestion charge. PR Willey, Burnholme Drive, Heworth. York. Updated: 11:18 Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Morris men challenge cartoon cats
Rather than mock a tradition more than 500 years old, Yorkatt & Eric (Evening Press, July 10) should join one of the local Morris teams because we always need recruits. With their four legs they should be twice as nimble as humans and could have twice
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The wrong target
THE Fathers4Justice group is attacking the wrong people ("In the name of the fathers", July 12). All they are doing in this sort of protest is alienating people. How much influence do they think the church has? Has anybody spoken to en ex partner of one
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York front-runner for 250 new jobs
THE prospect of 250 civil service jobs for York came a step closer with Gordon Brown's Government spending announcement. Mr Brown's confirmation that 250 civil service jobs would shift from London to Yorkshire was today hailed as "positive news" by city
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Wendy is the Girl to win it - 13/07/04
Former successful jockey Bobby Elliott, who swapped his job as right-hand man to top trainer Mark Johnston to strike out on his own, can tomorrow figure in the Catterick winners' enclosure for the second time in a week. Wendy's Girl, successful on the
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Driver dies in head-on crash on A19
A VAN driver died following a head-on smash on the A19 near Tollerton. Two fire crews from Acomb and Easingwold used specialist cutting equipment to free the 36-year-old man from Gateshead, who was trapped in the wreckage for more than an hour. His white-coloured
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Police costs to hit City match profits
A POTENTIAL money-spinning friendly for cash-strapped York City has been dealt a blow after football club chiefs learned that policing costs could hit the profits. York City's friendly against League One side Doncaster Rovers is likely to attract a big
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Cygnet 'A' team go close to eclipsing Sun
Sun Inn came within a whisker of losing their York Unique-Phoenix Darts League division one unbeaten record. With team game 180's from Tom Hair and Jack White, and then 19 and 21 darters from Pete Leake, Cygnet 'A' went 3-1 up at Sun. Jon O'Mara showed
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Minster demo dads plan more stunts
FATHERS campaigning for better access to their children hope to ride the wave of publicity generated by the dramatic protest at York Minster to establish a group in the city. Members of Fathers 4 Justice said more headline-grabbing stunts are planned
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Three piece sweet for Dyson
SIMON Dyson's third crack at The Open has pitched him into one of the most exciting threesomes at Royal Troon. The Malton and Norton ace, who posted a course record 65 on the first day of heading the qualifying at the tough Glasgow Gailes course, has
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Sex chat trap case kicked out by judge
A CHILD internet sex case against a York man collapsed after a court heard that the "young" victim was really a reporter working for a national newspaper. Defence barrister Edward Bindloss told York Crown Court that the case against Steven William Osbaldeston
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Tax fury
ANGRY tax payers bombarded City of York Council offices and jammed phone lines today after the authority sent out thousands of letters to residents demanding council tax payments or threatening them with court action. Residents descended on the tax office
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Police costs to hit City match profits
A POTENTIAL money-spinning friendly for cash-strapped York City has been dealt a blow after football club chiefs learned that policing costs could hit the profits. York City's friendly against League One side Doncaster Rovers is likely to attract a big
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Why I'm not hot under the collar about sex
SEX is being used as a weapon. Women are withholding it to gain control in a relationship, says a survey. Many females aren't that interested anyway because there isn't enough romance involved. I can't pretend to be a guru on the subject (tsar maybe,
