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Knights' double strike
YORK City Knights have pulled off a double whammy by re-signing prop Adam Sullivan and bringing in local product Jonny Liddell. Captain Lee Jackson has also been offered a new deal, with the club now awaiting a response from the former Great Britain hooker
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Way we were
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 100 years ago: Along the Great North Road, the highway to York, London, and Edinburgh, along which at one time coaches rattled daily, and along which motor cars now race daily, there were few better-known landmarks than the
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Review: Ghosts, Harrogate Theatre, until November 6
RETURNING home after a thoroughly good evening's miserable Ibsen watching, thinking of John Peel as a radio tribute ended with The Undertones' singing "Teenage kicks so hard to beat", it was a night when all life (and death) was here. On late-night Grumpy
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Preview: Chicago, Grand Opera House, York, October 26 to November 6
Charles Hutchinson catches up with the stars of hit musical Chicago. THE grandest show of the Grand Opera House year, the national tour of Chicago, begins a fortnight's run in York on Tuesday. You know the Oscar-swamped film, you know the Kander and Ebb
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Rotten state of NHS dentistry
NHS dentistry began for me in a wooden hut known as the School Clinic in Piccadilly, York, during the 1930s. After I knocked out my four front teeth performing a back somersault for the gymnastic master at Nunthorpe Grammar School, it tidied up my mouth
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I'm Catherine
WHILST I fully agree with Leo Enticknap that it is necessary to develop new ways of producing energy without damaging the environment (Letters, October 25), and applaud his decision to convert his car to run on LPG (since I am not in fact a "Luddite"
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No Nirvana
I AM afraid that Leo Enticknap and others have been sadly misled if they believe that hydrogen fuelled Nirvana is just around the corner. Even if solutions are found to the problems of safely storing, transporting and using a colourless, odourless, highly
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We need to act
MOTORISTS may not be the major problem where global warming/pollution is concerned; they are, whether Tony Taylor accepts it or not, a part of the problem (Letters, October 18). The fact that there are elements we cannot control increases rather than
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Cards are a disastrous IDea
AS the new Parliamentary session beckons, readers should be aware of the most significant policy likely to be introduced by the Labour Government. Since Winston Churchill's post-war administration declared that Britain was a free country, no citizen has
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Justice is a joke
IN reply to "Parents to blame" (letters, October 21), whoever wrote this has 100 per cent backing from me. The "pond life" that hang around on street corners trying to make places into no go areas are a disgrace to their generation. This element give
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Train staff right
HAS anyone noticed any changes in disability access since the new regulations came into force on October 1? These were well overdue and have hopefully made shops and supermarkets more aware of disability issues and needs. Perhaps staff training should
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Encore, encore
WE just wanted to write to say what a marvellous production York Musical Theatre Company's Annie Get Your Gun was last week at the Grand Opera House. The set, the orchestra and the company were a pleasure to watch. We were particularly impressed with
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Cycling sins
I'VE been reading with interest the letters about cyclists wearing helmets. Just take a car journey from Haxby to the railway station. I can almost guarantee you will see, along the way: - cyclists ignoring cycle lanes which are totally unobstructed;
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Easing the pain
IT is the news everyone with dental phobia has been longing to hear. Health experts say we need no longer visit the dentist every six months. New guidelines say that adults can wait up to two years to call in for a check-up. How very handy for a Government
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Champion of quality plonk
STEPHEN LEWIS talks to the man dubbed the 'Vinnie Jones of wine-writing' about his latest book - and how to get a decent bottle of wine for a fiver. HE may be Britain's best-known wine buff, but Malcolm Gluck has no time for wine snobs. He's firmly on
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Spooky Hallowe'en reading
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury, £17.99) IF you're looking for a spooky, Dickensian tale to keep you occupied this Hallowe'en, Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell could be it. Clarke has already been dubbed
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Hat-trick of county haul
Joseph Rowntree made it a qualifying clean sweep as their Under-18s became the third team to seal a place at the county rounds of the national schools' netball competition. Jo Ro dominated the four-team tournament with superior passing and defending to
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Pressure to end free car passes
CALLS for city councillors to rip up their free council car park passes have won the support of an independent panel during a review of members' allowances. Among the changes proposed for York councillors is for their free parking badges to be scrapped
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York residents rap fireworks display
THUNDEROUS fireworks have been shattering the peace south of York. Residents say a deafening display on York Racecourse this week left children and pets in the area terrified. The shock was even worse because the barrage of window-shaking bangs came without
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Anger over road plan
PROPOSALS to install measures to calm traffic in a York suburb have had just the opposite effect on some residents. Homeowners in Main Street, Fulford, are angry that City of York Council is considering restricting parking on parts of the road. But the
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Add's the way to it
Heavy mid-week rain ruined the chances of fishing the Yorkshire Ouse Championship. With the river swollen to around 12 feet above its normal level, the organisers had no option to pull the plug on the blue riband event. Other matches washed away in the
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Minster chorister reaches finals of UK competition
AN ANGELIC chorister from York has sung her way to the final of a national competition. Charity Mapletoft, the head girl chorister of York Minster, is one of four finalists in the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister Of The Year 2004 contest. Charity, 12, is a
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Atkin diet ends as he returns with win
YORK boxer Luke Atkin is back with a bang. After being out of the ring for 11 months awaiting a hernia operation, the teenager defeated a Cuban fighter in impressive style in his comeback bout. Things are certainly looking up for welterweight Atkin, 17
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Tadcaster to face Brazil ace Socrates
JIM Collis's Tadcaster Albion will be pitched against former World Cup captain Socrates next month. Northern Counties East League division one rivals Garforth Town have snapped up the 50-year-old Brazilian legend as a player-coach on an initial month-long
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Going down like nine pins
INJURY-HIT York City could be down to as few as nine full-time professionals for Saturday's FA Cup fourth round qualifying epic at Carlisle United. Paul Robinson and Gary Pearson are the latest names to be added to the ever-growing injury list and are
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Killer admits stabbing his first wife
A York man has admitted stabbing his first wife in Tyneside while out on licence from a life sentence for murdering his second bride. Kenneth Milroy, 52, of an unknown York address, was jailed for life in 1995 for strangling his second spouse. He served
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Son found strangled six years after his brother was killed
THE mother left to grieve after a York man was found strangled at the weekend has already lost another son in a violent stabbing, the Evening Press can reveal today. Christine Clements was today mourning the loss of her son, Carl Shaw, 26, who was found
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Holy ghosts start war of words
SAD to report that in this of all weeks, all is not sweetness and divine light among York's ghost walking fraternity. Hallowe'en is fast approaching and we are slap bang in the middle of the city's first Ghost Festival. It should be a time when spooky
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Review: Die Fledermaus,York Opera, Joseph Rowntree Theatre
It took the ear a while to get used to the downsized orchestra; after all, reducing a full orchestral complement to a ten-piece band is a big hit, but once they were up and running the instrumental intimacy quickly became the norm - and the playing was
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Review: Compact Failure, York Theatre Royal, until October 28
Theatre does not get much more cutting edge than this. Set in a women's prison, Compact Failure explores the relationships between three inmates and their families. Playwright Jennifer Farmer spent six months researching at HMP Send. So far, so avant-garde
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Review: Francisco Lopez, SightSonic, National Centre for Early Music, York
A SONIC immersive experience anyone? An eager audience submitted itself to an intense, unusual musical experiment. Cloaked in darkness, Lopez, an artist from Madrid, went to work on the blindfolded ensemble. The normal rules of performance were turned
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Preview: Chicago, Grand Opera House, October 26 to November 6
Introducing... Cavin Cornwall, who will play Billy Flynn in Chicago in York this autumn. Why is Chicago such a swell show to perform in, Cavin? "It's possibly my favourite show I've ever done because it has everything that choreographer Bob Fosse wanted
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Nowhere to go
REGARDING the Chapelfields riots, I have also noticed that bus shelters along Blossom Street are usually filled with teenagers with nowhere to go on an evening. I saw a different side of life when I looked at the history of an uncle in Doncaster half
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Helmet choice
THE cycle helmet debate has now been going for more than 15 years and one important point to consider is that helmets incur more impacts due to their extra size compared to a bare head. In impact tests, helmet use increased rotation of the head that can
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Tadcaster to face Brazil ace Socrates
JIM Collis's Tadcaster Albion will be pitched against former World Cup captain Socrates next month. Northern Counties East League division one rivals Garforth Town have snapped up the 50-year-old Brazilian legend as a player-coach on an initial month-long
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Nightmare on any street
DID you enjoy a swift journey home last night? Unless you travelled by bicycle or hot air balloon, the answer is probably an emphatic no. York has not suffered congestion like it since work to upgrade the A64 brought the city to a standstill. Most routes
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Tapping in to water world
IN yet another wry and deliberate swipe at the bottled water industry, Yorkshire Water is to trade mark its tap water as "Icytonic". It becomes the only water company in the UK to register its core product "alongside the likes of Coca-Cola, Pepsi and
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Dream makers
There was only one problem when a couple, long-standing customers of North Yorkshire bed retailers To Catch A Dream, called in panic to say they were a bed short for visitors arriving the next day. They were 1,000 miles away from the Harrogate-based store
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MP snubbed over RAF base health survey
DEFENCE Secretary Geoff Hoon has refused to ask a highly-regarded health watchdog to monitor risks arising from hi-tech satellite technology at RAF Fylingdales. The decision is a snub to Ryedale MP John Greenway, who wanted the Health Protection Agency
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Taking history into the 21st century
STEPHEN LEWIS looks forward to the rebirth of some of York's best-loved museums and art galleries. FRIENDS who live in Sheffield often say how lucky we are to live in York. Without taking anything away from the great South Yorkshire city, you'll find
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Going down like nine pins
INJURY-HIT York City could be down to as few as nine full-time professionals for Saturday's FA Cup fourth round qualifying epic at Carlisle United. Paul Robinson and Gary Pearson are the latest names to be added to the ever-growing injury list and are
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City primary school earns quality mark
QUALITY counts for the pupils and staff at a York primary school. Scarcroft School is celebrating being awarded a quality mark by the Basic Skills Agency for achieving high standards in reading, writing, spelling and number work. Head teacher Anna Cornhill
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Seconds clout for double booty
FOR only the second time in four years, York Under-11 schoolboy footballers reached a double-figure score when they trounced Spen Valley 10-2 in a league encounter at York Sixth Form College. York found themselves 3-0 up at half-time after laying siege
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To the Manor born
MANOR School may be relatively small but it is big when it comes to producing girl footballers. Four pupils - Sarah Milner, Sarah Robson, Emily Anniballi and Debbie Smith - have been selected for the North Yorkshire Under-16 girls' team. Emily also plays
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Slick with a stick at Escrick
QUEEN Margaret's School's Under-18 and Under-14 teams have both won their respective York and District hockey tournaments and dual representatives of the Escrick establishment will now contest the county tournament next month. The U18s convincingly beat
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York hero's bid - 27/10/04
Marshman, a winner at York earlier this month, can clinch the feature race at Lingfield tomorrow. The £20,000 ladbrokes.com Handicap over seven furlongs is the target for the Mark Tompkins-trained gelding, a previous winner over this course and distance
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Face to face
IT'S a good thing Selby rail crash survivor Stephen Lofthouse can't lift his new TV set - because seeing the face of the man who caused the tragedy makes him want to throw it through a window. The former soldier has maintained a dignified silence since
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Let us prey!
A YORK church has been "sickened" by thieves who stole from a minister and his congregation as they were deep in prayer. As Reverend Graham Maskery led Sunday service in the United Reformed Church in Priory Street, he never imagined that thieves were
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Knights' double strike
YORK City Knights have pulled off a double whammy by re-signing prop Adam Sullivan and bringing in local product Jonny Liddell. Captain Lee Jackson has also been offered a new deal, with the club now awaiting a response from the former Great Britain hooker
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Traffic jam blamed on early start to drain repairs
YORK city centre became totally gridlocked last night when engineers started drainage work too early. Huge tailbacks were reported along two of the city's main thoroughfares, Hull Road and Fulford Road, during yesterday's rush hour, which backed traffic
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Our answer to everything
I'VE started, so I'll finish. Does anyone know who compiles the questions for Mastermind? Me and the Other Half reckon there must be a brain-box from York who helps out, at the very least. It's either that, or there's someone on the experts' panel who
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Coaches should share blame
I WAS at the Barnet game on Saturday and along with others concerned about the team's performances. However to those supporters shouting "Brass Out" I would ask should the coaches be asked to shoulder some of the blame and criticism? Brass is without
