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Knights swoop
YORK City Knights have bolstered their back-line options for 2005 by bringing Hunslet Hawks utility back Chris Ross to Huntington Stadium. The 26-year-old can wear any shirt from one to seven, playing most of his recent career at either full-back or centre
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End the bad busking racket
BAFFLING but true. One of the Diary's suggestions has actually been taken up. And York city centre manager Paul Barrett adopted our idea in only six months - which counts as nosebleed-inducing velocity in council circles. Back in mid-May we proposed that
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Little raz left in Brazilian
"Where's your Socrates?" There are some things that you never expect to hear on a Novem-ber afternoon in Garforth. But then it really was one of those days. Tadcaster Albion, gunning for three points over their top-of-the-table rivals in Northern Counties
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Clout to top for Rovers
Huntington Rovers took full advantage of erstwhile leaders Dringhouses not having a game to go top of the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division after toppling hosts Dunnington 3-2. Injuries and suspensions forced Dunnington to make four
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Tockwith head a triumphant trio
The status quo was maintained at the head of division two, where the three top sides all won. Leaders Tockwith were four goals in front by the break through Ben Tobin, James Wardman and Graham Hutchinson (2). Though visitors Poppleton reduced the arrears
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Reserve double delight
THE top two sides in Reserve 'A' both won by the same 4-1 margin and in doing so completed doubles over their respective opponents. Old Malton stretched their unbeaten run to seven games after beating Pocklington with goals from Shaun Willey, Jamie Stone
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It's wham Bram for Pock
Pocklington produced another workmanlike performance to beat their nearest league rivals West Park Bramhope 18-10 and cement third place in Yorkshire 2. For the second week running Pocklington conceded a line-out catch and drive try inside five minutes
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Switchback pain
A SORRY second-half show saw Selby lose 31-13 to hosts Beverley and drop four places in Yorkshire One. Selby gave as good as they got in the first half to lead 13-12 but their kicking game went awry after the interval as the hosts ran in 19 unanswered
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Frozen in time
WITH a touch of frost in the air these last few days, a lost Yorkshire tradition comes sadly to mind. Every year at about this time it was the custom of this newspaper and others to put in a call to Bill Foggitt. Fewer than five weeks left to the big
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Selling up
A HUGE part of the £65 million Clifton Moor shopping centre will soon be up for sale. Slough Estates, which with Tesco owns the 175,000 sq ft of retail space through a joint venture company called Shopping Centre Ltd (SCL), plans to offload its share
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Review: York Cantores; St Olave's Church, Marygate, York
TODAY was St Cecilia's Day, dedicated to music's patron saint, who was martyred in early 3rd century Rome. York Cantores opened their season on Saturday with a concert in her honour, a splendid idea given the huge number of composers she has inspired.
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Finishing is vital - Busby
CARETAKER chief Viv Busby admitted he was pleased with the Minstermen's first match under his charge but felt the team deserved at least a point and would have come away with a positive result if they had finished better. He said: "After the trauma of
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A rural way of life
Victoria Young looks at what effect the ban on fox hunting will have on the rural economy. SEVENTEEN-year-old huntsman Josh Bentley is one of the estimated 13,600 whose job, home and way of life are at risk when the ban on hunting with dogs comes into
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Warning over dodgy traders
POLICE in York want the public to help them bring to book a team selling electrical goods out of the back of a van without a licence. Officers have received "numerous" complaints about the high-pressure salesmen who have been seen in several shop car
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Cultural services given poor rating
CULTURAL services provided by City of York Council are "fair", but are "uncertain to improve", according to Government inspectors. The Audit Commission team handed the £7.6 million service one star out of three and pointed to weaknesses in libraries and
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Deano beano salute
LEEDS United boss Kevin Blackwell hailed veteran striker Brian Deane's four-goal haul in the 6-1 Championship thrashing of Queens Park Rangers. The 36-year-old front-man couldn't buy a league goal until this month, failing to hit the target in his opening
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Tragedy couple's bus stop misery
A COUPLE who successfully campaigned for a flyover on the A64 to help prevent a repeat of their son's tragic death now fear their efforts were a waste of time. Colin and Christine Sanders' 16-year-old son Jamie was struck by a car while running across
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Athletics queen signs in at York store
BAKED beans, loaves of bread, tomato ketchup...and Paula Radcliffe! Shoppers at the Asda superstore at Monks Cross, York, got a bit of a shock yesterday when they turned out of the fruit and vegetable aisle to find the queen of British athletics signing
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Knights swoop
YORK City Knights have bolstered their back-line options for 2005 by bringing Hunslet Hawks utility back Chris Ross to Huntington Stadium. The 26-year-old can wear any shirt from one to seven, playing most of his recent career at either full-back or centre
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Council denies being secretive
PLANS to discuss the future of York's Foss Islands Road depot site in secret came under fire today. Labour councillor Sandy Fraser attacked the ruling Liberal Democrat executive for considering a report detailing future plans for the site - and its replacement
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Hawkeye strikes
PAUL Hunter was battling today to buck the trend in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship after shock defeats left only two of the world's top eight players in the event. Two more former world and UK champions bit the dust at York's Barbican Centre
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Dunning faces new ban
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby saw his selection problems intensify at Woking, where midfielder Darren Dunning earned himself a one-match suspension. Dunning was shown his fifth yellow card of the season after 87 minutes of the 1-0 defeat at Kingfield
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Woking 1, York City 0
AERIAL problems at Woking on Saturday prevented York City caretaker boss Viv Busby from getting a head start in any bid to land the Bootham Crescent job on a permanent basis. It was a tale of two headers in a tight match at Kingfield. Cards substitute
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I won't be back
I HAVE just returned from a few days break in York. However, an otherwise enjoyable holiday was marred by someone stealing my car's aerial when my car was parked outside our holiday cottage in Tadcaster Road. This meant I had to drive home without any
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Spice changes
I AM the proprietor of the Spice Room Restaurant and Take-away in York which opened in the summer. An article appeared in the Evening Press on November 13 featuring a review of the Spice Room Restaurant. I believe the comments made in this review were
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I love trees
I AM sad that Coun Andy D'Agorne still seeks to distort the facts surrounding the unsafe beech trees at Connaught Court and to try to characterise the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) as devious by using Christmas to "bury bad news" (Letters
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You stay, you pay
I READ your article concerning travellers wanting another site in York (November 16). If travellers want another site could they not help to fund it or if the council was to build it could the travellers not be charged a rent for staying there? A Oliver
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Housing facts
COUNCILLOR Potter criticises the Lib Dems for not building enough affordable homes in York (Letters, November 19). The facts of the matter are clear. In the last year of Labour control, 54 affordable homes were built in York. In the current financial
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Different story
COUN Sue Sunderland advises that there are only 61 empty council houses in York (Letters, November 10). It seems her officers tell a different story. Having challenged the council about numerous boarded up council houses, I was told that the number of
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Popular point
ONLY a small point in a chaotic world: I dislike pop songs and advertising jingles being made out of traditional pieces of music. Whenever I hear one of these (which have been on the go, on and off, for years) I'm told - by the chap with whom I share
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Casting stones
PAUL Hepworth ironically quotes the bible. I would gladly cast the first stone and it would cause damage to these monsters that get away with the most evil crimes on children. He seems to defend his presumed friend by saying Charles Holdaway has not brought
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Hope as parking charge reduced
EVENING parking charges are slashed in York from tonight - and hundreds of residents have flocked to take advantage of the cheaper £1 rate. Business chiefs are hoping that the lower fees, coupled with the new late-night Park & Ride service and Thursday's
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Way we were
Monday, November 22, 2004 100 years ago: At the Howden Petty Sessions a local man, who was a Justice of the Peace for the East Riding and a County Councillor, was charged on twelve separate summonses with the illegal employment of children of school age
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Way we were
Saturday, November 20, 2004 100 years ago: The Mendicity Officer of Scarborough had some peculiar incidents to relate at the meeting of the supporters of the Charity Organisation Society. He said he had received an application from a married couple, the
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Review: Jimmy Carr, Public Displays of Affection, Grand Opera House, York
IN the comedy game, anyone is fair game. Jimmy Carr, king of the 'I wish I'd said that' brigade, gave an assured display to an audience of amused cynics. Carr's knack of elegantly constructed puns and word play, peppered with expletives for kudos, and
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Red card rage at Redditch
HARROGATE Town were reduced to nine men as they lost 2-1 at Conference North rivals Redditch United. Mark Haran was sent off for a professional foul early in the second half and Dominic Krief was red-carded on 73 minutes after protesting that Richard
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York Park strife
IT was sighs all round at the final whistle at Percy Park - sighs of disappointment for York and of relief for the hosts, who won 13-11 to consolidate a three-point lead in Powergen Durham and Northumberland division one. The home supporters felt that
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Skip slide hits RI
YORK RI went down 16-14 to hosts Skipton in a hard-fought Yorkshire Three game and will reflect on missed opportunities. Flanker Nathan Ashman opened the scoring for RI, who took a recycled ball to go over. The visitors extended their lead on the half
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Malton sunk by 'Pooling of power
Another below-par display from hosts Malton and Norton allowed a poor Hartlepool outfit to take the North 2 East points after a 15-9 win. Malton looked good for the first quarter but failed to take advantage of their territorial advantage and ball supply
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'Gate lift in defeat
HARROGATE may have lost four on the trot with this 26-17 National Two reverse at Wharfedale but for long spells they excelled. Twice Harrogate led in the first half but Wharfedale went to the break with a nine-point lead, a margin they never ceded. Andy
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SYP must be fully backed
TACKLING crime in imaginative and far-sighted ways is becoming ever more important these days. Crime is rarely out of the headlines and continues to be a major worry to most people - so any initiative that helps to reduce it deserves our continued support
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Tape runs out
SO farewell to the video player. Dixons, the country's largest electrical chain, is no longer to stock the humble recorder, now eclipsed by the DVD. Once upon a technologically-illiterate time, you had to choose between watching television or going out
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Blue and Golds pay the penalty
INDISCIPLINE cost York Acorn ARLC dear as their promotion push in National Conference League division two stalled with a 26-18 defeat at bogey side Normanton. The Blue and Golds had both second-row Carl Barrow and substitute Fran Starkey sent off in the
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Hawkeye strikes
PAUL Hunter was battling today to buck the trend in the Travis Perkins UK Snooker Championship after shock defeats left only two of the world's top eight players in the event. Two more former world and UK champions bit the dust at York's Barbican Centre
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Book ends Dunn run
YORK City caretaker boss Viv Busby saw his selection problems intensify at Woking, where midfielder Darren Dunning earned himself a one-match suspension. Dunning was shown his fifth yellow card of the season after 87 minutes of the 1-0 defeat at Kingfield
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Schools' joy at survey results
SCHOOLS in York and North and East Yorkshire were celebrating today after faring well in a nationwide survey. St Peter's School was judged 74th best independent secondary school in the country - up almost 30 places since last year under new head Richard
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Double in sight - 22/11/04
Noel Wilson, who trains on the outskirts of York, can scoop the honours at Southwell tomorrow by completing a double. The Warthill-based handler has excellent prospects of hitting the target with Yenaled and Air Mail, two horses who were successful on
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Little raz left in Brazilian
"Where's your Socrates?" There are some things that you never expect to hear on a Novem-ber afternoon in Garforth. But then it really was one of those days. Tadcaster Albion, gunning for three points over their top-of-the-table rivals in Northern Counties
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Hope as parking charge reduced
EVENING parking charges are slashed in York from tonight - and hundreds of residents have flocked to take advantage of the cheaper £1 rate. Business chiefs are hoping that the lower fees, coupled with the new late-night Park & Ride service and Thursday's
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Whiff of cannabis in the air at gig
PRO-CANNABIS campaigner Howard Marks left a whiff of controversy in the air during a gig in York. An eyewitness said at least three members of the Grand Opera House audience had to be warned by staff and risked arrest for smoking cannabis in public during
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Schools' joy at survey results
SCHOOLS in York and North and East Yorkshire were celebrating today after faring well in a nationwide survey. St Peter's School was judged 74th best independent secondary school in the country - up almost 30 places since last year under new head Richard
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Crime-fight cash could be axed
YORK'S crime-busting community partnership could lose a large chunk of its funding as council bosses seek ways to save cash. Councillors have been asked to look at whether the £190,000 given to Safer York Partnership (SYP) each year could be better spent
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Burst water main causes road chaos
MOTORISTS are facing days of traffic misery following a burst water main on one of York's main roads. The burst, at the junction of Melrosegate and Hull Road, which caused a huge hole in the road, is forcing drivers to take lengthy diversions, with knock-on
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I fell off the banned Wagon
FALLING off the wagon is a disappointing experience at the best of times, but falling off the wagon while clutching a Wagon Wheel is nothing less than shameful. It had to happen eventually I suppose, but I didn't expect my inevitable tumble to be so undignified
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Criminal waste of court time
I HAVE recently completed a two week stint of Jury Service at York Crown Court, and it is now clear why the average cost of each trial is £50,000. It is a very frustrating place to be - there is so much idle time, so much waiting about, so much repetition
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Alistair rocks
I TRAVELLED up from Nottingham especially to see Alistair Griffin perform at the Grand Opera House in York. What a fantastic show. There was a superb atmosphere. Alistair had a wonderful rapport with his audience. Many were already fans and anyone who
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Twin tales
YORK has been twinned with Dijon since the 1950s when the civic parties used to exchange visits ("Seeking Dijon", Letters, November 12). There must be hundreds of people in York who have visited Dijon on an exchange basis when they were at school but
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Somebody's child
PAUL Hepworth's letter regarding the headline "Call this justice?" about his professional colleague and recently convicted sex offender Charles Holdaway was utter nonsense (November 18). Any normal human being finds any form of paedophile activity abhorrent
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Bring back bus
REGARDING the letter about the loss of the number 16A bus (November 16), I'd like to know why this bus service has been altered yet again. I caught the service now operating as number 17A and it goes all round the houses to get to Piccadilly. I don't
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Taxi drivers 'kicked around'
IN reply to the excellent letter by A P Cox of Holgate about cabs in York Station (November 16), I am a hackney driver of ten years and in that time I have come to learn the sad truth of our status and value amongst the authorities. The reason we are
