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Knights open gate to brothers in arms
GATESHEAD Thunder's highly-rated Thorman brothers have both signed for York City Knights. The Evening Press revealed a fortnight ago that the Knights had emerged as favourites to recruit the Tyneside-based duo after they attended the club's first training
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Way we were
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 100 years ago: The champion trout of the past season, caught in the waters fished over by the members of the Black Ox Angling Club by a man from Leeming Bar, had just been "set up" and was in the possession of the landlord
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A64 has got to be safer
THE economic case for the upgrade of the York to Scarborough road has long been made - and long been ignored. Earlier this year motoring group the RAC Foundation insisted that a ten-year, £20 billion improvements programme was necessary to prevent A64
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York wired up for big switch-on
THE Evening Press - which helped make York sparkle this Christmas - has been invited to be involved in tomorrow's big switch-on ceremony. Deputy editor Bill Hearld will join the Lord Mayor of York, Coun Janet Looker, the light's main sponsors, GNER and
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Davis hails new star
YORK snooker fans are seeing an inspired player who could be spearheading a new generation of talent. That's the view of one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Six-times world and UK champion Steve Davis was full of praise for Stephen
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House gains in Spain
SUN SEEKERS in Yorkshire spent more than £8 million on Spanish property - without even leaving the UK - during The Best of Southern Spain Property Roadshow's second visit to Harrogate. The success was announced today by Hunters Estate Agents' Overseas
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Travel agency's charitable hi-tech revamp
JOANNE Umpleby began booking holidays for Selby families nearly 20 years ago. She has seen tastes change from a bucket-and-spade beach holiday on the Costa Brava to cruising off Alaska, jetting to Borneo and getting married in the Caribbean. She has seen
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Nestl KitKat course
STUDENTS at the Skills Centre, York, have been spending time at Nestl Rowntree in York experiencing the processes that convert cocoa beans into KitKats. Over six weeks, the year 10 students saw the whole confectionery process, from the initial idea for
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History may repeat itself
A LANDSCAPE design and management boss has moved his firm into York - and immediately set his sights on winning business at the city's rapidly-expanding university that his grandfather pioneered. Patrick James, managing director of The Landscape Agency
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Review: The Rakes, The Paddingtons, The Longcut, Fibbers, York
ANOTHER tour featuring NME-hyped Cockneys? Yawn... First on were The Longcut, whose enthralling post-Manchester squall resembled Sonic Youth ripping out Godspeed You Black Emperor's string section and replacing it with ten Dave Grohls. Shaggy singer Stuart
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"They have to be cruel to be kind... It is no good sitting and saying you cannot do it."
STEPHEN LEWIS visits a centre dedicated to helping elderly people recovering from illness or injury return to their own homes. It's lunchtime at Archways. Elderly people, many of them in wheelchairs, sit around a check-clothed table in the bright, modern
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Off the self
Written a book but don't know how to get it published? STEPHEN LEWIS seeks some advice on self-publishing. EVERYONE has a book in them, goes the clich. Getting it published is a different matter. Publishers are notoriously reluctant to take risks on new
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'Baby-faced hitman' to give York talk on Churchill
BESTSELLING author Michael Dobbs, described by critics as "Westminster's baby-faced hit man" and "a man who, in Latin America, would have been shot", will be in York tomorrow to talk about his latest book, Churchill's Hour. Dobbs' uncanny ability to get
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York school in Ofsted battle
A YORK secondary school is fighting back after an inspector's report revealed "serious weaknesses" in results and attendance. Ofsted inspectors identified some areas of serious concern when they carried out an inspection of Oaklands School in the spring
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Net advantage
ALL Saints and Joseph Rowntree Schools from York took the county round of the National Schools' netball competition by storm, qualifying in five of the six places available for the regional finals in January. Joseph Rowntree made it a hat-trick winning
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Danny boy's treble
DANNY Penrose rattled in a hat-trick as York Schools' U15s footballers beat Grimsby 4-0 for their first win of the season. Penrose scrambled the ball in for his opener and then collected an excellent through-pass from Kevin Kozinski ten minutes later
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Back with Hull of a bang
After three weeks lay-off it was back to Yorkshire League action for York Rugby Union Club development squad's U17s, who beat hosts Hull 17-5. York's pack was in dominant form. The front row was bolstered by the return of hooker Tom Bewick, while in the
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Hazlewood Grocery
A £3 MILLION state-of-the art waste water treatment plant has been hailed as "potentially an important step forward" in attempts to restore salmon stocks in the River Ouse. The new plant at Selby's Hazlewood Grocery began operating in January and was
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21st Century Body Art
CHANGING the image of tattoos and piercings - this was the ambitious aim of a York body art studio. Becky Nicholas and Brendan Singleton spent more than a year sizing up the competition by trawling across the country looking at other studios which offered
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Happy Jays
FOR Jacqui Gernon, the baby boom goes on. Construction work on her third Happy Jays day nursery has begun. Already, in only seven years, she has built up two successful Happy Jays at Clifton Moor and Boroughbridge, together generating a turnover approaching
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Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms Ltd
WHEN you produce mushrooms, it's worth playing it by the book. You've heard of book worms, so how about book mushrooms? Edible gourmet fungi can thrive on old books, turning them into compost and solving the problem of phone directories clogging up wastefill
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Giles Rocholl
THERE is something about a Giles Rocholl picture that puts the excitement into businesses. Remember the image of a partner-founder of York-based expatshopping.com in pith helmet in the jungle ordering Bourneville cocoa on the Internet? The one with the
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Give the dog a bone
The ditty from which Adam Rodway's York venture takes its name may be dotty, but "...give the dog a bone" gift shop is doing very nicely in knick-knacks, thank you. In fact the word has so got around about that owner Adam Rodway has doubled his stock
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The Fancy Dance shop
THERE'S nothing tougher than starting up a new business, but when you are partially sighted the challenge is even greater. But nothing is too much trouble for inspiring Jayne Mason who has overcome all the odds and set up her own children's dance wear
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Red looks best - 24/11/04
There are doubts about Carlisle's meeting tomorrow going going ahead tomorrow, but racing is assured at Taunton, where Red Society is napped to follow-up his recent course success. Philip Hobbs' gelding was a convincing winner there a fortnight ago, leading
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Ello Flower
Janine Roberts has always been at her happiest among the flowers, especially her own at her shop, Ello Flower in Goodramgate, York. Even when the 23-year-old was a tot, she was arranging them, sniffing them and being delighted by them - a fascination
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DWA Architects
THE award-winning Selby architects whose controversial plans for a £41 million redevelopment of York's Barbican site have been approved, today continued to defend their project. The Government decided not to call in the plans by Selby architect's practice
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Yorwaste Ltd
NATURALLY, as a waste management company Yorwaste Ltd is single-mindedly dedicated to the environment. It is hardly surprising that the 125-employee company, based in Northallerton, is pitching to become the Evening Press Environmental Business of the
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York Property Company
FOUR landlords who became fed up with their letting agents not returning calls and upsetting their tenants decided to join forces and go it alone. The York Property Company was born with its directors - Pauline and Martin Cooper, Steve Boldison and Paul
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York City Knights Rugby League Football Club
IF the maxim for a successful business is try, try and try again then York City Knights Rugby League Football Club is bound to be a winner in more ways than one. The Knights have entered the Small Business of the Year category in the 2004 Evening Press
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CoachMe Ltd
SELLING is more than a knack. It's a craft that can be learned - and trained sales teams yield more profits than untrained ones. That's the lesson learned by Steve Catchpole, director of Harrogate-based CoachMe Ltd, which is competing for the New Business
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Cicada
NO WONDER that Cicada is particularly chirpy just lately. The Harrogate-based public relations company saw a 59 per cent increase in sales over 2003/4, which boosted profits substantially. And that is enough to make seven full-time employees and one part-time
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Central Science Laboratory
BEASTIES and creepy crawlies are helping the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) at Sand Hutton to intensify the fascination of thousands of schoolchildren in the region in scientific study. How else would four and five-year-olds come nose-to-nose with a
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Castle Howard Estate
CASTLE Howard Estate is a natural contender for the Evening Press Best Environmental Company. Most people in the area have visited Castle Howard, but the estate's commercial arm is less well known. The business is tasked with conserving and restoring
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Castles UK Ltd
HARRY Potter has boosted business for a York company, which supplies school furniture. The children's books, by J K Rowling, and the subsequent Harry Potter films have led to a surge of children wanting to go to boarding school. This has helped Castles
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Caroline Lee Nanny Agency
A YORK woman wants to take the worry out of going out to work and leaving your child with a nanny. Caroline Lee's own nanny agency, in Alexander Avenue, Huntington, is aimed at matching up children with the right nanny. She said: "Our agency will find
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Castle Galleries
FRESH from its second victory in succession as Retailer of the Year in the annual Fine Art Guild Awards, Castle Galleries, in the Coppergate Centre, York, is now pitching for the same title in the 2004 Evening Press Business Awards. Castle Galleries has
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Buyright Ltd
FEW printers publish prices. Instead they suggest to the public: Tell us what you want and we'll quote you. That thought guided Tony Stanley when he set up Buyright Ltd, a printing brokerage in Acomb Wood Drive, Woodthorpe, York. He has published what
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British Sugar
BRITISH Sugar's York factory has yet again proved it is a heavyweight contender in the 2004 Evening Press Business of the Year competition. Last year the factory in Boroughbridge Road scooped the title, Best Business and Education Link. This time it is
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Ben Johnson Office Solutions
A York firm which helps other businesses run smoothly today announced that it is heading for record profits. Ben Johnson Office Solutions, the office supplies and equipment retailer based in Stirling Park, Clifton Moor, declared £1.1 million sales in
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Basis Plus
AVIS Turner is on a mission to support adults with learning disabilities enter the world of employment and break down the social barriers they face. Her dynamism in building up Basics Plus, an award-winning Scarborough organisation which offers new skills
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Norman Whyte
Could the champion maker turn champion? Norman Whyte's staff thinks so. As chief executive of the York, Selby and Malton Business Advice Centres, Mr Whyte has groomed no fewer than seven outright winners in the Evening Press Business Awards since the
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Alphasound Audio Visual
MARK Johnson is used to running a sound business - literally. Fifteen years ago his company, Alphasound, was a mobile discotheque service, operating a fleet of mobile DJs who mainly served York's Royal York Hotel, the Viking Moat House and other venues
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Acute Marketing
A YORK company which is holding its own as a successful brand development consultancy is vying for two accolades in this year's Evening Press Business of the Year awards. Acute Marketing, in Clifford Street, was founded three years ago by managing consultant
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Top Line Travel of York Limited
IT IS a bus company with drive. From a modest start in May 2000, Top Line Travel of York Limited has grown to six times its original size. No surprises then that the company, which runs tour buses as well as doing school runs and public passenger services
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The Max
WHEN it comes to effort and profit you can expect The Max from the 48 staff of The Max. Ever since design and print company PDQ merged with Maxiprint in Kettlestring Lane, Clifton Moor, York, and officially rebranded as The Max in March, turnover and
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Tele-Products
HEALTH and Safety is booming for a York electronic manufacturing company. Tele-Products, of Northminster Business Park, Poppleton, predicted that its product, First Stop Safety, which helps businesses comply with health and safety requirements, would
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Superbreak Mini-Holidays Ltd
A BOOM in demand for holidays has led to a York firm dealing in hotel breaks taking on 30 more reservation staff. The number of reservation staff at Superbreak Mini-Holidays Ltd, in Piccadilly, has soared by 19 per cent to 186 and brought the total number
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Studiotozer Ceramics
TWENTY years ago, husband and wife Brian and Sally Tozer settled at Pickering to set up a residential craft centre. Now the couple's Studiotozer Ceramics is in contention for the 2004 Evening Press Small Business of the Year title. Before moving to Pickering
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Serendipity
George is a home-made cupboard. It's named after Jacky Featherstone's 14-year-old son. Jacky has a smaller assembled cupboard dubbed Charlie, named after - you've guessed it - her younger son, aged ten. Both cupboards live at Serendipity in Gillygate
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Scenecraft UK
EVER since a couple of young entrepreneurs came on the scene in York, they have been creating their own scenario of success. Now Rosie Ellis, 23, and Matthew East, 24, of Scenecraft UK, are pitching for the title of the Evening Press Young Business Entrepreneur
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Saint Gobain Glass
HERE'S something to reflect on - a career in the glass industry. With that in mind, French firm Saint Gobain Glass, which launched its £80 million UK float glass plant in Eggborough in 1998, has since gone out of its way to develop closer links between
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RR Donnelley
YELLOW Pages demands green thinking. RR Donnelley, the mega-printers at Flaxby Moor, near Knaresborough, which annually publishes 50 million directories, including Yellow Pages, keeps a close eye on any environmental impact its operation may have. After
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Red Submarine Ltd
EXPECTATIONS are high for the future of a York-based company which supplies specialist computer systems for audio recording and video-editing. Red Submarine Ltd, based in James Street, launched a new venture last year to attract more customers and is
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QA Research
HISTORY is being brought alive as a York research and marketing agency delves into the memories of former pupils and teachers at a city school. As part of a programme of centenary celebrations, Poppleton Road School contacted QA Research for help on a
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Purple Dragonfly
PURPLE Dragonfly of Harrogate spread its wings and launched last May - and so far its speedy hovering over the public relations scene has paid off. The company, which was the brainchild of 25-year-old Abigail Crerar, has bagged numerous clients, including
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Punctureseal (York) Ltd
MOST business people fear deflation as much as inflation, but not husband and wife team George and Karen Clague, of Stamford Bridge. Their new business, Punctureseal (York) Ltd, means that deflation is an unlikely scenario! Ex-soldier George, who now
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PromoBikes (Yorkshire) Ltd
PEDDLING advertising and pedalling advertising are two different things. But the twain - or is it the bicycle chain? - meet at York-based PromoBikes (Yorkshire) Ltd. Account director Steve Lydiatt's eco-friendly way of getting the message to the marketplace
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Gang attacks boy riding bike in park
A 12-YEAR-OLD boy had his BMX bike stolen by three teenagers in York's Museum Gardens. Police said the gang pushed the youngster off the cycle and rode away with it on Sunday, between 4pm and 4.30pm. One of the culprits is described as white, aged 17,
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Residents slam anti-crime plan
EXPERIENCED York community workers have said the city faces a "bleak future" if council chiefs decide to put its crime-fighting partnership in jeopardy by slashing its budget. Keith Chapman, who has chaired Nunnery Lane Residents' Association for more
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Final plea in mystery
DETECTIVES fear the mystery of a middle-aged man found in the River Ouse more than a year ago may never be solved. Despite a nationwide appeal, they have been unable to identify the man's body found at Naburn Lock, near York, 14 months ago. Photographs
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Can-tastic tilt
YORK Vikings Basketball Club's Under-13s have started their season with two wins and a defeat. Can Evirgen, who moved to North Yorkshire from Turkey three months ago, made an impressive debut, scoring 12 points in the opening 46-19 victory over Leeds
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York wired up for big switch-on
THE Evening Press - which helped make York sparkle this Christmas - has been invited to be involved in tomorrow's big switch-on ceremony. Deputy editor Bill Hearld will join the Lord Mayor of York, Coun Janet Looker, the light's main sponsors, GNER and
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Same again Deano
KEVIN Blackwell has challenged Brian Deane to keep the goals flowing tonight after his four-goal salvo against Queens Park Rangers. The Leeds manager has outlawed any 'after the Lord Mayor's Show' reaction from Saturday's 6-1 trouncing of Rangers when
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Stolen vehicle in crash drama
A MAN who crashed a stolen £20,000 car through a wall and down a five-foot drop into a field was today under police guard in York Hospital. The 20-year-old man, of no fixed address, was being detained after the accident in which a two-month-old Denver
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Natalie Hunter
A YOUNG entrepreneur has been hailed "the backbone" of a team of hairdressers for her success in taking a Selby business from strength-to-strength. Natalie Hunter has been involved in the family business, Hunters Health Spa on Brook Street, Selby, from
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Mosaic Events Ltd
WHETHER it's a conference for 400 delegates or a dinner for ten guests, Mosaic Events Ltd can organise it. The company, which is the brainchild of 26-year-old Sarah Byrne, was only launched at the start of 2004 but already has big clients, including law
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The Morrice Partnership
COMMUNICATION is the name of the game for a York business which aims to revolutionise the way companies provide internal information. The Morrice Partnership, a communication and design consultancy based at York Science Park, wants its idea for an entirely
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Mimika Cooney
DANCING clicks with Mimika Cooney. South African-born Mimika who lives in Rainsborough Way, York, has danced all her life and now, as a recently-trained photographer she's regularly capturing its spirit in image rather than her own movement. She is hoping
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Mil-tek (Central) Ltd
A GROWING environmental solutions firm near York, which supplied a baling machine to help Matalan, the superstore in Clifton Moor, experiment with recycling waste packaging, is now set to reap huge rewards. Matalan has declared the Clifton Moor trial
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Mercedes Benz of York
A SMART motor retailer in York, whose staff tapped into the student mind as part of a design project, has been nominated for the Evening Press business awards. Motor retailer Mercedes Benz of York is vying for the top Education Link title in the awards
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Mango Mutt
A NORTH Yorkshire firm which sells products for pampered and preening pooches on the internet is bidding for the Evening Press New Business of the Year title. Mango Mutt, of Millbrook House, Wayside Avenue, Harrogate was created by Sarah Manby and inspired
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Let cars back on footstreets
I AM writing to suggest that the day of York footstreets has passed and that they should be ended without delay. All traffic should be permitted in all parts of York (except Minster Yard and Deangate, Stonegate and Shambles) at all times and perhaps a
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Brian's flat out
AS one whose working life is devoted to creating centrally-located housing, I nevertheless feel that Brian Page's piece on the alleged unmitigated benefits of city centre flat developments requires a response ("By popular demand", Property Press, November
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Wrong priorities
WHILE driving back to York from Leeds on November 17, I saw a very serious road traffic accident on the Leeds-bound lane of the A64. Despite the enveloping darkness which covered the scene when I passed at around 7.10pm, it was abundantly clear from the
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Shining example
I COMMEND Clive Booth, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for York, for organising and finding funding for a free coach trip last month for sixth form pupils and university students to Westminster, in order to visit the Houses of Parliament and
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Wilfully ignorant
IT is immoral of Hugh Bayley MP to vote against hunting. It is a further breach by him (for he is pro-abortion) of his foremost duty, to defend human freedom from conception to natural death. As Mr Bayley so rightly says, in his very own words, "It is
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Just so selfish
I WOULD like to echo the views expressed by Mr J Hudson (Letters, November 17). It amazes me just how selfish today's "adults" are. This morning I had great difficulty getting around a blind bend at the end of my road because of the number of large vehicles
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Unchristian view
IT'S fair to say of the Press letters pages that "all human life is here", but last Thursday things took a frightening and sinister turn. M Bowker's letter, while appearing at first glance just to be the usual reactionary rant from the hard-of-thinking
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Just Bliss Nail And Beauty Spa
NATALIE McDowell is the driving force behind a nail and beauty spa in York which is about to celebrate its first anniversary with a tidy profit in the bank. After renting a top floor of a city centre hair salon for about a year, Natalie decided it was
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What's keeping us together
DID I dream this, or did I really hear a story on the radio about how house prices are now so high that people can't afford to split up? I listened with increasing astonishment as a couple, as if in some sort of self-help class, confessed how they had
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Stripped for action on Radio 4
STRIPPING on the radio? It'll never catch on. Ah, but this is a comic strip turned into a sitcom - and it is already tipped for success. Co-written by York man David Ramsden, Clare In The Community is a six-part series beginning this Friday at 11.30am
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Review: Annie, Grand Opera House, York
I'D like it known that, yes, I did know the story of Little Orphan Annie before I arrived at the theatre and, yes, I was fully aware that it would be a very emotional evening - but, in mitigation, I wasn't the only one with tears in my eyes by the end
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Turley's spot of anguish
JAMES Turley will be absolved of his penalty-taking responsibility for Harrogate Town after failing with his second successive spot-kick. His latest 12-yard blunder contributed to Town's dismal 1-0 exit from this year's Conference Cup at Wetherby Road
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Rose withers under blitz
Knaresborough Town Ladies FC avenged an earlier cup defeat by White Rose by routing them 5-2 in the County Cup. In the first half the teams were evenly matched, with Town goalkeeper Penny Davies making a string of fine saves to prevent White Rose from
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Sure-shot Carlton trample over Moors
CARLTON United caused the RJF Homes Beckett Football League shock of the season by dumping top-flight Kirkbymoorside Reserves out of the Gordon Harrison Memorial Trophy. A home quarter-final place against Union Rovers was booked by Carlton, who are currently
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It's Erik's fault
DAMN you, Erik Bloodaxe. We all thought that the crisis in European fish stocks could be traced back 30 years to the cod wars with Iceland. Then along come York University researchers and their collection of antique herring bones. Apparently these prove
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Let sleeping dogs lie...
PEACE has broken out following a virtual pillow fight between a North Yorkshire bed company and its Surrey-based rival To Catch A Dream, the specialist retailer of high quality beds, bedsteads and bedroom furniture in Harrogate, has won a trademark dispute
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Enter Robbo Mk II
FORMER trialist Paul Robinson will turn out for York City reserves tonight 16 months after injuring himself in his last run-out for the Minstermen's second-string. Robinson, not to be confused with his striking namesake currently on City's books, damaged
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Turning the tables
LEAGUE table success is nice - but it's not the be all and end all, say York school heads. Head teachers at city schools celebrating high rankings in the latest exam-based survey say though it is gratifying, there is more to school life than academic
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MP on menu at primary...
YORK MP Hugh Bayley showed off a new skill when he dropped in to sample the new menu at a city primary. The health-conscious parliamentarian served lunches at Knavesmire Primary School and got to try out the new menu designed to encourage pupils to eat
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Gell proves foursome
Man of the match Matty Gell scored four tries as a brilliant team show saw New Earswick All Blacks Amateur Rugby League Club U13s hammer Shawcross 48-18. All Blacks went ahead early but Shawcross hit back thrice to lead 18-6 before the York side improved
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Fitting finale to head teacher
Strensall's Robert Wilkinson primary school did the memory of their late headmaster, Peter Feasby, proud. The school beat off the challenge of 17 others from the York area to finish winners of a hockey tournament held in memory of Mr Feasby, who died
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Hallmark IFA
EVER since brothers David and Clive Holbrook, founders of Hallmark IFA, relocated their independent financial advisers' practice from Clifton Moor to illustrious premises in the heart of York in December 2001, public awareness and appreciation of their
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Graphics Direct
A FORMER pig farmer proved that there is more than one way of bringing home the bacon when he changed his career to the graphics industry. Chris Booth, 36, of Knaresborough, put an end to 45 years of family farming when he set up e-business Graphics Direct
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Frier Tucks
FISH and chips is in the blood for one York chippy owner who had a taste for the trade from a young age. James Morrison, proprietor of Frier Tucks on Heworth Road, grew up around his parents' fish and chip shop Audreys in Bridlington, where he started
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Fitzwilliam (Malton) Estates
REVITALISING an entire North Yorkshire town is a pretty fair reason to pitch for the title of Evening Press Best Environmental Company of the Year. That is the proud claim of Fitzwilliam (Malton) Estates which for 300 years has owned a sizeable chunk
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Firemansliftsyork
HERE'S an accountant's equation that works: Handsome firefighter + girlies on a night-out + fire engine turned dream machine = Firemansliftsyork, a lucrative business that trades on emergency fantasies. The accountant is Sharon Higgins, 31, the firefighter
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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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EngNet
Michael and Mimika Cooney's brainwave took a 6,000-mile move to York and years of fine tuning before they could prove it was a truly great idea. Michael, an electrical engineer, first thought of starting their company EngNet when, while working in his
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YorkTest Veterinary Services
WHAT began as a feasibility study in 1998 to see whether human allergy tests could be extended to animals has resulted in an amazing niche market company in York with a turnover of more than £500,000. On the way, YorkTest Veterinary Services has won a
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Cross Keys Locks
DARREN Morfitt was inspired to set up his own locksmith and security business after going to the rescue of a relative who had lost her handbag and house keys. Trained as a vehicle body technician, he was happy in his career of 16 years but felt ready
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Constructive Individuals
ARCHITECTS always boast that their work makes a difference to the environment, but few can lay greater claim to working for the common good than Phil Bixby, sole proprietor of Constructive Individuals. Phil, who operates his practice from home in Holgate
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Worm Holes
BOOK lover Jo Dodd was working out her redundancy from Norwich Union when she decided to create Worm Holes. It was a great title for the bookshop which she eventually opened in a three-storey building in Bootham, York, given that writers are constantly
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Basics4Baby
AGAINST doctors' advice, Maxine Emmett decided to have a second child. It is just as well she did because little Olivia, born last year, has sparked off a whole new working life for pain-wracked Maxine, of Mount Gardens, Harrogate, who had to cut short
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Woodlands MS Resource & Respite Care Centre
TWO little words put the final seal on a package of measures that keep the 94 staff at Woodlands MS Resource & Respite Care Centre, York, happy, dedicated and loathe to leave. They are: "Thank you." The 24 full-time, 50 part-time, and 20 bank staff
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Bare Earth
A NORTH Yorkshire couple who have brought the authentic taste of Africa to the Dales have been overwhelmed by the response to their business. Gary Quinn and Thomo Leteane launched their own range of biltong, a traditional African dried meat snack, earlier
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Agnus & Co
A DERELICT outbuilding which was transformed into a gift shop has proved a hit in North Yorkshire. Jan Bradshaw spent £30,000 turning a disused cart house in her mother-in-law's garden in the Ryedale village of Nunnington, into a thriving business. At
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Academy Hair and Beauty Training Centre
THE Academy Hair and Beauty Training Centre, in Malton, seems to be on a permanent wave of success. Originally set up by managing director Lindsay Burr in 1998 to train staff for the four salons within Ryedale parent company the Goodys Group, The Academy
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UK Juicers
IT'S a juicy challenge, but a tough one. Can UK Juicers of Acaster Malbis keep the two titles in won last year - the Evening Press e-commerce Business of the Year and Growth Business of the Year? Remember UK Juicers? That was the venture started by Nick
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YJS Ltd
It began with a conversation in a North Yorkshire pub - no names, no pack drill - when Tony McGurrin and Tom Watherston discussed the poor state of the glasses in which their drinks were served. The conversation went something like this: "Would you drink
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Turn Back Time
Phooey to all those who fear April 1. That was the lucky day in 2000 when Veronica Finney and her partner, Paul Spink, first opened Turn Back Time in Heworth Road, York. Ever since, the little shop displaying second hand furniture and the removal business
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Trickster's Lane Restaurant
IT'S no trick of the imagination at Trickster's Lane Restaurant in York. Its chefs really do cook in an open kitchen in full view of diners - and what fine cooking you see is what you get. There are other obvious signs of quality, like the dcor, with
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Space Creative
THERE are innate talents and discovered talents. Kate Holmes's innate talent is as a designer. She has "graphic artist" written through her core like a stick of rock. But Kate, of Selby, had always worked for others, so when she started her own business
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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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Scarborough Sea Life and Marine Sanctuary
IT'S not many commercial organisations that will invest about £25,000 of profits each year on annually saving 50 injured or abandoned seals around the Yorkshire coast. But Scarborough Sea Life and Marine Sanctuary, driven by a genuine desire to save endangered
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Rock-Ola
PASSERS-BY who stop to gaze through the window of one of York's newest music shops are as likely to be invited in for a cuppa as they are for a new amp. Rock-Ola, in Walmgate, prides itself on being a little bit different, as its creators endeavour to
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Roam'in Tours
HAIL to Maximus Gluteus, otherwise known as Keith Mulhearn and his Roam'in Tours of York. What began five years ago as a one-man tour guide service for the city dressed in Roman garb has evolved into an educational, event-organising attraction, with a
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Richardson's of Woodthorpe
The craft of traditional butchering is not dead in York. Martin Richardson, 36, who trained with two successful butchers in the city, lamented the loss of so many butcher shops in a city once famed for them. Shambles, for instance, once consisted of nothing
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Getting tough on Booze hot-spots
SPECIAL measures are needed to tackle a "violent crime hot-spot" in York, according to police chiefs. Booze-fuelled violence inside the city walls has prompted plans for tough new licensing rules. The call for action comes in response to statistics showing
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Picture Drum Publishing
Picture Drum started with no capital, no office and no clients. Just a vision of a design consultancy offering clients the highest standard of service and design. The company began life as Picture Drum Publishing (Pdp) in 1992, after being founded by
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Bus firm in route U-turn
A BUS company has reversed a controversial timetable change that left residents east of York stranded. The service to the village of Dunnington, operated by East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS), has been restored after the intervention of Selby MP John
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Paver Ltd
A MASSIVE new state-of-the-art distribution centre is being planned at Poppleton by Paver Ltd, the York-based national shoe shop chain. The new warehouse will be 200 yards from the company's existing distribution centre on the Northminster Business Park
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Family flee from home
A FATHER has told councillors how he and his family fled their York home in the middle of the night and slept in a lay-by to escape "obnoxious odours" from a contaminated site. Alastair Robinson said he and his wife, Caroline, had been in genuine fear
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Owen Williams Railways
A YORK-BASED rail consultancy firm, whose turnover has soared in a year to £5 million, announced today that it now expects to grow by a further £1 million per year. The new northern branch of Birmingham-based Owen Williams Railways, which employs 70 staff
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Angling row
AN angry clash with a rowing regatta ruined the weekend's premier river angling match in the York area, with a sell-out field in the York Animals Hospitals Cup having to battle with several hundred rowing crews as well as an icy river. The trouble started
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Sea fishing crisis dates at least a millennium
THE crisis caused by the over-exploitation of Europe's fish stocks dates back as far as a millennium, according to new archaeological evidence found by York academics. A study published today, which was led by University of York archaeologists, has discovered
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Coroner's alert over death spot
NEW calls for major improvements to be made to the A64 Scarborough to York road have been made by North Yorkshire East Coroner Michael Oakley. Mr Oakley, who has been one of the leading voices in the campaign to upgrade the busy trunk road between West
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Davis hails new star
YORK snooker fans are seeing an inspired player who could be spearheading a new generation of talent. That's the view of one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Six-times world and UK champion Steve Davis was full of praise for Stephen
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Knights open gate to brothers in arms
GATESHEAD Thunder's highly-rated Thorman brothers have both signed for York City Knights. The Evening Press revealed a fortnight ago that the Knights had emerged as favourites to recruit the Tyneside-based duo after they attended the club's first training
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Enter Robbo Mk II
FORMER trialist Paul Robinson will turn out for York City reserves tonight 16 months after injuring himself in his last run-out for the Minstermen's second-string. Robinson, not to be confused with his striking namesake currently on City's books, damaged
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Death probe
DETECTIVES were today quizzing a man over a suspicious death at a village near York. Officers were called to a semi-detached house off the A19 on the outskirts of Skelton at 6pm yesterday. Paramedics had been called to the property to help a man who was
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Newspan Conservatories Ltd
It's as clear as glass: experience, hard work and the vision to see a gap in the market will equal success. That is what happened when Lewis Carr, who knew the conservatory and double glazing industry inside-out, got together with property developer Mark
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National Railway Museum
A HUGE effort by York's award-winning National Railway Museum (NRM) to make itself more environmentally friendly has spilled over into a massive £11 million scheme. The Locomotion project - a new NRM outstation at Shildon, County Durham, featuring up
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Lighthouse Training Ltd
BE in no doubt - former firefighter turned professional speaker Clive Gott, is super-motivated and super-confident. Clive, whose Tadcaster-based Lighthouse Training Ltd has taken him on motivational speaking engagements all over the world, fully expects
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Satan's Grotto is an offensive idea
I WAS dismayed to read of York Dungeon's plans to feature Satan's Grotto during December in which children will be invited to sign away their souls amidst scenes of robins being roasted over an open fire and elves impaled on spikes (November 20). York
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A break for carers
THE sad case of the 82-year-old man left at the Oldchurch Hospital in Romford as reported in the national press highlights the stress carers face on a daily basis. A carer here in York said to me only last week that no one who has not lived with dementia
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Our ancient way
ST Peter's School's motto, super antiquas vias, translates as "upon the ancient ways". Rather ironic now, as the school wants to extinguish one of the ancient ways in Clifton. The school makes much of its history, and its Latin motto adds to the sense
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Blunkett takes away our hard-won liberties
SO Home Secretary David Blunkett has a vision to protect us from terrorists by the removal of centuries of hard-earned liberties, does he? George Orwell's 1984 may have arrived late but arrive it has. I am one of the fortunates (there are 100,000 of us
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Katie's Continental Holidays
MAINTENANCE man John Milner backed his daughter, Katie, when she decided to join his hobby at the time - a coaching holiday venture called Katie's Continental Holidays. That was in 2000. Now Katie, who speaks fluent Spanish and German, has helped to generate
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Johnsons of Whixley
FIFTEEN extra acres have been planted out with large specimen plants in North Yorkshire to help feed the demands of the house building frenzy in the south. Johnsons of Whixley, the UK's biggest nursery grower, is using the land to cultivate huge shrubs
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John Benson-Smith
John Benson-Smith is one of Yorkshire's most high-profile master chefs, a founder and director of Hazlewood Castle Hotel, near Tadcaster and armed with fast talking passion for his subject. Only last year he returned from his celebrity travels, working
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The Japanese Shop
FINAL negotiations were taking place this week for the opening of a third branch of The Japanese Shop, which has been so successful in York and Harrogate. Jez Willard, managing director, and his Japanese wife, Hiromi, have been discussing terms with the
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Il Paradiso del Cibo
SARDINIAN Paolo Silesu is on a mission to train our tastes in Italian foods. That is why the amiable Paolo, who has lived in York for more than 13 years started Il Paradiso del Cibo in Walmgate, as a panini, pasta and pizza bar in September 2003. So striking
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ICT @ Huntington
ICT @ Huntington began life in 1995 as the internal IT department of Huntington School in York - and then it grew up. It succeeded in earning such big revenues from other schools that in 2002 it was registered as a limited company in its own right. Because
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Sea fishing crisis dates at least a millennium
THE crisis caused by the over-exploitation of Europe's fish stocks dates back as far as a millennium, according to new archaeological evidence found by York academics. A study published today, which was led by University of York archaeologists, has discovered
